Friday-7-12-2024

Here we go rock and roll right into the weekend. But before we get there, we got three hours of Oh Boy, Oh Boy, the Big Boy speech. Here's what I didn't know about the Big Boy speech yesterday. That would be Joe Biden hanging with the NATO folks, hanging with Zelenski, hanging his future. Perhaps on how this event goes, I didn't realize the big boy in question was Lenny from of Mice and Men or Sloth. I haven't decided who do you think would make a better big boy because they didn't

specify the big boy. But I'm assuming that's what it is after watching this thing, and actually I don't know why, and I'm sure AI can do it now. I want Sloth in the Bob's big boy pose holding the tray, and I don't know why I would find that amusing, but I I was. I'm left with no other alternatives for who the big boy in question

is. So this thing kicks off. Ross and I just traded some texts on prep, you know, the the larger prep stuff, and I'm just say hey, and then if you see anything on the during the Big Boy speech, you like, make sure we grab that as well. And I can see that he saw it. You saw I see you noticed one or two things that may have may have yeah, a few things, sure, yeah, but right the the first thing I text I texted it to Ross

and he told me, would you tell me? You're like, go hold seven and you're like, dud try you know, Biden said this day. And I'm like, I've already got to go away, Just go away. You've got it. I got it handled now, I got a hold bar worth a sound. I'm just trying to help. And I was going to make a comment on it because I had a It was the names thing. It wasn't that I didn't think you have it. I just didn't realize that we can choose pseudonyms, and I want to make sure that ours are awesome.

By the way, you can refer to me as the mad monk. Okay, I mean we did that begin with, Like you know, when you were in the room, we already did that. So so it works. That's person, what's your wife's what's your wife's pseudonym? Or does she get rest putin? Now I'm trying to who's who's the lady? Who who would take the baths in virgin blood? Oh? I remember hearing about her. Yeah, I don't know. I you know, I hate to generalize, uh, you know, uh with you know, with women and men

and all that. But I think if I was a woman and I was wanting to have a new horrible person moniker, I might go with that one. That's pretty mean. And and by the way, if if you're a sir in her court or you're in her vicinity, and you really like maybe you're not on the inner circle. But you know how the rumor mills go, They're like, ah, do you know what they're doing upstairs? You're like, no, I work down here in the you know the whatever,

right, I'm on the outer layer. Yeah. So every night they get a bunch of virgins and they cut their throats and she bathes in their blood. Aren't you going and finding some dude and just being like, you know what, let's do this. Make sure the rumor mill make sure you're crossed off the list. So anyway that would be that'd be a good one. Uh what did so we did exchange some texts. Hold on, this is Ross's new Moniker. I want to make sure that I can say this problem.

I feel like I feel like this right here might be a little much and Vlad poll maximillion, pot robesphear the impaler. I like how he just rolls off the tongue. I can't read that at a normal piece. Well, anyway, if you're Zelensky, wait till you hear your new one. Go ahead, mister president, and now I want to hand it over to the President Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination. Ladies,

john' my president putin plug that into any other scenario. Plug plug pick plug that into any other scenario, and embrace the cringe that comes with it. He didn't mispronounce it. He didn't call him. I'm trying to remember the previous Ukrainian president's name. I think he did call him that one time. But like that would be understandable. Imagine, imagine in calling Churchill Hitler. That's it. He stole it. I was going there. That was

the exact example. Churchill would he wouldn't rough you up, but it wouldn't go well for you, wouldn't go well for you. Wait, there's no other scenario where that's oh oh oh, that's so awful. And yet this was the speech to watch. This was the how do you mess this up? How many times has Biden been with Zelensky in the last year? I mean, how much money have we sent him? Well, no, no, no, and it is for monetary purposes, but just you know,

and the reason is the money. But how many times? How many times he's been in Washington or they been together? A lot? Right? I think he's been to the White House with his his you know, his green military sweater a half dozen times. But you know, people would say, well, you know he did he mentioned putin, which he did. But Ross was just able to mention Churchill and Hitler, and even though he was comparing them, he used them in the proper order, recognizing who they were.

That's right, And so that's what I said. And then we decided to pick monikers. But that was it. Right then, you know, all on the straight and narrow. Probably maybe please please, we're on the world stage. Please that I'll take your questions. I've been given a list of people to call on here Reuters, Jeff Mason. All right, all right, so now we're sounding a little more normal. No, even that

is not acceptable. I was saying to my friends before this thing. He said, if he gets on the stage and there is a teleprompter, or he has notes or there is a list of reporters to go to. It is disqualifying. That is not a big that big boy press conference. Is

this your buddy, Joseph Mousey stalin tongue? That is that is a staged event, especially after all that's what people have been saying over and over again that you're especially yesterday with the news that was coming out about the cabinet meetings, right that at all that is staged And then you come out and you can't actually do a real presser. I'm I am old enough to remember when when presidents would come out there and they you know, they wouldn't need note

cards to know who the reporters were. Barack Obama would do it, George w would do it. They would all do it. They would Meagan. Reagan was famous for it, right, and and in having a ridiculously deep knowledge of the reporters, which he used to try to charm them, and successfully so in some instance. But he used it as a tool. Right. They'd look down from the podium and they would say, there's so and so from so and so, and they would address them and at what is

your question? That's you don't note cards and then people are gonna say, okay, we have note cards. Well, obviously, does that mean that the reporters had to submit their questions in advance? Because that is not what this was supposed to be. I would and and to your point, the question crossed my mind. We never really get a straight answer on that.

And like, do you remember the incident where the question you could visually see a couple lines of the question on it was when the cards first made an appearance, right, And and you said, they got a camera shot and you can see what sure looks like a very close version of what the female reporter was saying. And then they were like beating around the bush about whether the questions were submitted and you're like, I don't know, Like it looks

like it's on the card there. If the all of these reporters who had their come to Jesus moment where they're like, oh man, you know we should have been more diligent notice in this stuff, right, Can you just be honest about whether they made you submit the questions? That's please? And why do you even have a list of reporters that you're going to? Those are the ones that you're that you know, KJP is cool with or what Well, they'll tell you, they'll tell you it's a rotational thing, but

no, it's not. It's just not. And then that's not what I was picturing my head, and I think most people are when it comes to this big boy presser. Right, And because we've watched the Stephanopolis interview, the way that they were both described is because you were going to use your off the cuff abilities to show that you still got it. That was the

point of all of this, right. The fact that we had to have a press conference to show that our president was capable of vocalizing and putting together coherent thoughts is ridiculous. Should not be at this point, let me ask you a question. Would you feel more comfortable with Biden's vice president in charge? I would not. I do not want that cackling banshee. I said this, bore, I do not want for you cut three look at it?

Oh oh that guy? Oh yeah, no, yeah, I mean that's that's like four D. That's like eight D chests like because he can't beat himself if they're both in the same ticket. All right, So mixing up Zelenski and Putin, they're both you know, Russia e. You know what I mean, Like, and they're they're from over there, so you know, some people look at it and they're just like, yeah, all used to be the USSR. I understand why you can make the mistake.

But closer to home, that would that would be a little much, right. I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, so I think she's not qualified to be president. Hm. And this comes after the Big Boy press conference was delayed one hour, hour and a half. Yeah, an hour, which it was. The hour that it was during that hour was gold on Twitter, man, but not for good reasons. You know, you say these things, man, they got things to do.

Yeah, Barack Obama was never on time for press conferences. It got to the point where if we would get I'd be sitting there and I'd look at like the White House, the President's going to have some remarks from the g sixth summit at whatever, or from the White House, you know, the

Rose Garden or whatever. And with Barack Obama, if it said it was starting at six o'clock, I was happy, like six am when he's overseas, because presidents who started six am and you're on a news talk that's a problem because we're in like news, traffic, weather, all of that. But with Barack Obama, chances are we could come back and say, hey, welcome back president just moments away, and then like the dude was always

late, a few minutes late. But I think the difference is when somebody like Barack Obama or you know, w or Yeah Bush or Clinton or Rate, when they were late, you're like, oh, well, they're doing presidential things. Now, I just assume they were being jerks. Sure, yes or that. But when Biden is late, you assume. You automatically see that meme of mister Burns with the big dilated eyes being injected with drugs so he can function, and they call that college for some folks. Yeah,

no, it's you assume the worst behind the scenes. You don't assume. You don't assume it's just because they don't respect your time, or you know they're off glad handing and you know, kissing babies or whatever. You assume that somebody looked at him and went, Nope, can't put that on the stage. You're absolutely right, mister Robespear, somebody's gonna call him get mad about how I'm pronouncing that. Don't care it's Friday, So how we

do these things? All? Right? But that's it, right, just the just the the put the Putins, Lensky, whoopsie, Trump's the vice president. The questions are not all that organic, Like this thing is supposed to be noisy. There's eleven cut. Dear god, there's eleven cuts. I'm sorry what these press conferences are supposed to be noisy? Right? Like who wants a question? And everybody in the in the press wool and you be you look down and you say, I will take you, mister doucey

or whatever, and you take the question. It's not supposed to be weird and quiet with teleprompters and note cards. It's a brave new world man, brave new world. Putin's in charge of Ukraine and Trump's vice president. You know, maybe we're in the multiverse. Maybe it's not he who is wrong. Did you consider that for a moment you're cutting all the audio up this morning? You ever stop to think. I wonder if I, you know,

like slipped into a wormhole or something. And I mean he does have the power of the Hadron collider, so passively he might know something we don't know. Yeah, yeah, in this timeline Trump's VP and uh puutin runs Ukraine. Well, the first one might not be that far off. Who the hell knows. We'll see where that goes. Yeah, there's a there's

a bunch more if that makes you feel better. And the media, remember this is all the media who last week were they weren't begging forgiveness, they would never do that, but they were simply saying, we have a hard job. You know, we can't pay attention to everything, but you know, we see what's going on, and where we strive to work to do better. That was the That was what most of the media was sitting there saying, where you do a better job? Really, because you immediately succumbed

to Ross's weird quiet Uh uh press or observation. He's right, so that's going on? And uh what was that? Well, there's there's a few things. Well, well we'll get into it as as we break down the the insanity there. But I don't I don't believe you've changed. If if you would sit there and go, yeah, no, this is normal and then not say anything because it's it's not normal. None of this is normal except under the multiverse theory, which isn't a thing. So anyway, all

right, so we'll uh yeah, we got we'll get to that. I think it's safe to say that it did not go as probably many members of the media would like it to go. Also, uh, Ross, I stumbled yesterday afternoon. I stumbled on a billion dollar business idea, and I can't believe nobody thought of it. So I'm gonna go. I'll go on the record with it, so none you got can steal it. You like you're the Chinese government and it's my intellectual property. So that much more coming

up. Plus Pete Callander, hang on everybody. Not that it would be a first, you know, to be physically scrapping with people, But I just want to see how the modern day media would spin it. Had Joe Biden literally physically attack that reporter, because to your point, Ross, he looked very angry, and because it is a reporter, I would think the other reporters might be more upset with it, even the ones who are usually there to carry the water for him. Or maybe we just need to go

back how it was. I don't know. I don't know if you guys know this. Like US presidents used to fight people, It wasn't a common occurrence, and it was a personality thing. Andrew Jackson was a doozy. Andrew Jackson loved getting in fights and love duels, and like he would, he would challenge you to a duel with pistols, man, and I ironically only I believe only one time were pistols ever fired and Jackson killed the dude. And then they're like, I think the people around him were like,

yeah, you can't, you can't. You can't challenge people to duels, mister president. It's just it's not a good look. So he's like, well, can I fistfight? Sure? Okay, all right? Can you imagine if Joe Biden walked in the pressroom right and they're all they are yelling at him and Peter Deucy Remember the exchange where he called Peter Deucy and what do you call him? Sob right, something along those lines. What if instead of that, he challenged him to a duel at thirty paces on the

White House lawn? How are you ever missing White House press briefing? Again? Hell no? And but to be fair, Biden does challenge people to modern day duels and then pretends like it was their idea, referring to the golf there, So yeah, he's not the only one. Who's who am I thinking of? With the the giant mutton chops, the chest Chester a Arthur Right, the big ol' mutton chops. Didn't didn't he beat a member of Congress or something? Or did I hallucinate that that'd be the other thing?

Right? State of the Union rolls around and instead of bloviating and then the response, you just get party leadership from all around, and then out of the ceiling a giant cage drops. Once a year, You missing that event that's on your calendar right now, for all the februaries you think you're

gonna be alive. The point is all of those are equally as nonsensical and not related to what people are expecting, and when those expectations are what you are attempting to appease because of your previous bad performance in the in in the case of the Stephanopolis interview, right, you want to see that he, without providing the questions, can sit down and go back and forth with a reporter, even one who is as legendarily in the tank as Stephanopolis. You

remember, he's a Clinton White House dudent. He's who you put. If you're a Democrat and you're and and you are in trouble or you need a narrative out there, George Stephanopolis is your man. He's an absolute hack, one hundred percent. Well, I've watched it over the years, but that's your guy. It's like it's like back in the day, if you did something naughty and you needed to regain the public's trust or go cry, what

would you do? You'd go on what Oprah or Larry King? Right, And then if you went and you and and you were very sad and he cried on Oprah or Larry King, you could cry on there and you might just maybe restore at least a little bit of semblance of your reputation. George Stephanopolis is that dude. He's just the modern day version of it. And look, there's a lot of up and comers when it comes to water carrying

members of the media. But the as we see it, the back and forth between the media though the watchers of government and government, some of those are amazing. There are a lot of amazing examples of politicians who are very good at that, reporters who are very good at it. Both of them understand their job and watching them go back and forth have very interesting conversations. I enjoy watching those, even if I don't agree with whomever the ability.

This is why back in the day there was such a fascination with a much better version of the right versus left ninety second debates that we have. Right you go back to like what Buckley was doing. People show up at an auditorium for that, and I understand that they still go to that, but that was a big damn deal and there was no ad hominem. It was just we're going to do this thing, and so all they wanted is a little slice of that from the most the most powerful person in the world.

And they fall down on that front. Round two, the big boy presser yesterday. Go in there, and now, rather than just one hand selected member of the media who wasn't going to challenge you anyway, you've got all of them to choose from. And here's the deal. I don't want to tell you how to do your job, but you you get to choose,

mister President as soon as you have a list there. And there's even this, the remotest idea that you may know not just who you want to call on, but the topic that they want to ask about, or God forbid the verbatim the question. You've now violated the two basic things. All of the rest of the stuff that surrounds that is not what people are tuning in for. They're tuning in to watch you work and to do so in a

manner that reminds them of the normal way that this is done. And instead we get him introducing Zelensky as Putin, calling Donald Trump his vice president. Then he gets up on the poet to him and he's like, I have a list here. I'll take your questions. I've been given a list of people to call on here. Reuters, Jeff Mason, you fail one the moment he said that it's not the thing that I tuned in for anymore. Now, if you think, if you think that you know, stopped him

from creating wonderful audio, well you would be wrong. Let's uh, let's keep going down this list and look, there's some issues that people want to know about. Like let's let's start with the bedtime thing. Right, you missed a meeting the other day because it's like, oh, it's my bedtime, I can't go. I can't. I wish I could, I wish I wish I had control over this, but my bedtime is this, and your meetings after that, and there's nothing I can do. So all right,

well let's get into that. How can you say you'll be up for that next year, in two years and four years given the limits you've acknowledged that you have today. I have acknowledged I have. There's been reporting that you've acknowledged that you need to go to bed earlier and your evening around eight. That's not true. Yes, it is true. I reddit New York Times. I said, was oh, instead every day starting at seven and going to bed at midnight, it'd be smarter for me to pace myself a

little more. And I said, for example, the eight seven six stuff, Instead of starting a fundraiser at nine o'clock, start at eight o'clock. People get to go home by ten o'clock. By the way, I'm gonna I would like to back the president here, but only for the purpose of excoriating the NCAA and others who feel that starting a tournament game at nine to

thirty on a weeknight East Coast is not the worst thing ever. And I hate you, But I also work very early, so yes, I'll get behind that the difference is duke versus unc while exciting is not somebody launched an intercontinental ballistic nuke, so you have a little more control. All right, I'm sorry, Finish, finish this, whatever this is. That's what I'm

talking about. I'm not talking about. And if you looked at my schedule since I've since I made that stupid mistake of in the campaign and the debate, I mean, my schedule has been full bore, you know. It's funny. He mentions that, uh r, Ross, are you on the do you get the daily schedule press release? I still get it. I signed it out. I do not. I've looked at schedules going back to Bush, right, that's when I first signed up for this, and so

uh and it does carry over, so I get now. Sometimes they're delineated, and sometimes for whatever reason, I assume it ends up in junk and I almost never look at it unless I gotta go call back on it. I glanced at Biden's schedules occasionally or when I need to go back can look at something. Bull Boar is not what I would describe and and Trump's schedules were very light the way that they were written because they were written very generically.

It was you know, like I can't remember what they used to call the media time, but that was that part of the morning where was watching Fox and Friends because he's scared a ghost or whatever the reporting was. But there was still more on there, Like you remember the first part of the Biden administration where everyone learned what a lid? It was just I was just about to ask you about that, but just remember when he first started and I was like, what is a lid? Yeah, tod was everyone even

though the lid lids are in there. I could go, I don't know if I go for that far back in my email, but lids are in there all all presidents. But but it wasn't so common that they would bring it up on a daily basis and like the president would just disappear. No, it was where you see a lid was the president? You know, the reporting had been the President's going to Camp David or Bush is going to

Crawford where Barack Obama's going to, uh, Chicago or wherever. And and you know on Friday, it may there may be a lid at like one o'clock, and you realize, okay, that's because the official events are over and they're going to be you know, going to wherever. And that was it and so like nobody knew what it was. And then with Biden's it was like like multiple times a week, like right after lunch. And again this is where we started into these norms that members of the media chose to

ignore and now wants you to believe that. You know, they're just there's so much stuff. Christ let me ask you a question. Regardless of what you do for a living, there are patterns in what you do, right, There are normal ways of doing things, and when something is done abnormally, it stands out. I could give you a thousand examples. In the world of radio, not the least like there's such because we're on a clock. If a bed fires a little differently, yeah, it ross and I

perk up like prairie dogs. Man, We're so ross because ultimately he's you know, he's running the master control there. But no, we were talking about that this morning before the air, before the show, about how regimented and scheduled, at at least my morning skin. Yeah, you were giving me the rundown from the gym and everything. I don't think people realize it.

So before I go to bed, and depending on how much audio and video we have for the next day, I look at my schedule and figure out what it's going to be. So set the alarm according right, right. So last night I understood because I was going through Twitter and watching all these things from the Big Boy presser, and I was bookmarking and liking them so I could figure out what order to load the audio in. I was

trying to help you on the moment, right, Yeah. But I realized, I'm like, wow, I'm gonna have a lot of audio to load tomorrow morning because this is a complete disaster. So I'm like, well, I'm going to get up a little earlier. So I got up at one thirties because today was a gym day. Was at the gym from two to three thirty. If the gym at three thirty started loading audio at four had

all that scheduled out, then they had commercial production to do. Uh. Then I had fifteen minutes of some other production I had to do, and then I had literally on my schedule, I had five minutes to go to the bathroom before the show. WHOA on company time? Yeah? Can you believe it? On company time? You spent five company time minutes in the I did I saw the five minute lid or something. Oh, I got to go. I don't know why. I just don't like that name for

it. I don't know why. Ah, that's what we call time theft kids. Yeah, but I mean, yeah, there are ways of doing things, and there are norms. And for this administration to have the norms they have when they that's remember that's why they were they were elected, right, they're going to bring back the norms, bring back the norms. Oh maybe they met the dude from cheers. And and that's us for misunderstanding.

No, And and so when you're a member of the media, and you've been a member of the White House Press Corps forever, little stuff stands out to you. I promise it does. Because you don't even have you't have to be a member of the media. You could be somebody who's gonna go work at Dollar General today. And I'm not insulting that, but I'll bet if you work at Dollar General and you go in and I don't know what the processes are, but let's say one of the processes how you receive your

till Okay, and let's again, I'm just making this up. But you go in, whoever's the manager has to provide the till for the individual cashiers. Maybe you count it. There's a process for signing a slip, and that's it. And let's say you go in today and it goes differently. It stands out in your mind because it's not the norm. So all of these media folks that are like, look, we're so busy, we didn't notice this stuff was happening, or the cognitive stuff or whatever they're all lying

to you. They know, they know. And by the way, there's among the most petulant children on the planet. All you had to do was watch Jim Acosta. You remember when he thought he was like he was one of the dudes being assaulted on the civil rights line when they took the microphone out of his hand and they wrote all these articles. Look at Trump's trying to literally rob the media of their voice. What a bunch of hacks.

They either knew and didn't say anything, or they were too focused on the previous dude one hundred percent, both absolutely both and and without a sense of like, oh man, I'm gonna look like a hypocrite. That as wild to me, Like I'm gonna look like a hypocrite. This is happening in front of you, and I think you'll see that. I'm sorry, right, why did you edit all these pauses here? Why is there all the dead? This is this is a thirty eight second cut. What's going on

here? Is the silent sense alarm going to go off? Which was like seven seconds that thing goes off? All right, Well we'll try and I think you'll see that some of our European fans, yeah, are going to be curtailing there involve investment in Russia, I mean, excuse me, and in China as long as China continues to have this indirect success help to Russia in terms of being able to help their economy as well as as well as

help them in as a consequence that their ability to fight in Ukraine. Ross, Can you grab me a vial of the go junice or whatever that they obviously, because there's one left over there obviously didn't give it to them. I want to see how that stuff feels, man, because what the hell? The entire event in itself is a test, and you just I don't just like you just went through and you just put it. You filled in all the a bubbles. I don't even know what's going on other than I

need to take a break here on the Cacoday radio program Hang On. I'll still make jokes about it, but I hate the idea that they have to have a map where the poop is and you can't use the map zoomed out because it's just then all brown, the very real destruction of one of the most thriving economies in the world. Within the city center, business is getting out of there as fast as they can blean the downtown area now fleeing the outside areas. You can rob a bunch of people. You can do basically

anything you want to do. And it's all downright depressing because San Francisco visually one is a very historical city, you know, like the history, but it's also or and from a topography standpoint, continues to be it's a very beautiful place and it's very unique right the you know, the what do you know about San Francisco even if you've never been there, got a lot of hills, right, But like it doesn't do justice. One of the things

I really liked about California is any of the bigger coastal cities. I was in Santa Barbara obviously for school, and they have this to some extent, but not to the extent that San Francisco does is wild man and it makes and it's also why it makes for some of the best, going back to Clint Eastwood stuff, some of the best chase scenes in the business. Allah Dirty hairy Man. You couldn't in seventies. In seventies movie making, you

could not. You could not write a movie in San Francisco that didn't have at least one chase scene or speeding scene where the car going down pick whatever. The not the curvy road, but one of the straight ones caught air just due to the sheer drop of each section of street. But usually I'm not left smiling. I'm kind of left smilet here. I don't know why. There's a there's a video floating around ross Is. He'll tweet it out to you so you can go ahead and gand or add it. And before

you watch it, I want you to pick your fighter. Okay, all right, So here's who you have to choose from, and I'll give you I'll give you a little a little background on what's happening, so you have a newtist. This is right, now this is like the Mortal Kombat selections screen. Okay, so you got we actually have two nudists, but only one is wanting to tangle. So in this corner a nudist, you also

have a Brazilian tourist. Pretty standard Brazilian tourist, although not standard, would not be standard in Disney because there's not fifty of them and he has his shirt on. Is that an accurate description of Brazilian Disney tourists? I can't remember exactly what she said, but this guy is just he's just normal looking dude, just doing the tourism thing. And unfortunately, in San Francisco you're gonna meet some characters because in corner number three we have a pirate, but

not a pirate who understands pirrating. We have a pirate who has think of all of the amazing weaponry available to a pirate. All if you want to maintain a an accurate rendition of the pirate, if you want to be true to the pirate, you have lots to choose from ross What if you're a pirate? What is your weapon of choice? Of all the pirty stuff? You go, cutlass, blunderbus. What a fun thing to say, blunderbuss.

I think my weapon and choice would be the black pearl. All right, well, but but you had this guy's just walking down the street. You can't walk down the street, okay, So I can't choose the krakeet. Yeah what I mean? I would go sword or I don't want old timey flint pistol. I don't think it's a blunderbuss. That's what you can load anything in there, blunder. I was just talking about like the pistol though, you but oh yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, yeah.

Blunderbuss is great, man, And you know you probably won't kill anybody. If you're a modern day pirate, that's probably good. Although it's California, you probably won't get right. But no, this dude, who knows nothing about pirrating has the classic uh uh cutting torch? What? Yes, he has a blow torch, I say, cutry. He's got a blow torch, which, yeah, I I'm trying it was that Teach? Was it William Teach who used the blow torch? I'm trying to remember my pirate lore.

No, none of them did. What do you what are you doing, sir? I'd rather watch you trying to wheel a cannon up one of those steep ass hills, all right, So to set the scene, those are your those are the choices, right, And the scene is the pirate is attacking the Brazilian who is then defended by the newtiest. That's the scenario, very sand fro and it's in the Castro district for extra points, I

guess I don't know, so I don't know who the hell knows? Who you got who comes out on top rando Brazilian tourists and just by himself blow torch wielding pirate attacker or naked dude and spoiler alert, naked dude. It's a very effective weapon, even this dude who is so insane he's dressed as a pirate attacking somebody with a blow torch standing in the middle of the Castro district where feasibly most I shouldn't say most dudes. There's gonna be many dudes

in that district who don't mind the site of a naked dude. And yet immediately the pirates like I didn't sign up for this. I'm out go look at the video, don't worries blurred? Okay, So got that? Let me read the read the story here. Naked dude's name is Peter Sephara. In the video, Sefara can see standing off to the side while a man holding a blow torch, dressed as a pirate appears to confront the Brazilian.

Another man, who was later identified as a tourist from Brazil. An onlooker then appears to sneak up behind the alleged attacker, swiftly stealing the blow torch from his grasp. The perpetrator then swings at the tourist, even though he's not the one who stole the blowtorch. Other dude runs off with the blow Also this can you imagine you're a naked dude and you have to confront a

guy with a blow torch. A lot of guys are gonna go They're not gonna They're not gonna like those odds and be like, no, you know there is uh, there's even a minute chance, you know, no, nope, not having that on fire. But that didn't stop these good samaritans who don't can't even afford clothes. The tourists can be seen covering his face

as the alleged attacker starts to walk toward him. The other nudist then jumps into action and begins pummeling the suspect while he's distracted by one naked dude other naked dudes kicking his butt. Seferah told my buddy Lloyd is quite a quite respectful guy, but he didn't waste any time and nailed the guy with a right hook. Safarah told the outlet that his friend was the hero of the

incident. YadA, YadA. Anyway, So there very uh very insane West Coast moment caught on tape, blurred for your view and pleasure, and uh not who I thought was going to come out on top. Look crazy pirates with blow torch. You know he obviously doesn't understand pirating. But if if you made me pick one, that's who I would have picked, and instead you got dude. It's like I need a weapon. I am the weapon. And here's the best part. According to the Castro Merchants Association President Terry

Bennett, blow torch pirate guy is a known problem in the neighborhood. Wow, they have a high bar for the neighborhood crazy homeless dude, don't they. I mentioned on the show there was a guy on in Raleigh and Glenwood Avenue who would wear a pimp coat a full lane, full on. I don't know what the fur was. I probably didn't want to know. And it could be the hottest day in July with the most humidity all year,

and that dude to be strolling Glenwood in that coat. That was an amazing commitment to his who his character or whoever he was, or what the motivation was. But this dude's a pirate with a blow torch harassing people. I feel like if you're the law enforcement in any other community, that becomes a priority, especially a tourist area. Apparently the dude for years likes to go

into shops with his blowtorch and his pirate garbs screaming at people. Well, to be fair, pirates plundering merchants is a thing, So maybe, you know what, maybe I should be so harsh on his his pirrating there. But either way, it's Friday, so there's a little some to lift your spirit because hey, it wasn't you, and you're probably all the better for it. You're still having a better day than anyone who works in the Biden

staff. So I played a few cuts from the Big Boy Presser yesterday, which let's just say it had its moments, and not when I mean moments, I mean not good ones. Well, now I want to hand it over to the President Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination, Ladies and gentle my president putin oh boy, and that worn't a one off. He also refers to Trump as his vice president. I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, so I think she was not

qualified to be president, you know. And I can't even do that cut justice. And here's why. If if you watch the video, there happens to be a moment where they get a camera shot as he's saying of his staff because they wide it out they must be well, I know, they just have political or somebody just had an article where they like they had to bring in additional mental health services because all the appointments were chewed up. It's got to be damn depressing, right. Do you ever work at a company

where they're having layoffs? Right, like large scale? We've had it in the radio industry, you know, as we reformed our company. And now I mean I'm not I don't speak for the company, but I can speak as it's something many of you have experienced within your own line of work. Right, you know that your company is what's the term, Oh, I hated this, Remember the term right sizing. Whoever came up with that should be drawn and quartered. Oh, we're not downside that we're right sizing.

That only a dude with a golden parachute to come up with something like that. But my point stands, if you know that your company is gonna be there's gonna be a lot of job cuts or restructure in any of the rest it's so it could be such a stressful time. I would remind you that when we really started to flow into the company that we are now, and you know, into the focus and we were just starting into the digital which obviously you know the iHeartRadio app and all that stuff. It's it's been a

big process. And I'm not saying, by the way, the companies don't have to modernize and make sure that whatever direction they're going is is probably the best. But it's always it's gonna be a stressful time. In a stressful time forever's in charge, all the way down to somebody who thinks this may be my last day there. And I remember were sitting in that environment.

I remember, and it's a matter of public record that one of the biggest reforming of our company, where we had a lot of people that didn't work there anymore, was on Barack Obama's inauguration day. And what was wild about that is it's a pretty big day in the news talk radio world, man, and you got all this stuff going on, and it's so crazy stressful. And I still would trade places for somebody working on this campaign. Man.

Oh my gosh, how much liquor how much booze do you think they go through every day ross at the end of work, once the president goes to Betty by all of it pretty much all the booze in George is putting themselves into a stupor for sure. Oh geez, you know this is why this is probably why he doesn't look medicated now in the debate and then yesterday because they got to be stealing it. Did you see the the meme going around of a kjp's head on Ben Affleck's body. I don't I just visualize

that. I don't. I don't know that. I want to see that, just like outside, just like super depressed smoking. Yeah, sorry, I have even following the KJP admitted she's lying except every time I go click a video, she doubles down. It's a really weird kind of meta meme out there, and it just made me think of because I was going to bring it up the other day, but I kind of like the affleck thing too, or affleck, Yeah, the affleck thing, because now we know

why he looks like that, and I don't believe him either. Did you hear the reason by the way, he said? He looks irritated in those photos like that, he says, Jennifer because Jennifer Lopez is so famous. Didn't she just cancel her concert in North Carolina because nobody's bought tickets and so everyone's like, I don't know. It kind of sounds like you're lying. So yeah, having kjp's head on there, I'm assuming that's the reason for

the meme. I'm trying to understand it without seeing it. All right, I'm probably giving this too much thought. All right, Well, we got we got more audio reminder Pete Callander he'll join us. That's coming up at eight oh five. Gee, I wonder if he wants to get into I don't know any of this insanity. I'll take your questions. I've been given a list of people or this and sollowing the advice of my commander and chief of the chief of Staff of the military. Wait, wait, who's now

Let's go back to who's your commander in chief? Is it Jill or Illuminati? I need to know We'll be right back. I have poor time management skills. Once I get on a topic, sometimes these things happen. But here we go. Rich people freeze themselves and fortunes for future revival. You know, I've seen there's some movies, and I think the most famous one is the utilization of time to make oneself wealthy? So Ross, can you think of the most famous example of using time or at least a plot point

to use time to make oneself wealthy? Back to the future, right, You're using Gray's sports Almanac, and so that's there. There's a I try to remember the movie where the guy travels back to the Old West and he deposits like a dollar in Wells Fargo and then gazillion and that's you know, that's a rule of seventy two stuff. Doctor one of our financial guys, Coach Pete or Dougray or any of the fine folks who advertise here on this

wonderful radio station. They'll they'll explain you that, Yeah, that's a that's a pretty effective tool. So I guess it makes sense if you're willing to cryo freeze yourself upon death and you're hoping that one day whatever, you know, we've tackled this whole, you know, dying thing, and they revive you and then hey, look Ross's back. There he is, Remember Ross,

there he is. But what would be worse is if they did bring you back and you were rich enough to do this, except when they bring you back now you're a poor that would kind of defeat the purpose of doing all of that, right, mister self important, mister captain of industry. So now as state attorneys are helping rich people who want to freeze themselves work

through the minutia of doing that, because here's the thing. There is some complexity here in the ability to own or control the trust, own property, have bank accounts, these kinds of things when you're legally dead. So they're having you really clever to figure out, Okay, well, how can we preserve this money and even grow this money? Well, I think the growing

it's fine. Right. You could take a very non aggressive stance and as long as there's enough time that passes, you know, a couple hundred years or what was it, eighteen hundred years or whatever, eight hundred years with idiocracy, You know how much money you could make with one hundred dollars eight hundred years from now if you're not a total idiot and he just never touched it. So that's the easy part, but having to comport with US law

is difficult. So cottage industries have emerged of folks that just put together these estate trusts, which I actually I have a little I do have a little bit of knowledge of how these trusts work. This is how a lot of ranchers try to protect their property from taxes, generational taxes, transfer taxes, and state taxes. Right, they put it into a trust. Very very

common thing there. So al Core Life Extension Foundation is literally a group out of Scottsdale, Arizona that deals with cryo freezing that now has an entire wing of in house estate lawyers. And so even this weird flex right where you talked about it as an oddity either like did you know Walt Disney's head's frozen or Ted Williams is frozen? Except not anymore? Right, wasn't Ted Williams in that one batch. I think he was right. You guys don't know

what I'm referring to when I say the one batch. Let's just say, you know, want to be an early adopter with everything subs to go visit the Titanic. Don't want to be an early adopter. Let's see the new finn system on the US rocket, which was the Challenger. You know that olough it was a panel issue there, But I digress. And you didn't want to be first in the barrel on the cryo freeze unless you're a big fan of whatever that stuff was under New York City and the movie Ghostbusters,

because basically the first big group to elect to freeze themselves for later. I don't know if somebody kicked a plug out ross. Do you remember why they turned to go? They turned to goo? I don't have it here in front of me. Was it just the tech was bad? Right? They thought it could hold out into just the decomposition started and I guess nobody checked or what. I don't remember how they got to go, but they they turned to goo feasibly it's better now they have some folks who have been cryo

froze for a very long time. And now it's just like anything else involving a bunch of people who've got a lot of money and these you know, brewsters, millions something style to blow it on. Well, let's go ahead and uh, let's let's make sure we're captain. Let's make sure that we're literally the you know, the richest dude in the world. Should the should this thing work out, I'll tell you where the real flex is gonna be, right, the real flex, because you know rich guys, they love

flexes. The real flex is when you start adopting the uh, the China and Egyptian model of ancient burials right where oh no, the pharaoh died or oh no, the emperor died. Uh, time to go ahead and get everything ready for the burial chamber. Hey, all of you staff who are still very much alive, get in there and grab the pets for some weird reason, and supply here's some livestock. You're gonna need that. And they would like if the right dude died, a bunch of people died, just

put him in there. And by the way, what do you think that was like inside that chamber before the oxygen or the food or the water or whatever ran out right. You didn't have any choice. You traded, essentially, although some of them were slaves, to be fair, but you you kind of traded so that you had this high profile gig in life. But part of it is you got to pay the piper. Got to pay the

piper. And that means when the dudes you're working for kicks in into the burial chamber, you go, they stick priests in there, they stick all the wives. Got to need those in the afterlife, and off you go. So, uh yeah, that's gonna be the ultimate flex ross. Who would you have buried alive with you? Have you ever thought about that? Should it come to that, and you're you're able to flex that level of billionaire attitude? Nope, all right, you're supposed to say the Patriots.

I would have the Patriots buried with you. But now Bill Belichick, he's got a new TV show. I might get to that here in just a moment. All right, let me grab Jamal. You gotta be you gotta be quick this morning. What's up? Hey, Casey? You know what you know? And I'm here and I told people the media we're gonna start back covering him. That was nothing was good when he was saying, oh, you'll nothing was good about that. That was a whole minute gating absolute

that fat stuff yesterday. And for personally, one of the things that really kicked me off was when the Polish I don't know who that guy was from the newspaper whatever, said that the you know, Poland is worried about Donald

Trump and you know what is he going to do to stop him? Joe Biden, if he was talking about democracy as they've been saying they are protectors of democras, which they absolutely not, because you see they're willing to throw democracy when it don't work that way, he didn't respond to that guy and say, hey, this is the United States of America. If the American people pick a president that does not share NATO values, then that's just it. We have to accept that. If that part when that man stood up

there picked me off. And then it was come on now, Kamala Kamala Trump. I don't know if you've seen the theme, you know, Kamala Trump. No, don't don't even bring that up. I don't want to. I don't want that in my brain. So, oh, y'all know, I don't know. I don't have you seen have you seen the what's happened over in Poland. It's wild what's going on over there, because obviously Trump went over and he was thank you for the Kale Jamol, you know,

he was real tight with the previous Polish president. And so now they get new dude up in there, and of course it is you have this other new dude up in the I guess their version of their legislature, and it's like this weird Supreme Court. There's a lot of similarities, except over there they just they just they're not coequal. They all think they're the top branch of government and then they just do whatever they want to do. Is

it's crazy. And the Left have made inroads in Poland with the young folk, and so they now have certain positions of power and the first thing they want to do is use that power to jail their political enemies. So it's

a very turbulent time over there. And this White House has celebrated and encouraged getting away from you know, the guy who Trump went over and embraced, even though Poland was doing just fine, the left, the band in Poland when they were like, yeah, no we're not we're not taking in a million refugees. We're good and that really ticked him off. So now I wouldn't expect Biden to do it. But also I don't know that he remembers

any of that stuff I just said. On the other hand, raced Agic from the Weather Channel, he remembers all sorts of stuff, some of it more useless than others. Yeah. Well, I almost dropped back fifteen and pun on this one. I mean, nobody really wants to hear it. But anyway, what do you mean, well the forecast, we could do something else? Yeah, we can do anything. Did you did you watch the SP's last night? I did not. I had to go in the

office last night, sit around and monitor for severe weather. There's nothing going on, but I was able to. Uh, would you tell your wife when you go to the bar with your buddies. Yes, that's it. I'll go into the office to monitor severe weather. I used it, and then I send pictures from with a radar in front of me, so you know, it kind of looks like I'm actually there. Yeah, the secret's out. You know, one day she's going to ask you to hold the

New York Times or something. Yeah, yeah, I would be. I would be no, I didn't watch didn't watch the SPS last night. It was it was an unmitigated disaster, was it really? Imagine it's the Oscars, and you know at the end of the Oscars, what's the big award best picture? Right, right? So what if you want to do the best picture and you're like, what if we just accidentally run something else? Oh? Yeah, what they do? So you know, it's the Humanitarian

War, which is the Prince Harry thing. And then they ran like a Muhammad Ali I think, which is the award namesake, but they ran it

like a previous one. And then they had they ran some like weird video and then they cut to Harry but from an earlier thing and it was and then they just went to the news and uh, for them, the the the award is the best team, right, top team, right, and they had they felt that they had to double up on Prince Harry, but weirdly out of order, and so the South Carolina game Cocks, who would

have won, they didn't. They didn't do their award the boy and then a guy was on stage talking about death and they cut to DeMar Hamblin sitting in the audience, and then some lady came up and made fun of Caitlyn Clark in a really racist manner. So that's your SPS. You go, there, you go. Glad I missed in the forecast. No, it's pretty cruddy out there, but most concerns a flash flood warning. This flash flood warning until nine this morning. Elements Chatham, southeastern Randolph Counties got of

right between the Try and the Triangle. Real heavy rainfall there and spotty heavy rain elsewhere getting in the Franklin County just to the east side of Raleigh near Wake Forest, and more showers and heavier storms with the floodwatch in effect. And there are areas and it's basically all now east of eighty five where the heavier rainfalls coming kind of in batches. There are breaks. There are some breaks east of the area where we're seeing heavy rain now out we believe it

or not. The outer Banks where it is going to be kind of a rough beach day today and even on into tomorrow. But this rain is going to stick with us on again, off again the floodwatch. Additional advisories and warnings coming out for flooding, which means that you need to take action. Water covered roadways do not cross them. Heads up for rising water too, creek streams, you know, the drill, and we could see anywhere from

one to three inches of rain over the next two days. The shower thunderstorm chances best today, with downpours into the nighttime hours tonight, scattered showers thunderstorms around tomorrow, with some partly sunny sky less rain tomorrow, but more out toward the coast of low ninety. And then as we get at the Sunday, just some isolated stuff in the afternoon, and here comes the heat and

humidity back lot to mid nineties. He didn't see's close to one hundred triangle close to one hundred Monday, Tuesday, even Wednesday, tryad not quite that hot, but hot enough for everybody. As the ridge is going to dig in, we'll be back to dry, hot, humid weather as we get towards the tail end of the weekend and early next week. But I think it's critical today, tonight and at least through part of tomorrow with the heavy rain of the flood threat. Alrighty, thank you, sir, we'll chat

in an hour. I appreciate it. Yep, all right, Race aging there coming up on the show. Well, Pete Callener, he'll join us at eight oh five. We have a celebrity death. And Ross and I were talking about this extensively off the air because I did. Maybe we misremembered. I don't know, because there's there seems to be a chunk missing from the biographical here and uh where where is it? Oh yeah, I don't say this often. I think Justin Trudeau has a wonderful life idea. Oh

yeah, wait for it, it's next. Shelley Duvall has passed away. You know her from obviously the Shining the pop Eye movie. Shelley Devall was in this weird era of actresses, and I don't This is not an insult, It's an observation where there was this kind of strange mia Pharaoh like there was a weird Hollywood beauty standard, or at least a very different one. Gaunt, the short hair, the whole thing. I wasn't alive for this

era, but you see it when you see media from it. What they seem to have left out with Shelley Duvall is not her diabetes, but the fact that the reason she disappeared and people wrote articles was largely due to some serious mental health issues. In fact, she went on Doctor Phil not that low? How many years ago was this? Maybe? What five six? Wasn't that long ago? And listen to doctor Phil nod politely Friday on an all new Doctor Phil, The Shinings Shelley Duvall from Red Carpet to Near Reclars.

I love Robin Williams. I don't think sting. Where do you think he is? Shape? Do you see him? Yes? Stars to set into mental illness. The man you threaten me is the Sheriff of Nottingham. I think there's a worry disc inside things. I'm very sick. I need help. Well, why I'm here? That's Friday. Yeah, and again I'm not making fun of her mental illness, but I think it's uh,

it's like a major part of her life. And when you see the reproaching, I had to have you long and boy oh boy, we got one hour left and we know how to do it right on Friday, we figure we're just phoning it in anyway, So let's bring in as many people as possible. And as we do, more radio folks make for more better radio A. So like Joe Biden, content the star of two thousand and fives, must love Dogs Air America personality Janine Garoffalo joining us. How you doing,

Janine? I'm doing well, Ross, how are you? Yeah? Come on, man, I didn't really we're going there. You wanted me to call you don Imus so. But then we uh, but then we had to look up The year of Must Love Dogs came out. What a weird era of movies where Janine Garoffalo was the love interest In a few years before that, Rosie O'Donnell is a leather lingerie detective in Exit to Eden,

and then Whoopee is a slutty not real nun. What were they putting the view together like psychically with Janine's politics and then the other two's presence, because mind is blown? Man? What were we thinking? Well, you got to remember that the people who were writing that that stuff, right, they were older, you know, so they'd done probably a lot of hallucinogenic drugs in the sixties, you know. And but anyways, I should just stop

right there. Well, you know what, that's fine because the hallucinogens now apparently being done by the Commander in chief. Here's the deal man. Between the Big Boy press conference of the George Stepfanopolis interview, it was not what they were it is it was the normalcy of how they're normally ran that the American public, you would agree, right, that's what the American public wanted

to see. They wanted to see one a president Mono Imano with a reporter, even one as soft and water carrying as George I need a boost of my democratic political career Stephanopolis. They just wanted to see the president be able to conduct a conversation without notes on the issues of the day. And then yesterday they wanted to see if he could handle a room full of reporters on

the fly. Let's take question, lets go to you, and you and you and in both instances, then they immediately sabotaged and cashed in the elements that were the things people wanted to see by taping the Stephanopolis interview and by the president yesterday. Uh, you know, in between calling Zelenski, Putin and Trump, the Vice president did the old I have a list they gave me. I've been given a list of people to call on here. Did

they not understand the assignment? Well, look, everybody does this, you know, everybody has Yeah, just like you know, every every campaign sends a list of the questions that radio hosts are allowed to ask, and then if their candidate goes a bit off script, they every every campaign will then request that the recorded interview get edited so it doesn't make the candidate look bad all the time, just because I have that story and I hadn't got to

for we talk to you. So what what Pete's referring to is not the Philly woman who was fired, But it's profically a host in Milwaukee who's on a progressive radio station there, who had the questions. Use the questions and parts of the answers, including things like uh, I don't even hanging or not. But they but they said convicted the murder, all right, So that and that I have more blacks in my administration than any other president,

all of the presidents combined. This radio host shut up, all right. This radio host, who is still employed on My Dad, produced two different versions of the interview, one minus those two gaffs or whatever, at the request of the White House, I might add, using the questions that they provided, and it Pete's joking, it's not that it's so outside the norm.

In fact, if a politician suggests a question, I won't ask it, or I will try to ask something that is pure lunacy, so they understand that I'm screwing with them, so they don't ever do that again. Fair, I think that's fair. Yeah, I don't. I don't. I don't believe I have ever had a campaign or or a politician directly tell me, hey, ask me this question. You know, the uh you

do? You do sometimes coordinate on topics, like if there's a lot of stuff going on, you'll say, hey, I only got you for you know, ten minutes or something, so I want to focus on immigration and crime something like that. Right, So, but that's it. You don't. You don't tell them. And on the occasion where I have had usually it's younger staffers that don't know, and so they will just ask, you

know, hey, what what do you plan on asking the candidate? And I usually say something like, well, I never give my questions in advance. You don't make up. You don't make up questions. Why do you do this job if you're not willing to do that? This is one of the funnests to make up an insane thing that where they have to go and like staff time has to be dedicated to getting background on it and then just never ask it, Well, it's a teachable moment, Pete, Well,

I prefer just to short circuit it. And I got to, you know, because I'd rather spend my time, you know, messing with leftists on Twitter. So I just say, hey, you know what I'm like. I don't ever say I don't ever tell that my subjects in advance of what questions I'm going to ask them. Now, there is a carve out there

for authors of books that you haven't read. You know, they send over the publicity kid and they got a list of questions and they're usually generic questions, but if it's a well known author, uh, then you know it obviously you you can go anywhere you want to go with the interview, and if you've obviously got any kind of rapport with the person, you can do

so. But they send those lists of questions over because they know they're doing these massive publicity tours and it's just one interview after another for you know, weeks on end, and the hosts are not reading the books. And so that's why I just don't book a lot of authors for that reason, because I don't have a lot of time to uh to read your books because I'm rarely, Yeah, because I'm usually on Twitter, you know. Uh uh yeah, like fighting with leftists. Right anyway, anyways, I've said too

much. Well, look here's I'm going to trust. Let me from a political semi, here's as close as I I I I'm comfortable with. So like we had Senator Ted budd On earlier this week, Ed Bud, what did I say? No, I was just saying I can never say his name without saying it like Donald Trump said it when he endorsed him. Head Bud, Bud, you forgot anyway. Anyway, Look, look here's here's

the here's the thing. So it and when a when somebody books Now Ted's people didn't do this, but when he was in the house and we would book a thing with him, and I'm assuming it's a lot of the same staff, uh, they would send me, uh the press releases that they had sent out. They didn't suggest anything, but they and I'm on the mailing list and yeah for a while. And so that's wholly appropriate because those are sent to all of the media, all of it, and and they're

not directing that I pick or choose. That's it though, that's the dividing line. Yeah, right, they'll say like, hey, we just introduced some legislation. He'd love to come on and talk about it. Okay, fine, but that's in no way we're tricks me to to asking a specific question or to just that topic. And usually it's like, Okay, he wants to come on and talk about this, fine, I'll ask him a couple of questions about that, and then I'm going to move to questions I

want to ask him. And they all understand this, Yeah, they do, but they get But there's a lot of people I don't. I don't want to indicate that you and I are far superior than a lot of our colleagues, but there's a lot of there's a lot of people who do this job who are very bad at it, which is why, which is why you and I get one hundred pitches a day for the dumbest interview topics you've ever seen in your life. People have no idea, Oh yeah, the

pitches that are in there. Because there are folks who just do a magazine style show because they do not have the ability to do prep, to do show prep, to do spoken word, to do stream of consciousness, and and that's fine, but it's a different and then the other one that I really grinds my gears is a failed one or two term congressman who goes back to a mid market and they give him a show just because he was in Congress, and all he does is book his buddies. I think it bastardizes

what we do. That being said, and I'm slowly trying to remember exactly why I was going here. You know, no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't okay, now, I can't make a recovery, can just prepary to him. But the fact is the reason that they do that stuff is because if you and I object, three people probably go okay, yeah, yeah, we'll ask that, or we'll yeah, absolutely and allow themselves to be controlled because it's for work to come up

with your own stuff. It is yeah no. And people ask me like, oh, how much you know do you prep for your show and this sort of thing, And my general rule of thumb is two hours of prep for every one hour of the show. So I'm usually doing at least six hours of prep for a three hour show, and I usually never get to

all of it. I've done shows where, yeah, where it's like everything I have prepped, I have abandoned because something happens or I make one comment or we get one call and the next thing, you're talking about a topic for three hours and you've done no prep on it, or you've got a single sheet of paper that you're working off of for three hours, and yeah, I mean that's just and then that stuff sort of expires because it's not

a nevergreen topic and you move on. But I mean, that's that's what's so one of the one of the side stories and all of the Joe Biden is as bad as we thought he was. A story that we're now witnessing in the legacy corporate media is the extent to which Democrat comms shops are lazy, inexperienced, and intellectually and professionally flabby because they have not worked out any

at all against a combative or adversarial press. And it shows, it really shows that the you know, cheap fake stuff that watch me, watch me, and like, oh my gosh, that's enough for us, and there's no pushback on any of that stuff. And it's just this this adoption of fundamental assumptions that come from the Democrat Party and the left that then get translated into questions for Republicans, and so they're constantly being confronted by this stuff and

they have to they've got to learn. They got to be better, right, the comms people have to be better versus the Democrat comm shop where they don't be. Though, why would you why would you put a plan together for a polar bear attack if you live in Charlotte, That's what we're talking about, right, Yeah, Yeah, eventually, like I'm doing, I'm doing violent hoboes and uptown, right, I'm gonna have a plan for that,

and then you know, the list goes from there. I gotta pivot to one thing that's kind of on this, yeah, because I I love don't you love it when you predict something and it comes to pass and then you're able to get back on the Twitter machine and be like, hey, remember this thing I said was the and it's a thing so rare for me though, Oh stop it. I see you. You're on Twitter so much. You love Victory laps the so the thing and I and I'm sure that

you probably ride at the same conclusion. The unwillingness of Legacy Media North Carolina during the Roy Cooper Virtual Press Conference run by the way Through Software designed by Democrat Party affiliated company which allowed for almost zero questions for any combative media the but the media who was getting questions unwillingness to who use their question to go why are my colleagues not getting any questions over this more than a year process

would come back to bite him. And I would argue that in the case of Mark Robinson and his campaign with Lonagren, his campaign guy in the quote he gave wr L where he's saying, you're not getting an interview today and probably not one in a while. I have long told these folks not to talk to WRL and watching Ral then freak out about it. How can this

be? This is exactly you didn't step up, And I said, when you don't step up, and then this is going to be turned around on you, because now we're getting we get deeper into the well right with whether it's the nuclear option or any of the rest, and and and once we keep going down this road, you're gonna be the ones not getting what you

want. I consider Roskin texts Mark Robinson right now and ask him his favorite wrestler from the sixties, and Mark will answer him, not because he's in the bag for Mark, but because when uh or right, Because when we have Mark on, we schedule it, we coordinated, we talk about the issues of the day. It can be done. And uh yet Aril can't figure out how this happened. I would argue it happened. And that was

one of the gestation points right there. Well, you can only I spoke with Mark the other day like the like like an hour or two, adser He refused to Yeah, yeah, like an hour or two after he said to all of those TV cameras that crashed his Medal of Valor ceremony to ask him, like who do you want to kill? Like if you like, if you go in ascribing motive and adopting the underlying assumption that came from Greg freaking Sergeant right at the New Republic, you're going to use that as sort

of the baseline from which to operate off of. That's not good faith. Have you watched the speech that's been two hours going over that speech at the church that he did, and when I and when you listen to the speech

and it's in its entirety, it's very clear what he's saying. The only people that misinterpret what he's saying are the people who are trying to spin it to create fear and the paranoid, hysterical narcissists that that think that you know, the the world is going to end next year and that Project twenty twenty

five is something that is going to enslave everybody like they're there. We should not be governed by the most hysterical demographic in our state or our country, and that is where we are, unfortunately, and and we will continue to evolve for all of these reasons. But this is this is the media and political atmosphere they wanted. I got, I gotta go. But I hope they're enjoying it because it's it's not going to get any better. Nobody's going

to respect ral more in my humble opinion, as time goes by. But we'll leave it there. Pete will chat next week, sir, have a good one YouTube brother, appreciate it and be back. Hang on because being referenced is the cabinet story, which and this is this is a good example of how if there was a certain level of competency that Pete was talking about, you know, it's like planning for a polar bear attack in Charlotte's pretty

low on your on your to do list. Well, if you're the den comms person for a candidate or for the party planning on the mainstream media, actually, I don't know digging into these issues like that, that's something you probably didn't brainstorm for. And so the report came out that Joe Biden has not met with his full cabinet meeting. He's obviously met with individual cabinet members since let's see it was it October of twenty twenty three. Yeah, here

we go, Yeah, since October twenty twenty three. Remind me again what month it is? So ten months he hasn't met with his cabinet in a full cabinet meeting in ten months. Now, a competent comms person, especially if you work for a left leaning you know, a left candidate, and you're having to address the media. So, you know, somebody from CNN broke the story. So CNN calls like, hey, we're just looking here on your thing, and it says you haven't met with your full cabinets and

since October twenty twenty three. If the candidate himself could formulate sentences and if your comms people had planned for this, the easy response is this, and CNN would have gone away you ready. Well, we strive for efficiency, and as many of you know who ten meetings is part of your work,

a large scale group meeting isn't always the answer. So what we do is identify the issues we're working on. I meet with all of my cabinet members regularly, and when we have issues that may touch on one, two,

or three different cabinet positions, it's then that we schedule meetings. In fact, we had a school transportation issue and we brought in the Education secretary and the Transportation secretary, and YadA, YadA, and and and and then maybe they do write the story, but they write about how efficient you are. You know why, because they want you to give them the narrative that they can run with. But you can't even do that. So what do we

get? We get he hasn't met with his full cabinet since October twenty twenty three. And me case the radio guy, not the comms guy anymore. I have a memory, and my memory said, I think there was a Trump story like this. If you remember early on there was there were various narratives about Trump, but one of them was he doesn't want to win. Do you remember that? Weird during the during the campaign, you saw that, right, that was that was one of these things getting pushed by a

bunch of like leftist bloggers that Trump doesn't actually want to win. In fact, they had, and then the rest of you had me like mainstream media doing articles about how they had sources saying that Donald Trump is terrified that he might win or am I did I hallucinate that? I remember that, but I here's what I did look up when he was in office. It was a version of that where they said he hadn't met with his cabinet in a month, and then the narrative was, see, he just wanted he just

wanted to say he was president and he wanted to do president stuff. And then from there, obviously he did want to so he could rule the world and subjugate you. But yeah, yeah, that was a month that everyone freaked out. This is almost a year. Has anything happened in the last ten months that might necessitate a all hands on deca meeting? Yes, yeah, arguably a bunch of stuff. And don't get me wrong, I, like everybody else, I find the least the more people in a meeting,

the least useful. It generally is, with exceptions where it's not much of a meeting and more of a presentation. Right, here's the direction of the company, here's this big initiative. Here's a new way to dub spots that only takes seventy two easy steps. And uh yeah, but in a meeting meeting, those aren't as effective as you know, Ross, and I have a meeting with our program director once a week, and there's three of us. Right, you can be far more efficient with three than he can with

twenty three. But no, they're not getting that together. I have a theory. Ross. When you hear my theory, way he hasn't. I think he thinks that they'll twenty fifth amendment him and that they can only do it at the meetings. He just has bad info. Yeah, it makes sense, right, He goes in with his gavel and uh yeah, one of them snatches it away. Sit down, mister president, and then all right, we're all here, and then boom, you're not the president.

So like so, I you thought you were going to be a fired so you don't walk by the boss's office or they try to like, you know, reverse his psychology. And so he walks into the meeting and they're all just sitting there, and then they all start, you know, like complimenting him and bowing out the race, like he did a great job bowing out. And he's like I bowed out, and you're like, yeah, you did, yeah, do it. We all saw it, and more importantly, two thirds of us saw it. So aye, aye, all right,

let's get out of here. So bad. Speaking of bad, I look, I'm sympathizing the fact that this this young woman lost her life, but I have I have a thousand questions. All right, So, nineteen year old Maria Diana, how do you feel about people with two first names Ross? I don't know. I didn't realize some people had beef on the oh, I don't care. Yeah, there's like a segment of people. It was like a much smaller like Hawaiian pizza hater segment, which I didn't

know about until not that long ago. But anyway, nineteen year old Maria Diana was hiking with her boyfriend when they encountered a brown bear. All right, so real deal. Grizzly here brown bear. If you hear brown bear, it's the same as a grizzly. It's a latitudinal thing, or excuse me, longitudinal thing. In the US and then obviously Russia's version is essentially almost the same, although they are slightly larger some of Siberia. But anyway,

oh, the Kodiak is larger than all of those. But there's your bear. Listen for the day. So they're hiking in an area that is wrought with you know, the largest of bears. They're not polar bears, and here comes the bear and the bear is like, hey, look at that food, and what transpired, dexter is a pretty horrific and caught on

tape. We're not gonna play the audio, but uh, Diana immediately actually, let me probably say this, Ross, if you see a bear and you're on hiking and it's one of the big mean it's gonna eat you bears. What's the first thing you do? First? Top of the list and square up like old Timmy boxing, and I'm like, bring it, you know what? Good band? Yeah? Ross and I are the exception.

We don't run from bear most people. No. No. And I throw my hand into his mouth and I rip out a tooth so I can make a bear tooth necklace, just one tooth or well, I mean one tooth from each bear. Yeah, I don't want to be cruel. You're it's still kind of like almost one of those Vietnam necklaces you hear about. Yes, I stay away from that, but so most people be like I'd run. But the reality is it depends on the bear. If there's smaller bears.

I'm seeing baby bears around your topography. There's a lot of you got at you gotta remember, and there is a fail safe point where you have to make a decision. And if it's a black bear, the decision is make yourself look big. Okay, make yourself look big. This is what they will tell you. Not aggressive, but make yourself look big and formidable. Chances are that black bear will scamper off into the trees. Done deal,

baby. So if you've done multiple people like kind of like stealing on each other's shoulders with like like the kids in the trench coat, yeah like that, would you figure out why Jeff's calling what's broken? Oh? Dear god? All right, well we're always away from that, but so uh yeah, make it. Maybe not the trench coat thing, but make yourself look big. You could, you can do noise they and the smaller black bear. That will work great. We're doing with the you know, the

Leonardo DiCaprio revenant bear. That's not your best option, and it really depends if you think if you can get to cover how far it is. They're they're much faster than you think. But a piece of advice that they will give you if you found yourself with the bear upon you is lay down. I know that sounds counterintuitive, with your hands over the back of your neck and as the if the bear tries to roll you so that it has access to your stomach, keep the roll going until your back face down again.

And that's the best advice that that that they'll give you. And I understand that you could go, oh, shoot it with my gun. We're operating on the premise you don't have one, because uh, miss Diana didn't. So she she called nine one one and what she called nine one one? Did they tell her all that what you just said they did? They did not. They did not, because I don't know if they have that page

in their folder book. I'm being eaten by a bear. Miss Diana on the phone, uh, talking to emergency services when the bear grabbed her leg and drug her off a four hundred foot cliff. The injuries, according to rescuers, what is this? Listen to this this term. The injuries suffered by Miss Diana were quote incompatible with life. What happened to deadly injuries or something? And ironically the bear survived. So when rescuers found her body,

the bear was circling it. Because that bear was he came to play, man, what do you if you're the nine one one operator? What what was? What were I I get that she panicked, But if you're the nine one one operator, I'd be like, run he is there anybody near you who runs slower than you? Run slightly in front of that person? Right, there's no advice you can give. I almost feel bad for the nine one one operator, Like, let's see how to clear the breathing pass.

It's Nope, not that CPR. Nope, can't talk you through that intruder in the house. Be very quiet, turn the light off on your phone and hide. Nope, that's the and the and we're done. She called nine one. At least the kayak girl had the you know, the

sense to at least to try to negotiate with the bear. Now, if you run it through the filter of how leaders will tell you to deal with criminals, because they don't want to recommend guns, you should inform the bear that you're calling nine to one one, which apparently she did not do well. Yeah, and then you need to curl up at p on yourself. Yes, remember those instructions. But that was to not get raped at the University of California Davis or a Kimra which campus. So actually it is a

thing that they will from a wildlife attack too, I guess. I don't know, but I've heard that. I don't know that I think anyone's giving serious advice like that. But the advice I gave you with the hands over the neck, that's a real thing, which sounds terrifying. All right, raced agic, real quick, sorry, very late, ruin everybody's day. Yeah, go ahead, yeah all right yeah, rain on again, off again, scattered showers, thunderstorms, floodwatch through this evening. Although the rain

made linger especially on off tour the East tonight and tomorrow. Most of the heaviest rain comes today, so heads up, there's a couple of flood warnings around. There'll probably be more. There will be breaks in the action, but with the rain of keeth, temperatures in the eighties today tomorrow, with some sun we'll probably get closer to ninety, but still some scattered shower storms. Emphasizing though it's going to continue to push east through the day. Slight

chance of storms. Mid nineties for the triangle on Sunday, low nineties. Try it hot week Next week could have a couple of days up near one hundred and some spots. All right, well, you think about what you've done over the weekend. We'll talk Monday. Okay, see man, yep, we'll be back. Hang on, Denise BELLEGREENI again, Denise, what do you got? Yeah? You know how AT and T had that huge problem earlier this year with customer data being exposed to all. Apparently there was

another breach way worse than that. AT and T suffered a massive hack of customer data that included records of calls and texts for nearly all of its mobile phone users for a six month period back in twenty twenty two. And this has been called one of the biggest breaches of private communications data in recent memory. And I've also got one for you on a possible cure treatment for dementia.

This really stunning and it has to do with another side benefit of taking ozempic believe it or not, University of Oxford study links the Novo Nordist drug to lower rates of dementia and other mental health problems. The study found after a year on ozempic, patients had a forty eight percent lower risk of dementia

compared with those who had taken an older drug. So, I guess my question is, are you better off gaining a lot of weight and then taking ozempic to fight dementia or if you can remember gaining the weight for story? I think yeah, I was gonna say, as long as you remember where the bathroom is. Isn't that the thing with those epic it was? I think it's as long as you remember to take your o zembic film? Yeah, yeah, all right, Yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead, did

you have Oh no, that was the att thing. It's like, I just want to go on record as a customer. Those draw I was hacked literally and the drunk text are not mine. So if they did make the way O yeah, would you want the totality of your Google search results and your text history float around out there that? I mean, everything could be so misunderstood too. I mean, something you could just look up because you're curious the other day. I looked up like quintet the other day for other

words for content, and I got it. Took me to like the porn sites about fivesomes, and I was like, what I didn't, I didn't, I wasn't looking. I don't Anyway. You ever have an older family member and you like they're trying to understand the term, and you don't want to explain it to him, but also the last thing you want to do is tell him to google it. So it's just struggle. All right, Denise, make some money on Stuck. So Stuck teaches right now they are

higher casey Becker. Okay, yeah, Hey, I really appreciate having a good weekend. Okay you all right, there you go, Denise Pellegriny from Bloomberg News Rose. That happens to me all the time too. I'm just trying to figure out I'm trying to do the no when I'm in the store, I'm trying. I'm trying to figure out a word, because you know, I want to be a flowery as possible, and then it's very innocent, and then I end up at a at a group sex porn site.

So if I had a nickel right whoopsie. So uh yeah, watch out for that dude. Your entire Google search history and every text you've ever set ross would be fine, because he does. He sends very little text and then he deletes it all. And then, as you know, once he deleted, it's gone from the internet for us. That's it. Once you hit that button, it's uh no more. It's as though it never happened ever, ever, ever, ever