Monday-05-01-2023

All right, good morning everybody. It is it's so eight year on the case O Day Radio program, Happy Monday. What a day on Friday after we left the building. Holy cowt Sitting there you're trying to shift into you know, because it's kind of weird the way our schedule works in that. Yeah, we I mean, we work work five days a week, but

obviously you work outside of that because that's just the reality of things. But really when it comes to Fridays and Sundays, they're a little different, just because our work day is really kind of encompassed in the latter half of one day in the first half of another because you've got a prep like you know, yesterday on Sunday, sitting down in the afternoon, start going through the

stories, putting stuff together. Hopefully throughout the course of the weekend you're seeing some stuff, so it makes it a little a little quicker, a little easier. And then on Monday, obviously get up and to do the show. But on Friday, you get done with the show. You do you know, commercials, promos, production, any of any of the side stuff that we do, which is, believe it or not, we actually do

do that stuff. It's not just three hours a day. But then by Friday, you know Friday, by you know, by you getting into the afternoon and evening, you're off, it's your weekend already. So and it has its ups and downs. It's nice if you're wanting to travel right, especially like if you want to beat the crowd, like maybe if you're headed down to the beach or whatever, you want to leave Raleigh and you work morning radio. I don't a Friday, you don't have to make as many

changes as a lot of people do. Just if you plan right, you be up out the door. So when stuff happens on Friday afternoon, which can tend to be a dump day, sometimes, you know, you get these like four o'clock White House things, were like, oh yeah, just a little memo here, and then it's something that's crazy, and you wonder,

well, is that about hiding it from the news cycle. So I don't think that's what happened Friday. I think that was just the court doing what the court does, since the Supreme Court of North Carolina is not like the US Supreme Court, where they tend to do these Monday decisions so they can get chewed on and analyzed and reported on throughout the rest of the week, but a whole pile of news, basically multiple lawsuits, lawsuits in some

cases that had been revisited that made their way to a review, a judicial

review. And remember we're dealing with some of these lawsuits. Where As we sat there and we looked at the decisions that were being made, even quote unquote I would say quote unquote independent or at the at the very least fairer reviewers realized that they were just making stuff up, man, and they were fast tracking cases and it was all about getting in under the gun before the Democrats knew that they were going to lose control of the North Carolina Supreme Court,

control that they had achieved, in my opinion, in a lot of people's opinion, through some very interesting candidates a couple cycles ago that tended to split the GOP vote. I'll I'll let you dig into that a little more

if you want. But upon review, they reviewed these cases and restored the state's voter id law, took state courts out of the partisan jerrymandering disputes, basically saying that there is no law like it or not as it pertains to jerrymandering from a partisan perspective, which is which is the case North Carolinas somehow found that all of a sudden it wasn't the case, and they took these maps when if you look at them, compared to literally anything over one hundred

and ten years, Democrats are running things, including maps that were voted on by our own governor during his time as a legislator. Uh, there was no comparison in in terms of compactness, which is an actual legal term that is utilized in determining. UM. You know, whether whether a district is is it is the it is the gold standard of what you're supposed to achieve. All right, you want to you want to equally distribute the number of

people. You want to go for compactness, and you also want to strive for um, some sort of community investment in the sense that parts of the district to the extent that they can be shared the same needs, wants and representative needs. Those are those are what you're striving for. On the jerrymandering and the partisan jerrymandering side, that's not something that's addressed. UM, I

think it was. Phil Berger pointed out that when he first entered the Senate, is the burger I think it was burger you know what it escapes. One of the Republican legislators pointed out that they when they first entered the legislature the North Carolina Senate, in the very same year that Bush won by thirteen points in North Carolina, there were two thirds of the Senate was Democrats and

one third Republican. So the Republican president wins by thirteen points, which I don't know that we'll ever see that again one way, either one way or the other. And yet two thirds of the Senate was in fact Democrats in that And how do you achieve that? Well, you're talking about state Senate districts. Now, could you make an argument that with how close the presidential election was last time, that North Carolina with veto proof majorities isn't exactly represented.

Yeah, you could make that, but that's not the standard. But if you want to claim that it's the standard, then you need to recognize the disparity, which was much more aggressive back in the day. So, if anything, they've worked to close that. Now, if you want to argue community interests, what you see and what Democrats have done in many instances,

if they sliced and diced, arguably community interests. You know, if you take if you take one city and you try to make the totality of that city one district, say one congressional district, you can't argue that as a city that the interest of that city aren't most closely aligned. But as soon as you turn it into a stack of pancakes, like they did with Chicago and Baltimore and every and Detroit. This is really what happened in Michigan.

They took these districts and they pancaked him. So you take a big slice of population out of the city, knowing that it's going to generally be a locked in Democratic vote, and then you build a long arm with it. And then once you do that, you find yourself with, you know, four or five slices out of this major metro. Yet the metro still drives it. In some cases, like in the state of Illinois, they

have districts of Chicago that that loop all the way down towards Evingston. And I'm sorry, if you've ever been in Illinois for five minutes or excuse me, Evingston, Peoria, if you've ever been into Illinois for five minutes, you would recognize that what is referred to as Chicago Land, that great area and basically the rest of the state really don't share a lot of common interests.

It turns very rule, it turns very red, and while the red does not in any way outmatch the blue there, ultimately it's easier to chew up. So if a case was decided based on this new standard of partisan gerrymandering, which doesn't exist, then it doesn't mean that you still can't have problems with what's going on, but you can't make up a new legal, new legal language on which to not just file but be victorious in a lawsuit.

Because you feel like it, you got to go after it, and arguably the most efficient way to go after it is to go out and campaign, win the legislature, maintain you know, maybe do it this time around while the governor's still there, or get a you know, get Josh Stein or whoever you put in there, and fundamentally change the system which is legal, change it to change it. A quote unquote nonpartisan board love to see you try, considering that even in places where they say they've done it,

it's become abundantly clear that they have. At Denver is a good example. Colorado did this too. They sliced up the Denver Metro and they have they have one of those nonpartisan boards. So that was ruling one and two. Also, they ended voting for felons who have not completed their sentence, so in each ruling five to two party lines split. As expected, that happened,

but something much more interesting happened. And frankly, if they're able to get this thing off the ground, and there's not some hidden thing that I'm missing here, it is probably going to be one of the biggest political fights. Even though it looks like they have the vote secured in quite some time. Implementation is going to be crazy. And the amount of lawsuit money I

can't even imagine. And that has to do with your kids schools, and we'll talk about that coming up up here on the case O Day Radio program. The show after the show is on the iHeartRadio app. Searchs case O Day for the podcast on the iHeartRadio app. All right, welcome back. It is six twenty three here on the case O Day Radio program. This is the headline from w r L GOP lawmakers want to pay for students private education. How we got here, what's new and why they face resistance.

So basically this is what is UH backpack funding, I guess is one of the terms you use you here described as money follows the student, although it's not as simple as that. There's still going to be a sliding scale if the current law or proposed law should say is to pass, which basically that sliding scale will be dependent on income levels of the participants. But as you can imagine, public education have a kids are freaking out, freaking out saying

this will draw dollars away. But also you have a student that's not going to be there, so you you have the money attached to the student, basically in the way that moneys are allocated for students anyway in public schools. Right, That's why they get really weird about if a kid doesn't meet a certain number of requirements for attendance, because that money or that student isn't shown as a student after a certain number of days, and it affects funding levels.

Now, it's obscenely complex, and North Carolina makes it even further complex just in the way that they do it, which is somewhat non traditional, where you have both the state funding model, you have your federal funding side, but you also have local funding in many districts, especially many of these cities just basically upping certain things as it pertains to like teachers pay. Okay, but in this instance it also creates competition if they're able to put this

through. And one of the big pushbacks that you're seeing is that well, once you get into a rural area, you're going to there is no other option. Well, if that's the case and people live in that, which it's not, I'll give you some examples. I'm sure in some places it

is. Some places it isn't. In those particular areas, then if students don't have another alternative other than you know, homeschool or an excessive amount of travel, then the likelihood is the students are going to stay in that school,

but in other areas they're going to have options. And as much as they want to throw it up on Twitter saying well this is basically funding for religious schools, I would remind you that, yes, in some cases private schools that have either avertly religious overtone like I'm talking you're going to chapel or

church or mass if it's a Catholic school. Literally during the course of education during the week, they have others where it's thematic right, where it is part of it, and much of what they do is seeing through the lens of But for all practical purposes, it just feels like a regular old public

school and it runs the gamut of religion. People fail to realize is that for a time one of the Islamic schools in Greensboro, with another one in Fayetteville, were literally among the most utilized for voucher vouchers in North Carolina. Yeah, yeah, I believe it or not, those are Islamic schools. They were. They were as just as if your kid goes to a Baptist private school or any other Christian or Catholic or Jewish for that matter, or

whatever it is. They were utilized. Greensboro had the largest, or I believe they were number one for a while. I can't remember the name of the school off the top of my head. But you look this stuff up and as you saw expansion, I saw people were going, well, now

it's not the number one anymore. Well, you're still limited by what percentage of students come from families that practice Islam, who are going to be likely to send their kid there, or more likely, I should argue but you still you still had this fight every year over the limitations on the number of vouchers. This opens it up and as a result, it also opens up

the ability of schools. Tom And in a rural area where I saw somebody who's from Pamlico County, right, we would agree that that's a rural area, would we? They have three They have three school options currently. They have charter option, they have private option. I believe it's a Christian academy, and they have you know, your traditional public schools. So in other rural areas, if parents band together and want to start an alternative, thus

forcing the competition. Now they can be secured in the fact that if they build it, they will come in. If they build something the parents want, it creates the competition. This is a good thing. And we'll talk more in a moment Your day Smarter and celebrating ten years of keeping you better informed one oh six one FM Talk and News Talk nine four five WPTI more with Casey starts. Now, Well, you know, there have been a lot of cutbacks in the world of media, and there's gonna be more oversight

these things happen. Apparently, ABC has apologized for a cutaway shot utilized during the Knicks Heat game yesterday evening. You know, you know, when you're watching sports and they do that thing where they're going to commercial break, they're coming back whatever they're making announcement, sponsor thank you's, or maybe promoting another

broadcast. They have these transitionary shots, just like we have transitionary audio like that rejoiner you just heard, except in this case, obviously you have a visual component. And so because it's the Knicks, the New York Knicks playing the Miami Heat, they're playing in New York, you're gonna get one of those standard New York shots. It could be a hot dog vendor, it could be here's people skating at Rockefeller Well not this time of the year,

but you know what I mean. Or you could do the skyline or the Statue of Liberty and the skyline. That's a very popular one. You want images that scream where you are. And unfortunately, apparently over at ABC News, who's headquartered in New York City, they have been unable to acquire any additional stock footage of either the Statue of Liberty and the New York Skyline since

oh September ish of two thousand and one and Skyline is being generous. It actually is a shot from a lower angle of the Statue of Liberty, making it look more majestic. And the only other two images that you see in the photo other than like clouds and stuff, are the two towers of the World Trade Center. And just so we're clear, there was no there was no kind you know, if there had been commentary, as today is actually the anniversary of the raid on the bin laden compound, right, so if

there was, if there was context, I would understand that. But it was and it was just a standard. I think it was an ad for Facebook at the moment they're doing it, you know, met quest or whatever sponsoring. And there it is a Statue of Liberty in the two twin towers, which are more than twenty one years old at the very least. We don't actually know how old that shot is. So in twenty one years, they've apparently been unable to acquire photography of the city in which they are head

quartered. That's bad, man, I mean, how is it impossible? I know Patrick Ewing was there, yes, did they think he was playing or something like? He had thirty five points? He did? John Starks go off oh, dude, can't even look at the box score. Just it was Patrick Ewing even playing that, I think things they're tired by the really, you know, I don't know. I don't know how that doesn't escape. And even for people who are like, ah, you know,

you know, you're just look at you're looking at a file. I've heard people make this excuse from from a video standpoint, and I'm sorry, it just doesn't work like that. There's, at the very least there's still images. This seems to be a still image. Actually it's kind of hard to tell, just because there's not a lot of action in the photo at stationary

items. But no, um no, how about just no, there's just no frigging way, shape or form that you don't notice that, especially as prominent as it's not just the skyline it is the two twin Towers and the Statue of Liberty. You only have three things to worry about. And yet that's what happened, all right anyway, six thirty eight case O Day Radio pro. I'm trying to remember who'd be even playing for the Heat back in that time, like Glenn Rice Alonzo Mourning. I don't even know. I'd

have to literally I'd have to call up a thing. But anyway, let me grab a call here, Jamal, what's up, hey, Taylor Ross? That Patrick ewing at that by that time they got traded. I believe to the Orlando Magic. They're trading him to the Orlando Magic by two thousand and one. But I say this casey as someone who has children in a private Christian academy. I think the Republican Party did great by saying we can get some of our money back. However, I think the Republican Party needs

to stop worrying about Democratic activist. I put my child in private school because I don't want them being taught by durm public schools. I don't want my children learning that just because they're black little girls, they're always gonna have a whole and now everything America ever wanted to do was aunt your mama and they blackness, all racism. I didn't want that from Durham public schools. I

didn't put my children. That's why I work overtime. That's why I took ah fat classes to become certified age back and now trying to become certify plumb. This is why I did that. This is why I worked for a great company. They letting me work my overtime because I put my children in private school, I don't want nothing to do with Duram Public schools. They sat there and they kept the schools closed a whole year and a half longer

than my children's school they go to now. And my children are doing good, they're they're doing great. I don't have to work about a teacher coming in the classroom trying to translate the kids. I'm not having that at the Christian school children go to. I don't have to worry about drad clings in the school, don't get to worry about debt. So if you want to know, and the Republicans fail to bring parents like myself who are outspoken and

want their kids the money to follow the kids. No, I don't want not a dime of money that John Public Schools didn't for my children to get it. No change the way you are. Republicans. They did good. I gotta men, they did good with the Boksey well gold On. It ain't passed yet. It looks like they have the votes and you're gonna ge after the process, and look if they get it passed and they get it overridden, which likely have to happen because Cooper is going to veto that.

But they seem to have the votes thanks to I caught them coming over. I'll give them a big old kudos unless there's some aspect of this that I'm missing, and it needs to be functional in the way the parents are able to easily do it. But you would agree that parents have become much more outspoken. And I warned this during the pandemic. I said, right now, public schools are squandering supporters, and they're doing it at an alarming rate. And if you remember when we did have shut down, and we did

have private schools that shut down as well. Once things started to reopen, private schools were at the head of this, and they were first through the wall. They took the brunt of it because every day some news outlet was doing a story about how they're trying to kill their kids and how irresponsible these parents are and it's just horrible. And I'm telling you, between that and what people were learning more and more about what their kids were learning, it

was a tipping point. It was the primust of opportunities to do this, and I'm not glad to see that the momentum moving forward, just doing it. You know, at the end of the day, I'm the one who is the least arbitrary here because I don't have a kid, so I don't have to make that decision. There's no possibility that the moneys that I paying for school funding, that I will ever see that in any way, shape or form back to me unless I decided, Hey, you know what,

I need a kid because tax credit. So and I'm thinking this is a good idea because I genuinely want people to have the opportunities, and I want competition to drive a better quality of service wherever it may be, especially when dealing with a governmental entity. And you know what, Casey, And I'm gonna say this to you, Casey, I hope and praying five years. You tell about two to three kids. I can't wait. You know you're gonna settle down, man, but you're gonna have three, three to five

kids. Hey, I want it. I wanted all three to five boys. And I'm almost if my wife could just give me one more chance and I get three kids. I have three. But Casey, this is the thing. Republicans have to start calling on fans to come down there and tell our stories of why we put our children in private school because here's the thing. Everybody complain about schools because private schools don't put up with their breasts.

I'm from Rocky Mountain and we saw that fight that happened with the student attacking the teacher. Well, you don't have that in private school because those type of children that display that behavior, they're not going to stay in the school. They're not gonna even private schools aren't even putting up with that crowd. They'll throw you out. And too many of these activists want to keep children in school. One because Barack Obama did a twenty fourteen saying oh yeah,

yeah, suspending too many black children and in Latino children. So you know, you got to explain to why people don't know if that's what really hurts schools too. But in private schools, we don't have to worry about our children have to wear about keep at catching the game. Fights. You don't have to worry about that because you fight in a private Christian academy, you're getting thrown out. And a lot of people like to stick their kids in

school as a private daycare. And that's why our schools are getting bad. Just to know that during this pandemic casing the school. My children, they had to do that stupid man's thing because of Durham City, but they still

was opened, had contact, had things and my children. If you are better off now than what those kids that was in private school, I mean, excuse me, public schools who waited a whole year and have some too in order to go back to schools and Republicans need to contact the local Republican gops Durham County GOP wait Cound of gilp Join County GOP person County GOP. Ask them, Hey, who are your people that goals to private school who

are outspoken about this? Help them come to the capital and speak and tell people. I don't want your public school crap. This is why I don't care if you call this diversity. I don't care if you call this police. I'm not gonna tell my children a man can be a boy, and a man can be a woman, and a woman can be a man. I'm not gonna tell my children. And I don't want no school teaching my children that. Yeah a Jamal, just because I got I got up against

the clock. I completely understand what you're saying. And those are decisions. By the way, when public schools are now having to compete, that they're going to wrestle with because if they realize that that turns a certain number of parents off because they just want the basic academics, that's going to be you know, that's going to be something that they're going to have to look at.

But I would say this, if they want testimonials on parents who avail themselves of private schools and love it, in most cases, they need only look across the aisle, whether it's the governor of North Carolina, Yeah, and and ask them, you know, you made this decision, do you feel that it was beneficial? And they'll haramp and they won't answer it. In they'll off to skate. But ultimately the opportunities abound. Jamal, I

gotta go. Thank you very much for the call this morning. Okay, oh okay, case they still play for you to have three keys, right, don't? All right? Well, you know what, I hope you get shingles. Okay, I'm kidding, all right now. I like kids just fine, So I'd just like to, you know, sleep on the weekends too, all right. Six forty seven case O Day Radio program Hanging celebrating ten years and still going strong. Thank you. Casey is one four five w PTI in the Triad and one o six one FM Talk in the

Triangle. So actually kind of a busy weekend for stuff. He had, you know, hockey hockey playoffs at NBA on the sports side of those two, and then of course the NFL Draft which actually started on Thursday into Friday and then Saturday with the you know, the rest of the draft picks there. So you know, you had that aspect of things that were going on. You had what I guess they referred to his NERD prom the White House Core Respondence Dinner, which boy boyd, we got some audio from that.

We're going to get into to kick off the next hour. But yeah, here a lot out there, a lot of stuff going on, and the news cycle didn't wait. In fact, let me just real quickly on a couple of things with the draft if I could for just a moment. Dion Sanders is very upset by the way. Beyond Sanders has been been angry here

as of late. If you don't know, Sanders was brought in to the University of Colorado the Buffalo's to be their football head coach pulled away ironically from an HBCU Jackson State, where he had he had really really a lot of success in recruiting. Initially, I was getting some big names down there. Of course we got into this, this whole portal thing, this transfer portal.

COVID drove this, and some rule changes drove this. Some players following him to Colorado, some who did instead went to other schools after they went to Colorado. And you could tell that that chapter him. But now he's just very upset over the draft position of Isaiah Bolden. And if you don't know who that is, I didn't either, But he is a cornerback from Jackson State, and he went in the seventh round and was the only HBCU player selected in the draft. And that's what set Sanders off. One.

He's his guy, right recruited him. Obviously, he's really proud of him, and you know, once all the best for him, and I understand that, but you know, he said, very proud of you, Isaiah Bolden. You deserve to be drafted much higher. I know how much you want this. I'm ashamed of the thirty one other NFL teams that couldn't find draft value in all of the talented h BCU players and we had three more

draftworthy players. All right, look, here's the deal. And it's one thing to air your frustration there, but it then prompts this bigger discussion where everyone's accused in the NFL of being racists for HBCU players. And I'm telling you, I just this is the stuff that I don't understand when you get into professional sports, which is all about money. Now, are there some

things that trump money? They appear to, but they really don't. And here's what I mean, Like when we get into discussions about off the field

issues. So if you have if you have a player in college who's out there and you know, gets into some sort of police issue, whether it's stealing crab legs or laptops or driving and street racing to the point where somebody gets killed, Teams are going to look at this stuff and maturity and these types of things do reflect And any any any kids going into the NFL draft

coming out of school, I guess they're not kids. But any young man who is going into the NFL Draft has that level of talent and has that level of talent in college, there's a thousand people around him telling him, hey, you just don't screw this up. It will impact you. Look at Jalen Carter. He didn't drop as far as people thought he was going to, but there were some concerns there. He was doing the street racing

thing, and you know what, we all do, dumb stuff. You do dumb stuff in high school college, and I think he got to balance that and you're gonna you know. I didn't have a conversation with him, and I hope he's a successful player except for any games where we play against what the Eagles took him. I hope he hasn't off any of those days. But it's not necessarily behavior issue on the part of HBCU. There are other intangibles that people are looking at, one of which is competition that they

play. You may have immense talent, and there are very talented players. Let me give you a list of just a few players that have come out of historically black colleges and universities. You may have heard of some of them. Michael Strahan, Jerry Rice, Walter Payton, and there is there's literally hundreds of others who have been part of the NFL Draft coming from HBCUs. However, that number has declined, but it hasn't just declined for HBCUs in

the sense that smaller schools aren't having as many players drafted. The concentration of NFL quality or level potential level talent in universities has become far more concentrated, and arguably even when you get into that top division one has been far more concentrated into certain divisions. That's the reality of it. So unless you really really stand out of there's some other intangibles. This is the reality. Not just for HBCUs, it's the reality for many smaller schools, schools that don't

traditionally get Bowl games. So be passionate, but let's not start this insanity. They'll pay for the talent that gets them the rings. All right, good morning, everybody. It is seven oh six. You're on the KCO day and the radio program phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight

seven four. So look, and there's a lot of talent from a lot of schools, be the HBCUs or even major universities that went undrafted that will eventually find themselves with a shot at the NFL because you know, these teams can go out and grab them and sometimes that strategy too, because when you

draft somebody, you're making financial investment. You're you're rolling the dice. So especially when you get into later picks, unless somebody is a superstandout talent at a smaller school, and we have seen where teams will go out and they will snag those players. Ross I remember you guys had a quarterback you drafted from what people would consider a nonpowerhouse division and a nonpowerhouse university in that division. That worked out pretty well for you guys. I'm thinking, yeah,

he turned out to be the goat. So it's been pretty good. And you know those stories exist out there. Obviously, you've had quarterbacks from like North Dakota State that have flourished in recent years. So you know, if you want to turn it into an issue where well obviously racisms of foot,

it's that HBCUs are not very competitive. That's not a rule, but not very competitive in the current college landscape, and non HBCUs in divisions that don't start with you know an S or or a you know a Big ten style division. Basically three divisions rule the roost on this. You know where you're gonna get the majority of your high talent and it's because it's so easy for kids to move to these divisions since become a recruiting thing all in its own.

But other players will get out there. I saw what did NC State end up with. I think what Zavala got taken. But other than that, I think they had what five or six lads players? Two of the linebackers, the who's the kicker done? Christopher Don'll probably get picked up by a team given a shot. So uh yeah, and you know if Isaiah Moore and Thomas and I can't remember who the other one was, is the

dirting frenzy State. I mean they're from a draft grade standpoint, they're in that window, and some players take pretty crazy routes to NFL success or at least NFL rosters. Buffalo got a guy from ECU. Oh you know what? Yeah, absolutely Noaherson. By the way, I did review. I did look it over there. Um obviously wanted to see what was up with the the Was he from ECU or did he played ECU and then transferred to another school? So it was crazy this year the number of kids that played

it two different universities. But you're pretty happy with your draft stuff overall, right, Yeah, it wasn't bad. Vikings just crapped the bed man. I don't know, I don't know what. I don't know what the hell we were doing. Yeah, we got Josh a few more weapons, we improved the oh line, So I'm happy with it. Yeah. So I know a lot of teams, you know, it's the whole. Some teams come out looking great. Some look like what a waste of their time?

But listen, man, they do these like scores in the draft. You know, they're like, ah, you know, a plus for you, a minus for you, and it's like, you really don't know. I mean, it's all they're they're all just they're just guessing. Because you could have somebody that's it's great and it turns out that they're a flop. You're not going to know it for like a year or so. In you know, who I feel the worst for in this draft is this year is mister

Irrelevant. Yeah, because obviously everything that happened with mister Irrelevant from the previous year, who ended up, you know, looking like a stud quarterback there at the end of the year. And so if you're think it was a defensive end or somewhere, yeah, Johnson, uh, Dejean Johnson came out of Toledo, not exactly powerhouse by the La Rams. Oh wait, hold on, I just got this email here, Man wish Oh this is from

Oh, this is from Corey. Uh Man. I wish we knew of anybody who was a late draft pick and ended up being a really huge player. Can you guys think of any Um? Yeah, actually I could think of quite a few that were, you know, taken very late in the draft. But um, you know, we don't need to necessarily go down that list. We got, um, you know, Dan Marino. Dan Marino was taken pret late. All right, let's see here, uh Colston,

Um, let's see this is this is post merger stuff. I'm you know, I'm just gonna try to look for things that are Troy Brown Patriots guy. I think that's probably the only one from the Patriots I can think of. Seth Joyner. Let's see here. Hastleback, I think came out what he was like six or seventh round, got himself a Super Bowl. There. We had a guy for Minnesota who was very late. His name is Matt Burke, who had he played for Harvard, and it was kind

of the same issue. But he was a pro bowler six or seven times. Dwight Clark Ross. You remember who Dwight Clark is. Dwight Clark. You remember a certain catchy made in the back of the end zone for the forty nine ers, Yes, I do. Yeah, Donald Driver was a late pick, Terrell Davis, Richard Dent, Ken Houston, and Shannon Sharpe was a late pick. And then that's it. I can't think of anymore. So yeah, no, I know what you're saying, dude, Thanks

for the emo. Yeah, Kurt warn't a great example, obviously. You know, guy's working at a high v which is essentially like a Harris Teeter of the Midwest. It's to shop at hive stock and shelves, gets a call, play some Canadian stuff, boom where you know it. You and a few of your friends or hoisted Super Bowl trophies, So the opportunity exists.

Minnesota Vikings were blessed to have Adam Thielan for so many years. He played at Minnesota State man Cato didn't get drafted, didn't even really he showed up at this this this tryout day. Guy goes on to light it up, go to the Pro Bowl multiple times, so you know, the path exists. It's not easy. It's a lot of hard work, but it is the reality of things. All right. Let me get into one of

the other events from over the weekend. Oh and I did enjoy watching parts of it, especially on Friday where Thursday and Friday where you get to see all of the college girlfriends on one of their last dates. I'm sorry, that's rude. I'm sure they're all gonna so they're all gonna stick it out. It'll be fine. Oh wait, hold on Boston. Paul's upset feels that my list was in complete? Ross you fact checked my list? That was it was not? Was it inaccurate? Out? Yeah, sir,

we've it's been. It's been double peer reviewed. So I don't know what you think calling in a question there emailing question in this show. We checked it out. Looks good. All right, onto other things. Nerd prom the White House Correspondent's Dinner, you know, the one where they decided,

in the absence of Trump one, what Barack Obama mock Trump. There's famously that that correspondence dinner when Obama is still in office, and it's the whole line about, you know, he's mocking Donald Trump about presidential aspirations and how he'll never be president, And if anyone, one of the most one of the most amazing montage videos, I think in recent memory, or not even so recent memory, probably of all time is that video, which there's one

hundred versions of the original one, which is about six minute long, six minutes long, and shows all of these folks that Donald Trump never be president, people on Bill Maher laughing about it, when Ann Coulter says that he's

the front runner, Barack Obama mocking him a couple of times. Tom Hanks is in there, just all of this stuff, and then of course there's the lead up of each state and every time they call it for Trump and the pan nick in this sounds made by the analysts on the various networks. And then eventually here's Trump walking across the stage after finding out he'd won,

him and his family. So you know, these um, there are there are moments that stick with us, and there were arguably a few in this Weekend's one where you had, um, I think what was some actual astute analysis by political commentator by the name was Scott Jennings who works for CNN, and I never thought i'd say that, and it was based on a joke that was done by the comedian, because I was good a comedian to go in there. Roy Wood Junior was the comedian. I think he's a funny

dude, and he dropped a little little truth, little truth. Check this out. I don't know about for me, um, the easiest scandal to follow was the Trump documents scandal. That was the one that was easy to follow. It was simple, there's some stuff that's supposed to be in the White House that ain't and the media, y'all did y'all's job. Y'all jumped on that story. As soon as the Trump documents story broke, everybody was

down to moralogle. We're reporting love from the documents and we're going to find him. And then we found out Joe Biden had documents too, and it was like, oh, it's not a big deal. I started. Everybody got documents, everybody got document. Mike Pith has some document about them. Oh look the Chinese bib balloon. Would you look at that? Well done? Media? Yeah, and so they're laughing it up, right, that's funny. That is That is the prettiest student indictment of the way that they

handled it, and everyone's just busting up, including Joe Biden. He's busting up while they're talking about how he's got documents that he shouldn't have in his garage sitting next to his corvette or whatever. But it was what Joe Biden said that raise the ire of at least some political analysts, and rightfully so. Here is one of the jokes that Joe Biden, I'm sure totally wrote himself, totally off the cuff. Here we go a lot of ways.

This dinner sums up my first two years in office. I'll talk for ten minutes, takes zero questions, and cheerfully walk away. They're laughing. They think that's funny. But you know what, that's true, and they should be embarrassed either that they're not trying hard enough or they should be upset that this individual is not giving them the access that they claim they're entitled to. And I know they claimed that because they were. They would whine that Donald

Trump wasn't doing enough pressers and that guy would hold marathon press conferences. Was crazy and at least for one person, the Scott Jennings over on seeing and he called it out for what it is. Then the line that will stick with me is in a lot of ways, this dinner sums up my first two years in office. I'll talk for ten minutes, take zero questions, and cheerfully walk away. I'm just gonna for the journalists in the room. He wasn't laughing with you, he was laughing at you. I mean,

the reality is, I think he's mocking the press. The guy does not take questions. That he's up there joking about it, and I just and they're clapping and they're laughing about it, and I I don't know. I just I think he owes. I'm I'm pro reporter, and I think the President United States ought I have to talk to these reporters and not mock them. Now, that is that is a well one. That is an astute point because I agree with that, so therefore I will call it a stute

But yeah, yeah, he is. And you're all clapping along like seals. And while access is one half of the discussion, the quality of the access in the sense that you know, you're actually able to ask your own questions or you don't have to pre pre feed him, that's a whole other issue that we've been discussing for week and the question should be substantive. There's more than enough here to dig into if you want to, but to let you know the general attitude of how they award, you know, the best

of the best within their own little group, the White House Correspondence. Under Donald Trump, it was, you know that people were getting awards for stories that, by the way, it turned out having to be retracted in two instances and at the very least we're highly suspect in the other. But they

were gotcha stories. Listen to this year's winner for the Spirit Award, right, So this is to best embody what it means to be a White House reporter, somebody who is there at the threshold of power, holding to account those in the highest office in the land and arguably the highest office in the world, the leader of the free world. And this is this is how

you This is how you get a win. This year Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage is named for a former Association president, the late Chicago Tribune correspondent Aldo Beckman. This year, the award goes to Matt Visor

of the Washington Post. Wait judges said Matt Visor stood out among his competitors for work that went beyond the humdrum of covering the managed events of the presidency and the White House Viser captured the spirit of Joe Biden, particularly with stories about the president's brother and how his Catholic faith influenced his strategic vision of the office. The what WHCA is pleased to give the Aldo Beckman Award to Mattvisor.

I just want to repeat what you just said, So Matt Visor, the Washington Post gets the Spirit Award for his hard hitting journalism profiling Joe Biden and his brother and how Biden's Catholic faith instructs what he does in office. That's it that it's a celebration of religion, which I thought was bad if somebody's a Supreme Court justice nominee and they happened to be Catholic, right,

attempting to eviscerate her over that. But how his faith, but arguably in many Catholics eyes, including several cardinals, might get called into question over some of the things that Biden supports. But that's what they decided was the most hard hitting journalism. And they're probably not wrong because they're not really chewing into the meaty stuff. So yeah, that whole thing is a joke over the weekend, but unfortunately one that nobody in the room is self aware during,

hence the results that you get. All right, seven twenty two, hang on, all right, long segment there, but wanted to jam in all that audio. We're gonna get your phone calls us. We will roll into the second half of our number two. Also CNN with some doozy headlines, thought they were getting out of the partisan business. And wait to hear what's

coming to the Smithsonian. Just reading this, missle? All right, hang loose, it's all next there ten years of news twice an hour and smart talk all day nine four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM talk in the Triangle. Well well, well, well let me hit this real quick. We're gonna grab a phone call Grant's been holding on and then get into this story about the Smithsonian. You're gonna find rather interesting. Uh, there we go, all right, Grant, what's going on?

Oh? I was calling because I you could call me a California grant if you want. I lived there thirty years until I came here three years ago. Why would I or why would I do that too? Because I've made the observation that right under our nose, the media never ever says anybody is likely to take the spot over Biden because they don't have anybody. Well, Gavin Newson certainly doesn't have a good record, But look at Roy Hooper when

he gives the State of the State address. You look a guy in a blue suit and he walks up to the crowd like he's the president of the United States. Then when he has an interview, he sits across like Hannity sits across from Trump, and everybody treats him here and like he's the presidential candidate. But they never mentioned being kept under wraps. So the Democrats will unveil him at the last minute, the October surprise, and he won't have

to go through all the fighting and the warfare of candidate. But I think he's he's he's the whore like Reagan did. I'll make the United States like I did California. We've got a best economy in the nation. We're number nine and we're going to the eighth largest state economy. Uh, We've got firepower and we'll win big time. Well, there's there's parts of that that I will agree with. I think that um in Democratic circles, and it's

not so secret. Roy Cooper has been seen. He was I think he was seen potentially as somebody who could have filled Kamala Harris's shoes back in the day. But he just got yeah he didn't didn't. Hang on, hang on, no, no, no, no. I'm agreeing with you, but let me because there's a couple of things I don't understand and I want

you to clarify. But where I agree with you is that, yes, I think that Roy Cooper has definitely made inroads in Washington, d C. And they got to figure out, Okay, well, what does he do now since he's getting termed out? Um, I don't know if he has

the recognition necessary and I don't I don't know. They are loath to allow primary to the point where the DNC has already said that they're not going to be doing the traditional debates, right Biden the guy, And they have a few people like Kennedy in this thing now who were out there and who were taking very moderate positions on things. They're essentially going into the Democrat where they're

not putting up with a lot of this woke stuff. And I think that they are very nervous about what that could mean, because then it starts to create similarities with potentially maybe not Trump, but perhaps a Republican candidate like Asa Hutchinson. I just cringed when I said that um or a even de santist to some extent. So I don't I don't understand a process where you think they could just plant Biden or any of these guys with with Roy Cooper though,

I mean, what does that look like. I just think he is the savior that they'll they'll turn to and say, hey, all this time, we've kept quiet about him, but he's got the image is he even says that we're not going to emphasis cultural issues where it's the economy stupid all over again. And uh, well he can say that, we can say that, and I think they would. I agree with you. I think

that's the route they take. They say, look at North Carolina. The dirty secret of course being that, especially when you get into the economic side of things, largely Republicans are responsible for the way that the budgeting has worked in North Carolina. Going back to agreed, but he'll offer from it. He'll say, I've been the governor, sure, and people don't know that nation wide. They'll just look at him, look at look at Nucon he

claims. Uh, people say he's he's a he's got the look, he's got the number of delegates, the votes, you know, from a state that's all blue. But I just think Cooper is the Democrat de sandis well I with a lot less energy. Um, you know we uh, well, they he can get coached. And I'm not. I'm not not in favor of them. Don't get me wrong. R No, no, no, I know, I just I'm analyzing along with your grant. So um but yeah there, yeah, all right, all right, appreciate the call,

thank you. Yeah. I think they very much want to do slide Cooper in somewhere. The problem is you couldn't give him Harris his spot because you needed to as the you needed to tick the boxes that the Biden's campaign himself said that they were going to tick. Well, we're going to pick a woman, We're going to pick a woman of color. And once that was said, then that's where the analysis was. And obviously Roy Cooper unless

he changes how he identifies, um, that's that's where he's at. But I do think Cooper the grant to I don't understand the process that Grant thinks it would be. But I do understand why Roy Cooper could take that reagant approach saying, I'm the governor of a moderate state. I was re elected even when Donald Trump was you know, elected once again for president, was both elected and re elected, and I, um, look at look at

how how the state is growing. But you know the reality is that when it comes to a lot of these uh, these these quote unquote woke issues, Cooper was very much at the forefront going out as we talked with me and Pete Calendar were chatting about on Friday, going out and actively recruiting companies to take very public stands against HB two. So, um, you know where he goes from here and what that looks like. I mean, he could run into Senate race, he could who knows, he could find himself

in a cabinet position after leaving office with the next Democrat in office. Try to build his his his cred and his visibility from there, all right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four. The phone number checked this out. So a new exhibits set to open this month at the Smithsonian. Thank you pop up at the Smithsonian's Museum. Thank you. Third pop

up. Appreciate that Essence Magazine. I hate those one. It's just pop up when I load the page, but don't do it when I start scrolling. Set to open this month, the exhibited Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is going to embrace the broad and impactful spectrum of afro futurism. Now, Ross, I actually, when you hear what's in this exhibit,

or most of it, I think it sounds pretty cool. So you're talking about African Americans in history, much of a recent history that embrace afrofuturism. I would argue just futurism. It's got a sci fi edge to it. Okay. So among the items that will be exhibited will include plenty of stories and relics from black astronauts. Okay, that's cool. Remember one of the astronauts black astronauts, a very famous Black ask or Not, was one

of the folks on the Challenger, Right. It gets gets talked about quite a bit as Tom and he's got a he's got a hillacious backstory. It's a very cool one where basically, when he was a kid, he would he would try to go and he was very interested in space and science, and he tried to go to a segregated library and he couldn't get in there. And there's a whole story with this in the library is named after him. Now, so that's the reader's digest version. It's much more complex than

that, but it's a cool story. Um. They have let's see here, they have Chadwick Boseman's black panther suit. That'll draw some folks in. Obviously you're dealing with superheroes and stuff, but I'm cool with that. Uh, the typewriter, us box, Tavia Butler, Nonah Henderson's space suit inspired outfit. Uh, Lieutenant O'Hara's uniform from Star Trek. Let's see Trayvon Martin's flight suit. I'm sorry what was that? What? I'm sorry her?

She was on Star Track Pig Pig finish, you know all that sounds great. And the last thing you said, the typewriter you mean the typewriter, not the typewriter, Oh, the Trayvon Martin flight suits. Yeah, yeah, what, Well, it's afro futurism. What so they just had to like stick it in there, didn't they. Well, Trayvon Martin when he was a boy. U you'd think of the picture that most people associate with Trayvon Martin because it was roughly that age. He was very interested in space

and flights and all of that. Are they not aware of how that trial went down and smith sony and they probably know a lot about history, right, so they've done their research on that trial and the facts surrounding it. Or no, Well, the museum is entitled you know, African Marian History.

It's in the name there. So when he was a younger, a younger man um he was very interested in working in the aviation field and got to attend what is called experienced aviation and he went when he was banging Zimmerman's head against the curb there, that's not it's not it's not the that's not in the exhibit. No, No, are they using the younger photo of him too, and not the actual photo of what he looked like jury be

more active. He was kind of like a big linebacker. They weren't they would be well, to be fair, the flight suit is sized for his smaller self, which is that younger photo when he was just uh twelve and thirteen, so so he uh it's a badge of honor for the students to have the flight suit with the patches on it, said his father, Tracy Martin. Um and uh, it was part of the uniform for the program.

He loved it. He loved it so much. The exhibit opens March twenty fourth, and we'll run for one year at the Bank of America's Special Exhibitions Gallery. So that's uh, that'll be out there for you, you know, if you like museums and stuff. Seven forty six Race Stagick from the Weather Channel. We really missed you last week, really missed you. We had the NFL Draft going on. It starts Thursday. We could have talked about all this, So, um, how's that doing for you?

Shame about that tit end he didn't get. Yeah, you know he remember where he went? Yea name, Yeah, let out a couple of choice select words. When I saw the bills, as I said, I knew it, and I said I knew there. Take. I said, they're taking our guy. Did you see did you see Skip Bayliss lose his mind and social media over that, He's like, you did. Buffalo Bills has ruined my life. I'm like, really, you ruined you ruin your life? Really yeah, yeah, right in my life, and I'm still paying

for it. Yeah, Honestly, I didn't know much about the Michigan defensive tackle. I think it was an okay pick, but I was biased. I wanted them to go at one of the Clemson defensive linemen, which it could have. I mean Brazil went um twenty nine or thirty, I mean him and Miles Miles Murphy went back to back. But I think we did okay. I look at anybody, anybody, as long as you're not the Vikings, you're fine because no good no, and we usually draft Well,

I don't know what was going on. Maybe I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm one hundred percent wrong. Well I'm not feeling real confident. We didn't have a second round pick either, so right, right, yeah, but you look at it though, even for the forum, Bryce, Bryce Young and CJ. How many times are these top level, top pick quarterbacks end up being sensational it It really doesn't happen a lot. I know, Andrew Luck, you know recent well, I mean it's okay, there's one

right, so well, I mean it just you know trying. Yeah, we all remember that disaster, right, right, And I think that I think the percentage of NFL quarterbacks that are dropped in the first round that start for I can't remember how long they had to start for. I think it was at least two seasons. It's about it's about fifty percent, it's forty five percent or something. So but yeah, no, I feel what you're saying. And when you get into a lineman and certain other positions, it's

easier maybe to pick a winner. But still yeah, usually tight ends are helpful too. There. They have a pretty good version rate, so I should get one of those. They all right? Anyway, man, let's were some some weather and let's do better this weekend, because it was a little of it. It was the payoffs this week of a beautiful week. A little windy today at times with a few clouds of the wise sunny met upper sixties chili night met upper forties or in the mid upper sixties again Tomorrow

and Wednesday. It's still gonna be breezy at times, especially the next few afternoons. I think we'll get closer to seventy late week with more sunshine. And if I went as far out as the weekend, we may continue this stretch of dry weather into the weekend and might start getting a little warmer.

As temperatures are staying down below normal. We should be about the mid upper seventies across the region this time of year, may not get there until the tail end of the weekend, and then next week, if I want to go ahead that far, maybe we'll start getting a little bit warmer and starting to feel like, may, oh, okay, thank you sir, appreciate it. I'll probably pick your brain on that in an hour, So sure, all right, thank you, and coming back, we have a backcrap

crazy story about an FBI training exercise. I guess I just just wait for it. Also, we will have to get into I want to load there we go. We have to get into a Indian and I think they're call him councilman, but they're technically it's a county representative. For anyway, he is going. He's going straight serious on this thing, and to the point where the local news is having to take him seriously and the audio is hilarious.

So those stories are much more coming your way here on the case O Day Radio program one oh six one FM Talk and ninety four five w PTI two stations driving the best in talk. This is case O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right, let's go and get into this insanity. Ryan Webb is this guy's name. He's an Indiana GOP councilman representing Delaware County, Indiana and UM. He made an announcement post on social media and people got

big mad, big mad. The problem was sticking with it. And it's to the point too where the rules are who gets to be the arbiter of whether that individual is doing this for serious reasons or not? And so watching the local news then have to go through the machinations of you know, respecting

his decision and yes, I'm getting the pronouns correct. As you'll come to find out, is it's very very interesting here is by the way, just a little of that kind of councilman is coming out as a transgender, As transgender and a woman of color, Delaware County Councilman Ryan Webb announced that he now identifies as an Indian American woman. Since that announcement, he's received some support, but a lot of backlash, many calling him childish, despicable,

even calling for things like execution. In a statement Webb gave to it eight. He says, quote, it is unfortunate that I cannot simply be given the same space and respect to explore my identity that so many of those targeting me demand for themselves. It's possible I may change my mind down the road. The process of identity exploration is complex, and oftentimes at the end of our personal journey we end right back where we started. What goes on to

tell I tmmate this is just his true, authentic self. By the way, his statements I read his whole statements and there's been several of them, are on point in the sense that he's not alluding to this as a joke. He's only alluding to literally the language. It mirrors statements that you've seen from people like what is Elliot Page? Right? Formerly Ellen Page the actors now Elliott Page, the actor statements from several of the what was it Sam

Smith? You know some of these musicians that have and idiots. One there and says that while he does identify as a woman of color, he will retain the he him pronouns, and as you can imagine, people just lost their crap. Man. To clarify, he says, I never claimed to be trans anything I am simply expressing my own gender identity. I'm being dead serious. It's not a joke. I said what I said. I don't know what to tell you. You don't get to question me. You don't

get to require proof. You were part of the movement that established these rules and set the bar. You don't get to come in later when someone else joins the club that you don't want in. You do not get to question how I identify. So that sets folks off there in Indiana. If you were serious, i'd seeing his praises said they transgender female identified as Charlie's Jamison. But instead I know better we all do. This is not something transgender

people do to one another. He is purposely, purposely mocking us. Well, tell me what the litmus test is? Well, that's right, there isn't one. Remember at morning, everybody, seven hour number three casey Okay radio program, glad to have you a long it's a busy Monday. Bots to get into in a rapid fire here in the final hour, and I

want to kick it off with this. I want you to imagine you're had a long day at work, You're on the road doing some traveling, settling into a nice, RESTful, blissful, relaxing sleep at your hotel when all of a sudden, somebody starts pounding on the door. You go, you look out and you see you see people with credentials right say, they're from

the FBI and also the US military in this case, special operators. You open the door to see what it is that they want, and they immediately shove their way inside of the room, slam you down, throw you in cuffs, and start an interrogation. And they put you in the shower too,

and they started interrogating you. And they're interrogating you because you are a person of interest in whatever this this cases they're trying to crack, except you're not and it's not a real case, and it's part of a training exercise. It's not one that you're involved with. You just happened to be the poor bastard who's in the room that they mistakenly went into thinking that they were going to another room. And that would be the story of what transpired in

Boston at the Revere Hotel, because you know Boston where horribleness happens. Here is some of the cover the Ree Hotels to help the pilots, had people claiming to be FBI agents room and handcuffed them into the bathroom. It played out like a scene out of a movie. FBI agents working with the Department of Defense barged into a room on the fifteenth floor. Inside was a sleeping

Delta Airlines pilot who was a guest at the hotel. He opened the door, and sources say agents barged in, handcuffed and interrogated the pilot for more than forty five minutes and put him in the shower. Nearly an hour later, sources say they realized their mistake, took the cuffs off and released him. Well, actually they did one more thing after this hour of interrogating him,

being forceful with them, scaring the crap out of him. Undoubtedly, they released him and then they told him that under penalty of law, he was not allowed to talk about it. In fact, when the news agency reached out to talk to him, he had he no commented them because he was threatened by the very same entities who didn't get this right, that if he said anything about their massive blunder, that he could himself be in trouble, so he wouldn't comment. When they went and did the story, the

stuff the whole thing is backcrap, crazy man. And yet it went for quite a while before anyone was able to dig in and figure out what the

hell was going on. Now, I under let me let me say this because a lot of people are like, well, why would they be running a training exercise in this Well, you you still have to train agents to do stuff, and yes, you can do it in a setting where you know, like those artificial cities where you see, like where they go to run drills to learn how to you know, clear areas where maybe there's a hostage situation going on, they're using either non live fire or they're using live

fire and shootouse situations so where the walls make sure that rounds don't pass through. I get all of that, but you know, really being in an environment where you have all of the people around you, you have the normal comings and goings of hotel guests, You're trying to operate in a way that doesn't get you noticed. I understand why you'd want to trade for that.

I've mentioned here on the show that I participated actually in a training exercise for somebody in this area who does training contractual training as part of US military stuff. Basically they're training bodyguard people for well, I'll just say that they're training people who in a military capacity really act as bodyguards. And they asked me,

Hey, do you want to be the muckety muck? And I did, and I was asked to go to a standard office building in the Raleigh area waited in the conference room like I'm in a meeting or I was eating lunch is what I was doing in there, And then the guys came in and they extracted me. There was a threat we needed to get out of there, and it was a scenario where they were having to figure out how to get me out of this building where people were coming to do me harm

or whatever it was. I don't remember the exact scenario, and I thought it was just the coolest damn thing ever. But that's a real world situation that they may have to deal with. So I understand that the good news is they came to the right conference room and they moved me instead of going to one of the other floors. And this is I think a ten or twelve floor office building that's very busy in Raleigh, and you know, pulling some other guy who's just trying to eat lunch in a break room, it

doesn't know what the hell is going on. So in this case, it was FBI agents out of the Boston office as well as Army Special Ops units who were conducting this exercise. They went to the wrong room, grabbed the guy, then told me could never speak about what happened, and when it finally did become public, basically they're like, whoops, are bad? Whoops

a daisy. So I don't know. I'd be interested to learn exactly how forcefully they handled this guy, and frankly as part of a training exercise too, I don't I guess there's a certain interrogation level, so like when the guy's telling them, I have no idea what this is? Who? Who are you? None of this makes sense. I guess maybe that would be part of what they would have expected, so it wouldn't have raised red flags.

I don't know. But for people who are just like ah, they shouldn't be able to you know, they shouldn't be doing any of this in a real world environment. My question is, I wonder if the hotel knew that's crazy man? All right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. So I look the screw ups, the screw up. And I don't know how that happens right there, Like, how do you not

have somebody monitoring this? Right? How do you not have a person who ultimately is sitting there and just visually monitoring and then sees, hey, they got off the fifteenth floor and they should have got off with the thirteenth floor, and and you know, stops in to stop this. That's the part

that I can't wrap my head around. But just grabbing some poor Delta pilot just yeah, he's probably probably work the red eyes, burning through it and just trying to get some sleep where he's got to go back to work. And now you're in a shower in handcuffs with four guys interrogating you for an hour? All right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four.

You want to comment on that? And I know some of you guys down here, especially some of the folks in and around here, just because we have all the military bases and whatnot, you know, training stuff and contracting to private entities, many of which are former military guys, is not that uncommon. The FBI twist in this Boston story is a little bit different. But now I know that stuff happens, and I understand why it happens.

There's certain there's certain jobs and things out there where experience from other individuals is being passed down and it's necessary to perform whatever those duties are, especially if it's highly specialized. So it's not uncommon, but it is pretty creepy that you could just be sitting there trying to sleep and then this happens. And the certain liability perhaps on the part of the hotel if they were knowledgeable

in allowing this to happen. But it sounds like dude didn't want to answer any questions and that might be because they threatened him about it, which then I have a huge problem with that, all right, So we got that portion of it. Also, bud Light is so screwed man. They had a window where they probably could have done something, and I think I've mentioned, but I'll mention it again how they should have handled this, but instead

they didn't. They dug in and over the weekend that wiggle room has evaporated. I'll share what happened and what we could see going forward on that story in just a moment or on the case O Day radio program, Your Day Smarter and celebrating ten years and keeping you better informed one oh six one FM Talk and News Talk nine four five WPTI more with Casey starts now all right twenty one body Radio program. Let's have a quick phone call and then a

few things get into Monica. What's up, Hi, How are you doing? I'm good. So I'd like to touch on that with the Delta Airline pilot. I'd first like to say I I feel really bad for him because they're there to sleep and they need that sleep before they catch that next airplane. I lived with a pilot for seventeen years, so I've heard all those our stories where they don't get sleep and then have to take a flight.

A lot of times they have to call out because of that. Right, But I'm thinking that connecting dots here, we're seeing a lot more of that, and I think we're going to see a lot lot more of that because I think that in the training process they're now focus more on progressive agenda hires

versus copper education and training. We're seeing that across the board with police, teachers, military, all the dot gov everything, And I think it goes back to what I was saying about the police and the men on the ground. When your leaders are more focused on the progressive agenda stuff, the life

or death training that's needed, it gets lost in the shovel well. And you know, as far as the actual training exercise, it doesn't necessarily sound like the guys on the ground, so to speak, got it wrong. Maybe they extracted all sorts of infotes. Whoever, either they got it wrong and they went to or the information they were provided was bad, and then it speaks to a problem up the food chain. But somebody screwed up.

Somebody screwed up, right, and we're going to see rooms I don't know, Yeah, we'll see more of those screw ups because the focus isn't on the training that they used to receive. They're spending you know, you have

says for example, you have ten hours for training. More and more of those hours are getting eaten up by the progressive agenda training and they're not focused on what they used to be. You're seeing the same thing in education, our mass scores and English scores, everything across the border dropping while all this progressive agenda gets You don't want to miss gender a terrorist monica, So right right, that's important. Also, I agree, all right, thank you

for the call. Appreciate it, have a good one. Can you imagine right, the bomb there's a bomb somewhere in the DC area and they don't know where, but they got a lead on one of the guys who may know, and they got him in there and he's handcuffed to a pipe in the bathroom. Tell us where it is, sir, tell us where, sir? Sir? Did you say, sir? Oh, I thought I had the man drop. Sorry, got all excited. Way I do have it somewhere. Yeah, we're all gonna wait for me because I was ill

prepared. Oh whatever, you get the gist of it. So, um, I don't know. Somebody screwed up. And it's not like government hasn't screwed up before. I mean, let's face it bad, whether it's bad info, bad intel, acting in ways that have been problematic, especially at an FBI level, Ruby Ridge, uh, the Waco, Texas. I mean, we have those examples out there, and you hope that you then

learn from that and go forward. But you know, ultimately, U the way in which they operate and some of the questions that are out there. Did you see the the Wall Street Journal story over the weekend or they're getting to look at Epstein's calendar. This is post conviction the first time, right where he was convicted of this stuff, and the CI, the current CI director met with him what and he's and the statement was they did he didn't

know any of that. You're the CIA director. I just assume you know stuff, or you have people who know stuff. Former White House Council under Barack Obama met with him, Norm Chomsky. I mean it was now, it doesn't necessarily mean that anyone who came within the periphery of this guy was, you know, in on anything he was doing, or really even knew

about it. In all instances, I think if Jeffrey Epstein had walked up on the street to most people prior to uh, you know, the stories that came out that eventually led to his last to rest where he then went into prison and suicide in himself I made air quotes, probably wouldn't know who

that was, wouldn't have any idea. That being said, it shows you how connected this dude was, because like the reasoning given is like these these real high ranking officials felt that meeting with Epstein would be helpful in because they give a reason why this happened. You know why the meeting took place to help them transition to the private sector. Well, what special expertise does Jeffrey Epstein have and helping a twenty year government individual transition of the private sector doesn't

make any sense. But in the sense that these are the circles that he ran in, it lets you know that there's a whole lot more than as being led on here. And I don't I need to go down this rabbit hole right now because I got two minutes left in this segment. But it was a it was a significant who's who as all of this stuff was being moved forward. Yeah, Norm Chomsky Kissinger consultant, get a Rothchild in there, just so people can get their their YouTube conspiracy videos all dusted up.

And William Burns from the CIA's his name, and the list goes on and on. Man top women in finance. Just craziness. Just shows you. It just shows you these these circles that these folks run in. And then you know they play fight on the fringes, calling out, you know, being critical of this policy and that's a horrible person. And yet they'll eat together, they'll laugh it off because ultimately at the end of the day,

it feels like the only enemy is you and accountability. And I think that's what really chaps people when it comes to most of Washington and the elite to the power structure in this country. I mean, it's it's it is crazy to me. And I think it was evidence so well, and I know we trashed on them, but one of the last great Saturday Night live skits, which was when Tom Hanks was on Black Jeopardy, because what you kept seeing is you kept seeing a shared experience that well, they maybe didn't share

it together. There were a lot of there was a lot of overlap among Tom Hanks, who was a socioeconomically challenged redneck, and Black Jeopardy participants who themselves socioeconomically were just as paranoid and conspiratorial as Tom Hanks was celebrating ten years of keeping you connected. This is ninety four five WPTI and the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, welcome back, eight thirty six. You're on the case O Day radio program. Do

you remember the artwork I'm making air quotes again by Morazzo Catalan. I'm missprene. I'm sure I'm butchering the name here the art the art installation and piece known as Comedian, which sold for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars after it was unveiled in twenty nineteen, which was on display in South Korea at the Liam Museum of Art. It was a banana duct tape tool wall art. Well over the weekend, somebody grabbed the banana and ate it. And I

know what you're thinking. You're thinking, Casey, if the thing is twenty nineteen, that banana's got to be the part of it. They replaced the banana every two or three days, but they would then destroy the one banana. They wouldn't you, they wouldn't make it available. Somebody had asked about it, but the point of it was you couldn't. So somebody just rolled in, took the banana off the wall, ate the banana, and then tape the banana peel back to the wall because quote, he was hungry.

So there was no uh, save the planet message or any of that. By the way, I didn't realize this. One of the people arrested up at the Museum of National Art up in DC is actually a eco terrorist moonbat from from Raleigh so I'm glad we had that connection. You know. Um, Ross, you ever driven to DC, flown to DC, traveled to DC? Yes? I have? Did you walk or I've driven? You drove? Oh wow, I drove it through it a few times? Oh okay. Um the the thing you drove was it a vehicle to burn fuel?

It was? Yes, it was? Oh wow. Okay, So you would say that from a carbon stay carbon footprint? Uh, there was. There was a minor carbon footprint with your travels there. Huh yeah it was a HEMI oh oh wow, it was a HEMI wow. There you go. So you so you live in uh, you live in Raleigh. You know, we have an art museum here. I'm not encouraging you go do anything, but UM got lots of museums because you know, it's Raleigh capital city, so you know. But instead you went up to DC,

traveled up there, and I don't I don't think you probably walked. So it's pretty weird for that concern that you would utilize the fossil fuels to go up there. But he would, They would say, I guess it will it outweighs because it's about sending a message. Okay, all right, whatever but in this case, no message. Just message was that somebody was hungry and they saw a banana. The art museum says that they have replaced the

banana and all as well. And you continue to come pay eight dollars to stare at a banana tape to a wall, or you could just tape a banana to your wall at home, I guess. And now you're an artiste.

So congrats to congrats to you in your new artistic endeavors. Hey, remember when they said that banning gas stoves, that was a Republican conspiracy, And by the way, they would never do that because one it really it's stupid, would be ineffective anyway, and it was just fearmongering and pouncing and seizing on the part of Republicans. Well, Governor Kathy Hokel or Hackel or Hotchel or however you pronounce her name up there in New York announced that a

budget deal that had been reached would also because obviously you put this in the budget, prohibit gas hookups in new apartments. Existing buildings, and current gas stoves would not be affected. However, in the state of New York, if you are to build new buildings, part of the building code would not allow gas hookups in the buildings. I don't know that sounds like a pretty effective way to go ahead and ban gas stoves short of somebody I guess working

with you know, propane cylinders, I guess if they want to. But if you build buildings, so you build a new apartment building up in New York or whatever, and you can't put gas hookups in there, then you've effectively banned gas stoves, and even more than that, gas water heaters and

any other gas appliances that may exist. So the irony, of course, is the very same media who wanted to say that, you know, people bringing this up or being conspiratorial and fearmongering and just crazy, and also adding that they wouldn't do it because it really, from an eco standpoint, wouldn't be really a difference maker, are now having to pivot immediately and argue that,

well, you know, this is for the environment. I want everyone to be safe, and they're just gonna jam it in a budget up there. I'm telling you, I understand why so many of you all moved down from New York. I get it, but you know, it's just keep in mind, this is the reason you moved, right, the reason a

lot of people moved. At the federal level of Biden administration considering a propose energy efficiency rule that would remove up to fifty percent of current gas stoves because they just wouldn't meet the requirement of it and or would require a significant purchase almost actually would exceed the cost in many cases of gas stoves of the hood that would be necessary. So but this is how they do it. They say, Oh, no, you're crazy, We're not doing that. We're

just you know, we're not banning guns. We're just making bullets a million dollars each and everybody knows what you're up to. And speaking of bullets, this horrific story from Texas or a multi time to illegal immigrants. Somebody who had been deported no less than at least five times, and I think they've probably found more, decided that the noise being emanated from a crime baby required him to go and murder five of his neighbors. So he's here illegally.

The neighbors, I believe most of them were in the country illegally, which when people point that out, people are losing their minds over it. But it, yeah, I think it's an important component too, just in the sense to show you the continued issues you have there and the secrecy that needs exist within the community because people are far less likely to seek out police help

if they are in the country illegally. So you have this escalation of this individual who murdered five people allegedly over a noise disturbance with a baby, and in fact, some of the victims were literally found on top of children that they were trying to protect from the psychopath going through and shooting them one by

one. And of course the immediate reaction was to blame the guns. Washington Post and others went out and decided that that was the problem here, not a porous border where somebody who is this violent can continue to come back into the country time and time again. And I saw people going, well, what laws. I mean, he violated all the laws. He illegally acquired firearms each and every time he did that. That was and I saw folks going, well, what you need is you need to get rid of all

the guns. That's how you actually do it, Which is the dumbest rebuttal to that whole thing that you can think of, because I would ask you, how is government going to be able to go in and remove all the guns. What are they going to need to do that? Arguably they're going to need guns, right are You're gonna go and you're gonna by force make everybody give up their guns. You're not gonna go. They're unarmed. I know a lot of people would comply, but a lot wouldn't saying this is

constant, constitutionally protected. I know by the way, all my guns they fell into the lake boating accident very tragic. So it shows that you're not against guns. You're against Joe, you know, the public having guns, and so that's the position you have to defend when in reality you have a very tragic story here that where five people lost their lives regardless of immigration status.

None of that is deserved. Who are in a position where they're if there had been build up and if anybody had wanted to intervene in this instance, they're going to be let It's likely to start that ball rolling. But no, we got to sit here and we gotta play all of this game, and there is a substantial award. As he remains on the lamb. All right, eight forty five racet agent from the Weather Channel. It's joining

us. All right, man, nowhere to go but up after this weekend's weather, so you know, start the march, yeah, all right, and it's gonna be a slow march right up back into some near normal temperatures, which is mid and upper seventies. That's not coming to maybe the upcoming weekend, maybe Friday, but until then, try what you'll notice though, Those temperatures will be in the mid upper sixties today, Tomorrow and Wednesday,

and lots of sunshine. You're gonna have a breeze around, so you'd be like, well, it doesn't feel like sixty seven, or doesn't feel like sixty eight, You get the picture. And that wind could gust at times twenty five plus miles per hour each afternoon, so it's gonna feel a little bit more like fall. The overnight lows will be in the forties, and then as we get at the Thursday closer to seventy, Friday will get near seventy or above, and we'll have lots of sunshine, will lose the wind

too. So Thursday and Friday I feel a lot better. Should be dry over the weekend, lower to middle seventy. As we see tepatures coming back just a little bit more so, lots of sun this week, Casey, a little wind beginning of the week, less wind later and also a little bit milder later in the week and hopefully for the upcoming weekend. All right, cool, cool, We'll chat all right tomorrow, sir, have it go on you too? Yep, We'll come back check in with Jeff Bellinger

Bloomberg News next show. After the show is on the iHeartRadio app. Search Casey O day for the podcast on the iHeart radio app. All right, good morning, one Bloomberg Up Day. Jeff Bellinger here to join us and explain how in one spale swoop they can go seize the bank and sell it to another bank in five seconds. What's going on with that? It happened over the weekend the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation sees the First republic Bank. Efforts

to rescue the bank just failed. That couldn't undo all of the damage done by the run by depositors, and the FDIC agreed to sell the assets to JP Morgan Chase. Efforts to rescue, as I say it failed, and the San Francisco based bank has become the second largest ever US bank failure. The takeover here is an opportunity for JP morgan chase to get even bigger. The government would likely try to block such a deal under normal circumstances, because

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We expect another interest great hike. Casey, So that a question. You live in the Greater New York area, So did you watch the heat Knicks playoff game and all this weekend? I did not? Okay, Well, they know how they transition from when they go to break, they go to commercial and they'll have that, you know, they'll wherever they're doing something, they generally have a background shot. So if you're in New York, maybe a guy selling hot dogs street vendor. Right. They call them beauty

shots, right, yeah, beauty shots. Um. So apparently at halftime they went to break and they put up the Statute of Liberty video and the Twin Towers are behind it. Yes, you're telling me, in twenty one years you haven't been able to get any b roll of the greater New York area and there's nothing else going on, like I don't know Columbus Circle or Times Square or anything else that would be iconic. So um, yeah, So a little whoopsie on the part of ABC, which I believe is headquartered

in New York too. So there's that. They are all right, very good, thank you. So okay, okay, yep, all right, there you go, Jeff Bellinger joining us. You're on the k c O Day radio program. Oh let's see look at this. Oh that's cool. So we put a list of the most the most must drive road in each state. Well, you gotta know what North Carolinas is. Hold on, I'm scrolling down ross. Do you want to guess what the best scenic drive in North Carolina? Probably is going past tweet. No, No, that

would that's not even I mean dangerous. We're running across that street. I don't know what the hell's wrong with them. I have to assume in North Carolina, as I'm continuing to scroll here, it would be great if the state started with an A. Wouldn't it always good? Come on? Come on, come on, come on, Oh New York's interesting. The Cayuga Lake Scenic by Way. I don't even know which one that is. Now this is good because I think a lot of people would assume I'm glad they

did this. A lot of people would assume that, um, you'd go Blue Ridge Parkway, which I think would be a cop out. But it's not. It's Tail of the Dragon, and I totally agree with that. For you motorcycle enthusiasts too, I know this is a must do, I must do for you. Eleven miles, three hundred and sixteen hairpin curves, and I could see now some people would probably talk about one of the Outer

Banks roads, which I guess I would understand. That's pretty straight shot, you know, obviously to get down you're going from like Manuo down to Hatteras. But yeah, Taylor of the Dragon is amazing, and I'm glad they went with that on the list instead of just copping out with the Blue Ridge, which is great, don't get me wrong. But you want a little little flare, little flare, so if something's wrong there, I guess you

can let me know. I check this out real quick. I mentioned that bud Light has found themselves in a precarious situation because initially, when all of this happened, they could have coupled their statement with, well, look, we do custom cans for a variety of different influencers that we work with. It's just one element of our just one element of the advertising we do, and this was just a very small thing. But they neglected to verbally admonish

their marketing woman. And that's important because it would have been very easy, judging by her performance on that podcast where she was being very derogatory about the actual core foundational makeup of bud Lights buyers, which obviously are largely men. They're largely men that are under thirty, but they have a lot of lifelong bud Light drinkers, very loyal drinkers. They've been very iconic and as a

result, they were the number one beer in America. And if they had just come out and issued both of those statements, held to account their individual who was who was being derogatory about their own product that she's supposed to supposedly in charge of promoting, basically saying, you know, we don't like all the people that got us here, a bunch of idiots, and instead We're going to turn our attention to the Dylan Mulvini's of the world. I think

they could have weathered this, but they didn't. And now the Human rights came and Paign is demanding that Anaheiser Bush go all in and announced that they stand in solidarity with the trans community. They're done. They had they even had this this very generous amount of time to try to pull themselves out of

this, but they didn't. And now it's one or the other. And I know what you're saying, Well, it's an easy choice because they probably are not big within this liver of a community out there, let alone all the you know, many of the people that are on there who would never touch a domestic beer unless it was a local craft brewery, which is their decision. But now they're all in, and I don't know what they're gonna do, but this thing is, this ball is going to keep rolling all

weak, So continue to pay attention to that. We got the video on the blog at Casey on the Radio dot com of the Indiana councilman who's decided that he is identifying now as a woman of color. Check that out, and of course we'll see back here right and early tomorrow,