Monday-08-07-2023

M hmm. All right, Good morning everybody, and happy Monday, although it's not gonna be a happy Monday because it's gonna feel like you know, hell, um, I see that feels like temp could be one hundred and one hundred and eight for some folks. So yeah, that's the thing. So I would recommend the uh you know, you do the stay indoors thing inside, the uh the comfort of ac and uh, you know, forgo any outdoors unless you work outdoors and you're kind of screwed, I guess.

But but a great way to get out of honeydoo list stuff you're thinking of, you know, mowing the lawn or doing anything outside. Um, you got your excuse. We'll get into more of that coming up a little later in the show with Ray Stagic or Jeff always. So it's so hot Stagic didn't even show up. That's amazing. Look at that. Well if you need, if you ever needed an indicator, there you go. It's too hot for Stagic. So we'll chat with Jeff mahr. Let him be the

bearer of bad news. Ain't that how it always works? All right? Sorry? I was just fighting with um. There we go, fighting with this one story I saw it. I thought I emailed myself this morning, and then apparently I didn't, so I had to go find it because I was fascinated by this. I was watching an interview with a Let me make sure I get the Yeah, he's a marine, Okay, all right, So a marine who was among those who was injured during the Afghanistan withdrawal where

thirteen American service members were killed. Obviously you're aware of this. It is it's absolute insanity in the way that we decided to go about this and what was going on at the airport at that time. But here we are. That was two years ago, almost two years ago, August twenty six, two twenty one, and a marine who was among those who was nearby but near enough to be among the thirteen killed, however, who suffered significant injuries,

Sergeant Tyler Vargas Andrews. So he testified in March to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, So we got a little we got a little snippet of this, but he did a follow up interview and he was talking about how being among these service members who was significantly injured, he he lost one of his arms and his other arm. They were barely able to save it. So I want you to picture this as he's lying in the hospital where he has lost an arm. Another arm is significantly damaged and it is in a full

cast. Right, I don't know. They don't describe the extent of the injuries, but they were pretty significant. Pretty much. His upper torso was hammered pretty good. So he was talking about how when Jill and Joe Biden came to visit them, little a little photo up there, and he said it was it was beyond awkward. So he says, I'm laying in the hospital after losing my arm and the other one is fully in a cast.

I can do nothing, and in walks Jill and Joe Biden. Well, I guess Joe Biden walked in first, and then Joe came whole entourage of people, photographer, you name it. And he said, at that point, eventually the President came up to his bed and put his hand out his right hand to give him a handshake. Now that's the arm that the sergeant lost. He lost his right arm. I get. I have to assume that this was visible. I mean, he's in a hospital bed, so

I don't know. Maybe he's got the blankets all up but I suspect not, so he reaches out the right hand to shake. The guy can't shake with his right hand, obviously, he says, at which point Biden then had tried to shake his left arm, which is in the big cast, and he was able to grab the tips of the sergeant's fingers and they took

a photo. And at that point, this is that's not even the weird part, Like I understand the muscle memory thing of going through and shaking hands with a bunch of people, and you you reach out and before you realize. But he pivoted. He went with the photo up on the cast arm. But he says that at one point the President leaned in so he could whisper in his year and said, quote, what do you want? It's the only thing you said. He said, what do you want? He

said? I was confused. I just got blown up. So my friends die, and now the president is asking me what I want. I have no idea why? All right, I have no idea why Joe Biden would ask him that some ram, I mean, what do you want? Is such ano. Maybe maybe Joe Biden had a moment where he felt bad and he was like the genie for all practical purposes. He's the closest thing to

a genie. You're gonna have, right if you want something, the President of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, is a pretty good person to ask for it. I suspect it wasn't that. But if the President of the United States ross came up to you and was like, you can have one thing. What do you want? What do you

want? What is it you select? What would you ask the president for If he's you know, rolling out the book his secrets and saying you could have whatever you want, I'm going to pretend it was like that, and then I'm like, this dude missed an opportunity. But more likely, judging by the handshake portion of it and everything, he was just really confused, and maybe he thought the soldier was or the marine wasn't as enthusiastic as he

should be. The whole thing is just weird. He's got photos and video of it. You can't hear what he says, but you can see what's up. And by the time that they took the photo, which is the after or the video which is after the handshake, you can clearly see that the marine is missing his right arm and his cast is engulfing his left arm. But then he's like, yeah, what do you want? So and I had to think about that. What if you could have one thing?

What do you ask the president for? Not some big sweeping policy thing, just like some you know, very selfish thing for you. I never want to pay taxes again. So you go literally that scene from Armageddon. I was thinking more of the the movie Pixels, the Adam Sandler video game movie. Oh yeah, Peter Dinklich plays them. I can't remember the character he's

based on. Ah, it's gonna drive me nuts. Now a real video game champion or quote champion from the eighties that I ended up being a Anyway, he says, you know, I just want no more taxes for I want a little card. You know, even when I go and purchase things as stories, I say, I don't have to pay no taxes. I mean, like, all right, sir, no taxes for you? I mean yeah, I mean it'd be great. Right. I'm reminded when you

said that. I'm reminded that seen from Armageddon, where they're all having to agree to go up there and they have a whole list of things, some more ridiculous than others, Billy Mitchell, sorry that was his name. Oh yeah, I saw that dude getting roasted for using a he cheated. Yeah, he used a video game that was not of the era to set the high score on Donkey Kong or something. I can't remember what it was, but anyway, Peter Dinglich's characters like, yeah, no more taxes ever again

for the rest of my life. Yeah. I mean, don't get me wrong, that would save you a bunch of money. But this is the president of United States, man, he can Okay, so I want no taxes that I want, airwolf you want? I feel like you're not thinking big enough, right, we have we have protectorates. You could be like, you could be head of of of a society feasibly and you just want to not pay ten sounds like too much work. Yeah, well you know what I mean. I don't know. Have you seen how some of these

cats run them? It's basically all leisure all the time, and then they just, you know, they just hire a good subjugator to run around and bust kneecaps. You don't really have to do anything. You can just eat, whereas the people under you can't. And until Biden sends in someone to topple me. Do you think he has that level of stick tuitiveness? Though, Like, I mean, I'd probably forget. But I mean, this story is based on a complete lack of organizational awareness on a military incident.

I feel like it turn you know, I could go Bay of Pigs real quick on him. So, but it would be a very woke group that came to topple you. So there is that everyone would be represented in the in the beach landing. So you got that going for you? He said, uh, so, he said, what do you want? He then quote talked to him about his son Bo, who obviously served in Iraq and later died of cancer, which sometimes he likes to tell the story that he

died while he was serving in Iraq. Yeah, the whole thing strange, man, But yeah, if the president asks you what you want, you should probably have an answer ready. I have an answer ready because if he's if there's video of him doing it, it kind of puts him on the spot. You just ask this wounded warrior, this guy who lost an arm based on poor decision making. Many people believe on your part and you you you open up the checkbook. You were the genie that popped out of the

lamp. You gotta give him one. What do you want? Are there RULESO? Is it like like the genie, like you can't wish for more wishes? I you know what, I have a feeling that's up to the intellectual pushback on the part of Joe Biden. So you do the math. He may think that's a brilliant loophole. Yeah, maybe you want to Maybe you want to party with Hunter. Dude looks like he knows how to have a good time, you know, if you're into that. Um, so,

you know that's an idea. The tax thing, obviously is an idea. You could run something. You could be ambassador or ambassador to something. I know you don't like to leave the country ross but wouldn't you like to be the most powerful American? And then insert whatever country it is. You know, I just sti't want power. Your your whole stick is you want to be share of Okay, all right, it's for the It's for the people. It's not for me, right, Okay, Yeah, it could

be for the people of Rossistan, you know what I'm saying. Like, then it's then it's for the people directly from you. You got options He apparently didn't even respond when he said, which I guess most people wouldn't because you're like, what is he asking me? Um? His mom, though at some point, did respond saying um, and I don't think she was asked what he wanted. Apparently Mom at one point looked and said, quote, I don't give a flip, which you guys say, I don't care

what you do. You better just take care of him for the rest of his life, a response that Vargus Andrews says left left the President slightly confused as just bonkers man. So anyway, yeah, yeah, I saw that this morning, thought, hey, what are you gonna do? Now? People are I just went out of the room. No no, no, no, no no no. I understand everybody wants out of that room. And and a interaction as awkward as that, of course you don't want to

be there. That's not my point. He just asked, what you want? Hit him up with something big, get a heavy lift out of it, pick something, do Ross's tax thing? Anything right? You got, you got, you got him up, You got old Joe on the ropes there. So anyway, there you go eight eight eight nine three four seven

eight seven four coming up. You may not have heard about it because it's not getting covered this time, but the Biden administration has purged roughly a third of their White House credentials, the the hard passes, and there's some some notable pains in their butt on there. I seem to remember Joe Biden or excuse me, Donald Trump Bard who did he bar? It was Brian or no? It was uh well, hold on, let me get into I

just looked at my clock. Here. There was two reporters. There was obviously his uh r, fake news, but there was another reporter where they actually pulled credentials and they went to court and got their credentials given back, and it was a media story for days and days through the court case and everything. How dare you? How dare you say that so and so who

has been here as a White House correspondent? And a note note that they didn't kick the media outlet out in this case CNN, they kicked a reporter out, saying that the reporter was grandstanding. Well, they just did that to one of the reporters they pulled the credentials of, and many others are scratching their head wondering how this may have happened, and there's no big news story, no trying to silence his critics, narrative, it doesn't exist.

Four hundred and forty two reporters have been purged. That's about a third. And I had to I had to literally come across it on a random news site that is among the reporters that has had a credential for fifteen years that if I look at their site, I wouldn't say they're necessarily right leaning, but they're definitively more center right, and they're they're wondering, you know,

what they did. So I'm sure that the stories will be coming, but we'll get into that coming up. We've got some insane audio for you, little well Ross little tax loophole. Since Ross isn't into paying taxes, we may have a great work around for him. So we'll get into all that more coming up here on the k c O Day Radio program one O six one at them Talk and w PTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is case O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right, welcome

back at his six thirty four. You know, I felt a little underwhelmed. Look, I understand taxes or they suck man and if the president asked me what I want, or in this case, asked Ross what he wanted. He wants to pay no taxes. He wants a little card too, so it doesn't have to pay sales tax, which by the way, would be you would be the guy in front of me in line. That would annoy me because you'd be like the person with the kupin's working at the register

and they're like, I don't know how this works. Yeah, I got a card here, so that's got the seal on it and everything. So I upgrade. I just got off the phone with the administration. You're now the top guy in Haiti. So wow yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, and and um, any security concerns. They gave me Hilary's cell phone. You just call her day, noon, noon, night, whenever, three in the morning. Not a problem, She'll handle it. I appreciate it. That's great. Yeah, so I've heard great things. Yeah, well

it's it's nice and close to the US. So I did. I got up the phone with the with potus. Oh wow, yeah. I got no property rock, no income tax, no sales tax, none of that. So I can keep my house, you know, once I pay it off. And but I didn't feel like it was enough. Okay, so you did. So, yeah, I got something for you because you mean so much to me. I appreciate it. You know, we've worked. So I got to some farmland in South Africa. Oh good good, Well

you know how I like to farm. It's your passion. Well it's more and more ranching. But well it's a it's a farm slash ranch. No, but I found that in a lot of places that people who are very much ranchers they referred to as farmers. So that's fine. Um, yeah, South Africa. You say, hey, you like to travel too, so yeah, well I hear. It's nice down joy it is. Yeah, it's cooler. You know, it's summer here. It's a winter down

there right now. So and uh, I'll have to get used to the toilets, as we mentioned, like Australia, the water comes up out because you're down there, so and that should be the biggest challenge I face. Right, it's just the toilets, I mean, yeah, yeah, you know, and also you know, leadst lions or something. I don't know, you'll be fine, You'll be finons, I don't know, you'll be fine. Okay, all right, I think that was a big issue down

there, But that one dude did get attacked quite aggressively. So did they decide it was a lion and not literally for South African. They're still looking into it, but you'll be fine, all right, Well, look at that ross not just thinking of himself. Appreciate that. Look, if there's one thing you should get its tax advice from us or really anybody in the social sphere who is not some sort of actual financial person. You find them everywhere on YouTube and TikTok, and they got some ideas. Man, this

woman though, who I like this new thing. Now, anytime there's a woman and she has a marginally sexy look or a large chest or anything, people go it's probably Ai because that's where we are and the right to go that in that direction. I got a story that we'll get into. But so she's on there and apparently she has uncovered some information which could save you a crap ton of money. You don't even have to ask the president, you don't have to go to all that trouble. You can just implement her

tax saving policy and it's a doozy check it out. Okay, I don't know who needs to hear this, and I don't care if anybody feels some type of way about it, but I'm gonna put that out there. Did you know that if you bury a loved one in your backyard, that your house now is zoned as a cemetery and you no longer owe property taxes as well as you're no longer part of any HLA or any government anything. Your

house is a right off you do. It's tax free, any upgrades to your house, and they can never take your house after that generational wealth. It doesn't matter if you default on your mortgage or anything like that. They can never take your house from you. Ever. Um, they can't take it from your kids. They can never take it. So think about this. Back in the day when you watch things like Wide Earp and the movies, they go out back and they love them know their loved ones in their

backyard. When did cemeteries become a thing? Right right? And probably around the First War when we needed money and we instilled, like you know, war taxes, property tax so cemeteries became a thing. Um. Yeah, it's funny that you'd bring up Wide Earp and that little portion of the country because there was a pretty famous cemetery. There's still it still is. You can go to Booth Hill Cemetery and many of those graves are older than the

war. I'm assuming you mean First World War. So there's so there's that, um but anyway, is that all old? There's more? Oh, because they needed property tax and they wanted you to pay a lot for funerals. When people used to just do cardboard and you know, bury people six

feet under and put them close to their house. But now they have you pay for a plot of land, pay for a tombstone, pay for a casket, put you in debt, basically for a funeral to put your loved one on a property that's not yours, because if you put them in your backyard, then you no longer owe property taxes and your house is no longer owned by the government. I don't know who needs to hear this, but I'm just putting it out there, just letting you know. You don't need

any government or anybody's permission to do this. You just need a funeral director and a death certificate, and then your house is zoned as a cemetery. You don't need anyone's permission to do this, all right, now, boy,

there's a lot to unpack here. First, how many you have a relative you would love to bury on your property, even though they're still alive, just for the tax break, even if you don't think it's gonna work, just under the maybe could be the first useful thing this individual has done for your family. So that's number one. Number two we had we have a cemetery of our loved ones on our property, and we still pay taxes.

So I guess we must be stupid. And I know that there are All I gotta do is drive around outside of any one of the cities and you'll come across a little mini cemeteries. So and three, I don't know that cemeteries just became a thing in in the early nineteen hundreds. I kind of feel like there's big, big, big examples. One of the biggest, and I mentioned this when I tweeted it out is Roberty Leser Farm property, which is you now know it as Arlington National Cemetery. And I'm pretty

sure that that predates the First World War. So, but are you Are you onto something if you're annoyed by the fact that you can't enter your loved ones, which, by the way, you can in many instances. And is there a regulation, Yes, there is, there are rules you have to follow, but you can do it. Donald Trump did it to his former wife, although that got spun into he was bearing secret documents. But now you can. You can do it, depending on what the process is

where you live. So and yes, funerals are ungodly expensive, much more expensive than they ever were. You know, give me the day when you can throw a guy in a hole, put some rocks, a couple of sticks crossed, and you're good to go. Does that mean you love the person less? No, you're just saving money on the deal. So yeah, absolutely. Does it have to be a relative? I you know what according to this uh, this tax expert, it does Boston Paul. Boston

Paul is trying to get a tax break. Here. I feel like you're a brother. I need you to go into my backyard and stand right in the center of the hinge right right. Okay, it's it's a supermoon or something this through this week and to line up. But I'm gonna say stuff, Huh, what should I do when I'm there? Close my eyes to stare, to stare at the moon? All right? Head up? Not paying Okay, all right, dude, I saw this and I'm like, this, chick's crazy, but I got like three names, right, you

know, just a case it works. Worst case scenario, you're out some slug relative who doesn't like you anyway? Now, is there an iota of truth that? No, there's not. However, this is what makes social media so ungodly entertaining is that she felt so confident that right at the beginning, and she already knew that people were going to push back that she said this. Okay, I don't know who needs to hear this, and I don't care if anybody feels some type of way about it, but I'm gonna

put that out there. What is that we feel some type of way? Shouldn't you feel some type of way about information that could save you thousands and tens of thousands of dollars And they can't come. They can't take your property or your home. That's amazing. Why would you pay your mortgage at that

point? Because you know, if they want to kick you out of your home, they have to they have to go through a governmental process, and I guess at that point the bank's going to be told no. So look, this is why you listen to the show right here, right here, man, we're saving you tens of thousands of dollars. Maybe you gotta do is lose one relative who you never want to see anyway, So you're welcome, all right. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.

We'll have to get into people are asking, I'm not the tax expert. Ask this woman. Go her TikTok is in the video. You can see it. Go find her on TikTok and ask her. Maybe she found a loophole. I don't know. I just share the news, all right. Coming up on the show, sad day for the American women's soccer team is they are out of the World Cup, earliest exit in forever, and it was not a good look. We'll have to get into that. And we have to also talk about Asheville. I am shocked. I have to I

am shocked to see what is happening in Ashville. And by shocked, I mean this was what we predicted. So we'll get into that next hang on the show. After the show is on the iHeartRadio app. Search case O Day for the podcast on the ihard Radio app. All right, good morning and welcome. It is six fifty two here on the case O Day radio program, how many of you have been to Asheville this summer? How many of you have gone previously, maybe once a year, either Asheville or the

surrounding area and you didn't go. Well, you're not alone. Apparently a precipitous drop in tourism in Asheville is hurting the local business community. Let's see here, they got a bunch of anecdotal stuff, but then we'll get to the numbers. Brandy Howard runs a Mountain Inspiration company, which is gift clothing shops. She says, as far as we're concerned, tourist season hasn't started, including her main location, which is right on Biltmore Avenue, So I

mean that's his prime as you get for gift shops. She said that on a recent full day they had not broken one hundred dollars and that was on a Saturday, which is crazy down. All right, here we go, here's the here's the actual numbers. So they say that thus far they've seen total lodging sales declined by eleven percent and estimate credit card spending by tourists is

off by about three hundred thousand per month. Wow, let's see tourism accounted for two point six billion and visitors spending in twenty twenty one, so that's two point six and well, this is more than eleven percent. This has been going on, so this is just year over year since to A twenty twenty one, they've only been able to get it back to nine hundred and fifteen million now A Lee, Yeah, I don't know if that stat is

properly categorized. I can't tell if that's year over year or a typical month on average, because again it's really hard when you're looking at numbers coming out of COVID. You almost that's why so many of the comparisons you see are like twenty nineteen. So I'd be interested with that, but it is down. There's no question off of what it should be. Let's see here. The trend has thus far affected restaurants, shop tour providers, arts and culture

venues, and attractions. Nearly seventy percent of all visitors spending is not in lodging, So if you're off eleven percent there, keep in mind that people spend more outside of where they stay, although it could be expensive to stay in Nashville. All right, So anybody want to guess why this may be going on, why people may not be going to Asheville, Because you know, in true Asheville form, there is no self awareness on the part of any of the city leaders as to why people may not want to go to

Ashville. But I suspect that there are some things that people can think of if they put their thinking caps on and are honest with themselves. Ross, why do you think people are not going to Asheville for a vacation in the numbers that they had previously? Dirty hippies? All right, Ross is on dirty hippies. Okay, I just I just realized the headline is changed on this again. Asheville business feels the pain of tourism decline, boon, big

beer surges. Really, do you have numbers to back up that people are going to boon to stare at something that it's not my headline? Dude? Oh excuse me. It's from the Asheville It's not the newspaper. I don't even know what this is. I guess, Okay, so this is a This is a Asheville Watchdog, which is a big secondary news site. There. Yeah, I suspect that that's not But I think you're onto something less

dirty hippies and more kind of crime. Man. I told I told you what happened when I went up there with crazy homeless dude screaming at me, flipping a cigarette at me. But also it's the perception, right, you know people people sit there and say, oh, well, people think this and it's not you. It doesn't matter what they think, and it will tell them whether they want to go somewhere. It's got kind of that San fran vibe. Yeah, that's exactly. They're like, oh no, everything's

fine. It's just the media as being mean. And I'm like, I don't know, man, I've seen a lot of pictures. I've seen a lot of I've seen a lot of died in the woold democrats that live in San Francisco taking to social media, going enough is enough. People don't want to deal with that when they get the perception that that is part of the Asheville experience, which, by the way, Asheville is really expensive compared to other mountain places you can go. It's really expensive. It's fine, and

I I like the setting of Ashville. I like many of the restaurants that are around there. But if you're going to spend the kind of money that you would spend going to Asheville doing all the stuff, staying at some of the nicer hotels for that amount of money. To have to put up with any level of crap is going to influence your decision. So you can go to boone or you can go to Frankly, I don't know why you'd want to go to a big city. Even when I go to Asheville, I

prefer to stay outside of there. But and for not a lot of money, you get a wonderful Airbnb cabin for what you would spend for one of the more moderate hotels in downtown Asheville, and you got a view for one hundred miles. It's crazy, man, But it's the perception and the crime stats back it up. So anyway, I'm just curious that anybody put off an Asheville trip. Let us know eight eight, eight nine, three four seven eight seventy four. Yeah, they got. They've interviewed like twenty twenty

different businesses and they're all hurting. Yeah. A restaurant over Mike McCarty says he's only doing half the number of tickets that he did last summer this same week, so that eleven percent on lodging that is more impactful in the restaurant scene. Well there you go, all right, go woke, get broke. I guess all right, good morning and welcome in seven h six year on the pc O Day radio program. And look, it's tough. It's tough coming in doing a show the day after day after such a horrific thing

happens. So many people impacted ross I'm assuming it was pandemonia pandemonium around your house yesterday as the US Women's World Cup soccer team lost to Sweden, first time they've ever been eliminated in the semi final or earlier round. They've always gone at least to the final round. Scoreless. Game came down to penalty kicks, all the action one could ask for, and the whole world tuning in and and America unseated by Sweden, which has like ten people in it.

So just um, just devastating, devastating there um. I mean you guys watched, right, I mean, you guys had the party with the vovo Zellas and all that like everybody else. Oh yeah, absolute pandemonium. Oh wow, Okay, did you see the penalty kick by a Rappano? There? I did. Now, you're not a soccer guy, but would would you have would you have done anything differently than her plan of attack?

Because with a penalty kick, it's a little bit of a site game, right you kind of you know, you know, you don't want to be looking where you're kicking. You you might go for, you know, kick it as hard as you can and and just try to get it there before the goalie can react. Other times you're going for the fake out and you could dribble it in. In some of those instances, she took a different

approach. Would you have done anything different than kicking it about six feet over the top of the net, never allowing a chance for it to score. I mean I would have tried to kick it towards the net. Okay, all right, well, but I'm not a professional, so I don't know. She kicked it look on the left to her left to right access was

fine? Okay, right, that wasn't the issue. But unlike I don't know, the crossbars of a football game, there is a north south aspect to it too, right, you gotta so Unfortunately, you can't just kick it six feet above the now the goalie never got a hand on it. I will say that, and a lot of people were upset because she she looked like she was laughing after she missed it that badly, And I don't

know, I gotta you know, I got my beef with Rappano. I think people react to something a little differently, and it's not the oddest reaction I've seen. And ultimately it came down to a like an inch basically one of Sweden's penalty kicks. Did it cross the threshold? They reviewed it and it did so that's why we lost five to four on the penalty after zero zero goals scored in the ninety minutes plus overtime, which is it's fun stuff,

isn't it. Can you imagine watching a football game and there's about a one third chance nobody scores during the regular portion of the game. I think that's the biggest barrier for getting people excited with soccer. Man, It's why hockey had to make all those fundamental changes here what ten fifteen years ago they needed to They need to get more goals basketball fundamentally changing adding the three point

line. Now what you do with soccer, considering that the US really isn't the mecca of soccer, I don't know what you could maybe allow people to, you know, sub people in and out more so than the handful that you're allowed. I don't know what the answer is. But any who, Yeah, we only get two substitutions. We only are we used one substitution. I think we were allowed to because of the overtime. So anyway, but yeah, US is out, Sweden moves on and there you go.

Like I said, sad for folks. Let's see here, all right, we've got some Ashville stuff here. Oh it's just people saying that they never go to Ashville. Well, then you're not who I'm trying to talk to. I want to know why so many people said, nah, not Ashville anymore, because they're confounded in the article they say, among other things, let's see here, they feel that some people are concerned about the economy and are not spending as much. All right, it might be some of it.

Gas prices a little higher, and people don't want to drive to Asheville

when they can get to the mountains faster. Okay, maybe, but um, you're the tourism people and you're the city people, and I feel like maybe you should have at least one or two other items thrown in there, like, do people feel that they're fundamentally safe when they're in Nashville, or do they feel like if they go to the downtown little triangle or square circle thing that's there to go to all those restaurants, that they're going to be

harassed by endless homeless people. Because that's where my head's at, and it's too bad. You know, there's a lot a lot of people have made a lot of investment in Nashville over the years, and when you're when you're elected, officials don't give a crap. You You run the risk of being San Francisco, parts of Seattle, Muscle Beach area out in California where so many iconic movie scenes have taken place. If you look at it now,

it is one giant homeless encampment. It's crazy. There's some YouTube videos that people did walkthroughs down there. Well, you know what the real estate costs to run one of those restaurants or shops or hotels on the waterfront down there. It's insane, and you pay an insane amount of taxes and you get nothing from your leaders in attempting to help protect your investment. Plus, if you're in Asheville, and you speak out on this, you're probably gonna get

moon batted by your fellow business people. Well, they'll call you something with an isst on the end, when all you're trying to do is stay in business and protect your investment. So good luck. I guess what I would say, Yeah, and then I just go through all the different hotels and shop. Everyone's saying the same thing. Now, when I found this interesting when you look at other tourism options that draw people from North Carolina, like

Charleston. Charleston has a big, big, big chunk of the revenue that emanates from North Carolina. They're even they're flat, actually they're up in May and flat for the rest of summer, so people have no problem taking the drive to Charleston. And Charleston is equally as expensive, arguably more expensive depending on what you're gonna do, than it is in Asheville. So I don't know. Maybe maybe you have a meeting, put on the thinking caps and

figure out if there's anything else at play. That'd be my two cents, all right, eight eight, eight nine three four seven eight seventy four. Let me get to this. NASCAR has suspended driver Noah Gragson indefinitely. All

right, So what high level crime did Noah Gragson commit? According to NASCAR and a journalist who combs Twitter, who suspiciously looks like an activist but calls himself a journalist, Gregson had the audacity to like a meme on Twitter, the meme which was a I didn't actually I didn't even get the meme. Ros did you see the actual meme? I didn't get the meme, but it had George Floyd's head on like a spider or something. So it was

and it's described as insensitive in the story. I don't know. But NASCAR, when they heard this, immediately invoked a section of the rules which states, in part that members should not publicly disparage people based on their background. NASCAR said the suspension would be indefinite. All right, Um, was he disparaging him based on his background? What does that mean? When you say

background, do you mean like past actions? So, as a NASCAR driver allowed to point out that George Floyd stuck a gun in the belly of a pregnant woman, can can can you bring that up? Can you can you bring up any of the drug stuff, the other robbery, any of the stuff or I'm just asking what or when you say background, do you mean ethnic background? You know which that one I guess makes sense. Right. You got some NASCAR drivers run around like I hate Mexicans. Right, that's

probably not going to be good for your brand. But a single meme based on an individual, I understood the meme was referencing something having to do with him, so it is individualized. It's not a meme where you could just stick another person's head in there and it would mean the same thing. But NASCAR, NASCAR didn't care. They said that here we go, that the

that the incident. Well, this is actually the Motor Club Legacy group which he drives for, says that his actions do not represent the values of our team. So right under the bus he goes. Now, he did issue a statement on Twitter X whatever you want to call it, and it said quote, I'm disappointed in myself for the lack of attention and action on social media. I understand the severity of the situation. I love and appreciate everyone. I try to treat everyone equally, no matter who they are. I

messed up, plain and simple. So he doesn't say that that was the thing, but it seems to address that that is in fact why he was suspended, because they didn't give specifics. They just said that he violated that and there was big hubbub among activists on social media that he liked that photo. And then the day after that's what they do, and then they tell the whole George Floyd's story in the in the back half of the story, I guess, in case you didn't know. So, yeah, now they've

they've suspended other drivers indefinite and have allowed them to come back. So whether that is a permanent expulsion from NASCAR or they're going to wait for the dust to settle, I don't know. But it did draw a rather interesting elon musk tweet and that's where we're going to head next on the case O Day Radio program. Thank you, CAPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, so several of you have explained

the Floyd meme. I didn't make the connection because I couldn't remember having seen I know I've watched The Little Mermaid, but I can't remember anything about it. I know. That's horrible. So it was He's they put George Floyd's picture on a crab and then the words are a riff on a song from the movie Under the Sea, in this case, it's under the knee all right? Now? Is it? Is it a rude meme? Absolutely?

Is it funny? Not really? And I gotta tell you, man, if I'm gonna get suspended for something for clicking on a meme, it better be funny. Better be really clever, really funny. And I don't know if that rises to it, but you know that's where we are, man. So he liked that. I'm always I'm always like super cautious too, less so from like the getting canceled part of it, but from the like I don't I don't want like weird questions from the audience when I'm scrolling on

the timeline of the show account Ross. My greatest fear is not noticing that I liked something or you know, because you hit the button and you're just scrolling and you just tap that part on your screen and then have get some weird email like I can't believe you like this, and I'm like, I

would have no idea what they're talking about. I was reading where there was the reading where they're gonna like make us so like people can't view your legs because a lot of people use the legs before the bookmarks as like ways to go back and see like, you know, tweets that they want to see again, right yeah, well, um, yeah, obviously the algorithm informs it because if you follow somebody and you and well, I don't know how

the how it works currently used to be if you followed somebody and they there was people I had to unfollow because they would spend all day liking stuff, and then my entire news feed would be stuff that they I remember a time where the likes when they show up on my feet, and now they do. Yeah, now I remember, because right above it in little little letters, it would say so and so like this, and then if I saw that every other one, I'm like, I need to not follow so and

so because they are chewing up my entire timeline. But yeah, So whether that is something that Elon's going to do, I don't know. But he did put a tweet out and it says, if you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill, no limit. Let us know. And he also added and we won't just sue. We will be extremely loud, and we will go after the boards of directors of companies too. So he's throwing down the

gauntlet there. You know what that looks like. I don't know, but a lot of people, a lot of people we're assuring anecdotal stuff, and I I the problem is is you put that out there and you get a one hundred thousand people all with the story that's nuanced and you don't know all the details of I don't know how you sift through all of that. I guess what you're gonna have to do is you're gonna have to figure out the

high profile stuff like the NASCAR driver and go from there. In addition, they are going to put together a public relations campaign against companies that punish employees for what they do on social media. And I saw people responding with, oh, you know what, maybe they're just making a business decision. Well, this isn't a government messing with them. This is another business. So if two businesses want to duke it out, you know, let them,

let them do it. You don't you don't have to agree with Elon's position or the business's position. But that's what they're gonna do. And he's got a he's got a big old megaphone, man. And remember he sued a he sued a non off at which five and read the descriptions of this. This nonprofit is essentially funded by his competitors and is demonstrably in each of the stories that I read about them ideologically driven. And they don't like Elon Musk

because they liked the level of control that they had. But he's out ready to sue. So there you go. This is one oh six one FM talk in the Triangle and here's talking naught four WPTI in the Triad. All right, set five and happy Monday morning. It's gonna be a billion to hurries out. Well, we'll chat with the Jeff Mahr god who rostolm is on Race AGEIX. A coward. He didn't want to show up when he's

gonna have the feels like up near one hundred and ten. So but we'll talk to the folks here in just a few minutes from the weather Channel and we'll see how that's how long that's that fun's gonna last. Let me get

back on this. I don't I don't admit that I know all of the rules of Twitch, but I do get the sense that they are somewhat arbitrary at times in some of the stories I've read and some of the videos I've consumed from content creators talking about situations like when m who was the big, big, big streamer that they they eighty six and no one knew why doctor how what is his name? Doctor disrespect? Right? Well, they knew

the reason why he was thrown off. Well what he broadcasts live from a bathroom at twitch con at a twitch convention, like a live stream from inside a bathroom, which is like, you can't that? Okay, all right, But they didn't know for a while, right was the thing? No? I think they knew immediately. Oh now, I then maybe we're talking

about two different things. I remember reading this story where it was like people were probably trying to figure out what it was, okay, and and and then they would point out that even if it was that didn't one of the female twitch streamers literally have sex on her stream? I mean you couldn't see

the bottom half of her. Would you say that twitch twitch is a bit arbitrary in the way that they enforced there wood, Yes, okay, all right, I'm only asking because over the weekend, there was a gathering or a riot, Benny, and I guess what you want to call it. It looked pretty riety to me. But a gathering that was an impromptu gathering that was promoted by a twitch streamer by the name of Kai Sennet Snet.

I don't know how to pronounce his name. I'm assuming he's a big deal, considering he's got I was able to get all of those people to show up on a whim. The popular twitch streamer held a giveaway saying that he was gonna be giving away ps fives and some other stuff at a gathering at Union Square in New York City, and literally thousand plus people showed up. And I don't know the totality of how it started and how it evolved, what it evolved too, but it turned riot real quick. Yeah, PlayStation

five's overwhelming number of people showed up. I saw some people saying he didn't even give the PlayStations away, And I don't know whether he didn't have him or it's because it's hard to do a giveaway in the middle of a riot. But yeah, So among the things that transpired is altercations with police. There is a video that I saw that people are calling police brutality. Were

a one individual? Is they? The cops just grab them because some had been trying to break a window and they slam them against a van and the back windows smashes in. They're saying that they did it with his face, but it looks like it's the officer's hand that broke it, and it might have been the wind and it was the window they were trying to break, so maybe it was cracked. So that's its own incident, all on its own. A teenager accidentally shot himself in the arm, so that's good.

All the barricades were stripped down, massive fighting broke out, jumping in, vandalism of cars, chairs were thrown, windows were smashed on adjacent businesses. Twelve people injured. They asked to make two thousand people were at the event and it just turned into straight pandemonium. And now they're trying to figure out, well, what do you do? Do you charge this guy with inciting

a riot? I mean, you have all the permitting crap. Obviously the New York's need to be like, you didn't get a permit for your gathering, to which I think he'd say, look, I went on Twitch and I said, I gotta I'm gonna give these away and I'm gonna be here and if people want to show up, they can show up. I don't know that you're gonna win there, but you know, what responsibility does one have if they I don't think he told anyone to riot unless I missed something,

And I don't know. Maybe the guy's a d bag. I know nothing about him, but I know that his fan base sucks. I had never heard of the person, yeah, never heard the name before, but watching the video, I'm like, man, that community is like the community he's built, apparently, little toxic, little bit a little bit, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So you know, but you know, here's the thing. If we on the radio said, hey, you know

what Ross got. Don't ask how it happened, but a box fell off a truck and now he's got a bunch of PS fives he's gonna give away. Join us at something later. I mean, that actually happened this weekend. I can't believe you haven't brought it up yet. A box of PS fives fell off a truck I gave away. I did a witch giveaway. Okay, it was unlimited breadsticks at the Olive Garden wake Forest, and at first I want to apologize. As a twitch streamer, it's my responsibility not

to destroy my city and not to cause there. Yeah, there was, I mean it was awful. We had at least like twenty people show up, and uh, I can't believe the Olive Garden is still standing. I just want to I want to apologize in my defense. Um, it's a Thentic Italian cuisine and the chefs are trained in Tuscany, right, So I mean that's out of my hands. So I apologize for the for the damage that the haze for Shaff twitch channel did at the wake Forest Alive Garden.

I apologize. Nice promotion problem. Hey, um, you know I will say this about your Olive Garden riot, which I was not aware of till now. Um, I went to Zaccatti Park, remember when they were all gathered down there, and it didn't smell so good the occupy stuff, Yeah, the occupy it didn't smell good at all. But I bet this your riot smelled great. Say like like Italy and Tuscany. You close your eyes,

you're like, am I and then you know Tuscany or whatever. But during a riot and then you're just you're you're ported back to that memory. So, like I said, I don't know much about this twitch streamer that caused the panic in New York City, but just seeing the you know, comparing that to the damage there in wake Forest that my channel did, I think we're pretty much at equal levels. I yes, yes, you're right. They should do lots of news stories about you and use your handle uh

in in all of the coverage. I can't imagine if they did, I'd feel so bad. No, But but I'm like, obviously his his followers suck and uh the suckiest of the sucks showed up and they're on top of like cars, like like right, just destroying them. But does he you know, is that is that on him? If he said something like ah, you know, go go destroy cart fine, but is that on him?

It reminds me of the yes, much smaller version, but like War of the World's right, Like, was he responsible for that broadcast in the panic that it created? Well, yeah, I don't know. I for two reasons. One and I don't I guess I don't know what the licensing was at the time. I know that they they literally there are rules now on radio the day back to that, but you know, it was federally regulated at the time, just not to the extent that it is now.

And in this case, yeah, you know what, maybe it's because I don't choose to see even big time streamers as big time celebrities. But he is. He's got millions of followers. Yeah, obviously he is right, and he has the same sort of impact that that sort of broadcast would do back in the day. It's free, you can tune, right, you don't have to pay for or so it's no different than terresto radio in that

respect. I mean, you have to pay for your internet. But the only thing I would say is if you, let's say, if you honestly believe that aliens were here and they're murdering, yes, like because you heard it on this thing, that only tells the truth at least in your mind to that point, Is that the same as reacting to you didn't win getting

a PS five and aliens right encountering ear at the same level. No, no, no, no, But I miss if your reason for writing is you didn't win the PS five or there wasn't a PS five, is some were claiming the reaction if you honestly believe that to the reaction that you honestly believe the aliens were, it's your neighbor's house eating their brains at this moment, and they're coming for you. Right if you honestly believe both of those,

I don't feel that an equal reaction is would be Okay. You've obviously never been looking for a five and couldn't find one, Nor have I been accosted by aliens want to? Yeah, so you're right. Who am I to question it? All right? Anyway? Seven forty five, you said, Jeff Mark for the Weather Channels. Hello, So mister Stagak picks the day one of the hottest days that they're going to drop on us and then loads it off to you. I feel bad, man. Yeah, not

only a hot today, but maybe some severe thunderstorms tonight. So well, all right, take us through it. How long is it gonna last? Yeah? Well, the heat it's going to stick around for a few days obviously to start off this week, and the hottest day will be this Monday, with the heat advisory from eleven this morning till seven this evening. We'll see some sunshine. The high ninety six they heat index as highs one hundred

and one oh five. That's how hot will feel. I we're gonna out to mount with this humidity level min tonight ahead of a front, showers and storms roll in. Some of these storms may turn severe and proves damaging wins avernight of clearing. Trend is the front moves out a low down to seventy four study slightly cooler tomorrow high of ninety one. We'll see some more sun Wednesday and hit the low nineties than into the upper eighties on Thursday, with

some scatter showers and thunderstorms. All right, thank you, we're talking an hour, sir, appreciate it. Yep, alright, seven forty six k c O Day Radio program coming up this um, here we go this White House press credential purge. You're probably not seeing a bunch of news on it. I remember when Trump tried to have two individual reporters have their credentials pulled. It was the end of journalism. This is a third of credential White

House reporters, and it's interesting who's on the list. We'll give you that coming up next here on the k c O Day radio program Smart Talk All Day four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM talk in the triangle. All right, seven fifty one and welcome back. What the White House is doing with press credentials. I think people need to fundamentally understand it and understand that this kind of gate keeping goes on in many situations.

I don't know if it still is the case, but even at the North Carolina General Assembly as it pertains to press credentials and more permanent press credentials hard passes as the White House calls them, but also use of space which is limited. I understand, right, you look at if you ever looked at the amount of reporter workspace and the press room at the White House, it's not a ton That's why the room always looks obviously full, you know,

overflowing people standing there. However, they've seemed to get by. Okay, they've seemed to get by. So the White House in May announced that they were going to update the credentialing rules for reporters. At the time, they had one thousand, four hundred and seventeen individuals who had access but didn't certainly attend every day obviously, but had a hard pass allowing them to access the

entire campus. There the White House, all of the press stuff, the press, not just the daily pressers, but anytime the president's doing some in the Rose Garden. Right, this is all, this is all there,

and you're asking yourself, why is there fourteen hundred? And that's because, you know, unlike some outlets that have a person that is solely all the time there, some of the outlets have multiple people, right, and then they have press credentials not just for the reporters, but for the photographers, for other individuals. Well, they wanted to make a change, they said, And now the number of hard passes is under nine hundred and eighty.

It's nine seventy five. Actually, so they went from fourteen hundred and nine seventy five. Well, who's impacted the smaller outlets? Absolutely? Smaller outlets are alternative news outlets and seemingly a bunch of people who tend to ask critical questions, including what is the what is the name of Simon to Teba's outlet

Today News Africa. Have you ever seen this dude on Twitter? He is a pain in Jean Pierre's but he is, and he points out loudly in many instances during the actual press conferences that he still has never been allowed to ask a question, and when he does get starts firing a question, she won't necessarily answer it, but it is a much more critical question than is being asked of most of the people who get a question a week or a question to day. He's out Under the new standards, Let's see here.

Under the new standards, reporters who wish to qualify for a hard pass will be required to currently have press credentials from Congress or the Supreme Court. This is the dirty little trick here. So the Suprememny reporters have a hard pass for the Supreme Court twenty five. It's extremely limited, so most most reporters don't have that. And when I see reporters, it can be the same

outlet, it doesn't have to be necessarily the same reporter. For Congress it's different though there are a lot more press gallery passes, but the Congress doesn't issue the press credentials. This is this is where you get into the gate keeping. And I remember when we first launched this station back in the day, when we were going through everything. When we when we had we had a much fuller news room. Part of the job of getting everything organized is

I wanted to get us credentialed for the North Carolina General Assembly. We had been credential where I worked in Minneapolis. I actually had a credential myself and I didn't use it very much, but we used it when we needed to use it and there weren't any problems. But I was It was very interesting because I started looking at how do you get a credential for the General Assembly? And the people who decide whether you get a credential is the Press Association.

And I think at the time when we launched w r l's Laura Leslie was in charge of it, and so if and I'm not Laura didn't deny or anything, but we did have a little back and forth over it about space and I'm like, I don't need space, I just want us to have a credential, but that organization has to agree to give you one.

And that's how it works in Congress. So the very same large news outlets that are generally on the you know, hold the office within these press associations, Well, what's their incentive to have you competition to have a press credential, Especially if you're an outlet like many of these smaller outlets are that don't

keep a large enough staff to cover Congress on the regular. They have a person there whose job it is to cover the White House, and that's a lot of them, and now that person is not going to be able to do it. They're among the four hundred and forty two reporters who lost their press credentials, and it just so happens. Many many are like the Daily Signal is where I'm reading this article there among them. They tend to they tend to be alternative media. They tend to be religious media. I think

two of the Christian outlets lost theirs. But they are individual news agencies that have, you know, like a maybe one team in Washington, DC and have covered for fourteen years. In the case of two of the reporters here, Fred Lucas, yeah he's been their fourteen years covering it. But the Daily Signal writes critical stuff and they ask critical questions if they're ever allowed a question, as do many of these other outlets, And now they don't have

to be they can say, well, we're not the ones. We'll give it to them if they can get a congressional pass, and then they'll leave it up to CNN ABC, NBC and the rest on the congressional side to deny them the credentials and then the White House doesn't have to deal with it. I remember Donald Trump took all that grief for literally being hitler, for not wanting Brian Caram and CNN's reporter there and not a peat that four hundred

and forty one just got run. But yeah, there's some there's some dirty, dirty pool going on here. All right, we'll be back. Hang on, all right, get born in, everybody. I'm Welcolm of our number three eight oh seven year around the ACO game radio program, Do do do do? All? Right over the week band. If you're a fan of one of the ACC teams and you were watching yet another weekend of poaching going on, um, get ready for it because now and people go,

why are you doing sports? Well, sometimes we do sports, but this is more than sports, even you know, with the ACC being in North Carolina institution. So let's see what's the list. We had, Oregon, Washington, USC, UCLA all went to the Big ten, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Arizona State to the Big twelve. So basically all the Western conferences are ransacked. And now it's up to the ACC. That's right. Many of the big schools that seem attractive for both the Big Ten and SEC

now reside in the ACC. The problem thus far as to why teams have not been poached while other conferences has has to do with the media deal, which is in effect to like twenty thirty six at the ACC secured and it is extremely, extremely poison pilled against teams leaving the conference. How about I'm trying to think, well, how about to Maryland get hit? Yeah, I got pop pretty good. But I think in the end I read an

article where they're like, yeah, totally worth it. So I think that this latest media deal, in the length of it, was about not having Maryland happen again. Big finds and payouts have to be paid for teams that wish to leave. Among the schools that are on the couldn't leave list Clemson. Clemson wants to be in the SEC something terrible. Florida State does not like the ACC. They've been very vocal Virginia, Miami and U n C.

Could you see UNC leaving the ACC. And by the way, if you're a State fan, or a Duke fan or not a fan of UNC, don't go yeah, yeah, they should totally leave. I mean, you can have your feelings about it, but the conference is what it is. Man, just because you're awake Forest fan, do you really want UNC

gone? I don't know about that. Yeah. Florida States Administration express desire to leave the league last week, and reports say the school has started to talk to JP Morgan about financing what would be a rather heavy financial lift to leave the league. Duke's a bit of a wild card, although I did see a comment where they said Duke said that they're not looking to leave unless the ACC breaks apart, and then they would look at it. I guess,

but I don't know, man. Virginia Techs indicated that they might. So just just know that if you watched all that over the weekend and you haven't seen a lot of ACC talk on this, it's because of that. But now they're to the point where if you're going to get out and get into a new conference, now's the time. So expect I think some of that to worm its way into the news. All right, let me grab a called Janet. Good morning to you. How you doing. I'm getting

casey, I hope you are. I'm pretty good? All right? You we were talking about Ashville earlier, because I believe it or not, their tourism numbers are way down, and in the entire clueless article of them wondering why that might be, Um, they never mentioned perhaps that people might feel it's unsafe a little bit. So where are you at, Janet? Yeah, people who go work generally are a bit clueless. Um. So I put probably the best rest and trip I've ever had in Asheville. Um and

before I've know on, let's know, we can't. So it didn't even cost that much, It wasn't terribly expensive. It was awesome, and we had every intention of going back into one and again. Then they came out with the reparations nonsense. And my family has literally been here for three generations. We had ready to do with that. I don't owe anybody anything, an apology, a penny, nothing. That's when I decided not to go back to Asheville. That and the fact that I already knew they had a

bunch of already hippies out that supporting man. Yeah. But but but hippies in Ashville, that's that's been a known commodity for a very long time, and you know, people knew that they knew that there was going to see the were buskers downtown and all that, and that never bothered people. But it's obviously it's it's different when you're talking about some of the homelessness, some

of the crime and the concept of what you're talking about. Well, if I'm spending money there and that money's going to support things like they remember they tried to set up their own autonomous zone there and thankfully the police did something, and then they gutted the police for their efforts. So yeah, right right, And that's that's the whole reason I want to ever get met because all that working on, I don't want to do anything to support it.

Well, I again, I know what's driving people, but I think it's um, I think that that could be some of it. And them coming up with a couple of things like, oh, it's gas prices, Well, okay, how does it compare to other years when gas prices are high? And you and you see that those years maybe had a slight dip, but they weren't losing as much as they're losing now, So something else is going on. All right, all right, all right, thank you very

much for the call. Appreciate it. This morning, Janet, I have a go one. Okay, all right, did you do you do so? Yeah? Yeah, I think people are more concerned. I did see. Oh, speaking of people pushing back with their dollar, one of the one of the legacy Anheuser Bush family members is um read that as somebody who owns I'm sure a massive amount of original stock in in Anaheuser Bush still following the purchase. He's not a fan of Dylan mulveney and the decision to do

that. And it's like, yeah, I suspect when you're just you know, you didn't work and you're just living on an inheritance and it's all dependent on the stock price, You're you're gonna be out and be vocal. But where were you before, man, where were you on the when this was going down? And remember it wasn't just mulvaney. Mulvaney was part of it.

What was more offensive to a lot of people was the attitude of the marketing check referring, you know, referring to the people, the loyal people to continue to be your customers and make you the number one beer as fratish and aloof and and you know, just a very derogatory attitude towards them. That's what really tick or that at the very least Dylan drew the eyes.

But that is what captured I think people's minds when they heard that. So, yeah, you're gonna see consumers and perhaps, yeah, it's right. Perhaps some of the it is just a work for consumer going, I'm not going to spend money when all I read is insanity out of there. Oh they didn't bring it up in their article. But perhaps it is in fact part of the equation. All right, check this out. Well, let me do that. Let me do this. So I remember we covered this

story. This woman's gonna get no jail time and what she did is pretty horrible, and frankly, I don't know why she wants to be here, and that didn't seem to come into the equation. So if you don't remember the story of the woman who was so mad over the killing of Iranian General Solomany, what she did in Las Vegas, she's gonna get no jail time for and it's pretty horrendous. We'll get to that coming up here on the k c O Day radio program one sie Am Talk and w PTI, two

stations driving the best in talk. This is Cady and Carolina's Morning News. All right, good morning eight nineteen. Boy, this is a this is a tough decision. I don't know man. All right, So, a seventy four year old Florida man has been arrested for manslaughter after deputies say they identified him based on a photo that ran in the newspaper. This is crazy story, so us, I'll tell you what the photo was about here just

a moment. But first, Robert Moore Junior was charged with punching an eighty seven year old man in the face, which eventually led to his death. And how old is he's seventy four? Dang? Tangling it up? Do you go as harsh on a seventy four year old for punching an eighty seven year old considering that, you know, you see these stories where somebody punch as an elderly person and they die, but they're you know, the stories are like they're thirty or something, or it was you know, some random

attack. Yeah, two retired dudes fighting. I don't know, man. The Sumter County Sheriff's Office says it responded to what was referred to as a vehicle accident at Glen View Country Club Before the arrival, the victim's wife told deputies that a white male had attacked her husband after accidentally. So it's a road rage thing, the victim told deputy as he was pulling into a parking spot when he struck the front bumper of Oh all right, so old old

person, golf club member. What do you think it was? Kind of car was he driving? Of course it was Alexis. If you got Alexis, that's fine. It's just do you ever drive over to a country club. It's like when there's a lot of alexis Is, usually the gold ones, and if you go to a realist state. I went to a golf tournament for one of the big real estate companies here, and I show up

and I pulled into the parking lot. And this was years ago when all of those midsize Lexus SUVs were very popular, and it looked like it was a Lexus dealership because you know, real estate agents, man, they love those luxury SUVs. And I was just I'm sitting there and I'm like, okay, I can't help myself. So we're there and we're talking and I

come walking in. I meet my buddy, who's one invited me and he's got a bunch of agents around there, and I'm like, yeah, man, I hit a hit Alexis SUV when I was trying to back in just to see how many heads turned, because I found that amusing. But anyway, so Black Alexis a little dust up in the parking lot. According to the Sheriff's office, More approached the scene and yelled, what the heck you

hit my car. The victim admitted to hitting the car and provided his insurance info, but More was he was unhappy, and he punched the dude in the jaw. So it wasn't even they were both fighting. Yeah, all right, So how did they figure out who he was? Because they couldn't. They didn't know who it was. Well, idiots, picture ran in

the paper, because are you ready for this? He got a hole in one because I guess karma is you kill somebody and then you get a hole in one, which I don't have a hole in one yet, but I'm willing to try. Whatever. So that happened in the middle of July, and then here we go. Oh no, I'm sorry he passed away middle of July. I'm just trying to get the timeline here. So then the police are trying to figure out, Okay, well, who would have done

it and what we need to find somebody who's wearing this outfit. Well, it just so happened. Are you ready for this? That the suspect got a hole in one while wearing the same outfit he wore the day of the crime, one of his standard golf outlets outfits, and that's how police tracked him down. More on this in a moment. Hang on, Oh geez, I'm sorry, you know what, I'm stupid. Ross's Russ for some reason. Man, I was sitting there and I'm like, I didn't take

the break yet. So anyway, so this dude wearing the same out wasn't the same day he wore the same outfit when he then went back and got a hole in one at a different golf club that ran in the paper, and based on the witness description and him wearing the same outfit, that's how they caught him. But so here's what I'm torn on. Okay, I really want a hole in one, and I really if I get what I there's a few people I feel need to know about it, and maybe you'd

have to run it in the paper. But I'm not gonna hide it. So is it worth potentially going to jail to tell everyone about your hole in one? Well, if you play enough golf, maybe it is. Dude, I had not this summer, but two summers ago, I had the worst hole in one luck around me. I watched two of them, and I was with a group where there was eight of us and they were behind us where they got one. So I was I was connected to three and

none of them were mine. But yeah, so this guy gets a whole he literally is arrested for manslaughter of this guy now, but he does that, then gets a hole in one a few weeks later, and they run a picture of him wearing the same outfit. Here's here's a pro tip. By the way, if you ever do kill somebody, whatever clothes you're wearing,

you gotta get rid of them, right, do we not? This is like the same thing with people that have like a trunk full of drugs that are doing one hundred miles an hour with no tail lights on ninety or nine five. Excuse me, like I'll never understand it. But yeah, although golf clothes can get really expensive depending on what brand they are, So anyway, he's in jail. Now he's awaiting and he's charged with manslaughter obviously, but he's not going to have himself a good day judging by the amount

of evidence they claim to have in this story here. And as if one Florida story wasn't good enough, check this out. Florida National Cemetery has They've had a few incidents this year already, and this, um, this is a doozy. A deceased widow was interred with the wrong husband at the Florida National Cemetery. Salutes of twenty one guns are common at the hallow grounds, where it has earned honor for veterans and their spouses to be laid to rest.

However, going back in August of last year, the remains of a woman who was cremated were mistakenly mixed with the wrong veterans remains. They use the term cremains. I've never liked that word, and I think once you've done that, you're all in right, there's you can't just you can't just chop it in half and be like, all right, we'll try it again. I mean, once they're mixed, they're mixed. So that's a huge

screw up there. And now they've done it again, this time with a not a remains, but a casket, I should say, not a cremain's, but a casket. Yeah. So family goes looking and they said that the woman's casket was found in a crypt with the wrong late husband. How does that work? Man? Aren't you pretty specific when you bury somebody or you're handling the remains of a loved one, especially there's a military cemetery too, So yeah, here we go. According to the Press Secretary Terence Hayes,

the spouses had quote similar names. Okay ah. The mistake discovered in June. A Tampa Bay woman who was almost eighty died with plans to in place to be buried with her late husband, but when his grave vault was open, there was already a second casket inside, at which point they figured out, yeah, yeah, somebody screwed up. And while the names are similar, they're not exactly the same. If your ghost as account of cheating, you know what. I have several questions, and that is definitively one

of them. I don't know. I don't know, but we'll find out together. Next after the news Hang on your Day Smarter one O six one FM Talk and news Talk PTI more with starts now, No, I wouldn't. I would like to think that they would be so happy to be reunited that he would not the blame would not fall on this individual since it was wildly out of his control. So and you know, frankly, this isn't

even the most egregious scandal at the VA. So that's why I guess, because this is a VA cemetery, I guess maybe just possibly we can you know, whatever happened with the other stuff, it didn't seem to improve, It just kind of went away. That's so weird. So if you if you're just joining us, we'll do better and join us earlier next time. But secondly, down in Florida at one of the veteran cemeteries down there, they've had some booboos here lately, they've had some whoopsies. And this was

a doozy. This is Bushnell, Florida, where this is. And this is the second incident in less than a year where they've put the wrong person with the other wrong person. Now this one was a casket. Previously, back in August of last year, a woman had passed away and they went to mix they were mixing her remains she was cremated with her husband's remains, except they didn't get her husband's remains, they got the wrong ones, so

now she's forever jumbled with somebody else. I don't know how you fix that. This one was a little more fixable, albeit pretty weird. So a woman died, her husband had passed away before her, and they had a plot there where or a crypt where the two were to be buried. So when she died, they opened up the crypt to put her in there, and there's already a second coffin and there turns out it was another woman, not his wife, who was married to a guy that had a similar name

to her husband. So she has since been put in there. But to Ross's point, man, if you're a ghost and your husband's been cheating on you now with um this other ghost chick, but it's not, it's not

it wasn't anything you did, or do you really carry blame there? I mean, it depends on the woman, right or the ghosts, because I've I know, I've dated women in the past where they'll have like a crazy dream involving you and they wake up pist off at you, like like you actually did something, Like dude, that wasn't me, that was your cheated Yeah, so like I didn't do that, but yeah, it depends on your spouse, right, She's like, you cheated on me in my dream?

In my dream? Yeah, I may, I would. I would just like to think that she's just now they're reunited, so you don't worry about any of that stuff. But to your point, that isn't always the case and logic doesn't have to come into play on some of this stuff. So, uh, what if the dude, what if that guy? For however long? How long did they say that this had been there or do

they even they probably don't even know. Good lord? Um? Also when now also the mix up the person who was in there who was not supposed to be in there? Um, where were they supposed to be? What's their spouse thinking? You know, he's heard his wife died. He's waiting for to show up and she doesn't show. What thoughts are going through his

head? If he's no, no, no, no, no no, no, not that guy, but the guy of the woman who was accidentally put in this guy's crypt You know, she was supposed to be buried with her husband. So he gets word that his wife finally died, he's waiting for to show up, and she never show us up. That's got to be nerve racking as a ghost. You're like, did did did she change her mind? Did she not want to be around me? What happened? And in reality, it was just to screw up on the part of the

employees. There three years three years ago, there we go. So what if this dude though, who got the wrong life put in his crypt What if he you know, I was like, you know what, I kind of like her more? And then his original wife gets there and he's just now now he's upset because he took the other ghost away and now he's got to put up with the woman that he died early to get away from it.

This is so complicated. I don't even know. I don't even we you know, we need we need a psychkick or something that can tap in and tell us what the deceased the deceased you're thinking about this because who knows. Maybe he wants the new one to stay and doesn't want the the original one to come. And and maybe the other guy whose wife was put in with this dude whose wife never showed up, maybe he's happy. I wonder how often this sort of like mix ups happened because my mom still as my

dad's remains in the house. And I'm like, well, how do you know? Or you have people that have their pets, you know, we have like a three of our pets remains in the house, like the ashes, because you can get the box of the name and like the pawprint stuff. You don't know, it could be a scam. You could get a made into furniture. Now what you didn't know about this? No, there's

a dude. There's a guy. I'm sure it's more than one guy, but I remember seeing this guy at a hunting and fishing show years ago, right, so I'm in there, you're why you know, it's mostly outfitters and products and stuff. And he's got like a bunch of benches and stuff, and on the bench is like a dog's picture or horses picture, and

I'm like, oh, I gotta see what this is. They take your animals remains and then they put it into the mix and then they make a piece of furniture out of your pets so you can sit in your garden on your pet. It's not cheap. And he I guess he was. They were selling like Gangbusters, and then it comes with a picture of your pet kind of you know, I'm saying grave but lacquered in there. So yeah, a lot of the times when it comes a stuff because we've had to

put down in several animals rights, it's always the absolute worst. And they confront you with the piece of paper, well the options while you're sobbing and you're a complete mess, And a lot of times you just because you're like,

this is representative of the love I had for my pet. Right, you don't want to do the top box because that's like, you know, you throw them into like the communal bind that's awful, So like the communal Yeah, and you're sobbing because I did that once accidentally and I checked the top box because it wasn't thinking and then I had to go back and look at I'm like, oh, I don't want that one. I want this one. So you could just be like a sobbing wreck and they're just like

which one do you want? Which? How much did you love your pet? Do you want to do the cheap one, the top box? And do you want to do like the two thousand dollar bottom box? And you might just check it and then like a week later, you get a chair and you're like, what is this chair? Yeah? I did what well, but at least you have a chair at that point, you know, so you got that going for you, and you asked about human remains.

I would like to think that this doesn't happen very much, but remember that story we did out of Arizona last year where they raided the place and it had like buckets full of sports cars and stuff. Most of the people whose bodies ended up there thought their bodies were being used differently, So it's not quite app to apples, but they never expected that there'd be a warehouse where part pieces of their their loved one or communal in the communal boxes you just

said. And in some cases, I think some of those families thought their loved ones were cremated, which is what brought about some criminal charges. So, yeah, you've never seen the bench to make a make a piece of you mentioned how it is. It does sound more familiar. When you first said it, I was like, what are you talking about? But yeah,

now I think I remember something like that. I remember talking to the dude and I'm like, and you could tell that he puts up with people like me a lot when he's doing those trade shows, like, I'm sorry, you do the what now? But then he was showing me how much they cost and I asked him and he's like, there's a waiting list. I'm like, you know what, sir, Kudos to you, man.

That's a little more of bid that you know, because the only other guy I know who makes furniture out of deceased things, um was like ed gean. So you found a way to do it and not end up on the FBI's radar. So more powered to you, all right. Jeff Marr from the Weather Channel, he's here. He has no furniture made of remains, just weather for you. What's up, my man? Yeah, hot and human out there today. Unfortunately, front's going to bring in some strong storms

tonight. Then we'll start to cool slightly behind that fund into the middle part of the week. But today a different story. Head advisory starts at eleven this morning, it lasts until seven this evening. The reason the high temperature today all the way up to ninety five degrees actually maybe even closer to ninety

six by the time we had in the middle of the afternoon. But that heat index is the real story between one hundred and one oh five when you factor in the humidity under some sunshine, then as a front gets closer tonight, showers and storms move in. Some of the storms may turn severe and produce damaging wednes during the evening overnight, a clearing trend a low seventy four, and then sunshine tomorrow and Wednesday highs each day in the low nineties.

All right, thank you, sir, appreciated you with us tomorrow or what's up? I think Gray is back tomorrow. Okay, all right, we'll chat with him and you have a good rest of your day. Thank you. All right, and we will chat next with Jeff Bellen are from Bloomberg News. Hang on keeping you connected. This is ninety four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM talk in the triangle. All right, good morning, and he is eight fifty you're Bloomberg Up. They now

with Jeff Bellinger. Jeff, what's happening? Well, good morning. Casey. Wall Street ended last week with a losing session, but the futures are looking good this morning. Now. Futures are up one hundred and six points. Negotiators for the Hollywood studios and Representatives of the striking screenwriters met on Friday, and no progress was made, not even on an agreement on how to

resume formal contract talks. The writer's strike is entering its fourth month that appears to be on its way to becoming the longest writers walk out in Hollywood history. Neither side has indicated much interest and compromise. The Barbie movie from Warner Brothers was the box office leader for a third straight weekend. comScore says domestic ticket sales total fifty three million dollars. Barbie has now taken in more than

one billion dollars globally for its first seventeen days. And theaters. The shark thriller Meg two The Trench debuted in second place with ticket sales of thirty million dollars. The trucking company Yellow, which shut down last month, has filed for bankruptcy. Yellow indicated it will remain closed. This filing will give Yellow some breathing room from its creditors as it winds down its business and prepares to sell off assets. Work came this morning that Campbell Soup is buying SVOs brands

for twenty three dollars a share. That's about two point seven billion dollars total value. Savo sells frozen entrees and pizza, yogurt, pasta, and sauces under the Rayos, Michelangelo's and Noosa brand names. A Federal Reserve officials as central bankers, may not be able to hold interest rates at current levels and get inflation back down to an acceptable level. FED Governor Michelle Bowman spoke at

a meeting of the Kansas Bankers Association over the weekend. She said more rate increases will likely be needed, and Casey, the annual rollout of pumpkin spice treats is a sure sign there is light at the end of the long hot summer tunnel. Excuse me. Seventy eleven brought back its pumpkin spice lattes last week. Chrispy Kreme seasonal donuts and drinks are in store today. Duncan's going to release its lineup of pumpkin treats a week from Wednesday, and Starbucks stores

begin serving pumpkin flavored items on August twenty fourth. Casey, it's going to be hotter today than they serve it if you buy it, So no, just what we needed in the inevitability too, is the beer taps are going to get ruined too, oh really, because perfectly good space for actual beer, and before you know, there's gonna be pumpkin spice beer, Christmas spice, all that crap, chewing up two three of the taps that could have a nice dark Belgian on there or something. I'm not a huge pumpkin spice

fan. It just I just like that. It signifies there's a little light at the end of the tunnel and the stuff comes out. Yeah, well, all right, we'll talk tomorrow, sir. Have it go one. Okay, okay, sounds good, casey, you take care, all right, there you go. Uh Jeff Bellinger Bloomberg, Sorry, I was I was trying to get the price on these these cree You cremate your pet and

then they'll build furniture out of it. I'm telling you, I wonder how often that happens, because I've been in that situation where you're I don't think you're in the vets office and they're doing it right by the bet, I hope not, because you're sitting there and you can't comprehend what you're getting. You're seeing the price tag and you're like associating that with how much do I

love my pet? And you're like zero, one hundred and five hundred, I'll go to two thousand option and then like two weeks later you're like, what why is this foot on on my porch? And they're like that's skippy and you're like what, oh dude, you out of skippy. Look it's all so you'd go foot one. I don't know if you know what the options are, well, Uh, generally it's going to be outdoor furniture. Uh from what I've seen, I guess maybe you could get something indoor.

A lot of benches, there's some chairs. Uh, there's a whole table set that somebody had done with a horse, because why not. But a lot of them don't have. So I was able to find some prices because you're probably wondering. And by the way, it was a creepy search because one when the first where I actually could see a price was on Wayfair and that's kids, right, that's code, that's not an actual Yeah, that that was that's so you don't order that. You probably get traffic children if

you believe in the conspiracy. But um, then there was one being resold on Facebook marketplace. You're reselling your cremated pets, a bench made of your cremated I mean, it's tough financial times. This binomics right there. You have to sell Skippy your food, ton I've to make more, you know, make to pay for gas or whatever. I'm going to assume that that the it's either a joke or the person selling it is not the person who had a commission. And maybe yeah, maybe it was a grandparent or so.

I don't know, man, but that's just if you had benches made of your pets, and then you go sell the bench, which, by the way, the cheapest one I could find was three hundred and fifty dollars. And that's not even a full bench. That's like a little nothing. So the margin on this thing's got to be insane. Yeah yeah, yeah, so three hundred and fifty dollars. But that's just the that's just the base model. Some of these get crazy. But a lot of the sites

don't advertise the price. You gotta click what you're looking for and they'll get back to you. So you know it's going to be expensive. Then and oh boy, this one and this one's five thousand dollars. Oh but see ross this one has it's a bench. It is a bench, but it has the top comes off and then it has cremation spots for you to put all of your pets remains in little slots, so you could get you could get the whole pet family in there. Plus it's said a nice granite bench.

So dude, that is just so creepy. So best I can tell, it's if you want a nice one, you're gonna pay about fifteen hundred dollars. That's crazy? Man? Can you do it with humans? Because what you can compost people in a few states? Now, why can't I make a bench shout of somebody? I have so many questions, like who the hell would do this? But I remember talking to that dude and he's like, I just I just sit around, just print money all day.

People go crazy for their pets. You ever seen a pet taxidermied? You've laid eyes on that horse? I have not in anyone's house. I was at a in Wyoming. I was at a buddy of mine who is a taxidermist, who was he passed away, but um and he was. He was. I had two shed horns that I wanted connected, so he were putting that together for amount and he had a cat there, and I'm like, dude, dude, did you taxidermy cat? It's like that is somebody contracted that, and I'm like, okay, what does that cost? He

wouldn't tell me, or maybe he did tell me and I forgot. But the thing was and the cat looked surprised in the in the taxidermy. You don't want that? What's that if you if you signed up for that, it came back surprised when you be upset. It had the cat in like this playful motion where it was up on its hind legs. But surprise wouldn't be the look that I'd have gone for. I mean, let's face it, if you want to capture the essence of a cat plotting your murder is

the look you want. There's different levels of surprise. There's wow, it's a ball of yarn, and it's and there's wow, what are you doing to my body? You know what I mean? Or what's that noise? Sounds like a truck? Oh yeah, no it was. It was ball of yarn. Surprised, I think, But still there was no ball of yarn there, So I guess you could put whatever you want in its little pause and tell a story all right, Well on that creepy note, there

you go. Now you got ideas for what to do with your pets after they pass, You're welcome. We'll see you back here tomorrow.