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implement martial law, not yet. I know, I know you got dreams, but you understand it, right that if you do that, it basically is people have a negative reaction to that, right yeah, yeah, yeah, think so yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's sort of general consense to a rebicon. You don't across well, or if you do, you got to be prepared because now you got to go with it, and then it's got camps and stuff like that. Anyway, it's not not a good thing. So he's like, yeah, no,

I didn't know. I didn't had no idea. Yeah, yeah, I just I thought it was a mechanism for essentially, I don't know, redefine Well, how did he say? He so redefining Korean values or something. So good luck with that. You're going to be out of a gig. Speaking of out of a gig, did we destabilize and depose an entire country and ruler kind of sounds like it. It looks it looks like the the uh, let's let's get a sod thing, which started under the Obama administration may

have had a helping hand from the US. I only know this because you know, President silver Alert kind of intimated it when he was speaking yesterday, and then very odd he did something that he's done once before, and I kind of gave him a pass on it because there was a lot of people yelling at him all at once. But now I'm not so sure because he did it again. Well, we'll play the audio from that. But remember when do you remember when he was he

was talking about Helene. He was talking. It was right after he got back from North Carolina, and he was telling everyone that, oh no, they talked to everyone and everyone's fine. Remember that, of course, how infuriating that was?

thought was the confusion was between Milton and Helene. But then you would kind of say which storm, but it's okay, And it was at that point I'm like, all right, I think there was everyone yelling at him, and you know, there's there was at the time. There was two storms, Milton and Helene. So all right, fair enough, that's not an excuse this time around. And we'll play that for you as we break down what he had to say there.

And I, you know, I'm a dark soul sometimes. One of my favorite stories in in Forever Man, Thank you Georgia, thank you, Bad Decisions, bar owner, sports bar, dive bar owner in Georgia. I have a ton of questions how something came to pass that came to pass over the weekend. And I shouldn't laugh because it turned into an entire brawl. But what did you think was gonna happen? So I find myself asking that at Rando them points this weekend after I had seen this story. H it's so dumb.

I just uh yeah, let me. I don't want to do it right now. I gotta do the I gotta do the Biden stuff. But you want to you do not want to miss the this story down in Georgia. Also, uh Trump sitting down on uh was it?

why are you making everything so horrible? Defend yourself? Not once so they asked Trump what his favorite ice cream flavor was? Never came up, Well did come up when Trump was mocking the reporter for asking what his favorite ice cream was. So though technically not him or her, excuse me, but other reporters at her network. Yeah, it was. It was everything you expected to be. And and I've constantly battled like why does Trump sit down and do this stuff? And I I I he likes it. He

likes telling them to their face that they're garbage. And let me tell you, it feels good. I love getting on the radio and if people are garbage, being able to point out that they're garbage, and I have a megaphone to do it. Tom Tillis will attest to this, that guy garbage over the weekend. I'm not gonna put I won't support any nominees that are not down with the Ukraine. Did you just did you see the vote?

all that. So you know why, because the because the founding fathers would have abhorred the FBI or the concept of it. I don't necessarily disagree with the concept of it, but at the time they would have abhorred it. So when they're talking about advice and consent, they're they're they're

literally also talking about nominees. I read I read a piece on this that was years ago where they were doing breakdowns of it was right after the Heller decision, the gun decision, where they were also uh wrestling over what the different terms and in the Second Amendment meant, and then they started talking about some other ones, like what does advising consent mean and and all of these things.

And there was definitely a role there. It was a role that we then interpreted into the process that we do now. But there wasn't The defined thing was just that you, as members of the Senate, would advise I e. May perhaps make the nominator give some of the green light for the nomination, like, hey, we have this guy in pennsylvania'd be great for this, because you know, not everybody knew everybody. It wasn't all that instantaneous conversation and connection.

So so she's up there screen. You guys not going through the normal process. You know why because Trump didn't go through the normal process because last time around, you guys hung a bunch of plants in there that would run to the media. There be four person meetings and immediately everything that happened in these meetings would be out there for Washington Post or New York Times. No. No, you had people that were in that transition thing, which

is generally done by people who who were already in government. Well, that doesn't work for a guy who's coming in to probably fire a bunch of them. And then I saw people defending this like, oh, he's going to crash the economy by because you're going to fire all these government workers who uh, this guy estimated that the average worker in Washington probably makes twenty five to thirty thousand a year. Have you been to DC, sir? Absolute lunacy, Absolute lunacy.

So no, he's not gonna go through your process, which was it's never it was never a constitutional process. It was just the way that the way that we thought it would be easiest, and then, like everything else, it was weaponized. So no, he's not gonna participate. Do your research. Go get one of your staffers. Verbally abuse them and emotionally abuse them like the story says you like to do is thread them with a comb, eat your salad,

and you know Google, how's that will that work for you? Okay? Good, all right, So let's do this. We'll come back. We'll get into Biden's little serious thing. I'll play a little of the Trump thing. It's it's it's basically if you've probably seen some clips, it's nothing new. There's just another opportunity for him to uh get in there. But he's having fun, man, and I'm gonna play the clip that

shows that. So lots to get too sick. Sixteen Hang on, we had some little I got the emails from I didn't. I didn't go out this year. Ross you went out this year. We had our big stuff, A bus out at the Walmart on is it killed or farmed road killed her? Yeah. Yeah. Down there in Kerry Ross was a man in the booth for one of the days this weekend. And I know we had some listener stopped by it when I was on the air Friday and donated some books and stuff. So Elizabeth, thank you very

much for that. It's amazing. It's amazing. How how how stuffed was the bus when you finally left, but you were there.

with a whole family. I was gonna say with with with your lady, but or just a family situation and you're having to play Tetris to get it into your vehicle. When they came that first day, we had to transfer to the bus. I was the poor bastard and the bus playing Tetris, and it's just like it was me and one other guy. We're just like, where are we going to put all this stuff? So the generosity is

off the chain that I'm saying. But the funnest part is occasionally somebody will come by and they're they're walking out of the store and then they realize what's going on and they're like, Oh, I don't have time to run in. Here's here's twenty bucks. Why don't you go? And then you get to go in the store to shop for the kids, and this is where you get

to indoctrinate them. So this is why I understand like being an administrator for a higher ed collegiate environment or something like that, because like last year, I'm like, you know what the kids are gonna get. They're gonna get fishing supplies. Because when I was a kid, if I got a free fishing pole and uh and a little mini tackle starter tackle box, that was my summer planned man, So, uh, what'd you indoctrinate the kids?

find the photo. I'm like, dude, if that was on my phone, I would know exactly where they photo is your scream round? Yeah right?

shopping center. I killed her far road carry. Oh absolutely, Yeah. What's the most terrifying part? The other New York Bagel that's right down the way. There's really good cars.

to deal with. Meanwhile, here's Biden.

eight hundred and ninety bucks, so that is amazing. This is a toys for Tots thing too, so yeah, incredible, man, absolutely incredible. Let's see how many they did, sixty seven boxes of toys. The Saint Jude was one hundred and eighty thousand raw stuffed the bus multiple times. So there's a lot of of a lot of folks around the Triad and Triangle because all of this stays local too. This is so if you did come out and donate,

it's staying right in the community. So that's I really like that part of the fundraisers, So thank you everyone who took part. Now we can coast ride into Christmas and two weeks away well, I know Christmas isn't, but that's when our vacation starts, so deal with it, all right, let me get back to this, all right. So Joe Biden's doing the serious thing, and I'm gonna play that cut again because it's pretty clear he wants to send him a bunch of money. We don't even know he's

going to be in charge. I think it's pretty naive to just assume that it's going to be a ragtag grew and I hope that it is. I just want to be clear here. I hope, and I suspect we're helping to steer this, but yeah, you're gonna have a transition time right now, and something tells me it's going to be pretty ugly. And the because the nation is getting flooded with ultra conservative, radical Muslim groups, which has

already been a problem. Israel took some land too, which I'm sure will be a point of contention, and you don't know who's gonna slide in there. Here's what I know. I was watching video of people, you know, doing the palace loot as you do. Because Asad and his family they went to Russia, they're out and to get the hell out of there because they remember, they were like, oh, nobody wants to be Goadafi. You die with a stick

in your butt. No, thank you, we're leaving, and oh, he deserves to die with a stick in his butt. Just so we're clear, slowly, he is a monster. That being said, there's other monsters to fill that vacuum. And while people were eluding the palace, I did see the smart people headed over to the Central Bank, and we're just walking out with bags full of money. I don't know how rampant that is. I don't know what that does from an inflationary standpoint, like how much money is

getting taken. The whole thing's crazy. Uh and and it's a it is a hand grenade that is now in Trump's lap, but it's also the destabilizing of Asad is something that was that started under Obama. He kind of ramped into it. Trump did a little, but after that gas attack stuff, he was kind of hands off with Syria because remember we did fire in there. Now we fight, We hit some targets in Syria. US did this wasn't just this happened. We took the opportunity to uh missile missile.

Some folks as we do, and this is all tried. Now. Trump's thing on it was this isn't our war, let them let them kill each other, which is probably pretty accurate when you see who's going to be vying for power. But you still have people and you do like there are people in Syria obviously who just want to do their thing and not have to worry about gas attacks

or subjugation or random uh, random executions. You know, all the horrible stuff that was was was right, you know, brimming over, Uh they're they're in Syria and then would spill over into these these conflicts, which would make the news. Then it would go back to just sucking most of the time. And and you hope they're the ones. But they're also not that they're not armed. A lot of those folks they're not you know, these are these are

they're not military folks, but they're essentially trained. Uh you know, isis fighters, isis adjacent however you want to say it. So we'll see how it pans out. But Trump can say he doesn't want to deal with it and he doesn't have to commit blood or treasure, but it will be it's going to be something he has to deal with because it's going to be going on around him, and so, uh what that looks like? I don't know. So as he's talking about it, and let me play

this cut one more time. As he's talking about it, they start trying to gaze how much the US would be involved in any of this. And as far as Biden is concerned, if we're missiling stuff, Israel's taken land and we're cool with that and we're offering to rebuild it sounds like a financial quagmire.

they turn around and sell it for money. And then you know, or weapons they traded for weapons. They literally would trade food and medicine to China for weapons. We knew this was happening. And then but politicians still go, well, look, we're just sending a medicine, but you're not. You're sending them sending them money. So well, but yeah, but they need the medicine. No, I agree with you that the people probably do need the medicine because Lukhu's in charge.

But if it's never getting to them, then it's not working. So I don't know. And then they he got asked about Austin Tice. Now, this is what I was comparing when we started the show to when he was taught. When he would come back from North Carolina after going on his tour there and said that he talked to everyone and they're happy as it pleased his punch, which would you talk to one person who works for you?

I don't know, And then so he says something, and then somebody then asked a storm question and he goes which storm, and I'm like, yeah, there's two storms. It was clear that they were talking about Helene at the time, but there is the other storm. Maybe it's gotta have a brief. Who knows, we kind of did it something similar. So Austin Tice is a person that we believe I don't know what intelligence fully the government has, but the

belief is that he is still alive. A journalist's former marine I know once marine always ringing, but certain the Marines, and then was investigative journalist, was investigative journalisming in Syria and was captured and has been held there for let's see. He was captured in twenty twelve, so he's twelve years man almost thirteen years. Uh yeah, and we think he's alive. And so they asked Biden about him, and then he is why he Biden in the in the moment I'm

gonna play, I'm play the audio fully for you. He starts walking away from the podium and somebody asks Austin, when are you gonna get Austin tice after he had just been mentioned, and uh, listen to Biden's reactions, what did you guys know about where Austin pys might be?

I don't know who'd win. So I think Chevy's thing is I think people give him a pass because it's not political and it's such a good run.

be an absolute nightmare. Later he followed it up with a home alone. So Christoph Columbus did, okay, right, but that's a crazy like he was like, Nope, can't work with Chevy Chase.

it's uh, it was. That's the Christmas spirit there because every time I hadn't watched that movie since last year. Just art Man it's just art. I don't care. I saw it.

But much like Yelp or trip Advisor. There's probably an entry for that business where photos have been posted. And one of the series of photos is you can see I think it's atmosphere, and you click that so you can see if you just want to see in the let's say you want to go to a restaurant, you want to see what the sea look like, you could do that. So there was a bunch of pictures in there. And I would describe this bar based on the parking lot and the photos that I saw as kind of

a hole in the wall, a working class bar. Looks like it's kind of like there's pickup trucks, a lot of construction dudes, some motorcycles. It's probably predominantly white from the photos that I saw. And it's a sports bar. It's ideal sports bar. And so based on those photos, using that to kind of figure out what happened, because in the story, you gotta piece this stuff together and once you do and you realize what happened is crazy,

all right. So a racially I'm gonna read from the New York Post article, A racially charged brawl broke out between a band and bar patrons at a watering hole in Atlanta, leaving several people injured, including one woman who had to be hospitalized. Customer an ideal sports bar became agitated with a performing band after the members of the band, who are in this case, the one guy they point out who is really at the forefront you see him

in the article photo is a younger black dude. He's a guitarist, it looks like.

during the performance that started this. And it's clear, it's clear that that's what the that was. The first thing lobbed was whatever this guitar has said. And it's not until you get to the end of the article do you find out what the guitar said and why then it might have caused a patron to start screaming the N word at him because at the end of the article, and I'll get to all the middle part, but I just want you to know off the jump what this is.

people in a redneck bar. Kind of definitely Redneck's not fair. But I want you to understand what you're dealing with. You're dealing with a bar that's full of a bunch of working class dudes with pickup trucks. It's like a it's like a crazy movie scene. It's like, they did the meme, right, and somebody anytime a journalist, right, So

the Republicans pounced, you're doing the meme. They did the meme, and I'll share with you the meme here in just a moment, But you have to understand what happened because it's also was the most stereotypical barroom brawl I've ever seen or had described to me. Right, patrons turned into hacklers, one man yelling the N word. Musicians then got off the stage of fight, erupted barstools and pooled pool cues

were grabbed once the N word was thrown. I knew it was going to be pretty bad, said one white band member. What about the part where you're talking about killing white people? Did you not think that that was going to end pretty bad? I think they wanted to kill, they didn't want to fight, he added of the hecklers. Maybe I don't know, Maybe you shouldn't sing about killing people and do it, especially do it in a racial way in a setting where everyone's ingested a bunch of alcohol.

And by the way, it's just try to have a good time. How about that surveillance video shows a younger black guitars to the band taunting an older white man standing near a pool table. The two are separated by women, and then it looks like it's kind of hard to tell because women are in the way, But then they start going at it. One of the women. I think it's popped. I think she bounces her head off the

pool table. It's kind of hard to tell. Then all of a sudden, everyone in the bars starts throwing punches and hitting each other with pool sticks. In fact, one man grabs a woman who's dancing with the band. He becomes the center of the skirmish, pinning the woman on the pool table. When he emerges, there's blood dripping down his forehead. One I love this The way they wrote this one she made in is seemingly distributing wooden weapons. So you know that scene or somebody's fighting and then

somebody's handing out pool cues. That literally is what happened. And then there's a line in there that's just crazy. I don't want to read this quote. I did. We didn't expect that much violence, said one of the bad Well, what did you? Is there an acceptable level? Right?

And two, how did you think that was going to go? How did you think a bar full of intoxicated people, most of which will appear to be white, we're going to react to a singer not trying to be funny like Eddie Murphy is, but you know, making politically charged comments and talking about killing white How did you think that was going to go? Pick the most country bar you can think of around the triad or triangle, and now put a band in there.

What what it's why we're here, bro, you know, let Didy organize parties in prison? Holy cow, let me just let me just say whatever the part I guess it is a Christmas Day. Probably don't want to go. Uh don't want to go in the showers that day, That's all I'm saying. Just you know, maybe the day before and then just you know, go for a go a day and then the day after Christmas. But I would

avoid a day of So what exactly is the party? Well, according to TMZ, the party organized by Diddy and some of his fellow prisoners will include a spades tournament, a Domino's competition, three on three basketball, in a soccer match, and they will feast upon cornish game hen mac and cheese, cranberry sauce, and dinner rolls and something described as a holiday dessert on that day. So there you go. Probably a little different than a freak off, but maybe not.

I don't know. Sounds like nobody watches the prisoners at that place anyway. Yeah, that's an Epstein reference. All right, So I guess you could tell me which is the which is the worst? Idea? There? Let me flip over to this. I think this is a fascinating story. It's not super political, but I just want to know what you think. So I read this article over the weekend the subtitle Generation while Millennia. Why Millennials and gen Zers

need everything spelled out for them? And in the article, it talks about how gen z and Millennials, the majority, the majority, say that when they watch media, watch a movie or TV or whatever, they have the subtitles on. Why. Now, don't get me wrong, When I watch I have the subtitles on, and I just assume it's because I'm getting older and I sit around with headphones on my head

do there's people in radio. There are people in radio who when you walk into a studio, they have their headphones on and you can hear clearly standing across the other side of the studio. What is coming through those headphones? Yeah?

I gotta turn them back on. YouTube turns them off all the time too, although the YouTube subtitles are pretty hit or miss, but still, yeah, honestly, I think it has more to do with the way that we mixed on. You can't watch a Marvel movie and hear the dialogue. Darcy Bell. Darcy Bell is a San Francisco woman. She is a defund the police ANTIFA activist. By the way, when she's out Antifa en, she goes by a pseudonym,

Jerk Cousteau. AnyWho something happened over the weekend, so apparently she had everything she owns in a twenty six foot U haul truck parked on Market Street in San Francisco, and they stole it. They stole the truck, and so she what do you think she did? Call the police? You know, the ones that she hates and marches against and wants to defund. And she wants to defund. There's no mincing words when you look at her social media posting.

She does not think police should exist. So I don't understand what she thinks, which you would then do in this situation, but she did, so she called him, and shockingly, San Francisco police don't really see it as a priority. It's almost as if they're wildly overwhelmed and unmotivated, because when they rust somebody then they just get out. So she called the police. She calls the police, and they

didn't solve it immediately. So she is on a digital tirade over the fact that the police have not immediately located or stolen possessions. Quote, I haven't found my stuff. The cops didn't do anything, So I can't read the words. She wrote, U Haul maybe file an effing police report. There's cameras all over the city, but they haven't done anything. I just want my stuff back. So then she posts and some of you're gonna laugh when you hear this, and then you'll laugh if for those of you who

don't immediately, you'll get it after I explain it. So she starts posting on social media videos wearing a mask, by the way, shooting a video in her house wearing a mask. Hey guys, if you see a twenty six foot U haul truck with Arizona plates, would you let me know? Because it had like everything I own on it. I think you mean in it. So a twenty six foot U haul, which is a very popular size with

Arizona plates. You say, that's funny. And if you don't know why that's funny, I'm gonna let you in on something a little fun fact. Do you know that all U hauls are registered in Arizona. It's just that they picked that. I'm assuming that's obviously the from a licensing your vehicle standpoint, It's probably the cheapest, so they went with Arizona. Of fact, I believe that is the reason I was reading about a one time, So good luck

fishing through all of those. But that also points to what the police are up against because all they know now they don't have a plate number in this other part here, so that's gonna be more helpful for the police. But you know, for people telling people to look for a popular sized U haul with Arizona plates, good luck with that. Then she got mad at you haul. Here we go it was stolen. Your know and market and fun fact you haul? She tagged them doesn't put GPS

on their trucks, and thieves know this. So I don't know if she's implying that you haul once their trucks stolen or or what.

That's pretty smart. Yeah, and yeah, you can use them for You could use them to lowjack your kid if they're not paying attention, Oh, why'd you say you were Billy's house when you were at the ball or whatever? So you know, if you got the U haul man, why didn't you put an air tag in there? Thrown in the glovebox? Super simple, instead of the wanting the police to go solve it and now and then they're like, well, the police know who she is, so they're doing this intentionally. I don't think so.

Arizona play man. I'm rooting for you, all right, you want to hear here we go? All right, let's hear it. Let's hear a little from Trump over the weekend. So he does the NBC Weekend Show. And I've said why, you know, and others have said why does he subject himself to this stuff. He's not going to get a fair shake. They're going to be They're going to be combative from the start. The questions will be loaded beyond loaded questions and stupid stuff, stupid stuff that's been out.

Like one of the questions this woman asked Trump is is he going to fire Christopher Ray the FBI director? Well? What do you think he nominated an FBI director? Do you think Christopher Ray just evaporates. I mean, maybe he quits. I don't know. Maybe he quits and somehow that's better for his pension. I don't know. But it's pretty clear that Trump is going to or wants to fire or have Christopher Ray not be the FBI director anymore. Yes, I know he appointed him, but a lot of us

were screaming on appointed him? What are you doing? And I think that that I think Trump after that, and then that you know, all these intelligence people signing this garbage which turns out not to be true. I guess now they got the signature, has got a hundred signatures

against Tulci Gabbard, So she obviously must be qualified. Yeah, he watched that lunacy and he watched it all play out, because everybody thought he was gone, like all right, we're done with him, and then we're just and then the and then the the punitive prosecutions and punishment started and the FBI contributed to that, and under the under Christopher Ray, Trump feels that that was a miscarriage of justice. The majority of Americans believe it was the miscarriage of justice.

If you look at the polling around the New York trial, the majority, the majority of Democrats. The difference is Democrats were okay with it. So there's two parts of that thing that were like, yeah, yeah, it is political, is what they thought. But good because I hate him, which is, you know, probably not a good way to go about things, most people think. So Trump sees this and he's personally the one that it's done to, Well, how do you

think he's going to react? It's you can say, well, it's all personal, but no, because what he's personally complaining about is a thing that's that absolutely appears to be outside of how we understand our judicial system should work. And everyone, the majority of people agree with what I just said. That it's outside of the normal way that the justice system works. It's political. The if you believe polls at all, you gotta believe that one, and it's

pretty overwhelming, so it's not even margin of error. So the reason he goes there, though, is he likes screwing with them. There's no other answer. He enjoys to their face telling them they suck, which you know, that's how some people like to. I enjoy that. I I I when I tell Tom Tillisey sucks. Absolutely I kind of did in person, which is the whole thing I talked about here on the show. The guy was just being a jerk and wouldn't even talk to me for five

seconds after we just had him on the show. So yeah, I'm happy. I'll do it. I do it every day here on the radio. It is cathartic, but it also doesn't win you a lot of friends, and you're definitely not going to be in the cool kid club, I e. The swamp. But Trump doesn't want to be, so he'll

go there. He doesn't want to cozy up to the journalists, so he'll go there and you'll have these combative interviews because I think he enjoys it, and I'm okay with that, and let's just let's hear a little of that show.

you're getting. At number one, we're doing criminals, and we're going to do them really rapidly. We're getting the worst gang probably with MS thirteen and the Venezuelan gangs the worst in the world than they're shock violent people, and you see what they've done in Colorado and other places. They're taking over literally taking over apartment complexes.

Tomorrow night to Wednesday. May be some heavier rain at times right now, especially late Tuesday night to Wednesday, and a little bit sixties, and then it'll turn cooler and Sunday finally the sun's going to come back out. I think by Thursday Friday we're back in the forties with those of the twenties. So damn start to the week, mild start, a little cooler, more seasonable late week.

and there's been some interest. North Carolina is a little different in the sense that we have obviously state run liquor stores, but Pennsylvania is one of the other states, and they also have state run liquor stores, so you could feasibly do this wherever. You could do this with either side. Sorry, pull that thing over here. You could do this with either either state run liquor stores or

not state run liquor stores. But for those of you who like bourbon, you've probably spent some time at one of the fine ABC establishments near you coming through there. Maybe you even did the thing, or you went over the clerk and you're like, hey, remember me, I'm your friend. Anything in the back, which they love because they you know, they obviously don't hear that every minute of every day. By the way, if you want it, if you want to get a lot, actually no, I'm not going to

tell you my tips and tricks. There is a way you can increase your odds. A couple of things you can do trying to find those rare bottles. And what's crazy about North Carolina is that since there's state run, if they're selling a high end bottle, they got to sell it for MSRP. So you can go. That's why you can go get a bottle of Blantons for sixty sixty five bucks or whatever. I'd say it's a little more than that now obviously, but you know it was

when Blaton's was really really hot. It was like sixty five bucks. I know because i'd i'd buy. If I saw a bottle, I'd buy it because if I didn't drink it, one of my buddies would pay me for it. And and that's kind of how it went. So but then people would get a hold of a blant and you know, you could sell a bottle of Blantins down in Georgia for like six hundred dollars. And I know this because I went into a liquor store in Georgia.

They were selling Blaantins for six hunds and I'm like, that's crazy, and the dude's like, that's the that's the third one. I've sold the other two because you know, people are dumb or they really want a bottle of blends and they got a bunch of money and they're like, well whatever, it's better than me having to spend time in the store. But what it was is it was a microcosm of capitalism. But of course it's not fair.

It's not fair that there was only ten bottles of whatever the bourbon was and only ten people got it and the other people didn't. And now if they want it, then they have to pay what somebody is reselling it for, which is generally a lot higher than MSRP. So here we go. This is what they are actually proposing. And I've heard some nitwits in North Carolina. I think this is a good idea. I don't know. Maybe you think it's a good idea. You can call and tell me

that you're not a nitwit and I'm a nitwit. That's cool. That's what we do here. Are you ready? So under the proposal, there's two plans. One and it has to do with what a particular type of of liquor called allocated spirits. So allocate theory are just going to be the ones that are in short supply. All right, just read it as that. So under the what they're doing in Ohio, which merrors Pennsylvania, which mirrors Idaho. Uh is this? So if you go into a store and in Ohio,

even though they're private stores, their state, they're there. Their way in is that they're well, they're regulated by the state because that's how the state does every Well, you're regulated by us, so you're not a private endeavor. We can do whatever we want. If you went into the store and let's say that they had a bottle of Van Winkle there, right, the holy grail for some of

you I don't know, Eh, it's okay. One, you would only be allowed to buy one bottle per month, so you'd have to put your id down and they keep it on files, so then they would know what liquor you're buying, which is something that I hate about North Carolina. If you buy a bunch of bottles, so you're for tailor gaining. We got a bunch at the beginning of the year, and I gotta give you an address. F off and giving you my address. That's the dumbest thing. And it said, way we got to protect from the

bar's doing it. Well, maybe you maybe you shouldn't screw the bar so hard? Have you guys thought of that? You doults anyway, So not only would you be on the list, but here's the thing that just got my blood boiling. You ready, you would be required to open it at the store. What one? Now you have an open container in your vehicle. Now, it's not illegal to transport. H I shouldn't say this. I don't know in North Carolina if it is most states it's not. I never

I would never do this. I don't think it's illegal to transport an open bottle. You just can't like have it next to you. So, like you know, with our open bottles for like tailgating and stuff, there's a big cooler that's kind of like the bar. Don't steal it. And so a lot of those bottles roll over from week to week. So I don't I I don't know, but no, what if, well, then they can't resell it for a much higher price. Who the hell are you to tell me what I'm gonna do with this thing

that I just bought. Maybe it's a gift for somebody I've bought. I've bought many people gifts that were a bottle of a decent bourbon or whatever. I got a lot of friends that are into they're into bourbon. Get them in a bottle. It's hard to find. Heck, yeah, man, give him some Colonel. I gave a bottle of Colonel here last year as a as a Christmas gift to somebody.

So no, I'm not going to crack open this bottle that I just paid for that maybe I'm gonna give us a gift, But also maybe I don't want opened right now. I know it's not going bad next week, but that's not the point of it. Not everything's fair. You can't have everything, and sometimes people are gonna be dumb luck I can't tell, I can't. Let me give

you one of the tips. If you if you're traveling and you if you're traveling somewhere very rule place, but a rule part of a populated county, because this is important. So like Yadkinville used to be my victim for a while. So if you're in a if you're if you're anywhere around a population center but on the outside of it. A lot of times, and I don't know exactly how

it works, but I've had this explain to me. When they allocate to liquor stores based on by county by county purchase, they have to allocate evenly to the stores. I don't know if that's still the case, but what you end up with is you end up with really expensive bottles of bourbon in a in an area where there's not a lot of people paying that kind of money for it. Snead's Ferry ABC a lot of times

has stuff too, So like Elkin, Yadkinville, Snead's Fair. I used to hit those all the time when they're going to the beach or going up to uh Sparta area. Stop buy and swing in there. But I'm not opening a bottle on the premises because somebody's got mad that they weren't able to get a bottle that they wanted, which most people weren't able to get because they're very small amounts of them. No government, get out of everything, man,

get out of everything. Yes, I did feel that that needed to be done today, so I did do the story. What of it already got me? Will you talk about bourbon cauz talking about government is what I'm talking about. Forget that it's bourbon. It's the idea that anything that's out there that you want, uh ross. What was the wait time for the plate? What was the Xbox or PlayStation the last release, because generally you can't get those all on day one, right, there's just a bunch of

people have to wait, right, I believe PlayStation was. I don't know what it was for the last Xbox release, but PlayStation like people, people go out and they were paying stupid money for these things and then if you wanted one, you just kind of had to wait. And then eventually, obviously the supply catches up and there you go. And while that may not do it with Bourbon, it's not the government's job to step in and go, I'm sorry, sony,

you gotta you gotta, you gotta start the thing. When somebody buys it or you you have to allocate a certain amount. Life's not fair, and government is not here to make everything fair, especially when it's on the equity side. This is not equality the government. The other thing the government should guarantee is that if you're over the age of twenty one and you walk into an ABC store, you're not gonna be thrown out because you're black, or gay or any you know, any of the other things.

That's where government sits. And even people argue that. But I'm using it as an example, not that everyone who walks in absolutely positively can have the same experience, because there is only so much of certain things. But man, the government can't help themselves. There's always a pribe. I always gonna get their nose under there. This is why the more I read stories like this, the more enthusiastic I am. If Elon Musk and crew are able to pull off the Doge thing. I mean, there's going to

be that people are just screaming bloody murder. But at the end of the day, is there less people unnecessarily, so FEMA should start. Do you know, by the way, those FEMA trailers we talked about, remember the ones that I could have organized in one segment on this show enough people to deliver all the FEMA trailers sitting there in Hickory and then nobody nobody would, nobody knew nothing. Our governor would never comment on it. Are soon to be governor didn't want to comment on it. And it

was embarrassing. There's embarrassing as people sit there in tents and makeshift shelters getting told they can't put temporary housing on their own property because of flood planes and building codes by elected officials who live there. Shut up, And those trailers were sitting there and anyone could go and see them, anyone. There were videos. Oh yeah, here's the videos of them. And we're no, you're misconstruining it, or it's the logistics of getting them up there are tough.

was it WBTV? Yeah, all right, so they were asked a question at a Wednesday presser where they acknowledged that they have them down there, and they started digging in and here's what we learned over the weekend. One. They're very sorry, They're very sorry. Apparently there was a mix up, and yeah, they were supposed to get those travel trailers and tiny homes delivered up there, and they've just been sitting in Hickory. And by the way, most of them

are still sitting in Hickory as of Sunday. Here's the numbers. FEMA spokesman. Following that comment that was made, Obviously, reporters like what do you mean? And by the way, there's the same reporters who knew full well those trailers weren't there and only now got around to getting a FEMA official to comment on it. The spokesperson for FEMA apologized in response to the question about why the agency failed to deliver dozens of travel trailers and actually it's more

than dozens. It's a one hundred and three. Believe why the agency failed to deliver these trailers to North Carolina residents displaced by Helene, And then we started getting into the numbers. According to FEMA, the goal was to deliver the one hundred and three temporary travel trailers by the end of the week, so it was Wednesday. They asked a question. They said, they're going to do by the end of the week, which is feasible. Remember, you could do this in a day if you got enough trucks

in a day. However, only accomplished in delivering forty six. Currently, there are five hundred families that have already received approval for one of these, and prior to them asking the question, FEMA had only delivered twenty seven. So Wednesday of last week, out of five hundred families promised these, with one hundred and three sitting in Hickory, twenty seven had been delivered. Once they got a fire lit under their butts, they

only were able to get forty six totals. And he says, so it's not forty six more, it's forty six total now and I don't know what the number is. This morning as I sit here, But that was the number from Sunden Saturday, Saturday. That's lunacy. What are you doing? You tell me you can't take a giant knife to that organization. What is with the ineptitude of these people? But Buddhaji j Ot over the weekend talking about his biggest accomplishment is spending all your money in a crap

banner and getting three charging stations built. But yeah, it's a badge of honor. And FEMA is really sorry this thing's happened. No, you know who needs to be really sorry? Yes, you because this is insane. But also all of you politicians who feasibly could have brought attention. I can scream

about on the radio all I want. If the governor is standing over there staring at the trailers as a backdrop holding a press conference, I promise you FEMA hals trailers up the hill because it's now you're on blast. At that point, you're on blast and you're and it's the governor sitting there and he's pointing at these trailers, going what the hell is this? Why are these sitting out here by the Hickory Airport for anyone to go see you?

now because things not going well down there. This is why people want things like doge not the coin, the office or the advisory Council or however they position this thing. And then I saw nit go well, it won't be an actual government office.

You just think about one hundred different agencies and organizations out there that can essentially subjugate you in some way, and currently that number is more than three times that. I don't know that they'll get there, but there's lots of fat, lots of fat, and it's demonstrated every day. But the big takeaway the way that they wrote this

article is FEMA is very sorry. What was crazy is how upbeat this FEMA official was at the start of the Q and a. And then when that question got asked and they kind of had to fess up to it, the whole thing changed. The follow up question, there could be five hundred of these because I remember they said that they've had five hundred families, so you're saying there's five hundred of these. Eventually it could be given out. And the FEMA media relations specialist le Tenga Hope said,

here's the beautiful part about it. The answer is yes, and we've done even more so we can handle it. Apparently you can't. If I can, if I could band together a group of good old boys to do it in a day as an idiot on the radio, and it would be done correctly by the way, be done correct, and it would be correct and people would be polite and helpful, and they'll probably be hugging each other when it all got done, and then they'd all have a little sweet tea together or something, I don't know, be

a wholesome moment. And if I could accomplish that with one segment on radio and a bunch of used to up patriots. You're telling me you can't get those things up the mountain, even after you've apologized, you can't accomplish it after you've been put on notice. I'm sorry, I know I'm ranting on this. It's just mind blowing to me. And then you try to spin it as a positive thing, but you're very sorry. Nobody's buying this, and really the gutting of some of these agencies can't come fast enough.

Will there be stops along the way where maybe we cut something we shouldn't, I'm sure, but let's begin. We'll be back and it's only Monday, so we'll rock and roll with that. But luckily it does not preclude us from talking to Ray staging from the weather right, albeit just really differently. So, is there any any of the Bowl games announced you're really pumped about because I saw some you know, State plays ECU, which and then it's

also the first game of the season next year. So I think some people are feeling like, oh, they wanted something different, especially guys who like to travel to Bowl games like I did. I've played right first state to Jacksonville, but enough to travel to Annapolis, Maryland. Where'd you?

to east the upper fifties today. Tonight we stay in the fifties basically, with another dose of rain coming in and scattered showers around Tomorrow, some fog in the morning, even milder as we go mid upper sixties Tomorrow night and to Wednesday there could be some heavier rain, maybe a couple of inches, and by Wednesday evening seven o'clock we could have anywhere between one and three inches between today through Wednesday, yeah, so you So it comes at

around though, so we're not looking at a flash flood threat obviously in the western parts of the state case seed Yo, certainly they don't want to see any flooding.

Where people who are traditional uh traditional how do you say? Comic book readers are are a lot more money is go into the Japanese you know, manga or whatever. I know nothing about it. I'm sorry. If you like it, that's that's good on you. I think some of it's a little weird, but you know what, it's not. It's not woke, right, they're not woking up that stuff, And so I understand why people gravitate. You got Superman lecturing

Batman about his rich white guy privilege. Shut up. Do you remember this is the same guy who wanted Batman to go broke for social justice. These are the people, by the way, who are also sitting there cheering when CEOs get assassinated. And you can't convince me otherwise. And by the way, what a weird twist on that story. Do you see what they say he had in that backpack, which some people don't think it's a backpack, but I don't know. Maybe monopoly money was full of monopoly money.

What's what's with that? Why? Explain to me why in the world? And then I thought it dawned upon me he was gonna throw that on the body, and I think he forgot there's no other reason to have it, right, And that's how you send the message about the evil whatever you know the evil you know the evilness of the insurance industry, the evilness of CEOs, the evilness of whatever. You know your message is, and you throw the monopoly money it it obviously it's fake money, but it also

you're a monopoly see you get it. I think that's probably the direction they were going. I don't know. We'll theorize in a moment. Let's get to Jeff Bellinger from Bloomberg News. How you doing there, sir?

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speaking of Trump? Do you see the colognad that he did with Jill Biden's Yeah no, no, I did.

stand being around him. But all the other photos are like him talking to the both of them, and they're all smiling, although Jill's smile looks a little suss as they as the kids say, and so what does Trump do? He takes that photo of them looking animal. He's telling him something and he says, here are my new Trump perfumes and colognes I called him fight Fight Fight because they represent us winning great Christmas guests for the family

go to whatever. The website is Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and the tagline in the ad or over the pictures you see the bottles of Fight, Fight, Fight, and it says a fragrance your enemies can't resist. I'm sorry, that's funny, man, that's funny. I'm sure they be very upset, and they're upset to She's like, oh, you called her enemy. He probably wants her execute. Well, she called him hitler.

Don't buy him if you don't want them. Every time this guy sells something, they lose their crap, whether it's uh uh, the coins, right, remember the coins are making fun of them, which, by the way, they don't think anything to do with those coins. The first ones. He just kind of he tweeted about them. Whatever. People are lunatics, but you don't know what's going on around you, dude. I saw I saw a number. I'm gonna be delicate here. I saw a number that blew my mind, all right.

One the story is this is a this is becoming very popular among gen z and that is choking and and you know what I mean by that in a private manner if you catch my drift right, and doctors are very worried. But there's a stat in this story. I don't know why all the twenty somethings want to strangle each other while they're hooking up, but whatever, there's obviously danger there. And then I'm hit with this stat.

They estimate that a thousand Americans die every year from choking themselves when they're this is actually doing alone time all choke yourself. Well they're doing it. That means and I broke this down. If a thousand Americas, a thousand people walking around you annually choke themselves to death with no pants on, that means that if you base allocated on population, that that would account for about thirty or no, no,

it would be more than that. What do we have about fourp I guess we have about four percent of the population in North Carolina. They were talking dozens and dozens of people, which means those are the ones who get it wrong. What is you got to build an apparatus? What is it if you need a rude Goldberg machine talk to somebody? Holy cow, man, a thousand people. That means somebody you know that's that is in danger for that. I don't know if the Internet did that to us

or what. Man, it's only when you get it real wrong and you're famous, do you hear about it? You know, a little little carroting action, little Hutchins action. But nah, there's a thousand people in the US who kill themselves this way. I just feel like we would have heard about it. That's all I'm saying. Again, trying to be delicate here, but holy crap. Sometimes you just see a number and you're like, that can't be right. But also it would be something that's probably pretty easy to tallally

to whatever the coroner says. And if you show up and the guy's got, you know, a bunch of like belts hanging off the ceiling. I add that one of the added the stack. So there you go. All right. Sorry, sorry, there's things you learned that you just didn't want to know. Did you know that? Also on YouTube just announced they're

demonetizing AI adult video tutorials. Apparently there's a whole cottage industry of YouTube creators that just show people how to make AI adult films, and YouTube had to step in and demonetize it. I'm telling you, there's everything on the Internet.