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to go with the dress, by no one. She was naked, just walked up on the I guess she was wearing like a fur overcoat, and then boom, here it is. So there's that everywhere. I don't know. It's not gonna make me watch. I know you think, oh, well, yeah, hey, maybe somebody's gonna show up not wearing anything. Don't care. Obviously it's everywhere already, so I don't even know if anybody wanted anything. Did they give awards out? I'm sure

they did. Oh. Actually, I think I saw Beyonce happy about something, so maybe they gave her an award, don't care. Didn't see it. Ross didn't see it. I have no idea what happened. I just know that Kanye West Chick didn't wear it. He clothes and that was a bridge too far for Hollywood, considering everything, the number of people that have showed up on that red carpet and had

a quote unquote wardrobe malfunction. Are you any less naked if it takes place in a split second, knowing that there's a thousand cameras that'll catch it, put it on the internet, and you've achieved your goal. At least she's honest about it anyway, it which is good because it was that last night and then they had like an employee holiday party, and I guess it's better that somebody showed up naked the Grammys versus the iHeart Company holiday party.

No offense to any of the coworkers, but these were the Grammys. You can be like, it's just Hollywood, be in Hollywood. Although this was a little too much for Hollywood. And while all of that was going on, we finally had a question answered kind of, and the question was, when you evaluate the election cycle that you just went through, that you lost the presidency, the Senate, and the House, a few governor's races, and obviously some of those seats

flipped over on the Senate side. As you evaluate that, and you tried to reconcile what message the voters may have sent you and you didn't let him have a primary? If you're the Democrat Party, are you really able to gauge what the problem was or I guess was in this case, Well, it's your you know. They do a

little round tap. It's about fifteen of the candidates that are kind of the the front runners, if you will, So they're gonna they're gonna come up and kind of like a Miss Universe pageant, tell you why you should vote for them. So let's go ahead and hear from

She didn't win. This woman didn't win, but she was one of the finalists, just to be clear, so she had been filtered through everything else up to this point so that she could, as part of this whole process, explain why she should be running or at the very least co running the Democrat Party.

in here, even if Biden forced our hand. But to make it infinitely worse, we're gonna go and we're gonna find a vice presidential nominee and openly discriminate against one, probably because he's Jewish, and that nominee will have even more insane ideas than even our presidential nominee, who is greatly unpopular, and he will have honed them within this quasi Democrat party in Minnesota known as the DFL, which I have seen rapidly change over the years because I

really started in this business covering them. It took me to just say Democrat was kind of a switch for me when I came to North Carolina. No, because it was always DFL in Minnesota, which stands for Democratic farm and Democrat farm and labor is all it stands for. And so you have this ideology that she's clearly expressing, not realizing that labor has left you for a large part of labor has left you, having the teamsters come over for Trump and various others, having the working man

if you will, over for Trump. That's not It's clear that the ideals of a Democrat known as a DFL in Minnesota. We're very unpopular on that ticket. He did nothing to boost it, and the Minnesota Democrat Party is so outside what a lot of people are claiming as normal. So what did you do? Well, they didn't elect her, Okay, that didn't happen. They went in a different So they took the chair of the DFL party from Minnesota. That's right, that is the new head of the Democrat Party. Let's

see here. Democrat members gathered Saturday to finalized selection of Minnesota Democrat Farmer Labor Party chairman Ken Martin. In an interview with New York Times after his win, Martin stated, this is great that the issue isn't the policies but

the messaging and the brand problem. Yeah, that's right. The policies, we support all of the things, the open border stuff, the messing with kids stuff where you have doctors that he's eight, but he can't do anything legally other than tell us after a lot of discussion with his mom, who is a little weird, that he's ready to transition, and that was a bridge too far. The women's sports stuff was a bridge too far. We have polling, we have interviews, we have people who literally work for the

party who've come out. So the chair of your party just said that all of these policies that drove record number of minority voters over to Republicans and kept people home or had them voting third party or splitting tickets, you end up with districts like Ocasio Cortes or she won in New York City and Trump did better. Right, Trump overperformed. He didn't win her district, but he did better than her. Even that's because you've alienated people. All right, Well,

that's who you gave the top spot to. Clearly you want to make sure that they have somebody astride them that balances this maybe takes a little more of a populous message, so you can say, all right, well, that guy's gonna be in charge. But these other people who are up in the main room, so to speak, though, though, keep us on the straight and level and maybe, just maybe we'll figure out how to get voters back. Do you guys do that? Are you ready to go on the offense? Oh?

this bullpen of Harris social media people. You saw the picture, it's you know, what is there twenty some that were sitting there and they were getting lapped by three dudes who were also running their own accounts and doing other stuff, who were just when they decided something was funny and want to post it or they thought it was useful, they'd get it up there. I mean, don't get me wrong. There obviously was coordination there, but it was so much looser.

And so the vice chair you've already you've already decided that the chair is going to represent the essentially your vice presidential candidate's politics, which nobody liked. You made that person your chair, and now your vice chair is an extremely unlikable except with the super fans David Hogg. Do you think David Hogg represents people under thirty? You know why you were hemorrhaging those A lot of them were

white males. You've come out and you've blamed them because they've never known any other thing in their quasi at least will say adult lives, but I also mean older right when you get into high school. They've never known anything in their life except they're to blame for everything. And Hogs all in on that. That seems that seems crazy to me, Like I at least understand why the Democrats in North Carolina have the what Anderson Clayton or

whatever his name. She's young, and yeah she's she's super into it, but she doesn't carry that baggage she may now although there is you know, Democrats won the governor's race. David Hogg just doesn't. It's nothing. He feels out of touch or maybe he doesn't get it. He clearly is defined who he is. He does the power fist on the stage, he just looks so sad doing it. It turned into a meme that people made fun of. So while all of while Kanye's lady's walking around and no

clothes and ihearts having a holiday party. The Democrats are doubling down on what they just did, and they're they're quoted saying it so David Hogg and Minnesota Democrat politics and no admission that they need to perhaps take a look at why they lost some voters. Republicans had to be ecstatic over the weekend. Although today's news cycle won't be that, there will be one word in it and it will be ominous, and that word will be tariffs

and we'll talk about it next hang on. So yeah, so that that whole uh who's the chair, who's the vice chair and some of the others over it, that that went honestly not how I expected. And then firmly on the record as policies are not the problem. Branding is and that is the ground game that Democrats are gonna wun are going to run And okay, all right, we'll see how that goes, and who knows, maybe if it's the same policies, but they just don't talk about them.

We just you know. But kind of that's what Kamala tried to remember. She they didn't want to talking about policies. They're like, what about uh, let's see joy. Could you talk about joy? You could talk about okay, great, And that didn't work. But what I firmly believe, I actually believe that David Hogg would be the vice chair. But I thought what they would do is they'd kind of

they'd McConnell it up. So they get a party chair that seems kind of old school, not really exciting to younger folks, but not toxic, and it would probably leave

some Democrats grumbling. And then you get Hog in there in the same way he kind of had like Pelosio Casio Cortes, right, Pelosi was very good from a leadership position, and yes, even though she represented San Francisco and it was very progressive in her ideas, people just saw as one of the old guard and there's a certain comfort there. And then you have the younger person. But you doubled

down on Minnesota Democrat politics. You went on records saying the policies aren't a problem, and then you attached to David Hogg. That guy's they a still picture of David Hagg, even if you don't have to listen to him, inspires your enemies to donate against you. Whether he's standing there in his ill fitting suit with his power fist in the air that I'm not allowed to interpret is a Nazi thing, even though we can accuse Elon of that, and you think that's going to be a win, I

guess we'll wait and see. Speaking to Elon this dude over the weekend, he's dropping all sorts of Doge stuff. He had an investor's meeting where he had to speak about some of the project's Tesla's working on. And now people can track this stuff so they know when the meeting happened and when he spoke, and literally you can there's like a footprint of it on x Twitter. So's he's posting a cat meme, he's you know, he's writing

other stuff. You can see this little gap, or he stops meme posting, which is when he spoke to investors, and then it starts up again. All right, So as Doge does their thing and Trump does his things, all of his things, which we'll cover on the teraror front here in just a moment, as you can imagine the idea of this, you know, heye send an email with the word quit to go ahead and quit you know, the same way you opt out of mailing lists, or you can get eight months severance, or you can simply

come back into the office. Federal workers are in a bit of a state, and I understand that, right, But it's when you have a bunch of stuff that clearly is is showing no return on investment and you never do anything about it. Eventually, this day was going to come and you just you hope that they're judicious in the way that they do it. I don't welcome people potentially losing their jobs or maybe even you know, a lot of government jobs. You there is transition available for

open positions, and they'll even pay for training. But it's gonna happen. So what's happening a resistance quilt?

I don't know if you've heard this. Child care is very expensive, and she was going to have to put her kids in childcare if she actually return to the office for a job and She said that with her face on camera and said where she worked. And I'm like, I don't think you're you're contributing positively to your argument here, because everyone who sees that, just like that poll that caused poor Ross's brain to have to turn on this morning, tells everyone you aren't doing your damn job.

that as well. So arguably there's second job, the kids and the resistance quilt.

the end. You would have been more accurate, and you would have saved time, either your time or my times as a paid worker there if you just wrote hold the l because that's clearly what democrats chose to do with their officer hearing whatever, with their new chair and CoA chair. So sorry, just trying to save you some time there. Meanwhile, what's Trump doing tariffs? That's all you're gonna hear about today, all the crazy headlines. Let's see here. Oh not on New York posts, they just have naked

pictures of Kanye's chick over and over. But if you go to like Ril or something, top of the page, here we go. Trump's tariffs spark trade trade warfares North Carolinians racing for rising costs. All right, how many of you were panic buying syrup today?

you got to look at it the larger scope. China's the only one that makes me nervous. Let's face it, China is willing to starve their own people to reform their government to death, tens of millions more than Hitler could have accomplished in four lifetimes. If the math is mathing, Okay, they're willing to do that. They're willing to take part

of their population and effectively make them slaves. And then, just as an extra ignoring of history, a large part of them literally harvest cotton, talking about the Wigers folks and then openly sell it as a qualifier for the brand. So if you go on Chinese shopping sites, and not just the America facing ones, but the other ones. One of the ways that they will tell you that wool or cotton is better is it is Weiger sourced, because I guess slaves do the best over there, or quasi slaves.

And in fact, it became so rampant that when people started shopping on like Timu and some of those other Chinese sites, they would get mocked for it. So when they put it they translated to English, they'd remove it, but then they'd put little code words in because buyers still wanted equality, buyers still wanted the good stuff. So China, China most definitely is interesting because we do get a lot of stuff from China. They get a lot of

our ideas. I'm sure they'll still be importing those for free, well whatever costs to steal them. But with Canada, I make the maple syrup choke. But there are there is some stuff. It is not a non existent portion of our economy. And yes we do buy a lot of energy from them, but a lot of that is due to the fact that we positioned it so that previous presidents who wanted to show that the US was not in the drill, Baby drill, as a rebuttal of Republican wants and needs. It was happy to let Canada do

it and then just pop it down here. It's really why a lot of this pipeline stuff was so important because of the way we positioned it. But it's not as though we can't backfill it. But it will take a little time, and we do get a lot of lumber from them. These are all true. We get cheese from them too, for some reason, which Wisconsin is never

happy about and they always wind about. My point is Canada gets a lot from US and Mexico, or I should say we get a lot from them per se, and it is a big part of their economy, so they financially get a lot from US. And I don't mean it's a little part. I mean it's double digits, twenty thirty percentile. So Chuck Schumer can do as much as he wants with the well.

eat a lot of avocados, avocado toast, guacamole. Rost doesn't need a lot of ado avocados, but Americans do.

to China. But for Mexico it's a substantial part of it. So if Trump want, if you want to go toe to toe with him, and he feels that's another piece of leverage, that would be absolutely devastating for you.

be the story of the day. Unless I don't know, buckets more crazy find their way, which isn't impossible. Oh and I was just gonna go the caller who's a federal worker, and he says he's fine to go back. But did he say whether he made a quilt patch. He probably didn't if he's calling this show all right, six forty nine Cacoday Radio program. A lot of federal positions require you not to I am aware. Yeah, that is the other thing too, and I don't know how

it works for all of them. There are federal positions that you are expressly prohibited from having a second job for I don't even have beef. If somebody's got it like a second like if they drive uber on the side, whatever, I don't care. But it's when you're complaining about it or it's openly going to be a problem for you that most Americans are like, well, wait a sec, I can't work a job in the middle of my job. But you're not gonna get sympathy from people. All right,

let's do this. We'll take a break and let's see here. Oh sadly, we do have some additional North Carolinians in this case on the military side involved in that plane crash. All update you coming up next here on the CaCO Day radio program. The Netflix WWE thing's going well. So I didn't watch did you watch it? Russ? You don't watch any of that, do you anymore? Even though it's on Netflix now? Yeah? So sore they're thing of the royal rumble in Indianapolis. Holy cow, man, So that's working

out on the sports front of that. I don't know if they're gonna work out. How many of you are Dallas Mavericks fans this morning? I'm sure we got a few in the audience. You doing okay? I yeah. I even said this on the radio the other day when I was looking at the ratings that the NBA has, which have taken an absolute nose dive. I think they're off like forty percent from just a few years ago. And I wonder why that is because they still have

big players. Right, there's even if you don't watch basketball very much, they're still like you, you know, the guys, And so when I saw this trade that happened, I had some questions because I thought Luka Donsik was pretty good. And I know I mispronounced that. I don't care, but

you're Dallas Mavericks. You didn't tell anyone, and then you just took the face of your franchise and a couple other big names U. Kleeber and then who is that Morris was the other one for and then you trade him to LA for ad Anthony Davis, Max Christian I think a first round pick in a few years, not the next one, but in a couple of years. Well, Utah is tied into this thing too, but but like, holy crap, like is there there wasn't a player with

a bigger name for the Mavericks. And that all because you want to go to a defensive team, which okay, it's not really the NBA right now, but maybe it's a winning strategy. I know, you guys got smoked by the Cavaliers last night after this thing became public, and now the Lakers are gonna have all that. Oh you know what I was just thinking, is Bronie gonna start anymore? Mister?

Averaging point four points per game? Or Bronni or whatever however you pronounce his name Lebron's kid, so keep write articles. Look it's father and son on the court, and it's like, yeah, the son isn't doing anything, and I think he just went two of eight on his on a good game, and uh, he can't shoot free throws or guard or assist or rebound. So I I don't know. I wonder if it's you think it's bait, maybe to see how long you get get Lebron to hold on so you

get another ring. I don't know the answer to that.

I don't know, if you remember you remember how much they were ragging on him, and then the dude who plays for Denver, but ESPN can't hate him enough because I feel there's a racial component there. So they just go out and they will trash talk anybody and then deliver and you just got rid of him. As Ross said, it's like, you know, Josh Allen isn't here anymore, but it'll be fine. Our defense is better.

week so badly. The other two hosts were sitting there and didn't say anything, and you could tell we're very like, oh my gosh, is he saying this right next to us? Not quite wheeling the chair out of the camera frame, but definitely wanting to. It was very interesting to watch Sadly. More and more North Carolinians find themselves attached to the plane crash. I think they've identified fifty some fifty eight. I don't know what the official number is of the

folks who were on the commercial airliner. The final name of the military aircraft, Sadly is a woman from Durham. Army Captain Rebecca Lobeck was in the helicopter when it crashed into the American Airlines flight on Wednesday outside of Reagan Airport. Let's see, where's the other names? Here we go. Staff Sergeant Ryan Austin O'Hara and Chief Warren off for Sir Andrew Eves were the other two soldiers on the plane.

So for what we know, it's one soldier. Lobot grew up in Durham, played high school basketball, went to the University of the South in Tennessee. Sawanee is that what they call it? Yeah, something like that. Did r otc through North Carolina Chapel Hill, according to her family, and they actually did together. They tracked down her military recruiter here, balal Cordab, who said he was devastated when you learned the low back was one of the victims. We still

don't know. I guess the totality of what was going on. I don't even know what her mos here is she crew chief? I'm not sure there were three on that aircraft. And then with the American Airlines, the crew was Charlotte based, and you had one passenger, and I think that number stands at just one passenger who was a mother from wife from Charlotte that we told you about. On Friday, they put out a long statement here. Let's see. Let me just give you some of the highlights here. She

had a lot of cool stuff. Man quarter fifty hours of flight times, so she was pilot. She was the most experienced pilot in her battalion. I don't know specifically what capacity she was on this helicopter. She might have been the pilot, but I heard a male voice, so I don't know in that let's see. Also, she had a lot of White House events too, so a big long list here. Obviously, her family is quite devastated, but they did release this statement. We were devastated by the

loss of our beloved Rebecca. She was a right star in our lives. She was kind, generous, brilliant, funny, ambitious and strong. Rebecca began her career in the US Army as a Distinguished Military Graduate in ROTC from the University of North Carolina. Was in the top twenty percent of cadets nationwide, achieved the rank of captain, serving twice as platoon leader and company executive officer for the twelfth Aviation Battalion.

They're out of Virginia, I believe. Yeah. Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and head log four hundred and fifty hours of flight time and receive certification as pilot and command through extensive testing and the most senior and experienced pilot in her battalion. So a little bit of background there, and they talk about some of the awards and various events. But anyway, I think there's but like ten more people they still

haven't identified, which I'm sure will quickly come. All right, seven sixteen here on the CaCO Day radio program, there's a video. I'm not going to play the audio for you, Well, actually I will. Are you ready you want to hear the audio except that go on for like a minute twenty and it's not that it's new, but it's new to the internet, and I'll explain what it is. But we will tweet the video, so you can go watch it, probably not in your office, depending on where you work,

and not with the volume up real high. But it's hilarious, is what I will say. So I'll share that with you and much more coming up. Seven seventeen. Hang on a couple of little videos floating around out there. I shouldn't use the word little. That's not fair. It's cold. But now you're viral, bro, and you know, maybe, just maybe maybe don't fight people naked outside in the snow, drunk or something is good advice because it may lead to this. I do the crowd, by the way, holy cow,

spin on it. My god. No, so what what do you think they're witnessing? Just hearing that audio and the little bit of tease I gave you right there is Do you think it's just because the person's naked? No? All right, so he did have pants on kind of, but obviously they weren't fitting. And so h he gets into a bar fight. This is Canada, gets into a bar fight. It's now in the parking lot, and they're going to arrest him, but he doesn't want to be arrested.

So they do the thing where eventually they tangle with the dude, and they've got him face down, they get his hands behind his back, put him in cuffs, and now it's the part where you got to pick him up. The problem is, you know, when skin makes contact with snow and ice, just as we went and the very famous Christmas story with the tongue on the light pole. That's a thing. And it doesn't have to be your tongue,

and it doesn't have to be a light pole. It could be your uh, male part and a frozen parking lot. And so while these guys are are clowning this dude and laughing at him, and police are trying to do it, they they pick him up, and it is clear that that sticks to the ice, but the police are in the middle of picking them up. So all of a sudden it I don't have to describe this, do I. I mean it does free itself. Who and then and then they start telling him he's got a small one,

and now he himself is unhappy. He's not he's I don't know how the cops could have stopped the other drunks. I guess they could have arrested him. I don't know what they're doing. That's se eagle and yeah, I'm sorry that you got clowned and for you'll forever be frozen to the ground tiny. You know what, dude, maybe don't go back to that bar, but probably you got trespassed anyway,

so that's not gonna be an issue. But yeah, they shot that whole video and of you getting frozen to the ground in that spot and then getting clowned because you're suffering from both shrinkage as well as probably some maybe even some skin loss. You had a very bad day. This happened a way up in Alberta, Canada. So that's number one, number two, and I here's the thing I'll understand. This is the moment you see this, you realize it's internet gold. It's not great radio gold because we don't

have that many bleeps in the budget. But it's pretty wild to watch. So it was. It took place a while ago, you can tell from just the way everyone's dressed. And it's in New York. But it's one of those standsos but where sometimes you catch lightning in a jar where you're going around you're just interviewing people. A lot of times, sometimes you go interview drunks at bars in

Nashville and you get hot tooy girl. In this case, they were interviewing people that were protesting out front, out in front of Trump Tower up in New York, and it's just some New Yorkers trying to walk. Hey hey, I'm walking here in that same delivery. And you can tell he's just had enough of the protesters, right, he's just off probably to do so he's busy, he's got

something to do. And they said something and then this guy starts filming who had been doing Q and A with people, and you just get gold Man, right, he goes Oprah at one point he's like, you're a moon bat. You're a moon bat. You're a moon bat. Everyone gets a car kind of thing. But he does it in the New York style and it is amazing. But it's also in New York style, absolutely chock full of explotives like every other word. But he has the accent and well, we'll tweet it out so you can go ahead and

check that out. But it's really funny. But it's crazy. Is this guy filmed this and he was packaged it as part of a video he then upload He's not a big creator. It's a little weird. The article reads, weird. I just saw this headline large fire at funeral home in East Greenwich, Rhode Island is where this is. I was just wondering, like you, so if your family members there at the crematorium. But it's a full funeral home, so some people are cremated obviously, they just you know,

coffins for the rest, I guess. And so that broke out absolutely towards the whole place. But if you're if you were there to be cremated, does your family still get charged? Because technically it worked kind of. But now I see that the bodies that were incinerated were not awaiting cremation in an odd twist, so I guess those were gonna go standard coffin there. So yeah, yeah, those families probably are gonna get paid. So let's see here. No living people's were hurt, so there's that, although one

firefighter did get treated for smoke inhalation. But yeah, this absolutely torts this whole thing. Man, It's crazy. The actual fire broke out around four am. Yeah, I don't know the answer. Not a mortician, all right. Somebody sent me this article and I was talking about the woman from Durham who was now the identified third on the Army helicopter and they I don't know that I read as much into this, but I understand why people are paranoid.

So some folks have noticed that prior to the family officially releasing the statement Saturday, when they did it Saturday afternoon, obviously the family had been aware for some time but chose to One of the things that seems to us happened is her social media was taken down, essentially closed, they say, scrubbed. That could be. It could be a number of things. And I didn't go to her social media,

but I believe that's true. I have a question, isn't that kind of what you should do now if one of your kids, God God forbid this ever happened, but one of your kids, So now you're you know there. I know she's an adult, but they're still your kid, and they're in their twenties or they're in that social media generation. I feel like, now, if you have access, the first thing you should do is lock their social media because the internet's awful. Man, the Internet's awful, and

you just know people would have been in there. Because there's definitely a political angle to this. Digging around to see if she ever posted anything that so they'd get a bead on where her head was that or god forbid, even worse than that, if she's got some photos that people use for you know, deep fake AI porn. I have to say it because there are people out there

who will do it well. They just the whole Internet lost its mind when they introduced this shit like squirrel girl thing and immediately there was like AI adult films with her because that's that's just how the Internet internets. So I don't know. I feel like nowadays the smartest thing can do, especially if you know that it's going to be high profile. Obviously this is going to be a national story. I think you got to shut down

even if you don't know what's on there. You don't have to necessarily delete it, but you gotta lock it down because you're gonna want to go through that. And maybe you don't want to go through that, Maybe you do, that's up to you the family. But like, honestly, if there was this, is there a setting And I don't know how it gets triggered. Man, I don't want on my social media up after I'm gone. Also delete all

my hard drives just in case. But I don't know how you attach that to something like your own little failed safe device, sa if I don't log in in twenty days, lock it down without you know, giving your family access there. People are still making jokes about the poor man in this it's shrinkage. It's cold outside. Oh,

I do have a question. Would you rather be the Canadian man who fought naked in the parking lot and then was placed face down in cuffs and went picked up a certain part of his body attached to the snow and got all stretchy manned and then and then people made fun of it. Would you rather do that?

Or have been at the DNC's nominating committee for their chair and vice chair over the weekend where David Hogg and the head of the Minute Soda DFL Democrats are now in charge and sat through all of that ross. You're going naked down in the snow or a Saturday with David Hogg?

a high profile case, and it wouldn't be conspiratory. The Army probably advised her that for some folks around her due to the high profile nature, said hey, you know, one of the things you may want to do is lock their social media down, because they would have It would have been a field day on that thing. You've seen literally how everything goes. And if it turns out she was specifically the pilot, you're going to have people that are going to start the gender stuff, the DEI stuff.

She's got a lot of accomplishments here and and I think the family doesn't want to go through any of that stuff. But I don't think the government did it, which is I've seen some stories sitting there literally saying that they think that's the case. And I don't know that i'd get a board of that on board with that this morning, all right, And again the news cycle most likely is going to be have the ballet's out.

America or seen they're a little opening. So days like this sometimes I would just kind of check that out. I assume they're leading with this. I assume the biggest story that they and others from a news cycle standard are going to be teariffs are going to be how everything's going to be too expensive and oh my gosh, if we've been to the grocery store, look what Trump did. And don't get me wrong, it may have an impact they if they want to drag this thing out, but

groceries didn't just get expensive. And he's not wrong on the fennyl stuff. And as we pointed out earlier in the show, this is a huge slice of both of their economies, their trade economies for them, not as big of a slice for us. Noticeable, you know, almost two percent. Not something that goes unnoticed. So we'll see, all right, seven forty three. We got ray stagic creeping up on forty four there from the Weather Channel. What's up sporting? Yeh,

I don't watch tell you Monday. I don't know if it's good, but you know, nothing you're gonna do that's Monday. You know you're not gonna be here next week because you're accurate. That's right.

but most mid upper sixties today. Got a little cloud around this morning from go about Johnson City, Tennessee, right across the Triad and the Triangle heading toward Greenville to the south, near Fayetteville points south, there's a little more sunshine, but we're all going to get into the sunshine later today.

A beautiful Monday, close to fifty Tonight Tuesday gorgeous, lots of sunshine, low to mid seventies, and then Wednesday, maybe a little rain into Wednesday night highs only in the mid upper fifties, which is still at or slightly above average, and then that wedge'll break and we're gonna get into maybe a little rain for Thursday, but very mild to the mix of clouds and sun middle to maybe upper

seventies and then back in the sixties on Friday. All these temperatures except Wednesday well above average, and as it said, we may be in record territory. The records are probably more like eighty or eighty plus for this time of the year, but still casey for this time of year so far. The groundhog, at least the official.

take a trip to guys. It's not gobbled, it's Gobbler's Knob, right, I always screw this up. Dixville Notch for the early voters. The only things I know about the New England. Oh and Boston fans, but that's a whole other thing. So it's Dixville Notches where they vote. Gobbler's Knob is where they use the road and to predict weather inacturately, I might add, No, he's the corporate shill. Well who wait, who's Puckstaddie working for Big what fake Browner?

a question by Peter Doucey at Friday's press conference. Let me just jip you a little audio from that. Here we go. President Trump is telling us that air traffic control towers are staffed with unqualified controllers, these DEI hires who never should have been brought on. Then it's not safe flying produ is.

and I'd be like, no, he probably doesn't. Nothing. He's doing as natural as people are chanting outside of his fake hole his name, which he doesn't comprehend. He's just like, what's going on outside? Maybe there's food outside. Let's see what's going on. They doesn't see food, or he does see food. I think it's rigged, like the NFL. But

we'll see. But yet again, in this article, second paragraph, Pukstani Phil made famous by the ninety three Groundhog Day, and now Ross was at least in proximity to this thing growing up in New York. Hey, whyoming I knew about this damn thing. We call it rock chucks. Sometimes we shoot at him, but we don't use them predict our weather. They didn't have a mule. They did it for a while though, and he died.

not just Pennsylvania thirty five percent. That might get you in the Hall of Fame in baseball if you hit three fifty. But it ain't like that's no good. That ranks him seventeenth. Yes, they went and they study the one or no, was it all one hundred or was it fifty? They studied like the top fifty. Yeah, here we go, top fifty famous groundhogs. So and uh, Pucksitani's bat in three fitty. Now stat Island Chuck, which is

not the one that DiBlasio killed. This is this is one that probably heard his fellow Forest Rodent weather forecaster scream out in in pain as he died. But but he's you know, he's a ferry ride away. So Statn Island Phil is Batten eight fitty, which I may throw that back at Ray. Is Ray correct? Eighty five percent of the tie. I guess it comes down to what

all he's doing is roughly when when winter will go away? Well, what is I don't even have your methodology in here, by the way, I did look it up, Ross, I was wrong. Do you know how long old Phil's been working there in Pennsylvania. I thought it was early nineteen hundreds, eighteen eighty seven, So we've had one hundred and fifty years almost of him, and he's got thirty five percent,

right stat Island. Chuck ain't been around as long, but he's got eighty five percent, and he's been over I think they had to be doing it for over fifteen years to make this. So he's he's leader. You guys should trade for him in the middle of the night and not tell your fans his shows that one day, here's Chuck just hanging around in Pennsylvania. People of Staten Island are devastated. You're gonna go get one of those octopuses that picks the World cup or whatever. Everybody's got a thing.

of those days. Or maybe you just maybe you just want to sit back and watch cartoons or something all right, So I mentioned earlier in the show that Musk is tweeting and Doge is tweeting a lot of stuff, a lot of cuts. And one of the things they put out was a chart and it showed one point two billion. There we go. One point two billion in just DEI programs the savings cut and it covered all the different from Department of Bag to personnel management, which was the biggest.

I think it's about a half billion because they do most of the governmental training and just everything under the sun. But when he tweeted it out, he tweeted this, and I think it's this is a really really I mean, you knew the deficits obviously insane, and their goal is to take it from two trillion to one trillion, and the hope is that the one trillion is chewed up

by economic growth, which got'd be crazy. Do you know how much they'd have to cut every day in all right, So this is the cut is facing twenty twenty six projected spending. So they don't even have the number per se yet, but they kind of know what it is. So between now and twenty twenty six, so every day of this year, doze or somewhere in the government Congress could do this as well. Has to cut four billion

dollars a day. So even that list that he put out on hey, here's all the DEI cuts we made on Friday or whatever the day was, is still only twenty five percent of what they have to do every single day between now and January first to twenty twenty six. It's a really heavy lift. And this is the easy stuff, right, this is the DEI programs. You got to face to it,

you know what it is. As soon as they start making hard cuts or cuts that are not as easily explainable, right, they'd be fine if they could sit you down and go, look, here's why we're cutting this. This is insane. But it'll have a cute see name, It'll have a nice name, like you know, and they'll be, oh, that's for the kids. And now you're cutting the stuff for the kids because you want kids to die of cancer. And the media

will absolutely take this one by one. So I don't know, you're going to see extreme pushback on the DEI stuff. I think they've already had their tantrum. But this is the easy stuff, and they keep posting it. I appreciate the transparency Must went on to say, is cautiously optimistic though reach the four billion dollars per day twenty twenty six reduction goal, and then gave credit to I knowne

of this to be possible without to Donald Trump. And he's doing this while he's doing shareholder meetings and posting memes and dominating Diablo. So again he's he's a freaking cyborg man. Uh must want on to write all right, hold on? Obviously there will be extreme opposition from the grifters, and they will make it sound like we're cutting funding to save baby pandas. I have a question, are we

spending money to save baby pandas. I'm not diametrically opposed to pandas, but we don't have pandas that live here, not We don't even even the ones that come visit or owned by the Chinese government. Maybe we had a few like grandfathered in pandas, But then where are the baby pandas coming from? Because all I see you guys doing is send, you know, spending an an ordinate amount of money to make like panda porn and panda aphrodisiac so you can get the one over at the zoo too.

Hookup is that what you mean are we sending money to China for baby pandas, which god knows how they're using it. And by the way, that check better not come up. Short. Zelenski whining over the weekend because his hundred billion or his hundred he thought he was getting one hundred and seventy seven billion, and he only got a hundred billion. And now he's like, what happened to the money, which is a good question, right, did it leave the treasury at one hundred and seventy seven but

processing fees and uh, what interests chewed it up? Or he just thought he was gay. It sounds like he thought he was going to get that and he didn't get it. But it doesn't mean he still won't get the other seventy seven. He just didn't get it in time. And maybe it's because the Trump administration. It's like, no, we're we're looking at everything right now. But the audacity Ross, I'm gonna give you a hundred and fifty billion dollars. You're okay with that? Give you a hundred and fifty billion?

You like that?

so jokes on me, all right? Eight seventeen, Hang on going after China, Canada and Mexico, and when you do the analysis on this stuff, we can get calls to if you want eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. When we when we look individually, China is the outlier. I mean, obviously that would have a

huge impact on China. So much of what gets sold here in the US, and a lot of it is just garbage, right, I'm gonna be ordered so on the internet, it's only eight cents for this snow shovel or whatever, and then it shows up and a damn thing just breaks. But people buy it. And there's a lot, a lot, a lot of stuff that's manufacturing in China by American companies. So yeah, and China has shown a willingness to literally murder their own citizens if it fits with the party's

policy there and what they're wanting to do. So if Ji Jinping there gets he wants to get into this match with Trump, he'll literally starve part of his population

at least funding from them to accomplish it. Because everything's about a representation of power with those cats, They're not gonna do what the Colombian president did and issue a press release in the morning saying you'll fight till the bitter end, only to uh turn around later in the day and acquiesce on the point China won't do that. Tell me if this sounds like a good thing. China's quote they have quotes artificial sun fuels, Western fears it

has lost race to energy, holy grail. So China they're kind of I'll explain why they're calling it the sun. But still, I don't know, man, this every time I've seen anything like this in a movie, it it, you know, some super energy like the well, the Death Star, I guess would be one. What was the what was the latest thing called that was able to be thwarted by like five people, two of them elderly, the big super

weapon anyway, Eh, yeah, and it never ends. Well, so I don't know, but we'll give you the details of what they're talking about and uh speculate what they might do with it. You're gonna be hard to laser us directly because you know you're here and you'd have to bend in. It's a whole thing. But I don't know. One of those bad boys on the moon, I'm not too sure. Brian looked.

But they've got tariff on them out and now everybody's stopping it because going to do it, you have you.

companies from selling into their markets in certain instances. So you know that's that's that's a huge deal right there. So I agree with you. I want the Trump admen, but what does that look like?

that's that's why I' putting it out there. Thanks for the call there, Brian, appreciate it. Janet, thanks for hanging on. What's up?

a conspiracy. But I don't know. I feel like, at the very least, you can't just leave it out there, especially in a high profile situation like that, because people are going to be digging in it, They're going to want to make political points, weirdos on the internet are going to find pictures of her, and god knows. So I was just pointing out to people like, maybe for the family's sanity, that's what they decided to do. Maybe

they don't even want to review it. I don't know, but you were saying you could completely identify and I think the audience, if they've listened for any time, knows that your son died here last year. So what was the decision. Did you lock it down, did you post on it, what did you do?

to their daughter. So Facebook is really that's a lot to deal with when you're going through that and trying to plan a funeral and trying to grieve your loved one, and like everything comes out at once, so it's just sure, I understand the one and one last thing to deal with. I want the exact opposite direction. I took over my son's Facebook. I got to get to know, you know, the everyday little stuff that you don't pay attention to in your loved one's wife.

decision they made, then so be it. All right. So let me let me fill you in on this story real quick. Before we talked to Ray, Western governments and investors has spent much of the last week fretting about scientific breakthroughs in China. What they're talking about is that

AI thing, which that's weird, man, that whole deep seek thing. Yeah, I understand why these conspiracies around that, although it also seems not really good as many processors and everything that they have, like because they didn't it's clear that it's backbone was some some tech from the US, which is not unusual concerning the intellectual property theft that China is

known for and the constant hacking. But when at first, when they first talked about Deepseek and how little it costs and needed to run, and how much fast or powerful it was by their own claims, people start freaking out. Last week absolutely absolutely hit the stocks of some of those companies, and people want, all, right, did we lose

to them? Well, now, there are some some satellite images of this facility which looks like a big X that's in central China, and the reports are that they have somehow using lasers basically created a fission reaction, so they're mirroring what the Sun's doing. That produces more energy than it takes to create, which is that's the goal, right, That's the goal of anything or cold fusion or fission or whatever it is. And I'm not a nuclear scientist,

so bear with me. But it's like anything else, does it take more energy to produce than it produces, And once you can break that apart, it's all that's all free money, so to speak.

Are you ready, Race Agic? Yeah?

Phil is abysmal. Do you know that Pucksatani and the various versions of him going back to eighteen eighteen eighty seven is batton three point.

well he's number one. Yeah, I'm going with it. Yeah, So you think it'll be like one day the fans of State Island Chuck will wake up like Dallas Mavericks fans have this morning and realize they gave him away? What right do? What's going on?

the fifties Wednesday night, we'll see that rain continuing. And then Thursdays still a slight chance of rain, but partly sunny and milder. We're back to the seventies and the sixties Friday and even into the weekend as sixties and seventies. Casey gonna be another warm six to ten days. That's what the outlook is. I did look ahead, and I said, well, what could happen if I did want to be a long range prognosticator? Middle of the month, maybe starting to

turn colder once again. So remember it's only early February. I'm sure we'll get cold. We one or two more times.

impose tariffs on the European Union. Economists say Americans will likely to see the prices of cars, avocados, bell peppers, and a lot of other products rise as the result of tariffs. Mister Trump says any pain to consumers will be short term. Costco and the Costco teamsters reached agreement on a tentative contract agreement over the weekend, so for now, a strike against the warehouse operator has been averted. The

pact still has to be ratified. The union's prior contract with Costco expired at the end of the day on Friday. Arbucks in the union that represents workers at many of its coffee shops, maybe moving toward a contract deal. The two sides have agreed to drop their lawsuits against one another. A report from the financial modeling company First Street says the loss in real estate values resulting from climate change

could top one point four trillion dollars. This because insurance costs arising faster than mortgage payments in some disaster prone markets. The report says this could eventually drive a migration away from high risk areas in the Sun Belt. In the West, it's become a lot harder to get a bank loan if your credit is less than sterling bank rates, says banks have tightened their lending standards and almost half of the Americans who applied for loans last year were turned down at least once.

red carpet. She's got like a fur jacket thing on and then she takes it off and she's not wearing anything. She's wearing like some little sea through waste thing. But other than that, just here it is. Here's everything, and I guess police removed her. But also, and that should have dawned upon me, Kanye didn't have a ticket because he got eighty six over all that the Jewish stuff and probably some other stuff. So so they literally just

went their toatrol and then I don't really know. There's a picture of a chicken like a dominatrix outfit, riding like a full size horse, size my little pony, and I don't know who that is, and I don't want to know actually who that is. But apparently they were quite pleased with the performance. And then that's it. That's what I know about the Grammys. I'm just not waiting

for the Oscars. As we talked about where they're, you know, they're just like, hey, let's go ahead and give the most words to movie, any movie ever to send a political point to Trump, and I firmly think they'll do it.