Monday-3-25-2024

Here we are, and I heard a few things happened while we were off fighting communism and saving the world and stuff. Let's see somebody somebody prognosticated on the future of the auto industry and y'all lost your minds, and uh, let's see here, well, literally, our soldiers are being attacked. That is that a fair summation of just a couple of the things that I've tried really really hard to ignore, and for the most part, was doing a

pretty good job. Even with the Planet Fitness thing. I I kind of I sniffed what was going on, and I went, nope, nope, I'm on vacation. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, And yet still got the got the gist of the story. So look, we're gonna have to cover these things. I know they're gonna sound a little noozy to some of you who stay've completely plugged in, but I haven't

had a chance to chew on him yet. And I got some questions because you know, a lot of this stuff, especially when you're talking about backlash stuff like with Planet Fitness and whatnot, it it gets anecdotal real quick. So you kind of have to you gotta look for smaller signs of things that are going on their ways in which people are reacting. Uh, you saw

with the bud light, right, you know bud light. At first, they were gonna be gonna I'm not gonna tell you everything, right, just know that we love you, and here's a soldier in an ad and just like old times. But you know, the reality quickly became pretty obvious. And it became obvious to anyone who went to a grocery store and had eyeballs. You get on that go down that aisle where the where the beer normally be, and there's a whole lot of one and not a lot of another.

You go to a sporting event, go to a sporting event where a lot of times each concession booth is one brand oh beer, right, and so you really quickly see what the lines look like at that booth versus say another booth, And yeah, are these things anecdotal? Are they hard numbers? No? Not really, but you had up the totality of them, and it's it's pretty hard to arrive at a different conclusion. Whatever the decision

that company made not a good decision. And this planet fitness one, it seems like you know what, it seems like a test is like an act to his test. I I just wait, wait when I see the details of it. So Planet Fitness women's locker room person shaving their face in there, I have a question because I don't. I don't work out a Planet Fitness, I don't really regular gym. So, for all you Jim Jim folk out there, is that common to shave at a gym? Just in

general? Man, man, woman or otherwise? I mean, just is it is it common to shave at a gym? All right? So I'm not the only I'm not the only one with this. Like I admittedly I did utilize the gym when I played football in high school, and yes, I was even shaving then. Very I don't remember anyone ever shaving in a gym because it just seems impractical. I don't like shaving in a hotel room, do you know what I mean? All right? So, Ross, you're not a gym shaver. Ross is not a gym shaver. So I

don't like shaving in a hotel room. Even though you know, I traveled like the last week, obviously I traveled. I had my I have my razor, I have a you know, uh, I have an actual, you know, bisrazor for going around my beard and trimming that, and and then I have that I don't like doing any of that, even though arguably the outlet in my bathroom at home is not real conducive to shaving. It's in a weird spot whatever. Builder, But like so at a gym,

now you're even more crunch for time. I just don't understand that. So then I see somebody shaving in there, and I see that that kicks off all of this, and I have so many questions. So if you don't know, if you don't know the I guess the rest of the story. Well God bless you. You did better than me, because unfortunately I figured this out. But but two, I'll fill you in. I'll go over it and we'll talk about it coming out next here on the KCO Day Radio

program. Happy Monday, KCO Day Radio program. So things look log looks a little weird this morning. Tell you if things sound a little off, working hard behind the scenes. Ross is on a giant hamster wheel right now, So just know that that's happening because it's I guess it's still better than the alternative, unless you hate the show. Then this is like the worst thing ever happening to you, and for that I am truly thankful. All right, So yeah, just a couple things made me pull the old Ostrich

head out the sand. Last week. I really really thought I could by literally escaping the hemisphere or put some distance between, you know, the the news of the day and the debate that was going on. And I quickly realized that TDS is worldwide people. I mean it is, and it's fascinating. It is absolutely one hundred percent fascinating because obviously it plays out with its

own version of it. But it was fascinating to me to you know how when you're you know how, when you're in a mall or you know, some big, some big place, right you happened upon one of those signs that says you are here. Well, I was there, except there was not Argentina in twenty twenty four, you know, third week of March. There was also month, right, you know, months following the inauguration of Donald Trump and in the form of the new president they have down there,

which I make it. I make it a rule, a general rule, to not get into politics when I'm in somebody else's country, because I don't really like foreigners sticking their nose in our stuff looking at you, sorouses. So with that in mind, I don't ask for conversation. I don't volunteer stuff like that. Unfortunately, if I tell people what I do for a living, there is a higher likelihood that it's going to migrate. But I

didn't even have to do that. I didn't have to say the word roddio once, which is very convenient if you want to pronounce it in Spanish. It's just a drunken slur version of it. I didn't even have to get into that. People are people actively have a lot of opinions. And you see people who are very happy for the new president there, which not trying to hide it. And then you see others, especially in the hipper quarters.

And admittedly one of the hotels I stayed at is kind of so it's a little hipper brand, but it was price right, and it was largely priced right due to the previous presidents there because holy crap, the inflation. But people wanted to get into it and it was and it was bonkers in the the outright rejection of of what was going on is in any way, shape or form being representative of you know, people in the periphery of individuals

who were upset, like not even not even wanting to under stand. Okay, well, why why did why did my countrymen and women go out and vote for this individual? What? Well? Possibly, no, it's it's doom and gloom. It's uh if I may, it's bloodshed, isn't I kind of discussions with stuff. We're back at It took a week off.

There very important things to do. Ah, most of them accomplished. I ate so much steak by even going back to Wyoming and we got a couple there's a couple kind of interesting steakhouses in the Wyoming area, although it's less steakhousing more just around the house kind of thing. But you know, even going back there and being able to look by victims in the eyes as you do, I don't think I ate that much steak as I just ate the last week. It was mmm mm mmm mmm mmm. And I will I

will not be not thankful for that. I did find it interesting too, because, like so for those who don't know, we just we just had vacation. I've been kind of trying to cross different countries off the list, and I thought Argentina would be fun this year, and it was. I had a great time. I had a great time. There were things people told me to worry about that never really became an issue. But a lot of that's location based, and I'm a little sad I did not find a

quaint German uh Nazi village, because I know that those do exist. But what was even more fascinating, I think than than just that is the amount of like German and Italian people down there. But it makes sense when you realize that there was a lot of people and where the Germans and Italians were around World War two, and that's not the extent of the immigration down there,

but it's it's very significant. What what what what really stood out to me is Argentina thinks and this isn't a knock on them, Like Argentina has this vibe that they think they're European, if that makes any sense, And to some extent they kind of are, but obviously not. I mean, obviously they're the you know, their core functional Latin America. They just you

know, it's it's it's just really interesting. It's it's interesting where the mindset is and then to watch those mindsets kind of plugged in with the same intellectual dishonesty and intellectual turmoil that followed the twenty sixteen election. Was was kind of fascinating, right, because you're seeing all the same stuff you're seeing. Yeah, you're seeing if you can if you can read the newspapers or you know, just uh you can Google. You can google you into the Google Translate.

You could literally just hover it and then I guess the a I'll tell you what it thinks it translates to. Like you, you see stories like that about the new president. They're like, ah, here's something he's doing and it's it's just the end of the world. And then when you read what he's doing, you're like, oh, that sounds that doesn't sound like a bad idea. Maybe we should try that. So yeah, and then and then but it's all taking place in like another language. It's just so

strange, man. But uh yeah, So go for the stake, go for the tds, go for the weird cheek kissing a lot that makes you If that weirds you out, you probably shouldn't get to know local people there because saw that a lot more, a lot more than you expect. And uh yeah, you know, thumbs up two of them and I didn't get them chopped off by cartels or anything. So there you go, ask me

anything. All right, So, well that's all going on. I'm still I'm trying to just keep like a slight eye on the ball with what's going on back in the US. And I'm watching this Planet Fitness thing go, and well it's got a lot, it's got a little bud light vibes there, but the whole thing was weird from the jump, like because one who's doing a full shave session in in a in a Planet Fitness or in any gym for that matter. I mean, I'm sure some people do, and

I've you know, I've seen people shaving at golf clubs and whatnot. And fine, I guess I understand that, but it really drives the point home if you're in a woman's locker room and you have somebody who's got five o'clock shadow they're trying to handle. And so Planet Fitness in response to the woman who complained because the woman took a photo of the individual shaving. Now,

the individual is not naked in the photo. However, it was a photo that was taken inside of a locker room, and I also of the agreement that people shouldn't be snapping photos in locker rooms up until this point normally, but you've been dealing with as douchebags who want you to follow their fitness journey on their Instagram and don't care that somebody else is in there, and you get these amazing videos where they're like screaming at some elderly gentlemen who has a

problem with them filming and or making fun of them. This went in a different direction, and I understood, Look, I understand why you don't when people taking pictures in locker rooms that being said, to simply sit there and go, well, this is Look, this is about this singular issue and not what people are experiencing and how they feel about this and maybe have an adverse reaction to what is a genetic male in a locker room. And Planet

Fitnesses had incidents. They had an incident down in Georgia where it was claimed that an individual was flashing young girls in this now in the locker room, and they pretended to act like there's no nuance to any of this, and

there obviously is right. If I go into a life, I go into the boys locker room, man's locker room and I'm standing by my locker and I'm doing that quick, you know, quick thing where it's off with the jim shorts, towel around, go to the shower, come back, throw us some underwear on, some shorts, boom your dressed And yes, you know, in those in those few motions, in those few moments, is

there going to be the possibility of nudity. Absolutely, But it's far different than what we've seen in incidents where somebody goes in and is intentionally trying to show parts of their nude body, especially to miners. Right, And we're able to distinctly pick up on what somebody may be doing in a locker room setting that now falls outside of the basic understanding of how that's supposed to work.

And people have been arrested and prosecuted over then, and yeah, I can get a little sticky, what you know, because there's some people that are they embrace, they embrace the naked time in the locker room to an uncomfortable extent, but not necessarily a malicious intent, Right. They're just somebody who instead of walking with the towel around their waist to the shower, will sling it over their shoulder and you're like, all right, that's you,

that's you. You have to look at different actions, different things that were going on. And when Planet Fitness chose to ignore the concerns of what was going on in the Georgia locker room, eventually law enforcement said, no,

this is something this is something else right here. This is clearly somebody wanting to in the in the opinion of those who did the arresting and the charging and then those who did the adjudicating, this was somebody who was making it a point because they there was some sort of happiness or pleasure that they were alleged to have gotten by making sure that these child they're these children were the ones who saw full view of the nudity by this individual, and they gritted

their teeth and fought that at the time, and frankly I saw people were like, oh, I give them the bud light experience when that was going on and it never really materialized. Well here, what do they do? They punished the world. I'm who took the photo, which again you can make the argument that you don't want anyone taking photos for any reason, but also told anyone who's like, well, why is there somebody in there full

five o'clock shadow shaving in the in the women's locker room. The hell's going on? And then people ask questions, they're like, shut up, bigot, And that was it. That that was what it took for a bunch of women to get organized enough on the internet and say, uh no, we're gonna be h we're gonna be canceling memberships. And they ask they estimate that just in the first weekend that Planet Fitness lost four hundred million and that's

just based on stock valuation. Uh. And then you know, and then you have to have the the people out there, uh who are who are having to report on it but trying to do it, and they're like, well, look over here, here's a different a fitness related stock and it too is down from this week. So I don't know. And it's like, well, one it was trending down. Two, it's not even the same thing. And three it's clearly even if they're both down, one is

clearly far more down than the other. So you know, it's the same disingenuous analysis or reporting on this story. And as best I can tell, they're sticking with their policy. So if you got a five o'clock shadow and a razor and some time on your hands, and you identify as a trans woman, then as far as I can tell, Planet Fitness are like cool. You want to stand there naked at the sink, shave and do your

thing. And the response that, well, you know, anyone, any woman who would would cancel a membership over this, they just don't get it. You can hold that opinion until the end of the day. And at the end of the day, if you have four hundred million less memberships or dollars worth of memberships, it doesn't matter what your interpretation is. You're sticking with what you say is your your business's official position. Then quit pitching about

it, because now people are reacting. And frankly, if you think anyone who would who would even consider stopping their membership because of this is you know, basically a bigot, Then why would you want bigots at your gym? Why would you why would you want why would you want these people who you who you feel are so full of hate anywhere near any of your facilities. This is they're they're doing. This is a good thing they're doing for you.

Uh A Planet Fitness saw four hundred million wiped off their value. Since the story broke, that numbers probably quite a bit more. I haven't even updated it since I was just reading it yesterday putting this together. So they did not go, well, anybody go in and cancel? What was that? And again, this is not me organizing Boycott's, this is me analyzing

them. You would do whatever they want. Some would say there was a there was a bloodbath over there, but you know, be careful where you say that, even if it's directly adjacent to cars, they'll cut that part

off. Yes, that was the other thing I tried to ignore, which unfortunately I was not able to that stupidity, that dumb assery, that thing that even from the other side of the planet, I was quickly able to ascertain was much ado about nothing by simply watching a couple different versions, so that I made sure to not limit myself to videos that were trimmed, which shockingly were most of them, and then running around and you know, posting

funny video mashups on the Twitter just because I was bored. I did participate a little, so we'll have to touch on that as well. Lots to get to six forty eight hang on a KCO day radio program, that is a video of a man eating a person's leg. That's what that is. That's not what I needed to see this morning. Now, for those of you wondering how he procured the leg, that's fair because somehow it does make this not as bad, if that's possible, considering what I've already told you

about the story. It happened in California. Yep, not Florida. I know, I know, I know you were thinking it. No, it happened in Wassco, California, which is a very fun town named to say. What started as a typical Friday for a group of construction workers quickly turned into a bizarre scene. This from KBAKTV. The crew was laying down concrete outside of Amtrak station in Wassco. Well, I saw a quote horrifying site.

I guess unless they're into that. Here's a quote. Not sure where from where he but he walked this way and he was waving a person's leg and then started chewing on it over there against the wall and everything, said Jose Ibara, a worker who saw the incident. Hopefully he didn't see it right before lunch break, because then you're not gonna want it, and then your boss is gonna explain to situation, and I, you know, I

don't wish that upon this guy sounds like he's out there working hard. The leg apparently came from a person who was hit by a train near the station earlier that morning. So again, leg procurement happenstance, I guess, or or you know, maybe maybe that's not fair. Maybe this maybe this individual had wanted to eat a leg for a very very very long time, but realized that all possibilities rested right on that edge of illegal. So he needed

a scenario where his dream could come to fruition. And at that point, if you if you're looking for human body parts, he didn't need to find a populated area that interacts with a railway of some sorts. And then maybe eventually if you just you know, you sit there long enough, it's like eat. It's like stand hunting. Sometimes you just you're out there staring at nothing for a week, even though that trail cam, holy crap, look

at everything that's on there. What's going on? You just gotta you gotta, you gotta put in the time, you gotta put in the effort. And maybe that's what was going on here. But then also there's the question like, okay, well, how now did this come to fruition? Like how did that person end up in front of the train which then provided sustenance for your weird little fetish here, Like you gotta look into that extra hard

to make sure it was everything was on the up and up. This is this is constantly the the argument that people have when they make it legal to eat roadkill. Right, some redneck gonna be out there shoving deer in front of stuff. Should you be able to procure horns, even though they might be a motivation for somebody to stage a roadkill? These are all these are all debate points, These are all different nuances and tweaks of the laws.

And just so we're clear, it is not legal. Should all right, you got let's say you're let's say you're standing at the bus stop right now. It's you and Bob from down the street. You don't really you don't really like Bob. Bob's kind of a you know what hole, But you don't you know, you don't want them dead? What is wrong with you?

People out there? In response to a video of a man eating another person and and doing so like they just like they stumbled upon a taco pop up truck or something, you know, like a food truck, like, oh, I didn't know there was tacos over this gas station and then just mowing down. They're all excited, right, And your respond to that is to run around the internet and scold people with the story like, well, uh, you know what it's not is it's not a migrants, okay?

Is I don't even know? I don't because at that point I don't care. I'm just like, there's physically a person eating another person. Why are we having to run around and have got you things? You're like, oh, that's right, biggots, that you thought it was a hard working You thought it was a migrant here because our migrants wouldn't eat people, and they were here to eat the people that our people would need. Like what kind

of dumb exercise is this? Can we just recognize that obviously we've jumped the mental health shark, right, that's not normal eating people, whether you're doing it secretively or in this weird like ecstatic way that he seems to be chowing down on Bob or whatever the guy's you know, whatever the victim's name was. We don't have to we don't have to score points on a on a whole other issue. And yeah, if it was somebody who came here to

eat people and was in the country illegally, I don't know that. I don't know the people bringing that up to point out that that would be a less you know, that might cut down on the eating people quota for the day, would be an accurate I don't know how that would be inaccurate, because it's just this weird game we play where it's like, you know, we're after what happened in Georgia happened, and you had people that are out there they're like, yo, hey, if you read the news, there's

here somebody was born in America who was accused of burdering a woman about that age. All right, well, that doesn't make the other thing okay. And all you're proving there is that through strict strict controls of immigration, we only stopped some of the women being murdered brutally allegedly. And now you've got to argue that that's not a good thing. That's still a good thing.

If I knew that five people were going to be eaten today by just random psychopaths, and two of us said psychopaths were only able to gain access to the body part they're mouing down on because they were put into this this you know, this forever loop of asylum claims. Then I can still recognize that

two people probably wouldn't have been eaten that day. And the more heinous the thing is that you're trying to make excuses for the higher the likelihood is that it wouldn't have happened organically on its own without that individual involved, and that individual didn't have to be here. That was based on decisions being made by lawmakers in pandery bureaucrats. So yeah, sorry if I'm not going to jump on board with your stupidity there, But that's a dude eating another dude.

We need to figure out what's up with that. We need to figure out why. We need to figure out. You know, also in California, what is the process even for dealing with you pat him on the back for not spilling. I mean, how do you begin to approach somebody chewing down on another person? Don't know? Remember, you know what do people think

of too? By the way, when you see this story, they think of the Basalts thing in in Florida, and I want to remind you that while there is a there is some spance of it that they're unable to test for, it's not clear that that's what was up. Remember, they didn't find bass alts in that dude's system. Who ate the other dude's face, So you know, you gotta you gotta look a little a little past the surface, a little past whatever the initial narrative is, and try to figure

it out. But arguing over immigration status, have said face eater is just dumb, Like, who's even bringing that up? Bring it up when it becomes a narrative or a part of the story. Bring it up when like, okay, well, what was the relationship with the victim? And then you find out maybe there were somebody was working on their asylum claim, or somebody who had also migrated or whatever it may be. But I none of that looks present here, And you're trying to sit there and and inject it

into this. And I'm just of the opinion that we don't need random people running around eating random people's body parts when they find them. That's not a very helpful Samaritan. Right, you're in an accident, somebody stumbles upon you, and you're like oh my thank god you're here. I'm just I'm laying here and I need help, and they're just like, You're like, yeah, I got my my arm got severed because this thing happened. Can you call nine one one? And they're like, ah, yeah, in a

minute, and you're like, what are you doing with my arm? What's happening? So, you know, we don't want those scenarios. So I'm you know, get to the bottom of it, figure out what's going on. And if that dude is somebody who needs to talk to somebody or it kind of appears that they may be great. If it's somebody who just got confused on a recipe, then make it make sense to me. Whatever. But arguing over immigration status is just the dumbest thing I've ever heard, all

right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. So I saw a lot of really disingenuous arguments over this. So to day is the Donald Trump bond fraud day. Right, So today's the day where he was supposed to have secured four hundred and fifty four million through the process of appealing in this this case where they decided that even though the person who's supposedly the victim was not defrauded out of any money, in fact, sought out and

acquired to do the piece of business that they're being sued over. Well, that's four hundred and fifty four million dollar judgment and it needs to be secured in some way, shape or form, which is easier said than done. And then I see a bunch of really disingenuous people doing the analysis on why, and I you know, I'm gonna use this platform because we have this

platform just to say the super obvious thing that is being ignored. And I'm sure people realize is being ignored because it makes them feel good because they feel like they've got their political opponent. So we'll cut you in on the details. They're coming up. Seven sixteen, CaCO Day Radio program. CaCO Day Radio program. So today is the day the former president said to appear in

Manhattan on a hearing for the hush money case. On the same day he faces a four hundred and fifty four million dollar fraud bond deadline, so has

to post it as part of the appeal. And it it made me lose my damn mind watching the same piece of garbage analysis just be lazily suggested here without even attempting to ascertain what may be motivating individuals, and in this case, the individuals or businesses where in the past Trump may have done business with them, may have, you know, under different circumstances, been standing in line to essentially issue this bond, not just because there's a profitability standpoint,

right, that's one part of it. You know, people do bail bonds not out of the goodness of their heart, right, They're in it to make money, and so this is you know, this is obviously a different version of it, but still you stand to prosper here. And yet it became abundantly clear that company after company didn't want to issue this bond. And

the question is why why did they not want to issue it? And what I saw from the you know, for the moon bad analysts like h this is this is all of these folks who he's been fool all these years, and now the chickens are coming home to roost and they're figuring out what's going on, and they don't want to do business with this guy. And you're kind of right in the sense that companies don't want to align themselves with Donald

Trump anymore. But it's not for the reason that you think, and the reason that you think when what I've watched the analysis is, Hey, look at these folks that are watching what just happened with this poor bank he defrauded and't realizing they don't want to do business with them. And that's not the vibe anybody else is getting. The bank who was the quote unquote victim here. Remember that bank went out of their way to do this piece of business

with Trump. They went out of their way to do it because they had done it in the past, and when they did do this particular kind of business, they stood to make a lot of money. And sure enough, that's what happened here as well. They took the risk in part because they knew that the possibility, based on the previous track record, was that even if we don't see eye to eye on valuation of something, the fact remains that he's been good for it in the past, and he's built up enough

credit that we're gonna go ahead and do this. I remember it is that evaluation process that is at the forefront of what is supposedly the beef here of our equipment's on fire, which is not unusual, although today was a special kind of hell. So poor Ross has been just ingrained in that randos are shaving inside planet fitnesses, which throw out all the transgender stuff. Who shaves in a planet fitness? Who does that? Who shaves at the gym?

Anyway? Isn't that weird? That seems weird if you play golf at a club, or if at a private or semi private club, like you know, they have shaving equipment and stuff for people, but it's still weird if you see somebody shaving there. So I don't know that. There's a whole lot of things where you try to go mental disconnect on these stories to the extent that you can, and when I'm traveling, that's what I want to be able to do. Yet you can't get away from it because it just

it just permeates your inbox. When you glance back at your email, no

matter what setting you have on it, people got takes. And then people will write you email or they say something and it's really you know, it's very uh say controversial, but it's it's very hard opinionated, and it's like I don't even I don't know how to valuate what they're telling me because admittedly I'm not as up on the story as they are, and then like that weird work ethic thing in the back of your head goes, hey, dummy, maybe you should read up on this so that I find myself going into

blood bath and going into the planet fitness, stupidity, going into the guy eating the leg even going into and God help me, the royals? What is why? Why? For those of you out there who are the very first when I whenever we will like will tweet a story, even if it's a funny, stupid story, They're like, I don't care. We have

a carriage seventeen seventy six f them, right? Are you also the ones running around trying to figure out whether somebody would Kate Middleton's dress is the same as seven years ago because AI deep fakes, because conspiracy, Like, if you don't care about the royals, why do you care if the what what even triggered this? It was the stupid AP photo? Right? What do

you care if somebody photoshopped somebody's hands in an AP photo? If you don't care about the royals, this is this is what I want to know. Why do you care if you think that video of Kate Middleton or whatever shopping at at a store, even just a few seconds of it is part of a larger cultural a boondoggle through the utilization of AI. If you if you think that, then ask yourself why why would they do that? And if they and even if they did do it, why would it make any difference?

If they don't run your life, They're they're simply there to be I guess, viewed from a distance and admired within the hearts of British people or whatever the garbage that I've heard, and please don't throw another beer in my faced British people. I don't care. We cared once and then we're like, nah, We're done with this crap. Then we didn't care again,

so I don't. But now I feel like I feel like there's a lot of people who say they don't care about stuff, who put in the most effort of attempting to not care about that thing of anything that they usually do care about. Right, they will put in the time to show you how little they care about the royals, And if that includes reading every story and having some I don't care comment under it, you can bet they're gonna be there. So is the Duck, the Duke of Duchess of York or whatever.

I don't even know what her title is. Whatever is she a clone? I don't care? And I would ask you what difference does it make? What difference person sending me? Look at this ring on her finger and how it's slightly over here a year ago and this is from that? What? So what? Let's say that she is a space cyborg. Okay, I'm gonna I'll go full sci Fi on this thing. Let's say that she is she's the Borg. Okay, dah, this is just she's got. This is her get up, This is her disguise one once you in on

it. So instead of dream, you know, dressing like that creepy bald lady boom Kate Middleton, but actually borg if they don't have any real power, what does it matter? If she's the Borg? Why do you why? Why would you? Why would you engage in this? Why would you care? Why would you be sending me deep fake stuff that I'm not gonna read? And I'm gonna be annoyed that you sent me because I got enough

crap to dig out from after a week and a half. So no, do I care that she's You haven't even explained to me why there would be any benefit for them swapping her out for a more robotic model or whatever the theory is, What does she even do? She runs around and looks less bitchy than her sister in law, and once a year they wear a bunch of ridiculous hats because it's tradition. At the thing with the people with the hats, the learned the word ascot. That's it. That's what I know.

That's right, I am. That's very good points or somebody just wrote said I am a TikTok winter winter. Absolutely, that's how I feel this morning. And I also feel like I don't understand why dudes eating another person's leg and we're arguing over migrant status or why I have to figure out whether Kate Middleton is a cyborg or not. How's your Monday going? That's not how I thought my Monday was going. I thought I was gonna tell you

about steaks and stuff. Do you know how I have a steakhouse called Gordoninho a fat baby, fat little boy, fat little boy mmm mmmm mmmm. If you ever get a chance to eat there, you should eat there. You'll have to go to Buenos Aire's Argentina, but I highly recommend it. Do you know. They also have a tea that I don't know why they still do this that comes in this big thing and then people just sit around with a big straw and like drink it with each other, which I did

not do, not because I'm one of those weird COVID people. But I wanted to tell you about that because I found that I found that oddity of society rather fascinating. That was kind of cool. I've never seen so much fakedike stuff in all my life. Hey, this like the swoosh isn't even right on some of this stuff, but it's three dollars, so what are you gonna do? These are what I find fascinating. I did you get to find my Nazi village? But I found out that there's like three million

Italian people living in Argentina. Did you know that? I didn't know that. Consequently, you got good food and then you remember, oh yeah, Italy was on that side and all that stuff. But it creates this very interesting dynamic. And these are the things that fascinate me. And instead I'm having to evaluate whether Kate Middleton's a robot or not. So I don't know, And much to the surprise of who is it rased agent today from the

weather channel? Do spin backwards when you had so so not the toilet stuff, but gesture goes in the other direction. So yeah, things go I knew that low so low pressure goes the other way, high pressure goes the other way, Coriolis force goes the other way. Yeah, so sounds like a good trip though I was listening in YEA. Yeah, dude, this stay good for you. Let me just tell you. I mean, yeah, there were two days where I'm just like, I don't move now I

move. I just I'm a job of the hut. That's what you just feel like after right doing that to yourself, and then the next then you do it again the next day. So yeah, it's it's a pattern, and it takes you what it will take you a week or two to get out of it. I try to get I told Ross like, I feel so awake and alert and great this morning, and that I could also sleep for nine days, so I don't know this weird drill. Hey, and I only went upstate New York for a week, so you know, and

I felt beat up. And people don't realize how long it's like, how far down. But it's like flying Transcontin's not flying LA. Man. It's okay. Yeah, speaking of LA, I bet you didn't have the Clemson Tigers in the sweet sixteen headed to LA by the way, you know what, I thought. I was also going to have a hard time following that, dude, I'm telling you, man, they are put You know,

soccer is obviously the big thing down there for this messy guy. They're very po yeah, a little bit right, but people are all up on the basketball. So yeah, well it was fun to watch. So yeah, it's bad, believe it or not. Even last night, I stayed up for the A and M in Houston game. I mean they A and M made some comeback. Man. I was watching NC State in the ACC Tournament. Yeah, I mean just crazy. So I actually have n C State Originally, of course, I took Clemson all the way, but I took

them out. So I do have NC State, North Carolina, Iowa State, and oh Tennessee as my final four than Tennessee Wining. So I'm doing well actually cool. But anyway, yeah, let me do what I'm supposed to do here. There really not much going on but Darfree's warnings and frost advisories around this morning and looks pretty good as we go through the day.

Some clouds and low sixties, a little below average but not bad. In the thirties again tonight, but probably the mid upper thirties except instead of the low thirties. Still could be some patche frost early tomorrow, a little mid sixties in the afternoon. Midweek looks a little damp, with some rain and showers around. Showers Wednesday, some occasional rain Thursday, and then sun show. It'll be back Friday. The weekend looks great actually for Easter. I'll

throw that in and start talking about that now. Mid upper seventies with sunshine, the steaks again, I mean by oh anyway, all right, sorry dude this morning, but yeah, so problem all right, cool, cool, thank you there. You gonna race agic from the leather channel. Uh seven forty seven hang On d has launched a new National Resource Center. Oh okay, national resource center, so something from which you're able to draw resources

on a national level. And obviously it's going to have to be something that the federal government is obviously tasked with doing, but maybe has been falling down on the job, right, and so they needed to make it more readily available to the populace. Right. So as you know a lot of times see National Resource Center. It's like tax advice or it's you know, things having to do with COVID. You saw various resource centers out there. So

it's not a new government undertaking. However, it is a really fun way to basically bypass Congress in how the moneys are spent for what is accomplis and it just kind of stacks on and adds to all this executive order stuff and various other projects like canceling student loan debt, you know, all things that used to take place in Congress that now just presidents think they can go ahead and do so. Yeah. I keep a watchful eye on this stuff,

especially when I find out the Resource center is Second Amendment related. Oh that's interesting. So what resources are around the Second Amendment? Are you making available helping folks to understand maybe the best home defense situation for them based on training and money available and all of that. Okay, all right, I still don't think that's the job of government, even if I feel that it's positive what they're doing, I still think that's their job. But never fear this

is not that. Instead, the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center. We're here from the government, and we're here to help, is how you should read that. Surprised even many congressional Republicans when its mere existence was announced Friday, Attorney General Mary Garland said, excuse me, Saturday, it was

now Saturday. Mary Garland said in a Saturday press release that the new National Resource Center will provide quote, our partners across the country with valuable resources to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others. So read this as a red flag policy center, I guess.

Now. Let's also point out that, as we have seen over the last few stories of high profile active shooters, there have been multiple examples of where contact with government officials or governmental entities, law enforcement, in some cases investigators, things like that we're very much present or should have been present, and just for whatever reason, never really panned out. Nobody ever really did anything,

nobody ever took it seriously. And even when you find out that there were glaring things that were witnessed by some individuals in the backgrounds of the very same folks we've evaluated for committing some very heinous crimes, we're all told that you know, frankly, they well they didn't have the teeth to deal with it, or they weren't in a position, or it wasn't their job, or you know, they tried to err on the side of humanity as one that I saw. And it's fine, right, because now you're trying to

make that argument that the government shouldn't just decide. Well, look, we found out we we did some research, and we found out that of the people who are shooting up schools, they are exclusively human. Right, We're not a lot of chimpanzees this week doing that, not a lot of frogs, but yeah, humans humans. So therefore, because that then all humans should and then you know, insert some totalitarian way of dealing with it.

Right, we're not talking about that old canard, right, that old argument we've had where it's like, why are you punishing the people who actually follow the law when they're the only ones who are going to follow Now you're punishing law. Doesn't make any sense, Like you're missing the boat here, We're gonna out some kinks, not a few things, but yeah, no, we're here. Vacation is done at least for now. Trying to think what

is even the next day off. We I guess I mean Memorial Day maybe, yeah, we get in, then we get into the summer doldrums and it's an election year, and uh, we're gonna We're gonna be buckled in. So uh, thanks for hanging out with us. A few different things obviously developing while I was gone one the Planet Fitness insanity. Remember, I'm trying to evaluate all this stuff without really evaluating it because I'm trying to hold

to my mental promise to myself that I just I would actually unplug. And it was really hard with the Planet Fitness stuff and the blood bath stuff, because you just couldn't get away from it, and even even literally in a different hemisphere. I mean, I'm having it blasted in my face. So to some extent, I sit there and I embrace it, and I watch

a movie. You ever, you ever turn on a movie and you're like, I think I've seen this before, but you you can't, for the life of you distinctly remember that you've seen it, but it just feels too familiar. You're watching the plot, you kind of know what's going to be happening, so you determined you've seen it. That's really how I felt from a politics perspective in evaluating the way that the population is dealing with their new

president down there. And then I had it, you know, kind of thrust in the face because a couple of people said, well, yeah, obviously you're the person I want to tell about this, because you know, you had to put up with Trump. How however did you survive? And you know, they didn't get the response that they wanted. Even though I try to try to stay away from a lot of this, but you realize that that's also in that narrative and that process by which the media acts shocked.

They're just shocked that anyone would not want to keep doing the same thing over and over again, even in a country where every five years they have to redo their currency. It's a slight exaggeration, but not much. And then it gets really confusing when you start getting into some of the stuff that they some of the coinage down there because of them having to reissue currency,

Like there's still stuff that's not the currency anymore that people still use. So strange, man, But it's that smugness and that idea that you know, trying something different in a time with a faltering economy where you had rapid inflation that quickly was rendering once again the currency of this of this nation a place where the rest of Latin America goes in shops, which is which is which is kind of a cultural thing, which is like you literally there are people

that are on planes to pop over to a different country to shop because they are taking advantage of the poor economy of their neighbor And it's a phenomena that I, you know, I didn't fully understand right as somebody didn't grow up

there, but I do find quite fascinating. That's kind of what Argentina, like Costa Ricans going shop in in in Colombia, they have big market centers and they have planes full of people coming from Central America, where you're thinking, well, why such because Colombia was far worse off when when I went there, when I did the Columbia Ecuador last year and Ecuador to some extent, and you saw that in the form of a soft coup going on there,

and that's what that's what that's what it happened to Argentina. So the smugness of those who saw this precarious financial situation and then were overwhelmed that some bombastic person with very differing views could find himself somehow in charge of things is not something that they abide, and so you know, they run around with

the scandal stories. I was very interested to see, you know, some of the publications down there, and it all feels like a video that you've watched before, just with a different person, and all the same players are there, right, all the disingenuous media people, the remember whens who misremember stuff but do it intentionally so that it becomes history, throwing out facts and figures that even I know, not as somebody who's in any way, shape

or form ever associated with Argentina, but I know to be false because I have a general understanding of how economics work, and I have a general understanding of how economics work. When you create a separate valuation for your currency, albeit one that is Internet based and which creates this giant loophole that people use to rob probility of profitability within your country for Internet purchases, which is a very complex thing that if you spent about twenty minutes looking into today, your

jaw would hit the floor. Would have what they were doing in Argentina with that basically honoring the black market currency valuation it's craziness. And all of the people who were happy to go along with this are also the ones screaming and running around and sitting on some of the weird you think our weekend yelly shows are yelly like sitting on those shows talking about how everything was perfect and this

individual is undermining everything that we've built. And you see regular, you know, regular Argentinian sitting there going, what do you mean everything that we built? I can't I have no buying power. This sucks, This sucks. Now you want to do this? No, we're not going to do this anymore. And then people being flabber gasted that the individuals would want to make

that decision. How familiar does that sound? Meanwhile, you have modern media here, who is running around in you know, sketchy barrios in Brazil so they could find old photos of a New York congressman wearing drag that one time.

And the Washington Post, remember they had teams of people on it, and they're willing to deep dive that I went to go eat a bunch of steaks and stay at slightly overpriced but wildly under price based on the the inflation rate hotels and Engorge myself on stakes like a fat you know, that fat American tourist. And I'm able to pick up on this stuff just on the periphery, just paying attention, having a basic understanding of the Spanish language.

So when I see a headline in a newspaper, I go, oh, that's interesting, and that I could translate the rest of it and go that sounds like a story we saw. It's just crazy. And I don't know how to communicate that more effectively than I am doing right now, because I feel like that's the takeaway message. And you're seeing it in Spain. You saw it with some of the weird rigging of elections that they did there. You saw it in Portugal here just a couple weeks ago. You're seeing it

in Canada. Get ready for that dude. He's probably gonna sitting there. I had a big, long conversation with a Canadian dude who just happened to be a person who was sitting there nearby, also gorging himself on steak,

and he's talking about he doesn't even like the guy. He's the dude I was talking to strikes me as a bit of a leftist moderate and they're sick of Trudeau, and he thinks that they've literally backed themselves into the point where this new dude in Canada's probably going to be the guy running things Porvo or whatever his name is. Look at that. I don't even care enough to know his name or be able to pronounce it. Yeah, I'm telling you,

man, there's some craziness coming. And the more it it it it parses into different players and different languages and different stuff, the more it all looks the same. So yeah, get ready for that. That's that's my report. That's that's my takeaway from the Southern hemisphere. And I'm a one

man show. And the Washington Post, who's running around looking for drag queen pictures, can't figure it out long enough to understand why it also happened in Brazil since they hat's where they were checking out the miss Bumbum contest and getting some photos. Then you realize how much is being misreported and and and and just unreported to you. That's that's revolutionary kind of stuff without the marching in the streets and the hay come live here Nazi signs. That's what I just

witnessed, and I'm glad I did it. I'm glad I'm able to come back and tell you and the same dirty tricks are a foot down there absolutely eight nineteen hang on CaCO Day radio program here on your Monday. Yet we're back back and full of energy and life and already I'm tired. So but you know, it's just doing a morning show. Wow, you travel, You gotta get your head back straight kind of in there. But lord knows, there was more than enough to chit chat about on this fine morning we

get. You know, we talked about obviously Trump with the tempting to secure bond on that judgment, and then people going, look, see, businesses won't do business with them because she's been unmasked as a fraud. Ah no, no, they'll do business with him even if they think he's a fraud. This is the other thing too, right, They're like, oh that now they understand that he's a slick businessman. He's always had that vibe, right, But that's not how you run a company, especially when it's a

financial services thing. Right. You look at it and go, when my business, when my business does business with this dude, do we get paid back or do we make our money? And they evaluate that in this particular circumstance they get paid back or make their money. It's like you going through the loan process for a home loan or you know, whatever it is, car loan. Somebody's going to sit there and look at it. Regardless of

how you feel about it. The person loaning of the money is going to have to convince themselves one way or the other whether they feel good and loaning the money. And the reason that companies are scurrying from Donald Trump is not because they think his hair is funny and he has bad taste and you know, making everything gold in an apartment or you know, any of the any

of those kind of alleged things. The reason that they're they're looking at it is they think that if they do business with him, there is now a higher chance that it has a negative impact on their business. But not for the reasons you're spouting, not because they think Donald Trump hasn't over the years honored these particular loans at least enough that people are willing to make them. They're looking at it and they realize that nothing is normal around this guy.

So the possibility that you would loan somebody money who in the very next week could be scooped up by a gendap justice department that goes in the L column when you're evaluating whether you're going to do something, it is that Trump's fault, or is that due to the unpredictability of his enemies who are willing to open fire not just on him, but anyone who stands roughly on the same side of the street as him. And I had our brethren out there in

Oregon, specifically the communities of Eugene, Springfield, and Portland. The leadership for those three communities have now partnered with thanks for the music, They've now partnered with the University of Oregon so they can get to the bottom of a problem that has been festering in these three organ communities for quite some time,

the theft of nearly three thousand shopping carts. So that's right. Businesses in Eugene and Springfield and Portland say that over the last few years, roughly three thousand shopping carts have been stolen from the walmarts and the you know, the standard local grocery stores for the costcos or basically anyone who's got a cart. Three thousand of them been stolen, and they have no leads. They cannot figure out who in these three cities in Oregon might be stealing the shopping carts,

and as they are steymied. Now we find ourselves with the University of Oregon turning this into a research project so they can figure out who's stealing the shopping cart. What's this piece of crap costing? Because frankly, give me the money. I'll tell you right now what's happening. We got some leads, we got some we did some brainstorm and we got some ideas. Ross do you think maybe you might have some leads on who's taking the shopping carts?

Since officials in Oregon don't seem to know any theories that could netch you the eight hundred thousand they're going to spend on studying this. Sometimes it sounds like I probably maga Trump Conservatives. You think it's that's what it is. And then they're putting like flags on there and stuff like they do with the boats, and yes, that's the thing. Huh. So I hope you're

sitting down. I appreciate you waiting in there with your idea. Apparently, this person who looks like they voted for Biden eight times, there's no way to describe that particular look. They are suggesting. I'm gonna assume it's a they. For the way this is written, they are suggesting that this might have to do with a quote recent uptick in the number of the unhoused. You think it might have something to do because your hobo numbers are up.

Might be connected. Might this would be very clear. Might they're using the word might. I don't know. I'm trying to think if I know, if anyone has ever stolen a shopping cart that wasn't a hobo at least kept it. I've seen that move where people if they you know, they don't have a car or whatever, or they're gonna walk home, they'll walk home

with the shopping cart. I've seen the laziness of apartment dwellers. Right, you're lived in a big apartment building that has like two or three of those carts that are, you know, so that people when they go get groceries can use them. What inevitably happens in the same way, in the same way that things happen when people go up to a hotel room that's high up, right, and they have to use one of those luggage carts. Nine times out of ten that sucker. That sucker lives there. Now, that's

where that lives. And if you want to if you want to use it for something else, you gotta remember it's up there. Go get it. What do you need it? Because your neighbors probably ain't bringing it down, and maybe if they're I guess somewhat decent, they may think about it the next time and actually transport one or more of the uh the cards down. But for the most part that's that's just in use. That's done. But this is where we're headed down. So there you go, all right to

the phones, start with Rick, what's up ry? Hey Katie? How you doing good? Sir? So I'm wondering if Latsia James is smart enough to realize that if she tries to liquid ate Trumps at keeps them, then she kind of creates a catch twenty two situation because she has to tell them or she's supposed to sell them at safe pair market value. And if she does that, then it bolsters Trump's argument on his valuation. And if she doesn't do that, then they open themselves up if he wins the appeal for

him taking action against her. Yeah, I mean, and it doesn't help that she's on the news talking about quote having her eye on the Trump Tower. So I don't know. I mean, I don't think she's she's really smart enough to realize it. And by the way, even if the cars are two hundred and fifty dollars each, that's still the same amount that they're going to spend to investigate it. I just but that's the thing, sir,

I feel like, and thank you for the call. I feel like it is not necessary to do an eight hundred thousand dollars study because I can guess where. I guess where your carts are going, and I probably don't have to guess. Oh, the city of Raleigh. What a few months ago they you saw where they they get like three hundred shopping carts off of the five forty underpass up a capital. There's one after another peering out the grass there. So this isn't everyone knows where you need to look. That's

the thing that everyone knows where you need to look. Just go handle that. But instead, now you're gonna, you know, flee fleece the public hall over again, Casey, Hello, how you doing good? Sir? The answer to the chopping cart questions alien space aliens stole little carts. Well, they would blend, They would definitely blend. And the dinosaurs, I don't know why they wouldn't steal carts. That's a good point. I can't argue that they did steal them. So all right, all right, get

out of here. So look, you come at me with flawless logic, What am I gonna do? I gotta agree, Dave, go right ahead, Hey, the morning, Casey. Hey. When I used to work in the boat business, I was up in Maryland and we would do boat shows. We had a boat show at the Baltimore Convention Center, and when you take the boats off the trailers, you put them up on blocks and

put like dressing around them so that you know they're the lower. We went and sole not spol We acquired two of the flat bag carts from BJ's who were putting these twelve y twelve oak blocks or the push them around the boats because those things heavy, right, So there was there was a purpose behind it other than can that make you better than the hobo? No, not at all. I mean those days I look like I'm homeless, all right,

I'm just saying right. So, and in that case, then people could claim that I was being too general, h and thank you for the call and assigning motives for why the carts may have been stolen. But I still think that my thoughts on this will pan out ninety percent of the time, and then occasionally you just have one dude at a boat show. So but if you solved ninety percent of the problem, I feel like that we're not having this conversation. Just something to think about. Eight forty four raised

agic from the weather Channel and standing by. All right, So the shopping cards keep disappearing in these towns in Oregon, and they're gonna spend a crap ton of money to figure out what's happening to them, because what could have whatever could have happened to the shopping cards, Right, let's spend eight hundred thousand to figure it out, not just ask cac so put it in there with the shrimp experiments, right right, right, Yeah, shopping cards experimenting

the shrimp, the same thing. But give me the money, I'll burn it just as quickly as you're so listen, listen, I could spend it with the best of them myself. Thus here I am, and I'll probably be here for a long time as long as you'll have me oh chili morning. A lot of low and mid thirties, believe it or not. The warmer readings are slightly milder readings down to the south as you get near Fayeville thirty seven, right now Ashboro though thirty six, and around Raleigh in Durham

upper thirties there are a couple of low forties. With the north side of town it's thirty two, and out in the Triad seeing some low and mid thirties, even some mid twenties as you get out Surrey County. So little chili for late March day, lots of sunshine and the low sixties for most of us. Tonight in the mid upper thirties, so maybe a little mild

there, but still jacket Tomorrow morning might not need one. Later a little more cloud coming in low to mid sixties, but some rain around as we look ahead toward Wednesday, and showers and showers will continue Thursday and Thursday night. By Friday, all the sunder be back middle week, so little ifty by Friday and the upcoming weekend Easter weekend looks real nice, nice warming trend.

If it works the way it looks right now, Saturday could be low to mid seventies and sunny, and on Sunday could be in the mid to upper seventies and sunny. So go ahead the week, have forecast. Let's hope it works out. Okay, all right, well, thank you sir, appreciate it. Okay, we will come back chat with Jeff Bellinger next, hang on the Jeff Bellinger from Bloomberg News and everything. Nothing exploded while I was gone. I hope right, No, you missed a good week

on Wall Street. But no, nothing nothing terrible. Oh okay, well, I much preferred the exchange rate in Argentina. I'm not gonna lie. So well, listen, unter financial news. There's some good news for you. But anyway, what do you go? All right, well, welcome back. Boeing's going to have new leadership in twenty twenty five. The troubled airplane maker just announced this morning the president and CEO Dave Calhoun, has decided to step down at the end of this year. He will continue to lead

the company for the next nine months. Stan Diel, who is headed Boeing's commercial airplanes division, will retire. He'll be succeeded by Stephanie Pope. That is effective immediately. There are also changes on Boeing's board. Boeing shares are higher in pre market trading, but overall the futures are pointing lower. Now futures are down seventy three points. Last week was a good one for Wall Street. The major averages all posted solid gains, though the Dow and the

S and P five hundred ended lower on Friday. Federal Reserve officials says central bankers may cut interest rates just once this year. Atlanta FED President Rafaelbostik had previously predicted there would be two rate cuts in twenty twenty four. He now foresees a single reduction coming later in the year. Cost of filling an Easter basket with chocolate, eggs and bunnies higher than it was a year ago. Experts say the price increases are just getting started. The price of chocolate,

candy and stores reflects the twenty twenty three increases and cocoa prices. Since then, the cocoa prices have gone into overdrive. They've already more than doubled this year, and on the commodity markets, cocoa is more expensive now than copper for the first time ever. NKC Ghostbusters frozen Empire was the nation's number one movie over the weekend. Com Score estimates the film took in more than forty five million dollars, and after five movies, the Ghostbusters franchise is now taken

in more than one billion dollars. Casey, can I jump back real quick to the Copper Coco story? Yes? So does that mean meth heads are instead of stealing my ac unit and catalytic converter, it's gonna be the kid's hot chocolate? I mean, what is that? That's right coming for your hershey powder? Yeah? Yeah, nine thousand dollars a ton, geez, that's what we need. That's all right. So there you go, meth heads. There's there's a new thing for you. All right. Well,

thanks for that, Jeff, all right, have a good day. Oh man, watch out, watch out you bonbond hoarders at work. You know you know who you are with the chocolate in your drawer? Could you know a meth had taken advantage that? Or a zombie? I trying to figure out this headline this morning. You have the super pop up over the top. Get out of my damn way. So the Biden administration has apparently this is so stupid his All right, here we go. The federal government has

announced that they will begin investigating the state of Kentucky's zombie minds. What is that is that? And tell me what you would prefer to be? Is that a mind where all the binders are zombies or is it a mine for zombies? And which would you be? Which would you find more interesting? Ross, better? Better? Better setting for a video game? A mine completely staffed by zombies or one where they mine zombies for use in. It sounds like two completely different games, right, it does. Absolutely. It

sounds like, you know, Survival Horror. The other sounds like some sort of weird, twisted Minecraft's sort of puzzle game. It sounds like a slavery loophole, doesn't it right? It does. They're like, oh, no, we're not paying them, but we can't because all they want is brains and currently we just you know, it's illegal to pay in brains, so we don't. We're not trying to have them work for free, but well, how do you get them to dig? Ah? We we use a

brain spray. It just smells like it. It's like cat ing it brilliant. It works, And they're like, I don't know man, it's just seems dangerously close to slavery. And they're like, well, there's zombies, they're not real people. And then we have that conversation, so and you know, that's just what our country needs. So I don't know if to me, if I had to guesstimate, if I could for just a moment

kind of wonder what exactly what exactly the big whoop is? It almost kind of sounds like just another little toe hold for the Biden administration to go in and start screwing with people who are engaged in the industry that they don't like, whether it is on day one destroying you know, pipeline worker stuff, to having to figure out from other mining perspective or natural gas production that they rules that have put in place have been done so basically to cripple your industry

without having to get Congress involved. This is what this smells like to me, unless it's actually mining for zombies or mining with zombies, then in which case I'm interested. Here we go the investigation into supposedly active but abandoned coal

mines. By the way, this is what they mean by zombie is follows a citizens group in Kentucky that said they found as many as forty percent of the state's minds were left in this non producing and dangerous state, and now they're having to sit here and deal with people who are going in mining