Cada radio program, and that might, I don't know, have something to do with the fact that, for whatever reason, everyone say everyone who already lost their mind decided, hey, let's just do a little more of it, like literally last two Fridays, right after the show Man, it's just a crazy town and we're here for it. We got Florida man stuff, we got apparently a swapout up at the US Congress, or at the very least, they don't know what our flag looks like. Some would say it
looks a little intentional. We'll give you those details. Today is the I mean, you know, last week was let's get jurors, but today we're actually going to get into the Trump I guess what are they calling this the Trump hush money trial? I guess baby? If I mean, obviously you probably paid a lot of attention to it, but it can get a little overwhelming with all of the law fair going on. So are you aware of who might be a defense witness? Is bonkers man? And uh, we'll
look, we'll talk about the motivations and everything going on. But yeah, the Stormy Daniels hush money Michael Cohen might have a few other players in it, including a rather interesting defense witness, which I don't know it almost the whole thing feels like it feels it feels like like some sort of trap or so I don't I even know how to describe it. And if you don't know and you're like, what the hell is he taking, just stay tuned. I'm gonna I'm gonna hit that story first. Okay, I'm just giving
you a little rundown. What's going on? Little hey, hey, how was your weekend? Kind of thing? And that had me scratching my head so much yesterday when I'm putting prep together that I just I don't know on this issue. I don't know what to think, and I think you'll understand why. So we got that going for you. I mentioned the Florida stuff because hey, who doesn't love a good Florida man story in the stack? And we will we will dive into that. Thank you said to restart something,
and now it seems to be working. Also, we got we got this. We got amazing kids who I think are going to grow up to be productive adults. You know how you can just you can tell sometimes whereas others you're like, I weep for the next generation. But to be fair, also when you're a kid, and sometimes your kid version grows into your adult version, and some people are now it's that you go back for your high school reunion and you just you don't even recognize the person. So I'm
gonna hold out hope this kid's gonna be Okay. He's eleven and he lives Does he live in Meben or Berlin? I think he lives in Meben or maybe Berlinton, I don't know, but I love this story. I love this story for him and for you when we get into the audio, because he wasn't he wasn't taking any crap. So all right, phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four as we get things rolling,
lots of good audio for you. If you probably over the weekend were following what was going on up at Columbia, where today they're going virtual option, I guess that's for the Jewish students who seemingly have for the most part fled campus. Understandably, the very same version of what you saw up at Columbia was just kind of getting fired up at Yale picking up steam, and now it could become a national franchise. And so I feel like we here in
North Carolina could see an instance of this. I'll explain to you what one of the organizations who is putting this anti Semitic tent city, anti for looking stuff together. I don't even know what to call it. But they did say that they have some big plans and we'll we'll touch on that as well. And then there was one other story I wanted to tease real quick. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, because this how
many of you stop at sheets in the morning. Oh yeah, right, stop it if it's the sheets on the way, especially if you do early morning. I don't know why, it just it's easier whenever I'm at the Green when am I at the Greensboro studio, because I don't have a lot of sheets right near the Raleigh studio, but near the Greensboro studio, I guess we're moving our offices, so there is a sheets right there and that things that God send it, Oh dark thirty man. I like it a
little less when it's the one across from the outlet store. Speaking of Mevan at you know, three in the afternoon, that only gets to be a zoo. But you catch my drift. In fact, it's so inviting that it was the scene of I guess an awkward Hey look how normal I am visit by Joe Biden himself last week stopped into his sheets up in Penania. Of course it it didn't play like they thought it was going to play.
I think a lot of it. It might have to do too with the Trump having just stopped at a gas station and everyone actually happy to see him. But he did stop there. His people obviously coordinate this stuff. Joe didn't go, hey, there's the sheets over there. Let me let me take it upon myself to plan this photo. No, no, no,
no, no, he's being handled. And so they decided they're going to go to the sheets, and he could talk about hard scrabble and the cannibal incident or whatever, and speaking of that, we got to follow up story of that, and then decided to go after them or something. So I don't know, maybe I'm trying to figure out what he meant. What at the sheets may have irritated the dude, like, did he not? Probably maybe the touch screens ordered in food just he like he couldn't figure him out
there. They have pictures, they're not that hard. Roger ever ordered food at sheets you should never have. But I stop at sheets nearly every day coming to work. Okay, all right, yeah, you know why because you know they have all the stuff right well for me. I look at my options, and it seems the safest. Oh, you fill my my my, you know, because I mean I sometimes they take my time there. I'm gonna put some air my tires or whatever. It gets cold in
the morning, you know, and they hot in the afternoons. I gotta keep an eye on that. And it's just the better of my options. And the food inside is great. I love sheets. What about the handy hugos on Capitol right there? I hope not gonna go it's right, yeah, And you know what, you might if you go to that one,
you might be able to help. Did you ever think of that? You know how many people at that guy at that grocery store run out of fuel and have to walk there so you can get like ten dollars the bust money or something. Yeah. Yeah, So like, you know, aren't you filling hired? I don't you don't want I don't understand what this what Biden the idiot or spaghetti Brains or his people were thinking, even stopping trying to get a photo op or some audio at a gas station. It's the dumbest
thing you could do. Well Trump did it. Oh yeah, well Trump can do it, but Chick fil A and he got all the pub for it. But gas prices are ridiculous, they've gone, they've skyrocketed again. What are you doing going to a gas station? Everybody that sees he was gonna hate you there, right, okay, So and this was I yes you have now you have now wandered to the esoteric. But the how people receive it, whether uh it looks like a forced conversation or not, it
makes people think of gas prices and food to some extent. But yeah, you know you should not be in a retail situation period from an optics, you know, they're well aware of this. The stickers, what people were putting in the pumps before, Like I did that pointing at the gas price. Wait you did it? You were the one. No, No, I'm not taking responsible now, yeah I did all over the countries. Well, I mean, I don't know what you do with the after dude.
I assume you sad time with your kids and you know, do stuff, But I don't know. Maybe you're flying, maybe you're jet sitting putting the stickers. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was all but then this and what is then this? And the Trump trial insanity? Will package deal it and have it for you next on the KCO Day Radio program in CaCO Day Radio program. All right, promised you a couple let's get into uh this, let's do the sheets thing first and then we'll pivot back to
the Trump trial because that may trickle into the next segment. So uh yes, it was just about a week ago the President decided he was gonna roll into a sheets do a little little photo op. Okay, all right, got it? And uh yeah, I don't know it. I don't know if it was panned. Might not be the right word, I guess,
depending on what media looks cat. But it didn't really have the staying power that Trump going to that Chick fil A where he is almost exclusively being high five by potential black voters in Atlanta, which if you're the Democratic Party you probably find that mildly disconcerting, but or more so, you know, ramp up the he's a racist machine. But you know, Joe Biden rolled into the sheets just like you do, just like you. It's just like you
stops there, you know he takes the train. Well, you don't really have the train, but just grinding it out. Man of the people stops at the Sheets gets the coffee. It's like the guys who stopped for the coffee at the one near Greensboro flirts with the one girl who works in there and she's not having it. Sorry, I was stuck in line behind those guys last time I was at the Greensboro studio. I'm like, bro, it's like five in the morning, she's not interested and I need to pay
so but anyway, uh, you know, normal stuff. And then it gets incredibly unnormal because one week later this Sheets is being sued over its hiring practices. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the Okay, I want to and this is very important because I saw people going who's suing them? Listen closely. The person suing them is Joe Well, Joe's government. It's not
you know, it's not saying. It's not John Edwards or some other you know, private lawyers who thinks they have an angle to shake down a big company. It's the government. Sheets is being sued over its hiring practices. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the suit this morning. It claims that the way Sheets bases employment on criminal records it is proportionately screens out black, Native American and other multi racial applicants, and that this violates federal law.
The suit does not accuse Sheets of being motivated by race when making hiring decisions. We have reached down to Sheets for comment, but so far we have not heard back. All right, So anyway, that's you know, just one of the news all right, So this insanity, this is the disparate impact crap or disparative or disparate where basically just because something has a certain effect, therefore must be racist. And they've been peddling this garbage for years in
a ton of different varieties. And just to be very clear, because the way that it's worded by the Justice Department and kind of by the reporting that I saw is using it in there, you know, using it in their hiring practices. Let's just be abundantly clear of what Sheets is accused of doing, because if you read the story, you see it. So Sheets does a background check and then if it's something that A certainly doesn't hire the person.
Now we can we can decide to have an opinion on whether that's you know, having a fixed policy like that is a good idea. There's obviously, Yeah, I've talked about it on this show. I think one of the things that would be most helpful or very helpful, is us being able to better identify people who have been quote unquote reformed, because that is the stated goal of our justice system and if they have and I look, this is so complex, it's out there, but I know people, I know
some listeners who have sent me very I think the emails. Well, we've talked about this, said, hey, you know what, I was a dumbass and I did this, and I spent you know, three or four years in jail and it's been you know, it's been fifteen years since I got out. It never committed another crime, and there still struggles with them. And I understand that I brought those up myself. But maybe here's a better way to do stuff. And I think that that is a perfectly reasonable
decision or opinion too. Okay, So with that in mind, I also understand that sheets is like any other business, especially when hiring's difficult, they're going to have a standard and if it if it felt too cumbersome, like they weren't getting employees. I promise you Sheets might reevaluate their standard. But yeah, I suspect and I don't know what Sheets pays or what benefits they have, but I have to assume in the world of working at a gas
station, shuldn't it probably better? You know, Bucky's did their whole thing? Is that? So this story? We didn't get to the story on Friday, and I didn't see it until literally right at the end of the show, and then I got distracted. One of the people who had initially been selected for jury in the Trump trial. They then had to go and like retroactively removed dude because he had literally been convicted of tearing down Republican post
It doesn't say whether it's Trump stuff or not. But he was tearing down Republican posters or postings, is what it said. I don't know, maybe he was tearing pictures down of hostages. How does that? How are you in today's digital age? How does that? How does a dude like that get seated on a jury for the former Republican president? I mean, yeah, after they went and uh and took it down, and I don't know what the complication and not knowing about that. Initially was but good lord man.
But now we're into the Uh, we're into it, and uh there is a weird possibility. So just a refresher, This is Trump. This is his former lawyer, Michael Cohen. Uh, this is Stormy Daniels, porn star turned political hatchet or I guess cudgel. Not her, but people using her. Uh. And of course, uh, you know folks like David Pecker National National Inquirer. Uh, he's he's tied up in this. You got Hope Hicks uh and uh, off we go. But there's one
other name on him. And again, this is Donald Trump or Michael Cohen via Donald Trump, through Michael Cohen or whatever. Prior or just as the the twenty sixteen campaign season was kicking off, struck a deal with Stormy Daniels and a payment was made and NDAs were applied. Okay, this is this is not an unusual thing in the world of politics. It's up to you to decide whether from a moral perspective it's okay. And then that also requires
you to believe, you know what what what's going on here? And the narrative that the media would tell you is Donald Trump is you know, he went out and he cheated on his wife and with her and then who is it the playmate of the year Karen McDougall. I'm not gonna lie. I you probably did. But that being said, uh, that's that I don't know that there's there's there's obviously issues from you know, how he has to deal with that in his personal life, whether it's true or the people around
him believe it's true. But never been a crime. I could think of. Nobody's alleging you know, uh, coercion or assault or anything along those lines, just merely that this was his money was was paid, and of course here we go. The other version of this also includes a payment, also includes money changing hands from Trump or Michael Cohen two uh, Stormy Daniels. However, it's it's got an interesting little twist to it, and the person peddling it is none other than Michael Avenatti. Yeah, that dude.
CNN's Brian Stelter's picked to be Prez, who then is now serving you know, a couple fifteen to twenty years or something for a variety of crimes, including tax stuff, trying to shake down Nike. He was convicted of there was. There's also a case that he caught over his report because he was a Stormy Daniels attorney. Remember right, he's the one who trotted her out. And he was also accused of i think stealing what three hundred thousand from
her or diverting book proceeds and then taking it. It sounded like he was he was way deep in it and he needed money. So that's what he did, and that's a crime, and that's what he was convicted of. However, according to Avianati, who has been in contact with Trump's defense team, he paints a different picture. Avinatti claims that Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels
they were an item. Obviously they met in the capacity of what is being alleged here, but more specifically, Avenati claims that the whole thing was a set up. Yeah, specifically that Cohen and Daniels, you know, because Cohen Cohen was aware that there may have been interaction there conspire to literally shake down Trump, knowing that the dude just launched a presidential campaign. If she
comes out, that's you know, that's a hitch. And Cohen perhaps realizing how this is now former employer, did things right because he he Cohen is said to have handled the McDougall NDA, so you know, he's looking up with the foreign star. They decide, hey, we can get a quick you know, some quick buck shot of Trump. Let's do this, and then here we are. So but then I'm like, and this is why I'm throwing this out to you, because I'm curious what you think. Would
you trust for a moment anything that that dude says? And I saw people going, why would Michael lab and Addie lie. I'll tell you why michaelab Anaughtie would lie. Okay, look, I the idea that it is. You know, Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels decided that they were going to shake down a billionaire. It if that would be an amazing twist if you could prove it in some way, and I don't know, maybe you can, maybe you can't, because I don't think people necessarily saw it from that perspective.
I think most people's position was, so what if he did? I why is that illegal? It's never been illegal. And remember they're saying, well, it's also tax stuff. No, no, no, no. What they're actually saying is the definition of payment that was made didn't comport with the way that they thought it should be labeled. It's not that the payment wasn't there, it's that they, you know, they couched it as one thing when in reality he was paying off an X you know, somebody he
cheated on his wife with. And to that, I would say, is there a specific way the IRS requires that to be classified? And maybe maybe we'll find out and give me an example of how everyone else who did this and the way you prosecuted them. I'll wait. But the idea that the whole thing from the start was a shakedown as bonkers. And the motivation for Michael Avenatti that people aren't thinking about is what I mentioned. The dude's doing
twenty fifteen, twenty years and it's federal. I don't know if all of it's federal, but the two big ones are. They're federal crimes. Why do what do you think would be a motivation knowing what I just told you as to why Michael Avenati might be like, hey, I remember this thing.
I heard the guy who spent you know, all his time on the various MSNBC, CNN going after Trump and I and so yeah, the idea that Donald Trump could find himself of the White House again, and you're a guy sitting there with fifteen twenty years to go on a federal sentence which doesn't have the one for one, you know, sentence reduction good time laws that other states have. Figuring out a way that you could get on Trump's good side probably is in your best interest. We know the guy is Avenati will
say whatever he wants. So that's where I kind of look at it, go is this some sort of trap? Man? Is some sort of trap? Put Avna up there and then they k you know, then all of a sudden they start going after Trump for as uh per you know, promoting perjury this morning perjury or so. I don't know, man, I don't trust any of these cats. So what would you do if you're Trump?
If you've got Michae Lavanatis sitting there? And I understand we're not privy to the totality of the evidence, but you got this guy who was essentially you're you know, he was the he was the main bad guy for a while, uh for your political opposition. He was he was the face of evil in your mind? Do you trust anything this dude's saying? Do you dare put him on there? Do you do you float that idea. I'm gonna I'll leave it to you eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four
And maybe he maybe there's some receipts there that we don't know about. But I saw that, and I was immediately suspicious because for those two reasons. One this every time I turned to avenati On he was after Trump. And then two, yeah, you got Pedrol's present prison time. Probably good to be on the good side of the president. So please curious what you think of that. Eight eight eight ninety three four seven eight seven four let me grab it. Well, that's weird. It was Holden and Inn the moment
I hit it, boom, there you go. All right. Uh he was gonna mention too, is uh uh what I guess. I was gonna kind of point out it seems pretty diverse in the workforce over at sheets? Would that ross? Would that be your impression when you go to a sheets? Right? Yeah, I was saying the sheets I stop at in wake Forest every morning. There's a small little ginger dude. Okay, there's an Indian girl, there's an Asian kid, probably like early twenties, and there's
a black dude. And then whoever's back in the kitchen area too bright. I've obviously never seen there. Yeah, but it's pretty damn diverse, right, as is the one in green the one betestation in Greensboro, and then the especially the one over on Wendow. But like, if you'd have told me this was a quote, I don't believe it to be an issue. By the way, I think that this is this is garbage again. They even saying the thing. They're like, no, we don't think they did
it for racial reasons. Okay, then we're done here, right, And they put the numbers out, and then I saw idiots who can't figure it. You can't read in the story. In the filing, it says that of the applicants, and they break it down by race. They show the percentage who failed criminal background checks of total applicants, and for white applicants it's about eight and a half percent, and for black applicants, I think it
was fourteen percent. I don't have that part in front of me. But and then, which is a very misleading number when you headline a story that it's having a disproportionate impact, that's that is of the percentage who applied. Okay, let me I know it's Monday morning and it's math. But help me out here, okay, or hear me out here. So that is totally outside of the control of sheets. You all understand this. Let's say that let's say I had one hundred Rosses and five of them are murderers.
Okay, Ross, five versions of in the multiverse. Okay, we're doing the multiverse because that's what you do now. And five versions of Ross are horrible, horrible murderers out of one hundred. That ain't bad. No, I thought that's pretty respectful. So yeah, yeah, yeah. However, then you have who should we pick on who's going to be the uh, the person with more murderers Kyle in news, Yes, Kyle, all right, So then we have one hundred kyles and ten Kyles are murderers out of
every hundred. If one hundred, if one hundred Rosses apply and only fifty Kyles apply, you realize it would be the same percentage of right, if it was evenly sorted there, like if you got now, if five fell into the fifty, so then you would have the same number. But if all hundred Rosses and all one hundred Kyles apply, now kyles are twice as
likely to be denied employment by Sheets based on their criminal background checks? How is that Sheets fault if they have a standard that's applied to all two hundred of the people I just talked about, and Sheets's goal is to weed out those fifteen bad people. So, like, the whole explanation for the thing is garbage. Sheets. Sheets can't control who applies. They have no control over who's going to walk in and go I need an application. I suppose
you do it online. I don't know, but that's totally out of their control. Man, And now we're going to do this thing. Just absolute absurdity. I'm gonna hate it if Sheets capitulates on this. But we will see, all right, As I said, everything stupid this morning, but it's about to get even dumber. Hang on CaCO Day Radio program, Stick
around KCO Day Radio program, Our number two. I went, I was trying to find a picture of this lottery ticket because it wasn't in the initial story, and I did find another story, and actually I just I want to correct something here because it's actually worse. Somehow, the way that this initial story is worded led me to conclusion that it was a numbers pick. No no, no, they took a they taped a scrap, one of the big scraps. It's a fifty dollar ticket, fifty dollars scratch off.
What they did is they had a winner for you know when you do a scratch off and it's like your numbers eight, and then when you start scratching, it's like, if your number had been eleven, you would one, you'd win a million dollars. But of course, you know you your number was never going to be eleven. So what they did is they taped different
bonus numbers on the bottom or numbers. So the bottom has these five numbers are your numbers, and then above it it has you know whatever, well you don't however, many spots, and they taped it backwards in one part of it. I I don't know how you leave that out of this this short story here, because that's even worse. I thought they were trying to job a quick pick. But here's the thing. They also know eight.
So there's that's not gonna work, especially when you tape your tickets. So just just just Florida, you never disappoint, really appreciate it this morning. Okay, all right, wonderful set up to New York Columbia University, Yale in New Jersey, right, No, No, Princeton's where Yale's Connecticut.
Conflate those two. Sometimes it's very hard me having to choose between all of those and then not going to any of the Ivy League, so you know, they have their thing going on. But Columbia was lit man, so it turned into like an Antifa occupy thing. Any student quote and including one student who was described as quote coming to campus looking too Jewish? How do
you look too Jewish? Just probably you know what, I probably don't want to hear the internet's answer on that, but like I did see the video of somebody who is a Hasidic Jew, right, that's you know, that's easy to pick out of a lineup because of the clothing and the hairstyle and all of that. But in the case of the other student, I saw the picture and I'm like, yeah, maybe if you ask me, like,
is that guy look or sound a little Jewish? I don't know I could do from a looks perspective, but you know, you tell me your name, all of that. I don't know. I may think that, but the whole thing was just just crazy. And then as darkness fell it got violet. Man, it got bad. You had you had a woman who had a used a flag. So they get the flags and then you use them as a stick in a sticking motion. This is what happened to Andy. No, not when they concreted his head, but in another instance.
So what they'll do is a flag and they're like, I have a flag. I'm okay to have a flag. And then they really it's the it's not about the flag, it's about the stick. And they waxed this chick. They whacked this chick in the face for having the audacity of just wanting to move from campus where she lives to not on campus and vice versa. The audacity. So while that's going on and the you know, the
the chance dude, there is something about a trust fund chick. And it wasn't just women, but there was there was a video I saw with these three women who were on a they had left campus or on a subway, and they filmed the video and it's like, you know, a trust fund ninety I think ninety thousand a year is tuition there at the University Columbia. And Bernard Barnard or I don't even know how to pronounce it, but I
also don't care. So you know, there's that you know, talking about how you know Hamas make us proud kill another soldier now right, you're you're some rich chick who grew up in Governor's Club, and now you're up at Columbus. I'm just using an example, but you know, to give you the idea of what we're talking about here, and you're standing now at on your university campus and then in and around New York channing Hamas make us proud
kill another soldier. Now, free all of our prisoners. You're not members of Hamas, by the way, Free all of our prisoners. You are among some of the most fortunate people on this earth. And once you grow out of this, you'll probably decide you want to, I don't know, get married, settle down, probably act normal, and frankly, I think this is the kind of stuff that needs to follow people around. Man elon Omar's daughter was among the one hundred or so that were x or arrested and
then exited from campus. Now she doesn't go to Columbia, but she goes to Barnard or Bernard or whatever. And they are you know, they're associated schools. So, and then she spent the rest of the weekend. I kid you, not bitching that she's broke, has nowhere to eat, and is homeless. Elon Omar's daughter not just a member of Congress, but a Democratic member of Congress, okay in New York City, and a high profile
Democrat member of Congress. For I guess if you like her for obvious reasons, and if you don't like her for obvious reasons, but not somebody that nobody's ever heard of is not homeless and going hungry in New York City? Can we can we all just can we start from that point that there's no
way this is possible? Do you do you understand the sheer number of people, the sheer number of people who are in the periphery who not just donated to her mom's campaign and other squad member AOC is there, go go bunk at your your you know, your auntie auntie AOC's house. It's just it's so absurd in the amount of theater. If I will say this, the the fake crisis and theater aspect of all of this is they're very good at
it, and Hamas is very good at it. Right where they're just like, ah, look at all these dead kids that look like we just poured flower over them, and that one's still moving. Here's a video and then he runs with it. Oh my gosh, that what they're doing, all the dead kids. It's and so you know, she's right. If I got no food, all my dining pass was revoked. I've been kicked off the campus of the university where we pay ninety thousand per year for me to
go. She just wandering the streets. Shut up. But he's out of their damn mine, man, what is this alright? That wasn't there wasn't a challenge. I just thought it was very weird phrasing in one of these stories here. Eventually police clearing one hundred overnight. The same thing happened at Yale. Yeah, that's right, they went hats and bats. Police storm Yale University's campus with riot gear as hundreds of student stage anti Israel protests.
Are what are universities going to do? I mean, and I'm asking because you're thinking, well, it's Columbia. That's no. We got our fairy I know you know this. We got our share of lunatics around here, and I got bad news from the organizing organization for these two failed protests. I guess maybe they don't see him as failed, But you just got night sticked off the campus, So I'd say that's an l for now. That organization says they got big plans, and those big plans maybe right here in
our backyard. I'll give you the details coming up next here on the CaCO Day radio program. I am surprised to see some of the folks who are critical of the the what happened up in Washington with the pedo dude at the Holiday Inn. But I'll share some of the arguments there and we'll see what you think. But first this, The Yankee fans are not happy with the Yankees, and I don't know if you've ever seen Yankee Twitter, they can be a little bipolarish. But I think this one, I think this one's
okay. I have a problem with So if you don't know, the Yankees played by play guy John Sterling. He announced his retirement last week, which is weird because obviously the season is about five minutes old and if you were planning on retiring, But he offered an explanation. He said, I want to do this for a long time. I've should have done it March first, all during the winter I was living. I lived the greatest life.
I rude the beginning of the season, I should have quit then, basically saying he's just tired of the grind, and you know what he's put in his time. Sterling has spent thirty I looked up thirty six years. Thirty six years, and the guy's actually been doing broadcasting since nineteen sixty. Okay, but he's stuck around. That's obviously a good gig. When you get a long and storied tradition of guys working well past sixty five and in the
broadcast booth of sports, that's fine. If you're doing it, you're doing it. And I depending on which sports teams you've rooted for over the years, some people they just can't they can't fathom watching their sport without that voice, because it may be the only thing they ever know, ever knew. That's how twins were for the first about you know, ninety percent of my life. Of course, Scully in Chicago and I'm sorry in Los Angeles, who retired what like a year ago or and then he yeah, you retire.
I don't know if he passed away. I have a horrible habit of thinking people are dead on the show when they aren't. But don't mind, I understand that and get a close connection. So on Saturday, the Yankees, ahead of the game, decided they were going to honor their longtime announcer and uh, they brought him out on field, thanked him for his years of service, and then proceeded to give him an eighty three inch TV, and fans are roasting the team. Look an eighty three inch TV. Don't
get me wrong, that's an awesome gift. Ross, My birthday's coming up. But some people pointed out, you're the richest team in baseball. This dude's worked for you for thirty six years. This is a high profile. You're on this big stage, and you gave him something that may or may not have been sitting around his storage room at the at the stadium. That's like if I can't if it's Ross's birthday and I roll in, Hey, Ross, I got you an R twenty electro voice. I know you always
wanted one of that'd be actually pretty amazing. Yeah, awesome, Yeah, that's uh, that's great. Yes, there's dust on it, don't worry about that. That's fine. That's uh, that's the microphones we used to broadcast. I'm making my point that that's kind of how it came across. And so Yankees fans are roasting the franchise, like you better get him something different. The thing is, though, maybe they did, right. I don't know if they were like, hey, what do you want? He's
like, I want a big TV. Yeah, well, and that was another option, all right, something, but you could. The whole gist of the thing was like, now you it'll be like you're there staring out on the field because of the size of the TV. That was kind of the joke there. But also the Yankees have a sponsorship agreement with the manufacturer of the TV, so it's like, did you I mean, maybe they did not give them enough notice. That's clear we didn't. I agree.
I agree. I'd be a little cheese as a fan too, but I'd understand the guys put in his time. You know, my mom is losing it. She she loves John Sterling. She hates Michael Kay. So like when she watches the Michael Kay's the TV announcer and he's also radio guy, but she can't stand him and she hates his voice and everything. So like when she watches the Yankees game, she she mutes the TV and turns up the radio broadcast. It's like it's a part of the routine. Well,
I mean, you've worked in radio long enough. I don't know if you've worked at stations that had major affiliates. But for radio, we used to sync with the TV intentional. My first paying radio job was running the Yankee game for the country station Okay in Albany, and it was John Sterling. Well, no, no, no, But what I'm telling you is so we used to because Paul Allen is the Vikings guy, and he's pretty well
known. I think he was our He was an afternoon host on the sports station or I guess late morning, sorry now, and and people enjoyed listening to him versus the TV guys. So we would literally but when the when the Vikings game started, whoever was running the board there had to go on the TV and sink the delay so that that that Paul's voice on the radio syncd up with the TV. You get what I'm saying, And and and
so we could get people over there. And I actually feel for this guy that your mom loves, because nobody wants to be the dude after the thirty five year dude. I love this story, not for the fact that this young man had to deal with this insanity, but I do love the way that he dealt with it. So, uh, here we go. Let me introduce you to an eleven year old boy. His name is Braden Smith, and he's just chilling around the house doing what you know eleven year olds
do. And all of a sudden, he's got himself a visitor. And that visitor is not there selling cookies or trying to get out the vote. No, no, no, he is allegedly there for much more nefarious reasons and chooses to deal with the kid in an interesting way I suppose. And by the way, the alleged intruder I believe is nineteen, Yeah, nineteen, Jatavian Hall is his name, so he got the Braden Smith's the eleven
year old. Nineteen year old is Jatavian Hall, who decided he was, I don't know, going to rob the place and figured he could just verbally threaten the eleven year old and do getting out of his way so he can get to louton. But he didn't go that way. Let's head to the news report and this is deeply satisfying. Is the closet? A home intruder told eleven year old Braden Smith to sit in while he stole items from the
boys home Friday morning. Braden had a different plan. He turned his back and I went to Grandma machete and I went into the living him in the back of the head. By the way, does an eleven year old get a pass for the incorrect pronunciation of the machete? Considering that movie is probably more than eleven years old. I was gonna say, he sounds pretty uncultured, but I think we can let it slide. All right, We're gonna
let it slide. So, Plus, he's got a machete, and I don't want to, you know, make him mad, so all hat So he told you to go sit in the closet while he steals all your your family's stuff. He went a different route. Continues. On Monday, we learned Jatavian Hall left DNA evidence behind when he took off after getting hit in the head with a machete. Paul gave simple there's no excuse for this woman
though, No, that's awful, Yeah, what are you doing? And polite answers in Orange County Courtroom, where judge raised his bond to one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. Monday at the Alamance County Courthouse, I learned Hall was charged after yelling inappropriate things at officers in twenty sixteen. A year later, he was accused of taking money from someone he set up to meet to sell a gaming console. That victim told me he was disappointed to learn
Holl hadn't learned his lesson. I have to protect the house because I knew if I didn't protect the house he could he would probably take like everything. Braden hopes he's figured it out this time. I just really don't think that you should break into other people's houses. I mean, you can earn money by getting a job instead. How based is this kid? By the way, I love it. I love it. That's right, young man.
It's right. You can get money other ways instead of robbing you or robbing some guy off Craig's list over a game boy, which, by the way, a game boy, I guess maybe they mean the new one that's all loaded, not the old one. Yes, you can do that, and you can get a job. And ironically, this little sound piece of logic. There are a crap ton of lawmakers and activists who would literally put on
this kid breaking into people's houses and selling their stuff. Police arrested Hall in Burlington on Sunday after he walked out of the emergency department and that you wouldn't see hospital wearing a gown Friday night. By the way, I don't know if you know this. If you're walking around in prisoner gear right into a hospital gown, people are gonna you're not gonna go unnoticed. So I'm not surprised by that. This guy sounds like an absolute criminal genius. But uh
yeah, all right, good on you, young man. Whacking him in the head with a machete. Then I thought, people like, wait, everyone's his parents. He's only eleven. I don't know. Sounds like he can handle himself, right, I'm sorry your eleven year old's drooling moron because you've coddled him so much. This kid's family's like, oh, all right, if somebody shows up, Jason Voorhee's him, all right, we'll see you later. Son. The kid owns a machete. Obviously, he's spent
time in the jungle, and he knows how to survive by himself. It's clear, I mean, educate yourself. These people sound dumb. No, I mean, but everybody's got to take right, everybody's got to take and this this guy's just trolling. But he's like dah, kind of doubles down and was reading one com and he's like, you know at that point, if he's not physically assaulting you, he struck first, and it's just like, you know what, sir, I hope that twenty people break into your
house and lock you in a closet and steelers. I don't want to physically harm you, but get off social media please, So that would be my response to that. So congratulations there. I hope he still has his machete,
but I suspect it's probably an evidence so being another one. And I would like to point out too, when we were doing the the UH Toy Drive, right the Toy Drive before Christmas, where we were out in front of the Walmart in Apex, no carry carry for like three days I was we people would people would come in and donate toys, but occasionally people would be like can I just give some money? And then one of us radio people from the different stations we'd go inside and buy toys and uh, I
didn't. I didn't go in and do it. And I went in with a couple of the like our promotionscal and one of the afternoon Chick Radio Chick from one of the other stations, and they all, you know they got kids. Well one of them has kids, and she's like, this is what my kids like. This is like this and like the isle away from the toys, they have six dollars machetes. And I'm like, look, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be honest with you. If I was a kid
this and fishing poles signed me up. And they're like no, But in reality, I could help save lives if I wouldn't have folded to peer pressure by getting these kids. Now, he should have went with your gut there, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, I folded. I shouldn't have folded. I I felt strongly that you know what happens if one of these kids is getting a toy donation is home alone in a burglar breaks. Do you want him to be armed or do you want him to be armed with a
speaking say exactly? I would say one of the one of my best Christmas memories when I think about like what you know, you think about like great Christmases you've had. It was a year my dad just like got stuff. I told you, He's like, what do you want for Christmas? I wanted? I was like, I want this, this, this, and this from the Army surplus store. Okay, it was all on the tree and it was amazing. Yeah, buddy, I was like, you can
you can play g I Joe or you could be g I Joe. I mean, when you're a kid, the one thing sounds better, But then when you're old, you're like, then let's do the other thing. We'll watch you. You say, all that run around the woods. But no, when you're a kid, man, you get exactly what you want. That's uh, that's a because that doesn't happen all the time, right, in some cases doesn't happen at all, but you know how to get at all. Then that that usually makes for the greatest gift. So yours was
full commando, your full rambo thing. And this kid had a machete and I had a gas mask under my bed ready for right, I'm ready. Yeah, who's laughing now? Not you? Because you're you're you can't breathe because serenas. Uhha, Ross can breathe what I'm sorry? Did I take that to a little too farther. I'm not wrong. I'm trying to think what was my greatest What would you say your greatest? Would you say that was the best gift you ever got when you were a kid? Nineteen eighty
five Nintendo Entertainment. I knew it exactly what it was going to be. Now, technically mine, the Nintendo that we got was bought for all the kids, so I can't count that. I still remember the pajamas I was wearing that morning on Christmas Day. It was Max headroom pajamas. I think my best, my best I think my best gift is a younger kid. It was a Marlin twenty two. It was my first gun. I murdered everything, not really stuff that was alive, although obviously I did a chuts
of parade dogs with it. Although you kind of need something a little bigger, but I must have. I must have put ten thousand rounds through that thing in like the first week. It was crazy. My mom would be like, could you stop shooting everything? And I'm like, I'm gonna go a little further into the woods. You can you hear me, and that was that was great, and I do I can remember every element of it. It's just weird what sticks to you, like the whole process. I
remember Christmas, Christmas and it's it's freaking cold and anything and everything. We were just shooting. Oh, it was the best, all right. I never did get a machete. Machete for Christmas though, so but firearms work as well. So kudos to you, young man for handling your business. All right, raced agic, he's here to handle weather business. Some eleven year old kid, dude breaks into his house, tells him to get in the closet because he's robbing them. Kid goes, grabs machete and hits the
dude in the head. Huh good for him, Yeah that's what i'd say. Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude, that one dudes in jail, other kids. Uh you know, this kid's just living living the uh celeb life now. So good. Yeah yeah, machete right, So you got some playing to do, mister. He got Trump rally, got the Trump Rally got canceled out of Wilmington. So I people I saw were disappointed. And I was seeing some some video from down around Charlotte area and uh,
they got you got whacked down there, man, So what's up? Yeah? The hell? Yeah, yeah, yep, pretty close. I don't know if I have confirmed. I don't know if we confirmed some of the largest hell we've seen in this state on record. But there was some big hill South Carolina. It was rocky yeah right, yeah, yeah yeah, in the rock Hill area. Close enough right for the work I do. But we'll cut right through this cloud that's around this morning. There's no rain
of any appreciable amount over the next seven days. If I look out ahead, just these kind of chilly mornings coming up, will get milder briefly, then will cool off again. Today unseasonably cool with the clouds breaking already break into the west of Lewisville, Statesville and Shelby and west end of the mountains, so getting into the tryhead the clearing pretty soon triangle coming up in the
next couple hours. Most of us will be mostly sunny this afternoon near sixty or just above tonight, another night in the upper thirties to near forty low seventies Tomorrow, mostly sunny or in the fifties. Tomorrow night could be a sprinkle of rain with the next front coming in sometime Wednesday, mostly sunny to partly cloudy, the otherwise low seventies. Thursday, upper sixties, near seventy, then back in the little bit forties for Friday morning, and then sunny,
low seventies in the afterdo on the weekend. Looks like we'll start warming up once again. But pretty pretty tranquil week. I mean pretty quiet. It turns of precipt no storms expected, a big area of high pressure. Temperatures just gonna go up and down. I don't see anything's going to cancel the outdoor plans. Kids have ball games the next few evenings. After that sun sets, I'll get chili pretty quick, so I would certainly grab grab
jacket. Temperatures for the most part at or slightly below normal, especially today, but for most of the week before we warm up, get back close to eighty by the end of the weekend. Alrighty, thank you sir. We're talking an hour. I appreciate it. Coming up. Look at this. Oh yeah, I gotta I gotta explain what these violent anti Semitic protesters have planned for next. So we'll fill you in there. And yeah, we have to talk about human torch there and holy crap, we'll get into
it coming up. CODA Radio program. Read this a couple of times. It's sounded more aggressive initially, and I thought someone was being but hurt. But I think it's a fair opinion. So I'll just give you the gist of this email. It's from a listener who listens as some of you do with your kids. We appreciate that we'll get them nice and corrupted for you. Scared of Florida. So anyway, you know, basically, the emailer says, I'm glad the kid's okay, but this could have gone horrible.
I think somebody tweeted that too, something similar, but takes issue with you know, you guys sitting here and talking about what a great thing it is. You know, I don't want encourage kids to attack a burglar. No I I you know what, that's fine, that's a that's a fair opinion. I mean there is the the post, you know, Hindsight's twenty twenty
angle on this too. And there's the other thing too. Maybe when the die, because we're speculating here, maybe when the guy got done rob in the place, he comes in and you know, gets rid of the witness or something. So there's you know it's not. You don't know exactly how this was gonna go. We only know how it went. But anyway, all right, fair enough, I got that out there, But I too can I can what if as well? We're pretty darn good at it around
these parts. So yeah, let's go ahead and get into where we may next be dealing with bucket load a campus crazies. And the answer is at a school near you. That's right. The the organizing body for I guess one of the organizing bodies for the protests up there in Columbia and Yell is the Palestinian Students Alliance whatever. Who cares what the group is. I don't
need the PUB. But they did say that they're taking this show on the road, baby, And they say that college campuses all throughout the United States and and really across the world. I think that you're in the UK and others have a partner organization. Uh, they are going to be setting up these occupation cities until their demands are met. So I feel like we're not
gonna we're not gonna slip this news. It's gonna happen around here. I just probably won't happen at State. Probably what do you think probably probably Carolina baby Duke. Duke tends to clear things a little quicker than Carolina does, so I don't know, but that's got to be just nightmare fuel if you are in fact a university official right now. I guess the only upside is I kind of feel within the un C system that there is, at least
from a a leadership standpoint, there's less appetite for this garbage. But I don't know, so I'll be curious to see what universities do. I mean, this is disitely ann escalate. Until you do something, people are like, well, it's pre speech, it's all this. Now they've incorporated all
the worst tactics there is. There is an occasional assault in some of these instances at the very you know, they'll go and they'll they'll have twenty kids that will literally surround somebody, and when that person tries to walk away, if they if they make any physical contact, the people start screaming and go, oh you push your nuts. You're trying to it, And it's like they know what the tactics are. Somebody's filming. They come over and start
spinning the umbrellas right off the old Antifa playlist. I want to block traffic, want to cut gates open, want to do all of this stuff. Absolutely willing to do it. It's it's worth you know, the cause is worth it, dude. When you when you're a fundamentalist idiot, which is what you're dealing with here. You're dealing with people that you know, want to be a fundamentalist on something, but they're dumb and instead of choosing something
more productive with their life, this is what they've decided. Because it also has the you know, it's got that woke factor in the hey look at me, Look how amazing I am. And most of these people in ten years will be worried about whether they're going to be making their country club dues or you know or not. Maybe probably not since you probably have a pretty good source of trust funds to go on. But for now they're absolutely insane.
So David Spade is coming to North Carolina on the Joe Dirt Country actually going everywhere else. Greensboro, he'll be a tanger, Wilmington, Pritsbury, Small on this at KFE, You're community college that they're performing Arts Center, uh and Ashville the Joe Dirt Country Bus tour. So yeah, I don't know. I've seen David Spade do stand up before live, you know, just as David Spade, So but I didn't know does he have does he have a bit where that was that was a character that obviously is now him
but before. Yeah, so you know, all sorts of weirdness now with this uh processor unit as well. Anyway, So yeah, I don't I don't know what's going on there. Ross has loaded all the dirt audio on there. Yeah, just in case we only take and take, you know, stroll down memory lane. Super excited about this, man, I know what to see. I posted it online and like Jason Cord remember Jason's work here. Yeah, he like immediately responded and he was like this has to
be fake. It can't be real. And I'm like, we'll check it out. Man. He's going to Greensboro, Asheville, Wilmington. It's gonna be amazing. Yeah, wonder why not Raleigh or Durham or something. It's just an old crapper tank people, Okay, gig it away. I mean it's a top three movie. It's a tip. I hope he's in character.
I mean, I know you mean that because you wrote an entire thread underneath the thing there on the top three movies, which for those of you who play in the home game, or Godfather, Godfather too and Joe Dirt. And then you showed everyone your award. Yeah, because I don't want it to be scared. They got him some sort of lunatic So I want him to know that. You know, I'm a professional radio guy and I have one very important awards. Don't you feel it is kind of lunatic behavior
to have Before you even finish the sentence, no you didn't. What was I gonna say? It doesn't matter. No, a bunch of Joe Dirt drops in my news category or my news media. Yeah it is. It came out of the sky. Well I'm sure it did, but it ain't. No Maydia. There is a big old frozen chunk of what. We've got to get tickets. We've got to get tickets. Fa We've been talking about this for what twelve years? Thirteen years? Gotta do it. Some
of us have not voluntarily been talking about it. We just get ambushed every fourth of July. Right, it's a staple on the fourth man, It's not. It's not. It's not a staple. People love it find PTSD inducing thing that I wait for all three hours of whatever show immediately precedes the olive And then we do have listeners in the Triangle that are confused, like,
oh, he's not coming to Raleigh, so you can't go. I'm like, well, I mean we do have a radio station in the show in Greensboro in the Triad, so it's relevant, right, So I'm saying, listen, I don't I'm not for using our media credentials and power to influence things, but I'm saying we can somehow pick up tickets for the show. I think I think the audience. This isn't about me. I think the audience needs it. Think's important, this is relevant? Is he gonna
have the gator on stage? Here we go go. I'm a bit of a crocofile so don't try this at home. This here's Rocky and he ain't no puppy. Yeah, let's see if Rock's got some cattle. It's mofa no. Not to mess with Sir Joseph's shirt. Go on. I think it's great that he's striking in the iron is hot too? Well? Timing is there? Yeah, it really is. Are you concerned that some people who may have professional jobs that they're headed to right now? Are you just
made them dumber? Like you know, maybe some surgeon who's going to save somebody's lost I and now maybe harmful. There's a lot of life lessons in that movie, man, is there? I I don't. I don't remember. I remember the fireworks stands sucked? I did it? That was That was my big take. You like to see Home was naked? Home my way you make it? And you like to see Home was naked? That's cool? Man? Whatever is that a life lesson? I don't Dtand I'm
so confused. But anyway, that's the thing, And but I don't understand exactly what the thing is. I don't remember any Joe Dirret references the one stand up I saw with him. But if that's your thing, uh, I mean, listen, listen. We're always being asked by promotions and management, right like, Hey, can you guys think of a contest or something you should be doing? David Spade, the Joe Dirt Count, whatever it's called, is coming to Greensboro. Did I just sell that? Sold it
perfectly? Couldn't in all seriousness? Send an email to JT and tell him because yeah, he's Yeah, that's We're doing some other giveaways and we have a partnership obviously with the people. I'm thinking if we don't do some sort of Joe Dirt promotion for this after all the years of it being part of the show, it's criminal negligence. Someone's going to prison. I don't disagree, even though again the fireworks thing. So what should we I think we
should make people get their hair cut like Joe Dirt. Well, I mean, I think it's n fair because a lot of people already have that haircut. Well, then you're you're planning a head that's like complaining that a dude, you know, he's doing the half court shot at halftime and they're like, no, he played basketball before. Well that's good on him. He thought maybe one day I'll need this skill set. Stupid. Yeah, I
think we should force people to get mullets. And to your point, yeah, there are some parts of the state where there's going to be uh probably outsized a number of people qualifying for the big prize, But I don't know. Maybe we'll see. What's the date on it? You would have enough time? Yeah, probably it's June twenty seventh for Greensboro. All right, maybe we'll put that in the maybe bucket. Okay, all right, very good. So Washington, State of Washington. Guy thinks he's showing up to
hook up with the seven and eleven year old girls. He's sixty five. He believes he is negotiated with the mom of the two kids to go to this motel and she leave alone for a little while or I don't know where she said she was going to be in the conversation, and he could satisfy all of his super twisted urges, except the problem was what he showed up. He didn't meet mom. There were no seven or eleven year old girls.
Instead, you saw the police, Seattle police in uniform, I said, sixty five, sixty seven actually, and you see the video and it's fast, it is fast. Right door opens, police in uniform comes spilling out of there, and this guy within the first second you can see him
removing a pistol from underneath his jacket. His jacket's not buttoned or zipped up and up, and he probably had it in his hand prior to knocking on the door, which would make sense considering the type of people he is dealing with there, or thinks he's dealing with right, that makes perfect sense because you're you know, you're dealing with criminals, then you're yourself for a criminal if that's what you're doing. So no honor among thieves. I get that.
And in that split second, the first officer places his hands around the pistol while the other officer is able to get off two belly shots. Because now you have this pistol, this guy's got the butt end. The officer is kind of trying has the barely spinning it away. It's an extremely dangerous situation, and so the other officer hits him twice with that, at which point guy drops still. Firearm is still with him, and it's mag dump
city and he's gone. Watch the video. I tweeted it out at Casey on the radio, and it's like a curious number of people that seem to have a problem with this, although maybe not major problems, saying let's see one was you know after they the officer has control, it has the pistol, there's no need to shoot him. The officer doesn't have the pistol. The officer is playing like the most dangerous tug of war game possible, I
guess, short of tug of war over an alligator pit. But like, you don't want to be fighting fighting with a gun, like literally fighting over it. You don't know whose fingers in the trigger guard, You don't know, you know, at all times, when you're that close, you don't even know where it's pointing. Necessarily, That's why it's a movie trope, right, two guys fighting over a gun. All of a sudden, there's a shot. One guy has a shock look, but you know that that's
not the one who got shot. It's the other one. And it's a fake out and they do it every damn time. This is real life, man. He the officer opened that door and immediately, within a half second, is greeted with the guy who is processing that he's going to go to jail for a long time. And the officer is processing that this guy has a damn gun in his hand. And I saw people say, well,
look, he had it in his hand before. So it is in that moment of surprise that they saw it and at that point they decided to kill him. And to that, I would say, it doesn't matter why he where he had it before, especially when you consider that what you're doing. I'll give you an example. Here's where it does matter. Okay, it matters if an officer, If an officer came up onto Let's say I had property and I got you know, enough acreage that I can shoot on my
property and no neighbors who just moved from California will whind about it. And I'm doing that and an officer pulls into my driveway on some whatever the issue is. Maybe maybe there was a call, maybe he suspects me, whatever it is. If that officer simply because he views me holding a firearm,
opens fire, then yes, I agree with you. The difference here is this guy is in the commission of felonious actions and is being presented with officers or by you know, with officers who are going to likely keep him from ever breathing free air again, even even in Seattle, of all places, I think they would actually prosecute this guy. And so it's not the same situation. And at that point he also could have made a decision when the
officer grabbed the gun to let go of it, Ta dah. And had he done that with the first you know it, actually he had a few seconds, which, in that as fast as everything was going was actually quite a bit of time he could have just let go, just let go of the gun. You don't get you don't get gut shot. And then mag dumped at that point. But he didn't do any of those things. And then of course there's the other part where won't be raping, no kids,
no more, which I see many people latched onto here. It was weird. Was it a holiday in express? And he's really bad at this, so I don't know. Probably maybe the family will sue Intercontinental hotel brands or whatever did not make him better at his chosen thing here. All right, I talked about Moonbat on Moonbat environmental stuff. I will get you that story. And the speaking of environmental stuff, the state of New York has their
next target. You're the next target that's got to go on your little food shopping list there and we'll talk racist foods every other day. There's one of these hot boobs in profile and some other ones. I can't read on our stuff or is it just getting worse everywhere? And I'm feeling like I'm targeted because we're selfish. I don't know, Man, try to look at the replies on Twitter and and it's just covered with that garbage. All right,
I know you're right. It's weird too because it doesn't matter like what the topic is. It can be something very serious, like I posted like a sweet thing about Lincoln, you know, yeah, I'm posting about my twelve year old who has autism and like how he wants to be a DJ and his playlist and all this stuff, and then there it is in the comments boobs and bio. I mean, so it's not like a keyword thing I have no I I just don't know. I don't know how we got on
the on the list there, but very frustrated. Hey, let me ask you a quick question. Let's say you wanted to rob a convenience store. What do you think you would use to rob the store with? Hypothetically, not that you would, of course, ever do that, but what do you what do you what do you think that it would be a useful tool to achieve your goal? Sheer, intimidation and will anything else? Firearm? Okay, you're gonna go with a firearm. Let's let's go to Memphis quickly.
I know if you know this, you think, think of any city in America. Thing's dangerous, and then just know that Memphis is probably worse. They were the leader in many of the main categories for a while in Chicago got all the credits. So any who, around two am, man by the name of Reginald Cook decided he was going to rob him the Shell convenience store on Elvis Presley Drive in Memphis, Tennessee. Cook allegedly came into the store with a he's wearing a hoodie and a backpack and demanded cash,
and he was kind of fiddling with his backpack. So the cashier said he believed that he might have been armed, but he didn't see a firearm, and the cash here just looked at him and said, no, get out of here if I call the police, which, by the way, people are like, why would you do that if you think he's Do you understand the type of person it takes to work at the graveyard shift, the overnight shift at a gas station without a bulletproof cage, I might add in Memphis,
Tennesse, you understand the eight tour grizzled Vietnam vet. You're gonna have to be to work two am in a high crime area in a high crime city. Please, of course, he said, no, please say Cook then left the store and came back thirty minutes later this time he was armed, very intimidating. All right, Rossell, you went with firearm, you said, firearm and sheer will and intimidation, right, that was your go
to. This guy decided he was going to take the WWE approach. I'm assuming because he rolled back in with a five foot snake around his neck, a railroad spike and a rock. And I guess he thought that that was going to intimidate the clerk because he had, you know, his his creepy Boa Constrictor friend and a railroad spike which I maybe found that in the parking
lot. The problem is is this is Tennessee. This is not Los Angeles, this is not New York City. So the guy who works overnight at the gas station and the bad part of town and the bad town, he pulled his dirty hairy weapon because of course he has a pistol. Then he held him and then the police came and arrested this idiot. So you're not getting any money, and now he's now now he's in jail. So he's like, choose your weapon, and you're like a burlapsack with a snake in
it. Oh, it's like paper rock scissors for criminals yeah, it's like the clerk. Look if this guy probably gets rod with a gun so often that this criminal dirt bag was just trying to spice things up for him. You know this guy. You know what this guy sounds like. Do you remember that dude in Oklahoma where convinced was trying to make the super snake. Yeah, they pulled him over it they would they found like what a snake
and like plutonium or something. Yeah, and then there was some other thing too, an ope, a bottle of liquor because you know, when you're getting radiated to get powers as a snake. I guess you got a drink. There's something else. But it's like this guy, I don't know, man, And how does that work? From a paper rocks or standpoint? Does rock? Does railroad spike beat rock? I guess because you can use him to split rock? And where does the snake fall on this? Like?
What would it beat railroad spike? The whole thing's weird. Doesn't say if he now you get to keep his snake in jail. But anyway, but just be clear, gun beats rock, snake and spike, So now you know it's important information. Man, that'll make sure all right, so New York they've decided they're going to get to get to cancel in some stuff again and have now looked at a new bill called Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure
Act. So basically they are they're going to attempt to force any company. I believe they only have to have net income over a million dollars. So that's going to be any reasonable signed food company or reasonable sized food company that's in the bigger grocery stores to reduce their packaging. And they got a whole ramp thing. And one of the immediate, one of the most immediate things that will happen is the the law will outlaw individually wrapped food in larger things.
So I guess what example. I guess cheese would be the best example of that. Right, we have individually wrapped but also granola bars, Like, how does that work? You go buy a box of granola bars and there's ten, you know, individually wrapped granola bars in there. So and remember, if that's this is how California plays, they do this crap, and California had, you know, such a big income. Generally companies will make the changes. But I don't know how the hell this is gonna work.
But that's what they're doing right now because it's it's problematic and there's lots of problematic foods. I came to learn. Did you know that lots of problematic foods? Somebody put together an amazing thread, which, by the way, I'll have to remember to retweet here. I had forgotten all this stuff, but on food that is problematic or racist or any of the rest,
and uh, holy crap, man, Holy crap. It's a lot of stuff, like a lot of a lot, a lot of stuff, to the point where I think the reason they want you to eat bugs is because that's all they have left. And I think what we'll do in the uh in the last segment is I just want to revisit some of those because yeah, there's even some stuff I didn't realize, and I guess maybe you can decide whether you want to change your lifestyle. So we'll get into that.
But raced agic first, he is he's standing by. So Guy goes into a convenience store two am, Memphis, Tennessee, already super dangerous, tells the clerk, give me all the money, clerk because it tells him no, because you got to be grizzled to work that shift, I suppose, and h dude went and then came back. He and with a snake around his neck holding a railroad spike in a rock. Well, except the clerk had a gun. So in the in the paper rock scissors of this,
the gun beats those things. Yes, I would think paper rock scissors. I mean, I understand, I guess a rock you know, a lot able action railroad spike. It's heavy, it's sharp. Sure, snake in that case you need like you need like a like a girl, like a like a tween who's creeped out by stuff. Other than that, I don't think the snake's gonna have any effect unless it's visibly a cobra or something. Right, But no, anyway, he's in jail. So what's up?
Well, pretty good looking weather. Got a little cloud this morning around the triangle. There might be a little drizzle in some spots. It doesn't look like some materialize into too much either way, These clouds are gonna go away. Already starting to clear. Try and that's all coming east. If you
haven't cleared yet, you will And it's gonna be a great day. Little on the cool side, but not bad about ten twelve degrees below average, depends on where you are on either side of sixty by few, so up fifties, low sixties tonight, clear and upper thirties to low forties, a little warmer Tuesday, as we have sunshine back low seventies and then low seventies with maybe some light rain or sprinkles on Wednesday. Otherwise clouds and sunshine,
and really that's the only mention of rain this week. It looks like high pressure will be back in some beautiful weather for late week with low mid seventies for highs and loads will be a little chilly, mid to upper forties, and then they'll start to come up toward the weekend as we'll temperatures Saturday and Sunday, if we want to go that far ahead, I mean, really not much else to talk about. So we will bots of sunshine, and
the weekend looks great. Mid seventies on Saturday, maybe near eighty and some spots on Sunday. So I'm going to be a pretty quiet week weatherwise. This way looks right now as we start getting into the last few days of the month. Boy, last weekend of April coming up, This weekend coming up, so it's all downhill now till summertime. Right what no, no, no, no, no, no, no, all right, I'm trying to make it up here. Yeah, to see this, you see
to more? All right, Thank you, Jeff, and we'll for Jeff Ray and then we'll chat with Jeff like my first day working with these guys. Jeff Bollinger from Bloomberg. We got the food in sanity and just a little sports story over the weekend. If you didn't see it, I think's kind of cool. We'll get into all of it coming up. Hang on, well, good morning, Casey. The or chain Express has filed for
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services or personal loans. And Casey, we talked a little bit about this last week. Bosses gave activist employees an inch, but a lot of workers took a mile now that party is over. We did see it last week when twenty eight Google workers were fired for protesting over the company's cloud deal with the Israeli government. Wall Street Journal reports today that bosses who tolerated dissent in recent years have had enough. They no longer put up with dissent that disrupts
the workplace. Casey, all right, well it looks like the universities are getting aboard on that too. I think people just had enough of this stuff. Is it really that? I mean, I don't know what part of town you live on, but like, is it that insane in New York at Columbia right now? I'm assuming that's the only it's it's a big story. It's I have I I don't work or travel near Columbia, but it's
it's it's been the maiden story on local news for a few nights. Now, okay, all right, well we'll see what they the Trump trial. Yep, well that's getting weird. But anyway, all right, well, thank you very much, appreciate it. Talk tomorrow. You two have a good date. Yeah, you know, there was there's some what was I can't remember who sent the email? There was an email that somebody got.
It was one of those uh you accidentally all replied, all And basically it just showed some the staffers with the Democrat Senate, the Senate Committee the basically they're going this this, this, this stuff of the universe, this is horrible for us, Like they're sitting there looking at like this is not good.
So a little panicky there. So obviously, as much as the media can lean into the Trump trial stuff, I suppose they might go in that direction, but I don't know that it'll work, all right, So I mentioned the foods there, all right, So yeah, yeah, So the state of New York is wanting to get rid of things, and one of the victims there may be individually rapped American cheese. I guess you grilled cheese enthusiasts now granted, other sliced cheese. Sometimes it just comes with the paper
in between. And some brands don't have it in there at all. So that does exist out there. But if you buy Crafts singles, you know what you're getting, and there are other reasons why you may want that individually wrapped, okay, because sometimes you're not using it right at the moment you're removing it from the refrigerator. I remember this because my mom used to put some of the singles sometimes in our lunch and she would leave it wrapped.
You know, I don't know from a health perspective, if that was a super necessary thing, but it was worked for us. Plus the inside of my lunchbox probably wasn't the cleanest thing in there, so so yeah, we'll add that to the list. And then I saw this is great, a list of all of the problematic different foods out there according to the media. And it's crazy. All right, Ross, if you eat any of these, just know that you are You're a horrible person, and so am I
and anyone else who does up first. Candy don't. I don't really like candy, So I'm okay here not a big candy fan. Yeah, here we go. Fish, just says fish? Or is Sacramento b Why some fish or junk others are protected California study points to racism? Yams? Those are they have a racist background. Fried chicken obviously, there you go. Let's see barbecue. I hope none of you guys eat barbecue. The media has erased the long history of black barbecue. How about soft drinks? Did
you know that those were problematic? Those are probably if you're rid of those eggs, BENEDICTT I like eggs, Benedict, you a fan of the eggs, Benedict, Ross, I'm a fan of eggs in general. Yeah, but that with that, with that sauce on the way, why can't these people be normal? Hold on mimosas too. I kind of agree with that. Why can't they be normal? Because I this is this is this is
how you get funding, This is how you get attention. Ninety percent of these headlines are the result of a study that was done at some university that likely propped up the financial health and career of the individuals doing it. So I would just say ninety percent of the stories now I come across on X or on social media, on the net, whatever, I'm like, ninety percent of them. My reaction is, why can't you be normal? How
about Ketchup? You like Ketchup? Did ketchup is genocide? Well? No, this is the headline from the Guardian is having to pay for Ketchup racist? I mean most times you don't have to, though, most time if you order, like if you go to Boat Jingles, right and you're like, give you a chicken biscuit or whatever, and then they'll just give you the packets, right, Like I think, if you roll up to the window, just ask for it, right, you can just get it for
nothing. And by the way, if you want to get the most of something asked for one of it.