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at that point I'm just popping that mic. Sorry, I like adjusted the cut. I have like a soft cover on my mic, and it finally gave out. I'm gonna have to go get my other little, uh little thing for it. So I apologize for that. But so the the the opening ceremonies, which by the way, were what like three hours or something. Now I get it, especially because it's Paris, they're gonna feel the necessity to flex their artistic muscle. So like the Marie Antoinette thing, Okay,

well we'll start there. It was this weird pan shot, right and you had you had like this red back glow, and you know what looked like Marie Antoinette holding her head. If that was the if that, I didn't even mind that, Okay, whatever,

it's Paris. That's the thing. French Revolution got it. I don't know if you know, but when we've had opening ceremonies, including the ones in Atlanta, well not the not the bombing part, but you know, there was a there was a definitive nod to the American Revolution there, okay, because I saw people were posting like screenshots of previous opening

ceremonies in Russia and the US and Brazil. And but what we watched on Friday quickly devolve from that into and you'd have to convince me otherwise into a blatant screw you from a religious perspective. And and and that question was answered when what they purport is Dionysus, which, by the way, I want you to do something this morning, if you've never done it, I want you to knowing

the image. I want you to all up the famous Feast of Dionysus painting, because that's what we were told they were attempting to go for with the long table full of drag queens. And then I want you to look at that painting. Okay, it's easy to search it up. You can even search it on Google because it doesn't have Trump's name in it. And so go and just be like, all right, I'm gonna do it right now, Beast of Dionysus. All right, all right, Beast of Dionysus.

And you can go look at the painting. Yeah yeah, yeah, no, you get you go look at it. It is not

remotely that. And then I want you to call up and maybe you have this image in your head, the Last Supper, and then I want you to look at any screen shot, any wide shot of what was going on at that table, and you tell me, because again we live in this post truth world where you just say it and then one hundred thousand idiots on Twitter will be like going into the community notes, no, it was actually this, and then the giant blue dress Jesus

with the halo literally uh tweeted or excuse me, instagramed, let me get this, let me get this correct, instagrammed gay New Testament and referred to herself as her himself or what I didn't I don't even know, as God or as Jesus. Excuse me, but sure, no, it's the Feast of Dionysus. So you know, for an event that's

now going to run for weeks. You decided to start it off by insulting a bunch of people, and they issued in a issued in a ology but not really, I don't know, And then I saw you know again, uh,

the the trolling was heavy. We kind of got into the trolling on the show account because uh I uh I did yesterday point out that the predictive search may have been leaving some stuff out when you start typing in attempted assassination of and I and I, you know, I had hordes of disingenuous intellectually did us dishonest folks going you don't understand how algorithms work. Yeah, no, I kind of do. And even if you don't, it's it's pretty easy to get there. And we'll we'll touch on

that in a moment. All right, So do you have a chance this morning to stare at the feast of Dionysus painting and the Last Supper and and then what we were presented with during the opening ceremonies. You tell me, okay, you ross you're an independent arbiter. I haven't told you were doing this test. I would like you to Akham's rasor this thing, and you tell me, Feast of Dionysus, Last Supper. What do you think the artistic director was going for with that particular piece of imagery. If you

had to bet, you're you're not an art expert. I'm not an art expert. Best guess Beast of Dionysus or Last Supper. All right, so he's reviewing that your reviewed. You tell me, well, we get a statement from the Olympics and they're like, well, you know, we really, oh so sorry. Didn't mean to offend every every Christian on the planet. Didn't mean to do that, you know, was misinterpreted. The absolute gas lighting on this stuff is just legendary.

And so what does it cause, Well, it causes folks to go ahead and not want to watch the Olympics. And that's too bad. A lot of people all across the world, but especially our athletes here in the United States and both the Olympics and the Paralympics, who will put a lot of work into their craft, their skill so they can go out and we can own one hundred and ninety some other countries. Plus we also there's also a refugee team. Did you know that? I did

not know that? And then the there's a Palestinian team and only one person there is actually either from or living in quote unquote Palestine. The rest live elsewhere, including one who lives in the US and was born in Illinois.

But you know, you get some of that where folks are not wanting or or not able to qualify, maybe on the US team who do that, or you get ones who want to get to payday, like the ah what was the ice Remember the ice skating chick in the Winter Olympics who decided to go be China's puppet and unfortunately fame and riches didn't follow because she choked

during the Olympics. But that was a calculated thing, likely would have been on the US team, decided to compete for China because her mom or one side of her family is from China. The whole thing was wild, and yet we're all supposed to pretend that that wasn't that wasn't the attent. So we got that story this morning. That's gonna be in the stack and uh, and then of course we got all the you know, the general

insanity of more election stuff. We'll figure out how climate change and feces is impacting the Olympics apparently.

were on the TV there. They were showing some of the gymnasts and I said, just making conversation, I said, remember when the Olympics were this huge thing, like in the nineties and eighties, Like, dude, we would watch it. We were glued to our televisions. In my family, it was a big family event. We'd get together. You still remember, I don't remember her name. It was a Carrie Strug.

It was a nice weekend. Tried to want paid some attention to the Olympics, but once I see like blue Smurf, nymph man or whatever is on the table and uh, you know, obese Olympic Jesus woman as and then I'm out. I'm out.

to grind. I've known a couple people just over the years because I was doing the hunting and fishing stuff too. I used to do a show in Minnesota. It was syndicated, and uh, you know, so we talk shooting, we talk all this stuff, and you know, these are they got to go out and raise money for for for like

going to the Olympics and stuff. So talking to some of the Olympic hopefuls, I mean, they're doing it because it's their passion, man, And we got all sorts of stuff, and yet you decide to kick it off with the thing that tells the dude at Planet Fitness talking with Ross this morning because he's there getting his gains on a Monday, which God bless you man, where you just like, I'm out out.

Why were why was everything so much better in the nineties or is it just because that's the era you and I look back with fondness on right, we talked about the Dream Team, which is Olympic adjacent, but it's like, I feel like professional sports well, actually no, I don't know if you fondly remember the nineties from a professional sports standpoint, as they likely caused you great frustration. But oh crap, all right, look at that, I just went over. All right, we got to take a break. Hang on,

we'll be back, obviously for something that huge. With that many people like they have their own committee there, and then the IOC has its committee, right, you have the local committee of the IOC. And I promise as much as these folks love bureaucracy with generally who's involved there the fact that nobody at any point when they were going over like sketches or practice, right, they had to practice. All of that went you know, you know that looks

a little like the uh last Supper there. Maybe we shouldn't do that blue Smurf, Like if you'd have just done weird Peto Smurf, dude, I don't know, maybe still would be weird. What was the other? Oh, the other thing was did one of the dancers literally have his We'll go with twigs, twig and berries if you understand the reference the sports car reference there did were his berries hanging out of his short shorts. Because I saw that image getting posted around, I didn't, uh, Ross, what

do you think? Okham's raising this thing again?

what was going on. Like even in the apology they were talking about how they're wanting to focus on inclusivity, Well, you're giving away the game between that and the Instagram thing. And the inclusivity for you was to tell a bunch of people who are religious that you're gonna stick, you know, drag queens in there, or you're going to do this

because they need to understand that this is inclusivity. And the other thing is too like if it was the way you chose to include that right again, it's it's they're French. I expect that it's gonna be weird and so like if you had drag queens doing something else, like, you can still send your message, but you can't go there. And I noticed there wasn't And I'm not the first person to think of this. I noticed there wasn't a drag queen Mohammed. I think the and why don't you

do that in Paris? I'm sure to be fine. I'm surely, I'm sure it'll be fine. You can call it drag queen Charlie epdo right to you know, have a little fun with it, so you can, I guess, plausibly deny it when your city's being burned to the ground.

how that didn't really track. So I don't know, man, I just I don't understand it, except for the need of people too, you know, crap on people that they don't agree with. And this is this goes back to our little nineties discussion we were having. And it could be just nostalgia, and it doesn't mean that everything was perfect. But I've heard it referred to as the Fresh Prince era. Right, So I can't remember who was on Twitter calls at that, but but they but they weren't talking about, you know,

their love of Will Smith. They were talking about how all of the things that are just the worst parts of the political correctness stuff, the the pitting of individuals against each other, were we were softening. Right. You never had a larger unforced contingent of primarily black primetime television shows than you did in the nineties on the networks, not even today. I've said, uh, you know what, I

could pull these numbers up. I remember reading this when you look, and and they weren't and and they were there, and they were popular. And it wasn't just black, it was it was Hispanic. You have a lot of Asian shows now, you had a few then, and and people watched it. Regardless how many of you watched Bernie mac show, it was great they had. You had Bernie Mack, you had Living Pez, George Lopez, you had Martin, you had all these shows. Yes, yes, I mean when you watched them.

of the audience that I broadcast to. It's a very weird wording and I'm not even wording it correctly, but it basically community the community standards, okay, and it's community standards, by the way, or something that is that is present in law, not just FCC regulations. And so if you're used to producing for that crowd. That's not who you're

producing for. You're producing for the world. And the majority of people in the world are religious, even if you're not, and so you don't have to throw a religious homage in there. You should because Paris has a lot of very interesting religious history. The aforementioned church, the conspiracy Ross is on that, you know, that's kind of a big deal. But more than that, you got so much to play off of though, Dude, the whole Catacomb's thing, right.

display of how they're all choreographed. And remember that big drum banging session, remember that where they were now and it was amazing, And that's exactly what I would picture it would to be, right, And yeah.

a vibe you get. But I was far more entertained over in Normandy and Champagne, and could I travel all basically Paris and then you go to Versailles and then boom you pop out to the Atlantic coast there and the two days in Paris versus the five days elsewhere, it wasn't even close. Wasn't even close. But I nerd it out for two days. Right, stroll along the river, check out the shot. Are you getting overcharged? Yes? Are you getting a slice of Paris less and less? So

now go to the louver. Don't throw soup on stuff, appreciate it. Look at that Try that glass pyramid and at you know, and go eh, that looks way different in person. Even if you've seen the the Tom Hanks movie and go check that out. Go to the Arc de Trompe, go check it out. Stroll along the shopping street there. I can't pronounce it, so I'm not gonna try, but you know, the one, the lase whatever, go do

all that stuff. Go check that out. And if I want to go check that out and the world recognizes you for that, lean into it, just as you did with the Marie Antoinette stuff, the Bastille stuff, and be weird, be euro weird. Do they think we're weird even though they literally can't get enough of our media? And then

do that. But with that Instagram post and the smugness of that guy's interview, that was they were sitting in a room, probably smoking the cigarettes with those stupid holders pinky out, drinking some I don't know, French wine and laughing about how this will show them. And you can't convince me otherwise based on those posts that I've seen, All right, are you gonna you're gonna watch the Olympics? I guess selectively, I just depending on how you watch it.

They got it on a bunch of different channels. If you go to the Uh, the peacock What is the app? What's the NBC's the peacock cap. Yeah, they have about nine thousand different ways you can watch it. You can go event by event. And people have traditions. Again, you talked about in your household how you guys would watch stuff. People have traditions. They want to watch this stuff. I want to watch the track and field stuff. I like

that a little wild man. I'm not much of a swimming guy, but if that's your thing, absolutely, If gymnastics is your thing, as it was, Uh, my sisters loved watching the gymnastics. I don't know if I want to watch the men's basketball though. But you know, this is this is what you decide to do with your time. Here's something else maybe you could have done with it. Why don't if you want to make statements, why don't you make a statement about what's going on in Venezuela.

That's absolutely insane if you're not following that. Once again, the commie runt dictator there has claimed victory, even though it was abundantly clear to anyone watching this that he

was getting absolutely trounced. And there's there's literally selfie photos that got posted from one of the campaign centers where they're all wearing their jackets, right, because he's got a he's got a he's got like a uniform where they're all wearing that and they're smiling for the selfie and it kind of looks like that that selfie from the

oscars with Degenerous and all them. Right, they're just all But the problem is they have monitors in front of them that show him getting his butt handed to him in each of the little districts.

It probably got seventy percent of the vote. And I don't know if I mentioned it. So I had the opportunity when I was traveling to meet somebody from Venezuela. Oh yeah, all right, hold on, sorry, I'm so late on breaks. Let's take a break. We'll be right back. Is it again. It's not that it's all negative. It's that I don't understand why you would decide to open it with what is a very obvious fu And I

one hundred percent believed that it was intentional. And I you know, everyone involves got some hang ups, they have some religious relative they don't like. I don't know what it is whether you would choose to insult that then detract from the ability to enjoy all the little micro stories and things that happen at the Olympics, Like let me give you some examples. Do you know do you know the first medal that the US won, It was a silver medal, all right, and it was the synchronous diving, right,

so you got the two side by side boom boom boom. Yeah, it's very artistic in nature, and we won the silver medal. Do you know the name of the team Cook and Bacon, that's what they call themselves, and they have like bacon stuff and they wearing Bacon shirts and that's because one of them is named Cook and the other one's name Bacon. And they have a lot of fun with it. And what is a more American team than Cook and Bacon? Can we agree? Okay? Just you know, they're not major stories,

but their fun stuff. You would not know who those two girls are, who've worked their ass off since high school where they were friends, if not for the Olympics and getting that medal and of course having you know, an affinity for bacon, which they obviously clearly probably don't because as they're Olympic athletes, but they probably sneak some. And that's great and you want those stories. And you've now precluded a bunch of people. If I didn't tell

you about it, you wouldn't know that. But I got to dive through all of this. Bob the cap Catcher, some of you sent me this story. Do you know what that is? So this is a women's swimming event. They've got the women on the pedestals or whatever you know, waiting to go, and one of the judges notices something in the water and it's one of the you know, the speedo caps. They pull over their hair and it I guess, I don't know if it was previously in there or it fell off, whatever, but now it's in

the pool. It's you know, about eight feet out and it's sinking down. And so they tell the women to dismount and they call in I guess, the crew, and this dude strolls out. He's, you know, middle aged looking dude. He's got a little millk pattern baldness, he's got a little bit of a gut on him, and he's wearing tight floral speedos. I said, ross the story, he'll tweet it out. You could go look at it. And this dude dives in there grabs that thing, and the commentators

are like, who is that guy? And everyone's cheering as he holds it up, you know, like I am victorious. Right. It's a funny moment. It's a funny, silly moment that you and your family sitting on the couch watching would probably find memorable because your kids would relate to it. Why are they cheering for him? And then the commentators are like, what do we call him? And one of the guys goes. We'll call him the cap catcher, Bob,

the cap Catcher. Again, it's a dumb little thing, but it's one of these little mini stories that people are going to miss out on because they chose to do this, and I hate that. I hate that for cooking bacon Bob. I'm sure that's not his real name. And you know the amount of confidence it takes to where the hospedo's man. But he's just out there doing his thing. I bet he's a fun dude too, right, because he's hamming it

up out there. He's clearly not the angry people that put together that opening ceremonies or our own athletes who were literally gifted one of the highest profile jobs during the Olympic opening ceremonies and representing your country. It can't be bothered to stand the anthem and it just it just turns people off. So well, look, I'll continue to try to bring you some of the fun stories, but a lot of people aren't gonna be catching this in

real time. They're gonna be bogged down with what you know, what they what They sat there with their kids to watch and then probably at some point had to go all right, let's let's see if something else is on when we're trying to determine if a guy's testicles are hanging out of his clothes or Peto smurfs up there, or the Last Supper is being recreated, and it's very obvious. So there's that, all right. Let me get back to the Venezuela thing. So I met somebody when I was

traveling and instantly like this guy. Okay, instantly like this dude, this was when I was in April? Was it last I tried? I can't remember the dates I trut whatever. So if you remember, I decided I was going to go to a place called Guatapei, which is outside Magazine, which is just really really cool natural formation. It's an old volcano and it's now become a lake and there's a huge magma spire still in the middle, and it's

got like seven hundred stairs get the top. There is a bar up top, and then there's like a little halfway points for you to catch your because you're like, ah, seven hundred stares, that's nothing. Yeah, And then I went from there to Ecuador, and then I went to Galapago's Silence. Great trip. I had so much fun. If you scroll back in the timeline. I posted pictures of some fun stuff. It's okay, but when I was in, when I was gonna out to pay, it is very touristy, right obviously

for what it is, it's it's gorgeous. And I did the little cop out part for a while because I'm like, there's a lot of stairs and they have like a little restaurant thing there, and then they have something that's attached back of the hotel that I stayed in, where I actually ran into this dude again, and I, you know, I started talking to him because he speaks very good English and my Spanish is not great, although I can read Spanish really well, which is weird because I can

barely speak it. But it actually allowed me to really deep dive some of the tweets that I was seeing coming out about the Ventelan election. This guy's from Venezuela. He's a dentist, and he's and he is. He is not just a Venezuelan dentist. He received a bunch of his schooling in the US. He was very fortunate because his parents, both of his parents were successful dentists in Venezuela were and so that afforded him the ability obviously to follow in that path. And I want to say

he's forty early forties something like that. And so we got to talking, and I'm naturally curious about stuff, and he had mentioned that he's actually Venezuelan, he's not Colombian, and so I was like, oh, okay, And I broached the topic very quietly because there are a lot One thing you notice when you get to Colombia is it's full of Venezuelans for obvious reasons, but you know, you can tell people in South America really like wearing flags,

colors and stuff, kind of like Texans. But anyway, and we started talking about it, and basically they didn't fall in line with Chavez, and that was not good. So I wait, hold on, it's a refreshment center Boston. Paul is very upset. The halfway point doesn't have a bar. It's a refreshment center and the hotels will put stuff over there so you can actually have beer and stuff

if you want so kind of but not really. So he's hauling this stuff over and and and he just he just tells me the story and it's wild and it's it is the slow degradation of people who wouldn't fall in line, people who vote, who vocally objected to some of the changes, especially within that field, who found themselves on the outs. And at that point you're not allowed to avail yourself of some of the government funded health insurance, which is still even if you're doing a

lot of private stuff is a necessity. And eventually they had to shut it down, and then somebody arsened the building. Even after they had shut it down, they arsened the building. And it was at that point his family literally had to move. And I'm not going to tell you where they moved. I can't believe he told me, but basically out of Caracas to another part of the country. And

he made the decision to go to Columbia. The problem was when Colombia's deal with taking in folks, even folks with educations, is they didn't the upper crust of Columbia had some concerns that you could flood the market with professionals and that would be bad for Colombian professionals, which I guess is understandable. So he's not allowed to he's not allowed to practice dentistry in Columbia. So the guy works as a porter for a hotel, and he uses that money, that which you don't make a lot of

money in Colombia. He uses that money to attempt to support his family when he goes back to visit his family. Because he was shown as somebody who left and didn't leave in the proper way, he doesn't use He uses a fake passport, which you can go by. Because Venezuela is so corrupt, they'll sell blanks for it into Colombia and people will sell them. I could have gotten one,

and he has. He sits on a bus for like sixteen hours to do it, and he goes on the regular bring supplies or money or whatever he needs to this formally very successful family who had everything taken from him because they wouldn't fall in line. And now a guy who's probably smarter than be's, a sharp dude, is sitting there is moving luggage and stuff because he has to,

because that is what communism wrought there. And as you can imagine watching for the third time, what has happened I guess technically second time he was gifted the first term. What is happening now once again in Venezuela where it is clearly corrupt and you can take a head count based on the countries that are willing to recognize the results.

Basically Cuba, Nicaragua. I'm trying to think of the Latin American countries, all all dictators themselves who have Chavez is bad or not shaves Maduro's back because they themselves may need him if they ever get ousted or attempted to be ousted. And you watch what communism has rot and you watch his personal reaction to it. I don't care what's going on in your life. Holy hell, I remember feeling I remember feeling bad. I mean, just like I. You know, there's no problem. I can tell you that

outpaces what's happening with you. And you know the narrative is, while those are true Venezuelans, they left you. You are sit in their business. You are in their business and ran generational people out of a profession that is very necessary because they wouldn't get on board, they wouldn't make contributions to you. They spoke out against it. I guess his mom did. Just wild man, just absolutely wild and uh, we're you know, the the one of the main oversight board.

They're all lackeys for this dude. International observers are not granted the access they need, and that's another six year term. The only out for these folks unless they're willing to

do something, and that's could be difficult. Although even though they did confiscate a lot of their weapons, apparently there's a lot of weapons to be had when you go into the favelas because they're flowing it over from Columbia, barrios, basically the ghettos, and that's not even a fair word, but the forced living conditions of the majority of Venezuelans

who did go vote and it didn't change anything. And once you're so deep down that hole and they've got your guns and the military isn't gonna what do you do? He continues to check luggage and all drinks around And I guess, hope all of the things that have come to pass in Venezuela, if you just give it a rudimentary look, are exactly what they predicted what happened with Trump.

And yet the people posing for photos with Maduro and Chavez and shaking hands, or the people like Sean Penn and some of the you know who else was there. Danny Glover was a big, big friends with Chavez down there these absolute idiots who all think that it would be so great if we just had communism because they know they would be among the select few to be the beneficiaries. Letting folks like that drive public opinion is dangerous and everyone should look at what's going on in

Venezuela right now. And I don't know how this is going to pan out, but I know that dude to challenge him probably is gonna live in Venezuela for very long unless something amazing happens. And I don't know that my buddy's gonna go back except under an assume fake passport so we can get in out of the country, and he has to do it by bus because that doesn't work with air travel. Meanwhile, he's he's literally was

trained in America. Just wild, just absolutely wild. Ross. You have like a twitch buddy, right you were saying, Am I telling lies here or has this been the No?

can't vote it out. And now you've got them the Maduro they're floating like a Hillary Clinton type Russian hoax thing, saying, oh, well, the problems were election interference from right. Yeah, he called him a dictator. So if you if you listened to Maduro's speech that he gave last night, put the subtitles on, I'll tell you what he said. He challenged him to a fight too, and then.

international observers like that's weird. But nobody's willing to call this out, so you know, and you go in and you sanction them and and you know, all it just trickles down to the lowest among them. Meanwhile, Maduro's at the what's that idiot chef who's got like the fifteen hundred dollars stakes? He puts gold leaf on and does the little uh flips the salt salt was it Salt Bay or whatever. So if you go to one of his restaurants and they're not just in London, they have

they haven't quite a few. I think they have one in Miami. Actually, yeah, so it's crazy. All right, we'll take a break. Hang on files story today, and it has to do with the Senator from Arizona, Mark Kelly, and they're obviously they're getting looked at much more thoroughly, right now, because Kelly, like Cooper, like uh well, Shapiro

and others are you know, purportedly the VP shortlists. Right, So anyway, uh, Mark Kelly is a former astronaut, so the fact that he might have business interests in the aviation industry, that is not surprising, right, There's a lot of former astronauts and assa engineers to go private sector, and if only, if only to be the face of it. I mean, let's you know, when he's not when he

was not punching trolls. It's a very high profile walked on the Moon astronauts, I had a lot of aviation stuff where they were kind of the face of it. So it's not unexpected. However, this particular business venture, let me read the uh this New York Times actually included one paragraph because this whole thing busted out, all right, So the company is called Worldview. Here's what the New

York Times wrote. Mister Kelly has also not faced the harsh spotlight of a national campaign and has potential political liabilities like his high altitude surveillance balloon company he helped found funded by Chinese venture capital.

but they you know, they have other uses. How do you say yes to a Chinese spy balloon, venture capital Chinese company startup? How how potential political liabilities? I don't know. Did you just recoil when you heard that? Because I did. Oh, the company or the investment venture capital firm known as ten cents, and I've told you about ten cents. If you don't know about ten cent, ten Cent is the largest tech company in China. And you have to understand

the ten Cents app. Think about the apps that are most popular, social media, banking, it all the Google stuff, basically basically everything of like if you pick the top twenty apps in the US, the ten Cent app does all of it. And in fact, it is the only way to bank and it's going to be it's only way to mobile bank in China with very few exceptions, and which is great if you want to keep an

eye on what everybody's doing. And it also will be utilized for voting, and they are working on the social credit system to be run through the app, and it currently in beta. Provides that that's the venture capital firm. Everybody knows that that is the Chinese government. Everybody right, because they can monitor everything. They can monitor all your

web browsing because it's done through that app. They can monitor who you're communicating with on the few social media stuff that you can touch, how your banking's going, and and it can see all of that. It is the ultimate spy tool by the Chinese government. Convince me I'm wrong, but in my opinion, that's exact. This is exactly what you design whereas here in the US they said they have to go out and individually capture all of this information so they can monitor your life. That's who invested.

And to say that New York Times says has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, Yes, because in China and you can look this up even though they'll sit there and deny it in our own news media. You can't do business like this. You can't do tech business without committing to certain things that you will provide to the government upon request. And if you don't play, you disappear. That's why had Chinese billionaire disappeared what a couple of

years ago. Dude didn't want to play games. Meanwhile, you're just say you're too busy ordering your TMU stuff and you know, ignoring all of this garbage, ignoring what's going on in Venezuela. Well, not you, because you obviously had some intellectual curiosity, but ignoring what's going on in Venezuela and China and what they continue to do. And this guy is a city and US senator and he's like, yeah, absolutely, yeah,

let's do business. He should know most of all. And even though admittedly this dates back to twenty twelve when he co founded it. He took other rounds of investment about every two to three years, allowing this venture, this Chinese venture capital firm, to get a larger and larger

steak in his company. In fact, about sixty five percent of the company is not owned by Kelly, primarily owned by Chinese venture capital, and roughly the same percentage last year when you look at their disclosures, was work that was done for defense related contracts. Let me ask you a question. Who's buying spy balloons?

all right. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. I'm sorry, I just got so much stuff I want to fit in today, Jamal, Let's grab your call real quick. Got a couple of minutes.

Government went otter them. The government literally went out for them, took everything for them to kept putting them in court so much to whether they had the quitting them insiness. They literally stopped because they couldn't deal with it. Look what happens here in America if you have wrong things, they will literally shut you down. And people say, well, that's just you know, the customers. Nobody should have political discrimination.

Look what goes on Casey today? Look at today. Some of the things you talked about when you first got on the air, You can't talk about the same things now because if you do, oh, they're gonna call up in there and say oh this big thing, Casey, he said this, Well he needs to be taken off the air. And possibly if the right people get offended. Who knows if our Heart Radio or say well no, we're gonna keep KC O day. Look what happen during the George

Floyd riots. Perfect example. You if you would have went out there and said this fentanyl crackhead, Saint George Florida, the spenting on methhalt Baptist church. If you if somebody went out there and said that, people was really fired for pointing that out about George Floyd, fired from the job, thrown out because people get got offended. So, yes, it's horrible talking about what's going on in Beninsuada. But you know what, Casey, hearing you talk about it on the

radio and look at some of the current conditions. Look what's going on with Mark Robinson right now and what the goverment is trying to do to him and his family.

necessarily that it was nefarious. But when you couple that with the deep dive that's going on, and then you also look at the sheer volume of COVID dollars that disappeared into these fake company black holes, you have to ask yourself, where's the vigor in both categories. I appreciate the call jam all seven forty six race stagic here to try again on a Monday. What's going on?

Same thing tomorrow, as we'll have a few shower thunder showers around.

small chances of rain. Mid and upper nineties coming back with the humidity again, it'll start feeling over one hundred, so little day up here.

give you a chance to weigh in on that. Also, what's the craziest thing you've ever done for internet clout? Because this might be one of them. We'll get into it coming up.

up for that's the feast of Dionysus. And they are betting on the fact that you wouldn't take five seconds to google what that painting is a betrothal you did that, well, whatever, google it and see what it looks like, see what the Last Supper looks like, and then use the thinking part of your brain to ockham raizor ramone before you get yelled at the thing and you tell me it's clearly that. Oh and the the big Chicken Blue refers

to herself as what was it? Olympic Jesus and put an Instagram post out calling it the gay New Testament perform a costumes. By the way, as you'll warn you, it's weird, but I expect it to be weird. It's a European thing, and I don't even necessarily usually mean that in a negative way. I'm just like, you know, kind of weird. You ever go to Italy or France, you know the vibe I'm talking about it. But it's also weird because it's you're not used to it, but

you expect that. And I didn't mind the Marie Antoinat holding the head and the laser lights and all that. But you couple that with the pale horse thing and a debate over whether a dude's testicles are hanging out of his leotard and how many families went no, And then when Peto Smurf, dude, let me translate, Oh no, it's gargamel. Oh no, where's the kids?

von Doom, which was the character. So that the theory is that you're going to have an alternate universe multiverse because of everything that's happened in the MCU with Kang and with the ant Man, with the Infinity War and traveling back in time and Branches and issue and low key rate all this kind of stuff. So in a different timeline, in different universe, you had Robert Dunnell Jr. As Tony Stark, who you instead of using his his intelligence for good, used it for bad and became Doctor Doom.

And now he's coming over to a different universe where there's Tony Stark. But now that Tony Stark died at the end of Infinity War, so Tony Stark who is endgame?

be Doctor Doom. So you know, you can never make everybody.

they said the air conditioning didn't work. And now it's back up. They have it sort of kind of running and they're gonna have new air conditioning installed. Mark. He said, the big truck, the big giant truck, and it looks like a funhouse or something with these like you know, like the what are they called, like the uh what do they call it? I mean, I'm obviously not in hv HVAC the portable you know, the silver things that

go from the air strangers. No, not the air handler, the part that goes from the air handler to the vents in your house. Oh ducks, ducks, the portable ducks. Yeah right, yeah, Like they have all these ginormous portable ducks leading from this giant, ginormous, huge truck into the school.

for the elites. Yeah, oh dude. And there's like there's like, you know, music playing right, and they've got like, you know, they got like a bidet in there for no reason. There's this show. It's just crazy. So anyway, now I'm familiar with those. Have we tried to sell the school are portable air conditioners.

And they would make these fake arguments like, well, the reason that we need to use this money to pay you know, Kenji whatever his name is, to come in for seventy five thousand and speak to us about our privilege is because it'll help grow camaraderie and understanding to help us pull through COVID like events. It's all garbage. It's all just an absolute waste of taxpayer money. That is that was wildly abused. Now, did some schools probably put hepaphilter good?

if I can find that number. But you know, we're talking about government efficiency. You want something wild from a government efficiency standpoint. ABC News ABC News UH interviewed the members of the swat team. They're in Butler, Pa. Right. How how did this go so wrong? Was how nobody think that maybe we should the building? If you remember, the Secret Service director on her cowardly way out, indicated that the local law enforcement was actually inside of the building,

and they may well have been some of them. It looks like some of the sheriff's folks might have been in there. But the job to secure these positions, she then tried to say, was THEIRS an operational command sits under the Secret Service. Okay, let's be abundantly clear here in the pecking order to say every one of those cop movies you ever see where the FBI shows up the local cops like, I don't want to work with you,

and then somebody has to assert control. Secret Service has operational control for these events, and not just within the security perimeter, but with any law enforcement that is coordinating outside of it at the behest of the Secret Service. Again, it's not inappropriate to have local law enforcement to keep down the number of Secret Service members except in key roles.

If you have operational command, it's going to be imperative, and in a sniper team position or a swat team position, you having constant communication and being able to sometimes make the call as to whether you breach, whether you fire on somebody. Right, do we know if that he is actually trying to shoot somebody? Do we have does somebody have eyes on this?

of the detail. Do they just not tell you anything or do you guys have a conversation. I'm curious, So throw some water on his face. Let me grab a call while we're mating, Anthony, what's up?

in outside air. So you know, you're pulling in ninety five percent humidity on a unit that is only designed for eighty degree outside air.

property right. They want Kelly and their rocket scientists and everybody to go ahead and do the work and create and innovate and all of that. Meanwhile they get a whold they photocopy the plans and you're off and running. Man, all right, it is a twenty three. I'm gonna actually hit a brake on time. We'll come back. We get more calls and lots more stories, including the worst YouTuber of the week. We'll explain case O Day radio program.

This is why I am so upset with what they chose to do with the opening of the Olympics, because you have turned these you have turned people off something that should be a good thing, something that should allow athletes who train their whole lives but get really no recognition because of the sports they're in are not the ones they get the big TV deals, all of that, you know, and and instead you have these petty decisions, these hateful decisions that go and color the whole thing.

Did you see the women's the women's basketball coach who was talking about why Caitlin Clark's not there, and it's obvious it's because f her, right, But then you go look at the opening ceremonies and the like, hey, look at this last supper thing with the new the gay Jesus or the gay New Testament and all this stuff, and it's just like, why do that? And by the way, nobody would care if everybody up there was gay that

was recreating a painting. It's that you chose to go over the top drag queens because you know that that is a big thing right now, and then lie about it, and then these stories get buried that deserve us to talk about. And even if I talk about it on the radio, chances are people are now not gonna watch it live. I told you about the first metal one was cooking Bacon. I think that's funny. It's the girl's

name is Cook. The other girl's name is Bacon. They've been friends since high school and they just want the silver medal in synchronous diving, and they play up the whole bacon thing. It's a dumb little thing, but it's funny. I would know. You wouldn't know anything about them unless you're in the sport Women's wat And I told you it. Literally, excuse me, Ross, we need a trillion dollars with new HEPA filters. Get on it. Don't worry, we'll spend it

on other stuff. So you see these little stories and like it's robbing opportunities because people had to make a screw you point and it's just so bothersome. Let me let me, let me give you another one. So I told you that the athletes, many of the athletes are not as fortunate as like Simone Bios, who I who I think is great by the way, but you know, they don't have the financial opportunities that a higher profile

sport necessarily does. So you have Olympic athletes that are working second jobs and having to go around in fundraise like your kid's little league team unless they can get a benefactor. And the US women's water polo team has won three straight gold medals. They're going for their fourth right now. That's pretty impressive. But they were all working

second jobs. And one of the individuals with the team actually knew somebody who's got a little bit of money explain what was going on, and this dude stepped forward and he is the benefactor now to fund this so that they can concentrate on training, so they can go back and get us for our fourth gold medal, so we can go in your face other countries. Whatever. I'm petty, it's flavor flav.

I'd never heard the show. I got him on the show, and then long story short, got to interview Flavor Flave.

just like, let's say we're America. Let's go out and dominate man, And you don't have to be a jerk about it with me or I'm like, yeah, do a victory dancer to fad it, but like just just going. Do you remember how good it felt to watch the US and Russia medals back in the day? Count? Do you remember how good that felt watching those numbers tally?

And it was you know, it was the Cold War esque era, even though it was post you know, the well some of it wasn't, but the disillusion of the USSR but watching US go against Russia and that pride you felt when we dominated the metal count.

of morning. Herb Brooks was the guy who organized the US men's hockey team who went over and beat Canada and Russia. That was crazy. I personally know a guy by the name of Rulan Gardner. You may have heard his name. He was a wrestler on Afton, Wyoming. In fact, Bubba Daniel Vasco kid I went to high school with, had to wrestle his weight class. And even though Rulan Gardner went on to be a Roman greco versus you know the traditional wrestling, he just kicked everybody's butt. It

was crazy. This dude stuck his hand into a snow machine one time, came off with three less fingers, didn't even notice. You know what he did do. He went over and beat the Russians for the first time, and that wasn't that long ago. They had never been beaten in that particular event in modern history. And he went over and won. And you love these stories, and yet you got to walk in on the insanity that was that opening ceremony where parents literally had to turn it

off because their kids were watching. How does that? How does that comport with your childhood memory of the Olympics, Ray Stagic from the Weather Channel? Remember remember Kerrie Strugg the gymnas who literally had to be carried off by heer coach after I win the the wheaties boxes, the how did we get here? Did you watch any of the opening Sorry I shouldn't drag you into this, but you understand why people are upset right with the opening ceremony? Okay, I do.

behind that. After a little bit of a break, you get the picture a lot of clouds and these areas of showers and embedded rumbles a thunder which could produce some downpours at times. And after we get these couple of batches through midday early afternoon, you make it a break.

But the storms will probably come back later today and probably more the same tomorrow, low eighties maybe to the middle eighties, and a triangle tomorrow, and then the ninety plus starts probably Wednesday, with less rain but still some and same thing Thursday. Friday, could even be pushing, especially around Raleigh, into the upper nineties with the heat and decease going back over one hundred, So we'll lose at least the coverage on the rainfall won't be zero mid

weekend beyond, but we're gonna see tempatures go up. So we came back that high heat. We kind of kept the commidity over the past few days, and we'll keep that too, so I got to push the heat in.

McDonald's customers cut back in the spring. The fast food chain posted its first sales decline since twenty twenty, A key metric used to track restaurant business that's comparable store sales were down one percent from a year earlier. Analysts were expecting a modest decline. Apple's been working on some artificial intelligence features for its devices, but they're not going to be ready for release as early as originally expected.

Bloomberg's Mark German reports they'll miss the initial launch of software overhauls for the iPhone and iPad Ai will be part of the software updates that Apple plans to roll out later in the fall. Most people who went to the movies over the weekend went to see Deadpool and Wolverine. That Walt Disney release took in two hundred five million dollars. It was the biggest opening weekend for any film so far this year, and the best ever opening for a

movie with an R rating. And never too early to plan for Halloween, Casey Halloween merchandise goes on sale today at Disneystore dot Com. Disney's twenty twenty four Halloween Shop includes hundreds of costumes and accessories.

bus or it was thing dirty. And we had colms too, So the fact that there was no comms is just beyond the pail for me.

Speaking of wild, you know what, I'm gonna bump this story tomorrow because I got to get it the the YouTube thing. I never got to the YouTube thing, so so I'll take the last minute. Rossie like your new couch. Ross got a new couch, So he was Brad.