Monday-7-8-2024

Sounds normal to you, but to the trained year or the OCD year, it's just a little something something. But Ross, everything's coming through your board, correct, right, all right, rock on. I don't know. Maybe maybe I'm crazy. Maybe it's because yesterday was just the worst. Ross knows some of this, and he this is why I like Ross. I'll tell him a lot of times we don't even answer each other because we're not tweens. Girls. Okay, sorry, sorry twin girls. You like the

text? Do you want to do the tip? Whatever. However, when he can tell there is a crisis, he's always there with encouragement to take a day off. And I appreciate, appreciate that or three or you know, however many and you know what, I gotta be honest with you. With the way things eventual unfolded yesterday, that probably would have been smart, but I was I thought I thought I had things figured out, worked out, everything was gonna be fine. And it was because I didn't have the

requisite experience with this topic. And so I had tons of time too. And it's you know, it's one of the things that we do in the world of radio. Sometimes the story comes up. We don't I don't know anything about it, and uh, you make the commitment that you're gonna go and you're gonna get a lot of info. Now I have a selfish personal interest obviously, in in the sense that you know, this was something that

was impacting my life outside of work. Yeah, you know, that's why I didn't learn cricket stuff, right, we just did the story whatever. But this I did, and I'm gonna I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna I'll set the scene. But I sent a tweet out yesterday and it happened after I had communicated with Ross kind of let him know what was going on. What did you suggest, napalm? I can't remember what it was. There was definitely something on fire, but oh my gosh, it got so

much worse. And the tweet I said this, And let me just be abundantly clear here. If there's one thing on on Twitter, and it predates Elon a little bit, but obviously it's once you get into monetization of engagement farming. There's a lot of folks. How many times have you seen somebody just send out a tweet. It's usually very short and it's just like your

world changes at three check back or Biden in handcuffs. By the end of the day, you know whatever the hook is, and you know that you know that there's nothing coming or it's gonna be just it's either gonna be an unprovable thing scoop, which I don't know. It's fine if you want to do it conspiratorially, but if you're gonna make the promise that somebody's going to jail, even in this this messed up system, you should at least have

the goods that in a normal world they would be in jail. Like, I don't even hold you to the standard of what DJ is gonna do. And and there are there are some Twitter accounts that realize if you need to pump those numbers up, that works, And I hate it and I hope it stops working. And I literally block accounts for that crap. So when I send a tweet out yesterday, I I didn't have enough room in the tweet to explain what I wanted to explain and also let you know how much

I hate that crap. So I wrote, kids, I have first ballot Hall of Fame nightmare fuel ross. That's a high standard, right, first ballot Hall of Fame nightmare Fueld. Yeah it's pretty big. Yeah, yeah, what would you say is up there? If you just I'm sorry, I just hit you with this right there. Just something that that haunts your dreams, maybe a story you saw or what about that little girl who founded the bees in her wall? Okay, that's that's a very good example.

I did not find what was how many bees was? It was way too many. It was like over fifty thousand bees. It was all the bees they're looking for in the documentary. I've just put it together. They did a whole documentary about had a cute name and a camera what it was. But they're like, ah, all the bees are missing and then we're all gonna die. So we found them. They were in this little girl's wall. That is a good example. So here's what Ross knows. And I'm

gonna let you I'm gonna tell you. I don't like to do the trick warning thing, but I'm gonna let you know when I get before I get to the really stuff. Okay, So I'm bopping back and forth, you know, travel we had the time off all of that. What is that three weeks ago? Okay? And I have when you live on your own,

you do whatever you want within reason. Eventually kind of mature and you don't do some of the stuff you did when you were twenty or you know, your first apartment, you're like, I'm gonna have an indoor fire pit. Right, You're past that, although now you can kind of maybe afford to do that, but still no, not me. So I this sounds weird. I don't sleep necessarily just in one bed, is I It's crazy? Right? So like I have two different sleep possible my house. Don't

judge, it is what it is. I know some people I've told people that in they can't fathom it. They're like, I have to sleep in my bed on my side whatever, And I'm like, it's just me. I'll sleep in the kitchen if I want to. Who's gonna stop me. So so there's that, And it has to do with, you know, where you want to be in the house. The airflow, if it's the

windows open, act that whatever it is, that's not important. What is important, though, is it stays warmer in the one room just kind of naturally, if without screwing with too much stuff, without having to really crank stuff, So that can that can impact it. However, also when you're running a lot of ac. On the other side, it stays cooler because it's a lot more insulated. But I prefer the bed. So it's obviously

obviously it's summer, so but at night sometimes it's actually reasonable. And so as I returned to the world from time off, I am I'm very bad with unpacking luggage because I don't I always have a carry I only take carry ons even internationally. And I got it. I don't have a lot of variety to my clothing. It's a lot of you know, T shirts and

pants and shorts, pretty basic mix and match. Okay, So I took the luggage and I when I got home and I literally put it on the one bed and opened it up, took out like the travel you know, my travel kit case thing for you know, toothpaste and all that, at a couple other things, and I just kind of left it there, and in sheer laziness, I slept in where I wanted to sleep so that other one can be a guest bedroom whatever. And then I wanted to go sleep

up there because obviously crazy you know, crazy temperature extremes all that. But when I'm doing that, I don't even let I don't like. It has a comforter and sheets and looks like a normal bed, but I mean, if I'm hot, so it's still a little warm. There's like a blanket on the bottom end of it. I won't even I'll just sleep on top of it with that blanket. I know that's weird, but it's necessary for this story. So I moved the luggage, put in the over the closet,

a little stand thing in there. I'm like, I'll deal with that later. And a few days go by. This is just And then on Thursday obviously was a day off, and so Wednesday, I'm like, hey, I know it's not sinco to my ole, but you can drink tequila for this, right. So anyway, so I come back to the house and a little late when I was some friends and uh we did that because you know, Friday morning we had to do the show. And I woke

up and I'm like, that was stupid. Also what happened? And I like, had I thought, like I thought I had left like a screen door open or something, or a screen on a window, and like all the mosquitoes were like, yeah, let's go in there. Like I didn't know what was up at first, but I brushed it off because like it wasn't bad bad and it looked like mosquito stuff. So I kind of walked around the house and I did actually find a culprit, and he met his

demise with the electric whacker thing. So it happens again and it's bad. And then I kind of looked around went to the other bed, and then Saturday night, slept in that bed and got under the covers. This time, because the blanket was a little I had thrown it into the wash. I woke up and I am absolutely brutalized on my legs, and so I'm like, all right, I gotta figure out what's going on. I start

walking around the house kind of you know. I was threw some dishes in, was sweeping, sweeping the patio, and I'm like, all right, well, I'm gonna go. Let me go grab those sheets or whatever, because like, I don't know what's up, but I like it was gross. So I pulled back the sheets ready, all the bed bugs, all of I know this is a long road to get there, but you need

to understand because now I have to solve a mystery. Why in this one part of my house and nowhere else because I point, I'm like, I'm checking everything and and and that that part of that one bedroom and then the bathroom that's adjacent to it that attaches to it, the en suite, which also attaches out into the hall. So that's that's important. So I'm like, how like I hear bedbugs and I've never actually had that happen, but it sounds awful, like like you have to you have to burn your house

down, right? Is just that I was gonna say, So you burn that mattress right like that. The mattress is done, it's out, and not just that basically anything that I didn't So I take everything out of that room and it's the hottest load with the hottest dry thing I was reading online. They're like, that'll do it. But even stuff like there's a couple like mats, bath mats and stuff that were like ten dollars at Walmart.

They're gone, they're out. But the mattress obviously is gone. And that's what you right, because you're like, yeah, you should take the day off, and I'm no, no, no. To be fair, he said you should take two days off. Okay, that's you know what you might be right the most awful thing. So so like immediately I'm like, I gotta get a I actually know exterminator bedbug, like dude, and I'm like, we got we gotta do this. So so I actually talked to

the guy. I texted him a little bit, but he couldn't get there until after brown noon today. So yesterday I am simultaneously educating myself on these things, and I'm also trying to figure out how they got in there. And I always just assumed it's like you go to a you go to the swap meet, and you're like, hey, look at that couch, and then you just like, don't check anything, and it's it's it's just the the trojan horse. But I don't think so, and so you have to

understand that. In the in the span of that vacation, uh and and back and forth to work, I am in Raleigh, Greensboro, Miami, and Costa Rica, Okay, And the Miami thing was not just at the airport. Remember they had the two feet of rain. I got stuck in that. So I had to go in the middle of Miami now being a swimming pool, and and go get a hotel. It was very cheap though,

why because nobody's dumb enough to be in Miami, just me. So it's so I got like I had points, and I got a I got a suite at the Kempton, which is very nither win in Winston Salem is amazing. By the way, if you haven't been to the bar restaurant, highly recommend it. But that's another thing for another time. So South Beach, Miami, Anglers, Kempton there. So now I have to figure out

one of these places. I had sent dude a picture of the bugs that I corralled in the murder Zone. And what was interesting is he's like he's explaining it to me, like I know what the heck it is. There are two kinds of these bugs. There are the North American version, or I guess the northern version, and then there what are known as tropical, and the body style is different. Not that I could pick it out,

but once he pointed it out, I guess it made sense. And he thought it was interesting because it looked like there was both and the only place where there's both of those places is Miami. So I don't know, this is not me knocking. I kept in especially you brought him back from Florida. Well no, So here's the thing. Yes, they went Florida. They yes, and remember that's on the down leg. That's so, it's just everything is Florida. Man, this is this is my punishment for doing

all the Florida jokes. I think I haven't got to the worst part yet and for that, I'm gonna take a break. I'm leading up to this and I'm sorry I'm dragging you along, but holy crap, here's the thing. For like several hours on Sunday, I'm doing the thing. I'm doing the thing where I know because I can visually see that there is not anything on me, and it feels like bugs are on you, just randomly, and it's it's so awful. And that's where Ross and I's conversation ended.

And I after a little while, I'm like, I kind of got it together, and I'm just like, oh, that's a horrible feeling. But we're gonna get We're gonna get through this. I learned way too much. They there's they love to hook up, totally irresponsible with you know, children, and boy, they make a lot. It's when you start doing the math, it becomes like Frank Duke's explaining the number of rounds of the Kuma te all right, the horrible part though, yeah, that's not even the

horrible part. The horrible part comes your way in just a few minutes. Hang on, I like, I hear you, and I read all this stuff, and look, it makes sense. Some of it makes I'm it's either napalm or professional dude coming in so and I and they do all sorts of explained it. I'm like, you do just whatever, man, just whatever, Just do it twice or extra whatever. And that's where we left it. And I communicated Ross what was going on. He say, I take the day off. And then I'm like, now, or take two

days off? Ha ha. I did threaten our PD And he's like that's awful man. I'm like, yeah, I'll still be there. I'm feeling better. So the creepy krawleys that stuff kind of like dazed, and then I did and this is the here's the cautionary tale, and then we'll get to the meat. I did something incredibly dumb. In hindsight, I recognized that after my fervent search, that a very small footprint of my house was

impacted by this. Because now I know what to look for from eggs and all that, and basically that room a little bit in the bathroom in the shower, but I'll never use that shower. But I looked in there and the tile is kind of the color of the egg, so it And there's another thing. I had a cleaning I have a cleaning lady, and uh yep, that's right, Flexen. And the last time she had came and done anything with that bathroom and that bedroom was prior to vacation. So but

it was the day before four. So I have a timeline now because obviously she's she's good. And it's like when she changed out the sheets and she'd have noticed and she'd have said something. And I did text her and she's like, no, no, nothing like I would tell you. I'm like, no, I know you would. I just literally I'm just trying to figure this out. So I decided I'm going to contain and start the murdering. Don't start the murdering until you're ready to do all the murdering. Here's

the spiral and wait for the punchline. So I'm like, all right, I don't have I already know where this is going. Well, really, what's your prediction, sir? I believe that when you killed one of them, Uh, they all sort of ran to where the one was, so they all it drew them all out, right, they all came out. You're half right. You have to understand I'm opening volley was Nagasaki? Okay,

yeah, I understand. That's I know how that's that's how ants work because when you kill an ant, you ever notice, like you step on an ant, Yeah, a lot of like where's your friend? It releases like some sort of oh yeah saying that the ants get like a pheromone or something that the ants can sense, so they go there so they can sort

of like get rid of their dead. I was on a website that, based on that tried to give you like it has like a calculators you can try to figure out how many based on eggs stuff and what you see, and it's total. It's probably wildly inaccurate, as I came to find out. And so I decided, all right, I'm going to the center of the problem. Is this bed right hands down? That's it just horror story. When I pulled back, there's actually like a comforter pad two, so

it's two layers. That's right. You get the fitted sheet off and you're like, oh my gosh. And then you pull the pad off, You're like, there's a whole other town here. So then immediately I'm like this mattress. I didn't take it out of the room, but I did strip everything down and h and lean it up against the wall there, right,

because I wanted to assess what's going on. So and I'm like, you know what, I could probably kill like a bunch of these because I have some I have some stuff, right, and for ticks and mites and all that, and that stuff, Jenner and Flees will work, but bed bugs were a little different, right. You got to you gotta hit them right on and on the ones that got hit right on absolute, absolute scoreboard.

Uh Nagasaki. Right. Problem is Japan's not just Nagasaki or Hiroshima. And that's where the comparisons will stop, because yes, you're kind of right in that all of the bed bugs at that point, the ones I could see and couldn't see, recognized that I had I had started the war. And you have to understand the only thing that they eat is blood from warm blooded cret creatures, mammals. Right, I'm the only mammal. I'm it. I'm the buffet. I didn't take this into account. So two things happened.

One bloom, You're all dead. I feel good. I'm like, this war is gonna be over to I'm George Bush with the mission accomplished banner. Okay, I'm like, this is gonna show up Tomorrow's be like, oh no, thanks, he did my work for me. They then scattered, which is far worse than the ants from like the crystal skulls. Okay, I'd rather have them all as weird as that sound. They scattered, and to scatter, they went places they had never been, and I recognize

pretty quick what's going on. Like no, so I try to like spray perimeter in there, like we're you said you should have done the perimeter first. I did. I actually did do the perimeter. First. I did the door. I'm two doors into that room, and then the bathroom. I did the perimeter hard. I'm having didn't care. I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time focusing here. Yeah, sort of looks like the skin this like your skin is hanging off your bones. Yeah, like iak sugar

water every morning. So is that where you're gonna go as a host for a giant space cockroach? I'm just gonna put it out there that are you a giant space cockroach? You guys killed all my people. So I knew it all right now, all right, So I did perimeter first. Remember how you said you gotta hit them, You gotta hit them on right, they'll die a quick death on So now I am. I am in a sinking feeling because every time I said another perimeter, I look behind me and

I'm like, you can see them. They're they're like all they're like six different sizes. I learned so much, little ones or big ones. They don't fly, but they are determined. They're a little engine that could. I almost respected the hustle. And so what happened is now I'm like I've lost I've lost the the the They're through the wall. They're in the city, okay. And so then my afternoon turned into trying to find a place where they wouldn't go so that I could could I to put prep together.

I got to sleep. Turns out I don't very much, and I would go into another room and within twenty it's like, you know, it's like Jason Voorhee's tracking you through the woods. Right. He's not fast, but he's always there, and I would see them. I'm like, I'm a bedbugs spotty machine. Now yeah, and then you get super paranoid about them being everywhere, like you can't say it gets and now the creepy crawley feelings.

And so every about thirty minutes, I would get up with a broom and murder spray and just go out and try to put another bullet in their head. And it quickly was growing out of control. And and then I'm like, all right, it looks like the area they want is this. I got squatters in my house. There's nothing I could do to oll tomorrow when the police show up. I need to I gotta do prep. And now I feel horrible. I should I should Rouse was right, we should.

I should not be here because I don't think you could pay me to sleep in this house. But I got to set up away from anywhere that they were, where it's wood stairs connected. They kinda they need you have fabric is more advantageous to them. And I'm like, I gotta I got a pretty good setup. I got some blankets that had never been near him, but also I had just washed hot at setting okay, and I set this thing up and I kind of on a couch, but it's a it's

one of those couches that's it folds. It's in it's in my office and it folds and flips down. And then it's a bed. So this is an extra bed, and it's leather, or it's probably not real. It's not real leather, but yeah, it's not really their jam. And so I'm up in there, and I'm sitting there and I'm looking around because now I'm paranoid, and I see the first one and and and then it dawns on me. I'm the only food source in the house. You know,

I don't got critters running around, not married off kids. I'm it. They're gonna go wherever I go. And and they will always know somehow because I would look through the door into the hallway where I've got every light on, because I've convinced myself that if it's super light, maybe they won't move

like a cockroach. They don't care. You're the only buffeith, and you realize real quick that you are losing this campaign, and even with reinforcements tomorrow, I don't know, maybe the burn it down napalm thing was right. You know, you're like the Australians with yes, yes, how could I not beat an EMU pull get on? They're so dumb, and I'm like, I gotta get it together. I gotta I gotta do work. So I'm like, all right, I get this prior to get it set.

I got it set up. I see what's going on. But I'm like, I still got a truck forward. I'll take a quick shower, come out, we'll do another round of murdering. I don't know that I'm gonna sleep very much, but we'll make it work. I do a show tomorrow. So this is the part where I'm gonna let you know this. This is not some of you are gonna get pretty creep down. I want you to stick through it, okay. And I asked Roza if you want to know before the show? He said no, he would take the plunge with

you. So ross, you're signing the digital permission slip. Okay. I gotta I feel like I need legal protection here for what I for what happened next, And unfortunately there's not a way I can just get to it without telegraphing a little of what's gonna happen. Do you're probably picking up on it. Remember I said, I woke up and I am just like, I'm like, what happened to me? Why am I? Why don't look like I got attacked by all the animals? So I have done this all day.

I'm sweaty, I'm nasty because I'm running around moving stuff, sweeping, planning, arson and I go to the shower, not obviously that one, but the one that I use where which thankfully I had not seen anything in there yet yet. Get in the shower, I'm scrubbing the heck out of myself, cause not in paranoid, I'm like, are they on my back? It's like ticks? Right? Where are they? And I'm like,

can I go to the the neighbor look at my back? But I don't show them there, Like I'm these are all the things going through my mind. And I do all that scrub the hair, brush, the teeth. Basically all the clothes I had, I had put them in one of the rooms where they have they've already seized that land, right, I want no set And I got clothes that were nowhere near and I visually checked them all and brought them in there. And there's a little cubby thing and he closed

the boot, put them in there. And here's the telegraphing. We wear ross and I wear headphones a lot, and it doesn't afflict everybody like this, but I it does happen to me. Where if you wear headphones a lot for work and you know, not just radio, but guys weren't construction sites, you know, work in an airfield, whatever, sometimes like your ears will get all backed up, and so I literally have like a flush kit thing in that shower. So if I'm like, ah, and then

I could just do it. I know it's kind of gross. You didn't want to hear that, but did exist. So I'm like, you know what, I clean everything. Let's hit this bad boy. You know where this is going, don't you? In the sleep While the rest are like, look at this buffet, this is amazing. One of the bed bugs was not interested. He's like, you know what, I'm going splunking. And so I flush the right ear and like, I really didn't get the

results, but it felt better. I'm like, Okay, I do the left ear, and uh, it expels out and then I feel something on the left side and then it drops on my shoulder. It's the it's the cave dude. But that's not the worst part because as I am looking at my shoulder, going I guess I gotta burn the shoulder and get John Wick to stick his pencil in that ear, I feel movement in the right ear and he's not coming out. Oh my god, you've got a bug in

your head. Not anymore. We'll talk, but I staying and you'd stay over there, dude, exact count Am I delivering on my promise? Yeah, so that was why are you here? Because now I'm having to go. Yeah, you started the show and you're like, oh, my mic sounds weird on the way. Everything sounds weird today because you got bugs in your ears. Man, No, hold on, I didn't realize that.

The one dude's like, I'm going spelunkin. The other dude, much larger dude, was like, hey, that sounds like a good idea, but I'm gonna go check this other kve out. But also it's all you can eat, right because they got a little thing to in there, which that

crosses my mind. I'm like, yo, no, and I learned many years ago, you you gotta be careful because I was in my twenties and uh, we were road tripping up in New England and we we found this like Vermont, Yeah it was in Vermont or New Hampshire, I can't remember which one. Like roadside hotel, the only amenities. It's got a bar and a driving range and was like cheap and we're like we're in And in the middle of the night, I woke up. I'm like, what is

that feeling? And it was a spider in the moment I woke up, boom in the year and I ran in the shower and I ended up drowning him. And now he's in there, and I did the rest of the trip, like a week with him in there. He didn't the whole thing didn't come out because I didn't want to. I was poor, didn't want to go to the doctor any of that, and so I just waited it out and then boom, one day, boom, there's the whole thing.

And so I learned my lesson, so I didn't drown him. I negotiated with him for four hours with a combination of vegetable oil and water and just something together, and then eventually he gave up the ghost. And it was at that point as I go into the night and I know that I'm not sleeping. Two hours before my alarm went off, I surrendered the battlefield and I slept in a folding chair on my patio for two hours. And now I'm doing a show because that's our commitment. And I'm sorry if I creeped

you out. I'm still thinking napalm maybe the way to go. But we'll see it eleven thirty when the dude gets there. Okay, all right, we'll be back. Hang on. I know that I just chewed up the first hour of the show, and I here's the deal. The story had to be told once in its entirety because there are cautionary tales in there. There is These are stories like old Time. Somebody mentioned Twilight Zone, the email where you were able to convey from an audio and the imagination of the

listener's perspective something that will stick with them. And I know this because multiple people are. I don't know that they're. One lady's very upset with me. But I gave you a trigger warnings, So what do you want me to do? And I didn't go crazy on it. I literally told it straight up because they're driving like I had not covered in bugs. Yes, yeah, absolutely, you know what my buddy Robert, who so I he and I share that cleaning lady. And I know one of Robert's things is

bugs. I don't know why he's dude. He's a dude's dude, but like bugs creep him out, man, and he's not and I hold him and she cleans my house then goes to his house. He was like, she can't clean your house this week. After they're done, and then my house on the same day. I'm like, I will work it out with her. Man. It's just wild. So like I'm sitting there and I'm I'm like telling him this because I just like I have to share the pain

with somebody else, and like he viscerally got it. So I apologize if I did that to you, but in a way, but like there was so much going on. From now on, we'll do calls right now and then I'll probably retell a very shortened version of it. So if you're hearing this now, he just joined us or that, go back to the podcast if if you want to, you want an hour that will fly by and horrify you, And to Corey, you send me the email. Those were

the bugs in your ears? How many you think you're in your nose and mouth. Thank you for that. Appreciate that. Thank you very much. Glad you sent multiple emails on that thing that I thought I did think about for a moment, but I had to like erase it from my brain. Don't worry. We'll get Joe Biden, who every time the more black churches he goes to, the more awkward he looks and wait to hear the quote from the bishop. And we got audio. We we got all sorts of

stuff we will get to over the course of the show. But it's my show, and I had to share that with you, cause damn Okay. All right, Seth, you're up first, go right ahead. Hey, good morning, we're usome morning. Casey. Yeah, I was driving on forty this morning listening to this on the way into work, and I'm like viscerally also reacting to the story. I'm like making these jerk emotions, like freaking out, and I'm watching the people around me. Before You're like,

dude, are you okay? Are you like going into medical medical issue? I'm like, no, I'm fine, I'm all right, but I'm getting ready to go over to the window. The widow. The widow got a chair to watch me. I don't blame her. I look like it looks like the dude on the other side of the park with the bees. But she thinks I'm an OCD meth producer or something. I don't know. She knows what I do. But come on, man, and I'm getting ready to go overseas myself here in about two weeks, and I was like,

oh god, I'm gonna be like hyper paranoid. I'm gonna I don't want to come home like Casey. So you are in the costun airte so thank you very much. So also, if you think you're getting them with the h bomb but you're not, okay, justor call in. He's like, yeah, Casey's dumb, and you know what, He's right, Yeah, Like thank you that. Like I learned my tail. The spider thing was very instructive and horrifying, but instructive. And I rather than you know,

shoot first, ask questions later. I'm telling you if forget water boarding, all you you military folks listening, okay, all right, forget you know, the the Hanoi hilton or pungy sticks or fingernails, bamboo, you know what put somebody in a house with all the bed bugs and tell them they can't go outside of the house have fun sleeping, and you'll start hallucinating bed bugs. You're like, is that now it's a fuzzy because they're about size

of a little fuzzy and some of them are the same color. It's that was awful and I and I yielded the field. I let squatters take over my my house just for so I could get like two and a half hours sleep. Awful, all right, Uh Joe, what's up? Hey? What's up? Gentlemen? How's everything horrible? Obviously? Sir? Okay, I feel free a man. I had a buddy that went through this. First thing you gotta do is get your housekeeping a bomb in her entire set

of equipment to go. That stuff can never come back in the house. Second of all, yes, I want the equipment. The equipment is at my house actually, and Roberts got his own, which is why I told him that he's whiny and just asked her to change in between. But he's he bugs creep him out, man. So yeah. But the second thing you gotta do, the you gotta bay these sobs. You got to get yourself a bloody piece of room tench temperature steak laid on a plate. What,

No, it's a steak, sir, it's my steak. You want to get. You know what I'm gonna get, sir, I'm gonna get a hobbled cat. One of this got the wheel the back. Now you're talking, Now you're talking bread. No, Yeah, they come out get whatever you got to need. It's got to be room, temperture, it's got to be bloody, and they'll come out to it and they're gonna swarm it. And then you grab those son of the guns and you spray them

and you'll kill hundreds of thousands at a time. Well then that probably shouldn't do the cats. So all right, all right, man, good luck, y have a good way. Do you think I probably can't go over to the shelter today and be like, you know what, I just found out. I love cats. You should give me five of them. Do you have slow ones anything injured? Probably not. You just make so many realizations as you're you're you're figuring out that you're it. You're the only game

in town. They're gonna follow you with they are. It's like slow zombies. Man, It's just awful. All right. I feel like we need some oh, one of the last thing. I'm gonna say. There are two moments this over the weekend too, where I felt bad for a moment. Then I'm just like, nah, this is what I do. One I felt bad for a moment about the promo I cut Friday, where I just said, hey, uh, it's uh fourth of July. Park two, how many fingers well folks have left? And what happens? You know,

a little crazy fireworks story join us Monday. And I don't know if you're aware of what happened down in South Carolina. I texted Ross. I said, I felt bad for a little moment for for a little bit, and we'll get into that story. But then, while I am on a arrest period in between my you know, my murder raids all around the all around the house, I started to remember Spiderweb Dad. Do you remember that

story Ross? Where he went up? Was it? It was the rafters of the garage, right, he had like the garage had wood rafters. We had the panels overseeing store stuff, but it was wide open up to the sky. And and there's two different versions. There's this one and then there was another dude, but the story went the same way and he was. I think it was his basement or something, and I don't know how it got as bad as it did, but the whole thing spy Webs and

they both arrived at the conclusion blow torch is the way to go. And you remember that story because they burned all their stuff down right, it's like turkey frying in your garage, and you don't know how displacement works. I felt bad for Spiderweb Dad because I read the heat thing right, and there's only so much you can stick into the dryer of the washer. And I thought for a moment, because I have a blow torch, what man doesn't. I don't have a flame thrower, but I have a blow torch,

so we get by. What if I have that in one hand, and I have a little fire extinguisher that's in the in my office, and then I have a big one in the kitchen, but or a bigger not like a huge one, but you know what I mean. What if I got the little palm one in one the blow torch in the other, because just trying to hit them individually with the uh And that thought crossed my mind yesterday. I'm like, it's not that they were dumb, it's that they didn't

do it right. It's like, you know what it was. It was communism for a moment, Ross, it was communism. Those two guys burn their house down. They just didn't do it right. I'm gonna do it right. Yeah, we're gonna learn from their mistakes. Yes, yeah, you just These aren't spiderwebs. These are bed bugs whatever. I mean, if it's bed bugs or carbon or termites or whatever. Yeah said in the way kill right, Yeah, you're right, yeah, And I was.

I had convinced myself that if I went onto the three season porch patio thing where they did, that's what they did. Make out. That floor is not it is not like the other floors. Right, You're not going to catch that thing on fire directly because it's the fire resistant composite. There's reasons for it. But I'm like, that could be my test area. And I'm like, dude, you are going to burn your house down. Stop it. You already tried to fix this yourself. Stop stop your Clark Griswold,

just stop, man, And uh, thankfully I did. And then horribleness. So all right, let's do this because I gotta have a buffer zone. I do we got news, you ever got actual news and audio and all sorts of craziness because you know the weekend THEO was and we will get to that after my selfish hijacking of airtime coming up here on the CaCO Day Radio program. It's wrong though, it says, uh infested CaCO Day Radio program infested with bugs slash bugs in ear survivor, you got the bugs

part right. I'm a two time survivor. I will fix that right now. And I think when I was a kid, I got I had like the silver fish or the roly pie had something in my ear. I remember my mom was just like, she was not pleased. But so but adult, we'll just for adults. So anyway, thanks for putting that out there. Everyone appreciates it. Speaking of adults, it's adulting at church with uh

Joe Biden. I'm telling you, man, the more black churches he goes to, the more uncomfortable he looks, and the orange is gone, that little hand to temporary tattoo thing he had rocking. I mean it was kind of there for this Stephan Stephanopolis interview. Yeah, but now does this make him a Christian nationalist because he's campaigning at a church, A big fan of the church. Mark Robinson's remember he's big. He's in big trouble for saying

some stuff at a church again and they think he's a Christian ationalist. So yeah, I mean right, because we equality yours. No, no, it doesn't, of course it doesn't because, as you'll come to find out, it's a moonbat church. Yeah, yeah, it's uh it's super moonbatty man. And uh there is an amazing quote. Well there's two things. One Joe Biden says Dark Brandon's coming back. Do you think Joe knows he's Dark Brandon or do you think there's an act? Does he think it's somebody

else? I was just thinking of that, like he's like, that's that's a good looking man there. Oh he's scary too, he probably does. But anyway, the the amount of like what's he gonna do for him? Like he was, he was all in on those statements he was making. He's like, I'm not going anywhere, And there was, you know,

speculation was that they're literally negotiating surrender at this moment. And he came out full throated and he's like I'm I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do if you can be convinced that you can knock defeed Donald Trump while you stand down. This is from the interview. Depends if if the Lord Almighty comes out and tells me that I might do that. Well, I mean at a more

practical level. Washington Puss just reported in the last hour that Senator Mark Warner is assembling a group of senators together to try and convince you to stand down because they don't think you can win. Well, Mark is a good many We've never had that. He also tried to get the nomination too. By the way, he didn't do different Mark a lot of marks. Whatever. Mark's not Mark, can I have a different perspective. I respect him.

And if Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi come down and say we're worried that if you stay in the race, we're going to lose the house in the Senate, how will you respond. I've go into detail with them. I've just picked all of them in detail, including Jim Cleiber. Every one of them. They all said, race, stay in the race.

No one said what does that mean? He also Jim Clyber, because Akeem Jeffries is black, so is not that I saw the video of him not hugging that woman or whatever, although he had talked to her earlier, that is on video. But you couldn't convince me he remembered something he did before the Ralley right now. So I don't know. But on this what do

you mean? Also, Jim Clyburn, what does that mean? Maybe he holds him to more of a standard or something because didn't he have something to do with them, or maybe I'm thinking of a different guy like the primary back in twenty twenty. It all turned around in South Carolina because of his help, right, yes, so maybe that's why, Yeah, I get Yeah, maybe I Again, I don't have to because you know, the easy thing if you're like Associated Press and that the parties are flipped, you

just go look racist. So I don't know, it's just a weird wording. I should leave. But if they do, oh I'm not going to do that. Yeah. Yeah. And and by the way, this goes on, and remember they had this was like this is a short interview and it was pretty recorded. It's use if the Lornal Mighty come out and said, Joe get out of the race, I got out the race, and Lord of Mightey's not coming down. I mean these hypothetic what sends somebody in

as the Lord Almighty. I'm sorry, I understand this is a blast, but you'll have to tell him that you support abortion. Note so he'll be like, oh, that's the church. I know, Nichol George if I mean default, but it's it's not that hypothetical anymore. I grant that they have not requested the meeting, but it's been real. I met with them. I've met with a lot of these people. I've talked them right money. For those of you, by the way, maybe tuning in to that

Sweetest Cent and you're like, ah, what happened? I did? I did a literally the whole first hour on the Nightmare Fuel thing that I tweeted, So I'm gonna I'll talk about it again for one segment at eight oh five. Okay, I will not do the full but if you want the full version, that'll be our one of the podcast, okay, or won't be an hour, be the first what thirty five minutes or whatever of the podcast today, so you can get that. You can get the whole thing.

The only thing I left out of that is how I was dressed, which I'll at the eight o'clock hour. I'll mention that because it is. It's an amazing little nugg of the story. But I was running out of time. Yeah, all right, let's go to Joe Biden, shall we. Dude, is you know he's campaign in Pennsylvania. He's doing a few stops, says dark Brandon's coming back whatever, and then heads over to the

black church. Okay, all right. Remember this man was raised in a black church, he told us, and every time he goes to a black church, he somehow looks more awkward. You remember the video of him where everybody's moving, they're feeling the spirit, they're dancing, they're clapping, you know, the stereotypical southern black church, which you know it's a stereotype for a reason. And he's like armstiff to his side, doing the slow rock okay, and I can't dance, so I like, I get that,

But you're like, nah, this is my this is my background. Mm hmm. It is clearly not, sir, But he keeps going. And you know, when you're for the same reason that Mark Robinson goes to church. There is value there in connecting with people. If you know how to

connect with them and uh. And then also it gives video for the Moonbats journalists locally to say that Mark Robinson wants to kill everybody because they've never seen about nine different movies I can tell you about because they're boring from the pulpit of the church. Oh, here is the damn. Here is the audio. It was not attached to the other story. I'm gonna read it to

you. The bishop of the church who now has to tell his congregation a little something because they knew that Biden was probably they probably knew Biden was coming pre debate or had some well maybe not. I don't know. I don't know how long this thing was scheduled out. But obviously, even if you love the guy, you recognize that that Joe Biden shows up may not be the one in your mind, Okay. And the bishop recognizes that. So he's got to go lob some defense some you know, he's got to preload

this thing. And I'm going to read this for batim the bishop j Lewis Felton. That dude sounds like a middle of the day injury lawyer, doesn't he. Jay Lewis Felton call the law offices up Mi's o'theliomer something I don't know, but he went, he's a bishop, all right. Anyway, he said, and I quote, I don't know why it is, And Biden's sitting on stage next to him, he's kind of he's talking to him,

but he's talking to congregation. I don't know why it is that you want to make an issue the president and his condition and this is being directed at the media, people online all of that. I don't know why it is that you want to make an issue of the president and his condition was stammering and not being able at certain times to bring forth words. And then he's like, you know, look at the other guy trump word salads.

We agree, wanders rambles. I'm guilty of it too. But if when you're at that level of politics, tind to try to rein it in because you know, time is money, Money's time. You're doing a bunch of different things. Get to the point. Here's the test and stuff. It's all the stuff you hate about upper level politicians that at the end of the day kind of works like attack ads. Who likes these? I don't know

people sadly, this is what it is. The it's not because of the stammering though, because you could argue that Donald Trump is not a smooth start to finish, clear, concise storyteller. Sometimes he is, but a lot of times it's it's nine things going on at once. The just randomly says that, by the way, that's what people like because it is that differential. So a lot of people try and explain this on the air or online, they're just like, no, what you don't understand is he's not that

guy. We talked about this last week right ross when Pete was on with the European elections, right or just elections everywhere. It's like, you're just not the guy who I hate because the COVID or whatever. I just need to have the other guy. And maybe we're perpetually in that voting pattern or

maybe not. If you do what McCrone did in France and you literally bring over all of the people that you brought over the squad, you have to understand in France, look, I'm rambling in France to maintain power, so that the penn and there's there's far right, there's right, there's left, and then there's far left and obviously you got some middlers there and it's just like in the US where they're just like, that's a far right. Everyone's

far right. Who's on the right if you listen to the left tell you that? And for some politicians the same back and forth. But the uber moon bats in France, basically the left could ignore them and then the right ignores the uber right. So but McCrone couldn't do that anymore. So he had to go and he had to get a coalition, which means one of two things happened. There were demands, there are policies, there are things and priorities that had to be agreed to be included, maybe some higher up

leadership positions. We'll see you either don't do it and then you get a blitter rate in the next election, or you do it and you have now successfully moved France leftward. And in fact you were so quick to do it one of the biggest fails in French policy. Uh posts nineteen forty six was about a decade or something, maybe even more than that. Do you remember when France is like the top marginal tax rate's going to be ninety percent.

I promise I'll get back to the Trump thing and the and the Biden thing where they said, the top tax rate for the for the you over rich in France is going to be ninety percent, which is French society is born upon income, inequality or whatever. Right the haves that have nods being members of court. Let them eat cake. Oh that's a guillotine. What's going on? And so they have a they have a long and storied tradition.

But ninety percent was too much for basically all the people who would be tax ninety percent because it's not like people say the US, we had a top marginal tax rate of whatever, it was eighty some percent. It's like, yeah, but that's not the the effective tax rate. If you look through history, the effective tax rate in the US, if you group everybody doesn't move much. Is it like eighteen percent or something on average? But it

does, you know, around the edge of it ebbs and flows. And I remember literally that day, what is Depp Pardue's first name is Gerard right, the actor, the ugly actor, but they call him but whatever, he's a good actor. He's like, ah bye, yeah, I'm out. And they're like, oh my gosh, wait where are the rich people

going? And and Franz you have to understand France was like overrepresented in the Panama papers, because that's all I told you about when I was in When I was Panama City and I'm in the I'm in the Hotel Nice Hotel in the financial district. I look at this quizite condo building across the street which had a doorman and the park, and I realized, there's no there's really

nobody in there. And then I realized when I'm at the restaurant, which is like the thirty eighth floor of the hotel, looking into the thirty eighth floor of the condos, they're not even built out. Most of them. They're all tax shelters. And so those Panama papers came forward. There's a lot of big names craziness in there, but a lot of French because they went Nope, if I'm going to stay, nope, and even if I'm

leaving, I'll probably nope. And they ended up having to undo that because they were just driving anyone with a big money out of the out of the country. That is a priority for the new government in France. This thing that they saw, they just didn't try it right the first time. Ross what you need or fences or walls to keep people in man I'm seeing this stuff from France yesterday. Yeah, and I'm looking at the map that came in. You see the map that's all the social media where like it's all

of France and it's all blue where La Penn won. Right, the only place she did not win was Paris. And the first thing I thought, Well, first, I thought, the parliamentary system is ridiculous in garbage and you talk about these backroom shady deals. It's the definition of it. Right, I got to build a coalition with the communists just some quote far right

can't win. But also the second thing I thought was thank God for the electoral College because this is the sort of thing because you hear this all the time, right when we have an election and I talk to people over in Europe and UK thanks to the Twitch channel, right, like I talked to it, and you constantly hear or you read it on social media, like, oh, the American system doesn't make sense because why you know, the popular vote should count and what is this? You know, the electoral college

makes no sense. This is the sort of thing it defends against. Yeah, and so this is why the founders were genius in creating it. Minnesota when I lived there, and then it was it was swaying. Minnesota had that to some extent. Obviously they don't have parliamentary so to speak. It's it's very standard, but it is immediately clear that if you live in Minnesota, the twin cities are one, they're Minnesota left and outstate is Minnesota right.

And they're almost they at the time were almost equal in voting. That's why you'd have these crazy Senate races. Were one trunk full of ballots. Get al Franken in there, thanks Mark Elias, and and and then that was quickly going the other direction because if you were a kid who wanted to live in the big city, had lofty ideals, maybe a little little leftist, not just from Minnesota, but Wisconsin, the Dakota's, Iowa, wherever you go to Minneapolis. And so the numbers just kept blowing up. Yeah,

no, it's crazy. And this this, this bishop's got to think of something not even remotely the same thing. Sir, all right, who do we got raced agic or do you get swept away by stupid the name hurricane out Hey? Good morning, all right, go ahead with your barrel update, and then yeah, maybe talk about us for a few Yeah, Baryl came on shore just before four am Central time, Category one eighty mile

per hour storm impacts now being felt across coastal Texas. Houston being hit hard, heavy rain, storm surge along the coast, and even severe weather threats. So Cat one coming on shore near Matagorda, Texas, eighty mile per hour winds and now heading inland, likely having impacts as far north as maybe Chicago and Detroit later in the week as a depression, but limited if any

here. I mean, I mean, I guess you can make a case that the remnant low might be hooked up to a front and eventually and become extratropical and draw some moisture in here, But that's kind of stretching it a bit. But we will get some showers. Thunder showers might be a few trying to sneak in this morning to our south, but most of it this afternoon's still warm and humid, near ninety. Tomorrow ninety five or the lot to mid nineties will feel over one hundred again, and Wednesday we'll be back

into the lotta mid nineties again with afternoon storre worms each day. And what was that I saw while I was away. What o six? All time record high for Raleigh. You're talking about station with our ratings? Yeah, well yeah that too. Did we have that too? Again? Boy, we're good, aren't we. Well it's you know what, you gotta thank the president and and debates. Yeah they can do that too, right, Yeah? But what was it? Six? Wasn't it? Gosh? I

was like, wow, good thing. I'm not there to take the heat for that, but yeah, hot, humid, not quite as hot, but hot enough. Next couple of days. Okay, well, what's the next name? Storm? By the way, so you guys, Debbie the sea storm, Chris Cutting, remember we changed we? Uh we did? We tell you we changed all the names to we're doing thematically and this year's storms are all named after eighties wrestlers Roy who was the D Do you remember who do we go with with D B? Remember who was the D?

Yeah? B was Brutus Beefcake, wasn't it now? I think we saw the Bam bam Bigeloway then see and then D is we have to come up with the D storm. So anyway, just consult with us as you go through talking and out. We'll do it. Yep, there you go, Ah, are you staging from it'd be like Diamond Dallas Page. Maybe I don't know. Yeah, I thought we had something, but I don't remember because my whole life turned into a walking nightmare on Sunday. So I will

get into that story eight oh five, but the shortened version. So there's that I yesterday took to Twitter with almost no sleep, already in covered in injuries. I'll explain kind of. I said, I have first level, first ballot, Hall of Fame, nightmare fuel, and unlike those guys on Twitter just looking for engagement, Ross, I delivered right our one of the show, one hundred. Okay, this is not even a question the emails that I have. I so I wouldn't be surprised if somebody calls your boss

like I can't come in today. But also I can't go into a structure. I don't know. I didn't mean to do that to you, but is wild the whole setup how we got there. I'm gonna eliminate that. But if you want to hear the whole thing our just listen to podcast. Well I have it for you shortly after the show. Unless Ros gets creeped out, He's like, nope, I'm out. So just look for it.

I'm going to give you a small version, and if you have a visceral reaction, I will warn you at the part where I think it might happen. But soul, my Sunday sucked. Long story short, I went on vacation. You remember all that, And I know that within the time that I went on vacation to the weekend, it was actually the end of last week, but into the weekend, signs were showing. But I didn't figure out untill Sunday. A the theory. My theory is a piece of

luggage from my travels, either Miami Coastreak or Raleigh. I don't know. Miami's looking like the spot because I had I went in and was pulling sheets off this bed that I had not slept under into the sheets, uh until the last couple of days. Sometimes I sleep in one bed, sometimes I sleep in the other. Don't try to understand it. And I got I woke up and I thought, like mosquito. I had left like a screen

open or something. Some mosquitos got in. But it was it was weird, man, because it looked like a kind of but it had happened before, and I had to go around like murder, mosquitos, whatever. I but I felt so bad waking up Sunday morning, I'm like, what is going on? And I go out. I'm doing some things, make I'm making some food, and I'm like, I gotta like, I gotta clean

up and then figure out what's going on. So I throw pasta in the water and then I walk into this bedroom and I'm I'm stripping it down the throat in the wash right, and that's when I see it. There is a layer of bedbugs. I had never seen bedbugs in person, and under I have a pad on there too, so I think the pad off, there's another layer. It's it's it's like a fifteen minute city or something. And I'm horrified. But one because now every moment it feels like there's bugs

on my skin, even though I can visually see there's not. I'm having PTSD on this, and I tell I, tell Ross what's going on. He's like, you should burn your house down. I'm like, that's probably where I'm gonna go. But so I doing triage. I'm educating myself because I don't know a lot about it, and I convince myself that it hasn't spread out of this nexus very much and due to the short time. And I get a guy he's coming today. I'm assuming he'll nap palm the house

for me or whatever he does. And we're talking and he actually puts me a little at ease. He's like, no, this is good, this is better. And so he told me a couple of horror stories from the anyway, and he goes, if you caught it early, this is what we just we're gonna do these things. And I'm like, you should do all those things multiple times, and then if you want to use fire, go ahead. But I feel a little better and I kind of the creepy

crawlies go away. I communicate this to Ross, who's instantly like, we should take time off. So we didn't do that, and I did something really stupid. I'm like, you know what, Yeah, I gott I'll come tomorrow. I wonder if I go Nagasaki on him? Right? I got him, I got him surrounded. I know where they are. They're in this They're in this one bedroom and then like a little bit in this bathroom that's the en suite. I got this. Do not do that because

what happened is I hit him. But unlikes the ticks and the fleas and stuff that the spray also says that it does. It's just the home stuff. It's not the good stuff. It'll it'll, it'll kill the bedbug. But you got to hit them straight on. They're not coming by munching on it later and dying. And instead of swarming me, they immediately broke into one hundred different tribes and moved throughout started expanding in the house, and I

start freaking out. So now I'm having to do this thing where every like thirty minutes, I go on like kill team missions, like seal team all around the house, just trying to to and I had like tried to put a perimeter and it kept expanding. I'm losing this battle. I'm losing the war. And it got so bad. I'm like, I have made a grave mistake that I'm I am walking around this out. I'm walking around my

house. But I want you to visualize this I am wearing because I don't want them anywhere near my skin, because you have to understand, the only warm blooded mammals, that's what they feed on. And I'm the only game in town. I got no pets, I'm not married, no kids, i'm it, and any room I went into, after a certain amount of time I would see some, I'd see a couple of them just kind of like slowly Jason Voory's style, making their way in. They are diabolical.

I respect the hustle, but i'm it. And I have now got on a pair of real tree that I don't use them for hunting anymore. But you know, the pants got all the velcrow around them, so you can literally lock down your your sock situation. If you're like early early hunting, like early fall beer hunting, you got it the whole thing, or you

just could get eaten alive. Yeah. So I've got those on, which because these have now made their way to around the house pants and I needed the longer socks, but the warm weather the wool socks, I want to wear those. I have the short socks for shoes. So I have on a pair of dress socks and those pants they velcrow and then they flip the socks because you need length on the socks, and it tucks it in there

all tight. I then have a long sleeve shirt that tucks and then hooks, but it's it hooks off the pants and I kind of you know, rigged it, which is just like it's like an American flag long sleeve shirt, but it has the velcrow wrists and I've got those on lockdown, but I need my hands. I have the collar thing up and I had like a pullover hat. I am basically a middle Eastern, more moderate woman. It's not the full uh you know, the full beaded thing. Most people

are mistake it and think that's the whole outphit. There's an abaya the job, and then there's the veil. But anyway, so it's open. That's what I look like, except nothing matches. And my neighbor's like what is he doing? And I'm running around frantic. That's not the bad part. That's the setup. So now I have I'm like, I don't know what to Ross was right. I should not I should take the day off because you couldn't pay me to sleep. And it's like, do I go to

the hotel? And if I go to a hotel, this thing they're gonna they'll have all the houses right, and then there'll be a bed bug paradise and I'm not gonna let the squatters win. So I continue this and I prep and I do all these things, and I'm running around doing all this stuff and I'm sweaty, I'm gross, I feel defeated, and I'm like,

I have to like clean up a little. I gotta get my I gotta get prepped done, and I gotta figure out what I'm gonna do to get a little bit of sleep, because everywhere I go, even if they weren't there, they're coming because that's what Vorhees does. And here is here's the part. Here's the part where I'm just gonna let you know you should

right here. But it's part of the cautionary tail. So I think I got a pretty good handle on I'll be able to sleep on this one couch because it's you know, it's leather feel and they're more fabricy and it's got metal legs. I don't know if they fully get up that they can, by the way, and then I'll kind of cord it off and that'll work. And then I got some clothes were nowhere near it. I gave him a visual inspection everything, and they'd been freshly washed. Do We're fine,

And I got everything where they can't get to it. So I go and I shower and I'm in the shower, and one of the things that happens if you wear a headful lot of headphones for work, like we do pilots. I guess to some others, your ears can get a little clogged up. So I actually have like a flush kit in in that shower, and the thing works like gang bas fans great, and so all right, I'm gonna hit these bad boys. It never dawned on me, is it been a while? And I flushed the right ear? All right? Worked?

That was much like, We're good. I know it's a little gross, and I'm like, all right, cool, I hit the left here. I'm starting to feel better. I'm like, plans working. I don't see him just great. And the moment that rinsed out while everyone was running around trying to eat me, this guy is like, I'm going cave diving, and that's what he did. No, that's not even the worst part. You feeling it, aren't you the little tingly sensation. The worst part is

this. So I look over and he's on my shoulder, and let's just I didn't have the most manly reaction. But I'm like, you're going down the drain right now. I can't. And the moment he's off and I think I'm clear. I feel wiggling in my right ear. And I told you the story of when I was early twenties, me and a buddy are like, let's go to all the baseball stadiums. We have no money, and so we we did. We did. We did Baltimore and went to

the Mets. We didn't get Yankees, I know, we suck, and went to Boston and went to Then We're gonna loop around through New England and then come back through Cooperstown and then drive backs as I was obviously not living in North Carolina and somewhere we we have no money, and so imagine our

surprise on the roads of New Hampshire, whichever one doesn't allow billboards. There is this roadside motel that has a sports bar attached to the motel and a driving range with like five bays, and it says you stay here, you play here. And we did have clubs with us because we're going to play

the course in Cooperstown. And in the middle of the night, I wake up, I'm like, what is going on in Oh it's a spider and it crawled in my ear and I made rookie mistake and I went to the shower and d and it stayed with me like the next week we were still out and then when I got back home event it came out and I'm like, don't make that mistake. So I know I got to negotiate with this

monster, which you know, don't just jam him in there. The trick that I found that does that did work is a little whale in the ear. But you actually it's weird because you actually want up that you're facing up. I'm pulling away from the bike and you want it up so like they can float out because if not, you'll just drown it. I can't. Yeah, so grust If I wake up and I'm doing my morning routine and bugs start falling out of my ears, I am I'm done for the day.

And you you were saying early in the show, very early before we went on the air, like you know, like five fifty whatever, you're you're testing your microphone out and this is before you told me about the bugs in your ears. Yeah, you're like, oh man, the microphone doesn't sound right. It does sound right to you. How come I and how come this doesn't stutter? Because you got bugs in your ears? Man? I think well, actually, I think the microphones sounded different because I the

I literally bumped this thing, and I have different headphones. I just switch out headphones, so not for that reason. Just because I got some newer ones, you may have to buy new headphones like mat oh the match that they's gone. Yeah, I know there's a bunch of stuff like anything in that bathroom that's not a gazillion dollars. It's gone. Owls, bath mats, they're gone. And I want to apologize too, because I made the joke previously about before I knew about all this, like I just knew.

I knew it the bed bugs, but you know about like the ears. I was on the upswing with you, right right, and I just said, being funny, I said, you know, hey, your skin is hanging up your bones. Have you become the host of a space cockroach? Right? Are you drinking sugar water? I'm drinking tea iced tea, so unsweet? I know that's so. When's the bug guy come? Uh? Eleven thirty? Yeah, yep, eleven thirty. I I mean I gotta go. Triage free gets there, right. You mean if I were you,

dude, I would move I would well do it. So Nate Palmer Arson. I don't know if you decided, but dude, it's just horribleness, just horribleness. I promise you though, if you want like the full horror movie experience, since in you know, the growing sense of dread. You think it's going one way, it's going another. Dumb decisions by the protagonist, right, Ah, I'm gonna run in the woods with heels, or I'm gonna I'm gonna murder them before the guy can get here tomorrow.

Like all of those elements, all the good horror elements, or at least uh stereotypical one, they're all in there. I could say this is terrifying, and this is an experience that I think more people had living in North Carolina was like once this happened. I want to say, this was like ten years ago where we were watching a movie in bed and all of a sudden was movement and it was one of those good old fashioned, big old North Carolina palmetto bugs and the shrieking that we went a dude, terrifying.

I can't even imagine having a whole colony of bedbugs. Did you win the shriek off with the wife or that it was super I'm sure I did. Yeah, I always win. I dominate. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna lose. H you had to win it, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean dude. And then I'm just like, I gotta tell this story. It's yeah, I have to. And then there was a moment too where I'm not kidding. I thought I felt

bad for making fun of the dude who burned his house. There's two different ones because they were trying to get spiderwebs out one of like garage rafters, the other one in the basement or something, and spider webs burned like a son of a gun. I don't know if you guys know this. And so he's got a whole house. Well what did you think was gonna happen? He burnt his house down. But I was doing all the reading getting

to know the bedbugs and uh, it's like they hate heat. And I'm like, I got a blow torch in one hand and a fire extinguished in the other. That's safe, right, And I thought about it because I was running. I was I ran out of murder Spray had like a big tall the raid you know, tick flee whatever. It's got the bed bugs on there but I used the whole damn can, and there was like three quarters when I started probably poisoned myself. So that was that was. That

was my Sunday. And now I have the creepy Crawley's again to every time I tell it, so I'm not gonna tell it again. You want to hear the full version, go to the podcast. It's there for your first hour. Oh all right, we will be back. Hang on, have we I'm trying to think we've known. It's never even been like talked about with management. I remember I just wanted a window for ten years because they were gonna put us in the h the old morning show studio for the organisation.

Yeah, people are always surprised to learn that we're we're like nowhere like in this his studio. Yeah yeah yeah different. Ross is his studio, It is mine is described as spartan. Ross is Mine is very cozy. Cozy that's a good word. Yeah, very uh unique. And then he'll put like signage to block his window but also confuse people, and then he'll get a misspelled award and then he hung that for like a year. So

you never know what you're gonna see anyway. So there you go. Yeah, that's no. Would you rather, hey, would you rather help me tree eye or clean up after the dude hits the house today? Or help a dude move out of an eight bedroom house. I'd probably go with the movie. I don't know. Yeah, I don't want to risk bringing the bugs back to the my house and with Lincoln and stuff, so well,

no, just go. You just go in, walk into like a giant industrial uh, like smelting nothing, right, So all I need to do after I help you with the b uggs if that were the case, We're to jump in like a giant like a chemical plant, like the Joker in the Michael Keaton Batman movie. I really feel heats the answer here, so I think you gotta Yeah, but yeah, you could do that whatever, man, whatever makes you feel better, that's fine, Like crazy crazy day.

There's even other parts. I just I'm not gonna go back into it. But I just keep remembering different stuff, all right, I'll tell you this one. There was a moment while I was negotiating with the holdout in the right ear right, Squatters writes whatever, and I'd done the oil thing once, I've done the water once. Then I did them both again and I'm like every time you do it, like he gives you this indication like all right, all right, I get it. I get it, and

then nothing. And now I've got a little water in the ear too. So I'm like doing the thing where you're trying to jerk your head so it comes out, because maybe he'll just surf on out. And again my brain's not with me. So I'm I do this and I stand, I walk out on my patio because water, you know, water might come out. And again my neighbors have to think I am insane because now like I'm trying to bite my ear or something, and I'm dressed in like, uh poor

man poor man's bow hunting attire and dress socks. There's all reason is gone. And and by the way, if you don't and so I had this thought, well those didn't work. I the goal is not to kill him. I learned my lesson with the spider. But you got to be a

firm negotiator. So I'm gonna arder the deal. This thing. I'm not gonna spray the entire can of rate in my ear, but maybe just a little to know I mean business, and it sprays the wrong word, like yeah, I get a little get the the essence of it, it's probably Q tip or something. It's probably bad because it's a nerve agent. So I would it crossed my mind for as long as it took me to explain

it. I'm like, that is a horrible ideal. So I would be better off, as I said, just having John Wicks stick his insul in my ear, because then at least I don't have to think about this anymore. And you know, he's probably dead. So what today? What a day? Now? Arguably worst day South Carolina. Sorry to make that transition, but we're short on time. And again another thing I feel bad. I did the standard fourth of July promom. Who's not gonna be able to

count to ten? What's gonna happen in the world of fireworks? And then the first to emerge. You see the video of the dude in the in the electric wheelchair and the kid lights well, you know like a stack of where there's like twelve of the box that go off right next to him. He's trying to have the dude light it, and then the guy helps him and then they're lit and he goes to light he goes to the I'm gonna get to the Sharon harristing here in just a moment. I'm waiting. I'm

waiting for one other thing so to chill out. So he he like, I don't know if he turn earned it off or what. But he's now directly next to us, and like his thing isn't moving, his little joystate it ain't working, and these things are about to who the hell knows right, And thankfully didn't get injured. But after a few of them whatever, it started moving. But the other guy ran so far he couldn't even push him. I know that's as bad as it was. No, how do

we not know it's the m eighty thing. Think about this, we're dealing fibers. If you have an am eighty go off in your hand, it's gonna your hand's gonna get messed up. Surely you still have a hand, probably mostly functional when you're done, because it's not under pressure, so it has even though it's gonna. You know, it's harder for it to expand against the hand. It has a lot of and we can get into the physics of it, but that's you know, it's a it's a much better

option. If you close your hand has gone bye bye. Hand, you're you're uh. I guess maybe creeping people out who just instinctively shake with one hand because your other one's gone and they're gonna feel bad. So anyway, this guy won a different route, and the fact that it's coupled with this like TikTok video thing is wild to me. So this guy in South Carolina, life of the party joker, you know, get families there, he's got friends there. He's always cutting up what do they refer to him as

the show mooting but funny dad. He has on a he has a super Fourth of July, and to top it off, he has a comically oversized think turd ferguson SNL Jeopardy, the cowboy hat like Uncle Sam top hat, patriotic as a as a you know what. And for some reason he decides he's smoking a cigarette. He's doing like a funny jig. He's in the

red, white and blue. Everything's fine, and there's you can see like smoke behind him, and then he sla he's like doing finger guns, kicks his feet and then it all goes horribly wrong because that was a full on mortar. And the mortar in question, when I say behind him was not behind him, but rather on him. And this is a big boy, it's on him. And it's further problematic because he's got this the crazy hat man, which even though it's big for some of that size is it's a

horrible idea and he did not make it. Uh what is he? He's HVAC worker. So now now with the jig, it's fine. I just want to I wanna be a bundlely clear. So he's doing this this silly video for those he's using something smaller, but then he had to keep up being the ante and later on the forty one year old according to family,

this is his wife. I thought he was just showboating before he set it on the ground as I watched him pick up a large mortar lit and do what he did with the other little ones, put it on his head and you're done. You're done. And uh yeah, here's the And I don't know why this is one of the first things that cross my mind. Family's there. Do you remember the awful moon back college moonbats and just other distasteful people who right as Trump got into office, if anybody had an American flag,

they were triggered and they would like lose their crap. So they just couldn't fathom that somebody has an American flag. And it wasn't just the trucks with like four flying. But as soon as you let them know that bother you, then you know it was just an up the antithing. But they would like flip out on people who had a bumper sticker that you know probably been there for five years or something. Uh it is, we're having it because it was so triggering. Well, you all are stupid. I don't

believe you this family. I will say, if you're triggered by the American flag, I going for it. I would understand. And like I can't even imagine because you're in South Carolina, and South Carolina they did. They loved them some flags. They love any representation products you can't. South Carolina is one of those states, not the only one where the chances of you coming across multiple flag representations on a day where you just run a few errands

are very high. It's like it's like if you're ever in a if you're ever somewhere and there's a group of guys in the store and they get a little accent and trying to place it, you will know if they're from Texas, because somebody will have something referencing Texas as as a garment. They can

have a Texas belt buckle, lone star hat, whatever. Man. I picked some dudes out in a grocery store in another country one time, like those are Texans, And I just seen him across because the dude had the he had the quintessential Texas hat and belt buckle match, And of course they all were so like if that's I again, I mean, I don't even

know how to pick it apart other than to say that's awful. I just like, and then Fourth of July, which is one of the fun holidays, right, but I mean that sympathetically because and then you're there and it's just oh, it's the whole thing is just horrible, man, but also dumb as hell. Don't do that, right, just I don't build the oil to the top to deep friar Turkey raced agic from the Weather Channel. I don't know if you actually did that, but maybe you did. Got

close ones. I remember when that first trend started. I'm like, does nobody understand how displacement works? And it was clear they did not clearly, or they don't try to get you throw it in there. Yeah that too, but you know what, and now you don't have a garage, so good on you, so the Lord you wouldn't. Yeah, it does, it does, So any garage record is coming our way. What's up? I don't know. It stays hot and humid the next few days upper eighties

to low nineties today, load to mid nineties tomorrow and Wednesday. Storm chances will be best during the afternoon, how whurs otherwise hazy and warm. There might even be some fog in spots next few mornings, but the rain, if you do get a thunderstorm, we have the potential to produce some downpours too, so hopefully that'll cool you off just a bit. Boy, it

was a hot week and hot weekend. I don't see really temperatures going too much below ninety degrees until maybe later in the week, when, especially the Tria, you may end up in the upper eighties rather than ninety or just above ninety degrees. With the shower thunderstorm chances with us each day here this week, so another look like we're gonna see widespread all day rain. I

think the better chances will come later in the week. Hopefully everybody getting some barrow did come on shores, a Category one storm with eighty mile per hour winds and now bringing wind and rain and even some hurricane force wind gusts in and around Houston and Galveston, water rise and now power out to over a

million customers in the state of Texas. Obviously there's no flights in and out at Hobby or Intercontinental and other regional airports, so certainly call ahead and figure out what your travel plans are if you did have some travel plan to the Great State of Texas, because even Dallas could be impacted with some heavy rain

too. As we go through the morning and into the afternoon, then all that moisture get drawn up into the Ohio Valley, the northeast New England as either depression and or eventually a remnant low, so rain will be in the forecast, maybe Chicago, Detroit, but especially to the south southeast of them, and then some of that moisture gets into the northeast, Dani Winga. So we escape this one, but I'm sure there'll be more. Do you

do a Texas station or not? U daily? Yes? Actually do San Antonio, Okay, yep, good, try to get him to shoot at it. It's Florida and Texas, I feel are convincible states sometimes. So all right, let me know how that goes. Okay, Yanks, Yep, dude, I'm the start and stuff. Anyway, we'll be back. Hang on. Well, good morning, Casey. Stock's advanced in slow trading on Friday, Investors hoping a gradual cooling of the job market will help convince

Federal Reserve Board policymakers to start cutting interest rates later this year. Futures are pointing higher this morning, and now futures are up seventy six. Well here from Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Tomorrow. He'll spend Tomorrow and Wednesday on Capitol Hill discussing monetary policy with lawmakers. That long drama over the future of Paramount Global is over. Paramount has agreed to merge with Skydance Media in a complex

deal. Boeing agreed to plead guilty to criminal conspiracy charges stemming from the twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen seven thirty seven Max crashes that killed a total of three hundred forty six people. Federal prosecutors accused the airplane maker of violating an agreement with the government. A couple of the discount chains are launching sales ahead of Amazon's Prime Day events scheduled for next Tuesday and Wednesday. This is Circle Week

at Target. The retailer has started emailing offers to members of its loyalty program. Walmart deals will be in effect today through Thursday. And kids just starting their summer vacations. Casey won't want to hear this, but Target sent out a news release this morning about back to school deals. Oh you think that's bad, Rosching? He's watching his Christmas movies already. Yeah. Yeah, I have a neighborhood website and one of the people complained that Halloween was already

up the stores they visited. Well, and I probably bought candy. So what are you gonna do? All right, thank you, sir, appreciate it. Okay, have a good day. Yeah, all right, there you go. What is it expanded to the one hundred and Yeah, let's say it's a Hayes family. One hundred and seventy one days of Christmas kicked off yesterday with Ernest saved Christmas. Oh okay, all right, you can do worse for that.