Thursday-05-25-2023

Remember, oh, all right, fine, is now to its now actually Thursday? Um, because yesterday Ross thought it was Thursday. Yesterday Ross thought it was Thursday all day. And he also claims that all the rest of the dates have been screwed up because he doesn't realize that essentially, we have been apparently popping in and out of the multiverse or something, and that screws up your timing. So today's Thursday. We'll do Thursday stuff, then Friday,

then three day weekend. You think that's what's screwing you up, by the way, the fact that there's a three day weekend coming. No, I don't think so. I just felt like this the past week, like I know what day it is. I just feel like it should be the different day. Like even when it was a vacation that week, I was like when it was when it was Wednesday, it feels like Thursday. Right, yeah, well vacation days, right, Like I get that. You

just like, ah, I don't know what day it is. It's probably easier for you to know what day it is, too, because you got you know, you got the kid in school, and you know, I got the wife doing stuff, whereas I'm on vacation I'm like hacking through the rainforest. I'm like, I don't care what it is. Where's the city of gold? By hacking through the forest, I mean watching sports and keen beer. But um, yeah, I don't know. I think we all get that. But no, I woke up this far. I'm like,

dah, it's only Thursday. I don't know. I don't know what it was. My body's just like ha ha, stop Friday. It's Thursday, loser, So it is that. And I then I realized it's the pending three day weekend, so my mind has flipped over into that. So we'll see. All right, Uh have you slept, By the way, I did anything of maybe five or six hours? Not not not bad okay because like prep you you not that I care, by the way, but PREP came at an interesting time. Oh I got stuck in the drafts folder.

Ah. Yeah, I came in this morning too, because you know, I send myself a copy of the prep so I see what audio video to load and I was like, where is it right? And when he set folder, where is it? Like, I'm like, oh, I got

was with a wake up markie be like load up my computer. It didn't send and then okay, all right, not that, not that it matters, because really the after I send prep, the first time I use prep is like the in right before the show, when you know, here's prep, because you go through and you do all your stuff you have to do and and all of that, and I've already read the prep, so and I just noticed that. But sometimes I see that, I'm like, oh

no, what happened? And then I realized, you spend all night on Facebook talking to people about their jobs. Yeah, dude, that's absolutely insane. What a weird? What a weird? Like do you ever hear those ads where people are like, come to our website, do you think Donald Trump should be fired into the sun? And then people go, which is obviously a grab to get your data so they can resell it just fyre um. But it blows my mind the interaction that like social media posts like that'll

get just very simple who stuff. And I said, I don't mean this in a negative way. I just mean that, like people, people get overly they get overly complicated on what they think they have to post on social media to get interaction, when in reality it's just the stuff we talk about every day. So I I saw you on Twitter post a screencap of like the response. Ever again, I'm like, what's he talking about? I go to your Facebook and I'm like, why does Ross have five hundred comments

on something? And all you asked was what do you do? Right? Yeah? But I recently learned because I talked to a lot of people we both do right in social media, and I realized recently I realized that like I don't really like they know what I do, but like I don't know what they do. And recently I found out one of my friends was that I talked to for a while was in like Special Forces and they had never mentioned it. And I was like, that's what you're actually in special Because

they never brought it up before and it's been like years. I'm like, you're kidding me, right, So I just posted. I said, Hey, I'm just curious, what do you do for a living? And I assumed, in my defense, I assumed I would get maybe like fifty or sixty applies. I'm sitting on the couch and I'm doing prep right, It's like seventh thirty or something, and Marky goes, damn Ross, And I'm

like, oh my god, what did I do? Like it was like like I did something wrong, and I was like, oh my god, what I do because she'll put the seat down again, right right, Like what I do? And she's like, you posted this like twenty minutes ago and it has one hundred and fifty year aplies And I was planning on replying to everyone, right. Yeah, I had a courty s because I asked

the question. I was legitimately, I was curious, and my brain starts turning and I'm like, I'm gonna be up all night and it was like four hundred some replies. Dude. I had a trouble falling asleep, and one of the reasons was because, like eleven something at night, I'm laying

in bed, I've got my phone. It's when you had like four hundred and thirty replies or something, because I stayed up to watch the hurricanes get annihilated because that's what I do. And after that, I'm digging through this thing and I was reading it and you did reply to a lot of them, I'll tell you that, but I'm like, why is there four hundred comments? What do you do? And then I realized that if we ever need anything, we're so set, you know, what I'm saying. Yes,

my might have had the thought. It give me the weirdest thing. Do you need the underside of your ships all welded? Hey Tommy, thanks for listening to some of the comments. Can handle that, that's great, and some of them saying some of their applies, like I had to google what they're talking about, Like I've never heard that word before. I have no idea what you said? Incredibly smart? Well, what did you think our audience does? No? But like like he just thought it's like slade.

But there's words that I've never heard before, Like I've never heard that word before. I have to google what that is. Like these you know, these words are like eight syllables. Is your job and one word? I have no idea. You definitely have a master's degree. I mean to be fair when people stereotype our audience, people who don't like them, Like if if Roy Cooper's peeps are sitting around having a few, what do you

think they drink? White claws or something, having a few white claws and they're like, you know, they're ah all the right, you know, people borrow making fun of us. Ah, they're everybody. They're just sitting around loading Ammo having having kids with their cousins and all that. No, no, no, no, no, no, dude, we can take

over the world, man, every job you could possibly managine exactly. And this is what people fail to recognize, both on the left and the right, to be quite honest, they fail to rect because when they see, like when people send me emails and they're you know, and and they're mad about something a bunch of a bunch of Democrats are happy about, and it's like, yeah, you just know, all there are a bunch of chopel whole college professors all that, and I'm like, huh no, no,

no, no, no, no. You see, you're failing to realize the same thing that you make grows stereotypes on. You'd be surprised, you'd be surprised at what people station in life is and how fervent they are on stuff. Right, it's not just kids and mom's basement. And that's what's dangerous if you if you sit there and you think that your political opposition is simply that it's people that are very professional. We got lawyers in our audience,

we got doctors, we got um teachers. Right, it runs again, which is why I'm all I'm whenever we're sitting there talking about teachers, I don't like people to go one hundred percent all in on on screw them because I simply don't believe that, and I actually feel worse for the more positive ones. But when it gets down to like end of the world, walking dead stuff, right where we have to formulate a community and defend ourselves, I really like our odds. Do you know what I mean? I

do. I just had to google. Another one just came in gerontologist. I have no idea what that is. Is that like an old people doctor? It is something like I don't but I'm dumb, you know what I mean. I'm like, I don't know what that is. That before you ever figured out how we're not gonna like, what are we going to contribute to the you know, humanity's last? Absolutely nothing. I will be the

court jester. That's what I will be, which is fine. It's back in the medieval times that was the only person that was allowed to insult the king, So I'm fine with that. Yeah. But if it's like, ah, the zombies have taken over, what will you contribute to uh? I will destroy them and beat them with snark all right, and sarcasm and hyperbole. So you're the guy yelling from the top of the castle, and next time I'm going to ask them how much they make, just so I

can feel horribly depressed about my existence. Oh I don't think that's gonna go quite as well. So no, but it's guy's good stuff. I enjoy seeing that. But I'm telling you, man, but if we ever go like you know, the EMP wipes the grid and we're back in olden times, I really like our odds better. Oh when it comes to a community coming together and having skills, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, survival stuff,

yeah, absolutely, one hundred pro cent. All right. Well, anyway, so if this person works with the PGA Tour setting up courses, I saw that, I'm not gonna lie. I thought of comment and be like, hey, how you doing right? Yeah yeah, yeah, that's a good gig if you can get it right there. Man, let me tell you. Let me tell you the best spot at a PGA event. You're ready. And I learned this when the PGA Championship came to Hazelton,

which is a a course in Chaska, Minnesota. So and I was so doing Radio U in Minneapolis, PJ Chat this is the one where Tiger Woods and Hye Yang had a playoff and ye Yang won. Right, it was crazy, but it was the first time I ever had like god level press credentials to something. And there's you know, you got all the media stuff you got you walk on the course with the exception of the Masters where you can't go inside the ropes. Those credentials you like, you like stand on

the green. It's crazy. But there's also a portion of the clubhouse that's just for wives and girlfriends, and so it's just like whatever upstairs patio there is just smoke shows, drinking mimosas, right, and it's a good place. You got to go write something with your laptop. It's just kind of sit around and listen to them. The conversations they have is mostly the wives, because the girlfriends follow their man around on the course to make sure no

other you know, there's no other perspective suitors flirting with them. Whereas the wives they got their big row and they're up there, you know, arguing colors of Maserati's and stuff. It's great, pure entertainment. M So that guy just lives that, so good for him anyway. Six nineteen k c O D Radio program. Um, there was some weird jobs on there. I will agree with you, uh you know, and good on you actually googling them, whereas I'm just like, dah, that sounds important. I'm

glad they're happy. It's just moving on the scroll. Anyway. All right, we got real stuff and stuff. So, um, anyway, let me do this. We'll take a break, come back k c O D Radio program. Thank you, kc IS PTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, six twenty four, good morning, coming up on the show Dove the soap people. They are saving gaming so that is awesome. Ross. Are you excited somebody's here to save gaming because you like the game? I mean, does it need to

be saved? It's pretty popular already, it's saved. They saved it and stuff the process. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. You don't even know how bad it is. So we'll dive into that stupidity. And we got to talk about the RHN de Santis spaces thing. Yesterday I did see trending was disaster d e s a st er get it. Let's play on his name and stuff. Um as his presidential announcement. Uh did it

had a few glitches, but the analysis is just dumb. But I want to deep dive that we got some audio and all that good stuff, so hang on for that. By the way, I was reading about this, I like cool car features, right, I'm a gadget guy. Guys A lot of guys love some gadgets. It's crazy what cars do. And like I had, I had a much older vehicle and then transition to a newer one when I first when I first came to North Carolina, and so there

was like the features that were all in there was bonkers. If you were just used to drive in some old classic thing where you're just like that still got you know, nothing's digital in here. It was also easier to fix that. Being said, some of the stuff just seems wildly unneces necessary or downright dangerous. So apparently, yesterday BMW announced that the new five series Sedans will include a feature where drivers will be able to change lanes based on where

they look. Did nobody tell them this sounds like a horrible idea to just think about this. So your car is going to drive where you look, which is already a bit of a problem in any vehicle because people have a tendency if they're glancing, it's something to kind of like subconsciously drift over there. But now if the car is like, oh, you want to go over there? Okay, let me give you a scenario. From time to time. Let's say I don't know, Saturday morning or something, I gotta

go somewhere. When I lived downtown, a lot of times I would drive in downtown Raleigh. I'd drive down Hillsboro Street if I was headed over towards the Kerry side of things, or on Glenwood if I was, and then over to if I was going to Cameron Village to the Harris Teeter there or whatever to go to the grocery store. And Saturday mornings have a lot of like co ed joggers in spandex and stuff. And I kind of feel like, if you have a car that goes where you look, you're going to

be a serial killer. Am I wrong about this? Because I don't feel like I'm wrong about this, So I don't know how that's gonna work. But apparently people are very excited BMW's Are Cool Show. After the show is on the iHeartRadio app search case O Day for the podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Um, so does that mean we get the day off? I'm not sure what's happening right now. Is the stroblay going off and allowed siren? I think it's the fire alarm. It's the fire alarms. Can we go

home? No, because if they say they it'll it'll turn into the situation they're dealing with in the schools where kids figured out, oh I could just call it in a thread, we're out. Yeah, that's a problem. I don't know what they're gonna do with that. And the fire alarms if the fire alarms have these big, the big stroby stroby things. Because radio studios, right, so the actual siren doesn't go off physically in the studio rooms, so to compensate, there's there's July fireworks thing. So yeah,

but who who would have lit it on fire? There's only one other person in the building. She may some coffee and it didn't go well. I mean, this has never happened before, So this is fun. It's something. Did you hear that? Yeah? All right? Yeah, So Megan's outside my window from gun five? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I don't I know she's coming in. I don't know what to do. I don't know what we're supposed to tell Megan to not make coffee badly please, but

having you for making coffee? I do we leave? Like? What if the building is on fire. We're closer to the ceiling than the floor. I can't jump. It's like it's seven you while you've threatened to jump over some stories before. So well, that's nice. Yeah, I don't know. I guess I've been ready. I've been doing this twenty five years. I've never missed a shift. I've never been late. I'm not leaving,

so I'm going down, going down. You're the captain. I'll be right back and yeah, see it, all right, we'll go check that out. I'll feel for ten minutes or so. So all right, Ross is gonna go get to the bottom of why the building's on fire or maybe not on fire, or who or maybe he pulled it so he can go home. I don't know. I probably not that one. A good times, good times, all right. So well, Ross is running down the hallway engulfed in flames. Let me hit you with a couple of things. Dude,

do do doude? Do? I hope you left the button bar right here. He's got the he's got the final say on audio. All right, So, so Megan is going down to see if there's a fire. If she doesn't come back, let's use that as an indicator. Does she have your cell phone? He's so good a geez fan, or give her the call in number or put her on the air and she'd just be like, gets on fire. Be a great call. I'm I'm voting for for leaving. I'm voting for well, you know, for the safety of everyone,

the safety, yes, fan of safety. Mm hmmm. Do you know the elevators probably aren't gonna work? Actually, I think they do work because you remember when they remember when they did that all building fire drill a few years ago and we all had to slip it downstairs, like some of us rode the elevator, and the guy, the maintenance dude who we always see, it was like, why are people on the elevator? And I'm like, well, turn them off? Then you told us it was a

fake fire drill. I got things to do. I'm taking the elevator. We're on the seventh floor. Kiss it. So all right, Well that's fun. Hey, is anybody oh you know what ross were? Okay? I just realized something. You know, why remembering your your Facebook thing. There was like two firefighters in there. Yeah, there were, That's that's true. So they can come save us. E mts And so I'm fine. Are all the interns on fire or do we know? Okay, here's

somebody from another show. So yesterday, speaking of things not going as planned, Rhonda Santis did his presidential announcement via Twitter, and of course you know everyone was losing their crap. By the way, here is the accompanying ads sizzle real thing he put out. Our border is a disaster. Crime infests our cities, the federal government makes it harder for families to make ends meet, and the president flounders. But decline is a choice. Success is attainable,

and freedom is worth fighting for. Writing the Ship requires restoring sanity to our society, normalcy to our communities, and integrity to our institutions. Truth must be our foundation, and common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue. In Florida, we prove that it can be done. We chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination, law and order over rioting and disorder. We held the line when freedom hung in the balance. We showed that we

can and must revitalize America. We need the courage to lead and the strength to win. I'm Rondi Santis and I'm running for president to lead our great American comeback. So anyway, you know, pretty much the standard stuff. Quite hold on. Roster said, what did you say? Say? It said something might ear, I think smoke or something. Do you think that's like one of those things? It might just be like, yes, psychosomatica. I don't know what the word would be, like, yeah, where

your brains? Like dah, I just got an email Hayes for fire chief. I don't know, because if there is actually a fire, it's gonna be ross screaming running from the building. Ah. So yeah, that's when self preservation kicks in. Man did the uh did our coworkers? She she on fire? She come back, says everything seems fine, okay, all right, Well that's how the fire gets you. It's like when you're on the top deck of the Titanic and you're like, it's nice, yeah,

nice, clear night. They're playing. They're playing like the cello and stuff and the piano. It's nice. Well, no, because it's at one moment on a cruise ship where you're up on the lido deck and there's not some a hole stuff on a chair for six hours saving it because like you know, they're worried about lifeboats and stuff. So you just have a few minutes where you can actually sit where you want to sit. It's nice, all right, Well, we'll keep an eye on the fire stuff. So

you know what, maybe it's that crazy uh landlord in Duluth. Oh, I didn't do that story on the area. We didn't get to that yesterday, did we. So here's the story real quick. Sorry, it's very distracting to try to do a show when you know the all of the radio stuff may burn down, so forgive us. We're easily distracted. But so there was a story I had yesterday. I didn't get it. But let me just real quick. In Duluth, Minnesota. So you got a landlord.

He's got some tenants and they're in um, well, they're not in a good place. Apparently the tenants or of the opinion that you don't really need to pay rent. But then the but then you don't have to leave because you're basically a squatter now and uh for this landlord, um, he wasn't having that. So what is he alleged to have done, According to a authorities, in the middle of the night, he showed up. Apparently the building is a it's a house that's like in four different apartments or something.

So he showed up and lit their apartment on fire while blasting. We didn't start the fire, and like he set it up to play really loudly on a radio while he arsoned one of his own units. Is what he's alleged to have done. And even firefighters say when they showed up that that was still blasting while they and he wasn't successful at it. He's not good at arsoning his own unit apparently, But yeah, the tenants were in there

and stuff. So he's charged with lots of stuff including I don't think they got him for attempted murder due to how bad he was, but everything else. Do you think that's going to be his defense? He's like, sir, clearly, clearly it states that I had nothing to do, nor did anyone here have anything to do with the fire. It's right there. But um, yeah, so if you hear Billy Joel blasting, mum, just know that that's it's probably all downhill from there. So and if anything caught

on fire. I'm assuming it's that server room that occasionally sounds like a jet engine, but I don't know one hundred percent. All right, six forty four, Well, let me do this. We'll take a break because we got to take a break. I got some more on the desantist stuff. But by the way, it must be so easy to be a writer for the route. Good lord. Is the root part of the roots, part of the Gawker family, isn't it with Kataku and all that, right, I think they are, yeah, yes, the same group, So you

already expected I was reading this piece ahead of the thing. But um, I mean, we do opinion here, but they purport to do journalism. So their prediction what actually happened, and um why I think people are misreading it just a smidge. But that's obviously that's obviously not uncommon because you know it's politics and you know, full guns blazing kind of stuff. So so we'll get to the details on that, but real quick, six forty five back in just a few This is one oh six one FM Talk in the

Triangle and News Talk n w PTI and the Triad. All right, people sending us email, Hey guys, probably shouldn't ignore a fire alarm. That's Jennifer wrote that Jennifer doesn't like the show. Ross wants us to stop. All right, so it's not on fire. So in the hallway ran into the building. People Yeah, yeah, yeah, Ross want to explore it. I'll say, hey, am I gonna die? Are we on like the top floor of the Titanic but with fire? Yeah? And that's horrible. They're like, no, no, it's just a test. Man.

I hope it didn't ruin anything on air. You were on air, were you? When they do I don't understand it because in the past where they've done tests, like there's days of notification because working in radio you can sometimes have to work around it. And then they go, well, you guys got the email, right, No, no, we did not. I did not get any email. Oh man, you should have heard the stuff Ross was confessing to thinking he was going out. Hey man, I was

here. I was dedicated, didn't even wait for one. So I say, I'm staying it. What am I supposed to do? I don't know it. Literally. I started thinking about how we'd have to quick fix the law, get all this stuff. I would have to throw in Dave Ramsey for like three hours, like a repeat show, and people send an email I don't understand, and I'd be like, well the building burned down.

Well it's not the only building in town. I'm just saying, listen, if it was burning down, you would have been able to catch the whole thing live and the Hayze for Sheriff twitch channel, which had been uploaded to the haze for Shriff YouTube channel. Subscribe and hit that bell. You're now hit the bell, guy, I don't want to be hit the belly. I hate to say smash the button. Yes, it just smashed, but no sah anyway, not a coward stayed here. Never wavered vote Hayes for

Sheriff. Will will will die in a fire to keep the show on the air. Did the producer girl on the other stations she ran outside, she went downstairs? Yeah, she left, she did. She's coming back up. Are you gonna mock her for I will know? Okay, Okay, I mean I couldn't leave. M dude. Ah. I wonder who the email went to, Oh, like, who do they who do they email?

Who? Didn't afford it to everybody? And there was no signs up last last time they did that they had signs like on the elevator reminding people that that was happening anyway. All right, well, um, speaking of glitches, let me get back to this. So DeSantis is doing his announcement, and it's pretty clear pretty quick that things are not running as smoothly as

everyone would have liked. Um at delays glitchy, they tried to connect to another person at one point it didn't work out, and and what you saw was the um the spaces thing, which was is not an Elon feature in the sense that it actually started prior to him coming there, but arguably was the biggest test drive of them so far. Right, this was going to be the big, big, big event. And Twitter is unusual, like a lot of the big texts, where they don't like if your YouTube or

your Prime Video or Netflix or obviously want your your costs and everything. A lot of it's rolled up in the amount of server capacity that you need, and Twitter runs really light. But as Twitter expands into what looks like Elon's wanting to do with big events and television shows and things like that, they're gonna have to get their crap together on this. So inevitably what you saw is you saw Twitter get overwhelmed yesterday and I people are looked, this is

this is uh Ronda santis is campaign in a nutshell. It's trash. I think did Trump was mocking them too? Um, this doesn't I don't think this. Look it's bad for de Santists if you're if you're honest about it. It kind of looks a little bad for Elon. But um, but people are like, ah see Rohn de Santist screwed this up. No, I mean he crashed the servers of the website right to so many people willing to watch. I don't know how that's a negative. Now everyone's talking about

it, even for people who were hate watching. Negative is like, I don't know, fundamentally redesigning thirty percent of the economy by um uh, you know, jamming this Obamacare down one's throat and then the portal by which people can avail themselves of it. Uh you put out a website for you know, ten times what it should cost that doesn't do squat Like that's a fundamental that's a bad deal there, This right here was this was a press event

that was very very popular. Now ahead of it, I read some fun articles like from the route. Ron De Santis's governorship has featured racist attacks, anti trans legislation, and policies that only made COVID nineteen worse. Now he takes his white sup excuse me, takes his white supremacist rhetoric to the nation by making his bid for the White House. The Santists said to announce the news, this is just ahead of it with Twitter CEO and fellow bigott Elon

Musk during an online talk. Yeah, so I wonder how many people were watching because they were they were happy, and how many people just were hate watching. But it doesn't matter. A person's a person bandwidth this bandwidth, and obviously they had some issues, but they got to it. They did it, and he's he's in the race now. In fact, you know the coming up here at the beginning of June, you have you know, we're just a week away from this. The state GOP convention is happy it's

in Greensboro this year. And you got Trump, you got De Santists, I mean the slate of people that are in fact ross. Somebody kind of reached out and was testing the water about whether we may want to have Trump on again. And I'm like, well, we already talked about the movie, so maybe this time mean time about Kickboxer or something. Yeah, we already did the Blood Street thing, so I don't know maybe, but yeah, no, of course we'll have him or Ron or anyone they pitched to

us for that. Those are big gets, man, it'd be stupid to say no. Come on, so we'll have to yea kickbox You want to go kickboxer? All right, we'll craft something if it comes to pass, but for now, take a break, hang out, all right, good morning. He is seven h six. You're on the case O Day radio program where the building is not on fire, but for a version of the first hour we thought it could have might have been. And Ross's first thought was to do a twitch stream. You realize that, no, I mean

that was my first thought. My first thought was keeping the show on the air if there was a fire, of course, yes, yes, And then I would be like, well, how could I add extra bonus content to this right right? And the obvious choice was the Haze for Sheriff twitch channel, which then would be uploaded to the Hayz for Shriff YouTube channel. I'm not one for self promotion, just say with my thought process is not and yet now you have two things you're promoting, So you see how that's

it's doubled. I know it makes me uncomfortable. It's not Admittedly I probably would have tuned in so if you could look like that MSNBC reporter with the pink goggles or whatever he had stand in front of the fire, going DoD mostly peaceful. Uh anyway, all right, so that's um. So there's not a fire. Just for any of you who maybe dipped out, jumped

in the shower or whatever and you're re emerging, everything's fine. But if there was, and it did, I just see management like out, you know, smoldering ruins coming in with those some of those suits you wear, like the lava suits when you're like walking in a volcano, like the suit Marty McFly was wearing when he crashed into the barn. They're like, ah see, we've solved the problem. And it's like, I don't know, maybe we should not make a building that's not on fire. Nah, these

suits will be fine. Got a confirmation from one of the bosses. They said, oh yeah, that email. I forgot to send it out. I got my asstue for not ceasing somebody. The other day on an email or not replying all the wasted people's time? Ah, where was I? Where was I? All right, let me let me just bang into this U and if there was, we'd have to figure out who started it, perhaps the Chinese. Microsoft announced yesterday saying that Chinese hacker groups were able to

successfully compromise critical US cyber infrastructure that is utilized for gathering intelligence. That's not good. Quote Microsoft has uncovered stealthy and targeted malicious activity focused on post compromise credential access and network system I have no idea what that means, but it doesn't sound good. And when I say hacking group, read that as state

sponsored hackers. There's some stat I can't remember what it was, like, the number of times per day China tries to hack something here in the US. It's in the thousands. Arguably, it almost feels declaration, a declaration of worry, except for the fact we probably do it too. I'd like

to think we're better at it, um. But yeah, that's a that's a big damn deal, because these are the types of these are these are this is the type of infrastructure that if it ever did hit the fan, so to speak, for I'm a strategy standpoint would be among the first things. There is um I don't remember the name of it. It's the straight

um Uh south of Taiwan. It's the largest gap opening that China has to hit the open ocean, and it's it's it's why strategically we have we have so we were like we even built a new base over there, um to the south of it and everyone. And it's also where like all of the undersea cables run. It's possibly one of the most strategic positions should we ever find ourselves at war with China, both from you know, ability to and

and and obviously very strategic if China decides to go after Taiwan. It's also why China has been direct a lot of their war games down there and encroaching into what is Taiwanese waters, and they've done a lot of it. We

don't always see it all in the news, but it's very deliberate. However it passes I want I can't remember what the number is, but the percentage of internet traffic that passes through there is I think it's the largest passage in the world for that and so everyone knows that if it does hit the fan those cables. Strategically, that's a that's a problematic thing. Now who who decides they got to cut them? I don't know. But ultimately, when it comes to how you how a big world war with two you know,

big nations would go. Now, it's not just going to be guns and bombs. It is attack of infrastructure. It's can we shut down electric grids? Can we hamper communications? Can we do all of these things? There's there's people on the Internet that just assume that the end of that, you

know, and the e MP is a day away at all times. But in reality, any any ability to get in and do something that forces Microsoft to have to reach out to clients they're using similar infrastructure, it's gonna get noticed, and frankly, I don't know what the hell we do about it.

According to Microsoft, the Chinese state sponsored hacking group volt Typhoon it's a dumb name which typically focuses on efforts, its efforts on espionage allegedly compromise US national cyber infrastructure across numerous industries that disrupted critical communications, specifically infrastructure between the US and Asias. This is what I'm talking about. Basically, it's seen as a test run, right, what are we able to do? They're not going to go total in on what they can do, but they want

to have a pretty damn good idea. Such industries in the ongoing attack include communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information, tech, and educational sectors. So basically, you know all the stuff cybersecurity and infrastructure officials warned, and a joint statement with international Domestic Intelligence services that China poses a risk to intellectual property. Do you think thank you for

putting a statement out about that. I had long suspected that, but yeah, no, that was the thing. So maybe they're the ones who screwed with de Santis's Twitter thing. I don't know. There's all sorts of theories running. I didn't think it was funny though, because you know, equally, if you hate Rhonda Santis, you're probably one of these people hates Elon must too, and you just blindly do it. Did you see the idiot from the view yesterday? Believe it or not. They don't always know what

they're talking about. And what's great is she you can tell she gets corrected in her ear by one of her producers with just her nonsense. What is it sunny Houstin or Hoskin or whatever her name is, Houstin. Right, So she's on there and she's just decided that she wants to Well, she's got some thoughts. You know, twenty percent of Americans are only twenty percent of Americans are on Twitter, and out of those twenty percent, eighty percent

of the loudest and the ones that make the most noise. And so, by the way, back in the day before Elon had Twitter, do you remember, she's not wrong. By the way, she's not wrong that Twitter is not reality. But I think it's funny to see her sect now pointing out that Twitter's not reality. When Twitter drove the conversation as to what would be on the view, right, and if it was on Twitter, it

was the most important thing ever and it must be true. Right, So, if someone somebody on Twitter was mad at some Republican, they'd be like, you know, America's mad at so and so. And you're like, well, how do you know, Oh, well it's on Twitter. Yeah.

If you if you go on Twitter, there's a bunch of bunch of accounts, they're posting the same thing over and over, sometimes you know, negative things, and you'd have to remind people that no majority of people are not on Twitter, and the ones, and even of the ones who are on Twitter, it's a very small slice that are out there sending multiple tweets a day, So you know, it's good to remember that she's not wrong. But then she veers here, probably because she saw what she's about to

say on Twitter. You're hearing from such a small group of people. And when you compare a Twitter announcement with Elon Musk, who I don't know what his approval rating is, but it's like in the toilet, do you know what it is? He's Oh, I'm sorry. I was just told he's more favorable than Biden and Trump, which scares me. But I saw forty seven percent. But when you compare that, right, yeah, yeah, in fact, I saw, I know the exact thing that our producers barking

in her ear. I saw it when I was putting prepp together the other day. Yeah, he's forty seven percent positive, thirty three percent negative. And what they look at is they look at that differential, like Trump's forty five percent positive, but like forty five percent negative because people have very firm opinions on him. And then obviously you have the others that are in the

I don't know. With Joe Biden, the differentials ungodly bad. It's like a negative twelve or something, so it's like thirty some percent positive forty some percent negative. And so he gets to that twelve point differential. That's that's is really bad. That means people know exactly who you are and what you're

up to, and the majority of people old don't like you. So with Elon Musk, there's you know, a third of the people who definitely don't like him, but almost half do and the rest are not really plugged in. They just they kind of they probably know who he is, but they don't really have a firm opinion there. And she's just you know, she's running this garbage and her own producers probably they probably fired the poor guy.

But yeah, I saw that stat then position negatively on Twitter, they're like, the majority of Americans don't like Elon Musk, only only forty seven percent do well. By the way, I don't know what the numbers are going to be for the total traffic that the Santists pooled, but to Ross's point yesterday, I'll bet those numbers are higher than what you the ratings for the view are, what are the view ratings? But maybe a million and a

half in that day part. I'm sure there were more than a million people that either sampled that live or watched the refeed or at least portions of it. No. I saw a tweet today going over it and they said, like the because the people are like, oh it was three hundred thousand, It was actually seven hundred one thousand, which is the highest at Twitter spaces

has ever been. And that's the live space count, right, that's ye people going back and looking at it and those over a million that are going to sample apart because people were looking at the numbers from specifically the BBC and they were like, oh, well that was two hundred and one thousand or something like two hundred thousand, but after that was posted, got over three

million listens. Yeah, okay, well there you go. I'm just saying his ratings are better than yours, man, And that's you know, that doesn't even count the you know, the interaction stuff right where you're trying to where it's people listening after or people utilizing a portion of it, so it gets those impressions even though people didn't catch it live. Those numbers add up.

Man. It's like when Tucker Carlson made his announcement members first video back from when he was let go by Fox right, and people were like, why would he even make put a message on Twitter? And they were, well, you know, if you look at the total views of that video, it's bonkers. It's it's higher than all the primetime shows on the network's combined. Yeah, and then people are like, well, we don't Maybe they only watched one second of it. Maybe, but probably you ever watched

one second of a video one second? Really, you may not watch all of it. Probably you don't watch all of it, but you go there for whatever the meat is. Maybe you're fast forwarding or whatnot. So yeah, I think they really appreciated that those two were kind of in a singular space so they could direct their fire there. But that's not even the biggest news. No, the biggest news, and we'll get to this is the

soap people over Dove have saved video games. I know you're very concerned, so um, we'll explain how coming up here on the k c O day radio program Smart Talk All Day, not five w PTI and the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk and the Triangle. So even though companies out there you can you can, you may not see it overtly, but many are sitting there and they are very strategically planning how they're going to handle Pride

Month because normally, what is the corporate response to that? Right, you change the logo on your Twitter, not all of your twitters, not the one in the Middle East, but um, you know, all the other ones get a little rainbow infusion there post about right, and even people that are you know, if you're some figure in you know, some big LGBT organization, right, you know, they don't mean it right, they don't care, so I don't know. I even even those folks would have to

sit there and kind of roll their eyes. But maybe it's just because they're obeying that that feels good, um, but many other companies are are looking at downplaying it. You know, Target is obviously they're in a rock and a hard place having to move their some of their pride stuff to not be a right when you walk in the store kind of display that I don't know, some people were not cool with you selling women's bathing suits with tuckable options

and features and overtaking the kid's clothing section with rainbow stuff. Right, They just they felt like enough is enough. And as a result now they said, it's because people were coming in and threatening the physical harm. They're they're folks, and it is funny to watch the hand ringing there. We're like, people were getting angry with the U with the clerks there and they don't

control it. And I'm like, I don't know, have you ever seen any protest ever on the that you see with some of these activist groups on the left. I'm not saying it's okay. I'm just pointing out that it's stupid in the in the sense that you see this. And maybe it's just customers saying what they think, but some companies, nah, they're all in still north face. We got that story coming up in dub and I'm gonna lay all of that insanity out for you coming up right after the news.

So hang on one oh six one FM Talk and nine four five w PTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is Casey O Day and Carolina's Morning News. Okay, some thirty five and let's get to this. So Dove has announced a new initiative to quote save video games. Apparently they need saving. So they initially announced this back like two weeks ago, but now they've started putting content out and it's, um, it's something man in fact, roster. We're gonna retweet the video or did we post that on

the side. I didn't even look this morning. I'm sorry because it really didn't have any audio. It's just there's no audio. I just retweeted the story with the video. Okay, yeah, you can go watch this video. So let me give you the crux of this video. So in the video, you see what looks like a standard video game. You got a female protagonist. She's you know, she's got like an armor suit thing on right, and she's fighting um, you know, some monster. Right.

It's just a quick cut to that. She defeats said with one one swipe and then it and it's all animated obviously, and it does this like you know that that thing where they're like cut right, like they're filming. You see the green screen go down. She thumbs up the monster actor or whatever, and she goes into her dressing room and she looks like a video a female video game character you'd see, right. I don't even think she was

did you. I didn't even think her character was quote overtly sexualized in the way she was displayed. Right. No. It wasn't like an old school like Laura Croft or anything. No, but it was like a typical video game character, you know, in shape fit, yeah, wearing armor,

running around because she's running around fighting all the stuff. Right, goes into her dressing room and she takes off her armor and all of a sudden, it she looks like one of those mattresses that they mail to your house and you open right, and she's just like, ah, relax, right, and she's looked and she kind of glances up at like a figurine of herself, but with the armor on, so she's all quote you know, right sized, when in reality she's um, you know, she she appears to

have a more I don't want to say she's she's fat, but she she obviously is a bigger She's bigger and um. In the ad, she then like you can hear the buzzer hit, like all right, we're back, we're filming again, and she makes the decision not to put her armor on and then just rolls out like that and then that's that's like the kickoff thing for Dove and they're all about, well, we uh, we're changing the over sexualization of women as video game characters. Huh. And it's just so

dumb. It's incredibly dumb video game doesn't They don't need saving. If anything, they need to become less political a little bit. When I play a video game, I don't want to be me right, I want to be like you sent me yesterday. In regards to the story the cover of the Old nes Country game, right with the special Forces guys that are jacked you know what I mean, with their machine guns, and yeah, that's what I want. But even if they're saying we need to stop that, there

are tons of games now where you can create your own character. You can make it look just like you. You could adjust to wait, the hair color. Do you even have that game Cyberpunk they came out, Remember it's a big controversy then where you could make a guy, but then it had you create what was downstairs and he didn't have to have a sports car. Yeah, you can. You can adjust the shape of the sports car in the character creator. Once again, the sports car on the show's code for

something else male male park. Yeah, so it's like what are they even talking about needs saving? You can make your character look just like you. You can have an small version of that in Cyberpunk. By the way, I guess it. I never played through it. I guess in some ways it affects certain cut scenes in the story. Okay, because he or she or there or there do hook up eventually in the story, and it'll affect butn't The bigger problem with that game is it didn't work when it first came

out. Yet it's fixed now. It's great. Yeah, no, no, I'm sure it is. But like that's another that's you want to do. You want to say, video games, that's a thing that keeps happening. Yeah, how about when you release a video game, you make it complete so when I when I download it, I don't need a day of uh you know, patch to fix everything that should have been fixed when the game came out. That's that would be a good thing. So in the day, you would buy a game and you would put the cartridge in the

in the in the console and you would play the game. But the but to you, to your point, um, it's escapism, right, and and and what I what I was excited to see is you had people who across all walks of life who were like this is dumb, and especially the women who are like, no, I look more like the girl with the with the armor off, but I kind of like running around looking like the girl with the armor on. Do you know what I'm saying? Right, that's the way you play games, right, Yeah, it's a way to

escape. So you know, Ross and I running around like looking like the dudes from the front of the contrabox. But yeah, so envision basically all the guys with Schwartzenegger and Predator, right, Ross and I don't look like that, the Ross says he does, That's what he wrote me back. But I mean you can if you want to even that the scenes Row came out and I streamed that on the Haze for a Sheriff Twitch channel check it. But and I made the character dig Bickhams and Dig Bickham's is anything but

fit, right he was. This character was grossly overweight, The hair was insane. Who was it wearing pants? You know? You can do whatever you want now, so what are they even talking about? Well, that's how you come into the office, right, Trying to make it true to life, Okay, as accurate as possible. No, but yes, that's you have the character controls, you have all of this stuff. I mean,

this is this ain't a thing. It's gonna be very interesting is when they turn this very same attitude on like manga and animal stuff because I don't know if you've seen some of some of those, um and, uh, they're not going to give a crap. You're if you ever go over to Japan, try to find a fat Japanese person and that's not a sumo wrestler. They don't. They have zero time for your crap. But here's the other thing. Since you want to get into all these technicalities a woman or

a man for that matter. But since they went with women, let's let's go with women. Um, since you're since you want this to be more true to life, forget the monster aspect of it. If you have a woman who's fifty pounds overweight, the chances of her running across the world, Uh, you know within the video game, full speed, NonStop fighting and you know, flipping and like, that's not reality. That's not the reality

of how that person would move. I mean, granted, in video games we exceed reality because it's a video game, because it's escapism, but now Dove is all in on this. They Eventually she re enters the battlefield dressed as she actually looks, slamming the door behind her and knocking down the post over sexy self. The ad claims that sent seventy four percent of girls say they're underrepresented in video games. Really, how with what Roster has pointed out

where you can make your own character? And two, what do you do you think guys are are represented in video games? Look at male protagonists in video games, they're equally and you know in in games are different, Right, Sometimes they're a tiny little Italian plumber. But when you get into Late hit Man, the Hitman series, right, most dudes don't look like that, the contra guy. Most guys don't look like that. When you're selecting your carrier, if you play Diablo, right, do you want to play

Barbarian? Most people don't look like you know, brock Lessner or Yeah or Jason Momoa. Yeah, those are the characters that people go with. So they put this whole stupid video out and I'm just laughing while watching it, and I gotta read this part of their website. So with our partners Epic Games, Unreal engine and women in games. We are working to train game creators, developers, and artists all around the world to create a broader representation

of women in gaming. Really, do you think some game is somebody who's getting worked like a dog one of these game companies, because you always hear these stories when they're getting ready to launch, right, doing one hundred, one hundred and twenty hour weeks and stuffy it's called crunch. Yeah. Do you think they give a crap they want to sit in on your little training

thing? Not a chance. So as a result, Dove decided to put their money where their mouth is and they've created the world's first game specifically designed to empower young girls with body positive messaging. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Super You is what it's called, and in the story, the first of its kind, it will lead gaming girls in gaming to experience their

true selves instead of aspiring to unrealistic beauty standards. The game takes place in quote the Academy, a school for kids with superpowers that's under siege by a group of rogue students spreading negativity, which sounds like the worst boss ever, by the way, but also, well, they have superpowers, so already we're in the world of escapism. Ross, you've got to stream this thing. It's not a ROADBLOCKX or whatever. You gotta stream this. See,

I won't two roadblocks. It has a listen. I won't let Lincoln play Roadblocks because it has a reputation for sort of being like a platform that where groomers will hang out. Like I rather him play like Red Dead Redemption two or you know, the new Star Wars game, then go on Roadblocks. Yeah, I had read something that well. I mean, but that's you know, that's inherently a problem in any of these big open world things. Um, yeah, I don't know how you're gonna but you don't want to

play. You just don't want to play the game. Right. Plus it's absolutely horrible. I mean, in this stupid argument they're making it Maybe you could have made that argument twenty years ago, but gaming has evolved so much, Like it said the character creator, what are you talking about? Yeah? Also, what students spreading negativity? Like that's your opposition? Those are

the people and how are you going after them? Right? You can't have them running through a school murdering people, or or you gotta ask yourself, what the hell are you doing dove. So what you're coming, you're having like interventions with them and stuff. Yeah, take them over to a safe space. See how you made Debbie feel? Oh yeah, I can't wait for this all right? Seven forty seven race stagic from the Weather Channel. Almost didn't get to talk to you today, sir. It's actually Ken in

for racing. Oh Ken, I'm sorry. That's right. The fire alarm was going off and apparently nobody told us there was a test, so we thought the building was on fire. Oh wow. Yeah, it's been quite a morning round here, so anyway, but is it good your buildings on fire? Stand outside? Weather? That's the question. Well, today and tomorrow we've got a couple of pretty nice days, although a few extra clouds around this morning, but I think we'll see some sunshine mix in as we

head through the day. Breezy, mild today, middle seventies, low fifties Tonight. Tomorrow again I think more clouds and sunshine, breezy, but still rather miles. Still a pretty nice day, temperatures into low seventies. But as we get into the weekend, area of low pressure expected to develop off the southeast coast, and as a result, that's going to kind of keep us into clouds, breezy, cool conditions, and we are going to have

a chance for some rain over the holiday weekend. I think the best chance is going to come Saturday afternoon through Sunday, and then rain chances will start to lower as we look to a Memorial Day itself. But high Saturday only expected to be in the low sixties and upper sixties ton year seventies Sunday, but I think we'll be back into the upper seventies with some sunshine for Memorial Day. Just a slight chance for a shower storm Monday. All right,

thanks again, appreciate it, and all right, we'll come back. I mentioned that Dove was one side of it. We also have the North Pace. They're all in, they're doing their thing. We'll get that story for you. And I don't know if this is just a rumor or what, but who would replace Diane Feinstein in the short term. Apparently Gavin Newsom has an idea. I'll explain coming up. Hang on your day smarter one oh six one f them Talk and news Talk nine four five PTI more with Casey

starts now. Yeah, So the reason I'm pointing this stuff out with dove and then this north face had in fact, let me get the ad rady to play here is because of what's going on with bud light, which by the way, we do have we have some numbers that are not just weekly, but somebody finally crunched all the numbers going back to the from the day of release from the mulvany thing to now and it's staggering. Companies are looking

at this and they're battling. They're battling in their brain. What is, um, I will say, is a devious and very very very high brows successful thing that activists have done. And um and this is frankly, this is this is where the GOP founders on stuff one, because I think inherently more people on the right are of the opinion that really you shouldn't have your fingers and everybody's business. But still they do on occasion, but not to

the level those on the left will do. Right, they'll infiltrate, they'll infiltrate the totality of education because they realize they have an audience that can't go anywhere and they can do whatever they want essentially, and that's why you know, school choice is such a big conversation piece right now, you get into higher education, and uh, you you see where everyone's mindsets at. You

see the controlling of the digital public square and and everything. Everything that happened, and eventually Elon Musk decided he was going to come in and buy Twitter and one of the things that's behind the scenes. But I think more people are finally catching onto is setting up these equity scores. Right And I'm not going to deep dive what all the elements of it are, but basically, you got to tick these boxes and those scores much like your credit rating might

be used for when you want to get a home loan. These scores are utilized by the companies that do the carry financing, basically the financing. The big corporations utilize the moneys that they use to do the day to day especially if they are if they have like a window or most of the revenue comes in, so they're not using their own money to go about their day to

day business. So I saw somebody break this down for a few companies and said, basically, if they didn't have access to these lines of credit, the model wouldn't work for some of these big corporations. So the people control those lines of credit. That's where they've infiltrated. And these companies have basically been put on notice that if they don't meet these diversity scores, they're not going to have access to this or they're going to have to go to a

secondary market where it's going to be more expensive to them. So companies balance, whether you know, putting out this schlock which they don't necessarily believe in is more, is better for their business model than irritating a segment of the audience. And up until now, the first thing's won because people really didn't

boycott. But budd Light was a cautionary tale. Well, now as you head into the month in which most of these companies do all that, they're having to figure out what they're gonna do, and it's going to be very eye opening to see what those decisions are that they make, and um, people are going to be following it. Let me do this. I'm gonna give you the bud Light numbers real quick, and then we come back.

Oh crap, we up mark coming up too. All right, I'm gonna get to We'll do the north Face thing later just because I need the amount of time to play it. Because it's it's good to the last drop in in the in the pandering the bud light numbers though, is crazy. Their market value, according to an analyst, since April first, has plunged fifteen point seven billion dollars. Fifteen point seven billion dollars. That is a twelve

and a half percent volume decline over an annualized basis. That's that's a that's bonkers. And companies are looking at that, and they're looking at these these scores that they have to meet, and um, let's just I'm sure there's some very nervous conversations happening in a lot of boardrooms right now. I'll get you the North based stuff. We'll talk a little of this with Mark, although I can talk to Mark about him jumping into the governor's race. Mark

Walker joins us, coming up next. All right, good morning everybody, and welcome. It is eight o seven here on the case O Day Radio program. Dude, did you do all right? It's getting some stuff in order here. We got a lot of cover, a lot of ground to cover with our next guest. Um as a former congressman and now uh North Carolina GOP candidate for governor, Mark Walker joins us this morning. Mark,

How you doing, man? I am doing well. I am literally right this moment dropping my daughter off at school for the last time in her junior year. So a little bit or sweet, but but doing will that's a good thing you added that for the last time. It's how you just you ditch her? What but else she'll she'll be driving this summer and she's often rolling. So but yeah, it's it's I'm sorry, Mark, Yeah, I'm here. Are you okay? Oh yeah, I do just sound like

you cut out there for a little moment. I was just a night wore. Now the kids driving, Yeah, just grabbing the clay next keeping togethers dead. But we're doing fun. You guys doing okay? Well, h yeah, you know, just another day in Paradise. The building. We thought the building was on fire earlier, but we've determined it's not. So I didn't know that your program had been that that special disc first couple hours

or what. So, yeah, like the place that well let me, uh, let's let's go ahead and start with you know, the big thing. Um. Obviously, on Saturday you had your event, you announced that you were seeking the Republican nomination for governor. Um. Why we'll just start there. Why Why why Governor? Yeah, I think it's a very important question. I think there are some crucial issues that are state is facing, and I also think that there are more and more things that the state can

do to push back on the federal government without getting the weeds. There's three bigger, large issues here, but one is economic security, being able to really push forward our manufactures or recruitments, our ports and push back on the mandates. There are a lot more details of what we can do with our community colleges in providing clearing up the labor shortages. The other huge issue is

education. We're on the precipice of funding the students instead of the systems, but to be able to know how to be able to not allow the federal government to come in with the different mandates, with the different regulations. And then the third point that we're very focused on is protecting our children and families. There's people in the academic world right now, people like Dane Wicker I don't mind using those names, that are really pushing these surgeries and this trans

movement on people as young as are six or seven years old. That's a battle that we've got to be got to fight. And I think the thing that separates us is that I'm the only candidate that's that's ever led a successful business and the only candidate that's led a church. I'm the only candidate that ructually became the first candidate in history to lead the largest caucus in all the US Congress after only one term. And I think you have to have somebody

that understands the administrative skill set. Speeches are important, but when you're managing legislative bodies, you have to have a background of understanding how that functions. And I think with all that coming together, I think it really wants to dust settles. This is not going to be something that we accomplish overnight, but over the next seven or eight months, as people look at who is the best person to beat Josh Stey, which looks like the Democrats, I

think we're going to come out in front. All right, Well, you know the reason I have you on is because I'm going to dive into stuff and you don't seem to mind it. So let's go ahead and do this. Because you know the kinds of emails that I get, and I'm sure people have asked you the same thing, where Basically they say, we already have the candidate that we want. Why are guys not just you, but also Dale Fallwell, why are they getting in? And you're going to make

this an expensive process for Mark Robinson? So help help people understand why that is, because I think it's a fair question, and people get very tribal about this stuff, just like a Trump to Santis. So why why do you think you're you're the guy when there seems to be a front runner out there? Well, well, I will tell you this. The last two and a half years, we've run a very successful business, political consulting business.

I don't want to walk away from that. I don't want to walk into twenty twenty five million dollars potentially that this design and I know how the Democrats play it, not just to beat you an election, but they wanted to ruin you, to destroy you. So it's not something that you're just flipping and flipping about. Frankly, been able to do some things for my family the last two and a half years that I've never been able to do

before. This is that I get it. Not trying to sound too martyrdom here, but it's important to remember that in this state only thirty percent of the voting registrants are Republicans. You have to have somebody that knows how to build bridges into the unaffeeling. Now, at the same time, I'm the highest rated Conservative to ever serve in the top four leadership positions in the US

House. I'm very proud of that. I'm very proud that I earned the respect my colleagues to navigate to get to produce results for the people of North Carolina. If you have somebody running that's never produced anything, that's never let anything, that's never manage anything, we have to remember that this is about results, not just rhetoric, and you have to have I'll give you an example. I'll be the first Republican gub gubernatorial candidate in North Carolina history that

has support of black college leaders. That the reason that's important is you have to find ways to take our message of individualism conservative Judeo Christian principles. Was teaching an entrepreneurial class two months ago at the largest black college in the country, happens to be North Carolina. A and T talking about not falling prey

to the victimization role. If you're not even allowing these campuses or even allowed in these circles because of rhetoric, because of all the names and attacking different communities. It doesn't bode well in North Carolina when you're trying to win a general election. Remember Casey there, for the last thirty one years, twenty seven of those years, we've had a Democrat in the chief executive mansion leading

the state. You have to have somebody that strong and conservative principles, but has the ability to lead, has the experience of lead, that has the background of leadership. That's going to be crucial, and I think that's what's

going to separate us long term. But you obviously you know that the very same writers who I remember reading there was a USA today did that piece about you and your work with black colleges, Those very same writers, when it comes down to it that you were a congressman in one district, those people are going to be the same one sharing memes of you photoshopped with a clanhood, right, They're not going to So how do you get that message out

there? If if that's what you feel is the big difference maker considering they're just going to say marks a white supremacist, this gender male, and what a horrible person, and and you know the treatment that's coming. They already have since Saturday. It's interesting that I've had more attacks than even anybody that's running in this race, because I think they really fear somebody who has the kind of conservative leadership background. With the results, it can also have a

lot of the unfiliated supporters. That is what they don't want, and more of that Reaganesque approach where you're able to hold the line, you're able to do something, but you know, as a person of faith, it's not mutual exclusive to be able to hold a line, to be a strong warrior, to call out some of the by name, but also find ways to get our message into different places. Well, we don't have the luxury if

we were at seventy percent Republicans, yeah, blow everything up. But at thirty percent, you better have people who have the skill set to be able to talk about these conservative principles in different places than just these Republican echo chambers. That's good, that's where all the applause are, but can you take that message outside of there? And I think that for a place like North

Carolina, I think that's what is the winning combination there. And I think anything short of that is going to put us back in the same situation we've before, where we've had Republican nominees continue to lose as the chief executive well, and so your your job then or in the primaries to sell your ability to sell that message in the general. But you still got to get through the primary. So you do. And I think in first forty days,

the first forty days the real test. If you look at May twentieth of June thirtieth, and I'm probably being more transparent than what consultants and people want you to be, But it's the bottom line. The first forty days is where people see whether you're relevant or not and the like it or not. In our political lanes, it's basically how much financial support that you can really

in those forty days. If nobody is supporting you, if you raise one hundred thousand and two undred thousand or something like that, people are going to write you off immediately. But if you can get out there and people from the grassroots to the business community are getting behind you financially, what it says

is there's a problem with sometimes to perceive front runner. And I think that in the next forty days for us to be able to say that we've got to do a million dollars where there's a half a million dollars in a campaign and a half a million dollars and an indefinite expenditure that's supporting us. If we can't do a million dollars, well, first of all, I think if we can, which would be that's more money than I've ever raised in

any two year congressional cycle. But if we can do that in forty days, I think it sends a very strong message of the way that people are looking at this race in North Carolina. What is your Where are you at with Dale and Mark? Basically your big challengers. I know you and Mark used to chat a lot. I don't know your relationship with Dale. I'm trying to get a sense for is this thing going to get nasty or is this going to be the best idea wins? I mean, where are you

at? I'm going to well, look, I don't harbor anything. I can look. I can look at anybody in the eye, and I carry no grudge no matter what's happened. Look, life, the people that are listening to you and today talk about this thing. You go through different situations you get punched in the stomach. You have different adverse things, but if you if you allow that to make you bitter, then you really miss God's

best for your life. And so anything that's happened in the past, I moved forward and what each day look to see what God wants us to accomplish. But I look, I've talked to both of them. To answer your question. I've talked to del Fallwill, who I thinks a fine man. I appreciate Mark Robinson's spirit, but I will I will tell you what I told him face to face that I thought he would do well traveling the country, you know, making some of these speeches there, but managing legislative bodies

is a completely different skill set. And I was honest with him, and I'll be honest with you and the people from day one on this. But I heard or no ill will towards anyone. Look, if people feel led

to do this. I know he's been campaigning for work for two and a half years, mister Robinson, but but I will look at I'll just tell you point blank, I can make the case that we are and this is it comes down to this casey, we want every vote Republican or an uns the aid of voter that's going to the primary to ask this question, who is the best candidate to beat Josh Stein and the Democrats. If we can get people to that, we'll make our case over the next eight or nine

months. We're confident that when it comes down to it, we will be able to prove that. I'd like to think a Chiapet could beat Josh Stein, but unfortunately I recognize the reality of the politics were in that gay gives me the the hebgebs Yeah, yeah, well but people think, well, he's another Roy Cooper. He's actually not. He's There's a difference when you deal with Democrats. I've seen it both in DC and in North Carolina.

There are sound to just kind of put their finger in the wind to see which way that the polling may go, and then you have other people that there are card carrying believers in this progressive ideology. That's who Josh Stein is. He is a Gavin Newsome want to be. And that's why it's very dangerous to let this guy anywhere close to the governor's mansion because he will lead from a very hard progressive, radical leftist that would do damage to North Carolina.

That's why some of the business leaders have reached out to us, because they know the regulations and the compliance issues that he may want to bring in it. And you have to have a candidate that can go toe to toe that understand the process here. And I think that's gonna again. I think at the end of the day, come March of next year, I think we're going to be able to prove that you guys, did you guys talk about debates at all? I'm up for any debate anytime. If I did

it, I was on the not mentioned a competitor, but Spectrum. I guess it was on Tim Billiams show, and he's when he's yeah, okay, he's a pretty straight shooter, and yeah, we'd give you a WEE would love No. No, now, I don't do to boetize that often. Maybe on occasion, but no. Yeah, we're up for debate anytime. We believe in these friends bles and we believe that we can make the

best case. And we'll see if the hith Lieutenant governor will will be willing to do that at some point and ask I'll ask them this in due course. Um, if if you're not the guy you'd be comfortable with either of

them versus Josh Stein. I'm assuming. Look, even if if I don't like somebody the way they say things, or the way they've handled money, or whatever the case might be here, if you a guy like that versus somebody who's okay with third or trimester abortions, it would be pretty disingenuous of me not to get behind whoever the Republican might be. It's always been my

position. I just want us in North Carolina to put the guy up there that has the best chance, that's built the most bridges, that has the best conservative record over over a political background, to be able to be the candidate that's running against them. And I think that we're going to prove it. You're gonna you're gonna bring some guys in, throw some some big national

names. Vote for Mark Walker. I know you, Tim Scott or do you hear the question they asked him Scott the other day whether it was a virgin get horrible? I just actually talk now. I actually talked to Tim Scott yesterday. They were getting off started, and so uh he and another differend of mine that was traveling with him, we touched base for a little bit I'm friends with Vane to Santa Second, friends with Mike Dents. I don't know if I'm called friends with Donald Trump, even though I worked with

Donald Trump more this than any other. I don't have any for I look at Pisa nominee as I just said, we'll support him as well. And but I do think that Republicans have to think about who's the best kennon to beat the Democrats. This is about winning. I know people say things that we identify with and it's loud as bold, and we tried to the same at times and picking and choosing. But when when, when this dust settles, if we don't win, then it means absolutely nothing. I just uh,

i just have a couple of minutes. I'm just curious with the Santas Trump. Obviously, the Santis did his thing on Twitter. It was a little glitchy, but that was due mostly to the fact that they were overwhelmed with people wanting to watch it. And then Trump came out and he made statements and he was like, Trump is definitely adopting the same twenty sixteen philosophy

where he went after Jeb Bush and Mark Rubio and all that. And people are very dug in that there's no way that's not going to turn into an ugly thing. I just got about a minute and a half. What's your analysis with the Santis now officially in where this goes? Yeah, I think the only way there's two schools of thoughts in this, and I'll try to get this quick. There's some people say, look, Trump lives in the mud, he lives in the ditch. You can't. That's his home turf.

He can't win there. I think the only way to win there you've got to go take him on his own turf and try to show that you're the best candidate to not be afraid to take a punch and throw one back.

That's I mean, he has crushed the Santis the last two or three months, and I think unless you're willing to engage him and show your policy depth is greater, if you're speaking on behalf of this antist I think that's what he's gonna have to do. Not that I'm supporting or endorsing anybody, but if you're asking how you beat Trump, you got to go play him

his home field. No, I'm just asking how this how this evolves, because before DeSantis wasn't officially in so he could deflect because Trump's lob and bombs. It's what he does. Everyone knows this. Yeah, but DeSantis can't. He can't sidestep anymore. So I just got about thirty correct. This thing's got to ramp up quick, right. Oh, it's it's gonna be brutal. It's gonna be absolutely brutal. And I think a few other candidts I think they're gonna try to sidestep it. But it's it's I mean,

you can't ignore if somebody is punching you in the face. How many times are you gonna apple to turn the cheat before you say, okay, we got to swing back or we're gonna bleed to death. That's I think that's where this is hated, and I think we'll get there pretty soon. All right, Mark Walker now officially gubernatorial candidate Mark Walker, appreciate the time this morning. Okay, sir, have a good one always, Casey, you take care, all right, and we will hold on. My phone's screwing

around. We'll be back. Hang on. It's wrong show. After the show's on the iHeartRadio app. Search case o Day for the podcast on the iHeartRadio app. All Right, Welcome back, eight thirty five Koda Radio program. All right, I was half club, was doing some and then I had poor time management and then we had to chat with Mark, so appreciate him coming on and let me dive back to this. So, you know, companies are having to figure out, well, what are we gonna do?

What are we gonna do? And uh in in the wake of all this bud Light insanity, a a singular marketing effort with a single influencer going viral dating back to April first, has plunged the market value of Anheuser Busch by fifteen point seven billion dollars. In fact, it's getting so bad that

local bud Light distributors are having to do there. And I told you this was coming because I have somebody in this business who told me that in their city where they broadcast, that the local Budweiser distributor was trying to do their own marketing locally basically like we're not in this and was wanting people to do endorsements. Yeah, going on conservative talk radio and seeing if people would do endorsements for the local distributor. And I feel for the distributors, man.

It's you know, people say we'll find something. It's not that simple. These are very coveted things and they're very profitable things. And people who were on the you know, in early on this, I know I happen to know and he's since passed, but one of the guys who was the distributor here in North Carolina, one of the big cities for the Miller products,

UM and UH. I remember sitting there playing some golf with him and we're sitting there having a beer afterward, and he's telling me and he's like, you know, back in the day, like nobody really wanted it, right, nobody, And I can't remember all the scenarios around it, but you know, that just wasn't seen as a coveted thing. So he and his brother bought it cheap and basically became the distributor. And obviously that that was a that was a very good thing for them, and UM and they've had

they had to diversify their business and bring in all these other brands. And North Carolina is interesting and how we force smaller breweries once they get bigger, to partner with people that are established distributors, and it's there's a lot of complexity there. So look, I understand that. And I don't think that everyone who is a bud Light or an Anaheuser Bush distributor in every market is all in on this, uh Dylan mulvaney stuff. I think they were.

I think many of them were horrified, like they can't understand. And frankly, there's probably gonna be a bunch of lawsuits for fiducier responsibilities not being met. But down in Alabama, obviously this is this is gonna be a big place. The guy who owns the Anaheiser Bush distributor Abama Budweiser, based out of Montgomery, Alabama, has launched a whole ad campaign trying to distance himself from you know, the corporate the corporate stuff. But frankly, I don't

look. People may be sympathetic and think you're a good guy and get it, but at the end of the day, the only way that they can help you is to purchase this thing, which will then enrich further up the food chain. So I don't know how successful it's going to be. Maybe lean into some of the local brands he district, I don't know, I

don't know. I don't know the answer, But definitely companies are having to figure out what they're gonna do. And then Budweisers also gonna slap down because they lost their perfect score with the you know, the diversity, inclusion and equity folks. So there's in targets getting blasted on Twitter for moving displays. It's a it's a dog fight, man. But some companies they're all in north Face, which north I remember. North Face used to be like a

local brand. You can only buy its ski areas and like Colorado and Wyoming. In fact, it was really expensive. But I got gifted like a like a light jacket pullover thing, and I remember when I went to California with that thing. After leaving high school. My buddy's like, looking at you go North north Facia, what bra North Facia What And I'm like, oh no, it's a clothing man. Then like two years later they were

everywhere. But I do remember the guys were kind of a little moonbatty and I obviously the ownership has changed, it's become a big company and all that, but they decided to put an ad out even with all this going on, So you know, brands are making their decisions. By the way, here's that ad hi, It's me Pattygonia, a real life homosexual and today I'm here with the North Based We are here to invite you to come out

in nature with us. Wow, this is nice and just so to add the visual that is a dude with a mustache addressed as a woman with a very very bright rainboweek clothing. Okay, all right, we like to call this little tour the Summer of Pride. This tour has everything, hiking, community art, lesbians, lesbians making art. Last year we gay sashade across the nation and celebrated pride across the nation with hundreds of you across the nation.

This year we're back back back again with two news stops Atlanta, GA. Why because you're there in Salt Lake City. We're coming for you. Of course, this year, all these fabulous speakers will be coming from inside this TV to a nature near you. So come outside and celebrate the beautiful LGHGTV community. Hold on, it's for ya. Yeah, we tag thing. I'm glad you left that in. I was good, all right? So now why do I play it? I don't know you you know,

to decide whether you want to buy north Face or not. But my point is it's just interesting watching what the companies are doing, and frankly, I don't know that it hurts north Face's brand. I really don't, because what is inherently different between Budweiser and north Face is north Faces clientele. Even though it's expanded to be a a pretty innocuous brand, but it was really built on a bunch of ski hippies, you know what I'm saying. So they're

not overtly going to be rejecting that. However, if you're Budweiser and you not only are creating things that generally don't jibe with your audience, who mostly would just ignore that stuff, but now it's where you're inherently, in their opinion, attacking women. And then the people that are doing it are saying that they think that their customer base is a bunch of fratty people who are inappropriate and you know, like those ads with girls in bikinis and stuff.

It's it's it's going to have a much more visceral reaction. But you know, keep an eye to it is as we get into June, because two things are going to happen. One hold on, what is this? No ross? It somebody just somebody. Now I've got two emails. Somebody said that has to be parody. Two did Ross cut a comedic ad? You dubbed that straight up? Just I just want to let everyone know that is not ross to any character. That is not so comedic Parry. No,

that's an actual weird accusation. That is an actual ad. Where would we why would we even come up? I'm sorry I pause so much becau I'm reading this, I'm like, is that what I think? Okay, all right, go watch it. We've got it on the blog and we just tweeted a link to it at Casey on the Right. Go check it out. Like all this stuff you were mentioned before, it has to be all esg related almost exclusively. Some aren't. I think Ben and Jerry's they really

get off on that stuff. And there are companies that are, obviously and in the same way that the Goya guy was out there in the My Pillow guy. I mean, they're all in on it, but I think, you know, on their political ideology. But for most companies, it's just about keeping the skids greased, you know. And the rock of the hard place is because of the pushback, because of companies like Target and bud Light kind of cowering a little. Now you have the activist groups, they're going

to be more forceful in demanding that they do something. This is nightmare fuel stuff for c suite guys. They don't want any of this. But this is where we are, so we'll continue to document it, all right. Ken Moon from the Weather Channel, he's here to document the weather and better three day weekend coming up. He better documents of good stuff. I wish I had much better news, but we do have some rain to deal with over the actual holiday weekend itself. The next couple of days, though,

do look pretty good. Clouds out there this morning, but they'll break up, sunshine mixes in. It'll be breezy, mild, mid seventies this afternoon, low fifties today. Tomorrow again mostly cloudy, a little sunshine mix again from time to time, breezy, mild temperatures tomorrow into low seventies. And then as we get into the weekend, low pressure developing off the southeast coast is gonna keep us cloudy, breezy, and cool, and we do have

a chance for rain late Saturday afternoon, Saturday night into Sunday. Temperatures on Saturday in the low sixties will be in the upper sixties on Sunday. Slight chance for a shower storm on Memorial Day. Otherwise we'll call it partly sunny as temperatures climb back up into the middle to even upper seventies. Alrighty, sir, thank you? Is it you tomorrow? Or is Ray Jeff? You know, will be in tomorrow, Jeff eno, all right, must be nice to be Ray. It gets a little five day weekend, exactly.

Lord, all right, have a go on, sir, Thank you, all right, you too, by all right, we'll come back chat with Jeff Bellinger next, hang on, thank you, ZVTI in the triad and one oh six one FM talk in the triangle. Alright, eight fifty one, Lumbergut they now, Jeff Bellinger? What's happened? Okay, morning Casey. The debt ceiling impass was a drag on Wall Street yesterday. The major averages all lost ground in midweek trading. The deadline for a debt ceiling

deal is uncomfortably close for Fitch ratings. The credit rating agency now classifies the US as rating watch negative. It's warning the partisan bickering in Washington could cost the nation its triple A credit rating. Number of workers signing up for unemployment benefits were smaller than expected. Last week, the Labor Department counted two hundred twenty nine thousand first time applications. That was four thousand more than the prior

week. That tally was revised downward. Another report from Washington says the economy drew a little more than previously thought in the first quarter. It's estimated the gross domestic product expanded at a one point three percent annual rate. And Video Your shares are soaring after the company released a surprisingly bullish sales forecast. Shares of other companies linked to artificial intelligence or rallying as well, and Vidia is

up about twenty seven percent pre market. The chip maker is on the cusp of joining the shortlist of companies with a market cap of more than one trillion dollars. We can credit Envidia and other AI companies for the NASDAC futures, which are up three hundred eight points at the moment. S and P futures are up thirty six points, and the NOW futures are slowly improving. They are down at twelve points at the moment. They were down more than one

hundred points earlier this morning. And casey, your iPhone will be able to do some new things. The next time the software is updated, Apple will roll out a new interface that will allow a locked phone to operate like a smart home display. The screen will display things like calendar appointments and the weather whenever an iPhone is locked and positioned horizontally propped up on a desk, for instance. The update also includes wallet then performance improvements. Are you at a

bar? Sounds like a party going on there? Man? It's always noisy here. Yeah, I understand, yes, Well it is wine day. Okay, well there you go. You know, yesterday was drink with Chickens Day. That's a thing. I didn't know that. Did you drink You didn't drink with chickens? No? I didn't. All right, maybe maybe this weekend or something. All right, Jeff, thank you sir. All right, there you go. Jeff Ehlinger, Bloomberg News. A lot of

laughter in the background going on there. People having a good time. All right, A few things real quick quick. I look, I don't like take medication anyway. I don't know. It's a guy thing. If I like I we did that story about the guy with like the harpoon through his head didn't want to go to the hospital. I totally got that. Um

that being said, you know, sometimes you got to. But it's what point do Horrible things keep happening where you're like, you know what, maybe I shouldn't take this, and especially when you're not even taking it for a

like life or death reason. So do you know what ozempic is? You probably know the ads because, like many other pharmaceutical companies, they basically found some soft rock song to bastardize, so it's oozempic that one, Yeah, and then they have these commercials where people are living their lives and then talking about medical stuff just randomly on the street. Um, it's a it's it's designed for people with type two diabetes, all right, so people who are

who have type two diabetes has something to do with the pancreas. I'm not a doctor. I don't know. Basically, it's about insulin production, which okay, that's what you would seek out if you have type two diets. However, it also is apparently effective at to shedding pounds, so some people are taking it. It's a very high profile. People are taking it for

weight loss, not because they have diabetes. And um, I'm reading this article and the people are online talking about their experience with it, and apparently it has a little side effect that is just part of part of the program. Apparently it makes you poop the bed. So in fact, social media groups have formed to talk about OCMPIC and the poop the Bed club as they refer to it. Don't you stop taking it? Especially for taking it for weight loss? At that point, I like, I'm out at that point.

If I wake up, I gotta sheets, Like I'm looking for alternative like me, you know, maybe diet and exercise at that point. Apparently it's a bit like a bunch of Hollywood people are using it. Marky was brought this up yesterday. Uh yeah, and she maybe even before I knew it was gonna be im prepped, and she was showing me like, because celebs are you because like you said, it's for people with like type one diabetes, right, type too, type too, like like just to lose

weight, but now celebrities are using it to lose like extra pounds. And if you could tell which ones, because she would showing me a face of Lady Gaga and their faces become like sunk in. They don't look like themselves. Anymore. They look sick. Like just going google if you have to, if you can bear it, right, uh, lady Gaga, you know whatever this month or whatever, and you'll see her face has become like

sunken in, Like she doesn't look like myself. Plus they poop the bed, so can you like, But it also would defeat the whole purpose. Right, you want to you want to get you know, you want to lose weight, you want to look good, you want to you know. Now I'm gonna go to the bar. I'm gonna find something. Then you take him to the house, right, you go, get go, get that woman or man in your dreams, take them home. Everything's going good.

You guys, do whatever you're gonna do. You fall asleep, you wake up, you just uh like you just you trade one problem for another man. It's just the way that people were talking about this online. They're like, yeah, I quite literally find myself, you know, in the bed when I'm sleeping. And then they talk about how it keeps happening.

I'm like, wow, why does he keep happening? Because you're still thinking it unless it's it's literally for your diabetes, maybe that should be a a no go, right, And pull the ripcord there man, geez, all right, we gotta roll. I'll see tomorrow. I have a good one.