Thursday-1-25-2024

All right, good morning everybody, and welcome. And I'm just wondering. So if you remember yesterday I was in this first segment, I did that thing that our brain does sometimes for You're like, oh, why do I think it's this day when it's only this day? And for whatever reason, I only seems to work. It's kind of like mistakes in the media. It all seems to go in one direction. So like it would be awesome

if like to compensate every now and then. It was like if I rolled in on a Friday, Ross, and I'm like, hey, welcome, happy Thursday, and You're like, dude, it's Friday. Like then I'd be happy. I was wrong. But it only ever goes in the other direction. So but do we just if we want to keep with it, we'll we'll just pretend it's Friday. So and then once you do it once and you like tell yourself. And then I literally did it again later in

the day. I was sitting there. I was sitting there, Ross, and I'm like, uh, oh, sorry, all right, thank you. How did my phone sound get on? I must have just the way I closed the case or whatever. I honestly, when I get when I get a phone. The one thing I don't know is if it makes noise because I never turned the ring or notifications on. I know the alarms work on it, and I trust the other stuff does. But you know, it's like twenty years ago, we were so excited about how we could buy

ring tones tone in the old Nokia phones. You purchased the ring tones, and it was so excited. And now for like the last three years, my phone has been on silent. Yeah yeah, yeah, well, and and what I like is you and I we have an excuse because it's somebody. I'm like, oh, it sounds never on. Some people think that's weird because they're like addicted. That's their form of interaction, right, you know, where we crave interaction of a digital variety and and you know,

and obviously a phone is good for that. But then I'm like, yeah, I'm in radio. I'm always in a studio. And that seems to alleviate it and underlie the fact that I don't want people calling me like when I'm ready to look at my stuff, I'll look. And the only the only exception is although I'm very paranoid about the setting, because like I'll get comfortable with Apple settings on stuff, and then they'll do an update, and like in this last update it jacked with my alarm on my phone but not

my iPad and that stuff just gives me the chills there. But I do have a thing carved in there. If I choose, you know, you can put on you can like literally put on this. This do not disturb except the only people who can make your phone ring. And there's two of Ross's one of them and then another person in the radio. But now I'm all paranoid because the last update it's screwed. It like changed something on the alarm and so it went off of my iPad but not my iPhone. So

I don't know. Man, I've got to keep my phone as silent. The radio thing too. But also because of Lincoln's autism, like right, random text tones or phone you know tones will cause like an epic meltdown, like if if you were to meet him right now, right if you were here, the first thing you do is probably comment on your shoes, and then you ask if your phone is in silent because it causes like a major issues, like so bad he has to check. He probably checks my phone

to see but silently twenty times a day. I mean, I wouldn't mind that because look at what just happened to me right right? I need I need a phone monitor? Like does uh does he need a part time gig? He can just he can go hey, hey, hey, well oh dude, your phone's on. What are you doing. I'm like, oh, I'm an idiot, So yeah, I could. I'd be okay with that. So what was I gonna say? I was just gonna go over into something. But then I ah, here we go, dude. That

that U a w the United Autoworkers thing yesterday with Biden. I I tend to ignore some of this stuff, man, because like here's what I battle with. People say the wrong words sometimes, all right, and it doesn't

mean they're insane or cognitively impaired or any of those things. Like you know, we made a whole joke out of anytime New Hampshire's primary rolls around because like one time, what probably eight years ago, I said Gobbler's knob instead of whatever the hell it is. I can't don't even having it from me, n See, in my brain it's Gobbler's knob, But Gobbler's knob just

because I think it's Dixville, Notch right there. It's kind of a funny sounding thing, right, and it sounds very New England y. Although I was told there's a Gobbler's knob here in North Carolina, but it's unofficial. So oh, okay, there's one out in there's uh, there's well, there's one that I know of out in Wyoming. But it's literally a mountain so or a semi mountain. So I like my brain, I got that back and forth. But then I'm like, it's funnier that way. So

maybe that's what Biden needs to do is lean into it. So when he says stuff like this, because of you, Toyota boatswag an sound oh gay, their workers double digit raises? All right, now here's the deal. All right, Obviously he means tesla, and you can joke he didn't say

it because you don't irritate donors or any of the rest of it. But I think there's something inherently funny if you can step back from the obvious beef that the Biden administration has with Elon Musk, and whether you think it was he meant to do that or just step away, you know how hard it would be to sell a Tulsa. Wasn't there a truck that wasn't there? One of the truck companies had a Tulsa model, Am I am? I am? I misremembering that. I can't remember, but I think it was

like a regional upgrades package or something. I'd have to I'd have to look. But like nobody would buy a Tulsa. And I'm not picking on Tulsa. I kind of am frost. You get excited when you hear a tull Hey, man, you guys are car car shot. You guys got what what was it, Mitsubishi or something? I can't Mazda? Yeah, I knew it was one of the m's. Did you guys even shop with Tulsa's No, we did not no a price range? Oh well, how do

you know? I mean, Tulsa's a pretty you know, it's uh, it's it's definitely doesn't have the you know, the the uh the inherent wealth at North Carolina scene right now, right like rents are a lot cheaper things like that. So I don't know, maybe, but also, how would you get excited about a Tulsa unless you unless you're from Tulsa, then you're probably pretty stoked. Man. You ever, Benda, did you ever go

to Tulsa? You were in Omaha, you weren't that far away. Never have I've seen it a bunch on the what is it the first forty eight Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, they investigate homicides and they have like forty eight hours to solve it or whatever, like, well, Tulsa's got a crazy history obviously, right, obviously, you know they're dealing with what There are several several of our most dangerous cities here in America, just by crime numbers, do not lie on the East coast. You

know, Memphis. Memphis is way up there, obviously. You know, people think of Chicago, but like Saint Louis, holy crap. Yeah. And the other thing that is famous for is sticks from My Patrol Live. One of the co hosts, oh is he from Tulsa? Yeah? Ah, okay. Well there's another thing, the you know, the Black Wall Street thing that's you know that that's there. And of course there's all of the Native American history and a lot of it not so good, you know

what. Yeah, you know what movie I did watch though, over the weekend, I watched the that DiCaprio movies three and a half hours. I'm gonna let you know, three and a half hours had some time to kill. Yeah, there's a big thing. It was so long. They wanted to put like an intermission in and the director or whatever said, hey, you can't do that. They did not want an intermission. They tried to sue the movie theater company that was doing it. Yeah, yeah, look

it's three and a half hours. I don't I did not. It's not it's not woke preachy. I saw some people saying it that they the characters in and of themselves are hollywoodized, But what was going on there was not. The problem has got DeNiro in it? And ah, so many of my favorite movies have de Niro in them, Like like, I don't. I I couldn't conceptually walk away and go I'm never watching anything with de Niro

in it. And and by the way, I own all all of the ones I'm thinking of in my head, so I you know, and they're digital, so I couldn't even earn them. I guess. So he is in that, but uh, he's I I reconciled it with what a piece

of garbage he isn't it? So I like movies like I thought it was pretty good, but it's three and a half hours, man, and uh it's it's talking about not about Tulsa specifically, but what was going on and really when the government decided, hey, we're gonna move all these tribes out and O Sage was among them, and the Osage just happened to get on land where like oil started pouring out of it, and it created this whole situation that I remember learning about this in school, but I suspect it probably

wasn't taught in the southern US because it's very niche. It was. You had that, you had land runs, and you had all of this, but you also had a bunch of people realize that once the oil stuff started to pick up, how badly they screwed up. And this whole mechanism developed to go ahead and create legal documents and marriages and all this stuff to essentially put yourself in line to have these rights that were bestowed upon the various O

Sage tribal members. And you know, and you weren't in it for love, and you might have been in it for murder. And that's the thing because remember on this show, I want history Toad good or bad. My understanding of the situation, having again learned about it and then read a lot more about it, kind of while I was watching the movie. Is the movie kind of tracks right? So this is it is a really tough piece of history. It is Hollywood exaggerated to some extent. But yeah, give

that there. I just recommended a movie if you got three and a half hours to kill so but yeah, do you remember that? It was one of the big chains was like, we got to do an intermission because everyone needs to and they're like, you can't do that to my book of aught says right here, which I you know, I don't know if you're in

a movie theater, sure, but you know, hit pause. It took me like five hours to watch it because I kept I paused and got somebody to eat and it was but whatever, all right, that's not how we're here to talk about. We're talking about Joe Biden, the UAW, not the Tulsa. Maybe someone should start a company. But yeah, that was

just one thing. It got weirder from there or including there, And what was even weirder about that whole thing was not even Joe Biden, but rather the one of the UAW officials acknowledging the fact that the majority of their members likely support Trump, and then coming out and uh, you know, full

force endorsement of Biden. Witch like, why would you why why if if that's if that is the uh if that's and and and you're endorsing somebody who's also of the opinion that your product shouldn't exist to the extent that it does and not in its current form. That's crazy to me. But that's politics, man, So we'll get into that. We're starting to. So they there was some audio floating around yesterday. It's actually from December. I remember

seeing it. We didn't play it, but there is an update, a little, uh little update as we're almost done with the month of January as to how things are going Philly. Uh. This the city of Philadelphia. They had a massive summit, brought in a bunch of quote stakeholders, you know these blue ribbon panels, and they came up with a plan, man, came up with a plan to solve the problems that Philly deals with, which you know, it's more of the crime stuff. It's obviously a huge

concern for its citizens. And they got a host of new politicians, a lot of smart people. According to them, they'll tell you how smart they are and they put a plan together. And I am not a violent city turnaround expert, like I don't have a degree in that. I don't nothing. Ross Have I ever turned around to crime spree in a major US city? Can you check? By really? No? Check? No? You

have not? I have not. Okay, I've I mean I've sat in a large city in multiple cities like I am now and encourage people not to go out and be criminal dirt bags. But have I actively turned no. So with that caveat, I still think I'm more right than these nitwits. But we'll let you be the judge. And the craziness that is this carry Lake story with receipts, and I'm not I'm not surprised. I think this goes on a lot more than you think, and it and it and it,

and it has famously gone on in politics for a long time. In fact, if you watch the movie Lincoln, you're seeing a version of that. That was that that that's fact, that's history. Lincoln wrote about it, and of course it was documented in that movie with Daniel d Lewis. So AnyWho we will uh, we'll get if you're not familiar with that. Hold on, we got tons of audio for you, all sorts of good stuff. But uh, let's see here eight eight eight nine three four seven

eight seven forritralized. I've rambled so long, I'm gonna take this up to the drop dead. Yeah. Oh, and uh, Stephen Kent will join us, and we got some We got some goodies in the stack Kent from bounding into comics. So generally, I mean, we do a lot of stories about Hollywood, Woe Hollywood, the nerdy stuff that we enjoy and we

hope we will enjoy when Hollywood, Hollywood gets done with it. I got all sorts of stuff I want to talk to him about today, So looking very much forward to that here on our Thursday, but we can pretend it's Friday. I'm fine, whatever you want to do. But I think we still got to show up tomorrow. So we'll get into the rest of the Biden audio because I need your help. The carry Lake stuff and much more coming up again phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four

be back in just a few minutes. Better show after the show is on the iHeart radio app. Search case o Day for the podcast on the iHeart radio app. I'll tell you the story I'm really looking forward to. And Ross and I talked about it off the year the other day and I made the decision that I'd save it for when Stephen Kent since it's you know, you got at Hollywood kick to it. But I'm so excited. Is the Oscar no hold On, hold On, hold On, don't go anywhere.

I know, I know it's a the word showing you don't care, but the Oscar nominations and specifically the non nomination in certain categories of certain people in certain movies, but the nomination of others. So if you don't know. Obviously, one of the big, big, big movies last year, Bobby Barbie movie. We discussed it. I told you I actually watched some of

it. I didn't watch the end part, which apparently just gets super Hollywood pathetic messaging, but you know, ultimately it just it was a fine movie. Going up to that, you know, it was silly, and even though they were trying to put some stuff in there, as soon as you make Will Ferrell, who is a hyper political animal. Don't get me wrong,

that dude's very political. I told you when Roy Cooper was running for governor, I was out tailgating, as you do at the NC State game because I like tailgates, and we're just standing there, you know, the group, and all of a sudden we look over and we're like, is that Will Ferrell? And then you see Cooper And then you see a bunch of like campaign folks because they got matching T shirts and stuff, and they

were going like to the different tailgates. And Will Ferrell literally was out there stumping for Cooper at the NC State outside the stadium, and he kind of rolled I didn't talk to him, but he kind of rolled over. He talked to one of the guys from our group a little ways away, and then they kind of turned over there. And I was surprised because I promised you the dude they talked to is not a Roy Cooper fan. But once you put Will Ferrell in as like the corporate big wig, I have to

process it through. It's Will Ferrell. I can't take it seriously enough for political reasons, just because it's Will Ferrell. Has Will Ferrell done a serious acting turn. I'm trying to think has he done like, you know, cause Sandler's done it. Obviously. Jim Carrey did a bunch of it. Robin Williams right making that transition, and and what he didn't good Will hunting in several other movies. But but I'm trying to think has Will Ferrell ever

done a serious role? I can't think of one. So, but what happened at the Oscars is the nominations came out, and well, let's see the what did they get? They got screenplay that was a thing. Film's Best Picture nomination would include Margot Robbie because she is a producer, and but that's Hollywood these days. And yeah, the screenplay got nominated, and the director, Gerwig is co writer of that. However, Margot Robbie did not

get nominated for Best Actress. Gerwig did not get nominated for Best Director. I remember this. The movie is girl Power Girl. And then obviously, depending on whether you see it as just an entertainment medium or messaging, as so many in the media do, then they really lost their crap because we'll get into this. Sorry I had to had to scroll down here. They lost their crap because while those two were not nominated, ross anybody else nominated

that you can you can think of there? Yeah, Ryan Gosling was right. Oh wow, I was seeing a movie Ken. He was in a movie called Ken. No, no, he was in the Barbie movie as Ken. Oh wow, yeah that's right it yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, well yeah one of the Kens. I haven't seen it, so I'm not gonna be one of these people that are like, oh, like you know, comment and I haven't seen the movie. I'm not I'm even picking.

I'm not picking it apart from an accuracy. It's a Barbie movie, right, there's Ken and Ken's dream House and all that, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, but obviously there is you know, there's the whole thing where it's like Barbie just wants to hang out with her friends, and the you know, Ken's want to be with Barbie. But that's because they're made to be with Barbie and and and you get all of that, and then you see like the plot point is the transition where it's like, oh're

gonna go to the real world. Wait a sec U. Look, man, aren't subjugated to the you know, to the tenth power here. This feels kind of nice. And then it's you know, the whole over correction thing is the plot point. But that's fine, but Gosling getting nominated back here in the real World and Barbie and not and and Greta Gerwig not when this was this was girl power, this is women can do anything, and

and it was played up that political they lost their crap. Man, dude, the meltdowns or some of them are just bonkers, and you know what, I'll tell you what some of them. I am convinced the people reacting didn't see the movie right. Even I saw a post on X it was really funny from a guy named Jarvis and he was like, you know, Ryan Gosling has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever, just to get up there if he wins and congratulate all the dudes responsible for making the movie.

Well, I thank all the Kens. And then a lot of guys actually made that movie. They're like, oh, I see it's a female it's girl power. But there's a lot of dudes that were involved in making that movie different you know, departments, Oh yeah, yeah, oh absolutely, And what there is another character and I forget what his name was in there. He had a different name than Ken and which was meant to stand out. And he's got a supporting role in there. And the dude's kind

of funny, like he's a comedian. I can't remember his name, but Michael Sirius in there, right, Yeah, Michael Sarah that's who it is. You know. So if he goes and said, I want to congratulate the Kens and then Gary or whatever the guy's name was, right, just completely leave out the women, Oh my gosh, that'd be hilarious. Oh

my gosh. But also like if if you're one of these people going apoplectic over this and you feel that the Hollywood, the Hollywood elite both who both nominate and vote for these things, is is still an unfettered hotbed of bigotry, Yeah, just give it up because you have no chance anywhere else. What are you? What are you gonna do? Like I understand how you

can't function in normal society. And by the way, it's it is self serving, right, So that's the other thing here too, Like in some way, shape or form, like I feel they just they couldn't figure out how they wanted to virtue signal and make their special project. There's always a special virtue signal project every year. Every year we gotta have one, and this year it wasn't that. So, you know, sucks for you, I guess, But I I. Some people were upset because DiCaprio didn't get

nominated for the movie he was in. But Gosly whatever, let him. Let him fight, you know, it's that it's that god Zilla meme, right, let him fight. But I'm not gonna watch the Oscars, but I will if he wins. I will absolutely try to go find his speech. Well, that's been the problem with the Oscars for a while, and

all these award shows one they're incredibly self serving and nobody cares anymore. And like he said, it's all about the virtual virtue signaling right right, and they like every the best the best picture would always be something you've never heard of before that involved one of these topics, you know, and it's just

nobody cares anymore. Like remember the moonlight thing? Yeah, the moonlight and then that moonlight and the problem with moonlight or not, the problem with it is you also had that Call Me by my Name, which was about an adult carrying on some sort of gay love affair with a minor, and like I like, they couldn't figure out which to virtue, so they pumped them both up. And then you had that famous screw up with reading it. Who is that Steve Harvey was Steve who read it wrong? I can't remember,

you know, Steve Harvey read the wrong pageant name. Somebody read it wrong and it was two. But here Barbie didn't. They didn't turn it into it, which I'm surprised. I thought that was going to be the thing. D jure. But don't think that the Hollywood folk who would vote for this or doing it because they're good people. They're doing it because it is self serving. Right. They realized that for the protection of their industry and within their own little weird club where this is this, you know,

this is the stuff they talk about to each other. Oh you, I'll look at it. Look at how woke I am. Like. They would

do it if they thought that it would benefit them in some way. Yeah, that's how Jade and I am. And I don't think I'm wrong, absolutely so, Yeah, Gosling, I mean back in the day, right you would have movies nominated that people like go back and look what year was it when it was like Forrest Gump and Shaw Shank Redemption right well, and two other amazing films that year that I can't recall at the moment, but it just purveson my point. These are movies that people actually enjoy, still

enjoyed this day, right, and that people went to go see. And then they started giving these awards to the movies. You would see like the Best Picture nominee, and how many of us would see the list and be like, I've never heard of that movie before. I remember. I remember on on the air, you and I talking and I looked at it and I said, I've only seen one of these movies. And this was this was a few years ago. It might have been it might have been that

year with the Moonlight and all that. I had not seen Moonlight, I had not seen calling Me by my name, And I can't remember the other nominees were, but like, yeah, we went through an era there, and do you remember Hollywood came out and they like kind of said, well, you know, because what what was it they they wanted to do. They wanted like a almost like a people's choice thing so that you could recognize what the peasants. Yeah, yeah, one peasant category. Yeah, they

wanted a peasant category for the unenlightened. Oh oh you went and saw you know, the whatever movie made it go? You? The Super Mario movie? Yeah? Growth, right? Or top Gun, right right, top too, Yeah, yeah, everybody remember it saved the movie industry, right yeah, yeah Spielberg. You have Spielberg on tape saying that to Tom Cruise had like a red carpet, like you saved our industry. You saved our industry. And they're like, I guess when do they get special effects or

something? And it's like, not that, look, not that. I guess in the grand scheme, it was Tom Cruise given an Oscar worthy perform. I don't know. That's so out the that's so out the window. I don't know, but I do know that if you're staying, you know,

it's the water cooler thing. If I'm standing around the water cooler in the break room at any of our fine iHeart facilities and I want to strike up a conversation with somebody else in the building about movies, chances are Top Gun's gonna they're gonna be more receptive to that because that's what everyone saw they didn't see, And then insert whatever the weird movie I've never heard of is, Oh, yeah, I'm trying. There's been some pretty crazy years,

wasn't uh. The Star Wars year also a thing, And then you go back Gone with the Wind year was among the ones that have the most that are considered top one hundred movies. They had like Bridge on the River, Kwai and a bunch. But yeah, so well, I know, we just got into it because I want to share the story with you, and

I promise we do the Biden stuff. So we're gonna we'll back into that and the Philly story and we'll do that coming up on the CaCO day radio program Smart Talk All Day ninety four five w PTI and the Triad and one six one FM Talking in the Triangle. All right, So I'm just I'm thumbing through the various winners and nominees going back, trying to figure out where

it all went wrong. I would estimate late nineties. Yeah, you started to get some glitches and then they just they really leaned into the I'm sorry, what's the name of that movie? Ian about the mid two thousands? Oh, and I was rough Moonlight me by my name were different years. It was Shape of Water, that moon the other one lost to and that people got upset and the Moonlight I can't remember what they read the wrong thing with that. So but a lot, you know, comes down to whether

you've seen the movie. Uh now, last Year's Winter. I own this movie. Uh it's everywhere, everything, everywhere, all at once. I think, I that's a very interesting movie. But I kind of like some of the sci fi stuff and h Ross. I'm gonna warn you. Have you seen that movie? It's got multiverse? I have not, But it's really not about that, right, It's it's got, it's gotta I mean, Stanos even in it. What's that is Stanos in it? Uh? No, he's not, No in this movie. In that movie, Thanos

is a twenty one year old, five foot Asian chick. So, but I'm not I'm not trying to just just watch the movie if if you're looking for something to do. I see that it's streaming on I saw it on one of the services, but I thought it was entertaining. But yeah, man, you get back into like twenty twenty. The year I was thinking of when we were sitting here on the air was twenty twenty, and I'm like, I I think I've seen one of those movies and I haven't heard

of most of the other. Yeah, that's my point, right. You go back in the nineties and most of these movies were big blockbusters. But right, pulp fiction, usual suspects, Shawshank, Redemption, Forrest Gump, Silence of the Lambs, and on and on and on and like. At some point, I don't know when it was, but it's like then they started nominating the weird virtue signaling movies or small budget movies that no one had seen and you know, didn't make that much money at the box office.

And I have no idea why that is. They just became too self important. Yeah. In twenty twenty, the winner was No mad Land, one of your favorites. I'm sure, right right that What the hell is that movie? Yeah, why don't you tell the audience? That's I have no idea what's about? Okay, it's about. It's Francis McDorman, who I like. I think, I like enjoying movies. She's in, she like

has she has. I can't what the crisis was. I read the synopsis and she decides that she's just gonna go live in a van and drive around the US. So it's like, I don't know. Maybe it was the embracement of van life that they got excited about. But the other nominees were The Father mank Minahi, Sound of Metal, Trial of the Chicago. I've seen none of those movies, and I like watching movies now. But then then they wonder, they're like, how come nobody's tuning in anymore? Well,

we don't know what these movies are. Man. They had Judas in The Black Messiah, which I actually that's the movie I did see, and it's about the guy who was the undercover dude in the Panthers in the sixties in Chicago, and I kind of liked movies like that. That one, And then they did one too with the the the black FBI agent who had infiltrated like the clan in Colorado, which is a true story, by the way, and it's but he was he was over the phone and then they

had to send like another white agent to actually meet up. That sends great, Yeah, yeah, he just he he had. The thing was is he had a very white voice on the phone. And so this dude, who was this big wig you know, uh clans maybe maybe it wasn't clan, maybe it is. I'm trying to remember, but he's like enamored with this dude over the phone, and then they had to figure out what do

you do? So this was before they would put you in there and let you drop the plans for the kidnapping, and the Michigan governor with their help and then arrest you. So but yeah, man, I thought that was okay. But as I scrolled back through Titanic in ninety eight one, and then it kind of gets weird. They would they would never nominate Titanic these days, they wouldn't happen. Yeah, I've still never seen that movie.

Very sad about that, I'm not. Nineties were Dances with Wolves, Silence of the Lambsays and the Winners, Unforgiven, Shindler's List, Forrest Gump, Brave Heart right ninety six, the English Patient of Taking or Leave It, and then Titanic, and and then we get into Shakespeare in Love and American Beauty, which is kind of a movie about pedophilia. They get a gladiator in there, and then it's just off the ram. So but now Barbie

didn't get any of their women, director, lead actress nominated. Now, whether it be an oscar So white hashtag oscar So patriarchy, looking forward to that and there's more to this story. Hang on, all right, Good morning, seven oh six Here on the case O Day Radio Program, Hour number two coming up one hour from now, we'll get into I know we're already putting some Hollywood discussion, but it will cross. It'll cross into politics

here very quickly. I want to listeners send it the email because we're kind of like when did when did? Because there's been some big changes in all of this. Like I made the reference to the hashtag Oscar so patriarchy because you had Oscar so black a few years ago and they were tripping all over

themselves to do something which is now. Why if you make a movie and you don't check diverse literal diversity boxes and they're weighted depending on, you know, the job within the movie, Like is the director one of the approved

minorities? How about the staff? There's location stuff and they're doing that, and it's why remember the audio we played to the director and the producer of that movie about fifth Denmark and like the sixteen hundreds where the reporters like, why it's not very diverse, and he's like, record, we literally looked at records of where this was set and they because they did census and they had identified one person who is literally represented in the movie, who was would

be defined as a quote person of color these days because it's Denmark in forever ago. And the reason he was asking him that question is a reporter, was he was trying to get the guy's goat because he's not Oscar eligible for his movie. He thought that that would you know, that would be how you'd get him, which shows you just what garbage you're dealing with with a lot of the media there who are quote entertainment media, and this is where

they go. But Emailers said, do you remember with the hurt Locker avatar thing? Yeah, a little bit, but you know that was a product of the era. So hurt Locker won the year after Titanic, No, two years after Tite No, No, I'm sorry, quite a ways after. I'm sorry, I'm looking at the wrong list here. Yeah, two thousand and nine, so it would be in two thousand and eight. You

remember what was going on in two thousand and eight into nine. That was the we were transitioning from George Bush and all things Middle East related to Barack Obama, who would soon win the Nobel Peace Prize. Because because and so like people were upset and I don't know why, because like the herd Locker is not I didn't get the I didn't get the vibe. They were like, man, this is awesome all the time. It's just awesome. Everything's awesome all the time. But it beat Avatar too, And so like James

Cameron's got some sway. But like her Locker was a good movie. But it's not a happy movie, right, It's not a it's not one you walked out of feeling like ah, just that just made MI day because it's dealing with some really serious stuff. But that was that was too much for people. But I think it was Bush connected, Uh really really in that ross you saw her lock remisode. Yeah, I think that the female director

to a thing. I don't know. I think you're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, very relatable, right because not not to say every soldier right is like an expert or like the Will hunting of disarming bombs Jeremy Runner in that movie. But a lot of people came back and did have PTSD or we knew somebody who had PTSD because of it. I told you just

my friend who who led police on a chase. He was he was so he was so messed up by his experience over there that uh he just he was in his car driving from Buffalo to Sheridan and police lit him up, and in his mind he went straight flashback. Dude, he thought he I

and like and they believed him, by the way too. It was one of these things, like the police believed him and it just and it was I had I you know, I grew up with it was in my grade and uh, I remember all I ever wanted to do was being and that's what he did. And he went over and he served a bunch of tours and but it really was hard. And I've talked to him once since then, but you know, some friends give me updates and it was a long road man. But he's doing a lot better. But my dad had horrible

flashbacks I've heard coming back from Vietnam. I never actually experienced them, but I've heard stories from family, like when he first got back from Vietnam, Like I'm talking about, like a few days later, my aunt woke him up while he was sleeping on the couch and he choked my aunt like he freaked out, like it was it was bad. And this is, by

the way, correct me if I'm wrong. This was a guy who had just suffered a lot of really severe injuries too, right, was that is in that realm or did he how many three three purple hearts, three purple hearts. Yeah, So, I mean it was The point I'm making is that he was in the He was in it. You know what I'm saying. He went through the tet offensive. So yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah yeah. And and by the way, I'm not it's not meant to necessarily things, but the things that he's going to dwell upon your father or render in this movie or others who have had very traumatic experiences there, I mean, I understand. And uh, with Owen, I think that's that was his name, Owen. There is his name with Owen. That kid had a really rough childhood. He had some horrible parents, end up foster care, the stuff they used to do to him. But he really got

squared away in the Marines and was doing well. And I want to say that, like he had five friends killed within a very short period. And uh, I don't know the whole story, so I don't want to give it an accurate but when it was when it was explained to me the list there, I'm like, I get it, I absolutely get it. But I think that was born on bush and you know that that anyone would complain

about it. But the reason I bring this back is so following this guess who decided to reach out to Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig, who is the director of the Barbie movie. Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton, who, in one tweet writes Greta and Margo, while it can sting to win, while it can sting to win the box office, but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love. What is Hillary? Why is Hillary Clinton sending a Oh, I trust me, I understand she did get nominated,

right, Am I wrong? Here? I can check. I'm pretty sure she did get nominated. So like, that's not straight up And that's why the year that Jarvis do is clowning on her too, Which was really funny because of the Hillary connection there, because if you remember, Hillary famously sent that tweet ahead of the last election or the election she lost to Trump on her birthday and it was a picture of like eight year old to her and

it said happy birthday, this future president and that'll live in infamy. So that's uh, well, anyway, I dwelled. Let me get back to Biden and whatever the hell this is? All right? Radio up, Silence the children, the co workers, the carpool person, whatever your spouse, to do it nicely. You don't want this to be a fight. Later and helped me out because I can't figure out the h the American autoworker or the union thing yesterday, the autoworkers union. What what? What? What

the hell is going on? Well, teach Donald Trumplin a valuable lesson. Don't mess with them in and awak unless you want to get the benefit. All right, this way? What what? What? And now I'm concerned because the president of the United States arguably the most powerful person, whomever that person is. All situations are different in the world, right, that's I think that's still the case. You know, people go, well, China's got more people of this right right, right, right, But the end

is not the currency standard for like a third of the world's countries. So there's that. Yeah, so in America, the and so when he says there's a valuable lesson or she or whomever it is, I want to hear what it is that might concern me. I want to know what it is. I don't want to be on the wrong side of something. You know, if I if I got to grab the go bag and get to the bunker. Tell me now, all right, one more time, mister president,

what is this valuable lesson? Well tease Donald Trump, but a valuable lesson, don't mess with them in awheric unless you want to get the benefit I heard America in there. So I now I'm convinced it's relevant to me, as you know, a US passport whole and a native born son.

I mean, is something happening? What is that? All right? So seriously, what he's saying the women, This is where it gets weird because they start doing the analysis and it sounds like he's trying to say, don't mess with the women and men of America, and not in the order it normally is. So that's like a weird little nuance here. One more time, Well tease Donald chomping a valuable lesson, don't mess with the men in

aweric unless you want to get the benefit. You agree, you would agree, That's what it sounds like he's trying to say is don't mess with the you know, men and women of America. But it also sounds like he's trying to say women and men of America. I don't know, but maybe it's something else and I don't know, and later I'll get a nuke or something like. Whatever you do a valuable lesson. Whatever you do, don't be in wake forest later, right? What if that's what he was saying?

Ross And now you don't know? Yeah, I'm telling you, man. Then he rumored for a little while. I don't know what he's gonna do today, you know, Joe Biden's is it today or tomorrow? Joe Biden's coming to North Carolina? Like, is he there's gonna leave on a stage for eight hours until she gets back. I don't how does that even work? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, no, okay,

so I'm not the only one it did. It did kind of sound like that, well that it was he was going for women and men and so they Honestly, I like that sounds like something a politician would say intentionally, do you know what I mean? Where they were just like the show, you know, a little virtue signal. You hear that stuff sometimes. And then he screwed up what was supposed to be a money line, if that is in fact what he was going for, which I kind of think

it was when I listen to it. But I'll let you be the judge, all right, seven, eighteen CaCO Day Radio program. We're gonna get it. We're gonna get into the carry Lake stuff just because we're gonna be We'll get back into more entertainment stuff in the next hour. But I don't think this is a one off. I don't think this is a one off.

And I've talked to people who have held office, who wanted to hold office, who were in positions of power, and whether it's them espousing and experience they had where they were kind of shocked behind the scenes once they got into it, or openly bragging about how about who's really in charge and how people are rubes, which is a thing, and it's not a thing with all people, but you meet these characters in politics and for whatever reason,

they tend to climb ladders because they're kind of willing to do whatever. But you know, the ends justify the means, Right, that's where we're going. Well, we'll talk about it coming out. Hang on one O six. Want to have them talk at f w pt I two stations driving the vest end talk. This is Casey O Day and Carolina is Morning News a europe first. Go right ahead, sir, how are you going? Oh

are we doing? Good. Uh do you think that there's literally like a studio audience like applaud sign for when Biden talks, because if Trump said something so ridiculous out of Trump, he probably will stop and look around and not and not applause. Well, look, here's the I've been to. I've been to to Trump rallies and you have those, you have some of that awkwardness, uh, to where you could tell people don't know whether to applause or not, but they don't use an applause sign. Do you know what

a social contagion is? A contagion or social social influences another word for it. But I treat them as two different things because one one is just one

is helpful to us and one is not. So what they do if pay attention, if you go to an event with where there's a lot a lot of people, what you'll see is you'll see campaign surrogates, so like it could be Chris Christie standing there next to Trump like in the early days, or some of the you know, the folks that work for the campaign who were up on the stage on the side maybe so they're in your periphery,

but standing there and then they start clapping. Then people will start clapping, So it's not an applause sign, but they're utilizing what is an actual si psychological thing called a social contagion, and so yes, but not an actual sign. Does that answer your question? And yeah, I got it? I have a weird Do you think I feel like Trump should take carry rates to the VP? After after how much clouds she basically gets out of this not being a sellout? Well, do you think that's I gotta I got?

Well, I'll tell you what, sir, I will let me. Let me. I'm gonna I'm gonna hang out, but I'm gonna address that into the Kerry Lake stuff is claiming that he knows who it's gonna be and it's definitely going to be a man. But I don't how much it to you that guy? You know? Yeah? I don't, Frank, I don't believe any of them until they do it right, just like polls,

and I'm like, I don't know what the hell is going on. Let's see, all right, you got left out the massive accident on Capitol somewhere between like wake Forest and Youngsville. When when was I saw on Saturday? On Saturday wicked one? Oh, there's one right now. Oh oh, you mean the traffic people left that out? All right, well I'll tell you we'll fire them all, sir. Okay, all right, there you go, uh Ross, fire all the traffic people. I'm delegating this given

an insulting severance packaged. Yeah, there was on Saturday. I was headed from the Raleigh station to downtown Raleigh at Capitol and the northbound had this wicked accident right by where the Greyhound station is and it was backed all the way into downtown on a Saturday. That was crazy. But okay, you got got one going today on the carry Lake thing, and that's where we're headed

next. Yeah. Maybe the problem is I want to talk about what the carry Lake thing is just and dwell upon some experiences that I've had because I want to make it all about me. But no, really, I just I want to approach it from a couple different places, and we'll do that coming up next. Hang on, I'm smarter one O six one AFM Talk and News Talk ninety four to w PTI more with case he starts now. All right, seven thirty five Kcoday Radio program. Let's get into Kerry Lake

stuff. And don't worry, sir, I will if I remember, because you know how my brain works all over the place. I'll tie it back to your Kerry Lake Trump question there spot, So let's just get into the audio. Kerry Lake obviously former newscaster and then ran obviously for governor there in

Arizona, did not win. You had some some some pretty insane weird stuff that was going on like that is either was either rought from incompetence or intentional and could be best described as dirty tricks and worst described as election law malfeasance. And I promise you had the those who were had those polling places in Maricopa County which were exclusive in deep red areas, not been understaffed, had

irregular hours and massive problems. And instead it was in I don't know all of the communities around Phoenix, but let's just say one that is much more

my minority or lower income area. People be losing their minds. Do you remember in Atlanta it was I think it was the one of the special elections, not the last ones, but a number of years ago where os whatever that idiot's name is, the first time he lost the the Democratic Party was beside themselves because the polling, the polling places in the central or south?

Is it south Atlanta? Orient me, you lived in Atlanta, where would be the Democratic stronghold that I mean Atlanta, But where would the really really deep blue part of Atlanta be? Ross where with downtown Fulton County? Well yeah, okay, so but yes, And and if you remember, they were mad because and then Buckhead, right, that's the really nice area that is probably pretty. Buckhead is super rich, right, okay, all right, So if you don't remember the beef, the party was upset because during

the election on election day it rained, but it rained. It didn't really rain in Buckhead, but it rained in and so in that case, I think they thought God was trying to disfranchise them. But who the hell knows? Like this is this is the thing. And it's also the reason why our election officials in North Carolina will almost immediately have we had an election where

precincts in Durham and haven't been extended. I don't remember. I feel like that's the thing every year, and so and then some people look at them and go, well, why are you doing that? We had some similar problems, so and I'll let people fight that out. But so that was it, and there's a bunch of other stuff, but that you know, that's Kerry Lake. And there's apparently a lot more to this story, according to Lake, and even more audio than we've even been provided thus far.

So the gist of it is this all right, all right, that's his

response. Hold on, we'll get into this. So the the chairman of the Arizona GOP has resigned put a letter out and he did so after audio from a phone call between Lake and himself quote dropped, you know, got put out there, and I guess behind the scenes, Lake was like, yeah, I have this, and she says she has another recording, and it's not totally clear what it is, but like the storyline is that she said I'm going to release the other recording if you don't, and then they

released this one. So there's there's some stuff behind the scenes. I don't know. But in the response let's see here, or in the audio, I should say, there was released Tuesday. It appears to reveal the chairman of the Republican Party. This is from local News, the local NBC affiliate in Phoenix tried to the chairman of the party, tried to nudge fellow Republican Kerry Lake out of politics before she became a US Senate. I said senate, I said governor. But you know what I mean. Yeah, And

it was Chair Jeff DeWitt. He said, quote, there are very powerful people who want to keep you out. They're willing to put their money where their mouth is in a big way. All right, before we interpret what all that means, let's get into it. Which I can be bought, that's what it's about. You can take a hawks for governors. No, no, ten million, twenty million, third, no, no, no, a billion. No. This is not about money. This is about

our country. I think it's disturbing that they would even that anybody would think this is to be fair, even me, even me, I'll say this. I want a fush face right now for the reason that I've never seen anyone. I can't think of a single persons who've lost Brandy a lot. I can't think of it. You can think of it. I'm not going to let these people who hate our country tell me not to run. You

should call them and tell them to get behind me. All right, So just a little context with me. But she's saying they it's because de Witt told her the quote powerful people right right, the nameless faces with gobs of money, and it's I want to make sure and just note it is very clear that there is a monetary although I think it's not limited to that, and I don't know exactly, but there is a monetary angle, because you're clearly talking about money. And I'll explain why I wanted to point that out

here in just a moment. Let's get back into it. So what's going on? What is I'm assuming this is our friend, this is this is this is they there are very powerful people want to keep you out on what. They're willing to put their money where their mouth is in a big way. So Scott never had. This is crazy though they should want me. I'm a great candidate. People love me. These people are corrupt, well maybe are they are? They are corrupt. Don't go I'll get myself in

this if you if you say no, let's just fine. It's your choice. Don't tell people they're going to try to have me murdered. Things world, Man, if that stuff that came out last week is right about the cartel stuff, the cartels offering in fifty states right now, So so what what what's going on? Who is it? What forget the who, right, No, no, no, I want to know the who. Who's

the people calling around saying gosh no, they can't mean it. Never repeat this, you say no, don't because I got offered a buy, because then we lose our ability to get things done. All right, all right, so you're getting the vibe here. We got a little more audio. But here's what I want to say, and and and then we'll really dice into this here after we chat with Ray in a moment. It's when you hear it all laid out like that and there is a specific or maybe not

a specific number, but it's clear they're talking about money. I think you have to separate that from some other stuff. But I guess morally, I don't know that you can separate it, Like if you don't think power brokers, especially within a party, are manipulating this, Like you know that inherently,

right, this is the sausage being made. But and I'm not justifying it, but I want to kind of compare and contrast it because really, I think if we've made a list, guessing who those names might be, you know, if you spend a minute in Washington, you could probably figure out who might be on that list. I'm not surprised by this, I'm all. What I'm surprised by is this guy is talking to somebody who spent her career as a reporter and an investigative reporter and then an anchor, and

he doesn't just assume she's recording all the time. I'm telling you, man, I've had to have a couple of conversations with some reporters who I'm very critical of around here, and in my mind those are on the phone. In my mind, I just assumed they were recording. And frankly, if you ever have talked to a reporter, you should too. So think about that while we think about whether with Race from the Letter Channel very appropriate? Man, Yeah, you want to get you you want to get your early

picks in for this week? By the way, Yeah, Lions and Chiefs. Lions, and you think the Lions are gonna be San Frano. Huh, Well, I that's who I want to win. I wanted Lions and Browns to be in the super Bowl because I'm an let it burn guy. But but if I just tried to practically apply it right, I wanted them to come out. Yeah. My super Bowl viewership was ten million, this year? What the hell? Right? All right? Yeah, but the truth is is that party needs to have what was that one game where he

really kind of just was awful? If he has one of those off games one earlier in the season, yeah, I mean, I mean any given Sunday, right, that'll be fair. I just also didn't have Debo in that game or Kittle, so like, you know, right right, and it is deepo. Yeah, is he playing Debot? Has he played? I haven't. I haven't even looked. Then. I don't even screw it this stuff until yeah, why not? Yes, that's who I like. I probably it's probably gonna be forty nine ers in the Ravens, That's what

I that's who I think is gonna win. But you know, we'll say pull for the Chiefs after. But the cheese fan didto his buddies, do you see that? Which one? The one where like they were watching the game and his two buddies left and no, no, no, no, just random cheese. His buddies went outside and it was freaking cold, because that's what you guys do this time of the year, and his two buddies rose to death in his yard and he didn't know. Is that what that

was I just read the headline. I didn't know that was a cheese fan. Yeah, you guys came over, you all raw rod cood about Taylor Swift and then they strolled out and froze to death in the dude's yard and he didn't leave his house. Yes, all the time. Yeah, that's where terrible anyway, But we have to worry freezing here. I mean, it almost feels like springtime. And the steadiest rain just starting to cross I seventy seven just to the west of Winston Salem. You're Yatkinville and Dobson as

you get into Yakin County, respectively, and it's coming east. So that'll fill in across the triad in the next hour or two and then starts spreading east triangled thereafter. So occasional rain and maybe even a few bed at thunderstorms, some fog around. Low seventies are today's high. It's just ridiculous. Only in the sixties tonight, and we'll continue the low seventies tomorrow. More showers, thunder showers. Today's probably the better coverage of rain. We might

get a little lull tomorrow morning than tomorrow afternoon. That threat comes back into tomorrow night and Saturday another round before it all ends, and finally just a chance of showers on Sunday morning, then maybe some sun for a couple of days as we can next week with cooler temperatures too, So we're probably mid upper sixties to near seventy right through at least a Sunday before the cool down comes. All right, man, thank you so much, appreciate it,

and we come back. Like I said, I'll give you my take on the Kerry Lake thing, but I wanted to set it up and share just a couple of things, so we'll do that next on the cacoday Radio program, Keeping you connected. This is ninety four or five WPTI and the Triad at one six one FM talked and the Triangle. All right, seven fifty two, welcome back here on the cacoday Radio program. A couple assertions by

the now former GOP head down there in Arizona. He believes he was set up kind of kind of, but you know, sometimes the setup's not a setup. It's it can be for a variety of reasons. But the fact that the audio is a year old, which it is, leads me to the conclusion that Lake was you know, putting that in her pocket for when she needed it. But also if you were the one who approached her, which it sounds like obviously you were, and she got a sense of what's

going on. I don't blame her from getting that on tape. And the question that becomes does she use it as a political weapon or does she use you know, go to the authorities, But probably not because remember Carrie Lake, like a lot of people, doesn't believe the authorities are give a crap about stuff like this. And she might and it might not be wrong. I mean, as evidenced by so many other things. So he and he also said and so that you know she was very careful what she said.

Well, absolutely, she's recording it, right, I'm going to record something, and it's in an effort to get people, somebody to say something they shouldn't be saying. I'm not I'm going to not make the mistake of being like also, I want to and then you know, insert something that could get me in jail. So like, I get all that, but it doesn't negate the fact that some rich guys back east you're the bagman. Form

is how this looks. And he says in his statement that he re because Lake said, if you don't, I'm going to release another quote much more damning piece of audio. And so he said he acquiesced because quote, I can't frankly remember all the stuff that was said in all the conversations we've had, which is a problem. It's like it's like somebody who's a big liar, right, you know, it's the moral the moral story there. If you tell the truth, you never have to remember what you know, what

I'm saying. But if you tell a bunch of lies, you got to remember which lies you told to different people. And so yeah, I understand. Like, let me say this, Ross, you and I have had conversations almost daily for ten years. I'm pretty sure that I never tried to seriously involve you in what many people would see as some sort of criminal conspiracy or at least high level corruption. Have I I don't. I'm almost positive I haven't. I hope not. Yeah, I can't see how you would.

Well, But but like, but I've taked you. I take you all the time, like all the time. Your correct? This is an outrage? When did this start? Yeah, oh it's just crazy, man, But also it's horse trading. But it and it's it's not new. You know, if you watch I mentioned the movie Lincoln. If you watch Lincoln trying to get the Constitutional Amendment necessary uh for you know, for his vision of America and the abolition of slavery. There's all there's like twenty minutes

of the movie or else. You've seen Lincoln. You're a big Daniel day Lewis fan. You've seen the Lincoln. I have not seen it. You really, I thought you were a Daniel day Lewis. I love I love it. I think he's the best act there ever. I think he's incredible. But that movie came out sort of like when I was really busy taking care of Lincoln and stuff and I did not have time, Okay, with

no time. So so the way the way that they got senators, and this is what's crazy is they went around, Uh they went around and literally just had a bribery team. And it was and it was also strange because like today you'd ask for all this stuff and like some of the these are city and US senators who were bribed with being appointed postmaster general for an area because that was seen as higher profile, I guys, but like this was

this was openly going on. And also this goes on behind the scenes through the whips, and you know the majority of minority whips whose job it is to bring people in. And when it gets ugly is when you've got close votes like with Obama. Remember all the stuff we saw with Obamacare that was getting stuffed in there. So the difference here is it's on the nose with money. And I think that's what's shocking people. I will tell you this.

I'm not going to get into it. I've talked to multiple people over the years, under multiple presidents or power structures within parties, who have been brought in for a meeting where it was explained to him how it's going to go. And maybe they were incentivized or de incentivized, but that's how it is. And I you know, you know how Trump was handling. He was outsourcing a lot of his endorsement research work to an organization and and pretty

much who they they recommended seem to get into his nominations list. And I know somebody who literally sat in a meeting and it was explained to him that you don't need to run for that office. Don't do it now. They didn't offer him money, but they made it very clear that it was the opposite, Like the spiggots would all be turned off, you'd get no support, don't do this thing, but how about this gig? And then we're

all behind you. So that's not unusual. I think this is just it's very shocking because of where, you know, thrown around thirty million dollars. But if you just take somebody and go, hey, don't run for this, but will make you VP of this big company and they make thirty million, isn't that the same thing? And I don't know the answer to it.

So that's where you know, being a good person comes in. I you know, if somebody offered Ross a bunch of money, every time I'm talking to start playing Joe Dirt audio instead of the broadcast, like you wouldn't do that because it's a moral thing, right completely, Yeah, how much are we talking about it? I'm not gonna tell you anecdote. All right, good morning everybody, and welcome. It is eight oh six hour number

three here on our Thursday. And busy, busy, busy, busy, crazy busy, uh, in the world of politics, but also in just the amount of the Hollywood stuff too, which is great because it is Thursdays when we chat with Stephen Kent. Steven's from Bounding into Comics and he joins us on most Thursdays. And how you doing, sir, Good morning y'all. Are you ready to present me with my Best Support Actor nomination for the

auditors? I am so glad the Ryan Gosling movie is dude. I'm telling you man, the meltdowns over that we taught I set it up a little earlier, but for just joining us. Basically, the ultimist, the ultimate feminist anthem of our era in the minds of many reporters, culminated with Oscar nominations that did include Ken Jake Gillenhole, but did not include Margot Robbie in

her capacity as an actress. She is she's in the Best Picture because she's a producer, and did not include Greta Gerwig who was the director, and that did not sit well. And everybody, including like Hillary Clinton, had to weigh in on this thing. So, uh, we're talking. Hillary Clinton knows all about getting nominated and not taking home the goal. She said, that's not the thing. They didn't get nominated. So her tweet like I get it, I get it. Sisters, you don't you did get

nominated, right, that's not it's the part you didn't win. So absolutely hilarious. No, Ryan, Ryan Gosling. What I think is just funny about this case, he is that Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie, if Margot Robbie were to have been nominated, these are both something akin to like pity nominations, their relevance nominations. So the Academy every year tries to pick one or two movies that were popular with the people and they give them nominations.

But there's no hope of those those movies taking home the gold in any of those categories. Those things go to Killers of the Flower Moon and Oppenheimer's and the movie that you probably have never heard of, DiCaprio on You Now. I watched that movie over the weekend, so it's still fresh in my mind. I would do it. Was that the greatest performance of you know,

DiCaprio. I don't know. I got no beef with DiCaprio, like most of his movies, so I've never seen Titanic, thank god, But like he's one of those actors where he always kind of sounds like the same dude. But the movie was okay, and you're right, but that was we were talking about this that was a bit of a change because they went through

this era. And I pinpointed, twenty twenty is kind of the one that blew my mind because I remember we were sitting on the air because they do the nominations in the morning, and I saw the Best Picture nominees and it was like seven of them, and I realized I had seen one of those movies, knew what another one was, had no idea what the other five were. And you're right, Hollywood decided. Remember the discussion about basically having

a they were talking maybe a peasants category, right. I didn't really call it that, but that's what it is, right, Yeah, most popular movie, I believe, is what that category was going to be called. They really tightened up their nominations this year. There are less than there were a couple of years ago when they were trying this. But no, it's just all this ego driven and drama around Hollywood. I don't really understand why Ryan Gosling has a nomination for Ken. I mean, this was a comedic

performance, kind of like a Will Ferrell type movie. Granted Will Ferrell movie, Yeah, I mean it was just a very silly performance. I don't really understand why this is worthy of a Best Supporting Actor nomination or why America Ferrera, the Latina woman in the movie who plays the disenchanted mother in Barbie, gets the Best Supporting Actress nomination when her only contribution was to deliver a monologue at the end that you could have written and read off of a sticky

note. It's just very bizarre and none of it is to be taken seriously. Yeah, we spoke. Remember I didn't make it that far in the movie, so I feel like I had the better experience. But also like people made that argument with now I'm not on the Ferreira thing, but on the meet side, remember the member like the Marissa Tomay when she she won too, by the way, Best Supporting Actress for my cousin Vinnie, And

like you could tell like Hollywood was uncomfortable with that. And then you had when hurt Locker beat Avatar because it was on the tail end of Bush right, they didn't like, Ah, this is we can't have war propaganda. I'm like, I don't think that's put painting a positive picture. Did you watch the movie? Guys, like like it's not stripes, right, You're

not there for fun. You're there for you know, showing something that people may know about, may have heard about, but may not have experienced in their life because they don't know somebody who has come back with PTSD and and and watched the ravages there and and like and so like, they keep reinventing themselves. And it culminated this year with well Top Gun getting ignored after a

quote saved Hollywood was crazy to me. But it culminated this year with like, you know, we're we're now into the era where if you don't check diversity boxes in the making every movie, you can't even submit it. Did you see the video of the guys who were doing the movie about what was

this sixteen hundred's era Denmark? And the reporters like he the reporter realized that the movie wasn't eligible because it didn't meet diversity standards, so he smugly called out the director and one of the actors, I think it was mad Mad Nicholson responded to that question and just laughed in his face that this journalist was wondering why there wasn't more racial diversity in a movie about medieval Denmark, and

the director's answer was actually interesting because it's where reality meets the Hollywood fantasy. And he talked about how they actually had census records from the era and they would literally put where you were from and in the in the area were covered.

I don't remember how percentage of the country, but like in that era, they had one person in the census that was identified as what would be now a person of color, and they that person is actually a character kind of supposed to be them is in the movie, but it's not eligible because of it. So now we're going to move farther away from all of that, because how do you make a movie about you? What was the move the Dunkirk Remember Dunkirk. They were mad that all the British soldiers on the

beach were too white. I mean, oh yeah. Now, when people on the left talk about representation, uh, and then you actually come back to them, well how about we have people represented based on their percentage uh, you know, rate in the population, They're going to go, oh, well, that's not what we want. We don't want actual proportional representation in the population. We just want majority of this color or that color.

It's all. It's all just kind of phony. And that's why I am actually very excited about one particular movie that did get Best Picture nomination that everyone should go see because it's sort of an anti anthem. It's called American Fiction starring Jeffrey Wright. Have you heard about this movie. I have heard about

it. I have not seen it, but Jeffrey Wright and Zucker and a few other kind of those the conservatives in Hollywood, those do And I don't know Jeffrey Wright's there, but I saw him at some so I don't really know his politics, but he was with Zucker, who made the spoof movies, and a few others, and they they've been at both the rnc's. I've been walking around doing interviews and it's really weird to see Hollywood people in there doing that. Yeah, so yeah, they'll tell me more. Movie

is pretty unique. Yeah, it's it's interesting. So it's the directorial debut of Oh, I'm blanking on this guy's name, Oh Cord Jefferson. And so this movie is about a black author who wants to write his memoir about

his life. But he's a very highly educated, well spoken, you know, well to do black guy, and the publishers want him to present his life story like he came from the projects, like he survived crime and abuse and drugs and all that kind of stuff, so that they can sell the book to white audiences, white liberal audiences who only want to hear the story

about black struggle. And so he makes up his life story and defrauds the entire country with a best seller because that's what liberal whites want to hear, is only about oppression. And this movie has the best extra nomination, so that is worth seeing for everyone who's interested in that. And it's they have

the ability. This is the thing that kills me because I when I separate historical movies, even though I hate the term inspired by, Right, remember when Hollywood started going inspired by and you just roll your eyes because you're like, this is not going to be it, This is not even going to be close, right, Like, what were you inspired by? Well, we want to make a movie about America in the nineteen fifties, Okay, what was your And then like it's just but every now and then they do

a good job with it. Did you see green Book? Did you see the movie green Book? Yes? But I don't remember much of it all, right, But basically that is that is pretty accurate. It's pretty accurate in how that how it played out from a situational standpoint, right, And I didn't feel that it was necessarily over the top. The fact remains that you had segregated public accommodations and there was literally a guide for people who could

not go into white establishments. And I remember how I knew it probably was pretty accurate. Is people were mad from both sides because like there were people mad that it like it had a white savior theme. But I'm like, I don't think it does. I feel like it's the white guy who gets kind of saved in that movie to some extent. But so they can get it right. But now with these diversity things, they are precluding themselves almost

from getting many movies right. And it's the op deposite of where they wanted to go. Let me, let me tell I want to spend the whole time here because I got a whole stack of stuff. And and one of those things is are you are you aware of this rumor about Ziegler? And they like they want to now redo a big part and add a whole part

to the snow White movie. This isn't just moving a movie yeah, all right, so this isn't just moving a movie, try to let it die down and then you pump it out the next year and hope everything, you know, everybody forgets this is so the rumor is this so she's so unlikable to so many people. Disney realize they screwed up. They want a limit or screen time, but you can't just cut her out of the movie about snow White. So the rumor is that they're going to add a whole new

part to the movie that talks that is about her childhood. So you'll have young snow White on you know, chewing up screen time, and then you'll have Ziegler as an adult, but it will diminish the amount of time she's on the screen. And that that's a pretty massive change if it's true.

Right it is, And it's an incredible act of desperation for Hollywood, you know, recruiting this this actress, Rachel Ziegler, who resents and despises the role that she's going to be playing in snow White, talks trash about the story itself with so many Americans and people around the world love. And then

the Daily Wire, you know, the place run by Ben Shapiro. They announced that they're going to do their own snow White movie that actually honors, that honors the story, and just like clockwork, Disney pauses the film and goes back into production to make a completely different movie. They are actually scared. They are looking at the tea leaves and seeing that the culture is starting to turn against this sort of woke denigration of everything that people love when they

go to the movies. So I'm kind of pleased to see Disney possibly redoing this entire movie and adding this subplot in and taking rachel' zico off stream. It's well, they're, they're, they're. The desperation is setting in, not just from us audiences too. I was reading this piece. Hollywood spent

years kowtowing to Beijing. Now their movies are tanking. It seems like every every time there's a movie coming out, there's a sub story you normally didn't used to see talking about whether China will err it or not, or changes they have to make. Famously, recently, you have the top gun jacket thing, right, but it's it's much more nuanced. Is that more about Hollywood not I guess properly pandering, Or is that China. This is what

I think, and I'm probably right to think. This is about China realizing the immense power propagandic power that this has. So they've dumped a app to how many high high budget Chinese movies have have made their way across over here.

In the last Netflix is rot with them and so. But then they can control the messaging one hundred percent because right now, if you want to make a movie with Chinese investment, you kind of have to do uh, you have to have a positive turn for the Chinese government or or citizenry.

And it's fine for the citizenry, but do you remember in The Martian that whole element there so like that was China dumped a crap ton of money into that because in the movie, their space program was portrayed as on par with

ours and they were our saviors. Now there is some books sourcing on this stuff, and it's important to remember that, but it was very featured within the movie, and you realize trying to put a bunch of money in so if they're not getting the Chinese market, which is what so many companies try to pander to because there's a billion and a half people just look at the Diablo game franchise and what Blizzard tried to do, and that insanity with mobile

games, and now your own box office is getting newtered. What do you do man well for China? I mean, you're referencing a new report that's in the New York Times, and it shows that in twenty twenty three, there were no movies from Hollywood that topped their box office. In twenty twenty two there were two, and the year before there were two. And it used to be that majority of Chinese top movies were all from the United States. Now you mentioned that this is changing for a couple of reasons. I

think it's two. One, the CCP, the Communist Party there is cracking down on the culture. They are making sure that no outside messages and stories are being told so that they can more strictly control their population. So that's the thing that we don't like, right, We don't want to see that happen in China. But the other thing, which I think does have merit, is that they are just not interested in sort of the reheated franchise storytelling

that Hollywood is constantly doing. They don't want another Star Wars, another Fast and the Furious, another Transformers movie. They're a little bit more interested in heroic tales and patriotic stories of Chinese excellent, Yes, and that tends to be the case that most countries are actually interested in those kind of feel good stories about their own people, which is why Top Gun Maverick was such a huge success. That actually made us feel a little bit good about ourselves.

And sometimes that's okay, yeah, no, you know that is that that is a really really great point. And I have my own thoughts on China, but I'll admit they have produced some But I'm an action and I like, you know the term, you know, the term wire foo if people don't know, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would be a good example of wire foo. But classically use you know, this almost supernatural kung fu, which has been a hallmark by the way of movies that have come out of many

countries in Asia for many, many, many years. But the epics that China has produced here recently have been substantial, and yes they are about historically China patriotic if you will, but ultimately very high budget. So thirty seconds left, this is just gonna get worse with China. So who does Disney

choose to pander to us or them thirty seconds. You know, I am a person who chooses hope over the over despair, and I do think that Hollywood at some point is going to start looking at the numbers and they're going to start getting real about what kind of movies Americans want to see. Top Gun Maverick was the Canary in the coal mine, and I think we'll have more of it, Yeah, I'm sure, and then more John Cena weird videos. All right, I got a roll, Steven, Thank you so

much. Appreciate it, sir, Yeah, thank you, Ksey, all right, we'll be back. Case Oda Radio program, hang on, thank you. Casey is on ninety four to five in the Triad and one six one FM Talk in the Triangle. Oh man, all right, welcome back. Is eight thirty six. Strange Days, man, Strange days going on.

Not just the complete unmasking of a giant portion of the not just Democrat Party, but that's where you're seeing it in more, you know, from like a boardroom or a president's office at university, stuff like that, where it's just like, wow, you got some real got some real thoughts there, don't you on some stuff? Holy crap. But because it was almost

like societally acceptable. That's how you get baristas trying to screaming at some elderly Jewish woman I wanted to use the bathroom and then scolding her on with inaccurate dates I might add about stuff. And again, you can have beef with Israel. You could be uncomfortable with the UH. You can be uncomfortable with that relationship because the Israeli relationship is is pretty unique in from a foreign policy perspective, and especially if you're if you're if you lean more isolationist, it

probably makes you uncomfortable or or or whatever. Like you can, but you can have adult discussions. What kills me, though, is like I keep seeing these posts and maybe I'm just not watching the right stuff. Like every day where some somebody I would consider a popular conservative Twitter person or pundit or whatever you want to call them, like they all have some now seething hatred

for Ben Shapiro. And here's the thing I listened. I had a it's a video, but I kind of listened to put it on the background. I was doing some stuff yesterday. Shapiro on Lex Friedman's podcast did like a two hour it's a video like a two hour debate with a streamer named Destiny, who I was only vaguely familiar with. I just knew that he's he's moonbad Light. Is this the fat guy with blue hair? No? That's is that Destiny? He didn't have blue hair, and I wouldn't say he's

fat. No, he just looked like, looked like a Rando dude. But I vaguely knew with it, No that the blue hair was. Is that is that Destiny? Maybe he used to have blue hair. I don't know, and maybe he used to be fat. I didn't hear anything from

him. I thought he said things that were obviously parroted on his side, and I was There were a couple of times I kind of wish like Shapiro would just be like, I'm sorry, you said what because Shapiro gets all big picture on stuff and so like, it was a really awkward start to it. That being said, I didn't hear Shapiro say anything that I haven't heard him say before. Like, I knew he was Jewish, and I also knew that not only he's Jewish, but he has family members that live

over there, and I'm sure he's got dual citizenship. I heard that or at least he has a not citizenship but a passport. I don't know, but I you know, I knew what was baked in with Shapiro. But it also was advantageous because even though I got to run through the filter of everything else, Shapiro had a lot of streams of information coming because he knows a lot of very high profile people over there. Now you can weigh whether

you think it's true or not, but this was you. Ever you ever have an actor you kind of like and then and they're in some you know, macho American movie or whatever, and then you watch them do an interview with him, I remember, like crimes, right, what you go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And you're like, wait, is that a Lundon ex What is happening? Man? It's a little shocking to you, But there was never a point watching Ben Shapiro where I'm like,

oh, he's Jewish. But I've never seen him without a yamaka. Right, It's not shocking. He is still who he is. He hasn't changed at all. But I'm gonna say, ever since those attacks happened over there in Israel, it is a lot of people have shown their cards for who they are and I have no time for that garbage. Absolutely no time for it. I cannot tell you. I I typically am like, very

shy with the block button. I enjoy the mute button, which you've talked for in the past, but the block button I tend to I in the past, I tended to avoid. Recently, since those attacks, I got no time for that crap, and I'll block it immediately. I do not want it on my timeline. But just bit to be clear and just to show that this is how sane people operate. If somebody posted something and they're like, I'm uncomfortable with the amount of military aid that we're giving because I

think it intrinsically draws us in if something happens. That's how the assaults discuss. Those are not the people you're back. No, not at all, No, not at all. I can understand that saying, you know, keep our money over here, but let them defend themselves. It's completely different. I'm saying like crazy stuff like hey, Hitler and the Nazis were the MAGA version of the nineteen forties, or Hitler was Rector. Hey Hitler had some good points. I'm sorry to break it to you. He did not

he was a royal a hole who I'm happy is burning in hell. Like I've seen these people in my timeline. Like, actually, you know, Hitler had some really good points about the Jews, and you know, so I'm just like, all right, well you are blocked. I have no time for that at all. Yeah, if you like, you could even if you were like, you know, Hitler had a really good point. He liked Cherry Pie and you're a big fan. Fine, Okay, I'm still like, I'm still creeped out by you. Go away right, because

there's either no tolerant. Tell me the guy from Warrant. Tell me the lead singer from Warrant likes Cherry Pie. Right, that's who you should. So I don't. By the way, I don't think that was about Pie. I just want to be clear of that song. But anyway, I'm

sorry what I'm just said. Yesterday there was like a big post of Ben Shapiro, right, and Elon Musk going to Auschwitz and why would but they were going there to prove that they were anti Semitic ors thing you got to touch the shower, so dumb, Yeah, dude, I just but like prove to who because the people you're if you have if people are asking you to do that to prove that, you're like, they don't have good intentions. No, But it's a tactic that is utilized. It's the what does

our buddy Pete call it? A defender deny right. It's just a version of that where you're like my opponent, you know, because they'll get a video of some dude, uh, you know, some dude who's not a good dude, right, and they'll be like, look that person said something favorable do you you must denounce them, right, And they love doing that in interviews. It's just that's just that because it's a great way to attack your political opponent because people put up with that crap, so shosh, whole

thing, the whole thing. Man. It's just strange to me. It'd be one thing if he's like, I'm I'm now working for Nancy Pelosi and we're spokes like, okay, all right, Like, but holy cow, man. It has definitely contributed to less time on the old Twitter box. By the way, check this out. She needs something to be irritated about. This is bonkers. So a California woman by the name of this Inventura Rin spec speecher. I don't know pronounce it anyway. She fatally stabbed her

boyfriend a hundred times. Actually it was one hundred and eight, I believe, but over one hundred times, and the hundred is going to be important number, and she it was just he died, obviously. She then started stabbing herself when police showed up because neighbor's called because somebody's being stabbed to death, and she when the police come in there, and she starts stabbing herself. In the next she got a bunch of wounds, but she made it.

So this happened in twenty eighteen, yesterday or no excuse me. Tuesday, she finally received her sent for stabbing her boyfriend to death one hundred times. She will do one hundred hours of community service, and I believe she's on probation for two years. How is it impossible? Well, what's what's the reason for that? What do I think the reasoning is? Yeah, the state of reason. Her defense and the judge agreed said that the sentence

should be mitigated because she was doing it during a cannabis induced psychosis. So basically so they decided I can't remember if he went to her house for the other way. But they went to one of their houses, they smoked a bong and then got busy, and then something happened while that was going on. So she stabbed him one hundred times because she smoked. She smoked some weed and toxicology. There was nothing in the marijuana and any of that,

just a bong with marijuana, and she was a frequent user. And then she became like just stabby. Mcstaber said just yes, yeah, essentially, right, and every stab wound she'll do one hour of community service. That's a horrible think about this. Let's say, is that is that a judge that has never smokeing weed before in their life? Because that is not it's California. I assume they're all high at that time, right, I think they're all high at that time. You know what it reminds me? I

remember that Reefer Madness video. Yeah, Like I was told that was racist among other things, like and uh, there's not a they're both white in this, so I guess they it's not that. But but like what you're portraying there is like, hey, if you smoke weed, you'll murder your loved one with a knife. So you smoke weed and soon you'll be listening to jazz music and attacking white women. Yeah that's well, yeah, that was that version of it. So uh oh yeah. Officers say that while

she established that they tased her, you had took multiple baton blows. She did not want to go, She did want to go. She wanted to kill herself. But uh, let me just say this, not me and not you. I'm assuming ross and not rased. Agic from the Weather Channel joins us, Now, no, not me. I don't want you don't want to tell crazy people. The cost of stabbing a lover or former lover

might be an hour of community service per swing. So like perfectly, I've seen somebody who's going through a really nasty, nasty divorce, like where it's just vindictive horribleness, Like they might be in a frame of mind where they're like just an hour, that's amazing, right, So right, but California, going to California. So what do you do all right? Anyway? Yes, yeah, well how about hours of rain? Speaking of hours, so I don't know if I'll get punished for it, but I already start

to see the rain. Now we talked last hour. It will get into the triad and just about there now getting into Winston, Salem, Greensboro. A few showers, but it's on the way. If you're not getting rain yet, you will over the next few hours as it spreads west east this morning. Also some fog around. It's going to be a warm late January day, upper sixties to low seventies with the rain and maybe even a rumble of thunder coming through. Still some showers tonight. Listen to these lows well

above even the daytime highs for this time of the year. Load to mid sixties, and then Friday we have more scattered showers, maybe an afternoon thunderstorm. Again in the upper sixties to low seventies, and not too much changing Saturday. There might be a brief low Saturday morning, but more showers in the afternoon into the nighttime hours. Early showers Sunday, but we're still in

the mid to upper sixties over the weekend. We'll cool off and get multiple dry days in a row early next week, but could end up here with maybe an inch or two of rainfall. Still think that the heaviest rain is west southwest, but still the next few days don't expect much sun and if there are periods of dry weather maybe a few hours here and there, but certainly not going to be great for any outdoor action. Maybe some sun by Sunday afternoon, no promises. All right, thanks sir, every one,

Okay, yep, we'll chat with Jeff Bellinger next. Hang on. This is one six one FM Talk in the Triangle and News Talk ninety four to five w PTI and the Triad eight fifty three. It's the Bloomberg Time, Jeff Bellinger, what's happening? Good morning, Casey. The government numbers machine was quiet until now this week. Turns out the economy was much stronger than

expected at the end of last year. The government just reported the gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of three point three percent in the fourth quarter. Economists, we're expecting to hear that the GDP grew at a two percent rate. Number of workers filing new claims for unemployment benefits bounced back last week after a big decline the prior week. Two hundred and fourteen thousand workers signed up for benefits. That was twenty five thousand more more than the prior week,

which was shortened by a holiday. A one more report no change last month, and the number of orders for big ticket durable goods. Stock market futures look good after these reports came out. Our futures are up eighty two points. Boeing got mixed news from the Federal Aviation Administration. The agency gave the go ahead for seven thirty seven Max nine jets to go back into service after airline's complete safety inspections on the planes, but for now, the FAA

is not allowing Boeing to ramp up Max nine production. Wants to be sure the company has resolved its quality control issues first. In case law enforcement agency is about to lose a potentially valuable investigational tool. Police will no longer be able to request video from ring doorbells and security cameras. Rings part of Amazon dot Com. It did not give a reason for the change in policy, but the company's relationship with police has been under criticism from policy advtse Yes,

okay, good, because that's the reason. Let's just be honest. I've seen these stories where people are out of their minds. Oh yeah, bring providing this stuff, and they just said, you know, it's easier just to do business this way. All right, appreciate it, thank you, Okay, have a good day. Yeah, right, in fact roster, we play the audio in Canada. Hold on, I'll find it. I got the thing open here? That was what last week? I don't think I got to it. Yeah, here we go. This is this is

literally one of the top law enforcement guys in Canada asking Canadians. And it has to do with the ring doorbell cameras and porch pirates. All right, all right, here we go. Ventral police are urging quebecers to not post those clips online because they say there could be a case for defamation. You cannot post the images yourself because you have to remember that in Canada we have a presumption of innocence and posting that picture could be a violation of private life.

Instead, he says, if anything is stolen, all if you have proof that somebody might have stolen something, then call the police. Give the proof to the police and then we'll do the investigation. We'll bring that person to justice. And I just can't shut up. All right, so let me get this straight. You just they don't want to post the pictures of that. So your beef is with the video for top What if they don't

context it? What if I just what if ross you had that woman come looking for change right quarters, and you obviously you have surveillance on your camera. Yeah yeah, right there. Yeah, now you didn't you didn't like show her one the video or all of that. But if somebody, some politician, told you couldn't post a video of a situation that literally took place on your property film with your camera, screw all, y'all. How's that

right there? Right? Yeah? And so, And the thing with porch pirates is if you supposed a video of some dude like they like they tend to do, where a car pulls up it's idland in the street and they haul uh, well, they'll some will run up there, and others will like nonchalantly and be like, ah, I'm here to see if you if you want this booklet, and then they grab packages and leave. Even if you don't provide context, how come you can't post that video? Is how's

that defamation? That's literally a video of what happened. People are drawing their own conclusions right there. And also then we lose out on the goodness of do you see the video of the old black man who comes out with the shotgun and that's good, that's so good, dude, that guy you know, and and he's wearing his his military hat still you know, the veterans hat too, and it's like in the photo in the photo that accompanied it. And I'm like, that dude had to be a known commodity, right,

Why would you live in the neighborhood. You don't go to anywhere near that dude's house, although now probably not even if we didn't know, you know. Oh man, all right, I give into the Philly thing today, but that's just that's just me being me. So but we'll touch on it tomorrow. We will do that and so much more. And then remind your Pete Callander will be with us. That'll be in the third hour and we always look forward to that on a Friday. So we'll see you then, have a good one.