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Alrighty, good morning everybody, and welcome. He is six oh seven. It's Thursday, although it is going to flow just a little different today because we got two different guests because well, yesterday normally we chat with Lieutenant Governor, but he had a thing or so we're you know, we're doing that today still be the same time. Eight oh five Mark Robinson will join us. Yeae. I wonder if he has any thoughts on the William Barber insanity

should be interesting also seven o five. We didn't get a chance to chat with him the very last week of the year, but we're trying to make this a regular thing. And that is Stephen Kent. He writes for, among other things, bounding into comics, and you know, really at the forefront of all of these stories about hey, what are they doing in the world of entertainment? Oh good lord, what have they done to my classic? Or you know, all of the Disney insanity you name it, And

so we pick his brain on that stuff. But have we got a thing today? Ross Why do you think it took him so long to think of this? I mean, I have to assume they have a whole room of people thinking stuff up over at Disney, right, it just you're so bloated that would have to be the thing. So how how did it take him? And tell what year did what year did the first Star Wars come out?

Was it's seventy or seventy one, seventy seven, seventy seventy seven, I'm way off, So since nineteen seventy seven, and nobody thought, hey, what if what if we make the Force female? And and and tell it from that perspective. It's it's definitely a new idea, it is. Yeah, and and you know since the seventies, I mean they haven't this is before I was born, for you were born, right, that is?

Yes, yes, like nobody in our entire lifetime nobody thought, hey, what if we take this franchise but make it make it female focused? Yeah, not only female focus, but female and diverse as possible, so super diverse. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I just the fact that they're just getting around to this kind of amazing to me. So and no, that's not that's not just Ross and I being well it is us beans, our cat. But also it's exactly a thing

that was said. And I believe she also said she wants to make men mad or something. So it's like it's the lure, it's the wheeler nothing from snow White press conference. Yeah, she said she wants to make men uncomfortable, uncomfortable. So now every male character is going to fall into a pit of They're gonna smelt every dude, every everyone is gonna Yeah, they're all like falling into the pit, all of them. Now you'd be But if you, I mean, do you mix You can't. You got to

mix it up. Some you smelt others. The big the big thing in the desert, I don't even know if that she's got a name. You just ship them off to Mustaphar. Oh wait, didn't they kill No, they killed that thing right right, because remember that's how the Mandalorian was, or not the Mandalorian, but the the Boba serious. He went vegan and he passed away. But you know what, if a plant tried to eat me, I'd probably eat plants too, Do you know what I'm saying.

I mean like, all right, you want to get into this, let's do this. So yeah, we got we got that insanity that's at seven o five. But but yesterday, and this is by no means the totality of it. I don't know if there was anything game changing, but yesterday the first this is specifically deposition transcripts from two two different trials or two different legal proceedings were released. Again, this is not the totality of it.

There are even redactions in this three people redacted. One is a member of royalty, but it's not Andrews. So I don't know what's up. And you know, and keep in mind, it's a it's a it's a deposition talking about a variety of things. So you have to look at all, right, well, how is that person's name brought up? How is that?

So in some case there are some names that are on there, which are which are names that are included because one of the girls who is testifying one of the the sex trafficked is relating secondhand stories, right or seeing a celebrity somewhere, which isn't necessarily nefarious, you know, although there is the Michael Jackson's in there too, because apparently he came to Epstein's house in Palm

Beach. I'm I'm you know, I'm for financial advice. I'm sure so anyway, but you know others where it would not hold up in a criminal case. Like, well, I don't know. I maybe I don't know that because if Epstein said it and he's dead now, I'm not sure how that works. But like with Clinton, the thing that everyone's pointing out is where a comment was made to the girl who's testifying. And I always have trouble pronouncing her name, so I apologize, as s j Joe Barr.

Let me make sure I'm pronouncing it correctly, Joanna joe Berg, excuse me. She testified, among other things, that Epstein quote once told her that former President Clinton quote likes them young. But in the testimony she is not specifically testifying to a first person encounter with Clinton in that section, simply something that Epstein said, or she alleges that he said, So you have that.

But other stuff is it's pretty right there man. In fact, one of the weirdest ones, Joe Burke said in a deposition, the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, put his hand on her breast as she sat on his lap at this was at the Manhattan Townhouse. She also posed for a photo alongside Guffrey. I did see her, as I guess the primary accuser whose chest was also groped, although he did so using a puppet of Andrew of himself. All right, man, look, all of this is sorted.

All of this is creepy to the tenth power, but somehow you found a way. So see the Prince has a puppet of himself that he uses to grope underage girls by. Admittedly, when you hear that, the weirdness factor is climbed, right, I think we can agree. All right, I'll give you a rundown. We'll just kind of go bullet point on some of the others. You don't have to fish through all of it. And again this is this is but the beginning. But also I don't know there

is anything crazy in there. And if it all turns into a to a nothing burger, I'm gonna have some theories why. But we'll find out together. We'll do it. Coming up, hanging on, keeping you connected. This is ninety four or five WPTI and the Triad and one six one FM Talk and the Triangle. All right, so welcome back. It is six twenty. So, yeah, what you had yesterday, as you had several documents that were connected to a couple different legal proceeding. It's it's a big

document. Well, there's there there's several, but it's the second one they put out. It's like over a thousand pages and there's a there's one hundred and fifty plus names in there, and again they could be in there. For there's one there's I can't remember who it is, Hugh Music, some pop tart where they were talking about a concert, so like it wasn't.

Trump is mentioned in there in the capacity that Joe Berg said that they were landing in Atlantic City and somebody made a comment that they should call Trump, and so that is reflected U, you know, in in that conversation. So you know, not not all is created equal. But you get into there, and uh, there's a lot of names, man, and not all of it looks so innocent. Bill Richardson, uh Dershowitz. Not a good look there. Even though one of the names that's being withheld is a

hotel chain owner, people are speculating who that is. Let's see here ross whom I leaving out? Oprah. Oprah was mentioned in there. The two thousand and eight Patriots, sad, sad for them? May the entire team? Yeah, well are two thousand and seven, I'm sorry two thousand and seven, that'd be the undefeated, the lost of the giants, so it was not a good year for them. Stephen Hawking, Stephen Hawking, yes, Oh and the memes, Oh, the memes, yes, yes,

yes, so two thousand and seven Patriots. I mean, why not man to throw them in there. Let's see, it's the I guess the royal family. They put a statement out saying not he's still are He's the boy Michael Jackson who in the documents was said to have gone to Epstein's Palm Beach home but did not get a massage from an underage girl. You don't say you're telling me that Michael Jackson did not get a massage from an underage girl. Okay, all right, somehow I believe that. Let's see here,

Thomas Pritzker, he's the Hyatt Hotels billionaire. He's he's a different one. Specifically though Pittsburgh, Pritzker in the documents is named as having had sex with one of the girls. Specifically, how many times did you have sex with Thomas Pritzker? Quote? I believe it was with Tom once, said Joe Berg. So you know, if you want to pour all through it,

there you go. Obviously, the stories will run the the disinformation I've already seen being posted out there right where people are fundamentally changing stuff in there is not unexpected. But I would just encourage you as you go through there to try to glean as much identifiable information as possible, like in what capacity or they mean brought up And I guess, you know, we'll see as the as the documents come out if it really lives up to what people were mentioning.

You know, it was a little troubling for me. Is yeah, there is a Richardson reference, and there are people that are you know, like Bill Clinton, who obviously was very much involved in politics as a former president. But I was taken aback by the utter lack of you know, sitting politicians, man, because this dude just surrounded himself with that. Plus the way that Dick Durban acted the other day when he's like Jeffrey who what

I think I know of him? But we don't know. Let's see here, you know, one part of the motion claims that Epstein forced Jane Doe three is not identified to have sex with Alan dershowit at one point, however, that's not reiterated here, and that was that was speculation from a story that came out previously, so maybe true, may not. We don't know that part of the list will not be released until at least January twenty second,

as there is a current motion hearing on it. So if people are saying, well, look, the documents have just came out, had the Epstein or had the Dershowitz thing, not yet, but that's what people are speculating if in fact that it does exist, there is reference, there's a memo endorsement reference in here, but we don't have the totality of what was testified to and then from there, I don't know what you do. I got to think that there's some statute of limitations that's hit on most of this

stuff except in O and gislaying. Maxwell's lawyer put a statement out saying, this whole case is about the abuse of women, and the only person in jail is a woman. Yeah. Yeah, it would be two people in jail, really, the two that most people consider most responsible. But one of them, you know, he killed himself for something else. Yes, So like it's it's not like it's not like there wasn't somebody else in the Pokey as well. But obviously there's a different circumstances there all right, eight

eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. So forgive me if I continue to be how do you say pessimistic? On h there really being a lot of fallout other than just people writing stories, other people being asked to disassociate themselves with you know, since its political season, that's what we do. But ultimately, I yeah, other than financial, I don't know what

other consequences could be coming down the pipe. And I wasn't blown away by anything yesterday, So like, I just assume Bill Clinton liked them young? O, right? Right? Did you need no one everything that you know about Bill Clinton? Did you need a legal document somewhere to say, you know what? I wonder if he likes him young? Because I wasn't groundbreaking reading that yesterday, Briley, he likes him young, and I bet he likes him a little country too, just judging by what we know there little

Arkansas root state. If I had to guess, if I had to guess, but that's just me Frinch Andrew. He just likes blesting people with a puppet or something. One six one at them talk and ninety four five w PTI two stations driving the best end talk. This is Casey O Day and Carolina's morning News and welcome back in his six thirty five our phone number eight

eight eight nine three four seven eight seven. Not that anyone, I guess cares about the the game itself, but the uh, the rosters for the Pro Bowl have been revealed by the way I had I had forgotten the stadium hosting it is Camping World Stadium. That stadium in Orlando where they massacred the pop tart and then they ran the cheese at Canard So God help us, that's where the Pro Bowl will be. Let's see here. I I know

you know your boy not making the quarterback selection absolutely blew me away. Ross. I just I that's the Pro Bowl, so stupid. They got Lamar Patrick in Tua and not I know. It's not the MVP thing, and I get it. James Cook made the running backs list. I'm just scanning over here. Who else did you get? Yeah? Doctall, Yeah, Dawkins on defense. I'm seeing if you guys send anybody. Sorry, So none of the way they have this. They got alternates, but those first

two are the only two. Those are the two. Ohay, like Allen and Diggs are like a second alternate or something. But I think, like the Pro Bowl is dumb. Just get rid of it. And outside, I don't care about MVP. I just want a Super Bowl. Yeah, no, no, no, I'm I'm with you. I mean, at the end of the day, the Vikings they can send as many people as they want. But although they didn't send as many this year, but I you know, we still need the ring. Yeah, Vikings didn't even get

a wide receiver on there. Wait, I understand Jefferson was injured, but still let's see here. Yeah, and then Acres, he's been injured most of the season. Now we did get Hunter at linebacker. He's been playing really really well. And then, uh, I think we have like a couple of special teams, guys. Uh ross any other teams you want going to look up just while I'm here, but did you? Yeah? What about the What about Like I'm curious about other teams in the a f C.

I know TWOA got in oh AFC? All right? What about like the Patriots just just a random team, right, random team out there, the Pats any of them in Yeah? Well, hold on, hold on, I gotta I gotta be able, you know, because I gotta look at the whole list here, right, do you want to make sure that you get the uh, get the number on both because you got to look at offense and defense. So uh, all right, let we get the I have the NFC here, let me get the a f C up and

let's see here do do do do? Do do do? Carry the one and hold on. Where's my sound? Where's my sound? Okay? Here we go, carry the one and mum the deep special. Okay, all right, I got it here ros you want to guess? Guess the number? All right, I'm gonna guess like two, like two in No, No, two is not correct. That is not a correct answer. So alright, I'm gonna go. If I gotta go again, I gotta go one one, one person in the pro one. Uh yeah, you're seated.

I see you're seated, So grab them on there. I'll give you one more guess because that too is not accurate. Can you get half a player in? Is that even possible? I mean no, no, you can't. Probably would be against players Association. So the answer is zero. They have zero players. It's the first time since two thousand, by the way, that the Patriots have yet to field a probra I'm right here, though, it looks like the mascot at the Pro Bowl is going to be

a bag of milk. You're going to send it down on the top. Yeah, well yeah, but I think that's probably the Milk Advisory Board advertising. You know, they got milk people, and it would fit though, with the consumption of mascots within this stadium Cannibal Stadium or whatever there is, excuse me, Camping World Stadium. So yeah, maybe let's see here. I don't see any big surprises on there, but ultimately, yes, so zero they have zero. And then also in the AFC, it's basically all

the chiefs, So there you go. I know you're positively shocked by that, but there you go. All right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Man, that's a bummer. At least you don't have to worry about injuries though, So there is that, and lord knows that has been the nightmare for me this year. All right, let me flip over to this. By the way, I'm getting sick of and he's sick of this headline right here. Oh wait, hold on, Boston, Paul.

There's always next year. Yes, there is Boston, Paul, and unless there's not unless Ai becomes self aware and the remaining humans are forced to live underground in tunnels on rats. And it's the whole thing that Frankly, frankly, I saw a documentary on didn't look didn't look fun. And if that's the case, I suspect that probably won't be paying a lot of football. So but I'm glad you're keeping the positive attitude. Okay, all right,

dude. Every time I see these headlines from Bounding into Comics with our guests coming up at seven oh five, it's like Bounding into Comics headlines are like anytime I see one in our Twitter feed, I immediately have to see if it's that or if it's the Babylon b This is like Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Creator Rick Ordan says original books did not explore Medusa's character because

title Hero lacked the band with for deconstructing the patriarchy. I have a question, if there is a character of this lore right this, you know, within mythology that does a pretty good job of handling the patriarchy, wouldn't it be Medusa? You know? So? Stephen Kent, he sent me a text yesterday he sends to me an email about what he wants to talk about, you know, and we put in prep but Beforehandy, before I even looked at the email, he sent me a text and he was like,

what about Medusa and the Patriarchy? And I knew immediately he was gonna talk about because Marky and I love watching the show, the Percy Jackson Show and Disney, Plus we like the movie. This is more true to the books. It is kind of like for a younger audience, right. So so anyway, I've watched the episode like two times a Medusa episode, I knew exactly what he was talking about. Not once while watching this episode was I like, oh my god, this is what garbage That didn't stand out to

me. So reading this headline, it was like, are people really pissed off and angry about it? Because, like you said, that's sort of what she does, right, right, Yeah, Yeah, she's not a

fan of dudes. They go into her storyline as to why she is the way she like, why she was cursed the way she was, and she talks about, you know, she was really into you know Aries and you yeah, right, Aries was pissed because she had a relationship with besides, and then she cursed her and all that, and it's just she tells the story. She tells the story from her point of view, which would make sense because she's telling you what happened, right that Normally when somebody tells you

a story, it's from your point of view. There's no part of this show where I was like, oh, this is uh, you know, woke nonsense. It's we like the show. I feel like I feel like there's this fine line that some in entertainment are taking where they don't really jam a bunch of this crap and their show. They just in the interviews act

like they did I Dia, I agree, right. But there's also there's also an industrial like an industry complex here where not there are people that are looking for things to complain them out right on both sides of the spectrum, left and right, and there are people guilty on the right where it can be the smallest thing and they're going to make into a giant thing because it gets them clicks and it gets that you know, it's that's the headline.

But I'm saying, we've watched the show and there's not one part of it where I'm like, oh, this is wool garbage? Okay, well, well we'll get it. We'll get into it. Yeah, I didn't I read. I have not seen it, but I did read. You know how she's portrayed here, and I feel like there's was there another sub sect who's upset because they made her like more modern or something like. I don't know who's upset here except like two different groups. But you're saying that if

you watch it, probably nobody. What did We've seen that episode twice? We watched it once in Alabama at the Airbnb and then we went or was it? Uh? And actually that was a George South Carolina at Augusta. We watched it in Augusta there, well Lincoln was sleeping and said, and then we watched it again we got how did you how did you play? And Augusta? Yeah, but the Airbnb had a couch made out of green jackets. I'll stop it. I'm not kidding. Did you. I hope

you didn't stay near the course. That's not a good area. We did stop for gasing the way out that morning at like five six in the morning. Yeah, and I thought we might die. And it wasn't the Obama in South Carolina. It was Augusta not a good neighborhood. Yeah, no, no, no, this is this is what I've told people. I'm like, wait, do you see where the courses? Like, oh, I'm going down to the Masters this year. It's gonna be amazing. And I'm like it is. Yeah, once you're on the grounds, looks amazing.

Yeah, this is you're through the gate. It's so weird, how like a beautiful course is sandwich there, it's so bizarre. Like you said, you leave the gates and you travel in a mile in whatever direction. You're like, oh good lord, yeah, locked the doors. So anyway, I did sign a guestbook though at the beer the Airbnb and everybody else signed it, like, oh, I'm here for my wedding, right here

for the bachelor party. We played cards all night and I'm like, I'm like, Tiger Woods this date, you know, practiced at Augusta to stop it completely. Yeah, had to so so so Tiger rented like what a two bedroom condos townhouse? Oh man, I don't know. I thought he rolled bigger than that, but that's just me. All right, Well, good keep him guessing. Man, you can wrate. You should have wrote John Daly and there people would believe it and then just talk about you know

everything, Yeah, this is why everything's new. Oh my gosh, but it was fun all right, six forty six. Like I said, we'll get into our discussion with Stephen Kent on a variety of things, not the least of which is this. So the first woman and the first person of color to direct a Star Wars film. It's set to be released in twenty twenty six. You can say that the force is strong with this one. Here's Charmino be Chenoi. You know, I'm very thrilled about the project because

I think what we are about to it is something very special. And we're in twenty twenty four now, and I think it's about time that we had a woman come forward to shape the story in a galaxy far far away, right right, first time get a woman involved in the creative process. There. Here's the thing. Look, I don't know anything about this woman. I know what I saw her talk about, and she is she's cookie color. Woa Hollywood, right, But like, just take a step back from

that. When's the last time they ruled They're like were They're like, oh, we're gonna bring in this director, the special director to handle stuff for these writers. You saw it with she Haulk, you saw it with some of the Marvel movies, you saw it with Indiana Jones, and of course you see it was Star Wars, not just in this Chicks case, but

you know, with all the Kathleen Kennedy stuff and various others. It's been a very long time since they've held a press conference for one of these franchises, and I thought, you know what, I bet that director is a fan of the material. It's like, I can't I don't remember ever jumping to that conclusion here recently where I think, like, I don't believe and correct, maybe I'm one hundred percent wrong. And this woman has a Star

Wars collectibles room. I don't believe for a moment she's even watched all of the Cannon product. Do you ross do you believe that this woman sat down and has an affinity a quotable affinity for Star Wars as I know good honestly don't know much about her. I haven't heard much about I haven't looked into it. I just know the whole premise of like, hey, it's finally time for a female to you know, leave, Yes, is Kathleen Kennedy said a while back, right, the Forces female T shirts, She's got

damn T shirt. Right, You've got Ray who's like the Mary Sue of the Star Wars Galaxy. Right. I mean this is but it also they completely disregard anything that happened prior to twenty twenty. It's like the life history started after twenty twenty. Because if you actually want to talk about females who influenced Star Wars, George Lucas's daughter majorly influenced Star Wars the story. She had tons of ideas, she worked in the effects team. I mean,

but it's like that she doesn't count for some reason. No, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. It's uh, it's only under the under the current lens. I just want to hear whether it's this woman or whoever they're bringing out instead of I, Hey, here, so and so is going to be doing the directing and then them go, we got to get a woman in here and person of color and all that. I just I want her to nerd out on something and I'll feel a lot more comfortable,

right, because otherwise you think it's a sould Park meme. Yes, yeah, get to the podium. Imagine if Ross imagined they said that you were going to be they were bringing Ross in, and he's going to he's going to do a new Star Trek uh and and but it'll be Star Trek within the your favorite canon of the tuo Vis thing. How excitedly would you be able to talk about you? So I'm in I'm in charge of like

a reboot of Voyager? Yes, oh my, Now are you just going to talk about woke this or is this going to be an insane press conference where you're going to threaten to do stuff to uh A character? Janeway's dead in the first scene, so why do I you got to tease that man?

But the point is you're talking about the content show this to be crushed by the opening credits, Like she's sitting in the she's sitting in the bridge, you know, she's on the chair and the credits are rolling and the boom they just so it's kind of a Spaceball's opening Yep, shoot her out

in the area lock. Just why is that implodes in space? I feel they got better tech and then they move on with their day like, oh all right, but you see how Ross is purely story driven discussion and he's not talking about how uh you know it's for the first time blah blah blah, you're not for the first time a what were you two percent Native American or something? You twenty three and me or yeah, yeah, excuse me, for the first time ever a point two percent? Ohthough, isn't that

like the national average? And she couldn't even get that much Anyway is doing the directing, and Ross is just up there talking about all the ways he's gonna kill Jane Way like it's Kenny from South Park. I don't know whether it's gonna be good, but at least I know he's passionate. All right, hang on, all right, Good morning everybody, and welcome. It is Thursday, getting back into the swing of things post holiday, all of that good stuff. And it's been a little while since we've had a chance

to chat with instead. I'm sure I had the all the stuff up in front of me with Stephen Kent here from bounding into Comics, and it's like I've told you, every every day we got some little nugget of Hollywood news, and that's where we're gonna head. Steven, thanks for joining us this morning. How was first off? How was traveling, you get to go over to Poland or something. What was up with that? I went over to Poland and brought back all kinds of Polish crud and in addition to a

stomach full of parogy. Apparently that's all they eat over there. Can't complaint just perogy. I mean, if it's good parog beef, yeah, okay, pArg with meat, parogy with vegetables, parogi. I have a have a I have a little bit of a question. Well was it a impersonal or was it a professional capacity? You we're over there, a professional capacity out there changing the world? Okay, all right? Well good because if it was just family vak, I wasn't going to pick your brain with it.

I'm interested because Poland, up until the most recent election was it was kind of seen as one of those countries who didn't have a lot of like the Dei stuff didn't work there, do you know what I mean? That was so they generally they were seen as is rejecting a lot of that. And they're not alone from an Eastern Europe perspective, but they're not. They're

Poland. And I'm just wondering, like with all of the stuff that you write about in the different discussions and beefs that we have, like, can you believe they change this all of that? How does that look through the eyes of a European audience, especially one that's probably more more inclined to reject some of the stuff that woe Hollywood? Does you know? That's that's interesting.

I mean, if we're talking about Poland, I mean, this is a country and a part of the world that is still very much living in the middle of the twentieth century in terms of the things that they talk about, the history that they celebrate. You know, every day Polish people, in addition to chain smoking entire packs of cigarettes, are still talking about crushing

the Soviets and beating out the fascists from before. To be care, they were pretty thoroughly kicked in the teeth by those cats, so they absolutely were, and they have a lot to celebrate. But you know, it is just a part of the world that does seem to be still living in previous generation. So I just don't think that they would buy that kind of stuff at all. I am surprised by the outcome of the Polish election, but I'm not an expert on it. All right, let's get into a few

things, and I want to start with this. I was just Ross and I were talking about this because neither of us were alive when the first Star Wars came out, and nor were you. And to think that, in my lifetime, and in Ross's lifetime and in your lifetime, that nobody thought of this right here, So the first woman and the first person of color to direct a Star Wars film. It's set to be released in twenty twenty six. You can say that the force is strong with this one. Here's

Charmino beit Chenoid. You know, I'm very thrilled about the project because I think what we are about to create is something very special. And we're in twenty twenty four now, and I think it's about time that we had a

woman come forward to shape the story in a galaxy far far away. All right, So since nineteen you know, late nineteen seventies, seventy seven or whatever, throughout the entirety of our lifetime, apparently nobody said, hey, what if we got a woman involved in the creative process on the Star Wars franchise? So does this bring excitement for you? Is this is you know,

this is your wheelhouse? Man? Yeah? I mean I just can't tell you the level of my excitement that we're finally going to have a woman shaping Star Wars. I didn't know that Kathleen Kennedy was a she her, but apparently she is. And you know, then we've got in our background. We've got Marcilla Lucas, who shaped behind George Lucas all of nineteen seventy seven, a New Hope Gosh, that leaves out Carrie Breck, Bryce, Alice Howard. You got Jennifer Gretzner, who did the Ahsoka series and the

Mandalorian. This is just such insulting garbage, not only to everybody who has come through the Star Wars universe and done work on these movies and these shows, but also to the audience. This leading with it's twenty twenty four kind of stuff is just your first signal that you're dealing with an NPC level creative who is coming to try and add to this universe. Where did they find this lady? Turns out the World Economic Forum. I don't know what they're

doing, but this is probably Kathleen Kennedy's worst Cafayette. That's what you need to go next time you do a europe to. Don't go to Poland any Parrogi's man, go to where the jets are. Have you seen some of the food those cats have over at their little conference. Go to Switzerland when they do their thing there. Go to Davos. Man, I'm not polite enough company for that. Well, but I if you want to meet future Star Wars creative, that's apparently where they're hanging. Man. Well, here's

the this is this is this is where it lands for me. And I don't care whether it's this woman. I don't care whether it's a you know, a young black woman. I don't care what. I just want to hear when a director is introduced for a franchise that I have interest, I want to hear them nerd out a little. Do you know what I'm saying right I I want the first thing on stage to be you know, them talking about some you know some why this is so exciting for them. They

love it. I don't believe that the woman that they and you this is just me speculating. I don't believe for a moment she has consumed all Cannon Star Wars. I don't believe that she has no and she doesn't demonstrate it. I agree with you completely over at Bounding into Comics dot com. I've got my column up about this this week, and I really said about the same thing that you know, when you go out and start doing media on your Star Wars movie, that you are incredibly lucky to be able to touch

or direct. We want to hear a little bit about your passion for the Lord, Jedi, smugglers, the Force inquisitors, bounty hunters, siff acolytes, like tell us something about how Star Wars excited to you or has added to your life, and what you are excited to bring to it. It's really not that hard, but instead we get the snow White interview again. Now, to be fair, she's also people are also quoting something she said.

But I want to make sure that we have a accurate date on this, because I believe it was in twenty seventeen where she said she likes making men uncomfortable, right, and so that wasn't something she just said, but it obviously is included in this. And so when I see that that's the attitude or what we saw with the you know, the snow White insanity,

it's hard for me as a fan to get excited and it's understandable. I think why people go to doom and gloom, even though, as you've pointed out in one of our previous interviews, and Ross and I were talking about on the air, you know, if you can't treat everything as doom and gloom because there are some positive aspects. I want to get into some of that with you, but it just kills the buzz man, It killed Like

you remember what I were talking about real quick? Do you remember they were talking about, just for a moment, Quentin Tarantino doing a Star Trek right now? I don't that was there was? Was it Star Trek or Star Wars? Ross? Do you remember that? Yeah? No, Star Trek, And that's a big fan. I thought that would be awesome. Yeah. You know why? You know why because I bet Quentin Tarantino knows this stuff, right. He just strikes me as nerd enough to know this and

obviously put his own twist on it. That's all I'm asking for. I don't care your politics. Yeah, you know a boy a BOYDANOI I'm gonna butcher her name a little bit on accident here, but you know, she's accomplished documentary filmmaker. She has made a huge impact around the world, particularly in her home country of Pakistan, telling stories about women who are up against

Islamism in that country, an incredible repassion honor killings and violence. And that interview that she did in twenty fifteen, I think it actually was she was on stage. Yeah, she was on same with John Stewart, and John Stewart was noting that the common thread throughout all of her movies is that men are a holes. And you know, she then goes on to say that

she likes to make men uncomfortable, that she enjoys it. And the thing about that interview that is probably the nuance thing to hold on to is that she's talking about her movies that are situated in the Middle East, you know where. Yeah, those people deserve it. Honestly, we're not. It seems like Rich fought like that. Seems like there's a lot of fodder there, right if you want to from a from a Pakistani woman's perspective, talk about I mean, I'm one hundred percent with you, but you know,

that's not how we roll now. And so I see people associating it with the interview the other day, and that's not was not included all right, well, with that in mind, and with that, with that caveat, where do you predict this is going I mean you well, I predict it's going to to lead to just incredible chaos and a further decline of Disney's holdings over some of these legacy ips like Star Wars and you know, Indiana Jones

and Marvel Like there's just going to be a continued downslide. The Marvels from you know, Marvel Studios was just an absolute catastrophe of a movie. Indiana Jones ended on its just absolute most dud moment with the Dial of Destiny, not the worst movie in the world, but a movie that still was ill conceived and blew a hunt undred million dollars into the Abyss and Star Wars, which every one of its theatrical releases made less than the one that came before

it. Now we are still talking about movies that make billions of dollars, right, and then people call that a marker of success. But when it is constantly getting smaller that pie that is not good. And Ray is a not one of the most exciting or beloved characters across multiple generations to make a

new movie on and this director just seems to be an arsonist. I do respect the background that she's come from and the work that she's done, but she has not given any indication that Star Wars is something that she cares about, or Star Wars fans or people that she wants to make a great movie

for. All Right, So sometimes I think stuff's pretty straightforward. So you know, I'm sitting here looking at this and I'm not hopeful and for a lot of the reasons that you just expounded upon, right, you can see it in the returns. By the way, I watched right as we were off on vacation. I did watch Indiana Jones because it finally came to the streaming, and I look, I was even able to be kind of entertained by Crystal skulls uh, you know it, because yeah, makes Indiana Jones.

Right, it's still Indiana Jones. And we saw something new and and you just kind of but this. I had a hard time just forcing myself. I kept having to rewind it back because I'd get up and do something and if you'd have told me I would do that with an Indiana Jones movie, give me a break. My problem with that movie. The problem with

that movie. My opinion was like the first thirty minutes was like old cgi Harrison Ford, and to me, that stuff is weird, right, yes, yeah, yeah, but you got to go all natural for this kind of stuff. But I kid you not. I liked this movie in theaters like I was. I was kind of into it. You know, you're in you're in the groove, you're in the dark, you're watching Indiana Jones,

and I was feeling it. But then I rewatched this movie on an airplane on the way to Poland, uh, and I found myself sneaking glances over at the person next to me who was watching The Notebook because it was slightly more interesting. You know, I just I was bored. And I've never I've never experienced that with an Indiana Jones movie where I'm eager to look away and watch Ryan Gosling return to his love in the Notebook like I was.

That was just kind of a weird experience where I had to admit something was wrong with this movie. I've never seen that movie. You're miss you're missing out, You're missing out. I'm sure that's exactly it. So and then let me me run somebody and we're chatting with Stephen Ken from mounting into

comics, where I just have about three and a half minutes. I feel that there's this middle ground of Hollywood too, and that is creative folks who are who will put content together, be a TV show or movie or whatever. And the only thing that's really that woke about it is the way that they on it, like like that's that's their badge. But then you go look at the content. Case in point, we're talking about the Percy Jackson

Show which is on Disney now and this whole Medusa. By the way, if there's ever been somebody who has been more effective at fighting the patriarchy, I feel like Medusa's on that list. Man. I feel like she has

she's us a special, special way to go about it. So when I when I hear this Rick Rordan talking about Medusa's character and the bandwidth for Dree deconstructing the patriarchy and all of this insanity, and I hadn't watched it, but Ross said, like it doesn't come across when you're actually watching the show. So it's like, yeah, go around lip service, man. Yeah,

And that's a thing that creatives in Hollywood. Do they do this to pat each other on the back do interviews and get accolades and good coverage, but just to really quickly kind of dive into the Percy Jackson thing. Yeah, Medusa is the subject of one of the most recent episodes, and they've been talking about this the reordience, both Rick and his wife, and talking about how the book didn't really handle or dive into sort of the victimhood of

Medusa. Medusa in Greek myth, was turned into this monster by the goddess Athena because Poseidon sexually assaulted her in Athena's shrine, and so Athena punished the woman for this and turned her into this snake monster who devours men for the centuries to come. And this is sprained by them as sort of like a patriarchal story. I think it actually says more about what women do to one another when they don't like each other. But that's just me. Yeah,

I think that's the real story. But you know, it's a good show. I actually do recommend people watch this and consider checking out the new Percy Jackson series. Your kids love it. They call it the new Harry Potter. I'm told it's a it's a neat thing to see kids enjoying Greek myths and diving into some of those nuances. Also, don't let your kids fangirl gods, you know, like you know this, it's kind of like dating a cartel member. It's it's probably exciting, but it could end horribly real

quick in this case with it Hagen nonsense. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, we got links. We'll tweet them out to the article's reference there. Abounding into comic Stephen Kent, appreciate it, and we'll chat hopefully at our normal time coming up next week. Okay, yes, yes, yes, all right, look at that. So at nine topics and then we got to two. But that's how we roll, all right, It

is a seven twenty three. Yeah, Lots to get into in the final back half of the show, including Lieutenant Governor coming up is one O six one FM, Talk in the Triangle and Near's Talk ninety four to five PTI and the Triad. Allrighty, good morning, and welcome back at is seven thirty five here on the CaCO Day Radio program. So thank you to Stephen Kent for joining us from mounting into comics. You've got links to what we

were discussing there and again I haven't seen the Percy Jackson thing. Obviously, Stephen had Ross's watched it. You've watched all the episodes that are out already. I saw it on there. I haven't watched it because you know how I roll. I'm like, once there's a series that has all the episodes up, I might dip in, but I refuse to do the check back every week thing until it's ready. Yeah. What he mentioned too, it is a good point about how it's like, you know, it's meant for

a younger audience, like you're like a Harry Potter. I saw that it was PG, that it was PG on the TV. I happen to glance at that. It's just to get a vibe for it. So yeah, yeah, but it's good, right, I mean I've I've enjoyed it so far. Yeah, oh good, Okay, all right, Although the Medusa thing, you were asking some questions, it sounds like they stick to pretty

much a lot of the cannon surrounding Medusa. Well, right, the important part of the series I think is like the actual mythology, right, So I imagine they're trying to stick by that as much as possible, you think, so anyway, Well, yeah, but you were asking with Medusa, like, after you cut Medusa's head off, can you use it? The answer is yes, and that is part of the mythology there, Like the whole reason of going and killing Medusa was so her head could be utilized to

defeat a monster. So I wouldn't trust myself with the responsibility, man, like, like I know me, Like, I can't imagine having that thing around, and you know, you're not supposed to look, right, It's like, you know, and if it's like made invisible or whatever, you can't even see the head right in the act. They have it invisible in the thing. Yeah, because it's Disney, so they're not going to actually show like a decapitation and blood and stuff, right because it's for kids.

So well, I've seen it, and I've seen it in movies where they where the head has been it's been literally presented as though it's kind of turned to stone, so it doesn't look gory, but it still has the effects. But you know, yeah, that'd be a very powerful tool. Didn't they just have it? Didn't they just have some commercial out where Medusa's like

at a club and some dudes like gawking at her. Right, it's the whole creepy, you know, patriarchy thing, and she like dips her sunglasses and then just turns some random dude to the bar into stone, just murders him. Like that was a commercial that they were running on TV here not long ago. So but like I give you an example of why I wouldn't trust myself with the head. So over the weekend, I was making some some of these spicy Mexican beans and said, I like to make right did?

I make a big batch of them? And they're just great. Basically you just take black beans and a clove of garlic, an onion, and a jalapeno or however many you want in there. Boom, throw them in there and just let that, you know, basically simmer for about two hours.

In boom, You're done, and it's delicious. But I know me, and I know that no matter how many times I tell myself, Casey, you're cutting up a jalapeno or you're cutting up a serrano, and like, don't put your don't put your hand anywhere near your face, what do you think inevitably happens at some point during that exercise, I just, for a split second, I forget, I just like, all wipe my eye

and then I'm running around my house like a psychopath. Right, so you can see yourself just walking around Meduce's head and being like, wait, what do I have my hand to go my gott in stone. No, Like some buddies come over right where, you know, we're a few bourbons in. They're like, oh my god, I show this thing. I got. What's that on your coffee table? Bro Let me take Oh no, I need new friends. Oh yeah, that sucks. Yeah. So you know that's there is that inherent risk with it. So uh do with do

with that what you will? Speaking of risk, Uh, I'm not saying you guys had anything to do with it, but man, the Dolphins having a tough go of it, obviously racked with injuries, although well represented in the in the uh the Pro Bowl voting. I did see that. So although racked with injuries and just a few few issues, there's you know, it's still an immensely talented team, which is what's given Ross fits probably for this week's game. That being said, the Dolphins, by the game being

moved to the evening, have openly expressed their disappointment because the stadium. If you've ever been to the hard Rock Stadium. There during the day, half of the field or half of the sideline is just baking in sun, and inevitably that's the visitor side. So the Dolphins love day games because they can be over on the shady side. Meanwhile, across the field it's twenty degrees warmer for their opponents, right, and they were literally they were like complaining

they didn't get that advantage. Well, now, the couple that with Tyreek Hill, obviously one of their two extremely talented wide receivers, whose house just burned down. Yeah, footage showed smoke pouring out of the ninety three hundred square foot mansion as firefighters battle the blaze. He spokesman for the Dolphins said that Hill left practice after the fire broke out. Everyone was that was in the home at the time is safe. So thankfully we have that. But

doesn't he have like three kids on the way this week or something? I was reading Now he's getting up to like Nick Cannon status. Yeah, oh yeah, but it's like he has a whole cluster right now that are either pregnant or getting ready to give birth. I can't remember what it said, Like this dude needs a house so hopefully it gets that remedied. But Boston

Paul's accused you guys of doing it because that's all he's got. So I mean, it's gonna probably be a distraction during the game, you would think. But I mean he's rich as all hell, so I mean, luckily nobody was harmed and he can buy a new house, right, I don't know how much damage was done. Yeah, well, I'm you know, I'm hoping he probably has insurance hold on children. I gotta remember, I gotta find out what this stat was because I was blown away. I feel

like this would be a distraction. I mean, do this so fast though. It's like I think, like everybody's talking about the quarterbacks. Obviously, I would like Josh Allen to be MVP. But Tyreek killing McCaffrey, right, they should be like two big candidates for MVP, I would think, because he take Tyreek Hill out of that offense and it's completely different. Oh the three I said four. He had three babies. Just had three babies, three different women, three kids, all delivered here at the end of

last year. So I don't know, man, I feel like that might be a little bit of a distraction. Plus he's got a bucket of kids other than that, which you know whatever. Like Ross pointed out, I don't know that you're gonna get Nick Cannon status. He had some catching up to do. But yeah, between that and the house burning down, probably probably gonna be on his mind or or it's one of these guys where he gets motivated. I'll tell you what's creepy. Is each one of the three

different baby mamas. It did like very similar Instagram videos. It's because they're all in this article here holding the little Tyreek Hill jersey and dancing around with their pregnant stomachs. This is from obviously last year when they were still pregnant. I think he married one of these women too. So well, anyway, and again now his house burns down, so there is there is that, all right? Seven forty three Casey O Day radio program Ray Stagic from

the Weather Channel was talking about Tyreek Hillman. Yeah, so have three different kids. At the last year, you had three different moms to the kids, two of which are suing the one of which he married. So now his house burns down, you got a little distraction. Maybe, I don't know, well, I don't know. It's like sometimes when you have the means to I don't know exactly right, and you're millions of dollars worth of

potential chance still caravan, I don't know. I saw some people online comparing it to who was it was Andre Risen's house from didn't it's like white burned down his house, the chick from TLC. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think the chick for TLC. Yeah yeah, I think it was just like, yeah, burned his house, and people like maybe, like you know, one of Tyreek Hill's baby Mama's got pissed off and they're like, yeah, you can burn your house down. Well he's getting sued by two

of the three. So I don't know, man, but yeah, there you go. Luckily, you guys don't have any of these issues arise in Dallas. We don't have that. One time one of your players, I hired a security guy to follow him around so we didn't do stupid stuff and then he beat the crap out of the security guy. But other than that, yeah, other than that, I mean really nothing to my favorite worries. Yeah, exactly. Speaking of football, impactful event Northeast New England gonna

affect our weather here over the weekend Pittsburgh at Baltimore. If you're a fan a just gonna watch four thirty kickoffs. Gonna be some rain in Baltimore, looks like, so that could get a little messy on Saturday, and then Sunday in New England is going to be interesting with the Jets, not the game, the Jets of the Patriots, but could be quite a bit of snow. We'll see if he gets in and out on time, but it does look like there's a potential there. It should be fun if you want

to see heavy snow. There's potential for some heavy snow there. So here we're going to get the wet side of that for the most part as we get into early Saturday morning and during the day. Saturday, so beautiful today and tomorrow, maybe a little cloud probably between forty six and fifty two for the daytime high. Its closer to fifty today and then mid nupper forties tomorrow,

and then it's early Saturday morning we'll start to see some rain. Command could begin as some freezing rain just before sunrise, and that's for everybody. So we'll be near thirty degrees, so there could be a light icing in some spots. But the bigger problems are going to be tried into the mountains where there could be a couple of tenths of an inch of ice and that could cause some roadway problems. I don't know about power outages if it's going

to get that heavy, but I would be prepared just in case. And then mainly rain as we go through late Saturday and into Saturday afternoon and we all get up into the forties close to fifty degrees and Sunday, Sunday, Monday, and then a bigger storm coming in for Tuesday Wednesday of next week. That's more of a rain and heavy rain and thunderstorm threat. So we'll

worry about that next week. But it's early Saturday morning. I travel with a little bit of caution if you are traveling, especially west and southwest and into the mountains, better chances some ice and snow. Some of those back roads could get a little bit slick. Uh. What did you got, Dallas? I think you guys tied for most players on Pro Bowl right.

Yeah, they see they're trying to get to the Jets release. They were trying to pick up does it Dalvin cook Man, Dalvin cook Yeah, they're trying to pick him up because honestly, I think I said this when they signed Pollard, I didn't think he was going to live up to expectations, and he hasn't. They look, Pollard looked really good by committee, you know. So yeah, and that's how out I'm I'm upset, man, I'm upset we got rid of Dalvin Cook. I think obviously the Jets they

didn't know what to do with the guy. And I think it's pretty I'm going to you, guys, shouldn't you guys shouldn't be allowed to have him. That's all that I'm saying, you know, meaning you don't want us to have him? That's correct, Yes, gotcha? So but any who, Yeah, oh, Dak didn't Dak made it in the quarterback section, did he? I didn't even see the bro. I didn't come on the Pro Bowl. Come on, listen me and Dak. I don't know what

not that. I'm just saying, all right, he's not the m v P. And honestly, I don't want to get into this discussion, but I don't. I don't know what the m v P discuss I don't think shoot Baltimore, Baltimore, Baltimore, Jackson. I don't think he's the m v P. Lamar Jackson makes no sense because he's been carried by his defense. Yep. You look at his like his touchdown totals compared to Yeah, it makes no sense. Yeah, well Dak has better. If anybody else

had better stats, you can think of us. Well, I'm not a stats guy. I just happened to know that you're gonna ask me. I got off the top of my head. I can come up with somebody in a few categories been to Lamar. But you know, yeah, yeah, I do. Look at that. He's encyclopedia. All right, thanks, we'll Chad in hour, Sir, they go raced agic from the Weather Channel. Reminder, Lieutenant Governor, he'll be joining us in the eight o'clock hour. We had to move them from yesterday. I got some dog news for

you dog breeders out there. I have a suggestion, and I think my logic is sound, So we'll get that. And does the State of North Carolina need more license plate cameras? The company that sells them thinks that we do, but apparently most citizens think we do not. I'll explain what's brewing with that coming up. KCO Day Radio program Smart Talk all day ninety four to five w PTI in the Triad and six one FM Talk in the Triangle.

All right, I saw this story and I saw I had to read two different versions of this, and I'm still not understanding what's going on. So there's headlines. Thirteen year old kid has become the first person to ever beat Tetris on the NES. I'm almost positive I beat well, I'm not almost positive. I know I beat Tetris right yet, because they have the little you know, they have the little hey you win screen. I no. I saw the story and I thought it was like a Mendela effect or

something. I'm like, I know, I beat that as a kid, Like I got to a certain point and there was a cut scene and as a kid, I thought because it's like that Russian. As a kid, I thought it was the Kremlin, the domey colorful building from Russia, you know, and like the fireworks. As a kid, I thought that was it's called the Onion Dome, right, But I'm like, all right, there's the Kremlin, you know, and I'm like a little kid, and

there's fireworks, and that was it. But apparently there's different. So there's version a like type A and Type Beard's Type one or two and even get certain scores. They show you that cut scene and there's credits, right right, yeah, and I thought that was the end of the game, but they're saying that the actual end of the game is a kill screen. It goes so fast and then it turns black and the game's sort of like reboots, and that's the actual ending. I had no idea. So you you

saw that cut scene too, because there's three different ones. Okay, I had no idea. I just remember, I remember, and I remember that I was excited, and I at least one of my siblings and probably my mom and I remember probably they didn't care, but I was excited, so that same, but they would be the only ones you can testify, because nowadays, you know, if you want to show somebody an accomplishment in the

game, you know you're pretty easy to get the video. Yeah back then, right, yeah, it was my mom and my best friend Phil the only people that would be able to testify to that, and I was super proud of it. But then in the company behind Tetrist, I don't know if it's Nintendo or or the company that made it, they're like, this is the first ever kill screen. Well, yeah, maybe in the modern age that you know of, because everything's on hard drive and if you're playing

the switch, they gather all that data. They can tell you how long people play, how many people get certain achievements with the highest score is. They have all that data. But back in the day it was on a cartridge on your there'd be no way to know unless you were like some real crazy like Billy Mitchell from King of Kong who's recording it on a camcorder and sending it in to get the record and then you end up being a cheater. But whatever, Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's there's that too.

Well no, because as you described the kill screen, I would think the game just broke right right now that Donkey Kong is the same way they can said the end of Donkey Kong is a kill screen. I'd just be oh, the game screwed up, and which you know, back in the cartridge day was nothing new. What do you do you got a problem, pull

it out, blow into it obviously, and try again later. But now I didn't realize that, Like, if you, yeah, you want to impress me, show me the thirteen year old that beat Ninja guiyd In Oh Ninja Guyden too. Oh yeah, yeah, even harder. Remember that I was getting to the end of that game and you couldn't save, so you had to keep the console on the entire time, and we would go to the we would go camping to touch it. We would all go camping on

the weekend. And I came back and I played that game, and I got to the end of Ninja Guiden two, and that game was an a hole because that was the first time I ever got out the end boss. You think you beat it, there were three bosses, so then at a second phase and a third phase and you die since you way back to the beginning because you couldn't save. It crushes theidet beat that game. If you should have saved some some life. The loser, I had no, I

had no idea. I never even had to know what the boss count was because I never got there. That was one of those games I had to like physically remove from my presence because I found it frustrating anymore that in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, this is swimming with the bombs. Yeah, yeah, there were a few contra wasn't easy. I think it's some other game, but no, uh, Ninja guid In two. Uh. I don't know if somebody's ranked like difficulty of video games, but I don't know

what else would be up there. Is there a modern day game that's just considered that difficult that I'm missing? I don't think so. Dark Souls, right, Our Souls considered one of the hardest games. Doesn't your kids speed run that like three minutes? He sure does. That's why I could never attempt it, just be embarrassing, just because I like my nightmare would be He's sitting in the room too, right, and I can just see the disappointment of his uncle Casey sucked. Yeah, yeah, I'm just admitted I

would. All right, Good morning everybody, and a welcome and happy Thursday to you. It is eight o seven. Glad to have you along here on the cac O Day Radio program. It has uh, it's been a little while with the vacation and some scheduling stuff since we chatted with the Lieutenant Governor yes yesterday. We had to move him to today, but we're gonna do this thing and Mark. Good morning to you, sir. How you doing, Hey, Kathy, how are you doing? I'm pretty good?

And since it has been a while, lord knows, the laundry list of things I want to talk to you about has has built up. But I got to start here and and let me, let me, let me put this, let me put this somewhat self from a self deprecation standpoint, but lightly if you and I were members of the Donner Party, we wouldn't starve to death. First, do you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, okay, all right, so uh at kudos. I know you're doing the gym thing, but let's say, look, we deal in honesty here

on the show. And I know then that if I want to take myself, or if it was you and I want to go to a theater and get a high top barstool and put it in literally in front of other patrons, I'm probably going to get talked to by staff at the at the theater. Yet, for some reason, uh, the former NAACP head, the Reverend William Barber U, he feels it's it's it's akin to you know, a sixty zero civil rights struggle, and the media just laps this stuff up.

But I don't know, what's what's your take on all this insanity? I'm sure you saw this story over the break I did. It's just another attempt just to continue to be an eternal victim, to try to break the law. It's not about being equal. It's about being special always. It's about making up your own rules. It's about not following along with with with

with any type of social moras. It's just about I'm gonna do exactly what I want to do, and if you don't let me do it, I'm gonna claim to be a victim, and I'm gonna suit the pants off of you, because this is all about me being special. This is not about me doing the right thing. This guy doesn't have a single solitary leg to stand on when it comes this that theater provides handicapped seating, it makes exceptions for folks, it gives you every opportunity and makes uh provide every opportunity to

provide it by the law. And he just wants to be special and just wants to get attention and just wants to cry victim of status all the time. It's completely ridiculous. Of course, the media is going to go along with it, because, as you've seen, most of our news media right

now is totally complicit in this bousness. Yeah, well, it's just it's just a failure to process something so so simple, like as like I think if you removed who it was and you just showed somebody a picture of a high top stool in front of low top seating with people behind there, they go, maybe that's not a quote reasonable accommodation. And the problem is that

you and I both know how the conversation played out. Some staff member who doesn't want to be dealing with this, right they just is a you know, there's a minimum wage job for them, or they're thereabouts, goes in there. And I suspect that if somebody escalated it, based on what I've seen with that video where Barber was on the plane and others, that he was the one who escalated this. And the following out then is any of the staff there, but also the police officer who when they show up to

do a trespass, they don't care why you're getting trespassed. If it is illegal, the courts will remedy that, but police are just there to do paperwork and leave. And yet now those officers and those staff members are the object of iire to some of Barber's supporters and I don't know what they wanted them to do. Well, again case, it's not what they want them to do. They want them to do what they want them to do. Now after Shee was on the other foot, he was a theater owner and

he was calling the police on someone who was breaking the rooms. He would want the police to follow the wools, and he would be demonstrative in them wanting to follow the rules. So again, it's not about it's not about anything except getting their way. I want to get my way. I don't care what the rules are. I'm going to break the wooms because this is not about equality. This is about me being special. It's about me being a victim. It's about me being able to sue the past all of you

because I'm special and a victim. Total movesy and greed is what it really boils down to. Well it is. It is beyond frustrating when when you sit there and you see the same canard work over and over and it's just and it's just so logical in one's mind. And and by the way, let me say this, uh Mark, and I'm I am I'm having any guess because I don't know who is he obstructing to this is the other thing. So if he's obstructing patrons who are watching the movie and it's a showing

of the color purple, I guess, horrible. Racist me just assumes that there's a higher likelihood that the people he's obstructing are people of color. Absolutely Again, another reason why points to him not caring about the rooms. I don't care, but he does not care about the rooms, about getting his way, about making his point about ultimately, ultimately about making our case,

and the case is going to boil down to money extortion. That's why, Casey, it is so important for us to have leaders in positions or not leaders, but representatives and positions of authority, governors, lieutenant governors, mayors

who stand up firmly against this. Because when folks stand up against it, when those folks that are there on the news, who have those microphones, who have those seats, when they stand up and say this is not right and we're not gonna stand by those people who oftentimes will be silent, that majority who are solid because everybody a lot of other people are going along with it, they'll stand up and say, you know what, that's absolutely right.

We're not going to stand up for this, And I believe that's how you stand up against it. You stand up against it by having people at the very beginning, those people in those positions are so called authority who stand up to say we're something not gonna put up with this. Judges, lawyers, polis who stand up. Finally getting those political leaders, those folks about stand up and meet their voices heard and say we're not gonna stand by this

type of foostles. Well, let's let's talk about people thinking they can do whatever they want. There's different versions of this. There is Barber getting to have his Karen moment there in the theater. But there's also something that I think sadly factors into this tragic story in Greensboro where a Greensboro police officer was

killed, Sergeant Philip Nicks Dale Nicks. Sergeant Dale Nicks, who was not on duty, who had spent you know, most of his adult life serving the community of Greensboro in a variety of capacities, who just happened to be at his favorite sheets, sitting out on the bench as people do, and he sees he sees these three individuals parking a handicap obviously as close to the door as possible and come hauling out of there with a bunch of ki Is

the modello eighty three dollars worth of beer. And the moment Nix goes over to you know, ask about it because two of them are underage and appear to be underage, he gets five bullets flung at him through the window and he's killed. And you know, it has those it has that vibe of those videos received where people just go and loose a store, take whatever they want, don't give a damn, And it irks me. Then when I see politicians who seem to be permissive of this trend issuing tweets in support of

as we saw. So obviously this is your hometown. Let's talk about Greensboro, the community, how they're feeling. And also the fact that it was a record year for murders, yes last year, So talk to me. Well, you know, I know I'm not gonna say I hate to say this, but the fact of the matter is this, This goes directly on the head the Greensboro City Council. The Greensboro City Council when it comes to police and has done a terrible job. Terrible They have taken the city backwards.

The city of Greensboro used to be a nationwide example of what policing could be. The police chief of Greensboro at one time was ahead of the National Police Chiefs Association. We had a shining star for a police organization right in Greensboro, North Carolina. But since we've started this whole anti police movement, the left that started this whole anti police movement, the city of Greensboro has been right there with them. The entire council's leftists. They don't stand with

the police. They don't give them what they need to be proactive in fighting crime. They don't stand by them. They didn't stand by them during the riots that we had, and now we are seeing the effects. We're seeing the effects is strictly now. It's hit Greensboro, it's hit Raleigh, it's hit Winston, it's hit all these areas. The pissions who have sway over these police agencies, they don't back them up, they don't give them what

they need to be proactive in fighting crime. They're not pro police. And now the effects are shown and the effects are chilling. Then you couple down long cases with these weak das that continue to let these criminals be in this revolving dwarf crime. But what I understand, these beef suspects had lengthy criminal records. Yeah, want to be clear, one of them did and then uh, the other two I wouldn't describe as lengthy, although there is some

juvenile stuff that we're probably not privy to. But yes, no, it was uh for the for the main suspect. Yeah, there's a there's a whole there's a whole litany of stuff and yeah, yeah right, and these these these week das, And let's take it to the state level too, with some of these laws that we have where we have to police officers have to call Raley in order to uh, in order to arrest juveniles and all

all all manager things. The way we have handcuffed police officers, the way we are demonizing police officers, the way the press is complexit in all this, it is a recipe for disaster. And folks like me have been saying that from the very beginning, you want to continue to degenerate law enforcement, you're going to continue to allow our societies and our communities to degenerate into violence. And this is an example of it, a sad example of it.

And we need to hurry up and turn it around again. We need people in place who are going to stand on the platform and say we stand firmly behind law enforcement. We are going to give law enforcement what they need to be proactive in fighting crime, and we are not going to put criminals on a revolving door of crime. If you commit these crimes, you will be punished to the highest extent of the law. It needs to come from the

high offices. And right now, it's not sad. Somebody sent me an email said, is you're acting like prior to these changes, is that there was never somebody who wanted to steal something and felt okay to fire at police. No, we're not saying that. But the more deterrence, the more situation, the more situations and I'll call them small situations right where somebody's running

in grabbing a case of beer. The more where you have that scenario play out means there's more possibilities for law enforcement to then interact with those individuals. So if they feel that they can go ahead and do it, this, unfortunately, was the escalation in this case, and it's just mind boggling. Over eighty three dollars worth of beer. But that's the difference here. It's not that there weren't dirt bags to begin with, it's how you dealt this

said dirtbags. So absolutely we're talking about we're talking about suspects now who fire on police officers because they've got a suspended driver's losses or because they said simply feel like they can do it. We're talking about suspects now who just simply ignore police officers when they're driving down the street, hit their tags out of date, speeding, and the police officers put the blue lights on and they just continue to run. We're talking about an escalating thing here. Back in

the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties, crime was going to the roof. You saw all types manner of criminals, and it gave us pauls and said, hey, we have got to start giving police officers what they need. Because police officers were outgunned, they were out man It made us realize crime is on the rise. We have to fight back. We have to give police officers what they need to fight back. Right now we're in the exact opposite

situation. All police have what they need. We're taking it away from it, taking it away from them and allow of crime to rise again. It's like this lunacy. It's like something you see on the toilet zone. Quite frankly, that's funny. I was just watching Tilet's on yesterday, and it would it would make an interesting episode. I'm The problem I have, too, is with headlines like this, Mark, eighteen year old charge with murder

could face death penalty. Nobody does anybodbody really faced the death penalty in North Carolina anymore. I mean, I understand from a parade a procedural standpoint, but anti death penalty advocates have been successful in creating this stalemate that we've been in for what fifteen years, you know, something like that when we were still working in that direction. And I haven't seen energy on the part of lawmakers on the right or the left to say, all right, we need

to settle this once and for all. Either we have a death penalty or we don't. So I'm curious where you're at on this. Well, it just to me, it just all depends. I think. You know. My saying about the death penalty is if you're a Susan Smith, if you're a Jeffrey Dahler, you should get the death penalty if there's heads in the fraser. Yeah, let's go ahead, pull the death penalty out. If you admit it that you rolled your children into a lake and dround them,

Yeah, the death penalty should be on the type. Unfortunately, neither of those individuals received the death penalty, so that gives me poul kind of kind of but I'm not yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm not against the death penalty at all. It's just I'm completely against the way any administered. I think there are people who get it, they don't necessarily deserve it, and they are all those who should definitely get it who don't. Well,

this is this is why you gotta have a fundamental conversation. Look, I know people who aristaunchly conservative and their objection to the death penalty is it's the individual against the power of the state, which is not which is not a bad discussion or argument, but just let it. It's like the statue removal.

I only got about a minute. We have laws, we have these procedures, and now we have these quasi gray area situations where individuals, judges or the governor, like with the statues, where they're just able to come in and go Yeah, I know what it says, but here's what we're gonna do. So that's what irritates me. Pick a lane and I'm with you, heads in the freezer. I think as a good escalator, I would think murdering a police officer is another good absolutely, absolutely, you know,

maybe that needs to be a discussion. And one last thing before we get out of here. I'm seeing the political pundits and experts that are that are weighing in saying that candidates, especially statewide candidates in North Carolina, conservative candidates are not going to do well if they're making abortion a big issue, and so the recommendation is Republican candidates should probably just stay away from it. What do you think when you hear advice or see polling like that, because

obviously you're running a state wide race. I got one minute, you know, in case. The only thing I think when I hear that is the media is trying to just trying to put fear into our hearts. As conservatives and of those who believe in life, they're trying to put fear in our hearts, and unfortunately it's working with a lot of folks. It's not working with me. I'm not afraid We're going to continue to stand on our premise of standing for life. That's what going to do. All right, eight

twenty three. Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson joining us, and I appreciate it. We'll talk here in a couple of weeks. And the way it's going to be a busy year. Man, I can't even imagine what your calendar calendar looks like. So we appreciate the time and we'll do it soon again. Okay, Happy new year to you. All right, there you go, Mark Robinson here on the cac O Day Radio program. And yeah, it's just going to be just strap in twenty twenty four is going to be bonkers.

All right, Wait, hold on, is this you think because Mark is get away with racist opinions, you're both biggots. Oh okay, well specifically tell me how sir. I'll wait for that email and we'll be right back. Hang on your day Smarter one O six one FM Talk and News Talk ninety four to five WPTI more with Casey Starts. Now. All right, welcome back. It is eight thirty five cac O Day Radio Program.

All right, so chatted with Mark Robinson there. Somebody said that I was trying to get away with Ross. I'm just trying to think what would I what would I have said with Mark that even someone could try to construe as racist. Let's try to figure out what it is, like, I'm sorry, ros's answering a phone call? Is it the is it? Was it? The theater demographic when I'm talking? You know why? You know why

I'm pointing that out right? Not because I'm simply like I can only speculate as to what the greens Greensville audience makeup was, but like the demographic breakdown of moviegoers to the color purple is not a secret. In fact, it was part of a series of stories that are out there. You can go look him up. The movie. Actually, I think it's sixty five percent black audience according to let's see here CNBC. I mean, these are numbers

provided by the studio. And so to point out that on average the audience is sixty five percent black, to also speculate that moviegoers in Greenville at a movie that is averaging sixty five percent persons of color at the movie, I don't know that that's a racist leap. That's the numbers from the studio. But all right, if that's what offended you, sir, at least that I just wanted you to know my sourcing on it. So there's that.

But again, the whole thing is a Karen incident, right. It's somebody with an ego not getting their way, and to attach all of these really important things to it when there's no evidence to suggest it was motivated by any of that. That is far more irresponsible than me speculating based on numbers that I have access to and you have access to go read them whatever. Another

day. All right, dog breeders, we got to talk, I know, because I know there's some of you out there, like there's a lot of dog breeders in North Carolina. But could you work on something big please? Right? I don't know if you I don't know if you know you see what's going on in the world of dogs or things that look like dogs, but you know dog murder bots are here. I'm only asking because yesterday

I was reading that there is now a new breed. It is the newest recognized breed out there by the American Kennel Club and Westminster and it's called the uh, the Lancolnshire Healer, and it's a yip Yip dog. Little what is it stands a foot tall, weighs on average seventeen pounds. They they're actually work they're small work dogs people using with sheep and cows. I don't know that i'd want to use a dog that side. It's like a downsized

Corgie. But I'm just pointing out, like that thing's not going to stand a chance against you know, one of these uh, murder murder dogs with an oozy on its back. Right, So maybe maybe if we're going to get a team of dogs to fight back against our AI dogs, we're gonna need something bigger than a shoe box. So apparently they have a smile all the time or something. I don't know. It looks yip yippy to me, but I don't know anything about the breed other than it being very very

tiny. Altho, what was it? We did have that story where what a remember that pack of wiener dogs killed that woman in like Oklahoma. So you know, little dogs they put their mind to it, I guess can be fairly vicious. All right, let me flip over to this. A new license plate camera program could help. This is the way they wrote the article. At Rio could help make North Carolina safer place, but some critics say it's an erosion of personal privacy. Automatic license plate readers. Okay,

so these are these can be a fixed position. A lot of times they'll attach into police squads and so as the as the squad car is literally driving down let's say they're driving down Main Street and everyone's park there, the license play reader is capturing those plates and it's it's checking them for a variety of things. According to Holly Beelen, who works for the company that sells these things, the license play readers can help identify wanted felony suspects, locate missing

or endangered people, find stolen vehicles, prevent vehicle threat. I don't know how it would prevent it. I in recovery, I understand, but I don't know how it's preventive. But okay, and that's why, that's why, that's why we need them. Look at all the look at all the good that they can do. The article goes on to point out, but until this week, the cameras have not been allowed on state controlled roads. That's because of objections from lawmakers on both sides as to what they refer to

as mass surveillance. Yes, yes it is. Here's the thing they don't talk about with these camera readers, which is why any community that's had a discussion about them, they data retention is a big part of it because here's where you're not doing anything right. You're not doing anything at that moment that that officer can see right, which would normally instigate further investigation, the ability perhaps to search if probable cause was there. But this is just going from

the word go. And so let's say that you had the police. Oh so did I call it? Greens? I'm sorry, everybody's mad at me today. Man, Ross, Let's just go home. Man, put something on. I don't care, put on whatever you want on. Just go home. No, but here's the problem, or here's here's the beef as to why data retention is a big deal. So let's say you're out running errands. All right, So Ross, You're you're going you're going to Target

to pick something up from Walmart or wherever you go. You're going to the gym. Then you're gonna go to waffle house if it's open. Did you really go to a waffle house that was yesterday? Wake Forest? It was. It was a big note in the door, closed from one one pm to six pm. I thought, it doesn't have to be like a Cat six hurricane to get I said, mass civilization is crumbling. I don't know

what's going on, but anyway, so that's on your list. You're gonna go pick up some takeout, all right, So you do those four things, and meanwhile, while you're doing it, you know, the police are just patrolling, doing all the stuff that they do. Feasibly, if they capture your plate at all of those different things, they now have a detailed log of your travels and what you've been up to. And you're not you're not accused of anything even but they have that information, and you know how

they use that information that they wouldn't previously have had access to. That's where people are are weary on this stuff, right, because we've seen government abuse. We just saw him abuse the hell out of Faiza in you know,

a hundred different ways. We saw all of the you know, the NSA's data having to do with calls in and outside of the US that nobody knew was going on, Right, So how am I not to assume that, in some way, shape or form, that people may use information that frankly they wouldn't have had access to yes, even in law enforcement capacity or perhaps

misuse it. That's why people are scurely on this stuff. Also, people don't like the thought of digital policing in a lot of instances, you know, red light cameras, those types of things, they just look like big cash grabs. So yeah, just to add a little context to this story that I feel probably should be part of the discussion. But these companies also, you know, they know how to make campaign donations too. They're very good at it. So you got that all right. Raced agis never taken

a campaign donation. Nope, his record is clear. Unfortunately unlike Saturday, Saturday will not be clear. So no, it's not going to be And that's our next impact event and for some our first for winterry precipitation, tryad west spotty areas where we'll see some freezing rain, maybe light ice accumulation too, So travel could get a little difficult even around the triangle. There might be a brief period of freezing rain before it change on over the rain.

Because the forecast temperature for Saturday morning is about thirty degrees, so we'll be on either side of that. Now, if you're waking up and you get in the car and you see precipitation, it's twenty eight or twenty nine. I'd be a little more concerned if you see that rather than a thirty one

or a thirty two. So if you are traveling especially west and southwest and into the mountains, we will see some icy precipitation, and the further east you go, tryad Triangle, less of a chance, but it's not zero. But we're looking good today and tomorrow, two pretty good days for this

time of year. A little gusty cold breeze today near fifty some of will stay us in the forties forties tomorrow mid upper forties for most, and then that freezing rain and maybe a little snow comes in as we go through early Saturday morning, changing to rain and a gusty bree So the snow chances a little bit higher with elevation. I think it's more freezing rain and sleet from the Triangle and west, and obviously those chances go higher, as do the

light totals as you go further west. And then we'll have a break for Sunday Monday, and a bigger storm coming in by about Tuesday Wednesday next week that could bring a heavy rain and thunderstorm threat. So the potential for that one will be more with flooding and win than it would be for any ice. So the chances are low but not zero. They go up to medium a little further west as you get toward the try it and into the mountains. But it doesn't look like a crippling event either way. If you are

traveling early Saturday, travel with caution, all right. And then I made the I was talking about Greenville and I conflated with Greensville. Now I have Eastern listeners here, what I mean? Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, that'll happen. Can't win, but you make mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes. No, we don't perfect here. All right, thanks man, we'll talk tomorrow. I have a good one, and Jeff Bellinger Bloomberg News joins

us. Next you're talking, keeping you connected. This is ninety four or five WPTI in the triad and one six one FM talk and the Triangle. All right, eight fifty two, Hey on collars, I will get to you in just a moment, but first we get a chat with Jeff Bellinger from Bloomberg News. What's happening Jeff? On Morning Casey A Wall Street's major averages lost ground yesterday. Futures are mixed this morning. The Dow futures are up ninety six points, but the S and P futures are down one and

the Nasdaq futures are down sixty nine. Employers were still hiring at a good clip at the end of twenty twenty three. ADP says one hundred and sixty four thousand workers were added to private sector payrolls in December that top estimates. The service sector accounted for the biggest number of new jobs, and there was a bigger than ex inspected drop last week in the number of workers filing new

claims for unemployment benefits. The Labor Department counted two hundred two thousand initial filings. That was eighteen thousand fewer than the prior week. Economists note, though, that holiday holidays tend to distort the readings. Of course, we had major holidays the last two weeks. Doctors have prescribed the anti inflammatory drug Humra for millions of patients, making the medication a best seller for ABV, but

a move by CVS Health threatens to sink sales. Beginning in April, CVS prescription plans will direct Humor patients to the generic forms of the drug that became available in twenty twenty three. TikTok's planning to grow its e commerce operations here in the US. The internet company sees the potential for more than seventeen billion dollars in sales this year. In casey limited edition winter Pink cups created by Starbucks and Stanley Quencher are having a moment. The forty ounce cups cost nearly

fifty dollars. They're sold only as Starbucks shops located within Target Stores USA Say. USA Today says the stingless steel cups are already sold out at many stores, and some are already showing up on eBay for as much as two hundred dollars. Yeah, what the hell is going on? I saw a video of like a bunch of like a gaggle of women going and there was a shelf in there where they had these cups and they were hitting it like it was Black Friday. Yeah, so people are fighting over them, and people

are lining up before dawn to wait for the stores to open. I don't get it. You don't get it, Okay, all right, Well, what look? They want to beat the crap out of each other and there whatever, it's not going to bother me. I'm not going in so all right, Jeff, appreciate it, but man, thank you, have a good day. Take care of Yeah. Yeah, Ross. Did you see these videos? Because I could figure out what the hell was going on? They're like, there's is like a travel mug. Yeah. No, those

tumblers are very popular now. Yeah, and there was Christmas. There's like eight women like beating each other to get them off a shelf, just arms full of them. Yeah, Marky's sister got one of those tumblers whatever they're called for Christmas. It was like a big deal. Is the big deal though? I mean, is that's what I'm That's what I'm still even after listening to Jeff, I don't understand it. But then I realized it's not going to affect me because I'm not going into a Starbucks. All right,

to the phones. Here we go, Jim, you're up first, go right ahead. Hey, good morning, Casey, happy new here. I wanted to give you an update on the Tyreek Hill house fire situation. It turns out he did not have homeowners insurance coverage because just prior to the fire, Pat mahomes Andy Reid and Jake from State Farm canceled his policy, so he tried to get reinsured and Peyton Manning turned him down over at his company and then he was on hold with Flow and then the fire happened. So

yeah, he was uninsured at the time. Probably should have talked to the Arley ermy right, I don't know, So I don't know. Even if he's uninsured on a ten million dollar house or whatever it is, I think he can probably still afford some rent, So you would think, yeah, you appreciate it. I have yourself a good one and uh leo, uh got a couple of minutes, go right ahead, Good morning, Casey. I just wanted to talk about what Mark Roberts said. I agree with him

that cops are pretty much protected. But I feel like the American people sometimes get abused by cops just because they're American people, and uh, they get pulled over, and one thing leads to another and the next thing that you know, they're violating your rights, and and there's no recourse for American people except spend a lot of money and go in front of a judge or something.

And I think that it needs to be a balance. I feel like officers need to be uh trained a little better in de escalation because not everyone is a criminal out out here, and you know, let me let me yeah, let me let me say this. And I don't. I can't speak for Mark, but I can't speak for me. The we talking about it from a perspective of a law enforcement officer literally going and trying to just see why kids have beer and uh and then that escalating. That's one issue.

I don't disagree with you on the other stuff because and why I think it's important though, but you have to protect cops is because they are going to be that line of defense. Right. So if you were in a situation where there's four bystanders and and two cops sitting there and you wanted to seize control over it in a violent, criminal manner, the likelihood is you're going to target the cops first because you know they're they're armed, they probably

they they have the clearest threat to you. So you couple that with that responsibility that we put on police and the rights that we allow them to sub subvert when they take you into custody, it's not too much to demand that they be held to a standard. And I think most law enforcement would agree. So I'm with you, sir. I just I think there's a number of issues here. So but I got to roll okay, yeah all right, yeah yeah yeah yeah, And I had a couple of emailers say that

as well. I don't necessarily I don't disagree with you. Look, I told you I had a run in with just a horrendous police has no business, right, But that hasn't been my experience with most law enforcement. So yeah, keeping out for that and if there's positive changes we can make, then I'm all for it. All right, we got to go