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My voice, sound it fine, and then start talking and it's like, nah, clear your throat, loser, all right, So good, good Thursday morning to you. Glad to have you along. And I hate, I hate that I have to open a show like this, but I you know, I try. I feel like one of the responsibilities that we have

is if we get it wrong, own it. Okay, Now we may own it in a somewhat comical way like yeah, I'm dumb, it's early whatever, but you have to at least acknowledge if if you mess something up that way, even if you're you know, jokingly acknowledging it, people know, hey, this is wrong information. Here is the correct information. How much better would our news ecosystem be if everyone was willing to do that?

And I'm on the commentary side, right, I'm on the side that allows you the freedom, with the knowledge of the audience, to go out and obviously you don't have to shoot right down the middle. You can have an opinion that's talk radio, but the very foundation of what you're talking about you can't mess that up. And yesterday I messed it up. I'm not even gonna Rosamon, I'm gonna throw you under the bus. The responsibility lies with

me, although I am a little surprised you didn't catch it. So yesterday, February seventh, we did. We did an entire three hour show, and I failed to acknowledge the anniversary of something that you know, frankly, is one of those things that's just falling out of favor and knowledge with the younger generation, and it's unfortunate. Yes, I failed to acknowledge the anniversary yesterday of Japan's brazen attack on Pearl Harbor, and I I sure about that.

I am paused. Did we mention it? Do you want? Do we do? We need to go back here and listen to the entire party. I listened to the whole podcast. You are correct, we did not mention it. Thank you, thank you. We did yesterday being the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, we definitely did not mention that. Yeah, February seventh, nineteen forty one, the Empire of hands United States at Pearl Harbor, leading to our entrance to World War two. Some would argue that that's what

FDR won is. Once again, I'm not so sure about that date. Okay, well, look you know what it's speculation that FDR let yeah is it really well, I mean, that is it's a theory that's out there. Reading right here from Yahoo News is Spectator Index. Quote on this day in nineteen forty one, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service carried out an attack against the US military of Pearl Harbor, leading to the US leading the US to enter World War Two. It's right here from Yahoo News is Spectator News,

which is kind of their historical tab. I guess if you will see, because I've been alive for several decades on this planet, I don't know if that date is accurate. Were you alive on February seventh, nineteen forty one? I was not? Okay, well, I mean neither was I, which you know probably contributed to our inability to remember this and comment on this. I mean, is that not a day that will live in infamy? It is? It was specific day? Yeah, yeah, calendar,

I'm not really sure if it's in February though. Are you with nineteen forty one? I mean quibbling with Yahoo apparently? Yeah, you don't think nineteen forty one, I'm not, but that day, no, the year was oh wow, okay, all right, so you do agree? Okay, thank you? So we missed this, We missed this yesterday and all right, all serious, how the F do you? And there's theories. The theory is that somebody use you scheduled a tweet and instead of this is what

they're saying. And I'm gonna explain why this is bs here in a moment, Uh, they're saying, well, somebody accidentally scheduled schedule to tweet and they left the one off, right, That's what they're saying. There's oh, we didn't mean to say February seventh. We meant to say December seventh, but those but there's different years. So I guess when you're keying it in, I don't know that. Or you have people that are stupid working for you, or people that are young. How many have we had?

How many times we had this conversation where you have people who are writing and and look, it is the inevitability, right as things get later and later on the calendar and the people who were actually alive at that time become less and less and eventually there's no more. Right, it wasn't It was not that many years ago when the final World War One veteran died. I remember,

I remember seeing that story a few years ago. So as we get further and further from World War Two, and we couple that with what we know about, how many people are being educated on this. I don't know if I buy your Twitter thing. Plus, this is your little side grave, you know little on this day in history, part of your news service. So something tells me you're not stacking your most seasoned reporters. I was going to say, you could possibly blame AI because you have these AI stories

that are just sometimes the errors are just hilariously wrong. Right, But one thing AI tends to get right are dates. Yeah, number of heart facts and stuff. Yeah yeah, But I mean you got a whole generation. Where was it? What was it? Was better than fifty percent? I can't remember underwooch age that didn't know about the Holocaust, Remember that horrible staff.

So if you know about the Holocaust and you don't know about World War two, I suspect you don't know anything about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I saw a stat yesterday which was staggering. It was talking about when it comes to gen Z over twenty five percent don't believe the Holocaust ever happened. I'm sorry the what they don't, well, at least they know about

over twenty five percent it was fake. And but again I thought it was when you get younger, there's this much smaller percentage that even know about right. So like so either they don't know about a portion of well no, no, no, But I was gonna say of a portion of that group, whatever that portion is, sixty percent that actually know about it. Like when you say twenty five percent think it's fake, they have to know about it first, which means it's actually a significant number. More so because like

if they don't even know what you're talking about, that's one thing. But these are folks claiming to know what it is and and have dismissed it, So that's crazy. Rather than comment on why they thought February seventh was it and some of the speculation about oh well I was a date missed in a you know, a little something we plugged into a you know, tweet deck or you know, one of the social media handling things. Yeah, yeah, they really didn't be like, oh are bad. And then I thought,

well, maybe maybe they're getting their info from Joe Biden. He seems to be having some trouble with historical perspective. So I mean, there's that theory. Ross. You saw that he talked about another dead leader he was having a conversation with. No I missed it, oh because because he was talking about the French a few days ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, a new one. Yes, yes, Helmet. What is this dude's name? Helmet Cole, the former chancellor of Germany. And that

dude when did he die? He died in twenty seventeen. But he was talking about spending time with Helmet during his first foreign trip as president in twenty twenty one, and he actually he talked all about it at a fundraiser in New York yesterday. Yeah. Even NBC News wrote an article. The headline reads. In his second mix up this week, Biden talks about meeting with dead European leaders, previously referring to Francis Mitterrand, who died in nineteen ninety

six. That would be the French ghost. Ross is referring to former French president. Then talked about his twenty twenty one visit as his first European visit as president and spending time chatting with the former German chancellor, who again died in twenty seventeen and last held office. It's been a while, but I mean I know that it's a rabbit hole according to the White House, But

that's two in a week, right, That's that's too ross. Are there any former world leaders that you tend to seek advice from, such as the former president? Well, first off, what you have to know about Biden is you got to let that go a he has stuttered, but he spent to a lot of places where you just passed a week alone. How many places has been here? So KJP was saying yesterday personally myself, I was recently speaking to Gorbachev. Oh he agrees with a lot of your points,

so does he? Well that's probably not what you got to understanding though, is I've been to Wilmington. I've been to uh oh yeah, I've I've been to Sneed's Fairy. Yes, I've been to I've been all over the place. So back off, man, Wow make those three then? Obviously, who am I to argue? Listen, man, I've been to Omaha, Yeah, no you mentioned that. Yeah, I wouldn't go right now, a little cold there. But so there I was talking to Yelson, right, yeah, Well I that it was Gorbagshaw and he was like,

oh my god, I love I love the alve Guarden. I was like, dude, me too. Back off, bro, I've been to Salt Lake City. Which one did the pizza Hut commercial? Was it Yeltsin? I think it was Gorbachev? Yeah, it was Gorbio with the with the was that with the cheesy bread, like the cheesy crust? He went, he went to the he went to Pizza Hut. I think it was just and it was. Remember it was the good pizza Hut. Yeah, a great pizza Hut. Yeah. Yeah, back when it was like a sit

down dining experience. Now you can still look, you still get a pizza to go, but if you were going to go, you had the Remember the brown little overhead lamb I too, I remember the lighting, I remember the salad bar. I remember the red cups. Yeah, oh it was amazing. So anyway, so you and the two folks leading the USSR following the breakup, we're at Pizza Hut. Is that what you're telling me? Or Olive Garden? Which one was it? Didn't you say you were chatting

with Paul Pott the other day too. Ross. Ross is very busy when he's not here, so listen, man, I've been to Rotterdam, New York. Okay, I've been all over the place. Do you know where the back? I mean, you can't just invoke a European city. I will say Rotterdam, New York is a bit different than than the other Rotterdam, Yeah, a little different, like it's really much nicer. But the issue of me talking to dead people, it's it's not an issue because I've

been places. But according to KJP, uh, how do you get the how do you get the Pearl harbor wrong? How how does that even happen? And and is it still a rabbit hole? I mean I'm assuming that KG. I'm assuming that Jean Pierre doesn't want to hold her presser today. By the way, the Rotterdam and the one in the Netherlands is super boring.

Just let me just say. But they have like bridges. They're very happy about case your case you're wondering, like, oh, look at her bridges, look at look at a look at how we conquered the sea. They love Uh that's if you ever, if you ever go to the Netherlands, they're very excited about that. You go to Belgium, very excited about that. They look at our dykes, and it's it's pretty impressive. I guess if you're going to nerd engineer stuff. But I don't even know where

Roberterdam, New York is, so I'm a bad American. But I also didn't know we missed the Pearl Harbor anniversary, So what are you going to do? All right? So there you go. That's our mea culpa is we kick things off this this morning. All Oh, dude, So my buddy, my former roommate, actually, dude, he sent me is when I lived in when I first moved to Minnesota, actually had a roommate and we've been we've been very good friends since then. So but he's really not

a political dude. So it's kind of when he sends me something, I pay attention. And he sent me this thing, and I'll admit, I'm like, this has to be fake news, you know, nothing, nothing bad. It's you know, he's just he's not somebody who's super news oriented, which I'm I'm a little jealous every now and then. So I thought, ah, somebody sent them something. We can't be real. So I looked into it this morning. It's real and it has to do with the

the presidential primary ballot up in Minnesota. Wait till you see who's on this thing on the df Now they just for your for your reference. In Minnesota, the Democrats are called the DFL. It stands for Democrat Farm and Labor, but that's that's the moniker they go by. So if you ever hear any news out of Minnesota and they say DFL leader, I mean, they use it exactly in the same way you'd say Democrat, but that's what it means, and their primary ballot is interesting, to say the very least.

So I'll share that nugget with you. And again, sorry about the Pearl Harbor thing. Thank you Yahoo for correcting us. Glad you're on it. Glad you're on of Facebook's fact checkers. All Right, we'll be back. Hang on, we got we gotta do an extra show because it's a stupid leap here. Good morning. Uh. I don't know why it took my brain, so I guess maybe because I was looking at I was checking out the uh you know, the uh Pearl Harbor anniversary stuff on the calendar.

I forgot it's a leap here this year. So it's not just the fact that the last you know, because the last paycheck is the last day of the month. But in reality, Ross, we have to do an extra show because the twenty ninth is a Thursday. Did you sign up to do an extra show? I didn't. I mean, we'd still have a Thursday either way, right, So yeah, but they would then, but we

would be hurriedly on our way to the end of the year. So right, it would be March first, but we would then be moving closer, whereas in this case we're kind of sold out, and then Friday we kind of pick up where we normally left off. That's an extra show in my book. So I mean that's good. I mean I'm hourly, so I'm getting paid more. Well, yeah, but you still like if I know, it suck to be salary though, all right, But like if I picked a random day that you had off, and I'm like, hey,

buddy, why don't you come in. Don't worry, We'll pay you for eight hours. I know it's your day off, Why don't you come in? What would your response me, I don't feel but I mean that Thursday would be there anyway. It's just it's the middle of the week. All right. Well, you know what you're not you're not gonna be part of my I will say this. It was last month Lincoln and night we were playing video games or something. We're just, you know, hanging on the

couch. Yeah, middle of a weekend. And if you don't know my son Lincoln is autistic, He's just sitting there being very quiet, focused, and out of nowhere. He goes, this year's a leap year. There's an extra day in February. And I'm like, is it and he goes, yeah, he goes, Chris and what I can't remember which sat him, but I can't remember which on he said, but he's like, Christmas

is on a Wednesday or whatever it was. Yeah, that's why I wouldn't quite And I'm like, I can literally the day of the week from like years ago, right, And I looked it up and I'm like, you're right, buddy, of course you're right. He's really good with dates and calendars and stuff like super weird. Like if you were to ask him like, hey, what day is you know, Thanksgiving going to be on or what? Just name a holiday, he'll give the date, the time,

and he's always right. So so he agrees that this can't stand. I think he'd be excited about it. Oh all right, well yeah, well it isn't anomaly. So if you're really into dates, anomalies are probably your thing. Is that why Pear Harbor was like a whole two months off?

Is that does have something to do with it? Maybe not to defend Yahoo, but there has to be a reason, right, No, no, no, no, So the the speculation is that the person scheduled it and instead of writing twelve seven they wrote they forgot the the one, so they keyed it in, which actually makes sense the way that like who's suite and tweet deck and work right, you go and you go through and your schedule all the you can literally schedule and roll things over. So that's that was

the theory. Pearl Harbor orthodox or something. It's not like some weird Jewish Uh. That was nothing to do with that. No, I don't. It's a horrible error. Well who knows. I mean, that's that speculation. Maybe they just have somebody really stupid working who didn't didn't bother just oh it's February seventh, right, I mean if that's the case, I'd be shocked. Yeah, obvious, Yeah, no, no, no, no, it's pure nonsense. That I'm spewing right now, speaking of nonsense.

All right, you're ready for this. So my but my buddy in Minnesota is like, bro, have you seen what's going on with the uh with the primary ballot? And I'm like no, no, do tell and and then he texted what it was, and I for a moment. He he's a smart dude. I'm just like, he's got to be wrong, got to be wrong, but he's not. So if you are voting in the Minnesota primary, which what is the day, I know early voting is going

on already because they have like super early voting there. Do you remember that? But I don't remember which date is their actual primary. It doesn't matter. If you're voting, and you're voting the Democratic ballot, or as they refer to it in Minnesota as the DFL ballot for president, one of your choices. In addition to Joe Biden and you know the folks you expect to

see on there, you can also vote for Sank. I can never pronounce this dude's name, Uger the You know him as the moron who hosts The Young Turk And if you've watched any of the election Night twenty sixteen super cuts.

They are prominently featured in there because he's just losing his crap. In fact, if you if you have a few minutes, there is a there's a rolling video that's compressed to about fifteen minutes of the Young Turk's election night coverage and you know, from arrogant and pompous to the end is nigh in just fifteen minutes. And it's a fascinating watch. But I digress. So yeah, Uger, who previously I think he had ran for a California congressional

seat and got absolutely stomped. I want to say he got like five percent. No Sarered is seven percent of the vote in the moonback California district. Is now on the presidential primary ballot in Minnesota. Now, he had announced on his show that he was and I'm making air quotes because he made air quotes. He's running a twenty twenty four presidential campaign on the platform of pro

abortion and pro ceasefire. But it's a media stunt. So him actually being on the ballot means some folks up there went through and went through the process. It's necessary to get him on the ballot. And the head of the DFL party, Ken Martin is this dude's Oh he's a piece of work. By the way, Ken Martin is unapologetic. Now, why would it be interesting that the founder of the Young Turks, one of the the easiest to own idiots out there, is on the ballot? Why would that be an

issue? Ross? What do you know about mister Uger chank? Well, I mean I would I would guess, yes, that is because he was born in Turkey. There is that. Yes, he was in fact born born in Turkey, and doesn't debate that. It's that's him. He was born in Turkey. He and the fam they came to America eventually becoming citizens and yeah, yeah, he's not eligible. When when are you sure? Does it say that somewhere? Because well, hold is there like a document?

All I thought, mister, I thought you like, this country wasn't founded on paperwork, right, wasn't that your position? Well? Yeah, my campaign, I mean, I'm not going to do the paperwork. I'm very busy, like i'd run on you know, sheer will gut and determination and not on paperwork. Fans of the Young Turks Presenter had previously tried to get him on the ballot in several states, all of which turned him down because not born here. This is double ironic. I'll read you Ken's this

the idiot quote here in just a moment. But it is ironic because Minnesota, ever since I left, I think I was the only thing holding that place together. Man, they have gone full leftist moon. Bet Remember they had when I left, they had or they had just had a multi term Republican governor, Tim Polenni, and the House and Senate there bounced back and forth. It was very purple. That's gone and it's due in large part

just too. If you are a if you are a Democrat from the Dakotas, Western Wisconsin, Iowa, whatever, and you want to go to the big city, they go to Minneapolis. And so there's in when I when I was like there was equally it was equally broken down, like the twin cities, Metro and outstate Minnesota had roughly equal populations. And now it's just exploded. So do you think their swing to the left has anything to do with Jesse Ventra because he was so to the right. No, no,

just and and quite honestly it was more of a libertarian right. Yeah, he wasn't really seen as to the right. Sure, I shouldn't say this. He wasn't seen as representative of the Republicans because they all hated him too, and people were, at least remotely, they weren't as patently dishonest as they are now. But why this thing in Minnesota's pretty rich? Is Martin and his cohorts have they damn near became Maine in Colorado? They just they

just realized they couldn't get the pushed. They wanted to not let Trump on the ballot because of and you know, in at fourteenth or twenty fifth or whatever it is, but fourteenth is what Colorado relied on, So that was something these nitwits actually wanted to do. They just they just couldn't get over the hump and doing it, and they didn't want the legal So I think they're aware of a document that might outline parameters. To answer your question,

Ross, I think they are aware of it. But when asked, hey, you know he wasn't born in you you know for a fact, he doesn't deny it, Martin said, and I quote, well, we also believe in airing on the side of ballot access. Our lawyers advised us it's better to allow candidates to appear on the primary ballot unless the court determines they're ineligible. So what Martin's doing is he is repeating what stopped him from not

letting or from protesting Trump being on the ballot. So I just want you to understand how childish this is. And a bunch of his moonbad friends didn't want Trump on the ballot. Their lawyers are like, yeah, it's not going to hold up. So in this case, you need to let him on the ballot. Now that they really have controlled it's a Secretary of State issue up there, but they could protest him, then they could sue over

it. They didn't, And so the very same thing that their lawyers told him, he's using to justify that and simultaneously point out, well, look this is what happens when we don't have any control over it. Look at this guy, he's not even born here, and I have to let him on the ballot. You should have let us not let Trump one. I just want you to understand the childish connection that's going on here, But that's what's going on. Attempts to remove Trump from the ballot are currently ongoing in

eighteen states, Minnesota one of them. Although it's kind of out of the hands of the party, and there's some activist groups doing it. Now, let me see here what other state is. So every other state that people have tried to put this Uger on, they the states went, nah, you got like dude. Dude's got a Turkish burth certific in and owns it. So that's going to be a no. I want to see. Hey, here we go. Uger ran for a vacant seat in the US House

of Representatives. Oh you know which one he ran for is naked hair combing lady, right, the one who was having trysts in her office with her staff. That's the one he ran for, which is a pure moon to that place, during which he got seven percent of the vote. Good times, Nikki Haley, he's got thirty three percent. She just lost to none of the above, which got sixty three. So any who, there you

go. Yeah, the insanity is strong there in Minnesota, all right, six forty seven, forty eight Now case o day radio program, hang on, Oh man, uh, you know, in the world of radio stunts, I've I've seen and participated in a few. And you know, it even used to be like you could stunt on your competition and people would Ross, you ever do stunts against the competition, openly calling them out or screwing

with them in any way. I remember we did a concert in Salt Lake and it was a Delta Center, right, yeah, there were the jazz played. There was some sort of concerts that we were doing, okay, and the the competition had these helium balloons, these giant balloons with their uh, their logo on them that they put all inside the perimeter of love the arena, and I just remember somehow, oh no, somehow they somebody cut the strings. What now, they're new inflatable balloons just floated away. Oh

wow, all they did then. I mean, but we had we had our van and I we had our logo and our banners everywhere, and it was great. But somebody, yeah, somebody, I mean just disgusted and gross. That is tragedy. I mean, they spent money on those and they just snipped and floated away. I'm trying to We did, we did a thing where we had some but some they had these these bumper stickers. I can't remember exactly what they said. They had these bumper stickers, you

know, and you know some stations are the bumper sticker station. They did a really good job of handing them out. So we had some printed that were very close but were quite derogatory and just kind of put him into the mix, including slipping them into a stack that was on one of their tables at the state fair. So, you know, nothing too aggressive, but a little bit of that. But we may have a winner for best all time. I don't know what the hell's going on, so I'll let you

decide radio stunt or meth heads. And for this we had to Alabama and radio station. Uh wait a second, the jet I know what the heck ross? I just realized, I know the general manager. What a small business this is. I haven't talked to him for a lot. I'm not going to call him. I should call him, though, shouldn't I? Now he's probably pretty pea about what happened. That's got to be the same dude. That name is. Well anyway, a radio station in Alabama is

trying to figure out what happened after their tower was taken. Going to repeat this again. A radio station is on standby after somebody stole their two hundred foot broadcast tower in Alabama. How is that even possible? Dude? You see one of these towers that are because I once worked at a radio station in Albany where the tower was right outside of the broadcasting facility, so we'd have to go out and look at and and do the ratings and stuff.

Yeah. Yeah, so is this like remotely because I well, I don't know if it's remote or on their property. I've worked in both situations. I've even climbed the tower when when we had we had a we had a lighting issue. And this is when I worked. This probably worked for iHeart when I worked for this mom and pop when I first went to Minnesota and the lights were oute and it was it was a very tall tower. I can't remember the exact height. But that's a huge problem if your tower.

If your tower lights go out, you literally have to call the FAA. Yeah. I had to fix them during a hurricane. Yeah. I had to climb the tower during a hurricane. So they need he wanted to get. He wanted to get what. I don't mean to one up you there, but I'm just you're telling your story and I did during a hurricane. Hurricane Floyd kc O Day Radio program, Glad to have you along. Coming up one hour from now. We're gonna chat with Stephen Kent from Bounding into

Comics. We got to talk about the Gina Carano thing. Uh. Actually got a few things here, the Gina Corano thing and Elon Musk lawsuit. Ross and I were just talking off the air. You mentioned tell me say what you said again, because I think it is important to point out for folks who are following now Karano with the help of Elon Musk, suing her former employer. You know, it's testing Stephen last night, Yes, and somehow they're they're they're trying to get a reinstated or that's part of it.

Like she went. I was like, why would she want the job back? Like, okay, so because she's suing for unlawful dismissal and violation of her contracts. So uh from my reading of it, and I read I read a piece actually on Inside Radio and they had the one dude who literally is he's an agent lawyer dude, and he was talking about it from the

aspect of that's how you have to sue. It doesn't mean you want your job back, but basically you're suing saying I wanted this job and they fired me, so to make me whole give me the job back, and then what generally happens in those instances because obviously they can't just put her back on the show. You would agree, right, They're never gonna do that. They're not just gonna write, oh she's back, she wasn't killed. There's no way, okay. So in those instances, that's what you're suing for

from a remedy standpoint. But there's also what's known as pay your play, which used to be a thing more in our industry and it's not anymore. But basically there's a certain level of it with Krono's contract, which basically says, you agree that for however many years, you're gonna pay me, with the exception of these points where I can't contest it. But if I don't, you don't have to put me on the show, but you still have

to pay me. And that's that's how they're suing. So the expectation is a lot of money, not that she's going to go back and her character is going to return. So it's predicated on that is how I saw it broke down, which actually makes sense because you're suing initially, you're suing the remedy this and you're hoping to force some sort of negotiation because it may not be the practical remedy, but it's the one you have to start with. So yeah, we'll chat with him about that. Where did I put a

couple other things here? All things NERD related? Oh yeah, well we'll talk about Disney this guy. This is a local story too. Disney apparently is partnering with Epic Games. Those would be the Fortnite folks based out of Raleigh, and it's worth like a billion and a half dollars and don't I don't know exactly what they're gonna do, but it is Disney, so I wouldn't hold my breath. It's it's gonna be correct. So we'll get into all that and much more when we chat with Steven Kent coming up at eight

o eight oh five. So all right, back to this real quick. So I just thought this story is crazy. So this radio station in Alabama, I wonder when they found out because you know, it's most it's so automated. Now, back in the day when I first was in radio initially and obviously Ross you too, you had to every and there was you had

like every hour there'd be a clipboard sitting in our studio right. For me, it was KBBS and the stations after that, and I would dial a number, and I would have to take tower readings, and we would have to make sure that the towers whatever power it's supposed to be run an am so power can be different depending on the time of the year. But and then you'd have to log all that stuff, and it was a big deal if you didn't do those readings, and in fact we had, we had

a part timer got fired for faking them. I'm like, how lazy are you can't call the eight hundred number? It was, it was like an eight hundred number and automated voice. I also, ross, did you ever do a bit with the with the tower voice or did you not have the tower voice? No, we didn't have a tower voice, dude. I

also know, like you said to, somebody was fired. We I was at the staff there in Albany. Yeah, it was a hot a C station was a KLi and KRBE and literally everybody would just look at each other's numbers and just like right right, a little very right, a little up, little down, and nobody actually did it. Like nobody the PD, the program director, the APD none of us did it. We just chains are flying into your tower because the lights are out. Don't you feel bad?

I remember that was like doing the overnight shift. And I went to go get my numbers and the night jock was a big knight jack there in all but name is Jim Steele, and he goes, what are you doing. I said, I'm gonna go to the numbers for the tower. He said, what do you know? Just do it like this? You show me to do it. He was He was my assistant program director. So

we had we had it. We'd call the number and they're being an automated, you know, super robotic voice, right, but uh, one one of the towers, because we had two stations, one of the towers you call it was a dude's voice, the other one was a woman's voice. And I went through the entire phone tree of command, just rolling tape on her and I cut it all up and then I would have her randomly call

in and hit on me during it. And my boss at the time, she did not have a sense of humor for things like that, and she came absolutely uncorked. And I was like six months after I started doing it, So like obviously she was paying attention, and she's just like, Oh, we're gonna get in trouble with the FCC. And I'm like, I don't know. If the FCC cares, then I'm having a robotic voice that nobody but myself and three other staff members have ever heard calling in and suggestively

saying things to me. I don't think that that's but I remember she got really upset about that, and I found that to be the only useful thing for all of that business. However, I have to wonder if they weren't taking tower readings, because to your point, if somebody steals your entire radio tower, they don't do it all at once, right, I imagine that'd be a big project. I mean, what was you notice your tower? What was it somebody stole? We did a story where they stole Remember they

stole some out of a park. Wasn't like an entire bridge? Do you remember that somebody went to a park and stole an entire bridge. I do remember that. I can't remember what it was. It was so stupid, though, and I remember thinking that had to take forever. This is a two hundred foot radio tower. I can't even imagine how long that would take quote David Copperfield, illusion like, how do you even pull that off? Yeah? But the statue of Liberty's still there? You know what I'm saying,

it's still there. This is not still there? Uh, general manager of the station, brett Elmore Station w j LX quote, I've been trying to all weekend to figure it out and I just can't. How do you make off with an entire two hundred foot steel structure? Hey, man, crackheads are industrious. Meth Head's industrious, dude. So so when they noticed that the tower is gone, they've had the how are they broadcasting? Like? Is that how they noticed that? That's what I'm that's this is this

is the thing. So it's a really bad sign for the company if you're like, hey, we've been broadcasting for like a week or so and we actually weren't broadcasting, but nobody called this up because nobody listens, Like, how does that? That's awful? Yeah, it's so bad. Yeah, that's Uh. You probably gotta want to bring in some consults. If you think of you were off there, somebody would be calling you saying, hey,

where where did the station go? And then you'd be like, I don't know let me check the tower, and you'd be like, oh my lord, it's gone, or or another possibility. Maybe this dude is looking at the numbers, he's like, oh, this isn't going well. And he knows the big boss is going to be in town, so he's like, all right, I got a plan, right, what right? You're like, oh, my tower is stolen by vector or whatever. I double

the numbers. Look, but here be out. Yeah. Yeah, Elmer said, I've been in the business twenty six years and I've never heard of anything like this. I can say I've seen at all. Oh what if they're stunting you know what? Yeah, it could be. I mean that was my first reaction. I said, is this a bit because I'm so jaded from being you know, doing this for twenty five years, and it

has to be a bit. Yeah, But then the tower would still be there, Like they have law enforcement investigating, so like it's if you ever ruled, like, all right, so our tower, our tower is well technically I guess they moved our tower once, but like our towers are not near town, right, so like you know, for the Greensboro station to be PTI technically we're licensed out of Rockingham County, so right, so like

I couldn't just step outside and see that our tower's gone. So if I was to tell you, oh, somebody stole the PTI tower one, if you're listening on PTI, you'd be like, ah, I know you're lying, but like nobody could really check it. So I could see how his stunt might work like that. But in this case, the entire tower's gone,

so that's a that's commitment. Elmore said he learned of the theft Friday when a landscaping crew went to the tower who made They have a contract to maintain the property, right, and the landscaping crew called him and said, your tower's gone, at which point Elmore says he went out there and sure enough, tower's gone. Initially, though, Elmore said he thought that the company simply was in the wrong field, but when he showed up, the

tower was missing. However, there were wires everywhere, and that's because the towers have guy wires on them and he apparently didn't take those. Here's the other thing. How do you report on the story? Right, you're this you're a small town radio station, right, you had a news department all this stuff, Like, how do you tell people what's going on? And

do your do your jocks have to come in and do their shows. Still, I have a lot of questions, Well they check the punch shop, well, and so this is but this is where I was headed, right. You know the big problem with people still Copper is you know, they show up and they show up to people buy this stuff, and it's like, you know, the police will tell you, like they know what's up, right, the scrap dealers know what's up or they turn you know,

they don't ask questions intentionally. If you show up with a two hundred foot rate, what's your backstory? You're like, yeah, I was, I was in the radio biz, but I quit. Right, You say, oh man, I gotta I gotta promote it. And I got a frame. Man, I gotta put it up on the wall. I gotta call it an expert. Five bucks? Five bucks? Oh man? Can I talk to the old man? Will he do better? I don't feel like that's fair. There's like a competing station pops up suddenly, like hey it's

Tim FM or whatever, it's ross Am. I know your competitors like now twice the power twice the towers. Believe it or not, it's whoever did steal it is gonna have big problems. It's actually a big, big, big time federal offense, like super felony, because we have laws that were written around people attempting to sabotage the ability to do eas amber, provide news information, all of those things, and so simply tampering with the tower to

take it out of commission is a federal felony. Stealing the whole damn thing puts you right at the top of the list. Oh, Jasper Alabama. Police is Jasper, Alabama where this took place. Police have say they're looking for the public's help and then if you have any information, there is a reward, and then they give their phone number there. So now I want to know, do they just steal the tower? Do they steal all the

other people? Don't? Really, I shouldn't be saying this because now some crackhead's gonna be like, really it's let me just say, it's not just a tower out there, So there's a lot of crap out there. Yeah. In fact, whoever did steal it is facing ten years in prison on just the single charge. And they that somebody's like, it's probably a ham radio operator. Why are you gonna throw them under the bus. Oh they did steal the transmitter too, okay, all right, good, good good,

Oh very nice. Yeah, so all right, so somebody's just telling me, okay, and this other story, Yeah, they stole the transmitter too. This is like that. What was that nineties movie where he's a high school kid running a pirate radio station. Pump up the volume, Pump up the volume, Christian Slater. Yeah, I just remember that they had that topless scene in the movie, and it was that first time where I'm watching a movie in my mom's in the living room and then there's nudity and

it's that whole awkwardness. So that movie will always stick in my head. But any who, all right, let me grab a call here, Sam, what's up. Yeah, I wouldn't lay, but I'm a ham operator. It wouldn't lave with I want to tell that, but I was gonna tell you K ninety five or five in Oklahoma, LUs and Hugo they had the same thing handing them. They got the hard line dropped down tire jack tip the generator to call that for the cofer, And how they got called

was all out at the jump yard. They want you to no scrap of that. I tho. I'll tell you that in you st in case you won't look at it. Oh you sound your signal? Yeah, your signal sounds very clear, sir So. Oh yeah, I mean I don't blast I here. Yeah, all right, we'll enjoy your new tower, sir. All right, have a good one. Didn't that sound that sounded crystal clear? Ross? Would you say like broadcasting? Very well? Sir So? Yeah, No, that's the other because like it's two hundred feet.

I'm trying to remember what our longest. I guess our ten horse horse trailer would be our longest. I'm trying to you'd still have to cut that thing six times get it in there, you know. I mean, I'm just like, it's it's it's it's baffling the amount of work that would be necessary. But I guess you know what's there to do in Jasper, Alabama. So you got to make your own own fun all right. Two. It's a dumb story, but it's also an amazing story. And I feel like

mostly because it's the business we're in. So and if you're the radio station, like you can't you can't just go to the you can't just go to radio shack can get another tower, right I. I suspect they have a backup, which is generally like a low power that's sitting on something else, another tower, or a cell phone tower or something like. We have those as well, but they you generally get almost you will never get the entirety of your coverage. It'll be very localized. So but yeah, that's that's

a pickle right there. Maybe it's a dude who just didn't want to work that weekend. He's lazy, but also very very very motivated. Could be, I don't know. We'll ponder that and get some other news coming up. Hanging on eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four, I've been just I'm sitting here during the break try. I need to determine what the here we go, here we go, all right, I'm trying to figure out how much the radio tower weighs. I want, I need to

know exactly which kind of tower. But I'm gonna go with it's just one of the straight structures and not the old timy you know, like Eiefull tower construction, you know where there's very wide base. So we'll go with modern tower. Because I was sitting there doing the math on this stolen to hundred foot radio tower, and I you know, I can math out like the trailer that you would need, like we had our horse trailer. The one

horse trailer was forty feet. But again that's the you know, it's not even the sheer interior of the trailer, right, because there's like a little there's the horse part, and then there's actually like a little camper thing on the front of those a couple bunks and a little kitchenette. So like I'd have to cut that thing five times minimum and probably more to get it in there. But then I don't even know what the damn thing weighs. It's

really impressive. I think that's why people are absolutely interested. So I mean, it's just the logistics of it. You know, you're not just rolling up in your Scooby Doo van throwing it in there and then driving off. You know. It's like if the news broke that the the water tower and wake Forest is gone, you'd be like, oh no, what, like, how is it even possible? It is? It's like Despicable Me, where he's just like stealing the statue of the Moon or the Statue of Liberty.

Like it's nuts. Well, I mean it's it's a twitter foot radio tower. It's not the Statue of Liberty, but it might as well be if you're not working with a crew and you have the right equipment. So your point is taken. Wait, somebody stole the water tower and wake for it. No, no, no, no, I'm just saying, oh, oh my gosh, it's God. Also, Ross has all the water he could ever use, so and of too, nice two hundred foot bird. Is that a bird feeder? That's very I put it right next to

my gazebo near the hinge. Wow. And I'm willing to give up some of the water if you need some for a small price. Yeah, I'm sure it would be a small price. All right, let me have a call on this in sanity. Yeah, Anthony, what's up? Yeah,

so I used to walk on y'all. Style was not necessarily on the towers there in the Yeah, sure you equipment pool the dours And yeah, you weren't kidding about them things in the middle of nowhere, because there's one in a clear in the middle of the cal pasture in Middlesex, and then one on the side of the mountain up and King. But the fact, yeah, and king. I think it's ours, so I think it belong start.

Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. We used to take care of all y'all's all of us clear channels, but it was clear channel back man. But yeah, yeah, but like the one in Middlesex. You go in there and it's like razor wire around this cow pasture. Yeah, but then there's like six six inch stameter pieces of copper. But there's cameras all over those things. So I don't understand how they were they're able to get away with it, just the amount of time that would be necessary.

I understand it's rule Alabama, but it's still and it's the whole How do you how do you flip that thing? I mean, that's I'm just impressed. I gotta be honest, man, And you never thought of stealing one of our towers selling it for well, the ones I went to were like fifteen hundred or two thousand, two thousand feet, So I was like, what, don't be lazy, sir, Look at that. You could have got so much more money than this dude's gonna get. Yeah No, but

I mean I don't. I can't. I can't follow a tree without damaging something though, right right, yeah, that's just all right, Well that's uh yeah, it's so yeah, it's uh, it's it's it's actually an impressive feet. I appreciate the call this morning, thank you, Anthony. Yeah, well hold on, why does the phone being the phone? All right? Sorry, bro said that. I can't even run our phone screener

this morning because I'm concerned somebody's out jack at our tower right now. Although this is good, next time I do a topic that it was I when I put it in prep, I was absolutely sure it was gonna kill we'll be like, oh, we'll get calls for a half hour and it doesn't. I'll just be like, ah, probably somebody probably stole the tower. Very simple, they're right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Everybody's got man, people got suggestions. I again, I'm I'm in.

I'm in. Oh wait, hold on, you want me to click on that, don't you, mister Hayes. You want me to click on that line one, don't you? I'm sorry, I'm very busy in here. What's going on? I'm just looking at I listen. I didn't turn my microphone on somewhere like you're because you were giggling, and that's that's ridiculous. I'm busy doing producer things that do you and understand and it's you're spoiled. Host was the host? You're living on a different planet here, and

it's get the job, all right? Yeah, James, can I do for you boon right now? The big Beer's gone? Somebody stolen? Oh my god. And I stole the big, big big beer, not the food, Big Bear. The Triple Band's gone. Oh my god, North Carolina stolen. Who would do such a thing? What if? What if I'm everywhere? Man, I don't know, Yeah, James, what if I was to tell you it was always gone? No, Man, I

heard on the radio that it was there for sure. I'm just saying, like, I just want you to open your mind to the possibility that it wasn't, in fact stolen because it never existed in the first place. Did you consider I saw a picture on the internet. Yeah, I saw the same thing, James. Good point. Yeah, look to look to your north. Is there a large bowl of pretzels? They stole the pretzels too.

This is the Biden economy. This is he needs. That's what it is, all right to Time's out there, man, people think it about him everywhere. All Right, we'll enjoy your your Wataga trip. Okay, all right, we're going allright, dude, I knew that that at some point was going to enter the chat. I didn't know if you were going to do it via email or in this case, via caller. You can just predict these things. I know it's a little early, but I want

to talk to Stagic about this. Is he around yet? Tell me if stage, because yeah, dude, did you see the radio Alabama radio tower story, the one that got blown down? It didn't get blown down. No, no, no, no, no, no, okay, maybe it's a different story. Yeah. So w j l X, which is in Huntsville, No No, Jasper, Alabama. It's one to one point

five. It's the FM w j l X. So on Friday. On Friday, the general manager guy my name of Brett Elmore, gets a call from the they have, you know, they have a maintenance crew that handles where the tower is, you know, cuts meats and all that stuff like most of us do. Uh. And they called him and they're like, yeah, we showed up at the tower. Where's the tower? And they went out there and somebody stole their radio tower. Listen, that's no easy

task. No, this is what we're saying, you're talking about, and I'm like, if I know, I'm like, is this your competitor stunting, right, because like back in the day, you used to be able to screw with your competitor, right, and you know, it was all in good fun, and that's sort of nowadays you just you can't get away with that because everybody's too sensitive. But well, I mean, because if

that's what this is, you win, You've won. Yeah, yeah, I mean and if everybody you know, it might be people don't know. I mean, these are no little, tiny little tower some to No, it's it's a pretty impressive structure when you're talking several hundred feet of metal there and and we're just trying to like, how do you haul that away? Yeah, they stole the tower in the transmitter and they yeah, they told they told this. So they stole the transmitter, the excit, all the

stuff that's normally in the shed there and the tower. So yeah, it's probably a Johnny Cash song about that right on Pie the Time man whatever he quick though, dude's doing. That's what you need to give to people. Who don't want to work because cash down your pants, hunt in the lunchbox. You know, a lot of people don't realize that that that was one of the lesser charges. When he shot that man to watch him die,

he also had stolen the tower. That it was a whole litany of things, but only one made this, So yeah, a lot of people well yeah, but also they they had to have the ground crew tell them, which means for a period of time they're just broadcasting, going why is nobody call it? What's going on? Well, there's a reason for that. Yeah, that's a great excuse too if your numbers, so you steal your own tower, and you'd be like, ah, the reason I didn't hit

my goal is because they took the tower. So yeah, put that in the sales deck, right, all right, so yeah, yeah, yep, I was impressed when they tried to They were stealing air conditioning units off of the jail at one of the in one of the counties here, which yeah, that takes stones. Man, right, you're going you're literally going to the line and then you're stealing their ac for the copper or whatever.

This this is something different, so man, all right, yeah, anyway, yeah, all right, so it's but uh yeah, well it's not a sea weather. I mean always like to give the perspective that it is early February. I think later. I think second half of the month will be cooler than what's coming yesterday. Officially, let's pick on Raleigh. We

made it to fifty five officially the advertise fifty four. Now we will go above average, near sixty today, a little cooler to tryad maybe upper fifties, but either way, more mild weather, some high cloud around filtering sunshine, more clouds tomorrow, upper fifties to low sixties. Could hit seventy on Saturday, maybe a little bit of rain. I really don't think there's going to be much Saturday with cloudy sky. Then I think more rain Saturday night

to Sunday, especially through about midday Sunday. So there is some rain coming in low sixties on Sunday. Early next week, some showers Monday than sunshine, and still in the mid sixties on Monday, low in mid fifties on Tuesday. Wednday might turn a little bit colder after that, but really not bad. Heier. Over the next next four or five days, we'll get

some rain. It doesn't wash out the weekend. I do think Saturday is the better day of the weekend with the mild weather and the small chance of rain, and Sunday it's probably going to be cloudy with them, you know, better chance of showers than not, although it doesn't rain every hour of the day. I think everybody knows what that is, at least it doesn't look that way right now. But hey, Sunday is a big game, so yeah, it's there's other things to do. Swifties are going to be

watching the ratings are going. Yeah right, did you see? Yeah? That? What that is? Sifty thing? I saw basically just uh super Bowl party planning tips with a bunch of women and pink dangly things and they're all very excited. So uh do you even want to know what? Maybe I save it for next day? Do you want to know the theme of our party? Oh? Yeah, hold on to that. We'll do that, okay, because I'll have to live with it. It does fifteen does

a right, Okay, appreciate it. Race Stag. By the way, also, four people have called or emailed me now to confirm that the Boone Big Beer has been stolen. So ross do you feel? Do you feel happy that you corrupt the truth narrative with things like always been for a while on the show that Boone Big Beer deniers that we don't. I can't. I can't tolerate that. But it's like it's a family tradition. You corrupt

the way people communicate. Like on Facebook, like people were talking about the olive Garden the other day and you got all the I was scrolling through and there's a dude, Adam, who were friends at Facebook and he's a listener, but I'm just scrolling through and randomly he's just in front of an olive garden. He goes, I'm at the most authentic of restaurants. And I go down to the comments and I'm like, I'm going to say the chefs

are trained in Tuscany. And I go to the comments and like the second comment is some guy going the chefs are trained in Tuscany, and I'm like, I am doing the Lord's work, yeah, or something else. By the way, I just called up the Google satellite view of where this tower was. It's not in the middle of nowhere. It is right on the edge of town in jat Or it was, and it's behind the it's behind

the the street department, a mattress firm, and a police station. Maybe they smuggled it out through the mattress firm tunnels and hold on, and it's so, this is it's surrounded by the street department, a mattress firm, and a poultry plant. Just looking at what all is around this, But it's surrounded by this stuff and a police a regional I may be state police. I think that's Alabama Trooper's office. I don't know if they're. This

thing's right next to it, and they still got the damn thing. So you think they used the secret Illuminati tunnels under the mattress firm, which, by the way, if you want to google a crazy conspiracy theory, mattress firm tunnels, just have fun with that, or Walmart tunnels. It works kind of the same way. Yeah, this thing is, this thing is not rule well, just knowing where it is now, I'm leaning more towards

it being a bit. I don't know, man, they got the police actively involved, like he Once you got the police there actively, That's when I'm not convinced what else is over here? You know? These businesses looks like there's a charter school. Yeah, yeah, somebody saw something anyway, seven point fifty. Hang on, what's he doing? He's on the road.

He flew back into town yesterday, I'm not sure from where. And now he's to drive to Atlanta. He's having like issues with his phone and stuff, so he's not driving to Atlanta via I don't know Alabama, is he. It's a good point. I don't know, because you know, this thing is along the interstate just store at the Birmingham or this tower disappeared and it's just weird. Now all of a sudden we start talking about and he's like, I can't do the interview. You ever see his car?

Uh No, it's a modified version. It looks like lu Scott Luke Skywalker's floating car from a New Hope. Oh wow. Yeah, I mean if Stephen kn't goes from bounding into Comics drives past you, you know, it's hid me like, oh, that's a dude. And it's got a large tower on top of it, j enormous tower at least two hundred feet. Yeah. Well, yeah, you wouldn't want to go a footless. All right, let me grab a call, so we'll do that. We're going to reschedule for tomorrow, so uh, fear not, we'll do that and

we'll chat with Pete. So it'll be a busy Friday. Yeah, Bill, what's going on? Good morning? Hey guys, how you doing? Uh? Pretty good? We still have our towers, so yeah, you do. Look so you don't understand the capabilities of a couple of tower hands there. These are a rare breed of guys here, dude, they don't don't, don't put anything against what they can do. And also at two hundred foo tower that ain't nothing but on what you're describing is a two hundred

foot god God tower. It's only held down. It's it's a skinny structure right tensioned with three with a triangulation of wires. If you cut one wire with the grinder, that tower's gonna fall. Once that tower falls, cut it into pieces, throwing on a trailer, and get out of there. I I hear you siring that one percent makes sense. I'm just baffled when I looked up this thing on the map and I realize it's surrounded by like

everything. It's not out in the field somewhere. That's what's crazy. You got if you've got four or five the Scronald Tower dogs, they and a trailer. Hey, I wouldn't put it past them. With a couple of grinders, they can knock that thing down and have it disassembled. And crackheads stole a ten thousand pound bridge, sir, So I don't put anything past anybody. We're gonna chat do our you know, our little Hollywood movie news whope, woke Hollywood kind of chat that we normally do with Steven Kent.

Unfortunately he is he's doing some traveling right now, and you know how that goes. You don't get a signal. It ain't gonna work. So we're gonna move this thing till tomorrow and uh it is then that will dive into the Gina Caranos stuff. Elon musk lawsuit stuff. By the way, Elon Musk ross Elon Musks twitter account is giving me peak Trump vibes right now, Like I find myself actively wanting to go see what he's tweeting, because that

dude has been on a rampage for a few days now. And I'm sure you saw the the whole Zelensky interviewing Zelensky and what he thinks of reporters. Uh tweet that was banging around the internet. Yeah, he is, he is. He's straight gihat on all this stuff and it's very entertaining to watch. So you couple that that that talk with money, and that's what he's throwing his support behind Ginakarano for be going after Disney and I'm here to I'm

here for that. So and she and if I had to guess, she, Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson are public enemies one through three right now. Have you ever seen somebody so mad that somebody's interviewing a world leader as what's going on right now. The irony, of course is Vladimir Putin has been interviewed. NBC interviewed him and it wasn't It was prior to Ukraine, but not that much prior. People are losing their mind, including over in the EU. This is from Newsweek, according to let me let me give you

the sources. Here we go. According to a former Eljin prime minister, so that is named Guy Verhofstat Verhofstadt, I don't know, former Belgian prime minister and current member of the European Parliament. He is suggesting that Carlson could find himself with some travel restrictions complements of the EU. This is crazy.

Carlson's interview with Russia President Vladimir Putin could see the conservative pundit targeted by EU lawmakers that, according to not just the former Belgian prime minister, but several other current and former members of the EU Parliament, Carlson's work in Russia could see the Fox News host in hot water, the lawmaker who has called for the EU to explore imposing a travel ban on Carlson, described Carlson as a

mouthpiece for Trump and Putin. So this this is and by the way, this is what happens when you give these you know, these these globalists. I'll use that word where it is actually accurate. Right, you know, this is right now. They just they were able to cobble together the unelected bureaucrats to rule Europe and they would love it to be the whole world is now wanting to ban a dude from a continent for interviewing a sitting world leader

and the hasn't even seen the interview. You can't fight back against these folks hard enough. And anybody in any position of power in the US who yields even an iota of power influence to anyone of these would be dictators there doesn't deserve to be to be holding an office here in the US. I just want to I just want to be abundantly clear here. You can like stuff that they're doing. You could even look at different ways that EUS handling stuff

and go, oh, that's an interesting idea. Would that work here? And have that conversation, But don't give these people a say in anything. They want to ban a dude from a continent for interviewing a sitting world leader, just just when you think about it in that context, I want you to understand how insane that is. Newsweek reached out to Tucker Carlson by email

the request comment. He did not comment. Yeah he's probably not going to and I don't blame him, but yeah, everyone's just losing their damn mind. Now then, an one of our MSNBC lady who was damn near in tears yesterday. That's what's baffling to me. And these are the same folks who are more than happy to sit there and hold a microphone and let you know, Biden run around unchecked and say stuff like every day between now and

November. The American people are gonna know that the only reason the border is not secure, is Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican friends, right, So obviously you guys have a strong commitment to making sure that what you think to be inaccurate or misinformation or disinformation or propaganda or any of it, which arguably every all of those labels applied to that audio I just played. You'll fawn over that dude, you'll excuse the fact that he's now in three days time,

bragged about having recent conversations with dead world leaders. He did it again, by the way, if you don't know, he was at a fundraiser yesterday and up in New York. It was talking about sitting down with the former German chancellor who died in he's sixteen or seventeen, and he was saying that he was with this dude in twenty twenty one. This after the whole thing with the former French prime minister. So you know, save me your tears. Don't really care, all right? Uh oh, hold on another

tower call, let's do this, yes, Jake, what's up? Hey Waarren, I know what happened to that tower? Okay, Well, there's a reward, so you have to give you the number or you want to tell us I'm gonna tell you, Uh, it burned down, fell over, than think into the swamp. So there's not a I'm looking at that. There's not a swamp here, sir. Oh one could appear burned out,

fell over, and somebody took it to the swamp. Oh okay, are there's a small there's a small crick in the edge of the field, and there's a holiday in express so which explains how they figured out how to do it. Obviously, I guess they must have say there last night. But yeah, I don't know. All right, Well we'll add it. We'll throw it in the hopper. Okay, sir, all right, add that to me. You'll have to rebuild the tower at that point. What's

that? You'll have to rebuild the tower at that point if it fell into the swamp, do we have to rebuild? You have to rebuild it. And if that one falls in the swamp, you do it again. Oh wow, wow, you're so smart. Where'd you learn that? But the third tower, it'll stand at least fourth? All right, now we're under the fourth. I mean, this is getting expensive for a small Alabama radio station. So I'm just saying, do you the amount of people who are

in detail explaining exactly how you'd thieve a giant radio tower. Why do you all know that? Like, we had one caller and I've got two people via email who are explaining the logistics of it. And by the way, the logistics sound true. Are you guys out stealing towers? There's something going on I'm not aware of. Could you not steal ours? That'll be right, thanks, Yeah, all you need is XYZ okay, all right, well have fun with that. Oh all right, hold on, dude,

I hate I hate this pop up. Now there's a pop up on red State. I don't know that website, Red State. I can't even look at their stuff. It pops up and it's that generic thing where it takes it over and it's like, hey, do you want to know more? And you can click no and then it'll close it. Except now the very same pop up with the same picture is the words are in Chinese not in English, so you don't know where to click. So I don't know.

Maybe we got conquered or something. All right, let me jump back to jump back to this. And it's always for the same ad with the chart. They're like, if you do this one fitness thing, here's the what you should do from age eighteen to twenty five and twenty five to and then it's you know, it's got the uh the old cut dude on there, and and they're selling some creatine or something. I don't even know. No, creatine actually probably won't kill you. Whatever they're selling you will kill you.

Roz. You're at the gym this morning, weren't you? You? Yes? Yeah? Yes? How long? How much? How much time did you put in this? Only an hour? I decided to sleep in today. It slept into like three o'clock. Yeah, three, speaking of three three hours gym for me today? Virtually yeah? Three hours? Oh wow, yeah, virtually. And so I am a little sore, not much. I'm in pretty good shape. So I did an iron Man yesterday virtually two. So you know, go into the gym day are you?

Is this because I went up to on the on the tower story before when you were talking about climbing of a tower and I explained how I went up on a tower during a hurricane? Is that what this is? Well, that's just dumb. But not only was I up, but also it is struck by lightning and I was transported to nineteen fifty five. Of course you were. Why wouldn't she be? Yeah, that is everything. Yeah, you'd mom tried to make out with you, or I'm uncomfortable talking about it,

I would be. I mean that is that was one of the creepy elements that I didn't appreciate till I was older. But yeah, okay, So anyway, No, I just found out that if you want to do stuff, if you can just do it virtually and still get the same credit, And this is amazing. So the I'm gonna have a pretty I'm gonna have a pretty significant workout routine, gonna do a lot of marathons. It's gonna be crazy. I think you're gonna do great. Yeah, how do

I know? Build a Blasio who yesterday was taking all sorts of grief after he bragged on he took to the twitters and the Instagrams to talk about this this commitment you thought, you know, click advocacy and click protesting, you know where you just like, ah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get involved in like a post or sign the petition which nobody will ever

give a crap about. And then you feel like you're doing something because you used a hashtag, or you changed your avatar to the Ukrainian flag or whatever. Well, Bill Deblasio decided he can go bigger than that. Let me just read you one of these quote Wall Street is forcing Americans to invest their

life savings to prop up big Oil. I'm virtually marching to tell them we want a climate friendly option in every four oh one k This, by the way, this is about some you know folks, including Black Rock themselves, who were looking at these four oh one and these investment products that didn't that didn't have energy in them. And it was it became clear that universities in some states and unions that invest in these they had missed out on like a

crap ton of money for refusing to participate. And so people start talking about the how they're stupid, and the Blasio is a big fan of these because he thinks he came up with them. Just so we're clear, but anyway, so he's virtually marching. Do you want to march side by side with me? Just choose donate in the app and use the hashtag retire big Oil. So if you go and you give five dollars, you can pretend you're

virtually marching with bilde Blasio. Two. This is great, man. If you're just way too lazy to show up to a rally or go to a public you know here, you know, some public meeting where they you know, you can speak, or you know, shop candidates and donate to your favorites, or even put a sign in your yard. If all of that is too cumbersome upon your way of life, now you can get the same

credit by virtually doing it. I thought the ego trip on somebody who felt that they were making a difference because they used the right hashtags and blacked out their photo one day, like those people were obnoxious in their own self righteousness. This is something totally. This is special. This is virtually marching. So there you go. That's the thing you can do now, thanks to Bill de Blasio. All right, oh what hold on, hold on now, we got all cards of crazy calls here. Yes, Roger, what's

up? Oh thank goodness you answered. I'm actually having trouble because I'm stuck. I'm stuck on the interstate right now. So, uh, you know how I can get in touch with the Highway department to see where I can travel where there's drawbridge overpasses because I've got a huge tower on top of my truck and uh antenna. I would call it an antenna, sir. If you call it a tower, they might sup. It's no, it's it's actually a tower. It's it's about two hundred and twenty five feet up.

Oh wow. Yeah. And I'm in between exit ramps right now. So here's what i'd recommend. Are you in the Triangle or the Triad, sir? No, I'm in the Triangle and I'm on I'm on. I don't I'm on I forty, which is and I don't know if you know the area, but there's a lot of overpasses. Yeah, yeah, and I'm here's what I'm gonna help you. Here's what you want to do. You got to bypass that you want to exit onto one of the surface streets,

Like let's take Wade Avenue. Yeah yeah, yeah, you're gonna take that straight until you hit Capital and then you'll take Capital to P Street and then you want to drive directly under the P Street Bridge. Here's the problem. I can't get there because I'm in between. But hold on a second. Let me tell my buddy. He's up on top of the tower. Right now. Hang on, Hey, Jimpo, you gotta climb down. Oh, you gotta climb down right, you know, we gotta get off the

highway. Okay, all right? Oh crap, he just got struck by lightning. Huh? What is is every I have a bottle. My water is bottled this morning, so I haven't Is there something in the tap water that I'm unaware of? Thank you for the call there, sir. What is happening? What is going on this morning? How did the tower story? Because I got all this other stuff out, I don't know. But this is a top two show. This is at least top at least top five in the history of the show, at least top ten, Buddy,

top two at least. Okay, all right, oh god knows what this is? Yes, Cory, what's up? All right? Yeah, I'm just calling because I have to defend Ross's good honor and his good name. First, she forgot hold on, hold on, yeah. First you forgot the Pearl Harbor anniversary, which is unbelievable. And now you're trying to say that Ross is a influencer of misinformation and Boom Big Beer doesn't exist. I have a vintage T shirt. Oh but I got off of the Hayes for

Sheriff Merch Store because it's the number one Twitch channel. And this is coming from a man that a looted my own cat to die. Yes, yeah, I mean even you know it was confirmed that your cat was Whiskey was sitting in the window when you went on that vacation. I bought Paul. And here you are just saying that Ross is a liar? Would you like Corey? I got thirty seconds. Here's my confession. Okay, you cracked the case. What I did is I brought Whiskey to the field in Jasper,

Alabama. I cut a guide wire and the poor thing was crushed by a two hundred foot tower. All right, there you saw that. You're happy? All Right? I got I go. I gotta go to break get out of here. All right, everybody's drunk this morning. Welcome to the Everybody's Drunk Show one day. If you didn't get the Pearl Harbor reference, I'll reiterate what that is. And God helped me. We're going to get to our Florida man story next. Hang on, do you want a

feel good story? I will give that to you coming up here in just a few minutes. But first I have to ying ying to the yang here, and this is gonna make you lose your mind. Man. The the power and I and I don't mean a positive power that has come with you know, walking around with essentially a movie set in your pocket in the form of you know, instantly being able to go live high quality footage, good

audio, and of course showing everybody everything you do all the time. Uh, people will take advantage of it. And in public settings it's really obnoxious. Who's the one idiot who runs around and like bumps people? But he has bodyguards and that's how he does videos on YouTube? Like somebody's gonna shoot that dude. I don't want it to happen. I think he's obnoxious And if you got lost in the woods, I wouldn't be sad. But like we saw what happened at that Uh you were that the guy was picking up

the food order for a door dash or whatever. He shot that dude up at that mall in Virginia, Like, all right, I don't think this is quite that, but this is this is worse somehow in a whole different way. So in the video you see this woman what is her name, Ash really that's you know what, No, you don't get to be named Ash. That's your name. It's probably Ash. You're gonna be called Ash unless you have a chainsaw for a hand. You don't get to be called

Ash. It's Bruce Campbell's. But anyway, all right, So here here's the gist. So the woman is, she's at a self checkout at a grocery store, and the kid is sitting you know, the checkouts, right, You got the little scanner area, and then on both sides you generally

have like a flat air where the bags are. So she's got the kid kind of propped up on one of the sides there as she is grabbing things out of the cart and scanning them and looking them up and doing all that, except every time she pulls something out of the cart, rather than just scanning it, she is having the toddler say what it is, and then

quizzing the toddler and correcting the toddler and pronunciation and all of that. It is clearly taking a crap ton more time than it would normally take, and there is a line of people behind her who are clearly irritated as she is. Just she's taking an incredible amount of time because she is she's using this as a teachable moment, and that's what she wrote. Yes, she said,

quote, you know, the world is a child's classroom. No better to build confidence and independence by teaching kids to do things for themselves or teaching them to learn at every moment. So in the video, which she posted to was a Instagram initially, I guess Instagram, she's doing her weekly grocery shopping with the toddler and she's going through and every item she scans is taking thirty seconds because you're dealing with a toddler who doesn't need to be involved in

this, but is. And she then posts the video because she was quote irritated at how rude people were being behind her. In the video, she writes POV the line behind you is growing and people are looking at you, but you don't care because your child is learning and rushing is what gives kids anxiety. In the video, she slowly asked the child the names of every fruit and vegetable and encourages the kid to pitch in and help. The entire

clip is captioned Sunday Mornings. This supermarket is designed for families. Take a step back. If you think this is moving too slow. I think we make a pretty good team. Hashtag toddler life. I've never met that. Why do I hate this woman so much? Ross? And I've never met her? What is because you should? Okay, all right, I just want to make sure I'm not in the wrong here. Now. There's a

time and place for everything. Yeah, that is not it. When I do one of those machines of self checkout, it just annoys me, like a regular person. Going slow drives me absolutely insane. When it's my turn, dude, I am like, yeah, head of Blackwards liquid terminator mode. I get so fast efficient. I want to be so fast with the people behind me are like, wow, it's amazing because I considerate the people

behind me. Yeah, she's she considered them and then she changed the vibe of her video because they were, you know, giving her stinky and she's just decide, well, I'm here with my kids, so and I'm teaching my kid safe, which is good. I'm glad. I'm glad you're helping educate your kid. Something tells me that probably that will be limited to state approoved topics, and you'll probably fall in line because you strike me as an idiot. But no, screw you sitting there and then to make I don't

you know what it is. It's like I can't fathom videos. And maybe it's because I have a conscience or something like whenever I see a video like that or I see some I see one of those gym videos where somebody set up a camera right in the middle of where everyone walks and then is losing their crap because people are walking there, like how do you get there?

How are you so unaware and have no you know what? I maybe that might be a good place to be because I mean, think about all the ways in which I've had to either police myself, change what I'm doing right, adapt and overcome because I'm thinking about, well, how will this impact other people? And I don't want to be that guy, and so like those instances are things that happen a lot, and yet this woman never has to worry about that, and I feel like that would be amazing. So

I don't know, maybe I'm in the wrong boat. And check this out. All right, there's your feel good story. So a Oklahoma man by the name of Scott Sepulpa was announcing or commentating a high school girls was it basketball basketball game. Okay, all right, and you know, so this is this is not big town, this is not a you know, Sepulpa is or was actually a teacher for the school and a part time radio guy. So he's doing he's doing the play by play for the high school sports.

It's not a little local am whatever. They're doing a stream all that, and the newspaper, The Oklahoma and wrote a big story that Sepulpa had made really racist remarks during the broadcast, specifically when one of the team's players kneeled during the national anthem. The Oklahoma reported that Sepulpa said, and I quote, they're kneeling, f ing N words. I hope they get their butts kicked f them. I hope they lose. They're gonna kneel like that,

and then once again use the N word. And they reported that, which that's I mean, that's pretty crazy. Ross. Can you believe, I mean, can you think if like we said that on the air, that'd be that's a career over. Yeah, yeah, you're done. You're done. So man, there is one little problem. Supaulpa never said that.

He never said that at all. Now, there was another person by the name of Matt Rowan, who was also doing a stream, just a stream was not on radio, who did say that because he didn't he failed to WRECT and he doesn't like as a hobby thing and he, I guess didn't realize he was still streaming or whatever. He did say that. He even admits it, and it was after Sepulpa's name, the actual guy who's

doing the broadcast mentioned that or he showed up in there. Actually Norman contacted the paper and went, nah, that was me, and I did it because I'm diabetic and I had little blood sugar. But whatever. So Supulpa in the three hours his name was up three hours, had his teaching license revoked, was fired. He has a side business of audio, obviously drawn on his radio enthusiasm, and he would do DJ stuff in a variety of other things. He said that all of his main clients send him emails saying

that they're severing ties with him. He received death threats three hours. He said his life was decimated, and only after Norman contacted the paper would the newspaper make the change. The paper, by the way, owned by Gannett who obviously they own media properties here in North Carolina, including in the triad so well, a jury in Oklahoma has spoken and awarded him twenty five million dollars. The paper has to pay him twenty five million dollars. Now,

the paper obviously said their lawyers say, ah, this is wrong. We're human. Humans make mistakes. You didn't misspelled dude's name. Don't give me this garbage. You're right. People do make mistakes, and one of the ways you can make mistakes is through not having you know, not exercising due diligence or caution. Right, you have to in the same way that if I see a story on a site that I don't recognize, I'll go double

check it. You put this dude on blasts saying he said this stuff, and you did it right in the middle of you know, when Minneapolis was still on fire, and you didn't even bother to check it, and then you didn't even and you would even take it down when you were first contacted. I'm surprised they only it's Oklahoma. That's why it's only twenty five million,

five million actual damages, twenty million in compensatory punitive. And the newspaper's saying that this will spell the end for reporting, especially among smaller media properties and other newspapers, so they will have to appeal. I don't know. I'm good. That's not a whoopsie. You said this. Dude said all this at a time when there was a there was a good likelihood that if

somebody saw him on the street that they would do him physical harm. And he's fired, and he got his teaching license revoked and all of his clients left in three hours. So write the check, shut up and do better. How's that all right? Raced agic? Real quick, he's here to give the weather. We won't sue him if he's wrong. But well, I owe you the theme of the party. I'll make that quick end. Yes, yeah, it's it's Taylor Swift themed. You're not women Swift to

stop. Yes, the women before I could even before I could even good, I'm sorry. Who wears the King of the castle right? For some reason? Not this time. Usually I could have some input, but the wives all came up with a thing. They're they're bringing like I don't know, it's like it, oh god, they're like the theme of the songs, like we're gonna have red sand grease, I mean red sangreas the thing.

But it makes sense because of the album. I'm like, oh gosh, so I'm just gonna go it's not too late to burn your house down. Yeah, that too, but what will be any of that? So yeah, that's how it is. Maybe more on that tomorrow. But we're in good shape, good outdoor weather until the weekend, when we'll get some

showers in here. Sun, high clouds today, mid upper fifties, a near forty tonight, so pretty mild on the overnight lows upper fifty his low sixties, and cloudy tomorrow, with the rain coming in for the weekend. Better chance Saturday night and Sunday than it is Saturday. Maybe a little rain Saturday, very warm too, on either side of seventy by a few degrees, depends on where you are, and then rain, maybe a steady period of rain Saturday night. Sunday. The showers will taper off in the afternoon,

but there could be another round tomorrow. What's that Sunday night. It's a Monday, and the mild weather is going to continue. Casey. I think mid late next week we'll start getting a little cooler, maybe colder, but you know, we'll see, we'll see, all right, now, it's gonna stay mild, Yeah, I can't even think about anything else with this party. We'll get into it tomorrow. Did you bring your man card? You may not leave with them? All right, see it and we'll

be back. Hang on. Good morning, case Say. Stocks advanced yesterday, futures are mixed this morning. S and P and Nasdaq futures are a little bit lower. The Dow futures are up twenty one points at the moment. Latest data from the labor departments suggests the job market remains healthy. The number of workers filing new claims for them deployment benefits fell by nine thousand to two hundred eighteen thousand last week. A decline to the number of continuing claims

also points to a solid job market. There's layoff news from the music industry. Warner Music is planning to cut about six hundred jobs that would be ten percent of its staff, and Walt Disney's latest quarterly earnings were better than expected. The entertainment company also issued an upbeat profit forecast for the year, saying it's benefiting from cost cuts and strength in its international theme parks. The number

of Disney Plus subscribers, though Casey declined. The company raised the price of the streaming service, and that sent the subscriber base down a bit. Casey. All right, thanks Jeff. Sorry for the short shortness there. It's been a weird weather thing. All right, appreciate it. Okay, have a good day, take care. Yep, there you go. Jeff Pellinger, Bloomberg News. Oh my gosh, I love this story. Ross. We have to get on this you ready. Lawmakers in Hawaii are considering becoming

the first state who has designated an Offish hand gesture. What do you think the gesture is? The shaka? Yeah, it makes sense, but I'm very clear in how I'm pronouncing this because you don't want to screw up and be like and right, the shocker. Well it sounds like you might be saying that if you're like from Boston. Yeah, well I bet that is

their official hand gesture up there. But yeah, the shaka. If you don't know what that is, put all of your fingers, your your middle finger in the two next to it and just you're pinky and your thumb out and then shake it back or spit it back and forth. That's that is which. Yeah, you know, it makes sense that it is a Hawaii thing, but like, also, it sounds like the shaker and if I wouldn't google that, and also I what hand gesture should North Carolinas be?

We may have to talk about this tomorrow. I think we're enough to talk about this tomorrow. I mean, I know the one that I like to use on I forty, but I don't know if they want to enshrine them. But maybe if you all would not do under the speed limit in the left lane, we wouldn't need it. So there's that, all right? Sorry you got distracted there by the way, the amount of moms riding me losing their crap over mom in line going this is what I do with my

kids at home, unloading groceries, which is perfect. That makes perfect sense, right, you want to teach your kid about all the groceries, do that. But I'm also baffled that kids sitting on the scale. You ever tried to, like put your smartphone on the scale while you're doing groceries. What happens at a self checkout? It'll like stitle gum up the whole work. So how do you put a whole kid there? I don't even know how that works. That's just confusing and real quick. I promised to Florida

man, so let's do this. Oh. Also, Ross Alison wrote and said that she recently took a trip from the Tryad to Boon to see the beer. There was no beer. You were there. You misled her, and she's suing for twenty five millions. So sucks for you, and it sucks for you and your show. Right, No, it just specifically says you. I wish it's not the name of the show, though it sucks for you. I'll be fine. I'll be fine. I don't know, man,