Thursday-4-11-2024

Casey O Day Radio program creeping creeping in towards the end of the week. But first you got to put up with the is gonna be good napping weather today? If it doesn't knock your power out, well I guess you can still nap through that. But yeah, we got depending on where you are, little spurts of not so great weather. Ray stage it will be here coming up a little later on to guide us through that. All right, So we got lots to get through the this morning. We have we have

vaccine waters insanity, we have she jack in sanity again. Oh hold on, hold on, not trying to hit the button, trying to move the audio cut? All right, that's my bad. All right's gonna have to clean that up. Sorry, dude. So we'll get to that. Of course, Stephen Kent, he'll join us in our number three get into it is some nerd stuff. I guess there's I want to talk about the new video game adaptions because I saw people that were I have not seen this.

I guess it's on Prime Video, so I don't know. But now there's the Fallout series, what was the what's the other series that ross you've been watching? I'm trying to remember what it is or am I am? I mixing it up here hanging out. Well, well, look we're gonna get into it with Steven Kent because there are look, Hollywood's pulling off a lot of video games, and I don't I think that's a fascinating discussion and something that has been both a curse usually a curse, but also a benefit in

my young life compared to me in my four early forties. But still, you know, we were the era of video games, of the video game generation, so since like day one, I know, people argue and they're like, uh, yeah, well those are home consoles and you know, going back and pack it, got it, got it, okay, whatever. But the fact is it has been absolutely cringe worthy so many times in my life where some some video game they've parlayed into a either a movie or

a TV show and it didn't go well. And there's some there's some there's some classic examples out there. Trying to think of the first video game movie that really captured my attention, I think I know which one. It is. The first video game movie that captured my attention as a kid, right because I'm a kid and I was really excited about. It was the the very same movie that made everybody think they needed a Nintendo glove, which was

absolutely worthless. Have any of you ever tried to play a game with that Nintendo glove? No? No, he didn't have one, but my rich buddy did. And I remember thinking, wow, this thing's a piece of crap. But was the the Wizard? I think was the was the name? Right? The Wizard? And uh, basically some kid really good at video games Nintendo? And well it's been so long, I don't remember the plot. That's a good movie, right, No, no, no, no, the glove was the glove? You know? The glove was trash

and garbage. Yeah, but man, when you saw that movie, you wanted one, didn't you. Sure? Yeah yeah, and you put that thing on your leg. This is like, yeah, yeah, all right, So so the gloves sucked. But the movie, the movie When You're a Kid is about a kid who's really good at doing something you really love and he's having a battle through to go and prove that he's the best in the world. And wasn't it reno where they held it? Looking back at

that movie? But first I was a giant commercial for Super Mario Brothers three that was the first time a lot of us saw that game, and it like, yeah, pumped us up to get that game, and then the game ended up being like amazing, legendary. Yes, but the kid also in that movie is clearly autistic, but we did not know that back in the day. Really, you go back and watch that movie. The kid is autistic. But they and they did the movie without ever saying a one

thousand percent. We watched that movie recently, we're like, that kid is so it's a it's a movie about autistic child who's really good at video games. Yeah, I mean that sounds like something they'd put on TV today. It does, unapologize and then they'd make him a doctor or whatever that does that show still on? What is the show I'm thinking of the Good Doctor,

Good Doctor? Yeah, I never really watched, which is weird because, like they he presents autism as if he he he moves like he's and he talks like he's C three po Right, you go, and now that they've said that, go and watch the show just for a little bit and watch the show, not the movie, right, the show. Watch the way he moves, his mannerism is the way he is C three po That's how he interprets autism, and it's very strange. I had, I had no idea, okay, all right, and then now I'm gonna have to

rewatch that. I wonder where I could even watch that. It's called The Wizard, right. Uh, let's see here, I'm gonna look at my little thing here. You know. It's really defeating today is when you want to watch a movie and then like you check the nine services that you actually pay for and it's not on there. Okay, weren't something like weird movie you seeing the long time and they want to charge you twenty dollars for it? Like there were? Oh yeah, like you'll earnest me. Yeah yeah,

yeah, here it is, yeah, from nineteen eighty nine. Uh is it streaming anywhere? No? No, it's not streaming. All right. What do you think that movie costs to buy? Uh? Fifteen bucks? You're exactly right, fifteen dollars. You know what. I don't want to see it that bad? Sorry, exactly. The biggest video game movie disappointment the first time I was ever sitting in a movie theater, I was like clearly disappointed. It never happened before, but going to the movies is

like Magic was the original Super Mario Brothers movie. Sitting in the theater and trying to watch that, Yeah, what is this piece of garbage? Yeah? I knew. I agree it wasn't good, but I'm trying to think of all of the super did you know you're sitting that was the first one that I can remember. Yeah, oh okay, yeah, no, no, no, that's fair because there's been a lot of Stemen piles over the years. But you like the new Halo series and I but I guess the

new Fallout series. Everyone is like, this is amazing. I was, yeah, it looks so good and looking forward to it, but then IGN rated it a nine, so now I'm not so sure. Oh no, gave me a little pause. Okay, all right, well, prap, I didn't know that the best show ever. You're like, oh boo, and it's on Prime, so if you know I do have that one. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna be able to watch this now. I wait until all the episodes come out, but like me happy, I'm like,

ah, you have to fall Out. And you have to understand. I'm not a player of either game, nor you. I don't think you played Fallout either. I mean, you know, I know, it's one of my favorite series. Oh, if you like the Fallout, it's Halo. You never played, right, Halo didn't play. So I went into that clean like clean slate, and I enjoyed it because I know nothing about the lore. But fans of the game series hate the show because there has

nothing to do with it. They can change the story. Good. That doesn't bother me because I have no BA but Fallout, all right, So that's a higher bar. That's gonna be a higher bar in your pit completely. Yeah, okay, I stream Fallout all the time. I love it. I don't know it. I'm assuming it's you know, apocalyp is it A is it? I don't know what the Yeah, yeah, it's uh okay. So it's like nineteen imagine like if the timeline of America instead of

imagine if we completely embraced nuclear technology and the the progress. Yeah, pretty much, we become the Jetsons. But but in this timeline there's also a big, huge nuclear war and a lot of civilization go into the vaults to uh, you know, try to survive, and then later on they come out of the vaults and then they you know, they try to prosper So fall Out, you know, pretty standard thing there, and all of a sudden everyone's super Warrior, right, there are super mutants. Yeah, yeah,

but there's also a Borderlands, uh movie coming out. They have enough guns for that. I don't know, man, because you need like a bajillion gazillion guns for that. Yeah, is that a dude? John Rambo like a you know, a little cameo. I mean the trailer. We saw the trail. We took a Lincoln for his birthday, his twelfth birthday, We to him to go see a Kung Fu Panda four and that was one of the previous and he knows Borderlands. He was like, oh,

this looks great. It looks good, but who knows. All right, well, this is this is We'll get into this with Steven Kent coming up a little later. But first we have we have of justice. We gotta get some we gotta get we gotta get our justice on as what I don't know, kind of feels like within the media feels a lot like we're trying to do another George Floyd thing here again, and I don't know if this story holds up to that. So you have a you have a a dude

in the car, he gets stop by police. According to the reports, he is a He is not to be in possession of a weapon based on some some you know, some other interactions with our legal system. We give you the CNN version. This is in Tennessee. Tennessee State Senator uh State Center London Lamar says, quote, she feels like a slave sometimes in the state. Oh yes, all right, so that's quite the setup. Obviously,

this is their own very activist elected official in Tennessee. Also, she referred to no, I'm sorry, her cohort, Senator Charlene Oliver, has literally called for riots in the past, and in this instance is intimating that again, all of these things would be the key focus of any story for if it was Republicans saying this stuff. Referring to a bill known as the Jim Crow Bill, which is what they referred to it, that was put in by Senator Brett Taylor and quote all of his confederates. So again I'm

coming through the lens of his political opponents. Now what is the bill? So the bill orders police to ignore basically what the Memphis City Council has been doing. Memphis is an absolute shooting gallery, absolute shooting gallery. In Memphis, the city council voted to order police to no longer pull over motorists for

routine traffic violations. Expired registration, you know how your lights aren't working, you know all all of these things that for forever have been part of it, and yes, don't get me wrong, have also been used by police, arguably to you know, camel's nose under the tent in some situations, but you know, like unintended. I'll give you an example. So they go and they pull over a car that's speeding at three in the morning.

And you know, you see these stories where they do that and then all of a sudden everything goes sideways because somebody's got a warrant or they're speeding inexplicably with nine pounds of drugs in the car. You see these crazy stories.

Well, this went in a different direction, and from CNN, this is how the story is set up. How did a traffic stop for not wearing a seatbelt end with ninety six gunshots, an injured officer and a dead twenty six year old some say, and by some he means the video of from six different angles from the officers that you can watch some say it was because

Dexter Reid fired at officers first. Some believe the stop never should have happened, all right, so we're turning into this the great civil rights thing. And then they get mom out there for a press conference and she's losing her mind. By the way, here she is it just bought his new car three days before that. He was just riding them around in his car. He's a mom, right, and I killed him? And then she literally falls back like a Chappelle skin. And again, my thing is not I

tried to beef with the family members. Her kid could have absolutely been a staying on the criminal justice system, but she's it's still her son. So all right, So that that's where we are. However, if you're gonna run that clip, and you are a news reporter and that's what you're attempting to do to report news, you might provide some context, like what happened

during the traffic stop? Right because this is her narrative right here. In fact, let me let's let's plug her narrative into the is that does that sound like what happened? Okay? All right, see you heard mom's explanation, because she obviously was not there. But uh knows everything that happened, and according to her, the whole incident kind of went like this, running along the autimally with the AI recreation machine is amazing in here, by the

way, that is really good. We got new AI text. So all right. The problem is, that's not what happened according to the videos, according to any of the reports. Even if you want to throw the reports out because you're like, oh, it's all biased, that's not what happened, not according to anything we can see or any of the witness statements. What happened is a little different. So they pull him over and it turned into a situation where dudes, he rolls the window down, becomes hostile with

police. He's not happy, but he's also he's within the realm of just somebody who's just really po They got pulled over. The problem is that he had a firearm allegedly, and by allegedly, I mean you can see it throughout, and he's not allowed to possess a firearm, and you generally don't want to brandish one when the police are pulling you. Well maybe I don't know. I'm not the traffic stop expert. Ross if he get pulled over. What would you say, should would be a best practice that you should

do. I would roll down your window, immediately, stare the cop in the eyes, and say, am I being detained? All right? Well, he didn't do any of those. In fact, while he did roll down the window, he then started to roll it up, and he started moving stuff around in there. And as soon as that's what you're doing, officers got questions. So, following your scenario, he did do step one. Then he started rolling it up. Next step to alleviate the situation,

so everyone goes home? Is what you draw a glock from your waistband? Right? I always say that would be a bad idea, Probably shoot a what if you're like Old West, quick with it? I would say, babe, they'll be impressed. Not gonna end Well, I would say that if I had like a top ten list of things not to do, it would be a younger one on the list. Don't do that, don't immediately grab a firearm in your waistband, and and and then all right, so

Ross is like so, and then you shoot at him eleven times? Right too? Like help the officers trade because those are things that happened. Unlike Mom's version here so uh, anyway, just expect that to turn into a whole thing. And the thing we predicted is turning into a thing up in Baltimore. I knew it was. I knew it would do it. You knew it would. And we'll share that with you coming up case O Day

radio program. Yeah yeah, yeah at the old Planet Fitness. I know I don't want to be doing another Planet Fitness story either, but here we be. Although I will take issue with some quotes in this bad boy Okay, so check this out. Christopher Miller, aged thirty eight, was arrested after going into the women's locker room at the Gastonia Planet Fitness on South New Hope. Bro. This happened last week. Now we're getting more. Now

we're getting the details and the initial appearance. So Planet Fitness, obviously you're aware they have a policy you can use the no judgment based on what you identify as and that's the locker room you can use. However, the evil, horrible, bigoted women at this Planet Fitness they were not having this,

you know, in their evil bigotry. And also the part where, according to police, the dude who's got he looks like a scuzzy homeless, dreadlock, younger dude who probably went to too many music festivals his thirties slipped away, he accomplished nothing. That's just the vibe I get. But according to women at the Planet Fitness, the dude was in the women's locker room.

He was buck naked man, and he was not only naked, but he was trying to coerce women into rubbing some lotion on him and maybe helping him in the shower. When initially approached, the man said he identifies as a woman and wouldn't leave, and then again started just walking around the locker room everything out, trying to find somebody to rub lotion on him. Here's what I think is rich. By the way, Clark Simon, the former president

of Charlotte Pride, said Planet Fitness's policy is a big fan. Clark's a big fan. However, Clark added that there's no excuse for someone who's not transgender to violate the space. All right, who the hell are you, Clark? Who are you to sit there and tell this person that they're not transgender? I'm serious. Every time somebody's tried to be like, all right,

so what actually constitutes that? And you have a whole swath argument of people saying, you know, chromosome will make up is a pretty good place to start. And then the activists will run out and they'll be like, you know, but there's people who have contaminated chromosomes so they have this Kleinfelter syndrome. And and you're like, okay, yeah, but not twenty five

percent of gen z and polling. What are you talking about. So for this guy to go, oh no, this is not this is not a trans he met the equivalent standard that you have asked for and you have advocated

for, which is simply telling you that he identifies as a woman. And it is this disconnect And anytime I see these stories where they're like, oh, well that person that wasn't a real transgender person, and it's like, all right, well what is. Well, you're a bigot for asking because it's in the you know, it's how a person feels, so you can't put standards on it. It's like, well, you just use some imaginary standards to try to make it look like this person is not what they say

they are. And I'm just asking what are those standards? Who knows, maybe we agree with those standards Miller's in charge or in jail, among charges, there was a miner in the locker room, so that's the toothy one. They'll try to get them with. Let's see here. Oh. They also put this line up and they say that there's no indication that Miller self

reported before the incident. Specifically, there's no indication that Miller contacted an employee prior and said, hey, just so you know, I am a transwoman and before entering the locker room, which is wildly disingenuous because under Planet Fitness's policy, there is no requirement for that. Read the policy. They don't have to go and explain themselves to somebody. And that's intentional, right, because if they did, if they had to pass some sort of test,

this Clark Simon idiot and his crew would be out there. How dare you force somebody to explain something like this to you? If they say it, that's good enough. And now in retrospect they're like, well obviously he wasn't. I mean, all this could be avoided if people just when they went to the gym they were like, I am and I have like the discipline and the dedication not to go to the bathroom like I don't understand these people that go to the gym and they're like, I'm gonna I have to go

number one. I have to go number two. I have it, Listen, I have the discipline and the focus where I have. I don't think I've gone number two in like two years, just out of sheer determination and grit. And you go to the gym. Yeah, these people go to the gym and they're like, I have to the bathroom, man, come on, come on, what Yeah, so that's the problem, that's the problem. Yeah, you're not focusing on Yeah, that's a good point.

You know, if you just don't go in the locker room, right, you know, when you're walking around naked by himself right, right, exactly as we all know when you walk into Planet Fitness, right, you have to you have the check in booth on your left, right right, where you can you know, check in, use your black card or buy a beverage or whatever or going or whatever it is. And then you have the little cubby lockers you can use on your left which have like a little uh

locking mechanism on it. Don't even need to bring your own lock And that's where I put my keys in my wallet and my maybe my jacket. You put it up there. I don't even have time to focus on the bathroom. You kidding me? People are lazy, You ross blazy people who I eat twenty eggs every morning and I go straight to the gym and I hold it like a man. Well, thank god. Can you imagine what twenty eggs post worked out would do to a locker room? Dude? Even know

what that place looks like. You know, you'd be the guy in the story, not for showing your jump to a kid, but for you know, terrorism charge. That's just when to start the day. Twenty eggs then did an hour of cardio, and then he used the bathroom, and oh my god, we had to have these people complaining about the locker room or the bathroom. You're weak, you need to get swollen, Just go outside. Or are you ready for this? Get the wide mouth gatorade bottle when

you're on the machine. What right, right? Be right? You don't have time. This is a great idea, dude. And if somebody's like, oh, oh my gosh, the guy's got his junk out on the elliptical, the question for that other gym goer would be like, why are you staring at his junk. You purv Yeah, focus on your routine. Man, Oh that's why you're fat. He is day twenty eggs. You keep this up, He's gonna go over to your house and use your bathroom. Oh man, all right, look at that. Well we solve that

problem right away, all right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven before everything's so dumb. But my question stands, right, if your lifetime has spent advocating for a policy where nobody ever has to prove or explain anything on this on this topic, and anyone who questions it is a bigot, you can't then decide that they didn't meet the cut when asking what the cut is could get you essentially canceled. So Ross, take Ross's advice,

hold it cowards, all right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Hypothetically, I have a question. What if one of you, or me, for that matter, showed up at the local city council meeting and during public input session held aloft a weapon or an object that was to be weaponized, and threatened the mayor with striking her with it if she

doesn't acquiesce to a demand. How do you think that that would fly, or walking into congressional hearing, or walking into a county commissioner's meeting or school board meeting. Right if you rolled up in there and made a threatening statement with the object you were threatening this elected official with. I feel like, can you imagine the news story, especially if it's some like woke mayor and some guy in a maga hat like there would be the only story see the

fascist or doing what the fascists are doing? Do you know that happened yesterday? Kind of? And it happened in North Carolina, that's the thing in and it involved a mayor, the mayor of Raleigh in this case, Mary Anne Baldwin, vape enthusiast and a parade hater. Right, So let's take

that scenario, with all of the insanity over the Christmas preate. Let's say that one of the organizers from the Christmas preade showed up and threatened the mayor with an object, threatening to quote strike her with it based on not doing this thing that they wanted them to. You know, basically, hey, if you don't do this, this is something that could happen to you.

I'll explain how she worded it. The angry Leprechaun in question, but the reaction on the part of law enforcement city, I didn't the f is going on. I can't think of a scenario where anyone listening to this show could pull that stunt. But it happened, and we'll give you the details next

here on the CaCO Day Radio program. As you know, there's been a bunch of Gaza activists who've been showing up and taking over anything and everything because we've created this permissive environment where whatever your cause is, you can ruin everybody else's day if you don't feel that they're acquiescing to you. So that's great. So anyway, this nutjob angry Leprechaun or something, I don't know. She's wearing like the Palestinian pullover with the bright red hair, so I'm just

very confused. But anyway, the individual whose name we don't have, I'm sure somebody knows who she is, obviously, But during the public input session, the speaker who identified herself as Catherine, held up a shoe. Now, for those of you who are old enough to remember the George Bush incident, right where George Bush was? Where was he was he in Dubai or Cutter somewhere in the Middle East, I don't remember. And he's holding that press conference and a dude, who, by the way, was on a

press pass. The dude showed up about you know, middle second or third question stood up and you can see Bush immediately realize he's about to get a shoe thrown at him, and he does the duck and cover and everyone's seen the video, and at the time people were celebrating, but they also talked about how there is that is an insult. That is an insult within certain segments of the Middle East. Right, Showing somebody the bottom of your shoe

and throwing it at him is just the worst. So this activist gets up, identifies or identifies herself as Catherine and holds the shoe up. That's not a good start. And frankly, I again, I feel like if it was somebody who politically was not you know, mostly all there with the mayor and they held up a shoe in a threatening manner. And why do I say it's a threatening manner because she then uttered the words quote Mary Anne Baldwin. If I can keep from throwing the shoe at you, you can keep

off your phone while listening to your constituents talk. People are trying to get you to hear them, and they have heard you for months and months. They even voted on a resolution. They even voted on a resolution to not go forward with the Gaza piece thing that you're asking for, which, well, I don't understand how that would work. Again, the City of Raleigh doesn't have anything with it. This is about demanding allegiance and fealty to whatever

their position is. But that and here is, by the way, here is the audio you ready, Mary and Baldwin. If I can keep from throwing the shoe at you, you can keep from off your phone while listening to your constituents talk. Please, Your people are trying to get you to hear them. Now, let me say this. I share this woman's frustration, even if I think she's a lunatic, who, by the way, has gotten more attention and even a vote from somebody who has no There's nothing

they can do about this, right. This is about forcing people to tell you that you're awesome and you have good ideas. That being said, I share her frustration and have been in many council, county board school board meetings having covered that for years. Back in the day, where during public input session you'll see council members sitting there, jacket around in their fact clearly not paying attention. And I always found that. I always found that very frustrating

and rude. So I'm with you on that. However, I can't think of a scenario where somebody who might be ideologically opposed to the direction of the city council rolls in makes that statement holding the item. They're saying that it's so glad I'm not throwing this, because if I was throwing this, this is what suck for you. And it walks out of the meeting and nothing

happen. Weapons that's insane. They you know, they arrested a dad who showed up at a school board meeting because his kid was raped and the superintendent wanted to lie and say he wasn't and that turned into such a big case they had to literally purge the prosecutor. Do I think she was gonna throw the shoot? Probably not. But I also, you know, I've been watching the uh you know, the lunatics driving up and down, having many

gaza parades with their vehicles covered in flags, doing sixty. And I got killed at the roundabout at NC State driving back from a delicious steak dinner, kind of sneaking back through there, and thank god the uber stopped at the roundabout because they want flying through the damn thing. I haven't called somebody I know on the police force. He's like, yeah, that's the thing that keeps happening. How do you go in and do this and not catch a

charge or something. It's mind boggling to me. But you know what, these are the pigeons you want to keep throwing grain at Mare. This is welcome, This is you get everything that you signed up for. So you might want to hit that vight pen a few times and you know, sink into oblivion. I guess too. I get over it. Baldwin did release the statement saying last night's gesture, oh we're calling it a gesture, violated the rules of decorum and was inappropriate. This is why we have police inside

the chambers to manage these situations and minimize disruptions. Again, somebody threatened to throw a shoe at you if you didn't do exactly what they wanted. Inspired by Ross's policy of thee at the gym of You're only a psychopath would use the bathroom there, so hold an end coward. I feel like that's a good policy. Now, this is probably gonna irritate some of you, but

I don't care because I'm right. Two of the golfers at the Master, Scottie Scheffler, who is I believe mathematically one of the favorites, if not the favorite to win it. I don't know what the numbers sit at today. Let's see Scotti Scheffler, and and by the way, Scheffler's won the Masters before too. By the way, so he is a past champion, Scheffler. And what is the other guy's name, Burns? Yeah, all

right, So why am I announcing what's up with these two? So both of them have wives that are pregnant, are not only pregnant, but are expecting and feasibly are due within the next week to two weeks, so end of the week, maybe next week. So look, the probability that their wives go into labor during the Masters probably on the lower side. But you'd ever know, especially out there and you know, watching watching your husband's play.

And I told you, man, it's one of the one of the craziest kept secrets that the this was at the PGA Championship is when you had the press credential and you could move everywhere. What I found was fascinating was they have a rooftop like at the clubhouse for the club I was at, which is in Minnesota, or they held a PGA championship. The roof of the clubhouse is a big outdoor bar restaurant, and that wasn't open to the general public. It was for for media people to get food, but also

for all the wags as they call them, the wives and girlfriends. And I remember going up there and hitting the media catering thing and I look over and look, these guys do okay, right, so you got you know, you got nothing but smoke. Show wives sitting right, mostly not the girlfriends, because the girlfriends will still follow their men around on the course.

It's just interesting. But man, they're just sitting there talking about which color maserati they're getting, showing off their jewelry and stuff like, which is fine whatever. I don't care if everybody's happy. Everybody's happy. But the last thing they're talking about is golf, which I found interesting. And now these two women, the wives of these two golfers, they stand in a position

where both of their husbands have said that if they go into labor. They're withdrawing from the tournament, and they're gonna go be by their side, which Scotti Scheffler is one of the favorites to win, and he's won before, and I can't imagine that scenario. Now, there was a golfer who was

winning the Canadian Open and I can't remember his name. I remember it was a big story because his wife did go into labor and he left and possibly was foregoing like two million dollars doing it, which is I was gonna be ironic down the road when she's like once you know, maybe money gets a little tight or whatever, and she's like, ah, I want to buy this thing, It's like, well, remember that time we said no to two million dollars? Yeah? That So here's the unpopular opinion. Why should

they leave? Like the Masters is a known other than the the reschedule they did during the peak of COVID. If you remember they moved the Masters, it was at a very weird time. The Masters is always now or within a week of now. This is not a new thing. Why don't you hold it or better yet, why don't you time it out? Can't you

math this thing out? Don't people do I don't, you know, I don't know if everyone does this, but I know a family member who they were very intentional about when they want wanted to have the baby, but that was more for some weird family tradition thing. But they almost hit it on the head, So I don't know. Also, I think they both already have kids, so like, you know, not at first rodeo, it's going to be wild. Let's see, I think it's going to be pretty

wild, said Shuffler. I don't think it's a hit either of us quite yet, but it's an exciting time for us as a family. What do you do if you're leading the masters? What if you're Scheffler and you're going into the weekend, you're leading the Masters and then I don't know, you tea off on Saturday and you're feeling good, maybe even you know, capture a couple of strokes in the first few holes, and then you get the

call. Do you just walk out of there? You have the opportunity to be recognized as the greatest of the thing that you do for a period after this. And also if you do walk away, I know Scheffler's got a jacket already, But if you're Burns, you walk away, you never get the jacket. Now you're gonna be paying full price for olive Garden for the rest of your life. Is that fair to you, the wife or the baby. I don't think so. What do you think would happen though,

this is the thought exercise. What do you think would happen even if everyone in the family was fine with it? Right, Scheffler's wife or Burns's wife's like, Now I got my family around me. I want you to win this tournament. Bear down, I mean mentally it may not be easy. And the golfer doesn't withdraw. I think people are probably gonna say some not nice things to say the very least. Let's see. Yeah, here we go and they get they get into other incident. Oh, they start talking

about the Phill incident. Well that was interesting because that happened here so back in the day in the final round of the Masters in nineteen ninety nine, it was Phil Mickelson's who was seeing carrying. This was at pine This wasn't the Masters at Pinehurst? Why did they write this story in correct? What was it in ninety nine? Was at the Open? The champion? I can't remember anyway, Michelson ended up getting second place behind Payne Stewart, and

then his wife went in the next day. But he was carrying a beeper around and everyone's like, why are you carrying a beeper? Are you a drug dealer? What are you doing? This is like my wife might go into labor. So yeah, I say, stick it out. What is the what is the purse for the Masters? It's not a little bit of money? What is this? Maybe she didn't map it out. Well, she already got him locked down. I understand that, you know, you want to get a baby in the mix. There little insurance policy. But

anyway, all right, so that's the thing. Just thought i'd bring up to speed on it. All right, coming up on the show at the time, well, at the time the Masters was supposed to start. Now it's going to be delayed at least an hour. Steven kentill join us. We've got a few things to get in with him. Also, oh man,

where do I start today? Maxine Waters or Sheila Jackson Lee. But we talked about she jack quite a bit yesterday, obviously with her very very intelligent recitation of the moon provide unique light and energy so that you have the energy of the moon at night. And sometimes you've heard the word full moon. Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon? Is that complete rounded circle which is made up mostly of gases?

All Right, so this idiot, well she has responded, we'll have the latest from her and her buddy, Maxine Waters. The lunacy and hypocrisy of these people people get up into Washington, and it's not just too democratic Congress women, but just like the gas lighting and stuff that elected officials up there will say. The difference is one side tends to get pushedback and fact checked, whereas the other one is just gonna sit there say whatever they want

and largely not be challenged on it. Well, you see why when you're used to that. Both of these women have an absolute meltdown over people challenging what they said, or calling them out on it, or even politely suggesting that they disagree with them. We'll give you the she Jack update and delve

into the Maxine Waters hypocrisy. Will do it next. Hang On, I had some questions about the whole moon was made of mostly gas thing, describing people criticizing her as quote and specifically Republicans and their quote lust for stupidity for pointing out no, that's not true. During the event, Jackson Lee, as you heard, told students I was talking about the sun and the moon.

And you know we played the audio obviously there before the break she's talking about the moon being although she did come down on the side that the moon would be easier to build homesteads on than the sun, which is probably true, so good on her. But yeah, Jackson Lee claimed that she had been referring to the sun at the time and not the moon. Obviously I misspoke and meant to say the sun. No, no, you didn't. And I was willing to say, okay, well this is what she said

she means and then go back and listen to the audio. This isn't where it's one conflated word or not. She's drawing distinctions again. Here's the audio. Bad unique light and energy, so that you have the energy of the moon at night, and sometimes the word full moon sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon. Is that complete

rounded circle which is made up mostly of gases. And that's why the question, the question is why how could we as humans live on the moon are the Does that sell that she's confused? She's talking about the moon on one side, moon on the other side, and using a continued description in the middle, which is where she's receiving the criticism. Nobody believes you. Right, No, she didn't like flub a word. Her whole whole premise is wrong. Then the whole forty two seconds is based on rognet. Right.

If she's saying that she is she saying we could live on the sun, then it was that her point. No, shelbed the word if she meant the sun, but her whole premises we can live there. What is she talking about at night and in the winter. Yes, we covered, didn't we. I think we explained this yesterday right with the alig audio. No, she screwed up. She's an idiot. She thought. You know, she's dumb. You're not a smart woman, but neither is Maxine Waters.

Let's go back to right after Trump was elected, where we first learned that Maxine Waters has probably never put fuel in her vehicle and this famous comment, Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up, and if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant in a department store at a gasold station. You get out and you call it a guy, and you

just back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore anywhere. And obviously this was during that period of time where everyone within the you know, you had all these incidents where restaurants, including what was the famous one in Roanoke or Richmond or near there who threw the now governor of Arkansas out right, and you had all this lunacy, and people were warning, they're like, you know, you're ramp this up to the point where rather than recognizing

debating and you know, potentially overcoming if your idea is better your political opponents, you want them purge from society and physically so in some instance. So she's calling for mobs to get in their face, and she wasn't the only one. The problem is that occasionally people are going to take your advice, ma'am, and if they have a problem with something you're proposing, they may come up and tell you. Arguably they did so in a much more respectful

manner than she was advocating. But she absolutely can't deal with it. Here is Waters crying the blues yesterday as a member of Congress with people you know who evidently had a racist attitude, and recently one even confronted me in a restaurant. And they don't say racist things, but what they say is they don't like something I say it. They don't lack a position that I took. But you know that you know if you were not black, you would

not be approached that they probably would not right. They don't think twice about doing it. They think that they can get away with doing it with you and that you're all right. And that's on I don't know, some stupid podcast with a bunch of other many smungers there. I've called in a couple of times. We don't agree on a lot, but I think we can both agree that whether it be mixing Waters, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, we have got to get these people that are seventy plus years

old out of Congress and out of our government. We mean, I mean, forget lunatics out even if they're not seventy sir, so can we I'll make you know yours and then also you know a little bit of mine, so well, I'll go so further. Even if you're saying, oh that they just regardless, someone who is seventy plus years old in a government is

not voting for the interests of someone who is twenty years old. And I don't care how you spin it, there's no way that they have what's in mind for those people in the next fifty years of their life at horrors think watching them do tech hearings is some of the most embarrassing stuff see. But let me let me push back on one thing. I don't know that Congress's obligation needs to primarily lie in what is best for twenty year olds. I

don't think so either. But I don't think a seventy year old has the conditioning to be prepared for what's in the next fifty to seventy years of our country. They're working on, whether it be their retirement, their pensions, those things are what's in the form of their mind, and their experiences in life are going to change how they see things, where as a twenty thirty forty year old coming through the world right now had a totally different experience than

them. All I'm saying is you have maximums making the comments she does. Joe Biden, Donald Trump, they all are saying crazy things. Mitch McConnell is freezing on camera, and it's just degrading how people see our Congress in general. Well, it is. It is easy. It is easy to do an SNL thing if you wanted to, with the cast of characters there. But I also don't necessarily I understand that people's experience is going to be different. I don't know how old are you, Casey, If you don't

mind me, I'm old all right. Even though we are seven years apart. Your high school experience was different from mine. The shows that you watch were probably different from mine. There was a lot that was probably different than you know, for somebody who graduated in the mid two thousands versus the end

of the nineties like I did. But our experience is also one where we're able to if you told me how things worked at your school and we sat there over a few beers and just the shot the bull, there's going to

be a lot of crossover with stuff. And I think even when somebody is seventy years old and they're looking back to establishing themselves when they were in the twenties, the intelligent among them are willing to admit what I'm willing to admit these kids that are out there, you know, filming tiktoks about how they'll never afford a house, they have legitimate beef. Right, Yeah, it's like they do. And I know a lot of people who are older who

also recognize that. So, yeah, it's easy to get shoehorned into well this is the way we did it, So that's the only acceptable way, and that's the only acceptable answer. But I think good people who genuinely want to help, even if they're sometimes being very self serving, if they're willing to admit that they don't know it all and and listen to those other experiences, that's I'm that's usually good enough for me. Even if you get away

from the age stuff. Now you're getting into some of the physical stuff, but that's a whole other thing, you know, freezing up or wandering around like a room or staring at the sun thing. Yeah, one thing, just on the on the on the housing court, for instance. I agree with you that there are people that recognize, and they may be sixty seventy

eighty years old, that recognize that there is a major problem. The problem is that even though they recognize that, they still don't understand the hardship because they they didn't actually go through that unless they're unless they're dealing with it right now, because they lost their job, they lost their income, they had to start back from zero, which a lot of these people in Congress don't

do that, right, they didn't. But maybe they didn't go through that, but maybe they went through a bunch of other stuff, you know, depending on how old they are. We could talk depression, but you don't have to be that old to remember what things were like in the seventies, which you and I were not alive for right exactly, and you're younger than he, but you know, hearing about interest rates in the seventies, the gas lines, all of the economic hardships, and really the politics surrounding it.

That is a lived experience that's going to have some of the hallmarks of what people are concerned about now. So if that person is able to go, hey, this is how it was, and here's what we did to make it not that, then you know, maybe that's experience it can be used to try to fix some of the problem out there. The problem is Maxine Waters can and it sounds like you agree, she can't tell people to go do something, and then when people do it to her in a respectful

manner, you know, claim a hate crime. That's we're outside of this. If you ever want people to try to understand where you're coming from, and you shut it down that quickly with statements from her and then the Shila Jackson Lee statement, then you know, what's what's the point in Neither of those women are in their seventies, so they just kind of looked like it. So that's where I'm at all right, man, thanks for the call.

Appreciating great. Yeah. One of the sharpest minds that I've ever that I've ever known was somebody who I saw I was at his eightieth birthday party. He was I'm going to give you his name. It's pretty well known dude in and around the Triangle and spent a lot of years as head of a tech company, the one that you've heard of for US and international head. And I only met him in retirement. And this dude's in his seventies

at the time. Playing golf with him, getting to know him just around a group of people, and he became my sounding board for any questions that I had, especially questions when it came to you know, workplace stuff because he set such a positive example and implemented so many policies that people really liked

working for him. And I don't think that management like him exists. And I'm being complimentary because even though he didn't know what it was like to grow up in Wyoming, I guess in the nineties, eighties, nineties, whatever, there was a lot of invaluable things there. And I think that you know, imbued and all of that was compassion, understanding, and a willingness to listen to people outside of your preconceived notions. I think that's something we

all can strive for. So do I want to do a hard age thing? No? Do you want to get into cognitive testing? Maybe? But I also so think that, like everything else, people will find a way to manipulate that. I mean, think about it. If you decide that there's cognitive testing and you realize you can eighty six some of your political opponents, if you just get the right doctor in there, how would that appear any different than some of the craft that we deal with every day. It

wouldn't. And speaking of craft that we're dealing with every day, I would like to introduce the man most responsible for ruining my morning raised agent from the Weather Channel. Oh sorry, dude, I write in fifteen minutes, I should be turning on a TV in here and then phoning in the last hour of the show. But now it's going to be about what an hour, yeah, at least at least, and it looks like it's going to be crappy until like two in the afternoon, So who the hell knows? Well,

not as crappy. It looked like it was going to be worse yesterday morning, honestly, but right now any case, anybody's missed the show, I mean, who could have missed it? Right? This stuff exactly, the showers and the heavy This train is pulled away. But they had over an inch and a half near Augusta yesterday, so a chance to dry out. With a couple hour delay this morning. They're probably still gonna get some showers, maybe even a thunder shower today, but I don't think any widespread

rainfall. All that's off to the east and southeast. As you go on a line from about let's say Columbia, South Carolina, draw that through Fayetteville and North Carolina, and south of that, that's where the heavier rain is This morning. Start to see some showers get into Chatham in southern parts of Wake County, so that a little area rain may clip you. But I think increasing as we get into the afternoon the scattered showers, even thunderstorms upper

sixties to low seventies. It's gonna become quite breezy too today and more showers than thunder showers tonight, tapering off sometime tomorrow. Midday early afternoon might get some afternoon sun for some of us, especially from the Triad west Augusty wins. Tomorrow highs will be in the low seventies, so we're gonna shut off the rain around midday early afternoon from west to east as we go through tomorrow,

and the weekend is going to be great with a warming trend. Early next week is going to beautiful Sunnay near seventy on Saturday with a gusty breeze, and then Sunday, Monday and Tuesday going to make a run into the eighties. Maybe it's warm, especially for the Triangle into the middle eighties with sunshine by Monday and Tuesday two. So I think the playoffs is going to be great, and even in Augusta after today or even this morning, early

afternoon. The weather, it's going to be great there too. Well fine, but also this is you know, whenever you have rain incident, there is a huge differential, especially if there's wind associated. Like it's all about when your tea time is right, you guys go out and it's sloppy and still windy, and they'll shoot it even or whatever, and some guy will do three under this afternoon and so deal man. Then they say, right, weather is the great equalizer. So I'm wondering what the odds of Tiger

making the cut are. You have to check that out. It could be my chance. Yeah, gamble incessantly. You got an hour and get your bed in. All right, thanks sir, appreciated. All right, there you go, race stage crapping my fun Coming up, we'll chat with Steven Kent are our NERD correspondent. Lots of we got video game movies, TV stuff to get into. We got all sorts of stuff. So that'll be

coming up at eight o five. But before we get there, we're gonna have to our caller mentioned Trump. Uh, We're gonna have to get into a little Chick fil A visit. I thought that was funny yesterday and Joe Biden, Joe Biden, Well he got he had a microphone again yesterday? Where was the Arizona And yeah, well we'll get that for you, but right now we'll take a break. Seven forty eight. Hang on, hey, Casey, I ot to have a rebuttal of what that last caller said.

He bumped in Trump with McConnell, Biden, and Waters, who have been in Congress for years, and Trump, a businessman, came into the office had more experience than all of them put together. Now, me being a former businessman business owner, if I knew then what I knew now, I would have did a lot of things differently. So you can't rump Trump in with McConnell and always be Yeah. I think that's why a lot of people lean more cognitive tests if they feel this, rather than just age.

But yeah, I mean that's the best McConnell, uh, Waterers and Biden never ran anything, don't plan a business. So the best people for a presidency to be a governor or a business then because they actually had their you know, wife on the line basically to succeed. Okay, well, yeah, again it comes down to our I don't know if you have to have something official. I think a lot of them. Thanks for the call there, sir. I think a lot of these discussions need to permeate within the

individual right. So formulate a set of standards. And if your set of standards is you won't vote for somebody over the age of seventy, then so be it. Let them call you in agies, just say, look, you're trying. You don't feel that once you're in that age group that you have enough understanding of the younger generations below you, then fine, people can go ahead and make that decision. I'm not going to begrudge you, but yeah, I don't know that I'm comfortable just with an age thing. I

think you got to go individual. Now. Yesterday Joe Biden was in Arizona and they described this as a quote brutal gaff. I'll let you add it, then weigh it against things. But here he is talking about who the hell knows elect me? I'm in the twenty twentieth century, twenty first century, okay, all right, So he strewed up the twentieth twenty first century. And I know some people get confused because, like if you say the

twentieth century, but you say the nineteenth nineteen hundreds. You're talking about the you know the same thing, and you know, I can a little weird, but he, you know, he corrects himself there and moves on. Here's the thing if all of the Biden gaffs are like that, because I saw people trying to the problem is when you over demonize that, that will

now be the example that people use when you're unfairly criticizing. Somebody was saying, oh, look at that, he immediately corrected himself, and then they could find tape. You could probably find tape of me saying something and then immediately corrected myself ten times this morning, because that's how people talk. It

doesn't wash away the other stuff. But when you act like this is akin to him, you know, sniffing little girls while talking about his time as a flankerback and then once again reminding us of a train trek that he used to take with a conductor who was dead well before he was on it. I don't know that it's useful. It's not even the most infuriating audio or a little video clip I saw yesterday. When it comes to people talking about

generational stuff, you want something that'll make you lose your mind. I gotta find I to find this thing again because I was flipping I was flipping through on the YouTube shorts, which I hate, and I hate how much of my YouTube like selection things that they cover up and take space away from me. You can't turn them off, and the whole thing is dumb and it doesn't sound like the people who produce it, or you don't want it. But you know, YouTube's got to have their TikTok, which is which is

crazy enough. And I watched some high school she's like, looks like late high school. This girl's who's filming a TikTok and she's talking about music. Okay, all right, whatever, Except in the video she holds up a cassette tape and says it says something along the lines of and for our ancestors, this was how they consumed music in the nineteen hundreds or late nineteen hundreds, and she, you know, just held up so this would be a

representative example of how our forefathers or how our ancestors concerned. And she's like sixteen or seventeen, so I'm not gonna I think she said, but she obviously is, you know, was not born anywhere near the y two k But man, that's a gut punch right there. There's been a bunch of times where I have to explain to Lincoln that, like, you know, when I was a kid, we didn't have the Internet, and I feel

so old when I do that. Right right, she's holding up that cassette, that bell BIV DeVos cassette tape you have, and she's like like she just opened or sarcophagus in Egypt or something. Then let's get into the all things with the intersection of entertainment, politics, and insanity. Steven Kent joins us this morning. Steven, how you doing today, sir? I'm doing great, Casey, did hear from you? I'm gonna kind of I'm going to a couple of three different stories together. Oh that sounds down there?

All right, all right, sorry your phone was breaking up there. I'm gonna kind of I want a couple, like three different stories together. I I need everyone to shut up. How we're doing things around here, all of you other countries and European Union people. We can start in the EU and make our way to Brazil with some of the Elon mustuff coming. But I don't need dirt bag EU tech people coming over here to the US to tell us that we need to fundamentally change things, punish Apple and and basically

clamp down on our own citizenry. I find it repulsive and any any politician who would let these nitwits come in. What is this dirt bag's name? It was in DC yesterday. Yeah, Well, I want to make sure I get hurt. Yeah, I want to make sure I pronounce her her name correctly. So it is MARKA. Investiger, the Executive President of the UN European Commission on the on Digital Technology associates like the competition cop over there, which makes sure in many ways the STC chair, like Lena Khan in

the United States. Okay, and so there's three things I want to cover, but let's start with this one. And we've talked about it. They are if they're big mad at Apple, right, that's fair. They're big mad at Apple. They feel that Apple, apple bad, all bad. And for those of you, I guess if you don't use Apple, you're not familiar with Apple. Apple famously was closed. They have a closed system, and it was a point of contention. If you read any of the

Steve Jobs biographies or some of the books that came out. If you watch the movie, you'll see that a constant point of contention between Jobs's vision for Apple and what you know, everyone including the former PEPSI CEO, were doing. They battled over this about essentially only Apple's only going to work with other

Apple stuff. Because as soon as you put a USB plug into you know, into an iPhone or a pad or you create a system which just readily connects and works with others, you are also now inviting the vulnerabilities of whatever that secondary system is. So the policy at Apple to do this has it's not an unknown. Now does Apple do things where they change out charging cables every year? Seemingly unnecessary and it looks like a big cash grab absolutely,

as they all do. I have I don't know about you. I have three different charging of the you know, the Mini USB, the S Square one, and then the Apple two different versions of the Apple ones. And that's the reality. And I just kind of have those cables because I'm a computer nerd guy of friends who come over maybe need a phone charger. Why why is Apple a special project and why should we listen to this woman? Well, Vestigger was in the United States really to tout the European approach to

regulating big tech. They have this these two laws, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, which are essentially going to try and swoop in and break up these big tech companies like Amazon, Meta and Apple from offering

the kinds of services that they very much do now. So her main issue with Apple is that she claims you are locked into Apple, and that consumer choice is harmed by Apple being a closed system, and that if you get an iPhone, that you are then sort of like, you know, like you've taken your first shot of a heroin and you're going to be on this

wild rye that you can't get off of even if you wanted to. It's a very strange argument because it's essentially saying that you are locked in from day one because you're not going to be able to go back out into the PC Android system, completely ignoring the fact that if you just don't really like the Apple experience and the Apple worm which I very much enjoy, that you just can't leave. And it's it's a very strange, paternalistic argument. Yeah.

I don't disagree in fact, but the upside is and nobody's perfect, and I would argue that Apple posts jobs. The same level of my confidence that something was just gonna going to work has dipped. They've had a few misses. That being said, the fact that I can walk around my house and my iPhone, my iPad, and my two Apple TVs. Literally anything I want anywhere is a button away instead of going to Why remember back in the day, we'd have to wire stuff and I was a big nerd. I

had all the equipment. Remember remember back in the days when like you had PCs riddled with viruses that were completely crippled by malware. But then when you switch to Apple, you just don't really have that problem unless you're trying to kill your computer. The closed ecosystem approach for consumers like me who are a little bit of lead if I actually don't love tech, I like tech to

be simple, clean and safe so that I can actually navigate it. I mean, when I get on a PC, I don't know what the heck I'm doing, Casey, and so this computer, this system is for people like me who like a clean and easy experience. But they want to break that up, and I think the reasons go beyond consumer choice. I actually think the reasons have a lot to do with the national security state, both in the US and in the EU, where they want to have access and

back doors to all consumers and all their citizens. And if you remember, and I remember the exact case, but there was an individual who was arrested. It was a terrorism case and Apple famously told me they wouldn't open the phone. And that turned into a that turned into a whole thing. And Van Bernardino, he had a San Bernardino shooters and the over in the EU, they can't fathom something like that. They should be able to get in

and meddle whenever they want. These are the same people who like, maybe we need to regulate influencers, right, So yeah, I mean the European Union. Yeah, they've got some pretty bizarre policies across the EU. So in December, the Italian Competition Authority, because they've got some of their own

rules, they tightened down their rules on influencers and stay in Belgium. Within the EU are also looking at regulatory approaches to being an online influencer, where you're quite literally going to have to go through sort of like a licensure program like you would if you're a plumber or a hairdresser. In the United States, which, by the way, I also think those are kind of ridiculous.

But the idea is that influencers have social capital and they control the minds and opinions of a wide variety of people, and therefore the government needs to come in and protect people from these dangerous influencers. And they always frame it in terms of false advertising, snake oil salesmen stuff. But again, what I think that they're actually after is wrong. Thinks they're after people who are

perpetuating and spreading wrong opinions that the European Union and their members statement. I mean, these are the folks that you know they send a dude to jail because his pug did a Hitler trick, right, So you know their standards, their standards, their standards there are are different, which is fine, they can have those different standards. I wonder what would happen if the cul not that it would happen because you're dealing with too many moon bets in Silicon

heyhood. I think if the major US tech companies just told these other countries, look, there are things that are reasonable, but we're not changing everything we're doing and if you don't like it, we're not going to do business. I have to feel, based on the the way in which other countries crave Western products, tech and uh entertainment for that matter, I have to think that that might be effective in getting these people to shut their face.

Do you think so or not? No, I do think so. I mean basically the European Union again, these are these are kind of our allies, right. We are aligned with Europe these days, and we're very much aligned as sort of a Western block against some rising threats in the East. And these are our friends. However, they are free riders, very much in the technology and the innovation that the United States exports throughout the world.

And they don't agree with our culture, our commitment to free speech expression, and our business climate. They like tightly controlled populations and business environments, and they want the technology, but they want it packaged for Europeans and sort of the control freaks that run the European Union, the tech overlords, you know, the tech giants, they kind of have to figure out how much do

they really want Europe's money? Do they really want to be strong and driving in Europe or do they want to have products that they believe in and are excited about. The Steve Jobs of the world were pretty pragmatic and tried to have it both ways. But I really believe that, like again, Steve Jobs, would have wanted to protect the integrity of his device because he was

something of an artist. The iPhone and Apple these are pieces of art as far as these people are concerned, and the European Union doesn't much appreciate our version of art. Yeah, and I think in an effort to protect it, but also to be able to provide to these markets because I understand the financial impact of deciding you're not going to do business in the EU. It's

the second largest, second or third largest. I'm not sure if China's second, But it's a decision that companies make with China too when they ask them to do things, Like you know, it's funny because the EU is asking them to do things and kind of demanding all of the requirements that China has if you want to do business, and I think in the long run, if you say no enough of that, I think that consumers may look to

their government as you're screwing us over here. Want access to these products and these services, and maybe it changes, so it's like a long term play. Meanwhile, that in Brazil. You have Elon Muskley tweeted this out last night. I guess around. Oh, let's see here, that dude never sleeps anyway, says X just received an inquiry from the US House of Representatives

regarding actions taken in Brazil that are in violation of Brazil law. So this whiny dictator down there in Brazil, and when you look at a number of political prisoners, I think that's a fair assessment of who this is. They're so mad, they're so mad at Elon Musk right now, they implemented a twenty thousand dollars per day fine and basically it's because he won't bend the knee

and block all their political opponents for him. And now members of Congress are going to get up in this business because, as you know, this administration has taken, in my opinion, some very significant steps to get Elon Musk across all the the businesses. This is pure politics, and now we may have our own elected officials going to bat on behalf of Brazil. This is

a nightmare, man, Yeah, it is a nightmare. But what's really a nightmare for the powerful and the governments around the world, And this is what kind of connects all of these stories together, which is that technology and innovation supersedes a lot of the ways in which governments have always run the world. The idea that the European Union can't enforce their version of speech laws because American technology is setting people free online to speak their minds in ways they don't

approve of, that can't be allowed to stand down in Brazil. You know, Lula doesn't like that an American tech company, an American entrepreneur is going to be able to allow people to speak in ways that he doesn't like. So we kind of have this tension between how can countries figure out how to have the societies that they want to have at the very top level versus what

is now possible thanks to technology. And I think that's like a valid question because if you do, you know, you live in Brazil, maybe you don't want American tech and you don't want the twitters of the world in there kind of changing their culture. But it tends to be that the people do the people do, They want to speak, they want to be heard. It's the politicians and the political entrenched class who don't want that disruption because their

control freaks and fund belief. What is What do you think the most utilized app outside of the US is from a US based tech pook? I think I guess it's not an app I was gonna say, like Fortnite. You know, I tend to think that it's it's games, and I tend to think that it's Nope, it's not what. I'll tell you exactly what it is. And it's an app that I think most Americans have never used and probably would never But as soon as you get into traveling internationally, which I

enjoyed doing obviously, WhatsApp. I think if Facebook, if Facebook shut off WhatsApp worldwide, it would be pandemonium. It is the almost exclusively the preferred methodology of communication in almost every country outside of the US because it just works. Why yeah, and that's a Facebook thing, right, They own that in Instagram. And if Zuckerberg had the stones to say, look, you want to keep meddling in our business, we'll turn off the WhatsApp, I

think people would revolt. The problem is it would be in a way handing things to thug dictators in horrible parts of the world because it is the main methodology for communication, So in a way, it's kind of doing what they want, but it shows you just how how much leverage that that, you

know, we feasibly have here. And the last time the EU got something accomplished, they ruined the browser experience because now every side I go to, I got to we're going to have a splash window about cookies and if you wondered why that is, that's an EU requirement and now it just buries everybody

else and we all have to deal with it. So yeah, it kind of reminds me of when Lena Conn of the FTC was on John Stewart's The Daily Show last week and she was basically but moaning that Facebook was ever allowed to acquire Instagram and basically merged the two things as well as acquire WhatsApp. But you know, like this is sort of an American regulator rooting against the success of American technology companies. Facebook was on the road to irrelevance until they

acquired Instagram and their expertise in mobile social media on a vertical screen. That was not what Facebook was good at. And so they acquired that expertise and then they did the same thing with WhatsApp, and now they have a suite of really great tools that makes the meta you know, uh, corporation work that makes it actually relevant and powerful. And they don't like that. They don't like success in American technology. They want to see these companies fail.

I understand that there are instances in which you can acquire companies and then you become anti competitive. But Facebook did not acquire necessarily their direct competitors. They acquired companies that built out their tools that they could do mobile, and then they could do messaging and do it better for consumers. And boy, howdy, consumers enjoy it quite a bit. Unless it's called threads. Then they don't. But you know, yeah, well that's the big wolves there,

that's crystal PEPSI. Man, we got we got a story that caused some moon bats to go uh right, okay, all right, very this is very sad. Let me get some sad. Perfect again. Explain to me how these folks are adults and are able to function in societ members of a regional women's country line dance team. This is so important that you remember the kind of I'm sorry, hold on, Violet, you have to remember the

kind of music we're talking about. All right, so dance crew, but in this case, it's competitive line dancers, which if that's your thing, more power to you. I understand that it's it's like repopularized or something with the kids. Can I sound older? Okay? I saw that there's people are making line dance videos now on social media, so whatever that's about.

But if that's what you want to do, go do it. I will tell you I never understood it. And as you can imagine, growing up in Wyholming, you know, anytime you went to something where there was going to be dancing. In fact, they had a huge line dance competition as part of the county Fair every year. But I was never into it. I'm not really into dance anyway. I can't dance, But like, if

that's what people want to do, more power to them. But in every instance of every line dance I went to, I'd say that the room probably had more potential Trump voters than Biden voters. But that may have been the region I was in, all right, and it clearly wasn't in Seattle. But over the weekend a big country line dance event called the Emerald City Hodown took place, and teams from all over the region flocked to Seattle to take

part and show off their dance and skills. Unfortunately, one of those teams ran afoul of organizers known as the Borderline Dance Team. They were getting right to take the stage to demo their dance when an organizer for the Rain County Dance Association, which was the ones who were putting this thing on. And by the way, that is an association that is also has a wing of LGBTQ plus dance competitions, so they do line dance, they do even line

dance for LGBTQ, but also different styles of dance. They met the team backstage and said that they were not going to be able to go on. Several witnesses who saw the team walk into the area before they headed backstage to get ready, immediately ran to organizers complaining about the outfits the team was wearing. Is it because it was too stereotypical Western? No? No, wasn't that. Was it because somebody had I don't know, offensive words against one

of the other dance team and that's not sportsmanship? No, wasn't that. Unfortunately, the team was told that they could not participate because the outfits, which are coordinated outfits right between all the team members included red, white,

and blue reminiscent of the American flag. I wouldn't say it's reminiscence. Clearly looks like the flag, and it's across their shirts, so you know, the women are wearing one, the men are wearing the button down, but they all look like, you know, they look like American flag shirts. Mostly. That apparently triggered so many of the other dancers that the team was told that they could not participate because, quote, the audience feels triggered and

unsafe based on your outfit choice. Uh CO captain Lindsey Stamp, who spoke with Jason Rantz, who's a he's a radio host in Seattle there on our station, explaining that the costume sparked a complaint or spark complaints who brought up Israel's war against Hamas and transgender issues, those old catch alls. At first, organizers told them, hey, we'll let you go on stage, but just know you're going to be booed and yelled at and perhaps people will walk

out. But eventually organizers just said, now we're not going to let you go up there unless you would agree to change into street clothes, which several of the dance team members didn't have because you know, this was drivable from where they lived, and they showed up in their country western outfit and planning

on going home in it. But no, eventually, eventually, And I'm looking at the picture here, so on the left you have the women's outfits and they're you know, they got the red, white and blue with the on the one side and then the stars and the stars and and the blue on the other I guess the red and white stripes on one the blue on the other. And you told this bunch of women, it's primarily women here, that they couldn't go out with that shirt on. That is crazy.

So there you go country line dancing, triggering the line dancing enthusiast LGBTQ community. By the way, I think some of the members of the dance care are gay too, is what I saw in one of her other statements. So there you go, triggered and eventually shut down. That's where we are. Now let's go on to this. Yesterday we announced and then we speculated that it might be the Kumate that the presence of the Prime Minister of Japan in North Carolina. A little later today he's up in DC right now,

had an event there we'll be making his way to North Carolina. They're expected to make a big announcement about a business and expansion of business in part with the Japanese government here in North Carolina. We didn't know what it was. Now I guess we do know, and then I think after that event, the Prime Minister will dine at the Governor's mansion and I believe Ashley Christiansen is cooking form, which if you're familiar with any of the restaurants seen in Wake

County, that's a good get. I always enjoyed her food, so yeah, But unfortunately not the Kumata, which was one suggest ross you what was what was your thinking it was? It wasn't Kumata. I can't remember what it was, but or maybe you're on team Kumata too. Well, the fact is it's none of those. Reporting now says that the announcement is expected to be an expansion of Fujifilms. Dio Synth Biotech Labs is a vaccine lab.

They do a bunch of other stuff too, but but this is core focused on vaccine production and it should when they announce it, if the reporting is correct, should prove to produce six hundred jobs. It's part of a billion dollar expansion and the facility, which is not a new facility in people's minds, but is one that you know, Fujifilm had already announced expansion, but this is more. We'll be in Holly Springs. They're building a giant

manufacturing facility there, so this will be part of that. That's what's expected. So in case you were wondering, there you go, and those of you in the Holly Springs area. I guess good news, so you can, I don't know, get some vaccine jobs or something. All right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four we'll chat with Jeff Bellamser coming up here in just a few minutes, also before the end of the show. Good news for spam Man, Good news for spam and Vienna sausages.

This is one of the weirder, weirder reports on what people are buying, apparently raised age like Vienna sausages, the little cocktail sausages, and spam. Yeah, big business right now, mostly because people can't afford the other proteins. But yeah, I saw people hating on Vienna sausages. What is wrong with people? Those are awesome? I know they are that's the best

wrong with spam. I used to dude, I would always bring when I go, when we go camping or something, I would always go and I would buy my own little collective of Vienna sausages, the little cans of Beanie Weenie and sardines. Oh and you could be in mustard sauce, tomato sauce, or just olive oil. And then I eat those in front of people. Oh so good, so making so many people so jealous right now, right well, I'm just saying for all of you. People are like,

I can't afford other proteins. So now I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna buy the sloppy Joe and the and the the Hormel stuff and the Vienna side. No stay away from my stuff because I'll I'll tell you what if I show up the grocery store and there's no Vienna sausages. I mean, I'm not saying arson, but you never know because people can't stand in their damn lanes. I know. Yeah, come on, stay here. LARTI chef

BOYARTI up significantly. I'm a big fan of cold beef ferroni out of a cans, huge spaghettios with meat polls, Libby's corned beef all you can have. That's not very good. But everything else, yeah, everything else is great. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, not the document stuff. But anyway, all right, you're all on notice. So with that mind, have you screwed me over on the Gulf? Further? I haven't even checked, so I know as of now, ten thirty off the number one

t that's the latest, and ten showers yep, ten third. Hell am I gonna do for an hour and a half after the show? I don't know. I've got like three pieces of production, but that's not gonna Yeah. Well, there's still some showers around Augusta right now, even a little thunder, but the heaviest rain there was over an inch and a half last night has moved away and just spotty showers. Think for the rest of today. It's gonna beautiful for the rest of the week after today, so things

will good. There will be beautiful here too after today and tonight. The rain should get out of here tomorrow Today. Occasional showers this morning, may pick up a little this afternoon, may get some thunder in here also, but no severe weather expected on either side of seventy with some gusty winds,

especially later that could guss thirty five to forty miles an hour. A few showers, thunder showers tonight, and a chance of showers of utter storms continuing isolated Tomorrow's the upper level low spins to the west of us, and they'll kind of be passing through the be quick movers, and by early afternoon we're

probably done with a triangle. Probably hang on a little bit longer two three o'clock probably over with, and then to the west of the triad end a little bit earlier, might get some sun later tomorrow for the commute home, breezy seventy. Then we kind of reset, and it's kind of easy for

Saturday and Sunday. Low seventy Saturday, low eighties on Sunday, lots of sunshine and maybe push in the middle eighties Monday Tuesday, and again we're gonna have high pressure come in and we are going to be mostly sunny those two days also, so past tomorrow, we'll get some late sun Tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday absolutely beautiful with a warming trend. Oh okay, all right, thank you sir, appreciate it. Yep, there you

go. Race stagic. All right, coming up, Jeff Bellinger, and once again we will put on display for the world to see the sheer psychic power of this show by you know, basically, Ross and I are like like Uri Geller, but we can bend spoons. Okay, you don't want to screw with us, and I'll explain why. Yet another prediction is coming true. We'll do it next. Hang on, Good morning, Casey. Just got another inflation report this morning, and it appears to be easing investors'

concerns. The Producer Price Index, which tracks wholesale level price pressures, rose two tens percent last month, not as much as expected. The core PPI, which strips out food and energy costs, was also up two tens percent. That was in line with forecasts. Futures were lower until that report came out. Right now, the S and P futures are up four points, NASDAC futures are up forty five, and the now futures are moving back and

forth across the change level. Right now, they're down two. Number of workers signing up for unemployment benefits fell by eleven thousand to two hundred eleven thousand last week. Instagram announcing today it's deploying technology to crack down on sexting and to fight sexual extortion. The social media platform says new tools will automatically blurn

nudity and direct messages. It is part of a larger effort to offer more protection for young people think twice before making a purchase using a buy now, pay later plan. Deferred payments have quickly become popular. They have also quickly led to financial trouble for a lot of consumers. Bankred dot com reports more than half of the people who have used the plans have experienced some kind of problem. Overspending in missed payments common, and a lot of people have fallen

behind on credit card payments. At least it happened to the end of last year. A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphias as credit card delinquencies hit a record high in the fourth quarter, nearly three and a half percent the card balances or at least thirty days past new and casey. Some top executives from the technology and finance industry were among those invited to last night's State dinner at the White House. The guest list included Amazon dot Com founder Jeff

Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Microsoft President Brad Smith. The event was held to honor Japanese Prime Minister Kishita. I guess it goes to prove Casey it's not just radio people that show up when there's free food. No, No, he's He's going to be here later hanging out with the gov because Fujifilms is going to announce something and then they're having a big dinner at the governor's mansion. So yeah, I think they're expanding of vacccene plans in Holiday

Springs, so that but head of state visit. That's interesting. Hey, Real Quick, con Agra and other food manufacturers are saying that canned meats are on fire, and I'm just looking at the numbers as consumers basically are using canned meats to fulfill their protess he needs because of the expense of others. I'm concerned because I love canned meats. I want to know your favorite? Is it Vienna Sausages, Chef Boyardi, the Sloppy Joe mix, or Libby's

corn beef or spam? What's Jeff's favorite? I guess I'd have to go with Libby's corn beef, although I haven't had it for a very long time. Okay, yeah, little sausages are good too, but yeah, all right, so that's interesting news, but probably not good stuff. All right, Jeff, thank you very much. Okay, Casey take care. All right, there you go, Jeff Ellinger who decided to go with the canned

corn beef. So anyway, although look and then when I say with the governor, so like, we don't know exactly what they're going to announce, but basically it's not really that secret. But not a Koumite or ross, what was doing? Panda Express? Not a Panda Express, although we have a Panda Express literally over on Falls of News, so you could head over there if you need your Panda Express fix. But I was a little a little taken aback by that. Oh I forgot sardines if Jeff likes sardines.

But that is the that's the conventional wisdom among the various media reports I'm reading this morning. And finally, once again, a prediction we've made. What you're saying that sounding the Miss Cleo music sounds like girls gone wild into that I would say, shut up and listen, right, you don't know the lore of the show, but just saying they don't know the lore of the show. Also, you don't look if we have psychic abilities, do you

want to screw with us? I mean, come on, sir, we might come over to your house and bend all your spoons or maybe make your goats explode. Would you rather be able to bend spoons or explode? God? So, when I worked at the Magic Shop as a teenager, yes, we sold the gimmick that allowed us to bend the spoons. Yeah, I know how that works. So I'm going to go with the go explosion.

I feel like you probably wouldn't get a lot of press bookings if you just ran around kept exploding, especially if they were the little baby pass out goats that are and thinks are adorable. I think you'd pretty quickly be a monster. But no, this prediction rather was over the Francis Scott key Bridge. Yeah, and I told you, man, the first thing you want to do is rename this bastard. And I was a little underestimating it.