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K co O Day radio program, and holy cow, you know, on the grand scheme of inaccurate got you journalism, this is uh, this is a doozy and it is shockingly still up the there's a piece the what is this the Palm Beach Post, and editorial writer for the for the Palm Beach Post had himself a He had himself a gotcha. So if you don't know what they're currently roasting DeSantis over is uh the it's not just a santist but basically, in the state of Florida, lawmakers and the governor put together what

is referred to as the State of Florida Immigration Healthcare Dashboard. All right, so you know they they love them. They love some dashboards up in government. By the way, this idiot's name is Frank Sarabino Palm Beach Post. This is an opinion column. I would just point this out. This is

an editorial column. However, even when you're doing an editorial column, and arguably more importantly so, when you're doing a an opinion column and you are one team to present facts to your readers, in this case Palm Beach Post, you want to do so in a way that convinces them of what your position is. That's how these that's how the editorial stuff works. So you

know they they're editorial writer. Sarabino, he's got he's got some thoughts, and his thoughts just happen to coincide with many of the legacy media in Florida. And that is the dashboard, which, by the way, here's what it does. The dashboard, which was put into place last year, collects information and it is a mandatory report. Right, So I guess if you want a beef that government has required additional compliance time on the part of healthcare

providers in Florida, that's fine. That's not what's being argued here. The reason that they're gathering data in mandatory reporting is when you get up at the federal level, while there had been some actual sampling and reporting going on, as you can imagine imagine under the Biden administration, if you can't gather the data to show that it's going on, is it ever really happening? Is an attitude, and we saw it with the revamp of the FBI criminal reporting

numbers. Remember we talked about this, the updated FBI crime statistics, where all of a sudden, in this iteration, they stopped breaking stuff down by certain demographics, so there's charts you can't look at. Many of those charts were charts that people would post online when they were having discussion about crime, and if you posted any you were immediately labeled super bigot. Even though they

were the FBI numbers. They cleared it out. They cleared it up this time, and the numbers are a lot harder to grasp well when it comes to providing healthcare in this case, specifically healthcare that is provided to somebody who is who has entered the country and does not have a legal immigration status in this country, so you're talking about illegal immigrants, you are talking about those within the quote quote asylum program to catch and released, and basically Florida healthcare

providers using this dashboard would upload data to the Agency for Healthcare Administration in Florida and it would allow a county by county map that showed the total number of hospital admissions, emergency room visits, and the total cost associated with undocumented residents.

The stated purpose was to provide actual data which had been missing that allows individuals in Florida to evaluate whether they're comfortable with how this issue is being handled and lo and behold, the numbers came out and for the first year in existence, the state of Florida and this is not in debate. This is what they're reporting. You can question their methodology. Spent five hundred and sixty six million dollars just in the state of Florida for uncompensated hospital business. Now

doesn't mean the State of Florida recompense these healthcare providers. These are a standard accounting byline for healthcare providers and that is undocked or uncompensated hospital visits. Right, So if somebody who's here illegally, doesn't have status, goes into the er, gets treatment and you know, they don't have a Social Security number to track them with any of the rest uh those those costs, while they may not be reimbursed by the government, some are the healthcare provider will have

to write them off. And that is that is something that happens in our healthcare system a lot. But when you write something like that off or if you eat the costs, as you and I both know because we understand how

businesses work, somebody else is paying for that. And the likelihood is if you look at various studies, not just studies done by Florida universities under DeSantis, but specifically pretty much anyone who's ever looked at this, it unquestionably is a cost that is then bore by people who are pain or their insurance is pain. So you know, knowing what that is is probably pretty good.

So when that number came out, it was kind of shocking, even in Florida, which is one of the higher population states, knowing that five hundred and sixty six million in hospital costs are going to have to be absorbed in some way, shape or form, either through tax write offs into the federal system or the state system, or the costs that are bore by Floridians going and getting healthcare. That number of blew people away. So that's how we

get to damage control. So the Palm Beach Post and editorial Frank Serebino wrote this, DeSantis blames undocumented immigrants for healthcare costs, but his supporters cost Florida more, all right. So the sub headline the cost of the uncompensated hospital visits put it five hundred and sixty six million statewide by the agency is actually less than the five hundred and seventy seven million the taxpayers paid to create and this is how he describes it, the anti immigrant online dashboard. So I

want you to think about what I just said. According to Sarabino, e, the cost that was borre by taxpayers to create this online dashboard ran five hundred and seventy seven million, and the dashboard only showed only five hundred sixty six million in uncompensated hospital visits. So who's who's really screwing over the state of Florida? Is the point of this? Because they hate the Santas all right? So those are the numbers. There is a problem. There is

a problem. Ross. Do you think maybe you're picking up on what the problem might be that it costs five hundred and seventy seven million to create an online dashboard just so you could show five hundred and sixty six million in uncompensated hospital spending. What may have what may in rushing to get his peace out, which again is still up. What do you think, mister Sarabino, a decades long newspaper man who has a severe case of teds, Well,

what do you think Maybe it should be a fact check there? Oh, okay, Ross doesn't have a degree in economics. Would you say, let's say you needed an online dashboard, all right, So basically one of any one of our online tools, like the podcast tool or something, or you know, one of the others that we use. And I told you that that software costs five hundred and seventy seven million, wouldn't you be like, what are we doing? Why would you spend that much? Did the Obamacare

website cost that much? Yeah? I mean, I'm sure it did. But well, Frank Serrebino missed a decimal point on the cost to taxpayers. In his fervor to show that DeSantis is wasting a lot more money just so he can demonize people, Serrebino misread. I don't know, it's weird how these mistakes happen seemingly in one direction. So yeah, So the problem with that is is the new dashboard didn't cost that much money. It didn't even cost close. In fact, he was only off by a factor of a

hundred percent. I want to repeat this. He was only off by a factor of about one hundred times. Excuse me, not one hundred percent, one hundred times. See, it turns out the cost of the dashboard was five thousand dollars. But what oh, Now you've got a degree in economics, huh yeah. And then even if you factor in and this is how they got to the five seventy seven because it's five K to create the dashboard,

there's five K for outside out of its hosting services or what. And then there is four hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars that is the cost that was utilized for data collection on the part of the state. So these are our people work within the Florida Health Department whose job it is to maintain this

dashboard. You've got a team there. And so they added five thousand plus five thousand to five hundred and sixty seven thousand, which which which got five hundred and seventy seven thousand dollars for this thing, and instead of five hundred and seventy seven thousand, this moron wrote an op ed piece claiming that DeSantis and his administration spent five hundred and seventy seven million dollars. I'm shocked as someone like this would be wrong about the facts, or are you? Are

you? Yeah? I mean it's yeah, five hundred and sixty seven thousand, And you know what, I like, to some extent if you told me that a government entity spent five seventy seven on the dashboard. I might believe you after the all of the Obamacare website debacle and all of that, but I yeah, i'd probably scratch my head. He thought this guy thought

he had such an exclusive. They he was going to show that, yes, yes, five hundred and sixty six million may have not been paid to healthcare providers will now be passed on to you by the state spent more than that. Except they didn't. They didn't not even close, not even remotely close. And it was too good to check. And the piece remains on. There's no correction, nothing. I'm looking at it right now. It's just up there, and it's been up there all night, and I don't

know. We'll see, we'll see if they pull the whole story or if they just they just to fix at the very bottom of a quick little whoopsie. Yeah, that's how I started mid morning. But you should too, all right, six twenty coming up on the show. Well, i'll tell you what. I'll give you a rundown in a moment. Hang on, fraudile at tax returns, you identity theft increased by thirty percent and twenty twenty three. If you're in a buying this tax season Lifelik can help their US

based restoration. All Right, just retweeted a little summary of what I was just telling you about from was it a g Hamilton tweet? I think does a pretty good job of the rundown. But yeah, so I there. How you can't amend an article that is totally predicated on this this cost that has people in Florida up in arms and likely will be impactful on the elections. Uh, this idiot over at Palm Beach Post can't abide by that. So it is the number being so high so as to show wasteful intent by

desantists. That is the point of this article. And the whole thing's predicated on not just a dude who missed two decimal points where you know, maybe he would come back and he'd be like, well, the numbers had omitted the period and that typo blah blah blah is what caused it. No, you missed it by three zeros. It doesn't make any sense unless it was too good to And by the way, the story was published on April second, because for a moment I'm like, maybe this is a no, No,

it's it's it wasn't it was. It was the second and it was up all day yesterday and it's still up now. AnyWho, All right, coming up on the show. It is Thursday, So Stephen Kent, our official NERD correspondent, he'll be with us at plenty of stuff to get into. Also, dude, I don't know that I feel bad for Sodamayore, but you can tell that what happened with RBG is going to weigh heavily in

the minds of senators for a very long time. Right, I'm talking the narrative where everybody and their mother was like, you know, Bader Ginsburg probably probably should be retired. And remember there was a portion of time, and I mean time when the court was in session where nobody saw Ginsburg for quite

a while. Do you remember that time? You remember that era, that window of about a month where they're like, she's working from home and her clerks are the only ones who talked to her, and you know, the internet, they're like, people are going, well is she or are we doing a weekend at Bernie's thing here? All right? Like I said, I retweeted, I think what is a pretty good summary of the what the hell are they thinking? Over at the Palm Beach Post. Well, I

know what they're thinking. They're thinking, you know, get them, but just absolute journalistic malpractice, claiming that a dashboard which gathered data from all the healthcare providers in Florida showing an unreimbursed expenditure five hundred and sixty six million dollars that no doubt would be at least in part passed on to people wanting medical

care in Florida. The dashboard, the data entry widget. So we're clear, what we're talking about called a website is not even is not wholly accurate. It is a data collection portal, and it does have associated costs. You got to have people to collate the data, report it, put it in report form, make policy recommendations, all the stuff that goes along with it. And in the gotcha moment, the reporter claimed that it costs five

hundred and seventy seven million for the database, but it didn't. It cost five thousand dollars. It costs five thousand additional for I guess hosting just it's a coalition of services, so maybe hosting in printer inc I don't know. And five hundred and six these six thousand dollars for the actual folks that are in charge of utilizing that information for all the things I just mentioned. By government standards, it's you know, being around a half million dollars, that's

not gonna bat an eye. But this guy moved to decimal point three times to create the senatorial and it is strikingly bad. So I retweeted that also another day and other this we have a police shooting. It's pretty I just had Ross watch it too. It's pretty intense. You you have the officers responded for what would you say that is ross a mental health crisis considering what we're talking about, something affecting the brain. Yeah, I see mental health

crisis. You see this, This officer roll up, the suspect is is right there, is fairly aggressive, and what does she do. She takes out her service weapon and puts a couple in them. I mean, the suspect reminded me of Tony Montan at the end of Scarface. Ah. Yeah, yeah, I think that's where like nothing can take him down. Yeah, well that's the thing, right because and then if you're an officer and you're dealing with somebody who you've utilized. In this case, she used her

firearm. Did you ross. Did she even try a taser? I didn't see in the video. Looks like she straight for the and I don't know if she doesn't look like she's trying to shoot the legs either. No, she was. She was going for the head. And then and then at which point the suspect pops up comes after her again, but it puts a couple more into him at like point blank range. Yeah, I mean, right, well, look, you know they talk about closing distance a right.

You ever seen that demo where somebody has a knife and there I can't remember that, it's like twenty some feet or whatever. And then they do what exercise where the person with the knife comes at the officer and you know, once you get within that whatever that distance twenty one feet, it really is not in the officer's favor because that before they can get their weapon out, get it aimed properly, they maybe overtook. So yeah, I think

the proximity had some to do with it. And then after putting two more in the suspect, the suspect up back at it again, and now the officer is you can tell in her brain it's click with her that something may write here, and she she looks like she saw a spider, and I said, people are hacking on her. But I gotta be honest, like, nothing there seems like what you would expect is going to happen. So to say that you would be able to deal with it, like you're an

old Clint Eastwood character, maybe I don't know. Every time that dude got back up, it looked disconcerting, so I want to check that out. Also, it's a raccoon with mate with probably rabies, so but that would be mental health, right, because the rabies affects the brain. So I'm just trying to figure out if I if I could get a spot on the writing at the Palm Beach Post. And I feel like my representation is exactly

what they'd be looking for to demonize this this officer. Yeah, that thing like if I don't know which PD, but it might be the Raccoon City PD can and considering it's a raccoon, all it all fits. So that's that's a reference to zombie movies, folks. And I think it fits the bill all right. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. It is a crazy video. Yeah, I don't know if it's fair. Also, and I'm not sure how they tell them to do it. It

was my understanding and correct me if it's old wivestale stuff. I was told that if we ever, because we had a coyote one time that was like it was like way too friendly. Wasn't the word. It was just way too cut. It had all the hallmarks of rabies. It turns out it didn't have rabies, but it did have It wasn't encephalize. I can't remember what it was. It was something that I antelope used to get and somehow

the cowdi had it, so it was similar. But I remember being told one time that if if we're dealing with a rabbit animal that you shouldn't shoot it in the head. You should, you know, center mass that thing, obviously, but doing part to the fact that they want to then dig through the brain. But I might well, if I shoot it in the head, you're gonna have a lot easier time to getting to it. So I don't know if that was true. I don't know what they tell officers

to do. But about the time you've got you know, five forty five rounds into a raccoon and the thing's still coming at you, I'm gonna be I'm going to start to get uncomfortable with the situation. Yeah, it looked like she put two to the chests and one of the head. Absolutely, she might be a hitter for the Russian mob. I don't know, but you can check that out eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.

And then if you really want to work for the Palm Beach Post, you then take that story and you juxtapose it with Donald Trump calling all immigrants animals, which of course is a drastic misrepresentation which requires very creative editing of a statement he made. I'll let you listen to it. Tell me if you could pick out who he's talking about, twenty two year old nursing student in Georgia who was barbarically murdered by an illegal alien animal. The Democrats said,

please don't call them animals. They're humans. I said, no, they're not yumans, they're not yemans, they're animals. And Nancy Pelosi told me that, she said, please don't use the word animals, sir, when you're talking about these people. I said, I'll use the word animal because that's what they are, all right. So if you are most of the media, obviously what he was referring to is probably not just illegal immigrants,

but all immigrants, just calling him animals as he does. Just like remember that he did with that Sheriff's group when they were explicitly talking about MS thirteen in that scenario, and in this case, he literally started off with the the death of the college students. So yeah, yeah, so if you're gonna hopefully misrepresent that as as folks were doing and running a shorter video, shorter clip than even that, I think you can tie these two things

together. But hey, yeah, you be the judge. Okay, all right, six forty three. Speaking of being the judge, you know I have I have a suspicion that has long lingered based on just a lot of coincidences. I've talked about this off the air. We are Ross, We're still convinced that the Glenn Beck Show steals stuff from us? Right, uh completely, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah right. It's like like eerie. Now is this slightly tongue cheet, yes, okay, but dispair with

me. No, I'm being serious. Is a thief. There's a lot of times where I feel like Ross and I have appealed the onion on a story in a somewhat unique way right, Like you're not hearing analysis like that on mostalk radio. And then all of a sudden it's the uh, it's the hot take on the next hour of Beck Right, so we may like, ah, they're listening, bro, they're listening. There they gotta be, Because did I not create an entire scenario on Tuesday show where to console

you for not getting jury duty? We were going to allow you to adjudicate, uh, you know, various disagreements because you've got a powdered wig and you wanted to justice. Did I not say we could do like judge Judge Hayes. And then I'm the dude in the pot because I remember saying, Hey, I would love to do that, but I'm just too busy. I understand, I'm just way too busy. Yeah, no, no, no, And then, uh, what happened yesterday? What do we find

out? Daily Wires stole our stuff? Man, Daily Wires stole our bit. Everybody's stealing from this show. Just just want everyone out there to know, this is why you've made such a good decision decisions starting your mornings with us. Daily Wire announces a new series that will star Matt Walsh as a judge, so you know, basically in the format of a reality courtroom.

Uh, if you don't know how those things work, the judge, whoever the judge is, uh, is a licensed arbiter, right, and so when you speed read the stuff at the end, that's that's how So anyone could be a judge who can uh you know, get past a short arbitration certification training. So immediately on the heels of us wanting to do this, now they're going to do their own and the photo there at the least of

him. Yes, for the promo material, there's no powdered wig. None did well are trying, no, they're trying not to get caught, right, Like if they're like, oh, if we don't have a powdered wig, if it's him behind the bench with a powdered wig and an iron mask to put on someone up in the beast, it's very obvious they start from us, Yeah, we go to court and we're rich, you know right away. But no, they had just enough differences so they could, I

guess, have plausible deniability. So I did see that. I don't know, it'll be interesting. Me and Matt Walsh don't necessarily align on everything. I think that, and it is fine. I don't got a beef with the dude, but I think he's just he's a I have a I go a little more libertarian on stuff than some of the stuff he does. But that's fine. I'll watch him yell at people. He's generally he's generally pretty good at it. So but you know, I would like a little uh

residuals. That's all I'm saying. So think it over all, right, six forty six? Hang on, I got it? So why don't you just give him back? Dude? We let you borrow our guy as friends do friends. Vikings fans and Bill's fans with you know which I'm happy to jump on that as my AFC team. I like, I've said the same thing. I've said the same thing like if it comes to NFC, I'm a Vikings fan if I have to choose a NFC team, And so what do we do? We're like, Hey, you guys wants to fond Diggs

and you're like, yeah, let's have him. And uh, yesterday when you were done with him instead of letting him come back to Minnesota, where I mean, do you really want him back? Though? You guys are like, dah, We're gonna give him the Texans or whatever your trade was. I remember I did see that the Dolphins fans were thinking they were gonna get him yesterday and their souls were crushed. But also his reason for leaving

Minnesota was there were too many good receivers there, right. You had you had Digs, obviously, but you had Adam Thielen, and then you had Joe Jefferson coming in and he just he wasn't getting the time. And I have a feeling it's the similar thing. Who's the top target is Knox? I'm trying to think who your top target is? Shakiir Is is Shakiro Okay, because listen, Diggs did not have a great season last year. For the first half of the season when the Bills went five and five, Diggs

was doing great. For the second half of the season when the Bills went six and one, Diggs had one game over sixty five yards and one touchdown. But are they putting two or three guys on him another play they were double team in him? Yeah, yeah, for sure. But then he disappears in the playoffs and like the one thing he's known for in the playoffs, this past year was the fumble that he gave up that was return for

a touchdown, and then there was a big wide open sixty five. They would have gone ahead and won that game against the Chiefs, and then ball went right through his hands. Yeah, I don't know that you can shot. You're not shouldering the entirety of it. Because there was also some issues with some calls in that game. Some would argue, but yeah, no he didn't. He didn't look real good. But he's been good for so long. I mean he has. But you get to that point, man,

and it seems to be around like that. Not everybody, but they seemed around that thirty year age mark where it's like the drop off does become significant. I would say yesterday of the news when they were letting him go, I would say, a that doesn't happen without Josh Allen's Josh Allen Green letting that his approval. That does not happen. And I think there was so much drama in Minnesota fans, to their credit, warrened Bills fans that

this would happen in the locker room. And there's been a lot of drama behind this with Stephan Diggs, every other few weeks. It seems like the rumor is he wants out, he's not happy. You have him blowing up on Josh Allen the sideliner in the snow game, and it's just I have feeling Josh Allen was like, enough, we need to move on, and that I mean it was it was clear that all that stuff festered for months with Minnesota, so people were not surprised when they're like, all right,

you don't want to be here, let's let's do this. But that now, the Texans are kind of built. Oh dude, they are. Yeah, if Stroud is If Stroud is good and you know he looks like he's not going to be bad, you got now, you got digs, you got Dell, Tank Dell, you got who's the other receiver or that running back there? Or is Dell the running I can't my brain's hut. But like, their offenses look a pretty and they have a good line too.

I have faith in Brandon Bean and it's like, you know, cliche and the me in the process, but I believe that they have something in the works, and I in the draft. They're obviously I believe going to go for a younger wide receiver. And when you look at the Bills what they've done in the off season, it's been they've got a lot, They've gotten rid of a lot of older guys, and they're going younger and faster. I'm excited to see that. There's also the only way you can win right

now with the with the structuring of stuff. If you've got a if you have a quarterback that's not under a rookie contract, your entire other the way you staff your team has to change just because of the hits and this this is similar to win in my opinion, when Tyreek Hill left the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes to go down to Miami, right and people are like, oh, well, Patrick Mahomes is done. Well, Patrick Mahomes is Patrick Mahomes, and the Bills so have Josh Allen. So I think the Bills are

going to be fine. I was seeing yesterday the Vegas odds of them winning the Super Bowl. They're third now they're still number one for winning the division. So they didn't drop off at all when it comes to Vegas odds. If you put any stuff, yeah, yeah, yeah, I took your but I you know, Carolina was twenty five thousand plus their twenty five hundred excuse me, plus twenty five hundred. So I mean, yeah, the bills are fine, but you're not gonna make much money there. That's why

I put it all on Carolina this year. I mean that payout is going to be amazing, all right. So yeah, so Digs is off right and Ross thinks forty chess is afoot. So I just I just have faith and I believe that. I'm I feel like Michael Jackson eating the popcorn like that. Hey man, I was wrong. I was gonna have I will. I will admit that I was wrong last year when we took that receiver. I you know, I didn't. I didn't think he was gonna be

he was taken in the first round. Everyone said he was second round at best. And I was wrong, and I and that's a good time to be wrong. So we'll see how it can hear me out, Okay, justin Jefferson's the bills. You know what, I can't dream, right, No, you don't have to dream. I think that there's a scenario where our front office does that because they hate the fans, which is where I'm at caz O Day Radio program and coming up in one hour we'll chat with

Stephen Kent. We're gonna talk amusement parks and the Disney saga rolls on. Also we'll talk little entertainment that's not wholly Disney related, Like I honestly if you saw the New Roadhouse, because I watched The New Roadhouse the other day and I I still don't know how I feel about it. And look, I'll be the first one to be hyper critical I think on a lot of productions. But also I think that I'm able to recognize why a movie is being redone, and that's going to inform a lot of how I may feel

about it. Right, Because chances are the only reason you're redoing a movie is you just want to get it ready for a modern audience. Right, You're like, so take any like what if Tony Montana was gay or trans right, and you're like, all right, we're gonna redo Scarface. That's what people are not responding well to. But there are many times where you could do an updated version of a movie. You could do an expansion of

it. Ross just saw you just saw the new Ghostbusters right last week or whatever the newest of the new I guess you had the one with the key. You know, we enjoyed the kids. This is the one past that you went all right, so yeah, good right. And we also recognized that the the women's the women Ghostbusters thing was dog crap, and of course

they would tell, well you think that because it's women. No, no, no, no. It was like there was a lot going on now that was that was a matter of there's a difference in tone and delivery, and they were yes, And I liked I liked the people who were in that movie generally, right, like Melissae McCarthy. I'm fine with her.

Again, I think the Sean Spicer things. Senl is one of my favorite, beloved Kristin Wig and I felt like they took the Ghostbusters, which are like smart funny, if that makes sense, and they turned it into like zany wacky funny. And part of it had to do with what was the thing there was, like there was no script, right, weren't they improving? Most of those scenes was the DNS And that's not surprising to hear,

oh, drink of water here, maybe it's a ghost. I don't know anyway, So that didn't work, and it didn't work for a lot of reasons. One coming out and knowing that you're going to have a crap product, so you you go on the offense if you're like, just so you know when you see this, if you don't like it, you hate women right well, and it's like, well, one, you're poisoning the well

there. But two Also, I think people felt a lot of disrespect when you got some of the original actors back but then made them play other parts. So Bill Murray isn't his character in that one, but you know that has progressed, and in the new one they do honor the legacy of the characters. I remember they were interviewing they even tried debate who we just talked about this off the year the other day, who's the who's the black Ghostbuster?

I can't remember the actor Winston when I know it was that dad, I can't remember the actor's name. But anyway, they were interviewing that guy, and they were and they were the reporter was straight picking a fight. He's like, so, how did you feel finding out that is the fourth Ghostbuster and the only Ghostbuster of color that you were making considerably less than you

know, Ackroyd and Murray in the movie. And he's like, he just looks at him like because they're Ackroyd and Murray and also they had like producer writer credits, they got paid for it. That's a that's Ernie Hudson. Ernie Hudson. Yeah, and he's just looking at him like what there's no fight here, right like because that was Bill Murray in the early eighties and Dan, yes, yes, I give you a hint. The h what's it? What is? What is it? Arguably the bigger name in that

movie aside those two was who's the nerve? Why am I? Rick moranis? Rick branis who? Let you know, Rick Moranas is an amazing story when you look at why he left where like where he just there's a big arc there when it comes to his comedy. It's sort of like when you learn how Bob Sagett really was before Full House, right, You're like, oh my god, this Bob Saget sack. Rick moranis was very sort of cutting edge like that too, but you start thinking of him as the nerdy

character all the time, and you're right. And then he left the movies because his wife got sick and passed away and he wanted to take care of his children. And it's yeah, very noble and then I think what the thing they got him out for was what a mint mobile commercial? Right? And I think because him and the Deadpool actor, like, I think they

both have some financial thing in that. But yeah, but Rick moranis was Arguably he was you could say he was probably what the third biggest name in that movie at the time, right, because he had done a little shop and and he didn't make close to what mariinnat Croid did. But yeah, so you tell you that Ernie Hudson's looking at him like, what what does it mean? You also at Sigourney Weaver? Right, Oh that's right. I'm sorry, Yes, Sigourney Weaver. Uh, well, yes, I

guess we're gonna go. You have a lot of big names in that film, and it's not surprising that Ernie Hudson, not because of racism but just because of name recognition, wasn't dead as much. Yeah, in the recent film though, when we saw a few weeks ago, he has a big I mean, he's a major, big part of this movie. What's good? That's you know? He also, uh, what was what else did you say? I try to remember the other thing he said in the interview.

He's just basically he was just like, this is amazing. I just you know, I'm a Ghostbuster and I'll always be a Ghostbuster. So next question. So kudos to him for the answer. But now I'm glad this they gave him an expanded part there. I don't even know what the premise of it is, right, I'm assuming the kids leave the cornfield and the head of the city. Yeah it does. It takes place in the city

yet, and there's a lot of good cameos in it. All right, cool, I'm looking forward to that, so like it can be done and then with the Roadhouse like but the difference to with this Ghostbusters film. It was a good story. It had good writing, like it felt like an old Ghostbusters movie. I mean, we really so weird. It's from the money. It looks like that's worked out for them. But with the revenue they're making off of it, man, I wonder if the other studios might

wish to emulate this model. Good writing, not a bunch of identity politics and characters that people actually care about. Now that you mentioned it, I can't think of I'm sure it was there and just I didn't notice it, but there wasn't like any over knocking you over the head politics in it or woke stuff. There really wasn't not not that immediately comes to mind. Somebody, I did see somebody write something about one of I don't I don't know

any of the protagonists, so or the antagonist. Excuse me, I don't even know who the bad he is in that. But somebody was saying something. But I mean because I didn't care, but because there's people where it's sort of like you have race hustlers and now you have these like well custlers who are always looking for something to attack or say it is is woken you

should boycott it or this. So if you're going to reach I'm sure you could say, well, the female young female Ghostbusters, this is a woman's empowerment movement. Well nah, I really. I mean she's the daughter of the one Ghostbuster who has passed away, so I mean she has there's a purpose for her being there. Yes, And she's not a perfect Mary Sue character. She makes a big mistake in this movie and she redeems herself. So that's a that's fine, that's a new thing. There's a hero's journey

there, which is missing in a lot of these films. In these days. It's like you're just the perfect character and you have no flaws, and I think it was great for you. And it's that that's not relatable. People can't relate to that. I can relate to that. That's pretty much how I'm always right. Yeah, I started doing radio when I was two. I didn't have a first word. I had a first fifteen minute opening

segment commentary. It's just a fun fact there. So yeah, we'll get into you know, we're just talking about the the the grievance mongers, the the wold custlers. I gotta find this. I just I was looking for it the break. Maybe it's on College Fix. I was scrolling Twitter yesterday and there was this this dude, who's where And he looks like he's just trying to walk through this area on campus, and he's wearing a shirt that says USA two undefeated, two time World War Champion, Right, you've probably

seen that before. And this this moonbat student just she starts losing it on this dude. She's very She's just like and she's going, did we did we? Yeah? We did? Wait? Wait wait that we came out of the war as a superpower. So yeah, there's a reason we really win too. He did, though, why the dollar is the dollar today? I feel like if he didn't win, right, if the only said one, I don't know if he's done the German marketing weapons of mass destruction

on the on the world. I think it was her point, the rosses of the opinion. We did win and we are undefeated in World Wars. So wow. I mean, there's some people to say you might have gotten some help from Britain or Canada or Australia or whatever. I mean, and that's your opinion. Well, that's true, that's you know, right, you know, if you're or even the dare you say, the Soviet Union at the time. Yeah, apparently they lost a few people. I don't

know. I think there's yeah, there was, there was there was one or two. In fact, let's get the Palm Beach Post editorial to estimate how many they lost. Yeah, yeah, but did we You didn't answer the question, but I did answer, did we really win? It's apparently open for interpretation. A loon man just triggered by his shirt and the dude is clearly in the in the video, and I will find I'm gonna find this damn thing in the video. It's it's not one of these where he's

you know, he's over. He's like, ah, the moon bats are on the quad. Let me get shirts that will trigger them and then just stroll around with your chest puffed out trying to walk across like he's got stuck. And he looks like he's in a hurry too. I mean, it's a meme shirt. Like it's become a mean three year letterman uses it all the time, right, he used to trigger people, dumb people. Well, it works like a charm. Apparently did we win? Did we? Yes? Yeah? We uh, we just looked it up. Apparently we

did all right, seven seven seven seven seventeen. I yes, sidetrack by all that stupidity. China's really upset, speaking of global issues, but they're they're mad at the Netflix. Yeah, you know what I gotta I'm here for it, China. Netflix. It's the whole Godzilla meme. Right, let them fight, right, I'm here for this, but I'm gonna have to back Netflix here because it's the Chinese government. And two, this isn't

new stuff that the this new series is about. It is creepy though, if you've never heard about him, what do you think of the Marxist cultural revolution. I think what most people in vision is the the struggle session. That famous photo where you have the the landlords or these uh yeah landlords who were standing up there like their Abu grab prisoners with the sign around their neck

while everyone screams at him like that. That was very real. But also what was very real is genocide and uh and with genocide, the you know, basically the large, large scale starving and decimation of huge lots of population for these big projects, the purging of any politics or thoughts that may go up against uh Mao and his team. The atrocities were numerous, and one that I think a lot of people don't know about is the the Gwanjee uh

the Gwanji cannibal stuff. And if you don't know about this, I'll fill you in because you know, we learned stuff and we'll do it next. Hang on, this is pretty dark what I'm about to tell you, but I think it's necessary, especially because of the kicking and screaming on the part of China. So the folks over at Netflix have a new a new offering.

It's called Three Body Problem and it is loosely based on an individual set of incidents within a larger problem that gripped China during the Cultural Revolution, specifically

in Wufusheng and the Guanshi province. Right. So this is I'm not sure where the percentage of the population is, but within the individual provinces and then the counties within them, local Communist Party leaders pretty much had free reign as long as they were out there, you know, purging dissidence, and they could do it through re education, or they could do it in the way that they chose to, mostly by murdering them or starving them to death.

And as a result, the Cultural Revolution killed tens of millions, five to seven million, I think, just in Guangxi, right and along the Yellow River. So and that doesn't even account for all of the deaths following that when they started changing fundamentally damming and changing so many parts of the river, and they would just be like, oh, yeah, this town of people who are agricultural subsistence farmers, Yeah, this is going to be a lake

now, bye bye. So in this case they cover one of the darker aspects of it, and that was the records, which are as far as I know, not disputed and across many political ideologies not disputed, and even researchers in China have spoke to this before, but because it's the focus of this doc documentary, and it details the roughly one hundred to one hundred and

fifty thousand people who were purged just in this area. And when I say purged, I mean they were boiled, they were let's see here, disemboweling, live burial, and the list went on, and they had a couple unique little twists like if you were a student in you know, whatever level of school and your teacher is deviating from you know, Mao's thinking, you

were encouraged to execute the teacher. And it took place. It took place on multiple occasions, including in nineteen sixty eight when middle school students were who were not happy with the instruction by their teacher as it deviated from the stand under communist rhetoric, reportedly beat their teacher to death, drug her body outside to the flat stones of the Quan River, and then Communist Party officials who were they were stationed in schools, so they were there forced another teacher who

had the students had said was friends with the teacher who they had just beaten to death. Remember, these are middle school students. The party officials forced the other teacher to remove her friend's heart and liver, at which point they headed back to the school, where they barbecued and consumed the organs. Because part of the ideology there was the total domination of your ideological opponents, which

required this. The majority of the one hundred and fifty thousand who were said to be killed were landowners as well as the intellectual class, teachers and whatnot. And they researchers were able to independently document one hundred and thirty seven people, though they they're confident in saying the number was four hundred and twenty one

who were ritualistically eaten. And in fact, it was so common that they had classism break out right in this communist utopia, as you know, where everyone is equal, almost everyone is equally worthless, and then the higher ups do what they want. So they had let's see here, all right, So they had an edict come down, and in it the leaders and party officials were allowed to feast on the heart and liver, and then they had

a dish where they mixed it with pork sausage. However, ordinary villagers could face execution if they were to eat the heart and liver without making it available to leadership. Villagers were allowed only to remove areas of the victim's arms and thighs for consumption, but could not eat the organs, which were seen as the I guess the good stuff, and you wonder why somebody ate a pengulin.

So yeah. Following more information coming to light about this period, in an effort to downplay some of the you know, the really gruesome stuff, the Communist Party decided to do its own investigation, during which they arrived at

the conclusion that only thirty eight people were eaten. Fifteen people were prosecuted and received essentially fourteen years in prison, but then were let go like a year later, and any party official or higher up who was not necessarily a party member but still part of the program they received a five to ten percent salary cut for eating their opponents. So yeah, so that's what the show's about. In China's big mad So that's a that's a thing. So so they

murdered. Even under your own admission, you had a party higher ups that executed uh and then consumed fellow citizens, and you you you gave them a pay cut. That's crazy. Man. But hey, that's again, this is why I like history, not because everything's good, but because arguably everything's

important. And I want to hear the We just didn't try it right, people explain, you know where you just get up in the middle of the lecture, right, you don't like what's going on in math class today, and you're just like, you know what, I'm uh, let's just let's eat the teacher. Then we don't have to do this. But uh, you know, good luck convincing folks on that, all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Seattle with a rather interesting move.

They got a they got an equity problem. Well they don't really they they have a moonbat problem. But we'll let you know what it is they've decided to do. And again it's like Seattle has like an inferiority complex against San Francisco when it comes to who can out moon bat the other ones. And since we're in the Pacific Northwest, what the state of Oregon has done or I guess undone? And just how poorly this whole thing was handled with

their Hey, let's make all the drugs legal is pretty crazy. There's some stuff I didn't realize that maybe people who don't live in Oregon didn't realize. But I do want to share that with you. But first you want to share the weather with rage Age because he's ready to rock and roll. What's going on with man? Yeah? How much are you? I don't know. Ross's team borrowed my wide receiver and then instead of giving him back, they gave him to Houston going on. Yeah, I did see that.

Yeah, Stefan DAGs going to Houston. Man, Yeah, that's a little that was a little unusual. I didn't think that he would leave, but uh, well, yeah, he he went through this whole period with the Vikings where he was, he was, he was all the time, he was bitching because yeah, that dude, dude is by polar. The problem was is he had at that time, he had theling and he had you know, we had three Pro Bowl receivers and he wasn't getting the ball.

And then he goes to Buffalo and he was the man and now and then he wasn't and now he's upset again. So whatever. But yeah, and then I'll go to Houston and probably repeat the whole thing over. No, no, no, Now he'll probably win the Super Bowl because that would be the most thing ever. Ross has already taken this to the darkest logical conclusion for him. But look, Houston's got a good team now. Stroud holds up man a lot of a lot of players around him. Fourth eighteenth,

three weeks from tonight's the draft. How about that and next week's and we'll see. Oh that's right, it starts next week. Updates in the weather, Yeah, yeah, all right, yeah, what are we dealing with? Man, If you don't like the cold, breezy weather, you could turn it off for a couple of seconds. When we get to the weekend and early next week, it does get better. Start to see the clouds increase from west to east. Still a few breaks, but they're gonna go

away eventually. There's more sun east now of Raleigh, and still some sundown Fayetteville. But we are seeing even the clouds there come in and we might get a few showers. This supper level low to our northwest is just stubborn and sticking around, and until it kicks out, we'll keep that shower threat.

It's not gonna be a bunch numbers today, way down only near fifty tonight in the mid upper thirties and a chance of a few showers, a passing shower Tomorrow, a lot of clouds and still a light breeze and cool again, upper forties to near fifty. And then by the weekend we'll start slowly getting milder. Thirties again Saturday morning, low fifties in the afternoon,

partial sun and then upper fifties on Sunday and mostly sunny. Get into the sixties Monday, sunshine expected for whatever the percentage we get here the eclipse, I don't know, sixty or seventy or whatever. Maybe less as you go toward the trying a little bit more as you get into the mountains. But I think the warming trend will continue into Tuesday, into the mid sixties, so it'll get better. It'll be a slow process, but no big warm up. Next couple of days kind of cloudy at times, might be like,

oh was that a shower? It really won't be much at all. All right, Well, we'll complain when we get there, So no card, Thank you much, sir, appreciate it now, Ross, I was just reading. I was reading this quote from Brandon Bean who for those you who knows the GM from the bills. He claims that Josh Allen wasn't told and found out at the same time as the general public. Do you believe

that? I don't know. I don't. I don't think any quarterback who's the you know, a franchise quarterback, You're you're moving a wide receiver without talking to him. So, but I don't know. Maybe they're just trying to in some ways say face. I think you're right though, because that the wide receiver room is getting bigger and younger. Yeah, and then Diggs is like, man, I'm out. Yeah, I don't. I don't know that. I believe that they did not say anything. But any who,

all right, let me do this. We'll take a break again. Stephen Kent will join us. We got Disney stuff, theme park stuff, the new Silver Surfer. That's I'm sure some people are real, real pumped for that. We'll get into all of it more coming up here on the CaCO Day radio program. Oh apparently I'm getting ahead of myself. All right,

Chris, what's up? Hey, Hey, Casey, Hey. I appreciate that you're getting all excited for the Masters next week, right, but it's probably not gonna happen because of the eclipse and when the polls flip. It's it's going to freeze everything. And I got you don't play I mean they play it. You can play a practice round on Monday, but the tournaments, you know, Thursday, sir, so well there everything will be dead. But anyway, you're overlooking a bigger event, arguably a bigger event

in WrestleMania forty this weekend in Philadelphia. I mean it's a big event, don't get me wrong, and all that. The Masters, bro, come on, I can't know after what they did, What's who's the Chelsea Green. I'm not up on all my female wrestlers. Admittedly, sir, after what happened to Chelsea Green, I don't know if they're gonna be able to do it. And for those of you who don't, i'll tell you in a second. All right, Well, look, I'm glad you're excited about

that, sir. And I'm sure Ross will have you know, probably incorporate some of his stupid walk on music in the library that he missed labels so I can't find it and delete it, and then we'll get to the Masters. Okay, all right, yeah, I will, especially if I find those beds. Are they the ones labeled not ww E? Beds. Others are not all right because it says not there. I won't even check that. Yeah, I was reading this story, this is won't you do here?

So on Monday, of course you had Monday Night Raw which where were they at the Barclay Center, so in New York. And one of the matches was Chelsea Green, who wrestled Natalia. Again I'm not sorry, I'm just not up on this enough to but she's described as pretty good and it was a big match, and now she's headed into WrestleMania. So the problem was she does that and then they had them, They had them all up at one of the I think of the Fairmont, which is a nice hotel.

That's where they had the wrestlers. So after the rest after the event, she heads back. Yeah which fair Oh was the Plausa Okay, so yeah it was the Plaza. I didn't know which of the Fairmonts. Yeah, well so the Plaza hotels pretty nice. The problem happened as she returned from the event, and I guess she went into the lounge area, at which point Green says, hotel staff immediately descended upon her, and at first

she couldn't figure out what was going on. But eventually, as they informed her that she was going to have to leave the premises, she started protesting. While I'm staying here, and she says that staff did not believe her, and eventually one of them commented that she could not work the bar, and she realized they thought she was a prostitute. That's like going up and asking a woman with a little bit of a belly when she's due. That's

not gonna end well for you. So yes, the staff of the plaza thought because of the way I and I don't know exactly how she was dressed. I did look at a couple photos. I mean, she's in an visual entertainment medium. She shows off the goods, you catch them a drift. But also, how do you just roll up on and immediately assume that's a prostitute without doing anything to determine based on how badly this could go for

you? But apparently that's what happens. Eventually, she says she was able to explain to him, hey, no, no, no, I'm not a hooker. I'm a wrestler. Now to say, I will say this, though, the sheer volume of female wrestlers who are putting out pretty consistent porn movies. This is I guess you had a few of those over the last a few years. I don't know. Maybe somebody got confused with something they're watching, but that's that's that. I've not seen a response from the

from the PLAUSEA on this. I don't know. Can you stay there at that point? Again? Maybe if you give you a fat like the Donald Trump upgrade. Man. Yeah, she said, one night you're you're wrestling at Barcley Center, having the time of your life, and then later you're kicked out of the the plaza and accused of being an escort because of your

outfit. Yeah, you gotta check. The other thing is too. I have to assume that the staff at the hotel knew that it was chock full of wrestlers, Like they knew there was gonna be some interesting characters in there. They just had to because again, it's not like it was just one room booked. It was basically where they put everybody. So there's your lesson for the day. Don't assume somebody's pregnant or a hooker. Steven Kent joins us, as per usual, how are you doing this morning, Stephen?

Very good, casey, nice to be with you. I'm gonna start with a softball Laura Croft over the Mario brothers. Are you frigging kidding me? For those of you who don't know, because I didn't tease this story yesterday or no two days ago at the baft does I understand you're dealing with a British audience. The BAFTA Game Awards voted Laura Croft the most iconic video game character ever, beating out obviously Mario Sonic One. So what's up with that?

Because that's dumb? That's interesting. Yeah, I wonder if they surveyed four thousand gamers worldwide, this was like a gamer poll that went out online around the world. Laura Croft comes out on top. To me, that seems like a very simple matter of maybe generational cha. Look, I get that Mario is classic, but Mario is not as popular as it once was.

There's a lot of competition in the video game world these days, and for people like myself who grew up in the nineties, yeah, Ura Crop tomb Raider was actually a huge part of the video game experience, right next to like Crash Bandicoot and Zelda. But I am a little surprised. I think this might be just a result of girls being more involved in gaming than

they used to be. That's my that's my hot take. Maybe. Yeah, you know, here's the thing though, and I could go, I think that that is probably I could get eighty five percent of the way there where you're at. But you had there not been a resurgence of Mario for you know, each generation has had a Mario resurgence, you know, whether it's Mario you know, flying with a raccoon tail or Mario driving you know in a racing iteration like Mario's done okay for mult for decades, right,

always something new. So that's that's yeah. I mean that that ip, that ip marches on and they're keeping it fresh. The Mario movie was actually a huge hit and was considered to be incredibly funny. Laura Croft that ip that's been a sleep for a long long time. Angelina Jolie, I guess as the as the lead actress in the movies. Nobody talks about that anymore. Well, no, the one chick took over the alex Alicia of Aconder Alisha of Aconder in twenty eighteen. Yeah, but I don't know, I

wouldn't call that particularly like a hit. Or a real revival of Laura Croft. I'm surprised as you are. Yeah, by the way, for that actress. I think her best performance was it so but that's better know that one you never seen ex Machiana. You've never seen that movie O x O x Machina. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's her. I think that's her break co performance. But actually, so you said you said Mario should have won. Who would be kind of your your number one pick

as well? Like if you took Mario off, who's your who's your runner up as the most most iconic? Uh? Yeah, and it's not it's not the Mario franchise because Mario. To me, that's just a super easy answer, right you know. Yeah, honestly, here you want me to give you, like the the the Deep Thinker News panel one right where I'm just in the pot John Madden, Yeah, you are stirring the pot?

Now? How is that not an acceptable answer? You know, sports games are incredibly popular, right, and so that's that's not only a name, that's a figure of people vastly appreciate and understand. You know, pac Man came in it a number to THI Yeah, pac Man, that's another good thing or master Chief is fine. They got the new have you seen the

new series? Rot I until everything's out before I binge it. Ross has been very complimentary on the the Halo and I've never I was never into the games, but apparently the new TV series he's given that two thumbs up. Well, to be fair, I've never played the games either, so I'm watching it from the clear clean slate there. But people that are fans of

the game are not fan of the series. Oh well, all right, I like the book people, So yeah, this is this is kind of where I think the when people ask you what's your favorite movie, casey, or they ask you what is the greatest movie of all time? Those are two very different questions. You know, you can like garbage movies and actually it's considered them to be one of your favorites, like right, yeah, right, and it's not. It's not a piece of cinema necessarily. But

this is the problem with this question. You know, the most iconic video game character was the question, and so you get characters like Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption place now umber eleven in this poll. Arthur Morgan is an incredible character. Red Dead Redemption is a really great games sort of like the you're mispronouncing his name Arthur Morgan, No Ross, how do you pronounce the

guy the protagonist from Red Dead Redemption? It's dig Bickham's right, So, like you think that's a good point that, yeah, you know, Arthur, that's prestige gaming. That's like really hoiity toydy a MC breaking bad level television. But for gaming, he is not iconic. He's just a really great character. Crash Bandicoot and Solid Snake are iconic. They're like coke and PEPSI uh and so I again, I'm a little surprised that Laura Croft topped

it, but that's fine. She was a cool It's a good game, okay, all right, Well look and look they're gonna get as much out of any I P as they can. We've seen Hollywood's uh I would say ability to do that, but want to do that? And aren't they like they're reinventing Loura Like they're going back at it right because where they're debating over whether her body type needs to change, because of course these are the annoying debates that we have. But they're not done. I think they're working on

something right. Oh, I'm sure they are, And definitely, if there's some sort of Laura Croft revival within the fandom going on there, they'll definitely make a game, and they will also probably have her wear a hoodie and sweatpants. I think that when they release the game, we need to have photos of any of the female devs and then we'll figure out who just made themselves, because that's the trend that I tend to notice there. So uh, all right, let's see here they slip back. Sorry, realize I

closed the other story. I was going to go to damn it. Okay, there we go, all right, so let's talk. Let's talk Disney just a little bit. I know we have an updated fully what's going on down there for a while, But it's more than It's more than just you know, debating over Disney having special privileges or land use or any of the rest. You know. Disney is also and I didn't realize it. I

didn't realize the amount of the park that they were essentially shutting down. Now, the failure that the Star Wars thing has been, and how they've given up on seemingly all the properties, and then the question becomes, well, where do they go now, And how does Disney continue to appeal to this next generation, and how do they do it in spite of the popularity of anime, which I admittedly is something I and Ross are not. I don't know much about. I thought it was called hentai for a while. I've

been corrected. I'm just not into it. That's another thing about it. It's all the same, the same. Yeah, this tentacles and weirdly drawn eyes. Right. So, but I can't deny you can't deny the reality that anime, especially among the lat the two youngest generations, is seemingly much more expansive, uh, you know, within them. But that's not Disney's forte. So let's let's get into that. How do you adapt and overcome when Star Wars couldn't money? Just man, So there's a lot there.

We'll start real quick with just Disney World and Star Wars Galaxy's Edge. That park has not performed like Disney hoped it would. Uh, they are at least shrinking development and expansion of that park. I don't anticipate it being closed down. Yes, the hotel is dead. The hotel is dead. Massive

advancement. I don't expect Galaxy's Edge to go anywhere. But this is kind of a great example of where Disney has mismanaged that intellectual property, the fact that Galaxy's Edge, the Disneyland Star Wars park is based in the pretty unpopular sequel trilogy after Return of the Jedi in the timeline, and when you go to that park you encounter Rey BB eight, Kylo Ren and all of these new characters instead of Star Wars that p belove, which would be the Empire

era, you know, Darth Vader, Princess Leah Luke, Skywalker. It's actually an incredible failure in their thinking on that park, and the best thing they could do to save it would be to actually just what you would say is reskim the park, you know, different characters and just move the park into a different part of the timeline. But that is not going to save the core fundamentals of Disney, which is that a lot of their IP is

considered to be pretty stodgy. With young consumers today who love anime more than anything, we are way beyond the world of princesses and fairy tales that Disney has thrived in for so long, and young people by and large like Japanese imported anime programming, and we can kind of go into the specifics of what

that is and is not. But you know, even compared to the super Bowl, the super Bowl has nothing on Netflix's average watch viewership with gen Z subscribers for their anime program and yeah, yeah, just the amount of titles that they have on there. And I've seen let's talk a little about what it is, you know, to see it as a Japanese kind of graphic novel comic book, I guess, and you can come if you think that that's not a fair definition. But what it is or what it isn't And

I've seen a lot of people argue, this is it. It hasn't been tainted. It hasn't been tainted. And when I say tainted, I mean properties that have been you know, redone to modern audiences every time they've tried to redo. And I'll give you the probably the biggest example on Netflix was

what Cowboy Bebop? Right, which was an immensely popular anime, and the way that they decided to kick it off is they the the woman I can't remember the actress's name, she filmed a video berating male viewers and over the fact that her she didn't dress like the character. It was obviously like in many anime, it's a character that has exaggerated features, especially female features,

tight clothing. Uh, It's it was known, but you could tell that they made an effort to not just attempt to as closely as possible follow it, but to outright reject it and then make one of these dumb videos like this, like the Snow White Chick, where you're on camera going, you're all stupid, you are your a bunch of pervs. This is what we're gonna do. And that thing failed miserably. So every time they've tried to screw with the product, people have rebelled. I know that there are some

that are upset. They're saying that the translations are having woke stuff put in there, But ultimately consumers want purity of product there. And if you're Disney and you monkey with everything, how the hell do you do that? And and Disney is way down the rabbit hole with monkeying with a lot of different classic ip whereas anime that's being imported from a bra is more reflective of Eastern

values, Japanese traditions and sensibilities. Now you do have some instances, I forget what the word is called, but when Western developers and managers are tinkering with the dialogue to adapt to sort of Western sensibilities. But by and large, anime has been inoculated from the culture wars that we're experiencing in the United

States and the Western world more broadly, and people love it. Gen Z watch anime more than any other property, and that's why you had Netflix do this adaptation of that graphic novel one Piece, and One Piece has been incredibly successful on Netflix. It's very true to the anime tradition, and that's why you also have a resurgence of anime even in other parts of the world. Saudi Arabia, of all places, is building a Dragon ball Z theme park,

the world's first. It's it's incredible. Currently building everything right now. Everything's in Saudi Arabia. Cracks the new race track, they're building a whole city. They're like, uh, you know, they want an additional you know, they're working with Turkey to cut an additional Cora Canal, right, Like, I mean, I believe it. I just got back from Dubai Casey and Dubai was just kind of one of the most opulent. It's strange.

Fa Yeah, it's I mean, it's kind of like going like through the most newly developed communities in Miami and then dropping them into the desert and going like this feels like I'm in some sort of fake city. But look, I think it's pretty cool. Dragon Ball Z is the most popular anime product in the United States, and Saudi Arabia is going to have the claim to the first theme park. This is what my generation grew up watching on

Cartoon Network in a series called Tsunami. If you came home home from school at the middle of the afternoon, around four pm, you got off the school bus, you went into the house, and you watched Dragon ball Z first thing when you got home from school, and that popularity has only continued to grow since my generation entered the real world. Now, that's so, that's straight. Now, hold you, Stephen, this so we're thirty five, Okay, so you're you're you're you know, but you're not even ten

years younger than me. I know nothing about Dragon ball Z. And it shows you how quickly this changes. Right, That's why Ross and I contend like we're basically the same age. So like there's a lot of overlap on what we watch. So this is why I bring this up, because anime is is so staunch in not comporting to the the woke stuff and gen Z can't get enough of it. What does that say about gen Z? Some would say that that says something good, like maybe they're sick of this stuff

too. From what I have seen, I can't pull up any specific research for you right now, but what I have seen is that they are pretty

exhausted with millennial pearl clutching over political correctness and free speech issues. Gen Z does have some very weird left wing quirks gender politics among them, but when it comes to free speech expression and political correctness, as gen X would also appreciate as a terminology because that's kind of where this's all started, they're pretty tired of it all and there is a little bit of a less puritanical attitude

about those things with gen Z and jen Alpha beneath them, and anime appeals to those things. It's both very macho and hyper feminine. It's also very violent, and it's just a cool graphic style that you don't see in the Western world very much. My favorite Star Wars product of the past couple of years was Star Wars, anime product that they've put out on Disney LUs called Star Wars Visions where they had Japanese storytellers do original, non cannon Star Wars

short stories as as like short films, and it was incredible. And that was them baiting the anime crowd just a little bit with Star Wars because Star Wars is a little bit more of a stodgy old ip that has not thrived the way that they thought it would. The Stevin Kent, I appreciate it this morning, and we will. We'll touch base here next week and be

prepared to talk about the Masters, which kicks off Thursday. So and you be prepared to talk about the next season of Dragon ball Z. Deal right, Yeah, you can tell me whatever it's could be and I'll believe you and I will never know. So all right, appreciate appreciate it this morning. I have a go one man see you all right. Yeah, I'm gonna do my Dragon ball Z research. It'll be a big part of my weekend. Anyway. Well, we're going to take a break and we'll be

back. Hang on. I am so I don't need audio or anything, but I do want you to watch it because I'm pumped. We're just sitting here with Steven Kent. Obviously we're getting into Hollywood stuff and movies and and man, every time you think throwing the towel, they're done. What a shame entertainment mediums going by the wayside over politics and just you know, killing killing everything. I love. They they redeem themselves. So and I just

I just tweeted this out at Casey on at Casey on the radio. You want to go watch it. So there's a new movie coming out called Bambi The Reckoning and it's a horror. It's a revenge horror flick by Bambi. Now in the trailer, uh, there's two dudes in the woods and they have like a they have like a duck tied to a tree or something. It's really weird and they're shooting at it. But you know, obviously it's

to show that they're maniacal. They're horrible, they're mean. And one of the guys as the other dude, who's like, you, man, you

ever shot a deer? And then there's this real foreboding music and the guy's like yeah, once, all right, and we all know what's deer obviously this guy's referring to and they look like a couple near dwells and then all of a sudden it cuts to the biggest, baddest, most rampaging deer you've ever seen a right, So, and this is from the same folks who basically their entire movie strategy is to wait for ips to fall by the wayside.

And as you know, a bunch did with Disney, and then you saw with what was it, oh, Winnie the Pooh, right winning the Poop, Blood and Honey. This is the same outfit. In fact, the movie is part of a larger effort, a series of movies which I kids, this is the actual name for them. It is Bambi. The

Reckoning is the second installment in the Poonaverse. So just you know, like the Marvel Universe, theres is the Pooniverse because they kicked it off with the slasher Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey, and now it's Bamby the Reckoning and I'm here for it, man. Yeah throw that in there. I know, Cocaine Bear is its own thing, but they're they're starting their own. But yeah, yeah, I'll watch Bamby the Reconing. Hell yeah, And you know what for what is probably not a big budget the the CGI

with the deer in the trailer. It looks pretty good, so yeah, sign me up. I oh wait. I do have to warn you though, and I cannot stress this enough. Do not google Poonaverse movies and blindly click you catch it when I'm putting down, because it's not the first series of movies that were ref referred to as the Pooniverse series, or search it on your coworkers computer, so you know, probably go with Bamby the Reckoning and then Pooniverse, but not Pooniverse by itself, because holy crap, this

is this is the reality in which we live. Yeah, I'll give that a watch. Absolutely. Hey check this out. Oh the meltdown is fantastic. All right. So Jamal Bowman, you know him as Captain fire Alarm or excuse me, a guy just trying to go through the door. Of course, the accountability there was next to nothing from a legal perspective. However, it may not be the same not in Westchester County, so that's where Bowman's district is. The district is southern Westchester north northeast Bronx. It is

a decidedly blue district. So what's happening. Well, even the people in his own district think he's looney tunes. How do I know? A new poll shows that the sitting congressman is losing to Democratic primary challenger who's a Westchester I guess County County executive, Yeah, George Latimer, so also a Democrat, seemingly from what I've seen, not quite at Jamal Bowman level of insane. And in the poll, by the way, the primary is on the

sixteenth, so we're not far away the New York primary. Currently Latimer leads Bowman fifty two to thirty five, so he's probably out Man. And what's rich as I'm seeing people claiming that the reason that Bowman's getting purged is not because he's insane, not because he pulled that fire alarm and then lied about it and there was really no accountability. Nobody his constituents noticed, and they're

done with this dude. And of course, obviously it's because they're racist, because, as you know, the Bronx in New York, they are not a fan of black people. I don't know if you're familiar with the Ross you're from the state of New York, but you're you're familiar with New York City, the Bronx, Right, obviously, it's a mecca of evil, racist, it's a mega country. It is mad. You know, that's a that's a perfect comparison. Yeah, if you're that's a good point.

If you're if you're Juicy Smolet, you justly would not go to the Bronx. Man. Yeah, that's what. That's why I run Yankee Stadium. Red hats are so popular. Oh is it? I didn't know, So next time I'm in New York, I should get a red hat and go over to the the Yankee Stadium. Oh yeah, oh good, high fives. Huh? All right, because it's weird because I just see their hands in their pockets. I don't know what's going on. So maybe I got to run up on him, all right. So yeah, he's probably gonna

lose his He's gonna and then Latimer would obviously probably win. I think the district's like seventy six percent Democrat or something. So interesting. Interesting little follow up there, and this real quick. Seattle Public Schools say they will shut down their Gifted and Talented program. Why equity baby, that's right. The school board has voted to scrap their cap. What they call a highly capable cohort program, what a stupid name. After let's see, they did that

in twenty twenty. They knocked that down and then the schools said, no, this is dumb. How do we not have this program? So they

started it again on a more traditional lean. However, they said that they did not fix the problem by reinitiating the program, as the majority of the vast majority of students who found themselves who tested in to the program were white or Asian, and by revamping the program over the last four years, they have not seen any substantial growth in the percentage of students who were black or Hispanic, and therefore it fails the district's equity concerns. So they're just going

to shut it down. So it's done. Though, So if you're a parent there and your kid was in that, then no, yeah, you can't have people excelling. Man wouldn't want that, all right? Eight forty four raced Agic stand why, oh man, everything is dumb. But then you have a new movie coming out. You're ready, It's called Bambi the Reckoning. Oh yeah, and Bambi is not pleased with all that, you know what now with his mom so well, I love, I love.

There's a couple companies that are looking at all these ips, like Whitney the Pooh is the one remember the Blood and Honey they did last year. It's the same company, and they're they are just they're just waiting for IPS to and then they just make him murder things. And uh, this is the layer and it's and it's called the it's the Pooniverse of movies who started with Winning the Pooh and then the next Bambi, and they get a bunch of

others. But do google Pooniverse movies on its own and click. Okay, I'm just warning, right, I won't do that or do it on al Rogers computer or something, right, Yeah, probably all right, So what's up? Yeah? Yeah, I think improving pre SIPs just about done with. But there's an upper level low. And if you didn't know what that was, just a minute of meteorology one on one up upper level low was

a cold pocket of air, not even I'll give you ten seconds. The cold pocket of air upstairs in the atmosphere, and as it spins around very slowly, kind of rotates in these disturbances. And that's why the clouds are increasing. That's why we see passing shower for today, and the chili temperatures with this northwest breeze upper fifties. You might at sixty, especially where you had some early sunshine in the triangle in points east tonight some clouds mid thirties

to the west, maybe some low thirties. And actually the winter weather advisories in Avery County and up into Boone and some of those places where they may get a couple inches of snow instead of rain. And then Friday we'll see some clouds coming again after morning sunshine, mid upper fifties, and then Saturday

and Sunday closer to or above sixty degrees. I think Sunday we finally get above sixty with some frost in the morning hours though, so I'm not gonna say cold weekend, but for this time of year, a little on the chili side for the morning hours. I do think as we get in a Monday and Tuesday, we will see temperatures back into the seventies. I think

that's pretty close to average. I think near seventies the average high. With the Chanta showers coming back here on Wednesday, So grabs heavy your jackets. You're gonna need them. A couple of chili days coming up, and even with the sun out on Saturday and temperatures close to sixty gonna be breezy too, So that don't feel a little bit risk. But for the good the good news is for the weekend, we don't have any rain to worry about, but as a cloud to deal with for the eclipse on Monday, partial

sunshine, So we'll see how that all works out. I know we only see a small percentage of it, but still may be able to see something. Did you see the Airbnb map that they put out. I did not, and it's it's a map of sold out airbnbs and it is it is the line. It is the line the US dude, these communities that are undering from a traffic per sue, it's it's going to be bad, if

that's any indicator. So yeah, if you've been to somebody these places, like if I've been like Upstate New York where I go snowmobiling, like Old Forge is one of the spot's gonna get one hundred percent eclips. Yeah, but you know he's getting You know, the prisoners up there are having a problem because they can't like they can't two to five is normal yard time, but they don't have proper lighting, so they're putting the prisoners on lockdown.

So a group of prisoners has suits saying that they have a religious right to watch the eclipse. Oh good, lollough, all right, man, appreciate it having there. You go raced agic. And by the way, I know what you're thinking. Oh, it must be the guys who think they're warlocks or whatever. No, no, no, I'll share that with you. We'll chat with Jeff Bellinger next. Good boarding. Casey stocks were mixed at the end of a yesterday session, had the Dow down a little bit,

but the Nasdaq and deescentp posts of small games. Remarks by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell helped to ease some concerns over high interest rates. Powell said the Central Bank still expects inflation to decline this year to a level that will allow for interest rate cuts, but he also reiterated the Fed does not have

to be in a rush to do that now. There was a bigger than expected jump last week and the number of workers signing up from employment benefits this report just in the Labor Department counted two hundred and twenty one thousand new applications. That was nine thousand more than the prior week. Stock market futures improved quite a bit after that report came out. Right now, the Dow futures are up one hundred eight points. A lot of homeowners across the country were

no doubt shocked when they saw their property tax bills last year. At Them reports that taxes registered the biggest jump in five years. The amount governments collected was up nearly seven percent. The average tax bill nationwide now tops four thousand dollars. Apple wanted to bring an electric car to market. That effort failed, but the company is still looking to introduce new products. Apple teams are looking into whether personal robotics might become the next big thing. So to say.

Engineers have been considering a mobile robot and a tabletop device that uses robotics to move a display. Artificial intelligence engineers working for Tesla seeing bigger paychecks. Elon Musk says Tesla has been hiking the pay in its AI division to encourage key people to stay. Musk charges that Open Ai has been aggressively trying to attract Tesla engineers, and massive compensation offers have convinced a few to jump ship

and like this story. Casey Planters has three job openings. Company famous for its peanuts and other nut products, now looking for people to drive it's twenty six foot long nutmobile this summer. The vehicle looks like a giant peanut. It will be appearing in parades and showing up at events all across the country. Casey, It's called the Nutmobile, the Nutmobile. Yeah the record just

see dreg Rice with this and the Yasker Meyer Wiener Mobile. Yeah. Well, I'm just like, so it goes around as parades, maybe maybe driving, you know, just visibility within the community and stuff. Maybe giving people rides. I don't know, if there's some woman walking or whatever. I don't know. I mean, what all do you do with the Nutmobile? So both just a purit events, just be there, I guess, mister

peanut, I guess will be a present as well. So all right, all right, well appreciate it. Okay, every day it's something new. Thanks appreciating. Yeah, I mean, because it's not every day is not a parade. But yeah, you could probably just non parade days drive around in the Nutmobile. Maybe, you know, maybe you're driving down a road

in Florida or whatever. You see some would be nut consumers, you know, walking down the street, Maybe see if they need a ride, maybe a couple of co eds or whatever, just saying got options, or maybe I'm misunderstanding what the thing was there AnyWho not misunderstanding this A lawsuit against the State of New York's Corrections Department filed after it was announced a total lockdown at several of New York's facilities, including Woodborne Correctional also the one where the dudes,

those two dudes escaped, and one of the other more famous ones anyway, so it spread over three facilities. The concern on the part of New York direction facility officials is that the event is taking place what is normally a time where they're out on yard. However, the yard is not in a position where it can be used at night. They do not, you know, they don't let them out there in the dark, at least in the full expansive park and obviously not usually a problem between two and five in the

afternoon, which is yard time. However, if you're in this line of near total darkness or damn near it, then they don't want them out on yard immediately six different inmates, shockingly of a variety of religious backgrounds or non backgrounds. As you'll hear, all have professed a deeply held religious belief that they should be able to watch the solar eclipse and they have to witness this

as part of their faith. This includes a one Muslim prison or a Baptist prisoner, a Seventh Day at ventist, two practicers of Santoria, and an atheist. And now they're tripping all over themselves. So what do you do here? Probably gonna let them watch it. I just I don't know how they're gonna do it. But what a Yeah, they got a lot of time, get a lot of lawsuits. But is it a deeply hell religious

belief? I guess maybe if you think it's the rapture, which obviously you know, among a bunch of murders and rapists at the max security prison up here, I don't know too many of them are gonna have to worry about, you know, a rapture or I don't know, maybe they turn their life around, I guess, But yeah, what an interesting lawsuit there