Thursday-7-25-2024

Watching that insanity unfold in DC are not probably the healthiest thoughts to be having for hours while you try to not go back and look at some of the videos, but you cant help yourself because it's your damn job, So you got to sit there and do that. Ah, it's uh, it's gonna be a struggle this morning. I think what I'm gonna need is like some some like soothing herbal what's the name of the tea company, herbal whatever,

How many of you, how many of you.

Found yourself just trying to mind your own business yesterday after yesterday afternoon, maybe you know, turning your attention to your job, maybe putting down the phone because it was having like a real impact on your mental health watching what was going on in Washington, DC yesterday, watching the absolute destruction and violent for every one of you who you know sat here like Adam Schiff and when the

But it didn't matter.

And people who didn't lay one finger on law enforcement and are seen on video literally entering open doors, walking past law enforcement who's playing brigging Bejeweled on their phones were handed multi year sentences. It was one of the largest investigative undertakings the FBI has ever conducted. Do you think that what happened yesterday that will happen?

No? No, And it's why.

I or a little tea here of Cama mill some honey on heres. Moonshine lemon, Oh, smell it more moonshine lemon honey. Okay ah. Do you do you think for one minute there's gonna be whole websites created with grainy photos parents whose kids are turning them in, kids whose parents are turning them in. The wholesale destruction of family units, the majority of which never physically involved themselves with law enforcement.

They could get a.

Hold of the physical assaulting of police officers.

And I don't mean lightly.

I mean you had officers that were attempting to conduct the rest and every time they would kneel down to handcuff somebody, some violent piece of garbage would run out and physically grab the vests of officers, ripping them off of them. The absolute pandemonium that was going on in the lower part of Union Station there where you had

And it went on for.

Hours, and then the audacity of the President of the United States to begin his little five minute speech yesterday with political violence will not be tolerated, when he wouldn't, dare just point that camera outside the window if that's the real window. I don't know if that's the real window, if it's the faky window. But he wouldn't in a million years after uttering that line at the exact moment it was said to be uttered, point a camera directly out the window. I can't be the only one. We're

Her hosts should be like, ah, she's the.

Borders are and then and then directly after then there was the reporting that took place over the last forty eight hours by the same people in the same shows in the same network.

Tamala Harris knows what she needs to do.

Well, yeah, I'm sorry, hold on, here's the clip I meant to click quote unquote borders are. Vice President Harris was not a borders are.

Being time Vice President Tamala Harris facing some backlash.

What he said about Harris and immigration was not true.

She was never appointed borders are.

And this will be her first visit to the US Mexico Border Regents and she was appointed as the borders are by President Biden.

People gonna have to counter the misinformation.

You already hear folks talking about the borders are she wasn't the borders are.

President Biden tapped Kamala Harris Vice President Kamala Harris to be the borders are Now.

She wasn't the borders are. That's what Republicans labeled her.

They were very article of Kamala Harris, especially in her role as borders are Now.

What she's up against is folks line about.

Her border record, calling her a.

Borders are Kamala Harris who was appointed as the borders are.

The Biden team didn't declare who the borders are. They wanted her to work on kind of the root causes of immigration.

There has been so much criticism against Kamala Harris. You know she was the borders are, calling her sort of the borders are, which wasn't necessarily the case.

So the border if they weren't planning to address it in a major way, do not make her your borders are. She met with some of the Northern Triangle countries, but nothing has effectively changed.

Sorenity now, Serenity now if the every single network, which you just heard an example of, is to follow the example of Axios, who really set this thing off. Yesterday, Axios pointed out that she was never the borders are and was immediately met with their own reporting by the same reporter, and their response once they realized that was untenable, was to add a little addition to the initial reporting, saying that they and the rest of the media incorrectly labeled her back.

In the day when they did their reporting.

So what they went with, rather than pointing out that the White House is full of crap, is that they all were full of crap. That was the solution of the problem. If that's not carrying water, I don't know what is. And you had those two things compounded over a twelve hour fifteen hour span yesterday, and it literally, I literally had a problem fallows asleep. I can usually fall asleep, I'm pretty good at it. Because I ain't get a napists today and I sat there tossing and

So there we go.

That's how we're kicking things off today. I'm sure some of you might share the very same frustration. Will provide a cathartic release if you two want to yell into the void, We're here for you. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four back in just a few Sure, some of them were taken into custody and will likely be charged.

I saw a saw some folks pointing out that they've identified.

Now I guess it's four individuals from three different Congress members who.

It was their kids out there.

Now, they weren't necessarily out there, you know, the ones who were seen assaulting police officers, but they were in the hoard man, And I'm sure that the media will spend a good portion of the day tracking down those members of Congress, including that weird looking Connecticut lady, and asking them for comments on why the kids were in the middle of the let's see destruction of the flag assembly and statues on Washington Circle there in front of the Union Station.

Which that part killed me because.

Every year when we would do the DC broadcast, it always took place at the Phoenix Park Hotel, which is directly a kitty corner from Union Station right there. In fact, because of how it sits on the corner, when I would look out the window of my hotel room, it would gaze upon Union Station.

And you know, you had a couple of big.

Statues there, You had the flag assembly, had a lot of sleeping hobos at night. I saw more than one naked person fighting police over the years, but you generally didn't have the mayhem that you saw. And they absolutely tore it to pieces, took the flags down, burned the flags, tangled with police, put the gosit flag up there, spray painted every square inch of everything they could find, chiseled and broke part of the base of the statue.

It looks like I don't know what they snatched or what they hit it with.

Because there's like little there's like little column things on the bottom, and they ripped one of those off, and that can't be easy. And just absolute pandemonium. And while while that's going on, Netanyahu's got his speech, Joe Biden's getting ready for his little five minute dinner thing described as emotionless with no real description of why he came out of the race.

I mean, are you buying this.

The truth, sacred cause of this country is larger than any one of us, those of us who are cherry. That cause cherishes so much, a cause of American demckers itself must unite to protect it. You know, in recent weeks has become clear to me I need to unite my party in this critical day. I believe I reckon as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for America's future, all merrid of a second term. But nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy

A new generation.

Watching video this morning of some of the gatherings because you know, even though even though they're the official opening ceremony for the Olympics, is is I guess tomorrow, there are events that take a while to play out, so they're going on, and so they have there's video of like a Israel fans at I'm not sure what this event was yesterday, but basically you had members of the crowd there at Paris who are identifying them as cheering for Israel or or I guess you know, the crime

What are we what are we doing? And what are we doing?

And they have, like I'm looking at the one video here, they have like five, you know, standard security guards like you'd see if you went to an NFL game, right, trying to trying to quell the pandemonium. So I don't know what they're gonna do when we get into some of the bigger events, because the stadium only looks about a third full, So like, feasibly you could provide separation, and that's.

Not but one, why should you have to?

And two what happens when you don't have the ability to do that anymore? Remember what happened with what do they call the stupid singing competition Eurovision. I know that that didn't get a lot of coverage over here, but it was pretty crazy because like you had, you had you had judges who were posting videos that they were intentionally rigging the vote against the the Israeli singer, and

What are you going to do?

I don't know if you I don't know if you're aware of Paris to the current makeup of the city of Paris, but there seemed to be a lot of folks who are not fans of anything having to do with Israel, which you don't have to be, but you can't act like a psychopath, you know what.

You can have your opinions and like somebody's gonna get hurt.

Man.

I I don't know if they're taking it seriously enough to try to stave that off. And I saw Israel was telling people not to go to certain things. Why shouldn't they be able to and they're trying to torch our capital in DC, absolute pandemonium. Simultaneously you have that going on net Yahoo, who's giving his speech, well.

I have a message for these protesters. When the tyrants of Tehran who hang gaze from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair. Are praising, promoting, and funding you. You have officially become Iran's useful.

Idiots, right He also what did he? He also did the was making fun of one of their signs. And again, you don't have to like nt Yahoo and I and I do believe people when they say that they feel that you can't that leadership of a country versus your affinity for the country are two different things.

For the same reason.

A lot of you don't like Biden, but you kind of like the whole American experiment. That's fine, That is not what we're talking about here. This is this is this is criminal what's going on, and everybody knows it. But everybody will sit there and couch it and look the other way. And I don't know how you watch any of the stuff that I watch, you say and look the other way, because that's not you're not in civil discourse. And I don't know that they even needed

And it's just, you know, just everything full circle, man.

And I have to keep physically like dipping out of this stuff because it's ruining my whole evening. I did get a nice nap yesterday, which might have been the only saving grace. Always good when we get because I haven't had a nap all week. I know, I sound like a cranky toddler, but it's almost a.

Necessity, man.

Plus, in the early part of the day I had to watch Christopher Ray come in so he could testify about, you know, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, and lo and behold more of the stuff where people really wanted to know, right, how many rounds were fired, what's going on here? Where the Secret Service director kept deferring to the FBI investigation. Ray then would defer to the Secret Service investigation. So once again, they have absolutely zero respect

One of them.

To his chin starts where his belly. It's wild man, absolutely wild. They are scumbags and to be rewarded with likely a Senate seat, which Adam Schiff is probably going to get, just shows you how broken not just California is, but everything. This is Adam Schiff literally in this hearing yesterday morning.

Thank you was chairman, director, Thank you for appearing. Thank you for the extraordinary job that you're doing.

He's not he's not doing an extraordinary job.

He's not doing a damn thing, But un it's extraordinary because it keeps covered what you want covered, and we don't have to have this moment where people step back and go, they almost killed this dude. Look what the FBI is uncovered. That won't happen. And that's how shift won, which lets you know that this is a person who in my mind is just fine with Adam Schiff. If you if you told me and we had access to even the subconscious thoughts of Adam Schiff on Saturday, you

Please convey our thanks to the men and women at the Bureau for their incredible work. I worked with him since I was an assistant US attorney more than thirty years ago.

Let me start with a threshold question.

I'm curious about when I applied to be an assistant US attorn and you had to go through a background check. Do candidates for the FBI have to go through background checks?

Yes?

Would someone with dozens of felony convictions survive a background check for the Bureau?

No, so they would never be hired by the Bureau.

What does this have to do with him being shot?

Well, clearly the Bureau has.

You don't have to comment on this, I know you won't, but clearly the bureau has higher standards for their hiring than one of America's great political parties. Let me turn to the events of the.

You guys, you guys, by the way, you ran a cop killer as a Democrat one time. That's is that.

Disqualifying, mister Ray?

Do we know if I'm not in hr over at the FBI, I don't know. That is how Adam Schiff decided to start this yearing, not hey, why don't we get some answers on this or what have you found there any of.

The rest of that. He wanted to use his opening time there.

To do to literally reattack the person who got shot and ignore by the way, the person who lost their lives lost their life and others who were wounded. That's Adam Schiff, all right, Hush, hush, I can't with you anymore. Then it was Jerry Nadler, who is the ranking member, so the number two on that and so even he should be more on point. And you're going to be shocked to learn he.

Was an assassination attempt. As horrific as it is, this assassination attempt, as horrific as it is, should surprise no one. Really, you would think a political party that almost lost their presidential candidate through an act of political violence. But there's something to say about the way that leaders keep talking about the next election. Donald Trump has warned there will be a quote blood bath.

Yes, that's right.

He went for the bloodbath thing, which if you listen to it in context, was clearly him talking about not tariffing cars that China is going to attempt to manufacture five minutes across the border in Mexico because they think they have a loophole to flood the market with their own manufactured vehicles that will not have tariffs because of some of the NAFTA requirements. It's abundantly clear in there. And he chose to run that. He chose to run the good side or good people on both sides thing,

There's not enough.

I don't I just like I I, I am befuddled. I want to use a different word. How literally watching the dude get shot didn't change your attitude at all in the way that you operate.

What would it take?

What would it take A if somebody knocks a nuke off at the RNC, Like, I don't even think that would change this. So it's it's it's it's another it's it's another untreatable symptom. I don't know what the answer for it is. And that's scary, Like you want to think that there's something out there where people would pause and have a moment and go, yeah, we got to

Were?

You know?

I'm sorry, my brain's up. You and I were talking about this off the hear What was the Trump thing where they're still running that?

Oh yeah, the the Hannible elector thing.

Hannibal elector. All right, we got to address this, do you guys? You guys have heard. And by the way, I also does anybody at the Trump thing yesterday you want to give us a book report, that'll be fine. You know, Trump keeps mentioning Hannibal Lecter, and I think he keeps doing it more because some of the reaction he gets. But do you understand the context of it? Okay, if you don't, that's fine, because even if you don't, I think in your mind you probably do because of

So we'll seen set it and uh, I don't know.

Maybe then if you hear somebody bring it up, he can be like, well, know what he's actually talking about is this, and let me explain it for you, even though that shouldn't technically be your job. That is unfortunately where we are. And they say, if you're explaining, you're already losing. So and we also said there also the little behind the scenes Barack Obama, Joe Biden spat that New York Post is saying is going on.

I'll explain that to you as well.

All coming up, two more hours to go, case O Day Radio program, Hang on. But overall devious plan because you got me was the way in which you all not you all.

But unless you were part of it, then you're in there.

But like.

Somehow yesterday the news cycle found a way to put simultaneously all the stuff that just drives me up the damn wall within a twenty four hour period. Right, the wanton double standard and destruction of Washington, d C.

The parading of the failed and corrupt.

Agencies like the FBI, The smugness of members of Congress who no longer suffer any political ramifications for hijacking something as serious as hey, they almost assassinated a president. The the the display of the media's willingness to literally fall on the sword right and and make fundamental sweeping Oh no, that thing you thought you read, You didn't read that. Declarations on varieties of issues, whether it was the borders,

To live near.

Just being destroyed, and I knew people who literally had their lives. They don't do what they did anymore. One of the guys who ran, like I say, it wasn't a pawn shop per se, but it was like secondary archery equipment and a.

Few other stuff.

He didn't have guns, but he had basically all the other stuff. It was I got played against sports, but for hunting equipment. His was one of the businesses on Lake Street that is no more because he was he's old enough. He just he couldn't rebuild. He didn't want to rebuild. And then when they tried to rebuild, they were prioritizing monies to rebuild, and he was a white dude, so he wasn't being prioritized. And it's just as death

Very different.

This is her being interviewed during this little week where where the spat between the media and the Democrats was there, so there were members of the media doing real journalism. This is an ABC News interview and the bewilderment on her face in this clip is like nothing I've ever seen because she didn't expect the follow up question.

Very different.

In the policies that you've supported in the past, you're considered the most liberal United States senator.

I somebody said that, and it actually was Mike Pence on the debate stage.

But yeah, well, actually the non part is in Gov Track has rated you as the most liberal senator. You supported the Green New deal, you supported Medicare for all.

And she the look on her face is like, is this happening?

That look on her face she gets it every time she's actually pressed for anything. Yes, that's why if she is going to do that debate with Trump in September, it in Fox, you're probably gonna see that look a lot. Like you press her on Ukraine or the border, whatever the issue is, that happens a lot.

She starts laughing, Oh, Mike Pence said that, and the reporter could have gone, yep, yeah he did.

And you know why he said it.

He said it because the you gov people said it, but now they don't. Is gone, go look for it, it's gone. And acxios. How to affix the little things? And oh no, we all had it wrong with the.

Borders are stuff. Meanwhile, they're like.

And Donald Trump thinks that Hannibal Lecter is a real person?

Does he?

Is that what you got from the five second clip us all? Or did you take did you bother to look into it?

Ross?

You didn't know? You bothered to look into it.

Didn't you know?

Because yeah, we've mentioned it before in the in the show very like Fast. It was like a passing thing.

Right right cuts.

Yeah, you know, I've seen that on social media and I didn't care enough to look into it because I figure everybody they always take him out of context, and it had to be it had to make sense when you actually saw it in context, right. But I keep seeing it show up on my on my ex feed. And then a few days ago, my buddy sent me a text. I was like, hey, and he's like, not like a you know my buddy who I'm going to bulldoze his house in Chapel Hill, right right right, the

You want to play the clip? Yeah? You want to play the clip?

Yeah?

Yeah, yeah, play it, play it?

Play all right. So here's the clip from Charlotte, the one that was around.

Because when you actually hear the audio from the clip, then suddenly it makes sense, because when you're just reading the comments, it makes no sense at all. It's like he thinks the head of Elector is real. He believes it was a real thing. He thinks it's a documentary. He thinks it's a late great person. What is he talking. He's lost his mind. He's old. He's like an eighty

Yes, yes, yes, And he does keep bringing it up, that's true, And I think he does because he enjoys the lunacy of the reactions. It's because at some point there's I think Trump does do some stuff like that right where he's just like, oh, they always freak out when I say this, So I'm gonna say this like I get I get that sentences and our here is from Charlotte yesterday.

Prisons in jails, mental institutions, and insane as alums. You know, they go crazy when I say the late great Hannibal Elector. Okay, they say, why would you mention hornrible Elector? He must be cognitively in trouble. No, now, though these are real stories. Hannibal Elector from Silence of the Lamb. He's a lovely man. He wants to have you for dinner. He'd like to have you for dinner.

And all right, even that is out of context kind of unless you know, kind of the first time he brought it up.

But so I wrote back to my buddy who asked me about it the other day, and I had an answer for him. I wrote him back today. I'm like, okay, it's the first time I've heard it in context. And I figure out he's talking about people coming across the border, and he's talking about some of these people are crazy and some of them are actually from mental institutions, which is true. And then he switches the Hannibal Elector using it as hyperbole, like like would you want Hannibal Lecter coming over?

Here. I mean, where's he gonna go.

It's gonna go to la I mean, my buddy writes me back, and he goes, okay, well that makes sense. Yeah.

And by the way, this is the thing what Trump's talking about pre date. The best example of what Trump's talking about, which you may have forgotten about, was Cuba.

Okay. I don't know if you remember who negotiated that in Cuba. By the way, did.

Carrie have something to do with that? It was? It was a very famous negotiation that took place. They call it the prisoner dump.

They talk about at the beginning of the Scarface, right, Yeah.

So basically they went in, here we go.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's called the Murial boat lift. All right.

So and this goes back to nineteen seventy nine. Those are the twelve Cubans that were looking for that, but it then became a post it was part of post negotiations following the failed.

Yeah, there's three different incidents. I'm sorry I should have pulled this up.

Basically, they went to Cuba and they said, hey, we want to get the uh, some of the folks that were seized during the failed Bay of Pigs. And then there was a second thing, and Fidel Castro basically took that as the opportunity to give us thousands of people. And it turned out that he had just basically emptied prisons and and mental institutions in Cuba. So the vast majority of the people that they sent us over were not who we thought they were getting. We were given

You can look it up.

And so you had that then that is that has been a thing that has played out. Mexico has given us or allowed the emptying of a prison that sat near the border, and exodus to those prisoners were basically they're like, if you make it across the border, you won't get rounded up. That's the thing that has happened. So to some extent, that's what Trump is talking about. Yeah, making migrants criminal, the Murial boat lift, Miami, blah blah blah.

There's a ton online. You can go and read this for yourself.

I mean a lot of people on the left understand that he uses hyperbole a lot, right, and a lot of times he's given like a stand up his version of a stand up routine. He's making jokes, but he's doing it in a way that people can relate to important issues.

Yeah, I for one, look, I find some of his delivery weird. And I've stood there. I've literally stood and agree in the very coliseum where he was given his thing. Remember that was where I went to go interview him, and then we didn't have time to do it, and I watched. I watched the whole thing, And to be fair, it was the first one of his where I watched it rather than working it right because I'd gone to get some some stuff before and and you just you

Man.

Just maddening, just a maddening collective of a day of everything and like and and I think it was personal.

You know, I felt the same way. Send you a text yesterday about everything, Yeah, because I had to take a break from social media because I had a solution and you know, in the end of the day, Yeah, I had I had a very you know, simple solution as to how to solve the problem there in dec going on yesterday. But I was like, I'm not posting it because I'll probably lose my gig.

You just need to vent.

Yeah, it was what it does to air drop coloring book.

Correct, what it was. I heard from several people, two different people yesterday. Uh, separate occasions.

Uh.

One of them and both big dissantis supporters, not Trump fans, big rhndes sandi is so much that they were not going to be voting in November. And I've heard this repeatedly. One of them, I'm not going to name them, but one of them has had issues with his parents as well, like where they're not really in speaking terms because they've had issues because parents are big Trump supporters and he can't stand Trump. He wanted to say going to stay home.

And I I I.

Hope that that is.

I hope that it's enough to change, even if it doesn't come around to Trump, even if you just want to hold Nadler and Shift accountable at the voting booth, not that we probably have a bunch of their constituents there. Like I hope that this behavior has consequences, and I want to be clear, I don't mean violent physical consequences, because unlike those who would leave it out there very subtly just say, oh, man, I hope something happens that stops this.

Wink wink, nod nod. Have to go there.

I have to sit here and hope that you will all come to your senses and you reject this behavior.

And you don't have to even just.

Reject it by going out and voting for Trump. You can turn your efforts into making sure that these folks don't have jobs anymore. And that goes for the media as well. You don't have to go You don't have to go all into fight clubs and start destroying infrastructure. You can simply say I will not participate in the consumption of any of your media anymore. I will not

Borders are. Vice President Harris was not a borders are.

These are the same people, the same shows backlash Sometimes creation was not true.

She was never appointed borders are.

And this will be her first visit to the US Mexico Border Regents. And she was appointed as the borders are by President Biden.

People gonna have to counter the misinformation. You already hear folks talking about the borders are.

She wasn't the borders are.

Shut up.

You all should lose your jobs.

You should.

Nobody should take you seriously enough to treat you with any respect that allows you to work in the media. And it just won't happen as long as you keep feeding the beast. So stop feeding the beast. We'll be back, boy boy yesterday.

Man.

Just one thing after another after another.

Obviously, the most irritating, I think for many of you is to sit there and watch the absolute wanton destruction of Washington, d C or mon Immens. The flags that were torn down the the literally hundreds of incidents and run ins with law enforcement, many of which turned extremely

So there will be there will be no disincentive to come and destroy it next time.

And that's the part where I'm sitting here and I'm like, I don't I'm scared. I'm going to say something this morning. So we got like, we got some we got some like sleepy time tea in here. Rosscott the zither out so I can zend myself on moments. Notice some of the tea here, Oh Ginger, what do you think a little lavender in this?

Or some lavender? Some moonshine lemon. That's all I can do.

Let's listen to net Yat who talk about the frat boys who frankly should have been there yesterday, but I'd understand what they were.

We recently learned from the National Security Director, Director of US Director of National Intelligence that Iran is funding and promoting anti Israel protests in America. They wanted to disrupt America. So these protesters burn American flags even on the Fourth of July, and I wish to salute the fraternity brothers at the University of North Carolina for protective the American flag, protective the American flag against these anti Israel protesters.

And nobody expects that Nanna who's speaking, is not gonna have protesters, and it's fine, dude. Look, there's a there's a lot of stuff. If people could be intellectually honest with this, there's a lot of real big government stuff that nn Yahoo does that I'm not comfortable with, and like, those are those are valid criticisms. Now you can argue that he has to do it, which some people will because of some some serious opposition shenanigans that have unfolded

Now.

Is the Israeli government system the same as the US and are they afforded the same protections they are not? So you can hate this, dude. You can want a new direction for Israel, including ones that some people think would just spell the It would just signal the death of Israeli independence. You can think all of these things, but you can't come and destroy my capital. You can't break into the Watergate Hotel and fill it with cockroaches and whatever else they were throwing it.

Probably bedbugs. Don't do that.

It's bad.

Pulling fire alarms.

Physically assaulting police, trying to throw a police officer onto a train track, and one officer probably not gonna have a job. I don't know if you saw the video finally having enough of it and taking like full scale kicking runs at this dude's head and for a moment you can feel good about watching that because you're so frustrated about stuff. But you have to pause. You got to get your tea.

Right, You got to your soft music and go.

You know, even in the face of that, it's important that while there is full throated investigations and it's not even help it anymore, and you have to have a standard. You also have to have a set standard. Christopher Ray demonstrated once again that he needs to be fired the moment, the moment if Trump, if he does is send to the presidency again. You know, they're always like, I'm gonna

Not just here. You look at what's going on?

Are you Are you familiar with all of the stories that are breaking out of the Olympics right now? Do you have you have you know, you have soccer and you have a few other things that are good you know that start early before the opening ceremonies because there's so many matches right, some of the swimming stuff things like that, you have Youwish athletes and Jewish fans who were literally being physically assaulted in the stands. There's video

Again?

Why I reward.

The British man?

I mean, that's just embarrassing.

What's embarrassing?

It's embarrassing. You're flying a drone over.

What women's the New Zealand women's soccer bread.

You're trying to cheat at women's soccer.

Come on, oh.

Dude, what is.

Yeah, but you know some people would just build You think Bill Belichick if he wasn't the women's soccer coach, wouldn't do that.

Oh, he completely would. But that's American football. It's a real sport.

I no, I'm saying even if soccer now has a job as the women's soccer coach cheating at euro trash?

Come on?

Oh no New Zealand and Canada or not European countries. But oh I see okay, So yeah, Ross is very harsh penalties.

What are you gonna do? Raced agic? You very get the weather right.

Or Ross is.

He's He's doling out some punishments.

Today, So.

Definitely do not.

Canada's Canada's a colony again too very harsh fair.

Yeah, so well harsh forecast, especially this morning and in through today. Areas of showers on the flosh stays in place.

That's an effect.

Let's see through this evening. So we may see rainfall total inch maybe two inches in spots. Some could get two to four inches of additional rain already seen, some rain scattered across the area, even some heavier showers and spots, and I think it's on to get off again all day, so we're kind of in it. Low eighties for highs and more scattered showers right on through tonight and tomorrow. Best chance early tonight, best chance tomorrow will be as

So it's gonna kind of split the state in half.

It'll be a tough forecast.

I'll fine tune that tomorrow, but it looks like right now we could have sunshine. There is a chance of showers of thunder storms, so further west you go, most of us getting back to the little bit eighties, and then we'll be back into the showers and thunderstorms as they get into next week and maybe getting a little bit warmer. But today gotta gray. Expect rain, expecting maybe

Okay, all right, thank you sir, appreciate it, yep, and we'll come back. Grab your calls next, hang on, coming up. We're gonna, we're gonna we'll take a deviation because if not, I'm gonna lose my mind today Stephen cantill join us, our official NERD correspondent.

So we'll.

We'll just lose our mind over poor Star Wars shows or stuff like that. It'll feel good.

It'll feel it.

Deviation will feel good. But let me grab a call now, Jamal, you're a first, Go right ahead.

Hey, KC, I'm sorry about you mean, the team brought try some press Kentucky whiskey out of a barrow. But I'm gonna tell you this, KC. And this is something else. You have a notice because I've been saying this. I told people Joe Binden does not need to drop out because the media is not gonna be held responsible for what they did with his cover up. And I said this, but this is what you haven't noticed in the media.

They can Michael Steel, like Michael Steele with his Captain America and his crying eye.

That guy, you no, that's that's in That's NBC.

We know.

The only reason why a former head of the Republican Party when Barack Obama won in two thousand and eight is on MSNBC because he was thrown out because he was stealing money. See, they don't want to talk about that when it comes to him. He's a thief that was thrown out of the Republican Party as chairman because he was stealing money. Literally, he was caught doing it, so he was fired. So when and yesterday when we saw the meeting with them turning on the nose about

Well, you just did so oh into flames so I guess you can look. Yeah, I got.

I'm just gonna tell you got about thirty seconds.

So just look.

Yeah, okay, See, this is what people have been saying, that we have to label them a threat to democracy the same way and turn the temperature back up because obviously they're not they're not gonna throw down.

Watching the news cycle over the last twenty four hours, everybody's lost their damn mind. The republic has lost I don't know. In fact, let's go ahead and let's let's make all sorts of comparisons. Let's welcome in our oh, our current Events entertainment and official Nerd correspondent Stephen Kent to the show. So, Steven, do you guys have fun burning the Capitol yesterday? I'm assuming that was you dressed as Darth Vader like the one dude was or was that not you?

Hey? See, me and my fellow nerds were in our mother's basements just playing video games and joint life, creating great memes. I was not at that event.

That was not me.

What what do you live outside of d C? Right?

Correct?

I do?

I mean, I'm I'm angry and I only visit like once a year, right, But this is it's I'm sorry to put you on the spot because we're gonna get into little nerdy stuff and and but some stuff that also has to do with government that we need to talk about. But wait, I don't understand why the why the residents of DC are not madder than than even me this morning, who's having to drink spiked canon milt tea to make it through his day. It's just far, madames far.

I mean people, people are ticks and and you know I showed showed my daughter that video last night of the desecration of the flag at Union Station, the spray paint that was all over the bell. I mean, it's it's horrible. This is where I commute into every day in d C. I get out to that monstrosity when I have to go to the to Congress and speak to people on the hill. It's it's horrible. Uh. And people are mad about it. But it's just you have mayors like Muriel Bowser here in DC who won't say

And I think that I think the reason that hit me extra hard is when I would do my annual Radio Row every year. We always did it at the Phoenix Park Hotel, which I'm sure you know where that is obviously if you meet through Union Station, And of course the window of my hotel almost all of the windows view Union Station because of the corner it sits on, and I look, it's always it was always really cool to go up there, even with the pandemonium and the mayhem.

Fans and stands.

There's some video that's emerged of that, and and you ask yourself how coordinated it is and to put this in nerd terms for you. I have dark thoughts and are creep into my brain, right, which is like the whole precipice for Star Wars, like, don't let yourself go to the dark side, right, don't do it? Yeah, But for just five seconds, I just in my mind, I'm like, well, what if Palpatine's in his transport shuttle, which, by the way, they don't even have a cool name for it.

It's just called that.

And he stares out and there's a bunch of yay who's spray painting a dreadnought? Right, He's not putting up with that crap. And I'd watched that episode Lock them Up.

I think that's what he is saying. And by the way, what he says his shuttle is called a Lambda shuttle, So do your homework.

I did it, just said cruiser. I was very disappointed.

Okay, well that's good because like they have cool names like Infiltrators and Dreadnoughts and.

All those things.

But I'm like, it's just called the Emperor Shuttle. That's so stupid. No, he's going all lightning hands like he's not putting up with this.

No, I mean, and that's I think that's why so many people are turning to more authoritarian type leaders around the world, which is because in Western democratic nations we have not drawn ourselves to like actually defend our own institutions, our own buildings from rioters and anarchists and people who want to ravage beautiful things. And that's how you get, you know, more authoritarian blowback. And we don't want that. You don't want help the teams of the world to

And I had to sit there and I had to watch members of Congress try to hear which we knew was going to be a deflection of thon by Christopher Ray at the FBI, just as it was by the Secret Service director, where they're both going talk to the other person about their investigation. We knew that was baked in. But to watch members of Congress then use it to try to pistol whip the very dude who was shot. I could Ross and I exchange messages on why it was not a good idea for either of us to

I thought that was a wonderful transition. Yeah. So Congress in the Senate today they are expected to vote on the Kids Online Safety Act, which has been moving through the Senate now for well over a year and is now being rushed with all haste for a floor vote by Chuck Schumer. This is a bill which would expand the federal government's role in moderation and content present on social media in a massive way. I mean, this is Patriot Act level stuff, but for social media content regulation.

And you know, one of the examples I hear often cited and it did offend the senses? Do you remember and I can't remember what the how old the child was at the time, but do you remember there was a child who is now an adult, but when they were a child, there was a video of a revenge porn posted of them. And they kept going back to the well to the social media companies and going can you take this down? And Twitter was one of them.

In this case it was of the Lewinsky variety.

And the media companies will just say, yeah, we'll totally get to that we'll take that down, and then they wouldn't take it down and the horrified parent out there and understandably so, and that's the white horse these guys are wanting to ride in on.

Yeah. Absolutely, and there's a reason that they're taking that because it's very clear and simple, and you could also just have revenge peorn legislation that covers just that single issue. What this does is it just forces them to moderate and reduce access to content for anything that could be perceived as harmful to minors. And so you have a bunch of different groups on the left and the right going well on any given day you call our content harmful.

Parent and now and then the pushback would be the kids are going to find a work around, and I can look.

I remember meeting as a kid.

I remember I remember how within five seconds when we first got internet access to my high school, because that's the age that I am, where we figured out how proxy servers worked, right, so little hacker geniuses. I remember when I was much younger, my mom absolutely forbid me from watching Beetlejuice when it came out, and the first thing I did is I went over to my buddy Nathan Galiano's house, and you know what we did. We watched some beetlejuice. So it's not going to be a

Nobody under the age of sixteen can have an account.

That wouldn't be good enough, right because you have to you have to create. They want you to go further than that, even though it's a near impossibility in some instances.

So I'm actually going to give you a contrarian answer on that no one under sixteen allowed to use social media at all. I don't support that kind of thing, but it is actually a rule that social media company could attempt to follow. It's very crystal clear. It would require age identification, which requires id collection of adults and children, but it's a rule that they could follow. The problem with KOSA is that it is subjective. What is harmful

Yeah, but that's a but here's why that's a cop out. And you saw people wholesale. Remember they wanted to put the the uh the that that theater kid woman in charge of, like this committee that was going to be the arbiter of what he is or is intact. Yeah, if you remember that, remember remember that? Yeah, the informations, Yeah, the misinformation. Well, you know, nobody's AZAR anymore. I know they used to be AZAR, but no, that's retroactively fixed.

You have to be engaged, Casey, I mean, this is this is so hard, and I'm a very involved parent and my daughter's limited online life because I don't think social media is healthy for children. I think it's quite detrimental. But that means that the onus is on me to get her a device It's called the Bark phone, by the way, where parents have full control over every app that is and is not downloaded, and also have full moderation content controls over what happens on the phone, you know.

Which doesn't work, by the way, in North Korea spoiler alert, most North Koreans have access to Western media. This is and you know, you you could argue that that is the tightest lockdown that's out there. And like they got DVDs and stuff, They know this stuff, they sing K pop God help them right it. So you there's never going to be a perfect system. So what of the example that I used where your child is subjected episodes of the alcolae?

What what do you do as a parent at that point?

I'm sure I'm gonna harp on this now that the thing's over, So if you want to defend it, go ahead, But like I'm using that as the humorous example. And and and the question is, I don't think these cats care because they love that there is a level of control, even if it's one that's often turned upon them, such as the Republicans find themselves that you know that they're going to go ahead and go along with this. Sorry two minutes to package deal. Both those things fire aways here we.

At this point, I guess we'll talk about The Acolyte. I mean, the thing that parents have to do is be engaged with watching the shows that their kids used to watch without any adult supervision. It used to be the case that you could put your kid on the Disney Channel or in this case, Disney Plus and let them run wild and have a great time with family entertainment. We don't live in that world anymore, and these companies put out all sorts of strange, corrupt stories with very

But especially especially when you have people within Disney said that they were happy to insert stuff into some of the programs. All right, we'll have to get we'll have to get to that another day. So the messages don't let your kid watch the Acolyte. Thank you, Steven, kids appreciate it.

Thank you.

All right, look at that. See you're getting some good advice around these parts today. And that's that's what we're here for, all right. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four Back in a few it's bands of people outside of the stadium waiting for fans to come out and also waiting for the team to come out, and uh, nobody's really trying to stop it. So, uh, something band's gonna happen over there. I don't want it to, but I am just firmly convinced of it. I just

Ever. I don't say this to be dramatic.

I can't remember a continued news cycle like the one we're in right now. And I've been doing this for I've been doing talk radio for like fifteen years, ross you've been about what ten years, ten eleven, something like that, And I can't think of a crazier month. I can't think of more stuff back to back, just connected, and so much of it rage inducing. In the entire time that I've been doing talk radio where it just doesn't stop.

It's been like thirteen or fourteen for me in talk and I don't I can't ever remember it being like it feel like like you know, people say we're in a simulation, Like the simulation is like, yeah, melting.

Down even with arguably even with Trump, the Trump twenty sixteen election, I think probably would be next because of there's the sheer insanity of all of it, right, Him, Deminition and sixteen other candidates.

Yeah, but that just that was like one topic, right, it was one. This is there's so many things compounding on top of each other. And like I said last week, you'll need to calm down. History needs to stop. History, just stop it. We're tired.

I don't want to say I'm not having fun right now, because there are things that are fun, but I'm not having fun. I'll do my job and I'll and I will do a damn good job of it because we're professional. But like it used to be, there's some stuff and like the most joy I've had in a week was making acolyte jokes to poor Stephen. That brought me a

There?

Mister Paul? Literally you want to talk about political violence, had himself beat into broken bones by a neighbor over people who can't just deal politically. These are absolute wild times. Man. I didn't even I didn't even I didn't even see a good kicker story to put in the stack yesterday. I almost I will go out of my way to find one, just just so there's there's a moment. Man. But you simultaneously you got Donald Trump doing his thing, Joe Biden out there talking about how oh this, I

That's some juicy stuff right there.

And it makes sense, yeah, because Biden felt like he was because he was kind of sort of being stabbed in the back, right, Yeah, it was kneecap.

Remember the they were threatening him with the twenty fifth Amendment is what they're forty knows.

There was and I saw this before, were like, yeah, I was thinking it before, but like, oh, this isn't passing the torch. I'm like, this is like politically speaking, not physically, but it's like when Caesar passed the torch.

Yeah, on his knees from the wounds. Right, this is right.

It wasn't peacefully. It wasn't like he wanted to.

It's just crazy man, all right.

Oh yeah, Bloomberg calling in there.

I'll let you figure that out while I chat with raced Agic from the Weather channels standing by. Who will passed the torch to nobody unless he needs a day off exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah, I won't be passing any torch any time soon, at least that's the hope.

Anyway.

Feeling good about training camp, by the way, that going on, No, that's a mess.

Yeah, you got your paternity suit settled, so you guys can focus on.

Yeah, now you gott to focus on tens of millions of dollars that you're gonna have to dish out to whatever. I don't know when did a contract ever meet anything? I mean, I guess that's my point, you know, ceede lambs like sitting on.

When you're a rookie.

I guess. I mean that's really that's that rookie contract once they can get it signed. If you don't hold out. That seems to be the only time it kind of means something. But that's right, I mean issue right now.

So yeah, no, he's under contract for one more year, so get your button camp. I'm sorry, should be yeah, yeah.

Okay, sorry, sorry bring up short topic.

They've given the they've given the the inmates too many uh you know, the inmates running the asylum. They've given them too many.

Too much flood.

Yeah, yeah too much anyway, But let's see, yeah another day where if you're headed out, rain and actually some widespread rain showers right now, a little less as you go west of the line from about Greensbo to Spencer and Charlotte, but still another batch coming in out over the mountains. But you go from about a rocky mountain down toward to Edmondson and Raleigh, showers, even some embedded thundershowers.

A damp commute, and it is going to be a damp day.

With a flood watch at times. Some of the rain could be heavy and call some flooding. Upper seventies, low eighties today, More showers, thutter showers tonight, especially early showers, stutter showers scattered around again tomorrow. Chanceo by the weekend and could get some sunback in here, especially eastern half of the state, so that could mean the beaches and from about the triangle east temperatures middle eighties to the west, there will be a chance of showers, the storms a

Do we do we have?

I just saw the new drought monitor. Came this is breaking news. Oh we got a second. We could take a quick peek at the drought monitor.

I iain my I could tell I could tell I go ahead, yeah, oh let's see.

Yeah.

Well now and now I can't find it. Of course, there I go. So I should never have opened my mouth.

But okay, well, how about tomorrow tomorrow.

Yes, let's do it tomorrow. I'm all right, sorry about that.

There you go. We lied, but that's okay, we'll do it tomorrow.

Thank you tomorrow, I got it.

We'll do it later.

Okay, by very good, Thank you, sir, appreciate it. All right, there you go, race agic who you know? Always leave him once more. That's what we do.

All right. We'll check in with the Bloomberg folks next on he's taken away.

What do you got?

Yeah, we got a stronger than expected economy, Casey, u Sconomic growth accelerating more than forecast in the second quarter. Gross domestic product increasing two point eight percent. Annualized rate arose one point four percent in the previous periods.

That's quite a jump. Personal spending rising.

Of more than expected two point three percent, and the FEDS closely watched measure of underlying inflation that rose two point nine percent, easing from the first quarter, but still above forecast. Futures they're mixed right now. Dow higher by forty five points, S and P five hundred futures they're pretty much flat right now. WHOA and the Nasdaq, those futures just flipped to the positive. You remember yesterday it was an outrageously bad day for the Nasdaq.

Ah, week's been insane. Oh weeks, everything's been insane. New cycle, Nasdaq, you named it. So nothing surprises me.

That's true. And here's one weird thing, though.

Amazon's popularity with millennials is actually slipping. I mean, you would think that this is the Amazon generation, right, I mean, they grew up on ordering this stuff. But factious that they do some research, they say those aged just about twenty eight forty three where the only demographic whose prime day spending dropped this year compared with the year earlier.

From blame What is a wish dot com? And tu so.

Yeah, yeah, it could be. Are you planning on traveling anywhere this summer by plane?

Yeah? I love to travel. Why you get is this bad news for me? What's ticket the other day for something?

Did you buy your ticket already?

I did?

Yes, you get a good deal or.

I use points?

So I don't know.

Yeah, if you if you want to go on a second trip, you really should book now because there are deals all over the place and it is costing American airlines big time. They're cutting their earnings outlook as they lose profits to budget airfares. So you know, anytime the airlines are losing money, it's usually good for consumers.

That's the airline book which so I did get screwed by using full points? Okay, thank you?

Yeah?

And I wanted to ask you, Casey, have you been over to the can opener yet where they got all those food trucks.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Okay. So there's this new food truck park.

It's located near that Low bridge, you know, the one that's known for ripping off the tops of trucks. Ninth Street Journal has a great story out today about all the one hundred and sixty Durham.

That's the Durham one, right, yep, that's the okay, because there's two of them. There's p Street in Raleigh and then there's the one in Durham, which is really bad. So yeah, I haven't been open.

Oh yeah, so if you if you don't get it by one, you get right by.

But I mean the one in Durham.

They've got this new food park, food truck park rather right there, and they have these really good food trucks over there. Korean Barbecue Chicken and Q that's chopped barbecue chicken, Gussie's Greek Food which is amazing. I've had it, Queen Express and all and is ice cream. They're operating off of a double decker bus and it's all just a reminder of how much people love food trucks, especially of course in the summer, but you know fall in winter. Two and it's really just a huge business on a

They're very they're very hipster over in Durham too. They really embrace the food truck and the breweries. They love them well.

I mean, they got the whole college thing going right, right, and you know a lot of people stick around in Durham after they graduate.

I mean, who wouldn't you? Got the Triangle's great area.

I'd live here.

And you know some are better than others. But yeah, absolutely, Hey, can I ask you a quick question? Or do you got one more in your tack?

Yeah?

Go for it?

All right? All right, total anonymity here. We the audience loves Jeff. Okay, Jeff, We all love Jeff. But Jeff is an enigma. And all right, so like in the years he's been doing this, we know very little about you, Jeff.

We think he collects music.

We know occasionally he's on vacation with a lady friend, but we know nothing else about Jeff. I need Jeff fact. I need a Jeff fun fact. I need something because he again he's very high. Is he a record mountain climber.

I'll tell you two things about Jeff. You his girlfriend's name is Rita. She's beautiful, perfect, and he adores her. Okay, And the other thing about Jeff you might know this already, but he used to be a music DJ, so he used to do like top top of the charts stuff.

But no facetattoo or anything.

Yeah, not that I've seen.

Come on, bet I bet he had one of those crazy seventies names, didn't he.

I mean, it's possible, but if I told you, I'd have to kill you. So I can't really reveal that.

We won't just one track.

I gotta go do another hit now. So hopefully you.

Know roughly the air you know what station he might have been on.

I couldn't tell you that either. You have to try to squeeze that out of him again. Maybe I'll share that with you next time.

Okay, all right, didn' you spell a Greenie? That's it's just so good. We're doing just like that Ross.

That's a lead man