Tuesday-05-23-2023

Remember remember all right, good morning everybody in his six o seven here on the Cacokay radio program. Do you did you do? Do? Ross? It's Friday? Right? Would you check on that? I think it's Friday? Where Ross is looking? Yeah, it's Friday. Oh wow? By not don't recheck that. So we'll just operate under that assumption. Although I did get an email, Ah, my button bar is all weird. Do you still have the screaming Nebraska girl on your button bar? Or senate woman,

let's play a little snippet of that here in a moment. Just have it ready. I only need it for a moment. Figure this email from Gary Gary listens right when we start. Gary drives a truck. Wow. Really every day, every day Gary is dry is between Wilmington, Raleigh, Greensboro, Charlotte, and even down into South Carolina back if I well, that has to be monotonous, sir, But God bless you man, that's how things get done. Although Gary mentioned yesterday sometimes sometimes he wishes wishes we

wouldn't torture him so early. I'm sorry, sir. Are you implying that this right here is torture? You can play that now. Uh, screamy Nebraska woman from yesterday. We love trans people, trans trans people, We love trans people. Okay, okay, you know what You're You're absolutely right, Gary, But I gotta report the news as it is. Would you like a happy story as you're as you're making your way this morning, because I I look, I appreciate you being out there. I appreciate you taking

time to um send me a message. UM. Do you like baby ducks? Gary Ross? What's your what's your thoughts on baby ducks? Uh? Most of the time adorable? Yeah? Right? Wait why do you say most of the time? Do you think? I mean there's always some sort of crazy outlier story. So have you been attacked by baby ducks? I'm not okay, well, I'm just I'm just gonna let you know these baby ducks are adorable the whole story. Are you okay? So yeah, you and Gary need not fear. Ah. This is um. This took place

over the way. Are actually end of last week in California. So UM, A bunch of baby ducks trying to cross this busy road. This is near Sacramento. It's evening, just before eight, lights fading, and as you can imagine, drivers are on edge because even though they are not necessarily in the same lane as the baby ducks, they're concerned that somebody's going to

come by and and hit these baby ducks. So in the middle of this incredibly incredibly busy main artery of traffic, a man emerges, steps out of his vehicle and decides he's now the He's now the wrangler of the ducks, and much to the much to the relief of the motorists, the man goes alongside starts clapping quietly. He's shoeing the ducks. The ducks are progressing across the road. People are waving at him. It's a really wholesome moment of

people just kind of stopping their busy commute. And there's video here. There's Mama and the baby ducks. There he is shoot him to the side of the road. People are literally rolling down their window in a plight. You know those stories where they're like, and then I did this, and everyone applauded, and it's meant to be a joke online in the like, he is actually being applauded by the other motorists. So Gary does that, and

then the video went viral of him walking. Does that? Does that meet your requirements more so than Nebraska. I mean, because Nebraska sent a lady was a story that happened at the end of last week. This also a story that happened at the end of last week. And this guy gets the ducks over. Everyone's happy, and then he turns around, he walks back to his car and is immediately struck and killed by a card doing about seventy But the ducks made it. The ducks made The ducks are fine. Yeah,

what a horrible story. So everyone's having this moment there video it literally there's a twelve year old boy who's rolled down his window to thank this guy who's filming this, and then a car comes flying in out of nowhere. And now there is a giant memorial that's sprung up over the weekend where people are leaving rubber duckies on the side of the road as a makeshift memorial to this man. Yep, AnyWho eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven

four. I used to see this every year. In fact, they just had something like this happened down in Florida, Thankfully not as tragic as this. It looks like a pop up I'm not click, but every year on what was Highway sixteen. Yes, the one Bob Dylan saying about along the

Mississippi River. Every year you had turtle migration, and you have these giant curvy roads along the Mississippi River and they're you know, sixty five mile an hour highway and you'd be busting down Highway sixteen and then all of a sudden somebody be stopped in the middle of the road with waving their arms because a turtle's crossing, you know along it turtle takes to cross a four or six lane highway. I was gonna say, typically when you see the stories turtles,

yes, yes, this case it was baby ducks. But the ducks again, the ducks were not whatever you were concerned about, the ducks being that one outlier. No, ducks are just ducks, man, Ducks are just ducks. But yeah, I know the turtle thing. And like, I don't know if everyone as someone was killed every year, but there was one incident where dude got hit by a semitruck trying to get a turtle across

the road. And it's like, you know, you can pick them up and then not much they can do about it, and then you just PLoP run them to the site if you're so concerned. But um, no anyway, six fifteen kc ODA Radio program. So no screaming Nebraska senators there, but a cautionary tale. Man, Oh, I feel horrible. I'm not making fun of the guy at all. Just horrible, horrible story. But there's also, um you're getting in that low light situation. People are in

a hurry. People at that time of night, eight o'clock, they might have had, they might have consumed. It's um, it's not a situation that you want to put yourself in. Man. Anyway, we'll take a break. I got I got a bunch of other stories. I'll give you a rundown on um. But we got new bud light numbers that keeps getting worse. And La Times ran a story that frankly, I think, I think somebody's gonna get killed. And I think and other people think this too,

and they're getting called homophobic for saying it when it's reality. I'll explain and I'll tell you what I mean. Coming up here on the case O Day Radio program celebrating ten years of keeping you connected. This is ninety four five WPTI in the Triad and one O six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, six twenty one, Good morning, No, no, all right, So, and I knew this was coming. I'm not has nothing to do with the fact it was in California. I feel horrible for

what happened to that guy any of the rest of it. Am I telling you that story because it's insane, And I gotta tell you. When I read it this morning about the ducks and the dude and the videos and the kids and stuff, immediately I'm like, din, I'm up, I'm awake. That's horrible and insane all at the same time. Plus it's a cautionary tale. Don't do that. We'll in the middle of a busy street. I know, I know, I know. I don't want I don't want

the ducklings injured. I don't want turtles runned over. So you know most of them. Mark, you went to visit her family a few weeks ago down Louisiana, and she's say, a picture my father in law. I love him, the dead Mark with the car stopped in the middle street helping a turtle across the street and go back into like you know, the woods there, And I'm like, dude, oh, I'm not lying. If

I was driving and I come across a turtle in the road. I think because of all the stories we've done in the past, my brain would quickly assess the situation and compute the odds. Right, because I've seen this story so many times, I don't want to be the guy that's hit by somebody moving a turtle out of the road again, I would move. You can physically move turtles. You don't just have to be like they're they're they're right right? You can do it. You don't, you don't. You don't

have to be that guy. You can physically move them. But also if you shouldn't if there's no visibility and was it on now, was it on at least a straight road or I'm not sure. I don't know. Okay, but when you when you mean compute by the way, checking to see if they're ninjas right now? Would have to think about it. I would have to compute the rope one has this sword, this speed, like he said, visibility yeah, And I would have to be like, is it

a contributing productive turtle? What do you know what I mean? Like a contribute dributing a productive you've ever heard of soup? So it's so good? M hmm. Exactly if it was wearing a bin dan around his neck or covered an ooze, I'd be like, poot, I'm gonna save this one because it will eventually save you. Exactly right. It's a pay it forward on the soups. I remember taking a girl out one time and they had

turtle soup on the minute, which is delicious if done right. And I'm talking the good stuff with like the sherry on top of tho all and um, I ordered it and she was horrified, but I talked her into at least trying it because we're already here, right. She ate it, and she loved it, and she sat there the rest of the night conflicted because you know, it's a turtle and oh my gosh, that was good. So and uh, you know, I would argue those are productive turtles.

So there's that. Your father in law's okay though, right, yes, he survived the turtle because there was a twist on the other story, and I just want to make sure that people knew that there wasn't any who All right, let me give you run down with some other stuff we're gonna talk about today. Apparently it's not Friday, so we're gonna have to truck through this thing. Um coming up on the show we got we Got Fat Hoss. It's a story and it's a key of some crazy thing Kyle sent me

this morning. So we will, um, we'll touch on that. Where was this out of was Yancey County? That little h North Carolina Mountain action a little school issue, so we will we'll get into that. UMU the LA Time story, I said it might be a problem. And uh, Tim scottson Tim Scott, Senator Tim Scott, it's thrown his name in on the presidential race, and um, the Washington Post is already curious. Wait

did you see the question, the Washington Post asked Tim Scott. Oh, yeah, just and of course they they even had to put out like they had to justify why they asked it, because it was it was of such insane importance. It had to be asked of a just a sitting US senator who's not embroiled in a scandal, right they maybe if they're embroiled in a scandal, would you ask a question about their personal sex life or MTVS doing a weird rock to vote thing in boxers or briefs, because that's a famous

thing that happened, but disrespect right out the gate. And I think it's going to be ugly because you remember there are from political cartoonists such as the ones who drew our own lieutenant governor as a member of the clan to you know, these highbrow editorial writers. The the amount of racism that they're going to be willing to throw Tim Scott's way because he happens to be a Republican, Uh is going to it's gonna be insane to behold with him being a

presidential candidate. Uh, They're they're they're gonna be willing to go on that warpath and they're getting they're also and if they're not gonna say it themselves, then they're gonna let Al Sharpton come in. And or what's that that lunatic congressman who's who likes to scream at other members of Congress outside the bowman, that guy, they'll let him come in and serve that up. But yeah, that's a thing. So we'll touch on that and a few others right

now. Twenty eight. Your news is next Hang on one six one FM Talk and nine four five w PTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is Casey O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right, good morning, it is six thirty five here on the case O Day radio program. You have no power. Yeah, oh oh sorry, it's just accidentally click that. And um, now I know exactly why it's there. Uh any who was trying to move it? But um, there was a story.

Let me set this up differently. Doesn't have any ducks. Okay. One of the things that I think is really just the height of audacity that I see amongst the um the the woke leadership is this failure to wreck ignize the hypocrisy of simultaneously criticizing like Reagan. Let's go back to Reagan. Right, Reagan was a monster, Right, if you're if you're a big moon

bat. Reagan was a monster. He'd tried to trash the economy, and he ran around and he tried to force American ideals on people who didn't want anything to do with it. And Nicaragua and the Sandinistas and I ran Contra and all of this stuff. Wow, simultaneously being all aboard this idea that we're going to send members of our state Department to various countries and if they

don't get aboard the diversity, equity or inclusion bandwagon. Generally, we don't do this to Muslim countries within this administration, which is strange because but like parts of Africa and various others where it's like, we're going to send a bunch of money for what was the one they just did. It was about

creating a program in a country that super served gay members of society. The problem is is you're in a country where there are very real world and often deadly ramifications for that, and you can be you can be not okay with that, you can feel that you're you're dealing with people who are unenlightened and people who are monstrous in some instances. And I wouldn't necessarily disagree with you subjugating women, targeting people for their sexuality, targeting people for their race,

for extermination. We're all on board. This is bad stuff, or simply enslaving them and forcing them to make stuff, and then NBA players go on and give them a thumbs up, looking at you China and the Weakers. But then there's the part where you also want to be culturally disruptive, like demanding that people within the Spanish speaking communities adopt latinis which ninety nine percent don't want anything to do with, while failing to recognize that the entire language is

gendered, and how the hell are you going to deal with that? Or doing what I saw the La Times doing and then attacking people who have thoughts about what may play out. All right, Ross, this wasn't in the stacks. You haven't seen this story, but let me forward it to you so you can at least tweet it out if people want to see it, because cat's already out of the bag. Sorry, I should afford this before the break, all right. And there's two stories, but I'm just going

to send you the one. All right, This is the this is the La Time story quote at Mexico's gay cowboy conventions, men connect with each other and their country's rugged past. All right. So and then they got where's the slug line here? Zacha techas, Zacha tecas, mispronouncing that probably Mexico. And it is a convention of gay vaccaro Vicarro is Spanish for cowboy,

and you know it's they're in a this particular portion. It's a discotheq, which are very very popular in Latin America, and they're parting the night away, except it's a bunch of dudes and they're talking about how they gather and make these pilgrimages and go to these various conventions in Mexico, and they're highlighting

it. And if as you go through the story, you realize there's a few people that are using their name, but there's a lot who are not, and there's a lot who don't want their picture up there, why do you think that is? And there's a few that are using in this other story that are using pseudonyms, including Ross and this is my favorite one. Tell me what you think. It's a play on Rooster Cogburn's character where they've

slightly altered the last name. And I gotta tell you that seems incredibly appropriate. If you're wanting to come up with something that shocks along those lines. That was a real easy name to manipulate. And I'll let you guess how they did it. And I'm pointing this out not because I care if a

bunch of Mexican dudes who are gay get together and have it. It's it's you're attacking people who point something out, and that is that there's a reason that people are not wanting to be on the radar while you're doing this story. And there's probably a lot of people who don't like The La Times busting this wide open. And just so we're clear too, the La Times, in addition to their English print, does a Spanish print and it is widely

distributed and sold on both sides of the border down there. And if you've got a bunch of machismo driven cartel dudes, this is the kind of stuff where maybe they get it in their head that that's not okay. Again, this is simply observations that people are pointing out, including this where I'm reading on this other piece about how guys are like this is bad, they should not be. The La Times wanted to do a big feature piece on this,

and they may end up doing more harm than good. And then immediately I see in the comments people who don't live in Mexico who, frankly, um, I'm not even sure that they have any experience with Mexican culture, especially culture that is sadly intertwined with insane, violent people who are criticizing and calling homophobic those who may point this out. And that's the height of audacity, because now we're two layers in right, they're not saying that they have

a problem with it, They're simply saying that. And then they were given examples where cartels have literally shot up gay nightclubs down in uh in Mexico, and it's it's senseless, like like like most things are down there, and it it very well may stem from their favorite term of toxic masculinity or homophobia, like that may be exactly what it is you're accusing everybody of on the

regular. So I saw it, but then I saw the interact and I had that thought initially, but then I saw the interactions, and I'm like, who, what are you lecturing? People who literally lived there or people within the within the community who obviously didn't want their name out there or their photo. But man, that's how we roll. That's um from a state

department to our media to whatever. And this is the very same media that, upon learning that Tim Scott was running for president, decided there was an important question they needed to ask Tim Scott. Now, Tim Scott is not married, but Tim Scott is a Republican, So what do you think? The Washington Post felt was a needed piece of information about Tim Scott as he

heads out on the campaign trail. They asked him if he was a virgin, because again, everyone is so obsessed with who's doing what with whom behind closed doors and sometimes not behind closed doors, that they felt that Tim Scott needed asked about his sexual prowess. Now, part of this is the author of the article, it's reporter Ben Terris, is also hawk in a book, so he's putting this out as a bit of a teaser. What's the name of the book? The Big Break? The Gamblers, Party, Animals

and Trooper Levers trying to win in Washington while America loses its mind. Tim Scott is the first presidential candidate I've ever asked about the status of his virginity. And Scott basically said, I'm not talking about this with you, which is the right answer. But who the hell asked that? I don't do you need to know somebody's body count you're voting for. And Scott's thing is and and this this comes full circle with the other story I just talked about.

The reporters thing is that the reason he asked him Scott is because Tim Scott has been an advocate for sex head including abstinence, as you know, something that's talked about and ironically this generation is apparently, you know, the kids in high school, in college from the from the various studies that I've seen, are actually having less sex, so more are actually choosing abstinence. So having that as part of the conversation, it's the let's see if we

can get them on a hypocritical thing or whether it being disingenuous. That's the reason for it. It's a gotcha question about somebody's sex life, and it's not one that you see generally thrown in the other direction. Remember you're asking

Bill Clinton about his total intern tally board. But if the reporters like Ben Terris and others are so wanting to sniff out what they feel is hypocrisy, that's fine in the sense that there is a lot of hypocrisy and especially hypocrisy that goes hand in hand with just everyday politics in Washington, right like when they were running rough shot over the fact that people were daring to ask critical

questions, albeit questions about judicial record of our newest Supreme Court justice. Yet didn't give a crap about how back in the day when Bush was trying to fast track at California Justice, who was a black woman who happened to be

conservative to the DC circuit to position her for Supreme Court nomination. There's there's literal documentation of memos that went back and forth with Democrats saying that she needs to be blocked, and the reason was it's because she was a black woman and they were going to be damned if Republicans would be the ones to get a black woman on the Supreme Court before them. Same thing happened with what

was his name, Miguel Astrada anyway, sixty seven. I know that's a lot for an early Tuesday morning first hour of the show, but I just had some thoughts. Okay. Meanwhile, while I'm having thoughts and throwing those stories out, others are spending their time ruminating about the sexuality and trans status of video game characters. That insanity's in the stack. We'll get to that, and we'll introduce you to a wonderful Antifa which librarian who's not happy.

So all that and more coming away. Case O Day Radio program show. After the show is on the iHeart radio app. Searchs case O Day for the podcast on the iHeart radio app. All right, welcome back. It is a six fifty four and in the world of dumb arguments that apparently need to play out online and everyone has their feelings. Hurt I present to you the latest. How many of you are familiar with legend of Zelda and all the different iterations of it when obviously ross that's right in our wheel on too.

I just recently played that on the Hayese for Shriff twitch channel. You can also check out the recording on the Hayese for Shriff YouTube channel. You played the original, you play, Yeah, and we played some old Nest games and we did play some of it, and yeah, that's a classic, dude back in the day, and it was golden. Remember the case was yes, yes, so it was super special when you were blowing on that cartridge. I'm blowing on gold and it was back in the day.

You could save that game, which was like revolutionary at the time for console, like, oh my god, I can because other games he would put in, like say Nincha Guiden and you would just have to keep it on and pause. It would murder you in five second, right, but Zelda

you could. You could You could save it and go back to your game and then, uh, what's the what's the one that they just released, which was the not just released but the latest right, because they've taken the game and they've they've now taking it into the latest era and no longer obviously does it look like the old game. It's so much more, you know, it's like more open world and uh, obviously three you know, it's

like a first person game but third person. Yeah, and some people don't like it that I like Zelda, and that's fine, right right, they like they like the original, but they don't like what happened, and I don't think it's for any weird political reasons. However, then as some sort of stupid debate broke out and now people are wanting to um, they're wanting Nintendo to recognize that Link. If you don't know the game, Link is the big character there, um is the protagonist is also trans and gay or

something. What are they even talking about? They say Link is a gay icon. It is. It's very apparent. Everybody knows it. I played a crap ton of this game. I haven't played the newest, the new one, but obviously the Back of the Day and then what was the fill I can't remember the name of the follow up one, but the Adventures of Link. Adventures of Link which which I did play a little of. Just do not You're like, this game is crap. I'm not playing it again

exactly. But it wasn't crap because he spent his whole time at gay bars. That wasn't like, that wasn't the adventure. Um, it was just obviously it didn't. It was It felt cheap, money grabby, but it's like, this is what we're doing now, We're going through and and and of all the old school a nesque characters for you to latch onto as the gay icon, it's Link. I think Mike Tyson's Punch had a couple of those fighters old Little Mac had to tangle with like that would feel more.

Was always very obvious that Little Mac was in fact homosexual, and the whole game is really overtaken the patriarchy. That's the whole point of the game. Everyone knows. Everybody says it. Oh well, And then they were trying to talk about how he m he also he also hates religion or whatever, and then people are posting screenshots where there's a seat there's a cut scene where Link is literally kneeling in front of a Christian cross, and then people are

getting mad about that and it's like what people just debate games anymore. I love how Nintendo's like they're like, well, Nintendo never said yes or no, so obviously that's an answer. Well, maybe they don't want to get like, you know, bobbed down, willis Wolf no sense. Maybe they're familiar with the fact that bud Light's new earning numbers are out and guess what that's continuing to be a problem for them. Ah, well, the Internet's gonna Internet. We'll keep up. News is next? All right, good

morning everybody. It is seven oh six here on the kingc o Day Radio program, our number two. And as you wake up this morning, I

just want you to know you're under a state of emergency. Oh yeah, a Governor Roy Cooper state of emergency, except not a real one, so arguably him kind of abusing the term, if you will, But yeah, do you get you get the feeling that he's not taken this well the override majority anybody else getting that vibe because he's been he's been a little tantra me And it's interesting because you know, part of it is natural when you get to the end of a limited term like that, like you know, what

do you do next? Kind of thing. And he's in a position right now where the protectionism of Joe Biden up in the upper echelons is significant enough that he can't just parlay this into perhaps a presidential run, even if it's just to try to get into place where he might be selected as a VP or cabinet member. Right. So, once you've lost the ability to just go out and veto literally everything that's sent to you, and of course the media will always position it like, oh, look, he's just trying to

fight the good fight. These monsters refuse to negotiate with him, even though those monsters gave him his Medicaid expansion. When when you start feeling like a lame duck, you got to do something. So what does what does Cooper decide to do? Well, he's decided that his cause de jure is going to be the education cause. The very same person who decided that his child

should go to private school. He is going to do everything in his power to make it as difficult as possible and is not a non financially practical as possible for you to avail yourself of the same option. And I saw people defending this going, well, it's not like he used tax dollars to do it, and those folks are missing the point that those are not their dollars

anyway, Those are the people's dollars. And if we sit here and let's let's look at this through the lens of leandrow, right, and I wass this was the big this is the people were not arguing this the right way.

Right. So if there is the court sitting there saying that based on what's written in the North Carolina Constitution, and school districts are feeling that they're especially rural school districts to the point where they followed that lawsuit, don't feel as though they're able to offer this guarantee of an education in North Carolina's children.

That there's more than one way to skin a cat, so to speak, right, because then people will tell you, well, what it means is they have to just start dumping copious amounts of money into public education. And I sit there and I read it, and I go, but that's not how I read it. I look at what is said to be the goal, and the goal is to provide an education for children in North Carolina.

And in the same way that advocates for expansion of public education opportunities like pre K have argued, well, look, we're just trying to figure out what constitutes a good education. Proponents of school choice should be arguing the same thing. If that's what we guarantee and that's what we feel in this and the judges think that that is something that is a requirement, then who were you to define what the definition is. Shouldn't the outcome be the definition?

And there are studies in Florida, there are studies in the state of New York, just to show you politically how it runs the gamut about very positive outcomes with the expansion of school choice, and not just for the private schools or charter schools that spring up. The number of schools increases the quality of education even in the public setting. In I have to pull the numbers up. They had out of thirty two districts where they studied this third No.

Twenty nine showed a marked increase in the education quality within the traditional public portion of it. Now, why do you think that is? I think it largely has to do with competition. And look, if people want to have concerned I had this ross, did you catch any of that? That back and forth I went with some woman on Twitter about this. I thought it was a respectful discussion, but there was a complete willingness to ignore the power

of market forces. Right, So she her scenario was, well, what would happen as a private school would be there, except it's just a money funneling operation for whoever the top people are there. The administrators and parents would be duped into bringing their kids there, and then they would just they wouldn't use the money to educate kids, so they'd be all dumb and the people

at the top would take all the money. Well, one, you just describe the scenario with the expansion of the administrative part of public schools, that concerns people. Why do we need nine vice principles? Why are there all these people who really aren't in the job of, you know, on the

ground educating kids that have become this huge line item in budgets. But with that said, if if Ross, let's say that you decided you were going to avail yourself of an alternative education for Lincoln, right you guys, do you guys do your homework. You decide that this is an opportunity because of the school choice, the money makes sense now, and you put your kid there and you know, within a few months you determine that your kids just

going there and watching movies and eating blue right or not learning anything. What is your reaction at that point as a parent if it was only a private school, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd probably find another private school, right, absolutely. So you know there's this idea that parents are just gonna

sit there and allow themselves to be taken advantage of. But now, if you have a private school, you have charter schools, you have schools that, yes might be parochial, but whatever it is, and you're a parent, you have options out there. It's going to be on the schools who want to attract your kid to provide a quality product, because it's not a cheap product. We're talking about thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars annually.

Top tier is what like sixties seven hundred or something in that bill. I still I don't like the sliding scale nature of it, but you know, we got to start somewhere. So parents are gonna look at that, and in places where there's saying, well, look, the only school option in this rural county is the public schools, so you know they're not okay. So there continues to be the same and you're not losing kids from that district.

And if a private school does pop up, because this is what happens when you have this expansion of choice, it's not just the to use this example, it's not just the public schools and Ravenscroft right, which I guess if you don't live in the triangle and you're in the triad, is just a really expensive private school. There's other things that pop up to fill in that middle, especially when schools are able to determine how many dollars might be

available per pupil. If they can put a thing on paper where it works, and they feel that their educational ideology will be attractive to parents and the amount will be able to work because they think they can make it work, then you're going to have those educational opportunities where people want to get in there. And in some cases you'll get members of the community that ban together to create their own privatized schools, their own separate things in you see it not

just in private education. You see it in public education right where we have districts in North Carolina, Chapelhill'll be a good example. Chapelhill, Carborough, which are separate from their county entities, which is unusual. But you'll see community schools which aren't, you know, necessarily parochial in nature, right,

they're not. They're just another alternative where parents thought, you know what, maybe we can do a better job, and so they put it together and they sit on the boards, and they do the volunteer stuff, and they they do a lot of the same things that they do in the in the in the public school setting, except they're able to do it in a way that is arguably even more ingrained within their community. It's how education worked in

this country for most of its history. You'd have these areas where people would start to settle. They'd be rural areas in somewhere, one room schoolhouse would pop up, and then as the community grew, that would expand, or more of them would pop up. The one room schoolhouse my grandmother went to. I used to drive by it every day, still sitting there. It's not occupy. It's got a little historical thing in front of it, and she and she and her sisters would literally wagon it over there. At first

they did have an old car. As she got later in there, and that's what that's what they would do. So this is all going on. The governor really can't do anything to stop it, and so I guess he's decided he's all in on this, never mind the hypocritical nature of seizing that opportunity for himself. If people are not in the socioeconomic place that he is,

many are barred from that opportunity. I am seriously so tired of people that have had their kids in private school, that have never experienced public school. They've never had their kids in it. They don't know what the average person is dealing with. Lecturing people on why they can't go to a private school and the reason they to want you to because if more people do, then suddenly your kid isn't getting the education that they were before because it was

so exclusive and elite. Well that's the other argument to make. Well, they don't have to take the kids, they don't have to take kids, which is true kind of. But also there's the part where one you expand options. It's not just because there's limited slots, right, if there is, like any other commodity, and you know, people don't like to think of education as a commodity, but it is if there is, If there are people wanting it and are willing who are willing to pay for it.

Then that business will pop up and and challenge what's out there. We think we have a better widget. Let's let's take it to market. And that force is everyone that they're competing with. And this is why you see improvement in public education settings in many of these, uh, these various places they've studied, is because they do have to step up, they do have to improve it. And it's not always a win. There's some where it just

it didn't work. It didn't work because of a lot of the concerns people have. But the difference is because of those concerns where somebody had created something where they had no intention of putting together a good education and it was just an attempt to a cash grab. They were quickly found out and the parents didn't want their kids that's in that educational setting. And it didn't go well, and in some cases crimes were committed and people were prosecuted because they were

embezzling. So in that sense, the system did what the system is supposed to do. But instead our governor gets up and declares a fake state of emergency because he's a lame duck and he's feeling like nobody's listening to him. Pour your tax money into private schools that are unaccountable to the public and can decide which students they want to keep out. And I just explain why they're not unaccountable because parents are the consumers with their kids and they will make choices

based on that. And you want to talk about unaccountability. Why is the cost per pupil rising so much in the state of North Carolina. Teachers make less when you convert, and the educational quality and testing goes down. Does that sound like accountability. They want to expand private school vouchers so that anyone, even a millionaire, can get taxpayer money for their children's private academy tuition.

Not the taxpayers money arguably more the millionaire's money than almost anybody else because of a progressive tax system. How about me, I can't draw any dollars out any money that is extracted from me that is then dedicated for the purpose of public education in North Carolina. I will not draw a voucher from because I don't have any kids. So that's a leg up in and of itself. When kids leave public schools for private school the public schools lose hundreds of

millions of dollars, right, and they have. They have also lessened costs associated with having to run those schools. You don't need as many classrooms, you don't need as many teachers, you don't need as much equipment. And while they hand out private school vouchers to millionaires, they also want to give them large tax breaks too. That was just he's just throwing that in because that's the standard. This drops an atomic bomb on public education by shrinking the

state's budget by almost twenty percent. Public school superintendents are telling me they'll likely have to cut schools to the bone. Yeah, I bet they who feast upon that are telling you that we got lots more from him. Coming up. CACD radio program hanging all right, seven twenty eight here on the case O Day Radio program. Like I said, we got more from the governor

and his state have always got a hold. He's got a continued list of big problems, big problems, the disaster that awaits and let's just say some of the concerns that he's going to expouse. You might find a little bit hypocritical, but we'll get to the rest of that audio right after your News hang on a near decade on the calendar and celebrating ten years on the air. This is one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle and near's talk nine four five WPTI in the Triad. All right, so let's continue to

explore this. Governor Roy Cooper ad himself a little press conference declaring a state of emergency, but not really but you know, a political pretend one over the whole thing, having to do a school choice. That's right, sends his kid to private school, unlike you thinking about doing it unless you're rich and don't have to actually use the dollars that you're already kicking in for education to actually educate your kid. So we're just going to point by point with

what he laid out at the press conference. I implore you when I get into this next cut to try to find your zen place because I feel like it's going to make some people angry. There's a little bit of the next two cuts actually because let's just say, let's just say there is a dump truck full of hypocrisy attached, and I think you'll be able to pick up on it. So this one, especially you ready, Okay, don't say

I didn't warn, yet not satisfied. Just to starve public education. The Republicans and the legislature also want to bring their political culture wars into the classrooms. Oh oh oh no, so wait to say, so your can one of your concerns is the injection of politics into the classrooms. Huh? Well you know what. I look, I don't have a kid in school, so I don't know, um anybody out there who does have kids in the school. Has there ever been an instance of perhaps politics being injected into the

classroom that you're aware of, or anybody notice anything out there? I'll let you think about it. Continue, mister governor. If they get their way, our state Board of Education will be replaced by political hacks who can dictate what is taught and not taught in our public schools. Wait. Wait, what do you do? You mean the board of Education that is staffed by political appointees right now? That one? Or is it a new one.

I'm just I'm wondering. North Carolina schools need rigorous science, reading, and math classes. Yes they do, right. I feel like I've had a lot of parents tell me that, you know, the core foundational items within schools, you know, reading, writing, arithmetic, so yeah, no, people agree with you. It's it might be something else though, that makes them think that maybe you don't believe that. Not more politicians policing our

children's curriculum with book bands, elimination of science courses and more. Uh huh yeah, science call you when you say science courses, I feel like you're referring to some of the stuff that people might see political. Do you do you think the governor has a good fix on how this blew up so fast? Or do you think that Eve, it's one thing that he's not going to say it out loud, but do you think he's just not aware of how we got to where we are today and how it ramped up so much

lately? Can anybody think of any reason why this thing may have been thrown into high gear and that maybe folks aren't buying this whole while we just need schools to teach reading, writing, rhythmetics, science, rigorous rigorous standards for that ross, Can you think of any reason why this may bee uh escalating as quickly as it is right now? And many, many, many,

many parents are wanting alternatives. I think, listen, this is the guy that shut down schools right and had a state of emergency for seven hundred plus days and kept kids out of the classroom. And during that time, what did we have distance learning? And then what happened, Well, the parents sat back and saw the curriculum and the system and they said, wow, this is incredibly broken and it's not what I thought it was. He did this all to himself. It's one self inflicted on his part. It's just

bonkers. And to then call this press conference a quote unquote state of emergency is right, Like, listen, the deeply dumb the state legislature legislating is not an emergency. It's literally how the system is supposed to work. Just because you get your way, is it? Oh my god, Now it's an emergency. It's for the kids, man, They just they just want them to learn math. What's the what's the problem. Oh you mean it's

all that other stuff. People were studying screenshots and assignments about because they were finally seeing what their kids were learning. And they were also realizing that while other schools, private schools out there were returning to the classroom that public schools not only didn't want to, but they were having to watch daily press conferences of people like Randy Weingarten bemoan the idea or they had to see a hostage list, ransom lists? How many? How many different and in what world

did you think this was a good thing? How many different stories do you think? Ross do you think we did during this where some school districts somewhere beyond California's Chicago, here in North Carolina, whatever, where there would be a list there these are what these are the things that our local school district or teachers union are whatever administrators field has to happen before they could reopen schools.

And it wasn't better ventilation. It was like, we also need more vacation days, and we need more money, and we need more of this, and you know, all the items that are generally negotiated when contracts are being put together were then being suddenly shifted into these demand letters. I don't know how many of those we did, but I don't know that i'd be

able to count. And people looked at that while they're literally trying to just kind of keep everything flowing in their own households because everything's weird and maybe somebody lost a job in that house, or the revenue was lost coming in and things are expensive or unable to find, and they went, screw you, this is not the time to demand this, or my kid doesn't get an education, right Because you're sitting back and you're like, well, I'm going

to work every day, I'm proving the time. I'm not getting extra pay. I mean, what do you lazy? Before COVID, and we've mentioned this before in the show, you had the school system, the teachers that were like up there were like firefighters and you know, uh, police and like, oh my, they're they're heroes, right, Yet COVID happens, all this happens, they're not going into school. The firefighters as a police

department, they're still doing their jobs. They they squandered that trust and it exposed what was really going on. I remember sitting there watching some of this distant stuff, going what is happening here? What was that you're doing all day? What was that new term? I learned? What was the day where your kid goes but you're the teacher? What are the asynchronous days or

some asynchronous days? I'll like, what the the first time Ross explained that, I'm like, come on, yes, so that's the day where we are the teacher. The teachers are there. It's just but I but I also have my job. Like I have my job, I have to do right to support my family. But now I'm also the teacher for this day because you can't meet over the laptop. It made no absolutely no sense. Just give them the day off, all right? Well, hold on,

there's one more cut, one more cut. So let's get it. And here is the here's the top or for all that insanity put together, these ideas spelled disaster that requires emergency action. The North Carolina, I know, was built on support for public schools and we can't let the legislature tear them down. I'm fighting back and I need you to do it too. Public schools can survive this legislative session if we can limit the damage. But we all need to pull together to do it. And how is that, by

the way, how do you think that's? Because it's not either there's an election before this legislative session is up. So what is that? Can I get real dark? I mean, if one person doesn't show up, they're not able to override I will. You're not calling on anybody to do anything,

are you? I don't believe that he is. But if if others are allowed to play that game where all of a sudden, Trump was demanding they burned the capital down because he told them to go over and have their voices heard while simultaneously telling them to, you know, do it legally. Park gets left out. Am I allowed to read into that statement? So now he wants people to protest and maybe go to school boards and speak their mind because the last time I knew we did that, we were labeled domestic

terrorists. Yeah yeah, but you were you know it was what you were saying. I mean, that's you just gotta understand, just gotta read between the lines. Ross. So anyway, that's the state of the emergency,

which has to be great. If you're especially living in one of these counties in North Carolina where you're still waiting for assistance from for hurricane damages from back in the day and for whatever reason that's not getting worked out, you probably don't want to hear another emergency declaration until you know you have a roof. But I digress seven forty six. You don't have to worry about hurricanes right now, though. Race age from the Weather Channel or do they I don't

know. If you're very doom in bloom yesterday well, I'm gonna say that is the least likely scenario. However, there might be something. I don't know if it's going to get Hurricane Center attention, but it will certainly get our attention later in the week toward the upcoming holiday weekend for the beaches.

Right now, low pressure is going to dive out of the southeast over the state of Florida, north central Florida and try to roll north and sit off the western Atlantic and the coast of Georgia and North and South Carolina through probably Saturday and maybe drifting inland, and that could impact whether even here Triangle try it as we look ahead toward the holiday weekend. So at this point that'll look great, but there's some good in there too, and that's the next

few days. With partial sunshine Today and tomorrow will be in the load of mid seventies. It does stay cool, kcy, but that's the northeast breeze, and there really isn't gonna be much rain, if any at all. Lows will be in the fifties and even Thursday Friday should be good with more sunshine by Friday, still in the load of mid seventies, a little breeze around though lows will stay in the fifties. So the good news to the rest of the week. You save on a cooling build. I don't have

to run the AC. I mean, that's all good stuff, right, Even driving around you don't run the air, you don't have the compressor running. You save on your gas mileage. I feel like you're being set up while you are because the weekend at this point, I'm gonna say, starting sometime around Saturday, now all this is going to be said, where especially as you go east toward the outer Banks and to the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, that'll be the better chance of rain. But starting Saturday will

start to see the threat for showers get in here. Maybe even some steadier rain at times through Sunday. Maybe we squeak out Sunday afternoon and Monday with some dry weather, but there still could be a few showers, thunder showers. There's enough uncertainty right now on the forecast that where I'm not picking on anybody in my field, but if anybody's given you any types of guarantees for

the weekend, they're wrong. So that's all I'm gonna say. There's gonna be changes um, timing intensity, who's gonna get it and who's not? Um, and I could promise see this. It could be wet now and tomorrow could look like everything stays off shore. It could be a dry weekend. It's the least likely scenario, but um, just being honest, there'll

there'll be changes to the weekends. Don't go canceling any don't go canceling anything yet that hypothetically, if one was to remove oneself to like, I don't know, Florida for a Memorial Day weekend, the weather forecast South Florida might be a little better, or it depends on when you're going the weekend. They may actually start getting drier and more improved weather for the holiday weekend. The next four days they are gonna be pretty crappy. Okay, I should

come well when they head? Are they going Saturday? They're going Thursday? Okay, Thursday, obviously, I gotta do this whole show. Um, they're a little North Lauderdale. But Thursday Friday, pro we're not going to be great, but the weekend should be better. You're there, I mean casino there so oh well or cares Yeah, all right, all right, all right, sir talking to nowur thank you, okay, alright eight eight

eight nine three four seven eight seven four. So there you go. You're in an educational state of emergency because somebody's not getting their way all right. Coming up on the show, we got to speaking to schools. We got a little school issue out in western North Carolina. Uh so that's uh, that's something we got to chat about. And an update on the story we did here just a few months ago having to do with COVID. So lots to get to hang on Smart Talk all Day five WPTI in the Triad and

one o six one FM Talk in the Triangle. Well, I guess we're gonna do this again. We got more members from the Brady Bunch Show coming out and addressing you know, all the twisted stuff, right, you want to talk about a hotbed of just weird soap opery kind of stuff, love triangles, drug use, at all the things over the years that have been alleged, I mean, and it keeps kind of like Martha Marcia put out her book or the Actress obviously and like in fact old we did a parody

song from both iterations of this. This is when Marcia put her new books out here's a story about Marcia Brady. It turns out that she really was a whole She did dudes like the guy who played her brother, Oh yes, and lots of low busted rails. Once with Sammy Davis Junior at the Canny Man's house, stoned off her ass that their eyes were really nice and bloodshot, but not both of Sammy's. One was made of glasses. In her new book, it's in her new book, stories of her drugs and

sacks. Lads take a look, right, and then that was just one and then all of a sudden another tell all comes out, and it's about the whole family. Here's the story of a kinky family summer saying, now there was some girl and girl Jane and Marcia never told Dad her mother that Cindy would have hurled, but not to worry, because missus Brady she was busy with some action of her own. Dad preferred man and Carol I did better with Greg on the down though, it seems Lama and Marcia David the

same fellow. Wonder if they ever got lucky during lunch. At least this group they kept it in the family. Guess the Bradies really were a kinky bunch, a kinky bunch, a kinky bunch. I'll bet Alas then joined

in more than once. And it is those rumors that were part of that song that are now the point of a new reunion interview whatever you want to call it, with former Brady Bunch actress Susan Olsen directly addressing rumors she was Cindy by the way that Carol Brady, Florence Henderson and Greg Brady Berry Williams

were a thing, which was one of the allegations made. Now Cindy says it wasn't true, and of course obviously there was about a twenty year age gap there, but hey, you know what, to each their own. But Cindy said that that particular rumor was the one she dislikes the most, but said that Barry Williams did have a crush on her and she even let she even let him take her out for her birthday. So that sounds like that sounds like Cindy wanted Barry, but Barry wanted Florence, and Cindy's still

bitter about But Barry Williams is a jerk. I was filling in an Afternoon's in two thousand and three on Sweet Nina and Omaha. When I worked there, I was doing nights, I was filling in afternoons, and he came in to do an interview, and I had something already planned for my interns. We did the whole how much milk can you drink before you throw up? And live on the air. They projectile vomit all over Barry Williams and he freaks out, storms out of the studio. He said he would never

come back to the station again. It was the greatest thing in the world. Projectile vomited on the eyeball a joke. What a jerk. He can't take a joke. He was projectile vomited on. It was a great moment. I think Cindy. Cindy wanted that, and Cindy didn't get that, and now she's bitter. That's how I read that insanity. All right, good morning everybody. It is eight oh six here on the Case Today radio program. I'm sorry for you, sir. One of our listeners is in

sense hold on Jeff, which beach boy. Well, anyway, so Jeff just said, imagine my surprise sitting there and turning on part of the governor's press conference yesterday and hearing him compare his educational priorities to a disastrous hurricane in nineteen ninety nine. During Hurricane Floyd, our beach house was disappeared. Well, I'm glad, I'm glad. It didn't sound like anybody got hurt in that. But yeah, yeah, that's a that's another thing. There's a

lot of disasters with Matthew Irene Florence, at least in my time. You go back, what were some of the other big ones, fran Floyd Hugo. So yeah, now I can imagine why that wouldn't be too palatable to you, sir. All right, let me grab a quick call on this. Dave's been hanging on, Dave, what's up? Well, hey there, okay, um, going back to old news. I guess a few minutes ago when you had Roy Cooper on there, I just um, I was reminded of two rules and we all need to remember when we hear a

lip speaking. One if the lips remove them, their lying. And two anything they accuse anybody polready done it or are doing it. Um, well, uh yeah, you're in there with your own special flourish. I guess. Yeah. Hypocrisy, the hypocrisy is overwhelming. And um also, I just I think he's feeling unappreciated because there's really nothing you can do. He should yeah, go hang out a Western residents, cut some ribbons, do whatever. Man. Yeah, yeah, yes, indeed, all right,

cool, cool, they appreciate the body. Yeah, thank you. Go to the fun stuff. Man running around pretending to declare states of emergency. The irony, of course, is you can't even do that anymore if the budget passes. And I want to just by the way, I want to mention this because I was talking about this and somebody, somebody set me straight or at least inform me, and I missed this, But I want to

give credit where credit is due. I wanted to make sure. When we were having that conversation last week with both the Lieutenant governor and Mark Walker, I brought up, hey, if we got this, one of the things I absolutely want to see is I want to see that the governor can't just throw us into a seven hundred day state of emergency, refused to take critical questions and do what every damn well pleases by violating his own rules so he

can march with protesters. We need to put the kibosh on that and Initially they'd put a bill out he vetoed in. It's my understanding that as part of the budget, and then the fix it portion that that is in fact included. So uh good, good, But for whatever reason that gets kicked, you still got to do it. But uh, credit where credit is due to that the NC General Assembly in prioritizing that, because that that was

an abomination. And I think we see how it all turned out. And of course they'll never you know, dig into it to the extent that they need to, because that would require the media to actually challenge their own ideology in many instances. Are you want to hear something super creepy and I have

a theory about it too. Ali Tate Cutler is this? Uh this this young woman's name and miss Cutler. Among other things, she is an Instagram influencer, She is a TikToker. She is also a plus sized victorious secret model kind of. She did appear and a collaboration once back in twenty nineteen. Okay, so she you know, she's an influencer and she churning out content and that's that's how she makes your bones. And I don't begrudge it.

I find a lot of it is not for me. A lot of these content creators are people that I just don't feel like I want to hang out with, especially that one guy who's now claiming that people are mad at

him because he's racist. He's a British, he's black and he's a British, and like he goes and does these things like which looked like assault and theft for lolls, and people were getting very critical of them this week, and now he's claiming it's just because racem Like he was attacking Hasidic Jewish guy who was just standing there, like jumped on his back. He goes into libraries, grabs a book, goes up to the desk and just starts shredding

the book. And this is content and he's got a lot of followers, so good for him. So my point is there's so many content creators. You got to get a little creative if you want to stand out. Like mister Beast wasn't the original, but arguably he found he found his own genre and he goes out he does it better than anybody, and then even when he does good stuff, people are critical of him. How dare you make it so a thousand people can see well, Cutler won a different direction.

So she's put out a series of videos and I gotta tell you these are these are videos. These will make you obscenely comfortable because they're done in like a like an upbeat way, like you're going for you're trying to make people laugh a little. The topic it's her and her grandmother, and her grandmother

who's recently received a terminal diagnosis and has opted for youth and Asia. So she's making like, I understand that you want to, you want to make the time that people have left, albeit in this case it will be a sped up clock because of what Grandma's choosing there, but making cutesye videos about hey, grandma chose the youth in Asia, so this is the last time I get to take her out for dinner. Oh yeah, it's not. It's not that you shouldn't address this. This, This is I I've had

to deal with this. I'm sure many of you have had to deal with a family member receiving a diagnosis, a terminal diagnosis. My own mother did. And yes, you want to, you want to make that time as positive as possible. You want to do what you can. You can never really grasp what that individual may be going through, but perhaps there's some of

you listening to find yourselves in that situation. But I have to strongly suspect that what my mother wouldn't have wanted, and people are different, is to be part of a bunch of tiktoks with little cutesy voiceover and pranks and and I don't know, maybe maybe Grandma was all about that, or perhaps Grandma realized what a vapid legacy of a granddaughter she has, and maybe she's the one to push the calendar up. I don't know, man, the whole

thing is just so creepy. If you wanted to take your platform and talk about this and how families work through this, even on the topic of assisted suicide, which admittedly is a touchy one, that'd be one thing. But I just you can't do the same approach. You're creeping people out just casually asking One of the question she asked her is very casually. So what are

your thoughts now that the date's getting closer? You know, that's a real conversation, don't get me wrong, But when it's asked like what are your thoughts on which restaurant we should go to when it comes across like that, people are rightfully going to push back. That's you can look it up if you want. I'm not I'm not gonna sit here and and get into it much more than that ally tate color. It won't be hard to find. We'll put out a link too on the Twitter at Casey on the Radio if

you want to check more of that out. Ross. Did you watch any of those videos, actually believe it or not? I did not. Yeah, I say, you know, I'm going to skip that one. Who You're a content creator. I'm a content creator for that matter, But from a digital perspective, obviously radio is a different animal than TikTok, different animal than Twitch, than Instagram, all of that, and I can't fathom coming

to the conclusion that that's a good idea. But maybe I'm missing the boat because I'm not content creator on one of the young hip platforms like the TikTok or the Twitch or the Instagram or no. She just looks clinically insane even on those platforms. So you can weigh in on that. Eight eight eight, nine, three four seven, eight seventy four. You ever wanted to grab a hatchet and chase around college students and light them on fire. No,

me, neither. I would not recommend doing that. However, if you were to do that, what is your assumption of what might happen to you? Well, like prison forever. So you're gonna go with prison for chasing college students with a hatchet and lighting them on fire? All right, Ross is on team prison forever. Will you be surprised? Actually no, this isn't another iteration of some nineties slasher movie. It's real life California.

And wait to hear how it played out. We'll do it now next one oh six one FM Talk and nine four five w PTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is case O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right, a twenty three Cacoda radio program. M Ross, you catch the uh Lakers Nuggets? I did not? Oh no, what did I miss? All right? So going into the game, Lakers are down zero and three. All right, must win, super must win, And for the majority of the game looked like that was going to be the case.

They were up like twenty some points. At one point they were picking Denver apart. Lebron had like I want to say, he had like thirty points in the first half. Which is you know, if if, if you are in a goat discussion, that's what you gotta do in the clutch, just of clutch situations. And then it all started to fall apart, and by the time we got to the very last moment of the game, it

went back and forth, back and forth. There's like four and a half seconds left, Denver's up one thirteen to one eleven, and the Lakers get their time out. They get the rebound on a mist because actually the Nuggets had a chance to add more they missed. They get the rebound, time out. You got, now one player you're gonna get to run. Who do you give the ball too? If you're the Lakers, gotta give it to the goat, you give it to Lebron. Right, he had played

well in the first half. He had a lot of points, and he is by far the best player on the Lakers team. And it's it's it's those moments that define players, especially in the NBA, those clutch Who do you give the ball too? And what do they do with it? And so all of these people having the debate about Jordan and Lebron, all they

have to do is watch what happened last night. So he gets given the ball and he has a couple options he can He can take the ball, go to the ride a little and attempt to take what would be a very similar two point shot, kind of lined up with the free throw line from the back, kind of fade away. You know that shot that we saw Jordan make famously make where he's nine feet off the ground. It's going in his arms, spinning, Yeah, against Craig Ylow and yeah, the calves

that was early in his run. Yep. That one of the most iconic shots in all the basketball and Jordan's got a few to choose from. Well, He's got that right, That's the way he developed his jump shot. Then towards the end of his career, the fade away with the kickout. Yes, Larry Bird, this was a guy who literally won games, and he told people where he was going to shoot from. He's like, I'm gonna get inbound the ball and I'm gonna shoot from right here, and there's

nothing you can do about he you know what? He did that? And not only that, but he said he's gonna land on the opposing team's bench and he did, Yes, he did. He said I'm gonna do this I'm gonna make this shot right here, and I'm gonna fall on your coach or whatever. And that's exactly what he did. So what did Lebron do? He gets the ball, and for no reason I can understand, he attempts to drive the lane with two defenders posted or getting posted up and smashes

kind of in between him and misses by a mile. Wasn't even close. They lose. He then just turns around, doesn't congratulate opponents, doesn't talk to teammate, not just walks all the way across the court in the tunnel out. Well, I wonder whose fault that was. It's probably what he's contemplating, you know what I mean, Like I start that up for me

this time. Yeah, maybe that was part of going up the middle, but also like that, driving that with those with the defense that he was presented with versus trying to shoot, which would have been contested, but they weren't really pressing him. Your best case scenario is what to get a foul and then you have to go make the two free throws? What happens if you I mean, that's not the strategy. Get somewhere. You had the

opportunity take the shot. You're the you're the guy in the discussion with Jordan, and he just didn't and they got swept. The whole conversation and debate

between Lebron and Michael to me is like mind boggingly stupid. It's it's and it tends to team Lebron, not all the time, but it tends to be people who are never alive to see Michael Jordan play, so they don't really know what they're going I mean, you can watch highlights, but it's not the same, right, And Michael Jordan accomplished more and less time. Like if Michael Jordan played the amount of years that Lebron played, there wouldn't

even be a debate. No, it's just it's a matter of longevity for Lebron. But you agree that these clutch situations have to be part of the conversation, Well has to go. I mean that because if you're that player, you want the ball. Yeah, and I'm sure he wanted the ball. I just don't know what he thought he was doing with it. So yeah, I was a little ugly there. So it'd be nugget. I think it'll probably be Miami and Denver, which I'm cool with. I'll watch

that. Not a huge NBA guy, but I do like I want to get in the playoffs and I like college basketball. So it's just evolution of that. So all right, we've got lots to get to in our final half hour and your calls coming up. Hang up your day Smarter one O six one FM Talk and News Talk w PTI More with Casey starts now. So let's just for a moment, say you are, you're in charge of

law and order? What do you think should happen to somebody who walks up to some random people, threatens to light them on fire, then does light them on fire. Then when they retaliate or attempt to subdue this individual, you then pull a hatchet and attack people. What should happen to the firelighter hatchet dude? Probably something right? He Hell, sweet summer child, you

are You're wrong? California. A man convicted of lighting students on fire at UC Berkeley in twenty twenty and wielding a hatchet will not serve any jail time after he has agreed to participate in a diversion program. Do you need a diversion A diversion program to let you know that you're not supposed to light people on fire while wielding a hatchet. Do you think he's gonna be sitting there day one of the diversion classes or counseling or whatever was required, and he's

gonna be like, oh, what you can't do that? I had no idea. Brandon mcgloane, who was convicted of multiple felonies, accepted a deal from the Alameda This is a UC Berkeley, Alameda County District Attorney's Office. Mcgloane reportedly approached two men who were sitting outside of a restaurant eating, walks over knocks the food off their table and told them he was going to light

them on fire. Okay, you got my attention, at which point he then produced a w D forty and sprayed it all over as they were attempting to escape. Following the incident, he went into a tea house where he sprayed the cans some more and actually lit two other people on fire. So he didn't get the first two lit up, but the second too since they were stuck inside. He got them on fire. As you can imagine,

people came to their aid so they weren't killed or anything. Bystanders even tried to restrain him, at which point he pulled out a hatchet and threatened them. When police arrived and were eventually able to subdue him, they found that, in addition to the hatchet and the w D forty on his person, he had multiple knives, a machete, and several molotov cocktails. He was facing obviously significant prison time, but they're going to put him through a diversion

program and how'll be fine. Read a couple of quotes here. During the attack, mcgloane told the man that he wanted to light someone on fire because, quote, if I don't get to see my family tonight, someone else doesn't get to see their family tonight, and I choose you. The man said at the time he'd seen a lot of quote crazy homeless people in his life, but this situation was different right off the bat, as he seemed

extremely dangerous. His defense attorney said he's the victim, though, saying his actions were the result of a very dark time and a very bad time in his life, and he was lashing out. So this is good news. So if I ever, like, if things get really bad and I need to vent, apparently I can stroll over to the nearest college campus, light students on fire and threaten him with a hatchet. I had no idea Ross is going to be amazing, What a great activity that there's no I think

I think the outcome for you might be a little different. I'm sorry. I know I'll use w D forty and a hatchet and have a machete and all I will have the same kit. Okay, so that it's just apples. I'm just saying it might be a little different. But because can you think of any reason why that would be different? Because I'm gonna have w D forty and a hatchet. I have these things I always say. I mean, you know, just spitall in here. Okay, you are a

a white male who hosts a conservative news talk show. I think there might be a little different. I think there might be a racial component. Here's what I'm saying. If you look at the track history of recent arrests and the people they let let go, I'm saying it's especially where was this all ying? Do is yang? This is in California? And yes you're doing don't black man? Should students you live on fire? Two white guys? Um? What what? Well? I won't. I'll don't worry I'll light

white guys on fire. Is that? Is that what you're implying or should I there might be some repercussions. Oh okay, well, Ross is trying your rising now, spitballing whatever you want to. I mean, I'm not a lawyer, No you're not. I'm just saying, you know, this is we got case law here now with this insanity. All right, let me get some calls. Keith, what's up, hello, Keith? Oh yes, hey, good morning sir, Good morning, good morning. Yeah.

I just wanted to come on long time listener, first time caller, but I wanted to call on that story you guys had about the bill that just passed, the school choice right. And my wife and I since nineteen ninety eight, we put our kids through private school through the Catholic the propil schools because we couldn't take the public schools. And we did whatever we had to. We paid, you know, we own a haul and we pay

our taxes. We live here in Wait County, and it got to the point we couldn't really afford it, but we had to make a choice. And then as time kept going on, I even lost my job back in two thousand and nine, and we had to make a hard choice. But we kept them in private school because of what was happening in the public school system. And I did work with Wait County school system. I got the fee firsthand. Some of this what they would call trying to teach children and

it's just uh. And I think everybody should have a right. And I don't care what you make. When you make a million dollars, if you're osible for the credit that you should be able to take it. Yeah. Well, if you have students and you want to educate them, you should have the choice to where you educate them. And if we're going to if we're going to allocate dollars that are extracted from those very same taxpayers such as you, how much easier would would your life have been if you had sixty

seven h dollars credit each here for per kid? Oh, that would have been because when our kids were going through the tuition, even the case through and then the high school nine through twelve. Once they get into the high school, the tuition jumps. Yeah. Yeah, and it you know, we met hard decision. And now both our children have graduated college and they both when we talked him about it, and they thought we gave up and

they appreciate it. They appreciate having the opportunity to get a better education. And then when he went to college they could see the difference. Well that's good, you know what good sir, and I want everyone such as to have and thank you for the call to have that experience that you had and that the governor was able to avail himself of for his child, his child, Eddie, real quick, what's up, hey, I just wanted to

give you the you know, perspective on the go conversation. I think we need to look at success rate more than anything and every competitive arena basketball related Michael Jordan, you know, it just outdid Lebron and every every way shape and for him. People that haven't seen him, I agree with you earlier. People that haven't seen him play can't don't have the proper perspective, and they're really just talking because they're listening to what everybody else is saying about Lebron,

and I don't think that's a fair perspective. In the In the same way and I know, I thanks for the call, Eddie. In the same way that when Patriots fans during the prime of Tom Brady said, if you give that guy the ball, We're gonna win. That level of confidence, that's what. Even if you weren't a Bulls fan, when you saw Jordan and it was down to crunch time, you're like, this dude's gonna win the game. And I don't have that opinion of Lebron. I think

he's a good player, but scored a lot of points. But when it gets into the clutch, you don't have that clutch confidence. Man. And you saw it last night Race Agic from the Weather Channel. He could have gone pro. He's nine feet tall, could have gabron ball four seconds left and he tries to drive defend what happened? I mean, what what are you doing? Yeah, I saw that they're out. Yeah, I mean

that. I was kind of you know, I don't really follow NBA as much anymore, but I was following that because I used to be a Lakers fan, because I threw the skyhook back in the day. I was yeah, you know, yeah. So, like I said, if I would have applied myself, you never know. But I did in this business. So I can give you the best we've got, and it's gonna be pretty good around here the next few days. A partial sun today and tomorrow with

the clouds, mid seventies with a gusty breeze out of the northeast. So as long as we keep this northeast flow will stay cool at night, we'll

be in the load of mid fifties. Friday be the sunniest day, the next three low seventies, maybe some mid seventies, and then as it get into the weekend, a little bit unsettled, with the chance of showers each day, maybe even some thunder showers as we head towards Memorial Day and I'll warm up a little bit, though We'll have to see what this area of low pressure potentially does as I try to sit off the southeast coast, and at this point doesn't look like great beach weather for at least a part of

the holiday weekend, and some of that moisture may come inland. But I think tomorrow we might have a little better handle on what's going to be going on there, whether the Hurricane Center it takes a look at it or not. That is TBD also, so you have a little heightened awareness. Would definitely be some higher rip cards. What's there's higher rip current risks right now, and maybe some gusty wins. Who knows that they get the tropical storm force. As I say, Casey, the next three days, the rest

of the business week here looks good. Feel okay, it's the weekend. I've got a lot of questions about it, and so does everybody, so you know, it's it's simple. Let me, here's what you do. Go to the beach, but yep, don't actually go to the water. Just sit there under the umbrella, got your cooler, got your shades, got your music there. Safety first, exactly, and you don't have to worry about burning your skin. Right, Yeah, looking at the positive.

I appreciate that. Yep, yep, all right, thanks, I appreciate it. We'll talk tomorrow and we'll come back with Jeff Bellinger and talk about deep faking the stock market, which is terrifying. That's coming up next. Keeping you connected. This is ninety four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. Alright, a fifty three Blimberg update. Now, Jeff Bellinger, did AI try to crash the stock market yesterday? What's up? Okay? Yeah, investors did get punk yesterday,

Casey. The stock market turned lower after a falsified photo circulated on social media. The picture purported to show an explosion near the Pentagon. Now really didn't take long for the word to spread that the posting was a hoax. Stocks quickly recovered, but it is believed to be the first time an AI generated image move the stock market. Stocks ended mixed yes yesterday. A President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy both described yesterday's talks on the debt ceiling as productive,

but there's still no deal. That's keeping the markets on edge. Futures are lower across the board this morning. The DAW futures are down fifty six points. Zoom Video says its business has stabilized. Of course, a lot of users departed as pandemic lockdowns eased, but now Zoom says consumer churn has slowed. It's raising its outlook for the year. Inflation still taking a big toll on American households. The Federal Reserve says just under three quarters of all

adults are at least okay financially. That's down five percentage points from a year ago, one of the lowest readings since twenty sixteen. More big electric powered sport utility vehicles will be hitting the road soon. Ford CEO Jim Farley says his company is developing a three row electric vehicle that something Tesla doesn't yet offer, and General Motors has announced plans to introduce an electric version the Cadillac Escalade, also a three row suv, and Casey robots may one day take over

a job currently done by vehicle mechanics. A Michigan startup called Robotire, working with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, has developed a pair of robots that can rotate vehicle's tires. Robot Tires founder says the machines can do the job in eighteen minutes flat, Casey flat, Is that a pun? Oh no, actually not all right, but that would have been good. Yeah, Well that's who I want rotating my tires. The same people just tried to crash the stock

market. So awesome, Thanks, appreciate it. Okay, have a good day, take care of there you go. Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News joining us. All right, couple, let me grab a call here real quick, and then a couple quick stories. Donna, what's up, Good morning, Casey. Two things. If you did what Hatchetman did, you'd be called mega Republican radical or a Nazi. They might even find a Nazi flag

in your back pocket, or a white supremacist. The other thing is that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior in psychology, and letting him out on the street, they'll be saying, well, jeez, we don't know why he buried a hatchet in somebody's head. I mean, we've sent him to the diversion program. Well, it was more about the fire, but yeah, he made transition. I think the hatchet was more of a

defensive weapon. But yeah, we'll see how it goes. Absolutely. Yeah, well don't you go doing it. Well, if there's no consequences and you know you're having a bad day, apparently that's all you need. So thanks, we have a two tier justice system. Don't forget Well, I know, but still I strive for equality and I want a quality and being able to light people on fire and chase him with a hatchet. I don't want to do any of those things, but I want to have the option,

That's all I'm saying. Check this out. Have you guys heard of black Wolf? All? Right? Ride sharing apps obviously Uber left cool with that, right, So there's a new one, a new one that is launching and actually launching in New York of all places, that will test over the next four months to the viability of their business model. It's Uber with guns, yep. And actually they had they've already the startup. It was in Atlanta, so this will be the test of their expansion. Currently they

have fifteen cars in the metro Atlanta area. Now it's they're not breaking new ground in the sense that you could hire. You could hire people to, you know, to defend you and be armed. Friend of mine's wife is she works for a corporation that requires her to go to a lot of different countries, and it's a kind of a high profile position and you can bet your butt that they got some Blackwater style guys around her everywhere she goes.

However, for Joe Blow on the street contracting, that isn't always that easy, even though there's several places in North Carolina. If you want to do that, it's pretty pretty simple. This would just incorporate an app, and they hope to expand it so that if you're let's you know, let's say it's later at night, you're having to go places and you're a little concerned

about maybe crime rates or the areas that you're traveling. With the simple flip of an app, instead of getting your standard Uber, you can get a guy who's seen some stuff. And as training is, there's also stuff outside this like GPS tracking, live streaming technology, a bunch of stuff. It's all about safety. It is more expensive, obviously, it's fifty dollars and

then there's a small mile per mile rate. But yeah, if you require that level of protection, peace of mind, and you're you know, you're out drinking so you can't carry yourself, that's an option. So we'll see. All right, very cool, We gotta roll. Have a good rest of your day.