Tuesday-07-18-2023

Remember all right, good morning everybody. It is the Casey O Day Radio program. It is six o eight, it's Tuesday, so you know that's a thing. But you know we're here or so, oh what are we gonna do? Um? Oh oh that's fun. Thank you for that. Computator Apparently have to do a some sort of weird security update as soon as I try to launch another program. Love that. Oh there we go. Ha ha, I knew the password. Screw you anyway. Um, what

a morning, dude. I'm telling you, I was reading that Christopher Nolan story. You saw that when you were putting in the prep packet yesterday. Are you the one who doesn't like Christopher Nolan Ross? No love? Now you like Nolan? Who was it? No, Michael Bay? That's right. That's your beef, right, Michael Bay, because it's all explosions and screw everything else. Yeah, Michael Bay, I seriously old, really fast. Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah. I don't know why that popped

in my Hey. Yes, I was reading that Christopher Nolan thing, and I have never been so jealous in my life. So like Hollywood director, obviously you know he's doing his thing. Um, I'm I'm I don't know if I've ever heard Christopher Nolan moonbat out. Actually, now that I think about it, right, I'm sure he has, because you gotta and and honestly to like some small extent. I don't even fault most of the Hollywood people because it's like you're just mostly you just want to shut up the other

moonbats at the bay. But some are really like, um, who's the actor who plays the Hulk? Ruffalo? Mark Ruffalo. I blocked him like two months ago. I was so tired of hearing from him, I had

to block him. But yesterday he was. There was two things, um, the second of which was him like when one day the three names of the people will most hate and then he named the CEOs of like the three big whale companies, and you know how they'll you know, go down in history is essentially and then you know, insert whatever the worst people from history are. But like everybody was, and I think this was part of it. Everybody was bugging on him because he put on his poor people clothes to

go to the picket line. He had like he had like busted old T shirt and jeans and like choose, but they had like paint on him or No, he's the absolute worst. And they're all hypocrites because get off your phone and trade in your mansion, give everything up if you're a whole about the earth and stuff. But they're all they're him and Ron Perlman. I blocked him both. Yeah, it's just a tragedy because mostly if I see Mark Ruffalo on screen, or even Ron Perlman for that matter, I'm probably

into whatever movie. Yeah, I mean that's the thing. Hell Boy is awesome. Ron Perlman also the voice and Fallout great. Really I didn't even realize, like the narrator. Yeah, Mark Mark Ruffalo as the whole in Marvel the Marvel movies, love them, but I mean movie did that Lawyer movie a couple of years ago I thought was pretty interesting, which is still a little bit of an activist movie. But whatever. Um, But like everybody was on his butt because he's like, let me put my poor people

clothes on. They're loving this stuff. Yeah, we're loving the fact that they get to protest because that's what they always want, right, they want something to protest against. They want to be like very important and in this spotlight obviously down with the struggles. Yeah. Yeah, the irony of course is um and I know this as somebody who and and you know people on people on the show, they're like, oh, what do you hate unions?

No? No, no, no no, My my bigger beef is uh is public sector unions, right, government stuff, And like even some of the biggest moon bats in history realized actually gonna be a little bit of

a problem. So when I was after high school, when I was in college, I it was a casual for the Iatzi Union three three six out of Santa Barbara and that was that's a stage hand union, and it was a pretty kind of it was a sweet gig for a college kid because you're doing you're you're working like a dog, don't get me wrong, and you're doing like tours and concerts, but as from a local perspective. So I worked when they did shows at Arlington Theater and Santa Barbara Bowl and a couple

other venue and basically anywhere they had a union gig. And you'd show up at like eight am. You work all damned unloading these trucks from Rabanda because and then you know insert whatever the tour band is. And so like you work like a dog, you go through all the show and then you would work almost this twenty four hour period, but you'd make so much damn money and you'd get to be backstage and meet all these acts, and it was

it was a really good gig. But there's a huge swath of people who work for IOTSI in some capacity, that work on movie sets and TV productions, and so Mark Ruffalo getting to show up in his poor people clothes and hang out with the riders and everybody's got a beef. They look like they're doing something. The reality is because they're so dug in and the studios are so dug in. Those people who you know, get these sometimes get these titles, is like Best Boy and Grips and any of the rest that are

AATSI people, they're all screwed. So they're the ones that during the entirety of the shutdown are really going to suffer because Mark Ruffalo's like, hell no, we won't go, and he loves the photo up, so to Ross's point, stroking his ego is going to starve those individuals. Now, you also understand what industry you're in and who you're working with, so to some

extent it shouldn't be unexpected. But I did giggle and then all of a sudden, he's like he was calling for the heads of oil people yesterday. Just the weirdest thing. Man, it's so dumb. All right, you know, produce one of your movies without fossil fuels, go, it's impossible. Well, what you don't understand is the message, man. So the message it overwhelms what they're doing. And they're making the investment. And yes, they're using the fossil fuels, but because in their show and in their

movie, like what did what did I watch? Like a some snippet of yesterday? I watched some like travel show right where they were? Where were they? I think they were in like they were in like Lima, Peru or something. It was like street Foods or something. You know, it was on Food Network or something, flipping through there and those are the kind of things I can put on in the background while I'm doing prep and be

quite fine and so. And it was really high production quality. And they're like, so they're down in Lima, and there are they in Lima?

There in Bolivia? The point is there, you know, they're somewhere down in like deep South America and they're showing, um, they're showing these uh the street foods or something, and it's on in the background and I happen to be listening to it while I'm looking up different stories for prep, and they get into this whole conversation about how the sun's hotter than it ever was.

It was Bolivia because they were talking about the elevation and much of Olivia's way, like Lapause and and all of that stuff is way up there, and they're like, ah, the sun used to be warm and now it's scolding and and uh, you know Maria Concerto or whatever her name was, and her her her stand where she sells casidias or whatever it was. So they got into this whole litany, and I'm like, the production quality is fabulous, to the point where I realize that you probably needed to crew that

required a crap ton of carbon to accomplish your mission here. Meanwhile, on YouTube, there's lots of people like Bold was it Bold and Broke and some others who they tour around and they do this stuff and they you know, they make these films where they're interacting with locals and they're talking about cultural stuff and it's late him and another dude. Meanwhile, you put this high production quality thing that's on. It was on Netflix, but I think it originated

from Food Network or something. You put this whole thing together, and I guarantee your crew is like five people, more cameras than you've ever seen, plus local production people, plus all of this so that you could show me about this beef heart delicacy they make in Bolivia. So to Mark Ruffalo and his painter clothes, I just have to laugh. And then all of a sudden he's like, oh, I'm not having a good day. Pr Wise, let me call for the heads of oil executives. It was just the

dumbest thing, man, But hey, that's the current activist culture. Get yourself a little hashtag, feel better about yourself. It's gonna be amazing, all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four Coming up. Well, i'll tell you what. It's six eighteen. We'll hit a break come back. I'll give you a rundown of where we're going. It's gonna be a it's gonna be a weird Tuesday, but hey, that's why

you tune in. We'll do it next. Hang on. This is one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle and here's talk w PTI in the tryad. All right you, good morning six twenty three. Welcome back Caseo dame radio program. Dude do do do do? All right, petators fun this morning? Got that handled? Uh, A few things to go ahead and wet the whistle on this morning. That's some fun audio too. H

It's only Tuesday. I will say though, at least this week doesn't feel to um thus far that it is dragging at the same level last week was. I'm sure that will set in as the as the week unfolds, just due to the sheer weirdness of like all of my Microsoft update stuff. So all right, um, the battle continues on the raising awareness for child sex

trafficking. Yeah, no, it's a weird way to say it. The Sacramento b which is obviously one of the big papers of record out there in the Bay Area death threats and pedophilia accusations, how child trafficking took over California's

capital. If you don't know what's going on, There was a bill that was working its way through that basically would have added teeth to the crime of child trafficking, making it a serious felony because it wasn't prior to that Okay, all right, who's voted against that in a land or they loved laws? Well, the majority, the majority Democrats out there voted it down.

Except the problem was they didn't calculate the public reaction to it real well, and it was so people were so upset that you literally had Democratic Assembly members in California in close districts coming out and like apologizing on Twitter because they didn't get the read write and should have voted for it. So that irritated some of the hardcorees there because they don't they don't like to be second guests.

They want to do whatever they're going to do. And they've decided because this issue is attached to a movie where the talking points are it is, you know, it's all a Q conspiracy. They didn't like that, so they get their friends in the media to write these articles. California Democrats spent the final few days before summer recess in an unusual spot, embroiled in a legislative fight with publicans, who typically operate in the shadow of the state's blue supermajority.

The cause a bill to strengthen penalties for child sex traffickers. The lawmakers killed ahead of a looming legislative session. All right, so the author is very upset here. So how did a party with almost no power in California manage to achieve a political win? In part by employing simplistic, fear based messaging that exploited the divide between progressive and moderate Democrats on criminal justice reform. Their argument in favor of the bill carried a whiff of the far right GOP

conspiracy related to Democrats and pedophilia. So again, you could sit there and identify that you have nothing to do with this, and you also think that people who literally traffic in the sexual trade of children should receive significant criminal penalty, But instead you don't like it because you think the people who are concerned

about this are motivated by conspiracy. And it gets crazier from there. If they didn't like the apologies, it's all, it's all que it's all people who don't know what's going on, and they're going to use their own government numbers to prove it. So I'll get you more on that at student loan, insanity, craziness, and Oxford, you name it all coming up? Are you the show? After the show is on the iHeartRadio app searchs case o day for the podcast on the iHeartRadio app all right, six thirty five,

Good Morning you Could? Is the case a radio program. So there's a pretty crazy story up in New York. I actually had in the stack for earlier this week. I didn't get into it just, you know, because it's New York whatever, it didn't have the priority that certain other stories had. But then I saw this interview they did with one of the dudes in the story, and I'm like, oh my gosh, so we're gonna get into it. Basically, the state of New York is getting ready to

pay a huge amount of money too. Would be teachers, folks who just who wanted to educate the next generation but couldn't pass what was the standardized test for teachers in the state of New York, and in some cases, many, many, many, many times took the tests. They didn't get it. But when he looked at the failure rate for the test and he broke it down from a racial standpoint, you had a much higher percentage of black and Hispanic would be teachers failing this. So what did they decide that only

decided the test was racist? Yep, it was a big racist conspiracy and ironically when he looked at other tests that were very similar to the New York one, because there is a national standard and then there's some state by state

stuff, there wasn't a lot of difference. And also there wasn't a lot of difference in the sense that there was a failure rate that wasn't on you know, if you break it down per one hundred thousand, right, so you negate the percentage the total percentage of people taking it, and just break it down for every hundred white persons or black persons or brown persons or whatever who take the test. There was a difference in the failure rate of other

standardized tests, including the one that New York pivoted to. I'm pointing this out because it would seem that maybe it's not the test for whatever reason. And look, I don't know the reason, but simply saying it's the test is is lazy, would, I guess would be the way to put it.

And it's interesting because there's other discussions you can have, like maybe, you know, maybe one of the problems you saw with people who took it who identified as Hispanic was a second language issue, right, And if you did, now I'm not necessarily saying that that shouldn't just because that is an issue. It doesn't negate whether somebody should be teaching kids. But at least

it's an understandable discussion. Although you know, there's some classrooms in America where, even though it's not Spanish, a Spanish class just due to the population. You see this down in Texas, just due to the population of the student body where there is a lot of Spanish spoken in the classroom. Whether that has problematic effects for students who don't speak Spanish is a legitimate discussion, But that's not where they're talking about here. They just decided that based on

the past fail rate. Obviously, what you're dealing with, you're dealing with some discrimination. And one of the people who was set as part of this one point eight billion dollars payday for roughly fifty two hundred black and Hispanic X New York City teachers or once aspiring educators, this decided because there was this

differential in the past fail rate that obviously racism was at play. And this is Look, this has always been my biggest problem with public education, and even going back to the days before I did my own talk show, I

worked more on the news side and would have to go and cover. In Minnesota, I would have to go and cover public education, including the school board meetings, And I found it insane when you really dive into this, the constant pushback on any sort of standardized, lips test for how things are

going. And I understand the complexity of it. Simply deciding that a teacher in their classroom should be solely graded on whether every student in there gets an A or a B or a C doesn't recognize the differences in various district the teachers deal with, right, and so maybe the better way to gauge this

stuff is improvement, Right, you're over your improvement or something. And it seemed like at every turn when somebody would propose a standard to gauge the effectiveness of a teacher, it was there was a huge pushback, generally on the part of teacher union organizations, but really people within the district. And I found it very frustrating because I can't think of any other job where there's not some standard for how things are going. But in this case, the standard

is simply do you have the requisite knowledge and skills to teach kids? You have to have a standard there. Well, one of the people who took the task quote a bunch but never could pass. It is a a guy who's set to get about two million dollars, which is just crazy. Herman grime was a word of the largest of the judgments, two million and fifty five thousand dollars after he was unable to pass the test. This based on lost compensation and interest. I guess how the court figured it out. Excuse

me. So they interview this dude, and this is him, to the best of mine. I've listened to this like four times. This is him reacting to hearing that he's going to get this payday. There's two million dollars payday because he never was in the classroom because he couldn't pass the test. And I just want you to evaluate if you think this individual would be good at communicating learning elements to your kids. Okay, Ross, you had never

heard this before. He dubbed it incorrect. Do you feel that you were able to understand a damn word this man was saying. It was a struggle. I wasn't even sure at first if he was speaking English. It's so bad. I thought it was because I saw it on Twitter. I thought somebody had I thought somebody was having fun and they grabbed another interview because you don't. He couldn't. He can't even tell what's what he's answering. They

had grabbed something else to be comical on Twitter. But this guy is going to get two million dollars because he can never pass the test and obviously there was discrimination a foot he is. He's black, Um, so you know he is. That's the the box that he's ticking in this judgment. But this is him literally talking to the reporter. I have no idea what's going

on. And they knew it wasn't taking serious because, um, I just wasn't you know, by the way, that's not an audio mishap, that's him being interviewed in his living room and it's his smoke detector which needs a battery, a sap. And they knew it wasn't taking serious because um, I just wasn't. You know what you're seeing about is in Timmy bow um. Also because I know Wilson, either they go through, they won't go

through, you know from reading hearing news and know what that stuffed. And I know a couple of people that had um were not in education, but they've been through lawsuits and they didn't um went or anything like that. So to me, just like fabric, you know either you know, but it's been getting my head. They kept pushing and kept explaining things piece by piece your phone. I started get in my head and just listened to him and

they went from there. But still today I don't really believe it. But you know, and you sayson from for a long time trying to convince me that it's real. It's new game's non um, you know finals also to all that stuff, but this is not I'm a normal person. Um, I had to struggle for money. What's the ocean doing? Noah, there's a smoke detector. What. I cannot imagine why they didn't want this guy in a class room trying to explain something to kids they need to know.

He just talked for a minute four seconds. I have no idea what he was talking about or what he was saying anything, right, You would rather have an easier time understanding Joe Biden at like four in the afternoon. Oh no, does it? Isn't it so bad that you think it's a punk like somebody's like somebody's inserted a video. That's what I thought when I Initially

I scrolled past it because I saw it. I'm like, Ah, somebody's thinks they're funny because you can't even tell if he's on topic until you really listen, Like at one point you can make out the word lawsuit and somebody telling them and it's crazy, and Fixer smoked it too, I don't even know. And also why at no point does any because the reporters shown up. Obviously they've got him in a you know, with the lights and they

positioned for the camera, so and there's sound people. I'm assuming at the very least, there's one probably two other people from the reporter and as you and I both know, who have you know, we record audio from time to time with like clients or whatever. You're telling me. It's not a live thing you're telling me. At no point does anybody go, can you

put a battery in the smoke detector? Because we're picking it up on the mic, and yet in one minute, in four seconds, because I guess it beeps every thirty seconds, you hear that damn smoke detector and everyone knows that they can't figure out what the hell this dude saying. And they're sitting in the room with him listen to the reporter and they know it was taking serious because um, I just wasn't you know what you're seeing that is in

timmy bow? Um also because I know we'll also either go through they won't go through from beating hearing news no that stuff. And I know a couple of people that had, um, not an education, but they've into and they didn't so to me just like it comes the beep, you know, you chirp, you know, but there's I mean, I finally get him hit, how is he going to explain? And then you know, insert whatever it is. I didn't even look to see what his u his specialty

is and like I'm not even hacking on the dude necessarily for that. There's people who are not good communicators, but it's kind of something you have to have in that particular profession. And also it doesn't necessarily translate to testing. Some people are quite good at testing but not good at you know, real

world interactions. But if that is any indicator of it, I don't know that that's the best person for that job, or at the very least that's something he's got to work on, because I don't know how you'd sit there as a kid in that class and follow anything that man is explaining to you. But they did the interview, nobody said anything about the smoke detector, and then it was so bad I just assumed it was somebody having fun on

Twitter attaching a video that didn't have anything to do with it. But then I tracked it back to the actual interview from New York Post. Here, dude's gonna get two million dollars because he can never pass the test to be a teacher. Absolute insanity, explained to me. And my school choice is bad again. Eight hang on smart Talk all day, PTI in the Triad and one six one FM talked in the triangles. You know, I ran into a situation back in the day when we used to have a large amount

of interns and a bullpen, so to speak. In the world of radio, which just like a lot of places, that's just not how things especially after COVID, it's just not how things are. But we used to get There was a radio school in Minnesota called Brown and it was it was one of the bigger radios in Minneapolis. It was one of the bigger radio schools out there, and we would have I don't know, probably five or six kids a year that went to Brown that would then intern through us and maybe

one of them would end up with the position. And we had we had one Brown student. I remember because I a part of my duties for a while, we're eventually managing their passage through our through our cluster up there. There was one of them who was his poor a communicator verbally as the guy who was in that interview where I still do I have no idea what he's talking about, but I know he gets two million dollars, And it was this delicate thing where he was a nice kid. He was a hard worker

too, but he just didn't have any communication skills. And so I was like, I had this conversation with our program director at the time, Steve. I'm like, what, I feel like I'm doing a disservice in fostering an idea with him that he's going to be an on air guy. Do you know what I'm saying? Ross you ever, you ever, you ever dealt with an intern or somebody, We're just like, maybe something behind the scenes is a better radio fit for them. But I like, I don't

want to be the judger of one's future. But like I would have him do ads since I couldn't understand anything he was saying, and so I like, I was, I was in my mind, I'm like, maybe I should show him like some of the behind the scenes editing stuff more. But I didn't want to like differentiate his experience. We weren't gonna hire him, but he was in turning through there and again he wanted the job. He just didn't have any of the skill set. And it's like delicately trying to

get him to to expand upon it. But I don't want to be negative in the sense like did you ever do you ever work with somebody you knew who was doomed on that particular front? I mean, but that's kind of what I knew personally. No, but I've known people in the building another shows yes yeah, well yes, yeah yeah, or just you've you've come across somebody really the what's that? Now? What are you doing? And this guy is a teacher, Like I don't know that it's his bag.

Maybe he's a perfectly fine dude any of the rest of it, but holy crap, All right, well we'll get some calls on that. Also, they put a list out of the most miserable cities in America. They did a state by state breakdown, and then we just got a you know, like unemployment rate, poverty rate, crime, you know, all the stuff, all the negative stuff that's out there, and um, we'll see what you think of the most miserable city in North Carolina and whether it's true,

but also the happiest cities. We got one of the happiest. All right, good morning everybody. It is seven h seven here on the KCO Gay Radio program. So under a settlement that actually the settlement was initially, at least the basis of it was initially ironed out during the waning days to build the Blasio's final weeks in office. However, it was signed off on by

the current New York mayor. The City of New York will set aside and pay one point eight billion dollars to a series of folks who wanted to be teachers but could never pass the teachers exam. And they decided that the reason was because the tests was racist, and the City of New York, in accepting the settlement, basically agreed with that. And then they go they interview

this dude who is who took the tests? Like, where did I see the number he took the tests, like because he can take it every six months or something he did for years, could never pass Herman Grime, who's set to receive the largest settlement, roughly just a little over two million dollars. And they go to interview this guy at his home and not only does his smoke detector badly need batteries, and nobody like does anything, they move it, move it outside, go sit on the patio or something. I

don't know what the hells. I don't know why that bothers me so much. But you got the reporter, you got this guy that wanted to be a teacher. You've got whoever's running the camera, you got maybe a sound person, and nobody's like, yeah, this thing sucks, we need to not do this interview. There the guy is has no ability to communicate, at least based on this interview. And you know that doesn't really always translate to testing. But I don't know how he sits in a classroom and the

kids know what the hell he's talking about. They taking serious talking about the talking about and then hearing that he got the money. I think I know Wilson either go to they won't go to reading hearing news know what that stuff. And I know a couple of people that had um not in education, but they've been through two million dollars. I can't I just can't listen to

the whole thing. Yet two million dollars, two million dollars out of one point eight billion the could be going to other elements of public at or what the hell ever? Just absolutely bonkers to me. So we got that story and let me hit this before we get into phone calls. Also, there was one of these lists right North Carolina. Actually, they just had the

annual list of best places to do business. We were first, and then Governor Cooper took all the credit in an interview while simultaneously trash and his political opponents. Never mind that most of the fiscal policy, if not all of it, in the state of North Carolina, as originated with the current Republican makeup in the General Assembly, the business environment, and granted, the governor's office does play a role in some of the incentivizing for various big companies.

But yeah, he did a national interview. He's like, dah, everything that's good about this is me, and everything that's bad is my political opponent.

It was just the dumbest interview. So this is the most miserable cities and the happiest cities in America. And they went state by state on the most miserable and it's all the negative stuff, crime rate, unemployment, poverty, love, where they have mental health stuff, there's a there's a bunch of components that went into this, so take it for what it's worth. It was interesting though, And then they had the list of the happiest cities.

So on a state by state basis, they did name the most miserable in the state of North Carolina. What do you think the most miserable city is? Ross You haven't seen this. What do you think the most miserable city is? Based on those various elements, I just told you most miserable city in North Carolina. If you had to guess right, it's not I'd probably get on up my block, specifically my house, your neighborhood. You think, no, no, it's not. It's not in the Triangle,

it's not in the triad. It's Rocky Mountain or any the report it's Rocky mount What do you think it is in New York? By the way, I would probably be Schenectady. No, you were number two most miserable. You lost, so arguably you're the most miserable because you couldn't even mad that you lost to Binghamton. I've never been to Binghamton, so I don't know, but apparently they had more stuff that was bad. So there you go. So Rocky Mount the most miserable. However, when you look at the

happiest cities, so I found kind of interesting. North Carolina actually has two cities in the happiest the top twenty a nationwide, Raleigh and Durham. And actually Durham is happier than Raleigh according to this list here, so I thought that was kind of crazy. The happiest city in America is Sarasota, Bradenton down in Florida. Number two, l Pass so these are the happiest. Number three Honolulu, s and Diago at four, and number five was Durham

Chapel Hill. Actually where was RALEI were number ten, I think, and the happiest but yeah in the state, yeah, number ten and the happiest. But yes, the most miserable city in North Carolina is apparently Rocky Mount. Ironically in in Virginia. Actually, there are some of you in our listening area who are currently in this city. They say, in Virginia, the most miserable city is Danville, which I don't know. Every time I've been in Danville, everyone seems fine, so, but I also don't live

there, so I don't know. But maybe some of you Southern Virginia listeners can help us with that. Yeah, Rocky Mount mostly due to poverty level test scores among students and the unemployment rate is what got it there. So there you go in case you're interested in stuff like that. Now you know, all right, let's get to the phones. Jamal, you're up first, Go right ahead. I'm from Rocky Mountay, that's the most miserable city in North Carolina. I'm not surprised, Casey. When I heard dude talking,

I'm like, what the heck is he talking about? Like teachers can't pass them the exam. My wife is a teacher's fellow. She she went through um the old teachers fellow here in North Carolina, graduated from Nancy State and everything like that. So I'm like, this guy's racist. But then I heard the sign. I'm like, is he black? Is he? I forget? Oh? He black? I hear the smoke detective. Yeah wait wait, so it's so you're implying that because somebody doesn't have smoke detector

batteries changed out that that is a racial thing every time. Look, it is a it is a skit and he's a askey tail for more blackc got told for about thirty seconds or church that other people going church. Yeah peeled, he impealed at the skit that I saw one time on this where they were they were liking it to being a black stereotype. But I'm not black, so I don't know. But so you're saying that's the thing. Yeah,

idiot, does it happen to me live? Oh there that people was like, yeah, you can tell the wall you black black stop that podcast to say you the battery? Hey man, I look, I've been there. I've been there where I didn't have another battery. And then you make that decision, You're like, should I disable this with a bat I mean, what do you? What do you do? I don't know. You can't disable it because because it's because as you know me and my experience with

fires, I want to make sure oh my smoke take coople work. So I had to go out late at night go to one up the Walmart and get some batteries. But why do they keep saying DRM Chapel Heel. It's not DRM Chapel Heel. It's DRM and it's dams Chapel. You know, they're not the same cities, they're not the same counties, they're not the same lawfuls. Because the stuff you get away win in Durham, you don't dare get away within and Chapel Hill. All them liberals always talking about equity,

diversity and crap. But the crap you pull in Durham with it with certain officials in the District Attorney office. If you tried in Orange County you get locked up. Well, I think it's it show us the way it's it's just the way that metro metro designations are assigned. So Durham Chapel Hill is a media and actually depending on which media you're talking about it, it actually differentiates. But sometimes it's Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill. Like in Radio Um

it's it's by county. So each of the two markets were in there's a certain counties that are primary markets. So but I've seen yeah, and then Raleigh Kerry tend to pair together in some instances, so its just a pet Yeah, like Greensboro High Point will get paired, and then Winston Salem will be its own things sometimes and then sometimes Winston Salem h and High Pointer paired.

And it just depends how they slice it up. So but there you go if you move from the least happy city to the to the most miserable city to the happiest city. So aren't you proud of yourself? Okay, people get shot. People get shot on fourth of July here in the city I've currently live in. Now, Oh, the people did just so happy. Just keep just keep a bulletproo vest when you grabbed put the list together? Man, I didn't put the list, guy, I don't know,

So all right, Jamal, thanks for to call there. Go change your battery in your smoke detector or whatever. Yeah, I didn't. I don't put the list together. I just read them, Alan, what's up? Hey? I was just curious. You know, we've gone from giving participation trophies to kids who can't play a sport to get at one point eight millions, to people who get pass a test. No, no, no, all the teachers who hold on, hold on, He's getting over two million

the total payout is one point eight billion to all of them. Um, he's right over two million. Yes, but what about all those teachers who did pass the test? Teach the color who did pass the test? Well, they're done. You know, we're going to give one point eight billion dollars to somebody who can't pass the test, but we can't pay the ones who are actually teaching our kids. Well they're they're they're dumb. That's their own fault for passing the test, sir. Then they had to go to

Oh okay, yeah, I mean look at that. They had to go to work, get up, put lesson plans. Yeah. I didn't think of it that way, Casey had that's a great guy. That's a great way to get who's smarter here? That guy who didn't do crap and it's gonna get two million or people. They had to bust their butts. So come on, man, you're not thinking this time. And I appreciate the who's the who's the real genius? Um? Maybe the guy getting a check

for two mills? Bob, go right ahead. Oh, I know, if if it hadn't been for that darn test, he could have been teaching our kids. I mean yeah, I don't think we should have I don't think we should have had to pay out anything, but maybe it's worth it. Well, why is it worth it? What? You know? The real solution here is just we didn't pass the test. So that sucks good. I mean, I mean, how do you how do you get to

that point? I mean, I'm assuming did he have a if he had a teaching certificate or had passed the college that taught education, they should go back and look at accreditation of that college, because that was the first film face that should have stopped it. He had the requisite educational requirements, So I don't know which college he went to, but I was reading the list of what the requirements were, and if not for the test, he would

have gotten his teaching license. So there you go. Sounds like there's there was a lot of promotion or whatever within the school. He shouldn't have got out of the school. Some would argue there was some drop balls along the way. So and again, maybe you know, maybe his his biggest problem

is his communication skills and he doesn't test well. And you know, maybe he met in that educational environment, maybe met the requirements, and maybe he was maybe he was a fully functioning adult when he took the test and then went into a depression and a life of crack or something. But he's not functioning now, I'm not here's the deal. I'm not going to hack on the guy from an intellectual standpoint, because again, he did he didn't test,

He didn't pass the test. But you know, I don't know that he's a bad person, but I think he's definitely taken advantage of this and uh, and it's pretty shameful. Um, But you know, I don't get the impression that he some sort of crack addict out he's you know, he's not the dude from Chappelle's show. But yeah, nobody, nobody's ever went you know what, maybe this ain't for you, and he went, you know what, maybe you're right, which is something that seemingly should have

happened. So, I mean, I just I think that the tests should have been sufficient to weed him out, and it did the job it was supposed to do, right, But I think damage would have been higher if he'd actually made it into the classroom. Yeah, so it was some of it. I don't even know, sir. After I read that article about the rubber room, and thanks for the call up there in New York. Who the hell knows? Man? All right, seven twenty one case O

Day Radio Program, what's going on in Oxford? I'm gonna have to get a spy report from but one of you lives up that a way. What are you guys doing up there? You got some crazy dude running around stabbing people, just willy nilly all over town. So a weird story. We'll get to the details on that. And I'm shocked they're suggesting some mental health issues there, Absolutely shocked. We'll do that coming up here on the case O Day Radio program 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. Let me get one more quick ball on the Miserable city slash Happy Cities. And then coming up on the show, the story out of Oxford, North Carolina, the craziness Man Scottie. What's up? Hey? Um, I just wanted to time in on the Rocky Mount being the unhappiest city in North Carolina. I'm almost forty years old. I grew up in Rocky Mount. My parents still live there, and there are so

many things that have gone into the downward slide of that town. The textile industry got screwed in the nineties. Um. The was the huge Hurricane Floyd flood that happened in ninety eight or ninety nine wiped out like my like just total neighborhoods and my entire childhood neighborhood has gone. People just left. Um. They had the same mayor for thirty five years from ninth from the nineteen seventies until the early two thousands. He had like nine terms or something.

Um, the instant he was gone, we had the first like new mayor in three decades. I got ten seconds. It doesn't sound like you're all the way. Yeah, Will you hold on because I gotta go to Yeah. Absolutely, all right, So I hang on. Okay, your day smarter one o six one am Talk and News Talk w PTI more with Casey starts now, all right, breaking into this Oxford insanity and a few other stories, including a rather ironic follow up to the launch of the quote unquote

Twitter Killer the threads compliments of the meta folks. I was chuckling reading this story yesterday. We were we were chatting with Scottie who uh ross worshing from the Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce and Visitors beer over something. She was regaling us with all the fun lure from Rocky Mount. And here's the thing, I don't have an opinion one way or the other. I've been to Rocky Mount obviously, um see would trying to remember what I was. I was

actually there there. Obviously I passed through it a bunch, but um I was there there for a couple things. One was for a golf thing, and and there was one other time. I don't even remember why I was there, and I don't know. It felt like every other middle size city in North Carolina. Obviously, they got their challenges. Some of them are not a unique when you get into the implications of NAFTA and textiles industry and

things along those lines. But admittedly we've done some stories over the years, especially when it gets into it. Didn't they just have like they had a city council members like I don't even have to pay for my utilities, And from the outside looking in, it looked a little like corruption. So you know, there's there's that out there. But I don't want to judge at all. I know we have some fine listeners in the Rocky Mountain area.

And if you're happy, great, But according to this list, based on factors like unemployment, raid and poverty, raid and crime and all the rest it, it has a lot of things working against it. So you know, we we put it out there. Anyway, Scottie, go right ahead back after the breaks. Used to live there, and so I'm born and

raised, Yeah, born and raised, grew up there. Like I said, my parents are still there, and um having number one, gosh, the place really does feel completely different now than it did when I was growing up. And even that's without the rose colored glasses of childhood. Um. But just to continue the list, I mean, you're on the junction of sixty four ninety five. The drug trafficking there is just nuts. Yes, we believe that the city council is corrupt as well. Um. Again,

the list seriously can just go on and on. I don't feel unsafe when I'm there, but shootings definitely happen all the time, and shoot even so, there was a Sheets gas station that literally closed because the theft problem was so bad there. Um. I mean, has anybody ever heard of a Sheets closing any wherever? No, you know, I can't think of one off the top of my head. Um, yeah, I did have a beef with your heart. You know what. Here's the thing I remember.

I was driving through and there's a hearties right as you're cutting through town. This is literally just right off the highway there, and they can't their clocks don't work, and they switched from breakfast to lunch five minutes early and wouldn't yield. So that's that's the Rocky Mount memory I have. So I know it's petty, but you know it's me, so whatever. Well, one last petty thing. Um, I actually, uh, Roy Cooper is from

there, as I'm sure you well know, and I knew him. I went to church with him and his girls and don't worry, we don't. I don't have a very high opinion of him either. So well, the man has COVID be sensitive Okay, oh darn time. Right. Well, I don't know if it's the fifth I did find it and thanks for the call there, Scott. It did find it interesting though, because what does

his tweet say? Because I'm confused, and now that the his right hand woman in the form of Mandy Cohen, is now a head of the CDC, I wonder if maybe she's giving him some advice here. Yeah, oh that's right, I have it over here. Sorry, that was in my stack, but it's after all right, this is what he tweeted yesterday U and he know it's him because he put his initials after, which is indicative of he wrote it and not his staff. So I tested positive for COVID

today, but thankfully it's mild and I'm feeling fine. I'm working remotely for the rest of the week and ready to be back out and about by the weekend, probably when the fundraisers are. Um, I'm confused. Um, oh that's right. Let me just reminded me the one on South Maine and Rocky Mountclip they did, but I think that had more to do with the fact that they that they built the one north of there. So talking about sheets, but I don't know. I'm not on the sheets planning committee.

So anyway, back to Roycob, I thought that if you had a positive test, and I'm pretty sure it's still the policy for a lot of businesses, maybe even ours. Weren't you if you pop positive, aren't you supposed to be not around people for like ten days following your a positive test? Is that not still the rule. Do they change that, because I remember

it was two weeks and then they backed it to ten days. I remember when they backed it to ten days, Everyone's like, dah, they're trying to kill people because it was I think it was in the course of the Trump administration. But I did it decrease since then? I don't even pay attention anymore. So if he pop positive yesterday because he said I pested positive today, how is he going to be out and about doing stuff around the weekend. Yeah, that's not ten days. I can do the math.

So I'm very confused with the parameters are there now? So somebody may have to help me with that. But maybe now that Mandy's gone, he doesn't have somebody to be like dods got you gotta do ten days, you know, for appearances, because remember famously we had the video of her walking up to the meeting, not realizing the cameras were in white pan and like putting pretend putting on her mask and then taking it off almost in the same motion.

One of my favorite videos from all of that political theater. But yeah, if he tested positive yesterday, I don't I don't think you should be doing any fundraisers or whatever he's got planned this weekend for ten days, because that's what it's literally attempted murder, I believe, or however it was explained to me. So I gotta be careful there, all right, Um, this story so threads threads the Twitter kill, right, this was going to

be the end of Twitter. A lot of gleeful moonbats. The Twitter Killer released by the folks over at Facebook, Instagram apparently running into some issues now. And here's the thing, I frankly, there should be a there should be a bunch of social media that is successful because, especially when you get into the digital side of things, even though the dynamic has changed with Elon must buying Twitter to some extent, it really is a very small selection that

you have. And when they're all operating the same way from a penalty standpoint and from an oversight standpoint, and they all decide to go moonbat, it was a very tough time for people being able to communicate on social media. However, I remember one of the things that Twitter announced last week that everyone lost their minds over is a sliding scale of the number of posts that you can essentially interact with their view and depending on whether you have the blue check,

they still have a limited number. And the reason was as you essentially had these bots that were crawling all of this interaction and in harvesting data, and so in an effort to put a stop to that, and there was a couple other reasons they were doing it, but to put a stop to that, basically, they limited interactions rate limits. I believe it's what they

called it. And everyone lost their mind, Like I can only look at what was it, like six thousand posts or something to day, I scrolled Twitter a lot, and I don't have a blue check, and I think the numbers even less. I've yet to get the you've seen everything you can see today warning, So I don't know how long you've got to be on Twitter during the day to actually hit that number. But people were screw even bloody murder over this, and it was yet another sign that Twitter was essentially

dead in the water. Well, those rate limits had the net effect of, I guess, pushing some of these folks to Threads, these folks who were harvesting data and running scams and all of it, and because they didn't have a rate limit. So Threads yesterday announced they're going to put a rate limit in the very thing that was supposed to be the last dying kick of

Twitter, Threads is having to do. Adam Morsi, the head of Instagram, which is essentially Threads it attaches to your Instagram account, says they're going to have to tighten up things like rate limits due to spam attacks. This craziness man running into those very very same issues, which I guess between the ability to spam you and harvest data was something that wasn't being policed by the

previous Twitter ownership, because I don't think it just started. I think that's been a gold mine of information for those who would want to spam for a long time because it has all the engagement. But yeah, they declared Elon was destroying Twitter by implementing rate limits, and now Threads right out the gates got to do it, and they're still having some battery issues and some other

stuff they got to work out. Now they probably have a better chance for a couple of reasons, not the least of which is, as we've talked about on this show, the fact that if you're already associated with Facebook Instagram, it's a one button joint. You don't have to fill everything out, so it's a lot easier for people to get on there, and there is obviously an appetite for some to continue to be on Twitter but also tweet simultaneously

about how they went over to threads and you should join them there. So there is a virtue signal that goes along with it. But now they're having to do the same stuff, which I thought was rather interesting. All right, seven forty six kse Ody radio program. Oh no, we're on the phones again. Okay, all right, race agent from the Weather Channel. What's going on? My man Matt going on? He smoke and some of that smoked down the ground level. So yeah, quality alerts for most of

the state. Actually, it's a little uncomfortable, kind of hazy looking out there once again as we head through today, there's not going to be much relief. Maybe a pop up shower of thunder shower, a load of bid nineties, just like we had yesterday, were a little cool. And the Triad as compared to the triangles eighty six at the airport Triad and Wally was ninety degrees today. Load of bid nineties, So that's that variation. Will

still feel even with the hazy sunshine. Uncomfortable close to one hundred, and we may get a shower of thunder shower tonight and tomorrow after a little better chance with a few showers thunderstorms in the morning hour. Something may try to sneak through also, so I have to keep an eye on that for about

this time Tomorrow upper eighties, low nineties, and then Thursday Friday. It looks like the next change you'll start working in as it's still going to be hot Thursday, but we will get a shower thundershower threat to come on in and that's going to clear us out by Friday. As that system passes through

on both days ending upper eighties to low nineties. The hotter day will probably be Thursday, so a few days here ninety plus, maybe into the mid nineties, especially for the Triangle. But the storms will start tomorrow Thursday. Some better weather ahead is a head towards Friday. In the weekend, my seat temperatures come down just a little bit casey, But I think the bigger story today is really the haste and smoke with the air quality alerts, a

little bit uncomfortable out there for some of us. There's not many of us. Yeah, yeah, it sucks. Everything sucks. You now, but you know it is what it is. It is July, so we truck through. All right, thanks sir, appreciate it. We'll talk in an hour. Yep, all right, race stage it there from the weather channel. We'll come back here in just a few we can grab a call or two and then yes, I got to get into this Oxford story. I'll

do it next. Hang on keeping you connected. This is ninety four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM talk in the Triangle. All right, seven fifty three back now here on the KCO Day radio program. So three people stabbed the course of about nineteen minutes up in Oxford, man north of Durham. There, Gordon Police say twenty one year old man um M y l I E cad is that Malik my Leek Malik Webb was

arrested in connection with the stabbings. It started very early yesterday, around seven thirty in the morning, so basically almost exactly twenty four hours ago near Granville County Administrative Offices where one of the employees there was stabbed. Then, according to police, Webb left the county offices, went to the walmart on Lewis Street and stabbed a dude there and then left the walmart, and then went to McDonald's and stabbed somebody there, So one person each location. All victims

taken to the hospital for treatment, expected to pull through. They haven't released the identity of the victims. About ninety minutes following the first stabbing, police had him in custody. I guess what is this. They received information about his vehicle, located it near eighty five, and then the chase was on. It wasn't a long one. They got him. As for motive,

it appears mental health. I guess they're speculating. That's Sheriff Robert Fountain who said, quote, it was just somebody may have had a bad day, may have been a mental health crisis. We're working with the DA's office to figure it out. You can have it's more in a bad day. I've had a bad day, You've had a bad day. We've all had a bad day. You got to go to three different places starts stabbing people, So it's more in a bad day. Arguably you maybe thought about it.

Some guy cuts you off in traffic. It just compounds everything going on. You're like, daw what I wouldn't do? But you don't do that, obviously dude allegedly did so, Yeah, just craziness. I'm surprised it wasn't shot, be quite honest with you. But I don't know the stealthiness of

the individual attacks there. And I guess maybe there's some advantage to doing it a bunch of different places because once you once you do it at the one time, everyone's kind of on guard man once they figure out what's going on. So yeah, yeah, is Oxford do they have a lot of crime issues up there? I remember I've gotten emails from people or like some of the some of the communities in and around Durham have seen pickups in crime.

Although this doesn't sound like, you know, it's uh, you know some sort of gang, be for retaliatory something, or you know a bar that's got a bad rep. This just sounds like some crazy person with a knife. So maybe it's maybe it's not fair to throw it into the into the larger collection anyway, I don't know. If yes, if you live up and around Oxford, you can weigh in eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four. Also, and this speaks to another story that I had

yesterday. I didn't really get into I was reading about um and these are I guess nice apartments. One of the new apartments off of Glenwood Devin Apartments where there has been a rash of the car break ins in the parking deck, and the residences you can imagine, are not happy, especially because I guess they assume when they pay the kind of money that these apartments command,

there's going to be a level of security there. But it's what they were told, is the reason that I have the story in the stack today. One of the residents of the eleven cars who have their windows smashed so people could go through and steal everything inside said that they were essentially told by police and this is their version of it. Oh, well, you live downtown, you have to expect this. This is this is the death nail for a lot of cities and central part of the city. So San Francisco is

among those hit hardests through a combination of things. And they accentuate COVID as the reason that downtowns are in a lot of trouble. But it's far more than that. People see downtowns in many US cities as lawless. They you know, they see it as a place, especially as night falls were as much more dangerous than it used to be. And so all of these city leaders, like in the San Francisco story I saw yesterday, you were scrambling a whole you know what, We've got to work on a few things.

But you know, it's it's a big city. It's always been like this. I'm not really people had a certain amount of confidence. So we'll compare and contrast coming up. Hang on for that are those chicken wings? What is that? I think that's very into Are you eating? What are you eating? It Ross's TECTI, yes, what's that? It's not the wings from our dual narrative yesterday. I find that very interesting. I was making a comparison yesterday which had nothing. I didn't use Ross's name once or anything.

But when they said that they couldn't figure out who the cocaine was, and then in the White House and then Tom Toott mentioned that literally they didn't even ask Hunter Biden about it. I just thought that was a little odd, And I painted a scenario like, let's say a salesperson had an event or whatever, and they put some wings in the fridge, and sometime in the morning, the wings that are in the community fridge here the radio station

disappeared, wouldn't you be able to narrow the list of suspects at least to talk to? And I only meant, you know, from a morning show perspective. And then Ross is like dah no, I was attacked by what was it a crazed homeless man covered in wing sauce or whatever the narrative was. The wing sauce strangler apparently went after Ross and now he's eating something that

maybe wings. I don't know. It's weird because they weren't real. It was just a just a fun little comparison to help people understand the absurdity of not at least asking Hunter Biden about it. But here's where we find ourselves. All right, good morning, it is our number three here on the case O Day radio program. Let's see here. Flip over to this real

quick. I just saw so one of the big discussion topics, because Madden the video game is obviously a big deal, is where different players overall rankings are so the you know, each player has a set of ratings that go into their skill set and on a scale of one to one hundred, and it turns into a big discussion point they release the wide receiver ratings, and I have some questions. Now the top wide receiver, I don't question,

it's justin Jefferson plays for a certain team from Minnesota. Maybe you've heard of him. He is. He has a ninety nine ratings, so damn near perfect, and he is number one. But I'm looking down the list here, number two, Tyreek Hill, ninety eight, ninety seven for Davante Adams, Stefon Diggs former Vikings player. He plays somewhere else now, can't remember. He's at number four, but you got you go down this list. I think the second best receiver in football is A j. Brown for the

Eagles. I think if you had to rank them, and I'd say they're all pretty close, it would be Jefferson Brown and then Diggs. I think Diggs is actually number three. Some of it comes down to usage, but but they have browned down at number nine, so I don't know what the hell's going on there. But as you can imagine, everyone's arguing about that

on the Twitter this morning, so I thought i'd clear you in. If that's your the way you want to waste a little time this morning when you should be working, go right ahead, But first I have to get to this. The folks over PolitiFact at a fact check, and thank god they did, because this is pretty serious. So here's the here's the fact check. Is there or isn't there? And now I won't tell you the results yet. I want you to tell me whether you think that there is or

isn't. Okay, so is this true or not true? And then I'll tell you what PolitiFact or their research determined. Is there or isn't there a demonic portal above the White House? That is that you can see if you if you I guess, if you look look at the right angle or something. Um. And even in according to this this article or this this this post on Facebook, which is what really drove this. Um, even the police know about it. I guess that's the claim that they're fact checking.

All right, So is there or isn't there a visible demonic portal above the White House? Ever since the Biden has moved in? What do you think? Ross? What do you think demonic portal? Not a demonic portal visible above the way? Visible? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I don't know about that one, but there probably is one. Yeah, so you think there might be one, but you don't think that one could catch it with the naked eye. Well, luckily over PolitiFact they were on the case,

and so they did some research. I guess I'm not sure exactly how you research this? Do you get some priests? I mean, what do you do? According to a recent post, thousands of people have witnessed a demonic portal above the White House. The post flagged part as part of Meta's efforts on Facebook to combat false news. A nearly fifteen minute video takes a while to get to the claim in the caption, eventually the host referring to a

statement Roger Stone. I remember we played this audio, this is like a year old where he made some reference to this, although when I saw it, I don't know if he was talking about a literal visible one. I think it was more an allegory of policies. But still it was weird. I remember the audio. It was weird. But they went to go fact check whether there is in fact a demonic portal hovering above the White House, and you, according to um, according to the research, there is not.

They were able to determine there is not. And I don't know how do you determine there's not? Us versus there is because they fact checked the whole, the whole Rigamarow not chose the visibility part. I guess you could send your guy there to stare at this guy and go on, I don't see nothing. As we know from a Skinwalker ranch, you have to shoot tons of rockets up into it. Yes, it could not, and maybe not just a demonic portal. It could be a trans you know, transferable

wormhole, a star to view. Yes, yes, yes, yes, no, it's a very good point. Maybe that was the theory we had for the busted ass motel down the road, remember where they were doing the as part of like the military training, and it scared the crap at everybody on Capitol Boulevard. So how do you determine, because again you can't. To Ross's point, I don't know that you can just Joe blow go start shooting rockets above the White House without causing a little bit of a scene.

She drones up into it. Or yeah, yeah, they don't like that. They don't like any of that. And if there is a demonic portal, they're gonna be extra careful that you're not over there bugging it, you know, because you don't want something to fall out of it well, but you also don't want to lose your your your grasp upon the White House, right because really the reason for that claim is that demons are now running, you know, running things, and they're not gonna want you to jack with

their stuff. If you've never seen any movie with an exorcism in it, they don't want to go. They're perfectly content here with their little little window into our existence. So they're gonna use everything in their power, especially no fly zones. So maybe they're hitting it with sling shots and then like the

whatever they were slinging didn't disappear. So I don't know that you can just come out one hundred percent be like there's not a demonic portal, but if you wanted to debunk that's visible, I guess you could attempt to do that. So um. They also literally called the police department. It's so stupid. They literally called the police department they're in DC and asked whether the agency in fact was investigating a demonic portal above the White House, which I don't

even think that's their purview. But luckily PolitiFact did the fact check and determine there's not a demonic portal, So if like, maybe that was. That was some you know, some bucket list travel summer travel plan for you to take the kids to go see the demonic portal. Right, do a little round about, go check out the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Demonic Portal, maybe the Vietnam Wall, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

You're gonna have to scratch that one off your list, apparently, although if there was, and it was ever since Biden was in there. I went last year during the DC broadcast. I met a couple of the hosts at the w Hotel just literally right across from the White House, and they have a rooftop restaurant bar there, and that's where we met. And so you would almost at that point be eye level with said demonic portal. And I did not see one. So there's that. I but you know, that's

just I'm just one man. And admittedly it was during the day. Maybe it's only visible at night. I don't know how the demonic portals work, but the folks over polit Effect they checked it out. No need to worry about said demonic portal. So I can't believe Ross didn't recognize it for what it is. It's obviously an Oblivion portal. Is that a video game reference? That's gotta be a video game reference? Thanks for the from Elder Scrolls. Yeah, oh it's from Elder Scrolls. Okay, all right, so

do you I didn't think you did Elder Scrolls. Yeah I do not. Oh, okay, all right, Yeah he's not into Hobbits and stuff? Is there Hobbits and yeah? Oh yeah it from what i've what what I know about it, not having not played it, it strikes me as a hobbity thing. So all right, So yeah, if you if you want to go see the DC Demonic Portal, probably probably not gonna happen, According to PolitiFact, very sad there, all right eight eight eight nine three four

seven eight seventy four. A recent survey of millennials on the issue of pronouns has yielded not an altogether unexpected result, but one that is kind of terrifying. We'll let you know what about a half of millennials say, should happen when you miss gender somebody? We'll do it next here on the case O Day radio program show. After the show is on the iHeartRadio app. Search case O Day for the podcast on the iHeartRadio app. All right a twenty

two and Welcome Back Koda Radio program. A recent survey done by Let's see Newsweek, and I'm not sure whatever the polling organization was, Redford and Wilton strategies not familiar, but anyway, they were trying to determine what the appetite here in the US is for heat speech and the penalties that go with it. So one, they tried to figure out what is heat speech. They

I guess, really did pay much attention to the First Amendment. And a lot of this is based off of a change in Great Britain where misgendering is now a crime, and I believe in Canada they're doing this as well, or they already did. And so they ask millennials twenty five to thirty four do you favor criminal charges for people who misgender somebody? And forty four percent

say the yes. So forty four percent of millennials say that there should be jail time or the potential for jail time for misgendering somebody, referring to it as quote an act of violence. As you look through the various levels of pulling here, and you know, one of the things that we've mentioned on the show from time to time is if you want to see your future, look at what the UK is doing in to some extent Canada, but Canada is now more prominent. But really, over in the UK, who was

remember the guy who had the I can't remember his Twitter handle. Remember the guy who had the pug with the hil Hitler thing, And that was the whole thing. He had a pug that if he said Hail Hitler, it would raise its little paw. And who he's on Twitter? I can't remember his name. He's pretty prominent on Twitter. But um, you know,

that was a whole That was a whole, big thing. I actually watched a documentary on that, which was I thought pretty well done, and because they had him and they really had him going, look I'm doing comedy here, get over it. And then they had another dude who runs like the awoke comedy scene, who couldn't have come across as a bigger douche. So did find that fascinating. But yeah, over in the UK, man,

they keep stacking stuff where literally words are violence. And I have long warned against this being a mantra, especially a mantra that is ingrained since a young

age in our modern education system, especially when you get into college. Words are violence, right, because you have to have some justification where either you can physically respond or you can claim we're outside of the realm of the First Amendment now, and they then deserve some sort of punishment, be a jail, time finds, whatever it is, because this is not about free speech.

This is about actual violence words or violence, which is absurd. In fact, Senator Ben Cardon from Maryland, who is a lawyer, I know you're shocked to learn this, recently, was talking about how when you are expousing hate verbally, you're not protected under the First Amendment, which is his opinion and thankfully not one that thus far is shared by the majority of Americans. Once you get out of this millennial group, the younger groups, most

people do not think it warrants jail or fines. But things change, things change significantly. At the very least, I think that number would grow if you just talk about consequences, like you know, within the cancel culture realm,

oh, this isn't. They're not being canceled, They're simply it's simply the consequences of their actions, which, of course, as per usual, only cuts one way, right, So you know, then when somebody or like bud Light, right, you know, then it's then it's some sort of grandiose conspiracy rather than quote unquote the consequences in this case, fiscal consequences. Even some dictionaries now expouse that hate speech is speech that is not protected

by the First Amendment, even though there's no judicial anything for that. Yeah, here we go. Hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment because it is intended to foster hatred against individuals or groups based on race, religion, gender, sexual preference, place of national origin, or other improper classifications. That's Miriam Webster there. If hate speech is a constitutionally protected pronoun, use or misuse is also protected as a criminal matter. The amount of mental

gymnastics to get to this point is stunning to me. And actually what's even more stunning is forty four percent we're like, yeah, there should be criminal penalties. Only thirty one percent said they were against it, and with the rest saying, you know what, all consider it And it's that mushy middle that gets things done. So that is absolutely terrifying. All right, Uh, near an eight thirty, We got your news coming up for you,

and a rather weird ad out of Ohio. Thank you. Casey is on w PTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, good morning, it is eight thirty five. Oh wow. So the Right Cooper fundraiser team. I'm on the mailing list. It's under my secret alias of Michael Hunt. I just go by Mike though. Keep it simple. AnyWho, um our ocean's temperature. This is the one of the fundraising emails, and they send out a crap ton which is weird

because he's not running for office anymore. UM strange stuff. Our oceans temperatures are rising, climate changes to blame. So then they go through all of this and how you're gonna melt if you go in the ocean, but if you send him like ten dollars, apparently it'll fix all that. So oh man is there, and it look he's not alone with the dumb fundraisers. I gotta tell you some of the fundraiser stuff that I'd see from Trump Trump's people, it's just it's the most insulting crap out there, and a lot

of politicians and it must work. I don't know, man, but I look at some of this stuff and I'm like, come, on like they were. They would send these texts out. They're like, ah, we just uh, Trump just checked the list and you're not on it, and he was asking me what's going on with that. I love it when they have like this this disconnect where Hi, I'm so and so on behalf of this per and this candidate and we want to secretly raise this or it's it's

a happy birthday donation. Like all of the machinations that they got to go through. It's just so damn insulting, but they send them out and they must work. So now, Team Cooper just sent this email. And the oceans are really hot, but if you send them ten dollars then they won't be or something. Actually, you can send five dollars, ten dollars, twenty five or whatever you want to cool the oceans down. Just get it in his hands. I'm sure that's exactly what it'll go for. Stuff so

annoying. Man. All right, I got a question because I've seen a lot of have you seen these stories recently where people are throwing crap at singers

on stage? Is it? Is it? I don't know if it's a TikTok trend or what's causing it, but there has been multiple instances and it's not like people haven't screwed with singers before, but it's very specific, and there's been like a rash of them where people are throwing and I don't mean they're throwing you know, underwear up there if you catch you know, like the old stereotype there with the crooners. This is like people are throwing heavy

objects up there and hitting people. So if I was a performer on stage, obviously that is something that would weigh on my mind and I wouldn't appreciate that. And frankly, if you go to a concert and do that, the you should be able to your fellow concert goers, should you know, get about a minute of pumbling you before security drags you out because you're just

ruining stuff. That being said, there are other things that people do at concerts which baffles me and is I find annoying, but I've also accepted as just kind of part of the process. Now, like the person who tapes the whole concert, why you're never gonna watch that again? Would here's what you're gonna do with it. You're gonna try to show little blips of it to random people at a party. And they're going to be annoyed by the

whole thing because they weren't there. The video footage is going to suck. The audio is going to be crap because it's you know, a thousand decibels, so it'll be all limited on your phone. It's just dumb. And what irritates me is because then they you know, they hold the phone up the whole time, thus obscuring your line of sight. So that's that's annoying.

However, one other thing that I've noticed, and I guess I kind of get it, is where people, if they're close to the stage, they'll do the thing where they turn their back to the stage and if when the artist is in frame, and then they'll take a picture of themselves as selfie with you know whoever singing behind them to show because you know, everything's status so they can post it online and be like, hey, look where I was, and which also means hey, look how close I was and

ain't that cool? And then they'll post some picture. Well, that apparently got on the nerves of Miranda Lambert, who literally halted the show to brate the people in the front row for doing that. These guys are worried about selfie and not listening a little bit. All right, so then everybody's chairing there or whatever. I have a question, is that really that big of

a beef? And you know, when they're taking the selfies in a way, they're doing it to focus on you, the singer, and when you're in like you know, standing room only in that big group there, as it appears the folks are um, that's like, I don't even know that bugs you as a singer. Is that? Is that really? Is that really the biggest problem? Is that? Or is that just part of going to a concert? Now? I just I kind of accepted as part of

going to a concert. And I've seen some artists that that really flipped out. I mentioned, you know, working on some concerts Tory Amos, I remember that being one of the weirder concerts that I worked, because she had all of these rules where like, you couldn't have phones in there, you couldn't they couldn't sell um uh cups plastic cups that could make a crinkling sound.

So like it turned into a whole thing with them not being able to sell beer at this concert venue because that's obviously that's what they're doing, and they didn't have paper cups, so she had this whole laundry list of annoyances that she wouldn't let pass through. But at most concerts, I see people doing that crap all the time, and she sitting there to stopping the show in the middle of it. I don't know, I feel like that's kind

of part of the experience. Or when you know people go to sporting events, they'll do that stuff too, and I just kind of accept that that's a thing. I'm much more annoyed by the people hold hold their phone up, blocking views so that they can tape a concert and that they're never going to go back and look at. But now she was she would not having that man and wanted everyone to know. Now I've seen comedians will do that.

But it's also kind of a bit too. In fact, I literally one of my buddies was busted on by George Carlin back in the day because he had his phone out and he wasn't he wasn't even he didn't have it up in filming or anything, but he literally had it out and you could see the screen and Carlin made a little quip because we were sitting like second row or something, second or third row and but you could tell it was

prepared material for just such a thing. And it was really funny too because made my buddy look like a jackass, which he kind of was being because he was texting. But whatever, that's part of the experience. So I feel like they are kind of I'm just taking it all in. But that's my two cents. Race agent from the Weather Channel. He's joining us. A big concert goer. You got to concerts, are you? Kind of? Like? Yeah, not so much anymore. M I do. I

do enjoy going. It's the price that doesn't um, that's the thing that's yeah. Yeah, and if you pay, like I don't know what a Lambert ticket costs, but I bet it's not cheap, so I bet it's Selfphie is understandable, I guess, yeah, yeah, And you know, people take good money and He'll let them do what they want to do. It just don't throw stuff, right. That's become popular lately. Yeah,

yeah, just a lot of that. We got. I got a straight with a little big town and uh, Louie Nelson and friends and carry Underwood actually here in Atlanta October just just just dished out two hundred ticket for that so oh all right, yeah, you know what it does sound like a bad show though, so no it doesn't. You know, George Straits, he's probably in my top three easily might he was being my favorite of all

time. And uh, you know, if you can get a guy out there, stands there the microphone and things and the crowd goes crazy, it's you know, it's straight. A couple of times. Yeah, man,

it's a good, good show. But also it's yeah because he's got like three thousand number one hits, So yeah, what's great is you're standing next to people and the whole thing like, ohs your front property and people would be sitting there like, um, you know, worst thing it along and people next to us have no idea what the works that even songs are. You know, a lot of people go on three weees or corporate tickets and yeah, anyway, let's see the haze and the smoke getting our tension.

The last couple of days. I will continue to be the case maybe for the next few days or have anything. It's going to kick anything out maybe late week and the weekend. Clouds at sunshine and the hazy sun at most are a best today load the middle nineties. Yesterday had a range of about eighty six of the try it to ninety and Raleigh. So we'll still have a range probably ninety to about ninety four degrees, and we'll head through tonight

with a slight chant of the shower thunder shower. Same thing for tomorrow. Some isolated showers thunder showers still could climb little bid nineties, and I don't see too much changing as we go through the week. A couple of days and the triangle you may try to push some mid nineties Thursday, Friday, the weekend, Casey, is when temperatures may come down and we'll get the smoke out of your eyes. Okay, all right, we'll hold you to

it and we'll chat tomorrow, sir, sounds good. All right, We'll come back chab with Jeff Bellinger. Grab your calls next Hang one six one FM Talk in the Triangle and news Talk w PTI in the Tryad. All right, good morning, it is two. You're Bloomberg Update now with Jeff Bellinger. Jeff, what's going on the morning, Casey? A. Wall Street started this week with an up session, had some minor gains yesterday, Futures pointing lower this morning. Now, futures are down twenty nine points.

A Ford Chairs fell nearly six percent. Yesterday, company caught investors off guard announcing it was cutting the prices on its electric F one fifty pickup by as much as seventeen percent. There is some evidence today of a deceleration and consumers spending, rising prices and economic uncertainty maybe finally having an impact on spending. The Commerce Department reports retail sales increased two tenths percent last month. That was

weaker than expected. Gain. With auto and gas sales excluded, the increase was three tenths percent that was right in line with forecasts. The chief industry officer at the supply chain data company Project forty four made a sobering assessment about a possible strike against United Parcel Service. Mark Dimin says the US would face massive disruptions, large economic losses and declines, and consumer and business confidence if

UPS workers walk out. Three hundred forty thousand members of the Teamsters union could be on the picket lines two weeks from today, speak king of job actions. Network television programmers have no idea yet when new shows will be available because of the writers and actor strikes. So they're getting creative with their fall schedules. The cable hit Yellowstone will have its broadcast debut on CBS, starting with

the first episode that originally ran in twenty eighteen. Another cable program, FBI True will be on the schedule, and CBS plans more game shows and reality programs. And Casey brand can lose its cachet if everybody can afford it. You need to keep your snob appeal. That's apparently the thinking at Ralph Lauren. The company has raised the average prices of its products by eighty percent since twenty eighteen. It plans to keep hiking prices. Ralph Lauren CEO says there's

no limit as long as the company continues to elevate its products. Casey, Okay, all right, Jeff, thank you very much, sir. We'll chat tomorrow. Okay, sounds good. Have a good day, Take care. All right, there you go, Jeff Balinger from Bloomberg News. Let me grab a quick phone call here and then try to fit in two stories. Jim, what's up? Hey, good morning. I want to come

in on the Miranda Lambert reaction to selfie taking goodness gracious. Back in nineteen seventy seven, I want to a mega concert in Philadelphia with one hundred and thirty thousand people with Gary Wright to Peter Frampton and yes, and I think I paid fifteen bucks and it was crazy. It was the best thing I've ever seen in person. And you know, nowadays people are spending the hundreds of dollars and I think short of throwing battery act it on the performers,

they should be able to do whatever they want in that crowd. Well, I mean, yeah, unless they're If they're not, and I don't even want to say that that's enough disruption. Sometimes people are disrupting the ability of other people to see or take part in the concert. I understand that beef. But yeah, if they want to take a selfie with the artist and back, because there up front, I just kind of expect that's going to be part of it, which is why I don't really like going to concerts

that much. Well, let's let the crowds police themselves, and let's security take care of the really fun ruly people and let the do their job. Yeah, now I'm with you, all right, yep, yep, yep, thank you for the call. I'll try to remember the last concert I was at I don't even remember. That's unline. That's when you know you've worked in radio too long when you still have access occasionally to free tickets.

You're just like they were they were some of the other day that they sent an email around camera was like Matchbox twenty or something, and I just no interest. So and maybe it's because I was doing it, did music radio long time. You had to go to a bunch of shows and so it's kind of it turned into work. That's what it feels like. Work. Yeah, you're like, am I gonna have to go do something? Even though you know, but still it's just like, ah, this is what

work was. Yeah, you worked at g for a music radio for even longer than I did. Man did so many concerts, concerts, and at the end, like you said, it's like I don't even want to go, Like if you're invite me now, I don't want to go now if somebody has like a like a luxury box at something that's completely different, right right, right, yeah, yeah, So let's not let's not be universal in our in our in our hatred of that. But so, yeah,

you got luxury boxes to something you want to send an invite? I think I think the last concert I went to where it was like, hey, I want to go to that where it wasn't work. I think it was like Cypress Hill in like two thousand and five, two thousand and four. I honestly, I'm racking my I can't remember the last concert I went to.

I remember where it was though, and I can't remember who they act, but it was at the Ritz. I don't remember now, but yeah, and I remember even like, ah, this fields like work, even though I had there was zero work going on there. Check this out though. Um so they continue to make busts in this human body parts thing. Remember the guys Bugshot who was stealing this stuff. You're like, yeah, that looks like a dude who sells body parts. Well, a man in

Kentucky was had his home rated by the FBI the other day. James not taken into custody. Police say his entire home was decorated with human remains like he went. He went, like to the point of making furniture out of it and stuff, which if you remember, was a hallmark of a certain serial killer. According to police, they discovered dozens of remains, forty skulls, spinal cords, femurs and hip bones, including a skull that he slept with like a teddy bear. Yeah. Yeah, it's all sorts of creepy

here. The other remains had been utilized as either decoration or as part of various adornments within his home. I don't even know what that means. Yeah, I mean that's like a gene stuff. Yeah, it's ed gean stuff with the lampshades and stuff. But how do you select which of the skulls is your teddy bear skull? That's what I want to know, man. He so he was arrested on that, and then also there was guns and he was a felon, so he's got a felon in possession of charges.

Butraziness, absolute insanity, man. And yeah, it looks like you do to sleeps with the skull. So you know, if we're generalizing here, I'm just saying