Tuesday-1-30-2024

I hope everyone's having a wonderful, wonderful uh, not quite even halfway morning, but yeah, it's uh. I'm glad you're here because there is just a ton of stuff to get into. As I guess MSNBS, I can't play the audio. I guess I could if I had Ross bleep it, but I just saw it as we get a little honesty out of MSNBC,

which was really nice, Joy read. I gotta tell you, if somebody works around microphones that are either on or off, it is a it is a moment of paranoia, and you know, best practices when you're anywhere near that microphone, even if you believe you're off there, even if you think the show's done, even if it's Saturday and you came in to fix something and you're grumbling and all that, like, never ever, ever, ever,

ever be saying stuff in a micro room that could hurt you. And yet TV has a certain comfort level, right, and that comfort level is one hundred percent on that team who's in the you know, the the mixed studio there, whoever is in the technical studio. And so Joy Reid's doing a little cut with Joe Biden and comments from Anthony Blincoln. And there's two

things they were commenting on yesterday. There was what is the nature of hostage release negotiations with all of the Israel Palestine stuff, and he indicated that there's

a framework and they're working on it. And again, this is what makes it lunacy because we actually know what the initial offer was, and it seems to be the one I think most people are like, yeah, no, that sounds fine, and it was, Hey, give us all the hostages back and we'll authorize a two or three month or whatever that that number bounced a little ceasefire while we work towards these other goals. And they're like, no, not gonna do that. So all of these idiots running around trying

to scare children near marbles, they're literally doing what you want. So why what are you doing? And you know, the fact is it's kind of trendy. So you see that stuff working forward. And then what's gonna happen with now three dead US soldiers We do know a little more how it happened. I'll get into that. Who were in They were in their barrack right and and you know, when it comes to Iran and members of our military being killed in their barracks. This is not our first rodeo. So there's

that uh barracks and or on their ship. And I told you the story of that time we went out to do a commensurate I think we went after the frigate. So Iran had a frigate that was there. They had two that were their their big boys. We were going to go grease one or immobilize one more accurately, and we ended up destroying half of their navy. But now Blinken saying, well, what we're gonna do is gonna be multi

layered, it'll be going on for a while. So arguably a very different approach than than Trump, even if just just remove your political analysis from from the individuals you saw. You saw when Trump decided to use retaliatory action, right, you saw once in Syria, and he saw twice with Iran. One time we turned a dude to missed and then the next time we're like, that was too quick, Let's use dogs, and we went that route.

And then we had got to watch Trump doing a speech about beauty, big beautiful military dogs, which I thought is hilarious, and of course the media lost their mind over it. So that's where we are with that. So Joy reads on MSNBC and she's playing clips. Here's what the President said that I would never question live on the air, have any opinion of a

negative, negative variety. And literally the moment, the absolute moment that she cuts to the clip, she says really loudly, obviously thinking her mic is off too. I guess her control room. She says, he's quote starting another effing war. Yeah, what was even the focus of the segment? Republicans take credit for stuff they voted against. So she's literally doing a Republican hip piece. And obviously she has great driving concerns. And I know,

look, it's her Show's a quote unquote news show. She can cover any of these news stories. She did. She did it under the guys, the Republicans bad. But yeah, yeah, how do you really feel? Oh, that's how you really feel. In the same way, I wonder if some of the Fox hosts really are like, yeah, let's destroy Tehran because Lindsey Graham said so, dude, Lindsey Graham might be the he might be the chief warmonger of our generation. There's always one in the Senate to

just like turn it to glass. And I get that but he got explained strategically how that works because you know history of stuff, and you have to factor it through. Not the idea that our military is incapable of accomplishing certain things. It's will they be capable of questioning things based on the orders that they're given and the rules of engagement and everything that they're asked to do under you know, hamstrung conditions. That's you know, that's that is the thought

process that has to go through there. And I wonder if that's where if that enters Lindsey Graham's brain. But whatever, he's all for it, and they actually have thoughts over at MSNBC. So, ah, what are you going to do there? All right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four our phone number? You want to be on the show. So that's just where we'll start things off. We got we got Hollywood doing Hollywood stuff again. Oh, you're gonna be excited about this the Ross You

were right, buddy, You're right. I don't know what the topic is, but I know you know what the topic. What did I text you yesterday a picture of I don't remember. I've already deleted the thread, you know, I am, And then I realized we have all that other threat because I was telling you about locks and stuff. So hold on, hold

on, let me grab this. Yeah, because I texted to you and it might have been in that window where you were either taking a nap or running around doing stuff for the Baltimore Sun. Forget Kamala Harris put Taylor Swift on Joe Biden's ticket. Right, That's what I was saying off theory yesterday. Yeah, Favag said the same thing too, Right, you had like

a conspiracy theory with that. He's like, you know, she's gonna maybe it was somebody else that said that, but like you know, after the game, they're gonna win obviously because she's so good for revenue for the NFL, he's gonna propose, they're gonna get married, and then after they propose, they're gonna come out being for Biden. A lot of people are saying this. Actually the whole thing is like a sy op. Yeah, okay, I'm not saying I agree with that. I'm saying lots of people are

saying it. Oh, I know, I know. And it's funny because I saw one of the real moonback. I don't say moonback is, but do like real conspiracy theory dudes. But I I think he's also like a Chiefs fan, so he's like, I'm the conspiracy theory guy and this isn't and let me tell you why. And I'm like, bro, look at that through the filter you use on everything else, some guy who has a vested interest in one side dissuading your whole Your whole thing is like secret conspiracy

theories that only you know about. Well the weird thing about the whole thing. Do you see the audio of Taylor Swift I think it was back in like twenty nineteen talking about how her entire collection was bought up by a a group including George Soros, like they bought her music, yes, yes, And then it comes out there like suddenly she's like a crazy liberal and progressive and they're like, well, it's because now she's owned by George Soros.

That's part of the conspiracy. Well, but I believe her reasoning behind that was her explanation of why she was going to re record, right, that's what she did them. Yeah, so so she actually owns it all now, right, yes, yes, yes, yes, And and you and I have been in this business long enough, even on the music side to know that when it comes to uh licensing rights record companies. Uh, like

there's some there's some really crazy stuff that happens. But remember Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney were friends at one time and right, and then Paul was like, hey, I'm gonna buy all your music or did their music? Yeah? Yeah yeah, And Michael Jackson's like, nah, fam, I'm going to because McCartney had been giving him advice. It's like, what you need to do is you need to buy catalogs. He's like, oh, you didn't do that for the children your music? And he's like, wait,

no, what, No, that's not what I'm at. It's like that Elon meme with Bezos right where he's like, uh, I just bought Twitter. Oh no, no no, and then and uh what does he say? Uh? He says, uh, oh come on man, what do you doing? And then he goes uh and then he put Amazon in the cart I can't remember how it's worded, and uh, Beas is like, bro, what are you doing? It kind of had that vibe, but you know, that's just one of many things. There's lots of behind you

do you ever watch behind the music back in the day behind. It was a great show back. Yeah, it's great. At least a half of the at least half of the episodes at some point had a conversation about how they were getting screwed by their label, their manager, their touring company, any of the rest of it is dogg eat dog Man. And it's like, you have to wonder if artists today will an artist today will emerge that you know, had the power to flip the script as so many of these

older bands did, and it took him a while. From Jackson to the Eagles, to the Stones, even to zz Top was in a nasty bit of business. Back in the day, they had the longevity to be there. Who's who are the artists now who are going to have that twenty year longevity. I don't know who it is. No, they used to be completely screwed over by the labels, and now that would like Phil Spector in that back in the day, he would completely screw his artists out there.

Yeah, absolutely, And that's not Look, that's not to say that there's bad publishers out there. There's there are publishers that are that are instrumental and andre are you know, and these are some of the indie houses. But what happens is when these indie houses get built up, they get bought. Man, they get bought fast. A and Our Records was the example back in the day. So so A and R like they were, they were

able to get all of these big folks over to this new startup. And they did it because they created fair contracts, they created recording spaces where people wanted to work in la and most importantly, they had the you know, they had actual musicians as the founder, in fact, the founder of A and R Records during that period was I believe the best selling musician in the

country, perhaps even in the world at that moment. And uh, I think you know, most people, especially younger people are are are not. We're not We're not up on this sod A and R. Yeah, it's A and R. Right, I got a fine because they ended up getting bought out. It was the same thing because I think Sting was there and all of that. All right, let me let me look this up because I want to make sure I give accurate. But it was the the guy

founded. It was the dude who did Tijuana, the Tijuana brass right, and uh, you know, instrumental trumpet music is not something that I think a lot of people are familiar with, but that tore it up literally for decades. I think you had to hit into the eighties. But you know, label stuff is different, the longevity of musicians is different. So you know, all of this stuff, all of this stuff is factored in there.

And you talk about the evolution of media, especially the evolution in this case of the music industry, and it's completely trackable to the point where the best investment honestly for artists because you know, nowadays artists go online and that's their minor league, if you will, and then when they get popular, a label will pick them up and then they'll squeeze whatever they can out of

them immediately. But since they don't have to develop artists to the extent that they used to, the math is far more profitable to squeeze whatever you got on the front side. See if you get something and if you don't move on to the next project. It's crazy. It's crazy how the business bond has evolved. And it's probably because you're kind of writing that cusp of artists being able to do a lot of this themselves. And there are some out there that do it. So anyway, I just got into a music diet

tried, but it's definitely pertinent here. All right, coming up, Oh just look at the time. All right, let me do this coming up on the show, like I Oklahoma, what you're doing? Man? What you I get it? I understand. I understand that people have very strong thoughts when it comes to this stuff. But this is this is what happens. Republicans do this. Sometimes Democrats do, but they're a little more lockstep

with stuff. But Republicans will do this. And it's when you see different versions of kind of the same bill, which is something that happens in both parties in different states, and there'll be one that's just so not like the others, and of course that'll be the one the media focuses on. And I think Oklahoma is providing that right now, because I don't even know how his works, what is being proposed. So we'll get into that. We got the Shatner stuff, Airport stuff, Mark Cuban, all of it coming

up. Casey O Day Radio program, cac O Day Radio program. I am I'm watching the Free Roster. Are you seeing the Justice League enthusiasts freak out on Twitter? Yeah, I sure, am what wait and they've done they've done Batman, dirty Man. Oh my god, they've done them wrong. There's some spoilers, we got some spoilers. So this is, uh,

this is the newest Arkham series. Right, I'm I'm sorry. I'm not so into Batman that I know all the different universes, but this is a big one, right, because the Arkham game has been around forever. Well, yeah, they're all like Batman games. Right, so you had like Arkham Asylum and like Arkham Knight in Arkham City. That was the incorrect order. I understand that. But then the game, the company that made these games is called rock Steady. So in this new game, it's like

Suicide Squad defeats or takes on some kills the Justice League. Yeah, so it's made by the same company. I believe rock Steady. Is it rock Steady? People think it's rock Star and it's funny. No, it's not rock Star. It's called rock Steady. They're getting tagged anyway, that would be incorrect. Yeah. So so the Batman they have in it is the

one from the Arkham games. Like, it's the same voice actor, it's the same animation that looks like him, and these games have been around since, I want to say to me, like two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, right, but it was a really good trilogy. Well not anymore because the final scene of it again spoiler, yeah, the final scene of it is a lazy back and forth with one liners between Batman,

who is subdued on a bench and Haley Quinn. Haley Quinn, Harley Harley saying Quinn is an actress, right, Harley Quinn, Yeah, I'm telling you my brain sometimes, so yeah, Joker's girl and then not girl and then all of that just uh, one to the head, like it was like it was an execution and you know, some third world hell hold man, that's it. And then out and they're like, well it says kills the Justice League, and it's like, yeah, but you can't do him

that way. Just getting shot to the dome by Harley Quinn, right after after all he spent through. You play these games, you invest so much time and just now shot in the head by Harley Quinn. So he pointed out that they were really surprised that the reasoning was not because Batman told her

to quit with her comedy routine. But rather that he misgendered her, Like there was a real missed opportunity if you're going to crap on this game, I see uh like ideas from people that don't want it to be true. They're like, oh, what if what if it was really Superman with the Batman mascot and he he caught the bullet with his tooth, that it's gonna be like, it's gonna be revealed. There's a way you would actually do yeah, the Chinese magic bullet trick. Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay,

So I mean it sounds like some cope, but I don't know. Well, I wasn't gonna play this game anyway because it looks like crap and it's like an online you always have to be online to play it, and it's just it doesn't look like my sort of game. If it is your game, you know, have at it. But I wasn't gonna buy it anyway. So just so this is like it reinforces, you know, the point

that I made the correct decision. But remember you remember all the Kataku articles on Batman over the years where they're just like he's horrible, he's just rich, He's an evil rich person. And then if you remember they did the the actual comic book. What do they do? They took all his money away? Right, Yeah, they made him poverty. They made him poverty, which you know could be interesting, Don't get me wrong. I'll tell

you. The one thing that bothered me about the the The Bain movie was that's that's not how the stock market works, right, like that whole part where they went in and they and it's they have them on camera taking over, right, they have them on camera taking over the the stock market. Right spoiler if you, I guess if you haven't seen the Nolan movies, so everybody knows what time they went in there and took everyone in hostage.

So if a series of trades posted by somebody who it was likely discernible that they were elsewhere and it happened in that time frame, like that whole narrative where like, well all your money's gone because the computer says it is. I don't know why that just that that felt like that felt like the one big miss in that movie to me. But whatever, But now they're just going to grease him. Whatever. What is Quinn? What is she?

What is her power? Even? She fell in the ooze, right, and she's got problems, and obviously she was you know, she was a doctor prior to that. But yeah, I don't think she has any powers. Like her power is somebody even think she fell in news. I think she just bumped her head, but I'm not sure. Well, they had that narrative where her and the Joker kind of like jumped into it in the Suicide Squad movie, but then there's a bunch of colors and it was kind

of strange. I didn't get through that movie. But like, her power is that friend who makes bad decisions, right, because we've all had that. A guy or a gal who gets infatuated with somebody who everyone realizes is clearly not a good influence on him, and they will literally do things like sacrifice promising elements of their career. They'll quit, they'll quit school to go do this thing, and they'll quit a job, a really good job,

just they'fatuated. They'll they'll loan of money buy him stuff or he'll buy her stuff, and everyone around him is like, what the hell are you doing? And it's like, I've seen that show and he made a superhero out of that. Watch my buddy get tied down with three kids? Like you know how that keeps happening, right, dude? But hey, good enough power to kill Batman? So what are you gonna do? All right, there's your there's your spoilers done. But yeah, everybody's everybody's that's funny.

It's a gun intuited finally a game that Kataku will like. Yeah, probably they got they got beef with him. So we'll see how the h we'll see how the fans react. All right, let me let me flip over to this. Uh. I don't even want to go back into that stuff. Nope, no, no, no, no, we'll wait right there. All right, since we're the world of Hollywood, let me do this. So now, uh, we find out that there are a couple reboots in in the works of really really well known classic historical cinema, and when

you hear them, I feel like you're not going to be happy. So let me let me read it from the from the What is this chick's name? Oh Man bearess? Kenya Bearess? Okay. A pair of Hollywood's most iconic classic films will be undergoing reboots for modern audiences at the hands of Hollywood writer Kenya Barris, who was planned who had planned to change main characters in

both instances to a quote person of color. Barris, whose credits include Black af Blackish, You People, and the remake of White Man Can't Jump? Wait, how do you race swap white Man Can't Jump? I didn't even I didn't realize. How do you erase swap that? It's it's a white dude and a black dude and a Hispanic woman. Like, aren't you ticking all the boxes there? I'm so god, you know, I'm not even

gonna look up what they're doing. So here's the two movies. You ready, barris next ventures will be a reimagination of the Wizard of Oz and It's a Wonderful Life. Obviously remakes people have been screaming for all right, well I can't already call this, So the Wizard ends up really being a chick. Oh no, behind the curtain, Behind the curtain, and what what's it's a wonderful life? Yeah, Dana Carvey already did the best rendition of

this. Remember the skit he did back such a that's because he's such a good impression, mister Potter, remember that, like back in the day, that was he did. That is his his I saw his audition of his audition tape is part of his audition doing that yeah or doing that voice. That's a classic scene where like they just he just kept keeps giving him like the big drop elbow. Yeah, like you know, like the people's elbow on mister Potter by oh, mister Potter. And they all just like they

just beat him to death. So you're saying it's been done too well to bee, Yeah, no, they and I got questions I have. I have so many questions. Okay, so one like because it's not there's not they're not just gonna swap the character, Like what do you do with any religious reference? And it's a wonderful life, right telling that little girl about angels and wings and stuff? Spoiler I guess on some of this, but like there's a lot there, but Wizard of Oz, I see a thousand

things that are troubling. First and foremost, what do you do? Uh? What do you do with the first group that Dorothy meets on the Yellow Brick Road. There's a whole song and dance scene. What do you what do you do? Man? Because like, didn't we just have big problems with the what it has to be a group of people supporting him US. So you think, do you think on the journey that rather than running into it's just protesters blow for Palestine, so their blood they're glued to the yellow

brick road. I mean you could also go eco folks. I don't know, but you're right. Yeah, they got to be blocking the road. But it has to be like when they were blocking the road and the Mandalorian No, not Mandalorian. What was the one with the little uh, the little girl? Which one am I thinking of? Oh? Solo it was? There was Solo? Right? Ah? What was uh? I can't

I can't even keep these I can't even keep these straight. What was the one where we got the lay as lay as a girl and she's just unbearable? So that was Kenobi a cook? Nobi? I said Solo? I'm sorry, yeah Kenoby? Yeah? Or no it was was it just called obi Wan or something? Or no? Maybe it was just Kenobe? What but like, do you remember the scene? Did you watch that at all?

Do you remember the scene when they're at the gate on this like and it's like they're like in the desert and they have like one of those swing arm gates on the road. No, and she started being like two hundred eighty five billion IQ and Kenoby was an idiot, and you know she she's like, yeah, it's Queen and it's like you know, she's like like yeah, superior to him, but she's like five. I was like,

I'm out. They have a scene where they come up and they have you know, the uh the Empire's got to They got literally like one of those swing arm gates. It's he on a millet like an old school in military checkpoint, except on both the right and the left. It's desert for miles right, so there's no there's no fence or anything. And they had this whole scene where they got to figure out how to get around then, and it was at that point I didn't throw the remote at the tee. I

wanted to. I'm like, this is dumb. So you go into a Wizard of Oz, you got to change that. Perhaps you're right, mess with the wizard. But it's also the real world part of it. According to Barriss, the movie will utilize a completely different setting and Dorothy will be living in an apartment complex in Inglewood, California called the Bottoms. You know, they don't have tornadoes in La I guess maybe. I'm sure historically maybe

there's been one, but you realize that's the whole premise of it. So how are they going to transport Dorothy to what is this other place or a fever dream? Like? How are they going to I don't I almost don't want to know what the mechanism is going to be. What do you get? Is it going to be air pollution? Are you going to have an environmental angle in there? Will police beat them into a coma? And you what you're telling me that beating her into a coma at the hands of brutal

police officers to make another Hollywood point isn't at least on the table. Also, apparently the the goal of Dorothy will be different. This is from This is from an interview the writer did. The original Wizard of Oz takes place during the Great Depression, and it's about self reliance and what people were going through. I think now is the perfect time to switch the characters and talk

about what someone imagines their life could be. Yeah, so I look, all right, I'm skipping a lot of the fluff here just because I'm looking at the clock. The writer also spoke with Jimmy Fallon about plans to I cast diverse characters. Quote. I think this is the best time to turn a mirror on society because we need to see ourselves, and I want to do it with diverse characters. The character lives in Inglewood and someone comes up, and now she ends up in Underhood, which is right outside of Oz,

and it takes place from there. This sound like it sounds like a Babylon b article. Man, so lives in Inglewood somehow ends up in underhood, which I guess is Oz. I underhood doesn't sound hood doesn't have a great connotation. So now now you're in the underhood. I am so confused, man. And it doesn't say the mechanism for getting there. That's why I think the police thing's on the table. Gotta be honest with you. I want to make people think, but also make them feel good. I'll

tell you Ross, I figured it out. I think you're right. I think the wizard is a chick or is a dude, but will be a chick. And you know where I'm going with this. I think Dorothy will possess a skill set that nobody saw coming, maneuver her way effortlessly through you know, droves of bigots and protesters and eventually, being as smart as Dorothy will be made to be, will ouse the patriarchal wizard for control of the

underhood. You know what, I'm getting vibes of that Robin Hood Canada Robin Hood show we talked about where she's Robin of the Hood, Like, this is the same thing, man, and then you're gonna screw it. It's a wonderful life. If they're trying to like urbanize it. Michael Jackson already did that that well, you know what, that is a fair point.

I don't but they're not trying to urbanize it for the purpose of just like they're trying they're trying to this is my opinion, they're trying to ruin it, man, trying to ruin it. I have a question, will will the character of Dorothy be sexually assaulted by her coworkers on the regular Is that going to be a hallmark of the shoot process? Because I don't know if you ever read any of that stuff, but the little people there, they were big fans of that. Who was a teenager in address there and it's

not good looking stuff, man. All right, So there you got a little some to mark your calendars and look forward to. While we take a break here on the KCO Day radio program, glad to have you a long phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four and let us head to the air. We got a couple of different stories here. I'm going to start with NBC and their little takedown piece yesterday. Right wingers had

made airports culture were battlegrounds. So airports or culture war back, sometimes they're physical battlegrounds. Some of the some of the videos of people flipping their lid man And I told and I told you when was that? That was Thanksgiving? It was last year. I remember it. Last year. I had to be in the Miami Airport on the very same day that woman destroyed like D forty two or whatever that that video was. I didn't watch her do it or anything. I was there after, but they had it all roped

off. No, it was the next day. I was there. They had it roped off because I'd seen the video and I'm like, oh man, I've missed it right, And she was throwing everything. So is that what you mean? Because I don't think that's what you mean. David Ingram knew for me today how right wing influencers turned airplanes and airports into culture war

battlegrounds. Okay, if you're not following any of this. One of the things that definitely is getting more discussion is DEI programs and specifically how those, how those play with these. You've seen a lot of airlines who literally are running commercials going yeah, we're by twenty thirty, we want half of our

pilots to be not white dudes. I can't remember how it's all worded, but that's the gist of it. And then you got like United CEO Scott Kirby, who's got some interesting hobbies you should look up, and that's who they're quoting. One statement. This is from his article, one statement in particular for United CEO Scott Kirby being misquoted on social media. Kirby told Axios the company wants fifty percent of its flight Academy classes to be women, of

people, women or people of color. Flight academy students are at the start of their careers years for me and Hyleed. So this is the argument, and it's and it's fine, like if you want to have adults discuss and debate this one one of the uh one of the factors that they say is inherent in both is that ultimately, if you don't pass the you know, you don't pass the test, you're not gonna move on and be an actual pilot. All right. I don't know what the percentage of classes of its

flight academy. I don't know what percentage move on and which ones flame out. We're not privy to that. But the while Kirby may have said that, that is still the stated goal of some of Kirby's competitors, including American Airlines, who has mentioned this UH and Delta who has who has dipped their toe in the water. And so it's positioned as, look, we're fishing

for talent in new ponds. According to Jessica Mensch Munch, chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Office, are united, all right, And and look, I guess I I understand that that there's a set of standards there. The problem is twofold one. It it deviates outside meritocracy. Do you know, do you know the most common the most common piece of background information among UH

airline pilots. What is what is the most common path? I would I would guess right that they served in a military and ding ding ding, Yes, And That's what I want to see when I get a plane, right, I want to see somebody that looks like they've been in the service. You could like a bad ass, that's all I want to see, too, bad ass. You don't know what I mean, Like, ah, we gotta go flying upside down? Right? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,

somebody looks capable, that's all. Yeah, And and and and and looks people they're going to hang up on looks and oh, what do you mean a white kuy? No, like you look at you can look at somebody and regardless of the color they are, there's they can they can't. There's an aura of the way they they they everything about him, right, the way that dude knows what he's doing. When you watch like I'm Patrol Live, you can always tell which cops used to be service members. You can

just tell. Yeah, yeah, there is some of that. And you don't look you don't have to be a service member. But there is an era of professionalism that that people will exude that puts others at ease. Right, that's a person who knows what they're doing. And I feel more confident. And I've been on planes, you know, I used to fly that I flowed that the Sheridan Wyoming to Denver route right when I said, would stop all the places. And I remember getting on a plane one time and

I'm like, are you here with your dad? He's like, no, I'm the pilot. And I'm like, oh, okay, that's a he's got a bad act. He going this morning, dude. But you know, uh when when push came to show this was back when pilot whether we didn't have the door in the cockpit, I know, crazy, so you can literally see in there. I just dude doing his job. Man. So I look, I understand the visually, you're not always going to be

able to tell and there's going to be certain standards. The problem becomes, and this is where the public gets into these things and they start losing trust. The problem becomes when your stated goal is classes, but your inherent goal is you want the visual. You want when people see pilots that there is a lot of diversity there because it is quote good for business to quote Mark Cuban. And he's approaching it in a couple of different ways. And we

got a Cuban story too, but he's approaching a couple different ways. He's saying it's good for it's good for service in that in the long run it may inspire others who had not even thought that that was a career possibility, which inherently would grow the pool. Do you get what I'm saying, Like, if you have, if you have a third of the population who would never even ponder being an airline pilot, now they like everybody else, feel like they could make it, then yeah, that is a legitimate theory.

But in reality we if I don't want to jinx anything, in reality we have enjoyed the longest period I think in the history of private aviation companies here in America of safety, I believe it's the longest. Again, knock on wood, it is not even close by the way, Yeah, I read that recently. It's like a big stretch, big stretch stretch of time which

you hear somebody's paranoid. You're like, well, that means it's bound to happen any day, right, But but like that's that's the reality of it, the the But the reality of it is where people start to wonder because they've seen numerous examples where all right, you may be doing this, but your ultimate goal is this, So you got to kind of grease the skids, and when it comes down to somebody operating on you, somebody controlling that

plane that you're doing six hundred miles an hour in at thirty five thousand feet, people don't want they want no inkling that any way, shape or form. A decision was made that was not pure meritocracy, meaning the person who performs the best the best person for that job. And you're not always going to get it right, obviously, because people are people, but that's what

makes people nervous. And so when they feel you're starting to prioritize that, they're going to wonder if safety is one of the things that you're offering, and they're also looking at example, speaking of the military, within the military, where decisions have been made that you know, whether you're in the military or even if you're just somebody with eyeballs, you go, is that in the best interest of the people they're serving with, whether it is you know,

women's in combat situations where they may not have the ability to physically remove a fellow soldier if they become incapacitated, which is not something that is inherently only women, but is going to be far more prevalent the adjustment of certain standards. That's what people are concerned about. So yeah, yeah, no people, people got questions, but no even questioning that for NBC News is

a bridge too far. And then they you know, they get into some examples of all the evil people and they there's a Charlie Kirk, there's a Charlie Kirk quote, and this is why the guy gets hung up on this and let me play it. I kind of I get the angles coming from because we just had this whole affirmative action discussion and like, I'm I'm not

I'm not black, so I can approach it from this perspective. But I kind of think that if if it's in an environment where there's a lot of affirmative action, in the back of my mind, I'd be like if even if I went in an ACE this and was top of my class and any of the rest of it, I wonder if people think that I was hired because of that, And you can call that ignorant, But these are thoughts

that permeate people's brains when insecurity set in. So I don't know how the factors of how that all plays in, But here's here's the Charlie current and That's why I think this United story, in the DEI story hits so hard because we've all been in the back of a plane when the turbulence hits, or when you're flying through a storm and you're like, I'm so glad I saw the guy with the right stuff and the square jaw get into the cockpit

before we took off, and I feel better now. Think I mean, like you want to go thought crime, Like, I'm sorry, if I see a black pilot, I'm gonna be like, boy, I hope he's qualified. Well, you wouldn't have done that. You wouldn't have not an immediate no, would not who I am. That's not what I believe. It is the reality the leftos I all right, I'm not and I'm not gonna go full with Charlie Kirk here because I it's it's more like when Roster

and I were talking about. It is more that ambiance and what that individual exudes. And there's there's plenty of black dudes, Hispanic dudes, h even some women they have square jaws. I would inherently I'm like, yeah, that person does what they're doing right, it doesn't matter matter to me. Color, female, male, Like the only because I would assume that they're going to hire somebody that can fly the plane and do it well, That's

what I would hope anyway. The only thing that I would be like, really concerned about is if I got in the plane and it's like Ray Charles, like glasses and a cane. I'd be like, you should not be flying the plane? Like that would be me ONX are amazing today? Why are you discriminating against Ray Charles? Think about the N flight entertainment man, that's gonna be amazing. What are you talking about? Yeah, no,

I'm with you. He played the piano while he's flying the plane, and what if he can and if he'd be amazing, it would have been just

questioned you o Racheurnald's apology. Oh man, here's all my money. So yeah, And but to your point, the motivation, the motive, the motivation for airlines as we understand it in a capitalistic society is you want to for as cheaply as possible, with as much crap as people will put up with that still give them pause to go to your competitor, to get them from point A to point B, and to do so in uh in the manner that is safest because there are financial consequences. Is one of your planes

crashes, right, I understand those motivations. I know that sounds sketchy, but ultimately that is the motivation to do it in the most cost efficient way possible, to do it without alienating passengers as much. But also you have to have that safety because whoever breaks this big safety this how many you know days without an accident sign that we've have right now, you know, there's that will that will be financially tough for them. So that's their motivation.

But now you've thrown this other thing in where in the same way that company, airline companies who needed working capital have been hamstrung by these DEI requirements, which is this weird infiltration of the industry that we've seen. Now you go, all right, is that concern overriding any of the other concerns. So that's look, that's where people are coming from because they want to be safe

in the air. And you know, ultimately, anyone who who throws that in there is just being called a bigot, which means you can't defend your position. And again I don't agree with Mark Cuban, but I understood where he was trying to go he if he honestly believes, I think he's wrong. But but he was in there saying, look, you know, if you I believe that if everyone think that they can do this, and the

talent pool opens up and maybe we find even better candidates. And like, I can see where somebody throw that argument out, but I don't know. Case in point. All right, here we go. I uh, good, good, good, I'm glad. I'm glad you weighed in. So Joe who calls uh, he's former US or he flies for a large US airline. He said, every single pilot that is at an airline must meet certain standards when they're hired. There is there is zero test to actually see

how well you can fly. It's personality and theory discussion in an interview. The one statistic I would love to see of white men who apply is what percentage is interviewed? And of minorities, what percentage is interviewed. I have no doubt that everyone in a cockpit is qualified per the FAA, but I wonder if the hiring practices are fair. And again that's fair, but it

causes people to reevaluate how an individual got there. So just my two cents, and then you know, you talk about also DEI requirements and the hiring of airplane manufacturers and parts stuff like it's because you're talking about something that has

such inherent nobody cares. If no, I'm not picking on I'm not going to pick on anyone, but if in some retail position, if that's your hiring model, it's less impactful than if you override safety concerns, and not just if you do it literally, but if you do it in the minds of your consumers and they don't trust your product, you run that risk as well. So that takes us to this Wall Street Journal with some info here on what may have caused that plug door to come off the Alaskan Airlines flight.

And it was a combination of them looking at where it was attached, the door itself, and looking at records of the construction of that particular jet, and they found that there not these tear outs where the hinges were, which is weird because you those type of bolts, you rip them out, they're gonna the threading is gonna be messed, the hinge may be destroyed.

It's gonna be pretty tough stuff. And they didn't see that so they checked maintenance records and I guess during assembly they're putting the plane together and that door didn't seal right, So they took it off to remachine it and then put it back on. And the theory is they didn't put the bolts in. They put a couple of bolts to hold it, but they didn't put the

primary bolts in. How does that happen? All We're gonna get into more of this because like I'm I'm like, you put legos together and there's extra pieces. Come on, man, all right, we'll be back casey O Day Radio program seven thirty five. Uh good, I've getting some good email on this. I've done so smart asses too, But that's okay, that's what we do. Uh my brother, hold on the ah. Why does the word document look like the outlook? Uh? Uh logo? I always

do that one of these days. One of the things you just haven't talked about is airline's main competition, FedEx and other supply chain airlines such as Amazon. My brother flew fighters in the Air Force, but went to work for FedEx because quote, who wants to deal with rude customers? Yeah? Absolutely, you're gonna parlay that aviation experience into into that coming out of the military.

That makes sense. And you know some some people would enjoy the uh iles say, enjoy the customers all the time, but that particular type of flying versus you know, heading over to the other side of the airport and getting in a plane with a couple other people and a million boxes. So yeah, to each their own, and you gotta you gotta figure it out. There's also the part too where airlines that in mention this, you know, compensation still has to be there, still has to be there, or

other opportunities that may pay more. Obviously, folks may gravitate towards that if that is what their big motivation is. So look, there's a thousand things going on. Where this got weird though, is and I mentioned Cuban, So he was talking to people about this on Twitter, and you know, people have questions obviously, and this account called him out and he responded, he said, when shown proof of how DEI discriminates, you wrote it off

by stating private entities can do whatever they want. Since then, the goalposts have repeatedly been shifted. Given the weak nature of your defense, I suspect there's no real rebuttal to the criticism others have raised. The alternative would be doing the brave thing of acknowledging you're wrong. Although this would do a lot of good, it does not seem you've arrived there, Cuban responded, and normally back and forth, we wouldn't be getting into this. But it's a

third response or a second response that really makes this story interesting. Cuban wrote, if it's a for profit school, if they want primarily purple people leaders, he's talking about an aviation school from Mars, it's their choice. And again, if it's a quote private school but falls under public accommodation, it's not as simple as that. As you well know, you can't just say this. I can't just open the white guy flying school white dudes only without

getting my behind student too oblivion. And then they get into a meritocracy discussion, and then Cuban says this. He says, I've never hired anyone based exclusively on race, gender, or religion. I only ever hire the person that will put my business in the best position. And part of the argument that the Cuban's making is, if you're a business owner, the path of least resistance and your ability to access business services that you may need. The

best position for your business may be acquiescing to moon bat demands. And he's probably not wrong, right if you're look at look at all of the investigations and problems that Elon Musk companies are having right now, right, look at look at all of these things that have They went after the neuralink uh for

what was it? An environmental thing? They got mad at the rocket at his rocket manufacturing because he wasn't hiring migrants, even though he manufactures what are considered weapons of war, it's rocket technology, and he's like, I couldn't hire them. I can't even hire some Americans. It's got it. There's a there's secure there's a national security interest here, and then all the threats from this administration and others to go after and investigate everything under the sun.

Is Elon doing business in a much different way than the rest of Silicon Valley and other big companies. Not really when it comes to core business functions. But he's not towing the line anymore. So. If that's what Cuban meant, and I've heard him say stuff similar, I think he half means that, But I think he also half buys into this because he goes on to say something else. He says, and yes, race and gender can be

part of the equation. I view diversity as a competitive advantage. And it was this where he said as general rule, Yeah, all right, so he says that, and then all of a sudden, a person by the name of Andrea Lucas pops up, and Andrea Lucas is it's that standard government worker pos where it's your head shot and then behind you you have the flags, right, you have the flag of whatever department you work for, and then the United States flag. Pretty standard. And that is because Andrea Lucas

is an eeo C commissioner. She's one of the EEOC commissioners Equal Opportunity Employment commission And she responds to Cuban and says eeo C Commissioner here, unfortunately, you're dead wrong on black Letter Title seven law. As a general rule, race and sex can't even be a quote motivating factor, nor a plus factor, tiebreaker or tipping point. It's important, it's important employers understand the ground rules here. I got to think of your Mark Cuban's attorney, Well,

I don't know, because you stick at the Dojada do stuff. But she's not wrong. And that's why when you see all this stuff where they're like, all right, we're gonna have we're only gonna we're only going to hire a minority employees, the company will come out and say that. You scratch your head and you go, who is that legal? With my understanding, Well, there's somebody from Equal Opportunity Employment Commission going no or Equal Employment Opportunity

whatever. Don't know, and the law is very clear here, So just further I guess further proof that we'll just ignore the laws. Bob, what's going on? I don't know. I'm not sure if I completely understood what Mark Cuban was going for. But if he's advocating picking somebody on anything other than meritocracy, the amount of accommodation you give to select someone not based on merit is how much your product will suffer. So let's take grace out of

it. If we say that pilots or you know, little people are highly underrepresented in the NBA or in piloting. When he hires Peter Dank to apply his plane or to start for his team, I'll listen. I saw a guy. I saw dude with the customer I saw a dude with the customized jet who for But but but to your point, yeah, that's the extreme example of it. The Dallas Mavericks hiring uh, you know what you know

and then pick pick whomever the Yes. Absolutely. Do you think that there's any credibility to Mark's assertion that the path of least resistance is just to give in? Because yeah, if not your elon Muster twenty two investigations, I mean, he's not wrong. Well, I guess, but it depends on

how many metal showers you want over the over the ground. But to advocate for the equality and black pilots, some of the best pilots probably in World War Two were the Tuskegee Airmen, and they had nothing to do with their race. It had to do with the fact that they weren't able to go, weren't allowed to go uh in the bat because nobody wanted them to go. So they had to train three and four times more than their regular counterparts.

So when they finally got there, they were much better because they were trained further. So, you know, if you feel like you've got to work twice as hard to get somewhere as the next guy, do it. Because when you get there, you'll be twice as good. There should be negative incentives. Yeah, what you're seeing and then thank you for the call there, Bobby, is you're seeing the people subconsciously. If you're in your forties or fifties, what have you been told your entire life up until the

last I don't know, like ten years. When it came to figuring out who the best person for the job is, we were you were We were told that in the past there have been historical injustices and such as Tuskey Geearman, such as you know, there's lots and lots of examples, especially in cinema. You can watch Glory is a good example, right where there's like we don't and then you know, the inevitability is now they're the first one's

up there to Sumpter's and it doesn't it doesn't end well Fort Sumter. And but like I understand all that. So what was beat into the brain of everyone my age was you need to be it doesn't matter who it is, based only on the meritocracy is how you should be making decisions. And then all of a sudden they're like, nah, nah, not that this other thing, and people who that's been a part of what they've learned for decades.

Like mentally, when you're just operating something subconsciously, it sticks out to you and people people have a natural reaction to go, wait a sec that's that is totally different, what in the hell's going on? And then NBC will write a hit piece on you. So there you go, all right, seven forty five raced agic from the Weather Channel. He's here and he's decided in his wheel of torture to freeze you again. So there you go. Yeah, I got a little chillier, some surprise this morning by some

twenties that have shown up. Milder weather on the way here briefly, then cooling down a little bit, then milder as we get into the month of February, at least the beginning of it anyway, looks uh, I'd say, for this time, you're pretty mild. So really this winter hasn't been

too harsh. Today, we'll have the low fifties, start to see some cloud come into the west going across the Triad here soon at the Triangle as we go through mid morning in the afternoon especially, and we got this little weak kind of low pressure coming through tonight and there might be some rain, mainly light and why they scattered. If you get a couple of tents of an inch, that'll be a lot upper thirty. So well about freezing in

the mountains. That's where you got to worry about some wet snow, so you gotta go well west. And that rain will end tomorrow morning. In the afternoon cloudy and a little bit cooler, in the upper forties, and

tomorrow night we're back down near freezing. And then as we get into Thursday and Friday, the first two days of February, upper fifties to low sixties, lots of sunshine around overnight lows in the thirties, so real nice weather as we get into February, and the first few days of it right through the weekend looked pretty good too, with a chance of rain early next week. So not much rain with this system coming through tonight, a little chili

the next couple of mornings, but uh, looking real nice. As we get into Thursday and Friday, Groundhog Day. The wait, it looks right now, probably going to see a shadow and it's six more weeks of winter. But if winter's like this casey, most people are probably like no. If days like this, maybe it won't be so harsh. You guys are way too groundhog invested. I understand it for obvious reasons. It's like, what other holiday is weather related? Right? I mean, yeah, this

is true. I am. I'm not that invested in it, not like we do on the you know, the cable side, but it is. Yes, yeah, they'ready. Start. I was trying to think there's no other weather themed holidays. Yeah, I mean you can make a case. And maybe Christmas is because if people want to white Christmas but not your I mean absolutely well I don't know. I hear there's something bigger going on,

so yeah that too. Yeah, okay, all right, Black Friday sales come on, man, But you think I was talking no obviously, but yeah, no, I like I get it. All right, we got a roll, Thank you, sir, appreciate it. There go seven forty eight. Oh my, this is uh god, bless zoos. This is a horrible idea. I know, I know, I'm mister negative, but you'll understand why in just a moment, hang on phone number you want to be on the show. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.

Okay, Well, let's just go ahead and see this horrible idea play out look and I'm here for it. And if you don't have a webcam, I'm going to be extra mad. So at this zoo in the UK, Lincolnshire, don't know they have it had a bit of an issue. They have a bunch of parrots and the problem is five of the parrots I guess are from a different group. Oh I'm sorry eight, excuse me.

Eight of the parrots are from a different group. And those eight parrots actually have a bit of a reputation because the eight parrots these are African grays, have horrible foul meals. Okay, So, and I don't know how it got here of like zoo zoogoers. We're teaching them words. If it's a Microsoft AI gone wrong, I don't know. But they are not family friendly.

Well, now they're trying to figure out what to do with them because they needed to be they need to be re home to another zoo, and they think five of them are the least offenders and three of the ringleaders.

So they've decided as an experiment, they're going to take these five profane parrots and they're going to stick them into this large at another zoo where they have a bunch of other parrots who do not just constantly yell obscenities, and then from there, obviously the bad parrots will follow the example of the good parrots

and stop like cussing like sailors at zugoers. Okay, all right, well that's that's one theory, and it seems to be the only one that you're considering right right here, According to CNN Steve Nichols, the parts of the Chief Executive, He says, these are not even normal swear words. These are proper explotives. So they're like, I guess, I know they're cracking your mama jokes or what, but it's pretty bad. I have a question.

So you got these parrots, you had eight, but you decided five or maybe they could fix And you're sure that if you put them into this environment with what is it, a dozen other parrots, the other parrots who don't swear will make them behave. Isn't that doesn't that fly in the face of every instinct that you have. I don't know. Let's go, let's let's do it from a parent standpoint, right, So your kid shows up with his new friend. His new friend's got to I don't know a tear

drop tattoo smells like drugs. Right, What is your what is your response as a parent to that person next time you got your kid, You're like, I don't want you hanging out with Billy. Billy Billy's claim any murdered people. He smells like drugs, And I don't feel that that's good good influence for you. And I don't know, maybe you have a big fight,

but in the end, your mom is probably right. At no point have I ever seen anyone go, you know what, Billy needs, Billy needs you to be his friend, and then maybe he'll stop murdering people for

the cartel and doing drugs. That's right. So there's that. I feel that it is far more likely considering that these birds will then copy their surroundings that if you've got a bunch of other birds that are saying stuff that they're not used to, you're probably gonna have more parrots swearing their brains out. Which is why I want to see this, you know, uh, you know via internet stream if I got if the if the world gets to watch

that stupid giraffe wait for it to give birth. You remember what the streaming numbers were on that it was stupid. I think the swearing parrot life cam would be a I think that'd be a big plus for your zoo. But I also don't think your experiment's gonna work out like you think it's gonna.

So. Jean Pierre Koreine Jean Pierre is uh. She's being interviewed talking about the three US service members who lost their lives after a drone, a described as a suicide drone was allowed to enter the airspace where they are stationed. And the way that they they believe that it did it is it mirrored the return of a US drone because they have counter drone tech. They have like

a whole system. I can't remember the name of it, but so normally if one of the Iranian back militants tries to buzz a drone in there, and they called a suicide drone obviously because it's a single use packed with explosives. It's not there to deploy a payload and get out. It's just going wherever it's going, and in this case hit a standalone these standalone barracks and

three US service members National Guard members were killed, Sergeant into specialists. And now the White House is like, oh man, we're thinking of something. It's going to be bad, but we're still waiting to see what it is. And the way that they believe that the drone was able to enter is it was either it's a little unclear. It either tailed the US drone in and was not I guess not able to be seen, or there was some confusion that that was the US drone entering and the timing just happened to be

really bad. So when it went through, and I I don't pretend to understand from a security apparatus that has these types of systems, this anti drone technology and others, is it how automated alerts are where the human comes in like they have to make a decision. Now, I think it's this, and I'm sure that the military will be looking at this and I'm hoping short

up, but that's not what this is about. So in the wake of that, Jean Pierre said something that I just I put it through the filter of I can't even imagine if Trump or one of his spokespeople said it, because the entirety of the media would use it as the launching point to go, see, we told you he thinks he's Hitler and and like, if you eight years ago suggesting that about anybody, I would have found myself absurd. But then I just watched it all play out. Man. So here

is the condole portion of this interview from Jean Pierre. See if you can pick up what phrase, what terminology has raised eyebrow, what I will say, our deepest obviously, our deepest condolences go out and our heartfelt condolences go out to the families who lost three three brave, uh three brave, three brave of three folks who are who are military, folks, who are brave, who are always fighting, who are fighting on behalf and of this administration

of the American people. Obviously more so more importantly, we lost those souls, right all right. So and it's it's pretty choppy the whole way. It was the use of this administration. And granted it is followed. I

saw some people clipping it off, says the American people. Uh there because I think she realizes what she said, But just the mere utterance of well, they're fighting for this administration that sends that sends people's head to the moon, because there is an element of that and you're seen what happens when people don't have confidence in the current administration, and that is this this recruiting problem they're running into, and which is now being labeled as a racist recruiting problem

because the recruits of white men, the recruitment numbers have plummeted comparably, but not just white men. They've had they've had struggles in a lot of different aspects, and at no point so they go, man, I wonder what's up with this? But when you intimate that they were fighting for the administration, people get very sensitive about that. And while they can point to it and go, well, you look, she's struggling to even get the words

out anyway. Yeah, I'm fine with that because that she you know, she's bad at this as a reasonable explanation because she clearly is clearly is. But again, if Donald Trump or one of his spokespeople said that they were fighting for this administration, and it would be proof positive in the mind of journalists that he sees himself right all the thing. He's never gonna leave office. He's uh, he thinks he's a dictator. He's going to suspend elections.

I mean, that's that right there is It would literally be the proof you would need to go out and run a ton of stories on this, but in this case, just a faux pas and everybody just gets back to what they were doing, all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four lohooked over the wrong page here so that you know that obviously caught some folks attention yesterday, and what is this right here? And then

she started off u skating on some other stuff. It's not really that interesting, just that part. Unfortunately, though, we got some cancelations we need to get into. All right, so let's go ahead and let's get this wrong. And unfortunately we're going where no man has hope. I'm sorry, I almost did it. We're headed to the Star Trek universe. That's right.

Some are calling, including the EU, because you know, they're out there trying to get influencers licensed and people to stop dissenting, and they want to have like just absolute totalitarians. They're literally all the stuff that America gets blamed for. They're going out and doing it. They have a problem with Star Trek, and which, by the way, I here's the thing, isn't Star Trek constantly explained to me as this is the utopian, progressive paradise

of the future. Isn't that the big argument that's out there, like we got rid of capitalism, we got rid of this, we got rid of that, no more of this. That's that's my understanding that Star Trek has those elements that I've literally heard people on the left arguing for. And what happened Although they did put a they did put a female captain in charge. Ross did that work out? Okay? Do we know how you're talking about? What's your name? What's Janeway? Who murdered? Right? Right?

But they put you But they put a woman in charge, so and everything was fine and nobody was murdered or I have I would have to say, no buddies, right, right? So confused? So AnyWho? Yeah, but that was the whole point of it. So now, what does the EU have beef with the opening of the show? Yes, that's right. Uh, they are objecting to the opening of the show and that line that I've started to utter where no man has gone before. I don't understand why

this is. Are they saying they're going to replace it on the original series? Because is the next generation already replaced it back in the late eighties early nineties with where no one has gone before. Yeah, well no, this is all retroactive to everything that airs some TV channels, everything to the original series. Correct, that's not right. No, And and do they mean man in the end like dude? Or do they mean man as in when we talk about man and space? How did ninety nine percent? Do they

mean dude? Nowagan berries? No, mankind, they mean mankind. Everyone knows this. Now they can be but people get but hurt over what do you mean mankind the rest? I mean, what's the wrestler? Yeah, no, they don't know. That's not see that then goes back. Then they're right, right, so they're not right, but like they make a more silent point. No, I don't mean they don't mean mankind the wrestler unless they do, I don't know. Talk to Shatner now. Shatner says

that no presentism at work? Again, right, Shatner, Why start at trek? Isn't it better to start at the beginning and redo foundation materials such as the Magna Carta, religious writings, works of Shakespeare before worrying about a silly TV show opening that reflects social commentary of the time. And I'm a little confused because I thought like Shatner saying it means men, and I guess

I just it wasn't my understanding of it. If people are offended by six seconds of dialogue recorded in nineteen sixty six, maybe they need to educate themselves. And by the way, maybe that was whoever was recording Shatner not wanting to fall into the trap you've heard. I'm sure we've all heard, and if you have it, used to search it out. The amazing audio of a studio session that Shatner did for I can't remember what he was recording. Yeah, I think it was like some sort of you know, astronomy or

space show or something something. Yeah, he's in the booth and he's reading his lines, and he's William Shatner. He's done this his entire life. He's a professional. He knows what he's doing. But the guy, who is like a newbie, like you know, young producer, is like, no, can you read it a little different? Can you give me more energy? And he just but he but he doesn't just he doesn't just go after him. He toys with it. He does it the way the guy

wants it because he's like right, because it's horrible. And then he makes the dude do it. You're laughing the thing and he's just scroll with him. It's amazing. It's the two best like behind the scenes or the Casey case Dead Dog bit where he's dropping f bombs and the William Shatner in the booth with the producer. It's so great and it's just it's funny too, because you and I have worked in this industry. I've been taped obviously with

a tape. You tape stuff for me every day, right, and it's like everyone understands what's going on. This is not this is not difficult, and you're right. This guy was in there and I think he probably I think at that point maybe Shatner was maybe the biggest person he had ever dealt with, and he realized that he has to look as though he's still doing something. And but you really don't, right, No, you don't. Like if I get a note from management, they're like, hey, Morgan

Freeman is coming in. Wow, and he's going to record some spots. That's great. That's the easiest session of my life. Right. The dude doesn't need direction. He's Morgan Freeman. He knows what he's play it back for him and he wants, and you're like, how do you think, mister Freeman, And then and then you go from there because you understand, you understand the dude knows what he's doing. And I taped you, and I have taped probably hundreds of clients right over the course of a career,

and uh, it's all about who you're taping. There are some clients that do their own radio commercials, so they come in it's just bengo bango, you're out right, and there are others who are doing it for the first time, and it turns into a process and you got to be able to read the room because they're also your clients, right, And inherently there's gonna be one or two clients who want to tape something and then you're like should

I say something? But you realize, like that's what they want, and so you try to make it sound as good as you can and you just go this guy didn't read the room, man, and Shatner just puppet just puppeted him. And man, I could listen to that a lot. To other people's point, So if Captain Kirk is, you know, horrible for this little six seconds of dialogue, what do you do with Neil Armstrong and when he said it, why is it that everyone understood when he said it,

he wasn't talking just about dudes. I've seen some people complain, but like, do you go back and refilming on the New Mexico sound stage? What do you do? Like the people behind the Star Trek. There's another story in the past week with William Shattner where it was the anniversary or something, or it was some sort of an anniversary edition was coming out and it was the graphic was there and he's like celebrating Star Trek and Star Trek Day

or whatever it was. And on the picture it was a gold background with space and stuff and the shows, and then on it was every single captain except William Shattner is Captain Kirk. And he was saying, he said this on his x profile on Twitter. He said, they've been trying to get rid of me. They're trying to just eliminate them, like you never happened, Like Captain Pike was on there, but Captain Kirk wasn't on there.

And obviously, if you're a big fan, you're like, there's somebody missing on your on your graphic here, and it's because he sort of represents everything that they don't like, they being the woke people now making the series because woke Trek is a thing now with his black coworkers. Was the first interracial kiss on television. Yes, but he's a big, strong white dude and they can't have that. Well, what's Picard? I guess he's been just

after what they did. There's just a difference, you know, if you watch the two series, right court card is a is a uh stereotypical right like American leader. Dude. It's just it's different. It's it's different, which is why, which is yeah, which is why you put them all in there. And then people can pick their favorites. I know people like Shatner, I know people like Picards. I love them both. Yeah,

but you know, and and those are fun, nice arguments. And then well Ross's favorite Jane way as we know, that's what he keeps talking about. But you can you know that, And I'm joking with you, But there's probably people out there who think Janeway is the best captain. Of course there are, Yeah, there's imagine there's a there's a town somewhere where there's a statue of her Sta And I'm like, we need to tear that thing down, She murdered tuvics. No, you just cut it in half,

just cut it right down the middle of it. Boom, you're out of there. Ah. So yeah, you know, we got to change everything because absolutely, absolutely, this is the biggest problem facing things right now. Uh. Well that in environmental issues, which is why the state of New Jersey decided that they were gonna Dare County everybody that was no single use plastic

bags. We got to do this. I remember when Dare County did that, like right when they did that, and I was going on a fishing trip with some of my friends to Hatteras right for the drum run there in the fall, and I was so irritated because the first thing we do is go to the grocery store because we need we need all the food for like ten dudes over you know, the week or whatever we were down there.

So we go into this food line, man, and they're like, oh, you get all the paper, but the problem is you want plastic bags because like food's going to be trans're right on the ocean, We're going to be taking it out onto the sand out on the point there. Go fishing and everything and if you put that in uh a bag, you know, uh, cardboard bags, it's gonna last about thirteen seconds out against the sea

air. So I had brought the bag of under the sink bags, right, So it's the bag that you have all the bags in where if one day their currency you're rich ross, you have what a million plastic bags under your sink something like I said, if like when the apocalypse goes down, and if that turns up being like the currency, like give fallout's bottle caps and if our universe it's it's empty plastic bags, I'm like, bezos,

Oh wow, that's amazing. So I brought a whole bag of those things, and there was and we went into the food there's a food line just forere you get the hatteris right there. And we went in there and we because we're buying all chicken, you know, kind of the freezers. It's just and we get to the end there and I produce a bag with like a hundred plastic bags in it, and like the checkout chicks staring at me like, oh, we can't do that. And I'm like, so there's

six dudes just stuffing those bags, like well, we'll do it. What are you gonna do about it? New Jersey decided they were going to do that statewide, and now we have some insight into how that worked. And I gotta tell you, I'm gonna need you all to be sitting down well when we come back after the bottom of the hour, okay, because you're going to be shocked to learn how that went down. So get yourself prone, strap in, do whatever you gotta do. We'll give you the details

of the New Jersey experiment. And we got to talk about this Texas thing, the God's Army. Oh yeah, all that more coming up Cacoday radio program. Officials in Australia are discussing for more stringent requirements for outside chains to enter the Australian market. So and it sounds like we're talking food restaurants, says, you know, fast food restaurants and then fast casual and other chains because of health concerns or something. But in US, I thought we used

to go along with Australia. Man. I think it's when we were like, hey, maybe you shouldn't put people in camps. I think maybe that's what irritated them. And by the way, they have a long they have a history long and story to history, not just in Australia but in This is what gets people excited about stuff. Man. People get you know, when when you're in another country and there's something cool in another country, if it's coming there, like, people tend to get excited. We're just kind

of the one of the greatest exporters of it. But other countries are picking up. I'm trying to remember they have this. They have a chain in the Philippines and the name escapes me, but they do fried chicken, pasta and burgers, and like they're opening some branches in the US, So that's weird. You know what else is ross? Do you know what they do? You know McDonald's is not called McDonald's in Australia. Did you know that? So they can't even get the name right. So maybe this is for

the best. So if you're ever down under, not that you would be. And he wanted to know where the McDonald's, did you know what? You got to call it? Maccas, macers or maccas, I can't remember they call it. The first time I heard it, it confused the hell out of me. I'm like, oh, you're talking about McDonald's, Like no, no, macers and I'm like, what does it sell like quarter pounders? And no, no, they call it back. They called a dingo with cheese, dingo with oh, excuse me, a dingle. It's

a dingo ryale with cheese. Yes, right, yeah, yeah, does that have baby on it? I think we came to find out it did, right because I remember an issue like, no way that happened. So yeah, they call like Maca's, Where's where's auscy? Paul? He knows what I'm talking about. Now. I had a I had a buddy, uh streamer buddy who was in Australia, and he told me he was talking about that. I was like, what are you talking about? He explained

he'd explained that it was McDonald's. Yeah, it's macaus Yeah. But I think that they called it that for so long that years ago McDonald's went fine, now it's and that because I saw a commercial McDonald's commercial and they had the logo, but the the voiceover dude who was obviously it's an Australian voiceovers like na, it's maccas. I'm like, all right, whatever, I'm glad you're happy. So I guess I want to screw with that. EU

was looking at that too. Okay, I'm telling you, man, the idiots, which is fine, they don't have to have any of our stuff. But you know there's also and this is this is a bit of the lazy American tourist. I kind of get excited too when I'm when I travel

international and I'm like, look at that. You know, they have all over the world, almost everywhere you go seven elevens, especially in parts of Asia and Africa and South America. And I got seven elevens everywhere, And I'm like, okay, all right, I didn't I didn't expect that, but they do. But yeah, so that's I guess something now we have to concern ourselves with if we care about those things. Let me grab a quick call on the Star Trek stuff. Hey Jim, what's up? Hey,

good morning, Casey. I gotta admit I feel a little bit like Brett Kavanaugh the Chucky Schumer whirlwind. Nine guys are covering some interesting topics. The first thing is the Star Trek. I thought you were gonna say that people were in an uproar about the dangling participle that's been hanging there for fifty years to boldly go I mean that's covered a couple of series. Now they keep making that grammatical sin. So anyway, that's where I thought you were

going. Also, I'm pretty joking when I call you guys, but I'm serious about this. For each service member killed, we need to hit an Iranian side. I recommend an oil refinery at oil Terminal and a drone factory inside Iran or and then you can go ahead and take out some proxy too, but definitely hit Iran this time. They need a punch in the mouth. Well, I mean, what is But let me Devil's advocate you because people would say, well, you're a warmonger and you're going to start World

War three. And that's a legitimate concern because Iran is wildly impredictable. But I don't know what to do about it. I think what I said would be fine. I don't know if the I Ran would respond in kind. I don't, you know. I almost dare them to. I don't want to be a warmonger either, But we got to cut off the source of funding. We got to cut off the means of attack on our soldiers. Over one hundred and sixty attacks and what have we taken out a warehouse in

the desert. Come on, it's time to respond with some force. I know Biden doesn't have it in them, but somebody needs to whoever's in charge up there. I think what you're going to see when they reveal, to the extent that they reveal it, whatever their game plan is is, it's going to be core focused at these ancillary groups, whether it's the HOOTI rebels, threading to shut off and see stuff. But all three of the passages

there around the Middle East to Hesbella to others. And I also feel like, if you want to grease those dudes, you can grease a lot more and still call it proportional because there is this weird you know it's Iran, but you can't say it's Iran kind of thing. So I don't know, but they better do something. I just I'll be curious. Well, those the pendives will just grow back. You've got to hit the head and you

got to give it a little bit of a headache. And also, will you sign my petition to band sand spikes a beach chaired At the point, I'm tired of these coders sitting up camp. There's no camping at the point. Oh, you're talking Hatteras, Not well coders, I mean the guys that's sit in their chair and take a valuable fishing space. Look comes in

there between them. Yeah, let me say this, if if, if, if you are, if you are anybody who is new to North Carolina and you have never had the opportunity to go to Cape Hatteras, And when that drum running, when the run, when the drumer running through that channel between that island we claimed and whatnot? If you're sitting down there, what you have is one hundred dudes shoulder to shoulder lines in the water and drum hooking up. And it's so frantic that you are waded into the water and

a guy next to you is like I got one coming through. Like I've jumped in the air so drum could be ripped below my feet. It is absolute pandemonium and all and it's great. I love it. Uh And yeah, but I wasn't gonna start with paper bag, sir, that was a bridge too far, all right, I got a roll, Thanks for the calder. It's crazy town man, fun though, But some dudes set up in a chair. I didn't even know how that would work. Not well, I guess would probably be my guest there and Ross we had the MLK

Day holiday. If you remember we had the day off. Do you remember one of the news stories that I guess we didn't see that we always see and it only now dawned upon me that we didn't see one of these What is the inevitable? It's just like Halloween. Inevitably, there's gonna be one of these stories Halloween. It's usually a frat house with the theme of costumes that moonbats don't like. Yeah, Or it's like a restaurant that puts together like an MLK theme. You got it, you got it, Yeah,

except it wasn't a restaurant, It was Syracuse University. But it's very interesting. Syracuse Food Service is now apologizing for their MLK dinner menu, which featured a picture of MLK and it said MLK by the numbers. Our catering team is prepared seven hundred pounds of fried chicken, one hundred and fifty gallons of lemonade, one hundred square feet of chocolate cake, one hundred and thirty gallons of mac and cheese, and two hundred and seventy five a dozen corn muffins,

which, by the way, that sounds good for me. I don't know what you all are going to eat, and they put that and I don't know why it took so long, but the Syracuse University had an interesting rebuttal which I had not heard before, and I don't and you would think

that people would shut up after this. The menu, according to Syracuse University, is the exact menu that is is served in the cafeteria of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and is sold in DC at that museum a quote a celebration of traditional excuse me, traditional authentic African American cooking. So they mirrored they took the Smithsonian's recipe that the Smithsonian uses at the

African American National National Museum of African American History and Culture. So supposedly the learned the most learned people on this particular topic, and they just they did the same menu and they're getting roasted for it. So at this point, you know, if you're if you're a food cert you probably shouldn't even serve food on that day, because if you can't win mirroring the Smithsonian's menu, you're probably screwed. Eight forty five race stage. It's here Okay, I

know, man, everybody, that's a great rebuttal though. I'm glad they had that in their pocket, but nobody seems to care. They're like, we just did the same menu with the experts, puot. You can't win dud su sushi or something. Yes, exactly, exactly a winning for I

mean really not a bunch of rain over the next seven days. There's a little week weather system coming through that will be probably tonight and be gone by tomorrow morning, and most of us will actually end up in pretty decent shape for the rest of the week, even as we get into the month of February on Thursday, so might have a little rain coming in after midnight tonight from west east. Already starting to see the clouds coming across the triad and

starting to get into the triangle right now. But they're high clouds a little bit ahead of schedule, So just going to go increasing clouds from this point forward, nearer just above fifty than those clouds will lower and thicken. We'll get some rain tonight, less than a tenth of an inch, though it doesn't look like a bunch near forty, and that chance of rain to be

with us tomorrow morning. Scattered areas of light rain, I think, and it will have fifty tomorrow afternoon and then low thirties tomorrow night, Thursday Friday, the great sunshine warmer, temperatures back up fifties to the year sixty and probably in the fifties with sunshine over the weekend. Early next week starts to look at a little bit more unst so most of our rain does come, as I said today and the first part of tomorrow. The rest of the

week looks great. I was a good at to February, above normal temperatures backing off just a little bit. And then as we get into early next week, it does look like we'll start to see some rain. But casey, I don't see any ice or snow or anything like that. And I don't even see in the arcticare coming into the lower forty eight over the next

seven days. There's some chatter that then may change toward the middle of the month, but you know, i'd go out three or five days, and I don't take much stock beyond that, so we'll go what we do. So there you got audience. If anytime Ray says something that's more than three days out, ignore them. There that's right, just tune it out. That's what he said. All right, thank you, sir, appreciate it yep. And Jeff Bellinger joins us next, Hang on, all right,

age fifty three. Glad to have you along Cacoda Radio program. Let's do our Bloomberg check in now with Jeff Pellinger. Jeff, what's happening now? Good morning, casey. A stock's moved higher yesterday. Advances for the major averages range from six ten percent to more than one percent. We saw the Dow and the S and P five hundred closing at record highs, but the futures are lower across the board. This morning, S and P, NASDAC,

and Dow futures are all down about a quarter percent. The Federal Reserve opens a two day policy meeting today. The betting among economists that interest rates will be left unchanged this time around, but central bankers will likely start to set the stage for rate hikes soon, possibly as early as the March meeting. Walmart is planning to test a high tech, twenty first century update on the blue Light. Special digital labels will light up when activated by shoppers who

use the Walmart app. The giant retailer hopes to improve profitability and productivity With this system, which is already being used to guide employees who stock shelves and fulfill orders in a few dozen stores. The days of remote work are ending for IBM managers. Big Blue has issued an ultimatum to managers who continue to work remotely. They will have to move close to an IBM office or else leave the company. Toyota retains its bragging rights as the world's number one car

maker. The company and its subsidiaries sold more than eleven million vehicles last year, new record. Retailers hoping for a lucrative Valentine's Day. The National Retail Federation predicts spending for the holiday we'll set a record topping fourteen billion dollars. And Casey Duncan has a new deal with Conegra Brands. Missus Butterworth's Duncan Clayze donut flavored pancake syrup is hitting grocery store shells now. Casey, I'm sorry,

what is it flavored? It is a Duncan glazed doughnut flavored pancakes syrup. I just need this. This turns to pumpkin spice real quick. This is not okay, all right, thank you, Jef all right, day news there, Yeah, appreciate it. Speaking of doomsday news, I was reading this article on There's a lot going on in here, but here's the gist of it. White hat and or black hat hackers. So you know, people hack for varie idea of reasons seem to have some common ground,

and that is they the perceived threat of AI. And as a result, you have hacker groups that say they are now working on software to quote poison AI models. Right, so they're gonna put little bugs. I'm not a I'm not super duper computer hacker dude, but you know, basically they want to write software and other uh uh, they want to write viruses for AI to stop the rollout. I why do I feel like this brings murder AI

faster? Is that? Is that wrong? Because like, how many doomsday movies have an element of people who who thought that they were you know, fighting. What's the Brad Pitt the twelve monkeys, right, Isn't that whole thing's predicated on them? What breaking into this research facility with these monkeys and they're like, ah, we're gonna let them out because they should be free, except they're murder monkeys. So they murder them, and that's that's a

trope in another movie I'm thinking of too. I might be even conflating, but there's at least two of them like that, so I don't know, Now you're going to poison the AI models. I feel like they're just going to murder us faster. So that's just me and New Jersey. I mentioned that they decided to go full plastic bag band did it back to twenty twenty and now the law didn't go There was lawsuits, so they law went into

effect May of twenty twenty two. But they're finally releasing the numbers based on the first year, so this is May twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three. Did it accomplish its goal of saving the planet and the number of plastic bags did go down, fell by sixty percent in the state. However, the problem was the total number of bags also includes these alternatives which have a much larger your carbon footprints. So think of these as like that woven polypropylene

stuff. You probably have a few if you do food delivery or grocery delivery. Some of the companies use those. I got a drawer full of those, but frankly, I never used them. I wouldn't take them to a grocery store as are reusable, because they're just tenuous enough. I don't know that I trust them