Tuesday-11-14-2023

All right, good morning everybody, and welcome. It is Tuesday here on the k c O Day radio program. Glad to have you along. Boy oh boyd we got we got some fun stuff to get into this morning. Ross. Check the tally board. How many shows left till we abandon everyone for counting this one? Yes before four? Look at that four, nice even number, right, easy to understand. I hear two plus two equals that under old mouth anyway, So yeah, this is your daily snarky reminder.

We're not going to be here next week, Ross Is, You're gonna be fighting communism and Turkey, right, so you got a busy week. I mean, not necessarily in that order, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well every day is a fight against cotterism around these

parts. So it's not helpful when some would argue that the very elected officials that many of you listening to the show this morning, that you sent to Washington basically undermined the absolute monstrosity and dismal tenure of bay Orcis at the very least getting his hand slapped. But that's the thing that happened yesterday. So if you don't know, basically, the cabinet official presiding over the absolute sacking of our border, which, by the way, I saw this fun little

little nugget yesterday. You can actually put a dollar amount on this. According to a report issued yesterday, the current Biden migrant crisis is expected to cost taxpayers four hundred and fifty one billion dollars a year as it pertains to you know, the run up and then the eventual Hey, come on in, here's a court date. You'll totally show up for what's going on at the

southern border. So nearly a half trillion dollars. And I want to point out that that is those are numbers that are in addition to numbers that are normally assigned to what is the traditional US immigration and naturalization budget and expected costs. So you know, we identify a certain number and different types of citizenships, green cards, and various paths that we offer people from around the world,

and then we have a process for it. Some of you have availed yourself of it, right Some of you are are, you know, immigrants to this country. You went through the process. It was a you know, it's lengthy. Again. I haven't done it myself, but one of my best friends he married a girl from Canada. She was working in the US as a music constructor at a college. They met, they fell in love, and you know, my buddy, my buddy was a He did

well. And that's good because it's a really expensive, lengthy process, but it is. But it is one that has already baked into the cake, so to speak. Right, I can't believe that when he was telling me he had to pay, didn't the offset some of the behind the scenes work. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the influx of this

migrant program. What that cost is going to be factored into that. Also is the an estimate based on getaways which were in excess of a half million last year, as well as that being a federal financial obligation and does not

speak to anything that states may do independent. Now most of the time states do it and then they go and somehow they get federal dollars to do it because you know, under the like under the current administration or under Obama, we expanded federal programs to cover some of the some of the different programs that were being done at state level. It's like Medicaid expansion. See this is the plan on stuff. Right, You don't want to go state to state.

You don't want to have all of these different things, because remember they were just going to expand it, and then the courts came back and said, no, you can't do that, You got to go state by state.

But they were just going to go ahead and do it. And what it was going to do is provide financial relief to states who were already doing it, having federal dollars pick it up, but also try to get people at state levels to do it. So may Orcus is up there, and I know that Marjorie Taylor Green and others are running around putting in articles of

impeachment for everybody and their dog. That being said, I thought most people, if you were to look at the cabinet and try to identify those who are doing more than just partisan work or doing their job ideologically but in a way that is that ends with poor or at least mediocre results. May Orcus is on a different level, man. This is a guy who is facilitating this. This is a guy who frankly doesn't seem to care when those in

a position of oversight even ask him about it. And it's hard to argue that I under the interpretation of what is high crimes and missed that complete dereliction of duty doesn't rise to that level. Why because we have we have evidence

of this, we have precedents of this. And yet as they were trying to get this whole thing, this, this, this articles of impeachment move forward when they went to vote yesterday to and this was not for them, but this was simply to you know, get things out of committee and where they need to be. Eight eight Republicans voted with the Democrats, so it didn't happen in two of them. Most of them are California, and I

simultaneously understand and don't understand that. Like I understand you're in California, it's more liberal, but also you're in California, which was much more highly impacted than a lot of places, and you're representing red districts. I failed to understand it. However, two congress folks here at North Carolina decided to be among the eight that included former temporary Speaker of the House Patrick McHenry, but also Virginia Fox, who represents quite a few of you listening to the show

this morning. And I don't understand it. I don't get it. I'd have to unless I see something today with the explanation or some reasoning we may try to have to get Virginia Fox on the on the show, because I'm not it's not clicking in my brain, and I don't know. Maybe I'm missing something, but I haven't seen anything I might be missing. I don't understand it. So anyway, yeah, that's just that was That's kind of

the story that was rumbling rumblin overnight. But we'll lean into that obviously coming up on the show. I'm sorry, just I didn't write it down eight o five right ross eight o five with the yes, okay, sorry, it's always eight o five, And all of a sudden, my brain's like, what if it's not Ted Budd, Senator Ted Bud, former Congressman. He'll join us, and uh, like, I'm not gonna ask him to tell me exactly what McK henry and Fox are thinking. But he knows them.

He served with him in the House obviously North Carolina delegation. So maybe there's maybe in a larger sense, there's something I'm missing up in up in Washington. So we'll pick his brain on that and quite a few other things. All Right, dude, I'm sorry that phone call to Harvard, that phone call to Heart. Do you guys know what I'm talking about? That phone call to Harvard? I I don't want to believe it's real. Do you know what I'm saying? And like, I'm not surprised, And we'll

get into this, but it's like there's a level of being. Look, if somebody prank calls you one, you have to determine it's a prank because there's so many crazy people out there. At some point maybe like, oh my gosh, you're serious. But also if they're prank calling you and it sounds over the top, and I don't know, maybe it's just from working in radio, where you know prank calls, whether they're real or not.

I have been a staple of radio for many years. At some point I think it would click in my brain if it sounds so crazy that this is a bit, and this is a bit for public consumption, do you know what I mean? And so you got to figure out how you're going to not end up a meme, a quotable quote, a chunk of audio run over and over while people laugh at you. So you can't just you can't just unload. But dude is way too I don't know, simultaneously uncomfortable but

comfortable in that conversation. I thought he was professional, like I think, yeah, no, that's what I'm saying. You got a battle with like if you scream and go not today terrorist and hang out right, Like I think he knew what was going on or he the person that was working there right was like wasn't a fan of what they were saying, but was trying to Like I'm not a blind that he was. I'm just saying that he

was. He's in this position where it's like I don't know if continuing that conversation was helpful, but I also don't know what the other option was, but just that it exists is amazing, you know. And I felt like the person at the pict of the phone was like their version of Jeff Bellinger having a dude the live hit with us. What is that supposed to be?

They got it? They sounded like, you know, like an emotional fireball, you know what I mean, like ready to go oh absolutely, yeah, no, no, it's all hookers and blow at five o'clock for that dude. Yeah yeah. I feel like I feel like we're humanized. Jeff. I just want to point I just feel like we humanize, you know, bring out, we get different layers. I love Jeff because he is a professional. Yeah, it's professional. You can't shake the man,

He's unshakable. Yeah, so you think that maybe Jeff Moonlights is Harvard admissions guy or he's his cousin. The guy at Harvard reminded me, like if I had a picture what he looks like. You remember a good morning Vietnam, the twins that work in the room. Yes, the room, That's what I picture this dude being like, okay, all right, I'm down with that. Do that audio is bonkers? Well let me let me do this. I'm teasing it for you. I'm going to get into the audio

at six thirty five. Okay, so yeah, yeah, you're gonna have to wait just a little bit. But that's okay. You're up, you're you know, you're doing your thing, getting ready, grinding into another day. It's Tuesday, so it ain't a Monday, and Thanksgivings not that far away. Maybe that brings joy to your heart or sheer social anxiety, right, and uh, you know we're here to help. So it's six thirty five, will in form, I'll give you a rundown to some other stuff.

Few things. We'll do that next. Here on the KCO Day Radio program one six one at them Talk and f w PTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is Cacoday and Carolinas Morning News. All right, welcome back. It is six twenty four KCO Day Radio program. Interesting in the in the fact that not one but two local TV stations. You know what, I didn't check CBS. You know, have to look see if they did. In the interview too, but I was perusing, I

was peruising Triangle News. But this speaks to a story that we were chatting about having to do with the Christmas Parade, in the Veterans Parade, and specifically where all of this insanity began over the Raleigh Christmas Parade, going in to get ready to do their thing, and then all of a sudden, the city's like, nah, now you can, and you can't because and

then XYZ will tell you know. But the biggest one, the first one uttered by the mayor, had to do with honoring the honoring Haley Brooks, the eleven year old girl who was run over during the twenty twenty two parade, and all of the tragedy to follow that and the city leaning into that being one of the reasons, and then there was a few others, but it quickly, it quickly came across as not the case. As the family's

lawyer commented said, didn't want the parade canceled. They wanted certain safety things, and it was well known they weren't seek about it. They they went and tried to work with the General Assembly. Other communities actually looked at some of the safety upgrades that the family was asking for, trying to use this tragedy to bring some some some forward progress in creating a safe environment. And uh, and they were basically cast as the villain, right because people aren't

going to make all those connections. They're going to hear that the Christmas bread that they love is not there, and then they're going to see you a little snippet about how they well, they couldn't do it because you know, the parents of the young girl killed, you know, we're not in a parade mood or whatever. And it was it was really callous in my opinion, because whether it's whether that is the case or not, or whether it was somebody just wanting to c ya looking at you mirror. It's a horrible

thing to heap on a family who's dealing with enough. If people even get that impression, while they may not say anything to them, that stuff sticks with people. I thought the whole thing was awful, as evidence by the amount of time we spent on the show talking about it. Well, lo and behold, I'm sitting there and I see Wril doing an interview with the family. Got a big piece there, big long piece, and then this morning I saw you see eleven did something, except their big piece comes today.

So but I read the entire Wril piece, so you didn't have to. And man, there's some they forgot to ask some stuff in here. I am they must have run out of time, which is weird because this is a really lengthy piece here. They they never asked the family about even when they were talking about all of the stuff surrounding the parade and then the permit and then the being denied and the changes there. At no point does

this reporter ask the family how they felt about the process. You don't even have to come out and straight to ask it, ask how they feel about the process, because the question you're wanting to ask is did you feel that Raleigh City leaders gave the impression, whether it's intentional otherwise, that what's going on with the parade is on you, because that's what their lawyer said. You kind of know the answer, and they were too cowardice to ask it.

God forbid you throw your political allies under the bus on a six one AFM Talk in the Triangle and News Talk nine w PTI and the Triad. You don't feel that that I'll get a little graining after two hours out over a video game again, I mean again, I can do different names too, but I can't wait. Okay, Oh, it's gonna be excited. There's some Walking Dead game coming up. Yeah, and it's like I canna spoil anything here, but it's from AMC that follows the plot of the TV

show. Oh wow, but you can change like pivot little moments. And I'm just looking forward to where man you Sherif fan going coral for like two hours. Yeah, that's what the people want. Got to give him what they want. Right when you told me about it, I actually envisioned you walking around as the Leather Jacket and Egan dude with your barbed wire bat, just murdering everybody. Just you know that's what I figured that would evolve into.

But it sounds like you gotta you gotta play through to get to that point, right, can you play Ye'll be pretty far? Yeah, I guess so, like because there's like obviously spoiler, and then in the show, right, there's a big pivotal event where Rick and Shane they're like the two the two good guys, right, and they have to fight. One of them survives and one of them doesn't. I've always been like, man, I wish like Shane had lived okay, and that now we can see

what happens. Well, luckily Carl's fine, right, Chorl's fine, coral, but he lives a probably long, healthy life, right, I'm not I've never watched much. I tried to get in. I really did try to get into the show. If I just tried, I think the deal was I got into it too late and it was just so much catching up that that was like such a cultural phenomenon on Sunday night. It's like everybody watched this show, but he talked about the next day. The articles were

in everyone. I'm sure we mentioned it. Yeah, it just fell off. Yeah, as it happens. Man, what's that sort of like Marvel. Dude, they didn't have time. There was an actor strike, they couldn't get out and promote the movie. I don't I don't even know what you're talking about. The entire deck deck was stacked against them. There, there's really nothing they could do, nothing they could do. I know this because I read about it yesterday in various places, you know, like gocker

sites and the feminist blogs and stuff. I mean, you just you just don't get it. All right, we flipped back to this, so, ah, the Harvard thing. All right, so somebody posted a posted a video of a phone call that they placed to the Harvard Indmissions department. And it's it's real, apparently, and it it's it's long too. How many minutes is this whole thing? Let me add it up here? One? Two? Well, you got it. It's two and a half, two

and a half minutes, a little longer than that. Where it is that it is purported to be a woman who is a Palestinian woman who is calling Harvard Admissions on behalf of her son, who is I guess at that transitionary age. And oh, by the way, her son also is a Hamas fighter. But when the when the fighting's done, you know, would look forward to higher education, perhaps at one of the world's most well known institutions

of higher learning. Horror. And uh So this dude picks up the phone, and I I spent a lot of time evaluating, like, what do you do in this situation? And yeah, dude just goes with the flow. And I would like in a lot of it too. When you call a call center and it's clear the person is not telling you things from memory or knowledge, but rather reading scripts or they're kind of unplugged, you know, going through the motions. Some people are saying, well, well,

what you see is you see Harvard encouraging terrorism. I don't know that, dude. The guy sounds like he would encourage nobody to bug him during the day because he doesn't really like talking and dealing with people, even though that's literally his job. He's just so monotone. But the woman doing the prank

call, she's give her this. She's very quick on her feet, and so yeah, I think it's the combination of her overt excitement even with the really dark subject matter, and his treating it like an annoyance, you know, one of the many annoyances that he has to go through during the day. Talking to his lessons would be the best way to describe it, but I did laugh a bunch. So for that, here we go. You Hello, My name is Jamma. My son Hamid would really like to register

to your establishment next year. I think you might have heard of him. He was one of the Hamas fighters who participated in the fight of October seventh. Real political activist. So I wanted to ask if you have some kind of political activism scholarship. No, all of our scholarships are need based. There aren't any merit based scholarships. It would not help if he says that he's Hamas fighter. Everything that a student does helps them in the process.

Okay, so that would be helpful if he writes down that he was in the October seventh in in addition to everything else. Our process looks at the student's entire secondary school career, both inside and outside of the classroom, and the massacres is an advantage what every eighty of their activities? All right, all right, look, we can't dude doesn't want to be there, right, we can agree on that. He is just like but do you think

you didn't want to be there? Just because of this phone call or do you think again, because I bet he takes stupid phone calls all day. It's his entire day. He does not want to be there, period. Yeah, all right, so, but he's so like if I were to if I were I didn't look at what this looked like in waveform uncompressed when you were dubbing it in. But I'll bet you wouldn't even have to normalize

his audio pattern, which doesn't make a lot of sense to people. But if if you've ever seen a show where they have audio where you can see it visually represented, like in an editing thing, and you know they stick this in movies when they're doing like FBI recordings and stuff like when I do a commercial or we we have audio, I have to like, I have to gate the audio because inflection goes one way or the other, and you want it to be consistent. You don't what you don't want a bunch of

peaks and valleys. I don't think you have to do it for that dude. He is straight, straight monotone. Coupled with not wanting to be there, coupled with this current line of questioning, which by the way, gets more insane. But then, like she pulls back from time to time, listen to this, I don't worry. He didn't rape any captives. He's very respectful for a gender self definition, you only kill them. He's very feminist, so it would be okay, right, all right. All I

can say to you is that he can apply great. Great because he's very respectful for ethnic minority. The only slot of dwhite babies. We we don't need more white male in the world. Right, Hello, so dark, all right, do you have any other admissions questions? I can answer for you. Yes, we want to make sure about your campus rules, so we don't. By the way, this is my favorite his hands down my

favorite part of this. She starts barreling through the rules and what's crazier is the normal pattern would be saying to crazier the craziest, but she like bounces in and out of that. Don't do anything forbidden. You can smoke in the campus surroundings. I'm sure if you could smoke on Okay, what about drinking? A drinking is not allowed? Oh what about raping? That's not

allowed on campus either. And don't he didn't rape any oh crap I just accidentally restarted, all right, So yeah, we're gonna listen to the whole thing. I just love the part where he's like, no, that's that's not allowed on campus either. I mean, I understand that that's his world, that's his perview, but I'm pretty sure that's not allowed off campus unless uh ross. Would you see if rapn's up in the city of Boston are legal? Maybe once I guess technically what Herbert's and Cambridge, but yeah,

I'm gonna check on that. No it's not. Oh it's not legal. I mean, I you know, you never know, you never know Boston, right, okay, all right? Very respectful for a gender self definition, yes, yes, yes, yes, you only kill them. He's very feminist, so it would be okay, right. All all I can say to you is that he can apply great, great because he's very respectful for ethnic minority. Is the only slot of white babies. We don't need more white male in the world. Right. See this is right. Here's

where I dip out. Man, I'm out. I'm just like, all right, thanks for the call, I'm out. All right. Do you have any other admissions questions I can answer for you. Yes, we want to make sure about your campus rules, so we don't do anything forbidden. You can smoke in the campus surroundings. I'm sure if you could smoke on Okay, what about drinking? A drinking is not allowed? What about raping that's not allowed on campus? All right, all right? So I just

thought it was just gonna play the last whole part. But whatever, right, So and then finally, so she just asked the raping question. And at that point you could feel, you can feel this thing grown and this frustration growing. But she then like, well, she then hits other points on her list that aren't exactly sequential. Okay, how about the slaughtering babies around the campus that's not allowed on campusie? What about wearing a hatred?

I was afraid for a moment. Okay, he's looking forward to being in your school. He has a lot of very very fun activities for him and the students and everyone. It would be so much fun. Thank you,

very very much. Remind me of somebody just working at the DMV or like a government office, doesn't want to be there, no emotion, just going through the motions that, yeah, take a number that down, yeah, But at the DMV, Nope. Do you think any DMV person who's dealing with somebody is like getting a new license at any point, like you have any questions? Yeah, so can I rate people with this like that? That's not I feel like then they might become passively more interested in what's going

on and they're in their sphere. This dude's just dead in the eyes and it comes across that way. So anyway, that's the Harvard video I was talking about. You can check that out. We'll tweet it out for you. That's what we do, all right, Good news Italian Americans. The Muppets are They're on your side. I'm actually surprised by this, I gotta be honest, especially when you consider where the how long the show has been on the air, and where it emanates from. But although I'm a little

underwhelmed with who they selected, I'll explain what I mean by that. We got to get into what happened with the Secret Service and where is this? All right? I think they're playing fast and loose with the verbiage surrounding this. What exactly may have happened that has indefinitely closed the I ten in LA which look, you can talk about roads different the four or five UH and various other roads, Pacific Coast Highway, the Hollywood Freeway and which is specifically

part of the forefight. You can talk about main arteries in and around Greater Los Angeles, but you lose the ability, you lose the ten especially as it pertains to how it goes between the ports down there on Long Beach in LA. That that's a huge, huge, huge deal. And I'll explain some of the some of the reasoning there. But the freeway burned down, well it burned. It didn't burn down, but it burned to the point

where you can't use it. And people had a lot of theories. And I'm just looking at the statement from officials in LA yesterday and it looks like they're trying to say that it wasn't what people were theorizing. But and but the way that they word it, I think it still could be they just want this to go away. There's spending more time on figuring out how to verbally police this than to actually ask themselves, hey, is this a problem?

And is this a problem that could once again repeat and create the nightmare that we were about to experience here in LA and already one of the worst traffic situations in the world. So we'll get into that and much more. Phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four hang on. All right, good morning everybody, and welcome. It is seven o seven.

You're on your Tuesday morning Kay radio program. We've got lots of popular leading the blog this mark, excuse me, the Twitter feed this morning, so as per usual, that's always a good place to check you hear something you find interesting, although you know, sometimes I just start talking about random stuff that I'd never send ross, so then it's like, ah, I don't have that to post. So your mileage may vary, but it's a

casey on the radio if you want to want to check that out. All right, coming up, I got to get a pid to the the DC Insanity ad. I I feel that this is because some people are trying to brush this off and do so in a very disingenuous manner. I think that this is a really, really, really important How do I say this? I think that it's something that those who are those who are invested in and

those who arguably also have it as part of their of their duties. If you will right the expectations for whatever position or job or elected office they hold, I think you really need to. You need to pay attention when stuff like this Clyde Cooper story happens. And I'll explain why. And if you don't, if you don't know, and I guess if you don't live in the triangle and you're una where Clyde Cooper's is a the barbecue institution, Man,

they've been around what since nineteen thirties downtown Raleigh. Now, to be fair, they are they've been in a new they've been in a new place for about like ten years or something. But it's right around the corner from where they were right so doesn't look like they want to be there anymore. And this speaks to a much larger issue. And it's not just an issue

in the city of Raleigh. It's a city city issue. And that I've talked with folks about on Elm Street in Greensboro, those who were talking about doing business in Winston Salem there near cherrying Forth and all that. I'm sure the city of Durham to some extent, I don't I don't know a lot of business owners over there. But and you know, wherever you are,

this is a concern that crosses your mind. However, there's been an ungodly amount of money that's been invested, both public and private into revitalizing and re establishing these these downtowns after and it wasn't just a North Carolina thing, but it was after you know what it is society wanted didn't necessarily favor downtowns.

And so if you're going to do all that and then you're going to immediately squander it, and then you're going to ignore people who are concerned about it, well, then arguably you're you're dereliction of duty in my opinion, if you are in some way, shape or form involved in any of the governmental oversight, the permitting, the you know, the advocacy on the part of hey, we're the city of whatever, and we'd love it if you come

to business here, when you have long established business owners who are not the outlier saying you know what, I'm just not going to do this anymore. We'll touch on that here in just a moment yesterday, the governor of speaking of not creating environment very attractive to business. The governor of California spoke about the freeway fire, and look, there was a lot of speculation as this section of the I ten had a giant fire that rendered it unstable. Okay,

so they rendered it unstable, and that is going to that. There's so many reasons why this is problematic. One, obviously, and maybe the one you care least about, is just day to day traffic in and around the Los Angeles area and specifically people spanning in and out of attempting to get

in and out of downtown. But two, it is the ability of people to bypass that ability to go downtown, but also to move between the north and south areas of the larger Los Angeles San Bernardino County and Long Beach area. So if you want to get between the ports of Los Angeles and the ports of Long Beach and you want to be able to do to hit any of that infrastructure up there, the ten is a viable and necessary artery.

It's the only way you can do it, really, So to have this happen where giant fire essentially creates the you know, shuts the freeway down quote indefinitely, is a huge issue. Remember fifty percent fifty of the imports into the United States come from those two ports. So think of all the all the ports on the eastern side and on the southern for that matter, Right, because so when you get into the big ports, Baltimore is a huge port. Obviously, Miami is a huge port. Houston is a gigantic port

down there, and then all you know, any of the others. I know, I'm leaving some out. But when you get into the big boys, the big boys, that's you know, this is what you're talking about. And yet just in southern California, those two ports, because of the amount of crap that we get from China and Southeast Asia, it's it causes a hitch in the gide up. Now, will you feel it immediately? No, But remember remember what it was like during COVID, and you had

all those ships stacking. You had ships that were stacking out there in some cases for for weeks and weeks and even months in some instance. I remember watching the ship stack into the port of Miami, and I remember flying over. It was towards the end of COVID, but I remember, and I posted some of the pictures when I flew into Panama, which I talked about, and they're already when you fly into Panama, you can already see lines of ship waiting to go through the canal. It's this was on steroids.

Miami same way, and you remember how you felt about that. Well, over in California, they really haven't done anything to improve this situation. Remember all of those dollars that they allocated, said, oh, we're gonna we're gonna get additional port funding to make things easier. Most of it was attached

to required spending that made green sense. Right, So like if you you couldn't just put in another loading dock, right, you couldn't just put in a new set of cranes, but you could spend the money on things like when we need to update port vehicles, so the trucks that run around, except we're going to use them only to buy electric trucks. Like that's that's

the garbage that the hands tied, crap that they attached to it. So I point all this out because this is a much bigger issue just than Hey, part of the freeway screwed, okay, And when you have that, you also have the ability of people to use that as an excuse for certain things. Well, we'd love to be able to do this, but we

can't because the E ten and the ability to connect between the ports. I know what you're thinking, why do they need to be able to connect between the ports, because there's a lot of infrastructure that serves from both ports that actually lies along that stretch of highway, and there's a lot, there's a

lot of a lot of things to consider. But when people looked at the fire itself, I think they jumped to a logical possibility, and that logical possibility was people were, you know, had built a city under the stretch of highway and you know, they lived under there, and as a result, they had fires to keep warm, to cook food, whatever, And eventually those fires got out of control and it burned part of this freeway. And it's a larger it's a larger reflection on what the West Coast cities have

essentially allowed to become the norm. Where they're where they're at, where people have taken the beaches, the underpasses and everywhere else, and it's just out of control. However, that's not what the governor said yesterday, kind of Governor Gavin Newsom and La Mayor Karen Vass participated in a press conference to talk about the blaze as they're referring to it, and Newsom began the press conference by describing the fire as being set quote with malice intent. Well, what

the hell does that mean? So here's what Newsom explained, and I this sounds like speculation, but it also sounds like deflection of speculation against what you'd thought was wrong. Think before you have the answers. Newsom used the term malice in tent, Bass used the term arson. Well does that mean it wasn't said? I don't know, but was it said by people perhaps living

under there? Well, that's what Newsom seemed to be going after. Newsom said that the area under part of the overpass, not all of it, but part of it was in fact least by a company that quote the state knew well and was involved in active litigation with the company. Apex Development had

leased the area to store building materials, which is not unusual. There's constant construction going on and not just road construction, and sometimes companies who are doing large scale like office structure construction and others, have to lease nearby areas to store construction equipment, trucks, equipment, you know, the heavy equipment kind of stuff, and those public right of ways. It's very popular to be leased out by cities and counties. But you know, it also means you're

keeping building materials under under a roadway. And I would assume in California, where you have mountains of regulations, that that would be a no no. But I'm not in the construction business. I have a question in North Carolina for you guys in the construction business. Can you keep giant piles of flammable materials under a freeway overpass or underpass or maybe that's not a thing out here, or I mean, I would think that you couldn't store it, because

in Wyoming you can't. I know this, you can't store flammable building materials within proximities of trees. And let's see irrigation ditches treat a variety of things that you have to be careful you get popped on that. But I don't know, I don't know the rules. But here's here's the deal, all right. So Newsom's coming out there and it's talking about how this is a

company that they've been in lawsuits with. He doesn't really speak to what the lawsuit was, but obviously there was some sort of fight between the city and the state and this construction company. And he's he's speculating as much as anybody. He's saying, quote, they stop paying the red they're out of compliance.

This feels very much like there was some beef with this company. And I don't know what the beef with this company was back with the city and the state, but I do know in reading some articles that many other companies have had there had been amstrung and had their hands tied over attempting to keep these storage facilities unmolested by people who were going in and stealing stuff. You know, drug addicts going in and stealing metal, people stealing construction supplies so

that they can build shanties and you know, living facilities. It is a huge problem, and the companies have been they've been severely limited in how they're even able to protect their stuff. So maybe that's what this beef strings from. According to Newsom, they'd been subleasing the site at least five, maybe

six tenants without authorization from Caltrans or authorization from federal partners. And one of the people that they were leasing it to, I kid you not, was a security apparatus, which I think maybe they thought was a walk around when they were limited on exactly what security they could provide, if only to get more people in the area to deter theft. I don't know all of the beef, but it sure sounds like the governor of California. And this is

where I'm going with this. Took to the stage yesterday and was upset that people were speculating that perhaps folks who literally were living under parts of the parts of that underpass, it wasn't all this company may in fact have allowed a fire to get out of control, or were you know, crazy barking at the moon and I'm gonna burn it down, man. The noise, the noise of the traffic is too much, and decided to openly speculate that this

company arsened their own location, which is mind blowing to me. I know what's thinking. This is out in California. But again, this is the exact kind of thing, whether it is actually impactful or not, that some idiot attempting to make excuses for their own economic vision not panning out, can point to and go, well, look it was gonna work, but this fire happened and it slowed the ability to unload those particular ports by thirty percent.

So not our fault, sorry for the economic downturn. What is this so you can't somebody's making fun a while, so you can't store near the ten trees in a while. You know what I'm sir. If you spent your entire time in southern Wyoming, you deserve every windswept snow blindness moment you

ever sucked, you know, ever had to suffer. Okay, you know up at northern Wyoming where we don't let we don't let you know, we don't want, we don't want people who don't know what they're doing up there because we're constantly having to clean up the you know, their their bodies from the bear kills. We have many trees and technically it was fence line and it was a tree line specifically National Forestry Line School or BLM, just to be specific. Yeah, we got lots of trees up there, but also

means we have a lot of critters. So you know, at your own at your own leisure. All right. So there you go, a little la thing just jammed into the morning. But I think it's important and I think it's going to come up again, is all that I'm saying. All right, So what's Clyde Cooper's beefing about? And what was Biden up to yesterday? An hour from his ownspeop spokespeople in another capacity, literally undermining themselves hospitals and humas and military and it's not a good look, but of course

it's not altogether unexpected. So we'll get into that. And a reminder that Senator Ted Budd will join us that is coming up at eight oh five phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four back in just a few so after the show, he's on the iHeart Radio app. Search case o day for the podcast on the iHeart Radio app. All right, so I good morning everybody, and welcome. It is the Cacoday Radio program.

I feel like I have to ying and yang on stuff. So I posted a couple things on the Twitter account this morning, and like, the one thing's not even new. I just hadn't seen it, because you know, you go back and you check and you see, you know, when stuff happened. That means said, there's one thing, Well, there's a lot of stuff on there. But there's one video I posted that's gonna make you

just gonna make you angry, and it should it should. And then there's another one where I feel like it's really I don't know why, it's just so funny to me. And I think there's a little bit of like nerd history enthusiasm channeling through because I can I can imagine the strategy session among the Antifa dudes. So video number one is, say, you see this woman and she's in a church, in this big, big, big church, right. I don't think it's a Catholic. I think it's a large Baptist

church. Actually it's over in Tennessee. And she's seventy and she rolls in there not during you know, one of these services, but rather when she just wants some she wants some solace, right, She just wants to be able to be alone or you know, with her thoughts and talking to her God and praying and and so she sits down in one of the well. All the pews are open. She only went in there. And then moments

later you see these two women come in. And this is where this is like social anxiety stuff right here, because there is there's probably a thousand seats in this in this church, and these women sit one sits directly in front of her and one behind her, which is just evil, man, that's just evil. Ross. Do you see the dude who his whole stick on

social media? Now that you can select your own seats at theaters. Is he tries to find shows where there's only like, you know, it's a weird time on a movie that's been in for five weeks, so nobody's going

to it. So he'll go and he'll find where there's only like that's awful, you know exactly what's happening, right, So they what they do is they'll find like there was one I saw where you could see the only two seats taken where the back to perfectly centered, you know, in the middle, but all the way to the back, so your back wall, you're perfectly centered on the screen, and there is every other seat open in this

whole thing. And all this guy does is him and his buddies they buy the tickets surrounding those two solo people and then show up and then that's their whole shtick and they think it's funny. So just trolls, man, that's just the amount of people are making money off just being garbage trolls is amazing.

Okay. So with that being said, so these these two women come in, the younger women, and one sits in front of and one sits behind this this woman, and that should have been a huge red flag by the way, because again there's every other seats open in this video, and

the one in the front engages with the elderly woman in conversation. And you see the woman, the younger woman, get out of her pew, come, you know, walk around, so she's right at the pew entry kneil, grab, you know, take the two hands of the woman and they

start praying. And for a moment you're like, okay, well, look that is the obviously don't know each other, but this is fellowship, and who knows, maybe the conversation, you know, revealed some deep concerns and it's just people being empathetic and sympathetic and in sharing in their faith with folks. Well that's what the woman thinks, but in reality, it is a

ruse. It is a ruse by the woman in the front to get the other woman to have both of her hands away from her stuff because she's you know, she's grasping hands, and to also have her eyes closed and be distracted by being engaged in another activity. So while this one woman is on her knees praying with this this elderly woman, the piece of garbage in the pew directly behind the woman is kind of leaning in with her head and you know, praying along, but is using her hands to clean out this woman's

handbag of cash and credit cards. And then police say they then go on a seven thousand dollars shopping spree. Right, so you're going to Hell? No no, no, no, no, You're not just going to hell your first ballad Hall of Fame Health, you know what I'm saying? Really, the Derek Jeter of health, you're well almost didn't. I didn't you have one guy who's like, maybe you should go to heaven? The Jeter

was Jeter unanimous or was there one holdout? I can't remember. I think Mariano Rivera was unanimous Jeter, Right, there was one person that was like, nah, just had beef with beater for years, all right? So but anyway, yeah, no, you're like, you're like, Dante needs to fix his painting, do you know what I'm saying? Or fix his book? And then obviously the painting was somebody else. But yeah, just go straight to hell, do you know? Don't pass go You might you

might get an advisory position when you get there. It's just awful, So that'll make you angry. And then on the flip side, if you go there. I just tweeted a video out of the the Treehouse Antifa moonbats. So these are the ones that you know, remember some were arrested and others that were engaging with police over basically taking over these woods around Atlanta where they

want to put this public safety center. And I don't know if somebody just watched three hundred or you know, was you know, member and back to a some sort of ancient history class that they took, you know, while doing women's studies classes. I guess maybe this is their history thing and thought, hey, you know what, some of these ancient battle formations that have stood the test of time and eventually work through the year, maybe we should

try some of those. Police won't see it coming. So sure enough, I don't know exactly what they're going for. But Antifa decides, you know, like a like an old Greek phalanx or something, and that's where you you create like you create like a broad'shead if you will, right, and

it's and you want you want the aggressiveness on the point. So in that instance, it's not exactly the same, but you would have like spears on the front, and then you would have like a little bit of an angle and what you're trying to do as you're trying to you know, wedge yourself in through whoever your opposition forces. And look, there's you know, there are a lot of success of that back in the day. I I. That's obviously not how we fight wars now, nor would you do that octagonal

thing that Napoleon used to win some very decisive battles. But hey, if you're Antifa, what do you gotta lose? So some Nitwi talks him into the you know, hey, remember how we they were able to siege THERMOPYLI. Let's try it, And so they go. The problem is, is the tip of the spear, so to speak, as well as the protective walls of you know, like the arrow that's going through or not hardened shields with people you know, wielding spears. It's it's stupid banners on PVC pipe.

And so they decide they're going to bust through this police line like the dumbest game of Red Rover ever, except the police have actual tactical shields, and then they throw one tear gas into the middle of their now super bunch group and everyone leaves. It's just the most comically stupid stuff, and I thought it was hilarious. So and then I started thinking, what other ancient battle techniques could they employ? Right, there's a lot of chews from like

the Napoleon thing that I just talked about. Obviously, if you go back to some of the way in which the Celtic tribes fought, they have some rather interesting stuff. You could channel some of the ancient Japanese, you know, feudal japan techniques where they would utilize a lot of like obfuscation and camouflage

as well as attempting to deceive on numbers. There's lots of stuff. So I'm and the problem but the problem is is you all have PVC pipe and dumb and dumb signs and too because like bright like the Spartans and the Romans, they would get in that formation, but they would also you know they have spears. Yes, yes, it's the enormous long spears in front of them that would Yeah, that's why you have the big shields to create the

tortoiseshell if you will. And then to your point, yeah, then they stick out these ten foot spears and I feel like it doesn't work without the spears. What do you think? Probably not so much. But I want to see him go through a tryal this stuff. Man, I want to I want somebody just get a hold of some sort of old tactical, you know, military book and just go all right, So here's what we're gonna

do. We're gonna get the rope and then you know, and just and you know, because I feel like it's just great training for the police. There's not spears there on. You know what, Maybe you should go the Hannibal route. Ross. Do you think Antifa maybe if they go to the zoo get some elephants. I feel like maybe they put the police at a disadvantage right coming through. You go a Lord of the Rings. You can get the super big ones with the spikey the spiky stuff on him. That

could be pretty problematic. I'm just saying, you got you got options, dude, everyone's And by the way, we gotta tell you. I'm gonna mention I gotta mention the Hannibal thing too, because I don't know. I got mixed thoughts on it. I got mixed thoughts on a lot of stuff, but not the weather. Because Ken moon Man just shooting a straight shooter. So he's here too. Yeah, here's the thing. Like everyone's like, ah, we're blow normal. Then last week everyone was like, oh,

we're above normal. So for me, I'm sitting there looking over the last two weeks going, so it's just been basically normal around here, right right, I mean, help me out, help me out, ken, Yeah, Well, yeah, I guess. And today and tomorrow we are going to be pretty normal, with temperatures right about where they should be, maybe a little mild or towards the end of the week out ahead of a

cold front. They could bring us a few showers as we look towards Friday and into Friday night, and then cooler in behind that for the weekend. So sunshine we'll mix in with the clouds from time to time. Today, temperature's climbing towards the mid sixties, upper thirties Tonight, mostly cloudy Tomorrow. It will be just a little bit cooler tomorrow, but temperature is still pretty close to average in the low sixties and then back into the low seventies Thursday

with sunshine. Friday, here comes the cold front. Late day showers on Friday, heights around seventy and in behind it pretty nice weekend showers should taper off Friday night. So by Saturday, I think we're back to sunshine another Sunday day on Sunday, but look for highs in the upper fifties to low sixties. All Right, thank you very much, appreciate it. We'll talking it out, Okay, alrighty, all right, there you go, Ken Boon from the Weather Channel. All right, it is seven forty seven,

hang on, thank you. Casey is on ninety four to five w PTI and the Triad and one six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All Right, good morning, and welcome back into seven to fifty one here on the Cacoday Radio program. So story yesterday having to do with a movie project, a movie about Hannibal and not Hannibal. Lecter, be very clear here. We you know, we had some good ones and then we had well we'll

just say we had some other ones. And I think I had a TV show for a while, but I never really never really got into that. However, this is a Netflix project that's being talked about and it has to do with the Carthaginian that's a fun word, Carthaginian warrior known as Hannibal. Yeah. So this is look, this is the whole going through the Mountain passes with the elephants attacking the Romans, right, even if you don't know the totality of the of the legend of the and you know how everything is

part legend, part you know, part part reality. But we'll be reimagined, obviously by or inspired by various writers. They want to do this, and the guy who I guess put the script and story together is the same dude who did Gladiators. So I don't know, maybe they churn out a very good movie. Here's the problem and here's where people got beef. You're ready. So it looks like Denzel Washington is being cast to play Hannibal. I like Denzel Washington, right, who doesn't? Is there other people don't

like Denzel? I don't know if they are, And I don't even know if any scandal Denzel's had, And frankly, I don't know. I don't know that I've ever seen Denzel get real political on anything. The problem is Netflix just was in that whole beef over the Cleopatra stuff right where they and they made no bones about it, just like we're doing this, We're changing everything, and you you could argue, and you would be historically accurate.

That Denzel Washington, if you had, if you had the actual Hannibal standing there, probably didn't share a lot of lineage in common, right, But I like Denzel Washington. And here's I think that if you had come out when did Gladiator come out, what like ninety end of the nineties, like ninety eight, ninety nine, something like that, maybe two thousand, if you Dinet because it was the same DUDEO did the Gladiator, if you'd come out the next year and went, man, that was everybody loved that movie.

And we're gonna now, we're gonna do a big feature on Hannibal, right, and obviously there's gonna be huge. It's gonna be a huge budget. We're gonna have elephants or least CGI and it's gonna be crazy. Man. I think there would have been an appetite there. And I think if you told people that you were gonna make Denzel Hannibal, I don't think anyone would have said anything, do you know what I mean? Yeah, there's the historical side of it, absolutely right. Where you'd get some it would

be nerds in Igronica. It'd be like nerds in university places that would be like, well, actually, and I think that would have been the end of it. But now we're in a very different place where people see these casting decison visions has done not because they're like, hey, Denzel, you know, puts butts and seats, but rather to do things just to make a political point. And I don't think people react in the same way. Do you get what I'm driving at, Like the difference based on because people

are trying to go, well, you don't like Denzel Washington. No, I don't think that's people's problem. I think people are reacting to how you decided that this was a political hill that you wanted to die on, and so people are approaching and reflecting on your decision. That way, they don't have a problem with Denzel, and they wouldn't have had a problem till you start and till you guys decided that this is what you were going to do.

And then last year with the on Netflix, specifically with the Cleopatra stuff, tell people that you were going to do this, you didn't care if it was inaccurate, and they should all shut up because they are a bunch of bigots. Well, now people are going to be more critical of this stuff. But I hope it's a good movie. And again, don't have a problem with Denzel, but I understand why people are pushing back, begging of pushing back. What happens when you're the president of the United States and

you push back on your own spokesman. That's what happened. So roughly one thirty yesterday afternoon, CNN had a report where a US official confirmed what a lot of people suspected, that Hamas has a command headquarters underneath the Alshifa Hospital in Gaza. Right, this is not a new this is not a new allegation, and that's a problem. It's not only is it a quote unquote war crime, since we keep bringing those things up, but obviously it undermines

propaganda. The propaganda was the evil Jews keep trying to kill you know, kids in a hospital when in reality, now the US is come and going. No, all those tunnels they lead to the big headquarters, they are under the hospital. Well that is that is American intelligence official saying that on

the record. Jake Sullivan I mentioned something on Sunday to that effect. However, literally one hour later, two thirty pm, Joe Biden said, quote the Al Shifa Hospital must be protected, as he urged less intrusive action against a moss. So at one thirty, your Administration and National Security spokesman says, now, that's hospital, that's that's a giant, that's the military HQ underneath that hospital. And they're also utilizing all of the fuel and everything else

that's being that's needed for the hospital to run their operations. And it's it is and we know it is. And then the President comes out and says, nah, you gotta you gotta gotta protect that hospital as fundamental disconnect. Man, did nobody tell him? Is he so out of I think it's just he's so out of the loop, man, I think that they they know that they couldn't fill him in on all the day's nuances in a timely enough manner for him to retain it. So, man, it's just a

speak and say that's kind of busted out there. Every day, all right, good morning everybody, and happy Tuesday. Were those words barely fit together? K cooda radio program. And it is a dizzy, busy bounce around going on in the stack of stuff today, but also in how expanse of the world of politics, albeit here in the US, will start to start to emerge as San Francisco, which should a hell of a job relocating eight

thousand individuals roughly the size of Roxboro ahead of it. As we sit down to try to figure out how we're gonna deal with China, how we're going to parently impress what it's going to mean for relations going forward, all the while with people wondering, well, are we prioritizing are we prioritizing what's going on over there while missing the mark on actually doing things that the people of

the United States wann't done. The security that they wanted, the southern border, the financial investment, if they're going to take those taxpayer dollars which seem to so easily flow over to various other countries, and interests that aren't really beneficial to the majority of the American people. So, you know, basically all the stuff that we continue to deal with, and right at the forefront,

one of our US Senators, Ted Budd joins us. Now, sorry for the long intro, but man, you guys got a lot of stuff to think about this this week. One of the things the main thing we're watching right now is let's keep the government open. And I think you know, Speaker Johnson's doing a good job with this continuing resolution. I'm not a fan of those, you know, one of those things is got Kevin McCarthy

in trouble getting too much Democrats support. But the main win here, and first of all, the win is not in the spending level, because we're fifty percent higher than we have been since pre twenty twenty. But if you kick this thing away from the holidays, you get it out where you could really negotiate it in January and February, because there have been trillions of dollars that have been unfortunately agreed to because people just wanted to get home for the

holidays, and that's bad negotiating territory. You guys didn't send us here to send us home for the holidays. But again, once you get it out there in January February, you get a little more leverage. Well, I think people also didn't send you guys, maybe not necessarily. You look, I understand, I recognize the House and of very different functions, and that's

a good thing, by the way, in my opinion. That being said, the really the gravitas in the news cycle is generally going to be dominated by the House, and whether that is born of dysfunction with the all of the speaker stuff, which apparently has now been resolved, or things like the Mayorcus vote yesterday. I don't lay that at your feet, but Senator,

you obviously served with mckenry and Virginia Fox. You know them well, and even though you're on the Senate side, I think a lot of people were surprised yesterday that they were among eight Republicans who didn't want to see cabinet member of Mayorcus under scrutiny through the process of impeachment for utter failure on the Southern border. So I guess I want to talk to you, not in your capacity as a former House member. You're now a senator, so you'd have

to await this happening. Does that surprise you? And do you have any insight on why there may be some has and see on the part of some Republicans, because you would have to agree if when it comes to carrying out one's responsibility, may Orcus sticks out as being woefully underqualified. Yeah, and if you're going to impeach, you might as well get it right. And this is not time for what we call messaging bills where you're just trying to

send a signal that hey, we're against may Orcus. Look, he's not a horrible job. I've been to the border. You and I talked about it for years now. It's absolutely heartbreaking and it's a dereliction of duty. But is it technically impeachable? Did he break the law? And what is

in the contents of the impeachment document that she put forth. I don't know what was in MTG's impeachment document, but it was enough to say, Hey, if we're going to do this, let's get it right, let's walk through the constitutional process here, and let's win this not just in the House, but let's make it where when it goes to trial in the Senate we would actually win. Or let's let's get a majority in the Senate so when

it goes a trial over here, we would win it. It's got to be one of those two things, because all of us as Republicans can agree he's done a horrible, horrible job. But do you think that that's the standard that's realistic? I mean, admittedly, do you think even if they had video of MAJORCIS dukes of hazard in groups of migrants into this country, you know, with a big smile on his face. Do you think even that would be enough to impeach somebody because of the required you know, two

thirds of the Senate. I just I don't think it's possible in this day and age. So it begs the question, either you're you're going to do impeachments because there is a there is a political messaging there. Look, nobody thinks that there're anything but political really these days, or you're not. And that's where frustration lies. Because people feel that they got punched in the face

ten times over the last previous four years. They want to punch back, and they don't feel that maybe some are allowing them to do that, whether it's the right thing or not. You know what I think, first of all, people have a cry for justice right now. They're heartbroking. They've seen it so many different areas, whether it's Hunter Biden, whether it's the

border. The list goes on ad nauseum. But I think there's enough of those Republicans just say, if we're going to do this, let's do it right in the house, let's get the articles right, let's not make it hastily written. And so I think if you, if you operate more of a team, you work it through the Judiciary Committee. I think there's more of a regular order process even when it comes to impeachment than there is these things that they want to throw They don't want to throw these things out willy

nilly, Okay, Well again, I'm just saying that it is. I'm just recognizing that there's multiple strategies on this, and you know, ultimately that'll be up to individual representatives who are going to go and they're going to ask to probably get re elected. Right Virginia's running again. I'm assuming he's running again. He was just the type of area speaker of the House. So

yeah, and that'll be between them and their voters. But I got a lot of especially Virginia Fox's people are really upset in my email this morning. So I don't know how it'll pan out. What are you guys working over on the Sunate side, because again, your focus is on a variety of

things. I look at this relationship with China and this conference, and while we can make the jokes about cleaning up the streets only to put on a good impression, there's a lot writing on this and I never liked Trump having jijimping down at mar Lago I didn't, and I thought that I understand how he wanted to project it. But China gives me the creepy crawleys on everything

that they do. And I feel that they're a country that is more desperate too, because whether people realize it or not, they've made a lot of really bad financial investments Sri Lanka, they took that on the teeth and their housing bubble, and a desperate country that doesn't mind messing with the US. I'm sorry, I don't feel like that's an ally of ours. I think it's a strong look to invite him here to have some sort of economic reset. I think we need to look, you don't want to hot war,

you want to continue our deterrence. The focus needs to be on let's strengthen our military. Let's strengthen our apparatus ant in the Indo Pacific. And I was just out there. I've seen the I've seen the where the fight would begin, and you know, we need to make sure we're focusing on the right military leadership out there, including our undersea power. So those are the things I think we need to be focusing on, not just inviting him here

for for tea. If you will look is there some larger diplomatic strategy. I get that, but again it's now, it's a time for strength, not a conciliatory meeting. Wait wait, wait, so you think that there's some four D chess, I don't. I don't want to give you a

bless your heart, senator, but I just I don't believe it. Yesterday, the president's own people told CNN that, yes, we believe that there is a military base under this hospital and AAZA, and one hour late, one hour later, the President of the United States said, we need to protect this hospital. Right, So excuse me if I don't sign up for four D chess with these cats. No, I'm not talking about Israel here.

I mean that with China. I don't think that Biden obviously it's you know, you would out would agree he doesn't have the strength he needs to

project in front of guh. But again, militarily beyond just Biden himself, we need to do whatever it is to project strength into a paycom because you know, you look how vulnerable Taiwan is sitting out there, and how much world trade floats through there, and it would affect every single family here in the US, where it's not as it would not be as big of a effect if something were to happen to Ukraine, even though that's important in the

scheme of things right now. But we've got to allow Israel to do what they need to do when it comes to Hamas. I think people are heartbroken. You know, there's going to be a demonstration here rightfully so pro Israel demonstration here in Washington today. But we need to give the Israelis a latitude and the supplies that they need to do what they need to do over there. Are you Are you surprised? I mean you just said there's going to

be a pro Israel You know that there's going to be counter protesters. Well, I'm sure there'll be some video that emerges, and I hope it's safe and I hope everybody just you know, gets to say their piece. But you got eyes, man, you got staff. You know what's going on out there. This is like what do you think in watching like what happened to Columbia University And this is the openness on the part of people to come out and sound really nineteen thirties Germany. I mean, does that blow you

away or what? It's scary? And what it's just been allowed to grow instead of our educational institutions, the things that we defeated in World War Two, and for those remaining Second World War vets. You know when I see them when they come up here for hunter flights and they ask what we're working on and saying, we're trying not to screw up what you fought for. Uh. And now you see some of those same ideologies starting to rear their

head again. And it happens in colleges, it happens on university campuses, and those are bad ideas, and unfortunately their ideas aren't dead, and you know, we've got to fight them all over again. Well, it happens in dentist office, it happens in like I mean, just these weird settings of people walking around, tearing hostage posters off statements by members of Congress that

you used to serve with. And I don't know what. I don't know what the answer is, you know, going and telling Rashida to leave. She she said something dumb. I don't know that that does anything to deter her. So I'm really I'm really worried in you know, on one on one hand, I'm really worried because you're seeing more of this. But I'm also wondering if it's good to get it out there so that people can get a better beat on who all these folks are. You make a great point

and one of the great geniuses of Trump. People say people blame him for causing the chaos. Absolutely not what he did. He's shown a great flashlight of spotlight on the problems, whether it's the challenges of what China was already doing to us but larger America wasn't aware, or what's going on in the woke movement, or you know what we're seeing with Hamas now, he really highlighted a lot of things which were brought to the surface so that we can

get him out there. So in one sense, it is a relief that now we know where the enemy is because it's plain and simple. It's right in front of us, and we know where the fight is, whereas four or six years ago it may have been more subterranean. Well yeah, I mean, no pun intended. I'm assuming they're considering the large amounts of tunnels,

but where do you think. Yeah, look, there's some people online who are of the opinion that this is going to be allowed to spiral into us engagement, and not just of an advisory in an advisory way, because you would agree Hamas is and they've stated this. Hamas's hope for what they did on the seventh was that it would be so large and so inspirational the Muslim world would rise up and they would join the fight and eradicate Israel and

who the hell knows who else. And while that didn't happen in an overwhelming fashion, we're engaging targets that are literally in other countries for fire and missiles in on stuff. You know, they just took a big position out in Lebanon what yesterday or something? So do you think this escalates? And then people are going, well, if it escalates, then you got to get into a draft. And that's this is what people fear a lot in a

lot of situations. But arguably between what's going on in Ukraine and what's going on in the Middle East, I can't remember both simultaneously being this heightened since like Iranian hostage end of Cold War times? Am I over exaggerating? No, you're not. And you have to look at all of them together, and then you have to look at them as individuals. And I think when it comes to the Middle East Israel Hamas, we have to respond with strength,

and we've got some good military leadership. Again, I'm very concerned about the competency of our commander in chief, as are all of us. But we have to be as strong as possible in our response to prevent the expansion and the metastization in the Middle East. And the quicker we are, the more forcefule we are. Whether it's attacks on in your remaining troops in Iraq

or Syria, we've got to be strong. If we equivocate or we just do these light responses, I just don't think that's going to send the right signal to Iran. So the stronger we are, the safer we are, and the less likely this is to get a hand. You guys, we open this and I'll kind of end here on a couple of things talking about continuing resolution, keeping government going. I couldn't I don't know most people could

tell you what the Senate's even dug into right now. I mean, they watched the House with great interest, But you know, the Senate, I don't know, has been on the radar for a lot of stuff. So I guess my question is, you guys got a thousand things you could be dealing with. What are you dealing with? And is one of those things potentially the Supreme Courts saying that they don't want to deal with COVID vaccine mandates, which was a decision rendered yesterday, saying they're not going to take it

up, and really that then falls to Congress to do something. So what's on the radar right now? I'd say the main thing is nominations. You got so much going on with the cr right now and we're watching, you know, are we going to put in a shell bill or excube Schumer going to put in a shell bill so that he can insert whatever if the House were to fail in the next twenty four hours. So he had a chance to do that last night. He did not, which is a good sign

that we expect the House to succeed with this funding package. But one of the things with nominations is not just judges and saying no to a lot of really bad judges. It's saying yes to a lot of good leadership that's coming through. But for all the press with Senator Tommy Tuberville's holes, we got to make sure that as conservatives, we realize that this is not a senator from Alabama's problem. This is a Secretary Austin problem. And you know,

taxpayers should never pay for abortions. And one of the letters I sent with the majority of the Republican Conference, Republican Senate Conference on there is to tell the Biden administration one Lloyd Austin promised he wouldn't politicize the military, and he did. The second and most importantly is that the quickest way to end this regards to military holes is for the Biden administration to end this horrible policy. It is their problem. They've tried to put it all the blame on a

senator from Alabama, but it's the Biden administration's problem. So that's one of the things that I'm working on here in the Senate. All Right, Lastly, I know some of your colleagues are really into the redistribution of wealth. I don't want to talk about it from a dollar standpoint, but you can you get the panthers pickback. You guys could do, man, but there's always next year. Always kid, you got what. I'm sorry, do

you have power or not? Senator? I mean really, I mean we talked to you and it's like this is easy right, you just go and get the DOJ to go in or something. Right. I don't know exactly how it works. I'm not technical, but man, they need you. That's all. We're gonna have to go to Virginia Fox for that one. That's her kind of power, right, Yeah, just trick them onto an elevator and she could anywhere. All right, We're gonna try to talk to

Virginia. All right. I appreciate our again, our monthly little get together here and it's you're right, it's gonna get financially crazy. We'll see what China does, and God knows what's happening in the Middle East, but we'll stay in touch. And I appreciate your time this morning. Okay, thanking, all right, there you go, and that is Senator Ted Budd here on the kc O Day Radio program Yeah. Just hit it with the FBI team. This is not that hard. All right, Good morning, everybody,

and welcome. It is eight thirty six here on the kc O Day Radio programs. Got a text. I got a text for one of my neighbors that I talked to. She's a little bit of a gossip. I had no idea that this has so Apparently some guy lives around the corner from a Scott super injured falling off of his roof or something. He Clark griswolded a van he was putting Christmas lights up. Is it? I'm sorry, are we in acceptable territory for Christmas lights? I don't know. I'm not

gonna try to start that debate, but I hope dude's okay. So she said that to me just to be a gossip, and I'm like, is it too early for Christmas lights? I don't know, although I saw one of our listeners posting pictures of his Christmas tree already. So I don't even know what's wrong with some of you. But most people, it's like right after Thanksgiving, right when you really you flip to Christmas. That's that's how

it was in my family. And the deal was part of the Thanksgiving thing was we'd go and we'd whack a tree and then and then boom, you'd get the tree in there right after Thanksgiving, and I you know, that worked for us. Although we didn't go to a lot, we went all speaking at Griswold's. Although we didn't have to trudge quite as far. We just kind of go to like just drive up the road a little to the edge of the property where the pines are. But I think he you know

what, teach their own. Heyah, we put up our tree September first. I'm sorry you which wait, we don't have like nine trees though, right, well we put up the first one September first. We still have like, well, we'll put up like the remaining like six or seven after Thanksgiving. You're like an advent calendar of trees. Yeah. Right, We're in the middle of the Hayes family. Two hundred nights of Christmas. I know, I know, I and I haven't. I wasn't given any grief.

I was simply pointing out that people do different things. But then I found out one of my neighbors fell down try to put Christmas lights on, and and the the gossip ladies telling everyone, don't right, call her gossip lady to her face. So whatever. But so they want a few neighbors who doesn't think I should be fired into the sun. Probably all right, I gotta we have to address the elephant in the room because people are sending

me emails. You're not Ross doesn't care you guys, So that's it's not I'm not not bringing it up because him and I have talked about it off the air. He's he has he has accepted reality in the same way I accepted it like a month ago. Yeah, I mean mentioned Yeah, No,

I'm like, we watched The Office last night. Yeah, we're at the point where because we we started it the beginning of the year, we took like a once a certain character leaves, don't want to spoil things for people who might not have seen this treasure of a show once a certain character leaves. He took a break because we were sort of depressed. And then we're back to watching it now we're Robert California is now the boss. Yes, yes, yes, James Spader and yes, I mean we're having That's

what we did last night. And I went to the Wizard. Was he a lizard king? Or oh he's so great? So that's what I did. Then I woke up, saw the score, said I knew it, went to the gym and it is what it is. Well, did you see the actual final? So the way that so the Bills lost to the Bronx. Yeah, Bill's Mafi and shambles. Dude, dude, completely tough. It's tough. Because there's some people that are still like this is the year, and like I like a month ago, it's like this is another

year. No, not like so they're some people are now like coming to terms with reality, right what we what we've said before in the show, I've said anyway, and it's like, you know, certain people might have to go on the coaching staff. So so I am at the point now where it was like in the middle of like when it like June of the Yankee season, where it's like this is over, baseball is over. Time to move on. So I'm still going to check out this the scores and

stuff. I'm still going to support the team, but I am not like, I'm not delusional like I was. Probably at this rate. Don't be lucky if they end up like seven and ten, all right, And I think we murdered Casey. I think Casey is not here. His microphone broke. I think my complete honesty and able to admit reality completely shocked him. So we're going to try to fix his microphone and we'll be right back.

It's the Case of Day Radio program one O six one f VM Talk and ninety four to five w PTI, two stations driving the fst end talk. This is casey O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right, well, yeah, all I'm asking equipment. I'm asking for three hours and fifteen minutes. It was super weird. Three hours and fifteen Well we got Gorilla greaves. You're like over like and then you're like, yeah, we don't have a window. Yeah we're in two MIT studios, but I could hear you

and they're like banging stuff. I'm not I'm not a violent person, but three hours and fifteen minutes, then we're fired or we're on vacation for a week, but you'll assume we're fired. Ah, what a day. It's only Tuesday, My goodness. All right, people are offering to send us a pinball machine parts. Now, I don't worry. We've got a whole room full of them. We just got to figure out what order they they attach. Uh. I'm just pointing out that for people going on, I

can't believe you're not talking about that. But Ross's end. So I don't know. If you wanted a reaction, you're not going to get it. Yeah, because you know me, when I'm upset about something, Yes, and the past two weeks, like before the show, you're like, oh, what kind of mood is he gonna be? And I'm like, I'm in the no not to It came from the gym today today. I didn't even I just assume you're gonna be fine, but yeah, no, you're

right. Last time, I'm like, oh no, kind of no. Just and that's you know, when you when you just kind of accept where it is, you can you can ease one's minds. Well, there's a few things. One right, like I've accepted it, but also the pressure is off because like I don't it's not going to be the year. So it's like I can just watch it and it is what it is. But also I've sort of started doing this new thing where I no longer like before I remember, I was like I'm not going to pay attention. I'm not

going to watch because if I watch, they're going to lose. Like the superstition. I've sort of come to the grown up conclusion that what, like, I have nothing to do with the team. I am not on the field, I am not throwing the ball, I'm not running the ball. Like it's not a reflection upon me. Right, Like they suck and that sucks, but it's not because a lot of people to check out the Secret Service carjacking stuff. Man. Yes, the car jacking and car stealing problem

in Washington, DC has now extended to somebody with Secret Service protection. At eleven fifty eight pm last night in Georgetown, which is about a mile and a half from where we're standing right now, secret Service officers who are assigned to protect Naomi Biden, that's President Biden's granddaughter, Hunting Hunter Biden's daughter, opened fire at three people who were trying to steal one of the Secret Service

vehicles. We don't know exactly what kind of a car this was, but according to the Secret Service, who just sent us a statement, I, secret Service agents encountered possibly three individuals breaking a window on a parked and unoccupied government vehicle. During the encounter, a federal agent discharged a service weapon and it is believed no one was struck. The offenders immediately fled the scene in

a red vehicle, and a regional lookout was issued to supporting units. That means when somebody tried to steal a Secret Service car from the agents that were protecting the president's granddaughter and they got away, they're still out there this morning, all right, so, dude, I'm sitting I'm literally physically holding this thing with my hands so I can play the button bar. But then the mic park. I'm telling you what, man, what a morning? Oh

my goodness? Ah, you know what? You lost connection again? The mic connection dropped, but the button bar was fine because I literally clicked that just because I'm like, what the hell is going on? It is? I think it's because you're using the B word, and I'm going to ban discussion of the B word because that's the only Maybe that's what it is. Maybe that's you know, maybe that's a message from somebody or something going you know what, you guys don't need to be talking about then. So I

don't know is uh is Jeff Bellinger there yet? By the way, what's going to become of because he's going to pipe through uh yeah, the system. I don't even know. Man, this is friggin amateur hour. I'm so sorry. Let's do this. Let's get Jeff Bellinger in here. Dude. We got three days and six minutes Jeff Bellinger before we get into next week's vacation. We're off all next week, and it's like the powers that be have just decided to lightning strike every piece of equipment we have, so

fire away and we'll pray for the best. Sir, Yes, okay, I'll read slowly, Casey, Good morning. Investors are throwing a party this morning on signs that in inflation was tamer than expected. Last month. The Consumer Price Index, which tracks retail level inflation, was unchanged in October. The forecast was for a one tenth percent increase. The closely watched core CPI,

which excludes food and energy costs, was up two tenths percent. Economists were expecting a three tenths percent gain, and the year over year advance was better than expected, coming in at four percent when economists thought it would be four point one. So, looking at the futures, S and P futures are up fifty six points. Nasdaq futures or up two hundred fifty three.

Now futures are up three hundred forty three this hour. Home Depot is the first of the nation's major retailers to post third quarter results, and the report is mixed. Comparable store sales were down from a year ago, but not by as much as feared. Home Depot's earnings top forecast, but the company issued a cautious outlook, saying sales for the year could be down three to

four percent. Home improvement demand is easy. A report from ADAM shows there were just a slight dip last month, and the number of homeowners who lost their homes completed foreclosures fell less than one percent in October. The data on foreclosure starts is more encouraging. They were down seven percent. Sky High mortgage interest rates made it harder to sell an existing home. Redfinn says more than a third of home sellers made concessions to buyers over the last three months to

help ensure that the buyers wouldn't back out. Highways, airports, and other transit hubs will likely be crowded around Thanksgiving. The travel period begins next week. Triple A predicts nearly fifty five and a half million people will travel at least fifty miles from their homes, the most since the start of the pandemic.

The Federal Highway Administration is out with a report that says in September, Americans logged more miles on the nation's road than in roads than in any other September in the last twenty five years, and a casey a lot of Starbucks fans may have to go without their favorite beverages. On Thursday, unionized Barista's planned to stage a one day strike. They accused the coffee company of refusing

to bargain fairly. It shops the GWENT union. The walkout will consult coincide with starbucks annual Red Cup Day that's when it gives away holiday themed reusable cups to its customers. Hope that helped Casey. Yeah, well, Ken, you started your report by talking about how investors are having a party, right, because was not as bad as expected. Oh, it's not an actual party. I wondered if it was being put on by the FDIC folks,

because those sound like really good parties. I don't know if i've read those stories. You're right. Yeah, man, if you like to party, go party with the FDIC folks. But for those who don't know, I'll explain that here in a moment, All right, Jeff, to appreciate it, and yeah, pray for us, because I will do that. I hope everything gets fixed before tomorrow. We'll talk in the morning. Ross, bless your heart. Okay, thank you, I appreciate it. Yeah,

yeah, Ross, right, everyone's they're coming in to fix everything. Great, you've got a team on it ready to go. Oh wow, yeah, just repelling in as we speak. If you didn't see this start at the FDIC party, So yes, yes, apparently there's a little bit of an issue. A new Wall Street Journal report shone a light on what is quite the the party atmosphere among the folks at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Right, so this is your money's FDIC insured. So if you put money in a bank and the bank goes kubluing and you didn't have more than a quarter mill in there, you get your money back. Right, It's an insurance policy. However, party of the Wall Street Journal report they spend a good chunk of their time at strip clubs, doing nude loot photo shoots,

and booking out whole hotels for big boozy party. Also, they talked about how various supervisors with the within the FDIC are just running through all of the female employees, and including one supervisor in Denver who encouraged his employees to quote drink whiskey during work and as a joke, senior bank examiners had a running gag in the office where they would you know, remember like Rick rolling right where you send somebody a link. And then there was you know, Rick

Astley's never going to give you up. Yeah, except now it's it's pictures that they're junk, So April fools, I guess I don't know, man, Look I got it, you know, like everything else with the pendulum swinging, you know, there was, hey, this is inappropriate to a workplace. So don't get me wrong. There's there's many things that were uncovered that I didn't have any business there, and I totally agree created a work environment that was unfair to a lot of people. But whether it was from

a sexual harassment standpoint or just clickish stuff in general. But you know, things also swung to the absurd right swing. Did you see the woman who was losing her mind on social media the other day because like the security guard said that she liked her hair, jin say anything about it other than she liked it. And this woman had a meltdown. And that's how we get

this. But yeah, if you're as a joke just sending junk picks to all of your employees, I feel like that's probably you know, it's probably gonna be problematic, but hey, I'm not an HR expert, So what do I know? And uh this, go ahead and grab this insanity because

I want to make sure we fit it in the Secret Service. As I mentioned there, I had talked about how they had this run in with somebody who was attempting to I guess, steal a van that was part of the Secret Service detail protecting Naomi Biden. She wasn't there, and that's an important component because there was a discharge of weapons, or a discharge at least of one weapon by Secret Service, and if she wasn't there, and Secret Service

is about protecting that individual, it's really unusual. Like there's a lot of parameters about discharging weapons. One, they're generally not going to do it if the protect ease around for obvious reasons. So two, we're going to assume she's not around. And if she's not around, if you're the Secret Service,

do you get to shoot at would be car thieves? Now, the component that may be getting left out here is perhaps one of them brandished a weapon and created a shootable environment, But that's not stated in any of the stories that I've seen here, So I don't know. Maybe that's how you get to protect your cars in DC. I thought we were just the mayor was just going to put chips on it so people could track their stuff after

it gets stolen. Continue to follow that, and finally Sesme Street is announced they are adding for the first time, an Italian Muppet, although ross does that buppet strike you as Italian? In I guess some of the stereotypical there's not nearly enough unlimited breadsticks. Well you don't look, babe, that'll be on the first episode. I just look. You know, I don't want you to go full Mafioso but embellish characteristics, right, No, I demand Muppet, no stop it. You know that I'm smart, I know my

ABC's Yeah, what happens when the Muppet goes fishing? What do you think that's gonna do to the kids? Man? Do you know? My favorite response, though, is apparently a lot of people thought Gonzo was Italian, which I find that much more insulting. Maybe it's just a name, Gonzo, right, I gotten Zo, Right, it's to me, I've gotten so I don't I don't know. So yeah, so they got all the other mind and I'm mostly surprised to considering the shows out of New York and

I don't know if you know this, they got it. They got a few Italian people. You so, but whatever, Ross, could you call the MOB so they can fix our equipment. I'm sure that they'll charge a fair price. There will be no other attachments.