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Assuming Ross, you had the probably traveling family pretty excited to celebrate President's Day. Hey, it's a day off, man, That's what I know. So yeah, four day work week, as you probably figured, but not fired. As for the usual questions, it's nice, though I can't figure out who's actually seriously asking that, So I don't don't worry about answering anymore. Do you guys travel? Do you guys have a big President's Day party? Ross? You guys, you guys go all out every year, right,

big? What's going on here? Ah? There we go? All right, you guys go all out every year, right for President's Day? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We put up the animatronic Hall of President's in the backyard, and I feel like so lazy, dude, because like they're still up, like my President's Day decoration, they're still up. But yeah, the whole evening, I know, tear that. Okay, okay, somebody somebody uh defaced my Calvin Coolidge antronic rob man slander there.

They can't stand him. You need like down with silent Cali say, well, I'm telling you it's uh. Trump was right, man, he said, Next it'll be Jefferson and Washington and Columbus and now Calvin Coolidge getting the treatment. So ah, you gotta be uh gotta be careful out there. Well, hopefully everybody survived the day off. The news cycle did not. H of course, we got all sorts of stuff going on, which we'll attempt to document over the next three hours, but not really three hours because

ads news weather. But that's how that goes. Coming up on the show, we got military news for you. Speaking of trump Man, Speaking of Trump, I notice you are not adorned in brand new solid gold Trump sneakers this morning, but maybe some of you out there are, perhaps a few of you noticed the presidents show up to a thing that I didn't know was

a thing. I know some people are really into shoes, Like you know, you go to you see the uh literal closets full of sneakers, right, and you can invest the price of a house, as as some have done, just trying to collect you know, classic Jordan's. For a while, Kanye West shoes were ridiculously expensive. Well they still are, but people collected those, and you know, you go to do like a celebrity home

tour. The Crib Crib Show is trying to remember the name of a crib show, like literally you'd walk in and some musician has a closet for of shoes that cost more than the combined total of literally every house you've ever purchased. So it's about the uniqueness of the shoes. And it's so unique and so collectible and such a thing that people literally show up to an event that is just surrounding shoes. And I got to tell you, I was not

aware this was the thing. I'm trying to think. I could probably tell you the number of pairs of shoes that I own. I have, even counting like winter boot stuff that I've owned for years, which is not really necessary in North Carolina. But I have a pair of Mucklucks. That's probably the most unique pair of shoes that I own. If you don't know what Mucklucks are, they're incredible. They are. They're a very light boot and they're made out of moose, but damn are they warm and again light fabulous

snow shoes. You know. I've got a couple. I've got Cowboy boots. Obviously, they don't let you leave Wyoming unless you sign a thing where you carry those about. Yeah, you know, standards slip on kind of the shoes that I wear every day. I've got sneakers, like running shoes, but also just sneakers. I think I probably own maybe seven or eight pairs of shoes, And even when I see them sitting in my closet, I play, what do I have all of these shoes? But man,

some people are out there and they are way into it. They are so into it when the former president shows up that literally the bidding runs nearly the cost well what used to be the cost of like a used car. Now I guess it would be a down pain on a new car with official Donald Trump shoes, sneakers, kicks, whatever you want to call them. And in fact, owning among the first pair was quite expensive. Just real quickly this seal suit. What was your winning bit? Buzz oh, and let's

see the signa shot. Congratulations. That is a man. It paid nine thousand dollars for shoes that roughly resemble his New York apartment. If you're a condo or whatever, if you've ever seen that where it's just how much gold can we put on stuff? And then he then he signed him man and has his own line of sneakers. As far as I know, I I don't know that any any other president has official shoes, and I looked it up. I want to see if Obama did, and I didn't see any,

so that's kind of a first. And what he released was literally a line of official Trump shoes. And even though that guy paid nine thousand, the shoes I think run like two hundred to four hundred dollars and fast sellers. And what's really funny is watching the media, you know, scoff at stuff like this and go, oh man, he's nobody's gonna buy any of these things. What was it? Remember what was it? Was it the NFT NFT cards or something? Remember when he sold those and they're like,

nobody's gonna buy him, And then they sold in like fifteen minutes. So I saw some journalists sitting there scoffing at the shoes, but I understand people

bought the crap out of them, so it'll be fairly interesting. No, And going back to Obama, the only shoes I seem to remember are the do you remember there were shoes Obama shoes where people literally were attempting to illegally cross the border and they had altered the shoes in some way, shape or form, those are what I remember, but it wasn't an official line, and of course the White House also was like attempting to distance itself from them.

But that's a thing that happened over the long weekend, and I thought, well, we'll just I just remembering this, I think I have a parody song to that. Hold on, we're doing an official shirts search here real quick, do do do you? Yeah? I know I'm mildly unprepared on this front, because sometimes things just enter my brain literally as I'm talking about them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, here we go. They come and fall the money, the tree stuff, you know, are crossing the

border here by the buslos. They walked here in their Obama shoes, walking for our each trade and their new Obama shoes. So if you prepare around just in case you stopped at the border over and I by face, because you will have a lot more on walking to New and you'll be back to you have got your Obama shoes. You're walking in your Obama shoes, walking

for our each trade and worn out Obama shoes. So that's the only ones that I am fully aware of as far as shoes, But those were those runofficial, So just FYI or on that, you know, speaking of clothing people are wearing at the border. I saw this story going going viral, So just let me touch on this for just a moment. Do you guys know what five to eleven is? I don't know that a lot of people do. Probably a lot of this audience does, but I don't think a

lot of people do. Ross, I don't know. Do you Are you aware of what five eleven brands? It's like a jeens. It's like LEVI jeans five eleven? Is it not? No, it is no, it's it's just a guess. Yeah, no, no, no, it Actually that's a very good guess. You know. That might actually be a pair of jeans, but it's not what I'm referring to here, all right, So five eleven is uh tactical tactical clothing, and it's not cheap. So if you for those of you are into it, like you can bankrupt yourself

buying five eleven gear. It's very good quality. So if if you were to buy like a five eleven jacket and I used to own a uh, I don't call it a jacket, but but essentially a shirt like a very thick shirt. And if you buy five eleven gear. It is literally described as tactical gear. Some people are you know, like super hipster on this stuff and they're just like, I'd never own that because everybody else owns it. But here's the deal. It's not going to be cheap. The clothing

is literally designed for people who they conceal carry. You'll see law enforcement who

can dress casual wearing this stuff. Military guys they love it, and I think it's I could be a kid in a candy store at a shop that sells five eleven, and so it is seen as very high quality clothing, which also is commonly worn by You'll see a lot of military guys with five eleven stuff, specifically operators, you know, guys who aren't necessarily conducting whatever they're conducting in in traditional uniforms may have five eleven stuff and it sticks out.

It's really cool. It's you know, you're, yeah, you could become a kid real quick showing people off this five eleven jackets she bought or or whatever it is. In fact here I just wanted to yeah, so this is there, we go. That's the one. So the Men's Valiant

Duty Jacket, which has more than just concealed carry stuff for firearms. Literally, you know, a police officer can wear a good portion of the tools that they're going to use inside of a five to eleven jacket, and it just kind of looks like they're wearing a jacket, all right, So why

am I pointing this out? Did you see at the at the border over the weekend they had two hundred and fifty dudes from China they were getting ready to release into the country, and they also had some guys they stopped from Syria. And this dude's wearing a five to eleven jacket that looks like it is right off the rack man, meaning you know, it's clean, it's it's a good looking jacket. By the way, I did kind of look it up. The jacket is two hundred and fifty dollars. I just looked

it up online. It's two hundred and fifty dollars. And again, it's the kind of jacket and piece of clothing you would normally see on somebody who is carrying some sort of weapon. And this is a quote asylum seeker from Syria that they stopped on the border. Now, I did see some people questioning its authenticity, whether it is in fact a true five to eleven or

is a knockoff, And I should point this out. Five eleven retail stuff is only sold into countries the United States and for some reason, Indonesia.

If you go to the company's website, that's what they'll tell you. So to see a guy from Syria apprehended by customs and Border who is now making an asylum claim, who is wearing a jacket that I don't know that I could justify buying right now, at at the price and the usefulness because like in my mind, I'm sitting here, going it's about to get warm again. You wouldn't wear this thing for a while. I don't know. It's

a little bit of a head scratcher. And I guess my question is, I know it's just an article of clothing, but does like does the stuff even enter the brain when they're going through the questions which many folks crossing the border have literally been trained to answer in a certain way, like would we

let a dude who's wearing military fatigues or would we have more questions? Because when I see this guy wearing a five to eleven jacket, and I don't know, maybe he's a guy from Syria, who's not a fan of the president there and somebody gave him a jack. I don't know, but it shouldn't just draw It shouldn't just raise questions in some radio host who's on a three day weekend. He's kind of not paying attention when he sees this stuff,

but immediately perks up, why that? Why that? That just sticks out of my mind, I guess coupled with a photo of all of these Chinese nationals who are not family but a bunch of young single dudes some would say military age males, but that's some that's that's a nice outfit. So yeah, that was that was wildly troubling over the weekend to see out in the wild. In fact, here, I'm gonna send Ross the story so

we can retweet this insanity. But again, rather nice jacket and of a brand that I recognize and I don't even own at least this jacket here, so you know, we'll attempt to answer that question. Also coming up on the show some the Florida man, in this case Florida police officer. The

memes on this story are amazing. We will check in with aka Loose Okahloosa County, Okaloosa I'm not sure I pronounce it, but that's a dude on edge and I'm very curious law enforcements perspective on this because what transpired is pretty crazy. We'll learn about ebony alerts. That's fun, and Saint Patrick's Cathedral once again in the news. All that more coming up. Ross has been posting pictures of edged weapons that have been delivered to him because somebody lives in

a lake. Obviously, they just get propelled out of the lake and they hit me in the head. Well it's dangerous, is my point? Right? It was very sharp. So I've moved to several different locations around the lake and the edge weapons just keep being thrown at me. Yeah. Well, I mean maybe maybe it's a message is I just don't know where they would have gotten. Ah, I understand the broad sword. Have you gotten a bastard sword yet? Which I've always wondered about the name of those?

I don't know. There's very popular, you know, you know what, there's always next week, Okay, all right, so what is it? What did you get a bac leva over the weekend? Yeah, some sort of cling on weapon, I guess. Oh, it's not a Turkish pastry possibly. I don't know. Okay, all right, I just want to enjoy the lake. Now, understand. I I completely agree this is some weird, supernatural occurrence, but I don't think it's like a thing. I

don't think there's like some sort of bigger message here. I don't hear a lot of people. I don't see the news reporting on this lake that keeps spitting the weapons. Listen, I'm saying Tom Tillis has not ever had one mystical edged weapon thrown at him from a ponder lake. That's all I'm saying. Some of us have numerous times. I'm sorry, what is that guy's problem? Just over the weekend, just like everyone needs to shut up. I'm the smartest man on the earth. Every statement I've seen from him is

not just I you know I this is what I believe. And if constituents have problems, please contact the office. He's just like you all are dumb. Here's what I'm gonna do. It is. Everything I read over the weekend was just that attitude. One of my one of my greatest achievements. Yes, just when I'm on social media and I'm scrolling and I see a Tom Tillis story like someone's posted a story about Tom Tillis and a link, and then I go down the comments and there's people mentioning slender Man. I'm

sure it's a coincidence. So yeah, but you know, when you pass away and you're on your deathbed, you're gonna be like, man, did I contribut to the world? I did? The The conclusion I came to, and he's right, is that the party apparatus in North Carolina and uh and uh, even even voters will look at it and they'll accept that.

And next time that dude's up for reelection, if I've even if I'm even mildly critical, I'll get all of you, a whole party people who will be like, you can't do this, because what will happen is a Democrat will get in there. And to that, I would say, what's the difference? What is the difference? Because he'll do whatever he damn well pleases, and then he'll comment on it and go, what are you going to

do about it? And that's what we got. So I don't blame him, sorry to say, I don't blame him doing whatever he wants to. Why wouldn't he just take whatever contributors are sitting there and paying him to essentially vote for because y'all will never do anything about it ever, because the party will tell you this is the most important election and if you don't re elect

him, he's done. And in the primaries the people with money will shut him out, and those who he allows to puppet him will do everything in their power because they literally control the Senate seat and screw all of you. So what I saw over the weekend from that guy tell everyone they're stupid and they don't get it. Again and again, if you vote for him, you get everything, You get everything you deserve at this point. But to

Ross's point too, it's very fun to see slender Man brought up. And if we could just get a slender Man slash soup, salad and breadsticks reference, that'd be amazing and something about Tuscany that would make my entire week. Yeah yeah, yeah, that was right there, Which is literally the only thing his existence is useful for is to clown on at this point, what a what a piece of garbage? Man? Do you tell him? I said that too. Go ahead, Oh, anyway, back to the five

to eleven thing. Apparently a lot of you are very enthusiastic and somebody just brought something up on the five eleven gear that is mildly troubling, Like I want to know the origin story. Let's see here, in Iraq, for years almost every private military guy was living in five eleven just seven days a week, which is a very good point. Like I didn't I didn't see the holes in the jacket. The jacket looks damn near new, and I kind of think it might be a knockoff of the Parka, but I don't

know. I just haven't seen it like quite like that. But yeah, some dude from Syria's showing up at the border wearing a jacket that I couldn't justify a purchase of. Mildly troubling, mildly right there, just looking at a picture of it again. We tweeted the ross. You tweet the story. I sent it to you real quick. All right, we'll get that. We'll get that out there for you so you can inspect it yourself.

It's a nice looking jacket. I will say this, all right, here we go, speaking of people, Canna who can afford five eleven stuff. How many of you leave your curtains open from time to time, especially in the front of your house. So like street view, leave it open. Yes, you understand that. People if there, I guess if they wanted to be pervs could cut you know, could glance in there. But you want to get that light in there. Maybe you want to get cracked the

window if the temperature is nice. Uh ross you are you a curtain because some people are curtain closed all the time? People, I am current. I would prefer to be curtain closed all the time. Marky likes to open up the curtains and look at the road and have the lake come in. And I'm like, there are feds out there that are probably trying to look at us, and we need to close those curtains right now. You live with a woman, so you're yeah, you're stuck with this. They love

the My introvert in the level is at like eleven out of ten. It's just how I am. So I'm like to have those open. I'm like, there's no way I don't want I don't want them open. I have on the front of my house. I have the uh the shutters you know where you like pull the woodpee. You know, it's all fixed in there. I don't know that they open. I'm but I'll get light from like the backyard, the side of the house, but I don't want the ones that are facing the street open. We used to have the yeah, the

backyard by the kitchen, we used to have that open. Yes, But then they built that seventeen story condoms mostrosity behind my house and now there's people. Look it's now I put up curtains. Yeah, it's understandable. But if you do like them open, is it because of the light or is it to shame the pores? Crazy? Uh, crazy, dumb article over the weekend. If you enjoy, in fact, enjoy having your curtains open, or shutters or drapes or whatever you have, If you if you enjoy

having those open, the Atlantic knows why. And it is not to get light. It is not to create airflow in your house. When the temperatures, you know, like the temperatures we have seen right were you're in the sixties, get a little fresh air through there. Great stuff? Right, No, no, no, here's the headline. Uncovered windows have quietly become a fixture of high end homes across America. How did ditching the curtains become a common marker of wealth? All right, I have a question. First,

of all. I I guess I don't really inspect, but I feel like most homes, even really nice homes, have what's the term they use window treatments, right, so curtains or shut of those, you know, the little slidy things that I have, or whatever it may be. But according to The Atlantic, their theory is and it's not just them. New York Times did a piece on this. Atlantic is just parroting them that wealthy here we go, wealthy white people living in gentrified urban areas are doing so

to show off their wealth. So basically, if you have a nice house and you have the drapes or curtains or open or you don't have them, the reason you do that is because subconsciously you're wanting to show, especially in gentrified areas, you're wanting to show the pores all your nice stuff. And that is your motivation there. And they wrote a whole article on this.

Americans who are in more than one hundred and fifty thousand, or almost twice as likely to leave windows uncovered as those making near the poverty line, according to a study by the US Department of Energy. All right, let me also point this out because one of the things that they're talking about is how there's a higher number of people that do this in quote unquote gentrified areas.

So let's understand what that is. That is going to be an area that has that is socioeconomically lower on the totem pole, there is a likelihood that that neighborhood during the process of gentrification, you know, especially when it starts. If you were to look at a map that post, you know, crime stuff is going to be because you know, there's a lot of a

lot of tie in between socioeconomic status and and crime. Not always, but a lot of times that arguably that'd be the place you don't want to be, Like, hey, look through this window at my one hundred inch TV. Do you know what I'm saying? That's you probably not wanting that. So the idea that you are consciously or subconsciously leaving your curtains open to show off your expensive stuff seems really dumb and frankly, I don't know that I

believe this study. I think that they're if if the curtains are open, and I'm let me just be very sexist here, if the curtains are open, it's not because you're wanting to shame the pores. I think that if I think that if you were to pull a few other numbers into this study, you would find that those households also were more likely to have a woman

living there. If I could just make that gross generalization, like I don't have a woman living with me, but you know when I have, when I have been dating somebody, the women'll come over to your house and open that stuff up. You're happy to sit there in your artificial light and darkness and they'll be like, oh, you go, get the windows open. Let's so. But I don't feel like they're doing it to quote shame the

pores. And so the fact that two outlets, The Atlantic and New York Times just decided that wealthy white people are moving into neighborhoods gentrifying it and then in the process of doing it, leaving the curtains open to show people all of their expensive stuff and to bring shame on their neighbors is one of the most projection field articles I think that I've ever read, because like the mindset

to do that. And don't get me wrong, people show off nice stuff, right, get some somebody goes out and they buy themselves a nice car, which I could put in the garage. They'll leave it outside Brillo not you know, middle of the night maybe, but because you know you want bob down the street to see your new hellcat or whatever it is. Like I could, I could see that, but no, all right, more from the article on liquors have been baffled by the trend and sometimes are tempted

to pry. Although the phenomena is most visible in cities, the link between wealth and exposed windows extends across the United States. Let's see here. Well, I'm not gonna read the rest of it. Is you get the gist of it. Well, well, the article out to you, all right, So is those of you like the curtains open? Are you doing it to shame the pores? Very curious because according to the New York Times and The Atlantic, that is your motivation eight eight eight nine three four seven eight

seven four. I told you it was a lot of dumb stuff over the weekend between that and the navalney fall fallout, and the governor of Missouri is now beefing with Kansas City's mayor. It was just it was a whole lot of stupid, but none as stupid as the man milk controversy, which is a story I will share with you next here on the CaCO Day radio program.

Ah look at this, all right, so people are I've told you the curtains story is dumb as hell, man, But you know too, everything is they have attached a race of racial motive to or something, because that's really what they're driving at. And it's like, I give you an example of something that is clearly racist that was in the news Friday versus Oh, they don't have their curtains closed. They're obviously doing it to shame black people, which is what that article is saying. I know they use words

like gentrified neighborhoods, socioeconomic, but let's be let's be real. That's what the New York Times in Atlantic are accusing people of doing if they have their windows open, not because they want fresh air or light, but rather to taunt their economically challenged neighbors, especially in communities and neighborhoods where white people are gentrifying it. They're just using all those words to say the same thing, which is, you know, it's racist, which is not surprising from the

New York Times. All right, let me grab a call. Yeah, hey, Bob, what's up, thany Can you hear me? I can hear you, sir, Okay, Just want to make sure, yeah, I'm white. I am not African American. I am sure white. And I used to live over Florida Street in Greensburg, and when I was there, I loved that when people would open their curtains like that, you would see everything from their wives walking around the house in the middle of the night. Two nice extensive stuff. I mean. So I just wasn't n I

was down. I was you know, I will admit to it. I did drugs and I drunk and I needed money. So I noticed this stuff in these people's windows. And you're right, the people do lose the windows

open. They don't think about it. I got it stud breaking in the homes and everything over here in Guildford County, and over a four year period, I did not stop for breaking the people's houses over Therefore, I see their windows open and say, well, you know, I can do a smash and grass, I can break that glass out in two minutes and be grab that object and be gone and hit the farm shop over in full Syth

County. And you know, since I'm in Guilford and they would never even find it because unfortunately, when you take some one county and taking that in another county, normally that other county sheriff's department or investigators are not going to the county and to see it happenes in those bomb shops. So I had for four over four years, I had a pretty good bank account and was making very good because these idiots, they would leave their curtains open, and

it won't it just white. I'd see it in all different races, and I just couldn't start. You know, you're super stupid. I'm out here breaking it. The complex kind of keep coming back and people are still leaving their damn curtains open, and they would display stuff in their cars too. Just wanted their houses. Yeah, I mean I And when I got arrested, you know, the ship officer, I kept my mouth shut. I was like, they're not going to pin me for all this stuff I've done

number eight eight, eight, ninety three, four seventy stuff. Oh my gosh, Ah, Ross, have you seen the kilt story out of Texas? I haven't hold on. I gotta send this to Ross so you can post it. Oh why do why do people send me these things? Ross? By the way, currently is he has twenty bags of olive garden takeout where you're talking about shaming the pores by keeping the blinds open, and I don't do that because I'm an introvert. But there are ways that I show

off my wealth. And it's like every other day I'm bringing in the truck loads olive garden. So olive garden is not even open right now, people they open, He makes them open for him. Sometimes I don't even like bring the bags in. I take the bag out of the car and I place it on the porch in front of the door, and I just close it just to show off my wealth. Yeah, it's it's how he lures them in right there. So that man is endangered species for co collection.

It's really over the top. All right, let's send us to Ross and know what we're gonna do together as a team. Well, I'm just giving you the Hey, here's what's coming up this hour. We're gonna wait for him to see the headline. Okay, all right, so let me a foreigner. I love when you do this expecting the email to come right through, and it never does. That's why, no, no, no, So I'm gonna i will I will you know, give it a moment. I mean, it's it's in, it's within the company network. You would

think it would be quick. All right, so that is on its way to ross and then we're gonna, uh he'll see that and uh real quickly eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four you want to be on the show. Also coming up this hour, we got a candlelight vigil to

tell you about all sorts of lawsuit insanity. And if you didn't see it on Friday, this is this is a regular thing where you know, we hit a certain time amount of time and then previously classified documents, once they've been scoped over and made sure that it's not a threat to national security, they document that document, dump the stuff, and so you learn about stuff nobody knew about. You learn about stuff where people knew about it, but

different details have come out. And that was the thing that happened Friday, and there's some crazy crap in there, all right. Well, this is how you know he's Scottish though, right because he wasn't wearing anything underneath the kilt. Some way to say you're justifying this as some sort of proof of your preconceived notions and ignoring me. I mean, did he put some of the items back on the shelf. Yeah, that's exactly the show's remorse doing

this. Do you feel that that was an indicator of remorse and not? Hey, in my creepy, whacked out brain, it'll be really funny if people come in and buy this stuff. I feel like it's the second one. Well, there's a few things here. One possible remorse because he's putting the items back. So he did what he did. He was like, oh this is awful. Yeah, I feel bad, and we put it back on the shelf. So the ketchup goes back on the shelf or whatever.

But also, I don't I'm not familiar with the culture. It could be a cultural thing, and I don't want to judge another person's culture. So maybe that's fair. But from what you know. Also, hold on, his face is not painted blue, So no, it is not. But if you have you do you normally see that paired with a wife beater? You don't, do you? You did not? No? All right, I'm gonna read this headline. This is from the Blaze. This is

in Houston, Texas. Man in kilt arrested for allegedly shoving items up something that would be easily accessible when Donnie to kilt and returning them to the shelves at antique stores. Oh I'm just reading the antique store part. Yeah, I thought it was like a grocery store. No, No, this is this is electable anti you know what. He would put them up, and then he would he put him back, so he would wasn't planning and stealing

him at all. No, but there is. He's obviously he's wearing a kilt, So some would argue that if he was wearing jeans, this would be a lot more complicated in a semi public setting, right, because I'm sure he's kind of ducking into aisles where he's not, and because it's a surveillance that caught it. So like the dawning of the kilt to make this

hobby of his easier to conduct shows planning, wouldn't you say that? Or like if I'm a prosecutor, That's what I'm thinking, because you know he was if he was wearing jeans like a normal person in Houston, Texas, probably would be more difficult. A Texas man in a kilt was arrested after

several shoppers reported seeing him grab items at multiple antique stores. So he went, what's the word antiquing, but in his own way, shove the items into a particular area, as though he thought about he thought about getting some you know, like I guess maybe he was considering bringing some nineteen twenties dishware into prison with him, but then thought thought differently of it. I don't know. Harris County Constable Mark Kerman said in a post the office heard from

several concerned citizens about the kilted man and an antique star. By the way, does that mean you can then negotiate with the anti because you know how people buy antiques, They like negotiating for stuff. How do I know? I saw these two guys from Iowa that just drive around. This is all they do. I was just saying, I was just thinking this. I was gonna say it on a very special episode, which's what's the name of that, said Berrick cood Pickers, Right, right, is them and the

guys lead container in your in your barn. But it's been butt so I want to discount. That's That's what I'm saying. Right, do you go in and do you want to because that would like right? Yeah, right, you go ahead, and the old farmer he doesn't want to sell his old Coca colas, And they're like, what if I told you I just

put it my butt. Also on the flip side, if you had tay, Let's say you buy that antique item and then you take it into the pawn shop in Vegas and he's trying to scree on the price, like, ah, I'll give you two hundred. You'd be like, yeah, what if this is a very special model that's been in my butt? I never understood that because we went to an American picker show a lot. Uh yeah, as far as I know, Frank never did wear a kill and put anything up his bum, right right, But I think the tall guy would

do it. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. I don't remember his name, but yeah. Uh. Boy always like freaked me on this show is the bundling, because the Frank was known for his bundling. So he'd be like, I'm going to pick three items, give you a lower price, and you're gonna give me the money because I'm doing three on it. I'm like, why would he give you more money for less? Because well, because I think that the psychology is that minus the part where he put in his

butt ornut. But I think the psychology there is because at the end of the day, it's a larger pile of money that he will have. But now what I'm saying is it isn't though. Like so he'll be like, hey, I want five hundred dollars for this painting, and the guy will be like no, and he's like, all right, well I'm going to have the painting and the motorcycle and the gas can for five hundred. It's a bundle. And then the guy's like deal. I'm like, I don't

why are you taking that it's less money? Well yeah, no, no, no. But maybe he's identifying items that he feels are he's he's willing to overpay for one item if he underpays for another and still comes out on top. I don't know. But there a girl on that show too that would go back. There was she's she's a burlesque dancer. Oh that's right, yeah, she was kind of like non typically hot. I remember that, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, cause

you bring her. Oh, they would bring her around and they would get like deal after deal. Yeah. But also you can corrupt a lot more items, like twice fast you know what I'm saying, correct, ye, Like, and it was like if one of those two showed up in a kilt, that would look a little unusual, but she wears a skirt, right, nobody knows nothing. Everything looks normal. But also we're going to the store, the store to store do with this? Please say that.

I eventually identified the man as Mitchell Vest and arrested him. Local TV station obtained some of the surveillance video. It shows Vest walking around an antique store before Okay, well it shows exactly what you think it would show, all right, So what do you what's the question on everybody's mind right now? Ross what what's the question you're left with? What did he go with? Right? What exactly if did he decide needed that that treatment? And according

to the probable cause Affidavid, Among the items were a makeup brush. All right, that doesn't sound too bad in the grant, like if you if you're a gunpoint forced in the story, like, ah, something for that and you had to make a choice. Antique makeup brush probably not the worst, but it goes downhill from there. Also a antique bottle opener nope, a tobacco tent can what is that what is a tobacco tent? Can? I got questions? What is it? Tobacco tent? Can? Oh?

Okay, so it's just an old tobacco tin. Why why wouldn't you just say that, Yeah, it's an old like Prince Albert. Uh, you know, you get the tobacco in there. Still, it's you know, it's rectangular, it's it's kind of large. That's horrible. A restoration hardware piece. I don't even know what that is. Also, if I am somebody who from time to time would shop at this store, am I going

back? Because this is just the stuff you saw, you know what I'm saying, Like, this is just the stuff they had on video or was witnessed by somebody. And if this guy was going store to store. In the Affidavid, both store owners listed the items that they felt were tainted and the value. Let's see here, how much was it? Well, you know they're jacking the price. Okay, So it was one hundred and thirty dollars at one store, seventy four dollars at the other. And yeah,

there's there's video when we send the story out. So anyway, I don't know what you did over the weekend, But that's what this dude was up to. Yeah, I don't feel like I could. Oh you know what, I just thought of something, guys, all right, so next time I'm let's say, next time, you're up in the mountains or whatever,

right you're doing trying to do a nice weekend. Maybe you're maybe you're doing that drive north to Asheville on the Blue Ridge up to Blade Valley or something right or wherever, and and the wife wants to stop at the antique or the knicknackt doore because you know those are everywhere, like that one in little Switzerland. That's just a tourist trap. All right, show her this story. You're like, yeah, we could go in there, but what about

this? And I don't know, maybe it'll save you a little time and not having a bunch of extra stuff at your house. Just a thought. Yeah. They don't point out that the kilt was premeditated, but I feel like the kilt was premeditated? How much? And then they release them one hundred dollars bond? Perfect? All right? Well, give this guy a show on the whatever channel the Picker Show was on. Go from there. That is not how I thought we'd start the week. But here we go

all right over the weekend. That's funny. But that's funny only because yeah, I had tim for a moment, think about it's called patita. No it's not, no, right, Yeah, the patina makes it more valuable, you know, to clean it because some people make the mistake of taking the patina off and then it takes away the value. You learned that from both American pickers and pond stars, is it. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, yeah, you want to leave the patita. You want

the nastiest, oldest sign that you can find. So maybe that's what he was doing. Maybe he was taking stuff that didn't have proper patina on it and he thought he could flip it. You know what I'm saying, Right, He's like, ah, let me grab this stuff and it'll be old, you know what. You know, it'd be a lot more interesting. Not on that show, but what's the one on PBS where the Antiques Roadshow?

The Antiques road Show where they have like the really proper British guy who gets really excited over a dog painting, right, somebody sitting there pretending like they're not going to sell their moms who's now dead? Prize possession. No, I got it from this. I recently saw a video. It was a Vietnam vett who had like an original Rolex in a box that he bought after the war whatever, and he got the dude so much saw stip it on on YouTubers. And now imagine if that watch was like the one in

pulp fiction. Hey man, the captors would have taken it had they found it. So right, I don't know why you're making life this poor man was in a camp. That's the kid's birth right right there. Yeah, it's in a pow camp. He's got to do what he's got to do. And you know, probably had to have Patina too. So yeah, I know he bought it at the PX and like in like uh, Philippines or something, and it was some old role I saw somebody was in the really into watches. Who I know sent me that and I'm like, oh

okay, But then I thought, why was he in Manila? I bet I know, so got kind of a rep back in the day. Look it up lots of Patina just you know, do you want to google that? All right? Well, there you go. Happy Tuesday when you're trying to get up and heard the kids and get ready for work after the three day weekend, and your brain's not fully turned out, but is fully turned on now now, speaking of over the weekend, the NBA All Star Game,

I didn't watch it. I saw that there's a bunch of stories emerging from it, but the only one I care about is this Charles Barkley. All Right. So he's one of the commentators for TNT's broadcast, and he's sitting there with Reggie Miller Draymond Green, and the event was in Indianapolis, and obviously it's still, you know, winter ish in Indy. So they

were making lighthearted conversations about the weather, and Charles Barkley went off. Man, he went absolutely off, and the folks around him were not pleased with it. Here is here is Barkley in this conversation, seventeen degrees Hey, Reggie, Yes, if you had, if you had a chance of being cold, of being around a bunch of homeless in San Francisco. Yes, we can't even walk around. I can't walk around a bulletproof bad Charles Barkley

going off on San Francisco. Reggie Miller is not happy by the way they were, and but Barkley doesn't give a crap man. So yes, of all the events that happened over the weekend, that's the only one that I found amusing associated with that event. All right, Well, you're running around the house looking at items with Patina on it. We got to take a break, so hang on. Somebody left a severed human leg on the New York City subway system, which somehow I feel like that's not even the craziest

thing that's ever been left on there. But also I feel like, because I mean, they got surveillance cameras or how else would we have the amazing crazy hobos shoving people into the tracks videos? How are you not able to figure out who that is? So if you're listening and you lost your leg on the New York City subway system over the weekend, they have it and would like to talk to you. Where was It's in the Bronx all it

says Concourse neighborhood. So I guess if that means anything to anybody, that's where a human leg was found. Now you ross you mentioned serial killer, That is like maybe I don't know, because I feel like it was actually I know, it's a long three day weekend. Probably some people maybe imbibed a little more than they should. Daytona was over the weekend, although it got moved to Monday because of the rain. Last ray about it next week. He's not in this week, but uh NBA All Star all sorts of

craziness, and you know, all crazy stuff happens. Somebody loses a leg. Let's see here, right, phone call real quick, Anthony, what's up? Hey? I was just gonna say, that's that's an episode of an antique road show. I would actually watch right right now. The expert was Yeah. The expert be like, it's just got a wonderful poutina. Yeah, but it's kind of John Oder about it. You'd called in just

for the puns or just mess up to it. It's okay maybe maybe maybe no. Look because every time whoever the appraiser on that show is is always some really stuffy British dude. Right, So just the idea of him spinning around the item in his hand for five minutes before the owner divulges the origin story would be amazing to me. Could you imagine how bad if if it increases the value, how bad that commit center would smell? Hey? Man, people just want to get paid. What are you gonna do? All

right? So yeah, thanks, Yeah, you don't tell him the story first, you let him, you let him put his hands all over that, and then be like, oh, by the way, I got into this antique shop in Houston and it's kind of famous. Let me tell you why. Yeah, I tune into that for sure. All right, seven thirty nine. I gotta do other stories or I will just make childish jokes for the next hour and twenty minutes, which perhaps some people would prefer.

All Right, we're gonna this is gonna take a dark turn, so just ready yourself. Speaking of stuffy British people. A letter. Let's see here who actually issued this. So it is from it's from the NHS, which is their national health system, and uh. They put out an advisory letter to hospitals in the United Kingdom and in it they talked about babies and breastfeeding and all that all that stuff and if you if you've ever had a bit.

I've never have, but I've heard multiple people explain to me that if they go to if you go into a hospital and you pop a baby out, a group of folks will swarm you to tell you about breastfeeding, and they are very adamant about it. Ross would you say that's a fair representation of what it was? Super weird? Yeah, yeah, they're like the breastfeeding Nazis, like, you need to do this, but how did you get in a room? They did it? Just hands you a pamphlet.

It was super weird, Okay, very militant about the breastfeeding. Doctor Rachel James, medical director of the University of Sussex, who is one of the signatories on the letter, wanted all new parents within the national health system in the UK to be fully informed about the process. But with the latest language and lingo and all that good stuff. So now medical facilities will present an argument not just in favor of breastfeeding, but rather explaining that there's some terminology

and some things you need to understand. First and foremost language new language includes the term not breastfeeding but chest feeding. Right, you've probably heard that before. And if you are a parent, perhaps one who just popped a baby out looking at you, girls, you are a birthing parent and not you know, the mother, so you're the birthing parent. But where this thing

goes even more off the rails. The new information will allow hospital officials to extol the virtues of not mother's milk, not breast milk, but milk, explaining that men's milk is equal to mother's milk when it comes to the health of the baby. So you don't call it mother's milk, don't call it brea. Instead, understand that milk from both men and women, men's milk and women's milk is equally healthy for babies. Which I've heard the term men

and I've heard that pair together. I guess I misunderstood what it was in reference to. All this time, the term human milk, they say would be is the preferred language. However, the document goes on and the and the uh. The information goes on to explain that whether it is men's milk or women's milk, both are equally nutritious for the baby, so as to do away with what they say was gender biased information that was being provided to

new parents medication, and it goes straight. Look, it talks about the stuff that you would expect to be talked about when people are getting medical information about lactation, and you know, medication that you might not want to take if you are in fact the one who is the mom here. Even though I'm not allowed to say that, which is good information, right, right. You know, they tell hey, if you're if you're breastfeeding, maybe don't go out and do a bunch of hair, right, that's good advice.

However, having to convince people that what you're talking about in both instances is mother's milk and I don't care what you say about it is a bridge too far. The document also issues information based on multiple studies and one unique issue as it pertains to transgender women to men right who may give birth and

may that there is a problem with high testosterone counts. Obviously, it is not natural testosterone, although women do have a certain amount of natural testosterone, but rather testosterone that may be imbued in the body because you're taking hormones. And shockingly, doctors have found out that maybe that is not the best thing to be feeding your kid, although it might make the kids swol and I think about it, right, little six pack abs on your newborn, But

either way, they don't recommend it. So just something to think about. See, we're here to educate as well, and that's really the important part, all right. Like I mentioned Race Stagic, he's playing hooky all week. Decided I'm gonna go to a race. Oh yeah, that and so Jeff mar is in for him. Jeff, how are you doing this morning, sir? And wonderful? How are you? I I'd be better if I had raised vacation time. Well, wouldn't we all? Oh my goodness.

Yeah, So the race did go off on Monday instead of Sunday, So we'll check in with him next week on how it went. But since you know, we got to come to work, Jeff, I guess we'll do the weather thing. What's going on? Yeah, Well, it's going to be a pretty quiet weather pattern setting up for us here into Thursday afternoon, then Thursday night and early on Friday. A front we'll bring in some

showers, but it's going to be drying on the cold side. As you make your way out early on this Tuesday, we'll see increasing clouds through the afternoon and hit fifty seven for a high, and then clearing overnight with a

low dipping in the for twenties. Now a whole lot of change tomorrow, just a little bit more sunshine for the afternoon with the high fifty seven Sunday and warmer Thursday after sixty four and then on Friday We'll start off the day with showers, then some breaks in the clouds of the high sixty six. A beautiful weekend, a little bit cooler, but sunshine Saturday and Sunday with highs in the upper fifties to low sixties. All right, Jeff Barr,

appreciate it. We'll talk in an hour, sir, sounds good, and we'll take a break. Hang on, Ross, if they shut the olive garden down a wake four as you'd be beside yourself. Let's just be honest. But in Charleston, West Virginia, it was not an olive garden, but rather the Hooters. Yes. Sadly, after many Hooters enthusiasts and Charleston found out that their favorite restaurant was ready to be demolished, the property will now be converted into a Sheets right the gas station, which sheets is good?

I like sheets. I left them very sad. Restaurant goers decided to hold a candlelight vigil for the Hooters. All right. I got some questions because every everybody they're interviewing in this article, they're you know, they're telling like why they're sad about this, and they're saying things like, oh, they have great wings, I love the wings or a good happy hour for the beer there. I feel like they're all trying to come up with stuff.

You know, it would be amazing none that I think about it, because some of the one guys quoted is feeling bad for the staff, right what why don't why don't just I'm just throwing this out there for anybody who's in and I'm sure there's somebody listening. Is in any sort of management role within sheets? Can I make a suggestion hire the girls to work with the sheets. I hire them to be the cashiers or the kitchen people. You're not allowed to talk to bet an order from a computer and if you have

questions, they just stare at you. Yeah, I mean, and you know what? And and tell them they can just wear the same uniform. That'd be amazing. How many guys out there are responsible for putting fuel in the vehicles where for whatever reason, like one spouse just won't guess my buddy's wife, I don't know if she knows how to put gas in her car because he keeps it fueled up. All right, Well, how much more motivated would you be? Right? You're you're the car could drop to three

quarters of a tank. Could he be like, I better busy week coming up, I better go top it off. You're gonna be this would be This would be fantastic marketing for for sheets and look in a in a in a world where you not have to compete against BUCkies and many of their locations. I feel like this would be a solid move. But yeah, they are holding a candlelight and I'm just saying this. I feel like there's a solution here if people are are willing to think critically about it, and that's

free. I'm giving you that for free, So take it, run with it. I don't need anything. Maybe some sheets gift cards, right, can go and inspect the sheets. Wants it up. It's up, just to make sure it fits with my vision. But otherwise, good to go. You're welcome, all right. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Also, maybe have some antiques there. I'm just saying,

you never know, all right, let me get over to this. So, following the parade shooting, as they're referring to it in Kansas City, the mayor of Kansas City is upset with the governor. He's upset with the governor because of the old Canard that there is a word you're not allowed to use because it is inherently racist, even though it is a very accurate word to describe many situations. And well, I'm sure you've heard it. Here

is the mayor very upset with the governor. I have respect for the governor, We get along. Well, I disagree strongly with how he would describe that situation. I certainly do think this was criminal activity. It was lawlessness, and I think that that's troubling. But thugs is a dog whistle in the most classic sense, and I have seen this dog whistle time and again.

There's this kind of giant conservative theory on social media now that the reason that monk shots haven't been shown is because the purported defendants are black, and if it were a white defendant, we would have just shown them. It is absolutely preposterous. There are protections to juveniles, right, except that's not the case. That is one case, but that is not the totality of

things. For the same reason, people are not stupid, they recognize when media outlets, whether through their own decision making or because it is the way that these things are communicated by law enforcement based on what politicians want to the citizenry out there. They they get what's going on. When the police are looking for a suspect and the descriptor is it was a male, when the old descriptor would include a lot more information. People are not dumb, but

also what word, among others, how is thug? And actually, let me tell you what the guy what he actually said. He said, we can't let this is the governor, Mike Parson. We can't let some thugs and criminals take over and ruin in this case, this, this, this parade, this Hey, you just won the Super Bowl gathering which had eight

hundred members of law enforcement unseen and tens of thousands of people. If you can't use the word thug to describe somebody who would decide in the middle of that to open fire to the tune of twenty plus rounds, murdering somebody, wounding over a dozen others. In fact, let's see eleven eleven of the people wounded were children, and the the individual killed was the mom to two children. So you have eleven kids wounded, this woman is dead, You

got another you know, ten or so adults that are wounded. But you had somebody who because they had a beef decided that it was fine to open fire. I'd thug is a very appropriate word. And we're playing we're playing games over this. And to the mayor's point, you probably saw the Ann Coulter audio or exchange on Bill Maher's show, and she laid out this thing

that I think a lot of people think is accurate. And we've seen it not just when it is race based, but also when there is things like the Manifesto and the Christian school shooter in Tennessee, because the very same week you had another incident where the information did come out quickly, but things I was just I'm going to play this an culture audio coming up. Let me grab some calls right after we do that, so hang on, callers.

But a culture on Bill Maher over the weekend, and whether you like Ann Culter you don't, it is entertaining to watch her on Bill Maher. And if you've, of course, you all remember the Donald Trump Wins twenty sixteen super cut that had about nine billion views on YouTube, and one of the first cuts depending on which version you watch, is and Culter on Bill Maher and they simply ask her, of the Republicans that are in the race, this is you know, there's still sixteen of them in who has the best

shot of getting the nomination and being president? And she said Donald Trump and Joy Reid and a handful of others started laughing at her. Well, obviously she was correct. So there's beef with the mayor of Kansas City, who's mad at the governor for using the term thugs to describe somebody who had opened fire into a crowd, wounding twenty and killing somebody. That this is what we're arguing over. She decided to comment on that, and what she said

is accurate. And I can give you a ton of examples. But the fact that Bill Maher and Van Jones, I don't know if they're disingenuous or just dumb pushback on this is amazing. I mean, we don't know who did this shooting. By the way, the Super Bowl shoe. We have some idea, what if it were a white man shooting, we'd know, Yes, well we don't know. I mean that we know it's not a white man, I can tell you that much. Do you think they were

repressing that reporting? They wouldn't tell us about the transgender woman that shot up the Christian school for what like a year, oh, San Bernardino out here, remember the crazy terrorist Muslims. That's when I first noticed they're not telling us who it is. It's not a white male. The longer they go without telling you it's not a white male. Okay, well we don't for this one for right now as of Friday night, February sixteen. Now we

don't officially know. Okay, you know you have special powers or she has the ability to run, pay attention to news, to see the pictures and hear the descriptions of the people who tackled and ask themselves that. And I understand the juvenile angle to some extent, but that obviously doesn't hold true everywhere ross What was the extent you use the example the kid with his face painted right, There's tons of them. There's Kyle Rittenhouse, there's the Covenom kid

who was staring at the the drummer right there in the Capitol. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Recently, the murderers suv uh, the murderous suv right, yeah, yeah, the headdress at the Kansas City game. Yeah yeah, there's a local example. People. People know that it's it's so pass that people make jokes about it, right, because it's so you hear a witness description and they're like, uh, it was a dude, all right, you got anything else? Was was a dude with hair,

which, by the way, is discriminatory against people with alopecia. So yeah, I'm just throwing that out there. It's so dumb, all right to the calls Baul, what's up hey, case See, I just want to say this, This has been going on for a while. Back in the eight these Jesse Jackson start complaining, oh, you keep showing black men black men every time there's a there's a crime. Well, if they're committing the crime, you show them. And it's not people fault that the prodep

people that are predominantly doing a lot of these murder these game violence. It's black. And yes, people knew it was somebody black. Case last week they showed the big black dude wearing red shirt. Then they show the young black dude with a dress. And this whole thing started under this Black Lives Matter that, oh black men were victims of white projection. Thug. Oh they don't call them thugs. Well, what do you do when you call

a culture that calls themselves thugs? How many young black men? If you go on their Facebook Twitter you go, you see, I'm a thug, thug, thug. How many of them dressed like thugs and caned themselves like thugs. And yes, there is a way to dress like a thug. There is a way to carry yourself like a thug. But all of a sudden, when people notice, hey, this culture is sluggish, and I must say it, because I'm pretty sure you would say, Jamal, I

can't say that the black black culture is thuggish. Majority of black culture to this day is thus some of it celeb Isn't there a rapper whose name is thug? How many? Well that's how many? Oh young thumg. Oh, the one young thing here was Oh and the one that's Fanny Willis is I think prosecuting yeah, young thugs. She's prosecuting him in Atlanta for drugs and games and look how she acts. But that's another sot, another thing. But yeah, k s that's the whole thing. The black community did

all this crying, all this bullhorn. After Saint George Floyd of the Fending all met for Lot Baptist Church. They sat there and said, oh, we're getting a bad image, of bad image, and we are living up to that bad image. It's not a bad image, it's what we ourselves as black folk, are putting out there. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, if you're gonna if you go shoot up in the middle of a crowded event like that and you're doing so because of some some sort of that's

that's That's what I'm gonna go with. That's the word I'm gonna go with, among others. I got lots of words for people who would who would do that, white, black, brown, or whatever. And you're right, and the behavior speaks to it whomever it may be. So and you know what, case don't people notice this is what stands to happen to a lot of black officials if they get into things like mayors and offices, there's things they keep trying to have this view. Their job is to uphold black

image instead of uphold a law. Perfect example, Durham, we had a black mayor a judge, and look all the shoes and stuff we had the Durham. But she wouldn't go up there and say, judge O'Neil. She wan't to go up there and say thugs. We have thugs hearing Durham, we have Cluton's here and thrumb Durham. But they won't say that's always under privilege and all this other crap that don't determine whether or not you commit crimes.

And for all the poor people who don't commit crimes, it's a slap in the face, especially to the black community who had one time, we was in poverty, We were discriminated at one time, and we didn't do this type of behavior. But today there is no white man stopping us, there is no racial discrimination stopping us. But we prefer to be thugs and then get mad when you call us thugs. Well again, for me,

it is the behavior, and you're right. And I got a great example of actual, really racist stuff based on something a TV station did over the weekend, which I'll get to here in just a few minutes. By the way, you're almost through the worst of it, So congratulations, because arguably it's drinking that stuff the night before that is the worst part of a Colonoscar Peachamo. So look, I just pulled up. Look I'm actually in front

of the place right now about to step in. But I'm telling you if I come back, woop and that man smoking a cigarette, Yeah, we hit. We had a waterful time, KC. I'm running. Yeah all right, yeah, tell the doctor you were antiquing over the weekend too, that's what they want to hear. So all right, get out of here. Uh Jamal is about to get probed. So hey man, that's the ross. Have you had the pleasure of one of those yet? Have you had the No? I'm not that he is yet, but no, you

don't have to be. Yeah, no, the last time. And so I had my my my yearly physical like a month or so ago, and the guy came in. He was like, all right, he's like, next year is the year snapping gloves. Well, yeah, they shouldn't see. I'm so excited about that. That was It really was because I had, I had, I had. I was in the hospital literally for an intestinal thing, and they're they're like, all right, well we're gonna have

to do a colonoscopy, and I was I was ready. I was gonna pull my driver's license out because I'm like, uh huh no, no, not me yet. So but by far the worst part was having to drink all that crap the night before because you're just it does what it's supposed to. So by by the time you get in there, you feel so defeated by that you're just like, let's get this over with, right, You're propping yourself up on the table. So all right, well one day, one day man? All right, uh not Matt, Okay, what's up?

Person who's not Matt read guys, thanks for taking my call. You bet go ahead. So I first of all, educate me a little bit on the news. So, like during that commercial break a little while ago, you got a guide that's doing the like news updates podcast from in your studio. Well, he's got his own studio, but he's yeah, he's he's local, he's out of Raleigh, so he's got he's in the news.

He's got a news his own news apparatus. So like Ross is in his own studiato, Yeah, I have my own studio, and Kyle, who's our news guy, has has his own So so y'all need to deliver some donuts to him. Because that report on the boom in Durham that so, while while the news was going on, I had to just read an article from the News and Observer. I've never read a real article that read more similarly to the Babylon b in my entire life. Yeah, they they

they swing for the fences on some of that insanity. No, occasionally, Kyle has an interesting delivery technique and I I I laughed as well at the Durham story. So did Yeah it was you didn't catch it, Kyle said. For those who didn't catch it, Kyle says in his news he said, uh, peace in the Middle East thanks to the Durham City Council who voted for a ceasefire resolution because you know they have that purview five to two yesterday and I did laugh. So anyway, what but that's not what you

called to talk about. What was what was the topic you want to know? No? Yeah, so so this this this South Carolina sheets that is coming into town West Virginia, West Virginia. Yeah yeah, Oh it's in West Virginia. Why did I think it was because it's Charleston. It's Charleston, but Charleston, West Virginia. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah you said Charlie did West Virginia? Yeah? Right? Okay, So yeah, how your your comment was, why don't we just hire this former staff to support

the sheets? Yeah? And I'm like, well, I this could be the first sheets in the country. That's got fifteen full service pumps. Right now, I see what you did there. I'm just saying, look, I want I don't want these ladies losing their gigs. I'm just I'm thinking, I'm thinking of these these hard working waitresses, and I'm just saying, look, the payscales probably similar. Just you know, now, yeah you were you were sling and chicken wings earlier, and now you're you're a cashier,

right so, and you don't have to pay for uniforms. And I bet they do brisk business, sir. So let's try to help and be like, hey, if you need gat. That's the thing. That's where guys who get in trouble and thanks for the call, they're Matt or not Matt. That's where guys who get in trouble, they'd be like, honey, I'm gonna go fill up the suv and then they would come home and

it would be on empty and they'd be like, what happened? You're like, well, Charleston is a very long drive, and so I think that's how you'd get busted if I had to guess. But you know, there you go, all right, now you know what, let me just say this. I don't need you to email me your colonoscopy stories. Folks.

I'm good, thank you. Don't one two, three, four of you, four of you wanted to share and not everything needs to be shared, is all that I'm saying, all right, eight eight, eight, nine, three four seventy eight Sevenfore you got to set some ground rules down. Uh and oh I mentioned with Jamal that's what I was gonna go to. Sorry, a TV station over the weekend is apologizing and it's why do they always get in trouble during these uh these stupid little non news segments, right,

like, uh, do you remember Kittler? Do you remember the Kittler incident? If you don't remember the Kitler incident, they have like this stupid little segment where people send in their pet photos, right, and somebody sent a picture of this cat. And the way that the cat's coloration works is it's a predominantly white cat and then it's got splotches of black and brown, and it just so happens that directly under its little nose, it has a

little rectangular patch of hair. And the cat's name is Kittler. Right, yeah, well you under and in the in the goofy Pets segment. They were like, and listen, this is viewer Mike's cat named Kitler, and like this this bubblehead didn't understand what she was showing. And I don't know whether she also gathers the cat photos and was the only person who had eyes on this thing. But the name of the cat, coupled with the fact

that it looks like it's got a Hitler mustache, is immediately recognizable. And I thought that that would be the shining example of not paying attention and having to issue an apology. I can remember if they fired her or not. I don't remember following up, but as you can imagine, if they had to issue an apology. Well, then the TV station in Portland decided they said hold my beer, and they were doing a segment where people send in

their old timey photos, right, and it's a lot of stuff. It's like, hey, here's my mom and dad from the sixties, here's my grandfather after he got home from the war, and so viewers would send their photos in and one of the photos that was sent in is from the nineteen fifties and it's a bunch of boy scouts at like a fair and they're at a booth rethrow at the milk jugs and they had to issue an apology. Here it is, that's all the time we have. Thanks so much for

joining us on the good stuff. Tonight, we're going to leave you with a few more of your wonderful throwback photos. Thanks so much for sending them in Coachently, everybody, have a great night, all right, So now the photos are they are? There's one Oh oh wait, what's that? Oh my gosh, what's the one with the boy scouts? What is happening here? And when I tell you, when I tell you that, there is no way, unless Helen Keller was assembling the photo montage, that this

should have happened, I am not exaggerating. Ross. I didn't tell you what it was. Were you able to pick up on why that photo might be problematic immediately? And I thought, because of what the story is, I thought it was going to be something that isn't racist, that they were perceiving as or something bad that was not right because the one photo before they show like kids with their guns gun training, like, oh, this is

an anti gun thing, and then it shows the actual photo. I'm like, oh, dear lord, yeah, yeah, So the actual photo in question is of the boy Scouts at whatever this booth is, except it's not called a dunk booth. It's not like, hey, come throw at the milk cans. It's knocked down the N word, baby, and it's in big letters in this thing. And somebody had that photo, sent that photo. Somebody assembled that photo at the TV station and literally included it in a

montage. And it's not in a distance either. It is prom obviously, I you just gotta go see it. It's out there, and obviously they're apologizing. I don't know how that happened, but it happened. We'll be back the death of Russian opposition dude and some claimed former CIA asset navalni. Right, So this is the dude who was in prison who they tried to kill him with nerve agent years ago. He's wasting away in a gulag. He does a video conference like one day seems I guess, as healthy as

you can being shut away in a gulag. And the next day apparently he went for a walk and just dropped it. And obviously anything having to do with putin nobody buys that stuff, so it wasn't There's an article about a woman who was sentenced to fifteen days in jail for quote, publicly mourning Navalney's death, and the outrage that that has brought. And they couldn't help themselves.

A writer for The Guardian along with this, it's like a substack thing called pamphlets, decided to write something in comment about the story and the outrage that people see over this young woman standing in a court who was public and her opposition to what happened in Volney now going to do fifteen days and this I have to read this to you because it's just I hope you're sitting out

all right. Here we go. So they got the picture in the article says young Russian woman being sentenced to fifteen days in jail for publicly mourning Navalney's stuff and above, excuse me, I got the hiccups now. Oh no, I wonder if I've been poisoned ross. Oh no, what did putin get to my tea this morning? All right? Well, better get this out quick, all right? It says the United States is not any better. The United States arrested fourteen thous in George Floyd mourners, thousands of which

remain in in for profit prisons. Do you remember the big the big purge of the George Floyd mourners that they arrested for mourning. Did you realize that fourteen thousand people were arrested for mourning George Floyd. I did not. I didn't. I was I guess I was under a false impression. I did not realize that, like what was going on in places like Portland was was, you know, just people trying to do you remember how much they were

mourning in Portland, especially around that Federal courthouse. All the morning that was going on. I feel like every day we had a new story in the stack about mourning in Portland or some other place. I didn't realize it was fourteen thousand mourners that were arrested. So that's sorry. That was just a big blind spot for me, I guess when I was assembling the news.

And then Minneapolis, remember all the morning in Minneapolis, including on Lake Street, literally including the Target that I used to shop at when I lived in Minneapolis, when I lived in that part of town, and basically that whole street into uptown. Just the morning has left it unrecognizable to what I remember during my time living there. And then obviously we had more. Remember when the governor came out to mourn with the people and had his mask off,

remember that photo. So yeah, yeah, fourteen thousand George Floyd mourners. In fact, I believe there was morning in Charlotte over the weekend and the police had to step in to break up the morning. We'll talk to We'll have Pete Calender on later in the weekend. I'm sure we'll touch on that. But anyway, there you go. Oh man, that is I was so misinformed, But now we're good. So this story out of New York's crazy Saint Patrick's Cathedral very uh, I guess the very famous church. Uh.

For for a lot of reasons. It's well, I remember it's where was it? Who was it who got in trouble? Is it Howard Stern? That was a big thing he got in trouble, right, wasn't the bit he sent a couple in to have sex in the confession booth? Was Opie and Anthony? That's right? Yeah, they sent somebody there to have sex in the confession in the in the confession both, right, and so

that that was one of the stories. So now they're apologizing and had to hold a special church service to essentially purge the demons based on an incident that happened on Friday of video servest of a funeral mass for an individual by the name of Cecilia Gentilly at the famous New York Cathedral, and to say that it raised some eyebrows for a number of reasons would be an understatement. First

and foremost, Gentilly was famously an atheist. And if you know anything about doctor and religious doctrine, especially within the Catholic Church, and they're not the only religion, but having a funeral mass inside of the church or being buried in one of the cemeteries, you kind of have to be a member. It's not as it's not as hold fast as it was, but it is

a thing. So when the video surfaced of the transgender atheist funeral and you heard the audio, to say that many people were outraged would be an understatement. Here we go, well, welcome to Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Except on Easter Sunday, we don't really have a crowd that this that is this well turned out. You know, hilarious jokes too, anyway, all right, so everyone's very excited and it is quite the crowds as you'll see in the

Idiot it was. And it was celebrity though too. And sequence was apparently shiny sequence, it was apparently the despot normal surface noments. Okay, all right, all right anyway, ha ha ha hounny funny are you get to it with that major the kind of accommodation? Well, okay, okay, yep. And they're trying to move it along too, because like it's it's it's really weird. What's going on? Anyone who's been to a Catholic funeral, Catholic mass, it is unrecognizable and it may not sound that way,

but once you get into this. Oscar Diez, who identified as Gentilly I had quite the fan base and quote a fabulous legacy pearls and various shiny dresses worn, and that's just what Gentilly was wearing. Obviously, the crowd was bordrn like you don't see a lot of feather boas at any of the Catholic masses I've been to. But hey, you know what, it's New York a little more progressive. But how did the service actually sound? Well that's

where we're gonna go ahead and get into this. Tell me if this is something you recognize for anyone who's ever been to a to a funeral at a Catholic church, this horror, this great horror, Saint Cecilia, mother of all whores. So that's different. And I've been to quite a few Catholic funerals. I've never heard the deceased referred to as the mother of whores or

a horror for that matter. And so this, this is, this literally transpired in this church, and apparently only after the church officials, in hearing from folks, decide, you know, they got to do something. People are upset, so they literally held a I'm sorry the name of it escapes

me, but an atonement mass. I can't remember what it's exactly called, but basically in do you remember that tech in Texas, that priest who was filming a porno in the in the church, they had to like purge it as the oldest That's what they did over the weekend following the outrage ensued. I've never seen anything like it, and that is a church with a lot of legacy that I am. I'm baffled by how it was allowed to play out, But we'll tweet out the video if you want to check it,

including the the horror eulogy or whatever they were going for. Bag Ross labeled at three ards of my button. Bar thank you, because I knew exactly which one it was, all right, Jeff bar from the Weather Channel unfortunately as to follow that, But that's okay. He's got an easy gig with what is i'll say, comfortable weather this week. We appreciate it. Go right ahead, sir, and I've got a calling well day coming up next

Monday, when we see sunshining and get into the low seventies. So hey, man, if you're not feeling well, you're not feeling well, Yeah, I mean, what can you do exactly? But yeah, temperatures on the rise as we make our way through the next few days into the middle portion of this week, up to fifty seven today, we'll see some clouds streaming in during the afternoon. It's still dry and then clearing tonight with a low dipping to twenty nine into the upper fifties with sun tomorrow about a high

sixty four on Thursday. With China wins increasing out of the southwest front brings in showers Thursday night and early on Friday. That rainy exits during the afternoon of the high of sixty six, a little bit cooler behind the front, with sunshine during the weekend and highs in the upper fifties to low sixties. Then a beautiful start the week on Monday will be sunny and warmer as the high temperature hits seventy two degrees. All right, Jeff, thank you,

we'll chat with you tomorrow again. You have a good one, sir. And Joan Donagher is in for Jeff Bellinger. We'll talk to her coming up next. Joan Doneagher in for Jeff. Joan, what's happening well? TV maker Visio will become part of Walmart now. Walmart says it has a deal to buy Visio for two and a third billion dollars. It's looking, according to The Wall Street Journal, to make AD revenue a big part of its future. That deal would let Walmart sell ads through the TVs that Visio makes

by giving it access to a TV operating system. Walmart. Meantime, scenes consumer caution ahead. The retail giant expects us to be very selective in our spending this year because we're spending less per trip, but the company says we actually have been shopping often. The other big deal today, of course, is the plan by Capital One to buy Discover for thirty five billion dollars in

stock. Capital One says yes, Discover cards will still exist if regulators approve the deal, and an economics professor says it was triggered by the huge expense of technology. There was less doing at home Depot than the home improvement retailer wanted to see. Last quarter and last year, the company's increase in profits fell short of expectations year over year, and so did sales. Comparable sales for the quarter fell a not a tick less than predicted, but in the

US, comparable sales fell four percent. High mortgage rates, the slowdown in construction, all of that gets the blame. Law enforcement agencies from eleven different countries say they have busted one of the most prolific hacker groups of all time, lock Bit. They seized eleven thousand domains used by Lockbit and its affiliates to launch ransomware attacks. One official saying we have hacked the hackers now. The FBI was in on this and two Lockbed actors now have been arrested in

Poland and Ukraine. French and US authorities have issued three international warrants and five indictments in all and finally, Casey, Tinder is falling following the old journalism rule. You know, if your mother says she loves you, verify it with a second source. Now, Tinder is expanding its ID verification program. Because of artificial intelligence, it can make it hard to tell who's real and who's a scammer. Tinder is going to roll out that system here in the

US and some other countries in coming months. It's already tested it in Australia and New Zealand, and apparently it works, Tinder says, because folks who've been verified saw a two thirds increase in matches compared to those who didn't.

You need a valid driver's license or passport and self recorded video. A third party checks the birth date and whether the face in the video selfie matches your profile pictures and I d ah okay, well, I uh, I feel like it was nice to have an excuse as to why nobody wrote you back. So now they're going to get rid of that. Yeah, unfortunately. All right, Well, Joan, appreciate it. We'll chat all week, So talk to you tomorrow. All right, talk to you tomorrow. Thanks,

there you go, Joan Donager Bloomberg News. All right, real quick, I started, I teased this story and then we got sidetracked because the guy in the kilt was putting antiques in his rear end. So let me get back to this. So the CIA declassifying several documents, and this is something they do kind of on the regular and I thought it was fascinating because there's a couple stories that we knew about, but we got more detail on,

like Project Acoustic Kitty. You've probably heard about Acoustic Kitty, right if you don't remember, In the nineteen sixties, the CIA spent twenty million dollars training a cat and surgically altering the cat by implementing a microphone and a small radio transmitter in the cat. And the reason was the Russian embassy. There was a lot of stray cats, I guess whatever, and they and they also had cats there. So the plan was, you wire up the cat,

you go, you let it go. It runs onto the grounds undetected because other cats, and who knows, maybe it ends up in a room capturing some important information. The problem was, on the day they went to release the cat, they were across the street from the embassy. They let the cat out of the car and as it is blining it for the Russian embassy, it is immediately smoked by a taxi. So you have a twenty

million dollars stray that gets run over two seconds into its mission. So they released more documents on that, and a story I've told on the show before, just I'm gonna have to rapid fire this the rigging of the Philippine elections in the nineteen fifties. So the dude we wanted in there was a puppet, but he was also not the preferred candidate. So how did they How did they win? Because the guy who was going to win was he was

freedom fighter dude. They had a bunch of rebels living in the mountains, and so they did two things. One they made the dude look like he was a big old man whore, which culturally was not a good thing. But two, they couldn't figure out how do you get how do you get the rebels in in in the in the mountains right? How do you deal with that? And so what they CIA did is they knew that they had

a local superstition about vampires or essentially a vampire thing. So what they did is they went into the went into the mountains and they found one of the centuries, one of the lookouts. They grabbed the dude killed him, putting pretend vampire bites all over his now dismembered body, and it worked so efficiently that due to the superstition, many of the rebels left the woods because they

were heard of the vampires and successfully the CIA. They even made the guy who was president write a letter saying that he would do whatever we want.