Welcome. It is Tuesday, and uh, the the the insanity that is this week is it's not going anywhere. We're gonna, We're gonna, We're gonna keep doing this just uh, I like I tweeted over the weekend, it's just it's news via fire hose. Try to drink man, And yesterday was no different. Obviously you had continued unfolding of what transpired Saturday in Pennsylvania. Butler, Pa, you have a steady stream of stories where you know, nowadays you just you gotta do your you gotta put in the work man,
You gotta do your due diligence. You gotta look at stuff. It goes that true? Is that not true? There's you know, there's there's like stories from random Twitter accounts. Oh, Donald Trump came by with his ear bandaged and I made this perfectly time pun right. What's true? Finding out more about the the shooter and the background and the motivation or the lack of motivation, the lack of normal things that a twenty year old has, and then you just try to verify it to the best of your ability.
The RNC is going on. Amber Rose spoke. If you don't know what an amber Rose is you should check that out, but you should do it
with the safe search on. I'm reading that a fifty cent. Yes, I've said it like that is like trying to get a concert permit for the rn C. And here comes Trump with his bandage to your man, Lee Greenwood blasted in the background, his own damn son tear it up, the very same son who just obliterated an MSNBC reporter who thought, hey, you know what, why don't I go up and ask his sons about caged kids.
That'll be fun. CNN panels sitting there and going but Trump, but Trump, when their own standard for language is pointed out that it may have been utilized by the current president. I gotta I gotta watch with their with the exception of their one token Republican who will last like six months before he figures out all his coworkers hate him and then they have to go get a
new one. Sitting there getting yelled at by Van Jones. So for you know, for all the normal stuff, there's so much abnormal stuff, and then we get a VP pick on top of it, and a bunch of the really really really hardcore like isolationist Republicans are not happy so you have a little bit of internal fighting there just wild just try and just try and keep up with all of it, and then you know, we get that,
we get the boogeyman's in there. And I think sometimes people are are mentally like they're they're like trained to reject some of that stuff because there is so much conspiratorial stuff out there. And don't get me wrong, I love me some conspiratorial stuff. But every now and then you just gotta you get to kind of all right, there'll be time for that later. Let me try to, uh, let me try to figure out what's going on through the
filter of what I can actually prove. And then it turns out the conspiratorial stuff is true, not all of it, not the not the heart thing and all that. I mean, maybe I don't know, but but like the Blackrock stuff, how many of you heard the Blackrock stuff, which is, you know, Blackrock is the Koch Brothers is, the Soros is the you know, the the one word thing that's meant to strike fear because of their manipulation of politics and life and everything else. They don't get me wrong,
They're absolutely one hundred percent doing it. When you're sitting on that kind of money, and you have that kind of influence that you can, among other things, force companies into this weird DEI score thing, so they that they go out they do things they wouldn't normally do because if they don't have a good enough score, they can't use they can't get access to like flex
capital, which is the lifeblood of a lot of businesses. If you're a business that has big ups and downs in your revenue, and that's a lot of businesses, and it doesn't make them unhealthy businesses or bad businesses, it makes them seasonal. Well, they work, don't stop during the non season,
and you need access to floating capital. You'd be surprised which companies essentially or cash poor all the time and avail themselves of funds to operate during the down months and then when you know, when it's high cotton, then they're paying off those and maybe doing some shareholder stuff and rids and repeat, will
do it in another year. So the idea that you know, big big, these big equity firms have created a scenario that if you don't dance to their tune, you wouldn't be eligible forces the hand of companies to go out and do things like, how we see how many DEI points can we get for this these training seminars telling everyone that they're bad inherently because of the color of their skin, which is literally the thing that I thought we were working against. Oh we get six points, sign me up. So yeah.
People then assign boogeyman motives to companies like that. So when I'm sitting there and I'm hearing that the shooter was in an ad for Blackrock, that sounds it. That sounds nuts, doesn't it, Like, come on, man, make up something that's believable. Well, yeah, I wish it was nuts. I wish the whole thing was crazy, because, uh you know what, Yeah, thank you, crazy lady doing whatever that is in her chair. We love playing the drop from him. Thank you. She understands,
she gets it. Earn her mom, crazy mom. If you don't know what that drop is. That is still one of my favorite psychotic Moonbat videos ever. And it's this mother and daughter sitting in like chairs in their yard in Florida, doing like New age yoga, talking about how it'd just be great if we greased everybody, but like maybe a billion people, just like super hippie dippy mom daughter and the whole time they're doing like sitting yoga. I don't even know how to describe it, but you know, it's
like, oh, it's so great. It's so peaceful. I feel so zen out here. You know, it'd be great if six billion people were eliminated, right My mom, Mom's like, yeah, you know, we should do is this thing? And the daughter's like, yeah, yeah, that is true. She works with horses, oldies. But good man, it's just the nostalgia of some of this stuff. But no, if you go back and you look at a Black Rock commercial which the company is now pulled, that was actively running. Now, the ad wasn't about him,
who was a student at the time it was filmed. The ad featured a teacher from Bethel High School. So they did one of those things like we're Black Rocket, even though we're corporate monsters. Let's here's a bunch of feel good things that we're investing in. Here's some teachers in the public school. Look at that guy. Look at that he's writing stuff on the board. Look at his students. They're paying attention. And one of the students in the shot is front and center. Is the is the shooter? Man?
I mean, it's a happy coincidence there or unhappy I guess. I look at it, but that's wild. And he's also the only twenty year old apparently without social media of any sort. I loathe social media. I want nothing to do with it. I don't have a choice. But I went to my program director and said, hey, I'm not doing We're not doing any more social media. I feel like they would be an issue because we utilize it now. Granted that's in a business setting. It's but how are
you a twenty year old? Admittedly, I guess I don't understand John Alpha whatever whatever that is, Like, how do you function without any social media? That's wild to me, especially if you're somebody who's got some thoughts on some stuff. Then you have the then you have like the Inauguration Day Act blue Joe Biden donation coupled with a very recent Republican voting registration, And I
understand why people are like, I have some I have some theories. I have some thoughts and some theories because what are you supposed to make of all of that? Of course, of course people are going to go there. Do you blame them? Because everything's that's everything, every bit of that sounds so weird and so unusual and so not with you. What you would if you just grab a random twenty year old right now and look for their their
their footprint online. I don't know, as you find one that clear, and sometimes it's you have a footprint, and it isn't the big ones. It isn't because you have a Twitter or an Instagram or something, but rather because you have you know, you play online video games and you have an account, or you have you have one through how many accounts do you think you have floating around out there? Things you've signed up for, you've provided
some semblance of private information. It's I don't know that you could calculate that for most people. And that's what's terrifying, because you get a breach and something could be breached with your info that you don't even remember you have. And I don't have any of it on this dude and he's in a black Rock commercial. I understand why people are freaking out. And it would probably it would probably pay big dividends not to hold all of the details of the
investigation so close to your chest would be my recommendation. You have questions about secret Service, You have questions about the agents that were assigned to to UH to Trump, which I don't know is necessarily fair if you look at it in totality, it's fair. But you know, the people who are the who are the body people for Trump. It sounds like the Trump family and I've I've heard interviews and you know, the the sons were talking about this
yesterday. They seem to have great affection and affinity for them. But that doesn't negate the pack what they're calling. And I think it's accurate. The PAC band perimeter. I don't know if you've seen the graphic. It's a circle, right, it's a it's a circle around the stage where Trump is speaking, but there's a carve out and it looks like it looks like a piece of pizza removed from a pizza, right, And in that carve out
sits this building. And so the result, and I know you could visualize it, it looks like a PAC man that was outside the security perimeter. That that isn't necessarily nefarious. These things are almost never a perfect circle. But it dips in there, it almost dips in closer to the stage than the Overwatch Secret Service stipers were. And then you have this you have reporting that it may not have been three minutes or four minutes from the time that
law enforcement was made aware of this individual up on this rooftop. There's video where you hear people talk about it, and you see him repositioning himself. He stands up from a prone position, moves or shimmys or does something you can't tell exactly what he's doing, and then lays back down ready to fire off those shots. Local news is reporting that there may have been an indicator of thirty minutes or a time span of thirty minutes where he may have been
noticed. Now, the timeline from when it was noticed to when law enforcement was made aware, there's a lot hinging on that. Who was told, how did they choose to deal with it. I saw some people speculating that the sniper actually laid one of the secrets of snipers, may have laid eyes on on this dude, and if it, I don't know what the thought
did they think? Maybe somebody just climbed up there to see Trump. Possibly, But again, he's out in the open, he's on a roof, so he's elevated, so if you're standing in the parking lot, you can't see what is in his hands, but feasibly those overwatched snipers would have had line of sight. They're actually they're actually at a slightly higher elevation. So people are going to be conspiratorial because everything sounds insane. Everything sounds like something
where you go that doesn't comport with my understanding of how this works. This is why I spend so much time on the distance yesterday. It's really hard to wrap your head around that. With every every thought and every piece of entertainment, which shouldn't instruct your entire worldview, but for everything Hollywood gets wrong, there's a lot of stuff that's probably it's pretty close. We've all been there where we've seen a movie that deals with subject matter that we know a
lot about. Being a radio guy, watching people being on the radio in pop culture and movies or TV is maddening. Sometimes I can't tell you the number of times I've seen a radio DJ in a booth and I can see the board and it's clear that they do not have the pot open, right, they don't have the bike pot on. Anyway, we got a lot to get to tell you that, I just look at it. I'm just I'm running my mouth because there's so much there's so much happening that we have
to try to figure out, and there's all of these oddities. So yes, people are going to speculate, which is why you need to have a group of adults in the room, right, and you need to have them be consistent and trustworthy so that people have confidence that even when things feel word feel weird, they're gonna get answers. All right, hang on, welcome back. It is six thirty five here on your Tuesday morning. Glad to have you along, Casey with you. Ross will be back tomorrow. This
was there's a trip. He had his death in his wife's family, so they made the made the road trip to Tennessee over the weekend. So he'll be returning tomorrow. But just you know what's up. We didn't fire him and launch him into the sun or anything, so just you know, deal with normal life stuff. But what a what a week to miss a few
days on cow. There was a brief moment too where when when I found out he was gonna have to be gone for a couple of days, just because I have extra vacation days floating around, like I consider taking Monday and Tuesday off that obviously would have not come to pass, because how the hell do you not talk about everything that's going on. You can't. But if we are going to do it, and you know what this is, this is this is my my oversight usually, you know, usually we're a team.
So if I miss something to Ross is like, hey, here's this thing, or if he does, I'm like, hey, what about that thing? And I think with everything going on, the attempted assassination of Trump, the fact that the RNC is happening, we got legal stuff we got to get into. A VP has been announced, which I'm curious your thoughts
on that. We'll get into that just a few minutes. You know, frankly, the responsible thing to do is maybe probably should have got through show going with the little show of patriotism, you know, just put everyone in the spirit and the mood of what's going on. And it doesn't mean you have to be a fan of what the Republicans are selling right now. But I think there's a lot of people going, you know what, I don't like the guy, but no, you don't get to shoot at somebody.
That's the right attitude to have. That's good. So with that in mind, if I could for just a moment. Maybe. I know it irritates some people and is probably triggering to college students at Columbia, but maybe we just maybe we just opened this like we used to open school when I was a kid. Shall we, oh say, can you see by the dos? Like? All right? What's so proudly? Okay? Tyl? Like last all right? Hoots broad shape, sound bad shot? That's the flag
to the pairs? Fire, oh the rest? But we watch We're so gass what mcket reread those bombs burst? I wish there was some cover this up to the night that a flag was said to scare the enemy working say Dotto, Spain, bok bed Way. Oh the lame of the what? And how can we keep doing this? Where are the normal singers? Where are the I look, is any is anything where everything going to be Whitney
Houston again? No, and it doesn't have to be, but it can't keep being Roseanne or Fergie or I could look, there's a list, and there's so many lists floating around now, so I have to admit I'm not And that's a country singer too. I'm just to point this out. That's a country singer. If you're a country singer. I don't. Maybe it's unfair. You need to. I have a higher expectation that you're gonna you're gonna do a good job. And I and people are like, well,
look, you couldn't go out there and do it. Yes, you're right. And if somebody asked me to sing the national anthem somewhere, I would refuse, not because I have anything against the national anthem, especially ahead of a baseball game. I guess the home run derby, it's baseball bad. She couldn't she couldn't get more. It could get more American if she was literally eating an apple pie, right, Maybe that's what happened in her throatcut
all sticky. I don't know. But that's an eight time Grammy nominee. That's not the that's not the singer from the local high school who's gonna be nervous as hell because it's never been in front of that many people. That's egred Ingrid Andres, who I'm admittedly I'm not super familiar with. And then they're doing the thing where they're going down the line or they have all the participants standing there and like they're laughing the dude for the Phillies. What's his
name, Alex baum Bomb. He's like he's trying not to laugh. It's it's clear. Look, I I'm not doing this to be mean or necessarily pick on her. But when that becomes the story, you have to ask yourself why it keeps becoming the story. And of all the weeks to butcher that thing, this was the week to get that right. This was the week for Major League Baseball to have an opportunity to provide a moment of respite
for a for a weary for a weary nation. I know that that making it sound probably bigger than it is, but the opportunity should be there. I want to go see him hit dingers, to quote that fat kid who's now a skinny kid who still hits stingers. That's what you want. You want, you want nostalgia. You want you want to get away from it. You want to not the whole time you're watching it, realize you're watching the last vestige of dudes who won't make it into the hall because so much
juicing. But you still watch because it's like like the coliseum, right nothing. You know you're not watching good stuff, but you're watching things you can't look away from and maybe get people, maybe get people fallen out of love with baseball to try to, uh, you know, see what's what with this event, and they're greeted with that she's wildly out of tune. Even
somebody who's not a singer, I can tell that. And I don't know why this stuff happens and keeps happening, because you have when you go into sing this thing, you have choices. Now she went she wanted to go straight delivery good. I think that's the smart choice for most singers. Or you could try to make it your own. And sometimes that works. And when it works, it works, man, it works beautifully. And when it doesn't, you get some jackass on the radio like me talking to you,
going what the hell was that? And you send me email about you're already up? Why are you doing this to me? The whole thing, dude, the whole the whole week is just this is this is what we're in for. Now we get to get into a debate over an author slash senator for about five minutes who might very well be and probably will be the next Vice President of the United States, and a lot of internal debate within Republican circles, and of course immediately here we go with the hit squad.
You always gotta run with the racist president who doesn't want immigration and his wife is Indian. Well, no, his wife's not Indian. His wife's Indian America. She's from San Diego. She's a doctor. I think too. They got a bunch of kids. They look fine together, they look happy. What is your problem? Are we going we're gonna flip into the identity politics right away? I guess we are. So I want to approach it,
perhaps, maybe just possibly from a more traditional manner. I know we didn't get that with the national anthem there, and I'm sorry to do that to you this early in the morning. But if I had to suffer, so did you. But let's talk about JD. Vans, Trump's pick for vice president, a few other names floating around out there. You had young Kin who a lot of people start talking about over the last few days.
The North Dakota governor, Burgham Marco Rubio was in that mix, Tim Scott perhaps, although it sounded like they had eliminated Tim Scott maybe a couple of weeks ago. Do you like the pick or are you like a lot of
people where you go, yeah, what does it matter? I find it rich the criticism about how his only experience at the national level is serving a part of a Senate of a six year Senate term, because I love this standard now that if you have only served at the federal level a part of a six year Senate term, you're unqualified for the second highest job in the land, but somehow you're qualified for the highest because if you remember, Barack
Obama didn't serve his full term. Would you wanted to see somebody else? Do you think it matters? And if you have some thoughts, we'll hear from you. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four Should they be able to seek in the national anthem? Whoever it is? These are the important questions. Thank you, Thank you, sir. You forgot to mention she's easy on the eyes. You know what, you just did it for us. Thank you for your email this morning. Appreciate that. All
right, six forty six hang on radio program. So we've got a few topics floating around out there. Obviously, of course we have all things assassination attempts related, the amount of stuff that we keep finding finding out from let's
see here New York Post has a piece I'm gonna touch on. And also WPXI is a local Pittsburgh outlet TV outlet there who's reporting yesterday now puts the timeline from when a law enforcement individual of some sort was aware that this dude was on the rope at twenty six minutes twenty six minutes from the time that a police officer from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit took a photo of him. They weren't just aware, they had visual confirmation there was somebody on the
roof. They didn't seem to necessarily be aware of the motive or that he was necessarily armed, and very well could have been confused by the way he was dressed. And the way he was dressed is not all that different from a way that a law enforcement officer may dress to be casual out of uniform. Right, you got this shirt and on the shirt, if you look at the shoulder of this leave of the shirt, you see an American flag.
Obviously it's in the military position, which I guess if you don't know this, if you ever look at a flag on a military uniform, it looks like it's backwards. Do you know why that is? So? The reason well, I know most of you do, but for those of you who don't, the reason that the flag appears backwards is because that soldier is running to the fight. So think of what a flag would look like you're holding if you are holding the flag while running at something. So that's why
they appear in that direction. And so when you see that, you see it on a T shirt and you can't really see the words or the T shirt has some tactical logoing on it. It looks like the kind of stuff that an officer might buy, or somebody in law enforcement or military might buy or having their collection. It's just a casual shirt. The pants look like
what could have been tactical pants. There's a couple companies that I'm sure most of you're familiar with, and you know, I don't know if you didn't know, and you just knew that there's nine different agencies or whatever it was around there, maybe for a moment you thought it was that, or maybe you just thought it was somebody who wanted a better view. But it doesn't matter. It's an outlier. It's the thing you're taught to look for.
I physically attended a safety briefing ahead of the when we covered all aspects of the r n C. Now I'm not priving the totality of the information, but they had a public section where the media was able to show up because
they had some They had some some Antifa before Antifa was cool. Uh, anarchists, self proclaimed anarchists who had a bunch of big plans for the RNC that year that McCain was nominated, and in fact it culminated a couple of days prior when they got They got a U haul that was filled to the
brim with weapons, and not not all traditional weapons. A lot of them were fecal bombs, as horrible as that sounds, you know, basically breakable glass jars, uh, and other other things that were actually pretty clever in the way that they were designed that these little anarchists had built so that they could help police or delegates the Connectic I remember the bus for the Connecticut delegation got attacked by these these kids, and it was it was still relatively warm.
They had the windows down on the bus and they're being you know, they're going through the various layers of security to get fully inside the perimeter, and they stopped at the outside one and they ran up and they started basically breaking these these horribleness bombs through the through the open windows covering some of the delegation. They literally had to after that, no vehicle approaching security perimeter carrying
anybody dare had any windows down. They had a collection of backpacks with things that looked, you know, could look and smell like bad stuff, but in reality weren't actually bombs, and they would just randomly leave them against the security fence. And they've got a whole U haul full of this stuff that they confiscated, and they had at least another one to go because it didn't it didn't negate any of it. So the big roundabout point of saying this
is over the years, they have refined their methods. Good morning, everybody. It is the Cacoday radio program, our number two, and it just gets so much worse. So not only not only do we find out that a law enforcement individual twenty six minutes prior to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, not that they just noticed this dude, right, but they noticed him
doing really really suspicious stuff. And not only was this building, this building where he was able to shimmy up used as the perch as the nest as the hide, although I'm loath to call it a hide because he didn't do anything seemingly to conceal himself other than get low to the ground, which was that was more about trying to get a good shot off. Not only was his building used, this building was also a staging area for a local sniper
team. In what capacity they were working at that moment, I don't know. I don't know if they had been relieved, if they were a non call situation, I don't know. I don't know exactly that. But they witnessed him doing some stuff. Now, they witnessed him on his phone. Okay, all right, fair enough. But according to the reporting by the local TV station at twenty six minutes prior, one of the officers felt concerned
enough to snap a photo after he witnessed him using a range finder. I want to be I want to make sure that there is no ambiguity by people going, well, maybe they thought he was using binoculars. No, they wouldn't. And here's why it doesn't look the same. Now, you can use I get you can use a rangefinder as a binocular, but why would you if you're wanting binoculars it's not what a rangefinder is for rangefinders for finding
range. The way you hold a binocular. I want you to pretend you're holding if you're driving, maybe don't do this, but or just do it real quick binoculars. Pretend like you're holding monoculars. What are you doing? You got both hands. Maybe you're touching the tips of your thumbs right now while you curve both of your hands inwards. Now, I want you to pretend you're holding a rangefinder. And if you don't know what that looks like, get rid of one of your hands and then bring that same sea that
you're making with one of your hands up to your eye. That's how you hold a rangefinder. It looks different. And unless he's trying to figure out his approach on number four or that's literally his deer hunting spot, that should that should be the reddest of red flagspan. Also, it shows that he was irresponsible in not doing a grid. You want to get technical here. I know people for some reason are very upset with me explaining stuff, but
I'm sick. I'm absolutely sick of watching coverage of stuff like this being done by people who won't take a moment to attempt to understand how any of this works. Do you know how many stories I talk about where I don't have any real functional understanding of what's going on, and I go, I should probably educate myself. And so part of my prep process is to figure this
out. And so I'll go and I'll source different things like I don't know how the how, the the the person being chosen for the national anth I don't know how that works. And frankly I should probably have some understanding, because you know, we have this, you know this, this connection with the music industry, working in the in the business that I do. But I don't know. But if I ever wanted to know, I promised I could find out so that I could educate you on it. Just I don't
care. I just care that they do it some other way because it's not working man. Sorry. The national anthem at the Hall of the Home Run Derby was was hot garbage yesterday. But the people who are doing this, the the looking here, they know how this stuff works. They don't. A rangefinder works. If you're ever if you're ever setting up something where you're gonna shoot for hunting, Okay, do you ever, Let's say you got you find yourself a nice field. You're real excited. You found what looks
like egress for for critters, right, you found a deer trail. Maybe you found a some raisinets. That's code for feces. If you don't know what deer feces looks like. And it's still steaming, man, you're like, this is a good it's gonna be a good spot. Now you want to figure out where you're gonna set up, so you know, people uh uh, most folks in that scenario, I think would probably would they would
want a tree. If you're gonna, you know, if you're gonna go stand up in a stand, you want a tree that gives you as much of a visual field on the field itself, because that likely will be where your shot is taken. But also you want one that allows you to monitor these trails. So if you have multiple trails, we'll see if two trails coming in where the deer are obviously using, maybe you don't even know which
one's more popular. Because you have limited time to set up, maybe put your butt in the middle there, giving you a line of side on both still providing you enough cover, maybe even carve out a shooting lane if you want, because it's not all that unusual, especially if you're if you're after a big buck, for them not to enter the field or to enter and exit the field. While it's not legal, shooting light the big boys, the big boys going nocturnal is a thing. So that's going to be that
scenario. But the other scenario is this, I'm going to go and I'm going to mark a grid. So if the field, let's say the field has I don't know, it's got a corral in the middle of it, whatever, I'm going to well in advance, before I ever get up in that stand, I'm going to figure out the distance to that corral, and I'll just have a little sheet of paper I could put it on, and it's just to be a rudimentary little here's the square, here's the trail,
and the numbers written next to certain things. So I know that the from me to that corral is eighty yards. I know me to that trail head is fifty yards. That shooting lane I just carved out, I know that that's thirty yards. I've made these indications so that when the moment comes in the same way that you see caddies walking around with golfers ahead of a PGA event. I don't have to I don't have to risk making the noise to bring my range finder up if I'm in a scenario where I think I might
get winded or noticed. And that's the same way it works for people who were in that building who understand this. So they witness him using a range finder, one of the most suspicious possible acts I could think of, short of assembling his rifle in front of him, and they go, yeah, you know, maybe we should look into that. He then leaves reportedly and goes and gets a backpack. So now they've got an opportunity to intercept him and go, hey, what's up, dude, And if he wants to
go hey, what do you doing? Am I being detained right whatever, You're still in a position to likely prevent him from gaining access to that roof again, because with the simple thought that I don't think you're the owner, do you have permission to be up there? Who gave you permission? Let's go ahead and check your story. And if it turns out that he's he's a kid who knew the owner of the building, and he didn't get a ticket into the rally, but he thought, hey, I know, this
could be a cool spot to watch it. And he's just up there doing his thing, and he's using it as a as a as a device to amplify his view. It all sounds crazy, but at least you checked it out. This is why people have the conspiracies. This is why people look at this and go, this is none of this is right. And then they start questioning, how, well, how did that all that Secret Service person get their job? How did the head of the Secret Service get in
there? Do you know who? Do you know who pushed for the hiring of this particular Secret Service director? Joe Biden? Let the conspiracy run it over? Does that necessarily mean anything? Now, not necessarily. You got a position to fill, and especially the higher profile ones. There's gonna be a lot of trading and friends of friends stuff. That's you know, that's Washington man. You bundle, oh, you bundled a million dollars for the
president's campaign. What do you want to you want to be the ambassador of uh Germany? Here you go, by the way, that's the actual origin story for that ambassador or the ambassador my favor is the ambassador of Uruguay. That lady's absolutely backcraped, crazy looney tunes man. She went down and tried to start a whole incident as a US ambassador, and they still kept her in there because she's you know, she's besties with the Bidens. If you
don't know that story. She basically went she wanted. She tried to roll into a really nice restaurant down there in Montevideo or one of the big big cities there, and and she is dressed like a tourist and it's a fine dining establishment. She doesn't have a reservation, and they're like, no, no, that's not how any of this works. No, And she's like, ah, they profiled me and it's racist, But you risk an international
incident. Now, what's our trade footprint with a small South American country that most people couldn't find on a map. I don't know. Probably not substantial, but it shows you that these gigs are not necessarily ones who are the most qualified for it. The difference is the ambassador to a small South American country that most people couldn't find on a map and the director of the Secret Service have vastly different responsibilities. Does it mean she's unqualified? Not necessarily,
but It definitely calls into question with everything that we've seen transpire. So they're out of excuses. Man, twenty six minutes, no communication or they did communicate and nobody cared. Photos taken the most suspicious of acts possible witnessed. And now we're having this conversation eight eight, eight, nine, three four, seven, eight seventy four. Is that person even qualified for the job? Man, what do you think of the advance selection? Let me ask
you, that is it? Man? You don't care? At least they're breathing. Did you want to see a DeSantis in there? Because you know, an argument, you know has to be made for the fact that if Trump is elected, this is it, right, he only gets one more. So whoever is in that position almost certainly will be or will likely be, the Republican nominee for the next election. So here you got a guy
who's what he's gonna be thirty or something for he is thirty. I understand that, I yes, I understand that there are binoculars that are range finding as well. It is clear from the description they're using the one hand ones the golfers use and shooters use. Gotcha, I'm trying to Sometimes you have
to pick whether you're gonna overload people with information. So if you know a piece of information based on the description that's given this report, I'm gonna go for the the one that's gonna be easiest to explain on the radio, Sir. I get gun guys and hunting guys because I am one. We get real clenchy, because there's a lot of nuance to it. So I have to battle with how I'm explaining stuff because I can't. I can't watch Maxine
Waters talk about AR fifteen's the way what a small car does. People who will never understand semi automatic versus automatic. It's clear I have to I have to balance against that stupidity, which which holds an outside influence, right, because those are generally the ones that are on the you know, the more
mainstream outlets, talking about things that they haven't even attempted to understand. But yeah, so do you think, like, could you see vance That would be wild too, by the way, that you'd have so many in their late thirties that potentially could ascend to the office of president. But the expectation is whoever this, whoever it is, in this case, it's probably gonna be advanced. And I'm gonna probably say Pence way too many times. You'll
just forgive me in advance. These are the things that you have to think about. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Let's get your calls coming up. Everyone's pretty So my point stands I said thirty instead of forty. My point is that he's very young compared to well, I mean it's hard not to be very young compared to I don't know everything that we're seeing right now, but yeah, so dvance is going to be forty.
Sorry, my brain's doing like nine different things at a time. So by the time you know, he'd be running for office, the dudes in his early forties, which I don't think is like he's you know, that's how old I am. So I think that's a perfect age because I know everything and I would be a great leader. I just I don't like to deal with people. I know. I'm in a weird business for that.
So there's that. It's mostly the having to meet people and pretend that I don't wish that I was anywhere but there casey OTEI radio program just because there has I can't help even in times when we have big stories to run across the really stupid stuff. And I don't know why I thought this was so funny. You know what it is, It's a good economics lesson. So
I'm just gonna I'm gonna throw this up in the middle. Apparently they are having a big there's a financial crisis brewing in Colombia, and it's of a rather unique variety. So let me hit you with this. According to Yahoo News and The New York Times, Colombian villagers are facing on certain economic times due to the overproduction of cocaine. The market is flooded with cocaine and has now driven the price so low money. I guess maybe one of you crackheads
love to call in and tell me how low that is. But that whole villages are now wondering should they come up with another economically viable solution, because this ain't it, folks, And I kid you not. In New York Times as a whole piece where they go to these little villages, in these remote Columbian villages where this coca production takes place and it's getting so bad that
they're shrinking. In fact, one of the villages they profiled, which had two hundred residents as recent as two years ago is now down to forty as the market is so flooded with product that folks are having to go elsewhere to find other economic opportunities now. And it's interesting even though you're obviously you're dealing with that. I want, by the way, did you know did you not? I didn't know this until I went there and it was blown away.
If you remember, I took a trip to to uh Guatipe, which is in Colombia, and then to Ecuador and then to Galopagos last year and it was it was crazy interesting. Man. But if you go to GUAATEAPEI you have to go through you have to fly into Metazine, which I had never obviously i'd never been there, and I'm like, that's weird. That's a weird feeling, because like everything you know has has basically been informed because
you watched Narcos. You should watch Narcos, it's really good, or you've seen you know, Cocaine Cowboys, or you've seen any any of the anything having to do with the insanity that was the Colombian cartels in the eighties, and of course the very enigmatic leadership there and and horrible, right, horrible. One of the things that you will see and once you know what it
is, it's impossible to unsee it. When you're in megazine is you will see little plaques where outlining people who were killed as part of the Pablo esque of our reign of terror there and it doesn't matter where you go. You could be You could be in Peblato, you could be in Loreles, which is where I stayed, a place called Lorells, which is you know, it's there's a standards over by the stadium. They got bars and restaurants,
tourist hotels. It's considered I guess, a pretty safe area there and stay there for a couple of nights, both in it, coming in and going out. And then Guatapay is it's basically the inside of a volcano that's a lake now and it's got this huge spire of the dome and it's got like eight hundred stairs to get to the top, which sound like a good idea good tell about stair two hundred. You're like, am I almost there?
And you realize no, you're not. You are not almost there. And then they have like a they have like a little dip out point for cowards and you're like, I'm not a coward, I'm gonna do this thing. And then you get to the top and you're pretty sure you should be dead. And uh, there's people who literally walk up that every day to work because there's like a bar restaurant up there. It's wild Man, and it's
just it's gorgeous and it's beautiful. But among all of that, you're seeing these little plaques and and you realize that forty thousand people were killed by this guy. Forty thousand people were killed by this guy, and it's just so it's hard to fathom. Even in a big city. Megazine is a big city. It's it's it's a bigger city than any city we have in North Carolina. And everywhere you go there's a high likelihood you're gonna run across one
of those people who fell victim to this this empire. And it puts a lot in perspective, you know how I'm with history and stuff. But a couple things emerge from that. One if you go there as a tourist and you and you go and there are people basically forty or older, they are very resentful of the fact that you would be you would have any sort of
interest in One of these Escobar tours and they don't like. They don't like they don't like the name, they don't like the they don't like the way that people have this weird fascination almost from a like in any way, shape or form where they like Escobar or they think that there's a cool factor there, which I literally watched American tourists exude out. They're like, oh, I can't wait to go to his grave and all this stuff, and you
could tell that the locals really hate that. Why because they probably have a family member who was killed. I don't blame them, man, it's it's really dark stuff. Or they want to go see the hippos, which you can do. You can go see the hippos. But what struck me and I dug into because I found it fascinating, was cocaine's legal there. I'm not telling you so you can go down and see if you can stop your heart. I would suggest that you avoid that, especially going into a foreign
country and doing something like that. You just you're you're asking for it. I would have no sympathy for you, but you realize why the laws are the way that the laws are down there, right, They needed to economically make it so that no one could rise from those ashes. So if you don't have a product where some guys with guns can strictly control the flow of it makes it a lot harder for another Pablo Escobar to rise. So it creates a very interesting and from the impression I got is is most of the
locals don't use it. In fact, the statistics would back that up, which is pretty crazy because I feel like if you legalized a bunch of stuff in the US, everybody turns into Denver during that first flight. But it did, but it doesn't mean that it didn't stop it flowing outward. You know. The other thing is when you go to the airport to arrive in medicine, you'll it's a very lengthy process. They have one line, stupid
long plan for you know, a couple hours just for that. But they're very controlling of what comes in. When you go to leave, you don't even have to put that stuff in your rear end if you don't want to. They're just like, hey, are you leaving? Oh fine, yeah, we don't even need to look in there. And so you have these rural areas that that you know it it is barely economic viable for them.
Well, now with the with bentanyl being a thing, and because it's a lot easier to smuggle that than it is to smuggle that much cocaine, And so you have this, you have a rapidly changing economic thing. I find it interesting. I know that it doesn't necessarily connect with what we're talking about. New York Times piece was just who knows, maybe they wrote it so
they didn't have to write about the Trump stuff. I don't care. But it's like, you know, all these rules of economics, and this is where I'm going to tie it back that people want to go ahead and reject, you know, so the law of supply and demand, And it doesn't mean people don't manipulate the system, and it doesn't mean that the system's perfect. In fact, no system is. So you have to ask yourself what
is the best process for this. But no matter how much you try to deny the existence of these things, they have real imp packs and consequences that play out regardless of how humans how much humans think they can control it. And we have some big, big, big issues for this presidential election where there's a sharp divide on how you do this. You know, the power of the dollar worldwide is at one of the lowest points I've ever seen,
causing exchange rates to be twenty five thirty percent less in some instances. I can tell you the exchange rate in Colombia and Ecuador was far less than what I had read on forums. Instead of four thousand or forty five hundred to one that had dipped significantly, I think that was the number, which is a crazy number when you think about it, right, one of our dollars is equal to over four thousand of their pesos what they use down there.
And now you have this changing You have this changing look to this age old industry, right, and the economic fallout of it is significant and as crazy as it sounds. You can sit there and you can learn and draw lessons from this. As you watch the continued rollout of AI automated automated systems within fast food production, which the state of California, due to their own incompetence and lawmaking, is going to push forward at a speed that was not previously
estimated. You will talk to robots to order at McDonald's. You already are in some instances. Did you know that there are some McDonald's As we found out that we're utilizing and testing out a system using AI voice prompted ordering some systems. So, whether it's cocaine or Big Max or your job, these are things that people need to pay attention to. And these are things that need to be part of any discussion with this presidential election and pretty much any
high office right now, it will be breakneck speed. Look at how good AI is just creating memes. How many of you have seen live memes? Now? Right? What's one of the more famous ones? You know, the guy who's walking with his girlfriend and he's doing that look back at another girl and she's got that horrified look on her face. Somebody just told an AII They're like, make that a real life thing. And now there's a
video. There's a video like you're in a movie watching that happen. So for every bit of discussion that we're going to be having about what happened in Baker Pa and the fallout and who's the head of the secret service and was it political? And where they're diversity higher? Why does black Rock have a commercial with this you this dude in it? Just know that there's a lot of really really really big level, high level stuff they can't get lost in
the mix. All right, seven forty seven, Casey, I'm sorry. I feel like I'm scolding, but I'm not. I just BILLI. We've got to keep our eye on the ball, all right. I was gonna say our eye on the target, but you can't say that. Man seven forty seven raced agic from the weather Channel. He's here with your your weather forecast, which will get better, but it will suck in the meantime. So a little both, I mean better than worse. I mean a lot
of people don't want rain. If you've got weekend plans. Rain chances going up. Not much coverage today, just isolated stuff here and there. Hot, and Huban once again, he'd advisory for most of us. Let's just put it that way. There are parts of the triad that aren'tated, but everybody will be in the mid upper nineties, he did. He's close to
one oh five isolated showers thunderstorms this afternoon of this evening. Now the coverage and chances do go up tomorrow afternoon tomorrow evening was on thunderstorms more likely to be scattered around, but still hot, mid nineties and humid, so it feels like one o five. Probably have another heat advisory, and then for Thursday and Friday, scattered showers and storms. Hi's only between eighty five and
ninety with most of us on Friday staying in the eighties. And I think that trend of eighty degree high temperatures eighty plus will continue into the weekend, but decent chances of showers thunderstorm. So that's the payoff. You get the front, you get the cooler or not it's extremely hot weather, you get the rain chances with it. So a couple of more real hot, humid days today, KC tomorrow, and then it looks like we'll start seeing temperatures
come down just a bit. Get the old winter coats out right, yeah, man, almost there. Yeah, well, you know, if we think it into existence, maybe it happened we could all right, thanks man, appreciate it. YEP seven forty nine, Hang on back in just a few. It is the KCO Day radio program phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four as we cruise into the third hour. Two
days. So, Joe Biden sat down with Lester Holt yesterday combative. Yeah, Holt utilizing the very same standards that date back probably to Palin, I think was the highest profile example, right, Remember Sarah Palin was why Gabby Gifford's got shot. I know because I read that in the New York Times, who got later sued by it, and everyone knew that they were one hundred percent in the wrong. But of course you get the right court in
New York, nobody gets held responsible. She just simply had what is a very innocuous map, right, and it had a map of a handful of congressional districts. One of them happened to be Gifford's district in Phoenix, and those are districts that they were targeting to flip. It was super clear what it was, and that became the national conversation. Well, Joe Biden, in that speech was presented with hey, didn't you know you said, you
know, you put a bullseye on Trump? And his response was, I didn't say crosshairs, which is dumb and if you're and by the way, the correct response is I should have said spotlight. And for whatever reason, Lester Hold, even though he was injecting other possibilities, like, nobody thought of that. Now do I think that Joe Biden' say't put a bull's eye on Trump? Caused this, no, but I am forced to play and uh and analyze stuff through the standards of the individuals making the standards. And
these are the individuals making the standards. And if you go back and you look at Joe Biden comments about Trump, about Bush, about Republicans in general within the last decade, there are so many shining examples of it. You know, was his time not serving during his time as vice president, and even going back to his time in the Senate. He then, when presented
with this, said, but what about Trump? Which is fine as a partial answer, but it's usually a better It's a better answer when you say, you know what, absolutely, I don't know that I think that this caused it. But since I think this is the standard we have to play by, I'll take my responsibility and I won't use that language anymore. And I hope my opponent would do the same. And if you say it like
that, you say the exact thing that Biden kind of said. Well, the second half you say basically what Biden said, but you say it in a way that doesn't make you sound like you're refusing to acquiesce on this thing. KCODA Radio program our number three here on your Tuesday phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. So you know, yesterday I really stuck to the technical because I thought that that was important having to do
with the Trump rally and the attempted assassination. But the human side of it and just the the disgusting side of it was very much on display, and it was on display early. I know a lot of people probably became aware of what happened with the Tenacious D, which I don't do people still do
people even still know what that is. There was there was definitely a window in there, the school of rock window, I guess i'll call it, or Jack Black and a guy whose name you probably don't know or didn't know his name, but you knew him from being the other guy, which Black, they formulate what is a parody rock band called Tenacious D. His name is Kyle Gas, by the way, and they were doing a concert down in Australia. Where was it Sydney, it doesn't matter, somewhere in Australia.
And there's a video that emerged because it was Gas's birthday, and so during the middle of the concert they have this whole stunt where like costume robot looking thing comes out with a cake and happy birthday and make a wish, and Gas did make a wish, he said, by wish, don't miss Trump next time, and then Jack Black goes thank you, and video kind of cuts out there as they wrap up the birthday celebration and then you know,
back to the concert stuff. Admittedly, I've never been to a Tenacious D concert, but there was a win you probably many of you are most you're old enough to remember it where Jack Black was everywhere. Man, they said, I mentioned the school of rock that was that was a big movie, but Black was everywhere, and as a result, Gas was everywhere, and it had a real pen and teller vibe where Gas would be I guess teller or you just kind of sit there and he didn't always say a lot.
But the dude is both of them are very political. Jack Black was one of the folks at the Clooney fundraiser, the very same one that was used in the piece that Clooney wrote saying, you know, he just wasn't
the Joe I remember. And don't get it messed up because people are going, well, you know they This obviously was on the fourteenth and the incident happened on thirteenth, And to that, I would say, you don't understand how time zones work, because yes, while the dates are technically different, this was this was within a couple hours because Australia sits so far ahead of US, so from eastern you know, from eastern USA, and you know
late afternoon, early evening it is it's the next day. So that's what we're talking about here. And he wasn't alone. You had jokes by the I guess now former field director for Benny Thompson, and then Benny Thompson, the representative got to come out and go, well, we've parted ways with this individual who also made it don't miss joke or do better next time joke
and acted as though he was outraged. Well, you have to understand that Benny Thompson is the one that introduced legislation that would have stripped Trump of Secret Service protection. Yeah, he was. He was. He was one of these cats that were out there with the death by a thousand cut strategy, and the way that he was going to go after Trump is uh. He he crafted a law that was written quite specifically that would have addressed Trump,
that would have removed any of that protection. His standard, I believe under the law was the conviction of certain crimes that carried enough penalty time. Well, Alvin Bragger, Uh, excuse me, Alvin Bragg, and what's her bucket up? In New York, they delivered, Letitia James, they delivered. Now, of course would in the long run it had been it had been that way. No, I think most people still believe that as soon as this thing works its way up the court system, this this, these
convictions in New York, we'll get tossed. Meanwhile, an absolute conniption fits started yesterday after the judge in Florida who was assigned the you know, the oh he's got top secret documents laying everywhere. Well, how do you know there could look at the cover sheets that we added ahead of time for the photo. On the grounds that Jack Smith wasn't appointed for a league in illegal manner by Merrick Garland, she threw the case out and everyone feigned outrage.
I'll tell you this, though, I think secretly there was a lot of Democrats who went, oh, thank god, because they realized the optics of this. They realized the inherent double standard, the insane double standard from home brewed servers with Hillary to Joe Biden with the very same types of documents, albeit not a person who had ever held presidential office at that point, with boxes of these documents that set in a garage next to his prize corvette.
So yeah, yeah, in a way, I think that a favor was done really so that that didn't have to move forward in the dumpster fire manner that it was looking to move forward. Now, of course they're going to appeal, and that's the right. They go ahead and do that, but they're gonna have a hard time getting that jump started because I don't think anyone's
got appetite for this right now. Meanwhile, I'm having to read about the retaliatory riots, where are those at a lot of breathless reporting this morning from
various outlets about the Alphabet agencies they're on high alert. The irony, of course being it is the fundamental lack of being under or on high alert that looks like it may have contributed to this, as we find out now that it was to almost thirty minutes by the twenty six minutes from the time that the shooter was spotted by a member of law enforcement on My Dad two when he was eventually, essentially when he was greased following getting to lobs some shots.
The building literally had a sniper team in it, and they watched him use a range finder. All of these things you want to talk about high alert should have been giant tip offs or as the guy in Cleveland would say, dead giveaway, right, dead giveaway. So don't let Benny Thompson sit there and crocodile tears. You don't let this professor at Belmore University who also was like, hey, can we get somebody who knows what they're doing in there? Don't let them spind you, and sure as hell, don't let
them talk you into going out and doing something stupid and violent. I don't think that they will do m I get a U haul full of Patriot Front folks that show up there, that'd be interesting. But it wasn't the right running to protest, it wasn't the it wasn't Trump supporters. Now, there was a report of vandalism at the state party headquarters for Democrats, and if somebody went and did that, it was retaliatory. Don't do that, trust
me, let them, don't give them an inch. If you feel that they were at at fault in any way, shape or form, and a lot of people do. Let them just exist and stew in their own muck show people the receipts. But I if you're part of making this bed, you're gonna get left to lie in it. And it doesn't matter how much reporting the outlets like Politico do a few of you have sent this story this morning? Yeah, FBI, DHS weren't a possible retaliation for attack on Trump?
Wouldn't that happen right away? Is not how these things work when people are mad as hell and they're not gonna take it anymore. Is there a waiting period that I'm unaware of, because that's not what I've seen, and we've done how many stories over the last few years of cities that immediately turn to turmoil following an officer involved shooting. Do they wait a few No, because part of it is not waiting for the information so that by the time
it hits you, you're so committed to it you don't care. Here we go from a Politico. US authorities are concerned about possible attacks and retaliation of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump that, according to the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, who issued what is a very rare occurrence which are called joint jibs joint intelligence politans. So I think it's a funny word anyway for something that's kind of serious, but is what it is, violent extremists or others?
What does it or others mean may attempt to follow on ortal or may attempt follow on retaliatory acts of violence. So what are you saying? You think they're going to go out and Greece the Democrat? Maybe, but I sure as hell, and I don't know that anyone listening to the show it thinks that's a good idea, because you know we're on it. We're not here to play political games. We honestly don't want to see this stuff. We don't want people thinking that if they go to a rally to support somebody
or just to listen to somebody. Do you know one of the people wounded as a Democrat, the grandfather is a registered Democrat. Now he seems to have found an affinity for Trump if you look at some of the memes he's posted on the Facebook. But there's a guy just showing up to hear what this guy has to say, and he gets shot for his troubles is expected
to make a recovery. But the dude's mid seventies. So if you know, if there is any lasting lingering health issues, that's going to be far more impactful on somebody in their mid seventies than say, somebody who's in their twenties and is in good shape in spite of themselves. But the FBI running out with bulletins like this, where's your evidence? What are your I mean,
what is prompting you to say this? No specific targets were mentioned in the bulletins, but the four page bulletin does note that extremists have conducted or plotted attacks against perceived political or ideological opponents in the past. Yeah, and I remember that time. You also talked all those dudes into doing actual like
the cringiest tactical training. You know, rocky montage videos you've ever seen in your life where they're dumping a team of you know, fake swat dudes out of a PT cruiser so that they can move on some sort of target of interest. You ever seen those videos? They're crazy, But I guess that's a good way to sneak in and do stuff because nobody's expecting a PT cruiser to be filled with a band of mercenaries like it's a clown car. They
say, they just keep coming out of there. What's going on? But to that, I say, show me, show me where it's happening, show me where it's unfolding right now. Show me in Pittsburgh why it's not unfolding right now, or in Milwaukee where the where the Republicans are. And the answer is because it isn't. So now we're into the world of projection, man. But if you see something, you see some riots or something, please let me know. We will absolutely, will, absolutely deal with
it on the air, no problem. They're happy to do it. And the trust level with the FBI is sad as at about zero for a lot
of people. So you're also when you when you go chicken little on this stuff and it doesn't pan out and you're all ready hemorrhaging people that believe your garbage, that's not a good look for you, especially when it's it's pretty clear that all of the details that you're looking for are not details that are possessed by the author or have been verbalized by these individual groups or or I guess lone wolves or whomever's looking at it, but you write it down like
it's a thing. You're sure it's going to happen. Give me a damn break. Six twenty one, hang on, excuse me, eight twenty one, hang on. Oh, this is not what the This is not what the country needs right now. The country needs to heal. I know the FBI is like, oh, it's gonna be retaliatory stuff. All right, call me when it happens, right, we need to we need to knock it down a notch or but you know, whatever, garbage the thing you
want to say, and so we can't. You know, we tried to turn to baseball yesterday for the home run derby and then they bring out ingrid Angris Andrews. Excuse me, a country singer who then proceeds to butcher sick the national anthem. It gets so much worse. My point is like, we got to get something right here. Man. Why a country artist. If you tell me a country artist is doing the national anthem, I almost have zero concern. You tell me Fergie's doing it. I got that was
not good kc O Day Radio program. The dvance reaction has been, well, you know, for tone down the rhetoric. I don't know Van Jones during the CNN analysis which I can't find. I can't help myself, but watch because one minute it's it's very contrite, like we need to do better, and then the next moment they make the announcement and Van Jones on CNN referred to jd Vance as quote, a dangerous virus and a horror on the world stage. Again, by your own standards, dehumanizing an individual or group
of people, I keep getting told is a bad thing. People don't necessarily respond well to it. Deplorables right, Oh, you got a bucket of deplorables. Man. Arguably that was something that might have definitely contributed to her
losing the election. So when you get out there like a dangerous virus, there is historical context where the very same language has been utilized to dehumanize groups of people so that you could eventually stick them in ghettos and then move them to your new camps complete with you know, shower rooms, so that they
could carry out a killings. That was a multi year, multi pronged approach at making it seem that the person who you are going to do horrible things to or look the other way while horrible things are done, aren't on, They're not you, they're not human even it's it's the only way that in many cases you can you can shift large scale public opinion. You have to see them as less than so for for drawing one breath in and complaining about the vitriol to your very next one being yeah, but yeah, he's a
virus of cancer. Well what do you do with viruses and cancers? Do you embrace them? Now? You do everything in your power. You're bet you hate them so much that you're willing to poison yourself because you know you're also poisoning that, you know, the virus or excuse me, the cancer. That's what's so crazy here. Others are just mad because we're not checking enough diversity boxes. Trump didn't pick a person of color, Trump didn't pick
a woman, Trump didn't pick a minority. He picked another white man. Rad I gotta read crap like that from some of these high profile Democrat accounts. Maybe he picked the person he thought was the best, and you know, and that best isn't always warm and fuzzy. Sometimes it's you know, it is self serving, but you know you're still making the decision that you think is gonna work out best for you. Oh no, he's not all
the diversity stuff, you know, the literally. I think the only acceptable candidate would be that protester who got whisked away by police the other day that that her friends were all upset. You don't remember that. Let's remember how many diversity checkboxes. This is from one of these college campus takeovers, so they can fly their harmas flag and scream at people where one of their comrades other listening to how she has comrade it's adorable with the accent, was taken
by police. It is also unfair because you don't know that the number of diversity boxes that this individual checks. And I'm here to tell you it's a crap ton. Just so you're aware of Police Forces hospital lies. One of our comrades mail officers touched. I can't take it seriously with that accent, that cockney. What is going on here? Anyway? I'm sorry. Back to this, remember, get your diversity checklist book out and try to follow
along as best you can. Police Forces hospital lies. One of our comrades mail officers touched a disabled Muslim trans person of color without consent and refuse to give them medical tree. It's you know, what it reminds me of is
the the what's the new, what's the latest eminem? So Houdini, you don't have to be in in into eminem, that's fine, right, And I love that there's a middle generation who's going who and where you have simultaneously younger kids that are into it, and then people my age are like, yeah, this is what we called music back in the day, recognizing that, you know, the eminem of my childhood couldn't exist on the current plane.
And that self realization is in the video and in the song. And there's a part where the part where Eminem and the song is talking about how his transgender cat identifies as black but acts Chinese, right, which is obviously a sarcastic cut on on this incessant need to throw everything else out the window from and the valueuation standpoint, just so that they can go, look what
we did here, Well, I am looking at what you did. In fact, arguably the biggest stumbling block to being able to as a party react to what happened is the vice president, who was not, in my opinion, selected because she was she and she was a person of color. But the words of Joe Biden, right, he said, I'm going to you know, I'm going to pick a black woman. Well, now you've eliminated the vast majority of your options because that black women, they're not fifty one
percent of this country. And so you created this scenario where she is just detestable when you ask voters, and you have this war chest, this war chest that you wouldn't be able to utilize if you just cut bait on this person and the second person and donors who want that money back so they can spend it in down ballot situations like the whole thing's wild man, So losing your crap because Vance happens to be a white dude, he's married to a
woman who is a person of color. Does that count or is that too on the nose with I have many black friends because you know, you get that feeling, that vibe obviously, But no, I think for the most part, the selection has been well received. Even if there's people disappointed because they thought the young Kin or Burgham or one of them should be in there, the fact is that's not the way it's going to be. And also I think that the favorability rating has nowhere to go but up should should he
make it? Into office, and the number of celebrities showing up, showing out on these things. Amber Rose, who I'm pretty sure was a stripper for a while, and then then transition to music, who was a fervent, fervent hater of Trump and Republicans. That's not my words, that's that's her explaining it. Who sat there and watched all of these things play out, all of these different double standards, went no, I'm not going to be a part of this. In fact, I'm going to go out on
a limb and try to is best. I can not be a part of any of it. So they did, and that's where we find ourselves this morning. All right, it is eight forty three CaCO Day Radio program. Is mister Stagic available from the Weather Channel? See what he's lucky? Certain, Yeah, what's going on? But man, yeah, you know, just to trying to find the silver lining here. You know, if it's not one thing, it's another. You know, the Hooters burned down?
Oh gosh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know it's nothing but enough news this morning. We'll give details of that coming up, but burst details of weather. What you got more warm humid weather? Oh, actually hot and humid weather coming up next few days, so you know, hang in there. The better hair days are coming. Better hair days will be there, and as we get into the latter part of the week, highlighted changes include better raining chances, but we will continue to see lower temperatures and by
Friday maybe low to mid eighties. Parts of the mountains may not get out of the seventies, and then I think we're in a scattered shower thunderstorm thing for multiple days in a row. The temperature is gonna held down with that with added cloud cover. So today's still heat advisory for most of us. The mid upper nineties will feel close to one O five with the heat decks and just hit miss storms this safternoon through this evening. Likely storm tomorrow afternoon.
Mid nineties, though it's not until Thursday and Friday we're talking about eighties. Might hit ninety in the Triangle on Thursday, but the rain chances will be a little better. They'll be scattered around the storms, and I think the same trend into the weekend. Not complete wash out on any day, but just better chances which will help. Thursday's new drought model comes out and at the least most of the state was under some level of drought, whether
it was D zero one or two. I believe at least most of the state that have some reports of drought, so we could use a little rainfall, and I think we'll get some. Okay, all right, I appreciate it, my man. We'll Jeff tomorrow, all right, okay, And Jeff Bellinger from Bloomberg News joins us. Next. It is eight fifty one. Your Bloomberg Update with Jeff Bellinger is happening now, Jeff, what's going on? I was morning Casey. The news on retail sales this morning not
as bad as feared. The government says sales were flat last month. Consumers continued to feel financial pressure, but economists thought we'd be hearing about a three eight tens percent decline, and with auto sales excluded, sales were up for tens percent. That was the biggest gain in that category in three months. Amazon dot COM's Prime Day events underway now. Southwest Airlines has partnered with the
online retailer for the first time. The carrier is offering fair discounts, and customers who use their Southwest Rapid Rewards credit cards for Amazon purchases today or tomorrow will learn points toward companion passes related to a prime day. The Better Business Bureau is warning Amazon customers to be cautious today. Anytime there is a significant sales event, the cyber criminals go to work, be aware you could receive
phony emails purporting to be from onlines. The online superstore. General Motors the latest legacy automaker to acknowledge that demand for electric vehicles is fading. GMCEO Mary Baris as the company will not have the capacity to build one million evs by the end of the year. She told CNBC. Customer demand will determine and how quickly the company gets to one million EV sales per year, but at this point GM is seeing a slowdown in deliveries. Elon Musk indors Donald Trump's
bid for the presidency over the weekend. Now the billionaire entrepreneur is putting his wealth behind Trump's candidacy. Sources say Musk is pledging forty five million dollars a month to a pro Trump super pack. Verizon said to be looking to sell thousands of its cell towers across the country. Sources say the telecom giant has hired advisors to gauge interest from potential buyers. If there is a deal, it could involve as many as six thousand towers with a value of more than
three billion dollars and KC. AT and T is facing a lawsuit over that hacking attack that exposed the phone and text records of just about all of its wireless customers. The legal action was filed in a federal court in Texas. It alleges that AT and T is guilty of negligence in allowing the hack to happen, and the company has not been transparent about security lapses. Bloomberg reported
that AT and T has paid the hackers to erase the stolen data. Casey okay, and I'm sure they'll not make a backup, So we got that going for us. Thank you very much, sir, appreciate it. Jeff Bellinger there, Bloomberg News. All right, Oh, I mentioned this just because I got a I got a shoehorn in stories that aren't related. Although since this took place in Dallas, I guess there's like a small connection since
you know, it's presidential assassination week here on the show. But apparently the big old Hooters in downtown Dallas. Yeah, that thing burst into flames, man, Now it appears the customers and staff are able to get out of there. Let's see, there was one firefighter who I think suffered some minor injuries trying to put the fire out on if it's it looks like some sort of physical thing along with smoke in elation. So I don't know, have
some that collapsed or whatever. But yeah, So if you're headed to Dallas and you were all pumped to go get some chicken wings downtown, not gonna be possible, not for a little while. Oh what are they now? What about the displacement of the staff there? You know, we we went we opened up our hearts a few weeks ago here on this show when we learned that forty different Hooters locations were gonna be shut down, offering up excess
space for any displaced waitresses. Unfortunately, I don't have room for a kitchen staff, but you know, a place to crash anything like that. We started this charitable endeavor, and I feel like this charitable endeavor can also perhaps aid in this situation. So we're here for you. Just wanted every I just wanted you to know that that's a that's the kind of show we run around here, very giving a right a few things I want to leave you
with. I am going to be very interested to see if we get any sort of explanation on why the MSNBC's morning program just was randomly off the air yesterday. No explanation given. Some would say that there are shining examples on the Morning Joe Roster there in history of some you know, some language that I'm that were now being told is extremely troubling. So could that have factored in. Perhaps maybe I don't know, but it's just strange, or maybe
they had technical issues. I don't Are they broadcasting live from the RNC, And if they are, then maybe it was just due to the fact that they're there, but nothing was really going on in the morning yesterday. Either way, they're back at it today, so hell if I know, And if they've given an explanation, I don't know what it is is because I'm busy doing this thing. I know, I'd love to be able to sit back and watch Morning Joe not really rather stick to the john Wick have john
wickstick pencils in my ears. But I am curious why they weren't there and whether the msnbcs and CNNs of the world really mean what it is that they're saying, and the answer is I don't know.