All right, morning everybody, and welcome. It is six o eight. It is Wednesday here on the Casey of Dame Radio program. Oh that's nice. Ah, what is this? Oh good? Okay, all right, sorry, I'd send an email to somebody like two days ago and for whatever reason, they just answered over in sales. All right, Well, thank you very much for getting back. Appreciate that Annie who coming up on the show today. We got we got a lot of movie stuff, although some
of it's politically connected, some of it's you know, it's not. Don Lemon may have a new gig already, according to rapper Rick Ross. Let's reading that this morning. Oh and um, did you see what happened in La yesterday with the dude who decided to scale the KTLA tower. As you
can imagine, that's gonna draw two things. One emergency response, so you're gonna have of you're gonna have traffic issues in and around there, but they're they're also going to be added onto because people love to rub or neck. That's a thing, man. And of course it was being reported while it was going on, and you're thinking, well, people block the freeway there,
they loot stores, they protest a lot. Why was this any different, because when you hear what he was protesting and how he was armed with the information, it's amazing. And apparently it might be Elon musk fault. I saw that things are Elon Musk's fault a lot lately. Like there was a story here the other day of some guy who groomed a kid on Twitter.
Right, I didn't slid into the dms, did what these monsters do bury him under the prison and UM eventually left with this, uh, this child And in the story, the parents are like, you know, we we even reached out, we we reached out to Twitter, and we're like, ah, this is not good. And h NBC News did a big piece. They're like, oh, they weren't even they weren't even handling it. The irony, of course, is one and I'm not making excuses here.
I think that if if Elon Musk, one of the things that he feels is a selling point under new management, is a much closer and easier to utilize guard on sexual predators on Twitter, Um, he's gonna he's gonna want to nail that down. But ultimately, if you look at what they did to Twitter, even with the dismissal, of employees, just the elimination of these hashtags that are utilized for these, you know, sexually nefarious purposes.
They've at least moved in the right direction. But NBC News wrote this whole piece about how it's Elon musfault this fourteen year old and the irony, of course is one of the very high profile stories under Twitter one point zero.
So pre Musk was these parents, and the New York Times even wrote a piece on this, these parents who along with their children, basically there was revenge porn being posted to their kids and Twitter just ignored them, and then it was being traded by you know, child molesters or excuse me, minor attracted persons and they were getting no satisfaction. But you know, now
that Elon's in charge, you got to do that. So or excuse me, am, I being inaccurate referring to him from a Twitter persona standpoint as Elon Musk, because yesterday the big thing was apparently he has a burner account and it's rabbit hole and now they're picking through every tweet. Ever that wasn't confirmed in any way, shape or form. Right Ross sent this to me yesterday, I mean, the only way to confirm it as if he confirms
it. But the spring shot he showed it looks like when you have multiple accounts on one phone, as we have, because we have the show account in our personal accounts, right, So it's it's the account which has over two hundred thousand followers in like a year, not our account, not the show It should the show account should, right, so hustle up. It's at KC the two letters at HC on the radio anyway, So yes, it has two hundred thousand followers, right and in like a year's time something
like that. And uh, they posted, Hey, look I got two hundred thousand followers, thank you. And then the screenshot they posted, you can see there are other accounts they can go to, and it's Elon Musk. It looks a picture. It's a photo of it looks like his account.
Well, and then you when you see you can see, just to be clear, unless I didn't see the main thing, you can see the photo that is attached to the other account, right, yes, And then you go to the content of the account and it sounds like Elon Musk when you read the way things are worded, the content of it. The followers, Uh, you know, labeling themselves a centrist. This a pin tweet. I'm under the that is Mars Pa, Mars Pennsylvania. And it's just
like it looks like it. The evidence seems to be there, Okay, But I would point out that just as like um currently, your picture on my phone is because you can sle whatever picture you want. It is a picture of you, I believe, wearing a Patriots hat because you had to wear it for something on your street. And when I heard this was happening, I snapped the screenshot that said but I used to on my phone for the Twitter account, I had assigned your photo as the evil chick from Harry
Potter. What's her name, the Dolores whatever, so Dolores Umbridge. Initially I had your photos that and I changed it to the other one that I'm lazy, and I never changed it back. My point being that if you wanted to concoct that, it would be very convoluted, right because you have to send tweets out like you said, that sound like the other person. And but the photo swap, which I saw people leaning on, I mean, that wouldn't that wouldn't be that hard to do. No, it's just
a matter of change in your avy. But I mean, right, so, I don't know, it looks like what it is. I mean, yeah, you know, if anything, unless you're in like your Kaiser Jose, trying to do some Twitter hoax or whatever, which well have you seen have you seen the analysis they're doing. It looks real. This account tweeted out stuff promoting like I can't even remember what some of the allegations were. And then I'm reading the tweeting, I'm like, I don't even know if
that's what that means. It sounds like somebody who's just clowning and trolling, which could very well be Musk because he loves he loves trolling and clowning. Let's face it, you're watching it over the blue checks right now. But anyway, um so, yeah, wait till you hear what this dude was doing. And it was based on a hashtag he saw apparently didn't investigate, just saw. So let's do this six sixteen will take a break a billion that insanity. Next, hang on one oh six one FM Talk and nine
four five WPTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is case O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right, let's chat about this idiot. Oh, just so we're clear too, when I talk about the tower for KTLA, they have obviously they have their main towers, but they have kind of that ceremonial tower, the one that's actually there near their broadcast, which is on Sunset Boulevards, So they're in Hollywood. So you have you got mangled traffic on four oh five surface streets. The whole deal. All
right, So here's the story. A man scaled the KTLA tower with a guitar and a sign. The tower, which is one hundred and six two feet, which is not the tallest tower, but the falls still kill you. Went to the top and played his guitar while onlookers watched, holding a sign that said hashtag free Billie Eilish, the singer. Now he only by the time police arrived, he was only about thirty feet in the year,
so they brought crisis negotiation the whole deal. So the irony is, even though he's described as a protester, hashtag free Billie Eilish was a thing on Twitter, but it was like parody. So police feel that he might be a little confused because Billie Eilish not facing any legal problems doesn't really have anything going on. There was like a parody thing, and then I'm not honestly even decide to, you know, go down the rabbit hole, so to
speak. The sign was a you know, a standard white sheet like you would have on your bed. On one side said a hashtag free Billy Eilish and on the other side said m beware mk ultra sex slaves Donald Marshall Clones. Believe it or not, they feel like there might be something going on emotionally with this dude or mentally with this dude. I got to admit, I love me a good little conspiracy theory, is the threat of MK ultra
sex slave Donald Marshall Clones? Is that a thing we're currently worried about? Because I have to admit I hadn't heard anything about the mk ultra sex slaves. Also, what is an mk ultra sex slave. I understand the mk Ultra. I understand that that was a thing. I understand the CIA side of it, the docks, and I've watched plenty of things on this, but I've never really I'm not up on the mk ultra sex slave angle.
And I tend to deep dive these things because I find him amusing Ross you've seen anything about MK ultra sex slaves and that being a problem right now, or because I m I run across that, and frankly, I don't want to google that, so not on one of my computers anyway. But apparently that's the thing he wants you to know about out and he was willing to get arrested for it. So he was arrested on trespassing charges. And it's
so weird too. Those would be your two messages. These sevy times seven time Grammy winner actually appeared on James Gordon's program earlier in the day and did not appear to be in custody. Maybe maybe he meant from James Gordon, don't know. But I'm less concerned with that and more concerned with apparently the plight of the mk ultra sex slaves, which is apparently a thing we need
to be concerned about. So also, who is Donald Martin clones? They're clones too, They're not just MK ultra sex slaves, they're clones, which you know, as far as you know, being dealt hand in life sounds pretty rotten. Donald Marshall, Just so you know, because I did look this whole thing up this is like, um, this is a Canadian case because it's an MK ultra sex lay, but they're all Donald Marshall junior clones. And basically this was a guy who was wrongly convicted of murder in Canada.
I can't even tell you that. I can't even pronounce the name of the town he's from, but basically he was convicted of murder. The case inspired a number of questions about the fairness of the Canadian justice system. Obviously La is not in Canada, and he's Aboriginal or actually that's not the term they use in Canada. They use U. I can't remember what it is. Actually. Do you know in Canada with the LGBTQ thing, that the
Native persons gay Native persons thing proceeds all of that. So if you go to Canada and you want to use LGBTQ A i AA plus, which I think is the current US standard, you have to put two s in front of that, So it's two s LGBTQ i AA, which actually is then repetitive of it because of the two But you know, I don't think this stuff up all right, eight eight eight nine three four. Yeah, that's how we're starting the show. Today just because I was watching that on the
news. I'll tell you what. In in Canada, in California, they love a good police incident, and it is one of the things in retrospect that baffles me because like, they don't one who identify criminals, I don't even want to convict them. But in California, if there's a police chase, they have all the infrastructure for this. And like the mentality in California too, even among criminals, is I'm gonna be famous and they'll run.
And it will not just be on like KTLA, It'll be on all the partner stations because I was up in Santa Barbara and they will show this thing from take off to whatever they got helicopters and chased vehicles, and it's a bit they'll stop whatever they're doing. Man's why the Whiteford Bronco thing was such
a hit decade on the calendar and celebrating ten years on the air. This is one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle and News Talk w PTI and the Triad minds me of though, Ross is the the horny Teachers stuff, right, Kelly, Yeah, we just had a story right after I
got back from vacation. There was like, these six teachers over the last week have all been charged with canoodling with students, putting it politely, and like if they're a female, especially if they're a female that looks decent, slap on the wrist, dude, bury him under the prison, right. So I was just reading this amber Heard to officially return as Mara in the upcoming Aquaman sequel, and the reason that's obviously all the Johnny Depp amber Heard
stuff that played out. But when amber Heard wrote the op ed that, really, you know, put that out there into the news cycle. Johnny Depp was blackballed immediately before they ever had a chance to determine whether it was true or not. And I think anyone who watched even a moment of that or read any reporting on that trial realized, this woman's utter really full of
crap, and if anything, she herself is abusive. In my opinion, Johnny Depp was Let's say they put the pirate stuff on hold, and then really the thing that he was most involved with was the Harry Potter or not Harry Potter Fantastic Beast thing, which is a Harry Potter related thing. But they immediately pulled him out of that, right, he was out, he was done. And now did you say the movie suffered as a result the sequel. I never saw anything but the first one, and I don't even
know it was a Harry Potter thing. The first I don't think he would have saved it. It was just a matter of writing and story and you know, the whole thing. But they kicked him to the curb, right, They sure did, They sure did. And now they're like, no, we're gonna bring her back for Aquaman. And they got a bunch of these things going on. Ezra Miller, obviously with the flash stuff. That dude's nuts. Yeah, I don't even the fact he still has a job
and hasn't been dropped is insane. And there's you know one thing you could point out, be like, oh maybe that's the reason. I mean, he hit a woman over the head with a chair in a bar, He kidnapped a girl, got her on drugs, right, like all his stuff, and it's like, yeah, give we'll give you a thousand another chance, Like, well, you form one little cult, right, and and then assault somebody on video, right, that's only two strikes. I believe
three strikes is the American way. Um. I honestly, I think the only reason they released the U, the last movie with him in it, is because it was already shot. Because if you look at what they're doing, they're gonna they're probably gonna run that dude who's supposed to be the new Loki. Uh, we're talking about Kane. Guy Kane. Yeah, yeah, Kane, but yeah, the super he's the new uber bad guy in
the Marvel stuff. And basically there was an allegation that he was part of a domestic assault, although it sounds like the rebuttal to that even by the victim is he didn't. But then they released some texts or he really sounded like a creepy due. But the point is they at least have an out because it's not in the can and they can argue the multiverse too, right, which I mean, that's a that's an amazing excuse. Oh No, Kane looks like that in the one, but he doesn't look like that in
the others. Right, you can do that. But with Amber heard, they made a decision that she's gonna she's gonna retain her role. So this is this is where movies cross over with politics. Like I like I mentioned there, but not the only story we have Steven Spielberg. I thought this was interesting, but I also think that they're missing in this article his motivation. Here's the headline from Fox News. Spielberg blast revising old films for modern
audiences and admits mistake with the editing of ET. Now, if you don't know what happened with ET, they re edited ET and in the scene or in multiple scenes actually, but in the scenes where you have law enforcement chasing ET, right, yeah, the government going after them. They literally edited out the guns that they had on them, the government officers or officials, which arguably was a lot softer than what they were doing to things like Rold
Doll stuff and some of the books. But he's super against it. But what they didn't talk about in the story is I saw a piece quite a few years ago where they were they were talking about how Hollywood oversaturates movie with movies with firearms where it's unnecessary, and they had like a list of the greatest offenders, and like Spielberg was on there, and part of the beef
was ET. But the one they really got mad at him over is a classic scene from the Indiana Jones franchise, and that would be if you remember Indiana Jones. He's in the you know, the Middle Eastern market and dudes out there doing his whole thing with the swords and Indie pulls out a pistol and just shoots him, and it's it's played for comedy and so but they I think it was number one on the list where it was just unnecessary in
Hollywood's horrible and it was a gun grabber group. But I just remember reading it with amusement. That's an amazing scene. It's a great scene. The whole thing's a great scene, and it is played and it is the comedic relief of that scene because it really speaks to it speaks to his general demeanor, which is probably going to be bastardized in the next movie. But yeah, I mean it goes back. I mean it's Harrison Ford, it's you could even say Han solo, right, Hans shot first. They took that
out. That made the scene right, like, yes he did, he did, Okay, all right, But but that brought about a point of debate that was that was an iconic moment, even if it's played for memes and stuff like that. You're right, yeah, define the character that's here deal. Let's scoundrel, right. He will shoot you into the table, you know, and then you see the redemption side of it. That's the
whole point of his character. And with Indiana Jones, that's just him moving through life and he's just like, you know what, I don't have time for scrap. It's smart, which perfectly plays to his character. So yeah, I understand why Spielberg would have a would have a beef. But other than sitting there in an interview whining about it, the fact is you're gonna
need like fifteen Spielbergs in. You need the people who are the power players in Hollywood if you ever want to turn that mess around, Because now I would argue the majority of Hollywood is a political They're just two. They're two enraptured in their own selves, do you know what I mean? However, interview after interview and story after story, you realize that if you want to stay on the radar in Hollywood, you got to come out there and just
be like, you know, the force is female. And I'm not saying that some of them don't believe it, but I think for a lot of the actors, they have to align themselves because they realize what happens, not just if they speak out in in opposing ways like James Woods and what's her bucket who they kicked out of Star Wars or the Mandalorian I can't remember, but she ended up doing the movie thing with Daily Wire. That's that's the ultimate punishment. But if you don't, at least if you try to stay
just I'm not talking politics, they'll eat you alive as well. But they're doing most of that Dog and Pony Show is to stay on the radar of the power players. So you need the Spielbergs, You need the guys running the studios, the gals running the studios, the people who you know, make things. You need them to be like, Nah, this is stupid. We're not gonna do this. We're not gonna We're not gonna go re edit Humphrey Bogart back in the day and take a cigarette out of his mouth,
which they did. So I don't know if one interview is going to get it done, but that's what he was winding about yesterday, all right, eight eight, eight, nine, three four seven eight seventy four, Jake, what's up? Hey, good morning? Um, the irony is on Sonic the Hedgehog the two movies that they made. The first one, they all had guns, and their guns were not overly heavily used, but you know, the military actually had them and the police actually had them.
But on the second one they use tasers and their their new new secret secret government thing is called gun gun Mike as an acronym. But I thought that was hilarious. You know, I never watched any of the Sonic movies, but I do find it ironic the tasers would be the the go to when in a way, I like, I don't know if it's part of the cannon for Sonic, but I would assume that, like electricity coursing through them is part of his character based on what he's able to do in the video.
You know what, I didn't think about that, but that does make a lot of sense tho as well. They do use rockets then in the end that military actually does have the deuce on top of the humbies. But um, not a single I think, not a single firearm he's actually fired in that in the second one and the first one only one was okay, all right, it's something I Yeah, I appreciate the call this morning thank
you, Jake. Oh what is this Gina Krano? Yes, that is her name is Oh sobody said, I mean email said that that scene with Harrison Ford was not a planned scene. You know. I think I saw that on a some little bio video or something one time. But it's one of the scenes that will stick with you from all of the indie series, right where he pulled the guys, you know, going through the ninja motions and he's just like, it's one of the classic scenes when you think of
the franchise, right. The other one would be like replacing the bag right here, he's in the tomb or whatever and he's switching the you know, putting him bag on the thing so he can steal the thing. Yeah, or the giant boulder chasing him. It's a classic scene. You can't take it out, or choosing the cups, you know, just like if you're gonna sight something from it, it's easily in the top three. But nope, No, we gotta get woke, got gotta show out for the powers
that be, and they're gonna you're gonna need a lot more. Spielberg's on that all right. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four they didn't have guns, but they have themselves a movie style brawl. We'll tell you about a flight that ended up having to make an emergency landing. Crazy story there, and no snakes. I understand there were no snakes on the plane, So that's good. Michael Avananti's in the news and the Red Cross.
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case O Day Radio program. Let me ask you a question. What would you say, looking back on your life out there, everything you've done, all the experiences you've had, what would you say is your Rosa Parks moment? What would it be? What is that moment you decided to take a stand, buck the system them go your own way. Because I didn't know that was a thing, but apparently that's the thing. I have to admit I missed the story initially from last week, but I think I might have
seen the headline, but I didn't see the video. But then I saw the video yesterday and I'm like, yeah, we're gonna talk about this. So this woman, this woman goes into a tar J gets herself a bunch of groceries. This is in Ohio, and not just groceries, but like a thousand dollars worth of stuff. And it actually happened at the end of last year, but the video and the court case and all that finally made
its way into the news here last week. She goes up with a thousand dollars worth of stuff and starts whispering to the person checking her out, saying that this should be reparations. Yeah, and obviously the clerk's like, yeah,
I can't really do that. I think the clerk told her to come back tomorrow and talk to the big manager and maybe ask if they would give her a thousand dollars worth of stuff, but obviously she just didn't want to deal with the issue, at which point they brought one of the managers out
who was on site, and the whole thing goes sideways. This woman goes absolutely backcrap crazy on this dude starts and it's you can see it from the surveillance video, but to hear it described, you can see how aggressive obviously she is. She was not happy. She was not happy that they were denying her reparations. Those are her words. So she got up in his face and actually you can see in the video she's chasing the dude as he
continues to back up, just trying to have a conversation with her. And he keeps moving back back back, and right there on the other side of where the checkouts are as his office, and she backs him into his office and now he's got nowhere to go, and in the video he realizes I'm
pinned in he smokes her right in the face. Police came saw the video, heard his side of the story and said no, no, no, but let me just play you some of this because it's fascinating to hear her sitting in the office after she just got you know, smacked in the face by this dude. Oh oh, okay, I'm sorry. Ross is just to him so but it's not the a Parks thing, right, Oh, I have all right, I gotta find I'm sorry I sent you the wrong
video. I didn't even all right, Well, here's a snippet of the employees talking to police, and I'm gonna grab the audio because it's amazing. I've had a privileged life and she's been disadvantaged. And then said that she was asking Target to make reparations for her. This is what she's telling the clerk. She's telling this clerk who's checking out at Target. And this is
not me passion judgment on people who work at Target. I just want to be very clear here, But to sit there and tell somebody working at Target about the privileged life they've had, I don't know that they're necessarily going to respond to that real well. Please, just kept saying that, and then she got really close to me, so I put my hands up and backed down, and she like followed me. She held our security persis. He came over and intervening, I hope you, like what do we need to
do here? And she's like, I I just don't have the money and I need you guys to take care of me. And then she started like getting in my face and I was like, man, like I need you. I need you to leave, Like you needn't leave where I'm gonna call the cops. She's like a cool, call the cops. She sorted like walk kept she kept on coming at me, and I backed up all the way up into my office and I tried to close it door, and she's like, oh, you're not gonna leave. And then I tried to close
it because she like powered her way through him into my office. And then like I tried to back up a little bit more, but she I was already in an an close space, so I just hit it. Yeah, all right, Well I'm gonna go because when the cop gets there and I
have the I have the Yeah. I gotta tell you too. As I'm sitting there and I'm looking at the stories Sarah, the coverage here, and the analysis and comments on everything about this target altercation, there's still a bunch of people that are really mad that he hit this woman and punched as a strong word, he struck her in the face, but it actually looks like he struck her kind of with an open hand. But the fact remains is she was, and I don't care who you are, she was beyond aggressive.
She's going after this dude, and once he's pinned into an area where he's not getting out, I don't begrudge him doing something I'm not a hit woman kind of guy, but arguably she's bigger than him, and I gotta be honest in this day and age. You guys, see the video here a few weeks ago. This woman. They released the video a few weeks
ago. I'm not exactly sure when it took place. Basically, there's this woman, she's a she's a bigger woman, but you know, she just looks like somebody who's upset that the police or stop, I don't remember what they were, what they were on or about. It looked like she was parked illegally and she'd almost she basically had been in some verbal spat and they're trying to talk to her and she's just she's in her car and the officers
are trying to get her out of the car. And you know, one of the things, whether it is right or wrong, you can you know, you can figure that out in court. But if an officer asked you to step out of their car, there's your car. There's case law on that right. So if they ask you to get out of your car, you gotta get out of your car. If it's part of a traffic stops.
I see a lot of people argue that point in the video. But what was crazy he is they're trying to get her out of there, and it turns more physical and more physical, and she pulled a gun out and she shot one of the cops in the head. He survived, thankfully, and she did not. But you know, so it's understandable to me how things can go sideways real quick. And this guy's now in a pinned area.
It's kind of like that clerk up in New York that ended up killing that dude then getting arrested before the outrage required them not to do that to him and charge him with murder. Once you're backed into a corner there and you have somebody that is as aggressive as this woman is who was in there asking the checkout girl to give her a thousand dollars in reparations, and then she became enraged when the woman's like, no, you got to talk to
a manager. I can't do that, And the one manager on site was like, no, no, I'm not sure how thousand be very interested to see what was all in her card, said no, she was as aggressive without a weapon in your hand as somebody could get. And you don't know what she had on her person. So I don't begrudge this guy at all. And you're gonna hear in this little snippet I'm gonna play. The police
don't seem too either. Now, Initially when the police showed up, if you watch the bodycamp footage, they're like, I'm sorry you hit her? What And he's trying to explain. He goes, let's go to the tape. And after watching the tape, the police are having this conversation with her. This is part of the bodycamp footage, and you'll hear him tell her you're in the wrong here, woman, you're in the wrong, and her rebuttal is amazing. Listen to this. You're back into an office and you
got hit in the face. Unfortune. When people working back into a partner, they can choose no, no, they can choose to do the right thing, or they can choose the lash up a right. Let me, I'll come back and I'll play the rest of it for you. What do they could choose to do the right thing every moment of when you were charging this dude, especially when they cut to the camera in the office. In my mind, I assume you're about to strike me or worse. There's no
question in my mind that that's what I'm assuming. It is a straight bullrush, aggressive yelling, unquestionable. This guy's retreating, retreating, retweeting, a retreating. I can't even say the word three times. And at that moment you can tell he becomes aware of his surroundings because he's trying to get into his office. Shut the door, and she's just boom right through that. Man, what is the right thing there? Well, she doesn't even understand
the irony of what she's saying because she's talking about herself. She's like, Oh, the system has backed me up into a corner. The system is a system systemic racism. When someone's backed up into a corner, they're gonna lash out. And you know you can't when she's literally doing that to this dude in his office, right, And this is and here's the thing I
understand. When people could become frustrated and they think they're out of options and they're just like, you know, they go to the grocery store and it's they're having to make that decision, especially with inflation and everything going on.
But in those instances, you've seen those videos where they're like they check it out and then the person opens their wallet or whatever, and they're like, oh, it's forty three to I only have forty and they're making that decision about what to put back, and you can see that they have literal staples on there, and you'll see generally you'll see this as part of like a
Good Samaritan video. This woman has a thousand dollars worth of stuff. Okay, she's got a thousand dollars worth of stuff, and she uses the word reparations to the clerk in a hushed manner because I think she thinks and she's telling. She's telling. Again, this is not me being mean to people who work at Target or Walmart or any of the rest of it. Telling somebody who's working a checkout counter at a big box store that they have immense
privilege is not a good way to influence people. What a poor method. They're a poor assumption. And her argument is a lesser violent version of like whenever you have one of these tragic incidents right where somebody that gets shot and then they loot a Walmart or they burn the city down, and you have these people on CNN that are like, well, this is just a part of protesting. You know, these people are back into a corner, so now they have to steal the TVs. It's the same exactly, She's making
the same exact argument. They just need bread, right, AOC made right. So it's just the same thing. She's saying. I deserved this because the system has bagged me up into a corner. So give me a thousand dollars worth of goods in my cart. But but but what the question is what else is in there a thousand dollars? Don't get me wrong, I'm
sure you've done the same where you want. Especially, I don't know if I've ever spent a thousand dollars at Target, right, maybe I have maybe buying like a maybe that's not not even like a no, not even like a tea. You can buy the best. I bought a pretty badass TV at Target and it wasn't a thousand dollars, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, that's not My point is that's not like the staples of food. Right. I bought a table set at Target and it wasn't a
thousand dollars? Like, what are you buying? What's taking the most expensive thing I've ever bought a Target? Now, granted, yes, you will go into a Target with a specific list, and you always come out with more. Right, You're like, I'm going to throw this in the car, that into the car. But it's never you've never been at the register. But like a thousand dollars, Like, no, I've done those things,
right, go there. I used to shop grocery shop at Target a lot when I lived to Minneapolis because they're kind of the grocery leader there because they're based in Minneapolis, so they have all these and so I'd go there and it's the it's the whole thing, right. You go in there and you're thinking, oh, I got about one hundred dollars on my list worth of stuff, and because yeah, you walk down an aisle and you're like, oh, I need all of this snack food and it's like one hundred
and eighty and you make that groan. Right, But a thousand dollars. I don't believe I've ever spent a thousand dollars at a Target. And not with one cart. You got one cart. I mean even food is cheaper at Target compared to like local grocery stores, a lot of them. Yeah, I know that because that's we choose to shop at Target because it's cheaper. You don't want to go to Walmart and fight over a pizza. What's wrong with that? God, I haven't gotten into a Walmart since before COVID.
It's all everything's locked up now anyway, So whatever, Yeah, we'll get to that story, all right. So let me let me give you the whole audio, because his ross pointed out, listen to her argument and then listen to her bottle when the police are like, nah, you did the wrong thing here, you back come into an office and you got hit in the face. Unfortunately, when people walking back into a partner, they can choose no, no, they can choose to do the right thing,
or they can choose the lash out. Because you're the she says. The whole altercation was her way to take a stand. This is not as Parks moment. You what, all right? Just a couple of things about Rosa Parks if I could one, and this is people don't people fail to realize this Rosa Parks And this doesn't I don't even mean this derogatory because she was
she was protesting something that was righteous. But Rosa Parks was an activist and actually she was with a group that would go and do these things essentially to force the issue. And I don't begrudge her that. But one of the big points that Rosa Parks made to those police officers. Look it up if you don't believe me and the bus driver and everyone else, is I paid the same as everybody else on this bus. I'm going to sit here. And that was that's what made it righteous. At that point. She wasn't
asking for extras, she was asking for equal right and she paid. I paid for my seat. I paid as much as that guy did. And that woman who asked me to move and screw you. I paid for it. She's not like I need I need an annual bus pass. Absolutely bonkers man. And to Ross's point, he was talking about targets. So they had a video that somebody put out of a Target store. Where was it was in California, right, or was in Washington? Well, the West
coast targets San Francisco, San Francis, of course it is. Yeah, they're probably not long for this world out there. And you know when you go in like the one area in like CVS where they have like the the you know the razors which apparently are worth what your house is, and sometimes you gotta get them out of there. This is a whole Target store where
everything is locked down in multiple aisles. And it's not just video video games, you know, the stuff that they would normally lock down because it had a high shoplifting rate video games and be on their razor blades or replacement raisors, a few other things. This is like every aisle is I don't how do you even shop there? Do you just have to have a Target person follow you around with keys? I don't know how you could functionally you shop
at Target ross. Could you shop with everything locked down in every aisles? I mean could you? Yeah? Would you want to know? Because it would take There's not enough Target employees to go around and and sure you may be I'm going in there for one thing and then find you still got to find somebody, but just cruising the aisles. Video's bonker. Well we'll tweet, We'll tweet out the store. You can see the video in there.
The business models of these stores are just slowly going to turn into order online pickup at the you know, the pickup spot or whatever, because he can't go You see these videos out of Chicago. It's stuff where it's like, well, that's why they're leaving. Yeah, and that's why they're locking everything up. And I'm telling you that's where the business model is gonna go. This is gonna be like you know, you can order online, we can
bring it out and you can pick it up. This is why I chuckled when Amazon was talking about and they've they've implemented some of these stores, but it basically functions like the little store downstairs. Right. Yeah, it's the honor system, but not really because they got a bunch of cameras. But you know, Amazon's thing was, we're gonna we're gonna have these grocery stores. The only employees were gonna have are basically the ones who stocked the shelf
and these stores and they've opened a few of them. Basically, you fill your card up and you walk you literally walk out. Uh you're there's a little area where you can put stuff in bags if you want, but using scanning technology and I'm sure, wait because there's a little thing you walk over. I've seen one of They have one in DC and I went in there
because I was curious. Using weight and then the scanning technology basically it pops it all and then you can you can there's a little thing you can pay at, or you can get an account, and it just knows who you are based on I don't even know, because I didn't sign up for all that stuff. But a model where anyone can walk in and grab whatever and stroll out of there and you don't have to pre register. Amazon's insane if they think they're going to roll those out in San Francisco, Chicago and many
metros when all these other stories are having a Fort Knox everything. So I don't know. I will say this though, still a fan of just holling up and and it's been a hard transition because I hate it online shopping for clothes, for fruits and vegetables. I still hate it. But I just got a grocery delivery yesterday and you know what, I'm kind of liking it, and uh what did I buy? Vegetable and bananas, apples, avocados, And they did they They did a good job of getting me stuff that
was fresh and not beat to crap. I love it now, man. That's the one good thing to come out of covid well that the uber eats by the way, leaving on your doorstep and go away. This story the reparation of the woman that slapped the guy, saying she deserved reparations at target. No, the guy slapped her right right right, Yeah, it did happen while you were in vacation, which you don't know is the original headlines for this story. We're all against the dude because it was before the video,
and now they've all changed and I can't remember all that. The first time I read it, I don't remember the source, but it was on Twitter and it was sort of the headline of the story was like, dude
slaps women saying you don't deserve reparations. Yeah, I saw it couched in a couple of links when I was trying to find the proper because I saw it on Twitter the videos first, and I tried to find a story putting the stack, and I saw several versions that weren't that aggressive, but they were like target targeting, play accused of assaulting woman who was asking for food or asking for free, free food or something, And I'm like, I
don't know about all that now that I've seen the video, but I launched with the video. But even watching the video, holy crap, people are in there like you know you still you never hit it. You never hit a never hit a customer. They're always right. And I'm like, I don't know, I don't know, you're bull rushing me. I don't know what's up with you. You know. One of the things that can be incredibly disarming is quick action aggressive it it It takes people out of what they're
trying to do. Anyway, all right, I gotta take a break. We'll be right back. Hang on. All right, lunch segment there, we'll get some calls lined up and we'll chat more coming up here on the ko DA Radio program. Hang On show. After the show is on the iHeart Radio app. Search k c O Day for the podcast on the iHeart Radio app. Welcome back, seven thirty five, Good morning, a C O Day Radio program. Oh boy, I got a cat story for all
you cat crazy, crazy cat people. Although you know what, I'm down with this cat I just you know, I was just thinking about it. I was gonna go one direction, I'm gonna go to the other direction. We'll get to that story here in just a moment. So we're talking about this tar target story where this woman goes in she gets a thousand dollars worth of merch. I don't know what all it was, gets into line and literally is leaning in trying to have this real quiet conversation with the woman checking
her out, saying, um, you're privileged. Actually hold on, let me play the audio for you and we'll grab a call or two. Here. Here's from the report. I've had a privileged life and she's been disadvantaged, and then said that she was asking Target to make reparations for her. Yeah, so she's got a thousand dollars worth of stuff. She's telling the woman checking her out, Hey, you're privileged, I've been disadvantaged. Target needs to give me this one thousand dollars worth of stuff as a form of
reparations. And the clerk told her, well, that's not I can't do that. Why don't you come back tomorrow when our store manager will be here, and she wants to talk to a manager whoever's there. So this guy comes out and all of a sudden, he's like, yeah, we're not gonna do that, and she just she flips her lid man you can see
in the video, gets super aggressive. She's screaming at him, and it's probably about fifty feet from the checkout to the door where this guy's office is and she's chest bumping him and right in his face, and he's retreating because his plan is she's out of her mind. I'm gonna get in my office, shut the door, called the police, and we'll go from there. But she just comes busting through the door, backs him into his office. He's got nowhere to go. He smacks her. It doesn't punch her,
per se, but he hits her pretty good. Police show up. At first, they're you know, they're they're on his ass, and then they see the video. They talk to the witnesses and then this conversation and Sue, you're talking into an office and you got hit in the face. Unfortunately, when people walk back into a partner, they can choose no, no, they can choose to do the right thing, or they can choose the lash out. She says, the whole altercation was her way to take a
stand. This is not a park smongent you that's insane, that's that's backcrap crazy. And we see all of these stories going on in San Francisco. There's a target. Everything's behind the lock case stores in Chicago getting out of there. San Francisco, to some extent to other municipalities, Wahwak close seven of their stores in Philadelphia. Proper people just go in there, and then they don't even just go in there and like under cover of darkness right where
they you know, try to shoplift or anything. They go in and mass or they get a group together. You've seen these videos where they load up a cart and they just go running out, and you know, the people in charge of protecting the assets, depending on which company they're with, they can't really do anything other than try to get a license plate and call. What do you think would have happened if you went running out of a store with a cart full of stuff when you were a kid. And I'm not
that old. I mean I'm in my early forties, but I don't think that would have ended well. If I went into IgA or DJs, which were the two grocery stores in Buffalo, Wyoming, with a cart full of stuff and just trucked it out to the parking lot, it was like, screw all, y'all. I'd be physically restrained. So I understand. But
the flip side is like targets taking crap. Because they burned the one target down on Lake Street during the protest, and they were set to open another two stores in North Minneapolis, which is kind of a tough area, and Target didn't, And then all of a sudden, the activists like, well, you're a bunch of big fat racists. But if if you want to open a store. Look, if you're choosing where you're going to open a store, you're choosing based on profitability. It's why you You wouldn't open a
big box. You wouldn't open a big box. Target in done, no offense to the folks, in't done. But you're just not gonna have the traffic there. It wouldn't be profitable for you, well in the same way that you may open in a population center. But you keep getting ripped off from a corporate decision standpoint. Why would you do it? Craziness? All right, let me get a call here, James. You're right in the
middle of this. What's up. Hey, So I have went and I've worked for a big box company for over twenty years, roughly twenty three. I started right after two thousand and Uh. You know, your highest, your most controllable expenses is your associates that you have. I've been stabbed twice in the line of work that I'm doing. For this big box company. I've been shop one. Can you tell me? Can you tell me what the line is? Just an asset protection I'm an asset protection manager for for
a big box company. Okay, Um, And people know I'm a higher up, all right, Yeah, I'm a higher up. So uh, you know, you get people that will come in and you don't know what you're dealing with. The guy from Target, I did a little tour with Target. Also, I can guarantee you that he was more than likely reprimanded. I've had two associates that got fired for assisting police officers in that kind of wine award. Um, I've personally been reprimanded to the point of almost
termination for h the same thing. You don't really know when you when you physical altercation. Oh yes, yes, I've been hit with a wine bottle before. I've been sued multiple times. Um. So yeah, I mean I can I can relate to the guy, Yeah I can. I was. I was glad to see the police weren't having any of that crap. Unfortunately, that's not the way it plays out. I'm sure in a lot of it. That's the Raleigh market. That's the Raleigh market, though,
and it's like it's your home. It's not Portland, Oregon, it's not Washington. This this, that stuff happens here. You know when you're boarding up windows and uh, you know, why are your prices going up? Why are you why are you losing? Why is her your car? And there again, you know your quientele that you have here is getting worse. So you know, the you know you you are, you don't have any any checkouts open, but the people that you do have are slowly deteriorating.
Yeah, just to be clear, this actually took place in Ohio, but right right, but I'm saying that's here. That same stuff happened, you know, on a daily basis, on a daily basis in our backyard. You know, you got people. I had a stop that I did. It was sixteen thousand dollars that they just came in and just you know, just hear smashing stuff, taking everything out of cases. Yeah, I've seen
a lot of the videos. I've actually watched kind of in person, although predated this, where it was clear this individual went into a clothing store and put about nine layers on underneath and they were doing a stop and it was too it looked like they were high school or like early college girls, and they let them walk. After that, they confronted them kind of, but they let them walk, and there was basically they got they followed him.
It was at the mall, Crabtree Valley Mall. They followed him out to the parking lot, took a license plate. I don't know what what happens, but I'm assuming that everyone's adjusted their policy to that now. So what is that happened? They just pulled out fold out cameras like and just started wanting to report. And everybody wants to play money more in quarterback after you know, you see someone, they though I would have did this, I would have did did that? No, I just laid on the ground.
I bled, you know. Yeah, Well, and let me ask you a question. You don't have to get into specifics. Um. I'm not gonna ask you where you work or anything like that, but uh, you know the thing that I get told or that the rebuttal will be, well, they're over here, they're profiling, they're harassing people, and in reality that their their their employees steal from them a lot more. I don't know
what the big deal is. Um, that's obviously a concern. But when you're sitting there and you're trying to identify somebody who may be up to no good. I'm assuming that there's a pretty set there's there's certain set things that people do because most people are not good criminals, right, they give themselves
away. Has that evolved over the twenty years? And how substantially, very substantially, because over the twenty years you didn't have the technology that technology, you know, Bluetooth headsets, you know, you don't know who they're talking to, you can be talking on the phone. Then the way that they can feel stuff now is completely different. You know, they're sticking it, not only under their clothes. I've had people sticked up in their mouth.
So now they're not even heighten it, they're just rolling out like what are you going to do about it? Well? Right, and you know, you you're not allowed to actually stop people stop people anymore. So it kind of keeps taking away more and more and more away from and it's every company, it's not just the company that I work for. But you get into the point to where you people say, well, you are profiling them.
You know, you are looking at me because of race, sex, ethnicity, you know, and really all it was because you're just now you're breaking the law. Well yeah, and then when I watched those videos, and I know you watched them too, I'm like, oh, yeah, that person looks like they're up to no good. Right, it's just really they're just really bad. I mean, they're looking around all the things that you shouldn't do. Um, but now it's just so blatant in a lot of
these cases. All right, well, I appreciate you hanging on, sir, Thank you for the call. Smoke with a wine bottle today? Was it red or white? But it was a red wine? Was like the guy that stabbed me was about seventy years old and I just asked for his receipt and he said, I got it right here. He pulled out a butcher knife and stabbed me. Jeez. All right, well I'm glad it was red, sir. White would be assaulted, all right, very willing, thank you. Well, no, look, you want to be stabbed
or you want to be assaulted with the chardonnay or more low. I'm just saying, all right, seven forty seven race stage from the Weather Channel is here to assault you with weather facts. What do even guess? Lots of weather facts well, the facts are a little more clouds start to come in today a little ahead of schedule. Otherwise, sunshine, especially from about the Triangle and east. There's a little more cloud to the west of US.
Even some sprinkles rain out near Asheville. Low seventies today, so we're starting to creep back closer to normal after being in the mid upper sixties yesterday. That will see the rain chances go up a little bit tomorrow slight chance of showers, load of mid seventies, and a better chance for Friday and Friday night of showers and thunderstorms to be scattered around. Maybe over an inch of rainfall on Friday and then into Friday night maybe a little bit more. And
that's an early shower Saturday. I think most of Saturday will be dry, upper seventies to maybe the lower eighties, but then Sunday afternoon the showers are going to return into Sunday night. So how to get off again, Casey, I think with the wet weather, best chance, best coverage probably as we go through the second part of Friday into Friday night, and then another chance coming in Sunday afternoon into Sunday night. All right, thank you,
sir, appreciate it. We'll talk in an hour. All right, forty eight, take a break, come back. I got a crazy cat story for you. Crazy but you know what I kind of want. I want to adopt this cat's you'll see why. Hang on, we'll get to it next. Celebrating ten years and still going strong. Thank you. Casey is on ninety four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, ready for a whacked out story? I got one before you right here. El Paso, Tajas, El Paso,
Texas. Prison officials have removed and Egyptian hairless cat from a prison so I don't know. I don't know if this things living in the yard or up in the prison or whatever. Man. And it's been turned over now to a pet rescue after authorities say they found the cat, which again is an Egyptian hairless cat covered in Mexican gang tattoos. The prisoners had tatted the cat
up. Some examples tear drops made in Mexico's all in Spanish, but essentially has show in Mexico in Mexico made in Mexico, as well as um elnetto a bunch of southern Mexican gang tattoos. I'm not. I mean, obviously you're talking about animal abuse there, and we can make cat jokes, but I'm not down with that. But this cat is this cat looks badass. I want to adopt this cat. Ross. Can you imagine if you got this cat at your house, the like some guys roll up to rob your
house. Meanwhile, you know this cat's in the yard, you know, bench pressing or whatever they do, because there's a prison cat got some tear drop tattoos. Right, you're breaking into that house. You see that. You see a cat, a cat covered in Mexican gang tattoos. You're robbing that house. There's no way in hell. No, you're rolling by. You're like, yes, they got to Esteloco. Man, You're like, that cat is crazy, there's no way that's that. I think that cat
would be a wonderful deterrent, Like I would suggest you get it. But the problem is is you already got a cat, and I don't need this cat coming in making your cat as be you know what I'm saying. I've got two cats, so yeah, no, oh, excuse me, Well I don't you know, you don't want to come in in there, and you know, trying to alpha the other cats. Although it might look at your cat, you're like, go, bros eaten plastic d my cats.
They're nuts. So guys out of his mind. But yeah, you got a cat running around covered in in uh you know Cineloa cartel tattoos, got tear drops. Who'd thatt cat kill? I don't know, like three people cats? That's yeah. I always suggested the cats. You know, if you dropped dead, they're just gonna eat you. This cat apparently has hurried the process several times. Specifically, the tattoos speak to the Mexicalis gang that's nice, led by Ernesto alnetto Alfredo Pignone. I don't know if it's his
cat. In addition to the all right, check this out, what is going on at prisons man? In addition to the tatted up game, tattoo cat authorities say they also found plasma TV sets. How did you get that? In drugs, liquor and cash? Wait, hold on, this is bonkers. Okay, So so they found several plasma TVs. I wonder how big they were. I would look for the dude who's not walking very well, probably the guy drugs liquor and cash. Well, this sounds like guard
stuff. The very same prison. Oh check this out. So the very same prison which sits right there off of Warez down an El Paso Warrez area had had previous incidents of people smuggling stuff in and at one point officials in a in a I guess they have like a work farm near it or something, say that they started to crack down after jailer's discovered a mechanical bull. You smuggled a mechanic. What is going on, man? I guess if it's the no fence part of it, But no, this was up in
the prison. Yeah, dude, I want that. I want the cat. I want. I want the cartel cat. You can have all the gun stickers you want. You got a cat out there with tear drop tattoos, smoking a cigarette bench press and working all swool. Nobody's screwing with your house man, not a chance. Look at that. I found a cat I would adopt. You're welcome, they guaranteed offer. Remember all right, good morning that he goes seven TCO gay radio program. It's craziness we get
of Craziness'll let you know what the city of Nashville's up too. I don't know if you know how it's been going down there, but basically they're like, hey, you know, what what if we h what if we just don't hold anybody accountable and forced laws any of that. And I mentioned what happened when I went to that wedding last year. My buddy got married to Nashville, and I went down. We were there for a few days,
and it was like it was a morning over the morning after. I can't remember the wedding, and I'm like, you know, I'm gonna go get a bloody Mary and a big breakfast thing. And you go to that little central area of Ashville and I'm just just driving around, trying to find a place to park, and some goliath homeless guys flicking cigarettes at the windshield.
Just lawless man, just lawless. And I told you another friend who was there, and he wouldn't like do the bidding of a homeless guy in the moon bats were like brating him over it because he wouldn't he told a homeless guy to quit bugging him. Well, Ashville's realized that that's that's now created one of the most nationally covered national news doing stories rising violent crime rates in recent years, and it don't look good. So now they've announced the going
to do some stuff. They're gonna take quote unquote targeted steps. It's so bad though. They announced them, but they're not starting them till May first. I don't understand why you'd be like, all right, we're gonna do this stuff, but we're not gonna do it until next Monday. But I'll let you know what they think is gonna work. Spoiler. I don't think it's gonna work. Also, I'm very intrigued and I'm reading this story about this cat. This is down in right on the right on the Texas Mexico
border, worez el Paso area. Down there, authorities who were attempting basically, they were they were going through and they were trying to find contraband. In the prisons. They found a lot of stuff plasma, TV drugs, alcohol, you know, the stuff you'd expect. Not the TVs though, but also several animals, several pets, including one Egyptian hairless cat that was is covered in Mexican game tattoos. So they brought it over to a shelter.
They're adopting it. The other ones. I want this cat. You, I'm telling you, this should be the greatest crime to turn on the planet. There is no way you're going into dude's house whose cat is tatted up like one of the cartel enforcer. You get it. You get that, You get a little weightset out front like a prison yard. You get the tiny little barrel of acid for its victims. People rolling right on by. Man, they're not screwing with me. I want this cat, apparently
though they already have applications in and I didn't make the lists. But plus, this cat's gonna make money because you know it's gonna be running schemes and stuff. It's gonna you see these other cats show up intermittently, right, one of them kittens pretty dark stuff, right, But you see one of those cats rubbing its butt across the carpet. It ain't tape worms, it's cocaine balloons. Right. But ain't none of my business. Just protect the
house anyway. Let me grab some calls on the cat. We'll get to the Asheville thing momentarily. Yes, Jim, what's up? Hey, Casey? I just want to applaud you on your willingness to adopt this cat. Great selfish it is slightly selfish. I want the home protection aspect of it. So well, I think you're also looking out for his potential companion whiskey. Say you'll have whiskey and tequila, but a word of cosson though your
one cat away from being a crazy cat lady. Well you know what, sir, Even though whiskey wasn't real, maybe the imaginary whiskey across the cartel. Do you ever think of that? Wow? So he's out in the pine bearing somewhere. I'm just saying, I don't know, sir. I don't ask questions as uh as we've mentioned on this show, it's none of my business. Got well again, Hey all the cats out there, thank you? Okay, all right, thank you very much, appreciate it.
Yeah, oh man, all right, Well hold on one more called Donna. What's up? Good morning, casey morning. I just want to tell you that your logic is flawed on two fronts. And what sense on the cat? Yes? Why? Yeah, Well, it's more amazing that we were able to tattoo a cat than it was than it is that they got in plasma television. And I talked to Ross off the air, I said, what was off the air, I said, yeah, I don't understand how they tatted this cat. I thought I was going to die have blood
loss trying to get my mom's cat into the carrier at the time. Exactly so. And on the second point that I'd like to make is that he would not make a good um deterrent for your home because he must be declaude. If they were able to tattoo this cat, there's no way we just take hours to get her nails clipped. We have to fight with her, like nah, you think about Mexican gang bangers who are tatting this cat up, are going to declaw the thing? Hell no, they want that as
badass as possible. I don't think so. I don't think so. And you know, maybe they had a guard take it to get declaude. I wonder how they got some of that stuff in there. So I'm sure somebody's working with gang members when it, when it boils right down to it, would also be afraid of a cat with claws. You know, it's a
visual deterrent. I don't even need it to physically. Okay, right on, I can appreciate you're like that guy is so crazy as cats tatted up with gang tete there, all right, into that dude's house, all right, thank you day. Yeah, I don't think my logic has flowed at
all. What do we name the cat? You gotta you also gotta give it a crazy name, man, right because all these guys, um, you know, the real badasses, whether it's the mob or gang members, the Mexican cartels or whatever, a lot of them have these names that are just like you know, crazy nicknames. We'll figure it out. I'm just
saying this is um. There's a lot of possibilities here. By the way, if you're headed to Disney h starting in June, they just announced they're going to be closing, uh, several rides that are a crowd favorites starting June fifth. Peter Pan's Flight, Mister Toad's Wild Ride, Alice in Wonderland, and the Little Mermaid Aerials Undersea Adventure will all be closed as part of
refurbishments. However, they did not announce when they will reopen. It looks like your people mover is good to go, So how nice for you. Ross. Let's see, do you go on those rides or are there only specific rides or do you try to target all of the rides when you go there, if that's even possible. We have. He said that we because of the Lincoln's auntists and we sort of go on the same rides repeatedly. Well, he's what he likes. Haunted man was haunted manned mansion. It's
a small world. Loves the people mover, it's a small world. You have to go on that a bunch. Oh man, you got some noise canceling headphones. It's not bad. Really, What if you end up like those people last year? I remember the thing next to fire department. Just don't hear it after a while. Okay, all right, Well just an fyire for people maybe planning some summer vak al right to the city o Asheville. UH. City leaders have announced a sixty day initiative to improve conditions in
downtown amid a crisis and police staffing. Maybe you should address why you have a police staffing crisis. Could it be you literally redirecting a bunch of their funding, putting a firing hiring fee freeze for a while, demonizing them at every council meeting. I mean that probably might affect some of it. According to a news release um AM, beginning May first, the sixty day initiative
will kick off. Quote, there are complex circumstances contributing to the safety issues that Asheville is currently seen downtown and will take a community response to address them. According to the city press release, multiple city departments are coordinating a city government response, and we also need participation from community leaders and partners to address
all factors. Look, you know, so they're putting this out there like there's one hundred and one reasons this thing's going sideways, when in reality, probably just a handful, and most of them probably have to do with leadership in not the community, but of the community in the form of elected officials. All right, here we go. So the new initiative will include increased law enforcement presence downtown. Okay, that's good. That's probably a good thing.
All so, city staffers will devote attention on a more regular basis to keeping downtown free of needles and biological waste. Oh good god, are they bringing it? I know they're bringing in. Oh yeah, here we go, Yep, here we go. The city will further launch a Community Responder pilot program to support individuals in crisis and provide a more visible city public safety press presence outside of law enforcement. All right, so they are doing the
social worker thing. Let me tell you what that guy I mentioned that will run in with that, that homeless dude flicking the cigarette and screaming at me like a crazy person. Do I think that he could benefit probably from some mental health stuff. Probably, And I don't know all the reasons he's there the situation. But let me tell you what is somebody just going into downtown
Asheville. While I'm not non sympathetic to that, I don't need some social worker then standing there going Bob, why are you flicking cigarettes at this tourist car. No, I want police to go in there and be like, get over here, lunatic, and then take them away. I can't imagine trying to do business in downtown Nashville, which is it's an expensive place to do it anyway. But if you're killing the tourist presidence over there because they
just don't want to deal with it, I'll tell you what. I didn't want to go back after that. I was there for like three we're there for like three or four days for the wedding, got a pregame, and then he got a post game and recover. But after that one little trip down there. I'm like, you know what, I'm good. I'm gonna stay over here by the hotel, a new downtown safety and NISI. At the end of sixty days, staff will assays whether or not our actions.
Here's what they're not putting in here, and I think it is probably the crime statistics that came out. The City of Chicago pulled this crap years ago, and many other places have. One of the ways to immediately slice those numbers is to start recalibrating what actually fits the definition of the reportable crimes. Chicago did it two ways. One, they changed what actually qualifies as a violent crime, so you saw these numbers go down, But they also changed
what they can what they considered the reportable area. So Chicago was trying to deal with what's known as inside the loop. Now that's what they're dealing with now, and then outside the loop, even if it's in the city of Chicago, it's separate. So the numbers they were showing you was from the totality of the Chicago area. And then they redefined the area they were attempting
to address. And so then they would send press releases to reporters who knew what was up and then wouldn't even explain this, And then the numbers looked like they were increased or they were decreasing, and of course they were. A geographic area was much smaller. But also you found out that a couple
other things benefited one. They redefined what was the threshold for to be a violent crime, So like the example would be you rob somebody with a gun or with a weapon, or a threat right to be just I got a finger in a pot, whatever it is, that would be considered a violent crime. But they reclassified some of them to require that physical contact be made. And I don't know what the city of Asheville is up to, but I've seen this thing before, so good luck. But you're killing that.
You're slaying the golden goose Man. Of all the cities in the state of North Carolina, I gotta think easily Asheville. If they're not the top as a percentage of revenue derived from visitors, they're pretty close For the larger cities. Obviously, some of the beach towns that are ghost towns outside of summer they don't qualify. But you know, Asheville is really, really, really needing those tourist dollars, and I gotta think the tax revenues dying on the
vine there. All right, So there you go. If you're gonna make a trip to Asheville, go after May first, and for sixty days, everything's gonna be fine. According to the city leaders who screwed this whole thing up in the first place. All right, we gotta get into this story. We'll do it coming up. Let me just tease it real quick. Well, two stories. One, one of the craziest on airplane freakouts a
brawl and they're not kidding. It is a brawl. After four individuals got into a brawl that was so violent that they literally smashed one of the windows. Luckily it was just the inside window because there's two sets of windows, but they busted that and they ended up having to make an emergency landing.
And the Red Cross has issued a plea to gamers about what exactly they do inside of their games, which a lot of people are making reference to the current slate of video games, but arguably this would meet the definition of things that has been going on in the world of gaming for quite some time. I don't know that it's going to be possible and frankly, well, we're gonna make fun of it because you know it's just so dumb, all right,
phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. So there you go. We got playing Brawls with No Snakes and the Red Cross. Who wants gamers to think before they commit dastardly acts in the inside of a video game, you know, versus when you know you're committing it outside of a video game. I didn't give you some examples there. So eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. We'll grab your calls.
These two stories and more coming up. Hang on ten years of news twice an hour and smart Talk all day, four five w PTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. Yeah, you know, I was just reminded of acts. I was thinking about this other thing. That's a that's a Minnesota thing if you like history little bits of more. So today is a locust Day in the state. It's not an official holiday or anything, but it's just one of those quirky things that people still
remember. So this is like late eighteen hundreds. So back in Minnesota, back in late eighteen hundreds, I remember what year was they held a statewide day of prayer because the state had been overrun by locusts. Can you imagine the organizing a statewide day of prayer. This was done, the government did that, and so they prayed because here we go, I think it had been the fourth year or fifth year in a row the locusts were back.
So they were just you know, getting into the spring stuff here spring thaw and want to get ahead of it. And already they were seeing signs. Add two days later, one of the worst blizzards in the history of Minnesota. But it handled the locusts. They're not fans of it. So I don't know why I just randomly remembered that. So weird, weird, weird, All right, let me get into this. So the Red Cross with a rather interesting request here. So the International Committee of the Red Cross is
technically what the organization that sends press releases and all that is called. They're calling on all first person shooter video games players to agree to abide by the rules of war, real life guidelines governing wars. So we're talking, yes, all the stuff that you know from a treaty and agreement standpoint that we've outlined as to be no goes things you don't do in the course of war. They're asking video people play video games to commit to not committing war crimes
while they're playing video games. So I guess what you're gonna need to do is you're gonna have to check out the various agreements. And I basically I guess if you could just you know, read the Geneva Convention and then not do any of that. Have they ever played a video game or how does
that work? Because I don't know if you know this in video games that's just not even just rules of war Geneva Convention stuff, but whether you know it or not, in a lot of video games you violate a lot of laws, and arguably some of the most important and popular franchises, I don't know that that's gonna work. Do you ever see ross? You ever seen the video of like there was a woman She was a woman police officer who
she was gonna play grand Theft Auto without breaking any laws. They they they did a stream on it, but they put together like a little five minute video of it. Believe it or not, it was rather difficult to not commit it. But when you get into actual like war crimes, how many video games. Do you think you've played where you've committed a war crime? Because again we're talking about imaginary stuff here and not just this week. What
did you stream yesterday? Well, I mean, yeah, I was gonna say they think, god the only time about first person because they're not. I mean, just to be clear, they're not talking about third person video games. We're playing like a genetically enhanced super assassin, right, that would just happen to stir all upon a pack street during Mardi Gras, Right, I would assume that they're gonna want to go for that. Then they said
it said first person? What about what about hypothetically third person game? A third person where you play a lonesome cowboy out on a range, you know, just cowboy, just you know, cowboy house and yeah, you know, trying to make your way. That's fine, right, nothing person house. Yeah, i'mber I've raised cows. It's there's no war crimes there is that all you're doing just raising cows and stuff. I mean, yeah,
some other things happen. You wouldn't be thrown dynamited groups of people, you know, Okay, And I don't want to get the ASPCA involve You wouldn't be like, I don't know, murdering a bunch of horses or anything? Would you? I might have ran over a buffalo yesterday. I see what did you play? Yeah you didn't f far cry five oh with the turkeys? That one just minding own business? And wait, didn't you kill an entire cult? That's the point of the game. Yeah? Does that count?
No, it's self defense. I'm minding my own business. They keep coming after me, and it's rude. Dude. If you want to get into like definitions of war crimes and they fit, um, I think I
might. I think the first one I committed back in the day might have been Sims right, where you get frustrated with your whole sim and you're like, I'm gonna murder this whole city, right, and you just didn't thing of the Sims where you you you have him drink lets of water and then you build a room around him with no doors and windows and no toilet. Well that sounds monstrous. Who would do that? Certainly not I. Oh wow, okay, I did enjoy the alien attacking my city. Sit back
and watch that bad Boy. That was good. Yeah. I don't what a stupid press release to put out I don't have beef with the Red Cross. But what are you talk I mean, you're getting the pub that you want. So maybe that was you know, that's the end goal. But wait till you what if you were to all right, you ready for this? What if you were too Let's say you got a virus, all right, and you wanted to murder the higher world with it, except your country
that would count, right. What you want to do with that is you want to infect everybody before you have the symptoms pop up. Yeah, so make sure everybody's affected, and then you pop up more and more symptoms, and you're gonna need to target Greenland and New Zealand like right right away because once they locked down, it's over. Nah, they're yeah, that's how they gets you. Yeah, what is it? What is that stupidity? You know? Half the time, even if you're trying to play the if
you're trying to play try to play the game right or right? It's not the wrong word or right is the wrong word. I mean you're trying to play it in a stealthy manner like some games where um, you know there is I'm trying to think of something like hit Man would be a good example, right, you don't want to You want to kind of fly under the raid, get in, get out. But like any game where you have that, eventually at some point if you're playing it, you may be like,
I'm just gonna I'm gonna go on a rampage now. I mean, even if you plan on playing a game that way, stuff is gonna happen where it doesn't work out and then you end up murdering everyone. It just it happens. Well, you got those are witnesses, right right, Yeah, you can't have witness Back to what you're saying, though, Grand Theft Auto is like when you try playing that game, like I'm just gonna drive in like a bay all the rules, oh my god, so hard.
That She was funny too. I can't remember where she was, a police officer or whatever, but she was like she's like, I'm gonna try to play and it was funny because they put her up to it, right, and I don't even she must She didn't look like she really knew what she was doing, but like she was losing her brain trying to figure out how to play this legally, and she would just like randomly run people over and oh my gosh, yeah, but then what happened is you go later in
the video, She's just like effort, I'm killing everybody. So I don't know. I haven't thought about that video in a while. I may try to find it. I couldn't even remember how i'd even search for it. I guess police officer plays grand theft auto or something, all right, anyway eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four Ray Stagick from the Weather Channel. He's with us, dude, do you like cats? Are you a cat person? Um, I'm not gonna say I'm not. I used
to be. Because we don't have a cat anymore. I'm not opposed. I could be a cat person again. I have found I'm not a cat person, but I found the cat i'd be willing to adopt. So down in Warrez El Paso area, down there right on the border, one of the prisons down there out of El Paso. They you know, they went through and they did like a big contraband seizure and you know, they got drugs. They found some of the prisoner made alcohol and stuff, cell phones,
you know, all the plasma TVs. I'm not sure how to prove that in but they also found uh, pets, including a hair an Egyptian hairless cat which they had covered in Mexican gang and tattoos. Now, listen, the hairless cats are creepy to begin with, right, So yeah, it's you know, it's covered in like it's got tear drops or whatever. I don't know all the tattoos, but it's got a bunch of dude.
Can you imagine the deterrence that would be if some guys robbing getting ready to rob your house and sees that thing bench pressing out in the yard in front or whatever. Nobody enough for me? Man, No, definitely not. As I said, those things are creepy even without tattoos on them. Uh huh, Yeah, that's weird. I'm coming around on that, coming around, all right, coming around, Yeah, all right, good, your criminal cat bench pressing in your yard? Where we go? Yeah, not
bad? I mean, little cloud. There's more sun um from about Raleigh, Durham, and Fayetteville off to the east, but there are some clouds too, and there's more clouds of west some with some cloud should probably do it upper sixties, low seventies today and then tonight we'll have a chance of showers. Probably after eight or nine o'clock not going to be a bunch of rain, and that's light chance of showers. We'll stick with us tomorrow with
partially Sunday sky. Otherwise we'll get a little milder. We'll get into the low to maybe middle seventies. The rail chance of rain is going to start getting ramped up after we go through about midday Friday. We'll start to see some rain and thunderstorms come in into Friday night and maybe even early Saturday. So that's when we've got that potential for a quarter inch maybe more, maybe
up to an inch of rain in some spots. The good news is is that Saturday, by mid morning we should be done and we actually get some sun in the afternoon and warm up to the mid upper seventies. So remember that especially second part of Saturday, it's gonna be dry and it'll be okay before showers come back as we get it Saturday night and Sunday Sunday afternoon especially, so there's a window there that it's not a complete wash out over the
weekend. Now we'll probably tweak the forecast a little bit. I'll leave that up to let's see who is it tomorrow, Keno. And then Jeff mar on Friday. We'll leave that up to them. But bottom line is it's not going to rate every hour of the weekend, so hopefully that'll work out. I was supposed to make us feel better. I mean no, no, I just put you in the capable hands of um some of my favorite fill ins. Oh sorry, so you a little fruit fly in here?
All right, Well, here you go. I committed murder, all right, got them, sir, appreciate it. All right, We'll come back. Chat with Jeff Bellinger next. Hang on one oh six one FM Talk and nine four five w PTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is Casey O Day and Carolina's Morning News. Good morning, eight fifty three Bloomberg up big now, Jeff Bellinger, what's happening? Good morning, Casey. Stocks pulled back yesterday, but a couple of big tech companies to
live at upside surprises after the markets closed. Had better than expected quarterly results from Microsoft and Alphabet and also some positive economic news. This morning has a futures pointing higher now. Futures are up sixty one points at the moment. I was so much stronger than expected rebound last month and demand for expensive manufactured goods. The Commerce Department reports orders for durable goods increased three point two percent
in March after a one point two percent pullback and the prior month. Mortgage bankers data point to some stabilization and underlying housing demand. Applications for new home loans increased four point six percent last week, even though mortgage infest rates ticked higher and there was a one point seven percent increase in refi requests. There have been some other recent signs the housing market is bottoming out. Sales of
new homes increased last month. This is all fueling some optimism among optimism among economists that a recession could be avoided. There's new data from the Bureau of Labors Statistics showing the occupations with the most workers offer the smallest paychecks. The typical American worker earned just under sixty two thousand dollars last year, but among the dozen jobs that employ the most people, the average pay was just over
forty seven thousand dollars. And Netflix A. Casey announced plans to start cracking down on password sharing here in the US later this year, but data from market researchers at Cantar suggests it could backfire and Netflix started policing passwords in Spain back in February, and since launching that effort, Netflix has lost more than one million Spanish subscribers. Casey, all right, Jeff, appreciate it. Talk to you tomorrow, sir. Okay, sounds good. Talk to you.
Then, all right, there go Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News joining us. A couple of things you gotta share with you. Oh yeah, real quick, just this story. So, I don't know, you see what happened in Haiti, So in port of Prince Haiti Um. You know,
I don't know if you know. This little lawless down there, kind kind of violent and apparently folks in one of the neighborhoods there had had enough and, according to this AP story, decided to take the law into their own hands, effectively rounding up through a group of dozens of citizens, they were able to get about thirteen gang members who had been operating in the neighborhood. They beat them until they were essentially near death, and then reportedly through gasoline
soaked tires on them. How do they know? In one case, they actually pulled them out of a police car, at which point the police are like, you know what, we're good, and they left and they murdered these thirteen criminals. They're in their neighborhood. And this is what you get.
I mean, this is the double edged sword of lawlessness. Obviously this is a very extreme example, but eventually, if people think you're not doing anything it, you know, the pendulum swings and people are much more likely in maybe not as an extreme example as this, but to take the law into their own hands. The difference is is when they do, like in New York, you see it like that's when all of a sudden, the
district attorney and others start to give a crap. Something tells me down here, I don't know, uh, I don't know how much follow up they're going to be doing. And are you familiar with power slap? Do you know what this is? This is the actual league power Slap that is run by the folks with UFC SO and now I guess UFC and WWE so. Power Slap is literally that it's those weird comp petitions you've seen. I've even seen them on TV where people are slapping each other and it's it's a competition.
And they got they have like they got trading cards even except one of the big events that was getting ready to pee be put on six Power Slap or a power Slap Excuse me, what is the actual stupid name of it? Well, whatever, it's like their Royal Rumble and six of their big big power Slap champions. I'm not familiar, I guess with. Everyone's names have been suspended after the Nevada Athletic Commission said that they've tested positive for performance
enhancing substances as well as banned narcotics. So the slap people are juicing six of the quote biggest names in the industry will find themselves sidelined ahead of the big event this weekend. One competitor included in their drug test hormones, metabolic steroids, sulfing like six pain killers, annabolic steroids basically a meth and some other stuff. I don't even know what it is. And that was just one of the competitors. I don't know if there's ever a sport we should
be able to juice. I'm feeling like this is it, but that's just