Wednesday-06-07-2023

Remember all right, good morning everybody. It is six or seven here on the case of your game radio program. Glad to have you along. Oh is it Friday? Must be Friday. Oh no, it's Wednesday. All right, just check the calendar, so suck it up. Three more days here we go. We have like a really interesting variety, and I know that we strive for variety here on the show. But and I'm a little I'm a little salty because I don't want to overshare. But like, do

you ever eat something? I mean, you're just like, and uh, I guess I'm gonna be up forever, which unfortunately gives you a lot of time to like doom stroll a doomscroll emails and social media and all the rest. And I'm like, all right, get up, go take something, you know, like peptobismal kind of thing, and hopefully you can get a few more hours sleep. That didn't happen, that was just done. So I'm like sending emails to Ross in the middle of the night. I'm glad

you were up because I didn't. Then I didn't look like a psychopath because you did the you did the morning gym thing, right, Yeah, I was at the gym in like two thirty eight, So your email came in. I was like, what is he doing up? I mean, maybe he's at the gym two I had uh a uh ACP, and I'm pretty sure that's what it was. Yes, Jay, do you like acp?

Uh arrows come pooh? That was I thought it was like opp no, no, no, if you go like a Mexican restaurant, no, yeah, you know me, I know I'm down with opeople So um no, I don't, dude, I ate something. I got up. My body's like, yeah, you need to get up and um and then I'm just like doom scrolling stuff. And unfortunately I'm sitting there and I'm watching video of it. We'll get into it. I'll play the audio of report and this

is this is not new. It's actually it was down in Charlotte and it happened at the end of last month, but I hadn't seen it at a time in North Carolina when there is a very big, real conversation going on, complete with legislation and everything else, about how we how we educate kids?

Right, do we do it and all of the resources are directed at public schools, or do we take a more competitive approach by attaching the dollars to the kids and letting parents be the arbiter of what is best for their kid, and creating competition through vouchers for private schools, a larger selection of charter schools, and of course public education. And I happen I happen to be in the camp for the second one for a wide variety of reasons,

but nothing. There's very few things that make me sure of my position. Then watching those who are in the seats of power of public education, in this case, the second largest school district in North Carolina. A lot of people think Charlotte's the biggest, but it's actually technically the second, and Wake County's the biggest. But I digress. Apparently not learn anything from what we saw up in Virginia and Loudon County. It's brutal. So there is a

very real issue in Charlotte schools with sexual assault. There have been several instances, and one of the reporters there is trying to get anybody on the school board to talk about it. And yes, I understand that when it comes to individualized cases, there are certain restrictions where schools are not allowed to get into those individual cases or board members for that matter, one hundred percent agree.

However, when you want to talk about the larger issue, like do you think school districts are doing enough to address what is an issue that parents are concerned about? Ie parents being the voters, and of course the funding being taxpayer funding. That video made me so angry to the point where I'm like, I took some peptobismo. I looked over at the clock. I'm like, you know, maybe I could go back to sleep for an hour

or something, and it just wasn't happening at that point. So I see that, and then I see this story this morning, and actually Ross and I talked about this last night. This this family in Clayton, this mom named Nancy Norris, whose daughter is Abbey, who goes to Clayton High School. And so now I'm already really bothered by this video from Charlotte where the

board members don't seem to give a crap. And frankly, Ross, when you watched that video this morning, did it remind you of anything the board members the way that they came across in that video. Did it remind you of another video that caused a huge stir which actually people were misinterpreting off the bat and then we found out more. But did it remind you of another viral video from I don't know a couple of years ago based out of DC.

Frankly somebody who was high school age at the time. I mean it angered an upset me. But no, which one are you thinking of? Do you remember the original narrative off of these students in DC where one of them was sitting there and he quote unquote had a smug look on his face and obviously was being very insulting to I don't know native American elder, right, So Nicholas Sandman, Yeah, no, I couldn't see the comparison there, But it was the reaction on that video that really launched it forward.

And initially when I watched the Saldman video, it made me angry, right because because it was all out of context, you knew it was out of context. But when he processed it the way that it was being sold, You're like, what a smug piece of right, And in retrospect he realized he was. He had an incredible amount of self control there, Yeah, well, and a self control, but also he was probably mentally terrified by this terrified it's the wrong word. He was remarkably uncomfortable. He didn't know

how to act, and that's how he chose to act. And I don't blame him for it, But those school board members are adults, Man, and the very same narrative that was created around Salman in that video looks it is those visceral reactions that you get when you watch the Charlotte school board members, who if one of them had just said, look, I'm very concerned about anything having to do with sexual assault within the schools, and we are. You know, we're investigating. We'll get to the bottom of it.

But just know that I take this very seriously. There would be no viral video. But instead what you had is you had a bunch of board members like pretending to be on their phones, the one lady smirking, it's just so bad. And then I couple it with this Johnston County school under fire.

After this mom and I'll explain why she's upset. Is is is just trying to deal with one of the many, many, many challenges that she no doubt faces every every day with the situation that her daughter's in the situation being the daughter deals with brittle bone disease. She has a lot of challenges and the the way that it comes across, and I'll let you be the

judge of whether things were intentional things weren't. The fact remains that it was such an easy thing not to not to end up a news story, and yet it did. And like I said, I'm gonna give you the details here in just a moment. There is a statement from the school. But what a time to have these stories in the mix at the very same time that public school advocates are screaming bloody murder over parents wanting more choice. It's a really bad look. So we'll dive into the details of both of those.

We got lots to get to, but right now it's six or eighteen. We'll take a break, be right back, hang on, thank you. Casey is on w PTI in the Triad and one six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, good morning, it is six twenty three here on the case O Day Radio program. I'm not gonna be able to get book excuse me, both these stories in right away, but we'll start down that road. Wait, hold on, is somebody mad at me over

something? I haven't even started saying stuff? So savior hate people. Don't worry. Okay, all right, we'll get to that here momentarily. Chill out. Ah, it's only Wednesday. How's that smoke going? By the way, you realize that, like there's a warning and you're not supposed to go outside today, So just f y, I er all right, let me start in, um, let me start in Clayton. So, um, here's here's the gist of the story. You have this, You have

this girl. Her mom's speaking out. Mom's name is Nancy, daughter's name is Abby. Abbey is dealing with health issues, and specifically brittle bone disease, which is a genetic disorder in which bones fracture break easily. You know, there's there's a lot going on there, and obviously and her daughter's in a wheelchair as a result. But um, the daughter also is a cheerleader

at Clayton High School. This is the part that baffles me. However, when it came came time for the yearbook to come out, mom, by, I'm assuming, buys the yearbook. I don't know if they still force you to pay for him, but whatever, and opens the yearbook expecting to see pictures of her daughter, which, by the way, there's lots of pictures that mom posted on social media. Girls in the uniforms, she's got the poms. Yes she's in her wheelchair, and but she's part you know,

she's on the cheerleading team. Starts combing through there and guess what, no pictures of the daughter every other cheerleader boom in the in the yearbook and asked, what I think is a very fair question, how the hell did that happen? Which I'm of the same light. I don't understand that because back in the day, when I was in school, when it came to clubs or athletics, you know, football, cheerleading, the forensics club,

whatever it was, there was always a group photo. So because I did football, I did wrestling one year, but I did football, and there it was. I also did fa and every year that I did those things, group photo in there. So I don't even understand how you have a photo of all the cheerleaders and yet you leave out the one special needs student. And I think that's really what hooked people's interest here. I sent this story to you last night at like yeah, yeah, yeah, forty five.

And if I'm sending you a story forty five, you know that I'm really pissed off about something, right, Oh yeah, I can really relate to this story. You know, the issue that happened with Lincoln in his yearbook. Just a few weeks ago. I had posted about it on social media. I took it down because it started getting attention, and Mark he was like, I don't want to just school, which is why I didn't bring it up. By the way, yeah, I am complete, So

listen. We had a similar instance with Lincoln. His yearbook came out in the back of the yearbook and the theme of the yearbook was spreading kindness around, like confetti or something like that. Yeah, And then on the cover of the yearbook was very diverse and YadA YadA, And in the back of it was a tribute to the ongoing fifth graders going to middle school, and every single fifth grader at this school was there above their head there was a

bubble that said what they wanted to be when they grew up. So it'd be like, you know, little Timmy, I want to be a twitch star, whatever the hell it would be, right, yeah, yeah, there was one child missing in the entire section of the yearbook. One fifth grader. You want to guess who it was. I mean it was our child was Lincoln, who was in the special needs class due to autism, and we were absolutely heartbroken. So I understand. I saw this story yesterday,

send it to you. It is so frustrating that they're constantly going on about diversity and inclusion and then when it really comes down to it, these school board they just they're dropping the ball these school districts. It makes no sense. It is so frustrating. It's like they don't count, as though Lincoln doesn't have right aspirations. All right, we're gonna get into more of

this coming up, Hang up, keeping you connected. This is ninety four Clive WPTI in the Triad at one six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, here we go, six thirty five. So let me get

back to these storeys. And it looks I think they're really important, especially arguably even more important when it comes to the bigger debate at a time when North Carolina is looking to expand choice for parents in how they educate their kids to make it more accessible for most people, not just you know, really rich people like I don't know, Roy Cooper, our governor who chose to avail himself of private schooling for his daughter, which you know, cool,

go ahead and do that. The reality is that doesn't work for most families. Doesn't work. However, if you're able to utilize the literally the dollar that are set aside for your kid and you get more choice out of it, I think that's a benefit. And I see one of the big pushbacks is, well, you know private schools are not accountable. Do you feel

the public schools are accountable right now? So when you have stories that made people question that, it's just a really bad time for that considering the larger debate. So for this young lady who Abbey Norris, this student at Clayton High School, who's on the cheerleading team but also is dealing with significant challenges which have caused her to be bullied significantly because you know, kids are horrible sometimes for her to still put herself out there by joining the cheerleading team and

then to not appear in her own yearbook. By the way, somebody just sent me an email and said that yearbooks are eighty five dollars. Is that true? I think it was the same guy that was on hold and he had a drop. Yeah, yeah, eighty five bucks. That blows my mind. Man. Uh sorry, he's got a little sidetracked with it. I don't remember what my yearbook was, but I'm damn sure it wasn't eighty five dollars because I wouldn't have had one. There's the same, yeah,

same. My mom would have been like, yeah, go look at the mirror, right, you know. But anyway, but for her to get out there, and even in the face of all of the challenges with her medical issues she's dealing with with you know, being being a student who's in a wheelchair, and you know, the inevitable comments, even even if they're just misunderstandings right where kids have questions, it's still for her to not appear in the yearbook is insane to me. And it's especially insane because she's on

she's in a team. She's on a team. She's on the cheerleading squad. I don't know how that works. The issue you dealt with Lincoln was they were cobbling all the fifth graders together. Is he the only fifth grader in the special needs class? He is? Yeah, And okay, listen, Lincoln's principle is amazing that the team there is great. We do love

his school. But it was heartbreaking and the like to turn on that page and there's all the fifth graders with the bubbles over there heads saying, you know what we want to be when we grow up or move on, and Lincoln wasn't there. And I hate to break it to he has dreams and aspirations too, And I had posted something in social media took it down because it started getting a really good response and Marky was like, you're gonna make

our life at school hell. And it's a good point because listen, having this job, it makes things weird enough as it is, right, because things can get super political and I try to be quiet, but it's out there, like it's a thing, right, like like you know, he's a guy from the radio show and it's a political d a show and it could be weird, and we don't want to make it complicated for Lincoln, like it's a thing that it's a thing that happens. It's the reality of

the situation. So it's yeah, no, So she contacts the pay for you to feast upon them if you want to, and you don't. And I don't want it though, Like there's there's no part of me that wants to do that. I don't. I want to be drama free. I don't. I'm not a fan of drama right at all, especially when it comes to my kid. I don't want to make it more complicated for him or to have somebody be pissed off or take it out on him because the politics. It's stupid, right, So I took down that post. I

was like, I'm not I'm gonna avoid it. The principle did eventually get back, and it's listen, it's simply an issue of being you know, it's not intentional there, it's no way, there's no you know, there's no they're not doing it to be mean, it's not into They just forgot. The person in charge of the fifth grade class taking the picture forgot that there might be a fifth grader in the special needs class, you know,

for autism, just completely overlooked it. And that's sad, right like, And listen, I hopefully this happened to us this year so it won't happen to another family in the future. That's the way we're looking at it now, right, And there is one unique circumstance. So the in this case, this Abbey Girl, she attends via the virtual academy. However, she does participate in person in the activities, including cheerleading, which is not unusual.

Um, you know, there's there's lots of situations where kids are either homeschooled or virtual academy. However, when it comes to sports, they are able to participate based on their residency. That being said, it is the part where she's on a team, which I don't under like, I don't understand how it happens. However, the impact of it, you would agree, is more significant, right because you are already a student who is non traditional? Would that would that be a fair like? His kids are aware

of that. So especially these circumstances not treated as their peers are. It's got to cut deeper, man, it does. Especially listen, especially with the focus now in schools about diversity inclusion. How you know, everybody's we're going to treat everybody equity, right, And it's like, okay, well, when we're talking about the smallest minority in a school, that would be

the special needs students, right, So what are we doing here? So I sit there and I see this story and then I see this video from where down in Charlotte they're dealing with some parents who are very concerned about alleged sexual assaults at the schools now is that the school's fault. Not necessarily right.

You can't always control what the kids do, but you need to deal with it, and you need to not try to cover it up as you saw up in Virginia, which caused all of that ruckus because the superintendent's like, nah, nothing's happened, even though they this girl had been sexually assaulted

in the bathroom. In this case it was by a trans student. But it doesn't even matter that it was a trans student, just the fact that somebody was sexually assaulted at school and you didn't do any of the things you're required to do. People people obviously have a problem with that, right,

parents have an issue with that. And when you have more than one instance that is being alleged, as they do down in Charlotte, and people don't think that the district is being proactive, it is a It is an important news story, but nobody wants to talk about it down there. Why because

there are social justice issues. We'll just throw that out there. There are social justice If you are at SJW leftist board member and you hear the accusations and then you start rather than just thinking about it purely from maybe one student or multiple students actually did this to another student. That's the way you should

approach it. But instead you start going, well, you know, we have you know, we have diversity issues here, and just all you have to do is sit there and say, look, we're aware of this. We obviously our hands are tied on discussing the progress and discipline of individual students, but just know that we take it very seriously. I know it sounds like a canned answer, but that's all you have to do. And instead you have a reporter in Charlotte at a school board meeting. You have to

watch the video. We got that for you. We tweeted it out. It's on our web page at Casey on the radio and the school board. They're literally doing nothing right there other than pretending to be on their phone ignoring this reporter. Does no one think it's a problem that CMS parents have to call WBTV because the school won't handle their child's reported sexual assault appropriately? Miss Klein, do you have a problem with that, miss easily? Why does

this keep happening? Does it bother you that this keeps happening? This is a pattern, mister Rankin, surely you have to be bothered that Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools didn't call police and didn't fill out Title nine paperwork, which, by the way, they are legally obligated to do. And it is what the folks in Virginia got in trouble for and even got charged with. Remember the superintendent got charged up there for not meeting their legal obligations based on those types

of allegations. Why does this keep happening so you have nothing to say to these parents who keep calling us for help. I assure you he's not alone in a room talking to himself. There is. There is at least seven other individuals in that room, and you could hear a pin drop, Miss day Lahara. Do you have an answer for these parents? Miss none? Do you have anything to say to these parents who keep calling us because they can't get help from the school district? Ma'am? Are you turning your back

on parents who are worried about their children? She's not on the phone, No, she's not. It's clearly visible. And by the way, this report was his name, Nick Coxner. I see people accusing him of quote ambushing them as somebody who covered school boards. Let me let me explain to you how this happens. You disingenuous pieces of crap. I used to have

to go and cover school boards. Right, you sit at the meeting, when the meeting's over, if you have a question, because you can't ask questions you as the reporter covering, Yet you go up and you ask the board members. That is where I got most of my audio and news stuff. And he's asking legitimate questions. So for people going, well, he's ambushing them. No, this is literally the moment when you ask the questions

of the board members. As a reporter, you may call them throughout the day, you may, you know, schedule an interview other than that, But after the board meeting is when you get the quote unquote actualities. That's how this is done. I did it for years. Why won't Why won't any school board members say anything about the district's inability to respond to these ma'am,

you have nothing to say about personnel matter. We're not asking about a personnel matter, and I appreciate that we're not at this point even asking about a specific case. My question is why have three parents in the last three months had to call WBTV instead of the school district to get any action out of Charlotte Mecklenburgh Schools. That's not a personnel matter, and that's not a specific case. This is a culture inside the district that you are elected to

lead. Does that bother you? You can't get your kids out of there fast enough. In January, doctor Hill said that parents shouldn't have to call WBTV to get help from the school board. She said, parents should be calling the school. But that has happened three times now in three months and the school hasn't helped them. Is that acceptable, Miss Dalahar? Is that acceptable? It's acceptable to the board. No one has anything to say. By the way, again, I hate leaving long pauses, but they speak

louder than almost anything he's saying. This is is one of the multitude of reasons. And for those of you go, well, what's going to be the difference at a private school. Number of things. One, you can sue the private school. Two if that went viral and the leadership of a private school was intentionally ignoring or not meeting their obligations as it pertained to sexual assault. This is where choice comes back into effect. If your kid is

at a school and you have a multitude of options. And at that school, other students are being sexually assaulted and nobody's doing anything about it. Are you, as a parent not taking that into account? Well, now imagine you don't have that choice. And that's the situation that many parents down in Charlotte are dealing with. And not a single one of these pieces of crap who were elected to be there will even answer the question in the generic.

They can even give a stand by answer, and that would have appeased most people. You got to watch the video though. It is awkward, uncomfortable and intentional, and it's up on our blog and we tweeted it out. Check it out at Casey on the Radio six forty nine to hang on. This is one O six one FM Talk in the Triangle and News Talk nine five w PTI in the Triad. All right, let's jamal. I'm gonna

let you know right now. I only got about two minutes and it's a hard break, so bit it in serve, but go right, Okay, First of all, I want the of course of say, that's heartbreak of what they did to Lincoln Bross the Sun, that's unfairble case, my children vote apart Christian private school. And you know what I really wish sometimes the Republican Party can act like the Democrat Party and give the Republican base what we want every time we put these people in office. We want the money to

follow the cheats. If I don't have my child and dumb public schools, thank god that I don't, because they are horrible. If I don't have my children and dumb public schools, the money shall follow my wife and myself to where we put our styled children. The reason why so many people are so big on keeping things in public schools, it's because that's why they can adopt your nature children, but just your will. Look how many times,

case I just want to let people know. When you hear diversity inclusion, that means exclude straight white Christian males or Christians or white males. Or if you hear somebody to say we need more givacity, we need even more inclusion, and that means we don't want white nails. Okay, just let people another. But Casey, these people sit here and adopt huts they want, they want to do, throw nows against your back. How much stuff has

came out about the like that we're happening in Landing County. The little girl got raped because they wanted to say it's okay for boys to use the girl's bathroom. Kind of find out little girl got raped. They threw the demand on the print. That couldn't have been me. I would cross my mind. Two kids got raped. Let's just be very clear. Remember they've been the same boy by the same boy. Yeah, hunt who was dressing up?

These are the poem with public schools. Public schools are so focused on diversity needs and equal here casey, just they match you this one question? Please can't the answer this? If the black community is thirteen percent of the populsation, how can we demand equal representation to people who are sixty percent of

the population. Lutino a twenty percent in the population. So one is if we had something, if you had Jamal, I told you, man, I am out of time, but I hear question you're asking, So m all right, just uh, I'm this thing's gonna get messy um and it's Florida, so what the hell? Look, I don't know one hundred percent what happened here there. As you can imagine, there are multiple different stories. But here's what I do know, and don't worry. If you're like,

what is he talking about, I'll explain. I don't know what happened, but this is the headline. This is associated Press story, which of course is then being rerun. I saw it to WRL. But white woman who fatally shot black neighbor is arrested in Florida. A Florida woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbor last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described

as a two and a half year feud. This is o'calla Florida. So obviously, right there in the headline, rather than just you know, neighbor shoots neighbor and is now arrested, it's white woman fatally shot black neighbor arrested in Florida. So we have the racial component. And one of the reasons is there is an allegation that the white woman in question had used racist language previously. And again, you got a neighbor feud, so obviously lots of

people make an allegations here. I did the woman who was shot use racist I don't know. He's Here's what I know. One woman shot another woman and did so through a door. So already you're getting into sticky territory. But this thing's ready to go. You got all of the social justice folks ready to go. If you don't know the backstory, let me get into

this. And of course they're blaming racism and Florida's standiard ground law. Well, if if she's been arrested, and I guess if law enforcement doesn't feel she met the requirements of the standard ground law, then I don't know how you blame it, But whatever, this whole thing's messy. Authorities came under pressure Tuesday to arrest and charge a white woman who fired through the front door and killed a black neighbor, in a case that has put Florida's divisive standiard

ground law back in the spotlight. Sheriff Billy Woods is the main law enforcement guy here in Okalla. All right, so the sheriff said, this is not a strand of standard ground case, but quote, simply a killing in our opinion. And if that's the case, fine, nobody begrudges if somebody discharged a firearm did so in a reckless manner and didn't quote, you know, fear for their life or the lives of others, you know, which is kind of a very basic thing, then nobody begrudges you arresting them.

But here's the backstory, and obviously there's two and a half years of stuff, but here's the most recent and detectives investigated for about a week and this is the conclusion that they came to. All right, so let me get down to it. Of course, the story is written pure social justice and if you if you don't know what happened, it's kind of hard to follow the pattern. According to the woman arrested, the woman she shot had been

quote trying to break down her door prior to her discharging the firearm. And look, here's the case. If somebody's kicking your door in and means to do you harm and like that isn't necessarily a nonjustifiable shooting. There's there's I'm not a lawyer, but there's lots going on here. And it actually started with kids playing on a piece of property and the shooter apparently telling him that's not that's not this is private property. To get the hell out of here.

And she may or may not have thrown a skate. However, when the kids left, apparently one of the kids. Initially they didn't leave, and then when they did, one of the kids left an iPad, which the woman retrieved and took himTo her home, at which point the woman who was shot the mother of some of the kids that were playing. Witnesses say that she went over to the white woman's home to retrieve the iPad, I

guess, and had quote knocked on the neighbors door. So this comes down to is she knocking on the door or is she you know, kicking the damn thing, trying to trying to get it open, and you know, screamings I'm gonna, I'm you know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna do something to you. Detectives investigated and according to their investigation, and I don't know how many witnesses they talked to, they didn't feel that the shooting was justified,

all right, according to all right, witness these are child. Witnesses told police that a dispute ensued over the children's tablet, and said that the woman had thrown a roller skate at the juveniles, did not hit them, but threw one atom after she had told them to get off her land, and according to the kids, when she did so, she referred to the children using quote racial slurs. So you know, I got one story here,

one story there, I don't know. According to authorities, the children then left the area after the altercation, but left an iPad which the woman took. When one of the children went to the residence to retrieve it, she threw it, hitting the child and cracking the screen, according to the child, The police report did not confirm that the woman had thrown the iPad. However, it did talk about oh, and it did say it was not able to confirm or deny allegations that one the iPad was thrown, or

that racial slurs were directed at kids. However, mom hears this, right, and you know, put yourself in the woman who got shot shoes. She hears her kids are over playing in on a piece of property. Now, kids are kids in the sense that they see like an open field, even if it is private property, they may go in there and play. I understand that. But mom hears this, sees there's a broken iPad, and you know, here's the story. So she goes over to front this

woman. However, now, adults at the scene told police that the victim had begun knocking on the neighbor's door, at which point a weapon was fired through the door, which hit Owens and killed her. The woman who was killed her last name is Owens, at which point she staggered back, collapsed beneath a tree, and was in the process of calling nine to one when she lost consciousness. There's lots of info here, and a lot of it's he said, she said, she said, she said, or whatever.

M Yeah, here's the thing. This is where it gets messy, right, you should if she did throw a skate at the kids, which you shouldn't do. I don't know how that you're you're allowed to use I'm not justifying this. That's you know, throwing a rollerblade at a bunch of kids is stupid. However, in the state of Florida, you're allowed to use non deadly force to protect your property. But is a bunch of kids, you know, sitting there and I don't even know if it's her property.

They don't even speak to that in this police report. The point that I'm making is from the get go, this is being portrayed as a racial crime. However, the only racial component is a statement by a kid and maybe the kids one hundred percent accurate. That being said, it sounds like there was a feud going on for quite some time, and it was she didn't this woman didn't like kids playing on her property or being loud in the neighborhood.

And there was some other issues about music. And look, I encourage you to read all of it, but just know that when you see stories, it's all being pitched in this racial component. I don't know. Now, there's also a claim that as the woman was in in the words of her the witness quote knocking on the door versus the statement from the woman who shot, saying she was trying to use force to get through the door.

Um, they do agree that at one point the woman said I've got a gun and I'm going to start shooting through the door, which you know, if if that was happening, I don't know that that's unreasonable. But so whole thing's messy. By the way, that's just to be clear, um, that that statement is attributed not to the woman who shot, but to the woman who was either knocking or attempting to break down the door. That's the claim that the woman who was shot yelled, quote, I've got a

gun and I'm going to start shooting through this door. But that's also claimed by the woman who opened fire, which obviously if nobody else says that's what's happened, it's it's self serving. So but here's what I would argue, wait for more of this to come out, but know that most of the coverage is going to be now fed to you through this racial component, and it could run the gamut from justified shooting too, you know, clan member

opening fire because now it's her chance. I suspect it lies somewhere in between. They're going over some of the legal here. Sorry, I'm kind of digesting this at the very same time as I'm sharing it with you because I have not seen the police report until now. Let's go. They're just talking about Florida's stuff, all right. So, UM, you know, if you're interested in that story, you want to know more, I would encourage you to, you know, get all the facts, figure out who's saying

what happened, and and and also what investigators have to say. But um, make up your own mind whether you feel that this is some super duper racial hate crime or murder or justifiable homicide, because obviously it could be a whole lot of stuff anyway. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Um, I know we'll be hearing more about that, all right, coming up, Um, we got speaking of hate crimes. Ross, you're been to la Oh. I know you have because you went to that

producer's house, right, you did the American idol? Yeah? Yeah, and then what do you guys like pee behind his side? But someone in another radio station didn't happen to pee behind his grand piano in front of his wall of Grammys. I've admitted to taking photo. They specifically told us listen, do not touch the Grammys. They left the room. Sure makes sense. Yeah, and me and my radio buddies, we we picked up the Grammys. We took photos like, you know, like an acceptance, like,

oh I can't believe it. What a Grammy? Right, and we posted them at the time. I think it was my Space at the time. How that being said, I am not the one that peed behind the grand piano. Okay, Well you seem very I don't like the accusation, very defensive. I don't like your tone. Okay. Um was that where was where was this house like Beverly Hills? Yeah? No, it was like the Beverly like but the Hollywood area, Hollywood Hills. Yeah, And

we hadn't take they gave they drove us out. It was out like in the middle of nowhere until like Malibu or whatever. And then they we had to take golf carts up all the way up to the hill up to his mansion because it's literally on like this ginormous hill. Well, Malibu is not Hollywood Hills. Wherever the hell it was, man, it was it was. We were in Hollywood obviously for like the show's stuff. Right, Okay, do you remember when you were in Hollywood? Um, do you remember

thinking, Wow, this is Maga Country? Uh? Did not feel that way. I don't know David Foster's Um, you know, it's politics. I'm gonna sure what it is. But I mean he's obviously got a lot of money, so he might be a Republican. No, no, no, I'm not talking about his foster necessarily. I'm just like, what was your feeling when you were in the Hollywood area, obviously like the show taping

and stuff, which is probably studio city near Hollywood. Mean, i mean it's Hollywood, so Maga country, right, Obviously it was sort of the opposite. Oh he felt it was the opposite. Well, that's weird because I saw the story yesterday about Elliott Page former what Ellen Page um from the Juno Movies, um who um was verbally attacked and threatened by a crazed transphobic man in West Hollywood, which is extra weird if you don't know the Los

Angeles area. Obviously, it is a very liberal area. However, West Hollywood is arguably the mecca of it, especially on the LGBT front. Okay, remember the remember the mayor dude who like kept having his boyfriend his young boyfriends like method and it was like a whole They ended up arresting that guy. Yeah, guy had bad luck. Yeah that was West Hollywood, where

he was an elected official and giant Biden owner. Okay, so when we come back, Elliott Page claims that that they were confronted by just some random, crazy transphobic person. How do I know, Because it's just one of the many anecdotes that have ended up in their new book, which just so happens to come out this week. And I don't know, I'm getting some small lead vibes. I don't know. I'll lay it out for you. We'll let you be the judge figure out what happened. But it's a pretty

crazy trend in these big, big, big lib areas. So details on that and much more coming your way. K c O Day Radio program back in a few one oh six one FM Talk and nine five w PTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is case O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right, good morning, it is seven thirty five here on the k c O Day Radio program. Wow, that didn't last long. So, I don't know if you saw the story up in New York.

They city's got some new vending machines. They're free though, so you know there's that what's in them crack pipes, lip balm, and narcan. The vending machines, which initially were placed in Brooklyn, lasted one day before they were completely emptied. In fact, they didn't even last a day. So they put him in there in the morning and by one pm everything inside was gone. Actually it has more than that. What else's in their condoms

are in there? That's nice drug testing strips. Oh, this is great self described crack smoker Minotia Coalpe. So the so the media shows up. They you know, they got the new vending machines. They're gonna go do a story and they see this woman around eleven am getting some items out of there. Self described crack smoker, you might as well use. Enthusiast Minosha Coupe showed up to the machine just as New York Post reporter was there.

However, apparently made a last minute decision not to not to get anything else after initially getting one of the free crack pipes, and said that the crack pipes are not good. She said that she wished the city officials instead had put pyrex because it's thicker and better for smoking crack. So she she wants smoke crack. She's a big fan of crack. She shows up where there's free crack pipes. However, she then complains because they're not up to her

standards. She says, these crack pipes that they're giving away are too thin, and if you smoke a lot of crack, you could end up burning your lips. Well, God forbid, that's why they have the lip bomb. Woman, you got the lip bomb? Would asked how much crack she normally smokes, She says, God, a little here and there. I also smoke weed, but I don't ever lace none my stuff with stuff.

Well that's good, glad. She clarified that ross do you ever laced your Do you doune lace your stuff with stuff or you prefer not to dune lace your stuff with stuff? Which team are you on? I'm more of a classicist, like in original originalists. Yeah, originalists, So you're done lacing your stuff with stuff. Does she want like the like the vintage Piratex crack pipe they sell down at the flea market. Yes, yeah, she feels that the ones that are the free ones that are in here. Um,

that stuff's expensive. Man. People go crazy over those people because, like you know, Lincoln needs to go, like to go down to the fairgrounds the flea market there, and there's this one woman because Markie went through a phase of collecting pirates bowls, and there's one woman known down to the flea market known for this and she's got her one little cubby there and it's like just old no Pyrex bowls, and but they're super expensive. Oh a nuts.

So yeah, dude, people are nuts over them. So I'm just wondering, like, what what kind of Pirex does this passionate woman about crack want. Well, that's what she wants. She wants Pyrex. Apparently these are not made out of pirates, so they're they're I mean, she's just being ridiculous, now, well is she? I mean, this is a woman who done doesn't lace her stuff with stuff, so obviously you know she

probably knows what she's talking about. Is is what I'm saying. How can you have an idea like this where if we're just as somebody or throw it as like right, like, hey, I want to have a vending machine full of crackhead stuff and condoms and condoms like yes, wouldn't your first idea be like someone's gonna break into that, like the hitchpot thing, remember, like someone's gonna murder that bot free, it's free, all the stuff, it's gonna take it? Then, like, what are you even thinking?

Have you ever met a crackhead before? I have? Yeah, they're big fans of taking all the stuff. Yeah yeah, well except this crackhead who is not a fan of the current pipe situation. Not even that. Have you ever done a radio remote before where you have a bin full of T shirts that are free? Oh? Yea? How how fast does that last? I had? I remember not just T shirts but CDs. I remember doing some at the fair one time, and it was like one per family,

and like somebody hurts. Some people in line heard that, and I watched them scatter and pretend they didn't know each other so they could all get a free thing. Right, So now take called about on it, and they're like, well, technically, uh, tactically worst, uh, you know, that's I don't know, I don't know who that is. But and then she's like, no, but it's my step sister or something like right, right, and multiplied by a thousand because you're a crackhead. But

a discerning crackhead. Knowing this, they still pass and say, Yeah, we're gonna this is gonna be a thing. We're gonna the vending machine. Mm hmm, I mean it's uh, and this is just the start. According to city officials and New York future machines may include syringes. Well they better get high quality ones, uh, to a cater to heroin addicts, why the hell not? Oh? And apparently with the narcan they just they assume that some of the people are taking them all out of there and then

selling them. Right, they're not even keeping them on their person, should they od they realized, hey, you know what, you can sell those which apparently you were just talking about crackheads apparently as something else that crackheads like to do. Sell whatever they can. You know why, because then you can buy crack. Who knew? I just wonder how much these things are. Sorry, I'm scanning this article. How much is the free crack pipe

vending machine? Slash condom program doesn't say, just says this is an initiative by Mayor Eric Adams, blah blah blah. Come on, there's no dollar amount in this article. I have to know whatever it is. By the way, whatever they tell you it costs, I'm sure it costs twice then absolutely bonkers. Man. You know what else's bonkers? Raced agent from the Weather Channel trying to smoke you out. Crazy stuff. Man, dude, it's like the weather like dad, don't go outside today if you're in central

North Carolina. Yeah, the whole state EPA has put air quality alerts out for now. We like attack the Canadians. What's going on here? Seriously. The only other time I remember this being likeness with that warning was there was a huge It was a few years ago. There was huge fires out by like Lake Lure in western North Carolina, and there were a few others, and I remember how eerie it was, and now it's like it's coming

from Canada. Really yeah, but this is where we be. So you get two hundred and thirty nine wildfires burning in Canada, and wildfire meaning I think it's a thousand acres or more. Yeah, it's either one hundred or thousand. Either way, there's a threshold. And they've already burned about let's say six million acres. Typically in a year, six point eight million acres

is the average. So they've already burned this year in Canada in terms of wildfire almost their entire year allotment or what actually actually happens during the average year or so, they're above average. It's been very dry, obviously, and that's smoke now with the trajectory coming in from the north northwest as driven even as far south now as North Georgia. Are quality alerts all across the state today, unhealthy air mass. I might even smell a little smoke in the

air, the hazy sunshine. Maybe a few showers as we go through later this morning and into the afternoon, especially a better chance mid to late afternoon, so we'll go triad coming from the northwest and across the triangle, maybe

a few thunderstorms, but nothing in the way of severe weather. Upper seventies today, then the front and go south will be in the pleasant mid upper fifties tomorrow morning, so a little cooler and at a beautiful end of the week for Thursday and Friday, Hovering on either side of eighty and overnight lows in the low fifties, we may see some forties in some spots, especially the further west you go by Friday morning and right now shape it up for

a warmer and beautiful weekend. Middle eighties for most, could get close to ninety in the Triangle on Sunday. Um. Not really sure how long it's smoke's gonna stick around. I mean, there's nothing that actually predicts, you know, forecast days in advance, but I think at least through today, maybe tomorrow. I'm not quite sure we lose this haze and smoke, as there's nothing really to move things along all that quickly. So yeah, kind of touch and go. Looks pretty, I mean, the sun looks like

a star out there in some spots, but kind of nasty. Casey, and you must have seen some of the shots from Yankee Stadium last night on the news. Yeah, but then I'm don't care. Oh hey, now, uh huh, yeah, that's that's what I said. I said right though he went there. But but I was pretty actually was watching like a live cam from the h on the Empire State Building or something this morning, and it's like you can't even see it lose again. Yeah, that's no,

shut up. Really, I think I have you judges on the injured reserve or something, or I haven't been paying at I was saying, I was gonna pay attention to after the All Star break because it's just what's the point. But now I found this out, I was gonna make a smog joke. That's awful. Yeah, well this is not the year. You know who lit the fire, Ross, Aaron Boone, so he needs to be sitting to the sun. I hate that, Aaron Boon. All right, well we'll truck through. We'll talk to you in an hour or sounds

good? All right? By the way, Ross, I figured out how much these vending machines got. How much this is before they put anything in it because they have to be customized. How much do you think one vending machine costs? I mean, because it's a government vending machine. So remember when they had the tents. Where was it in Seattle or San Francisco?

No, San Francisco, And they were like five thousand or ten thousand dollars tents for homeless people did the same thing, same costs eleven thousand dollars for one vending machine before you put any which is just gonna get ransacked, and just well they had already did that. They had it as by like one completely incompetent. And then the woman who does done, not mixed stuff, was stuff. After they were done talking to her, another man quote approached

and started screaming at the reporter. I don't care what the f you put in there. You're better off moving that and putting an ambulance in there. What and then yelled as he and this is the actual word from as he quote danced off yelled, yeah, boy, was it flavor? Flav This whole article is insane. But I guess you're all your quotes are from crackheads. So what you won? All right? Seven forty seven eleven thousand dollars for a vending machine? Of course, it is all right. We'll be

back. Hang on your day. Smarter one FM Talk and News PTI more with Casey Arts Now they're all and they're gonna put twenty of these vending machines. I'm sorry, I just keep digesting this story. I'm pretty sure ross the food vending machine in the break room, right, So we got three in the break room. We got a coke machine, pepsi machine, but we also have one of the random food ones. So it's got everything from

it. Actually, you know, it's got gatorades in there, but it also has you know, like kit cats and bags of peanuts and all that. But the point is that vending machine. You can put whatever you want there. And that's we've seen that because I've been here with the you know, in Raleigh since two thousand and six. I've known that vending machine. It's gone through three different like themes and reiterations right right back in the day,

versions of all the bad stuff. Back in the day, it was like normal vending machine stuff and then yeah, now it's now it's like super healthy stuff. But it's the same machine, meaning whatever the size of the item is, you can find a spot for it, which is the insanity of spending eleven thousand dollars on a customized machine when crack pipes are roughly the

size of the candy bars. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't understand it, but maybe they they're like worried that, you know, like the crackhead like runs up to like, oh I need a narcan it like it gets stuck like a TwixT bar or something sending you a message, you know what I'm saying. Right, It's like nope, no, this is it? That would be awkward, right, find somebody odeed right in front of it and there's just a narcan can like leaning against the glass

there. Well that's a morbid thought. Um, all right, a couple of things. By the way, I don't understand why they are expending an ounce of effort on this. This is amazing, this story right here. I gotta tell I'm jealous that I'm not back in high school in Wyoming, because me and my buddies would have thought this was I've told you there were big fans of tourist goring season. Right. There's not a lot to do, not a lot of entertainment Wyoming. You got to pick your own adventure.

But once the Yellowstone opened up, there was more than enough stories. And already this year we had the idiot who grabbed the baby bison, which had to be euthanized because the herd wouldn't let it back in. So we had the woman on the boardwalk film and TikTok's with a bison. That didn't work out well. And now this you're ready. A viral video has Yellowstone Park officials searching for a man after several videos emerged of him repeatedly jumping out

of a vehicle and harassing bears. Why or why this will dude, don't do anything? In fact, you don't not actually let me correct myself. Here's what I want you to do. Go and like his post, encourage him, okay, in like, this is great. This is why we opened Yellowstone. This is what Teddy Roosevelt talked about. This is what we want because in the video, here's what you see. So you see a Toyota pull over on the side of the road. There's a bear there.

Not all that uncommon. I've spent many, many, many, many many many hours driving in and around Yellowstone Park. My uncle worked there. I'd go spend parts of my summer there. In fact, I used to like to drive around and then whip over the side of the road and then like start pretend like it was taking pictures into an empty field because all the other cars would pull over and then I'd take off, and then they would just be there, Oh well, what's over there? And because I was,

you know, I was a jerk um. But in the video, this guy jumps out of the car and there's a bear. There is a bear there, and in this case, a black bear. I wish he'd upgrade to grizzly, rushes over and starts grunning at the bear, which of course runs off nine point nine percent of the time unless he got cubs black bears getting out of there. They booked man and then turns back towards the camera, rips his shirt off, and starts crouching and snarling like a gorilla while

flexing his muscles. I want you to do nothing park officials except encourage this, like it, retweet it. This is self correcting and by all means, I want his buddy to keep filming it too. And then when when that day comes when he decides to bull rush a bear because he didn't look to see that there was a cub over there, and this goes wildly differently, I demand that that video be uploaded. The video published to the Instagram

account turns of Yellowstone. Good Lord Park spokeswoman Linda Veris assured the public the park is looking into it, and pointed out that the incident would likely be a misdemeanor, which could earn you six months in jail and five thousand dollars fines. What terrifies Yellowstone authorities is this trend could end up a chi Oh this is is this a thing? Is this a challenge? Oh? I'm

here for this. Get him to do it with moose too. People underestimate how much a moose wants to kill you and how big they are too, yes, oh yeah, yeah yeah. And the Shires that the shire mooses that they're not even like the Canadian sized ones. They're actually quite a bit small in the Canadian ones. And they're still gigantic. Oh yeah, let's encourage this. We film it all. All right, Good morning, everybody, It is eight oh six. You're on the case O Day Radio program,

our number three. Glad to have you along. And I guess that's it. That's over. Referring to the Rhonda Santis campaign, CNN has with quite the takedown yesterday, Ross, I'm assuming you fell out of your chair when you saw this groundbreaking report from CNN because you had to dub it in. So I mean it was shot. It were you shook? Were you shooking? I was shoken? He was show wow all the way to a show. All right, So everyone sit down, ready yourself. CNN they

got him, We got him. It's that meme. We got him. Here we go. Also this morning, new details about the close relationship between Republican presidential candidate Rhnda Santis and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. It has to do with one connection really, Leonard Leo, a conservative activist who had previously advised both the Santis and Donald Trump on judicial nominations. Leo is also friends with Justice Thomas. So three years ago, at an event for the Florida

chapter of the Federalist Society, de Santis said this about Justice Thomas. This is a justice that has the courage of his convictions, and he's willing to apply the constitution, you know, regardless of any criticism that he may face, because I do think he is our greatest living justice. Thank you. And after that speech to Santist, Thomas and Leo all went out to dinner. Oh no, probably it's some horrible place that discriminates or something or who

the hell knows. All right, so let me get this straight. So your takedown of De Santis is he was in an event three years ago with Clarence Thomas, after which he went out to dinner with him. There's got to be more to this. Oh, I'm sorry, Ross is in. It's in cut two, right, the really damning stuff. I'm sorry, I should there's two cuts here. I was premature. Let's go to cut two. I'm sure this is where the land mine actually lives. Let's do

this. Yeah, morning, Kate. Didn't you like that big bear hug at the end there? That event was, you know, part of the roots of this very tight relationship between Rond de Santis, Leonard Lee, and Clarence Thomas all have many things in common, and they all focus on the judiciary. And Rohn De Santis now as a candidate, is taking a page from the Donald Trump playbook and running on the Supreme Court. And he's doing

it in part by holding up Clarence Thomas as a model. Okay, um, do you think allow me seeing do you do you somehow feel that voters, regardless of which side of the aisle they're on, don't think that Ron De Santis probably thinks that Clarence Thomas is good at his job. This is this is what I don't understand. This is the inability of folks over at CNN, MSNBC and others to separate themselves in the same way that do you remember all of the RBG right, Ruth Bader um was who was it was

Stephen Colbears at the gym with her or something. Do you remember that, like gaul she works out out. And then you had all these politicians because they knew that she wasn't gonna be around a very long time. You had all these politicians who wanted to align themselves with Ginsburg, right, And at no point did I go, oh, man, I can't believe that this Democratic politician has a high opinion of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. You know why,

because that's just it's logical. And then there was a quote unquote bear hug which they slowed down to make it more dramatic by the way, in the end the clip, man, I can't imagine why. Yesterday Tucker Carlson got what twenty five times the viewers of any CNN primetime show with a ten minute clip he uploaded to Twitter, which of course caused caused the more traditional mainstream

media reporters to lose their damn mind. I would point out, it's you know, it's people in the same social stratus, right level, are going to hang out with each other. Right, he's a high profile governor. Yeah, you're conservative, judge, you have a lot in common. Why

wouldn't you. But they're trying to make it out like, oh my, can you believe he's hanging out with Clarence Thomas because they've been trying recently, like there's been this trend of trying to make Clarence Thomas like a boogeyman or a monster, like it's more so than usual. Yeah, well, you know, because that's why they started ramping all these hit pieces out there, like can you believe that Clarence Thomas is what wasn't even his kid? Right?

It was some basically a kid that he took under his wing and was a godson and then he adopted him or something or didn't even I don't even know they really adopted him. And they're like, and then a rich guy paid for his schooling and it's Clarence Thomas's not his kid, but kind of his kid, and I'm like, oh, okay, I'm not I'm not picking up on what's the problem here. So somebody who is not Clarence Thomas's relative, a person paid for that individual would go to school, but Clarence

Thomas had an affinity for that individual. And they're like, see, this is the scandal right here. And they were rolling all that stuff out because in the same way that they accused Republicans of essentially demonizing and attempting to destroy the fabric of America, right, they're trying to destroy people's trust in government or any of the rest. They took it upon themselves to one percent,

following Row, to try to delegitimize the Supreme Court. And then that's the language you see, right, Remember AOC out there and she's like, just ignore what they say. Really, and and many many, many others have made very similar comments where they're just like Chuck Schumer was just Chuck Schumer was just questioning the legitimacy of the Supreme Court over a decision that was unanimous.

I'm going to repeat that, Chuck Schumer just lost his crap like last week over a Supreme Court decision and he called it, you know, a hijack Supreme Court, except it was a unanimous decision. That's as dumb as the people who blamed jerrymandering for Senate elections. Okay, but yeah, that's the bombshell, sir. I probably should have warned you a little more before we

got into it. It's very, very troubling, all right. I saw this article yesterday and then I realized that apparently a bunch of you are weird how subtitles took over TV. Just just go with me for a moment, how subtitles took over TV. So it's some writer for The Atlantic who apparently was kind of monitoring how people in and around him watch TV, and he just doesn't understand. He says, it's not just you. The first time it happened, I assumed it was a millennial thing. Our younger neighbors had

come over with their kids and a projector for backyard movie night. I said, as the opening scene began, hey, you left the subtitles on? Oh? The husband said, we always leave the subtitles on. So the whole crux of this article is this reporter doesn't understand that a lot of people watch TV with the subtitles on. Now, they point out obviously there it's not weird in cases of where there's you know, other languages, okay,

or if people have hearing issues. However, anyone who does not meet those particular requirements, either you're not watching a foreign movie and you do not suffer from a hearing impairment. If you watch TV or movies with the subtitles on, you're a freak show. Um, I turn them on and I hear

fine, dude, I love them on. Yes, Well, for us, you know, having a child with autism, there's a lot of noises house, right, There's like, you know, repeat a lot of words, or there's certain noises he likes to make, and you know it's just you know, it's just what he does. So sometimes it's hard to hear the TV. But also here's the thing there recently, the sound design of some movies are the action will be super loud, right, and the dialogue

will be like they're whispering. It's like the mix is wrong and it really annoys me. It's so bad. And I don't know when this started, but it's awful, you know what I'm saying. Like, if you're watching a movie, absolutely I can't hear you. What is it, but then like an action scene like a car will crash or something will blow up, and it'll be like fifty times louder, and you're like, now you gotta turn it down. So you need to turn the captions on so you understand

what they're saying, because the sound design is so bad. Even now the TV. The TV in my living room and then the TV in my bedroom, they both have like it's called sound sync or something than or whatever. We're it's supposed to level the sound. It doesn't do it. It's exactly to your point. So I have the option of either rumbling my living room okay every time there is you know, very loud noises, or turning it down to a level where the guy down the next block can't hear it.

But turning the subtitles on. I have no hearing impairments. I hear fine, however that it's twofold. One is that and two. A lot of times I'm doing something else while the TV or movies on, like I'm doing prep or whatever, right, so I've got it going, and sometimes I'll hear something because I'm not really paying attention, and if I look up right away, while I may not understood what they said the sub but it's about that time the subtitles showing. So I want to know who the freak shows

are who aren't turning their subtitles on. I just assume that you did that, especially in like in your case where you have a bunch of ambient noise. I live alone and I still turn the damn things on for that exact reason right there. So, but this guy gets so snobby and he's just I can't who cares? Who cares if they turned the subtitle on? And this damn story had like nine thousand frigging comments or something with everyone saying they

leave the subtitles on. All right, so do you do you turn them on? And if you don't, why are you not watching movies and TV? Correctly? That would be my question? All right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. We'll start that fight. That's fine. Absolutely. Also, speaking of movies, we got a Spider Man thing. Um, I don't know. I honestly, I haven't even paid attention

to this movie. I understand that it's very popular. But of course, now apparently now that it's Pride month and there's some secret LGBT stuff in there. According to the Internet and I'll throw it out for you. Oh and we got to get them. The vicious transphobic attack story of Elliott Page in West Hollywood. All that more coming up here on the CaCO Day Radio program, Keeping you Connected. This is ninety four five WPTI in the Triad and

one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, it's a twenty three good morning here on the Cacoday Radio program, Actor Elliott Page has shared a very personal story about that time they were in West Hollywood standing on a corner there, headed over to a convenience store having left a nearby theater, when Page says a transphobic, crazed man approached and started screaming. It caused Page to say, um, that right there was the reason, quote

I need a gun. What happened? Apparently the man approached in West Hollywood, I e Maga Country and yelled quote, I'm going to effing gay bash you, you British word for cigarette, which caused the actor to bolt towards the store in fear. There's didn't report it or anything, I guess. All right, So now the loop inside the Loop in Chicago and West Hollywood Mega Country just so as you know, obviously very very dangerous. But luckily, luckily Page was able to share this story, and it just so happens

to be right around the time that Page's new book is out. Yes, that's right, part of the new book called Page Boy. Um I saw a rundown. Basically, it's Page talking about all of the Hollywood starlets back when Page was still Ellen Page that m Page hooked up with like Juno Cole's co star and a few others. So but also this, um, this whole thing where the guy, the transphobe wanted to uh to do things horrible things, i e. Gay bashing, and Page was able to escape.

So just look for it in the new book Page Boy. What a coincidence West Hollywood. I'm telling you, if you've ever been to West Hollywood, it makes the story that much more shocking. Because I have some questions, but you know, it was a while ago, so we'll probably never get answers. All right, check this out speak speaking of stories, I got

questions about. A British woman is standing trial for allegedly tricking a female teen into having a romantic relationship by posing as a man and then stealing the woman's glasses when they hooked up, which I don't know why you need glasses. I mean, he can feel stuff, you know what I'm saying. Yes, a twenty one year old is accused of duping a nineteen year old,

So this isn't some weird underage thing. Georgia Billham accused of duping the nineteen year old woman by creating fake social media accounts using the alias George Perry. And then eventually the couple met, and eventually they became romantically involved. And uh, this woman stole the other woman's glasses, so I guess they could keep up the ruse. It's a woman, by the way, Ross does that look like a man at all when you're putting it when you're pulling the

article together, Like, did you did you look at the picture? That's the the woman in the article is the woman who purportedly was trying to pass as a man and then stole the other person's glasses. I don't get it, And especially when you look at the picture from back when it happened. Whole thing's weird. But the fact that it's going to trial, man, I don't know who says I'm going to gabe ash you I know, I know This is why I have questions. Somebody just emailed it. It sounds

what is it? The kids say, sounds a little suss. But it's in the new book, so make sure you read that, all right. We got to talk real quickly about the pgator. Dude, there's some PJ golfers who are beyond mad and with good reason. And I don't even know if it's one hundred percent why they say that they're mad, because there's um there's a very significant component of this that I didn't see getting a lot of

discussion. But for those of you don't know, the PGA tour is going to merge with that Saudi offshoot tour, the the Live Live lav Tour, which coaxed away a bunch of big time stars for giant piles of money. And the commissioner of the PGA looks like a jackass. So we'll get the details coming up right after the news here on the k c O Day radio program show. After the show is on the iHeartRadio app. Search case O Day for the podcast on the iHeart radio app. Holy caw, look at

this busy, busy busy man. Ross's truck trap has um gotten three hits today for actually yesterday. So yeah, anytime there is an accident and it's a truck halling stuff, we see if we want it. And it just so happened like one day there was like chicken wings and stuff. So now I'm convinced ross is causing this. Luckily, in all three cases it doesn't seem to be any injuries. So all right, what do you want to

hear? You want to hear about the solo one that you're getting first, or the one truck that hit the other truck and both overturned the truck that hit the other truck. All right, so this authorities say what was this road? Road? Was this on? Do do do do? I doesn't say, uh, Interstate seventy okay, all right, Um, A truck hauling cows, so beef, you got beef there apparently got into an accident

and overturned as it struck another truck hauling pallets of bud ice. So it's a twofer get steak and bud ice, which is still But I didn't realize bud ice was still a thing. I mean, I like the steak. I mean that's a definite wind. All right, all right, good with that. I just didn't know bud ice was around anymore, So there you go. Although it doesn't. It was gonna say you can resell it, but uh, you know, you see what they're selling bud products for right

now. So I really you're gonna go drop that off at the homeless shelf. Yeah, we'll enjoy it. That's how nice of you. And in a separate crash um, a truck overturned spilling its entire contents of twenty two tons of industrial glue. Ah, how would you like to have to clean that up? Yeah, authorities say a truck hauling twenty two thousand what is the glue for carpet glues? Twenty two tons of carpet glue? Oh? Man, look, this picture is all over the road. That's gonna suck.

I don't even know how you get that off there. Get a bunch of the you know the orange shop, you know, the shop hand washed with the pummice in a spread that all over the road. Maybe, I don't know. Oh there's a and then there's some idiot driving through it. Oh that's gonna go well for you, sir. Yeah, you're never getting that off your car, all right? So a three for the glues probably cash, but at least it got stakes out of the deal craziness. Minor

injuries reported in both cases, but everyone's fine. Other than that, it looks like the cows are all alive, So good news there. They're gonna stay fresh. All right. Let me hit on this story real quick. So the PGA yesterday announced something that less than a year ago they swore would never happen. And in fact, the PGA, as famous golfers including Phil Mickelson and many other big names, said yes to the Upstart Live Golf tournament, which is owned and funded the majority, but at least in part,

by the Saudi royal family. Technically, there's a fund that they use for stuff to It's like when they were talking about maybe buying the WWE. It's an investment fund. However, obviously the seeds of which lie with the Saudi royal family. And so they did this, and they paid crap tons of

money and they made big offers. I think they offered tiger Woods, like eight hundred million dollars or something because they got stupid money to throw around, and golfers went and it was the big you know, it was a big

scandal, and everyone's like, these golfers were monsters. How dare they played golf and receive a check at least in part from the people who murdered Kashagi or in you had a nine to eleven families group that came out, you know, since the majority of the people involved in nine to eleven were actually Saudi citizens, and they had a problem with it, and folks from the PGA, who obviously they were trying to protect their own product, you know,

And it really started with a lot of beef on the part of the golfers on the tour saying that they weren't getting a fair shake. So it was ripe for plucking people, they claimed, you know. Essentially they got on the nine to eleven bandwagon. Absolutely yeah, PGA chairman he was on there. How dare these folks, how dare they do this? These people are not allowed to They're not gonna be We're gonna take their PGA tour cards,

they can't play, they're dead to us. Whatever. And as a result, there was a lot of pressure on what golfers decided to do, and you know, others joined and went over to this tour which hasn't had the most rating success, but the PGA has actually been quite vocal to their

current television and partners saying you better not do business with them. So arguably that that and that caused lawsuits, and there's tons There was tons of lawsuits up till yesterday for a variety of things, basically because that really sounds like

um illegal business practices. But I digress. And players were shamed into not taking those big paychecks and stay with the PGA, and so all those decisions were made until yesterday when out of the blue, the PGA announced that they were joining forces with the upstart Golf Tour and that all the players who went will have the opportunity, obviously to get their PGA card back, and if they're still top ranked players, they'll be able to do that. Well,

as you can imagine, that irritated everybody. When Jay Monahan, who had been out there screaming bloody murder about this and calling everyone traders, was happy to sign on the dotted line and even let the Live Golf guy technically have the top spot on the board for it. Oh, it's bonkers, And you know everyone's talking about this because they didn't tell any of the players. Here's the problem. Every one of those players who went to the you know,

the golf tournament, now the upstart one. They got these big paychecks, they're still owed moneies. It doesn't matter that they're gonna so they stand to make a crap ton more money than their counterparts who didn't who decided you know what, I don't I don't want to do this, I you know the I don't like the idea of playing for the saudiast or I want to remain loyal to the PGA Tour. I don't think it's gonna be well.

They all missed the boat because they were told that if they left and they took those paychecks, they'd never play in the PGA again, with the exception of some of the some of the majors, and just a couple other things.

So how how mad must they be if you're if you're a reasonably recognizable golfer and maybe you're pulling down, you know, three to five million a year because you know, you win a tournament and you do well in some others, and you turned down I don't know, fifty eighty million dollars guaranteed a year. A year later, only to find yourself, you would have found yourself back in the same situation how poed must you be right now?

So I don't know what's going to happen here. Obviously everybody's mad. Norman was ripping the PGA. Greg Norman, Tiger Woods and McElroy, who spoke out against the circuit, would have had, you know, because they were offered. I think the biggest piles of money. Offering Woods eight hundred million dollars is bonkers. I mean East Tiger Woods, and I love watching them when he's on play golf, But I don't know how you thought you'd get

eight hundred million out of them. But that's it. Now they're back, they're gonna rejoin and everybody it'll be like nothing ever happened except a bunch of players who took that chance. They're gonna get a big pile of money for putting up with it for a year. And anyone who didn't it's stuck loyal. They were just betrayed by their leadership. Absolutely crazy. All right, eight forty five, let's get race stag It from the Weather Channel to give

you your smoke and weather report. Well took a look at radar and a shower start to come in Rockymcasswell Counties a little ahead of schedules, so some of this rain a little aggressive here this morning. So showers now starting to get in through parts north of Greensboro, north of Raleigh, Durham and getting up and starting to come in and move slowly to the south. So showers developing here as we continue to head through this morning and into the afternoon.

We've got an air quality alert. We've got smoke in the air from wildfires. Maybe the rain will help clean it out a little bit. Temperatures mid

upper seventies today. There might even be a rumble of thunder mixed in here, and we'll have some showers of afternoon through tonight, tapering although pretty early, mid upper fifties as this front goes south, leaving us with what more sunshine for Thursday and Friday, and not quite sure we'll get the haze of the smoke back in the atmosphere, but we'll drop the humidity on either side of eighty degrees for daytime highs both days. Beautiful days with lows in the

low fifties, maybe some upper forties by Friday morning. Weekend looks warmer with plenty of sunshine, So casey rain's breaking out a little bit earlier than anticipated starting to see some of those showers now in a line basically from let's say just getting into Alamanson, Orange Counties and coming south southeast slowly, so if you're getting rain, it looks like we are going to see more. Continue to push south over the next few hours, so a little ahead of schedule.

But hey, sometimes that happens. Okay, Hey, you know, if it does anything to knock the smoke down, we'll appreciate it. Yeah, I hope. So right, we'll see thank you, have a good and we'll come back. Chat with Jeff Bellinger next, hang on, thank you. Casey is on w PTI in the Triad and one on six one FM Talk in the Triangle. Eight fifty four your Bloomberg comp date now,

Jeff Bellinger, what's happening morning, Casey. Stock Market futures are obviously hired now futures or up eight points, so it looks like we could have a positive start, although no great rally. Home loan demand and still weakening. Mortgage bankers report applications for new mortgages and refi requests have declined for a fourth

straight week. More banks are relying on AI powered chat bots to deliver customer service but the Consumer Financial Protection Board says that's a risky way to reduce headcount. The agency says chat bots not only alienate some customers, they can also give wrong answers, and a reversal of farmers groups remote work policy has led to a staff revolt. Casey, the insurance company told employees last year that most of them would be remote workers, so a lot of workers moved,

sold their second cars, or expanded their home offices. Now, the Wall Street Journal says an internal memo has gone out telling employees they'll have to be in the office three days a week. Casey, All right, Jeff, thank you, appreciate it. So, okay, have a good day. Yeah you too. This is crazy this story. Apparently there is an epidemic

in Maine. According to official is in Maine, they're warning the public after no less than five different fires, two vehicles, and three homes have struck this year after squirrels electrocuted themselves, burst into flames, and then from there often running oh wait, hold on, we're gonna do this story do do do do do? Forgot we have a day. We have a song for this all right, hold on, um purp, you turn the butt bar up. There the squirrel to the test. They too through them. You

guess the rest electrocution man, they fry and watch again. Next to swaming squirrels in the sky. They who watch for flaming squirrels in the sky and the sky fire, they die. Whole bunch of best. I think that a Finish swam is the best. The Finnish squirm is the best. The Finnish squam is the best. Quote Keeled Kemper, biologists with the main Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, says, quote, there is no critter more out to burn your house down than a squirrel. I think cats probably, they're

always plot and evil. But yeah, in this case, three different homes in Maine and two vehicles have fallen victim two squirrels who have chewed through either power wires or, in the case of one of the vehicles, the actual electrical under the hood. Ah, they're saying. One of the ways the best way is to avoid it is obviously to make your home squirrel proof, but also avoid leaving any food out, and that includes feeding birds, So

don't do that and check this out. Speaking of epidemics, a man has been arrested after a series of burglaries where the only thing stolen were the victims adult toys. Benjamin nad Rowski reportedly broke into at least four home He probably broke into more. I bet there's people who got their stuff stolen who didn't call, right. You know, they don't want to call the police and be like, yeah, my giant you know insert fallis looking thing was stolen,

right, But four people did. Eventually he was arrested after attempting another one and some homee nearby homeowners saw him. Police showed up, arrested him, and he told them he wasn't stealing anything. He was there to buy weed, which is a horrible alibi, except they were unable to recover the stolen adult toys initially because they say he was giving them away his birthday presence. Who who is giving people for their birthday a used adult toy? Are

you taking that of? It's your birthday? Ross, I got you something by the way, late birthday. Uh, I don't wrap that. You're gonna love it. You're gonna love it. So anyway, So yeah, he's under arrest. Craziness all right, we gotta roll see tomorrow