Wednesday-07-19-2023

Remember all right, good morning everybody. It is six o eight. So you know there's that m hmmm ac O Day radio program midweek picking things off, and uh, we got a lot of weirdness today, I guess would be the U the best way to sell it. Um, as we as we burned through stories today, I gotta be honest with you, there's some like there's some weird retro stuff going on. There's of course, um the sheer excitement. And as somebody follows the news cycle as um you know many

of you do, obviously you turn it. You tune into this show not just for the the yucks, so to speak, but also because you want to be a little better informed. I gotta tell you, if you told me that five dollar footlongs would factor into as many stories as we have seen over the last few years, I don't know that I would have believed you. I mean, if your Subway, you want your product and you're offering and everything else to be part of the news cycle, all right, because

that's a pub You don't have to buy ads for that. It's in the news cycle. Unfortunately, though for Subway it's been is the bread made of rubber or whatever they were alleged yoga mats, which is dumb, is an eleven and a half in sub a foot long, even though it has the exact same amount of meat, and it was very unfair to go after him. Did your spokesperson basically buy child sex? According to the courts, they

did. Were you part of a either a racial crime at like three in the morning in Chicago when it's nine thousand below zero and it's maga country, or did the special counsel in charge of getting Trump go get some lunch over at your pad? And that somehow is part of the news cycle today and CNN is absolutely fanboyed over this stuff. So Jack Smith's special counsel, who according to Trump, is getting ready to level more indictments against him, this

time over January sixth, stuff went and got lunch yesterday or Monday? Excuse me when got lunch Monday? And then yesterday for whatever reason on CNN, who had exclusive video of this, became one of their big breaking news stories and it was the weirdest damn thing ever. Jack Smith can't resist a five

dollar foot long that's according to what we see right there. New and exclusive CNN video of the Special Council at subway declining, though to respond to reporters questions about today's big news a target letter sent to the former President of the United States CNNs. Evan Perez was there, and I'm telling you they then

go to Evan Perez. They also have a panel to discuss this. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they have a whole round table of people are going to sit here and talk about this special counsel dude who went and got subway sandwich five dollars and try to interpret why he was getting a five dollars foot long or whatever he ordered. I don't I don't know that we actually know it was a five dollar foot long. But they were really excited, really excited, and it was one of the weirdest damned things I

think I have seen in a long time. So, yeah, so he gets a five dollar foot long and because he was I don't even know how to describe this. In fact, the hold on. Let me go back to a couple of the tweets I booked barred here. So they did multiple stories and the take was Jack Smith going to subway today was a message to Donald Trump. I wish I was making that up. Yeah, John king On there said, and I quote Jack Smith going to subway today is a

message to Trump. Jack Smith has no words but a simple five dollars sub in his hands saying I'm not going anywhere. The imagery was intentional and spoke volumes. What what in the does that mean? So at no point did anyone on this stupid CNN panel go you know, and maybe Jack Smith just went to get lunch. It reminds me actually of of course CNN's immense fascination

with Michael Avinati where at one point Brian what's his bucket? Who got fired literally was fanboyt him to the point of, you know what, you should run for president? Right? Michael Avianati became this hero because he was the

get Trump guy. Well, now it's Jack Smith. So even though Smith isn't coming on and doing all the media hits, the fact that he went to subway and bought a substand at lunch is some sort of like intricate messaging to Donald Trump, which I don't understand, Like they never actually explained what the connection is, but they were super excited yesterday. So, like I said, we got a lot of weird stuff in the stack today, actually a little bigger stack than we normally have we got we got that men's a

new trend in men's I guess would that be plastic surgery? I guess ross would that be plastic surgery? What these dudes went and god and sometimes does go? Well, I guess it would. I don't think so. You don't think it's plastic surgery? I do not. If so, if women get that procedure for the purpose of getting the full lips up to the point of ridiculousness, that falls under plastic surgery. Right, I think there are

two different things. No, no, no, But the procedure and the when women are getting it, I'm asking you think that's plastic surgery, right, I'm just asking this is not some gotcha questions. I think, like I said, I think they're two separate things. I don't think they're the same thing. No, no, no, I'm not implying that what men are getting are But what I'm saying is that procedure when women get it with

the with the lip injections, that does that falls under elective surgery. I guess it would be the point that I'm looking at all, right, I'm setting it up for something. It's not some gotcha on you. I just want to make sure that mentally I'm on the right page here, because this is a really horrific story. Sometimes apparently sometimes it's not. And I have some thoughts and they're all horrific, so we'll be delicate. We'll get into

that. Jack Smith made another sub today. We got that please never Try trank, which I guess I'm unfamiliar with, So maybe we'll take a little spy report on there. That video, this video out of Philadelphia is one of the creepiest damned things I've ever seen. But I also think maybe people are misinterpreting it, so we'll get into that. And the there has never been a more thankful dog on the planet as part of this story I saw

yesterday, so we'll get into that as well. Six seventeen though those are the those are the promise. We'll work it out over the course of the next about two and a half hours, but just just prepare yourself. We're gonna be all over the place, and you know that's kind of how we like it. So Happy Wednesday, welcome to it. Back in just a few minutes. Smart Talk all Day, nine four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM talk in the triangle. All right, good

borne in it is two here on the case O Day Radio program. Allow me to make your brain hurt just a little bit as we kick things off. Do you know who Rachel Levine is? So Rachel is I can't remember what Rachel's legal name was, but is what is assistant surgeon General or something

like that, something the Health and Human Services hold on. Make sure I have the exact title here, but is a transgender woman and is one of the faces of people who sit there and question the staffing within the current administration. All right, so make sure we have that out there to get a

little bit of the gist. You know who? You know who I'm referring to and said something that during an interview the other day that I'm having a little I'm having a little trouble with But again, I don't have kids, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. Let me play the audio. Here we go. The lescence is hard, and puberty is hard. What if you're going through the wrong puberty? What if you inside feel that

you are female but now you're going through a male puberty? Yeah? Yeah, so that is Rachel Levine, her allegedly a doctor, I believe is a doctor who believes children actually can go through the wrong puberty. This was a defense of puberty blockers for miners, and as you can imagine, Admiral Rachel Levine, judging by the pushback there, doesn't necessarily represent the majority opinion.

But it is an interesting twist on the whole thing, right, because the argument previous to that was you're dealing with kids who are questioning, they feel like they're in the wrong body, the wrong gender, whatever it may be, and by delaying the onset of puberty, this allows them the window to make that transition before everything kind of gets set in stone. And I

point this out because I've seen activists argue this. However, for a top level Biden official to now make the same argument that somehow they are going through the wrong puberty is that is kind of that. It's that that argument meant to overcome. So with that in mind, again, here is the state. Adolescence is hard and puberty is hard. What if you're going through the wrong puberty. What if you inside feel that you are female, but now

you're going through a male puberty. Now some people would argue that's reality taking course, all right, that is the natural progressions, the progression of things within one's body based on the gender of which you were born. But again, this is somebody who helps set policy at the national level, and obviously there is policy that is influential down down the food chain, so to speak.

So, um, I guess there's one more thing for you to worry about as a parent, Donna, what's up morning, Casey to help you out, I'm gonna dead name him. His name was Richard Leland Levine prior to being Rachel. Oh okay, I yea from Pennsylvan I believe. But anyway, yeah, anyway, yeah, now wrong, puberty is a thing, so there you go. Yeah. The other thing, Um, you know, back in twenty nineteen, being pardon me, CNN got a tip off from the FBI to be outside Roger Stone's house at three o'clock in the

morning. Now it was good, now, Donna, that was just good journalism. Come on, oh yeah, I remember I remember that. Yes, yes, So now we're getting tipped off to follow a sandwich I mean, honestly, but sandwich it was, I mean, we didn't know how they got it, how Jack ordered it? Was it a tuna sandwich? Again? I would like last time, I don't know, I was just gonna say it's not real tuna. That was the other controversy. It's not real to the allegation. I don't know that that was ever proven, but

yeah, who you know, the whole thing is crazy. It's the Maga country. I guess it's supposed to be some own but I don't get it.

Well, no, that's why it was so insane to sit there and watch them do several and thank you very much for the call there, Donna, to do several segments and then try to read into it because at no point did anyone go, you know what, maybe you just went got lunch it no, and it felt very av naughty issue, which is why I bring it up where it's just like you have almost this price like figure within CNN and they're analyzing and everything they do. So there you go. All

right, more to come, thank you. Can you see it's on w PTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. Good morning, six thirty five here on the case O Day Radio program phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. All right, we gotta we got a really weird take on a procedure that apparently some men are getting. I don't know that there's enough bourbon in the world to talk me into this. That being said, um, it is a really weird

kind of social justice. He take on this on this story. We'll get to that here in just a few Do you see this crazy this dude who was He's from Australia, Yeah, Timothy Shattuck, who is h He's from Australia, And um, he set out to where did he leave from? I know he left from Mexico. He left from a basically Copo Cabo, San Lucas. So if you go to Baja California, very southern tip, if you don't know where Cabo is, Cabo, excuse me. Cabo is

amazing, except it's it's like the most expensive place in Mexico. So it's pretty crazy. And the grand scheme of thing like, if you go to Cabo, you'd spent a lot less money going to Florida. Keys. I feel like, but whatever, he's not there for all that. He's there to sail solo and so um. He and his companion who is a it's like a lab his dog, all right, they decided they were going to

sail from Cabo two, French Polynesia and do it solo. And they had a small catamaran and set out and fortunately for um for our sailor here and his dog, mister Shattuck, he hit a storm and that knocked out navigational equipment and a bunch of stuff. I'm not sure the total the total crippling of his vessel, but this is going back to May. When he set sail, he was essentially just floating around at sea, unable to navigate traverse um. You know, it's a catamaran which has sailing capabilities, so I

don't know, but he was just bobbing around out there. Nobody knew what was up. Bella is the dog's name, by the way. Well, a Mexican fishing trawler stumbled upon him after a little over two months nearly three months actually, and was able to rescue him and Bella bring him back to Mexico, and now they're telling him the story. Basically, he said they left in May, sailed out of the Sea of Cortez, had been well provisioned, but a storm knocked out electronics and his ability to cook, so

he was able to consume whatever is able to consume. However, over the course of the next two months, he basically they survived on rain, water and fish until he was able to be rescued by this tuna boat. He said it was the first sign of humans he'd seen in three months. All right, let me ask you a question. Do you think there's ever been a dog so happy that the fishing was good? Ketchrum going with this because I'm I am constantly reminded of one of the favorite stories that we have ever

done on this show. Just dear, just due to the obvious nature of what bay have transpired. Ross, you know the story I'm talking about right when it comes to wayward sailors, people stranded on boats out in the middle of the ocean. And if you don't, Ross knows, But if you don't, there was a story and this was out of like Peru or Chile or something somewhere in South America. Basically, these dudes are on a fishing boat. It's it's a guy and another dude and there they end up in

a life raft. And what was crazy is that they were they were out in this life raft for like I don't remember how it was longer than this, and just bobbing around. Eventually, months later, life raft is able to make its way. I think it was to Fiji. I think Fiji is or one of the islands around there, and dude was rescued. But for months they're in this boat. Sadly, by the time that they were

able to be rescued, it wasn't they anymore. It was just the one dude, and he said that his boat partner at some point during the journey didn't make it, gave in to the heat and the dehydration and the lack of food and obviously the horribleness of this situation. But they literally had a picture of this dude when they rescued him, and he was, boy, how do I say this, He looked reasonably nerves Okay, he looked more

than reasonably nourished. And almost immediately when we were analyzing the story where we're looking at this dude to say he's been bobbing around in the ocean for six months. The conditions were so horrible that the other dude in the raft didn't make it. According to the man they rescued, when the guy expired, he eventually gave him a burial at sea, and that was that's you know, that's what happened. However, when they rescued him, he arguably looked

like he might be slightly overweight. Am I misremembering this or is that a fair assessment of that story? That dude looked like he had eaten well and even, and so we called it almost a met imediately on this show, dude ate the other dude hands down? Well that was my Raji wrote the same opinion, right, dude eight the other dude like, you look big little smile on his face, put some weight on. Yeah, you just did. You don't do that. And then eventually after we called it,

the families like he I think he ate our loved one. We got some questions. So this guy's bobbing around with his dog. There's never been a dog in the history of dogs, so happy the fishing worked out. Let's just be a thousand percent honest here. That dog said, you know it happened to be. This guy's on a catamaran. He's not in the lifeboat, so he does have obviously access to a decent amount of fishing equipment, and if he can get some small fish, you can get some big fish.

And that all that dog was never rooting for fishing to work out harder than and and my buddy, my buddy up in northern Minnesota who's a guide to run sled dogs all that stuff. He has a lab named Balls and not you. And it has nothing to do with a very prominent physical feature. It has to do with the fact that this dog has two tennis balls and if you touch him, you're pulling back a stump. But it might be the other thing too. And that dog is a fishing dog man.

That dog lives for sitting in a boat, gets so excited at the fishing's decent. And I would argue that dog, even though I love that dog, that dog doesn't root as hard as this dog on this dude's boat rooted for him to catch fish. So it didn't turn into that situation like, oh, we were at sea, and unfortunately Bella didn't make it. As he's sitting there working a toothpick in his face. And but a pretty incredible story. Yes, three months floating around out there, but eventually rescued.

So saw that. But I'm also like, I wonder if there was some uh, I wonder if there was some moments when he kind of looked over at this dog like you know, um, not catching any fish today, so um, you're unnoticed. But thankfully it didn't come to that. So uh, you know, good on that, good on this company rescuing him, and um, you know, maybe that's not for you. Apparently this dog, by the way, he actually found when he was in Mexico, so he kind of adopted her and then they and then they set off.

But that that journey is at an end, and um, everyone's okay, except this dude actually looked like he'd lost some weight, even though he argued was better provisioned with equipment and everything else he had. He had a lot more significant cover being in this catamaran even if navigation didn't work. But yeah, going back to yeah, here we go. In twenty sixteen, a Colombian fisherman was rescued after spending two months had drift in the Pacific Ocean.

Three of his crewmates had died, eventually rescued by a merchant ship. And um, let's see here do do do do do? They got a bunch of here these on here. Yeah, that's the one where his boat mate didn't make it. I remember the family sued. I don't even know what came of that, but um, yeah, he was looking um he was he was looking well nourished, that dude. Back in twenty sixteen. All right, six forty five kse O Day Radio program, Ladies, any of

our female listeners, Apparently you've been very selfish? Is not me saying that, right? I don't have an opinion on this. I have an opinion, but it's not the same opinion as this activist. But apparently you've been very selfish and now you're getting called on the carpet. So I'm gonna have that audio for you coming up here on the case O Day Radio program one six one f M 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, good morning and welcome six fifty three. You're on your Wednesday. So this is this is kind of crazy. This goes back to nineteen ninety six September seven, nineteen ninety six drive by shooting in law Las Vegas. Rapper Tupac Shakur killed in the drive by. It was twenty five or not, and he lives with Elvis or you know, whatever the theories are.

And at no point did they solve it, and there was some speculation about a beef with Biggie East Coast West Coast Sugar Night, who obviously eventually a lot of criminal stuff came out with him, although I think it was kind of a known commodity at the time. But they never solved who'd done it right, And it was interesting because there was there was that kind of criminal

underground beef narrative that was there happened in Las Vegas. And now least say that they issued a search warrant on Monday for a home a home in Henderson near Vegas, but it's unclear what they were looking for, but they did say it was part of the investigation into the murder of Tupac Shakur. And again it goes back to nineteen ninety six, man, so you know, we're thirty years in the rear view. Nevada, by the way, does

not have a statute of limitations when it comes to homicide. Shakur gunned down while sitting inside a black BMW with Suge Knight, head of death Row records. They were apparently sitting at a red light near the Vegas Strip when a white Cadillac pulled up next to him. And started firing rounds into the car even though he was wounded. It took nearly a week for Shakur to pass away. But now I have some new evidence. Apparently Shaker openly accused Big

and uh what is what is Diddy going by? Now? Is he still did he? I'm I'm unable to keep up on Sean Comb's current identity. Both of them denied it, but it did create a feud. Ross You're East Coast guy? Were you East Coast? West Coast? As a kid, I preferred Biggie. I still think he has more natural raw talent when you hear him, like there's a video of him before he hit a big like freestyle in a corner there, and it's just amazing. I think he

has a more natural talent, like more raw talent. But as I've gotten older, I appreciate Tupac more well. I mean, Biggie is revitalized with the AI as we did play the audio from that a couple of weeks ago. Uh what wash? So He's death row and then East Coast it was what bad Boy records right out of New York. I don't know, that's just crazy man twenty one Billboard Hot one hundreds. By the way, for Shakur, let's see here and Shaquur inducted into the rot was he in the

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? I don't even know what's going on with that thing. Yeah, twenty seventeen, but I don't know. They say they got a lead of some sort, although it's it's somewhat unclear the totality of what it is. Department spokesperson Aiden Ocampo Gomez said in a phone call. He couldn't provide further details, but said the investigation still open and they're investigating some new information, so who knows, maybe they get into that.

All right, ladies, you've been very selfish. It's not my words, right, it's not me. It is that of a transactivist who has some thoughts. And you know, I'm not a woman, so I don't know how to react to it. This person is not a biological woman, however, is very upset when it comes to biological women. Let me just throw

it out here and maybe you can call and apologize or something. This is what I mean when the transphobia just comes out, the audacity and just the arrogance for sis women who believe that they own periods that they own womanhood. You don't. Okay, you don't own periods. You don't own womanhood. You experience both and both are different for every person. But as a sists woman, it doesn't belong to you, so you can't gate keep it. Like hello, right, So for any of our female listeners, why are

you being so greedy thinking you own womanhood and menstrual cycles? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four. Oh I love it. By the way, do you think there's any woman on the planet who wouldn't be like, you know what, if you want it, you can have it. I don't have to deal with that on the regular as long as everything stayed you know, functional, but like once a month, they don't have to deal with that. Like do you think they're trying to get keep that or

do you think that you were just down to simple biology here? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. So if any of our female listeners want to apologize, we will provide you the opportunity. All right, good morning, everybody, is seven h seven hours two here on your Wednesday.

Coming up on the show, we got Lieutenant Governor today, right, just looking at my calendar, it is the third Wednesday of the month, that would be a Mark Robinson day, so that in an hour hopefully everything's been Everything's kind of messed up because like the first week was vacation week and all of that. But unfortunately we're getting into the back into the standard calendar.

So and boy boyd, we got lots to get into. I was looking at some fundraising numbers and I think they said Mark Robinson had raised what two point two million? Daddy boy Stein? Uh six million? Yeah? Yeah, I am curious how much of each because both have been doing events out of state. How much is people here versus you know, in the case of Josh Stein, you know the Hollywood money and Mark Robinson he's been

doing various events out of state as well. But if it holds the standard practice, but it's a huge differential, But if it holds the standard practice, I think you will find a lot of Democrat money coming from out of state. Remember, our current governor kicked off both of his campaigns outside of the state of North Carolina. One was in New York. I think they both were, but one I know for sure was and one of them may

have been West Coast. I'm a little unclear but I remember they were both out of state, and it just kind of shows you how crazy things are going to get here in North Carolina for the upcoming election cycle. Ton of money, ton of money going to be passing through. So just ready yourself for all of that. All right. So, prior to the break, we were learning that apparently women biological women very selfish gatekeepers, not wanting to

share. How do I know? Transactivist told me what I mean when the transphobia just comes out, the audacity and just the arrogance for sist women who believe that they own periods, that they own womanhood. You don't. Okay, you don't own periods. You don't own womanhood. You experienced both, and both are different for every person, but as a SIS woman, it doesn't belong to you, so you can't gate keep it. Yeah, hello, yeah, what are you doing? Hello? All right? I forget

the womanhood side of it. That's that's more of a abstract, I guess, a slightly abstract thing. But when it comes to actual periods, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Do women actually really like you wouldn't give that away if he could not the the the reproductive side of it, But I mean just that part of it. Although it is a pretty um let me get in trouble real quick. It gets things done. What do I

mean by that? Um? It can get you a lot of leeway, Like there's nothing that a dude can say where somebody's gonna go all right. I'm sorry, I didn't I understand. We're like if if Ross, I'm gonna be the murdered when I walk out right after the show. So I'm not going to drag you into this. However it it. I have no idea and it has to suck, and that's fine. That being said,

I'm not one of these people running around being an accusatory about stuff. But I've had more than one woman in my life go where I'm like, Hey, what what is wrong? Like what's the deal? And then that's the explanation, and then I just have to go, oh, okay, all right, I understand. So there is that slight nuance of of an explanation when things are not going great. From an interpersonal standpoint, that being said,

who the hell is this guy? But if you said womanhood, I don't even know if I had played the audio because there's a certain subjectiveness to this. Don't be wrong. I think it's stupid. But you're talking about an actual physical bodily function, right, You're talking about a release within a female reproductive system of an egg based on your having a uterus and everything that then physically accompanies that. Like, this isn't there is no subjective nature to

it. And I was looking in the comments, I'm like, somebody please explain this to me. What what what would the um? What is it you think you're missing out on? The fact remains that even if if nobody's gate keeping that and you could run around and be like, oh no, I'm on my I'm on my cycle, even though you're not because you don't have the physical elements within your body to do that. Um, I don't. I don't know that anyone's pushing back in the sense that there's some grandiose

conspiracy to gate keep that. It just is. It just is the thing that women experience most women. Look, I understand that, you know, medically, there's going to be outliers there, but that is something that women experience, and there's going to be a portion of their life where their experience and then eventually they'll hit you know, menopause. And again, not a doctor, but like it either is or it isn't. This is this is

the sheer stupidity of it. It's complete lunacy. It's attached from all reality, and it's a product of people enabling the lunacy. If you were to go up this individual and tell them that they can't gate keep being trans but you can, they would say that's crazy because you're not trans, which is exactly your point, right right, right, Yeah, I'm just I'm just

digging a hole here. But like I'm just I'm trying to point this out in the sense that either you you have a monthly cycle or you don't, Like there is no there's no middle ground here, like when people go when when you bring up X, y or xx chromosomes, right, and then like they bring up people with what is it Kleinfelter syndrome or something, which is this really really small number where there is a genetic abnormality and affliction which

doesn't begin to cover the sheer volume of people that claim to be trans, right, the vast majority that is not something they're dealing with, And they go, well what about this, And then you point out, well, that's a thing that you most mathematically likely aren't dealing with When you talk about a monthly cycle and this process that women go through based on their physical makeup,

you can't fake that. You can pretend, but you can't physically force your body to literally expel an egg and then go through the process that women go through dealing with that. As far as I know, there's not a surgery that'll make it happen, even so to sit there and throw that in rather than abstract stuff like you can't gate keep what it like, what it's like to feel like a woman, right, that's one of those subjective things.

This is concrete man. And also simultaneously, I don't probably women to be like, you know what, if you want to deal with that, fine, go ahead, but it's but it's just not all right now. I'm in I'm not trying to turn this into a hack on women thing. I just want to be abundantly clear here. But I there have been times in my life where like I'm dealing with significant other and like I'm like, what is wrong? Because like there's no we get there's some dub dumb argument,

bruin, And then she's just like have you seen the calendar? And I'm like, oh, all right, and that's you know, that's a pretty sweet get out of jail free card, That's all I'm saying. So call and screaming me whatever, don't care that being said, I think if you could hand hand the process off when he don't need it, I don't know many women that would object to that because they just don't want to deal

with all the garbage that goes along with it. All right, Steve, what's My daughter worked at a restaurant in wake Forest, and obviously I can't say which one, but there was a transgender young man girl whatever, sorry, and he said he had to go home because his cramps were hurting him really bad and he had a headache. And my daughter and all the girls around and were looking at him like he had three heads because they have to work through it. Right, Yeah, this is why I don't know this

is this seems like a really dumb road to go down right here. Oh, it's ridiculous, Like you're not thanks for the call, You're not converting people to your cause, because I any woman who's ever had to deal with that, it's just like you need to shut your face. All who are you talking about accusing me of gate keeping stuff? All right, Well, we'll get calls on this because I find it fascinating to some extent. Well, we'll get into that. I'm probably in trouble, but when I'm not

wrong, I guess which is important. Also, I found this interesting. The Heritage Foundation has a new study. Um, and I'm not at all shocked by this, but it just goes to show you, once again the hypocrisy when it comes to the all of the illegal immigration discussion. So we'll get the details on that and much more coming up. It is the case O Day Radio program, Your Day Smarter one six one FM talk and news Talk WPTI More with Casey starts now. All right, seven twenty three back

now on the Cacoda Radio program. Grab some calls on this insanity. This is what I mean when the transphobia just comes out, the audacity and just the arrogance for sis women who believe that they own periods, that they own womanhood. Yeah, yeah, the audacity on you ladies gate keeping that awesomeness. Right, so stupid and it's not just that activist. Also, we had to listen to Rachel Levine say this, adolescence is hard and puberty is

hard. What if you're going through the wrong puberty. What if you inside feel that you are female, but now you're going through a male puberty. Right, So it's just, you know, it's clown world, clown world for days. All right, let me get to the phones. Janet,

you're up first, go ahead. Hey, Casey, I just wanted to say, men don't actually menstruate, but they most definitely p MS, And I for one would rather have them at home nursing that, but hurt men out in the world getting, you know, making them fain in mine? What do you what do you mean by that? Um? Just the whole you know, PMS thing that when they go through guys go through it too, like they whatever. Nah, we're fine, we're good. So we

don't get yeah, okay, yeah, y'all good, y'all. Well, I'm just saying, if y'all ever have a headache, No, we're fine. It's we're hungry. Yeah, I mean that's you know, it's kind of hungry. It's commercial. Yeah, we're angry. We get a hngry. I don't okay, thanky, but that one it is we should just stop pleading a faith thing. Get that way? Was like, what was it? I was sitting there and uh, this is with an X. Right, We're just sitting on the couch. We're watching I can't remember we

were watching. All of a sudden she's just bawling, and I'm like the hell, you know, I'm like, what's wrong? And it was like a commercial setter off and like I get it out, the hormonal side of it and all the rest. Yeah, it's not to get it out of jail free card I have so right, it's angry, so well, you know, uh, will words for the wise for the man. Then chocolate usually works pretty well. Unless she doesn't like chocolate then, and that's a

whole other thing. I heard somewhere also that chocolate actually helped to relieve the piano sometimes. Really you heard that you and my daughter. My daughter's in the medical field, she says. Since the cocoa plant is where chocolate comes from, then technically when you a hershey bar, you're eating salad. M hmm. Okay, all right, look I'm not again, I'm not here to gate. Keep sounds like you are, so all right, okay,

all right, thanks for the call. I feel like I feel like jan It's not a scientist, but she plays one on the radio, George, what's up, hey, Casey? What the chance people are not ever gonna understand is with the women's menstrual cycle is you have pre menstrul, then you have minstrel, then you have post menstrel really only get ten to twelve good days out of a woman a month. The rest of it is a hormonal

hurricane that they're never going to experience. I'm not touching like that. So that is that's all George out there, So it's not it's not my intent, and thank you for the called George. It's not my intent to sit here and start some gender battle. I'm just pointing out there's the abstract claims like I feel, I feel that I was born a woman, but I'm a man or vice versa, and that's you know how I there's a certain abstractness to that. However, when I see these stories where they're like,

remember what was the dude who was this was years ago? I think it worked, probably Microsoft or something like uh, batty, what's his name? And they're like, ah, a man's giving birth. But then it's it's a woman who identifies as a man, so still has the look. It's gets the finite nature of the parts needed where we've now jumped that shark, and that's what you're dealing with here, and that's why we choose to highlight

it, keeping you connected. This is nine four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle is seven thirty six here on your Wednesday morning Casey O Day radio program. Dude, we're gonna we gotta retweet this video. Do you see these? This is Philadelphia Kensington Avenue, which if you ever go to Philadelphia and you want to drive down the street and see the craziest crap ever, drive down Kensington. Unfortunately it is.

It is a street that is wrought with poverty and homelessness and drug use

and violence and is um quite problematic. But it's it's video of well, there's actually three people kind of in the video, but there's two in particular, so they're standing up, but they're hunched over to the point where they're bent over where almost like they're trying to where they're they're trying to touch their toes for lack of a better description, and it said that the video shows people that are participating in the use of this drug referred to his strenk just

horribleness with some of this synthetic stuff. I tell you, there's two there, well, there's two or three stories that stand out when you get into the synthetic drugs. There, of course, is the legendary dude who ate

another dude's face in Miami with the bass salts. And there's this story out of South Carolina about I think two years ago, and it's this beautiful young woman, right she is, she's like eighteen or nineteen or something, whole life ahead of her, and she did it might have been bass salt, I can't read it, with some sort of synthetic drug. And she's doing this drug and she's like, you know what, I don't need my eyes

anymore, and she literally gouged her own eyes out. And then you see video of this and it's like, I don't know, man, it's just just crazy. One of the individuals is shirtless, got a face mask dangling from the face, which I found rather interesting considering you're, you know, you're you're you're all drugged up on this thing that's making you look like a zombie, but not a zombie. You can stand upright. There's another dude

who's trying to like sit, but that's not working out. But these folks are just standing up, just frozen in place and just and it looks like again, it looks like they're doing some sort of like mid pose exercise, but they're not. They're just dangling there. Um. This drug, referred to as trank as actually an animal little sedative, and it's used to enhance other drugs that you're doing. So if you're doing heroin, cocaine, fent and all, you do this in conjunction with that, and it will will

elevate your high apparently. But um, yeah, this is um is terrifying stuff. And I pointed out because there's this larger discussion going on, we've had a few stories this week where downtowns aren't recovering, and especially downtowns where you've had very loose policies on the enforcement of drug laws, criminal you know, criminal behavior, things like that. San Francisco finds itself among the hardest hit. Not only do you have people that simply don't go downtown anymore.

And yes, look, some of it has to do with less and less people working in the downtown and a natural progression of business, especially around COVID where they were more businesses were more interested in opening up near where people live, right, because people weren't leaving their house as much. They wanted proximity, they wanted delivery things like that, and it devastated a lot of downtowns.

But there is this pretend that seems to be going on where I read these stories, whether it's Philadelphia or San Francisco, or even to some extent Raleigh and Greensboro and other Charlotte for that matter, where you have this combination of yes, less and less people using the business accommodations. But one of the things that just tends to get ignored in these stories is people's perception of downtown. Right, So how do they perceive it, whether it's fair or

not, how do people perceive it? They perceive it as more dangerous. They look at some of the policy there. We have the story yesterday where a bunch of cars were broken into and what is a very nice condo apartment building and Raleigh and residents are said, hey, you live downtown, you got to expect this. So you are seeing the fallout of many of these enforcement decisions. This this willingness to put up with criminal behavior and drug use

in public. You know, as somebody who's probably more libertarian than anything else.

If people want to sit at home and you know, smoke pot all day or whatever, and I don't have to pay for I don't care, okay, But once you get it out into the midst of things, and it starts impacting people who made investments in businesses where they have an expectation that among the things that their taxes are covering is a bit of law enforcement keeping the piece were you value the um I I say, the reputation of your business districts? Right, These are all things that are saying, you know

what, I'm not dealing with this. And so I see videos like that and I and I, you know, I hear these soft on crime policies. In Los Angeles, one of the deputy das has been suspended for seven months. What did this monster do? Um? So, there was a dude down there who was he was two weeks shy of his eighteenth birthday and he was at a fast food restaurant and he walks into the women's bathroom or is it Denny's. Actually excuse me, and I'm sorry it was do do

It was a man, It doesn't matter. He walks into one of the restroom, sees a ten year old in there. Yeah, he walked in the women's was a ten year old girl in there. He uh, sexually assaults this ten year old because right, but he's two weeks shy of that. And then there was some subsequent crimes. Well, this day they arrested this guy because somebody walked in on this and the policy of the LA District Attorney was We're not going to prosecute anyone who's a minor as an adult that

was and they're like, he's two weeks shy of it. And he literally raped a ten year old, plus all these other crimes that he committed post that, but this was the most heinous, and this DA was like, this is dumb. This guy needs to be prosecuted because what inevitably happened is he faced what six months in a juvenile facility, which he wouldn't get because

he was twenty six by the time they actually prosecuted him. And since the DA spoke out saying they should do this, this assistant DA, they then suspended the main DA or the main DA suspended this guy, claiming that he quote miss gender the suspect and they've been doing in there a retaliatory seven month investigation. Who the hell Los Angeles already had a downtown problem, but what confidence do people have? Or in Philadelphia where this opener drug market is just

a thing that tourists go by and take videos of. Or San Francisco where now they've taken to locking down the Totinos. You thought everything at the Walgreens was locked that you were wrong, because now they're having a lockdown the frozen foods. According to what is this? So Walgreens, Walgreens or CVS? Yeah, here we go, No, this is they talked somebody from Walgreens in safe way. According to employees at a Walgreens, they currently deal with

here we go twenty per day shoplifting. And it's not even shoplifting. The way they describe shoplifting implies you take it, you're looking around, and you kind of like shove it in your clothes. They're dealing with twenty incidents over five stores where people are going in and even though they've got most things locked down, now they're going to the frozen foods and they're stealing ice cream and

frozen pizzas and they don't even hide it. They just grab it and walk out absolutely bonkers man, and as a result, these stores are having to close, they're having to move business into the suburbs. A Target employee tells the outlet that literally every twenty minutes, a shoplifter comes into the store and employees are instructed not to do anything, so they just watch a walk out. They just mark it. They try to get a read on what that

person has in their hands and mark it down. And customers don't want to deal with it, they say, the long wait times for employees to literally open stuff has them, even if they live in town, driving out to the suburbs to do business there. So now new video shows that Walgreens has elected to a lockdown ice cream, microwave dinners, frozen fish sticks, and

frozen pizzas in addition to obviously like everything else in the story. So as you see these stories and in North Carolina there are several but nationwide where elected officials are like, what can we do to revitalize downtown because COVID did this, Keep in mind that when you actually talk to people about what their beefs are, it's a lot more than that, and much of it has to do with this idea that you're not safe after dark in some areas, or

it's not worth your time because it takes so damn long to buy stuff because you got to get an employeed on locket for you. These are all the death buy a thousand cuts that these businesses you're dealing with, and it's just not part of the conversation, all right. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four Race staging from the weather challenge, saying he's on the phone today, what's going on my man? Now? Much case? How

are you? You know? Midway midweek we let that Yeah, we're just about there. Yeah, well no, we're on the down slope by fifteen minutes, so gay for us. Yeah, we're doing good. We're doing good, and I'm hoping when we get to the weekend it's going to work out like it's looked so far. This week, we'll get through more rounds of showers, thundershowers. I think most of the triad is escaping the wet

weather this morning. But you get into southern Randolph County around Ashboro and southern Chatham Counties, and then east of that probably gonna come right through the triangle. There's this area of rain and even thunderstorms, but thunder and Montgomery County moving northeast, So do not be surprised if this morning around Holly Springs and even through downtown Raleigh and carry through Millbrook if you get some rain points north. Less of a chance that even as far south as get into a Harnett

and points south into Samson downties two. We may see some of this rain come through, but it's only one little batch in the satterda and we'll heat it up. Load of mid nineties will feel about one hundred plus degrees, and we may have another round of showers and butter storms that deal with later scattered showers and butter storms early tonight and locally every rainfall possible scattered storms Tomorrow. We'll get back into the low nineties and some more storms on Friday,

slight chan so it may heat us up a little bit more. Load of mid nineties again feeling like one hundred. The weekend does look like we dry out and maybe some more comfortable air coming in middle and upper eighties, will some lows in the sixties. So if it all works out the way it looks right now, Casey, the weekend should be great, but dealing with these rounds of storms here over the next few days. Alrighty, we'll talk

in an hour. Appreciate it, sir. Thanks. All right, there you go, race stage it from the Weather Channel, joining US seven forty eight back in just a few so after the show, yes on the iHeart Radio app. Searchs case O day for the podcast on the iHeart Radio app. All right, welcome Maggins seven three. So Initially when they were talking about this story yesterday, they made it sound like the guy just kind of wandered off, didn't know where he was and got snatched by North Korean soldiers.

But um, no, that is that is not what's going on here. According to the updates, So if you don't know what happened, an army private by the name of Travis King is now in North Korea. The twenty three year old allegedly strayed from a group at the UM. You ever see the video of the demilitarized Zone where in North Korea South Korea where they have like the meeting room where halfs in South Korea, halfs in North Korean. It's you know, it's it's where they're supposed to be able to chat.

Right, Okay, So, according to witnesses, King, who was already facing some military disciplinary charges while stationed in South Korea, in fact that he was charged with assault and had been in the brig, got out. Was supposed to fly back to the US. Literally was escorted to the airport by MPs. But I don't know if they didn't follow him all the way,

I guess so he bugged out. Man skipped his flight and then tagged along to a tour of the Joint Security Area there, and according to another tourist on the tour, King loudly laughed when they got basically right to the border and then booked it into North Korea between two buildings. He had been serving in the US Army for two years. And now the narrative is he deliberately crossed the border, which look, we've seen. There's a very famous

soldier fry. I can't remember exactly when he did it, James Dressnock, who famously decided he was going to North Korea. And of course he was used in a very propagandious fashion. In fact, he showed up in like a bunch of North Korean action movies. They're like so they you know, they made him famous, they made him high profile, because that's a very powerful narrative. Obviously, if you're running North Korea, when you've tried to

convince the entire populace that everything outside the borders just the worst. Here, you get to point to an American gi and go, look, they didn't even want to be there, that's why they came to us. So I don't know exactly how this is going to play out, but yeah, the mom was interviewed by ABC News clouding gates as from Wisconsin. She said, I can't see Travis doing anything like that. She said she spoke to her son a few days ago and just wanted him to come home following all the

stuff he's been dealing with. What do you, I guess, what are you doing this situation? I mean, yes, granted, obviously he is. He's going to be wanted. He was facing disciplinary stuff. He's still on orders from the army, and you know he abandoned his post. That being said, I don't know that we need to make any effort. Dude wants to be in North Korea. Whatever. If he pops out, deal with him. But it says the White House is working with the Department of

Defense and State Department to quote resolve the situation. Here's the deal. If we give North Korea a thumb for this guy, I'm gonna be mad as hell. I'm so proud of him. I just want him to come home, come back to America, said his mom. Look, I understand that. But that being said, if if if we do a damn thing and give North Korea anything for this guy, that's gonna be a huge problem.

If he wants to be in North Korea, let him go live the dream Man, And ironically, he'll actually if they treat him like they've treated Dresknock. And I think there's one other soldier who headed over or maybe that was a Canadian sold I can't remember what it was. He's actually gonna live pretty good if they can get the propaganda angle, so whatever. But if that's where he wants to be, then so be it. But no, we

got a bunch of people working on this. Prep alrighty, coming up, we got another hour to go case O Day radio program and lots to get to right around the corner, including a very interesting immigration staff. So hang loose for all of that coming up next. All right, good morning, it is eight oh seven, our number three here on your Wednesday, over that halfway mark, at least as hard as the show goes, you'll have to wait for lunch for most people, and all sorts of weird, dumb

stories in the stack. Today. By the way, they put a list out of these cities with the safest drivers and the least safe drivers. And while North Carolina didn't make the least safe, I'm having a little trouble with the number two safest driving city being Carrie, North Carolina. I'll know about all that. Green Bay, Wisconsin was the safest, followed by carry So we will have to dive through that list coming up here on the show.

Let me let me hit on something. Hopefully we're gonna get to chat with Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson. It is his um the rotational week when we normally talk to him, and Lord knows, there's a lot to get into. But let me hit on this quick from the Heritage Foundation. So the Heritage Foundation decided to and this is to the extent that they can actually gauge this stuff right, because some of this the information is just not out there because

the FEDS are not forthcoming with it. However, what they wanted to look at is they wanted to look at where those who are currently illegally crossing the border, and then only after even though they didn't come to report of entry being dispersed around the country, where exactly they're being dispersed, because in many cases there's programs to essentially bust them to various communities. So wait till you

hear the percentage breakdown in fact, at let me do this. Let me grab Mark Robinson, who is joining us this morning, Lieutenant Governor, How you doing Mark? I'm doing good. How are you doing crazy? I'm pretty good. You'll actually be interested in this story. I was just pecking

into. The Heritage Foundation did a analysis based on the reporting by NGOs and the federal government records that they do have available to figure out where the people coming streaming across the border are being relocated in the US while they wait. In some instances eight nine years for court dates, seventy one percent have been distributed to red counties. And it's not just Texas, right, that's going to have big influence on it, because southern border is very red. But

once you even get away from there, it's actually higher than that. It's about three out of every four due to NGO's various left wing advocacy groups and various religious organizations that are overwhelmingly transported to Republican congressional districts. North Carolina is way up there on the list for relocation. Obviously, you're running for governor. Um, we're not gonna necessarily get into that because it turns into an

issue. But in your in your status as lieutenant governor, what I find fascinating is, going even back to McCrary, is how little information folks like yourself are actually given by the FEDS when they do this stuff. Mark, Well, yeah, it's very discresing the things being done and and and the

lack of transparency on how they're being done. My hometown of Greensborough, there were a number of immigrants folks bought up from across the border that came into Greensborough, and uh, nobody was given any real information about how many of those folks that were, or how how old they were, or where they came from. The information kind of trickled in just a little and I don't it still has not been fully disclosed as far as as far as I know.

So it's very dismaying. It's almost like this thing you don't want to say it, but you you know, at the same time, you can't help thinking that these guys and gals on the other side, they I all realize that their policies are failing, and they realize they're losing voters. If you can't win voters, I guess they're trying to maybe trying to go out and make some voters. But we can't let that happen. We just cannot let that happen. That's why it's so important for us to get our message

out to every facet of the community. Everyone, those who just arrived, those who have been lifelong residents. We have got to get the message out and let them know that the reason why in North Carolina is such a great place to live is not because of these crazy ideas that they have on the

left, because the fantastic policies of those on the right. And so we need to make sure we get into those communities, reach those folks, make sure that their status is good, and then go forward and make sure that we gain their confidence as elected officials to let them know, you want to have great schools, you want to have great police, you want to have a great economy, you need to come on board with the Conservatives, because

that's where the success is. We saw the governor in an interview, a national interview, and I was I don't know if it was John Locker Civitas who broke this down, but basically he spent about half the interview talking about North Carolina being the best place to do business and how that's in spite of the Republicans, and then secondly, he basically then just crashed on his political opponents. The fact remains that North Carolina was ranked number one ally is the

third fastest growing economy in the in the nation. So, m you know, how did we get here and what are you guys doing on the Republican side to continue that growth? Well, here he is. You know, those that know the story know it. When Democrats were in control, folks at Roy Cooper would be proud to call his compod grace, people who would pass legislation that he would not veto both he stands shoulder to shoulder with now

in the legislature. And when those folks were in control, we were three point four big and doll in debt to the federal government, Our economy was stagnant, we were furlough and state workers, teachers didn't get a raise for six years, nobody wanted to come to North Carolina do. When Conservatives took over, they turned that ship around, They righted the ship. Now we're no longer in debt to the federal government. We have surf pluses every year

instead of deficits that we're now. We're the number one business destination and the nation. And I can tell you this right now, Roy Cooper had nothing to do with it. If he had his way about it, we would still being the economic dolden that we were in prior to two thousand and ten, and we would not be moving forward and start surgeon head the way we are now. Nothing dismazed me more than to see this man at a ribbon

cutting because he had nothing to do with building that. Those folks in the General Assembly, those good Conservatives and their allies on the other side of the aisle who want to see North Carolina grow, those are the folks who were able to make this state what it is right now. And we're going to keep that going by making sure that now that we have this golden opportunity, that we start spreading this economy all across the state and continue successful everybody.

So, yeah, it dismays me great that to hear Woyd Cooper tried disparage Republicans and Conservatives who are responsible for this growth, because he certainly had nothing to do with it. Yeah, I think especially when you look into some of the stuff that cities have done. You know, I'm somebody who's hesitant on large scale investment on the part of cities because I think that they're very

wasteful in many instances. But you know, the city of Raleigh has positioned itself, and of course the Triangle, the Triangle as a whole has positioned itself with the tech center out there to really be able to absorb that, as well as Republicans crafting new tax and laws and incentives over ten years. I struggle with this. I hate that we have to get into these bidding wars with some of these businesses, but you know, everyone else is playing

the game. So I'm curious where you're at on this stuff. Well, what I really want to see, Kathy, is I want to see our structures shil structure our government, our government agencies, have our tax code to where we build organic growth, where folks come here and look and say, hey, look the sas here. They keep up the guard rails. They make sure everybody is playing safe and playing by the rules. But they don't put up roadblocks. They allow They are facilitaire suits to success the business.

They work with those guys and gals out there that are doing it right so they can continue to be successful. I want our tax code to be one that doesn't over burden, and I want ease regulations. But you're right about the incentives. I get a little larry about those. I've seen those in my own hometown go buffs a couple of times where we had big companies come in take advantage of huge stax brand, stay ten years and then they're gone.

That's not what we want. We want organic growth. We want folks who are gonna come in and settle for the long term thirty forty fifty years a lifetime. We want those folks to make a make a legacy here in Nortlina, and that's the kind of economy we want to grow. And we believe if we can you to build up our infrastructure, continue to work on a lower in our taxes, and continue to make the investments that we need into our communities through education, that those folks will come in and will do

that. They'll setch down roots because they want to be here, not because we're offering them some super package right itself. Yeah, no, no, no, I don't disagree with you, and that is that is the perfect scenario. But the fact remains that these companies come around, and I know

that you've obviously obviously experienced these uh these discussions. They come around and they go, hey, we want to build a factory or our business headquarters will be a thousand jobs, will average this whatever it is, and then all of a sudden, states are throwing tax abatements and everything under the sun. When when do you turn off that spigot? Or does North Carolina have to

play that game? In your opinion, well, I think what we have to do it's the same thing individuals have to do it in our private lives. It's called making an investment and knowing what a good investment is and what a bad investment is. That's where the difference is. You just can't jump at every investment to come down. You know, when somebody comes in and says, hey, I got this great investment, come on, put your money in. You have got to do your research to make sure that investment

is going to pay off in the long term. So that's that's the work that we need to do as elected officials. When you start talking about these incentives, we need to make sure that whatever whatever incentis we give, they're not just going to be incentienced. They're going to be an investment into a long term successful strategy. If we see that that's going to be the case, then we can we can get into that. But if we look at it and we see that it's not, we may need to hold off and

not do it. But it's all about investing making sure that we're going to get the proper return our money. Um. They they have obviously overridden several bills. Now the governor the most vetoing governor that we've ever had. Uh,

several different overrides since Tricia Cougham came over. And do you find an interesting mark where they act like she'd never run for office and had no background and then was just a plan, never mind that she served several terms as a Democrat, or where where do you think the legislatures had annexed You're part of these conversations as head of the Senate, And I'm curious because the governor got the old veto pen out last week and struck through a lot of these

bills having to do with transgender students. Again as Governor Cooper not being a party to what the people of North Carolina wants, as Governor Cooper being part of what the Democrat Party wants, trying to build his legacy within his party and not doing what the people of North Carolina asked him to do, which has served them. So it's part and parcel all of his vetos. It

goes back to what we talked about as well, Casey. Many of the things that Governor Cooper has vetos have been some of the things that have helped this state in its success the most. So the vetos don't surprise me, but as part the legislature goes what we are what we're seeing now with the legislature and to particularly with miss kausam Uh. You know, they refuse to relyze that they have gone for. Their policies are ridiculous, their policies don't

work, and members of their own party and their voters are jumpingship. They refuse to change course. I often to continue to not change course because more people likeness cost them are going to lead their party and join with folks who want to actually see success, actually see growth, and actually see real progress

under some common sense legislation. There more goes along, the more these men and women are going to say, you know, I can no longer serve in a party that is not there for me, that has left me, that has left every one of my values behind, whether it be on the transgender issue or whether it be on the economy. These folks are not going to continue to languish in a party that is failing the policies and unable to draw and voters on masks. They're gonna start coming over to our side,

and we welcome them. Are there other lawmakers, because I gotta tell you, we've had a couple instances going into the last session where lawmakers had signaled on the Democratic side that they might vote with Republicans and then the governor calls them and things change. So are there other lawmakers like Cotham that might be willing to come over, Maybe not a party switch, but at the very

least work with Republicans that you're aware of. What we've got to get those folks to do is understand that even if they don't switch parties, and I truly wish that they would that even if they don't switch parties, we've got to get them to understand that if you want to really make a statement to your people back home, you've got to let them know this is not about

party. This is about what's right and wrong. And when we've got a good budget on the table, we've got another proposal on the table that the majority of your people in favor of. You've got to be your own person and start voting, voting, voting your values. And that is the root

of it, Casey, voting your values. And I think the more you see these folks start to get pressure to vote against their values, many of them, now, some of them are going to keep going along for their quote political careers, but there are others who to make a stand and they're gonna say, you know what, I'm not gonna do this. And if it's so called, if my seat is going to be threatened the calls of

it, let it happen. But my community, my family state means more to me to my party, and if my party's not serving them well, to time for me to make a change and do what's right. Um. So, the headlines are obviously very fearful as I read through, especially on like r L News and Observer. Basically, Republicans are trying to make it impossible to vote. However, as I sit there and I read some of the changes they're looking at, they fall in line with a lot of democratic

states, like signature matches, things along those lines, those ways. Um, Obviously the governor doesn'tant anything to do with this, uh, and the media is going to demonize it, but they seem like pretty innocuous changes. Do you think it gets done? Yes, we're gonna get this done. We have to get it done. If we don't, if we don't secure our voting, if we don't secure our voting, profit, we're gonna we're

gonna become a banana republic in short order. The democratic process within this constitutional republic is its foundation, and we have to make sure that its integrity is strong. Look, I am a strong proponent of the Second Amendment. I believe it's your constitutional right to own a firearm. However, you have to show an idea and have the proper paperwork associated with that in order to buy

a firearm. Why. Because it maintains the integrity of the Second Amendment and make sure we are not selling firearms and those who have lost their right through the legal system. It makes sure we're not selling the criminals, to make sure we're not selling those who are not eligible under our constitution, and so having those things in place maintains that integrity. It's the same thing with the right to vote. Having those processes in place maintains the integrity of our right

to vote. If there's no integrity in it, there's no safety nets in it. If there's nothing to make sure that it's there, then it's gonna it's someone. If someone is gonna take advantage of that, then all elections are not going to be fair. The Lieutenant Governor joining us, Mark Robinson. We'll get into some of the monetary stuff. I just only have about thirty seconds, Mark, but I'm gonna let you get back to it.

It's a busy week around here, the legislature doing some behind the scenes stuff, and we'll talk here pretty quick when they get into the meat of it. Okay, you got it, SRK, Thank you so much. All right, there you go, Mark Robinson joining us Casey O Day Radio program. So a few things to hit there coming up on the show. M dudes, you got you gotta chill out, man. I was reading this medical story about guys just craziness and a weed haven in western North Carolina.

Perhaps we'll give you the details next. Hang on, here's this is one O six one FM Talk in the Triangle, Near's talk not even Moore five w PTI and the Tryad. All right, welcome back, Height thirty six And unfortunately we have ourselves a cancelation this morning. And it appears to be Jason Alden. Yep, yep, yep, he got a song out. I think it's interesting because many of the people I see complaining about this song act like he just put it out this week. But this thing was released

like what in May or March or something. The song try That in a small town has moon bats in an uproar. Let me let me play a little for you in case you're unfamiliar. You get just pretty quick of this, but let's listen. Sucking fun. Somebody on the sidewalk carjacking, the old lady at a red lad pull got on the owner of a liquor store. You think it's cool, Let the fool, if you like, cuts out, cups, spit in his face, stove on the flag and light

it up. You think it's tough, We'll try that in a small sound see if you make it down. All right, So there you go. There is his hyperpartisan, divisive, horrible song. Um, it's true. It's just this is like, this is what kills me, all right, And it looks obviously there's a certain sensational nature to it in the sense that it's you know, it's meant it's meant to appeal obviously to an audience,

many of the audience living in a small town. They look at the insanity on the news that we talk about every day, people going in and you know, a group of thirty people deciding to bum rush a clothing store or you know, just generally be lawless pieces of garbage. And the message is you might be able to get away with that in the middle of the big city with soft policies, but go ahead and try that in a small town. All right. Well, apparently that is too threatening a message because CMT

has pulled the music video, because of course they have. Aldine put a response out yesterday saying, quote, I've been accused of releasing a pro lynching song. I didn't play the whole song. There's nothing about lynching in there. But basically, if you think you're going to turn you know, small town America, main street, small town America into Portland, good luck with that. People ain't gonna put up with that, whether it is law enforcement,

whether it is the general citizenry. Who's who is you know telling you out loud, I'm not going to allow myself to be a victim. There is a kernel of truth to that, but a lot of it has to do with the general population, the lawmakers and those in charge of enforcing the law. There are plenty of small towns where they probably wouldn't do anything.

They're very you know, very moon battish. But there is a definitive divide, especially as you get into small town America, not just in people's politics, but the way that they are, the permissiveness that they have with some of this stuff. But according to people who are mad at all, deane, basically it was some sort of anti George Floyd protest insanity and racism and pro lynching, and the whole thing's just dumb as hell. He said.

Quote. In the past twenty four hours, I've been accused of releasing a pro lynching song, a song that has been out since May so I was right may and was subject to comparison that I was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests. The references are not only meritless but dangerous. There is not a single lyric in the song that references, references race or points to it. There isn't a single video clip that isn't real news footage. If

you've seen the video, that's what a lot of it incorporates. And while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of music, that one goes too far. And then he talks about living in Nashville and all that stuff, so and some of the tragedies that they've seen there, and you know, some of the criminal behavior. But no, this is a

bridge too far. What the hell happened with CMT man or maybe I just never really understood everything because they did that and then they did um didn't they do a big special? And I can't remember who the female singer was. No, no, no, it was the awards show, right, Yeah, they had the CMT Awards show and they had a bunch of drag queens on there, kind of an in your face, screw you to what Tennessee

was doing right there? It was political messaging. But you go and you pulled this video, and it might be it might be the dumbest reaction that I think I've seen yet. Here. I was reading on Twitter today people were saying that the reason they were pissed about it is because the video was

filmed somewhere where in the past there was a lynching. Well, you want me to get into the geography of America where people were extra judicial, I'm gonna screw up the word that where people were um subjected to mob rule, mob justice, because um, that's gonna be a pretty filled map, right, I mean, if you just want to talk about totality of history, I guess they're trying to say, obviously he knew it right, and he did it on he was a coded video the video. Yeah, oh no,

oh no, this is stute. Did you watch the video? I have not know. It's the first time I heard the song first time this morning. Yet i'd heard the song, I'd never seen the video and I watched it last night actually, and I'm just like, really, this is the beef. Huh, this is the beef right here? But now, and Frank I wasn't even gonna do it because screw giving these people oxygen that are mad about this stuff. But now we're literally cmts like, now we're

not even gonna air the video. It's dumb. It's it's dumb. And you know, we talked about the strisand effect. Um, Jason Aldie is gonna make a bucket of money, man. But and I wouldn't be surprised if that song goes to number one. I don't even know where it is on the charts right now, but yeah, and this is from NBC News is literally what they wrote. Aldean tries to paint the song is taking a positive attitude on small towns and downplayed the belligerent threats to outs outsiders that make

up most of the lyrics. Those are not belligerent threats, right. That is, people who live somewhere enjoy their community and don't want people coming in and making changes. I can and if for anyone who's grew up in a small town, you know what I'm talking about. This is a thing.

I'll tell you. One of the things that every time I talk to somebody from back home that continues to be a huge sticking point that sticks in people's crows is there was a there was a few articles where they were promote people moved to Buffalo, Wyoming and it was craves after I left, and a bunch of people did come in. And when I go back, there's changes.

One of the changes is you had a bunch of environmentalists that moved up there and they essentially lobbied to get restrictions put on access into the Big Horn National Forest that my entire time growing up, we could do and now you have to have like an adventure pass and it's you can't go on some of

the former logging trails. And there was there was these two people that were these huge environmental advocates who moved from one move from Nevada and that came remember the other one was and it's this huge, huge debate thing that has gone on. And so the attitude of the locals was we're doing fine, leave us alone. So that's an attitude that's out there. And when that attitude is out there and somebody writes a song, word encompasses that people are going

to react to that. And it doesn't mean that I think people should be violent to those individuals, but it makes me, It makes me unhappy, and it makes the people who did stay there who had fundamentally the way that they utilized this land. A good chunk of it, including a big portion of my family's history, was land that was literally privately owned, that was literally taken back as they formulated the National forest. So it's a big historical

divide there, and that's just the unique situation there. It happens everywhere and it doesn't necessarily mean violence, but it means people have an emotional reaction. But now CMT is like, now you can't watch the video, which is just crazy because even if you think it's political messaging, have you seen all

the other media out there. The video's faded. CMT is settled. It remains to be seen whether they'll be similar fallout at country radio or if the format will stand behind the deeply divisive song give Me a Frigging Break all right, a forty six racetagic. He's a country guy, right, Oh yeah, all right? Look at that got you on the old comrades. You know this all dean song. Now they took the video off the air.

I do did you think it is a horrible ly divisive song or is it just you know, country music song that appeals to people in a small town. Um, here's the way I view music, right, it's music. Um, I don't take the words to heart. I don't, so I just don't. It's a song about how somebody feels. It's a it's a story. It's it's reality, not necessarily just a song, but a lot of songs out there they sing about reality in it and it's it's an too. Yeah, everything's dumb man, All right, let me do a quick

forecast with you. Just looked at the club. Yeah, we do have some showers, and some of those showers now pushing through the triangle. There'll be more trying to come in this afternoon. I think for the most part we're around ninety, maybe just above. The next few days. I think the weekend we'll get some better weather in here. We'll lose the rain chances and temperatures may back down a little bit, potentially into the middle easies.

So hanging there. A couple of days of scattered tower storms and then the weekend looks better. All right, Thank you, sir, appreciate it. We'll chat tomorrow and we'll come back and talk to Jeff Bellinger next. Hang on smart talk all day nine four five w PTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM. Talk in the triangle. All Right, good morning eight fifty three. You're Bloomberg Uptacknowledgeff Bellinger, Jeff, what's happening? Well?

Good morning, Casey. Stocks advanced in yesterday's trading. The major averages posted solid games that range from around three quarters percent to just over one percent. Stock market futures have shown some volatility this morning. They're a little bit higher right across the board this hour. Housing starts fell last month. The eight percent drop in groundbreakings for houses and departments in June was a little smaller

than expected. About the big jump that was reported for May was revised downward, and the future numbers could be weak. The number of building permits fell more than three and a half percent last month. Odds Are you regret at least one of the financial decisions you've made in your lifetime? Most Americans do. Three quarters of the people surveyed by banquad dot com admit to a financial regret. The most common regret is waiting too long to start saving for retirement.

Credit Card debt and a lack of emergency savings were also mentioned frequently. Lows as partnering with the logistics company one Rail, the home product's chain, can now offer same day delivery service nationwide. Got lateward this morning that Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have extended the deadline for their proposed merger by three months,

and the Teamsters union Casey, is now preparing for two possible walkouts. We've been talking a lot, of course about the possible strike against United Parcel Service. Now the union says twenty two thousand members may go on strike against the shorthaul trucking company Yellow next week. The Teamsters charged that Yellow has missed a fifty million dollars payment for employee benefits. Casey, what did they say? It's like what UPS does? Well, like twenty twenty some percent of all

the package deliveries. I was seeing this stats. So it's not going to be altogether undisruptive. No, No, it's it's some millions of packages being delivered every day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So well we'll wait and see. All right, Jeff, appreciate it, Thank you, sir. Okay, Casey, have a good day. All right, there you go, Jeff Pellinger, Bluloomberg Newsum, Hey Ross, do you want to go get like a media credential and go cover the Chelsea versus Wrexham soccer match over

in Chapel Hill. Oh this today, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Fifty thousand people expected to attend. Let me look at my calendar. I am busy. Oh I'm busy. You should have given notice. There's literally nothing on that. There's nothing, there's not It doesn't even say the month though, or is it like I can't well, maybe feel like some of that weird ink you can only see with a special you mean in the calendar? Yeah, yeah, you know, I mean it's

my mental calendar. Oh yeah, all right, it seemed pretty sure. All right, so you don't want to go to that. By the way, for all you media people, stop it every time the path because here's the deal with the change in the numbers and everything that they do. The powerball and megamillions jack potts are going to continue to grow to around a billion dollars and I'm getting damn sick of all these stories. If you win the billion dollars, powerball experts warn't take it slow, and not a single expert

is a billionaire, so what slow? No, this is the thing you're going to ruin all of the potential show fought for me. If you win the billion dollars, I want you to go buck wild immediately. Oh to me, so obnoxious. What is Michael's house? Your your buddy's house. You're gonna bulldoze. Let's say you win tonight? What what seven am tomorrow? Bulldozed? Right? Probably for you before the show. I mean I would have to do it before the show so I could talk about it on

the show. Oh no, that's a that's a very fair point. Yeah, like gut be the guy who walks into a West Virginia strip club with one hundred and thirty thousand dollars in a suitcase and then it disappeared. Be that guy. I need the amazing story. You got a billion dollars to play with. Go crazy, man, don't listen to these All of these experts, none of them are billionaires. If you get one billionaire in the story, I'll listen. But you know, you get a bunch of people

that essentially are lobbyists for financial advisors. I mean, yeah, that's the smart thing to do, but that's not the fun thing to do. Can we agree? Go crazy? In fact, go out and get this surgery that's growing among men. Except it sounds horrible. Now men, more and more guys are turning to sports car filler surgery or procedures. This is horrible. So basically, the very same injections that women get to make their lips bigger, guys have figured out that they can use that downstairs to feel more

adequate. Except there's like a bunch of horror stories where it just turns into like a deflated Tom Brady football or something. You talked about this like two months ago, yeah, yeah, but now it's growing because guys are like, yeah, let me do that. That sounds good, and then it doesn't work out for a lot because it's silicon oil and just it's not meant for that, and some dude just died of sepsis and now it's in the news. But hey, you just want a billion dollars, so go crazy,

Right, here's the thing. If you want a billion dollars, you don't need this thing here. You just need to be like, hey, I'm the guy who want a billion, but no, like in this surgery, this is this this this growing cosmetic injection surgery for that h it seems like it's going horribly wrong for a lot of dude. So I'm really surprised. This is the one science thing that they haven't figured out yet. But anyway, so you know, be careful if that's your game plan.