Remember I remember, all right, just morning everybody, and happy Wednesday, you know, the middle of a wheek. Yeah, they have a name for it. I'm not gonna play in stupid guy coach commercial or whatever it is. I do know it is the third Wednesday, so we should be chatting with the Lieutenant governor today, right, which is good because boy boy, I got some stories that are right in that dude's wheelhouse. So that but that's two hours away, so you're gonna have to put up with us
till then. It's just how it goes, little little fun weather ross. Uh do you guys lose power up at the Hayes Compound. I mean, I know you guys have a series of generators and gerbils and stuff like that. Oh it's good, okay, So I remember you guys found yourself in like that weird little pocket during the last storm right where it was what was it power loss or what was it? There's a a what was it? You were just like there was just a handful of people in wake forest who
got hit with something. I can't remember what. Maybe my buddy read down the street. His power is out and he's like a block away. But we're fine. Okay, well read needs to move. I feel that that's clear. Okay, well that's good because there's still a crap ton of people. Have they dropped the number? Here we go, fifty seven thousand customers
in the triangle over in the triad. Obviously that number is less. I think it was just some It wasn't actually directly in there, although there is a I just there is a video of this tree that literally just decided it was going to take out this double wide, which is pretty much a right. So here we go. Yeah, so it's just a little less fifty one thousand outages. I don't need to pop up, thank you. I'm good. But that's kind of spread around. So yeah, some wicked storms
moving through there. Didn't didn't crush the building, but almost this time. So you know, there's that, but hopefully everyone's okay. Sadly, I believe there was a woman who died. Yeah, pop back over to this. Yeah, one woman dead. More than fifty seven thousand customers still without power. All told, it was six figures the number of people lost power, and there was a thirty two car crash on I forty. Yeah, the woman who was killed, let's see here, Yeah, I thought it
was in Durham. Okay, so it was in Durham. She was driving down Anderson Street and a tree fell on a car. So yeah, some pretty severe storms. We'll chat obviously with Ray stage it coming up. Counties dealing with flood issues, Edgecombe, Franklin, Johnston, nash Wake, Wilson, Cumberland, Franklin, Harnett, you name it. But pretty significant. Top speed of the winds eighty miles an hour. And somebody sent me a picture of the It was hailed, but it was not like the little balls.
It was really weird. Oh okay r L has a picture of this too, so it's crazy stuff. Man. Yeah, it looks like I don't even know how to describe it. It looks like maybe the wind had locked some of the hail together. But sub significant outages and whatnot going on all around North Carolina. Yeah, here we go, thirty two cars involved in a crash westbound I forty exit two seventy four. Now, wh wouldn't you put a name in there? I know this is obviously in Durham.
I don't know exactly what is two seventy four. That's Highway seven fifty one. Okay, that's what I thought, so, Yeah, let's see here, none of the drivers or passengers in eighteen or the thirty two vehicles involved were seriously injured. But that's the latest update they have there. Just just craziness, man, So anybody anybody get anything real crazy around their parts?
I know we got folks, you know, listening all over southern Virginia from the Triad to the Triangle, and we got some regulars down in Hickory, some folks down Charlotte Way almost all the way out to the coast. I know, we got some folks on Topsailed Beach. So you want to do a little spy report, we'll have that eight eight, eight, nine, three four seven, eight seventy four. You want to be on the show. And boy oh boy, we got more cracking talk to get into.
They didn't use the word kracking, but essentially it's the kracking. Remember the kracking. Remember the female attorney for Trump run around the election who kept talking about how they're gonna release the kracking or show the kracking or whatever it was. It was. It was going to be the irrefutable evidence that Shenanigans were afoot in the twenty twenty election, and arguably that individualized, clear, concise, and don't get me wrong, the media would probably ignore large parts of
it as as they have done. That thing was supposed to take place and never really took place, and apparently now it's gonna be Monday, so we're gonna have to chat about that as well. We got dog news, aliens,
international travelers, just just craziness. Sorry, I'm a little tired because, like literally without getting into all of it, you know, like everybody, like everybody else, you know, we are we got we gotta deal with the weather and how it impacts our ability to do a show, and that unfortunately required a little less sleep on my part, just trying to make
sure our equipment worked. Ross. You didn't have anything that didn't work this morning though right now everything's fine, good, good, good, Okay, So people can call in and talk about krakens and stuff and we're we're rolling, so I like to see it and what kind of man are you? Not? Not you? Ross? Well, you can answer when we do when we do this story. But that's an open ended question and it's a question that unfortunately, I think that researchers in this story we're gonna do,
uh left one segment out which I thought a little weird. So yeah, gonna be one of those days. We're gonna bounce around our phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Let's take a break, be right back. This is five w PTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, let's let's roll into just a couple of things on this fine morn. Just think gonna be a pain in my butt. No, it actually worked, okay, all right,
Uh, that wasn't weather related. That was it decided to update five minutes after I logged into something well more than five minutes. But rock and roll, all right, Oh yeah, furry news too, So I want to update you on all that fun. All right, let me get to this again. Our phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven
four. So uh. Donald Trump has announced on he did this on truth social not Twitter x whatever, has announced a Monday press conference with him, during which he said he will offer irrefutable proof verifying that there was cheating in the Georgia election. I just want I want to make sure that I am using the exact language he's using, right, because that's a wide that's a wide description right. You know, arguably, you could allow me to be
devil's advocate if you want to call and scream at me whatever. You're just filling time for me on a Wednesday, sir Ross, and I don't have to come up with stuff, So please understand and let's have a conversation about this. When you at the time of the election would see the press conferences by the lawyers, they kept using the word cracking, which I thought was
dumb as hell. Right, we're going to release the crack and I can't remember the exact way it was first introduced, but then it got used a bunch of times. And the reality is, I don't know that the cracking emerged. There's going to be natural ignoring and pushback by media with anything that is brought up. But I gotta tell you I digested everything that they fed
me. So in the state of Georgia, which is what we're talking about, Donald Trump by saying he will offer irrefutable proof verifying there was cheating in the Georgia election, arguably could run the gamut from some of the large scale stuff that has been a lag and frankly, there's a lot of unanswered questions
with some of these groups that were paid a crap ton of money. The one in Michigan, I think is there's a little more detail there than Georgia, where you had these these giant requests of absentee ballots, you had some signature match that took place very very quickly or not at all. And so I don't know whether they're going to offer in Georgia. But if you say irrefutable proof, do you mean in numbers that would account for the difference in
the election tally? Right? Like? Are are you going to offer proof that speaks to what was the what? What did he lose by? In
Georgia? It was like what fifty fifty thousand or something? So are you are are you going to are you are you going to proffer something that literally closes that gap if if found to be one hundred percent accurate or is it smaller anecdotal stuff like some of the stuff that we've heard where you had several thousand people that really appear to have voted in two states but arguably wouldn't be
enough to overcome the amount of votes that he lost by. So I don't know exactly what it is, but let me read specifically what was posted Trump states, quote, a large, complex, detailed, but irrefutable report on the presidential election fraud which took place in Georgia is almost complete and will be presented by me at a major news conference at eleven am Monday in I guess
it is golf club in New Jersey there in Bedminster. He said, based on the results of this quote conclusive, and he put that in all caps report, all charges should be dropped against me and others. There will be complete exoneration. They never went after those that rigged the election. They only went after those that fought to find the riggers. So, you know, it sounds like more than here's some anecdotal, a few instances kind of thing. But I don't know. I mean, we got we got the rest
of this week. We got to go through the weekend, and then Monday we'll do the show, and obviously it'll be after the show by a couple of hours, but we'll see. I don't here's a thing. I don't know that that will stop the process. But if he's got that kind of stuff, I have to assume that it's helpful from a from a judicial standpoint. Take that into court with you. This is interesting. A former White House lawyer is warning Trump take this for what it's worth to not hold the
press conference. Here we go, Trump are a White House lawyer warned that former former president Trump should not hold a press conference Monday detailing what he claims are irrefutable examples of election fraud because it could land him in hot water. What's so the lawyers? Oh, no, Ross, the lawyer's name is thy Cobb. I heard this guy's a jerk? Or actually, did you ever see the press conference where they tried to like unravel the whole thy Cobb
as an a whole thing. No, but I've heard rumors, like you know, you've heard stuff. You've heard stories that he was just an absolute jerk. Right. I saw something where they were like they did this? Who did it? Not not Ken Burns but one of the guys who worked with Ken Burns on the Baseball series documentary who said that a lot of the Thye Cobb is an ahole stuff was about a continuation of a media narrative. I don't know whether that's true because some of the stuff, like he doesn't
deny he never denied saying was pretty awful. But still so, I think there is a different Thy Cob but he's telling him, nah, save it for court. So what do you think? Should he do the presser? Or do you save it for court? One oh six one FM Talk and nine four five w PTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is Casey O Day and Carolina's Morning News. Ah. Yes, oh it's too early for this. I can't tell if you're sarcastic, sir? Do
you honestly think that that's my argument? This email? So you're saying a little cheating is okay? Did I send ross? Would you? Would you check the record? Did I say that a little cheating is okay? Let me check you to n Oh, okay, all right, Nope, not what I said at all. I understand, by the way, from a strategy standpoint, where a lawyer would tell you to not just go out and hold a press conference right now. I don't know that I necessarily agree that,
but I understand why a lawyer would tell you that. And when I point out that showing a handful of anecdotal things is different from something that arises to the n number that is the differential in the election, are two very different cases. Explain to me why you don't think that those are different. Why you don't think one is more impactful than the other. So anyway is that? You know what? Frankly, this is why I don't want to
talk about this stuff. Oh I know, it's my job, right kind of kind of like I'm providing a platform people want to call in and get into this great what do you think Trump's gonna have on Monday? But I you know, I saw something over the weekend and I think I think it's a good take. It could be I think it could be refined more. But the but the the brunt of it is, it doesn't matter whether you currently in your head are for Trump or Desantists or Christie in New Hampshire.
I don't understand that. But whatever vivic or whoever it is, if you find yourself in opposition to the current powers that be in the administration, there the larger issue, the bigger issue, the uniting issue is it ain't just about Trump. It is about an out of control double standard from a justice perspective. And then I go on Twitter and it's Dessantist people and Trump people
and do sing and we hate you and all of it. And I understand that it's a primary it's It's not my first rodeo, but it's nasty, man, It's it's nasty on a level I don't know that I've seen. Have you ever seen a primary level of nastiness like that from the Republican perspective. Look, a lot of you have seen a lot more elections than me. I'm not calling you old, I'm just pointing out you gotta you know,
you got a few more years perspective. And it's to the point, like I like to go to Twitter to get perspective on stuff, and part of perspective is taking everything with a grain of salt, but going in there and seeing the internal debates and the back and forth. And look, there's lots of people that do that. There's lots of people on the Trump side, De Santis side where it's not about literally murdering your primary opponent's supporters.
But there's enough people that are in this blood feud where I just get so tired of it. You know what it reminds me of. This is going to irritate some of you, but I don't care whatever. It reminds me of Ron Paul back in the day, Like Ron Paul was a very interesting individual, and I think that there was a lot of stuff that Ron Paul
would talk about. That if that, if people were able to divorce themselves from the fanaticism of some of the Ron Pauls, but not all of them, but some of them, you went, you know what, this guy's making a lot of sense. But every time I would bring it up because you know, Ron Paul made a debate or Ron Paul made some news, and then people were trying to figure out, Okay, well, what are the other candidates think I would get these nasty emails and individual how are you
not endorsing Ron Paul on the air right now? And I'm like, well, one, I don't endorse candidates, so there's that doesn't matter who it is. And two, I'm sorry, and I'm literally talking about who is obviously your candidate. Why don't you call in and explain to everybody why they need to see it from a Ron Paul perspective. But some of that was crazy town, man, and I'm seeing different iterations of that right now.
So again, if Trump's going to hold a press conference on Monday, if he shows something that literally encompasses at least the amount of votes that he according to the official tally, lost by. That's going to be a lot more impactful than anecdotal stuff that still requires fleshing out what the total number is. So when he says conclusive, I feel like conclusive has to mean at least
the number that he lost by according to the official tally. Now, if you think I'm wrong, call the show eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four, Because you know, one of the things that I try to do is live in real vill Man, and that real vial real vial, which I can't pronounce encompasses a much harder uphill slog to get that information out there, regardless of whether you're holding a press conference, because it's not
about convincing people that are convinced that Trump is right already. You have to convince the mushy middle or whatever the language is, or at least you have to intrigue him enough to gather into those discussions, that line of thought, that questioning, and perhaps be influential in their voting. That's real. That's the reality of things, all right, Lisa, what's up, Hi,
Katie, good morning. So I just wanted to share something that I one of my co workers, a couple of wants to go share the story with me. She went, this is a young black lady, extremely conservative,
hard working. I know because I worked with her. She told me that on her you know, when she was eighteen, she went to vote and she was told that she had already voted, and she tried to argue with them and she said, no, I'm sorry, that's in correct, I have not and she showed her I v and they said, well, I'm sorry, according to our restude, you've already voted. The same thing. When she was twenty two, she went to vote, the same thing happened, and she told me, she said, I didn't know what to do,
she said, so I just walked away. So, you know, because this was, you know, too late to really go back and do anything. But this was in South Carolina, and so I know that there is some underlying starting to tell there, you know, is you know standing And like you said, it is hard to prove, but it's very disheartened. But I just wanted to share that story because my heart broke for her because she was very much conservative and yet she could not get her votes out
there. Well and yeah, South, yeah, I don't know South Carolina's rule. In North Carolina, what you would do is you'd fight, you would do a provisional ballot, you would challenge that that's the thing that you can do. But I don't disagree with you, like in like in Arizona, where you had these these gigantic lines and problems that seem to be core focused in red voting precincts. Right, that's the kind of stuff that makes
your skin crawl right there, exactly. Yeah, yeah, I'm look, I'm gonna be I will, I will absolutely be tuned in on Monday. I can't wait to hear what it is Donald Trump is going to provide. I am just sitting here and trying to let people know that it's an uphill battle. Everything's an uphill battle because the larger issue even now transcends Trump. Trump is just the object, right, He's just the whipping boy here,
but that it is a much larger issue. So well, it's scary because I mean, we uh, I'm sorry, I just lost my train of fallot. But oh, what I was going to say was the Democrats though, the cheating, So how do we win anything without also cheating? And that that I don't want either, So it just makes me ma, I
just call it a viscue. No. I look, that's and and like I get it, the amount of frustration that I feel watching all of this and then watching especially on the flip side, with what's going on with the you know, the whole Biden family and all the money, and and then I see the heavy lift that is done by members of the media. It's it's wildly frustrating. Yeah, so I'm with you there, all right, Well, thank you very much for the coul So I appreciate it. All
right, Look, at least it doesn't hate me. Some of you hate me in my email right now. Well, maybe instead of just running your mouth, you should be endorsing people. Nope about no, and then this one, maybe you should be endorsing Haze for water. No, I'm not. He's already like soil and water, aren't you. Like you got voted in like three different races. So he's doing a fine job. Okay, I mean some people would define it as a landslide, but you can phrase
it however you want. I mean, it was completely rigged, was taken from me. It's not fair. Okay, are you gonna hold a press conference? Do you want a press conference? You know I would, But I'm busy fighting for the common man. Okay, okay, all right and against communism right correct in your reply during our last little vacation time there. So you know, there's talkers and there's doers, and I'm I'm not gonna sit in front of a microphone and talk. This not what I do.
No, it is which it literally is what you good point? Yeah, I mean pays the bills? All right, six forty six Hang on show. After the show is on the iHeart radio app. Search k c O Day for the podcast on the iHeart radio app. All right, good morning, it is six fifty two k O Day Radio program. Let me grab a phone call here, all right, I'll look it at. It's Jamal. All right, Jamal, what's up? Man? Casey As a married man, I cannot imagine tell him what she said? You know what you
said? Bla blah blah. I say, now listen on only slept with two. I just did a little bit, not much. Alwis will bring out a gun and start shoot so for them to sit for forward. President next test says hey, you know these things happened, And people say,
well, yeah, but it's not enough to affect the election. Do we remember what happened in two thousand when people were trying to say about the jet calves, all these calves, and people like, well, yeah, yet a chat okay, the Supreme Court look they that stuff and said no, they throw it out. They say no, it's you're not going to do this when it comes to the whole twenty twenty. Because I'm the one of those people who believe, yes, things were rig things was done. The
checks and violence. People say, well, it went for systems and went through the court system. They didn't. They will step into the courtrooms and they would just throw it out and yes, some of them and out will be honest, yes on what Trump judges because people are scared because they saw America burn for a whole for a full year almost. So when it comes to it, did I see anything first on here with you covered it? The guy through that sleeps. The guy may try to make the deal with
our f running for governor, Josh Stein this sweveyself. They try to do a back deal and a judge that then a told he'll no, you can't do that. You can't change our election laws. So that's the stuff. People are openly saying, Hey, this hypen if these laws change, and that's cheating if if somebody come and come and take it, because case see, you're hard workers. You know, we don't know if people say,
well not yet you are you do? You go? You do research and stuff you in Not really I make build it up, but I appreciate it. Yeah. But if somebody comes kake your paychecks and say, you know what, I know, I promised you two hundred and fifty thousand a year, but you know what ended up believe a couple paychecks. I'm gonna give you just I'm gonna make it so you only making fifty thousand dollars a year, snap, and you would go being ship the way. No laws they
did. They did them on the fly. People who changed the lecture laws didn't ever right to change them because in the old state constitutions party but and now being there, it happened to Donald Trump, Democrats and a lot of people like world you know, it's not enough, it's not enough. Well, if somebody would have said putin helped Donald Trump out, but it wouldn't
really not enough. What group what they said for from the time well it was you know, it would have been a snot enough cot Grat's hearing Vladimir Putin helped Donald Trump out, but it really wasn't enough. They wouldn't move their minds and they still believe. I mean, right, Jamal, at your your phone's cutting out here a little, let me half agree with you, because I think people are getting the wrong idea of where I'm at.
What I'm saying is I am just trying to handicap this through which the filter of the information will be processed. Right. So yeah, right right, So yeah, that's that's what I'm trying to do. The gang Busters would be if he comes out, here's a list, and the list far exceeds
whatever he lost by in Georgia and uh and their specifics there. It's immediately checkable, but it doesn't mean that if he comes and shows a pattern, and that pattern is you know, based on a per capita, right, So if he says, look here, just in this county where X y Z organization, it's one of twenty counties where they did stuff. We found that there was a fraud rate of uh, you know this many votes per thousand voters. It's it's not that that's not impactful, but ultimately you still
have that uphill climb through the gatekeepers of information. And so I'm just I'm just explaining how difficult it's going to be, and and oh I'm getting brated, but that's fine. Whatever. It's Wednesday. So sol agreed. And like I always toach a casing, people, shouldn't I just altogether get managed because you won't host governor debates here, you won't participate, you won't. You are a journalists, one of the good journalists here in North Carolina,
better than W r Ill. What do you mean I wouldn't hold goobernatorial? No, no, no, no, you have to understand that every time we've attempted to get Roy Cooper to even comment to us, they won't answer us. So well, if Josh market Josh debate, let me just say this right now, as Stein and Mark Robinson want me to host a debate with them, or if they're the last two or Mark Walker or whoever it is, I'd be happy too, but they ain't gonna let me. And
I can't even get half that crew to call me back. So but that's a different animal, entirely, entirely, So all right, I got a rogue on all Thanks for the call there, Okay, we'll go we'll have we'll go all right, all right, we'll get some more calls on there, because you know, we got two more hours to fill. Well, speaking of Mark Robinson, we'll chat with him coming up eight oh five, so stick around for that. And what kind of man are you? You
know, for the men listening? Apparently there's just three categories we'll find out. All right, Good morning everybody, and welcome. It is our number two seven h seven here on the k c O Day radio program. So we were chatting about an announcement of a Monday press conference looks like eleven o'clock, although there's one story says evening, but everything else says eleven. So
I think it's eleven unless I totally missed a change. But a Monday announcement by Trump press conference, during which he says he will provide receipts irrefutable proof, specifically, large, complex, detailed but irrefutable report on the presidential election fraud which took place in Georgia. So I am I am very interesting interested to see what that is. But also we're having a conversation about, all right, well, what happens depending on what it is, because there's all
of the stuff that that he has to battle. That's gonna be the way the media chooses to cover it. If in covering is a strong word, I think for what some of the media will do, some will ignore it, and I think there's some regardless of what it is, will try to try to spin it. So you better have some punch, That's all I'm saying. And boy oh boy, going to be a very interesting weekend leading into it. And by the way, that's the way to do it,
if you're going to do it ahead of it. I know there's lawyers saying, don't do this right now, do it in court. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know if that's an affirmative defense. I guess maybe it would be. It's pretty crazy. Did you read this? All? Right? So I posted a few little snippets, but they outline a crap ton of stuff as part of the continued conspiracy, right, because this is a Rico style case that they're trying to make. So things that are not necessarily
illegal or inherently wrong are then parts of the continued conspiracy. So you have things literally listed like Trump sent a tweet telling people to watch the O, A N N or whatever that the Fox news style network is. This was part of the continued conspiracy, and I'm like, wait, wait he sent a tweet telling people to watch a TV what that's crazy? Mark Meadows texted
of friend or somebody he knows in Pennsylvania asking for a guy's number. This was part of the continued conspiracy, which is how you write these things. But when you read it, you're like, oh my gosh, and then you start in your head going a little bit of what about it is? And you're like, man, wouldn't it be great if all of the different aspects of all of the Biden stuff was laid out in a document like that that actually had some teeth, because there's a whole lot of craziness. Man,
all right, let me grab a one more call. Dennis was holding during the break, Dennis, what's up? Hey? You got all casey? Hey, just real quick. I don't want to debate with you about your stance, but you're right with COVID. The depth that we have to the Chinese before you craz the fighting money, it's all it's groundworkplate for what's coming, and pressed T is fighting for all of us the middle of that,
and that's what he's doing. But state he better have self. That's just my bloy because he had set residents in the past that just coming out and just just gardening stuff out of his mouth that doesn't make any says. I hope he's got something. That's my bloy because he's been buried under thirty quoted concrete with rebots. He's got an up battle from all there's no doubt
about that. Yeah, yeah, and and and frankly, I don't know how anyone can deny that Trump has a tougher put especially from getting the word out than the Biden administration or frankly any Democrat in Congress for that matter. That's reality. Man. The Rico acted, I can't believe that Georgia has done this, But Georgia has different to the federal government does as far as
Rico standards go. Well, Rica, yeah, not that you're wrong, but it would be more accurate to say Rico's style, right, because what you're getting is you're getting the Georgia version of this of a conspiracy. But but but but again it's while it's not technically accurate, uh, the way that some people are phrasing it, the spirit of it is spot on. I mean, that's what they're doing, and then they use that as a
deflection to not have to explain. Okay, wait a sex. So he told people to watch TV what and especially with the hint and the Fox abiliate, I guess just something that progress in there that they start covering the prestige of debate. Now they're going to only allow all these that works to progress the broadcast three minutes of like saying without another talk show, they're only going to be allowed to use three minutes. Yeah, well, and and and
and actually I'm I am very aware of what you're talking about. And and for people to know this, let me explain it, because this is a good point you bring up. So Fox put a memo out Fox Television Network and basically told all other media outlets that fair use or news use is limited to three minutes and it's only for a period of time after which they can't use any of the cuts from it. I don't know, as somebody who is one of the people that they're speaking to, I mean that's directed to
me as well as another media outlet. They can screw themselves, because I don't know how in any way, shape or form that holds up legally. Besides watching its TV writes with all you know, all football, football springing down. You know, it's kind of like that you're gonna happen to see us, to listen to you people, to sometimes get out there a little bit. I like you because I like listening to you. And it's not so but enough there is all right, Well, thanks for the call there,
Dennis, to appreciate it. Yeah, that whole Fox memo was straight. Now they're saying that people are misinterpreting it, and it was about a couple of specific usages, but utilizing presidential candidates and audio from them while crediting where it's from understandably. So I don't know how you can just rearrange that. That's just I mean, there's legal precedent on and there's actually there's longtime legal precedent, and there is much more recent legal precedent thanks to one of
the most obnoxious people in all of social media, Ethan Klein. What is his what is he? What is his podcast? H three H three or something, which I don't even understand what that is. But I mean this basically, this was a much more updated look into fair use. There's there's fair use, and then there's fair use from a news perspective, and they didn't mince words on this stuff, So I don't know how Fox is going to enforce that. The only thing I could think of in my mind is
maybe they're wanting to get royalties from people using it for campaign commercials. But they didn't come right out and say that everything's a mess, all right. Seven fourteen, case O Day Radio program. Apparently the Rock and Roll is ruined. As an interesting article, we'll get to and Chick fil A for the first time in nine years, says they will release a new sandwich and apparently everyone's super excited. But you have to like pimento. I guess,
I guess maybe you could ask for no pimento. So we will have to get into that because you remember the insanity that was what was it Popeyes with their chicken sandwich, Like people were going to Popeyes and they didn't have it, and like like people were getting violent over this. I don't know if that's going to be the case with Chick fil A, but it's coming here in less than two weeks, so yeah, we'll chat about that much more coming up. Seven fifteen Hang on, Thank you, CAPTI in the Triad
and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, welcome back, seven twenty one k c o D radio program. Quite a few weird stories in the stack today, so let's just delve into those coming up on the show. Reminder eight oh five, Lieutenant Governor joins us and we got a lot, We got lots to get into. Boy, the News and Observer is they they are. They're taking a little bit of the Roy Cooper page where it's just panic. Oh my gosh, they're not doing anything.
The Republicans aren't doing anything, and we need all this stuff done and it has to be done tomorrow where everybody dies. I mean, it's just only in their case. Roy Cooper wants his Medicaid expansion. Never mind that if you actually look at the ending day to the budget cycle legislatures here in North Carolina going back even well before Republicans were in charge fall, having this done in the fall is not an unusual thing. But you know, you
gotta you gotta get fundraise, you gotta you gotta have panic. The News and Observer just really really wants new African American monuments and they want to put
right where the monuments that were torn down in violation. I would add of the law here in North Carolina, not just you know, defacement of public property, but specifically the laws surrounding the removal of monument statues things like that, where Roy Cooper just went, oh, well, you know it's a safety issue, we just go we got to get rid of those, which is not how the law works. And then Republicans don't have any stones,
so they don't do anything about it because they don't want to fight. They want to make the laws, but they don't want to enforce them. And Cooper and many other municipalities decided to work around is well, we can remove them when we want for safety issues. And it's like that's what we call a heckler's veto, and that's not how that works. He can't wait so you can go against whatever the law is as long as there's enough people willing
to go out and break the law and vandalize stuff. That's not how that works. Well, meanwhile, there's a opinion piece talking about how Philberger needs to get his crap together and everyone needs to get their crap together, and they need to put up these African American monuments and wouldn't a great place be the very same areas of the old state Capitol. And how much money is is it three million or two and a half million in the twenty nineteen budget
that was already approved, and I think they're looking at more. I think that's just the design phase of this. So I'm gonna I'm wanna talk to Mark Robinson about that, So that'll be one of the things that we touch on. All Right, you ready for an insane story. Although I'm gonna think I think this is weird, not necessarily for the reasons others probably think it's weird, but the video is crazy. And there's two stories here.
I don't know which is one hundred percent true, because anytime somebody labels somebody else in Nazi, the ship has sailed necessarily on maybe getting to the bottom of it. But in the video, you see a couple furries at a quote fur meat, that's what it's called the Sunset Beach Bonfire fur Meat, which is in Huntington Beach, California, over the weekend. One of the they're wearing black I think they're they're wolves, So they're a pack of black
wolves and they got into some sort of altercation with the dude. Now one of the stories is the dude was filming the group and had his phone very close to the face of one of the members. If you look at the video, the one wolf literally bops this dude. He's hold the bullhorn too, which I thought was odd because at first it makes it sound like they're just chilling on the beach and they're furry costume and this dude's over harassing them.
However, I read another story where they quoted some people that were part of the fur Meat saying that this dude is quote a neo Nazi and wouldn't stop harassing them and had been asked to leave or something. So I don't know, take it for what it's worth. Still, he didn't physically make contact with them. Here's my thing, who in their right mind, I can't even Can you imagine right now putting on a furry costume and headed down
to the beach with these temperatures. I feel like I'd passed out before I got to my chair. Oh man, they'd be absolutely miserable. Oh I can't even imagine. I Like, I get the Dave and Busters meet up that one of our listeners witnessed with a bunch of furries down there and carry or is it and carry your guard. I can't well the one down that a way, right, there's a c in there. I can't even imagine
going to the beach in a full mascot outfit, essentially. I mean you have to be completely committed to the cause at that point, right yeah. Yeah, And let me be clear, if people want to go and dress I look, I'm gonna I'm gonna look, because that's not something you see for the most part. But if they're just doing their thing, eating at a table or sitting on the beach in their lounge chairs, hell, I would probably just assume it's a TikTok stunt anyway and not involved myself. But
this guy decided he was gonna he was gonna film it. It's not an unnatural reaction. I'm sorry, And even for those of you, because I know we have a few listeners that are down with this, and you have to admit that if you walked onto a beach and you see people dressed as wolves and it's summer, you're not just gonna like, there's no way you can just put that out of your mind immediately, Like you may not.
Most people would probably not go over that close to anybody. They would from a distance, you know, maybe snap a photo, but it's not something you see every day. So because I'm sitting here and I'm reading this and people are like, duh, they're just you know, just nick norm They're just other people at the beach. No, I'm sorry, they're not in the same way that if you saw me at topsail wearing a speedo, that's
gonna that will You'll never get that image out of your head. Ross you would agree, me and a speedo at topsail, that'll haunt you for the rest of your days. And I would know that going into this thing, this one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle and News Talk PTI in the Triad. I'm gonna have to go back and see if I can find the I'm sure we played the audio the first time. The just stop oil or whatever idiots. You know, they're the ones who blocked traffic and glue
themselves to stop and throw soup on paintings or whatever. They've not Apparently they've made the same mistake twice in their in their crusade. It's a dude. I will get to it, okay, because I gotta find the audio of the one dude being interviewed by the British lady because some of my favorite audio ever. All right, so that's your tease, it's coming your way. Okay. So anyway, Yes, he had some furries on a beach.
Some dude was filming them and everything went sideways. The video is kind of amazing, by the way, all right, is that dude that's the dude that got whacked with it? Is that dude legit or is he just? Is he just for the video? What do you think? I mean, it's so well done. It's he's like, this is what furries due to you? Like if I if I could choose how I wanted the audio to sound, right, like how do you want this guy to sound on the
beach for the show purposes? Because I'm selfish, I would I would check that box like that's perfect. Oh no o, Like that dude's not even over the top. I gotta play some one more time. Listen to the dude after he gets whack. I'm just look, if the video is the totality of the physical contact, Frankly, you're gonna probably have to arrest that wolf because I can't see that the dude make contact with them yeah, he's he's obviously in a pain in the butt, but but listen to him,
man, hid dude, he's got to be playing that up. I will say that in our big directory of audio, some of the best audio we have is furry related, like because still one of my favorite pieces ever is the Big Furry convention in Chicago And there was like a chlorine leak in the hotel and so literally they had to like push all the furries out into the street on this busy road in Buffalo Grove, which is a Chicago suburb where the convention center is, and they have to Now they're like, oh,
well, let's send the news down there, because people are driving around. They're like, there's a thousand furries in the road. And then they find the head of the furries and he sounds exactly like I assumed he would. We've been having a grand old time and we do not know what's going on at this time. We've been asked to leave the hotel for unknown reasons. But we have a lot of costumers out here with big fluffy costumes that'll keep
people warm, so at this point we're not at all worried. It's great. Oh, it's amazing, But yeah, I remember, was he like fully dressed up in the interview. I don't think that dude was. I think he was not in his costume or maybe he didn't have his head on or something. I can't remember. No, he didn't sound muffled. When you go to the beach, dresses a furry do you get in the ocean? Like? Do you get the costume wet? I don't know rules surrounding.
I just literally just apart from walking from the parking area to your chair, even if it's close in this, yeah, I feel like I would drop. Right, you're wearing that hot costume, right, it's it's so disgusting and miserable, and then you're rolling like a stupid you know, cooler in the sand. It's got to be exhausting. Well, plus it's full of raw meat because you're a wolf, so right, exture you got no ice for that? I don't know. I don't know the rules around it.
I would be more impressed if they maintain the top of it. But then just had like the you know, like the bikini bottoms or something if they're women, or the you know, the board shorts on the dudes, right, so they're only half in character. They look like the reverse of the the half dude half half horse thing. So yeah, I mean, I don't know, I've never been. Would you like, do you want me to see if we can send you to one of these and you can
you know, I'm gonna pass. I know we have several listeners who who are furries, Like, yeah, time furries. So I mean, if they're listening or the contact the social media, I'm wondering what the you know, just curious what's the protocol? Yeah, like, and again this is the thing, if if if if people, if if a bunch of people in free costumes want to go do your thing, gather on the beach.
If it feels like this dude was being an a hole. But also I bet that the furries are in a bad mood because I know when I'm sweating hot like those guys obviously would be. I'm a little short tempered, so like it was a recipe for disaster. Do the furries? Do the furries have to go to the dog part of the beach and then have their handlers pick up But no, I think they probably just go to regular restrooms. Sir. This is why we're gonna send Ross Undercover. What do you want
to be? I want to be a manatee? Do you realize how dangerous that could be? Right now? If you did go in the water? Right Either, you're so smart you're mad a tea Costue. You're like, I'm gonna go way in the water to cool off it by Manita cost and then before you know it, there's like five manatees having their way with you. As we learned. I just don't think it would go well, is the point that I'm making there. So Chick fil A has announced a new
sandwich, the first new sandwich in nine years. All right, so tell me if this sounds good to you, Honey pepper pimento chicken sandwich. Honey pimento chicken sandwich. There's also gonna be a new milkshake, the Caramel Crumble, which I don't know. I'm not really into sweets, but it actually sounds pretty good. I kind of like salted caramel. I can do that. But honey pepper pimento chicken sandwich. Now, is this going to turn
into the Popeyes thing? We're literally like, didn't somebody try to shoot somebody over one of those? There was one really wacky story wacky's the wrong word, like crazy story. I don't know. I remember, I remember. I gave it a long time because I'm like, this is dumb. They don't have this. I feel like it's artificial. I'm not gonna do it. But I was driving from Raleigh to Greensboro to do him to go broadcast over in Greensboro, and I pulled into the Popeyes like in Mebbin area.
I can't remember which exit its off, and they didn't have it, but they had a picture of it, and they had they didn't have the signs saying they didn't have it. And I'm like, well, you just wasted my time. I'm out of here. So but like that was the extent to which I sought it out. I don't know, you know what I you know, Biscuitville for a while had the pimento breakfast thing. Dude, that was good. That was Gangbusters. Ross. You got any interest in
the honey pepper pimento chicken sandwich, I'll probably pass, you know. I still say the best thing on their menu is the macaroni and cheese. It's so good. It's like that baked macaroni and cheese. As far as fast food mac and cheese goes. It's the best that's out there, There's no question because most of that most mac and cheese in a fast food place is garbage. It's just not good. So do you do you know what you're
doing? You don't like pimento or well, the only time I've had pimento is at the little store downstairs and those like you know, like Trucker sort of sandwiches, So I don't think it's like the proper representation of the You better watch a bunch of pimento's gonna start showing up at the station. Some people look, I will say this, I've had some pimento, like homemade, good pimento, and there is a difference. And I thought the stuff
they had a Biscuitville wasn't bad either. For whatever reason, they don't have that switch, which is weird because I'm a big fan that. I think. The only cheese I don't like is like cottage cheese. Otherwise, like cheese is one of the greatest things ever. Uh yeah, you know they need they need a Guacamolian baked bean chicken sandwich. Get a bunch of cents of the station for you ross Why why like We're gonna feed it to the cow. Is that what's gonna happen anyway? All right, so you're willing
to go punch your neighbor to get ahold of one of those? You can let us know. Ray staging for the Weather Channel. What do you think, honey pepper pimento chicken sandwich the new the first new Chick fil A sandwich in nine years. So the pimento was what what kind of what kind of flavor is that pimento? Yeah, it's pimento. Okay. See, I think Ray is like myself were like being from New York and being from the same area, it's like it's not as big as it is in the South,
you know, Like I didn't even know what it was. They have a Chick fil A every feet well, and I am a fan. I just you know, growing up in New York and it was huge. Now that they've started moving Chick fil A into New York, my family's going crazy and shocked that they weren't open on Sundays, right, you know. I fly in what was it like back in July for the fourth to visit my
mom. I fly into the Albany Airport. Ye, my brother in law was picking me up outside the airport and he said, I just have one request, and I said what he goes, can you please pick me up a chicken sandwich from inside? Because that is the only Chick fil A in the area. Oh, that's the only one. And you actually had high
school students in the area. I think there was like Albany High School where they figured out that if they pulled all their money together or whatever, one of them could buy a ticket to go pass security so they could get the chicken seandwich and then go back. So they bought a plane ticket to get into the airport to buy Chick fil a sandwich. That's hilarious. That's hilarious. And they're slowly starting to pop up elsewhere. But you know how we
did it. It was like American cheese or nothing. I mean, Swiss was even a even a treat back in the day for me. But that's a long time ago, but I would probably like it wasn't. I think when I first moved to Raleigh, which you know, so obviously over a decade ago, wasn't the only Popeyes for a while in the airport in Raleigh. It was one. There was one of them that The only place they had it for for a little while was in the airport, and I remember
people like, Oh, you're going, you're flying somewhere. You gotta go, And I'm like, what are you talking about? And then they explained this the only place you're gonna get it, and then they opened some more obviously, but yeah, the big ruck is is that they in one of the stops on the Thruway now they replaced a restaurant with a Chick fil A and people traveling on weekends not open on Sunday, they raised, I mean, it's been a it's been a big issue there. You're trying to drive
and you want to stop and get something to eat. Nope, not at that one. As a bunch of heathens on this Thruway thing. So yeah, there are all right, man. So yeah, I know you're gonna make it suck again, but let's have just a little relief, shall we.
Yeah, And there is and you know, the real differences between the triangle and the triad this morning's temperatures and dew points as it looks like the front is just east of a line from Raleigh to Fayetteville and up to the north northeast of that where closer into the triangle, we're looking at temperatures in the mid nupper sixties, dew points still in the upper sixties, even some low seventies, But as you go out of the triad, there are some
temperatures, especially to the north and the low and mid sixties with lower dew points, so there's a little bit of a difference. This morning, we should all clear out and likely get into the mid to upper eighties this afternoon, and a noticeable drop in the humidity. Showers thunder showers will try to get us tomorrow, not really great chance of partly sunny otherwise mid upper eighties,
may hit ninety degrees. And then over the period from Friday to Sunday, the warm up comes and we're talking about temperatures in the upper eighties, maybe some low nineties around overnight lows coming up into the mid nupper sixties, and then early next week might have a couple of days in the mid nineties for the triangle. A little bit cooler to the west, but speak of going west. This morning, out near Asheville, we did have some temperatures
in the low fifties even in the mountains. The brew Ridge Parkway had a temperature of fifty degrees at silva about fifty eight hundred feet. So you know this is probably false false fall, as some of us are calling it, but either way, it looks like a couple of cooler mornings in a little lessimility than it goes back up. All right, well, thank you, sir. We'll talk in an hour. Okay, yes, sir, all right, coming up, Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, he'll join us. Eight
oh five. I have one of the craziest stories. It's out of Peru. But there is so much going on here. We'll get into that because I can't keep this to myself. You gotta hear this thing, and it is devious, to say the very least. We'll do that next. Hang on, get smart talk all day, nine four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. So a version of this story actually first hit the news and it was in like the odd news
section. Some of the tabloids ran it, and you know you didn't you didn't think much of it. So the story was these very very very remote, isolated indigenous community communities, I should say, in Peru. And when I say isolated, I mean like super off the grid, Like it takes ten hours in a boat to get to where they are, so we're not dealing with power, running water, none of that, and very limited contact.
I mean, they're not uncontacted tribes. But for all practical purposes, these communities just do their own thing and don't really I think that they're set aside in Peru like a lot of places where they're kind of like self governed in what they do. All right, So the story came out that they're being harassed by aliens, right, and so you got these aliens and they're flying around, they're harassing them, and they're super tall and it's crazy.
And so that story emerged, and like I said, it made a bunch of like the tabloidy stuff. However, it did prompt after news spread online, it did prompt who was a Peruvian government, members of the media, and there's some other folks from the international community. And ironically there was some interest in the US too, because it was right around the time of the
congressional hearings about unexplained aerial phenomena. So they went in there, the Peruvian Navy police and a couple of media outlets got the boat traveled ten hours to the MAINUS provincial capital of Aikidos and then or from the capitol to where they were and just kind of waited to see what happened. And sure enough, when they got there, the aliens showed up to harass these villagers, these indigenous villagers. Well they're not aliens, but it's crazy what they are.
So it turned out the aliens that were harassing these villagers and making the news were illegal gold miners with jet packs. What according to authorities, the perpetrators instead were members of an illegal gold mining gang actually based in Columbia and Brazil. So they're right on the where the where it all meets there in Peru. Like you said, it's really really back there. Who were attempting to terrorize the com community so that they could you know, mine for gold and
stuff. And they thought the best way to do it was to literally get ahold of advanced aerial technology in the form of jet packs, which I guess you apparently can get. Well, wasn't wasn't this a problem like near the airport in La so I guess if you want it, you can get it and hopefully run these people off of this area where they feel that there is a significant amount of gold that can be dredged from the river basin there.
The problem was the villages. So they pretended to be Aliens with jet packs. That's crazy. That's on a Naki stuff, right, isn't it. Wasn't there a big deal they came to didn't they the gold ancient aliens? Wasn't it about that they created human to be their slaves to mind gold, to fix their atmosphere. That's bonkers. And you know, and Peru is wrought with a lot of this from historical perspective, from Nasca lines to their
stuff. But holy crap, man, So it's just yeah, this happens in Brazil with the illegal cattle stuff too, where they're where they're chasing off actually on contacted indigenous tries. But here they got a jet pack to scram. Good morning, everybody, and happy Wednesday. It is the k c O Day radio program. Uh still uh did a clean up you know where you are from the storms to move through North Carolina yesterday. All told,
more than one hundred thousand folks across the state or without power. A woman was killed in Durham and a lot of a lot of flooding warnings out there, this uh the second time within just a few weeks. So it is if you're if, if you're if you're having to go out and commute somewhere this morning, I would just I would be diligent. As a thirty two car pile up happened on I forty near Durham yesterday. So and also you know, less likely maybe to see that, but sticks and all sorts of
stuff on the road, so be careful out there. We'll get into more of that coming up with Stage Race Stagic from the Weather Channel. But first it is Wednesday. Our number three, Mark Robinson, Lieutenant Governor, joined us. How are you doing this morning, sir? What's up? I'm doing great? How are you doing? Casey? Pretty good? Uh? You find yourself without power at all yesterday? Or are you good to go?
No? My daughter did though, So my my daughter and her husband and their children were at our house last night because their power was out, so we were glad. We have a actually have a generator generator in our house. But our power didn't go out, but if it had, the generator would have kicked in. But they were all there last night and this morning, and so we'll see what comes out. In their neighborhood was a mess, trees down everywhere. So we're just glad that no one was injured
injured. So in their neighborhood, yeah, we did. Unfortunately in Durham that we hadn't lost her life with sure yeah sure, sure there were no others across the state they were but uh, and we prayed for those folks and artist uh but as always we had great first responders were out there on the scene immediately helping those folks, and we appreciate we appreciate them. But
we prayed for the people across the state who were affected. Great about a storm, but luckily my daughter's neighborhood the damage was like Mark, you remember offering thoughts and prayers. You're not allowed to do that anymore as a government. Oh yeah, don't don't don't, don't work do that, casey, that's right, by the way. How great is it to be a granddad that can pump the grandkids full of sugar and then send them home. That's
kind That's what we do. That's what we do. We would give them, we give them skittles and and ice coffee, and then we give them loud instruments and toys and send them home to their parents. That's great, Oh fantastic. I think Skittles is where we do cancel this. You may have to look at that, all right. I probably is long and everything else. Oh before we go another to go any farther casey, Yes, Well, the twenty two year old man stamped by a thirty year old man
in a Popeye in Maryland over a chicken sandwich. Yeah, I knew there was That's what it was. I knew there was somebody who literally tried to murder somebody over it. One of those Popeyes sandwiches was just broken line. And we'll stay very saying, well, don't cut in line. You know we deserve to be stabbed, but you know, don't cut in line for the chicken sandwitiy. So are you gonna try Are you gonna try the new Chick fil a once? Since you brought it up? Because that kind of
sounds cool? Absolutely absolutely. I love I love spicing sweet, and I love I love famenity, So yes, I'll be trying that with sure. Alright, rock on, all right, Well, I gotta get to a few other things because we can just talk chicken sandwiches but I don't know how fulfilling that would be. So I saw this op ed the News and Observer. I'm sure that your your staff and everyone kind of funnels this stuff in
your direction. And there they are adamant that the budget needs to get done so they can start erecting African American monuments on various places, including the old state capitol, which is we know lost several monuments when folks tore them down and the governor said, well, we're not going to put them back up, even though there's a law. How are you feeling about this with a three million dollars price tech just on the design and initial implementation is this?
Do you think this is a thing? I mean, where are you at. I'm gonna be completely honest with you, Casey, I'm not worried about that in the least bit. There are far more substantive issues that we have to deal with in this state than monuments being put up by activist groups. We have an entire state right now. We have a great opportunity in this state right now to grow this state's economy for Murphy Domanio. So the young kids now in the eastern part of the state and the western part of the
state can see far more economic opportunities in the future. They're gonna help build their communities and their families and their lives. We need to be worried about those substantive investments that we need to make it those folks, to grow our economy, to help those folks grow in their families, their businesses, et cetera. This whole thing that's being these folks want to push these agendas for putting them statues for folks that they like, taking out statues to other people
that they don't like. I'm not interested in talking about that at all. I'm interested in taking that three billion dollars and invested it into the young people. It needs to press communities so we can start rising and raising the statue of these areas up and build us in economic superpower here in this state. And we can do it if we invest in the right places. And that's not even all my radar right now. Okay, well yeah, but we
haven't made the investment. And that's because at this point we still don't have a budget. I can look historically and see that many many a budget was passed in the fall during democratic run legislatures. So it's the standard political freak out. But do you like the direction that's going in? I mean, you know, where where are you out on the budget list since last we
talked. I'm sure you're having conversed there. I think one of the major issues on the budget right now is is whether we continue the lower taxes or whether we take what we have to state where we are now and make those investments that has talked about, and I think that's the big discussion right now,
and I think that's a great discussion we need to have that. I would love to see our taxas continue to be lowered, but at the same time, I'd love to see those investments be made so those good people can come together and get their heads together to figure out how we can do both.
That will be great. But I have no doubt casing that whatever budget these Republicans passed, it will be far superior to any of the budgets that were passed by the pre two thy ten Democratic led leadership that had a three point four billion dollars in debt. And how our state did brooke. One of the elements that is a little controversial, and I'm curious where you're at
is the casino stuff. You know what, Our Greensboro station is technically towered and licensed out of Rockingham County. Edenton is the city of license and uh, you know, there's a lot of folks up in Rocket Rockingham's a tough county, as you probably know, with the closure of the beer facility up there and many of the things that they've dealt with. The sheriff up there, we chat with him frequently, but there's still a lot of people don't
want that casino up there. They're not alone. This is a conversation still moving forward. Where are you at on this? For those For those folks that know me, they know that I'm not in favor of casinos. I'm not in favor of gambling. I don't like it. That's my personal opinion there. I don't think that a casino is is something that if a young person was asking me, Hey, should I go off to the casino? Absolutely not. I don't think casinos. It's not part of something that I
like to do. But I struggle when I when I think about it and say, do I have should I tell an adult how they can spend their money? But here's the real substantive issue in any Casey. The substantive issue is this, When a community is talking about opening the casino, I think the very first thing they should look at is what the downside of the casino, what kind of crime it might bring. And we all know sinos breed drug abuse, they can oftentimes breed prostitution and other things in big numbers.
So because a community really needs to look and say can our public safety handle the added pressure of a casino? And if the answer is no, they need to reject it. I mean, ask the bottom line, we need to make sure that these casinos come, we're going to be able to mitigate the bad effects that casinos can bring, not just the gambling problem itself with some folks being addicted to gambling, but the most substituent problem, which is
public safety. Can that community handle the public safety issue that made these casinos may bring? And that needs to be a serious question that these communities need to ask themselves before they make that step of opening those casinos. Well, but we have examples in North Carolina, head out the Cherokee they got casinos,
and I mean, is that a huge issue out there? It's it's it's not it doesn't seem to be a huge issue, but that that casino was already established, that community is already established, and I would suppose that they took steps to ensure that those things won't happen there. What I'm saying is, when you're talking about a new community coming into this, coming into this, we have to look and see do we have to financial wherewithal and
the ability to be able to mitigate those things. If we have a huge opioid crisis going on right now, if we have diminished law enforcement going on right now, now might not be the time to open a casino. Those are questions that have to be asked. But those local folks need to do that work and I certainly hope that they do well. And again, of course it turns into from a media perspective, they're convinced it's a conspiracy theory
because of some campaign donations. But you know, that's the way of That's the way of the world, man. You know, Max contribution, I think it was fifty six hundred or something. But the reality is we have a casino just across the order now up in Virginia with the new one they open there, and the North Carolina Lottery just to approve digital instant games.
So there is expansion of gambling happening already in North Carolina. Absolutely, And I've been very vocal in my opposition to the lottery here in North Carolina. Which brings me again to that point. How can the state of North Carolina not allowed gambling in private facilities when the state of North Carolina sanctions it through the lottery. I was against the lottery from the very beginning. I knew it was not going to be a boom for our schools or for our state,
and it's not. And I don't like the fact that we have it. But again, the lotteries here, the state does the lottery. How can we tell private businesses and private individuals that they can't do the same in casinos. It's a very tough issue casing, but personally speaking, I'm against gambling and I'm against casinos and I don't like them, and I would advise any young person to stay out of them. Well, go to the buffet, you can go to the fay, that's fine, but maybe one of
shows, but stay away from the gamblet machine. Sype your money, invest your money and something more all profitable. Well, okay, so let me let me follow along on that train of thought, then, Mark, because one of the things that continues to baffle me, and it was almost from the moment I moved to North Carolina over a decade ago, is the dual protectionism of our current ABC system, all right, because I like, if
that that is opportunity there for fun. Look, I understand that there's some organizations as a Mark Creech's group and one others who who want alcohol regulated as strictly as possible. And I'm really kind of one of these, you know, least amount of government is best amount of government, even if I have objections to things. So why why is that still something we're not talking about? If the mindset is well, there should be private industry that's allowed to
compete in yet another sometimes addictive slice of the economy. Sure, the argument against our ABC system has existed for a long time. I don't really see a real problem with the system as we have it now, other than the fact that it cuts out so called private private industry uh from from selling from
selling uh you know, spirit the spirits, so to speak. Uh. But uh, to change that, to change that again, I think, Casey, what we really need to do is we need to really take a look, a hard look at the differences between the private sale and the way we have it now, and really ask ourselves the questions about those negative possible negative effects. And if we come to a consisuc of those positive those possible negative effects will not be greatly increased or increased at all, then I think
maybe it would it would be time for the change. But we always whenever it comes time when we're talking about boxes such as alcohol, we always need to have that healthy debate, that healthy discussion, and we need to have it openly and honestly, not based on our political opinions, but based on some solid, solid, some solid advice from from real professionals. Well, and we have we have a vision of what some of the deregulation looks like.
The State of North Carolina made a couple of very small changes to how beer and UH and brewing of beer was treated, and it spawned literally billions of both investment and revenue for the state of North Carolina. I mean, that was a win for government getting out of the waymark it has and that could be a good indicator because also UH, it also did not spark an increase in any real negative effect as far as drunk driving fatalities or things of
that nature. So we could definitely look at some of those statistics and look at that as an example to see how we can move forward in the future. I'm not completely against it, not completely aport. And the reason why I say that is just not for politics, is because I am really in favor of governing by consensus. We really need to have open, honest dialogue and not governed by our opinion. But we need to really listen to the opinions of all this to try to get to a real solution to the issue,
and that can make real solid changes for the better. I got a couple of minutes, and I want to hit you with this just because it's the it's the giant news story that's out there. It's a little kind of off topic, but I guess maybe not really. Why Why do you think that there is hesitancy among Republican elected officials in many states who could just as easily pursue aspects of the Biden investigation. Florida is a great example red state.
You know, obviously DeSantis is there's a lot of things he's been doing there, and there's a lot of other elected officials and most of Joe Biden's brothers. Stuff dealing with this hospital down there took place in Florida, Yet Republicans don't do that. Are you frustrated watch and everything that's playing out with Trump right now and watching those states not do it, or do you feel that maybe those states shouldn't join in what many people say appears to be a
witch hunt, albeit on the other side. What I'm what I'm frustrated with faces is I'm frustrated with people being afraid. I don't understand how we live in a nation that literally was founded by men and women who are willing to stand up against the most powerful crown on earth. We're now ruled and led by people, not ruled, but led by people who are afraid of folks with news cameras and pads and pencils. We're literally afraid of the news media.
When the news media attacks, everybody does, a great number of our folks will cut, pale and run. It's time for us to stand up against these and the news media is the one driving this. Let's make no mistake about it. They are the ones that are driving this area. It is time for us to stand up in earnest against this dishonest news media that has become an arm of the Democratic Party and the leftists in this state, in this country. We have got to start having the courage to stand up
and push back against these people. And here it is, We've got to start hitting them in their pocketbooks. We've got to start subscribe, stop subscribing to their channels and buying their products, because their product oftentimes is full of filth and full of lives, and it doesn't do our nation or our state any good, and it does not do us any good. We've got to turn away from them, and we've got to push back against them and every
turn. And that's what frustrates me, the amount of people who who continue to be afraid of these news agencies and continue to patronize these news agents agents. Are you talking? Are you talking about lawmakers you think are afraid? I think it's I think I think it's it's become a thing is systemic across the board. Folks are afraid of being docs, canceled, pushed out. They don't want that to happen. Just take a look at what happened with Jason Mark. I'm stract, I'm sorry, I got I'm sorry, I
let I just looked at the clock. I got a roll, but thank you and we'll be back. It's pure your day Smarter one oh six one FM Talk and News Talk four five w PTI more with Casey starts now, all right, good morning to get is thirty six there on your Wednesday, just flying by today. Man, all right, So I did find the audio I thought we had in the system, and I looked and look, but now we do because Rols just dubbed it in and I was wrong. I thought it was. This is the thing, man, than Ross.
Does this happen to you where you're like, we just talked about something, and then you go look at the audio that we have in this system and you realize we dubbed it in like nine months ago, like a year ago, or everything just kind of runs together because I get that vibe. So this story was about a year ago. So but still you shouldn't make this mistake twice. So the you know these stop oil people the block traffic, glue themselves to stuff folks. About a year ago, they had a little
protest. They were they were going to they were gonna stop anything that looked like a petrol truck was over in the UK, so petrol and so they were blocking, they were adhering themselves to it and all that, and so
Sky News, BBC everyone's out there covering this. And one of the guys, I can't remember what his his deal was, if he was a driver or somebody worked for one of these companies or maybe just somebody's whatever, but he's like yelling stuff at him, and the Sky News reporter goes over and she's, you know, to do the man on the street, and she it's almost like she's she's explaining to this guy, well, you need to
understand that they're very passionate about stopping this. And the exchange is still one of my favorite. Here we go what I achieve it. Well, what they're saying is they want maximum disruption to stop the government extracting oil and gas. Yeah, the truck, while it does look like the one that shows up at the gas station to you know, put the gasoline in the in the tanks there, that truck is full of cooking oil and not you know,
gasoline or oil for your car. Uh. Well, apparently there was an incident in the UK where this time they didn't try to glue themselves to it, but they did. They were surrounding and yelling at it, and the guy's like, no, this is cooking oil again. Well maybe it's not. Maybe they just learned to yell at But you think you could tell the difference, right, any of your truck drivers out there. I'm assuming
the trucks are slightly labeled differently. And if you're really an activist who's really into this, you might just do a little bit of research so you can figure out if you're targeting the correct people. Because now it's like even if you even if you think that you know, at least they're doing some to fight climate change. Yeah, well they're also screwing with your fried food and fish and chips is a big deal in the UK, So you're not making
friends. Ros Are you more offended if they want to glue themselves to cooking oil for fried foods, perhaps even chicken wings of some sort or stuff for your car or do you not care either way? I mean, I think they're just wasting everyone's time altogether. So well, I mean clearly, obviously, I mean that's that's the point of it. They want, they want you to stop and think. But yeah, it's stopping. They as stupid, they are idiot's. I mean it's almost as if they don't know what
they're talking about. The Volkswagon thing is still my favorite of the Porsche Volkswagon. Oh where they pied themselves. Yeah, so they glued themselves to the floor because Porsche Volkswagen don'ts Porsche or whatever, And so they go to the facility, right, and they go into because they have like a little showroom even at the facility for people to come visit, and they glue themselves to the floor, and the people Volkswagen are like, all right, we're going
home for the nights. So they like shut off the heat and the lights and they just left and like a security guards standing by. And then they're all like, oh no, we're glued to stuff and we got to go to the bathroom and it's cold and nobody's here filming us. This was a horrible idea that one. And then the people who glued themselves to the conductor's lectern at the symphony, which just lifts out of the stage, so they just walk these two idiots backstage still glued to this little metal post. So,
oh man, all sorts of good stuff. So we got that for
you, a couple other things. And American tourists, excuse me. Two American tourists are in a little bit of trouble after they were found asleep literally on top of the Eiffel Tower, well not top top, but you know up in the area you can go, yes, Monday morning, after allegedly getting drunk again Monday morning, getting drunk evading security the night before, the Landmarks operators says staff at the monument woke the men in the early morning as
they made their rounds ahead of the towers nine am opening. The pair appeared to have gotten stuck because of how drunk they were. They were found in a section of the tower normally closed to the public between the second and third levels, so they either climbed up it or got up it and then descended down from one of the viewing area up there. To do so, they had to hop several security barriers and they do believe they descended from the top
of the tower, and they intend to file a criminal complaint. So don't do that, I guess when you go to Paris, So isn't that But isn't that where the opening of like one of the wormholes is or something, isn't there some like alien conspiracy with that? Trying to remember the episode, I think there was because of like some of the people who were involved in some of the construction of the tower. Maybe it's a Luminati thing. I might have to go back and fall down that wormhole later today. And this
right here. According to researchers at the University of British Columbia, there are three masculine categories out there. This is what scientists say. They say that all straight men fit into one of three distinct mas skilling categories, and it defines how they navigate relationships and from interpersonal work stuff to relationships obviously marriage. All right, so which one are you? Are you a neo traditionalist.
That's a man who largely follows traditional gender roles where they're the provider and protector. The second is egalitarian, involves a man seeking a more equal partnership with emphasis on mutual and measurable give and take. And the third category is called the progressive category, and that's men who work on building gender equity in the
partnership through regular conversations with their partner to adjust who does what? All right, does anybody else feel like there's a whole category missing there, and ironically, it's almost the category that's most often represented, it seems, in like TV commercials, because I don't feel that any of those three categories actively define the village idiot moron man that is portrayed in a lot of commercials where he's got to have a woman come by and do everything for him, and he's
almost it's almost like the as I haven't seen the Barbie movie, but how Ken's described in the movie. They say that less than a quarter of men are categorized as neo traditionalists. Is that true? That's the other thing I got to ask, do you think that only one fourth of men see themselves as provider and protector? I don't know that. I believe that. I kind of feel like that's got to be the bulkiest category, or at the
very least maybe a blending of the egalitarian in that. But yeah, you left off all the idiot idiots and just destroyed men the betas if you will, and so I question your research. All right, eight forty four Racetagic from the Weather Channel. He's here, all right, so if we could look if you want to do, weather Man, could you just stop knock and power out and stuff like that. That would be great. Yeah, that was an unfortunate too with the fatality, some strong storms and a woman
the tree fell on a car. We had a thirty two car pile up, two on forties. So yeah, it was nuts. So and right along the front and the front on time yesterday afternoon. Now that front is a kind of slowly trying to get out and off to the east. Looks like it's just east of Raleigh and east have done in Fayetteville and up to the north Neurono Rapids. There are some showers east of that, out in near Goldsborough, but they're heading east, and so was front. Morning.
Temperatures are milder closer into the triangle where it's in the load of mid seventies, but the dew points are starting to come down. And then back to the west at the triad we'd seeing temperatures in the little bit sixties, believe it or not. From west to east, temperatures do go cool to mild. We'll go through the see lots of sunshine continuing to break out. We're
probably already there now, temperatures in the mid to upper eighties. Tonight, towards sunrise, we'll see a threat for showers and thunder showers once again, and that chance will be with us Tomorrow, a few showers, thunder showers, party sunny, otherwise mid to upper eighties, and then we'll start the sunny, dry weather and the warm up and the humidity. We'll start coming back Friday, sunny, mid to upper eighties, and over the weekend upper
eighties to low nineties, and maybe some mid nineties early next week. I think starting Friday, after we lose the rain chance tomorrow and tomorrow night might have multiple days meeting a week or more, or maybe five to seven days. Excuse me, I was going on a work week five days. That is what I meant for sunny, dry weather. We'll a warm up and then temperatures coming back down a little. I wouldn't expect much rain from Friday
through Tuesday. Do you want to jump into the Atlantic basin? There's three areas of disturb weather. The Hurricane Center has its eyes on one of the Gulf too. In the Atlantic. Low chances twenty percent on the system in the Gulf of fifty percent on the one system in the Atlantic. Just that kind of little reminder here, Although it hasn't been much action yet in the tropics, things could could be starting to heat up as we had towards the
peak of the season September tenth. Okay, all right, we'll have a good rest your day, sir. We'll chat tomorrow, okay. And I like how you think there's five days in a work week and then you just randomly disappear when the weather's bed. So right, they're all right, all right, bun, bust in your chest, yep, all right, yeah yeah, and then Jeff Bellinger will join us. Plus we have a cancelation
coming up. Hang on, keeping you connected. This is ninety four five WPTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. Are good morning, eight fifty two. You're Blimber Update now with Jeff Bellinger. Jeff, what's happening on morning, Casey. It was a losing Tuesday session on the Wall Street. All of the major averages fell a little more than one percent. Futures have been up and down all morning. Right now they are lower across the board. Now, futures are down thirty nine points.
Bloomberg Intelligence as the retail sales numbers may cool in the months ahead. The numbers out yesterday beat expectations, but consumers are expected to be holding their wallets tighter by fall. BI also notes that Amazon's Prime Day event may have boosted overall sales in July. Home builders started work on more new projects last month. The government just reported that housing starts increased three point nine percent in
July. That top forecast mortgage interest rates continue to climb. Bankers report the average rate on a thirty year fixed rate home loan was up to seven point sixteen percent last week. That matches the two thousand one high, and it's putting a damper on home sales and mortgage refinancings. We get minutes from last month's Federal Reserve Board meeting this afternoon. Bloomberg Economics says they will show that FED members who favored holding rate steady for the rest of the year were in
the minority. And Casey, there has been a sea change in the way Americans get their video entertainment. Nielsen reports that last month, people spent less time watching broadcast and cable stations than they spent with streaming services, video on demand, and gaming, and that's never happened before. Casey, broadcasting cable channels may regain some of their market share in the fall when the football and
other sports return. Casey well, until they find a way to move that, you know, some of the streaming ones that are bidding on them. So we shall see, but for now, thank you much appreciate it, sir. All right, have a good day. Yep, yep, there you go, Jeff Fellinger, Bloomberg News. By the way, speaking of football, did you see like, remember what was it Joe So Joe Burrow got pop pretty hard at practice not that long ago, and like two of
their other top players had to be literally like stretchered out of there. So through the Bengals. Man that is, this is not a good preseason for you right now, and and Rossville's very badly for you, obviously being one of the AFC competitors. I'm sure. All right, we got a cancelation. So let's go ahead and get to this. Hold on your button bar here all right? Uh, here we go, yes, all right, so what's canceled? Uh? Well, they're in the process of doing it.
And ironically, this story has is so important that if you go on NBC News's website, it's it's in the you know how, sometimes they have that red like cross banner above the stories for like breaking news or the top stories. Uh, this one is there as part of the rundown. It's Bradley Cooper that's just getting canceled. Yes, actor Bradley Cooper over jew face? Yeah, jew face? All right, so what's up with that?
Here we go. So Bradley Cooper is in a new movie, and the movie the trailer for the movie, which is on Netflix or we'll be on Netflix. The movie is called Maestro, was released yesterday and in it you see Cooper portraying a real person, Leonard Bernstein, a very famous obviously conductor, composer. And it's a biographical it's a bit of a romance thing too. Whatever. I don't know. I like some of the biographical stuff, but it looks like it's kind of leans into the romance side. So maybe
I'll see. Maybe I won't if it's on Netflix. I got Netflix. But the problem is Bradley Cooper. Well there's two problems. One, he's not Jewish. I guess, I don't know. And Sarah Silverman was griping about how only Jewish actors should play Jewish characters, so I guess we're there. But what really ticked people off. Is that in an effort to look like Bernstein, Cooper had a prosthetic nose, I know, and so because he enlarged his nose, because you're gonna be shocked to learn that, yes,
two things can be true. One Bernstein is in fact Jewish, and two he has a He's got a bigger nose than Bradley Cooper. The picture in this article on NBC News a nice little profile side picture. He definitely has a prominent nose. And look, I understand the whole you know, the history of especially when you look at some of the stuff that the Nazis used to produce with the giant nose and that carries I get all of that. But it's not like Bradley Cooper's trying to look like Steve Martin and Rock
sand Well. Steve Martins should be careful. Maybe they'll go back and retroactively get him. He's trying to look like Bernstein. You know who Gary old and It had a prosthetic nose when he played Winston Churchill. He had a lot of prosthetics, to be quite honest with you, you know it was it was part of becoming the character. But now we're onto jew face and because he wanted to look like Leonard Bernstein for for a movie about Leonard Bernstein.
I know, it's it's craziest. Oh you know, you know who else probably get in trouble is Matt Damon. Did any other prosthetic nose in one of the Oceans movies was the last one? Right here he is playing the the personal assistance to the Lila Asian app acrobat dude. So whatever cal and on that Well, I guess we're canceled, but probably only for about twenty one hours. But we'll see