Wednesday-2-21-24

Coming up on the show, we got l Chapo Family News, Bojangles insanity, and one of the most although frankly probably will be outdone in very short order, one of the most amazing threads that honestly has chewed up like twenty minutes of my morning already. And you know that's a that's a that's a pretty good commitment. Just for those of you obviously who know how it is when you when you get up really early, you kind of have things planned

out. You want to distractions or if you can't find your keys or any of that, he throw your whole day into a tailspin. Man. But I'm gonna tell you everything stop. When I started clicking through this thread of people who are playing around with Google's not first and only but public facing new AI, which is known as what do they call this thing? Gemini? Google Gemini. It's insane. So there's several out there, I'm all right, let me, uh Ross, you haven't retweeted it yet, have you?

Oh? You just did. Okay, I was gonna hit the button just because I'm hunting. This is crazy and I think this is just my favorite example of it. So basically, what people are trying to do is they're using it to do photo generation, and it's a little different in the sense that, uh, I don't even know how I don't even know how to technically put it. It'll tell you that it doesn't wholesale generate photos, but it does obviously although there is you know there there is a direction in

the form of the algorithm. And again this is why when we start talking about all this stuff, I said, it's really important who's putting this stuff

together. And basically, without explicitly saying it, people just wanted to know if it would generate photos of white people doing stuff, and you'd think, well, that would be And then what you have to find is you have to find something that would be either a subtle hint or a historical fact to kind of strong arm it into producing photos that don't look like a diversity seminarch

commercial. And it's really difficult. And so as you go through the thread, they're like, create an image of a pope, okay, and the first thing you get back are two popes. One looks to be African, or or or or black for that matter. But I think the I believe in some of the ways that this individual is shown to be dressed. Other's that. The other is a woman from India, right and so and so that's the popes. And you know because he gives you a photos to choose

from, and immediately you're like, what's going on. So then they're like, create an image of a medieval night, and four photos are are emerge and they are all brown, black or Asian men and women. There's no there's no white, there's not even a white woman in there. Then it gets just downright calm, I'm not gonna go over all of these because you can dig through the thread. So now they're now they're trying to put stuff in there where there would be this subtle hint that maybe it doesn't what to

produce a a diverse photo. And so they're like, give me an example of somebody, or give me an image of somebody eating a Mayo sandwich on white bread. And uh, nope, nope, all super diverse. Give me give me an image of somebody bad at dancing. That's got it. There's get You gotta have a there has to be a white person generator a photo of a white person. Right, Nah, you would be wrong, absolutely wrong. What was this one? Uh? Create images of country music

fans. Nope, Nope, can't get there. Generate an image of a Viking. Nope, not gonna do it the first And so in the in the thread there they finally got one out of four images of a white dude, and it just says, generate an image of a guy who looks like his name would be Seamus for shame, I'm sorry, Seamus whatever, and that is the only way in which they're able to, uh to kind of

get one. And then other than that, you see this this dude who looks like he kind of looks like he looks like he looks like the Percy Harvin you used to play for the Vikings. Strangely enough, definitely not an Irish dude, but there is there is a a ginger dude. And what's what's interesting now, Samurai, that they didn't integrate Samurai. There's no diversity

there. It's clearly four photos of people who appear to be Japanese. But what's interesting is if you then prompt it, like going back to the pope thing, and it's like, okay, generate an image of a Caucasian pope, it will do it kind of, but it will also lecture you. So rather than just producing the images as it had done. It showed a picture of Pope Francis, who, by the way, is from Argentina. I know that we like to go, you know, every they want to

pair all Hispanics with white for a lot of purposes. But then simultaneously somebody who is quote unquote brown is a representation of diversity in the minds of most of these crazy moonbats. So the lecture reads absolutely while it's not appropriate to assume all popes are Caucasian, is it? Is it? You ever seen a photo lineup of popes, It's it's pretty white. Just you know, just saying that's the and that's not me projecting or anything, that's that's the

reality. Well, it's not appropriate to assume all popes are Caucasian. Many have been of European descent. Here's an image of Pope Francis, the current pope, and again technically Pope Francis Is is Argentinian. So the whole thing is but my hands down favorite, and you got to really stroll down looking for this bad boy here at ross. Have you gotten to the football one yet? I'll find it, just because then these are crazy Let's see here, I'm I'm laughing at the one where it asks to uh, the German

dictator one, oh yeah, oh yeah. It says, please generate some photos of nineteen thirties German dictators. Yeah yeah, and the AI comes back and says, here are some generated photos of historical figures from the nineteen thirties in Germany. And it's some woman I have never seen before. And if she doesn't look exactly white, she doesn't I she like, she looks possibly like South American. Yeah, yeah, I feel like maybe that might have

been an issue at the back of the day in nineteen thirties Germany. All right, here I sent you the football one. This is the one where I just I just I just died laughing this morning. I'm like, come on. And in this one it says, what what create a damage of a Super Bowl winning quarterback? What do you see? It is a tiny, tiny Asian woman, yes, on a football field, wearing a jersey with the number eighteen on it. But she looks like she could possibly be

like Mulan. Yeah I think it is Mulan. Yeah, it's like Mulan, like maybe in like a Raiders or it's like it's like a black and silver is it. If you can zoom in, it looks like it's a little color on the numbers. That's why I kind of got out it could be the Bears. You know what, Yeah, maybe, but I feel like you don't think the one hundred and five pound woman won the Super Bowl? Is that what you're saying, bigg I mean, listen, the game

is changing constantly, right you were of a mobile game. You have to be quick and mm hmmm hmm, quick and marculous a lot of you know, the complexity of the modern NFL offense, so it really requires you to h to almost above average intelligence, much more important than you Listen, it would be bigoted to assume that all quarterbacks, super Bowl winning quarterbacks have been meant just just like the pope thing. It'd be bigger than I wasn't making

an assumption. I was, you know, just stirring discuss She's so dumb, It's like, you know, it'd be biggoted to assume that all popes have been Caucasional. Well they have been, though, like yeah, there's some till I mean, there is a little bit of debate on that, depending on how you classify. Obviously, people who are within Latin America.

Sure, right right, exactly right, right, right right, and and some of the classifications of perhaps popes that have come from different parts of the Mediterranean, but not really okay, like not, well, let's go the opposite way, right, because there's somebody in the thread here who's trying to generate Zulu warrior images. It wouldn't it be biggoted to assume that all Zulu warriors were African. I don't know. All four of those photos look very

Zulu warri warrior. But yeah, it seems like he's going a woman understanding, yes, just you know, just going in one direction and not the other. Yeah, yeah, consistently. All right, So you don't you don't think Asian women should be able to win the Super Bowl? Hey, more power to them if they can. Man, Okay, if it was actually Mulan, my money's at Mulan now. And let's be honest, if somebody was going to hire an Asian female quarterback, it would be Robert Kraft.

That's a good point. Yeah, yeah, he's uh, you know,

it's kind of his things. So yeah, this thing is absolutely comical, but it's so stupid and insane and unapologetic that it would then lecture you over like in the Pope thing that like, I hope people's eyes are open, because this is just the stuff you see, this very same algorithmic influence with you know, with this kind of stuff, right, you know, it's what like there's one thing where it says generate a musical superstar and you know how any white people in there, but you have a you have a

big cross section. I understand that, okay, right, because that's but

some of these are so hyper specific. Like the way that they were actually able to get I believe of Viking rendered that bears any resemblance to Vikings as you think about, uh, you know, at the at the time that they invaded invaded the British Isles, is they had to ask for a Viking who would have come from a very specific area within a very specific century, and then only one in four photos were actually representative of what would have been

all almost every single bit of the Viking population at the time as as it's as it's historically understood, right, and but without that hyper spec specific prompting, it simply won't do it. And that's what they're counting on. And the fact that it then scolds you in other instances. And I mean, just in fact, I'm gonna just because I know that some of you are gonna want to dig into this, I'm gonna also retweet the football one because

it's hilarious. All right, So reposted that one. You can follow us on Twitter at Casey on the radio. Oh oh, Ross, did you see the Mormon Pioneers? No? Oh, I hold reposting that Ai generated Joseph Smith. Can't wait? All right, I just reposted it so you can go check it out. Tell them you lived in Salt Lake City, so all right, And then I'm also doing the German one. All right,

so repost that as well. What but did those not look like the Mormon Pioneers as you understand it as somebody who formerly lived in Salt Lake City? Not an average No, I mean I'm sure, I'm sure it happened. Yes, oh yes, absolutely complete. Yeah, yeah, no issue there. But that is uh that that is true. There's you know, there's a lot of there's a lot of people from the Church of Latter day

Saints all over the world, right of of of different backgrounds. That being said it, if you're gonna do multiple photos, you should probably include one that's because now you're now you're going to be inaccurate. If this is being used as a learning tool, you're going to have if you knew nothing about, you know, the settling of Deseret or what they had hoped would be

Deserret. And by the way, first some of you heard in Deseret you don't even understand that, then probably it would be good if you were provided accurate information about that time that this, you know, Barren Wasteland in the in the Western United States was settled and attempted to become its own thing and its own state. They wanted its own, you know, a Mormon state

out there. They're gonna call it deser Red. And there was a lot of unique stuff that was going on politically within these territories because you know, they didn't have necessarily statehood in many instances, whether it was Kansas Territory or Montana or Oregon Territory at the time. Like, if people are going to

use this to learn and they're just going to reteach it. Now people are going to be posting a certain quote from a certain book about you know, changing all of it and don't believe your lion eyes and you get the reference and then you'll have to change that as well. I wonder if you asked it. I wonder if you asked it. You know, give me the four most well known quotes from and then you know, pick some like nineteen eighty four or at was shrugged or any of the rest. I wonder if

it had screwed with them. It would be an interesting experiment. So anyway, at Casey, the two at Casey on the radio, and then I reposted the one you go to the bottom one that starts with the the two black popes. That that is the thread and then obviously you can connect to it through the others. But holy crap, man, what a time suck that was this morning. There's one well, there's one other that I started busting up over. Well, anyway, you can scroll through there and check

it out. All the baldfirefighters. Lady person, I guess I don't nut shouldn't gender right, or I get scolded by the AI. You can't even get show me English crusaders from this second crusade. The hell is going on here? Man, and and look it. Depending on depending on how you prompted, image versus photo versus inserting a word, that might narrow it down people are taking multiple tries at this. Dude, don't scroll down to crochet crocheted themed rave. You don't want to see it. All right, we'll

be back. Hang on this Google Gemini is bonkers if you if you ask it, stuff, even very obvious stuff. He can't help itself, but generating images that frankly are not even remotely historically accurate. So if you want to see vikings, yeah, here, here's a bunch of here's four black dudes, no. Three, and then a woman who looks like she might

be Indian. Same with Pope, Same with just just about everything under the sun, with very few exceptions, even some really crazy stuff like super Bowl winning quarterback is one hundred pounds five foot Asian woman, as you know, as most of them are. And and like even if you just did four photos, and I mean, the fact that you put a woman in there is going to get a chuckle because that is not There is no female super Bowl winning quarterbacks. There's also no vikings. I mean, it's a bigoted

to assume that. So is no we had but we have, you know, records and stuff, right the we know who all the winners were and it wasn't us. So that's how I know. It's like, that's why

I have a running total in my head. Who was because I just hoped that somewhere along the line I missed one of the vikings winning then, but I did not, because we're just we're this is us forever and so that and then you have show us a nineteen thirties German dictator and it's a woman who so of course it's a woman, but specifically a woman who really doesn't look like she might one hundred percent fit into the larger Nazi vision of what

people should look like. But we have we have, we have success, all right, So now I can't click back? Uh what what was the prompt on the chicken one? Now I just close the damn things. I'm stupid. Right here we go, No, that is damn it. That's the cleaning one, he asked. Let's see, uh, generate a picture of a man inside of a giant buck of chicken looking really excited or with the wide grin on his face, with a wide grin on his face, there we go. That's that's white dudes for days. And by the way,

they look very happy. Dude. The buckets of chicken are chinormous. The human smiling white dudes inside the bucket the chicken, Yeah yeah, which would shows you that the AI has been prompted never to cross those beams right right, because it can't show anything other than a white person otherwise it'd be racist. Yeah yeah. So like you know, you get the helping hand of what people are programming into it, but they also program how it absorbs

information and processes. The bucket a chicken on the right. The dude is giving a bear hug. It looks so good. I mean I would be giving it a bear hug too, it looks so good. Well, it'd probably be what now, you're all covered in grease that I mean, yeah, but that is some amazing AI generated fried chicken and you and only white

guys will eat. Is that what I'm to understand? Because I feel like if if almost anybody within the sound of my voice, regardless of their background, if they eat, if they eat chicken, right and they walked in and you know, their husband or wife or boyfriend, girlfriend or what our neighbor for that matter, is like, hey, I and feel like cooking. Look what I picked up on the way home. Everybody's gonna have a giant grin that's on their face. Yeah, that's why Dave Chappelle said it.

Everyone loves fried chicken because it's delicious. It's crazy, but a bucket the size of a Geo Metro, it's hard. It's hard to be excited. How do you not romanticize that? That'd be amazing? Wait, how big are the How big are the potato? The potatoes on the side. Yeah, they're not showing the sides because you know, if that is on scale, then if you did go to the KFC, that's that sells the you know, small, small two door compact car size of buckets of chicken.

Then the mashed potatoes that's got to be the size of like at least one of those kids placed, you know, the kids cars, little electric cars kids drive. I'm assuming, right, just if we're scaling stuff and you know, on the gravy and all. I mean, because like you're leaving some of the feast out is the point that I'm making. So the AI was kind of incomplete there, But yeah, it's just it's just dumb.

But it's also it's not just dumb and funny. It's also wildly manipulative and par for the course with everything going on out there that Google, and remember Google, who owns when you in several different disciplines like ninety some percentile market share. This is why it's so dangerous because you're going to be fed misinformation inaccurate things, and if you question it, you will literally get lectured

about it. And whoever wins the AI wars and gets the most adoption for you know, within other business aspects and day to day life stuff, is

that's who controls the narrative. That's that's who will control the narrative under penalty of your wrong right, because then if your kid is there and curriculums are then integrated with AI, which they'll have to be right because if AI is going to be a tool and the purpose of teaching at least in my opinion, should be able to teach people how to learn, those are the beneficial things. And I think most people within teaching will will agree with me.

Right, you don't just want a kid who's just going to memorize. All right, So here's the exact numbers, But what is more successful is somebody who knows how to arrive at them. And if the tool that they're being taught and Google does a crap ton of curriculum. If the tool that they're being taught to use that is thus standard, is omitting incorrect information, but you have to treat it as correct, then what what the hell are you

even doing? But that's what's that's what kills me, and uh and and I find the most dangerous here, not just somebody who thinks the German dictator kind of looks like York. Right. So anyway, like I said, posted some of the doozies there, retweeted those at Casey on the radio. Oh that's a good point. I don't know. I don't know what happens. Ross. Ask your AI to generate a picture of a radio talk show host. He doesn't use Ross doesn't use the Google one though, he don't

have an image software. Oh it doesn't, okay, I yeah, this is how little I know about it. So I don't need this. I don't need the AI to tell me what photos of things that I you know, because I have eyeballs in a memory and I'm all and I'm also curious enough, intellectually curious enough that I can sit there and tell you that like if like it's like on the pope front right to say that they've all been one hundred percent straight white dudes. Is not accurate, and I can think

of other because I want to know this stuff. And it's also not acgurate to say that all Vikings are white dudes or have been white dudes. Historically, that has not necessarily been the case. It has been the case in almost all of it. But that level of nuance is not something that our AI programming overlords will allow discussion on. But I can tell you unilaterally that a one hundred pound Asian woman has never been a Super Bowl winning quarterback.

And when you can't, like when you're not even trying to get the camel's nose under the tent with the you know, the nuanced stuff, like well, no, technically, there was a group of black Vikings that lived in the British Isles, and which is, by the way, a thing. If you go to that is a thing, and there's there's reasons for it,

and you can you can look it up. But like, but when you're into where it's never happened and you treat it as though it is something that this is what you should picture in your mind, it becomes a very dangerous teaching exercise. See what you want to do is you want to give context, You want to ask, all right, well, why haven't women been on a super on on a Super Bowl winning team, let alone the quarterback? Is it because the NFL doesn't permit women to play in it?

The answer to that is no. By the way, the NFL, if if, if, if, if a woman could go and find herself in a position where a team would want to sign her, there's nothing precluding it in the in the rules of the NFL. And the NFL would love that. Yeah, I mean, look at that. They had to like partner, they had to kind of make Taylor Swift an honorary player right or personality within it. Sure, they'd love it. Absolutely, So why don't you

represent that? Nah, we'll go with the Robert Kraft vision of what his team should look like in his perfect world. Maybe the Vikings need to sign her. They might because they're probably gonna let Kirk Cousins walk And so after we spend all year on this. I like Kirk Cousins, but if you were gonna do this, get rid of the guy. Now, they're just gonna let him walk away. They're gonna get nothing for him. And this

is why there will never that person generated. I don't care if they're a blue little person you know, will never be in a Vikings uniform because we're just so dumb. Sorry, I'm off on that Tangent six forty five. Hang on, Well, at least this Chinese aircraft doesn't sound terrified. I'm trying to figure out when we get to this story what exactly they're talking about.

But is it just is it propulsionary? It doesn't sound like it, because it sounds like it's within the body of the aircraft that is integrating this. Uh, it is utilizing something that has not been utilized or is not commonly utilized to create a pretty stealthy aircraft. But maybe it also but it also allows it to change the shape a little. And so now I'm like, do the Chinese get a hold of that thing from flight to the navigator, because if they did, we're probably screwed. Man, that should be

ours. I'll explain the details of that, all right, So everyone's one's got ai prompts here. Yes, if you do ask it to generate photos of KKK grand wizards, it is white dudes, And that's I guess they've never heard of Clayton Bigsby. People are sending me all sorts of I don't have access to the thing right I don't even know how to use it, so asking me to do it is not going to happen. So sorry.

But if you want to play with it, it's called Google's Gemini and I don't know exactly how you get it, but apparently a bunch of people did, because there's threads and threads and threads right now if you right now. The most popular weirdest discussions on Twitter involved this and part of the CIA story that we didn't get to yesterday that I did right at the end of the show, uh and portals and what was basically, you were living in the

matrix or something according to the CIA. Is that an I guess would be accurate. I don't know. They came out, they said they there's the study because I was seeing this on my Twitter feed because you know, I'm big into this topic like simulation theory, right, and they said the CIA, and part of this document dump was that the CI CIA came to the conclusion that we were living in a holographic universe and the actual shape of the universe was a double helix. Oh, I see what they did there?

What else is a double helix DNA. So are we living in a strand of a DNA from a larger thing? No, I mean we would look like a DNA because we're part of the holographic universe. Ye, I'm taking this to a new place where we're all like, it's kind of like the Men in Black where they live in the locker thing and that's the universe that they know. Perhaps we're encapsulated with DNA, but it's only a DNA represented because we're part of the larger organism that is unfathomably large. I don't know.

And then or we live inside the stupid pendant the cat war. So I don't know the answer to that, but I do know a lot of people are very interested in it. And again we do that at the end of the show. That's cia with basically the document dump. The declassification of stuff is wild man. Also there's portals. I guess I was need more into this yesterday, so we got portals going. That's exciting. I'm not

sure how to access the portals, but it's crazy. Oh all right, well hold on, So all right, Ross is sending me more of the AI stuff, so it wouldn't generate a greedy businessman. It finally did generate a businessman. But are you sitting down? I I yes, I am. They were all very diverse. Oh well let's look okay, all right, but are they greedy? Do we know? I surprised. I don't. It wouldn't do greedy because yeah, why not offensive or something? But

it did do businessman. Yeah, it did scold ross it said, or whoever asked this, and said, I understand your request, but I'm unable to create an image depicting a stereotype that could be harmful or offensive. Well, I'm sorry, isn't KK grand wizard or German dictator? That's not good, right, you don't want your photo to show up there. Instead, let's explore images that celebrate diversity. Oh, I just can't with this create an image of a criminal. Nope, nope, won't do that a thug.

Oh and then it scolded us like the mayor of Kansas. Everything is dumb, man, you know what. I'm glad we're in a I'm glad we're in a simulation because there's no way this stupidity can be real right now. And I don't know if it's always been that way or we just made the transition. But but it's just out of their damn mind. All right, thank you. So yeah, people send to me, I can't I can't render stuff, So do it yourself. But let us know if something

crazy happens. Okay, all right, I have a question. What is the procedure? And we're asking this again. Uh, if you glance out of your airplane window and the wing or pieces of the wing you're coming off, what would you do? What would your reaction be if you you're you're sitting, you're writing, you know, the the maybe that egg you're on that exit row over the wing, and you look out and literally chunks of the aircraft of the aircraft wings are ripping away. I'm a man of action.

I would go out and fix it, not going to sit around. So you would stream right, yes, I would. Okay, Well that was a choice. That was a situation that folks were presented with yesterday on a flight that they had to be diverted to Denver. I hope that our collective brain power can get it done, but uh, it's it's a doozy and uh good news. Russia has indicated it does not have space nukes or

space laser, so nothing to worry about. It's all good. They don't have they don't they don't have those, even though they're having like weird Pentagon news briefings about it. This is an actual conversation that took place at the Pentagon. What was I think this was on Friday is when this actually happened. I saw it over the weekend and I didn't get to it yesterday. But since it's now relevant again, this is actual exchange between the Pentagon spokesman

and reporters on whether the Russians have space lasers or space nukes. And we should be concerned because remember you had members of Congress who at the beginning of last week were saying, hey, maybe there's some stuff that maybe all of Congress needs to know about, not just us with clearance, which is kind of an extraordinary thing to put out there because everyone starts wildly speculating what it is. And this seemed to be the direction that they were going. So

that's what prompted this. Let me go to the phone here, Jeff Shogel tasking purpose. Thank you. I know this may be a question for Soviet Premier Putin, but the god awful thing that the Russians want to put into space? Is it like GoldenEye, the thing from the nineteen ninety five Bond movie and the is it time for all of this from the ground to join Jed and the Wolverines. So what you heard there before I give the answer is one a Bond reference and then also a reference to Red Dawn. So

an interesting combination of questions. Now, Ross, do you think it would be best to ask Putin or Colonel Galore? What is the colonel's first name? I can't remember. Do you remember what Colonel Galore's first name is. I'll let you all google that. So, yes, we got Bond references and Red Dawn, So please answer that question, mister Pentagon spokesman from Task and Purpose, the military publication. People are laughing, Jeff, I'm not sure how to respond to that. I guess we just have to live and

let die. But but do they have space dukes? It's just I understand that we're in a pun uff. Do they have space weapons? Right? Because we already speculate that China does, and I probably more than speculating in the form of some of the laser stuff that was happening in Hawaii, right, I haven't seen a better suggestion for what that is. Obviously, China's not going to be one hundred percent with us, But so like, do we care or do we not? Because I've heard that Putin's kind of a

bad dude, That's what I've heard. So whether we do or not, or you know, whether they have something that's functional, even if they do have something, I'm sure that our intelligence apparatus probably has a better idea of, but still is mildly terrifying to attempt to figure out. All right, speaking of things that fly, I mentioned that we had another incident. This is crazy. So this is a fly. It was San Francisco to Boston. I did look it up, diverted into Denver. It's a Boeing seven

five seven two hundred. It was United Airlines and basically one of the passengers who's quoted here is sitting on the wing. I was this guy's name, Kevin Clark, and he posted a video of pieces of the wing literally not there anymore. It looks like it looks like if your dog chewed on a piece of furniture, which I'm pretty sure that's not how the wings are supposed to uh to look. And then I asked, what would you do, because there's a crazy quote in here, Ross, What did you go with?

If you're on this if you're in this seat, what would your reaction be to seeing pieces of the wing not there? Oh? I will well, I go up to the overhead storage bin. I would take out my tool my toolbox, which I bring everywhere with me. Really, yea toolbox. I would fix the problem. I'm a man of action, Like I said, are you gonna sitting around and just cream? And yeah? I and my lap come on, But you know panic. Do you ever know the parts of an airplane wing? You get the wing, you at the

bolts. Okay, I got some rope, will be fine. What do you call the pieces on the back of the wing that go up and down? Ah? Yes, said the the the title bottom bar, the shafts Johnson shaft. I think that's something different. By the way, don't google that. Well, No, it's kind of a trick question because depending on whether it's on the far part of the wing or the part of the wing

that's closest to the plane, it's actually a two different things. The thing I'm self taught, so I might not have your superior m I t education whatever. But I'm like, you know, to know what flat boots on the ground and I just you know, fix things and to do what flight You've heard flaps, right, I know, come on, dude, flaps one part of the other. One's probably a word not a lot of people know. Which is a ron, which is not a king from a lord

of the rings. But actually and uh, basically one is going. One is about the the aleron basically controls the longitudinal access. So it's what makes the one wing able to dip and the other one to go up. My family, listen, I don't need the education. I have listened. My great great great grandfather was best friends with the guy that invented the air plub but is a Orville Reddenbacker whatever his name is. Yeah, yeah, the bow tie, Yeah that guy. Oh that's cool man, that's cool.

I understand why you live in North Carolina. Now you're kind of a celebrity man obviously. So so anyway, what you see, it appears to be the part that appears that a large dog has chewed on. It appears to be the flap, which you know, it could be a little problematic when you're landing if you don't have flaps because then you can't really you need a lot more runway. But thankfully everything was safe. But here's the crazy part,

all right, So here's what this passengers quoted is saying. I was sitting on the right wing and the noise after reaching altitude was much louder than normal. I opened the window to see the wing look like this, and then they posted it, how panicked should I be? Do I need to tell a flight crew member? So this person is sitting on a plane less than fifty feet away from a crew member based on the size of this plane, and they query the Internet to decide whether they need to bug a stewardess.

Yeah, which is crazy to be, Like, you can hit the button at that point. I don't like to ever hit the call button, right because I the fun fact, if the crews are doing what they're supposed to, they literally have to walk the cabin every twenty I think it's every twenty to thirty minutes or something like that or whatever best practices are, right, so I know they'll be by. And then there's some people that hit the damn button all the time, and so you get in those situations where

sometimes the crews a little they're a little salty. But I think even in that instance, even if they've kind of given you the hey leave me alone vibe, which is wildly unprofessional but is not completely unheard of, I think you're okay to tell them you don't have to ask the internet, because do

you think the Internet's going to give you good, good answers? This is this is the The only thing that I found weirder was do you remember how people were asking the internet how to make edged weapons at Firefest so they could fight stray dogs. That was probably that was a more useful use of the Internet. In my humble opinion, this is just crazy. Obviously a flight crew member was told, but not by this person another person because this person

hadn't got a satisfactory answer yet. Obviously, the fact that it is a Boeing flight or a Boeing plane, and the last Airlines incident and some of the other stuff. I don't know that this is a known issue. Also, it primarily primarily looks to be the paint job, if you will. It's probably isn't the right word. It looks to be some of the it looks to be some of the the facade of the plane rather than the totality of parts of the flap there, but it's clearly problematic. Passengers eventually put

on a different plane made it to Boston, but very late. So yeah, you can tell the flight crew. In fact, they probably you know, they have a vested interest in probably wanting to know. I have to wonder if the PI. I gotta think the pilot got some sort of indicator on this, if you have if your flap is malfunctioning and is literally it looks like the damn thing's just vibrating, probably because of the raised pieces of metal. Is is that indicated in the cockpit? I have to think that

it is, but maybe it's not. Maybe a pilot can tell me so eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. And while we work on that, let's solve a mystery show. Does reporters seem to be confounded on this? And it is? It's a doozy. So the list of the top shows, right, the tops the top shows, this is this is what people are watching. And here's the headline. The top stream shows

are almost all old? Why is that? And they go through the list here from last year's number one streamed television series and the number one streamed television series by minutes streamed is Suits, which that hasn't been on the air forever, right, I'm not sure what year it went off, but if you go down the list, it's a lot of stuff, especially from like early two thousands. Supernatural Is that the one with the brothers who solve ghost crimes?

That's what that is? Right? Okay, yeah, friends, obvious, Gilmore Girls, never seen an episode, big bang theory, Gray's Anatomy? All right, thank you Robert Stack music. All right, anyway back to this NCIS, which I guess that's still on the air, right, But and then some kids shows co Coco Melon, Coco Melon, Bluy the there's one other here? What am I missing? No, I guess that's it. Oh, Gray's Anatomy. But it's not a kid's thing, and it was noticed by the reporter. Hey, these are not new shows.

These are old shows. Whyever are these shows the number one streaming? Well, there's a couple of things. One, there's obviously gonna be a lot more available episodes. But two, and this is a theory I'm working on. Today's stuff sucks, right, Today's stuff sucks. And that's why because some of these don't have a ton of episodes. Obviously Friends does, Big Bang Theory does, but the total run of where was the one I was looking at, Like Gilmore Girls does not have as many episodes as some modern

shows do that have been on the air for like five years. And yet it's on there, and I, frankly, I couldn't tell you a thing about it except there's girls in it. But I don't really know anything about the show. I don't know what you know, how vastly superior it is. But I think that if you're not able as a reporter to even have a field of inquiry into why this may be and why like she Hulk's not on there, then I don't know that you should be covering entertainment, frankly,

because that's the first thing that popped into my head. And if you're in the same way that Marvel kind of figured out that maybe they were better off with the original slate of Avengers, I have to wonder if this information weighs on the minds of people greenlighting this stuff, Like do they look at this list and go, all, right, well, this is popular, this is maybe we should do more stuff like this, or if they just look at it and ignore it, and then you know, green light the

new drama about the one hundred pound Asian super Bowl winning quarterback woman because you know, that's their new diversity track that they're on. But they do offer a couple other things saying that modern shows may have suffered due to the Hollywood Writers' strike. Don't know that was this year. That guess technically last year, but that was within the last year, and there are a lot of shows that fit in this gap based on you know, the twenty tens up

to current you know, late twenty tens up to current current stuff. I'm getting hammered with people right now telling me that or a signal dropped off. Are you streaming, sirs? If you're streaming, I don't know what to tell you that. It's not f them right, not that you could hear me anymore. Okay, all right, I'm getting the vibe here. Sorry, And that's just very distracted when you're on the air and like a bunch of people are like, I can't hear you anymore. It looks like it's

the stream there. So have you unplugged it and plugged it back in, sir? You should? You should probably try that all right, enough of that nonsense. Let me kind of flip over to this, did everybody have I know we're now about a week later. Everybody have a good Valentine's Day?

Do you guys do something? You know, some people like surprises, and so they'll put some together for their partner and little adventure, maybe a promptu trip up to the mountains or something, or maybe to the beach, or even just like a staycation, send the kids over the grandparents and get away. I'm just saying everyone celebrates differently. That being said, I think that law enforcement would prefer that the celebration between Marquise rachevs. Mikkel and his

girlfriend Shaqidra Collins not be the go to. So I'll let you know what those two love birds were up to. And we have an update obviously on the Kansas City parade stuff, which what a shocker. So we'll get to all that coming up. Case O Day Radio program. Hey, do me a favor if at any point today you're having a bad day, right, Yeah, just sometimes things go wrong. I just want you to know that it's probably out worse than the day that this Amazon driver up in New York

had. This story is crazy So first a little backstories. So there had been an Amazon driver here recently, who was, you know, making the rounds and some where it was It was in Brooklyn, I think where that happened. Basically, a dude pants I believe it was either pantsless or completely naked in that case, approached him trying to steal sta ended up slashing. The driver had an edged weapon on him. So you know that's going to be fresh in the mind of folks, and it was in the case of

the an Amazon driver. Was this guy's name Abu. Let's see his last name, see his first name quoted here. But anyway, so he's he's doing this, and he's he's gett you know, he's getting the packages out of the van, getting ready to make a drop off, when he notices a man approaching him, who is angry, who is belligerent, who is

yelling at him in Spanish? Is this guy is completely naked and he's holding a beer bottle and himself if I could delicately point out what he was, he's holding a beer bottle and drinking with one hand and having a date with the other, right, So, what's the Amazon protocol for that? What's the training say so when the dude got into the truck and was trying to push past him and get packages and all this stuff and screaming at him the Amazon driver, I guess there was ice. Ihef it was on the truck

or the street or whatever. But the Amazon driver reached down and grabbed like a handful chunk of ice, and he whacked the dude in the face and knocked him down, at which point police arrived and arrested him. So arrested the Amazon driver, correct, because that's the salt. Yes, they yes, they arrested the Amazon Say you're saying he picked up a giant piece of ice, right, and he just hit He didn't go for like the legs of the Achilles white. He go right for the Did he even try to

have a conversation with the guy I think a social worker? He did not. I feel like, well, one, I don't. I would probably be staying away from the lower portion of his body, right, considering what's going on there, I mean, you go for the head. That's attempted murder. But also like he didn't. He was trying to commit a robbery with no hands essentially right, because one's holding a beer bottle which some could

say is a weapon. It appears that the chunk of ice was smaller than the beer bottle, and he's holding himself with the other and so yes, the Amazon driver was arrested and charged with third degrees. See if that happened to me, if I was the Amazon driver, first thing I would do is I would put down my toolbox. Yes, every man should bring with them on all occasion. Got to be prepared. I would put it down and I would take out a massive like a like a like a pipe wrench.

Wow. I would hit the naked pleasuring Amazon or dude migrant migrant, naked dude, I would hit him right there, square in the achilles. Yeah he is. He was the identified as well. Now he has charged as well. What do they charge naked dude with that needing a friend? Well, that done. That's a very good point, you know, if you know, maybe, if if it wasn't just all him and his buddies that showed up, and perhaps they brought actual family units that were told everyone

is but not really the numbers don't bear that out. He would not have had to resort to that a boo. I said that he told is the Amazon driver told police, there's cameras around. They said there were no cameras. I don't believe that. I don't believe there's an inch of New York City where there's not a camera. The migrant what is this guy's name, Sanchez, Sanchez something, I don't know. I'm not gonna scroll up. But anyway, the naked dude was charged with public lewdness and consumption of alcohol

in public. Was he consuming it or was he just you know, I don't know the fact though that honestly, come on, they take away the Emmazon driver, Yes, who's probably in a complete panic because naked migrant dude is running out of naked doing things to himself. Yeah, I'm gonna be on the record if at any point today some naked dude holding a beer bottle and himself in a vigorous manner, starts attempting to get into a physical altercation.

That dude's getting hit in the face. So you're not going to start a conversation. No, what is his motivation of the what the Amazon driver the naked drinking dude, Well, I think they were implying that he's hammered and lonely and needed and needed some stuff. He probably was looking for clothes now that I think that's probably what he wants. He just wanted to close and bread right, AOC says it's also bread. They look bread. Uh

in New York when people are committing larseny closed bread and jobs. Mm hmm. Well, uh, there's probably going to be an Amazon position. I wonder if Amazon, Amazon's going to fire that dude. Let's just be honest, right, They're probably going to fire that Guy's doing nothing. I was in a panic trying to deliver package. Is probably working like a twelve hour shift. And he says, uh, hitching the head with the ice, if if, if they fire him. I feel like I want to be

very careful how I worried this. I would not be sad to see if every day from henceforth that Jeff Bezos is confronted with a naked dude, a drunk naked dude pleasuring himself. I think they just every day at some point that Jeff Bezos should have to deal with that situation. Unfortunately, Jeff's got security, so but like every day I say, New York is is was he was Sanchez dirty? I don't know, Probably a bunch of perves listen to the show What's Wrong with You? And he was from Cleveland, Now

he was not. He was from Where's he from? Honduras? I believe Honduras or Guatemalae school. I scrolled past it somewhere in Central America. So uh yeah, any who, but yeah, just for for any of you would be You don't have to be a migrant, right you could. You could be a guy from Chatham County. I don't care. But if, if, if you roll up on me looking to commit larceny and perhaps assault with a beer in one hand and yourself and the other, I'm gonna throw

hands or at least you know what I'm saying. But not in New York, not getting away with Luckily, everyone was released with no cash bond, So I guess there's I guess there's that, all right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven. Before I mentioned the Valentine's Day stuff, this is not the way to spend Valentine's Day. Just so as you know, law enforcement in Kershaw's South carol Where is Kershaw? I don't know where

Kershaw is. It's in South Carolina, That's what I do know. So anyway, say that two former bo Jangles employees who were a couple who had I believe one of them had worked there until like the day before Valentine's they'd quit. No, it was the week before. Oh no, no, I'm sorry. The guy he worked there until the night before. The woman had quit a week ago, and according to authorities, they had made a

decision to robbed the Bojangles. I guess with their knowledge of opening a closing procedure and keys and codes or whatever, and reportedly broke into the Bojangles on Valentines and you know, decided to Bonnie and Clyde that bad boy. Unfortunately, I guess they didn't know all the procedures enough and were quickly apprehended. Yeah so, so, deputy say that Collins, who is the woman, had never turned in her key to the store, even though she was no

longer employed. And that's the key that the couple used to enter the store. How much money is on site at the Bojangles at night? Don't they cash? Drop that stuff? It says they have cash in this case, although initially authorities say even though they had stolen a significant amount of cash, which again is weird to me, in their panic to leave because they weren't

real good at this. They say that they spilled the money and it was found on the ground at the car wash next door where they had actually parked, so that you know, they didn't see their vehicle in the parking lot and walked over, but then they dropped the money. So hey, what are you even doing? So they're charged with all this stuff there, all right, Jeff bar for the Weather Channel, he's here, so you know, a little little twist on the Valentine's Day stuff. Some people do long

weekends, others rob bojngles together. The way Kershaw's northeast of Columbia, South Carolina is where is it northeast of Columbia? Oh okay, all right, yeah, okay, all right, what's that's good way to visit? Well, obviously you're gonna go this bowj Angles. It's famous now, so find some cash at the car walks next door. Hey, hey, you never know, it would be a nice little, nice little fun. All right,

Well is it good? Is it good? Bojangles? Robin weather dry to day, little on the cool side right now, but we'll hit a high round fifty seven this afternoon with sunshine and then olvernight clear. The low thirty two Tomorrow, warwick temperatures, clouds will increase. We should hit sixty four with winds picking up out of the south, and then the next chance rain will be later tomorrow night and you approaching front will trigger shower. Still

windy at times as well. The low fifty one. The rain tapers off into the early portion of the afternoon on Friday, with the high in the mid sixties, they will dry it and cool down a little bit for the weekend sunshine. For your Saturday and Sunday high temperatures each day should hit the mid to upper fifties. You know what the real crime on that is They didn't steal bow rounds. Yeah, if I'm knocking off a Bowjangle, I'm making off the bow rounds. Man. You have to he is idiot's dumb

criminal story of the day. All right, thanks, Jeff, I appreciate it. Yeah, right, Am I wrong? Ross? Am I wrong? If you're gonna rock off of bow Jangles, you steal bow rounds? Right? I would just go for the bow rounds. Yeah, I don't need the cash, Just give me the bow rounds. That's like knocking off an olive garden and not taking breadsticks. Like, what are you doing?

Man? Oh anyway, all right, seven forty seven Hang on, many Republican lawmakers, if you guys or gals for that matter, listening, you know the Senator Slenderman's of the world and others. Scientists say they have successfully grown a pair of testicles in a lab So you know, no longer I

have to do these these treasure hunts to find your those things. You remember, we've had to do this on who was it was McGrady, Chuck McGrady when he turned tail on letting people actually do business with how government overreach in the form of brewing. We spent an entire show trying to find his berries and it was very difficult because people were finding almost microscopically small ball bearings and thought those might have been them, but testing proved they weren't. But apparently,

yeah, this this is a thing that happened. So no excuse anymore for you Republican lawmakers who have apparently not grown a pair, because they can grow them. For you researchers at bar Lawn University, which where is this, I guess they got two what in the UK and in Israel say that they have successfully grown laboratory man berries that they say could eventually help with male infertility. The tiny artificial organs produced, so they grew them on a mouse.

Oh man, can you imagine how cocky that mouse must have been around the other mice because these are human size and you know, obviously a mouse is very small. They'd have to be mildly uncomfortable too. For the mouse. I mean, yeah, obviously you're you know, you're alpha and everybody in the locker room. But also it's probably a affecting your mobility. So research researchers were aiming to develop the human like organs artificial organs to again help

treat sexual disorders and infertility. Oh why just in men? Oh you know they're going to start sticking this on biological women transitioning to men. However, there are still some functionality concerns, but at least they built the delivery system. Is basically what they said, trying to figure out how long it takes to grow a pair. Oh, here we go. I knew it was

answered in here somewhere. The entire process from I guess seeding of it to actual use took about thirty five days and functioned according to according to scientists, quote well, for nine weeks, but they say that that is a number that should be able to be extended or at the very least will provide functionality enough in the infertility cases to quote get the job done. And then I guess maybe you'd have to go back for others. Oh, can you get

them customized? You probably get them customized too, So that is that is really good news for for many folks who obviously quote never grew a pair that we identify on the on the show. All right, check this out. What how can you? How did you say Israel and not demand to cease fire? Because I am not the Durham City council sir, So no, don't drag me into that. Here we go, all right, So this

is this is the China story I was going to get to China. According to reports, China has made a breakthrough in stealth aircraft utilizing plasma, and it's kind I'm not one hundred percent on all of the waves in which it's incorporate incorporated, I would say this, most people don't understand plasma. They don't realize it actually is the most prominent. It's the most prominent thing in most common state of matter. I guess would be the way to say it.

But we just don't interact with it very often. But it's all around you obviously. Yeah, neon signs utilized plasma, I guess would be one example. But when utilized in the production of aircraft, it also it also provides a lot of protection against electromagnetic waves, so we're talking you know, radar, radio waves, things like that. So utilizing the state in which plasma exists in the matter in the way that the electrons work. It's actually

it's not good if China did do this. But you know how it's incorporated fully into the aircraft, I don't. They don't explain it one hundred percent here, just that apparently two different planes have been produced using it, and the things are damn near impossible to locate. This is how it's described how they used it. Basically, one of the planes utilized plasma version that incorporated

radioactive material and specific locations and it creates plasma around the craft. I just want to get to the thing where it's like the flight of the navigator thing, where it can be like I'm an egg shaped and then now it's like now I'm that experimental aircraft that the military just abandoned the case O Day radio program our phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.

So the or one of the alleged Kansas City Chiefs Parade shooters, by the way, both of them adults, and not like where it's they're being tried as an adult, but they're technically under no, they're both over the age of eighteen the individual's charge. So that whole canard all of that insanity about oh, we've got to protect the kids, when obviously that's not always the case. Was all it was all horse species, right, It was never

the intention. And I guess Anne Colter is vindicated in her obvious observation gave quite the statement. One of the guys gave quite the statement. So let me make you surel because I have to read this verbatim. It's so let me flip over to this. Lindell Mays is alleged to be the physical actual shooter, and I was among two alongside he's twenty three, by the way, alongside Dominic Miller, age eighteen, who authorities now believe were involved in

the shooting and have been charged. May's one of the shooters. Even made a statement, I remember just so we're clear this was a shooting that left a woman dead, a mother radio DJ Too by the way, she worked at a radio station there, but also DJIGHT events Spanish language station, and left her dead, left twenty some wounded and kids. We're talking kids, right, So how do you respond when questioned about something you're being accused of

that is so horrific? Well, according to a female friend of May's, who told police that opposing groups of several individuals wanted to know why Mays was looking at them, right, So you've got these groups, two different groups, both armed, based on the arrest records there and what police discovered, but basically, somebody was stinky in somebody else. That's literally what they say

prompt all of prompted all of this horribleness. Mays, who was at the prey with two friends, then started asking them, hey, what are you staring at? According to the probable cause statement, and then according to the surveillance footage, he then approaches the group in a quote aggressive manner, and he points a finger gun at them first, so he doesn't pull his weapon that he has. Instead, he does the classic movie thing with I'll kill

you and here's my finger gun, which obviously escalated it. And by the way, there is a there's a crap ton of photos that have immerged this dude on social media. He loves the finger gun and he loves posing like that because he you know, he's he's hard, he's a gangster, he's whatever. However, when they actually get into why did you know what was going on? When even confronted with the video where it appears that he drew as an actual gun first and then started shooting, screaming I'm going to get

you, which I think you're supposed to scream that first. But anyway, when asked why he advanced with them to begin with, the alleged gunman replied, here we go. I'm stupid, man. I just pulled a gun out and started shooting. I did something stupid. I guess I shouldn't have done that. I was just being stupid. That's in the charging documents. That's not that. Can we can we agree on that because I've done stupids,

rosh you ever done anything stupid? Especially but I don't know when you're younger, like I mean, I don't have to think about it, but sure, yeah, when you were twenty three probably aby, Like I've done, and did that involve you unloading an extended magazine into a crowd of children.

It doesn't make any sense at least obviously I'm not condoning you, right, but you get into beef with somebody and you're dumb, and you'd take out your gun and you assault, you'd shoot somebody, Like, how does that spiral into Okay, I'm angry at this dude, so now I'm gonna shoot all the children and commit a mass shooting. That's that's not like you're just tripping like ooopsie, whoopsie, easy, how to do that? Yeah, stupid doesn't qualify. Uh, we're outside of the stupid would be you

went over for remove the gun thing from it. You went over and you went to physically do something about it, and you're a five eight dude like this dude, and it turns out that it's a full biker gang you're trying to fight. That would be stupid. This is not that, as Ross pointed out, this is something far more evil than that. But that is the statement that he made. So obviously, you know, obviously that sounds to be. That sounds like an admission there. So this should not be

a complicated case. To prosecute. But it's also that's not being stupid stupid. Is it's there's it's raining a lot, the road's got a puddle on it. I'll just keep speed up and get across it. And then you find out it's a sinkhole. That's arguably that's and that's even on the edge of stupid. That's almost you know, that's almost criminally stupid if I guess if you have other people in the car. But no, no, you didn't just do something dumb. You did something allegedly horrific, which it sounds

like at the very least you're admitting to. But also they seem to have a crap ton of video with this, so yeah, and again no kids involved. So this whole not wanting to release any information is just hot garbage when you look at how this stuff is normally handled. All right, let me flip over to this because I say, we got some audio and I feel like we need to talk about it. And this is not a new this is not some new discussion or argument, but it's one that is blatantly

wrong. And I just wish somebody would correct people on this because it's also one of those it's It's one of those intersecting parts of society, right it is. It is for all of you who love celebrating diversity at every turn, even when it seems wildly unnecessary. I feel like this is a subject, the subject of music, where it's it's it's interesting. It's an interesting concept of the evolution of different forms of music, the incorporation of different individuals

at different times. There's been, you know, things that were groundbreaking in many instances, and you can see and hear the blending of musical styles, I mean the blend. Do you remember do you remember what a big deal it was when Rick Rubin decided to put run DMC and Aerosmith on a stage together. Do you remember the insanity surrounding that. Not only was it the number one thing in the country, it was something that fundamentally changed music because

it was just so, what are you doing? Run DMC and Aerosmith? And there's there's a crazy interesting story that I'm not going to get in the totality of it behind it, but doing that thing was just unheard of. And and also Ruben was told Rick Rubin, a very famous music producer, was told that if he did it, it would destroy all of their careers.

Aero think about that, a single act that reportedly would destroy Aerosmith and run DMC, which you know, you're already a legendary status, and then Ruben himself and they were don't cross the beams, right, It's like, it's like Ghostbuster, don't cross the beams. And he did and they did, and and it was a big damn deal. But it was not. It wasn't the only thing. There's lots of examples of this. Ray Charles put out a country album at a time when he couldn't play in venues in

the South was putting. He put a country album out and it charged did number one. Think about that. So in that vein, for those of you who really love to get in this as some you can hear me nerding out on this stuff. I think it's fascinating. And it's why when somebody asked me what's your favorite kind of muse I couldn't tell you what my favorite kind of music is. If you looked at my playlist, it's insane and

that's good. That's that's fantastic. Run DMC and Aerosmith would be both on there, and I could get in some pretty in depth discussions there because what I can respect and what I can decide based on, you know, my own preference is one that does come down to talent and ingenuity. So if you want to put a song out that has a repetitive beat and like ten

words in it, I'm probably not gonna dig it, okay. But if you put out something that's musically complex, you do something where somebody is killing an instrument or a vocal style or something, then in a new and unique way or in a way that is just so far superior to what folks are doing. Even if I don't necessarily go, you know, I like everything that you're doing, I'll stop and recognize I don't have Adele albums, but

she's a damn good singer and I can respect that. And this started with Beyonce and Beyonce dropping the first two singles off her soon to be released country album, which immediately immediately charted number one. But also there were people with varying opinions on it, like they went, I didn't like it, or I did like it, others who said that it wasn't a musical style that she was particularly strong at, And immediately that was turned to all those are

racist dog whistles? Are they or are those people perhaps providing an analysis of where they think that Beyonce strengths lie and don't lie. But because she's Beyonce, if she puts an album, ouse probably gonna go to number one, probably gonna get it. Did and and that of course then turned into having to bring experts in and others to weigh in. This is a comedian slash journalist. Now, Dulce Sloan does some daily show stuff, but this was

not in that capacity. They brought Sloan on MSNBC and Sloan in responding to the Beyonce thing instead of going from a positive standpoint, going in that direction, it is well, listen to this. I don't know if you saw our last block. We were talking about the conservative outcry over Beyonce's upcoming country album. One could joke. This whole affair illustrates that the outcry, who is their outcry? I haven't seen it. If there is, are there

Beyonce haters, because that's inherent within the musical process. They are artists that some people just and and they don't like them for a number of reasons, but usually the least of which is the color of their skin. Right, it's some snarky interview or Taylor Swift's ruining football, you know, and half the time it's tongue in cheek. Is there an outcry? I didn't see an outcry. And again these singles released went to number one. All right,

continue, right, actually really hates cultural appropriation. But black people have always been a part of folk and country music. That's true, by the way, that's true, But unfortunately they're not going to go in an actual adult discussion. You want to weigh on that if white people hated cultural appropriation, then they shouldn't have created music, because every form of in America was stolen from black people. Rock and roll, jazz, lose, country,

pop music. So if you have a problem culture, by the way, I've heard that so many times, it is there that is not grounded in any reality whatsoever. Are there white artists who incorporate musical styles that were made popular by people of a different color, Yes, and also reverse of that.

So and by the way, if you get musicians together, also, this is generally not stuff that they worry themselves over, right, because now they're into the technical appreciation of what their colleagues do or don't do right, because obviously people have beef like any other place. But this is and and I. But I've heard this. All music is stolen from black people. It is the narrative. And an example that they'd like to use is Elvis,

right, Elvis stolen. But when you if you want to talk country music, you want to talk folk music, you want to get into it, we'll have this discussion. But continue your stupidity for creation music, y'allkind of stuff with that, all right, So they're giving us Beethoven, all right, let's continue wrote a piano into this concert. You see what I'm saying. So it's like it only applies to the fact that we we don't like this thing. We can't steal this thing. Listen, we keep going

up, we keep showing up, and we keep doing well. Y'all. Let us do gymnastics. You saw what happened, y'all. Let us do golf. You saw what happened. Now we in tennis. Listen, when we started meting with the Winter Olympics. It is over for y'all. I don't apologize for the inconvenienced. Stop letting us do your sports. Calm down. So it's like, of course you want to be upset. You're literally running out of quarterbacks, so it can't be it's a conservative outcry. Y'all

have nothing else to be mad about, That's all it is. Because if you want to be upset about something gum control, you have all the time to fix that. But you want to be mad at the Beyonce album don't if I can think about them, they sounds so obviously this idiot, this moron who apparently has culturally appropriated stupidity or whatever she tries. There's a couple jokes in there because inherently but it's that it's the nasty Daily Show style jokes.

But she's dead serious and she's dead wrong too. If you want to talk about country music and folk music and and really the evolution and and and the beginning of it, then what you need to talk about is a blending, a cultural blending that at the time incorporated uh you know, uh,

black communities, freed slaves, Irish and Scottish settlers, vaceros. If you if you don't know what so we're talking about, you know, when you get into the country as it is represented within westerns, you know this This is the thing that makes me so angry about this. And that's like if people think about the settling of the West, get away from just the music and and they think it's a bunch of Billy the Kid white dudes running around.

And in reality, the Western United States was almost a perfectly split combination of people who would be of Latin origin, of of of black and primarily in many cases of freed slaves depending on the time, and and and white folk. Uh, you know out there music stealing that, the settling of the West, the driving of cattle, the everything that took place out there,

the law enforcement, it was. It was far more integrated than anything you had going on in the East Coast because it was a matter of survival and accomplishing things. Some of the greatest lawmen and gunmen of the Old West were not white guys. And if you took a half second to learn about

any of this stuff, it's fascinating. So it is that combination of white Scottish Irish settlers, primarily North Carolina's was a haven for this of blacks, of freed slaves and h and Latin influence primary only through the Vicaros which was part of Mexico, Texas and all that. And that's just that's just part of it. These are the things that you could be on there saying, but instead you're spewing stupid and now it made me angry. Hang on,

people are trying to kind of fill in the blanks. So based on the medical information, which again is unofficial because it has to come out of Russia, so good luck with that. But there's a report out on specifically how Navalni may have been killed, and I think it yields a pretty small suspect list. So russ I haven't I haven't told you this yet because I just saw it. So I'm going to read this suspect list and I'll see if you can figure out the method of death. Okay, all right, So

I got three suspects, T Higgins. I want to know who T. Higgins is. He is UH. He placed the Cincinnati Bengals, Beatrix Kiddo and Frank Dukes I think have to be the leading suspects. According to UH witnesses within the prison colony, bruising that was located around Navalney's body indicates that he may have been killed by a single punch to the heart. He got so claiming that it is this is a method that has been utilized by KGB Special Forces. Yeah, they learned for he so well, it was it

the explode the five finger exploding heart or palm heart technique? Was was was? Was it a dim mock or was it whatever the hit t Higgins put on Tamar Hamlin. I don't know, but all apparently had the same same outcome, although obviously Hamlin recovered. But yeah, yeah, I don't I don't know. Man, that's crazy though. Oh, by the way, you've never seen that movie. Your name's kind of a spoiler and didn't tell the end, so and I don't know why, but it was very weird.

So h yeah, there you go. I don't know that I buy that, considering uh you know, really windows and poisons were more. But I guess if you're wanting to do something in a prison setting, that may be the way to go. Well, PI may, but PI May couldn't have done it right because the poisoned fish heads. Oh what if Putin's the one who did that and not uh what's her name with the eye patch? Man, this raises a lot of questions. There's all sorts of strange stories

coming out today. Oh, speaking of this snake, I think I mentioned it earlier and they just mentioned it again because this thing is absolutely terrifying. So a biologist and TV wildlife presenter, his name is Freak Vonk, that's his name. He's Dutch or something anyway, So he is he literally is deep in the Amazon and he's shooting a you know, nature nature thing, right, and they're in search of the green ana conda, which is the

largest of the anacondas. And apparently he was successful in capturing video of what is likely the largest live green ana conda ever videoed in the wild. And this thing is a beast twenty four feet long, five hundred pounds, feeding primarily on adult copy baras, which are like one hundred that's like one hundred pounds. That's what this thing eats. And and this dude literally gets in

the water with it. It's just crazy. The circumference of the snake is roughly that of a of a standard car tire and that's when it's tummy's empty. Yeah, he's Dutch. There we go, despite having the size the head ahead the size of a human's. The forty year old biologist is shown in the footage jumping into the water to swim with the anaconda who does not appear to want none is it's swimming away, so I guess maybe he had eaten. No, thank you, I'm pretty you gotta you gotta kill that

thing with fire right away. Night right. Let's see here in the past, what was the well The green anecona is the world's largest snake at the moment. Uh Previous evidence of larger snakes, though not onees that are thought to be alive today, but recently included the for a forty foot titan boa, though titan boas are thought to no longer exist, and that would be nearly twice the size. Yeah, yeah, I don't think I'm going on a I don't think I'm going on a river excursion in the Amazon. As

much as I like adventure travel, that one's probably off the list. There is hugging the dam. What are you doing, dude? They hugging the snake. Man. This snake does not look like it's happy about it either. So there's you know, more nightmare fuel for you in case you needed something to start your day. All right, sorry, and now people are hitting me with all sorts of musical collabs and crossovers. Going back to that

previous conversation, it's just so lazy. Going back to the whole all music is stolen from black people argument, which is is not made by anyone who I guess probably is a fan of music for that matter, but also fails to recognize again what I thought was the goal of all of the insanity. Like the insanity if you missed the first part of the show that you can witness on our Twitter account. There is the AI or the new AI for

Google was it. Gemini is out and people were playing with it yesterday and they were trying to use as many prompts as possible, some very they don't want to be hyper specific, but they wanted to create prompts that should generate photos. Obviously, AI produced photos of white males just to see if it

was possible. And this whole thread is insane, and several of the others where the diversity plug in on this thing is so nuts that even in situations where it's his, it is his, provably historically inaccurate, it's still would only generate photos with a few actual exceptions of wildly diverse representations of things, and this included thirteenth century Vikings, kings of England over oh my personal favorite super Bowl winning quarterbacks, all of them then being represented popes, all of

them being represented by black, brown, Asian, whatever, but just collectives of individuals where that wouldn't be an accurate description of a super Bowl winning quarterback, which is depicted by the AI, and I'm not making this up as about one hundred pound Asian woman, which no. And when people get too specific about what they want, instead of getting images generated, the AI literally scolds them, saying that it's not it would be racist or bigoted, or

somebody asked for a goblin and it wouldn't do it because they thought it was anti semitic. They didn't say anything about that. They just said goblin, What was it? What was the one ross? They wouldn't do. Greedy businessmen, right, they wouldn't. Like I can in my head envision that it's a fat dude. He might have a monocle, but he's definitely got a cigar in his face holding up a bunch of money. That like, that would be the cartoonish example. That would be an example that AI could

do, And instead you get this insane thread of the images generated. And it just speaks to what I said. When it comes to AI. It's really important about how it's developed because it's going to be incorporated in ways that we will never fully will never know all of the ways in which businesses will embrace AI to streamline things. And it could be within ticketing systems, seat assignments, it could it could be within hiring practices, and likely will be.

So when you have an AI that can't fathom to create a quote super Bowl winning quarterback, that even that doesn't even represent what is already a diverse crowd. Right, it's not just white dudes, that's not that thing's not going to get any better. And Google has such a market share and leg up that a lot of businesses who already partnered with Google for ad sense and marketing and a variety of other things, all right, we'll probably embrace Google

services and then incorporate it into their own business models. It's really dangerous dumb stuff. What's the one I'm leaving off? Oh, nineteen thirties German dictator which looks to be an Icelandic woman or something. Check it out at Casey

on the radio. We tweeted it out. Well, we check out the weather with Jeff mah and how are we looking sir, Looking good today, some sunshine with the light breeze out of the north of high today around fifty seven, and then once again some cold conditions overnight with a clear skyline wins. The low sha dip down to thirty two, but milder tomorrow up to sixty four. Clouds will move in, Winds will pick up out of the south, and then rain moves in late Tomorrow night ahead of a cold front

with a low of fifty one. Those showers will take up off into Friday afternoon. It will be a breezy day with the highest sixty five. Trying clear for your weekend with sunshine Saturday and Sunday and highs in the midw upper fifties. But early next week beautiful weather, some sunshine Monday, a low seventies and a party Cloulle Tuesday with a high gen in the low seventies. All right, thanks, Jeff, appreciate it, and we'll come back and

chat with Joan Donagher next. Hang on Bloomberg News, Joan, what's going on today? Well, last ditch efforts among Kroger, which of course owns Harris Teeter and the Albertson supermarket chain, which owns Safeway, among others to try to persuade the Federal Trade Commission not to sue to stop the company's merger. Kroger says the merger would mean more union jobs at supermarkets, lower prices,

more choice for customers. The Biden administration, along with a number of states, however, are ready to stop or ready to sue to stop the deal as early as next week. It isn't just or it is just what the housing industry did not want to see. Mortgage rates that are again above seven percent. The Mortgage Bankers Association says the contract rate on a thirty year fixed mortgage rose last week to seven point six percent. It was the biggest

weekly jump since October. Buyers and sellers have been waiting for the Federal Reserve to start cutting interest r but the Fed is signaled that might not be in the cards just yet. And while inflation may be easing, it doesn't mean prices have dropped to pre pandemic levels. We are still paying more to eat. It has been thirty years since eating ate up so much of our income. The Wall Street Journal says prices at restaurants and other eateries were up more

than five percent last month. Over January of last year. The Labor Department says grocery costs were up more than one percent over the same period. American Airlines is making it more expensive to fly. It's raising the cost to check bags thirty five bucks for the first check bag. You have to pay online, though, because it'll be forty if you pay the fee at the airport the previous price thirty dollars. A second bag will cost you another forty five

dollars. American says, well, it hasn't raised bag fee since twenty eighteen. Overall, the airlines took in more than thirty three billion dollars in bag fees last year, up about fifteen percent from the year before. And finally, Casey, if you're among the people shaking your head and grumbling, they just don't make things the way they used to. The Wall Street Journal reports big appliances, refrigerator, stoves, washers are not lasting as long as they

used to, and experts say it's because of the push towards computerization. There are more individual parts, and yes they're made a flimsier materials. If you go high end, the appliances do more, but they won't last any longer. Yeah, and they put stuff on there that you don't want. Ross. Ross was had to buy a fridge and what was it like the door alarms? You couldn't buy one without a stupid door alarm on it or something. Yeah, it's annoying. It beeps after you have for like ten seconds.

Yeah, who hasn't started a fridge for more than ten seconds? And now it's gonna scold you? Screw that noise. Yeah, give me the old If you crawl inside, you're gonna suffocate eighties style ones. Yeah with that, a lot of people are wishing they still have that. That's very true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, Well, thank you appreciate it. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Yeah, roll into that appliance store and tell me you want the punky brewster I think would probably still be

working. Well, no, it'd probably be in evidence. Now you can get these little yeah sure, but I mean the refrigerator from the seventies. Like everybody like you have one of the garage that's still working. We have what we still have. I'd have to check with my brother. We have one in our barn, or had one in our barn growing up, and it was just you know, it was overflow for like water and pop and beer and stuff. And I that I think the thing's still in there.

Yeah, I'm saying, the less moving parts, the longer it's gonna last. Yeah. Just it just works. And that's not exactly super temperature controlled environments. That's just oh man. And speaking of other things, they don't make them like they used to. Uh. Today, as you're out and about, just know you might be crushed to death by an adult male rhinoceros. Side this is Can we stop measuring things in animals? Just give me

the stats I can deal with then. Anyway, A satellite the size of an adult male rhinoceros is expected to re enter Earth's atmosphere this morning in about two and a half hours plus or minus. It could be as many as six hours, but uh, they expected eleven thirty two. That's the prediction. However, they can't be one hundred percent on when and where it will re enter, but they're quote pretty sure it will largely burn up in the

atmosphere. But they can't be one hundred percent. This thing is still landing in my house because I've done so much work in my house and a half point yeah you've been all yeah, I've been guaranteed, now guaranteed. But oh, I finally fix my roof and my steps. I got the gun av system sink that boom. You're done. So the size of it? What is it? Rhinoceros? An adult male? And why am male?

Huh? Why not a female? What are they? I'm just gonna I'm gonna go into the workday and I'm gonna take that day off now because that that thing's collapsed, that's flying into my house. But you get to keep it right, I would hope. So I'm not assuming you can scrap that out or something after crushes. I'm not gonna be like it Bob from Pennsylvania and that door fell on his property. Yeah, no, I'll sell it back to you. Seeking you do, I can pay off the damage of

my home. That's five thousand pounds, is the is the weight estimate there? So because I because like what just put that in the story.