Thursday-4-10-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I mean absolutely insane as hold on here. Oh no, no, no, no,
not the stock market. Well, we'll talk about that stuff.
I think there was a a an update or something
on tariffs or what. I'll look that up. It's Masters.

(00:24):
It's Masters Thursday. That's right, and I couldn't be more excited.
In fact, I'm just hold on here. I want to
see the first heat. Time is I thought I was
a screwed around on the Paramount plus app because CBS
is broadcasting the Masters this year, and here we go.

(00:50):
I think they have some coverage that literally starts as
early as six thirty. So if you need something but
no sound in the background, we listened to this show
and you got access to it, I guess fine, but uh,
just give me the damn tee times. By the way,
the Masters app continues to be elite. You want to
hear the whitest middle aged dude story ever. So one

(01:13):
of the things I like to do, like the night
before the Masters, so last night. If if you register,
if you download, it's absolutely free. The Masters they have
their own app, and you register on it. It doesn't
cost you anything. You can watch tons of classic Masters.
In fact, you can watch the final round of the

(01:35):
Masters of every year. Going back, I scrolled back as
far as eighty six, which if you remember, was kind
of a really really really important one with oh, there's
so many to choose from, so many to choose from,

(01:55):
just great Masters. Two thousand and one was when Tiger
Grand slammed it. Ninety six I think is when he
came in as a young punk and destroyed, I mean,
just destroyed everybody. But eighty six. Jack Nicholas shot a
thirty on the back nine, which, if you know anything

(02:16):
about the Masters, is absolutely nuts. So I was kind
of I pick a classic one to kind of put
on on that app And I've done this for a
few years now ever since I discovered they have a
whole library of this stuff. So yesterday I watched Phil
Mickelson's first major win, which was a really crazy Masters, yes,

(02:41):
for four hours in the background kind of when I
was doing prap to then when I was getting ready
to nod off, I was watching something that took place
twenty years ago, and it was great or more than
twenty years ago. Well I'm trying. Yeah, I can't remember
which year it was before I plugged it in there,
but yeah, there's a lot of good ones to choose from.

(03:02):
So oh, there's that, there's the playoff with Tiger and
a yell there is or not Tiger and on yell,
there's oh, let's see here, there's like three really good Tiger.
One arguably the twenty nineteen when he came back and
just won for no reason. That's crazy. Maybe I'll watch

(03:22):
that one next year. But Nicholas in eighty six Sunday Surge,
that's where you should start, if you know, if you
want just saying, but yeah, we'll get to uh, we'll
get to that coming up here, and then yeah, these
guys are gonna get cracking. So why would you tell
me that that's had the tea times here on this

(03:44):
website and then not show tea times, you absolute fool.
Google is just is so bad. All right, here we go,
Here we go. This is what I wanted to figure out,
Thank you, Thank you. All right, So seven forty is
the first I saw it, Ross, I told you seven
thirty seven forty. So I also found out that our

(04:07):
master's music was not in the system anymore. So I
don't know if somebody's screwing with stuff, but don't worry.
That tradition will continue. Ross just had to dub it
in because I didn't think about it until right before
we started, and then it's not there anymore. So that's
probably not a problem, all right. So who you picking?

(04:27):
Who do you like?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Way, Boston, Paul's already got his pick in. He's going
justin Thomas. Dad's a pretty good pick. That's a pretty
good pick. Ross, who you got?

Speaker 3 (04:42):
You ask me every year, I give you the same answer.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
I'm going with Lee Trevino, I know, but I'm hoping
answers somebody playing. I don't think Trevino's in the field.
Do you understand how it would be hard for him
to win the Green Jacket? Not?

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Is he retired?

Speaker 1 (04:57):
I don't. I mean no, you have a lifetime did
you win the Man, You have a lifetime exemption, a
lifetime exemption into the end of the field, so it
doesn't matter. As long as you can still swing a club,
you can still show up. It's the only tournament that
does that yet. I think you get a five year
exemption into the other majors, which obviously is very helpful

(05:17):
if you're a golfer, but you will always be allowed
to golf at the Masters, So yeah, but I'll check.
I'm pro I'm pretty sure to READO not in the field.
That's okay. For Ross is just about the green jacket.
All he wants is the green jacket or multiple green

(05:40):
jackets to stack them for benefits. At what did we
decide its Olive Garden Hooters? Well, Hooters don't for much longer. Maybe, No.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
It goes back to our conversation yesterday about Olive Garden
being a luxury, high end dining. Right, so if you
win the Masters, you get a twenty five percent count
at Olive Garden, which is right there outside Augusta.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
There is a bunch of fast casual right outside of Augusta.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, driven past it before. So if you put four
of them on right, you can get one hundred percent
off at Olive Garden. So that's the reason you want
to win.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, there is a lot of perks.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
You know, Chili's is down to ten percent, which is
really sad.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well, it's how they have fallen. Yeah, so that's not true.
But but you do get. You do get. You get
to go to the Winter's locker room. You get access
to it, which there's very few people living allowed to
go in there. They give you that they give you
a trophy that is a recreation of the clubhouse, which

(06:43):
is very cool if you've ever seen one, but the
the locket. Most people don't know about this, so they
give this solid gold lockett with the picture of ah
one of the I'm trying to remember one of one
of the old gall in there, and it's supposed to
be for the wags, right, so you win, then you

(07:06):
give it to your wife or your girlfriend. But a
couple of them have hit the market because of bad divorces.
So from a collector's item standpoint, it's almost easier to
get an authentic green jacket, even though they're not supposed
to be leave the club, with the exception of whoever
the current champion is, they do end up in circulation
with those lockets are not easy to get.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Have we seen any of that crap going around that
we see every year where people are like, oh, well,
you know it's a racist event because it's called the Masters.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
I'm sure, I'm sure they're out there this year, but
they're kind of like that guy when I was interviewing
protesters at the RNC who was out there protesting over
the non US's non intervention and the reunification of Ireland,
Like they're gonna be there, but nobody's really talking to them,
you know what I mean. Yeah, the good old days

(07:56):
were even before the race stuff was the women's stuff,
which is why the Masters broadcast the way that it
does now. And I want to thank you lunatics for that.
The reason when you watch the Masters you have limited
commercial interruptions and they handle everything internally is because the
National Organization of Women decided they were to come down

(08:17):
there and they were gonna and they were gonna make
a stink over the fact that women were not admitted
as club members. And they did two things. One the
Master said, screw you who who or whatever his name was,
used to be the head of Augusta. We're just gonna
do this thing. And since we're gonna handle an internal
you can't even pressure people. And remember they didn't know

(08:38):
they did no commercial interruptions for years. And also that
was famously when they arrested a dude for like taunting
the protesters. When he got arrested and he gave the
name of he would and last name is j O

(09:04):
blo m E. Sound that out on your own, hey,
would juh b l O M e and it made
it into the police report, and then it made it
into the reporting by like ABC, CBS, and NBC before
anyone figured it out. Legend a lot of people like Rory. Now,

(09:27):
I don't know. I mean, I wouldn't mind seeing him
win it. I mean, Scheffler's got to be the dude, right,
justin Thomas Scheffler. McElroy maybe he's never won the Masters,
So for Rory, I mean it's it is a if
he wants to. He's won the other three, but he's

(09:47):
never won the Masters, so we'll find out. Very excited
about that. I looked at some of the some of
the experts for whatever it's worth. Yeah, McElroy's plus six hundred.
Not that you would ever gamble on this, but if
you wanted to, Uh, he is one of the odds

(10:09):
on favorites at six hundred. Let's see here. Oh those
are top ten bets. Yeah. You gotta be careful with
the props. I I well, obviously for golf, props are good.
Did you know that some lawmakers in North Carolina put
a bill in. I don't know that it's going to
go anywhere. Since we have sports gambling now that want
to make it illegal to bet props. What are you doing?

(10:32):
What on God's green earth are you doing? Either we
have it or we don't. You don't get to call Oh,
you don't get to bet props? All right, So if
you don't know what a prop bet is, it's like
it's instead of betting on the game or whatever it is,
you would bet on an individual is one way to
do a prop that you do props for everything. You

(10:53):
can do a prop bet for the coin flip at
the Super Bowl. But I guess they're well, if you
individualize it, then people can rig the system. And it's like,
why shouldn't we be able to compete with the refs?
The hell are you talking about? So you can go
And it's like it's like when I was doing I
do the commercials during the football season for DraftKings, Right,

(11:18):
if you want to go on there, you know you
can bet who's going to score a touchdown who's not.
That's just an example of a prop bit. But you
can still bet on the things. I don't know what
they're talking about. So if if if Ross wanted to
put all of his money on Lee Trevino to win today,
good luck with that. I guess he could, but you

(11:43):
probably probably should put it in there in back in
the e coin or whatever his major investment vehicle is.
So and and Trevino has never won the tournament, so
it doesn't have a He doesn't have an automatic exemption yet,
so no, I did what did he in? He won
all the other three though, he's kind of like Rory

(12:05):
but also Lee. Trevino famously has beef with Augusta, so
I don't know what's up with that. Not a winner,
not a winner. Ross also said last year Green Jacket
winners also eat a Denny's for free. Really, I don't
think he said that as usual. We'll go to all right,

(12:28):
there we go. Yeah, no, there's gonna be golf. You
all can just suck it up and deal with it, Okay,
but don't worry. We've got other stories too. Apparently the
entire economic system in the US didn't crumble yesterday, so
there's that. And then Ross, did you see everyone on
Twitter doing their meniculpas saying they were wrong and apologizing?

Speaker 3 (12:50):
You know, you know he sure did not oh on
Twitter yesterday or well especially on Facebook. I sent under
that because because what I mean, because then you'd have
to admit you were wrong, and it's very hard to do.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Oh man, I just assumed they'd be out there going hey,
because I remember on this show, I believe your words
were not worried at all. To quote you.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah, no, there's no part of me that's worried about
it at all, especially after the past five years. There's
no part.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah. So now it's now now we're you know, you
got a critic You got to criticize some methodology, which
is fine, you can go ahead and do that. But
he's still got ten he's still got ten percent across
the board tariffs they're going to negotiate, and China is
f sideway.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
No, it's a fantastic deal. It's fantastic all the way
around ten percent, one hundred and twenty five percent in China.
But you're going to still have people that are not
gonna they're gonna be too shortsighted to not see what
just happened. Like, they're not going to either they're going
to refuse to realize it, or they're going to be like, oh, well,
you know, he caved, which is not what happened at all.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah. If you yeah, if after ninety days he doesn't
have a deal. We're gonna start the conversation about all right,
well we can't. We're at an impasse and we're gonna
have to go down this road again.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Well it seems like it's gonna be ten percent. But
I mean, the the goal, right, seems to be that
what we're really looking for is the coupling from China.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah, well that's the main thing. Absolutely, absolutely, there is
a there's some chick. I retweeted her video. I said,
I did and send it. I don't think I sent
it to Ross and she's as apoplectic because she started
her fast you know, uh, fast fashion, which, by the way,
I don't even know what that. What does fast fashion mean?
Doesn't that just mean cheap clothes that you throw away
from Timu? I don't even know what the phrase means.

(14:36):
I'm not a fashionista. I mean I look good, don't
get me wrong. But I can do it in Uh basically,
I own six to eight of the same shirts, just
in different colors. Works great, perfect for the radio guy
on the go. So I don't know anything. But she
ordered all the stuff in China. She goes, Oh, I
ordered China and Vietnam because that's where the best stuff

(14:59):
comes from. And I'm like, that's the that's the problem here, man,
that's the problem here. That's where the quick stuff comes.
That's not where the best stuff comes necessarily. And if
you did it with Vietnam, you're probably okay because they're
one of the ones negotiating.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
You know, it's all crap and his slave labor. I
was pissed off because I just started building my factory
yesterday before.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah, that's a really bad time, you know. Yeah, you
have like a consultant turned advisor.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
I thought it was the time, so I want to
build a.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
By the by the dip and you just assumed that
meant factories too. R. Wow, wow, you have made mistakes
were made, Yes, I would say, so, all right, well
maybe now we gotta go to war with them, so
uh yeah, but we are of a trade war of
varietal and China is a hose man. They were the
ones selling off all those treasuries that were driving the

(15:50):
yield up the other day, which was a little weird.
They're dumping them because their currency is collapsing. So he
got them by the by the short hairs. Anyway, we'll
get into more of the coming up. CaCO Day Radio program.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
This is the hardest day for me to pay attention,
and I really have to push myself not to fall
asleep because I'm so disinterested in golf and I know
nothing about the subject matters, So I sort of have
to smelling salts and just sort of like during the break.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Once the audience or the galleries to be able to
trash talk the golfer's wilder swing. It'd be better, yes,
because you can yell at football and basketball.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
I know.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
It brings you joy, So it's fine. But just you know,
it's a hard It's hard for me to focus. I
just start falling asleep.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
I would say that. I would say the only harder
day really is that last day before our super vacation
at the end of the year. In correct terms of
give a crap. You know, it's kind of like when
it was the last day of school when you were
a kid. You didn't accomplish anything like get me out
of here. So all right, so Ross is putting through it. Whatever.

(16:52):
Our listeners sent me a picture. Let me go back
to this on the Twitter.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
I retweeted it, Oh yeah, I saw some guy with
a hobo at a Hooters or something.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, some guy with a hobo says, my son was
at Augusta for the practice Forroun. Unfortunately there was they
had rain earlier this week. I don't know which was
he a Tuesday or Wednesday, It doesn't matter, but he
was able to score himself a picture across the street
over there. I don't know, is that at the Hooters
he used to set up with the parking lot of
the hoot. Yeah, that's the Hooters. I see the orange

(17:21):
door behind his head. So yeah, so they're inside a
lot of times. John Daly's outside with his bus there,
and so he went over and got a picture with him.
So if we had a small part in inspiring that
in any way, shape or form, we're good. And even
though Ross doesn't care about golf, John Daly and Hooters
at least are Yeah, he can get on board with that.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
I think I'd be more interested if everyone was like
John Daly, Like if everybody competing was like, you know, yeah,
because that's a fun dude.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
That's the guys here. He's there at a party playing
rounds of golf with no shoes on, smoking. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
No, it's that meme right with the tiger Wood standing
in front of him and he's just standing there.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
He's got those pants on it. He sells those pants.
Those really weird look at those are his, that's his brand.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
They look like the Bill style, those Bill style Zumz
pants whatever they're called.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, the dude. There's and there's a couple of very
famous John Daly Tiger Wood stories. When Daily dropped his
sixty five on Tiger. He had been at like the
bard can't remember which course they were at, the literally
the bar in there, of course, tying him on, and
he would have his caddie bring him like Jim or
Jack and cokes, like in the morning when they're teeing

(18:33):
off and he's like, hey, Tiger, come have a drake
with me. And he's like, we're like they're like one
of the early tea times. Like, no, we're one of
the early tea times. So Daily stays in there till
like two or something, and he shows up at the
tea box and Tiger's there. He'd been there, you know,
an hour and a half, is all warmed up, drake
is smoothie, he's hydrated. John Daly looks like me showing

(18:55):
up on a vacation eight o'clock tea time, which is insane.
Don't ever go on vacation do eight am T time,
and then proceeds to drop his sixty five on the.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Hiker He shows up in there like is that guy
having a medical event?

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Is?

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, what's going on here? I remember? Daily got famous
because he was an alternate for the US Open. Was all.
It was eighteen hours away from where it was being played.
And they're like, hey, so and so canceled. Are you
in the vicinity? He goes, I will be, and then
he drove overnight eighteen hours, got up on the tea box,

(19:28):
and proceeded to win the US Open, which is pretty good.
It's pretty good. It's like those those sports stories were
like David Wells. David Wells was Yankees pitcher. There's a
famous story when he threw a perfect game against the
Minnesota Twins. Of course that he was still so drugged
or drunk that he was seen double and he pitched

(19:50):
a perfect game, which I that's in his book. I
don't know. I don't know, but of course it came
against my team, so what are you gonna do? All right?
So in addition all the fun golf discussion, yeah, oh wait, hold,
I'm getting a series of Boston Paulie Mills. I have
to read his early ones because I expect they're gonna
get more and more incoherent. All right, what's your question,

(20:15):
Boston paul day drinking. It's not a question, it's just
a statement. Day drinking is acceptable. Hey man, if that's
what you need to tell yourself, I will wait till
after the show because I am a professional. But it's
not not happening today. Uh.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Dibbs brings up a good point on X. Do you
think Shooter McGavin has a good shot to win today?

Speaker 1 (20:37):
You know what? You probably you're probably better betting on
him than uh Lee Trevino. So there's that I don't know. Uh.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
I picked Lee Travino every year because that was my
first introduction to golf because he had a video game
in like the eighties or nineties and it was a
great video game. I was really into that game.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
You know what I hate is that they took away
his nicknames. So that's what I hate because and I
assumed that was because of people, you know, who just
can't let you know. It was probably we're gonna get
rid of everything that might offend anybody, because you know,
Lee Trevino. They used to call what was it the

(21:20):
Mary Mechs and Super Mechs was my favorite. And I
guess maybe you can't because he's Mexican American. I mean,
he's American, but he's a Mexican heritage and they call
him Mary mes or Super Mechs and I haven't. I
don't hear people ever use that in broadcast now when
they're talking about him, and it's not at his objection.
He still calls himself that on his own website. So

(21:42):
can't the guy just be happy? Anyway? All right? Six
forty one, let's speaking of sports. I saw this yesterday
and I sent it to Ross immediately because I just
knew we got to get one of these for him. So, uh,
apparently Mattel has done something they've never done before, and

(22:06):
that is create an official Barbie Slash Ken doll. In
this case, it's a Ken doll as part of their
Kenbassador series, and it's the first time they have used
a professional athlete as a Ken doll. So you got
everyone the first time you're doing this, who do you

(22:26):
go with? Right there? If you go you go Barbie
or Ken? You pick a man or a woman? Maybe
even Skipper if they want to guess, but who got
that honor? And whose doll? Will you be able to purchase?
Lebron James? Yeah, yeah, Lebron. The Lebron James Kendall was announced.
It will go on sale. I think they're going to

(22:47):
sell exclusively through Target and online.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
I saw a demo of it yesterday. I saw a
demo of it yesterday the Toy Show and it kept
flopping over, kept following Oh no.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
No, no, you can't stealim a joke, bro, damn it,
the scaryways I was going to get there. They call
it the ungrabbable toy because as you reach for it,
it falls over on its own. I had so many
ready to go, but yeah, all the jokes right themselves.
What's even crazier is it's seventy five dollars for a
Ken doll.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
I love how they always say that about the actual Barbie,
where they're like, if a woman was actually had the
proportions of Barbie, she would tip over. And I'm like,
you know what, I don't know if that's true. I
think we should look at this further.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
I'm not science, right, Yeah, let's get that changed the
body slightly so, I mean, it's still putty down below,
but I think it's more proportional. I don't know, it's
been a while, so I say, last time I really
handled a Barbie doll is when I was taking my
sisters and putting them in the bead blaster. They do
not do well in the bead blaster. You know what

(23:46):
a bee blaster is. It's that thing where you spray
like rust off of metal, so it's pretty pretty embrasive aggressive.
You had one in the barn, and if you put
a Barbie doll in there, it does not go well
for the Barbie doll.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
My sisters were older than me, like years and like
eight years older, so when I was a kid, there
weren't a lot of like Barbie dolls around the house.
My experience with them, though, is when I would go
over to like my parents' friends' houses or my own
friends and they would have sisters, and all I know
about the Barbie dolls is, for some reason, ninety percent
of them would end up looking like they were. They
would be naked and tortured. Yeah, that's what they look like.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
They're all slutty, yeah, and bloody party.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Girls, like dirty, like dirty plastic rubber.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Like, oh my gosh, who did I bring home from
the club? What's going on here? Yeah? Well that was
the inevitability Lebron James, though I guess they're And by
the way, this is the other thing too, all right,
hold on awesome possible. I can't keep up with your
emails about drinking this morning. This is more listening to

(24:48):
you talk about golf is more torturous than waterboarding. I
don't know. Maybe we should run that theory. Come on down, sir,
we'll see. We haven't got to waterboard anybody on the show. Yeah. Anyway,
So seventy five dollars. And I love how Lebron's like
this is for we want to put a positive role
model for the kids and for the community. And I'm like,

(25:09):
I don't know. Maybe one of the things you can
do is not charge seventy five dollars for a Barbie
doll Is that how much they cost? Now? Ros? Will
you google how much a standard ten dollar is? I
was gonna do this for the show and I forgot
case I it can't be seventy five dollars. And by
the way, that's seventy five dollars if he didn't make
it in China. Okay, let's just be real honest here.

(25:33):
That's seventy five dollars if you didn't And Mattel Manufacture
is a lot in China, though they do do Vietnam
and Mexico. They have a bunch in Mexico.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Looks like it's a standard toy price for an action
figure if you want to call Canon action figure.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
I know he's say it's.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Well, I mean he's sensitive about this, and we learn
this in Toy Story three, But it looks like it's
about twenty twenty three bucks something like that. Yeah, twenty
four dollars.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
What are we doing with seventy five dollars for Lebron's Now,
I did say there's some special autographed ones. Those are
clearly not but those are part of that. They an
initial three hundred run. The seventy five dollars is the
MSRP when they go full production.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Does he want like kids get beat up in the
hood or something like these kids?

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Like I don't, I don't know. I mean, it's just
it's like, why is it seventy five dollars? And I
is it because a licensing thing that.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
He's doesn't matter who it is, Like I just know
it myself as a kid, if I showed up at
the bus stop or whatever with my Ken doll, it
probably wouldn't have gone well.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
And you know what, and it probably I would have
been good for you, right, because it's like, why are
you showing up with a Lebron John. He would have known.
Remember Lebron James wasn't born yet, so they would think
you're lying.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
I had enough beatings as a child, so I'm gonna
I'm gonna avoid that when I'm not bringing my Barbie
doll to the bus stop.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Oh well, I'm just saying that. It'd have been like,
this is Lebron James. One day he will be born
and be annoying to listen to. All right. I guess
it's because they have an iconic fashion line with him.
But still it's like, you do an outreach to kids
and then you're charge at seventy five dollars, Especially part
of that outreach is targeting kids in socioeconomically challenged communities.

(27:14):
You think they can afford seventy five dollars for your
doll or action figure or whatever it is. Give me
a break, man. So I don't know why it's seventy
five bucks. But holy hell, all right, six forty seven.
Apparently we're the third most hated country in the world
right now, according to angry Europeans. And of course Newsweek

(27:36):
was there to do the lifting. I will tell you this,
the amount of news outlets yesterday who seem to be
clearly on team China in this trade war is a
little disturbing. I don't understand this for a minute, even CNBC.
Here's how China could crush the US housing market. One.
I don't believe this to be accurate. Obviously they were

(27:58):
unloading treasuries. When you're talking about MBS's mortgage backed securities.
They don't own enough to disrupt our housing market. So
the why are you writing articles like that? And yet
they were? Man, So I'm gonna assume you're on a
team China, which is crazy because I don't know if
you guys know this. For all your reporter class, you know,

(28:21):
they still disappear reporters over there, right, Hell, they'll disappear
a former president from a publicly streamed meeting. And so
do you guys not know do you guys know what
the concrete Well, they have a name for it. It's
like tofu concrete or something. So China went through this

(28:43):
building phase nearly two thousands. They build all these huge
high rises, but the concrete is so bad that you
can grab it with your hand and like pull it away,
like it's a combination of a cinder block and a
styrofoam block, and as a result, whole buildings will just
fall over. And this was they had a few very

(29:04):
high profile ones that happened back in like two thousand
and six and seven, And in two thousand and eight,
Beijing was hosting the Olympics, and so all of this coverage,
which had been a national crisis in China stopped but
for a few reporters like no, I'm not going to
stop doing it, and then they stopped being around. China

(29:27):
literally disappeared reporters before the two thousand and eight Olympics
because they were pointing out that government of fit. The
reason that the concrete and the construction was so poor
is because so much of it was getting stolen. So
everyone along the line was dipping in there, and a
lot of it was politicians and they were dipping in

(29:47):
there and taking the money. So the quality of construction
was to the point where it'd fall over. In a
stiff wind and then something horrible happened. China actually had
a pretty significant earthquake that was bad, but most buildings
would have been largely survivable, and then they didn't. They
just fell over like dominoes man. So that's the team
you're signing up for. You got the team that tells

(30:10):
you you can't ask a question at the press conference
because you're a one note TDS suffering trick pony or
another one who takes you to a farm up state
so you can go hang out with the former president
of China removed out of his own party meeting from
the front row in a legendary series of photos and videos.

(30:32):
Choose wisely, That's all I'm saying, all right, eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight seven four we got
dumb audio from Chuck Schumer, because you know, it's a
day that ends in why and and and end. I
love this the update to that weird story I had
yesterday about the dude who did the hit and run

(30:52):
and then just randomly ran into a yard and pretended
he was gardening in his boxers with a guitar, and
a woman emerged with a gun and then police ended
up shooting her because she didn't drop the gun only
in the shoulders. She's fine. She kind of famous. I
did not see this coming, So we'll get updates on
all that. More coming up CaCO Day Radio program Kid

(31:14):
is seven oh seven CaCO Day Radio Program, so that'll
be a running thing going on. Also coming up on
the show eight oh five, Stephen Kentill joined us, and
now Stephen ken could admit, I don't know that he
was wrong. I think he just hedged his bets, so
I don't think it's fair that he's gonnadmen he was wrong,
because I'm actually sad. I too was hoping that I

(31:36):
it wasn't a thing but that whole Narnia Meryl Streep
thing where they're like, hey, what if we had Meryl
Street voice Aslan in the Narnia series, which, if you
know anything about what Aslin represents and it not just
represents is in that movie, you'd realize why that probably

(31:56):
is going to do well among some of the more devout,
especially those who are c. S. Lewis's material for the
religious overtones, and Steven didn't think it might be real,
and I didn't think either, So that's why before I
even talked about it last week. I went and I
just wanted to see if there's any response, any push.
I couldn't find any. So we did talk about it

(32:18):
with the hedge there and then yeah, it kind of
looks like it's real. So we'll get into that minecraft
and various of course tarif because like, here's the deal
we think of tariff's just going to impact you know,
close or cheap things made over in China, but getting
into a full blown trade war with China, Hollywood is
hosed man for right now. I don't care how many

(32:41):
weepy John Cena apologizing in Mandarin videos or Lebron James
ignoring slave labor moments you're gonna need if you're crafting
a movie. And remember a lot of these movies are
where they will literally tweak the final product that you
see because they're trying to he's China, and sometimes the

(33:02):
companies do it a lot of times they do it,
and then you end up with these weird things that
don't really fit in there or where there's always like
The Martian is a really good example. So The Martian
to get it to open there and to get certain
levels of funding to make the movie, they and it is.
It is part of the book, per se, but it's

(33:24):
not done in the way that it's done in the movie.
Is you had to have the hey, China save the
Day part of that right where they launch spoiler alert,
They launched the rocket that they're going to use to
resupply Mark Wattney ahead of him getting rescued in four
years whatever the timeframe was, and they don't do testing
and it goes up, the weights off balance, it blows up,

(33:46):
and they're like, well, that's it. Mark Wattney's dead. And
then China's like, we have a super secret rocket that's perfect.
What if should we tell him? And then China saves
the Day. It's a whole part of the movie there.
That's how you got stuff into China. Stroke the egos.
There was a lot of investment. Can I remember the
big Chinese production company? Is it something forward? Go Forward?

(34:11):
Well whatever it's got the like the diamond orange yellow logo.
Oh no, it's well go Usa, that's what it is.
Well go Usa. If you ever see that before a movie,
that's China. That's Chinese dollars there. So if you're Marvel
and you're putting together obviously the New Avengers movie. Now,
those are the types of movies where you do three

(34:33):
hundred million in the US two hundred million in China
opening weekend. China's not gonna take those movies. One of
the first things we're gonna do is eighty six that So,
does that mean Hollywood will not try to appease China
and kiss their you know, kiss their boots in making
these and we'll get some American products. Now, they're probably

(34:55):
still assuming that someday China will let it in and
they can still reap dollars off. But that that's a
whole different consideration. With the way that modern blockbuster movies
are planned for right now, China is a very important component,
and so when a movie doesn't get in over there,
it's it's a big financial deal and it's been just

(35:16):
like everything else, it's kind of a hose in us.
And I remember, I will say the one that I
do appreciate is, do you remember China wanted a change
in the Maverick movie, the Top Gun Maverick movie, and
it was a bridge too far and it was one
simple change. Ross do you remember what the change was
when they wanted in the Maverick movie. It had to
do with his jacket.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Because he had his little jacket on and it had
the Taiwanese flag on.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
It had a Taiwanese flag, which is true to the
original movie. It's on there, and they wanted him and
so I guess they shot some scenes without it, and
then somebody, rightfully, maybe it was Tom Cruise, I don't know,
somebody went, this is we're not we're China's. This is Maverick.
Every second, I let China dictate what's on his jacket,
So we're.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Not going to right they fixed it, and then they
fixed it, if that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
And then they put it back. Yeah, so they're just like, fine,
screw you. But like the fact that they thought that
they were willing to yield to that nah and said
good on, even if it's crazy. Tom Cruise whoever, went, now,
we're not doing this thing, and what did we get?
Remember Remember how much they were clowned on that movie.
It was just going to be a nostalgia popcorn fast

(36:24):
and nothing more, which it kind of was. But it
arguably saved the movie industry. And I don't think that's
too I don't think that's too aggressive a description. Right,
This is the back end of COVID movies that are
coming out, where a lot of them were going direct
to streaming services. Nobody was making any money because he
didn't have theaters in a lot of states. And they

(36:47):
they figured out, they timed it just perfect. They put
the money into it, they did the production, and that
thing was absolutely as much as the critics wanted to
hate it, it was a huge six.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Steven Spielberg said that that movie saved the industry.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah, okay, well, then there you go.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Steven Spielberg says, you know, he told that the Tom
Curry on the red carpet for some movie.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
He's like, yeah, you know what, now, as you mentioned that,
I think, yeah, I think I do remember that. And
you didn't have to edit out a Taiwanese flag. So
don't even want to hear it. Jake, what's up?

Speaker 4 (37:21):
Oh yeah, I was gonna talk about the Lebron doll.
It's a doll. Let's just get over. It's a doll.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
He was just trying to justify all the weird stuff
in his studio he calls action figures. So that's what's up.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
Quite the possibility anyway, the price of the doll. The
doll is seventy five dollars. Do you remember how much
toys used to cost back in the day. I mean,
granted there were not seventy five dollars, but you know,
just for inplace and all that jazz, it was about
seventy five dollars. I mean, the only thing that seems
to be seems to be equivalent would be like.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Any I don't believe that adjustifible.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
I mean, I know toys were toys were not like
I mean, not that expensive. But when you just for
the inmplation, I mean.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Give me which, give me which decade you're talking about
for toys.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
Well, I'm talking like maybe the sixties and seventies and
hell even even into the forties, and we even they
even had toys back and the day were you set
stuff on fire?

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Oh yeah, no, no, no, you're not gonna get an argument
for me that we had better toys back in the day, sir,
Because we had.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
There were better toys. You got less of them though, too.
So the cool thing was was you weren't stepping on
toys every single morning when you get out because you're
overwhelm with toys because they're so cheap that you know,
Grandma and grandpa spoil their kids obviously, but then you
get uncles and everything, and all the toys are all
over the floor and all that.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Jeff, Look, let's face it, the greatest, the greatest toys
of my era, my generation. I would always get bigger toys,
more higher quality toys, whereas my sisters there it was
more of a numbers game for them, which is fine.
Every kid's different. Yeah, So like I had the big
the Walker, the at at the Star Wars with the

(39:07):
compartment in the better and that wasn't cheap man. And
then of course there was the holy grail of toys
for people that are in you know, like Ross and
I age Ross. Do you remember your first video game system?
Did you?

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (39:22):
No, It was a Nintendo Entertainment system and I was
in like fourth grade. We moved into our new house.
It was the greatest moment of my.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Life, greatest moment, greatest moment for life.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
I can't express to you. I can't express Okay, I
can't express to you how happy I was opening that
box and seeing that Nintendo.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Oh, I just can't. Yeah, anyway, Jake, what you want
to add something real quick?

Speaker 4 (39:42):
Could I add something about the Aslan voiceover all?

Speaker 1 (39:44):
That yet, sure real quick?

Speaker 4 (39:46):
Yeah, yeah, I don't care if Meryl Street voice is
it because she sound like a dude.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Or god, I don't know, man, oh.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
God, I guess I don't know. I don't care. I
don't care voiceovers, I don't care. I mean, who was
the guy that did a poop in the and the
girl that did Bart?

Speaker 1 (40:03):
I don't care. Well, the guy who did a pooh
was Han Kazaria, who's hilarious by the way. Indeed, if
anybody doesn't believe, they should watch Brockmeyer. But I will
warn you that they then cash all their credit And
thanks for the call there, Jake on what was a
hilarious show where they decide to cash all their ducats
on a whole abortion storyline, which it's like, it's a

(40:24):
comedy thing about baseball. What are you guys doing? I
never understood that, but yeah, it's a great show.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Meryl Streep is not a voice actor, and she's not
the same as the chick that does Bart Simpson's voice.
It's not they're doing it on purpose because they know
what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing, and
they know what Aslin is supposed to embody and once again,
he's not supposed to be symbolic. It's not supposed to
be an analogy. This is supposed to be Christ. It

(40:50):
is Christ in that universe, so stop.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Well you don't think Christ can be the chick from
what's the one where?

Speaker 3 (41:02):
No, I do not.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
That movie?

Speaker 3 (41:05):
Uh The Devil Wears praduc The Devil Wars Proda.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't. I don't want to
Christ with that attitude. That's just me.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
So anyway, maybe they'll like super reverb and like pitch
her voice down. Maybe they'll make her sound like James
Earld Jones or something.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Well, maybe they should auto tune her then, yes, what's
his name? She's still alive. Who's the auto tune guy?

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Oh? T Pain?

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Yeah it's good tea pain in there, but amazing what
you don't want to show up at the Pearly Gates
and hear T. Poyne's voice reverbed, Come on, man.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
I like, no, it's up there and you're here like
I'm on a boat.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
I'm on a boat. Yeah he was, though, I mean
that's technically accurate. Him and the dudes from the Titanic
are all just sitting around reminiscing like, oh went better
for you. Yeah he had forty days, but uh, you
know we were dead in three or whatever it was.
So just sit around Heaven just talking about it. But

(42:05):
you're grouped like it's prison and instead, but by race,
it's by how you died. So what would be the
cool kid club there? If that's how people grouped in
the yard up in prison it was by how you died,
like I think airplane crashed, it'd be kind of interesting.
Right of course you got some pretty famous ones, but

(42:26):
also you got like Amelia Earhart in there, you got
one of the Kennedys, you got some great athletes and
some wonderful singers from back in the fifties. I don't know,
I'd be a pretty good group to hang out with mine. Now,
the group I wouldn't want to hang out with is
remember that dude who died because they gorilla glued his

(42:47):
eyes shut and wrapped him in saran rap. I don't
want to show up at that group.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
No, it's embarrassing. If you're standing in line like that, all.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Covered in saran rap, you can't even speak. Say, Peter's
like what's your name? Like you're like, well, you can't
come in, sir, I don't I need id.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
Maybe that's probably out how it works, all right. Anyway,
seven nineteen hang on, no, no, no, no, it's it
is somewhat interesting because it's not just about the Power Rangers,
which I never really got into. Ross never really got
into we we were we had age past that. So
I don't know a lot about Power Rangers other than
by the time I saw it, I'm like, this is
this is little kid dumb. Yeah, if you enjoyed it, fine,

(43:31):
But my best friend's sisters school then my best friend's
sister was into and I remember we had the same
reaction watching Really this is dumb. Yeah, this is so dumb.
But hey, mayby gazillion dollars. All right, so we'll actually here.
Since since we're here, let me just share this story
with you. So apparently the head rider for Mighty Morphin
Power Rangers name is Tony Oliver. H is uh. There's

(43:54):
a new investigation Discovery series called Hollywood Demons, and really
it's it based. It probably is airing about two to
three years too late, because it's all about going back
and retroactively calling out people for things that happened years before.
Many of the activists were born, you know where they're like,
remember they tried to cancel the Duke. They're like, oh,

(44:16):
we just saw this interview from the nineteen seventies that
John Wayne gave the Playboy we're canceling him, and America
collectively went, you're not canceling John Wayne. Shut up.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Yeah, it was an interview from like what nineteen seventy
one or something.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Yeah, no, you don't get to retroact. Well, there was
very problematic. Remember was shining then the Sean Connery interview
where he talked about giving his woman a little smack
back in like nineteen eighty and I think it was
it was a Diane Sawyer. It was somebody big interviewing him,
and they were just like, oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Yeah, not surprising. All of this, you know, correlated or
went along with the tearing down the statues. They're just like,
we have to get rid of all the crap from
the past, all right.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
So I feel like this series where they're going back
and retroactively doing this you missed you probably missed it
by a few years, but we'll see. So apparently he's
interviewed in it and he wanted to publicly apologize for
the way that they casted the Power Rangers because and
I did not know this, the Black Power Ranger was

(45:17):
portrayed by a black actor and the Yellow Power Ranger
was portrayed by an Asian actor or actress, right right.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
I believe the Pink Ranger was a female as well,
right well.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
I mean, if that's how she identifies, we don't know.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
But I think the Yellow Ranger was also female, so
I don't know, Yeah, it.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Was female Asian female. And then who was Trina Kwan?
It was the name. I don't know the actress there
a true train so but yeah, they're like, ah, that
was that was bad of us. That was super big.
And we made the Black Ranger the black one and
the Yellow one the Yellow one too. What we did there,
and we're really really sorry. And I'm like, was this

(45:56):
an issue back then? I don't remember this. He was
this guy running around when you're not can believe what
we did, no or just what it was. Nobody cared
and it made it primely made sense back then. I Yeah, again,
I don't know. I don't know they ever watched an
episode of the show, but uh, we're gonna go. We're
gonna go, We're gonna go do this. I can't believe
anyone except for the most nosed, pierced, and purple haired

(46:19):
among us, are going to enjoy this series. But I
could be wrong. Maybe it's the nostalgia factor where you're
going back and retroactively taking your current set of emotional
guidelines and standards and attempting to apply him to people
thirty or forty years ago. Not simply about cancelable stuff.
It's just an element of it. Some of the stuff.
And you're absolutely right, is story is about, you know,

(46:44):
like really bad Like if you go back to like
the old Nickelodeon days, there's some crazy stories there. But
now you're talking about people that take advantage into kids
and all that stuff. That's what I'm talking about. I'm
talking about people feel that they need to apologize for
a casting choice for a kids show from thirty years
ago that nobody cared about at the time. So yes, yeah, no,

(47:07):
I'm not with the dad from seventh having is alleged
to have done no no, no, no, that's fine, but it's
it's the cancel culture part for innocuous thing.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
But it's also dumb because.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
It's into there so anyway, sorry what.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
It's also dumb, right because like the white guy was
the White Ranger, the female was the Pink Ranger. Then
you had what a red Ranger or was it green?

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Well, the red Ranger is the one who murdered his
roommate with a sword.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
Right, so that's fround up fun And the black one
is the Black Ranger and the yellow was the Yellow Ranger.
But wasn't the point like they were all sort of
coming together and working as a team. So it sort
of works, right.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
I guess, Yeah, it stands that weird sequence when they
powered up. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
I always saw it as like an older kid, as
like a version of Voltron for some reason, like how
they would all come together to form like this team
like him.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Yeah, again, I don't know enough about the show, so
I assume that you're correct on that. I've never watched
an episode. I didn't even really fundamentally understand it. It
was like Barney, I never other than watching, you know,
stuff to make fun of. I don't know what happened there,
which is why when we do anything about kids shows,
I got to go to you because I have no

(48:19):
idea what's on Pepa pig.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
I was forced to watch Barney and Repeat when I
was a kid, and I was much older, because my
mom would take care of children. That's what she did.
She babysat children. There was always like kids in my house,
like tiny little babies. And you can't remember a time
where we didn't have children in the house and all
that stuff on repeat. Yeah awful.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Yeah, you know a lot more about it than I do.
So there you go. Okay, yeah, all right, so some
people were concerned. I was no, no, no, no, no, no.
The Hollywood creepers out blessing kids. That's fine, it's but
it's when we're getting into retroactively apologizing for power rangers.
I'm like, you realize this isn't a thing anymore. You

(49:01):
just dumb. So we shall see. All right, let's get
to this saw this yes, say, of course, Newsweek was
happy to run this new map shows world's most hated
countries for twenty twenty five. All right, so if you
had to guess what are the most hated countries in
the world, well and again, then they just ask people

(49:23):
from all over the world. So you got Europeans, Asians, Americans,
South Americans, you name it all way and in, and
you know, people are gonna have their favorites to hate on.
Every country has their own favorite to hate on. The
US is unique in the fact that so many countries
prefer to hate on us, but they hate on us
for like our largess right. If you listen, especially among Europeans,

(49:45):
if you listen to beef, they're like that they got
too many freedoms, too much food, and the roads are
too wide and they're arrogant. Well, let me tell you
there's a lot. I've done a lot of traveling. I
will tell you this. In almost every Latin American country
I've been in, they have. And this is why sometimes
stereotypes are probably okay. They think they assume that if

(50:07):
you're an American, you're rich, and you know, arguably comparably
you are for a lot of a lot of countries.
You know, where the animal salaries in the you know,
low thousands of dollars maybe, but not everyone is rich rich.
But they make that assumption. And I've never pushed back

(50:27):
on it, not because I act like there's a difference
between going over and acting like an a hole, which unfortunately, Uh.
The TikTok community and streaming community is embracing, like that
dude in the Philippines who's like, hey, it'd be a
fun prank if I take their guns. Oh I'm going
to a Filipino prison for twenty years. This is gonna suck. Right,
They don't have any they have any patients for that.

(50:48):
That being said, you know they want to think that whatever.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Yeah, it could be bad though, because then they have
a better chance of being taken if you go down there.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Well no, no, no, that's one hundred percent true.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
But you know, ultimately think I'm super poor, like, don't
don't kidnap me.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Well, this is what I tell people if they're gonna
go travel, Like, I don't know if you're going to
walk around a country that has a high crime rate
or is considered third world in any way, shape or form,
even if it's a nice area, I tell don't wear jewelry.
Don't do it. I know you'd like to wear your watch,
maybe you got some bracelets or what. I just don't
do it. Don't wear jewelry and figure out how the

(51:24):
men dress locally. You'll dret you will blend in ninety
percent of the places if you ever go to Latin
American country. So Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, any of
the rest. Most men, even if it's hot, they don't
wear shorts. And American tourists they you know, they go
and they throw the shorts on and the flip flops,
and you're already standing out. But now you're really standing out.

(51:46):
You throw a regular old shirt on and jeans, you'll
blend like ninety percent of the people, you'll blend in
right there. They're going to ignore you. No, it's the
people that are running around, you know, with their selfies sticks,
doing insane Those are the people that attract attention. But
I'm like, all right, well, it's you know, some stereotypes

(52:07):
are like okay, right, and some or not. With that
being said, it is a pastime of many countries to
hate on the US, but this year we rocketed up
the list because even though people in these countries will
talk about, oh, I hate America, they will consume and
have their lives shaped by American products and entertainment and

(52:30):
they can't get enough of it. They can't get enough
of it, you know. They a lot of the American
companies who are chains in the US do one offs
in some of these countries. But they do them different.
Go give you an example. If you go to some
of the countries in Latin America, especially in South America,

(52:52):
you'll see this. They will have a one off of
a chain in the US, so it could be Olive Garden,
it could be Krispy Kreme, right, But the Krispy Kremes
don't look like what yours looks like because they weren't
really made for people to go there. They were made
for what are called motocochow delivery services, where there's motorcycles

(53:14):
zipping everywhere. Uber Eats and others that run those, and
it's and it's always ungodly. I think I saw what
a dozen donuts cost at Krispy Kreme in Panama, and
it was let me do the I was twenty two
dollars for a dozen donuts from Krispy Kreme. So they're

(53:35):
really high end and it's really just kind of and
and they love those damn things and they're everywhere. Well,
I don't know if you know this Panama. Oh and
if you get off, if you go what I've I've
posted a picture when I flew into Panama a few
years ago. I got off my gate and I'll right
out the other side of the gate as an olive
garden in the airport there right like they love the
American brands. Hell, Panama uses the dollar, but Panamanians are

(53:58):
not fans of the US right now, well even though
their currency is our currency and their banks hold so
much US money, and they love Panama is a shopping
destination too, So if you really want to, you really
want to take advantage of some tax free stuff, that
airport and the outlet stores, which are literally an extension
of the airport, are yours for the picking. Yet they're

(54:20):
all mad and they just had pete hegseth down there
because you know the canal thing. So I expect them
to say that, But the majority of the people saying this,
here's why they're mad. How many of you had a kid?
How many of you had a kid, and they have
an allowance and then they did stupid kids stuff and
you're like, I gotta I gotta make an example of them,

(54:41):
and you suspended their allowance or took it away. What
was the reaction? Were they happy about it or do
they have an absolute meltdown and tell you they hated you. Well,
we just took everybody's fun money away. If you think
about it, was there a country? I mean, we do
you know, so literally in Congress yesterday they had to

(55:02):
pass a bill saying that we wouldn't fund the Taliban anymore.
That required congressional action. Like we just went and took everybody.
We're the parent, We just took everybody's money away. Oh
I'm sorry. You're gonna have to produce your own trans operas, Columbia.
You're gonna have to do your own this, that or
the other. So you're gonna have to pay for your
own defense Europe while you continue to fund putin dollars

(55:26):
and of course pump money in Ukraine simultaneously and close
all your coal plants. Yeah, no, you're gonna have to
pay for this yourself. And so what do they do?
They get all mad? Yeah, animaity towards the US is
because quote, the US tends to over This is the
their reasoning. The most common answer given is the country
oversteps when trying to influence international events. Why you want

(55:50):
us to pay for all of them? You want us
to pay And I'm not saying Look, I'm not saying
that some of the stuff that we're going back to,
like Central America, what was going on with the Sandinistas
and all that was probably a good idea, and yeah,
the US has got their nose up in it. But
anytime something bad happens in the world, ross who do
they call? And it's been this way for quite a while.

(56:12):
They call us every time, every time, every time. Do
you remember when the tsunami hit Indonesia and like they
would hold those world leaders would berate the US because
we were giving the most of any country and yet
it still wasn't enough. And they're like, how dare you
sit there and not give more money to what happened
in Indonesia, which was an absolutely devastating thing. And it's like, well,

(56:35):
are you mad at us? Oh, somebody's screwing around with
the shipping lanes over there. Who do you call the US?

Speaker 3 (56:41):
No, it's so stupid. If we get involved, we're called,
you know, evil imperialist Americans. And if we don't get involved,
they're like, oh, you guys are being selfish. And one
thing you've seen the past what two three days when
it comes to the world's economy in these foreign countries economies,
is if we back out and say hey, we want
you know, we they need us more than we need them.
He saw that across the globe.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
Yeah, correct. I think a lot of these Europea, especially
Eastern European countries might break from the EU if he
really wants to get into this because they're not full
full members and so they can do that, which they
probably should, because look, Poland doesn't want to bide by
what you EU he's doing. I bet they'd probably love
to do a deal. So one hundred percent. All right,

(57:23):
let's get raced Agic here because he's doing double duty
and supporting what's going on there. Okay, uh, anyway, raced
Agic from the Weather channel. Oh great, oh geez, okay,
all right, Well hopefully I'll give him a moment to
call in on the phone. Yeah, that's what that was.

(57:45):
Huh what's that? Oh? There we go? All right, somebody
screwed with roster.

Speaker 3 (57:50):
Somebody somebody raised somebody with somebody studio and they put
the country feed station on the selector on the selector
feed Yeah, why would you?

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Ross is gonna have to hunt somebody down now not
gonn end? Well, so can I ask you a question?

Speaker 5 (58:07):
Don't you all have the same rule, like when you
go into your studio the way.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
You right, especially when one person tends to work in
that studio every day. Do not so you just don't
come into somebody else's house and just messeduff up and leave.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
We we had to go. We went through that for years.

Speaker 5 (58:22):
When I first with all the fillings, they come in
and to like start pushing buttons and everything.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
We're like no, like for a morning show like The Morning,
do you know how it is when you work early mornings.
Obviously one thing is off, like if your keys are
in the wrong spot in your house time that we
go to work, like you can ruin everything and it's
such a simple thing, so you don't the morning.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
It also makes no sense because this is the only
studio like this, This show is the only We are
the people here right now. There's nobody else in the building.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
Yeah, go to.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
The studios, all right, Yeah, jeez, okay, stand back.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
Anyway you got double dyah because yeah, you know, there's
obviously what's going on to try it the triangle, but
right right Augusta, Georgia. Kind interesting. It was a bench,
so they might yeah, they.

Speaker 5 (59:09):
Might have a little wet weather later today, some showers
around tomorrow. I think the weekend is going to beautiful
so let's just go with that. The weekend in Augusta
should be nice, might have some severe weather later today
early tonight, hopefully it'll be after sunset after they've done golfing,
but it's going to be close, and I'll think to
be on again off again with the shower storms tomorrow,
so maybe some delays, et cetera, et cetera. As I said, though,

(59:32):
the weekend does look pretty decent as it does here
more sly clouds contended to thicken up here today upper sixties,
maybe seventy for the triangle, then tonight, a few showers
and thunderstorms into tomorrow, and there's kind of a few
rounds that come in, so they'll be at time, some breaks,
some stronger storms possible. Not going for a big severe
weather risk or anything like that, but it's not zero,

(59:55):
and then everything should start shutting down later tomorrow night
and Saturday, just a few showers with cloud it's a
mid to upper fifties, and then Sunday does look like
the better day of the upcoming weekend with lots of sunshine,
a little bit sixties back near eighty though by early
next week, so cay see little wet weather starting tonight.
I want to get off again through tomorrow. But there's
going to be dry hours too, but just really not

(01:00:18):
until the weekend doesn't get real nice, especially Sunday.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
All right, question, we were talking about kids toys because they
sucked down and ours were better because it's late Lebron
James Kendall and I'm out and seventy five dollars. By
the way, I heard about it. I just heard about
it down the road from you. But I was talking
about like I was opted as a kid for the
big toys, and my sisters were more into numbers, right,
they went in multiple so they get cheaper ones, and

(01:00:41):
I was I said, one of the coolest ones was
I had an at at, you know, the big Oh yeah,
somebody's mad at me. He goes, it's an AT and eight.
So you're a nerd who cares about this.

Speaker 5 (01:00:51):
Which is yeah, I have an ad at I called
at correct tram arm or transport if you want to
get technical, I have one now, yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
It's pronounced at ay.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
Do they ever like say it in the movie or
is it just sort of like a fan thing that
fans know.

Speaker 5 (01:01:05):
I think it's based on the markings on it, right,
they call them walkers, Yeah, call but walkers.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
But Luker Hahn was never like, oh, it's an ad
ADD or at.

Speaker 5 (01:01:14):
The little small things in ATST. They just call it
an ATST, the little walker, the scout walker also known
it anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
It's like talking to a military guy who's not civilian.
Let it go, throwing acronyms like I don't know what
that is? All right, all right, thank you, sir, appreciate it.
So raced agis on team ad AD. We'll ask Steven
can't coming up at eight oh five. We'll even ask
Jeff Bellinger for all the good little do just to
amuse ourselves. So lots to get to hang on another toy.

(01:01:42):
That was a holy Grail level toy back when we
were kids. I'd forgot about it. I never had one,
and I never knew anyone who had.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
I never did either. It was the aircraft carrier for
g I Joe, amazing, amazing. See the size of that
thing is probably the size of my living room back
in the eighties.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
Mm hmm. Yeah, I did remember. I had the ad
AD and I had the Millennium, and that was as
big as we were going to go. That's as big
as we were going to go right there. But I
do remember that being a thing and then going back
to the video game thing too. Also one of the
interesting things about the Nintendo era there was it also
was what I would consider the first iteration of modern hipsters, right,

(01:02:19):
because there was always that one kid who didn't have
a Nintendo because his parents bought him a Sega Genesis.
So then he had to explain to you every day
why the Sega Genesis was superior, as though he's compensating
for someone, and it really I can only play Sonic
so much.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
Right because it wasn't what you saw on the screen.
But I remember the first time I saw Nintendo and
I didn't know it until third grade. I'd never seen
it before. I had played Atari bowling up to like
third grades, like nineteen eighty eight. I went to my
friend's house. Evangelis was his name, still, remember, Evangelis Constantinos
pap and Ekos.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
Was that that sounds like a dude with a Sega Genesis.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
No, he had a Nintendo. I had never seen it before.
He was playing Atari and he turned the thing on
and it was Mike Tyson's punch Out and it was
my brain exploded. I was like, what am I looking at?
This controller has four buttons. This is the most shame
for your whole life. It changed. I felt like this
is how the Indians had to feel when they saw
the ships coming up over the horizon.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Just They're like, oh, that goes one of two ways.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
I don't even check out. I don't even know what
I'm looking at right now. I went home. I'm like, ma, ma,
and that Christmas. I got it. So I think they
hit it from me for the longest time because it
was expensive.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
You'll not meet a bigger fan of professional golf than
our next guest NERD correspondent Stephen Kent, who is uh
all ready to go? You got your Master's watch party,
ready to do this thing? I got it?

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
And that was some lovely intro music. I like the
change casey.

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
Well that's the official Masters music, which you know, being
a huge golf fan obviously, so.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
Of course I'm known for my golf fandom.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
Uh huh uh huh. Who do you think is gonna win?
Who do you like? Ross picked? The player doesn't play anymore,
so he's out.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Joe Joe Rogan, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
Let me just tell you this. I would love to
watch Joe Rogan win the Masters, just to watch the
left meltdown.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
That would be pretty funny.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
Yeah, I mean, world bird. I will tell you this.
So have you ever been to Augusta, Georgia?

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
You have not?

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
So the Masters, this, this this icon of a country
club is really in a dirt bag part of town.
It's pretty rough over there. But across the street from
the Masters you have all the chain restaurants and they
have a Hooters there and every year John Daly sits
in the parking lot or in the Hooters selling his
merch there with a big tour bus. He lives in

(01:04:38):
and just drinks all day, talking with fans. So it's
almost as good as going into the Masters if you
get that experience. Some of our listeners kids went over
there and got a picture with John Day the wild Man.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
So Apple Hooters as as as it should be. This
is what nature intended. But isn't isn't Hooters toast now bankrupt?

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Uh So they're they're reorgan but they're gonna do away
with the Hooters so a little more so that's I'm
sure that'll work real well.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
Actually, it was kind of crazy. We had a story.
I wasn't gonna get into this with you, but yesterday
we had a story where they were talking about the
top fast casual restaurants in America. Which one do you
think is the number one? You know, those chain you know,
sit down but not a huge price point restaurants. What
do you think is the number one in America?

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
I think the obvious answer is Applebee's, So it can't
be Applebee's.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
What about a chilis No, not chili Chili's does well
a lot better than Applebee's. It was for years Olive Garden,
but it's got surpassed. It's now Texas Roadhouse.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Texas Roadhouse. Those buildings are humongous. I don't I don't
know how they afford to even build these things. They
take them two plots of land. Yeah, it's good steak.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
It's good steak for not a lot of money. It's
it's it doesn't have any reason to be that good. Yeah,
they grew fifteen percent last year, whereas Olive Garden for
the much. Although Ross takes beef because he says all
of gardens find out, but whatever, I'm not having that
argument again.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
America is upping their standards.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
We love it. Yeah, So I love that this very
hoiity toity event over there, the People's Tournament, all that stuff.
You can go across the street and tip back beers
with John Daily. Why you stare at Hooters? So America, Man, America, America. Now,
unfortunately they just a newsweek had a piece out yesday.
America is now the third most hated country in the world,

(01:06:26):
probably because we took so many of these kids allowances away.
But also they're like, oh, we don't like how you
you're You're involved in all this stuff. You're trying to
shape the world, except when something bad happens then they
want us to be involved. But what is going on
with China is more than just shaping tariffs and things
like that. It's now going to creep into and I'm

(01:06:46):
curious your thoughts on this. Hollywood's probably screwed while this
is going on, because these people trip over themselves to
China eyes, if that's a word, many movies because they
realize they want three hundred million in the US two
hundred million opening in China, and so they will do
things like compromise storylines or insert characters like they did

(01:07:08):
in The Martian or any or have John seen a
make a weepy video apologizing in Mandarin.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
Right, that's done.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
I have to assume China's not taken any of Hollywood's
products right now. And if you're producing the new Adventure stuff,
how does that play into it?

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
Well, this is something that is being discussed right now.
Chinese authorities are looking at kicking the door closed on
Hollywood films, which honestly good for them. I wish we
could kick the door closed on Hollywood films ourselves, but
for some reason, we're trapped. And they only bring in
about thirty four films roughly from America every single year,

(01:07:48):
and they have a revenue sharing agreement they split the proceeds.
At least twenty five percent goes to the Chinese state,
And so I think that they're kind of looking at
this and going like, we never needed this, we don't
need this.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
We did this.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
As part of our cultural expansion. But it will really,
really really hurt California. And I don't think Donald Trump
is going to care, nor should he.

Speaker 1 (01:08:14):
No. And I saw something now that only six percent
of primetime television or first top release movies or even
shot in California anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Like that's happening in Georgia.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
Yeah, yeah, it's happening in Georgia or Turkey. They shoot
a lot of stuff in Turkey and Canada. I always
hated the fact that if you saw a Western, even
one that was meant to portray like Dance's Legends of
the Fall was shot around the time. And by the way,
they came and they shot some of it in Wyoming
because you have the Tetons are a very unique look,

(01:08:49):
and they did some other stuff, but the majority of
it was shot in Canada.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
And well, and you can find a really great video
of Adam Scott. You know, he's from Parks and rec
and he's the star of Severance on Apple TV.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
Yeah he's talking at the right medea. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
Rob is totally dunking on California's management of the movie
industry and how everybody shoots anywhere else in the world
besides Hollywood, and that is.

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
There's one hundred mile radius where because of the union deals,
if you're within that one hundred miles, it's ungodly more
expensive than if you're outside of it. And it's like
this self inflicted Yeah, that's the same thing where I
heard the six percent stat was Rob low because Rob
Loo was saying they had another show lined up for
him and they were telling me how to move to Manhattan.
He said no, and then like they just didn't do

(01:09:37):
the show because nobody will work in la anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
But but admittedly, when you're spending five hundred million dollars
on a movie, which what do you think they're going
to spend on this Avengers movie? It's between that and
market is probably going to be more than five hundred million, right,
because they expect billion dollar returns. China was not an
insignificant number there. They made about a quarter billion in China. Endgame.
So does it do studios have to reimagine what they're

(01:10:06):
doing and what does it mean for a big production
that's already in production.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Well, I certainly think that they're going to have to
reimagine things, and they could just go the way of
cutting budgets. I mean a lot of these movies, the
majority of the budget is being driven by the massive,
massive proceeds commanded by every one of these actors. You know.
I was just reflecting the other day on the pay
that the Lord of the Rings stars got back in

(01:10:32):
the early two thousands. The people who played like Frodo
and Sam and Aragorn and Legolos, most of them were
pulling I kid you not about one hundred hundred twenty
thousand dollars on average, not for one movie, but for
the entire trilogy of Lord of the Rings films. And
they did this specifically to make those movies commercially feasible.

(01:10:56):
They could not make those movies and go and shoot
everywhere they wanted to shoot and pay these actors the
kind of things that they wanted. It was a huge gamble.
And right now the Avengers movies are really weighed down
by actor salaries. That is not an insignificant part of
the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:11:13):
Yeah, and I appreciated too actors and producers that were
willing Remember China they had that demand that for the
new Top Gun that they changed the iconic jacket that
Tom Cruise wore. And I think it was Tom Cruise
or one of the producers like no Taiwan flag stays
and China's like, well, you don't air it here, And
that movie arguably saved the movie industry. Courdya. Steven Spielberg

(01:11:36):
even said that Ross reminded me of that quote.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
So yeah, I mean they've maybe on this, maybe on
this headline every couple of years, like X y Z
movie has saved the movie industry. Now apparently it's Minecraft
has saved the movie industry.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
We'rering get into that and the first one is entire story.
Yeah wait, we think Rachel Zegler's face looked like when
she saw the Minecraft quadrupled her weekend? Or is she
not self aware enough to care?

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Probably scrumstuff and sour as usual.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
Yeah, probably, So Ross went and saw did you go
see the Minecraft movie?

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
I was telling Ross, I don't have a teenage son,
so I have not seen Minecraft. But I hear it's
a riot.

Speaker 1 (01:12:22):
Riot might be the right word. So I've seen a
bunch all right, So I can't tell if it's Remember
when you were a young kid, you're young punk and
you wanted to, you know, just disrupt things and be
a jerk where you'd kind of like mom onto something,
but it wasn't your real reasoning. I don't believe for
a moment that these teenagers showing up to see Minecraft.
At the moment the Frankenstein Chicken thing or whatever it

(01:12:45):
is comes out, they have to stand because they're all
filming themselves. It's clearly content for TikTok and stuff. And
then at the moment it happens, everyone just loses their mind.
They start throwing popcorn each other. Some guy stood up
projectile vomited on a bunch of people, and then they
got a fistfight, as you do. And Ross said, somebody
brought a chicken too one right, And so movie theaters

(01:13:07):
now are saying this is a problem, and they actually
ended up, you know, pushing a bunch of these guys out.
Is there not eight year olds? They're clearly teenagers. I
was a teenager. I was a pain in the butt.
I feel their motivations are less about the fandom and
more about using the fandom to be disruptive for internet clout.
Am I wrong?

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
You know what, I'm gonna side on the side of
the youth on this one. I think this is fantastic.
One of my main concerns about young boys today is
that they are not quite rambunctious enough out in the
real world, like they have been so stripped to the
bone by online culture and video games and surfing the internet,

(01:13:52):
but they hardly get into any trouble anymore. And just
the fact that you're getting all these boys together in
the movie theater, and they've got this sort of weird
social dynamic going on, and it's it's unleashing itself into chaos.
I'm honestly amused, and good for the boys there being
boys again.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
All right, I'm gonna get off the long guys. So
I always have to slip reyslope these things. But also
there's no there's no danger that I'm going to go
watch a screening of Minecraft here soon and have my
movie going experience disrupted, because that's just not me. I
will say this though, Jack Black seemingly that Kyle Gass
incident clearly isn't stopping people, So I guess he might

(01:14:32):
have slipped that just even though they were that old
statement where he didn't push back was kind of hanging
on him. But him party ways with Kyle Gass, I
think actually worked and he was able to save his image.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
I suppose, so Jack Jack Black will be fine. He's
got so much goodwill and he's never done that many
controversial things, right, he will, He will be okay, and
the kids will too. Let them let him wreck the
theaters for Minecraft. American economy needs this right now.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
Let's go now. Ross told me you want to mention
We're going to go back some we talked about the
other week. I don't believe you said it wasn't true,
which is the way that you kind of worded in
that email. I think you said you were hesitant because
it was such an insane story, and that's where I
was too. I'm like, I hope Stephen's right, because when
I tried to research it, I saw no pushback, which

(01:15:21):
is why I brought it up. So this was the
idea that the studios had approached Meryl Street to voice Aslyn,
who is literally Jesus in the you know, is Christ
in the Narnia series? Are you you've now come to
the conclusion that might be true? Huh?

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
There There is no indication at this point that it's
not true.

Speaker 5 (01:15:41):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
This was coming from a friend's kind of strange entertainment
blog called Nexus Media, and then it finally got picked
up and substantiated by Deadline Hollywood, which is not insignificant.
And it does seem that Netflix is going down this road.
And boy, I've sent an email to I think every
PR person at Netflix at this point telling them, you

(01:16:02):
don't have.

Speaker 1 (01:16:03):
To do this. Get away from the Narnia. How many
what's the d are they how many movies they are
they basically planned to do, because this is one of
those where they've already secured funding for more than one.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
Right, yes, they have secured funding from more than one
Narnia movie. They are beginning with The Magician's Nephew, which
is chronologically the first film, and it covers the creation
of Narnia Asla breathing Narnia into existence, and the main
character of that book, Diggery, is going to you know,

(01:16:40):
he grows up to be the professor who owns the
wardrobe at which the original kids go through in the
line of which in the Wardrobe. So it's a pretty
effective prequel. There are supposed to be more after that,
but you know, these things change when when film's mom.
If the debut is a is a failure, then the
rest will absolutely be shelved. You know. This is very

(01:17:01):
much what happened with the original trilogy from Disney. They
did Lie In the Witch and the Wardrobe, huge, huge hit,
and then the other two after it were duds, and
they started raining in the budget to make those movies
a little bit less of a loss. This is very
likely what could happen here. And by the way, I'm
going to share a link with you and Ross to

(01:17:22):
a website where you can send an email to the
folks at Netflix and the Greta Gerwig production and tell
them you do not want Aslan to be gender swapped
for a woman and played by Meryl Streep because we're
going to need to just send as many people their
way as we can. This just has to stop.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
Yeah, I don't think Read Hastings cares or whoever made
that call, but it's so frustrating, you know, And it's
so frustrating because it's such good source material. It's kind
of like what Amazon did with Tolkien stuff like and
I have to think that was a little instructive. But
maybe although aren't they trimming down some of the episodes
for the next season eight and the writers are all

(01:18:01):
freaking out, So that's that's on its way out. So
I mentioned China obviously, you know with Hollywood productions, how
does the tariff hit all the nerd stuff? Though, because
like this is bigger than that. This is video games
studios production. You know, there's a lot of Chinese IP
that put out a lot of things that are heavily
used here in the US. And now we're talking about

(01:18:23):
the TikTok band again. So I got just a couple
of minutes. What are the impacts in your world?

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
Well, you know, if you're asking about about video game movies,
I mean I'm really excited about the future video game movies.
At this point, we've already had Borderlands.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
Weird no, no, I mean with with China, and you know
a lot of so many ips that are not just movies,
but like video games and and all of these things,
there's a Chinese component, especially mobile games. Remember when remember
when Blizzard tried to suicide itself with Diablo where they
were going full mobile and they had that really awkward
blizz on like it'll be interesting to see. Hey, real quick.

(01:19:03):
I got forty five seconds. Steve is a we're talking
about legend toys from our childhood. I had an ad At.
Is it an ad AD or an ataight?

Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
You know what? Both are? Okay, but it's an Ata t.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
Now we got mixed things because the weather guy is
a huge Star Wars guy. He's he's on Team at
AT and you went at eight.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
Yeah it's it's at AT. But you know it's totally
acceptable to just make the sound, you know, ad At
that's what people would call it, but it's at at all.

Speaker 1 (01:19:33):
Right, there we go. Now we got to mix. But
now well Jeff Bellinger will have to break it, so
we gotta go. I appreciate it, Steve, and we'll chat
next week, sir. Alright, yeah, there you go. So damn.
I thought we'd have a clean sweep, but we don't.
All right, we'll be back. Hang on. Just tell me.
Nike is producing an autism footwear line, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
So it's got the puzzle, a Nike Autism collection and
it's it's the Nike shoe and the swoosh is the
puzzle pieces of course, which I mean can be good.
When we went to tweetsee recently, we did wear our
wake forest fire they did. I saw you guys match
it in that photo for autism awareness, and we did
that so people who might be aware would see that

(01:20:14):
and if we were having an issue where maybe go
a little slower than other people, they might be a
little patient and understanding. So that's why we did that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
So maybe everyone was yeah, they were okay. Yeah, it's
just because here's the thing. It's not that it's bad
that a brand as big as Nike wants to bring awareness,
and let's face it, they they have done a very
good job or that puzzle piece. Even if you don't
see the word autism, you all know what it is
right by now. So that's a that's a wonderful branding thing.
I just think Nike doesn't care really about that that much,

(01:20:46):
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
No, No, it's like how they all change their slogans
for Pride Month, and it's just you're finding it's just
not all of them, the ones in this part of
the world, right, not the ones in the Middle East.
But yeah, it's just another way for them to profit
off something, which I mean, they're in the business to profit,
so fair play to them.

Speaker 1 (01:21:03):
But now are they made by autistic slave labor? I
don't know, And if so, they would probably be like
the stitching would be pretty.

Speaker 3 (01:21:10):
Good, perfect shoes.

Speaker 1 (01:21:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
Yeah, my new thing. That thing that really sets me off,
that triggers me, okay, I'm not joking, like it really
pisses me off, is And you're seeing the trend of
this where you're like, the headline will be a famous
singer or actress blank right in the middle of filming
their newest big production. For some things right, Ip finds

(01:21:35):
out they're autistic, and it's like, shut up, shut up,
well are you on?

Speaker 1 (01:21:40):
Like why I could talk about this question.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
I could talk about it for a long time and
it can get very angry. And it's so you're telling
me you're seventeen or eighteen or twenty or twenty five thirty,
and you've lived your entire life and you're successful singer
and actress, and you've been on these studios in front
of bright lights and sound and interacting arena concert and

(01:22:05):
interacting and communicating with people and reading lines and being
and and but now you just found out you're autistic. Okay, Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
I think it's just the current flex I think because
like having trans kids is so two years ago, right, yeah, yeah,
so you got to pivot to something else. Absolutely, Yeah, yeah, no,
you're You're not wrong, man, it is. It's pretty dumb. Uh.
But to be fair, remember they also they already went
through all of history and retroactively decided who was secretly gay.

Speaker 3 (01:22:36):
Or auto Yeah, Mozart Einstein new and everybody, Yeah, everybody
gay or autistic or both. This is a bigger conversation
that we're probably not going to have. But it came
down to there used to be this thing called aspergers,
and now aspergers is known as high functioning autism because
they put it all under the same umbrella. They put
aspergers and autism under the same umbrella. And a lot

(01:22:57):
of it had to do with medical reasons and billion
and all of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
Yeah, there's a whole there's even just a why a
disagreement on whether it is a mental thing or it
is a physiological thing.

Speaker 3 (01:23:10):
It just pisses a lot of people off. And we're
in the pissed off camp where it's like and every
time you see somebody on TV like The Good Doctor
or somebody like the Account movie, right, it's what used
to be aspergers, right, whereas our son is more severely autistic.
Like and I always say this before, like, you know,
if you were to meet Lincoln and you had some

(01:23:31):
sort of you know, average intelligence or whatever, it would
take you about ten seconds to realize that something was
off and that you know, sure, there's something going on
there where a lot of the people with aspergers where there.
When you have aspergers, you don't have a delay in
communication and a lot of these other issues, So it's
easy to communicate and read and all this kind of stuff.

(01:23:52):
And you know, Lincoln still talks about himself in the
third person, and he still does under he's thirteen, and
he doesn't understand the concept of why. Get Like, if
you ask him why something, he's not going to be
able to give you the answers, So you sort of
have to change your wording to how come you want
to do this? He doesn't understand why. He doesn't understand
the concept of money, even though he's super good at
math in his head. And there's just all these other issues.

(01:24:13):
But I am firmly in the camp to aspergers and
autism specifically, the severity of my sons are two completely
different things, and they always get looped together, especially in
the media where everybody who has it is like the
good doctor or somebody like that. Well that's because so,
I mean, it makes the storyline. You gotta have this
thing going on, right, they have to be like some
X Men superpower person. Yeah, it just pisses me off,

(01:24:38):
all right.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
Let me let me get to a because you're right,
it is a larger discussion, and especially the part about
whether it's physiological or mental. And then like literally they
one side is shut out the other side from even
doing studies.

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
Just like people don't get like, my son is always
going to be like five or six years old in
some respect, but in other respects he can do these
amazing things and he can We're listening. We're just happy
our kid can talk, right, Honestly, I'm just happy my
kid can talk. And it used to be like, oh, well,
I want my son to go to college and I
want to do this, and eventually you realize that there

(01:25:10):
are limitations on your child. My kid is always going
to need somebody to look after him, always going to
need somebody to care for him. He's never going to
drive a car. But it's kind of a positive in
a way because listen, when people have children, one thing
you always hear is I wish they could be young forever.
So I've been gifted with the ability God has given
me a son who will always be young in that respect.
I'm never going to lose my little boy. I won't

(01:25:32):
because he's always going to be like that in some respect. Yeah,
so I choose to look at it as a positive light.

Speaker 1 (01:25:38):
Is there any portrayal in any moderate amount within a
top TV or movie series about people who are dealing
with Lincoln's level of autism or is it because all
I ever see, You're right, is the Asperger's thing.

Speaker 3 (01:25:51):
Yeah, it tends to not to be. Nothing comes off
the top of my head.

Speaker 1 (01:25:55):
Yeah, I couldn't name any of them. All right, let
me hit a couple of things here, just because we
got audio. I gotta get to. Oh, let me give
you the update on the story yesterday before I play
this insane audio for you. So I told you this
crazy story about this this guy. He was in an accident.
This is Los Angeles. He hit and run, gets out
of his car in some at some point, strips down

(01:26:17):
to his boxers and is pretending to garden in this
yard in the neighborhood adjacent and he has a guitar
for some reason. And as police are descending upon it,
the female homeowner comes out with a gun and there
is some interaction. According to the police report LAPD. And
there was a lot of them, because you know, when
they're showing up after a chase, they all show up

(01:26:37):
at once. I saw the woman in the house come
out with the gun. They ordered her eight times to
drop the gun, and she didn't. They ended up shooting
at her, hit her on the shoulder, but just grazed her.
H that's the wife of the dude from Weezer. It
was the Weezer guy's house. She decided hopefully go ahead

(01:27:01):
one more time. They were dist and they were shooting
his girls. So I have to update that. That whole
thing's just weird, man, Because at first I thought it
might have been a language issue, but then I rethinking,
I'm like, no, in La, like most of the officers
probably speak some basic Spanish, you'd almost have to, So

(01:27:23):
then I didn't know. Maybe it was somewhere else, but nah,
She's clearly a fifty one year old white woman, so
I don't know. Maybe she just everything that was going on,
she just froze, But either way wanted the charge. They
charged her with attempted murder because when she after the
eighth time told to drop it, she turned her body
and she still had the pistol out, and you know,
now it's pointing at the police and they're going to

(01:27:44):
shoot you. Did you point that gun at the police,
especially after your eighth time they're going to shoot you?
But it's just a really weird story, to be quite honest.
And then real quick, well let's do this. I'll do
these cuts in the last segment. Let's get rased age here.
Oh he's not there yet. All right, I'm gonna do

(01:28:06):
the cuts in the last segment. This story, a man
in Nevada was arrested Wednesday, so yesterday after seven tigers
were seized from his home. Apparently on Nevada you can
get away with a lot of stuff, but apparently even
in the wild animal thing is too many tigers. You
have to have a Oh and you know where it was,

(01:28:26):
night County Ross. You know Night County, Nevada, don't you.

Speaker 3 (01:28:29):
Isn't that it used to be on Patrol Live and
Life PD.

Speaker 1 (01:28:32):
Yeah, yeah, it's all and it's it's definitely different from
what you see another kid is.

Speaker 3 (01:28:37):
It's very desolate. There's a lot of dirt and desert
and trailers, a.

Speaker 1 (01:28:42):
Lot of cold dead hands people too, you know what
I'm saying. Yeah, sure you go out there. They get
their five acres and they just turned the world off.
So this dude had seven tigers, which great is two things.
One at the time police showed up and they became
aware because he was like letting people film like TikTok
videos with them, which is that sounds fun? Uh, so

(01:29:04):
they show up and he claimed he did not need
permits because they were his emotional support tigers, which is amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:29:13):
You want some emotional support tigers, get some of those
for you. Are you gonna go with dire wolves?

Speaker 3 (01:29:19):
You know, I just ordered my dire wolves, so well
what was going to They were off teams, So I
don't know if that's going to happen now, because these.

Speaker 1 (01:29:24):
Are going to be fine. Those are not at all
going to be a donkey with a paint job or
whatever that zebra was in that Chinese zoo. No real,
Oh they said, it's oh okay, I'm sorry. I thought
those are donkeys. Those are many zebras, my bad. And
and then also where he got the tigers from, heu
He bought them from Joe Exotic when he was liquidating

(01:29:46):
all his stuff before going to prison. So now they're
Joe Exotics tiger. They're literally the tigers.

Speaker 3 (01:29:53):
They're like famous tigers.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
They're famous tigers and the emotional support. However, the State
of Nevada, nor the eighty A, nor anybody recognizes tigers
as an official emotional support animal. And that's just that
sounds like anti tiger discrimination to me. You know what,
I might get seven emotional support tigers just so people
leave me alone, all right, rased agent from the weather channels.

(01:30:18):
Some guys seven tigers and they said wear emotional support.
Well you have that.

Speaker 5 (01:30:23):
Well my daughter just got an emotional support puppy. So
tigers puppies, right, what's the difference.

Speaker 1 (01:30:30):
Well, one will you hear that noise, and then one
will eat your ankle, Like yeah, I want will eat
your puppy? Right? Yeah, so yeah, maybe they'll be friends.
I don't know. Every now, you know, they always show
those videos on you're sum on the internet and you're
scrolling through like Twitter or whatever, and they're like, oh,
look at this lion is letting this hit and cuddle
up to it. It doesn't even know. We only see

(01:30:51):
the ones where it works out, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:30:53):
Or up until the point right.

Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
Right, nobody's posting the video of like, oh we we
home to coyote and we're gonna introduce it to our
new kitten and it just eats. Here's what happened next. Yeah,
ain't nobody posted exactly exactly? All right? I don't want
it to happen, but stop putting the wild animals next
to non wild animals. Yes, so let's talk to the
weather because it will impact my golf watching today, but

(01:31:17):
not so much me personally.

Speaker 5 (01:31:19):
No clouds will start to commander to try out a
little bit more cloud in points west triangles still see
in a little more in the way of sunshine, but
those clouds on the move. No rain today, mid upper sixties,
maybe seventy for Raleigh down toward Fayettevillain, points east. A
few showers thunderstorms will start to come in tonight tomorrow.
There'll be a couple of rounds coming through, so expect
some breaks at times. Now we're not actually painted at

(01:31:42):
any slight risk of severe. We're kind of in the
light green, which means marginal risk that we could get
a stronger severe storm too, so we'll be on the
lookout for that and the showers. A thunder shower should
inger into Friday night tomorrow li to mid sixties, and
then as we get to Saturday, still a threat for
a shower, but the rain will be much less in
terms of coverage. Mainly cloudy for most of the day,
mid upper fifties, cool at night, close to forty for

(01:32:04):
Sunday morning, than sunshine mid sixties in the afternoon close
to eighty on Monday. After we get through tonight, tomorrow
and tomorrow night, I think we're really going to go
on a nice run, especially by the end of the
weekend and early next week. We talked about augusta earlier,
but there is rain in the forecast late today, early tonight,
and some rounds of showers and thunder showers tomorrow, not
all day rain, and I think the second part of

(01:32:25):
the day looks better than the first.

Speaker 1 (01:32:27):
Okay, all right, thank you sir. We'll talk tomorrow and
we'll talks up with Jeff Bellinger next. Hang on.

Speaker 6 (01:32:32):
Well, good morning, Casey. This report sponsored by Total Wine
and More. There is a better than expected inflation report
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level inflation, fell a tenth of a percent last month.
The core CPI, which omits volatile food and energy costs,
was up just a tenth.

Speaker 1 (01:32:51):
Of a percent.

Speaker 6 (01:32:52):
The cost of airline fares, car insurance, use, car prices,
and recreation all went down. Talk about a dramatic turnround.
Relief over President Trump's decision to delay most of his
aggressive new tariffs triggered a dramatic midweek rebound on Wall Street,
but the futures suggest the party on Wall Street could.

Speaker 1 (01:33:11):
Be over when the opening bell rings this morning.

Speaker 6 (01:33:13):
Right now, the IDOU futures are down five hundred and
eighty three points, about one and a half percent. Investors
are focused now on the potential long term damage from
the tariffs and tariff threats. There was a lot of
discussion about inflation at the last Federal Reserve Board policy meeting.
Minutes from that session indicate central bankers are concerned about

(01:33:34):
an increased risk of stagflation. That's an economic scenario in
which prices rise as economic growth slows. The director of
the White House Economic Council says talks with some of
the nation's trading partners are already well along. Kevin Hassett
was on CNBC this morning. He said some deals were
close to done last week. President Trump is indicated he

(01:33:56):
would like to see iPhones produced here in the US.
US at Bank of America say it might be possible
to move final assembly to the US, but moving the
entire supply chain could take years if it were even
doable at all, and be of A says the cost
of an iPhone could nearly double and the Casey, this
might get some bipartisan support. If you hate having to

(01:34:20):
run around in the shower to get wet, President Trump
hates it too, and he's done something about it. The
President signed an executive order relaxing the rules that limit
waterflow to showerheads.

Speaker 1 (01:34:32):
See two and a half gallons a minute is ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:34:37):
I have to I have to agree with you on
that one.

Speaker 1 (01:34:39):
Yes, yeah, hey, real quick. In the Star Wars movies,
they had that walker thing that they Is it called
We're trying to there's a beef on the show. Is
it called an ad ad or an ataight?

Speaker 6 (01:34:51):
What is your You know, I've seen each of the
Star Wars movies once, but I cannot remember that either.

Speaker 1 (01:34:56):
Okay, all right, between a couple of our other people,
all right, thanks, Jeff, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:35:01):
Okay, have a good day.

Speaker 1 (01:35:02):
So the question will remain unanswered because it's a tie.
So I guess we'll just have to go with that,
right there. I got a great Florida man, So I'm
gonna roll this over to tomorrow though, because uh, we'll tie.
Only got two minutes now, hey, real quick, anytime I
see labeling about a Jony Ernstcott when I uh when
because Ross just writes the last name. I look at it,

(01:35:24):
I'm like, wait, is that Earnest P Worrel? And then
I unfortunately it's Jny Arns. So that being said, she
was telling a rather interesting story yesterday.

Speaker 7 (01:35:31):
NBA goes further than that, Maria things is outrageous as
trying to get workers back into the office. We actually
had workers that showed up at the office to protest
having to come back to work at the office. So
we're finding all kinds of things with right, let me.

Speaker 1 (01:35:53):
Let me just lay this out. So they ordered, you know, hey,
you got to come into the office, and they're like no,
and they're like, now, well you have to. You're gonna
lose your job. So they then came into the office,
but instead of going to work, they stood outside with
signs and protests and still got fired. And are somehow
wondering how that may have went down. It was just

(01:36:13):
so much craziness, dude, when you were dumbing this and
you see the look on Bernie Sanders face. So Anderson
Cooper was hosting a town hall with Bernie Sanders yesterday
and this appoll the apple Senator Bernie Sanders. I want
to introduce Grace Thomas. She's a local civil rights attorney.
She's a Democrat. Right.

Speaker 8 (01:36:29):
They then pronouns, actually, thank you. Polling and turnout data
indicate that men of all racial demographics are turning away
from the Democratic Party.

Speaker 1 (01:36:40):
I love that. That's her question.

Speaker 3 (01:36:42):
Yeah, man, I wonder why it's stayed them