Horses, pantsless mayor, & military tech

Day's b bbt uh. He is watching the Masters closely. How you doing, sir? I am doing well. How are you doing, sir? Are you a golf I just made that up. I don't even know if you like golf or watch the Masters? I don't are you watching? All right? Well, that's a pretty good thing that we have a gazillion other topics, because like some of your politicians think they don't even have to wear pants down there, and idiots are riding horses around uptown. Yeah, where do I don't know? I yeah, I don't even know what is going on here. I'm not sure, all right, so so help me out here. The the urban cowboy horse thing. I see this like all over now, like this is a it's actually a probmin Atlanta. Apparently I did not realize it had come to the Queen City there. You saw the video. It's the worst place. It's the worst place to ride a horse horse with. There's too much stimul stimuli. Horses don't do well usually, and especially when you try to stand up on the saddle like you're a trick you know, a trick rider from back in the Antioply days, and then you get dumped and then the horse runs through an intersection gets smoked by a car. Is there not laws against this in Charlotte? Or is this some of you guys are discussing? Because it makes me angry as somebody grew up with horses, even to see people running shod horses on pavement because they have no traction. Yeah, I thought it was very big, Like where are all of the people that you know, protest the carriages, the horse drawn carriages through uptown? Right, you know, like where are all those people there are? Now there are actually laws on the books apparently, which I was not up to speed on until this incident occurred. And the reason why everybody became aware of it was because, of course, there was a video that was shot by what seems to be you know, somebody who was who maybe you know, part of the group or whatever. I'm not sure, but yeah, like the it's like the guys riding motor cycles in you know, the center city license. Yeah, and we've had problems like this for years and years ever since you know, Uptown became revitalized twenty years ago. You know, it became this cruising zone and people you know, driving their cars or their bicycles or their motorcycles through uptown with music blaring and you know, just making fools of themselves and annoying everybody and jamming up traffic and all of this. And so I guess this is a new thing, now, Is this a new trend, a social media trend where people take horses into the city and uh, you know, stand up on them or whatever. But there are apparently laws against certain types of horse riding activities. If you don't yeah, if you yeah, apparently if you don't have uh an, if you have an unhaltered horse, then then it is illegal for that horse to be on the streets. So you can't be like driving horses through uh through this center city, right, But these horses did have halters, they had the saddles and all that, so they do not appear, so to speak, Yeah, so they don't appear to be in violation of that. But there is a code that makes it illegal to recklessly or carelessly ride or drive an animal through any street, alley or highway. Now they may, I mean, I don't know what the what what the penalty is for that. But I think the real problem is that when the cops showed up. According to the police report, they became very irate and started screaming and cussing in the street, and then they both resisted arrest. So I think that might be that got. Them and Trump in Atlanta. In Atlanta, there was an incident and they were screaming racism because all the people on the horses were black. And of course since the polea showed up, uh, and they showed up for a fistfight, they didn't even show up for the horse thing. And then the horse thing became a thing, and then it turned into you all being racist. There's a video. People want to find it. But I'm just like, what what are we doing here? But you give me a brilliant idea, Pete, because I know how to drive cattle. Yeah, it's a skill set that I have just from you know. I we should we should drive cattle through uptown. We're going to have to put saddles on them so we're not in violation of the ordinance. Well, I'll let you try to alter cattle. You're the expert here, man. I'm just going to be under saying I know how to do it. Yeah, you need about eight guys, but we can make this happen. I've never I've never done that, so I'll volunteer to shoot the viral video. Okay, all right, very good. I do appreciate it. You've got to move on to a few other things because there's a lot going on. I think Ross and Form you we're not here next week, which is great news for you because there is a there is an urban legend that every time we take time off, the world explodes, and I'm like, really, the only way it could get worse would be what end of days? I don't know, So yeah, it should be a big tune in two diden week for you. But the. Do you want to talk about the pants list matter? Oh yeah, that's right. I'm sorry I got distracted because there's something else to try to think of, all right, So explain this to me. So this is what the mayor of Mooresville, Right, he was running around in the in the city hall at night with a with a lady friend and he didn't have pants on. But it's all a misunderstanding because he got stick on his pants and they went there and blah blah blah, what is going on with that? So apparently his story is that he and a bunch of other like city officials and you know local, I don't know, elites or whatever. There was a party of some kind. They were out at a restaurant or a bar or something, and he had had some drinks, he had some wine, and then he realized on his way home, I assume with this woman they that he needed his work phone. He had left his work phone at the office at city hall, so he had to stop off and pick up the phone. And while there, the wine that he had ingested interacted negatively with some prescription medication that he was taking for something, and that made him feel ill. He got sick. He got it on his pants, so he took his pants off so he could clean them, and then that's why he was walking around pantsless, which was captured on video. Now, people who work for the city who saw the video then got fired. There were two of them, and they apparently have now filed lawsuits. And you know, they say that they were fired because they saw the video and this was retribution, right, So they were like whistleblowers. Right. So the other day this week, the Moorsville Town Commission met and they took a vote of no confidence in the mayor and called for him to resign. And he said he will not doing that. He then also said that he has since gone to three weeks of rehab and he apparently had alcohol abuse issues. He really loved vodka, he said, and so but now he's feeling great and he's off of the booze and so that's all fine and good. Now. So I'm not sure why that booze would not have interacted with his medication either, But I don't Yeah, I don't know. Nobody really knows at this point. Now, the local TV stations have sued to try to get the video, and that's being fought in court by the city, saying that it's part of an investigation and there's security details like if you know where the cameras are, that may be a security weakness that gets highlighted, and people would then be able to break into city Hall I guess and run around pantiless. Okay, So it's not him just going hey, you want to go hook up in city hall? Oh? No, a Rube Goldberg. It's a Rube Goldberg of serious unfortunate coincidences. Right us here, right. And And that's the thing is, like the story is not believable, you know it, It's just it does it doesn't sound believable, like it probably is something more than just oh I had to get my work phone. I mean, that wouldn't be the first time the Shenanigans in the does he does the mayor have an office in city hall? Apparently? So yes, physically. Yeah. Yeah, Well I'm just saying he's probably at the first mayor to go, hey, you know what, uh, go hook up in my office. If in fact that's what happened, I don't know. Yeah, and it is as he said, Yeah, and there's been no explanation as to why she was there. You know, well they were they were just you know, happened to be leaving the event together as car polling. Yeah, they were carpooling maybe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was Green's much greener that way. All right, So we we haven't had a chance to talk since the pilot rescue or have we mm hm the weapon? Yeah, yeah, I think so because that had oh no, no, that happened over the Easter weekend. Yes, so we haven't. Yeah, God, it feels like a month ago. I know, right, I try to remember, but like it's dude, just watching the reaction to that. It's just a couple of things because we can't cover all of it watching the reaction to that, the way that they're trying to position it as some sort of failure. I'm sorry between that what happened in Venezuela. What an awesome time to be watching what our military is capable of, right, And it raises the question, And I've asked every guest this this week, including elected officials, how the hell is a hotel guy and Fox News hosts able to execute the bad assy that we've seen if we have these technical capabilities, which I believe that we do, were the most powerful ones in the world and it preceded them. How poorly and inefficiently have previous leaders utilized our military since basically World War Two? Like what a stark contrast, man, Yeah, And it calls into question, like the leadership ranks in the military for the last forty years that did not seem to be able to harness this kind of power, and the political leadership as well that maybe was unwilling to utilize it in the way that it's now being utilized. You know, people gave Pete Hegseth all of this grief when he was like, you know, we're going to refocus to what our mission is, which is lethality, right, And everybody was like, oh, look at this fox host. He doesn't know what he's doing. He's probably drunk and all of this. But what better person than a war fighter because that's what he was before people always dismissed his credentials. But I mean the guy served he was. I think he's also a lawyer, I believe, but like he has served. He knows this this world, and he knows what the troops can do because he was one of them, and it does make. Me he was he was a trigger puller too, Yeah, part of it. He was just some guy in a warehouse, you know, office back on one of our bases. Yeah, there he was kicking doors in. He was first through the door, leading, leading his comrades like he like. There were stories from people who served with him that said, you know, he would he would take point because he would not ask anybody to do things that he would not do himself. And so yeah, so when I see the reaction and everybody's like, you know, complaining about this thing, and it's like, guys, like this is a like a profound moment. The message we just sent that the military just sent to all of the adversaries like like, we can completely come into your country and do what we want to do and leave and that should give every adversary pause. Or or we'll come in and steal your president from a base right with something called a discombobulator. And then now we find out we have something called a ghost murmur. Yeah, which, by the way, every time I see one of these tools where they're like, oh, we can your heartbeats, a fingerprint, we can find you wherever you are, I'm equal parts like that's so cool, and also I'm like, I don't know if I like the CIA. Haven't that right, you know Big Brothers? So yeah, that was I was torn as well. But yeah, I mean like from a technological standpoint, that is awesome. And again it sends a message like we can literally find you anywhere based on your heartbeat, so like you can get your phone, you can go underground and all this other stuff, but we will know where you are because of this. I don't even know it's like telemetry or whatever. I don't I don't even know the technology, but it's it's pretty amazing. Yeah. And uh, and and if you think that they haven't, they're not sitting around over at the UN and mapping world leaders heart beats. I'm serious, Yeah, you would want to get you want to get a registry of this or bad guy's heart beats. I mean, think about it. That's the practical application of it. Again, you probably got a little list of all, right, here's this, this guy, is this terrorist heartbeat? This one, this one, and you know, ye, you're on notice, you're on notice. And then and then the story too, of the leaker. I want to run this by you because you and I we we host radio shows now and I have both served in reporter capacity, which is different. It is different. Commentator and reporter are different, or at least they're supposed to be. So when I hear him talking about somebody leaked information to the media, and then the media basically by reporting it, let Iran know that, in fact, no, we haven't got that guy yet and he's not necessarily moving in this convoy for a maritime EXTRATCHU, which is the story the CIA sold. Remember they put a bounty on this, and you had people that were IRGC, you had just bounty hunters. They were all looking for this guy. And then we had to set up predator drones to turn people to miss the guy within three kilometers. Does this violate the line where you think if they don't give up their sources there should be penalties or do you think it's still protected under the First Amendment. From the leaker standpoint, No. No, the talked about the reporter and the editor made the decision to run that information. So, like me, personally, ethical standard would be, there's there's a guy missing on the ground, and if the military says, hey, do not publish this information, I do not. That's me because I don't want to get some American service member killed, you know, and that would be a huge win for Iran because I'm I consider myself an American first, So like I would not try to jeopardize that mission. So for me, I would not have run the run the story at that time. You could tell it afterwards. So then the question is do you give up the source? Right? And if you don't, then you're going to be tossed in jail for contempt until you do turn And that's that's a question every reporter has to wrestle with, Right do you give up the source? That's going to be up to that reporter. Me personally, again, I wouldn't have run the story, so I wouldn't be put in that position to have to then decide whether or not to stay in jail. Now, the reporter, if they stay in jail, that's going to be a boon to all sorts of aspects of their career because they will be a person who went to jail in order to protect a source, and that will probably prompt more people to give them leaked information. Yeah, and I would horse trade with it. And you probably know what I'm referring to. Let me explain it. So I would go and I would say, hey, I got this thing I called a pentagon or whatever whoever whoever I was trying to get to confirm her to that right, And I called him and they'd be like, hey, can you not run that, because if you run that, you could be putting this person in danger. And I'll say, okay, I'll hold it. But when you capture the when you get this guy, I interview you first. That would not be uncommon, right, Yeah, you try to leverage it for a different story, or you know, well give me something else you know you can, Yeah, try your access. Yeah, yeah, let me talk to the guy after he's rescued, and there's something some along those lines. We're gonna have to leave it there. I wanted to play some McFadden Grant audio. I know you're. Yeah, he doesn't know you, bro, I know it. That's why I was kind of bittersweet on election night. I get four more years of content. Yeah all right, well, all hell's gonna break loose next week. If history holds, we'll talk to you in a couple of weeks. Have a good one, mister Pete Allen. If I survive, I'll see you there. Yeah all right, well, you know fingers