Tepper's drop-in and Biden's distraction pack. (04-26-2024--Hour3)

[00:00:00] Show.

[00:00:29] I heard this story during one of the newscasts that Brandon Dixon was doing, and it comes

[00:00:33] from WBTV.

[00:00:35] Although now the story has been picked up by national sports ball establishments and

[00:00:42] media and such.

[00:00:43] And it has to do with the owner of the Carolina Panthers, David Tepper.

[00:00:50] He is the same guy that threw the drink.

[00:00:53] Remember on some fans, I don't even what stadium, I don't even remember what fans

[00:00:59] he threw it on.

[00:01:01] All right, so down the street from us here at the WBT studios, there is first you go

[00:01:08] down Moorhead and you pass the stadium, Bank of America Stadium, and then a couple blocks

[00:01:13] past that, like maybe a mile down the road, not even is the Dilworth neighborhood

[00:01:19] bar and grill.

[00:01:21] And it's a big place.

[00:01:24] They got like a downstairs basement area.

[00:01:26] They got a lot of TVs, big sports bar kind of thing.

[00:01:29] And I want to say, I feel like it was a Pittsburgh Steelers bar or maybe the Buffalo Bills.

[00:01:35] I don't remember.

[00:01:36] But like a Yankee team bar.

[00:01:38] That's what it always like back in the day.

[00:01:40] I don't know if it is anymore, but there were also big Panther fans too because

[00:01:43] you got a lot of transplants in the Charlotte area, but the Panthers have been around

[00:01:46] here for long enough now, which by the way, I was talking to Colin from WFNZ who

[00:01:52] did the Panthers take?

[00:01:53] And he said some guy, Leggett, Leggett or something, Leggett.

[00:01:57] And he's from USC.

[00:02:00] He's a football player from Columbia, USC down in South Carolina.

[00:02:08] And I asked him like, oh, that's pretty cool.

[00:02:09] Is he a Panther fan?

[00:02:10] Because like the Panthers have now been around long enough where you're starting

[00:02:14] to get guys who come out of college and going pro and they grew up as Panther fans.

[00:02:22] It just takes a couple of generations for that sort of thing to happen, you know,

[00:02:26] which is a cool thing.

[00:02:27] You grew up watching a team and now you get drafted and you're going to play

[00:02:30] for that team.

[00:02:31] You know, that's how you help to build your franchise anyway.

[00:02:34] So here it is Xavier Leggett or Leggett.

[00:02:40] Leggett.

[00:02:41] Anyway, the owner of Dilworth neighborhood grill often changes up the sign

[00:02:48] in front of the building.

[00:02:50] Do different messages, sort of like the churches do.

[00:02:54] They change the different messages and you put the sign up there and you try to find

[00:02:58] funny jokes and that kind of thing to get people to take pictures of it and stop in whatever.

[00:03:05] So he's got a sign out there and he's got messages and the message he had up

[00:03:08] the other day or I guess all this week, it's probably still up.

[00:03:13] And it says, please let the coach and GM pick this year.

[00:03:21] He doesn't even say dear David Tepper.

[00:03:23] He doesn't say, you know, Mr.

[00:03:24] Tepper or Hey Panthers, doesn't even identify who he's talking about.

[00:03:27] So if you don't know what that is a reference to, it's a reference to the

[00:03:31] NFL draft and the rumors that David Tepper was too involved in picking the

[00:03:40] draft picks last year, right?

[00:03:43] When they picked up this quarterback, Bryce Young, and there are these reports

[00:03:47] all circulating that he brought in the coach, Frank Reich and these other guys

[00:03:53] around him, and then he forced a pick whatever.

[00:03:56] I don't know if any of that's true.

[00:03:58] It doesn't matter because the story is that Tepper saw the sign and it opened

[00:04:03] up his eyes.

[00:04:04] He saw the sign and then he walked in.

[00:04:08] He pulls in and goes into the restaurant and demands to see the manager.

[00:04:16] I don't know.

[00:04:17] All right, hang on.

[00:04:17] I don't think it does not appear like it was a nasty kind of interaction.

[00:04:22] Okay.

[00:04:24] Apparently they've got the security footage and he's smiling and laughing.

[00:04:29] Whatever.

[00:04:29] So maybe it was, I don't know.

[00:04:31] I really wish that there would be more to the story so far, but these

[00:04:35] are the initial reports that we have.

[00:04:37] This is all we got to go on.

[00:04:38] So make your judgments now and then never change your opinion as we do with

[00:04:43] all types of stories like this.

[00:04:45] Okay.

[00:04:45] All right.

[00:04:46] So the owner of the restaurant, Matt Walfarth, he shared the surveillance

[00:04:59] footage with WBTV showing David Tepper paying the restaurant a visit last night.

[00:05:06] The footage shows Tepper walk in and ask who was responsible for the sign.

[00:05:12] Now the owner, Matt Walfarth was not there at the time, but he was

[00:05:17] the mastermind behind the sign.

[00:05:21] In the video Tepper talks to the manager and takes off his hat.

[00:05:27] And the owner, Matt told WBTV that's because it was a Philadelphia Eagles hat.

[00:05:37] I knew I didn't like Tepper.

[00:05:39] I knew it.

[00:05:39] I knew there was some reason.

[00:05:43] Uh, I thought he was a Pittsburgh Steelers guy.

[00:05:48] I didn't think that was allowed.

[00:05:49] Is that allowed?

[00:05:50] If you're a Steelers guy, you're not allowed to like the Eagles.

[00:05:54] And if the, if that restaurant bar is sort of a Steelers place, you

[00:05:59] definitely don't want to be walking in with an Eagles hat anyway.

[00:06:03] Tepper can be seen laughing in the video and the manager said that he

[00:06:06] was pleasant about the whole situation.

[00:06:09] Walfarth says Tepper was on his way to watch the draft when he saw the sign.

[00:06:13] Although it has been up all week.

[00:06:16] He says he wishes he had been there so he could invite Tepper to stay

[00:06:19] a while, have a beer and a candid conversation.

[00:06:24] Where I guess Walfarth would tell Tepper who to draft in the next round.

[00:06:32] No, he says quote, I do need him to be more of an owner

[00:06:35] and less of a coach or a GM.

[00:06:39] So there is a, uh, uh, there's a publication called Barstool Sports.

[00:06:44] You ever heard of this website?

[00:06:46] BarstoolSports.com.

[00:06:48] They do a lot of, uh, podcasting and such.

[00:06:52] Anyway, this is the guy, David Portnoy goes around eating pizza,

[00:06:56] doing like pizza ratings and stuff regardless.

[00:07:00] Um, they are, they're classifying this or describing this as a super

[00:07:05] villain move, which I kind of get the sense that they may not like David Tepper.

[00:07:13] They're calling this a super villain move.

[00:07:15] Okay.

[00:07:16] Uh, apparently this happened less than two hours before the draft.

[00:07:20] Do you know how number one, soft and number two insane you have to be

[00:07:26] to stop into this place two hours before the draft?

[00:07:28] Okay.

[00:07:29] So there you go.

[00:07:29] That's right out of the gate calling Tepper soft and insane.

[00:07:33] Okay.

[00:07:34] I don't care if you go in as a joke, I'm not buying it.

[00:07:38] This man threw a drink at a fan stinks as a GM and has Panthers fans at his throat.

[00:07:45] You don't joke around about a sign that's out there just to make fun of you.

[00:07:49] I mean, they aren't wrong either.

[00:07:53] End quote.

[00:07:55] See, I don't know.

[00:07:57] I got to see the video.

[00:07:58] I would like to know what he said because if he had some sort of, if he

[00:08:04] goes in there as a joke and he's taking it as a joke, then it becomes like a

[00:08:09] thing, right?

[00:08:10] Like, Hey, I saw your sign.

[00:08:13] I'm going to take that advice.

[00:08:14] That's some good advice.

[00:08:16] I'm on my way.

[00:08:16] Look, I'm not even in, I don't even know what city is it Dallas where

[00:08:19] they're doing this.

[00:08:19] I don't even know where they're doing the draft, but he's like,

[00:08:22] I'm not even in town.

[00:08:23] And my wife took my phone.

[00:08:24] So I can't call him.

[00:08:25] Like if he does something like that, then, then that would be like owning

[00:08:30] it, right?

[00:08:30] That would kind of be endearing.

[00:08:32] Don't you think?

[00:08:33] So I don't know.

[00:08:34] So here's where he says, I don't care if he wasn't visibly upset or anything

[00:08:38] like that, you can't stop in a restaurant and quote have a word with the owner of

[00:08:43] the place.

[00:08:44] You can't ask them who they draft considering you don't have a first

[00:08:49] round pick.

[00:08:50] That's David Tepper trying to be a super villain.

[00:08:54] Really?

[00:08:56] That's what you think?

[00:08:57] That's trying to be a super villain.

[00:09:00] Now, if he had gone in there and started like knocking stuff off of

[00:09:03] the bar, yelling at people then, okay, maybe.

[00:09:10] But this Walfarth guy better be careful because Tepper has been known to come

[00:09:15] in and just like buy your place and then tear it down.

[00:09:18] That would be super villain, which he did to an old boss.

[00:09:23] Message from Dave here at the email inbox, pete at the petecalinershow.com.

[00:09:29] The David Tepper bar incident is a perfect stay in your lane lesson.

[00:09:36] The bar owner is right.

[00:09:38] Let Tepper make the money and let the coach and GM spend the money.

[00:09:43] Yeah.

[00:09:45] I've got a couple of messages here about the panhandling stuff.

[00:09:49] Somebody's asking how much money do these guys make panhandling per day?

[00:09:53] I don't know.

[00:09:55] I imagine much like anything else, like the longer you stand out there,

[00:09:58] the more money you're going to make.

[00:10:00] And it doesn't take very long to get enough money to get, you know,

[00:10:05] to afford what you need to afford for that day and then leave.

[00:10:09] I remember there was, I remember watching a story.

[00:10:12] This would have been early 2000s.

[00:10:15] And I want to say it was WBTV down the hall who they followed a guy who

[00:10:23] was out there on a corner and they saw him walk across the street, go

[00:10:30] across the parking lot and he got into a pickup truck and he drove it.

[00:10:34] It was his.

[00:10:36] And then they like interviewed him at some point and he talked about how

[00:10:39] much money he makes and it was like, it's all tax free.

[00:10:43] He's not filing taxes on any of this.

[00:10:46] So Stan says when I was 18 and still living at home while going to

[00:10:52] college, I got into a spat with my dad when I told him I was

[00:10:55] officially an adult and could do what I wanted.

[00:10:57] He said, well, if that's what you want, you could pack all your

[00:11:00] stuff, leave now, pay for all your own stuff.

[00:11:02] But as long as you live here at my expense, there are certain

[00:11:05] rules you got to live by.

[00:11:08] And yes, he loved me.

[00:11:10] Um, yeah, much like the shelters, they have rules as well for, um,

[00:11:15] for their residents.

[00:11:19] Um, this was from, oh, Russ, some people who are, this is a quote

[00:11:26] from Thomas soul, some people who are very dissatisfied with their lives,

[00:11:30] nevertheless have no intention of changing their own behavior.

[00:11:34] They want to keep on doing what they have always done, but just

[00:11:37] have it turn out differently.

[00:11:39] And Russ says I have volunteered with different homeless groups and I've

[00:11:43] done some financial and debt counseling through church over the years.

[00:11:47] You can almost tell with certain, uh, with certainty in the first few

[00:11:51] minutes, who's going to make it through and who's going to stay in

[00:11:54] the same place or get worse.

[00:11:57] So many people are like, Whoa, I didn't want to change anything.

[00:12:00] I just want you to make things better for me.

[00:12:03] Right?

[00:12:04] That is so true.

[00:12:06] Right?

[00:12:06] That's so true.

[00:12:07] People are like, Oh, I need help.

[00:12:09] I need help.

[00:12:09] I'm like, okay, well here's what you need to do.

[00:12:10] And like, Oh no, I just need you to do it for me.

[00:12:14] I'm not going to make any changes myself.

[00:12:17] Russ goes on to say, to be fair, I have talked to a few people since

[00:12:21] COVID and Bidenomics who made a choice to cut housing instead of food or

[00:12:27] medical or insurance because something had to get cut to make ends meet.

[00:12:31] They're not addicts and they are working.

[00:12:33] They just can't keep up with the runaway inflation.

[00:12:37] Um, I think that was it.

[00:12:41] I had, Oh, one other Lauren says, uh, outdoor adventure lifestyleists.

[00:12:48] Right?

[00:12:48] When I was searching for what, uh, what the name is.

[00:12:51] Um, Joe Biden, president Biden.

[00:12:57] Have you seen him walk to the, to the chopper?

[00:12:59] Have you seen him on the recently?

[00:13:02] Well, if you've seen him within the last year versus within the

[00:13:05] last say two weeks, you're going to notice something different.

[00:13:10] No, I'm not talking about the special shoes he's wearing.

[00:13:14] But if you've noticed like, especially over the last year, year and a half

[00:13:19] or so, he does this, this kind of, um, awkward walk.

[00:13:26] His gate is, uh, unique, shall we say.

[00:13:32] Right?

[00:13:32] When he takes a step, it's almost like, it kind of reminds me actually of,

[00:13:37] um, the fashion models when they do the runway walk and they kind

[00:13:41] of stamp the foot down, you know, they walk like they're all fierce.

[00:13:45] I think is what they say fierce, you know?

[00:13:47] And so he's kind of got that thing going on where it's almost like when

[00:13:52] his foot comes down onto the grass, it's a little bit extra of a, like

[00:13:56] he's almost kind of stamping the foot down and he's kind of like trotting,

[00:14:00] not trotting, but like plotting boom, boom, boom across the grass.

[00:14:04] And it just looks kind of odd.

[00:14:06] His, his gate is kind of odd.

[00:14:09] So how do we fix that?

[00:14:11] Well, first they did the shoes, right?

[00:14:13] They gave them the special shoes.

[00:14:15] Uh, then they, uh, remember they also did the thing with the Air Force one.

[00:14:20] Uh, they don't make them go up the big tall staircase because

[00:14:22] he keeps falling up the stairs.

[00:14:24] So you go with the smaller staircase that opens up right underneath

[00:14:27] the, uh, the belly of the plane.

[00:14:29] You only got to take like six steps to get on the plane there.

[00:14:32] So they, they, they, they're doing their best to manage this, right?

[00:14:35] They put tape on the floor and they got people like flagging them down,

[00:14:39] like at the airport with the big flags and stuff, like this way, Joe,

[00:14:42] this way, you know, but they've got another, they've got another

[00:14:47] workaround here, more people.

[00:14:52] Uh, hang on a second.

[00:14:56] I'm looking for something, but I did pay.

[00:14:58] I did say, hang on, I gotta pay this off.

[00:15:00] Joe Biden.

[00:15:02] Let me before I move on Joe Biden, he's rolling with a pack.

[00:15:07] Okay.

[00:15:09] Not in the deep, just across the lawn.

[00:15:11] Joe Biden.

[00:15:14] This is the way that they're going to distract you from the fact that he is.

[00:15:18] Old.

[00:15:20] It's like, see, you can't even see it's like forced for

[00:15:23] the trees kind of a thing.

[00:15:26] President Joe Biden has introduced a change to his white house

[00:15:29] departure and return routine.

[00:15:33] So this is Joe's doing.

[00:15:35] This is what Axios.com wants us to believe that this is the president's

[00:15:40] decision that he came up with this all by himself.

[00:15:43] All right.

[00:15:44] Instead of walking across the South lawn to end from Marine one, the

[00:15:49] helicopter by himself, he is now surrounded by AIDS with AIDS, usually

[00:16:00] walking between Biden and the cameras.

[00:16:06] So he's not really surrounded.

[00:16:09] They're kind of like making a wall in front of him.

[00:16:12] They're walking.

[00:16:14] There's a couple, there's like one in front and there's like one

[00:16:16] in behind him and then there's like two or three of them on that right side.

[00:16:20] And so you see all these guys walk in and Joe is behind them.

[00:16:25] So you really don't get a clear shot of his really weird walking style.

[00:16:30] He is 81 years old and the visual effect is to draw less attention

[00:16:36] to his halting and stiff gait.

[00:16:40] Some Biden advisors have told Axios that they're concerned that videos

[00:16:44] of Biden walking and shuffling alone, especially across the

[00:16:49] grass have highlighted his age.

[00:16:55] Yes, it has because he's 81 years old and more importantly,

[00:17:01] his condition is deteriorating.

[00:17:05] Weeks ago, the president told AIDS that he'd prefer a less formal approach.

[00:17:11] So that's the spin here, folks.

[00:17:13] This is how they are spinning it with the help of Axios.

[00:17:16] They want us to believe that this was the president's idea.

[00:17:20] And he saw this on the television.

[00:17:23] I guess he was watching the news and he saw himself walking across the grass

[00:17:26] and he was like, Hey, you know what?

[00:17:28] Going to go a little bit less formal.

[00:17:31] Let's get a bunch of people around me so nobody can see me walking.

[00:17:34] That's how informal it's going to be.

[00:17:36] So informal you don't even see me.

[00:17:39] That's how informal I'm going to be.

[00:17:42] Most people would think informal, like you go with like the sneakers.

[00:17:46] They already tried that.

[00:17:48] Or you go with like a polo shirt and a windbreaker.

[00:17:50] Like that's what most people would think informal or how about

[00:17:53] just get him in a golf cart?

[00:17:55] Seriously at this point.

[00:17:58] Ooh, how about one of those, um, one of those, what do they call them?

[00:18:02] I forget the names on the tip of my tongue.

[00:18:05] The thing where the people hold, it's like a little box and it's got like these long,

[00:18:10] uh, horizontal poles and like your, your indentured servants or slaves.

[00:18:15] They pick up the thing and they carry you around on it.

[00:18:18] What is that thing called?

[00:18:20] It's the name.

[00:18:20] It's not like, it's not, is it called a caravan?

[00:18:23] It's not a caravan, not a cabana.

[00:18:25] Oh gosh.

[00:18:26] You know what I'm talking about?

[00:18:28] Like the Pharaohs used to be carted around and the Roman, uh,

[00:18:32] uh, leaders, the Caesars and such, they would get dragged all around

[00:18:37] or carried all around.

[00:18:38] That's what we should have.

[00:18:39] Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue.

[00:18:41] I can't anyway.

[00:18:43] All right.

[00:18:43] Just go to a golf cart, golf cart and just drive them over there.

[00:18:48] That would be informal.

[00:18:50] And if you give them a beer and the aviator sunglasses, you

[00:18:55] can make it a whole thing like, look at me.

[00:18:57] I just don't care.

[00:18:58] You know, whatever.

[00:18:59] But this, you want us to believe that this was his idea.

[00:19:03] That he's like, yeah, let's make it informal.

[00:19:04] Just surround me with a bunch of people so nobody can tell that I'm

[00:19:07] walking this really old kind of way.

[00:19:12] I don't mock him because he's elderly.

[00:19:13] I'm not saying that.

[00:19:15] And by the way, it's not the fact that he's 81 years old.

[00:19:18] That's not the, uh, that's not the hit.

[00:19:21] It's the condition that he is in and he happens to be 81.

[00:19:26] So it's completely understandable that his condition physically

[00:19:30] and mentally is deteriorating.

[00:19:33] When people say, oh, they're going to make his age an issue again,

[00:19:35] not his age, it's the condition.

[00:19:37] Okay.

[00:19:38] Um, so he'd been, he started walking solo like two weeks ago or yeah,

[00:19:43] he stopped walking solo.

[00:19:45] He's got these people around him now.

[00:19:46] It's last couple of weeks.

[00:19:48] Biden's team has focused on changing voters' perceptions

[00:19:52] about his age in recent months.

[00:19:54] Again, his age, not his age.

[00:19:56] His condition.

[00:19:56] Anyway, the White House has also taken steps, no pun intended, to prevent

[00:20:01] the president from tripping as he did last summer on a stage at the Air Force

[00:20:05] Academy, uh, he's got the shoes, the special shoes, um, that he's been wearing.

[00:20:11] And, uh, also the doctor has disclosed that the president

[00:20:16] suffers from stuttering.

[00:20:19] So I think that's why he's been tripping.

[00:20:22] He has a stutter.

[00:20:23] He has had a lifelong stutter people.

[00:20:27] No, I'm kidding.

[00:20:28] They say that he's got spinal arthritis and quote, mild sensory

[00:20:33] peripheral neuropathy of the feet.

[00:20:39] Okay.

[00:20:40] So spinal arthritis and mild sensory peripheral neuropathy of the feet.

[00:20:46] Right.

[00:20:50] No, that's not it.

[00:20:52] Palink, Palenquin, Palenquin.

[00:20:54] I mean, that's a very nice word.

[00:20:56] Don't get me wrong.

[00:20:56] But, uh, that's not the, that's not the thing that I was thinking of.

[00:21:02] Hmm.

[00:21:04] It'll come to me.

[00:21:07] John says on Trippin' Biden, I'm old enough to remember when we had a

[00:21:10] president that could use the big boy stares on Air Force One.

[00:21:14] He enters on the lower level on Air Force One now, and he is still

[00:21:19] doing the physical therapy and stretching exercises on most days.

[00:21:23] So there's that.

[00:21:25] Um,

[00:21:26] then there's this.

[00:21:28] First thing I thought when I saw this story was thank goodness,

[00:21:32] there's not a lot of audio of me talking because otherwise I'd be very,

[00:21:38] very concerned about this story.

[00:21:40] A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using

[00:21:45] artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal, his boss on an audio

[00:21:51] recording.

[00:21:51] And he, he made this AI, well, he had AI make this audio recording using

[00:22:01] some audio of his principal's voice and then made the principal say a

[00:22:08] whole bunch of racist stuff, antisemitic comments, and basically

[00:22:15] ruined this guy's life until they figured out that he was a real

[00:22:20] until they figured out that he actually never said these things.

[00:22:24] And it was done by AI.

[00:22:28] Could you imagine it for real?

[00:22:30] Like, imagine if you made a living talking, you'd be pretty worried,

[00:22:34] John.

[00:22:35] Right.

[00:22:37] That's first thing I thought.

[00:22:38] There's no audio of you anywhere though, that we can thank

[00:22:40] goodness.

[00:22:42] Right?

[00:22:42] Yeah.

[00:22:44] Man.

[00:22:45] Okay.

[00:22:46] If you're listening to this podcast, you are obviously paying attention

[00:22:49] to the world around us.

[00:22:50] You also have really great taste, I might add, but if you haven't started

[00:22:54] getting prepared for various emergencies, I got to ask, what are you waiting

[00:22:57] for?

[00:22:58] Please call my friends, Bill and Jan at Carolina readiness supply,

[00:23:02] and they'll help get you started.

[00:23:03] If you have no idea how to start, they can help you.

[00:23:05] If you're an experienced prepper, they can help you too.

[00:23:08] Being prepared is just smart.

[00:23:10] We've already established that you're smart.

[00:23:12] I mean, you listened to this podcast after all.

[00:23:14] So let's put those smarts into action.

[00:23:17] Go to Carolina readiness.com.

[00:23:19] That's Carolina readiness.com or call them at eight to eight two to six

[00:23:24] 72 39 Carolina readiness supply has 2000 square feet of supplies, as

[00:23:29] well as educational materials that you're going to need for any kind of

[00:23:33] emergency veteran owned Carolina readiness supply.

[00:23:36] Will you be ready when the lights go out?

[00:23:38] So it did work out by the way, this story, this athletic director, he

[00:23:43] did get busted.

[00:23:43] This is up in Baltimore.

[00:23:45] He faked the voice of his high school principal, his boss, because the

[00:23:51] boss had comment about the athletic director's poor work performance and

[00:23:58] whether his contract was going to be renewed.

[00:24:01] And also that apparently the athletic director had paid his roommate

[00:24:05] $1,900 in school funds under the false pretense of coaching the girls

[00:24:09] soccer team.

[00:24:10] It's a little bit of embezzlement too.

[00:24:12] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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