WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:03.640 Ac Oda Radio program phone number eight eight eight nine 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:08.000 three four seven eight seven four. I think the term, 3 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:11.080 and I didn't. I didn't craft the term. I saw 4 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:14.839 somebody use it in relation to Gavin Newsom, but I 5 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:20.000 think it's an invaluable term and that you're going to 6 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:23.480 see a lot of it moving forward, a lot of it. 7 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:26.120 Newsom is just one example. Let me tell you Newsom, 8 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:29.800 if you watched any of that dude's interviews, he is 9 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:35.759 he is. He's god tear politician man. Just his ability 10 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:43.320 to effortlessly roll through even even interviews where people who 11 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:48.240 are are pointing out things that should be should be 12 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:52.520 handcuffs for future elections, like his incident at the French laundry, 13 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:55.719 He's able to just smile through the whole thing and go, yeah, 14 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:59.520 biggest boneheaded mistake in my life. You gotta lit, you 15 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:02.920 gotta lot, You got to move forward. And he was 16 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:05.760 being interviewed by or he was being interviewed or on 17 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:09.280 the podcast with Charlie Oh, I don't know his name 18 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:15.400 is Cage, but a legitimate, legitimate dude who knows how 19 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:18.640 to do political debate, and he just completely disarms him. 20 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:22.799 And I'm not saying that Josh Stein is at that. 21 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:25.760 But Josh Stein is trying to do the same thing, 22 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:30.359 and the term is you're ready right washing, right, this 23 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:33.040 is right washing. What you're seeing is a bunch of 24 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:40.359 individuals who have been hyper progressive political animals their entire careers. 25 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:46.040 Josh Stein, if you look at his voting record, everyone 26 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:48.319 is sending me this the Illinois I got it. Okay, 27 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:51.079 it's okay. Look, if there's a big story out there, 28 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:53.480 chances are that I have it. So sending it to 29 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:57.920 me three times is just weird. Okay, you can send 30 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:59.920 it to me once. It's fine. Sending it to me 31 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:02.599 three times in the last twelve hours, and then some 32 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:04.719 others have said it to me just once, so that's fine. 33 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:06.719 So have you just said it once. I'm not talking 34 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:08.560 about you, But if you send it to me three times, 35 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:09.400 that you. 36 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:09.960 Need a hobby. 37 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:15.960 Okay, I got it. It's okay. Sorry. So so going 38 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:17.800 back to this, Josh Stein, if you look at his 39 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:22.319 voting record, going back to his time in the legislature, 40 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:26.960 and then you look at his ag performance, where basically 41 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:29.719 he felt his job was to go file lawsuits on 42 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:34.599 behalf of the Democrat Party. His job was to during 43 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:38.879 COVID sit there and fight your ability to, you know, 44 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.879 to do everything attempt to manipulate the state's elections in 45 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:49.199 a back room with Mark Elias to the point where 46 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:52.080 a court had to slap his hand down. Don't believe 47 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:55.639 anything this dude says unless he's willing to commit to 48 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:57.960 real change. And I'll give you an example of that. 49 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:02.800 But do not let Josh Stein sit here and pretend 50 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:06.800 because the political wins have changed, that he is some 51 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.919 sort of moderate dude. He does not have a moderate 52 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:15.919 dude track record, especially not as of late. So you know, 53 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:18.599 during the State of the State yesterday, he's got. 54 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:19.879 His aw shucks things going. 55 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.439 He's tweeting alongside or obviously he's not, his staff is, 56 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:28.159 but and you know he's saying things like like this, 57 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:31.280 And you have to remember that this guy and his 58 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:36.599 party didn't even didn't even his predecessor, his buddy, his mentor, 59 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:40.719 couldn't even be bothered to actually put a point person 60 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:42.000 in charge of relief. 61 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:43.680 It was so insane. 62 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:47.280 The Washington posted an article about it about how Roy 63 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:50.159 Cooper didn't even do this thing, which, by the way, 64 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:53.080 should handcuff Roy Cooper if he actually tries. 65 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:54.520 To run for Senate. It's insane. 66 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:58.960 But josh Stein also didn't really do anything. He wasn't 67 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:02.080 vocal about it. I remember, I was just wanting either 68 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:07.360 of these guys to sit there and say anything about it, anything. 69 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:10.400 It was baffling to me. 70 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:13.400 And the reason that they wouldn't criticize and be as 71 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:15.840 angry as people in North Carolina were is because they 72 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:20.000 would have had to criticize the Biden administration. They chose 73 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:28.240 the Biden administrations feels over the people of western North Carolina. 74 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:32.040 Do not let Josh Stein pretend that he's a champion 75 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:35.560 for western North Carolina. Unless they're a barbecue joint that 76 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:37.720 makes a barbecue sandwich he can take a photo with. 77 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:43.040 He has to earn it. The dude needs to earn it. 78 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:45.680 The guy who walked into my radio station and told 79 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:49.800 one of my fellow employees, boy Casey effing hates me. 80 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:54.079 I don't hate you in that sense. I hate what 81 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:58.240 you do, and I hate the disingenuous nature of things 82 00:04:58.439 --> 00:04:58.920 like this. 83 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:02.000 A number of folks on he still need help, Folks 84 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:03.560 who lost everything. 85 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:07.439 Florence, Folks who just want their home. 86 00:05:07.319 --> 00:05:10.920 Back like this is a This is a massive failure 87 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:14.920 of the Democratic party if we're still talking about down 88 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:15.720 East relief. 89 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:20.000 Okay, the bill that we're waiting on also includes funding 90 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.040 to help them move forward as well. 91 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:25.040 And no matter where you. 92 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:29.199 Live, if disaster strikes, we will be there for you 93 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:30.560 here in North Carolina. 94 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:36.759 But you weren't. You weren't because the what was needed, 95 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:40.160 what was needed. The only thing, the only time that 96 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:42.879 I saw, and I gave credit for this, the only 97 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:45.800 time I saw Josh Stein kick into action. And he's 98 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.240 welcome to correct me if I'm wrong, But I have 99 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:52.240 to assume that Ral and others would have touted these 100 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.600 other things had he actually been doing them. The only 101 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:59.240 thing that I know that Josh Stein's really leaned into 102 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:02.000 was that they were trying to get those hotel vouchers 103 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:06.399 extended to the extent that other politicians really were along 104 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:09.560 for the ride. But at least he was there, and 105 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:11.959 I think you just realized that the visuals. I don't 106 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:14.199 think he did it because he cares. Again, this is 107 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:17.000 my opinion. I think he did it because he didn't 108 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:21.680 want video of people whose homes were gone standing out 109 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:24.199 in front of a Super eight motel they just got 110 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:27.040 thrown out of in a blizzard. Okay, he didn't want 111 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:30.720 those photos out there. So talking about eastern North Carolina, 112 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:34.480 talking about failures in western North Carolina requires you to 113 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:39.279 call out the problems, and you wouldn't do it. And 114 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:42.439 it was rage inducing that you wouldn't do it because 115 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:47.360 you held the office or were you know, on your 116 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:50.160 way to winning the office, but were one of the 117 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:53.399 top two candidates for the office. So it was I 118 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:58.639 understood it because you can't you chose party over people here, 119 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:03.759 So until you demonstrate that that's not the case, which 120 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:07.360 includes you being brutally honest about the failures of your 121 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:13.000 own parties leadership and your failures. I should have worked harder, 122 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:14.839 I should have done this. We shouldn't have been in 123 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:18.120 this situation. FEMA shouldn't have been out here screwing around 124 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:19.120 and not doing stuff. 125 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:20.600 And you you, you didn't. 126 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:25.079 You refuse to participate in any of those conversations. So frankly, 127 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:28.560 other than you signing the bill, which as a human, 128 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:33.639 you should stay out of the way. If you're not 129 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:36.639 going to be part of the solution. To put your 130 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:39.439 signature on there, it's a it's a formality, and then 131 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:42.000 shut up and and you know, do it, Go go, 132 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:46.240 go tour restaurants or something. Go back to Wilbur's. Okay, 133 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:48.360 I know you like eating there. I mean a lot 134 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:51.800 of people like eating there. I understand that, but I 135 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:55.519 have no bandwidth for it. I was just losing my crap. 136 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:57.959 Watch I don't I don't need this level of stress, 137 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:03.639 but just the ease and the smoothness pretending like okay, 138 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:08.079 or pretending that you want an actual Doze style review 139 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:12.519 of North Carolina spending. I'll explain what's up with this? 140 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:13.399 Will we play the album? 141 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.519 Of course, we have to be fiscally prudent, to be 142 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:20.480 smart about how we invest our taxpayers' dollars. So that's 143 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:23.120 why I'm directing my budget office to set up the 144 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:27.000 Impact Center to ensure that our government has run effectively 145 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:31.879 and efficiently, because people should know that their taxpayer dollars 146 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:33.320 are being well spent. 147 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:39.600 But let's get it right. Let's use a scalpel, not 148 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:40.960 a chainsaw, all right. 149 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:44.960 So, and this is not about thinking for a minute 150 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:48.159 that there's rampant ways in North Caroline. This is about 151 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:52.559 controlling the process. And I'm sorry, Josh Stein, you don't 152 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:55.240 get to control the process in the minds of a 153 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:58.000 lot of people. If it's going to be accomplished, right 154 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:01.159 you know what I'm saying, Like, people don't leave, You're 155 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:05.120 going to purge all of the wastefulness. There's too many 156 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:08.480 pet there's too many Democrat pet projects right now, if 157 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:12.519 between the two parties, and really when you get into 158 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:14.559 the leadership of both parties, I don't know that I 159 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:15.519 trust either of them. 160 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:18.360 But like, you're not the man for the job. 161 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.080 You owe too many favors you have, you know, you 162 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:27.159 have too many allegiances to a lot of the things 163 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:31.240 where you know, the DEI stuff, the stuff where people 164 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.879 feel that there are actual wasteful things going on. So 165 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:40.159 I'm sorry, I like it's a joke. It's just establishing 166 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:43.799 another office that itself will probably become a money suck 167 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:47.440 on the state of North Carolina. So no, I don't 168 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:50.039 believe you think that there's a bunch of ways you 169 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:51.720 got to do it. I think that you want a 170 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:54.679 little show thing. Oh look what we're doing. We found 171 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:58.159 some stuff and you'll probably only use it to go 172 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:00.759 over things like well, you know, one of the things 173 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:05.080 that's very wasteful is a school of vouchers because you're 174 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:09.279 so beholden to the Teachers' Union if you want to 175 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:13.240 gain a modicum of trust from people, if you honestly 176 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:15.559 want to say things like this. 177 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:19.600 What we've been talking about tonight, they're not red issues 178 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:30.120 or blue issues. They are North Carolina issues. Of of course, 179 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:33.320 on some of them, we may differ about how best 180 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:35.840 to get where we want to go. That's fine, that 181 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:40.759 is the democratic process. But I am certain that if 182 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:45.360 we come together across our differences, we can find common 183 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:49.039 ground and make progress. If those of us who believe 184 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:53.200 in the possibility of bipartisanship look to Washington, d C. 185 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:55.440 We will surely become discouraged. 186 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.679 But we do not need to be pulled into those 187 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.519 political games. We can create something better, something forward looking, 188 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.440 right here in North Carolina, and we can do it together. 189 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:13.720 You you are are You have no track record of bipartisanship, 190 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:17.559 not in not in your time as ag not what 191 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:19.639 I've seen so far in your time as governor. 192 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:21.759 You don't mean that. 193 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:25.159 There's another part where he's talking about, well, we want 194 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:27.200 to get the best education. Well, a lot of people 195 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:29.919 think that the best education is achieved by having the 196 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:35.120 most choice, which is logical in any other scenario, any 197 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:38.600 other scenario, right, just think of like, think, if there's 198 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:42.080 a think of a product, okay, any product, I don't 199 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:44.759 care what it is, A razor okay, just like you know, 200 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:48.360 shave and razor whatever, you buy, big razor whatever. What 201 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:50.679 do you think the quality of that big razor would 202 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:56.320 be if there was not Gillette and you know, uh, Harry's, 203 00:11:56.360 --> 00:11:57.320 and you know all. 204 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:58.840 The other companies out there. 205 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:04.840 It requires unique pricing strategies, unique models. It requires a 206 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:08.399 some that are higher quality than others, are more affordable 207 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:12.080 than others, all of these different choices that are provided 208 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:12.960 for consumers. 209 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:15.399 So when it comes to education. 210 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:17.960 If you feel that this is the one area where 211 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:23.200 more doesn't necessarily equal potentially better options or even options 212 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:26.399 that just fit more into the lifestyle of a particular family, 213 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:33.480 then you don't mean it more choice, more opportunity, more 214 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:38.120 decisions for parents who find themselves in an educational hell 215 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:41.600 accounting that's not getting it done, a school district where 216 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:45.720 it's just not happening, or they have unique needs that 217 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:50.039 aren't being met, but the dollars are being extracted from 218 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:54.200 the parents, you know, via taxes, via property taxes, and 219 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:56.799 they're not able to use it in the most effective way, 220 00:12:56.960 --> 00:12:59.799 even though it is money that is specifically earmarked for 221 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:05.519 educating their kids. And it's this fundamental disconnect that it's 222 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:08.919 government's money and not the people's money. Government's money comes 223 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:11.960 from the people and then is given back to the people. Well, 224 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:15.639 that's also a really inefficient way to do things. Middlemen 225 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:20.799 always taken a little chunk there. Let people make those decisions. 226 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.320 So if he's serious about anything that he said yesterday, 227 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.759 there needs to be a mea culpa over what happened 228 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:31.879 with hurricane relief, not just in Western North Carolina, but 229 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:36.039 as he mentioned down east. I know that they did 230 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:42.120 fire one person. That's probably not enough fundamentally, whatever delivery system. 231 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:45.000 I saw a report yesterday that we haven't made application 232 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:48.600 for bridges yet in Western North Carolina, we haven't applied 233 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:52.200 for bridges. Essentially, you have to go through and you 234 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:54.000 have to have a plan for each of the bridges 235 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:56.639 and it's you know, there's a bureaucracy around it, but 236 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:03.759 there's a process through FEMA. If that, if that holds true, 237 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:06.480 because I will say that the article does have it 238 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:09.639 does have one piece of anonymous sourcing in there, and 239 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:11.720 you know how I feel about those. But if that's 240 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:18.360 the case, holy hell, What are we doing is how 241 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:20.639 are we not moving at one thousand miles an hour 242 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:26.000 right now? Especially with the receptive nature of the administration 243 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:29.799 in Washington. What is the first thing that Donald Trump 244 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:33.720 did from a Trump a visit standpoint after he was inaugurated? 245 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:34.840 What's the first thing he. 246 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:40.679 Did his first official visit in the United States after 247 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:43.600 he was he came to western North Carolina. He made 248 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:51.840 it a focal piece of his election. Why would you 249 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:57.120 not take advantage of this? What are we doing? And 250 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:01.159 also fix the DMV? Holy hell, man, can we just 251 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:03.639 fix I'm nervous because I got to get my license 252 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:05.559 renewed and I have to do the one where I 253 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:11.279 go in Oh, what sweet hell that's gonna be. Oh, 254 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:13.720 I can't wait. And then I hear stories about parents, 255 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:15.799 I'm not making this up. Parents who want to get 256 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:18.440 their kids road tests and they happen to live in 257 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:21.559 like Wake County or whatever, and they have to go 258 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:23.600 if they want their kid to be able to drive 259 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:27.559 before they're a legal adult. They're booking in like you know, 260 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:31.360 you know, of some random small county they got to 261 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:33.879 drive two hours or three hours to get to because 262 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:38.000 it's the only appointment they can get that. 263 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:39.480 Whole thing is fundamentally broke. 264 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:41.279 So look, there are a lot of things you can 265 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:44.759 do that would garner respect and I think would meet 266 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:48.440 these bipartisan requirements. And I didn't hear any of it yesterday, 267 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:52.200 but I've just given you three suggestions. Make Western North 268 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:56.759 Carolina your passion, use the administration school vouchers, and fix 269 00:15:56.840 --> 00:15:59.919 the DMV, and they probably make you governor for life. 270 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:03.440 But you won't do any of those. 271 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:04.279 Not really. 272 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:08.440 We'll be back getting things roar rolling. I got all 273 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:11.360 the FAA audio. Trust me, we are on it, boys 274 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:16.320 and girls. We're gonna get to that actually here right well, 275 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:17.960 right now, I'm gonna do that here in just a 276 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:23.639 little bit. Actually, but me let me get this rolling again. 277 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:26.440 Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. 278 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:28.679 Curious what you thought if you watched any of the 279 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:32.720 Josh Stein speech yesterday. Now, before the thing kicked off, 280 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:40.879 they had themselves a little rally down, you know, an 281 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:45.679 anti Doge, anti Elon, anti Trump rally down in front 282 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:50.000 of the Capitol, and it's the usual suspect. So though, 283 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:53.720 I think that one of the things that everyone should 284 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:57.360 be doing would be very helpful for you is when 285 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:03.519 you are watching any protest coverage nowadays, always if there's 286 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:06.680 never a wide shot, ask yourself why. But if there is, 287 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:10.599 ask yourself if those look like the protest crowds from 288 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:17.039 I don't know roughly well, going back to Trump's first term, right, 289 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:21.079 arguably you would have. You have to assume because of 290 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:24.519 everything that's going on, the people on the left hate 291 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:27.960 Trump more this time around, because he's just bulling a 292 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:32.000 china shop, right, and he's destroying their norms and he's 293 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:37.240 basically defunding all their stuff, And so it would track 294 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:42.039 that the protest crowds would be bigger, especially if you've 295 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:46.839 got a bunch of a bunch of folks who you 296 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:50.359 know are are sitting there and probably know somebody who 297 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:53.400 was in one of these slush fun kind of jobs. Right, 298 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:57.480 if you're even remotely politically connected, you think there'd be 299 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:00.319 more people out there. And inevitably what I keep scene 300 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:06.039 is less people out there, which is just really strange 301 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:09.839 to me. And then yesterday I kid you not, and uh, 302 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:12.880 if you get paywalled, it's fine. The photo I want 303 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:14.599 you to see if you go to our Twitter account 304 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:17.720 at Casey on the Radio, I've retweeted a news and 305 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:20.480 Observer article. Now it won't show with the picture until 306 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:23.680 you click to the actual News and Observer tweet. And 307 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:27.279 this is the headline. Dose Critics plus a few puppets 308 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:33.440 rally and Raleigh to protest craziness in DC. No, they 309 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:39.279 rallied in Raleigh to protest on their standards schedule, the 310 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:48.000 gutting of their you know, their freebies, and they're they're insane, 311 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:51.000 you know, spending levels and and things that they were 312 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:56.839 spending it on again never addressing the truly crazy crap. Instead, 313 00:18:56.920 --> 00:18:58.440 they have these big I don't even know how to 314 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:03.960 describe these puppets. I guess I would describe them as, 315 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:07.039 you know, they look like they look like the like 316 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:12.640 the big paper machee puppets you see at Dia demoebto 317 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:15.799 with the Day of the Dead. You know, you know, 318 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:18.680 you see those those parades down in Mexico right where 319 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:21.200 they've got the bone mass on and all that looks 320 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:23.319 pretty the opening to that one of the last James 321 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:26.240 Bond movies was there. And and then they have like 322 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:29.160 the big puppets, so they made some of those of 323 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:33.359 Trump and Elon. The irony is and this is why 324 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:35.680 I love the headline. It says, and a few puppets. 325 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:40.400 Clearly everyone there is a puppet, So thank you for 326 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:42.440 setting me up for that little one liner there. I 327 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:46.599 appreciate that the event, hosted by North Carolina Democrats, a 328 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:48.359 protest kicked off around noon. 329 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:50.400 Uh do. 330 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:54.720 Anderson Clayton is the party chair. She spoke in support 331 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:58.319 of federal workers and defendive programs like Medicaid and social Security. 332 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:04.440 Anderson Clayton, please on the record the stuff that Dosee 333 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:11.960 found in usaid, these insane like transgender Columbrian operas, all 334 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:14.319 of these. Will you just go on the record and 335 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:18.880 say that that's bad. That's all you have to do. 336 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:20.559 Just go on the record and be like, no, this 337 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:23.039 is because then then we can start to find common 338 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:26.519 ground here. Then I will listen when you say, hey, 339 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:31.400 this one thing, like yesterday's big thing was this subagency 340 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:34.759 within the Department of Ed whose only job is to 341 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:40.039 have federal testing data, turn federal testing data. And I 342 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:42.839 think it was costing about one hundred and fifty million 343 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:44.880 a year, I believe is the number that I saw. 344 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:49.480 And their only job is to gather test scores from 345 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:52.960 the states and then put them together in federal you know, 346 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:55.880 average them together, which, by the way, anyone who has 347 00:20:55.920 --> 00:21:01.519 a basic mathematical understanding and I understand that it's slightly 348 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:04.440 more complex than that. But in reality, if I want 349 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:07.079 to know what the national average is for math, and 350 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:13.960 it's a standardized math test across fifty states, and half 351 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:16.880 of the state's average fifty, and let's just say and 352 00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:18.839 not that it would happen the other half of the 353 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:21.920 state's average one hundred, what is the national average? I'm 354 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:24.799 sorry to make you guys do math this early. So 355 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:29.559 if if twenty five states average fifty and twenty five 356 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:33.960 states average one hundred, what is the average? Ross? You 357 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:36.359 hated math, and I think you can average fifty in 358 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:38.960 one hundred, right, seventy five? 359 00:21:39.079 --> 00:21:40.960 Ross has said seventy five in my year, So. 360 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:43.960 Yes, the answer is I don't want to do math 361 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:46.519 this early either, But we don't need one hundred and 362 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:49.480 fifty million dollar agency and then they use anonymous sources 363 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:52.480 for the whole thing. So no. But if that's your 364 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:54.319 pet project and you want to at least have a 365 00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:57.039 conversation about it, then you have to be able to 366 00:21:57.119 --> 00:22:00.240 accept that there was piles of money being thrown away 367 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:03.240 for nonsense. The problem is, and this is why I 368 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:08.599 go back to crowd sizes. I feel like these crowd sizes, 369 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:11.000 maybe not the one yesterday because I don't have a 370 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:13.160 lot to compare it to here as of late, but 371 00:22:13.240 --> 00:22:17.680 definitely what we're seeing up in DC, they're very They're 372 00:22:17.720 --> 00:22:22.319 not very big. There's might be a lot of them, 373 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:24.279 but it's it's a lot of repeat the same people. 374 00:22:24.319 --> 00:22:26.559 They're a lot smaller. Ross was telling me, because we're gonna 375 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:29.759 have Stephen Kent on today, he actually went down to 376 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:32.720 the protests in front of the Department of edd right, Yeah, just. 377 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:34.599 For funies, just to see what it would be like. 378 00:22:34.599 --> 00:22:36.000 And it was, like he said, it was like a whimper. 379 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:39.440 Yeah, And he lives in d C. Lives in the 380 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:41.640 DC area, so like if you live around there, you 381 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:42.799 see protests all the time. 382 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:45.039 It is super weird how these protests always had like, 383 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:48.079 you know, not just a lot of people, but like 384 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:50.160 the same sort of sign and the same sort of. 385 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:52.079 Remember all the tents, they were the same for all 386 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:54.880 the college campus and not just like on one college, 387 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:57.519 like Columbia's tents were the same as UCLA's tents. 388 00:22:57.599 --> 00:22:59.839 Yeah, we looked up that tent on Amazon or whatever 389 00:22:59.880 --> 00:23:01.559 it was like a five dollars tent. 390 00:23:02.279 --> 00:23:05.799 Yeah, well, hey man, I've overspent on a tent before, 391 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:07.559 but that was me h. 392 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:09.839 But it's super weird when they all have the same 393 00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:10.880 five hundred dollars. 394 00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:15.799 Tent and uh and really really nicely made signs and all. 395 00:23:16.359 --> 00:23:20.640 And so you know, the idea that monies that were 396 00:23:20.759 --> 00:23:23.480 part of this large gess that were just being handed 397 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:26.960 out were then you know, either redonated or in some cases, 398 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:33.000 you know, spun into incentive programs where you'd see these 399 00:23:33.079 --> 00:23:35.119 ads for, hey, you want to make forty dollars for 400 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:37.680 three hours work, come on down to our protests there. 401 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:42.640