1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to vpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:33,039 your support. We had Andrew dunne on in the first 10 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,679 hour and I asked him about a story that actually 11 00:00:36,759 --> 00:00:40,880 appeared at the Washington Post. It's a story by Brianna 12 00:00:41,039 --> 00:00:46,200 Sachs and Jake Spring, and the focus is on Donald Trump, 13 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,359 because of course, right it's on how folks in western 14 00:00:50,399 --> 00:00:56,439 North Carolina that were devastated by Hurricane Helene that they 15 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,679 all voted for Trump and they thought they were getting 16 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:01,920 Trump to help them, and now you know, where's all 17 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,640 the help and all of this. Okay, that's the focus 18 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:14,719 of the story. But there's a pretty amazing account in 19 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:19,519 here that I had not heard before, and I feel 20 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,760 like I followed this stuff pretty closely. I'm not sure 21 00:01:22,799 --> 00:01:26,280 why I was not aware of this but let's just 22 00:01:26,359 --> 00:01:29,200 kind of go through this piece by piece. So the 23 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:31,760 story centers, you know, as you normally find with these 24 00:01:31,799 --> 00:01:35,439 types of stories. They go to Avery County and it's 25 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,319 a you know, a two lane highway, and western North 26 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:43,200 Carolina winds through a landscape littered with crushed cars, houses 27 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:48,519 knocked off their foundations, and thousands of downed trees. Five 28 00:01:48,599 --> 00:01:54,359 months after Hurricane Helene, about three hundred privately owned bridges 29 00:01:54,959 --> 00:01:59,159 in Avery County have yet to be fixed. Okay. While 30 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:03,239 Americans typically rely on a mix of state and federal 31 00:02:03,359 --> 00:02:06,760 aid in the wake of a disaster, the recovery for 32 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,120 many here has become akin to a personal test of 33 00:02:11,159 --> 00:02:17,599 their relationship with President Donald Trump. That lingering frustrations. Again, 34 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:24,479 they're connecting Trump to these voters, right, and it's a 35 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,840 personal relationship. If he doesn't deliver for them, oh, they're 36 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,879 gonna vote against him next time around. Oh wait, yeah, 37 00:02:33,879 --> 00:02:39,120 never mind. Okay. The lingering frustration across parts of twenty 38 00:02:39,199 --> 00:02:43,719 seven hurricane hit counties in North Carolina's Appalachian Mountain region 39 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:48,400 speaks to the complexity of rebuilding in a place dotted 40 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:54,080 with Federal Emergency Management Agency centers. But people say they 41 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:58,919 feel abandoned. Trump and his allies have blasted President Joe 42 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:04,599 Biden's response, feeding an online frenzy that has portrayed FEMA's 43 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:11,280 response as disastrous. So again, Orange man bad, you get 44 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:15,280 the sense. Let me skip ahead here, because this is 45 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,919 the to me, this is the headline. To me, this 46 00:03:20,039 --> 00:03:25,719 is the story complaints about And this is I don't know, 47 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:31,080 second page in on a six page story. Yeah, so, 48 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:39,039 complaints about FEMA always followed disasters. As the nation's lead 49 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:45,400 disaster response agency, FEMA has a specific and often misunderstood 50 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:52,199 role to provide funding, coordinate resources, and help state and 51 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:56,879 local officials navigate a complex web of programs and resources. 52 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,520 FEMA was on the ground even before the storm hit, 53 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:07,120 according to Amber Silver, an emergency management expert at the 54 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:11,520 University of Albany who also happens to have both of 55 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:16,040 her names the names of alerts Amber and Silver. Anyway, 56 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:20,199 I just noted that I thought it was interesting, very Dickensian. 57 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:25,040 So she called it a common misperception that FEMA was 58 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,079 late in coming or that they didn't get to certain 59 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:35,040 parts of the state. Helene's sprawl made the response logistically complex, 60 00:04:35,959 --> 00:04:39,800 especially since some mountainous communities and hollers in Appalacha are 61 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:44,040 extremely difficult to access. All of that is true, and 62 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,800 I was saying this from the very beginning that the 63 00:04:47,879 --> 00:04:54,079 topographical challenges presented in western North Carolina are not the 64 00:04:54,319 --> 00:05:00,480 normal kinds of environments that FEMA goes into a lot 65 00:05:00,519 --> 00:05:04,120 of times. They're at the coast, right, they got a 66 00:05:04,199 --> 00:05:08,839 hurricane that's slammed in to the country. It's usually it's 67 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,040 usually at the coast, and it's way more flat land, 68 00:05:12,199 --> 00:05:15,519 you know, to see something like this in the mountains, 69 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,639 and then the wall of water and the types of 70 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:21,079 mud slides. It's just this is not something that they 71 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:26,639 deal with on a regular basis. Another potential obstacle was 72 00:05:26,639 --> 00:05:31,160 that North Carolina here it is never appointed a disaster 73 00:05:31,519 --> 00:05:37,720 recovery coordinator to take charge of communicating with federal agencies, 74 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:44,720 which is what FEMA recommends. William Ray, the States director 75 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:49,920 of the agency, confirmed that, saying officials decided to take 76 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:56,319 a different approach. So I'm not sure what is that 77 00:05:56,399 --> 00:06:00,360 different approach. They were just not going to have somebody 78 00:06:00,439 --> 00:06:03,959 running point under Roy Cooper. But then when Josh Stein 79 00:06:03,959 --> 00:06:08,519 took over, apparently they did. They have somebody. Now, what 80 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,959 the heck? What was Roy Cooper doing. How is it 81 00:06:12,079 --> 00:06:18,800 possible that Roy Cooper as governor for eight years with 82 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:25,519 multiple hurricanes, right, that he never could quite figure out 83 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:29,639 how to get people into homes after these disasters. It's 84 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:34,319 been seven years, eight years since some of those hurricanes 85 00:06:34,399 --> 00:06:37,240 left people homeless, and some of those folks still don't 86 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:44,879 have their homes replaced. From Matthew and Florence let alone, Helene, 87 00:06:45,079 --> 00:06:50,480 this guy has gotten a complete pass by North Carolina 88 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:57,839 media for his ineffectual disaster response. And we saw it, 89 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,600 heard the stories. Right, this is the five year anniversary 90 00:07:01,639 --> 00:07:06,000 of the beginning of COVID, right, and everybody you know, 91 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,399 ran to his well. They couldn't actually go in person 92 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:15,480 to his press conferences during COVID, but reporters would go 93 00:07:15,519 --> 00:07:19,439 and join the zoom call and patiently, you know, raise 94 00:07:19,519 --> 00:07:23,800 their hand digitally and wait to get called on, and 95 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,120 you know, ask questions about how can we enforce you know, 96 00:07:29,199 --> 00:07:32,000 these lockdowns, lock us down harder, daddy, you know, like 97 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,600 that was that was the entire tone of all of 98 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,879 this stuff. There was there was like no skepticism at all. 99 00:07:40,279 --> 00:07:43,639 There was just this this rolling over and hoping that 100 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,000 he knew what he was doing. And just giving him 101 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,720 the benefit of the doubt that he did know what 102 00:07:47,759 --> 00:07:51,959 he was doing. And that's fine if that's the way 103 00:07:51,959 --> 00:07:54,000 you want to play it while it's going on. But 104 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,519 afterwards you should take a look and see did he 105 00:07:57,639 --> 00:08:01,360 actually make the right decisions? Some of these things work, 106 00:08:01,439 --> 00:08:03,399 did some of them not work? We should have an 107 00:08:03,439 --> 00:08:06,920 accounting and we have not done that. Nobody has done 108 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,000 that with his policies. People haven't held him to account 109 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:15,639 for some of these decisions. So this is a pretty 110 00:08:15,639 --> 00:08:19,720 big one. Right, Why why are we just now? How 111 00:08:19,759 --> 00:08:23,680 did the Washington Post figure this out? And nobody else? 112 00:08:25,519 --> 00:08:27,199 I don't know the answer to that, but they did. 113 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,079 They figured this out that apparently he never appointed a 114 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:36,120 disaster recovery coordinator. Natalie Simpson, an emergency management expert at 115 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,279 the University of Buffalo, said that she was shocked that 116 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:44,240 the state did not appoint a disaster response czar and 117 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:49,360 said this could help explain the uneven response. If there 118 00:08:49,399 --> 00:08:53,519 were genuine problems with FEMA's response, like not penetrating fast 119 00:08:53,639 --> 00:08:57,240 enough into the affected areas, somebody that the state appointed 120 00:08:57,279 --> 00:09:03,000 as the czar would have been sounding deal arm earlier. Right, 121 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:09,279 That's why it seemed like their response was not being 122 00:09:09,519 --> 00:09:16,240 well run. It's because it wasn't. It wasn't. If FEMA 123 00:09:16,279 --> 00:09:19,679 was guilty of anything, the state of North Carolina is 124 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,879 equally guilty of it, she said. It wasn't until early 125 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,559 January that newly elected governor Josh Stein appointed a leadership 126 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:34,399 team to oversee the recovery in western North Carolina. Josh 127 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,039 Stein did that, and even now, as we heard from 128 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,759 Andrew Dunn in the last hour, I don't hear much 129 00:09:41,759 --> 00:09:44,720 from that guy Collabria I think is his name. I 130 00:09:44,799 --> 00:09:47,240 don't hear much at all from that office, from whoever 131 00:09:47,279 --> 00:09:51,159 it is. That's running point like this is one of 132 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:55,799 the things that people expect of their governors to be 133 00:09:55,919 --> 00:10:01,519 competent and surround themselves with competent They have to respond 134 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,000 to these disasters. You have to and we have known 135 00:10:04,039 --> 00:10:09,000 this since the days of Jim Hunt, right going back 136 00:10:09,159 --> 00:10:12,240 forty years. You got to know how to respond to 137 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:16,559 natural disasters. And Roy Cooper just apparently never learned, which 138 00:10:16,639 --> 00:10:19,120 kind of makes sense because he went from you know, 139 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:23,399 a legislative seat, then to attorney general. You're not really 140 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,200 dealing with that stuff there, and then he ends up 141 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:29,000 as the governor. And that was probably the first time 142 00:10:29,039 --> 00:10:31,080 in his life he ever had to really worry about 143 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:35,320 disaster response, and he didn't do a very good job 144 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:38,080 at it. Now will that haunt him when he runs 145 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,559 for US Senate, if he runs for US Senate against 146 00:10:40,639 --> 00:10:43,600 Tom Tillis, I don't know. Will anybody in the media 147 00:10:43,639 --> 00:10:46,840 care to ask him? I don't know that either. All right, 148 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:48,679 if you're listening to this show, you know I try 149 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:50,480 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 150 00:10:50,519 --> 00:10:52,559 I know you do too. And you probably heard me 151 00:10:52,639 --> 00:10:56,840 say get your news from multiple sources. 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So the 169 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:57,720 Washington Post with this story about our former governor, my 170 00:11:57,759 --> 00:12:03,600 good friend Ray Cooper, who did not appoint anybody as 171 00:12:03,639 --> 00:12:09,679 a disaster recovery coordinator to take charge of communicating with 172 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,720 federal agencies. And this is something that FEMA recommends that 173 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:18,879 the states do, but the state did not. Roy Cooper 174 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,840 did not do this. And I saw Matt Mercer, who 175 00:12:23,919 --> 00:12:35,200 is the Republican Party, the North Carolina Republican Parties communications guy, 176 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:41,960 and you know, he points out here that after families 177 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:47,399 down East went the entirety of Roy Cooper's tenure as 178 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:51,279 governor without getting homes rebuilt because of incompetence or willful 179 00:12:51,399 --> 00:12:57,320 negligence in recovery from Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, the final 180 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,600 act of Roy Cooper's time was screwing over the other 181 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:03,360 part of the state, the western part of the state. 182 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:10,519 Like that's three hurricanes three hurricanes that Roy Cooper failed 183 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:15,759 at and A wasn't a lifetime pandemic. Which, oh, by 184 00:13:15,799 --> 00:13:19,559 the way, did you see the uh do you see 185 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:23,919 the protesting that they're doing around the country over the weekend. 186 00:13:23,919 --> 00:13:26,840 They were doing the rallies and such, the stand up 187 00:13:26,919 --> 00:13:34,759 for science, not for Fauci. No, this isn't standing up 188 00:13:34,799 --> 00:13:39,559 for Fauci aka the science. This is. This is to 189 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,519 This is in defense of government funded grants that have 190 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:51,279 been identified for potential cuts by doge right. And you 191 00:13:51,279 --> 00:13:55,759 remember Francis Collins, Remember that guy, the guy who wrote, well, 192 00:13:55,799 --> 00:14:01,600 he led the NIH but then he also sang like 193 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:07,600 rewrites of folk tunes and yeah, yeah, he did one 194 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:11,159 somewhere after the pandemic. It was to the tune of 195 00:14:11,399 --> 00:14:17,120 Somewhere over the Rainbow. Yeah, that's well, he did it again. Yeah, 196 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,320 I got I've got the audio. We'll take a listen 197 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,080 to it. But let me get let me finish up 198 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:26,360 this Washington Post piece that since the disaster, FEMA has 199 00:14:26,399 --> 00:14:29,600 poured nearly eight hundred million dollars into North Carolina's recovery. 200 00:14:29,799 --> 00:14:32,080 About half that funding has gone to one hundred and 201 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:37,000 fifty six thousand households for rental assistance, home repairs and 202 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:42,320 other relief. They were on the ground here with us 203 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,240 since the beginning, and we're here with us all the 204 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,039 way through the response, said William Ray, speaking of FEMA. 205 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,360 In every response and recovery effort. We wish things had 206 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,320 gone faster, but that is the nature of disaster response. 207 00:14:54,799 --> 00:14:57,440 Although many people said they were helped by the agency, 208 00:14:57,639 --> 00:15:00,360 in fifteen weeks of driving across the state from his 209 00:15:00,399 --> 00:15:03,960 home in Greenville, Sean Hendrix said he saw just two 210 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:07,080 FEMA workers and to him and to other residents, all 211 00:15:07,159 --> 00:15:10,000 the federal rules in red tape have left people floundering 212 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:15,559 in dire financial situations and unacceptable living conditions. And then 213 00:15:15,559 --> 00:15:19,840 they talked with Matt Vaughan's Van Swoll, a thirty year 214 00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:24,360 old marketer who was one of Sean Hendricks's avid followers. 215 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:28,399 Sean Hendricks was apparently one of the Mister Beast's guys. 216 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:32,279 The YouTuber Mister Beast, he's one of his guys. Like Hendricks, 217 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,200 Von Swall remains outraged by what he described as FEMA's 218 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,960 complete failure to help his community of Weaverville and those 219 00:15:39,159 --> 00:15:44,600 around him, as well local elected officials in Avery County, 220 00:15:44,919 --> 00:15:48,440 all Republicans, say, the new administration and Trump's executive order 221 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,639 have made little discernible difference so far. William Ray, the 222 00:15:51,639 --> 00:15:54,360 head of North Carolina Emergency Management, said that the federal 223 00:15:54,399 --> 00:15:57,799 government's responsiveness on the disaster has been about the same 224 00:15:57,919 --> 00:16:04,639 under Trump and Biden. So that's where it stands now. 225 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,200 I'm sure just like the homelessness problem, now we can 226 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,120 tell the story. Right now, we'll be able to tell 227 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,720 the story because now it's Trump's FEMA that's failing. Here's 228 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,320 a great idea. How about making an escape to a 229 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,879 really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just 230 00:16:20,879 --> 00:16:23,440 a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville 231 00:16:23,559 --> 00:16:27,360 is your connection. 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I 250 00:17:28,799 --> 00:17:32,640 got a message from It's all a distraction who says 251 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:40,119 Hurricane Cooper was the worst storm to hit North Carolina. 252 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:44,599 I did mention Francis Collins uh and Russ says I 253 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:50,319 might be more disgusted with that guy than even Fauci. 254 00:17:50,839 --> 00:17:54,559 His fingerprints were all over the sketchy research programs and 255 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,039 horrific response, but he used his faith as a shield 256 00:17:58,079 --> 00:18:01,480 against criticism and a cudgel to force people with legitimate 257 00:18:01,519 --> 00:18:06,799 concerns into compliance. He did the whole evangelical influencer circuit, 258 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:12,119 questioning other people's faith if they didn't like what was happening. Yeah, 259 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,039 I was not aware. I just recently found out about 260 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:24,240 Collins's evangelical connections, and yet I was not aware of 261 00:18:24,279 --> 00:18:29,359 any of that, of that effort that he was undertaking 262 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,920 and had for a while. But I do know that 263 00:18:34,039 --> 00:18:41,160 the guy loves to sing some nineteen sixties folk music 264 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,839 protest songs. I do know that he likes to do it. 265 00:18:45,039 --> 00:18:50,440 In fact, there was a rally on Friday. I guess 266 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:55,160 it was against the Trump administrations sweeping cuts to research 267 00:18:55,240 --> 00:19:01,880 funding and federal agencies tasked with advancing science. This is 268 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:07,839 from the USA Today article dubbed stand Up for Science. 269 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:14,640 The rallies brought together leading researchers, former administrators, and people 270 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:19,119 who benefited from medical advances. The main rally occurred on 271 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,920 the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington excuse me, DC, 272 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:29,039 with an estimated thirty events held from Seattle to Tallahassee, Florida, 273 00:19:29,319 --> 00:19:35,000 and even in France. Why France. 274 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:36,319 Speaker 2: So? 275 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: Doctor Francis Collins, the longtime former director of the National 276 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:49,680 Institutes of Health here is well. He took the stage, 277 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:51,720 he made some comments for about a minute or two, 278 00:19:52,519 --> 00:19:54,759 and then he brought down the house here. 279 00:19:55,079 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 2: I think if we're going to talk about people, there's 280 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:58,880 one more thing we need to do before I sit down. 281 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 3: We need to sing out there. 282 00:20:00,519 --> 00:20:10,680 Speaker 4: Yes, okay, Yes, we're gonna hope the wind doesn't get 283 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:11,279 the better of this. 284 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:19,039 Speaker 1: Okay, Yes, he's really working this crowd. Oh yeah, there 285 00:20:19,079 --> 00:20:25,319 we go. Oh my gosh, he got his papers paper 286 00:20:25,319 --> 00:20:26,640 clipped from the wind. 287 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:28,759 Speaker 2: Can we get a guitar? 288 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:31,519 Speaker 4: And this is a sing along? 289 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:33,640 Speaker 1: Yes, and a chorus. 290 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 2: It's really easy to learn. 291 00:20:36,559 --> 00:20:37,599 Speaker 5: Can you find the guitar? 292 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:47,519 Speaker 1: I mean I think I hear a guitar. Yeah, that's 293 00:20:47,519 --> 00:20:52,359 a guitar. Something he can't hear the guitar? 294 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:54,079 Speaker 2: Hello, sound booth? 295 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, why. 296 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 2: Can I get a little if we might be getting 297 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:09,160 this to work? Yes, the film's up. Good you can okay? 298 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:09,559 Are good? 299 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 1: He couldn't tell okay. 300 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,559 Speaker 2: So this is a song that's often sung at the 301 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,279 end of a folk festival, but it's been rewritten for 302 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:18,920 today by me. 303 00:21:20,839 --> 00:21:23,039 Speaker 3: It's a song about all the good people that I 304 00:21:23,079 --> 00:21:27,720 was just talking about. You are all the good people? Well, 305 00:21:27,759 --> 00:21:32,200 this is a song, Oh God, for all the good people, 306 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:39,160 all the good people. We're part this family. This is 307 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,480 a song for all the good people. 308 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:44,880 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what the heck? 309 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 3: We're joined together by this noble dream. 310 00:21:49,599 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 2: You got that, so it's just all the good people. 311 00:21:51,759 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, I lost track of what lines I'm 312 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,000 supposed to know for this tune. What with all of 313 00:21:58,039 --> 00:22:01,079 the technical glitches, I don't understand what's happening. I thought 314 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,160 you guys had the sound thing figured out, but then 315 00:22:04,799 --> 00:22:08,000 some guy walks over. He starts adjusting one of the microphones. 316 00:22:08,039 --> 00:22:10,000 You get the static, and then you get the loud 317 00:22:10,079 --> 00:22:13,400 pop there. I I don't even know what we're doing 318 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:20,519 at this point, Like this is and well, who told 319 00:22:20,559 --> 00:22:23,039 this man he needs to sing in public? Why are 320 00:22:23,039 --> 00:22:27,680 they encouraging this kind of behavior? In Francis Collins, didn't 321 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,720 you learn anything with the somewhere after the pandemic song? 322 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,160 Why are you still doing this? Why are people encouraging 323 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:39,799 him to do this? Now he's gonna get everybody in 324 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:45,279 a sing along. And apparently there's one woman who is 325 00:22:45,319 --> 00:22:48,119 on a microphone, so you're gonna hear her. This is 326 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:52,119 like top quality production levels here, guys, Top quality. 327 00:22:51,799 --> 00:22:54,599 Speaker 2: Second line part of this family, and the last line, 328 00:22:54,599 --> 00:22:56,559 we're joined together by this noble dream. 329 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 4: Do that with me. 330 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:04,279 Speaker 3: This is a song for all the good people. 331 00:23:04,599 --> 00:23:07,079 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what the heck part. 332 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 3: Of this family. This is a song for all the 333 00:23:12,279 --> 00:23:19,240 good people. We're joined together by this noble dream. 334 00:23:19,839 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 1: So you really do get a sense of the virtue signaling, right, 335 00:23:24,759 --> 00:23:28,480 It really does come through. You are the good people, 336 00:23:28,599 --> 00:23:32,759 We are the noble dream pursuers and hars and such 337 00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:39,119 a right. 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Yeah, Like, this is literally the 364 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:21,200 first I had heard about them not having a coordinator, 365 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:26,240 that Cooper didn't set up somebody to be the point 366 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:31,480 person with FEMA, and that that is unusual and this 367 00:25:31,519 --> 00:25:33,119 is the first I've heard about it, and it came 368 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,279 to us out of a report at the Washington Post. 369 00:25:37,039 --> 00:25:40,759 Paul says, you love Elon Musk making cuts to save 370 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:45,559 tax dollars. But when Cooper doesn't waste taxpayer money on 371 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:54,799 a disaster team, there's a problem. Yeah, yes, yeah, or 372 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:59,480 just you know, don't have the funding right, this is 373 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,000 like this, this is the thing. If you're going to 374 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:07,400 promise that kind of an operation FEMA response, then yeah, 375 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:12,240 you should have somebody that runs point with that response. Otherwise, 376 00:26:12,559 --> 00:26:15,079 what you like, what are you even doing? Look, maybe 377 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:19,319 Cooper's approach would have been a better approach. I don't 378 00:26:19,319 --> 00:26:23,720 think it was. It turned out not to be so. Again, 379 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,559 like there needs to be an assessment of whether his 380 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:32,559 decision was the right decision or not. Ken says, thank 381 00:26:32,599 --> 00:26:35,599 you for highlighting the need for prayer for the woman 382 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,279 facing surgery and her daughter in Durham who's in the hospital. 383 00:26:39,279 --> 00:26:42,319 I am one of hundreds who will heed your call. Secondly, 384 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,519 I have been streaming on my phone since about twelve 385 00:26:44,599 --> 00:26:48,039 fifty PM and I have experienced no issues with fading volume. 386 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,079 Thank you, Ken, I appreciate it. So I don't know, 387 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,319 I'm not sure. I just I pass along the reports 388 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,559 just so this way, if you are experiencing the same 389 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,880 sort of an issue, you don't think you're crazy, you know, like, 390 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,920 wait a minute, is this volume going up and down? 391 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:10,039 It's hard to tell. It's all a distraction, says listening 392 00:27:10,039 --> 00:27:14,160 to Francis Collins makes me wish my feed was cutting out. 393 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:20,640 That's fair. You know, he did get he did get 394 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,680 it going after you know, the the problems with the 395 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,680 with the microphone and the feed and all of that, 396 00:27:28,039 --> 00:27:29,079 he did get it going. 397 00:27:29,519 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 5: A song. 398 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,599 Speaker 1: Yeah, for all of those dreamers. I don't know who, 399 00:27:33,599 --> 00:27:34,799 the woman on the microph. 400 00:27:34,599 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 5: Your answers to come our way, scientists, doctors, students, sauce seekers, 401 00:27:42,799 --> 00:27:47,519 come and sharing the hops for a much brighter day. 402 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:53,039 Speaker 3: Come on. This is a song for all the good. 403 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,039 Speaker 1: People, all right. So I'm curious, like does this actually work? 404 00:27:57,079 --> 00:28:01,839 Is that does this motivate the youth or really anybody 405 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,279 that's not like, I don't know a seventy year old 406 00:28:05,279 --> 00:28:10,000 that remembers the sixties, which I feel like then that 407 00:28:10,279 --> 00:28:13,359 you did the sixties wrong if you remember it. But seriously, like, 408 00:28:13,519 --> 00:28:17,240 is this sing Is this singing supposed to win people 409 00:28:17,319 --> 00:28:18,400 over to the cause. 410 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:25,880 Speaker 3: It's your edication, that's our insperbation. 411 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: When wet I don't know, but the reverb is we 412 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:29,440 have to stand. 413 00:28:31,559 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 3: So this is for all the good people, all them. 414 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, like this does not feel like I don't know, 415 00:28:43,519 --> 00:28:48,599 this doesn't get me amped up, you know, it just doesn't. 416 00:28:49,839 --> 00:28:52,640 I don't know. Can we get some of the Hamas holies, 417 00:28:52,839 --> 00:28:54,759 maybe get some of them to show you how to 418 00:28:54,759 --> 00:28:58,839 do like the the proper riotous chanting and beating on 419 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,119 the drums and stuff. I don't yeah, I don't even 420 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,799 know what's going on there. Yeah, Francis Collins, no, Russ. 421 00:29:05,839 --> 00:29:08,640 I don't think he does have anybody in his life 422 00:29:10,039 --> 00:29:12,359 that loves him enough to tell him to never sing 423 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,400 in public again. I don't think he does. Yeah, I 424 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:21,000 don't think he does, which is said speaking of Elon Musk. 425 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,240 Have you heard what's been going on there? Terrorists are 426 00:29:23,279 --> 00:29:28,720 now attacking Elon Musk's Tesla dealerships and vehicles. It's happening 427 00:29:28,759 --> 00:29:34,759 all over the country and it is, you know, the destruction, 428 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:39,160 the vandalism, it is terrorism. That's the whole point, right 429 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:44,119 It's to it's to try to force Elon Musk and 430 00:29:44,279 --> 00:29:47,759 anybody around him to stop doing what they're doing. And 431 00:29:51,119 --> 00:29:56,759 he's also been Twitter was actual or ex was also 432 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:01,680 hit with a hacker attack yesterday. He said that the 433 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:06,400 social media platform faced multiple outages around the world on Monday. 434 00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:12,799 There were several different hacks or d doos. These like 435 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:18,799 spam attacks basically that denial of service attacks. He said, 436 00:30:18,839 --> 00:30:23,480 there was a massive cyber attack against x We get 437 00:30:23,519 --> 00:30:26,440 attacked every day, but this was done with a lot 438 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:31,000 of resources. Either a large coordinated group and or a 439 00:30:31,119 --> 00:30:37,160 country is involved and we are tracing it. The reports 440 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,319 of outages were not localized to the US. Users as 441 00:30:40,359 --> 00:30:43,279 far away as Europe had reported issues using the site 442 00:30:43,319 --> 00:30:48,359 as well. Again, this is shut up ry, this is 443 00:30:49,119 --> 00:30:52,559 shut up. Stop doing what you're doing. Stop participating in 444 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,279 the democracy. You are not allowed to participate because I 445 00:30:56,319 --> 00:31:00,799 don't agree with your aims, and so you have to 446 00:31:00,839 --> 00:31:05,279 be stopped. Think about like what they're saying here is 447 00:31:05,319 --> 00:31:09,880 that we're going to destroy your free speech platform. We're 448 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,279 going to destroy your efforts to root out waste and 449 00:31:13,319 --> 00:31:20,720 fraud because we make money because what we have some 450 00:31:20,759 --> 00:31:23,400 sort of inside track on the platform or something like 451 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,720 I'm trying to figure out why these are bad things 452 00:31:25,759 --> 00:31:29,640 per se. All Right, that'll do it for this episode. 453 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,799 Thank you so much for listening. I could not do 454 00:31:31,839 --> 00:31:34,000 the show without your support and the support of the 455 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,039 businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, 456 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,279 please support them too and tell them you heard it here. 457 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,960 You can also become a patron at my Patreon page 458 00:31:42,079 --> 00:31:45,640 or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. 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