1 00:00:04,919 --> 00:00:05,639 Speaker 1: What's going on? 2 00:00:05,799 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It 3 00:00:08,279 --> 00:00:10,119 is heard live every day from noon to three on 4 00:00:10,279 --> 00:00:13,880 WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,199 like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily 6 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,519 show prep with all the links, become a patron, go 7 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,440 to dpeakclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button. 8 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,359 Get every episode for free right to your smartphone or tablet. 9 00:00:26,399 --> 00:00:28,440 And again, thank you so much for your support. 10 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: Good afternoon, listeners, and welcome to the show. Final day 11 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:37,880 of the year, and I appreciate you. It's gonna be 12 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:42,200 an interesting one, though, We'll see. We'll see how it 13 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,439 how it all shakes out. A lot going on out there. Finally, 14 00:00:45,439 --> 00:00:48,560 you know what could go wrong in the last I 15 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,439 don't know less than twelve hours Eastern Standard time, So 16 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:58,479 we'll see if we get that straightened out. And I'll 17 00:00:58,479 --> 00:01:00,320 tell you how it went for me. So I got today. 18 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:02,479 It was a great day. All days are great days. 19 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,840 I'm lucky, I'm for boy. I sounded I sounded a 20 00:01:04,879 --> 00:01:07,840 little trump in there, and I cannot do. All days 21 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,120 are great days to the most amazing days you'll ever have, 22 00:01:10,439 --> 00:01:13,519 you know, But it is I'm truly blessed each and 23 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:15,719 every day. I'm thankful, thankful to be here. I A 24 00:01:15,799 --> 00:01:18,000 if I have a phenomenal life, I could not have 25 00:01:18,079 --> 00:01:21,560 imagined it would be as amazing as it is. Having 26 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:23,319 said that, I get up this more, but it's still 27 00:01:23,359 --> 00:01:25,799 fraught with peril. That Make no mistake, No matter how 28 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:30,079 good your life is, never underestimate your ability to screw 29 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:32,560 things up. Not that other people. Other people will do things, 30 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,959 but by and large it's it's we screw things up. 31 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,280 So you know, like when you you don't calculate that 32 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,359 step and you stumble a little bit, or you you 33 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:45,359 you run into something as you're putting a shirt on. Things, 34 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,920 Things like that just kind of the stupid things we 35 00:01:47,959 --> 00:01:50,319 do to ourselves. Next time you get in an argument 36 00:01:50,359 --> 00:01:52,480 with someone, remember you did a lot of stupid crap 37 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,799 before that argument happened. With it, whoever it is. So 38 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,760 we don't have a lot of high ground as humans. 39 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:02,359 We are the most imperfect, you know, I think you know, 40 00:02:02,359 --> 00:02:03,959 when you see an animal screw up, they kind of 41 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,200 keep going. They don't have that element of oh my god, 42 00:02:06,239 --> 00:02:08,560 I can't believe I just did that. So I'm getting 43 00:02:08,599 --> 00:02:10,560 ready for the show By the way, my name's Chad Adams. 44 00:02:10,599 --> 00:02:12,400 I'm sitting in for Pete Callan erb been doing so 45 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:14,400 for the past week and a half or SOAP. You'll 46 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,400 be back next week. News Talk eleven ten ninety nine 47 00:02:16,439 --> 00:02:18,520 three WBT. If you would like to get in on 48 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,439 the conversation seven oh four five seven oh eleven ten, 49 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,840 five seven oh eleven ten, you can do so, And 50 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,400 I'm going to dovetail with it with On Vince's show, 51 00:02:27,439 --> 00:02:29,479 we had a caller Earl that was kind of giddy 52 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:31,319 about all this stuff that Biden has done, which is 53 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:34,280 and we'll dovetail a little bit there because I listened 54 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,000 and the Infrastructure bill is an absolute disaster. Democrats love 55 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,000 to pass massive legislation that accomplishes nothing but sounds really good. 56 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,520 The Infrastructure bill is one of those. Obamacare is won. 57 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,120 There's a great article today that Obamacare has just become 58 00:02:47,159 --> 00:02:50,639 overpriced insurance. It really has. There's a lot to look 59 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:54,439 forward to, but let's not pretend that these massive government 60 00:02:54,439 --> 00:02:56,960 programs accomplish a whole lot except to make things more 61 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,599 expensive and more distant from reality. Now back to my 62 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,159 screw up. So I'm getting ready for the show. Love. 63 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,680 I've become. I'm not quite a coffee stop because I 64 00:03:06,719 --> 00:03:09,439 don't like to go to high end coffee shops. I 65 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,319 was really proud of taking my dad. My dad loved 66 00:03:12,319 --> 00:03:14,400 to beat up on Starbucks quite a bit, and so 67 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,919 I took my father out one day to it's east 68 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,439 of like Charlotte, but you can find them poor city Java. 69 00:03:21,439 --> 00:03:23,199 I said, hey, Dad, let's go get a cup of coffee. 70 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,960 He loved coffee, probably ten cups plus a day. Used 71 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,120 to make fun of him on the radio. So we 72 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:30,319 go in and he's like, oh, it's going to be 73 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:31,560 four out of their coffee and I was like, no, 74 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,560 it's buck sixty nine. He's like, oh, okay, buck sixty nine. 75 00:03:35,199 --> 00:03:37,439 I can see that. So we get a cup. He's 76 00:03:37,439 --> 00:03:39,719 happy and he's like, well, I bet the second cup 77 00:03:39,759 --> 00:03:41,680 would cost a lot more. And I'm like, nope, Dad, 78 00:03:42,159 --> 00:03:45,759 second cup is already paid for. It's free. Refills are 79 00:03:45,759 --> 00:03:47,599 free as long you're sitting in the store. He couldn't 80 00:03:47,639 --> 00:03:49,840 believe it. Happiest guy. We had a great day. I'll 81 00:03:49,879 --> 00:03:52,800 never forget that day. It's one of the many fond 82 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,520 memories I have so through pass forward A couple of times, 83 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:57,479 I've been fortunate to travel in a lot of countries 84 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:01,159 that have great coffee and coastr Equo one of my favorite, 85 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,759 Puerto Rico, has phenomenal coffee. But I was I'm not 86 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,599 a coffee snob, but I like making different types of coffees. 87 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:10,080 I was making on this while I was making my 88 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,280 own cappuccino. I was doing my milk. I was being 89 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,639 you know, I was not snobby. It's me. I'm not 90 00:04:14,639 --> 00:04:17,600 trying to impress anybody. But I made it, got it perfect. 91 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,079 You know, it's doing my show prep. I'm ready to 92 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,199 roll for the day. It's the last day of the year. 93 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,079 Just stirred it, just right looked at it because I 94 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,399 had a glass they could see through the mug. And 95 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:32,160 I turned and I caught the spoon with my hand 96 00:04:32,319 --> 00:04:35,680 as I turned, and it went everywhere. And when I 97 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:37,800 say it went, everyone all over the cabinets, who went 98 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,759 all down on the floors, and it was an absolute 99 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,519 train wreck of a mess, dripping down the counters into 100 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:47,439 the cabinets. I couldn't believe it. And you know what, 101 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,800 no one to blame. It's not like I could blame 102 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,879 anybody but me. It was my own dumb assery that 103 00:04:53,199 --> 00:04:55,519 did that. But it's one of those things that keeps 104 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:59,319 you humble, you know. And as I'm older, I'm not 105 00:04:59,439 --> 00:05:01,879 as good being on my hands and knees doing things. 106 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:05,000 Cleaning this up on my hands and knees not my 107 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,920 strong suit. Now I'm doing it. I'm getting it. You 108 00:05:07,959 --> 00:05:09,959 got to You gotta clean it up first, wipe it up, 109 00:05:09,959 --> 00:05:12,240 five thousand paper towels, and you gotta spray the cash. 110 00:05:12,439 --> 00:05:14,920 You gotta clean that. And even the dogs looking at 111 00:05:14,959 --> 00:05:17,199 me like, you know, what the hell happened here? What's 112 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,879 wrong with you? You got something wrong? Dog is being very introspective. 113 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:23,439 It's a new year approaching, and the dog's completely aware. 114 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,839 I'm kidding, of course, but it was just so Yeah, 115 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,199 I finally got my cup of coffee, you know, thirty 116 00:05:29,199 --> 00:05:33,120 minutes later after cleaning up. So there's the the humbleness 117 00:05:33,439 --> 00:05:35,600 with which I kind of approach every day. Like I said, 118 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,879 it started out, everything absolutely perfect, the workout, being outside, 119 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,360 being with friends, phenomenal. I'm ready for New Year's I 120 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:45,839 hadn't decided one of the memes I saw, I can't 121 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:47,800 can't claim credit for it, but I would have said it. 122 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,600 I can't, you know, I haven't decided what outfit I'm 123 00:05:50,639 --> 00:05:54,279 going to wear into my living room tonight to fall 124 00:05:54,319 --> 00:05:58,839 asleep before New Year's But that's me, not necessarily you. 125 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,639 That is me, and that's my plan. I planned to 126 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,399 go eat and then get home and we will chill. 127 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,040 So everyone's working. It's a work day, one of the 128 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,439 least productive days of the year. I think everyone's kind 129 00:06:11,439 --> 00:06:13,199 of haunted by, you know, last day of the year. 130 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,199 And I don't know, maybe you're one of those people 131 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,040 that you look forward to this day. It's another day. 132 00:06:19,439 --> 00:06:21,439 I'm kind of surprised we get off for New Year's Day. 133 00:06:21,439 --> 00:06:23,839 I think it's the weirdest holiday. Did anything great happen 134 00:06:23,959 --> 00:06:27,560 that day? No? Was it celebrating a historical achievement. No, 135 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:32,199 the Earth made it around a circuit around the Sun 136 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:36,600 without getting destroyed by an asteroid. That's the accomplishment. That's it. 137 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,480 It's a recognition even when it's just not. I don't 138 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,639 know why it's a holiday, but that's me Earth, oh white, 139 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,879 We didn't die this year, so that's this. But I mean, 140 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,839 you know, biologically speaking, it's when we make our circuit 141 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:54,360 around the Sun that we measure stuff. But that's the 142 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,319 way it is, so just wanted to mention that you 143 00:06:57,439 --> 00:06:59,279 have it too. We all have it. So next time, 144 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,279 one of the things you can do if you want, 145 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:03,680 if you have a one a realistic New Year's resolution, 146 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,680 try it. And this is mainly well, it's directed at 147 00:07:07,759 --> 00:07:12,720 any of you that have severed a friendship because of 148 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:17,040 political disagreement. And I find that I haven't found any. 149 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:21,000 I don't know of any of my conservative friends that, 150 00:07:21,279 --> 00:07:25,879 even through the Biden years and the Hunter Biden disaster 151 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,000 and all of the lawfair that was thrown at Trump, 152 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,920 I don't know any of my conservative friends that cut 153 00:07:30,959 --> 00:07:35,319 off their liberal, more liberal counterparts their friends are family. 154 00:07:35,319 --> 00:07:38,240 I don't know any. But I do know several lefties 155 00:07:38,639 --> 00:07:41,040 that have done so, I mean in the irony is 156 00:07:41,079 --> 00:07:45,199 it's it's kind of patience and understanding and all that stuff. 157 00:07:45,199 --> 00:07:47,519 So I'm really surprised the left, which claims to be tolerant, 158 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,600 are the ones that are saying, here's how you avoid 159 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,920 the political people you disagree with. It's not tolerance, it's 160 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:55,439 the opposite. So I'm hoping we can all be a 161 00:07:55,519 --> 00:07:57,959 little more tolerant and have some great discussions that's coming yere. 162 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,839 Speaker 2: So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, 163 00:08:00,879 --> 00:08:02,920 and before he died, my mom and my dad and 164 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,959 all of us really helped take care of him as 165 00:08:04,959 --> 00:08:08,120 he got progressively worse. Forty years ago, there were no 166 00:08:08,199 --> 00:08:12,279 treatments and not much support for caregivers and family. Things 167 00:08:12,319 --> 00:08:14,560 are different today because of the work of so many people, 168 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:18,439 including the Alzheimer's Association of Western North Carolina. It's a 169 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:22,120 great organization with awesome people. They've got huge hearts. I've 170 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,680 been a supporter for like twenty five years. This cause 171 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,680 means a lot to me. I participate in the annual 172 00:08:27,759 --> 00:08:31,079 Walk to End Alzheimer's and I am leading a Charlotte 173 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,759 team this year. It's called Pete's Pack. You can sign 174 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,960 up and join the team and walk with me. It's 175 00:08:36,039 --> 00:08:40,240 on October nineteenth at Truest Field in Uptown. Sign up 176 00:08:40,279 --> 00:08:42,879 at alz dot org, slash walk and then just look 177 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:45,759 for my team Pete's Pack, and there's also a link 178 00:08:45,759 --> 00:08:48,039 in the podcast description here. Also, I'm going to be 179 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,279 mceing the Gastonia Walk on October fifth, So make a 180 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,679 team and join us or make a donation to help 181 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:55,919 me hit my goal. I would really appreciate it. There 182 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,440 are a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas, and 183 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,120 you can go to alz dot org for all of 184 00:09:02,159 --> 00:09:05,639 the dates and locations. We are closer than ever to 185 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,080 stopping Alzheimer's and if you can help us get there, 186 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,399 we would really appreciate it. Will you come walk with me? 187 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,559 For a different future, for families, for more time for treatments. 188 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,039 This is why I walk? 189 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:22,759 Speaker 1: Is that wagon wheel? I don't know. You never know 190 00:09:22,799 --> 00:09:24,320 what you guys are gonna throw up there is. I'm like, 191 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:26,840 I'm playing my own version of Shazami or Ivy. I 192 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,200 can get my sister's deadly in that game. She's a 193 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,679 music researcher, so she beats Shazam every time. But I 194 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:33,559 was like, I think that's yesterday. I got one wrong. 195 00:09:33,879 --> 00:09:36,440 They got me corrected, So thanks for that. Chad Adams 196 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,879 here setting in for pete calender, and appreciate that you 197 00:09:39,919 --> 00:09:42,879 hear my papers wrestling in the background there. Yes, occasionally 198 00:09:42,919 --> 00:09:46,879 I do print out some papers and I am enjoying 199 00:09:46,879 --> 00:09:49,000 my coffee. By the way, So this, this accident I 200 00:09:49,039 --> 00:09:53,200 mentioned earlier, happened recently. It wasn't early today, it was earlier, 201 00:09:53,639 --> 00:09:56,159 but it was not long ago that I had just 202 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:01,519 recovered from that train wreck. Now, I was kind of 203 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:05,480 listening to I was listening to Vince earlier and the 204 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:07,919 caller earl who has called this show is called other shows, 205 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,799 and he was kind of giddy about the Biden. I 206 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:12,639 guess you know, the year wasn't so bad. They got 207 00:10:12,639 --> 00:10:16,440 the infrastructure, which was actually a bill from twenty to 208 00:10:16,639 --> 00:10:19,919 somewhere there. That infrastructure bill has been a nightmare. But 209 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,799 let's let's backtrack a little bit. Here's the thing that's 210 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:30,879 hard to reconcile if you are a if you are following, 211 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:33,840 if you're trying to put pieces together in your head 212 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,480 about things that make sense. You know, you the sun 213 00:10:37,519 --> 00:10:39,399 comes up in these makes sense. You know, the tides 214 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:43,440 up down makes sense. Traffic and Charlotte makes sense. What 215 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:45,480 is hard to comport is that when you look back 216 00:10:45,519 --> 00:10:49,879 at Biden's four years in office, we now know, as 217 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:54,080 has been reported on their own propaganda media, that he 218 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,159 was not all there and the staff has spent an 219 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,080 exorbitant amount of time covering up for his mental deficiencies. 220 00:10:59,639 --> 00:11:03,799 We know that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, we know all 221 00:11:03,879 --> 00:11:08,279 of them, Kareem John Pierre, Kamala Harris, they all knew 222 00:11:09,039 --> 00:11:12,960 that Joe's pencil wasn't real sharp. They knew he was 223 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:18,600 incapable of doing most of the duties of the presidency. 224 00:11:19,519 --> 00:11:23,879 Anyone really paying attention new news media. So what it 225 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,279 tells you, if you have a very strong bias in life, 226 00:11:28,039 --> 00:11:30,240 you will And it depends on how strong that bias 227 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,720 is and whether it's an article of faith for some people, 228 00:11:33,759 --> 00:11:37,440 whether it's you know, America first, whatever it is, it 229 00:11:37,519 --> 00:11:41,879 is very hard. It can show you the depth of 230 00:11:41,919 --> 00:11:47,799 your inability to overcome bias. And the media was very 231 00:11:47,799 --> 00:11:51,600 illustrative of its inability to overcome its bias to straight 232 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:55,000 up report there were problems with the president. That's a 233 00:11:55,080 --> 00:12:00,399 dangerous media because it means that they're either propaganda or 234 00:12:00,519 --> 00:12:05,480 they are selective in their ability to discern truth because 235 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,039 their mind's already made up. Trump's the devil. Biden's a 236 00:12:08,039 --> 00:12:12,639 good guy, classy guy, not corrupt. Now now, in the 237 00:12:12,639 --> 00:12:15,240 waning days here, the Justice Department has released some photos 238 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:19,000 that showed Biden with Hunter, with Jiji Ping from China 239 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,919 and one of Hunter's business partners. That happened when he 240 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:24,279 was vice president under Obama. Can you imagine if that 241 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,159 had come out during the twenty twenty election. He's denied 242 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,440 ever meeting with his son's business partners for being a 243 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,039 part of that. They were the photos there. Now you 244 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,120 could say, well, he's an old guy, doesn't remember things 245 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:39,759 real well, but he was there. The denial was a lie. 246 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:44,039 So many things have been lies from this president. And 247 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:46,519 I don't think history is going to look at the 248 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:51,200 Biden presidency as anything substantial. It was a placeholder between 249 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,440 Trump one and two. Now remains to be seeing what 250 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,879 Trump two will be like. Trump one was just live, 251 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:01,960 you know, these incendiary, relentless attacks on him, impeachment hearings 252 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,679 that we now know were fake. You know, so much 253 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,559 of what was circling around the Democrats. Here's the part 254 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:12,279 I'm making a very long story only slightly shorter, and 255 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,840 that is that here's what you must reconcile in your 256 00:13:14,919 --> 00:13:23,600 head that somehow Joe Biden, the wanderer in chief, received 257 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:30,639 more votes than any president in history, more people supported. 258 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,080 Now you get it with Clinton, right, and again, the 259 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:35,440 American population has grown, But I'm saying it's a percentage 260 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:38,960 of people that vote and everything. Even the sheer numbers 261 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,919 that he allegedly got seventy one million, that Kamala. Somehow 262 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:47,120 seven million people that voted for Biden didn't plus the 263 00:13:47,279 --> 00:13:50,080 you know, added roles of people who were born, not born, 264 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:51,559 but came of age during that time. I don't know, 265 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,360 maybe Democrats filled out some people that were just born. Kidding, 266 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,799 it was a joke. The point being you have to 267 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,320 you look at him, and you look at him then 268 00:14:00,519 --> 00:14:03,000 or look at him now, and you you have to 269 00:14:03,039 --> 00:14:06,000 imagine that he got the most votes of anyone in history. 270 00:14:06,399 --> 00:14:12,840 That's the hard part. The least charismatic president in our lifetime. Well, maybe, hey, 271 00:14:12,919 --> 00:14:17,759 Reagan Bush, maybe George Bush. The first is in that 272 00:14:17,919 --> 00:14:20,000 you know, he's a former CIA spook, you're n CI, 273 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,000 a very secretive guy. But as far as sheer charisma, 274 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:25,919 Biden is one of the least charismatic we've ever had, 275 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:31,120 but the most votes ever. And then Trump comes back 276 00:14:31,159 --> 00:14:34,639 and just dominates in a way that the Democrats still. 277 00:14:34,679 --> 00:14:36,240 I mean, I looked at if you look at if 278 00:14:36,279 --> 00:14:39,200 you want to see an example of someone in free 279 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,879 fall mental well, other than Keith Oberman, who's absolutely in 280 00:14:41,919 --> 00:14:46,240 mental free fall, you look at at Rick Wilson, the 281 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,759 head of the Lincoln Project. He is he is admired 282 00:14:49,799 --> 00:14:53,399 by people like for Supreme Court Justice Bob or who 283 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,200 retweets Rick Wilson stuff. I can't play a lot of 284 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:57,960 what Rick Wilson says on Eric. It's got a very 285 00:14:57,960 --> 00:14:59,720 foul mouth. But anyway, he is the head of the 286 00:14:59,759 --> 00:15:04,279 Link project and he completely predicted on election. Oh it's over. 287 00:15:04,799 --> 00:15:07,240 The Trump be there in disarray. I know for a 288 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,600 fact that they've thrown people off, certainly that Corey Lewandowski 289 00:15:10,679 --> 00:15:14,039 threw someone off an airplane. They knew they were gonna 290 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,039 lose Mark my words, you can count on it. And 291 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,759 he was completely wrong. I mean to stake his entire 292 00:15:19,799 --> 00:15:23,320 reputation and then afterwards act like you didn't say those things, 293 00:15:23,759 --> 00:15:26,639 and then go through time and time and go, well, 294 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:28,559 look now he's appointing all these horrible people. It's going 295 00:15:28,639 --> 00:15:29,960 to be terrible. You got to stand up, We got 296 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,000 to get maybe we can get him not elected. And 297 00:15:32,039 --> 00:15:39,080 it's just this constant litany of hate, a derangement syndrome 298 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,399 of sorts. And back to my point though, when you 299 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,360 when you look at Biden and you think he got 300 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,679 eighty one million votes, Coma didn't even come close. We've 301 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,279 got a second term coming. The left tried to stir 302 00:15:50,399 --> 00:15:53,320 something up about the H one B visa program, which 303 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,399 Elon and Vivek kind of set off and pushed that 304 00:15:57,519 --> 00:16:00,440 envelope and a lot of people pushed back, and it's 305 00:16:00,559 --> 00:16:03,159 kind of all settled down a little bit. The speakership, 306 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,159 I think the left really wanted to make something of 307 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,159 the Mike Johnson being Speaker of the House and wants 308 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,159 the president, the president to be weighed in and said, hey, 309 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:13,000 you know, we're going to we've got to work with Mike. 310 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:15,000 You know, as much as you may not like some 311 00:16:15,039 --> 00:16:17,240 of the things he does, I'm going to need him 312 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,840 to carry this agenda forward. So those are practical decisions. 313 00:16:21,559 --> 00:16:25,120 This President Trump knows what it's like to be president. 314 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,960 He's assembled a team that's ready on day one. He's 315 00:16:28,039 --> 00:16:30,840 ready on day one. They're trying to put the pieces 316 00:16:30,879 --> 00:16:34,039 together to make sure they can execute that agenda. They're 317 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,679 going to need Speaker Johnson. They don't need twenty days 318 00:16:37,679 --> 00:16:40,279 of delays. They don't need twenty days of what I 319 00:16:40,279 --> 00:16:42,399 mean delays. I don't mean twenty days of delay on 320 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,480 the agenda. I mean twenty days delay of finding who 321 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,320 the speaker is going to be or disrupting the inauguration. 322 00:16:50,279 --> 00:16:53,759 So it looks like they definitely have their ducks in 323 00:16:53,799 --> 00:16:56,600 a row. And if you don't like Johnson and Trump does, 324 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:00,360 and Trump's pushing him, what you've got to be concerned 325 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,519 about it is will Johnson carry out Trump's agenda? He 326 00:17:02,519 --> 00:17:05,240 has signaled he would. It looks like, you know, now 327 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:06,759 we're going to find out what it's going to look 328 00:17:06,799 --> 00:17:09,359 like over in the Senate because Mitch McConnell is definitely 329 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:11,559 out to lunch. I don't know what that's going to 330 00:17:11,559 --> 00:17:14,039 look like. But the Senate, they have enough votes in 331 00:17:14,039 --> 00:17:15,880 the Senate, they have enough votes in the House they 332 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,799 can carry forth their agenda. And meanwhile we have to 333 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:20,839 wonder what's going on in the White House. We don't 334 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:23,559 know who's running things. But in the final two minutes, 335 00:17:23,559 --> 00:17:26,119 I just want to mention something about the infrastructure bill 336 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,240 because someone who called in was Earl. I've spoken to 337 00:17:29,319 --> 00:17:32,319 before who's been a caller, but this was the fact. 338 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,519 Sarah Bedford wrote it at the Washington Examiner that the 339 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:39,519 trillion dollar infrastructure bill has been an absolute failure. It's 340 00:17:39,519 --> 00:17:41,880 spent a lot of money. Democrats towed to the infrastructure 341 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,160 bill from twenty twenty one as a signature accomplishment, but 342 00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:47,839 so far it hadn't really accomplished anything. A massive program 343 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:51,200 to expand rural broadband access has failed to connect any 344 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,880 homes to the Internet. A push to electrified school bus 345 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,680 fleets has proved costly and inefficient. A multi billion dollar 346 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,920 effort to build thousands of electric vehicle charging stations has 347 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,640 only built a handful of them. The Infrastructure Investment in 348 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,279 Jobs Act had one point two trillion in spending on 349 00:18:06,319 --> 00:18:08,839 what the White House called a once in a generation investment, 350 00:18:09,519 --> 00:18:14,200 but it hasn't accomplished. And that if if you want 351 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,400 to look at it. We'll talk about Obamacare later, but 352 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,000 if you want to look at these bills, and again 353 00:18:19,039 --> 00:18:20,680 I kind of harped on it a little bit yesterday, 354 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,799 but we have to come to terms with the fact 355 00:18:24,839 --> 00:18:29,359 that our government has not is not the arbiter of 356 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:32,319 efficiency at this point. Now we'll see what DOGE accomplishes. 357 00:18:32,519 --> 00:18:36,480 But our government has become unwieldy, it has become unresponsive 358 00:18:36,599 --> 00:18:40,319 at the federal level, It has become unable to execute 359 00:18:40,319 --> 00:18:44,880 these big things. At least Kennedy I'm talking about John 360 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,240 Kennedy had the temerity to say we're gonna do it. 361 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,039 We're gonna do what a once in a lifetime thing. 362 00:18:50,039 --> 00:18:51,200 We're going to put a man on the moon. By 363 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:53,799 the end of the decade. He realized the logistics and 364 00:18:53,839 --> 00:18:56,319 the cost everything would be out there. But this stuff 365 00:18:56,319 --> 00:18:59,240 where people shoot for these large programs and there isn't 366 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,640 an agency around they can execute these large bills. The 367 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:07,000 Inflation Production Act was a disaster. Much more to discuss. 368 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 2: You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense 369 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:13,359 of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the 370 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:16,480 people of our past while transcending generations. They help us 371 00:19:16,519 --> 00:19:19,599 process the meaning of life, and our stories are told 372 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:23,759 through images and videos. 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Visit Creative Video dot Com PCR. 387 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,039 Speaker 1: We're heading into twenty twenty five cc You know what's 388 00:20:14,079 --> 00:20:17,720 interesting about that is that if you think in terms 389 00:20:17,759 --> 00:20:20,359 of the eighties, if you were playing like Bill Haley 390 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:23,200 in the comments, that would have been let's see ten, 391 00:20:23,279 --> 00:20:25,599 twenty thirty some years if you had have been playing 392 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:28,960 that fifties music in the eighties, we're playing music now 393 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,200 that's even older than that would have been, like somebody 394 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,160 in the eighties playing music from the thirties. That's just 395 00:20:34,279 --> 00:20:37,839 it's almost unfathomable to think that that we're playing music 396 00:20:38,039 --> 00:20:40,839 as bumper music. It's what fifty plus years old? This 397 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,119 isn't fifty well it is, I guess CCR is about 398 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:47,759 fifty plus or fifty, Yeah, almost sixty. That's astounding the sixties. 399 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,680 If you're playing Beatles as bumper music, it's sixty years ago. 400 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,680 It would be like playing stuff from the twenties. Can 401 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,559 you imagine playing the you know as bumper music music 402 00:20:57,599 --> 00:20:59,880 from the twenties or thirties, and I'm not about to 403 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:03,440 try twenties. I'm talking about the nineteen twenties. 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Do you and 419 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:52,920 by the way, if you want to get in on 420 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,200 the conversation at seven oh four, five, seven oh eleven, 421 00:21:55,279 --> 00:21:58,440 ten and looking at you know, you'll see the top 422 00:21:58,519 --> 00:22:00,559 ten list, And for the next I guess for the 423 00:22:00,599 --> 00:22:02,640 next couple of weeks they'll be you know, the year 424 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,640 in review, the music of the year, events of the year, 425 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:11,519 things of this nature. I don't see up Politically, I 426 00:22:11,519 --> 00:22:14,400 think the Democrats find themselves in a very fascinating time. 427 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,599 I think the Biden administration that's being run by the 428 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,119 activists are going to do everything in their power to 429 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,319 gum up the works. They're going to try to get 430 00:22:22,559 --> 00:22:25,920 as many things under the wire and make things difficult 431 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,440 for the Trump administration. I thought when the Democrats saw 432 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:34,640 the election results that they would they wouldn't have to 433 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,400 govern to the right or anything, but they would certainly 434 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,000 they committed themselves to a smooth transition. They have not 435 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,960 acted that way. They have not acted in a way 436 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,559 that would lead you to believe that they learned anything 437 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:51,000 except animosity and hatred for the right. You would have 438 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,519 thought it would have been smooth. And maybe the president 439 00:22:54,079 --> 00:22:56,519 has no ill will toward I think he has more 440 00:22:56,519 --> 00:22:58,920 ill will toward his own party right now. I think 441 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:05,920 that Biden is steaming, stewing, angry, better methodically conniving. I 442 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,000 don't think he can stand Pelosi out. You know, what's 443 00:23:08,079 --> 00:23:11,640 left of his mental capabilities is not in a good place. 444 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:16,079 There's nothing about what happened and the way the Democrats 445 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,720 did him in that would lead you to believe he's a 446 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:23,119 happy guy. But in the meantime, the activists that are 447 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,039 making the decisions and sliding bills in front of Biden 448 00:23:26,279 --> 00:23:29,079 are not bills, but executive directions, are saying, hey, just 449 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,519 sign this, and it's just coming up the works, whether 450 00:23:32,519 --> 00:23:37,359 it's border patrol issues or expenditures. I mean, sliding two 451 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,000 point four billion dollars over the Ukrainians as we're in 452 00:23:41,039 --> 00:23:43,440 the midst of possibly getting a peace deal put together 453 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:49,680 is crazy. That's the kind of nonsensical stuff what happens 454 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,279 when you have a committee that's running your country and 455 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,519 not an elected representative, and none of the people that 456 00:23:55,519 --> 00:23:57,559 are running the country and the executive branch right now 457 00:23:57,559 --> 00:24:02,160 were elected. Biden, I don't know if he's in Saint 458 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,319 Croix or where he is now. Having said that, you 459 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,519 heard in the break, you heard a little warning, pay 460 00:24:08,599 --> 00:24:11,079 attention to it, because I heard my sister was talking 461 00:24:11,079 --> 00:24:14,799 about it. I hear it in passing and just beware 462 00:24:14,799 --> 00:24:18,640 of it. Is that this bird flu or the flu, 463 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,519 either one all of the above. Are you know it's coming? Oh? No? 464 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,480 In fact, Peter Sweden just tweeted shortly ago, hospitals in 465 00:24:28,519 --> 00:24:30,759 Great Britain are now telling people to wear face mask 466 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,920 to stop the flu. We're seeing this more and more 467 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,640 and you have to wonder are you going to fall 468 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,400 for it again? And there's a lot of common sense 469 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,279 people are saying, wait, we're not going down this road again. 470 00:24:41,319 --> 00:24:44,079 There's no way we'll fall forward again. And yet you're 471 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,319 finding people that are trying to do this. So if 472 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,680 you didn't beat Trump at the ballot box, you're going 473 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,079 to declare a public health emergency and go down that route. Now. 474 00:24:51,079 --> 00:24:54,519 I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but we've seen it's not 475 00:24:54,559 --> 00:24:58,359 a conspiracy if you've actually seen this executed before and 476 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,559 the way it was conducted before. And the Democrats right 477 00:25:01,599 --> 00:25:07,920 now don't have many options politically unless they can stir 478 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,200 something up. Now. I think that, you know, I think 479 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,440 you're gonna hear whenever this happens in Russia was really 480 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:17,680 good at summarizing this whenever you find a conservative tilt 481 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,960 to American politics since the eighties, what you will find 482 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,759 is that the Democrats, instead of regrouping and finding a 483 00:25:25,759 --> 00:25:27,759 way to move forward, will find a way to just 484 00:25:29,079 --> 00:25:31,960 get things like homelessness will become a bigger issue. The 485 00:25:32,039 --> 00:25:35,319 fentanyl thing, which was largely not covered during the Bide administration, 486 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,759 will get more coverage. Human suffering stories will get more coverage. 487 00:25:38,839 --> 00:25:42,640 Under the Trump this second Trump, you will find they 488 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,759 will find the issues and that existed for the past 489 00:25:46,839 --> 00:25:50,039 four years and bring those to the forefront rather than 490 00:25:50,079 --> 00:25:52,599 covering the success stories. I mean, I'll give you an 491 00:25:52,599 --> 00:25:55,359 example of a minor one that you're not seeing a 492 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,559 lot of coverage right now. As of tomorrow, the income 493 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,880 tax for the state of North Carolina will drop yet 494 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,920 again to four point twenty five percent. Now it's not 495 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:05,400 a huge drop, it's a quarter of a point, but 496 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,519 it's been dropping over the past five years or so. 497 00:26:09,039 --> 00:26:11,119 The goal at the beginning was to get rid of 498 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,160 the state income tax. It drops a quarter point this 499 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,640 year next to January first, it drops below four percent 500 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,240 to three point nine to nine. That won't get a 501 00:26:19,279 --> 00:26:21,359 lot of coverage, but I'll guarantee you anything a Republican 502 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,799 does to screw things up will be front page news. 503 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,119 And that's the kind of that should be a good story. 504 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:30,640 Wrl or Charlotte Observer, News Observer, same newspaper, different name, 505 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,200 same newspaper. They should be running stories like that's a 506 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,960 great story. Your your income tax rates. You're gonna have 507 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,640 more money. It's not huge, but it's more money to keep. 508 00:26:38,799 --> 00:26:43,119 And this this kind of world, it's it's worth knowing. 509 00:26:43,839 --> 00:26:47,279 Now I'm gonna turn our t well. I don't. I 510 00:26:47,279 --> 00:26:49,119 don't want to, but I will when we get back. 511 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,200 I do want to get So health insurance will become 512 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,519 a big issue this year, I predict, and because it 513 00:26:54,599 --> 00:26:57,920 is a more left lengthing education The Democrats lost on 514 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,759 education in school choice, so it won't be about school choice. 515 00:27:00,799 --> 00:27:03,799 It'll be about something as the right continues to push 516 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,279 DEI and all of this wokeism out of the classroom. 517 00:27:07,319 --> 00:27:09,359 So there'll be some pushback against that. But I do 518 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,880 want to get to Obamacare. Here we are fourteen years 519 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,559 into it, fifteen years into it. Is it making a 520 00:27:16,559 --> 00:27:19,720 big difference or is it just another cost with no 521 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,200 end in sight. We'll talk about that good afternoon. But 522 00:27:23,279 --> 00:27:25,720 rolling along toward the top of the first hour with 523 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,839 us on the phone. I think we have Walt who 524 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,720 called in again? You want to call in at seven 525 00:27:29,799 --> 00:27:32,000 o four five, seven h eleven ten, Walt, are you 526 00:27:32,079 --> 00:27:32,519 with us? 527 00:27:34,079 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 3: Yes, there are, Oh howdy. I just wanted to get 528 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,279 your I just wanted to get your thoughts. So, if 529 00:27:39,279 --> 00:27:44,400 you remember back to the transition team of President Trump's 530 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,240 first term, the FBI had a lot of people inserted 531 00:27:48,279 --> 00:27:50,920 into the transition and if you look back at what 532 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,640 we find out now that there was almost two hundred 533 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,319 people in the J six crowd that were either informers 534 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,119 are indirectly working for the FBI, do you say that 535 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,759 that could happen again the way that it happened. If 536 00:28:02,799 --> 00:28:05,599 you remember, General Flynn gets set up, and you know, 537 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,759 I guess I'm on a conspiracy loom here, but it 538 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,680 just seems too coincidental that all this stuff is coming 539 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:12,319 together now. 540 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,079 Speaker 1: Well, Walt, I'll give you high praise for this. When 541 00:28:16,079 --> 00:28:19,400 I saw that your call was in the queue, I thought, Okay, 542 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,319 we're gonna have someone that's very conspiratorial. You know you're 543 00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:23,960 going to say things. But you know what you said 544 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:25,920 that gave in my mind, gave you a lot of 545 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:31,160 credibility was you identified correctly what the FBI said they 546 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,680 had twenty six plus and that's the bottom line, informants. 547 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,759 They didn't have agents. They claimed they had twenty six 548 00:28:36,839 --> 00:28:40,640 informants in the jc J six crowd. You correctly said 549 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,400 that the FBI did have agents in the Trump transition team. 550 00:28:44,759 --> 00:28:48,039 You correctly said that or informants. I should say, so, hey, 551 00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:50,319 I'll give you did your homework on that, And it 552 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,480 does rise to the level of a specious behavior in 553 00:28:54,519 --> 00:28:58,039 the way it conducted itself. From an inside state standpoint, 554 00:28:58,319 --> 00:29:02,279 I don't believe with the what happened this time, with 555 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,880 the knowledge of what has occurred, and with the knowledge 556 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,279 of who's getting ready to take over the FBI, I 557 00:29:07,319 --> 00:29:10,880 think the FBI a lot of the people that were 558 00:29:11,359 --> 00:29:14,920 of that mindset are leaving. I mean, Christopher Ray's resigning. 559 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,160 There's a bunch of people that are that are leaving 560 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,359 high tailing it out of Dodge. There's a couple more 561 00:29:19,359 --> 00:29:22,279 that are very concerned Trump. Trump has not indicated that 562 00:29:22,319 --> 00:29:24,599 he's going to be that vengeful, but I do believe 563 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,799 some lawbreakers that have been involved in some of this 564 00:29:26,799 --> 00:29:30,160 stuff will see a day in court. And I can't 565 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,000 wait to see when Hunter Biden appears before Congress because 566 00:29:33,359 --> 00:29:36,039 he can't claim the fifth and that may be a 567 00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:38,119 gift that keeps on giving. He can't say I declare 568 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,759 the fifth because he's been he's been pardoned, So that 569 00:29:40,799 --> 00:29:42,440 may throw a couple of people under the bus. But 570 00:29:42,839 --> 00:29:46,200 I like what you said, and it's a reasonable thought. 571 00:29:46,279 --> 00:29:48,960 I don't think you're being conspiratorial at all, because we've 572 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,599 seen how they conducted themselves. We saw with the Fanny 573 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,599 Willis stuff, we now are seeing that it was kind 574 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,839 of coordinated with the White House. We did see how 575 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,400 Judge Barshawn acted and how Da Alvin Bragg went above 576 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,880 and beyond it take misdemeanors and make them felonies to 577 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,839 get criminal convictions out of things. So it's not beyond 578 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,680 the pale to have exactly the thoughts you have. It's 579 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:13,279 all conspiracy until it happens, right, Yes, sir, I mean 580 00:30:13,279 --> 00:30:14,480 I thought that was a stute Waldon. 581 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,279 Speaker 3: I really appreciate your thoughts and I wanted to wish 582 00:30:18,279 --> 00:30:22,480 everybody at WBT a very happy new Year. 583 00:30:23,599 --> 00:30:26,759 Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Walt, and from our family to ears 584 00:30:26,759 --> 00:30:28,599 so thank you again for sharing that we hope you 585 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,599 have a great new year as well. Thank you. So 586 00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:34,359 with with what Walt had to say, he's absolutely right 587 00:30:34,799 --> 00:30:39,240 and worth knowing. So, the FBI had twenty eight or 588 00:30:39,279 --> 00:30:42,680 twenty six informants that were there, two of them, and 589 00:30:42,759 --> 00:30:44,920 so it's weird the way you read this, and this 590 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,400 is from Axio's not exactly a right leaning source. The 591 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,000 report that twenty six informants confidential human sources were not 592 00:30:52,039 --> 00:30:54,839 employed by the government were in DC on January sixth. 593 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,119 Three of the informants had been tasked by the FBI 594 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,880 Field Office to travel to DC. The informants were not 595 00:31:00,039 --> 00:31:03,559 authorized to ender the Capitol building or restricted areas otherwise 596 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,240 break the law. Yes, but two did enter the restricted 597 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,720 area around the building and a third entered the capitol. 598 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,839 Twenty three other informants also traveled to DC, but not 599 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,680 the FBI's directions. None of the informants who entered the 600 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,119 capitol or restricted area have been prosecuted. Four of the 601 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,839 twenty six entered the Capitol, thirteen entered the restricted area, 602 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,279 nine were in DC but didn't engage in anything. Many 603 00:31:25,319 --> 00:31:27,960 of the twenty six provided information relevant to January sixth 604 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,759 before the day, but if anything, there is so much 605 00:31:31,799 --> 00:31:35,359 about January sixth that still and the really sad reality 606 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,359 of what Adam Kinsinger and Liz Cheney did with the 607 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,400 January sixth Committee. One the Democrats stacked it. The Republicans 608 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,640 were not allowed to put their people on that committee. 609 00:31:45,039 --> 00:31:48,039 It was so tremendously lopsided. If the Democrats had wanted 610 00:31:48,079 --> 00:31:52,279 to have the American people on their side, they could 611 00:31:52,319 --> 00:31:55,559 have easily had a balanced committee. It wouldn't have been 612 00:31:55,599 --> 00:31:58,119 that hard to appoint a few people the January sixth 613 00:31:58,119 --> 00:32:01,759 Committee to have balance. But they they not only created 614 00:32:01,799 --> 00:32:05,319 a committee that wasn't balanced and had two Republican Trump 615 00:32:05,319 --> 00:32:07,920 haters on it who have now you know they're gone. 616 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,119 They're now more in Congress. Cheney, I don't know what's 617 00:32:10,119 --> 00:32:13,440 gonna happen to her, but when you look at that committee, 618 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,640 then they brought in a Hollywood producer to make this 619 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:21,319 kind of a reality show that favored Democrats and even 620 00:32:21,519 --> 00:32:25,599 moderates have been chagrined by the way in which that 621 00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:28,680 was done. If you wanted, if you really felt like 622 00:32:28,799 --> 00:32:34,119 January sixth was completely a one sided obliteration of the 623 00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:37,240 Constitution and everything you want to believe on the left, 624 00:32:38,039 --> 00:32:41,200 the way in which you conducted that investigation didn't work 625 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,839 out so well because it made it should have been 626 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:46,640 a slam dunk. It should have been a slam dunk 627 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,759 for both parties to go in and say this was horrible, 628 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,480 but the way it was done made it look. It 629 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,920 gave people that wanted to see it another way plenty 630 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,000 of political cover to say it wasn't. It wasn't what 631 00:32:58,039 --> 00:33:02,039 you told me it was. That's I think things like 632 00:33:02,119 --> 00:33:05,839 that that if you couple that with the Russia Russia Russia, UH, 633 00:33:06,039 --> 00:33:08,839 with the collusion, with the Hunter laptop story, with the 634 00:33:08,839 --> 00:33:13,000 way Fanny Willis Da Bragg, with the way Letitia James, 635 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:18,200 the way Jack Smith, the way all of these conducted themselves, 636 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:24,960 and the way they covered up Biden's clear mental missteps. 637 00:33:25,759 --> 00:33:27,640 All of that. When you put that in a soup, 638 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,559 there's no other way for that soup to be tasted 639 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,960 other than you guys had a coordinated effort that had 640 00:33:35,039 --> 00:33:38,359 nothing to do with policy, that was directed at one individual, 641 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,480 and it was hate based. That's the only way that 642 00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:43,599 thing comes out of the kitchen. And you can look 643 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,160 at it, you can smell it, Yep, it smells like 644 00:33:46,279 --> 00:33:50,839 a setup, and you glint you. You gave credence to 645 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,960 your political enemies, the people on the right to say, 646 00:33:54,119 --> 00:33:58,480 you guys are completely full of it. That was That 647 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:03,319 is Ultimately history will say. You know, if he was 648 00:34:03,359 --> 00:34:05,839 as bad as you say is, you don't need to 649 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,599 go that far. If Trump was as bad as you 650 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,400 on the left said he was, you wouldn't have had 651 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:16,000 to use political mechanizations. You wouldn't have had to do 652 00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:21,079 this kind of machiavellian routine to convince the American people. 653 00:34:21,119 --> 00:34:23,760 The American people figured it out. In fact, they figured 654 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,320 out you guys were whackado. They figured out your DEI 655 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,599 stuff was whacka do. They figured out all of your 656 00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:31,719 wokeness was whacka doo. They figured out putting drag queens 657 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:35,079 in front of kindergarten students isn't a great idea. They 658 00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:38,199 figured out that meritocracy matters. They figured out the border matters. 659 00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:41,119 They figured out that foreign policy leading from strength matters. 660 00:34:41,119 --> 00:34:42,920 They figured out that Biden White House was a sham. 661 00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:47,360 They figured it out in spite of you guys having 662 00:34:47,559 --> 00:34:52,039 everything at your disposal, most of the media at your disposal, 663 00:34:52,559 --> 00:34:55,920 a screwed up FBI that has wonderful agents and field 664 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,039 Agents had a great organization led by people that clearly 665 00:34:59,079 --> 00:35:03,119 acted in political ways. Generals at the Pentagon acting in 666 00:35:03,119 --> 00:35:08,039 political ways. And one of the chief guys, a former 667 00:35:08,199 --> 00:35:12,760 cracked out, I mean just criminal advising the president in 668 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,079 the form of his son. It didn't make him honorable 669 00:35:15,159 --> 00:35:18,599 or decenter any of those things. So I know it 670 00:35:18,639 --> 00:35:21,800 sounds brutal. It's a brutal, it's a but it's a 671 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,400 truth when you add all that up. Like I said, 672 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,960 the ingredients in that suit, the American public figure, the 673 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,000 public just figured it out and they flushed the toilet 674 00:35:30,039 --> 00:35:32,760 on that stuff and they said, no, we're done with you. Guys. 675 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:34,920 Now you can say, well, it was close. It was 676 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,480 way you looked to, you know, to Mike Johnson stood well, 677 00:35:37,519 --> 00:35:40,000 the way Congress is drawing up state by state, it's 678 00:35:40,039 --> 00:35:42,320 a it's a gerrymanagered country. I don't care where you're from. 679 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,320 It is in North Carolina, included Jerrymander for Republicans not 680 00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:48,280 Otherwise it would just be a bunch of expensive one 681 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:52,320 point races, wouldn't it. But we'll see, I think the 682 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,480 other the other headwinds, so the Democrats and as we 683 00:35:54,519 --> 00:35:56,039 get to the top of the hour. I'll say this 684 00:35:56,119 --> 00:35:57,360 about where they want to go, because I want to 685 00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:58,719 get to some other stuff here at the end of 686 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,760 the year. How the Demos the sky is falling, they're starting. 687 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,920 You'll see these stories the sky's falling stuff. I've got 688 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,440 a great one on the other side of the break. 689 00:36:06,119 --> 00:36:08,599 The Democrats hope is to make DC estate in Puerto 690 00:36:08,679 --> 00:36:11,639 Rico State. That would give them four more senators, that 691 00:36:11,679 --> 00:36:15,480 would give them at least two more congressional seats that 692 00:36:15,519 --> 00:36:17,519 they would love to have. That But with the folks 693 00:36:17,519 --> 00:36:19,639 that are in office right now, that's not going to happen. 694 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,079 That is a pipe dream. It's just not going to happen, 695 00:36:22,199 --> 00:36:23,800 even if you if you tried. And I don't see 696 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,280 it happening for American Samoa or Guam either or the 697 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,559 US Virgin Islands. But the two they wanted to get 698 00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:31,519 was d C d C statehood and Puerto Rico statehood 699 00:36:31,519 --> 00:36:34,920 not going to happen. Secondly, is they have a serious 700 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:39,400 problem with congre with people that are moving, as we've 701 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,719 mentioned many times, from California to Texas and east and 702 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,800 from New York New Jersey, those northern Democrats states south 703 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,039 and they are folks that tend to have a conservative 704 00:36:49,079 --> 00:36:53,519 tilt to their world, and so they're losing congressional seats 705 00:36:53,519 --> 00:36:55,880 and congred they'll keep their Senate seats, but they're losing 706 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,519 about four or five six seats. Now that's a twelve 707 00:36:59,559 --> 00:37:01,880 seat around. If you take six and you add six, 708 00:37:02,159 --> 00:37:05,159 that's a twelve seat turnaround. So the Democrats are facing 709 00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,840 a very difficult challenge in twenty eight, in twenty six 710 00:37:10,039 --> 00:37:14,400 and thirty, we will see. And then not to mention that, 711 00:37:15,159 --> 00:37:18,000 you know, funeral homes are making the rounds up in 712 00:37:18,079 --> 00:37:21,239 DC through the halls of Congress. It's basically a geriatric 713 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,239 center on both sides of the aisle. And so I 714 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,039 don't know who the fresh young faces are going to be. 715 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,320 But when you have a JD Vance up there and 716 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,159 you have a lot of people like the facan others, 717 00:37:32,199 --> 00:37:39,000 you have a plethora of young, vibrant Republicans that are 718 00:37:39,079 --> 00:37:41,639 kind of cool and hip and relate to younger folks 719 00:37:41,639 --> 00:37:44,079 and the Democrats right now the squad is where the 720 00:37:44,079 --> 00:37:47,599 younger folks are on the left and those folks that's 721 00:37:47,679 --> 00:37:49,880 not got a high level of appeal. I don't see 722 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,280 AOC bringing in the next the next fifty years of 723 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,280 Democrats rule and they're terrified of her. The people on 724 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,360 the left are because she She and the squad are 725 00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,199 just two of them lost their seats, So we'll see 726 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:00,960 how that pans out. Much much more to go here 727 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,159 on the Peak Calendar Radio show second hour. We're getting 728 00:38:03,159 --> 00:38:04,280 ready to bend Away and we will get to the 729 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,960 Michael Mann piece, which I think is worth knowing, so 730 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,599 stay tuned. We'll be right back after this. 731 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,280 Speaker 2: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 732 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,320 so much for listening. 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