1 00:00:04,919 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:09,679 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,599 --> 00:00:16,760 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,280 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,359 --> 00:00:22,640 go to dpekclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,679 --> 00:00:25,199 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:28,359 your support. 10 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:33,520 Speaker 2: Welcome back. A lot of people answer this last day 11 00:00:34,119 --> 00:00:36,359 the year. By the way, hats off to one of 12 00:00:36,399 --> 00:00:40,000 our listeners who astutely pointed out and I had covered 13 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,039 a lot of Sally Pipe's writings. That's who wrote the 14 00:00:42,039 --> 00:00:45,920 previous article about the subsidies with Obamacare, and she had 15 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:48,520 done an interview with Mark Levin years ago in which 16 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:52,759 she talked about Canada's socialized medicine. Her mother died because 17 00:00:52,759 --> 00:00:55,320 she was not given a colonoscopy in time, because those 18 00:00:55,359 --> 00:00:59,039 are rationed in Canada by age. By the time she 19 00:00:59,039 --> 00:01:02,479 had received it, she stage four colon cancer. And again, 20 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,799 this is the kind of thing that socialists never want 21 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:11,719 to admit. It's kind of it's kind of this odd, 22 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:17,799 this this this odd reality that they portray, which is that, 23 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:22,920 you know, we recognize that socialism has failed everywhere it's 24 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,920 ever been tried. We fully recognize that millions and millions 25 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,840 of people have suffered and died under it, but that's 26 00:01:29,879 --> 00:01:31,879 because they didn't do it the way we want to 27 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,400 do it. We're different. We're going to do it, you know, 28 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:40,200 whether it's Bernie Sanders or Casio Cortez or any of these. 29 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,400 And and a lot of times the other nuanced position 30 00:01:43,519 --> 00:01:47,079 is we're not socialist, we're we're we're democrats, socialists. For 31 00:01:47,159 --> 00:01:48,760 Bernie Sanders tries to say, but if you look at 32 00:01:48,799 --> 00:01:52,079 the policies, they're the same, we're going to do it differently, 33 00:01:52,159 --> 00:01:54,120 and and and so I would take the socialist track 34 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,840 two different ways. On the one, there's the large scale socialist, 35 00:01:56,879 --> 00:02:00,439 which is controlling the means like Venezuela does. You know, 36 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,920 inflation spirals out of control, that the country owns the 37 00:02:03,959 --> 00:02:07,560 means of production, it just takes over every company, People suffer, 38 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,960 they die. The other is the people who want to 39 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:14,159 push a socialized medicine. Now you could have that. I 40 00:02:14,199 --> 00:02:16,560 think we're moving in that direction where we're going to 41 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:20,479 have the same thing that a lot of other First 42 00:02:20,479 --> 00:02:24,879 world countries have. You're gonna have a substandard or standard 43 00:02:25,479 --> 00:02:28,000 socialized medical care. We can go anywhere and get stuff done. 44 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,240 Now it has caveats. I mean, I have a nephew 45 00:02:30,599 --> 00:02:35,919 that had an infected toe in Italy, and because he 46 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,280 couldn't get he was below a certain age when this happened, 47 00:02:39,319 --> 00:02:42,319 they couldn't use anesthesia, so they had to operate on 48 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:49,439 his toe while he was awake. Horrible, cutting him, fixing, horror. 49 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,479 I mean, primitive stuff. And you have a second tier, 50 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,000 which is private care. Now that to me would become 51 00:02:57,039 --> 00:03:00,080 the worst from Democrats would screen bloody murder because you 52 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,759 would have you know this this presidential care and then 53 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,280 everybody else. But that seems to be the direction we're 54 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,919 headed in because there's no easy way out of this. 55 00:03:09,039 --> 00:03:11,039 It would be neat if there was a paper free 56 00:03:11,439 --> 00:03:13,319 if you could just pay as you go. I want 57 00:03:13,319 --> 00:03:14,719 to go, I want to pay, I want to get 58 00:03:14,759 --> 00:03:18,599 my I want to get my stuff done. I want 59 00:03:18,599 --> 00:03:20,039 to go to my doctor, and I want to pay 60 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,159 whatever it is. Here's you go to the like you 61 00:03:22,199 --> 00:03:23,520 go to a restaurant and you say, okay, I want 62 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,240 the stake dinner that's going to be twenty eight dollars. 63 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,560 I want I want the fish dinner. Well that's twenty three. 64 00:03:27,599 --> 00:03:30,680 It's on the menu. Say hey, I would like to 65 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:34,039 get my physical, Well physical is one hundred bucks. And 66 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,280 if we order blood work, the blood work's going to 67 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,319 be whatever. It's just a ali cart thing. The doctor 68 00:03:38,319 --> 00:03:39,719 tells you what you need, you look and see this 69 00:03:39,759 --> 00:03:40,840 is what it costs, or I want to do that 70 00:03:40,919 --> 00:03:43,199 or not very direct and you get rid of a 71 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,479 lot of the paperwork. I don't know if that will happen. 72 00:03:46,479 --> 00:03:48,919 I think that the concierge services that I'm seeing erupt 73 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,719 around or doing stuff like that, but who knows. So 74 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:53,960 thanks for the astute listeners out there that are paying 75 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,280 attention to stuff. Now, the New Tolerance people, the New 76 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,479 Tolerance Campaign, which is looking at a lot of things 77 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,439 that are going on out there in the world. Ough, 78 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:07,599 funny phone calls that come in when I'm not in 79 00:04:07,639 --> 00:04:11,439 the break Washington, d C. The New Tolerance Campaign, a 80 00:04:11,479 --> 00:04:14,639 grassroots watchdog organization, unveiled its fourth annual Worst of the 81 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,279 Woke Awards to look back at the year's most outrageous 82 00:04:17,319 --> 00:04:20,360 headline grabbing instances of woke run wild in the US 83 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,199 and twenty twenty four to ten institutions went to extreme 84 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,519 pressing a woke agenda on a weary public. Dei and 85 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:30,279 Star Wars drag queens at the Olympics, non binary toys. 86 00:04:30,399 --> 00:04:32,399 They all made the cut. So here are the winners 87 00:04:32,759 --> 00:04:35,600 of twenty twenty four. We'll bring them to you fun. 88 00:04:36,079 --> 00:04:38,959 It's fun, but at the same time it happened this 89 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:43,000 is reality. The Acolyte, which was a Disney Star Wars thing. 90 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,959 They hoped for a hit, but they ended up with 91 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,639 a messy miss. Following the disastrous rollout of The Acolyte, 92 00:04:49,639 --> 00:04:52,199 the Star Wars spin off crashed and burned, canceled after 93 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,839 only one season for the most predictable reason. It refused 94 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,560 to say true to Star Wars lore and instead sought 95 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,879 to shoehorn as much DEI into every episode as possible, 96 00:05:02,079 --> 00:05:06,279 and all lesbian Coveni Force witches lamenting the galaxy not 97 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,680 accepting women like us, asking an alien for its pronouns, 98 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,959 a pronounced emphasis on race, and more all featured in 99 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,439 the show. Series creator Leslie Hedlin even went on record 100 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,560 stating that the inclusion of queer communities in the program 101 00:05:20,639 --> 00:05:23,560 was deliberate because it would be natural if an all 102 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,160 female community existed. Now that's the kind of thing. How 103 00:05:27,199 --> 00:05:30,800 many of you, when you're out in your world and 104 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:34,319 you're wanting to be entertained, get into a really you know, 105 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,160 you say, oh, gosh, this is something I've been looking 106 00:05:36,199 --> 00:05:38,240 forward to seeing. You sit down to watch it because 107 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:42,000 you're intrigued by the story or the plot, or even 108 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:47,120 the characters. And then amidst this, you recognize because it's 109 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,519 in your face that they've inserted something that's a current 110 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:55,519 political perspective or dogma that serves as nothing but a 111 00:05:55,519 --> 00:05:59,800 distraction from the storyline that you actually can tell it's 112 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:06,160 been forced. You're you're pushing an agenda in a movie 113 00:06:06,199 --> 00:06:08,600 or entertainment, and that's what happened with The Acolyte, Crashed 114 00:06:08,639 --> 00:06:10,519 and Burn. We find this a lot, and it's a 115 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,600 complete and utter distraction from what most people want in 116 00:06:14,639 --> 00:06:18,480 their entertainment, which is to be just entertained. And I 117 00:06:18,519 --> 00:06:20,839 think that some people do. I mean, when when Top 118 00:06:20,879 --> 00:06:24,160 Gun came out Top Gun, Maverick, I will do Tom 119 00:06:24,199 --> 00:06:27,519 Cruise as nutty as the scientology stuff is. That movie 120 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,199 was what America needed at that time. It was It 121 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,079 was remarkably entertaining. It avoided a lot of the cavsts. 122 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:35,519 It would even tell you which country they were going after. 123 00:06:35,759 --> 00:06:37,879 But it was a great storyline. It was a great story, 124 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:43,120 great entertainment. Wasn't toxic masculinity either. Now the other one 125 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:47,839 a Super Bowl I guess fifty three forty three, fifty 126 00:06:47,879 --> 00:06:51,480 three sixty three sixty three l v I I I 127 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,040 can't even get right. Super Bowl fifty eight Sorry, with 128 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,319 more than one hundred and twenty three million viewers, this 129 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,040 is another one of the winners of the DEI and mess. 130 00:06:59,319 --> 00:07:02,000 Every year things United America like the Super Bowl, but 131 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,480 not this year. The NFL spoiled the fun with divisive, 132 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:09,319 woke posturing, presenting two separate national anthems before the big game, 133 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,079 a black national anthem and then another anthem for everybody 134 00:07:13,079 --> 00:07:16,560 that wasn't black. And I remember that, I remember when 135 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,439 it happened. It was it was very odd and uncomfortable. 136 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,160 It was unnecessary, it wasn't It took away from what 137 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,199 was supposed to be something to help us forget about stuff. 138 00:07:28,199 --> 00:07:31,680 Also a winner the Olympics. The Paris Olympics managed to 139 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:35,040 anger Christians, conservatives, and anyone with good taste in dancing. 140 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,000 The opening ceremony of the Global Athletic event began with 141 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,199 a tableau of drag queens that more than a few 142 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:44,160 people felt mocked. The last supper, the cross dressing star 143 00:07:44,199 --> 00:07:47,279 at the center of the performance, who called herself Olympic Jesus, 144 00:07:47,279 --> 00:07:51,000 only exacerbated that outrage. 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Visit Creative video dot com. 165 00:08:54,840 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 2: So nervada, I think I got that right and everything 166 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,759 at me. Chad Adams here sitting in for Brett Sary 167 00:09:03,879 --> 00:09:06,879 Pete Kallener News Talk eleven ten ninety nine three WBT 168 00:09:07,039 --> 00:09:09,200 seven oh four five seven oh eleven ten. The call 169 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,159 in numbers five seven oh eleven ten. If you'd like 170 00:09:11,159 --> 00:09:13,080 to be part of the broadcast, we'll have a guest 171 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:14,679 joining us at bottom of the hour, My good buddy 172 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:17,159 Jovis STARTI will be doing so and looking forward to 173 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,960 his his commentary on what's coming. He's been tracking this, 174 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,960 you know, the these next number of systems. I think 175 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:25,600 there's three of them that are going to kind of 176 00:09:25,639 --> 00:09:27,639 train through the area that are going to get things 177 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,480 nice and chilly. It's going to feel like winter in winter, 178 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,000 believe it or not. And when we went through the 179 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:37,600 break we were talking about these kind of awards. How 180 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:41,440 that was ner, Thank you appreciate all you folks keeping 181 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,240 me straight up here. Now, let's see if I can 182 00:09:44,279 --> 00:09:46,240 get to this. The rest of those awards from the 183 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,240 New Tolerance campaign, and we were talking about the Olympics 184 00:09:49,639 --> 00:09:51,919 and the Dei stuff there, the Super Bowl and what 185 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,360 they did the Acolyte, which is what Disney through out there. 186 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,039 Now one of the oddest ones to me, and I 187 00:09:56,039 --> 00:09:58,559 remember when this happened too, you might as I go through. 188 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,759 It's Harley Davidson. Harley Davidson one of the most iconic, 189 00:10:04,639 --> 00:10:08,799 just just iconic brands in American history, just very American. 190 00:10:08,879 --> 00:10:14,840 These overly loud, but that's their iconic noise is their motorcycles. 191 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,039 Harley Davidson had a rock solid, badass brand, and then 192 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,919 DEI came along. A video unveiled on Twitter showed the 193 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:27,159 company's CEO, Joshin Joshin Zeites, speaking at a conference in 194 00:10:27,159 --> 00:10:30,840 twenty twenty in which he called himself the sustainable Taliban 195 00:10:31,279 --> 00:10:34,080 and asserted Harley Davidson was quote trying to take on 196 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:39,000 traditional capitalism and trying to redefine it end quote. After 197 00:10:39,039 --> 00:10:43,240 the uproar, Zeits issued a public statement denouncing Dei and 198 00:10:43,279 --> 00:10:46,480 declaring the bike builder would pull back from the Woke Brink, 199 00:10:46,639 --> 00:10:51,440 ending its participation with the odious Corporate Equality Index pushed 200 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:55,159 by recognized hate group the Human Rights Campaign. That's one 201 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,720 that happened this past year Columbia University. You'll remember this one. 202 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,600 During a three week few asco the administration of Columbia 203 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,559 University was paralyzed in the face of rapidly anti Semitic 204 00:11:05,639 --> 00:11:09,679 and increasingly violent conduct, students took over the campus famed 205 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,879 Hamilton Hall, barricaded the entrance, and hung a Free Palestine 206 00:11:12,919 --> 00:11:15,879 banner from a window. The inmates were running the asylum 207 00:11:15,919 --> 00:11:18,480 at New York City's Ivy League School, with students issuing 208 00:11:18,519 --> 00:11:21,600 a list of wild demands that included a complete divestment 209 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:26,519 from all Israel related businesses and amnesty from disciplinary actions 210 00:11:26,519 --> 00:11:31,159 for students. Columbia's pushback and email declaring that bringing in 211 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:35,600 police at this time would be counterproductive. Things got so 212 00:11:35,639 --> 00:11:39,360 hot that Columbia ended up canceling its university wide commencement ceremony. 213 00:11:40,279 --> 00:11:43,080 And you have to you don't wonder. We know we've 214 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,879 seen what's happened in some of the most elite universities 215 00:11:45,919 --> 00:11:50,639 in our country. The strangest, well not strangest, the most 216 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:55,480 insidious aspect of this at our university levels is how 217 00:11:55,679 --> 00:12:02,399 the Palestinian left, and there is an has infiltrated our 218 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:08,200 political culture and become somewhat try to portray itself in 219 00:12:08,279 --> 00:12:13,320 altruistic terms. So the terrorist thugs commit an atrocity a 220 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,039 nine to eleven or four times a nine to eleven 221 00:12:16,759 --> 00:12:21,320 in Israel, and somehow that becomes a cry for sympathy 222 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,600 for the cause. It wasn't, and it just showed that 223 00:12:25,639 --> 00:12:28,159 these people were trying to give cover to murderous thugs, 224 00:12:28,519 --> 00:12:34,840 These these students, these misguided, arrogant leftist that that believe 225 00:12:34,879 --> 00:12:37,039 they know that are that are climbing fools hill, as 226 00:12:37,039 --> 00:12:39,879 my grandfather would say, and are trying to lecture everybody 227 00:12:39,919 --> 00:12:48,159 else while ignoring this unbelievable violent deaths and calling that 228 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:53,320 somehow propaganda alas, that's it. And then Harvard, you know, 229 00:12:53,399 --> 00:12:56,919 wanted to be one better following the unceremonious resignation of 230 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,159 university president Claudine Gay under allegations of rank. You'll remember 231 00:13:01,159 --> 00:13:03,320 she was sitting in Congress and couldn't kind of define 232 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,519 anti Semitism. It was just couldn't do it. America's premier 233 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:10,840 Ivy League institution presented a case study in emotional fragility 234 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,240 of the aftermath of Trump's victory in the twenty twenty 235 00:13:13,279 --> 00:13:18,639 fourth presidential election. Harvard professors canceled classes for two days. 236 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:25,480 These pathetic Harvard students, these these elite woke kooks, they're 237 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,320 just nuts, just absolute nuts, cancel classes for two days 238 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:33,759 to allow their students space to process the election. Do 239 00:13:33,799 --> 00:13:35,240 you think these kids are going to be the ones 240 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,440 that are going to lead us to a new, more 241 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:44,240 enlightened world. They can't deal with the results of an election. 242 00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:51,879 The school's Institute of Politics distributed conciliatory pastries and suites 243 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,279 all day on November sixth, and quizzes in the Intermediate 244 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:59,639 Microeconomics class were declared optional, henceforth as a reprieve from 245 00:13:59,639 --> 00:14:07,000 post election trauma. That really happened. That's you think about. 246 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,840 You would think Harvard would be one of the toughest, 247 00:14:09,919 --> 00:14:12,840 most interesting. Now, imagine if they taught their law students 248 00:14:12,919 --> 00:14:15,360 the same way. Well, if you're on the losing side, 249 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,559 you know what, you need to eat some pastries, take 250 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,200 a couple of days off, and you need to We'll 251 00:14:21,279 --> 00:14:23,960 just cancel you just don't even worry about continued education. 252 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,720 Imagine if you're surgeons, it's every time a surgery didn't 253 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,200 go bad, they just couldn't hack it anymore. Just they 254 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,759 couldn't can't do it. There's not enough anxiety medication on 255 00:14:33,799 --> 00:14:37,360 the planet to get me through this. Imagine if your 256 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:38,720 kid was one of those kids. 257 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,519 Speaker 3: Mom, Dad, I can't deal with the election that is, 258 00:14:41,879 --> 00:14:44,159 can you send me more money? I didn't want to 259 00:14:44,159 --> 00:14:47,639 go to class right now. I need some pizza and 260 00:14:47,799 --> 00:14:52,279 xanax so that SSRIs, maybe some bens of die pizza. 261 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:53,679 I don't know more stuff. 262 00:14:56,320 --> 00:15:01,759 Speaker 2: Unbelievable. The other winner w PATH Watch, which is the 263 00:15:01,759 --> 00:15:06,399 World Professional Association for Transgender Health hippocratic oath be damned. 264 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,639 This group came under fire for its role in one 265 00:15:08,679 --> 00:15:12,080 of the most alarming medical scandals of our time. Behind 266 00:15:12,159 --> 00:15:16,879 closed doors, doctors affiliated with that organization, who swore an 267 00:15:16,879 --> 00:15:20,919 oath to do no harm privately discussed how sex change 268 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:26,000 procedures for miners are experimental, how they are untested, and 269 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:30,879 they are often devastatingly painful. The people inside the organization 270 00:15:31,039 --> 00:15:36,440 knew this. The admissions directly contradicted their public facing advocacy 271 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:42,279 for the treatments, leaving families betrayed and children's bodies permanently altered. 272 00:15:42,759 --> 00:15:46,960 That's another award winner for the year. Another one, Mattel, 273 00:15:47,919 --> 00:15:51,440 This one's just fun. The company behind Barbie pushed the 274 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:55,279 boundaries of political correctness with the release of the world's 275 00:15:55,320 --> 00:16:01,279 first gender neutral doll, the first neutral doll. You know, 276 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:05,480 and you're thinking about that, You're just like the toys 277 00:16:05,639 --> 00:16:09,080 marketed as gender inclusive are designed to be a boy, 278 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,840 a girl neither or both. A boy, a girl neither 279 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,759 or both. A boy, a girl neither or both. Hmm, 280 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:22,080 neither or both. That's just Mattel hailed the launch as 281 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,960 a step toward greater inclusivity, but the move sparked pushback 282 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:29,120 among parents and child development experts. You produced a doll 283 00:16:29,799 --> 00:16:34,240 you're known for Barbie and Ken. That's your number one brand, 284 00:16:34,399 --> 00:16:39,200 Barbie and Ken, that's your brand. And then you have 285 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,799 to come out with a boy, a girl, neither or both. 286 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:44,960 Another one. You may not have heard about this one. 287 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:49,759 Penzi Spices, once crowned America's wokest company, Penzi's Spices stirred 288 00:16:49,759 --> 00:16:52,039 the pot yet again this year. The seasoning shop is 289 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:55,600 known for promotional events such as Republicans Are Racist Weekend 290 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,519 and for recommending their customers quote, send the Jewish people 291 00:16:59,559 --> 00:17:01,720 in your life if a photo of a couple sleeping 292 00:17:01,799 --> 00:17:04,359 bags up in your attic with the message that you 293 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:08,519 will always have a place for them, they sent that. 294 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,839 In twenty twenty four of the company sparked widespread outrage 295 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:14,720 and calls for boycotts after their owner published an essay 296 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,480 on the business's website slamming the GOP of all places 297 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:22,279 for Democrat presidential nomine Kamala Harris to deliver remarks about 298 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:27,799 ending divisiveness. She chose them, I remember, send the Jewish 299 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:30,279 people in your life a photo of a couple sleeping 300 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:32,759 bags up in your attic with the message that you 301 00:17:32,759 --> 00:17:37,960 will always have a place for them. Think about that. 302 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,680 That's the tolerant left for you. And finally, Jaguar luxury 303 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,720 car maker Jaguar rolled out a bizarre their words, not mine, 304 00:17:44,759 --> 00:17:45,880 bizarre ad in December. 305 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:46,519 Speaker 3: Did you see it? 306 00:17:46,599 --> 00:17:48,799 Speaker 2: Didn't of you see? Did you see the Jaguar ad? 307 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:50,519 I mean it took me a while. I saw it. 308 00:17:50,599 --> 00:17:52,720 I'd heard it discussed, and then it popped up on TV. 309 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:55,839 A bizarre ad in December. They left audience scratching their heads. 310 00:17:55,839 --> 00:17:58,880 A commercial filled with androgynist models and completely it didn't 311 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:00,880 even have a car edit Jaguar ad. I think when 312 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,400 I was hosting earlier in the month for Winterable, I 313 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,480 talked about this. To make matters worse, the auto manufacturer 314 00:18:06,519 --> 00:18:10,960 literally took the Jaguar out of Jaguar, erasing the iconic 315 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,680 big cat from its logo. Critics called the company bud 316 00:18:13,759 --> 00:18:17,119 Light two point zero. Elon Musk mockingly asked the company, 317 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:19,880 do you guys even sell cars? And Conservative parliament member 318 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:23,119 Nyjel Farraj predicted the UK brand will now go bust 319 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:28,960 a Jaguar, I mean, an iconic brand of automobiles took 320 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:34,200 their automobiles out of their ads, just gone the winner. However, 321 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,119 in a year field with hypocrisy and double standards, one 322 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:39,440 person went above and beyond to hold institutions to their 323 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,319 stated principles. That was Robbie Starbuck. A few people have 324 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:44,559 had more of an impact holding Corporate America's feet to 325 00:18:44,559 --> 00:18:47,680 the fire than Starbuck. The filmmaker, activist, and political commentator 326 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,960 was already notable for standing up for free speech, religious liberty, 327 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,079 and parental rights. In twenty twenty four, he took his 328 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:56,440 advocacy to the next level with action that shined a 329 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:00,160 spotlight on devisive so called diversity equity inclusion programs up 330 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,759 in America. He's the one who compelled many companies to 331 00:19:03,799 --> 00:19:06,920 stand down. Businesses long synonymous with blue collar America like 332 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,279 Harley Davidson, Caterpillar for John Deere, and Tractor Supply were 333 00:19:10,319 --> 00:19:13,319 targets as he exposed them, and they started to roll 334 00:19:13,319 --> 00:19:17,279 back their DEEI policies, termination of participation in the deceptively 335 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:20,920 called Corporate Equity Index, and an endo woke employee trainings. 336 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,920 So hats off to Robbie Starbuck. I'd also throw Charlie 337 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:25,759 Kirk in that it's not in their list, but Charlie 338 00:19:25,799 --> 00:19:28,759 Kirk did a remarkable job of changing thereative on college 339 00:19:28,839 --> 00:19:31,359 universities across the nation, leading to Trump getting more young 340 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:35,559 people's vote than Democrats. Good afternoon, chat out us here 341 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,400 for my good friend Pete Callender. Hope he's having a great, 342 00:19:39,079 --> 00:19:41,559 great day break he deserves. It's been working very hard 343 00:19:41,559 --> 00:19:45,440 here on WBTU News Talk eleven ten nine nine three 344 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,559 e wbt the calling number seven oh four five seven 345 00:19:47,599 --> 00:19:50,480 oh eleven ten with us right now, though, someone who 346 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,440 I've gotten to know over the past probably fifteen years, 347 00:19:53,839 --> 00:19:56,240 and one of the I consider on the front lines 348 00:19:56,279 --> 00:19:59,480 of weather science, a true scientists, someone who co founded 349 00:19:59,519 --> 00:20:03,720 WeatherBell Analytics, someone who has written extensively, has appeared nationally. 350 00:20:03,759 --> 00:20:05,440 You've seen him on the Sean Hannity Show, and that 351 00:20:05,559 --> 00:20:08,480 is Joe Bastardi. Joe, how the heck are you today? 352 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 3: Well? 353 00:20:09,599 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 4: Very well, A happy new year to everyone, and you know, 354 00:20:12,559 --> 00:20:15,319 hopefully twenty twenty five is going to turn out to 355 00:20:15,319 --> 00:20:18,319 be a great year. I think the spirit of the 356 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,799 Carolinas or western North Carolina helping out after Aleen has 357 00:20:22,839 --> 00:20:26,400 really shone brightly in what has been a very dark 358 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,960 situation as far as that goes. But there's no keeping 359 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,480 good people down, and I have a great deal of 360 00:20:32,559 --> 00:20:35,599 affection for that area of the country. One of the 361 00:20:35,599 --> 00:20:40,000 best friends I ever had is al Conklin. I still 362 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000 have him as a real good friend. He's over on 363 00:20:42,039 --> 00:20:46,279 the TV side, So I have a from a distance 364 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,759 this glancing admiration put it that way. 365 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:54,319 Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate those kind words. And clearly you you 366 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,200 have been you know, you discussed what was probably going 367 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,599 to happen in western North Carolina. Follow what you write. 368 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:03,039 You wrote about what happened and the conditions that led 369 00:21:03,079 --> 00:21:04,480 to that horrific event. 370 00:21:04,839 --> 00:21:07,400 Speaker 4: That was shooting fish in a barrel in September eighth. 371 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,440 We put put on Twitter that the last week of 372 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,400 September and the first week of October, I put that 373 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,680 thing on over one hundred times there would going to 374 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,240 be multiple hurricane strikes in the southeast part of the 375 00:21:19,319 --> 00:21:21,759 United States. I do this thing called a tension Governor 376 00:21:21,759 --> 00:21:24,839 DeSantis to try to get his attention. We started that 377 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,920 with Ian a couple of years ago, and then four 378 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:33,279 days before I just don't understand how the federal government 379 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,559 was not on a war footing. We put out biblical 380 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,319 proportioning flooding coming to the Carolinas, and the storm was 381 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:45,960 going to maintain itself going inland. Because it was a 382 00:21:46,079 --> 00:21:49,279 very interesting situation. We were in something called the phase 383 00:21:49,279 --> 00:21:53,240 eight of the man Julian oscillation, and to study the 384 00:21:53,319 --> 00:21:58,200 phase eight phase one storms maintain intensity quite a bit 385 00:21:58,279 --> 00:22:02,119 longer than other phases of that oscillation. In many of 386 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:06,960 the storms we've seen since twenty seventeen have all been 387 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,599 in either these certain phases of that and Julian oscillation. 388 00:22:11,079 --> 00:22:14,880 They can see them coming, and I don't know what 389 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:19,680 was going on with the people before during and even after. 390 00:22:20,279 --> 00:22:22,759 But as you know, and you follow me on Twitter 391 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,920 chat just as I follow you, you know how strongly 392 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,599 I feel about the neglect that has been shown. And 393 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,480 we've got more wickedly cold air coming. And certainly it's 394 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:37,279 been a cold December until the last week or so 395 00:22:38,319 --> 00:22:40,839 we've warmed up. But now we have three weeks of 396 00:22:41,319 --> 00:22:46,079 the coldest coldest opening three weeks of January it is 397 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:50,880 probably twenty eleven and maybe since nineteen ninety four. That's 398 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:55,200 on the way, and so hopefully people are ready for that. 399 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:58,440 Speaker 2: I've talked quite a bit about you prior to your 400 00:22:58,559 --> 00:23:00,440 parents today, and I told the audience one of the 401 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,799 things that I have a great deal of admiration for 402 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,359 is that you look at historical events, You look at 403 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:10,200 historical weather oscillations. You look at what has happened as 404 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,880 a guide to see what may happen next. You know, 405 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,759 it's not just hey, we plug in data points to 406 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,519 an algorithm and it spits out a spaghetti model of 407 00:23:20,519 --> 00:23:24,000 a hurricane. You're looking at actual data over the past 408 00:23:24,039 --> 00:23:26,599 one hundred and forty years or so. I've seen you 409 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,119 do this with psychonic activity. I've seen you do it 410 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:33,559 with winter weather and I've been very curious about you 411 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,039 also post the euro Models and the National Weather of 412 00:23:36,079 --> 00:23:39,200 the NWS models. What did you think about was I've 413 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,920 talked to several friends that have shown them your modeling 414 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,480 and what you said about it. The southeast coming up 415 00:23:44,519 --> 00:23:47,559 around I guess beginning around the eighth of January or so, 416 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,640 it looks like for the next couple of weeks it 417 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,839 could be rather chilly down down south. 418 00:23:53,319 --> 00:23:56,079 Speaker 4: Well, yeah, we've been saying now since December tenth was 419 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,319 the first post January first through twenty, it's centered on 420 00:23:59,319 --> 00:24:02,000 the fifth to fifth teenth would be very cold. And 421 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,359 I bring that up. I'm not trying to be pompous 422 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,160 or anything like that, or though I know it sounds 423 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,319 like it, because you have to establish the story to pee. 424 00:24:10,799 --> 00:24:12,480 If you go to a movie and you walk in 425 00:24:13,079 --> 00:24:16,759 when the movie's about to end and the forecast periods starting, 426 00:24:16,799 --> 00:24:19,400 so the movie's about to end, you don't know what 427 00:24:19,599 --> 00:24:24,559 happened before in the movie, And so we've been on 428 00:24:24,599 --> 00:24:27,440 top of this for quite some time. I'm also telling 429 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,000 people that late January and into early in mid. 430 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:33,839 Speaker 5: February, you're liable to get it is warm here relative 431 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,279 to averages as it is cold coming up, and we 432 00:24:37,279 --> 00:24:39,680 could sort of see that coming and then winter will 433 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,440 probably have a big end later in February into March, 434 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:43,920 maybe a late. 435 00:24:43,759 --> 00:24:48,759 Speaker 4: Spring this year. The different methods that we're using to 436 00:24:48,799 --> 00:24:51,920 look at that kind of thing. So, but you know, 437 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,440 my dad always saw me the foundation you stand on 438 00:24:54,519 --> 00:24:57,720 today was built yesterday to reach for tomorrow, which means 439 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,359 if you want the weather and you if you can 440 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,680 look at all the history of things that have happened, 441 00:25:06,799 --> 00:25:10,119 when you see something that looks similar to that, you 442 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,640 can then examine it better and try to come up 443 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,279 with an answer. And one of the sad things today 444 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:21,440 is I don't know if I've ever met a meteorologist 445 00:25:22,519 --> 00:25:25,920 that I could say I'm smarter than all right, I'm 446 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:29,920 dead serious, or I have more talent then I do. 447 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,599 Think I loved you know, like someone said to me, Dad, 448 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,960 I love the weather. I love the weather, but you're 449 00:25:37,079 --> 00:25:40,200 just ridiculous about how much you love the weather. And 450 00:25:40,279 --> 00:25:43,079 so what happens is I'm obsessed with it, and I'm 451 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:46,519 obsessed with the past. And what happens is when you 452 00:25:46,559 --> 00:25:48,680 look at all that I do this in history and 453 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:53,480 everything I look at, when you do that, you tend 454 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,160 to be more skeptical on what people are telling you 455 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,759 about outsourcing the talent God gave you to make a 456 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,759 forecast to some computer model. Now you know, this AI 457 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,480 is going to improve forecasting, but so far it's no 458 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,279 better than any of the other models. I mean, I've 459 00:26:11,319 --> 00:26:14,000 been watching the AI comes in, the five or six 460 00:26:14,079 --> 00:26:17,240 models come in four times a day, and the problem 461 00:26:17,319 --> 00:26:20,319 is you get people who are trying to downplay what 462 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,799 humans could do, to sort of to sort of negate 463 00:26:25,079 --> 00:26:27,400 the human factor and stuff. So we turn it all 464 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,160 over the machines that are putting out stuff. And because 465 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:35,119 the average person does not look at the weather, they're 466 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,079 not seeing the fact. Well wait a minute, that model 467 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:39,759 said we were going to get a foot of snow, 468 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,119 and now it says we're getting nothing. And so you know, 469 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,240 it's things like that. So one of the things I'd 470 00:26:47,279 --> 00:26:51,799 advise the younger mediorologists to do is to dig in 471 00:26:51,839 --> 00:26:54,079 to the past and look at the past, and then 472 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:58,359 you won't necessarily just buy everything you're told. And that's 473 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,079 what's going on today. Look, it's coming down to a 474 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:06,680 situation in our society where, especially in meteorology, what's the 475 00:27:06,799 --> 00:27:11,480 use of having anybody doing any weather forecasting. I mean, 476 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,680 just get someone on there that just you know, will 477 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:19,279 recite whatever they're total to recite, because you've got a 478 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,640 model that's better than any forecaster. So if it comes 479 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:27,799 down to personality rather than skill, well, I mean, what's 480 00:27:27,839 --> 00:27:29,680 the use of going to spend one hundred and fifty 481 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,319 thousand dollars getting a degree of meteorology if that's what 482 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:33,319 it's all about? Right? 483 00:27:34,319 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 2: Absolutely? And Joe, you know you push back on the 484 00:27:37,039 --> 00:27:39,559 Michael Mann narrative. You and I have had that discussion 485 00:27:39,599 --> 00:27:42,400 many years. But since we're uping this break, I want 486 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,880 to get your final thoughts. You know, this colfront that's 487 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,960 coming through obvious or this new way of the gestrian 488 00:27:48,039 --> 00:27:50,440 is going to wrap. It could affect the Florida citrus crops, 489 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,519 It could affect many things. Do you think there's going 490 00:27:52,599 --> 00:27:56,160 to be any potential precipitation in this event or the 491 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:57,039 next couple weeks. 492 00:27:57,079 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 4: I would think it's going to snow down here sometime 493 00:27:59,759 --> 00:28:02,160 when in the next twenty days. I don't know the 494 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,839 details yet. On trying to pick out the different systems, 495 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,160 because you've got a whole bunch of You've got a 496 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,119 whole bunch of different characters that are all heading towards 497 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,799 the same same area. If they combine, then you get 498 00:28:14,839 --> 00:28:17,640 the big storm. If they compete, then all it does 499 00:28:17,759 --> 00:28:21,680 is relatively cold and dry. But I do think we're 500 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,799 going to break the snow drought that we're in here 501 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,599 in Charlotte. I know we're in a snow drought that 502 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,480 we saw some snow in the year in December. Some 503 00:28:30,559 --> 00:28:32,720 of these is stuck on the ground. But I do 504 00:28:32,759 --> 00:28:34,559 think that we're going to break it in this kind 505 00:28:34,599 --> 00:28:38,000 of pattern. And the thing I'm worried, I'm actually concerned 506 00:28:38,039 --> 00:28:41,160 about everything got itself together the right way, you'd have 507 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,839 an outbreak as bad as nineteen eighty five break in 508 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:50,920 inaugural outbreak, which, incidentally, you know, since Donald Trump's getting so. 509 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: When I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, 510 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,480 and before he died, my mom and my dad and 511 00:28:55,559 --> 00:28:57,519 all of us really helped take care of him as 512 00:28:57,519 --> 00:29:00,680 he got progressively worse. Forty years ago, there were no 513 00:29:00,759 --> 00:29:04,839 treatments and not much support for caregivers and family. Things 514 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,079 are different today because of the work of so many people, 515 00:29:07,119 --> 00:29:11,000 including the Alzheimer's Association of Western North Carolina. It's a 516 00:29:11,039 --> 00:29:14,680 great organization with awesome people. They've got huge hearts. I've 517 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,200 been a supporter for like twenty five years. This cause 518 00:29:17,279 --> 00:29:20,240 means a lot to me. I participate in the annual 519 00:29:20,319 --> 00:29:23,680 Walk to End Alzheimer's and I am leading a Charlotte 520 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,319 team this year. It's called Pete's Pack. You can sign 521 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,519 up and join the team and walk with me. It's 522 00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:32,799 on October nineteenth at truest Field in Uptown. Sign up 523 00:29:32,799 --> 00:29:35,440 at alz dot org slash walk and then just look 524 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,319 for my team Pete's Pack, and there's also a link 525 00:29:38,319 --> 00:29:40,599 in the podcast description here. Also, I'm going to be 526 00:29:40,759 --> 00:29:43,839 mceing the Gastonia Walk on October fifth, So make a 527 00:29:43,839 --> 00:29:46,240 team and join us or make a donation to help 528 00:29:46,279 --> 00:29:48,480 me hit my goal. I would really appreciate it. There 529 00:29:48,519 --> 00:29:52,000 are a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas and 530 00:29:52,039 --> 00:29:54,680 you can go to alz dot org for all of 531 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,200 the dates and locations. We are closer than ever to 532 00:29:58,279 --> 00:30:01,640 stopping Alzheimer's and if you can help us get there, 533 00:30:01,759 --> 00:30:03,960 we would really appreciate it. Will you come walk with me? 534 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,119 For a different future, for families, for more time for treatments. 535 00:30:08,599 --> 00:30:09,599 This is why I walk. 536 00:30:10,079 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 2: Good afternoon, I appreciate Joe taking the time to be 537 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,319 a part of this broadcast, and he's he's kind of 538 00:30:15,359 --> 00:30:19,160 giving folks a warning here. We're we're we've kind of 539 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,759 become accustomed to this kind of mild weather. Was cold, 540 00:30:22,319 --> 00:30:24,720 it was even cold out at the coast. Early late 541 00:30:24,799 --> 00:30:29,640 November early December is very chilly, unseasonably so. But there's 542 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,640 and we get lulled into thinking that by the narrative 543 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,200 pushed on us by many news agencies that you know, 544 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:40,160 it's the heat that's that's dangerous, but the cold is absolutely, 545 00:30:40,759 --> 00:30:44,880 absolutely terrifying it. And I say that because there's many 546 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,920 folks in western North Carolina that are trying to figure 547 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,519 out to make it. They just experienced another week of 548 00:30:50,599 --> 00:30:55,119 floods and bad weather. There's many that are tents and 549 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:59,319 homes and having heat could become critical in the next two weeks. 550 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,880 I think it will be. I don't want it to be. 551 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,920 It's going to be critical in the areas in and 552 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:08,480 around Charlotte as well. That cold is potentially reminiscent of 553 00:31:08,559 --> 00:31:12,279 nineteen eighty five, and if you couple that with inclement weather, 554 00:31:12,759 --> 00:31:16,839 it could be it could be very very bad. 555 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 3: It could be bad. 556 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 2: It could be really bad. So just keep that in mind, 557 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,599 and I hope it isn't look I kind of in 558 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,720 a way. I hope I'm wrong. But I love winter weather, 559 00:31:25,799 --> 00:31:27,559 so I would love to see snow. I would love 560 00:31:27,599 --> 00:31:32,240 to see, you know, beautiful snow falling covering everything. But 561 00:31:32,519 --> 00:31:34,319 I know it comes as a hindrance that it can 562 00:31:34,319 --> 00:31:36,799 be very dangerous as well. So I don't pretend that 563 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,400 it's without consequence. It certainly can be. I just happen 564 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,319 to love snow. That doesn't mean I wish any harm 565 00:31:42,359 --> 00:31:45,799 on anybody. And this year, by the way, I'm going 566 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,279 to try to get this right. There's no way I'm 567 00:31:47,279 --> 00:31:49,519 going to get this right. But as we finish up 568 00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:52,880 the year, it's easy to be reflective and to look 569 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,519 back on the past year, and you can look at 570 00:31:55,599 --> 00:31:58,559 it a variety of ways. You could look back on 571 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:02,240 it and think about all the horrific lies that the 572 00:32:02,279 --> 00:32:05,119 media told you miss, the way you were misled, the 573 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:09,680 way that politicians acted. Now, I would say that, over 574 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,279 the course of time, are you really surprised that any 575 00:32:13,319 --> 00:32:15,400 given And I think both parties do this. I think 576 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:21,119 it's become worse in modern times. But politicians love to 577 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:26,799 take advantage of any given situation to push their agenda. 578 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,799 I think that many politicians like it when the other 579 00:32:30,039 --> 00:32:33,599 side is destroying itself and they don't want to comment 580 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,400 on it, to get involved. And right now the Democrats 581 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,160 find themselves, you know, grabbing their own tails and setting 582 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,799 their own agenda on fire. And that's been long overdue. 583 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,839 It's happening. They've tried to have a kerfluffel with with 584 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,359 Trump and Elon. That's not going to go anywhere. They 585 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,400 try to do this with Mike Johnson and Trump, it's 586 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,599 not going to happen. I think what's interesting is the maturity, 587 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:59,519 the political maturity of Trump is of great assistance to 588 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,759 him and his team moving forward into this second term, 589 00:33:02,799 --> 00:33:07,240 and in some ways, coming into this term with the 590 00:33:07,279 --> 00:33:11,720 separation and all of the other stuff somewhat nullified, is 591 00:33:11,759 --> 00:33:15,720 the opportunity to really see how well this this can go. 592 00:33:16,319 --> 00:33:18,039 And I would also say for those of you who 593 00:33:18,039 --> 00:33:20,440 look back on the air and get chagrined or overly chagrined, 594 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,759 as we get older, you tend to be more ah, 595 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,000 you know, like that, as Shane Gillis says, You know, 596 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,400 if for those of you who start watching in your 597 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,000 forties or thirties, you know World War II documentaries. It's 598 00:33:31,039 --> 00:33:35,039 early stage Republican. It's a joke, but it's he's not wrong. 599 00:33:35,279 --> 00:33:37,240 I mean Winston Churchill channel that and said if you 600 00:33:37,279 --> 00:33:38,880 don't have a if you're not a liberal at twenty, 601 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:40,920 you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by forty, 602 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,079 you have no brain. There's a lot of truth. And 603 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,119 I'm paraphrasing, but that's kind of what he said. And 604 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,759 I would say advice always, it's good to be skeptical. 605 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:54,480 It's it's bad to be jaded, and it is always 606 00:33:54,599 --> 00:33:59,640 healthy to be somewhat skeptical when people throw extremes out 607 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,759 at your as if they are truth. And that's why 608 00:34:03,799 --> 00:34:06,279 when we move forward, I think that there's the opportunity 609 00:34:06,799 --> 00:34:10,559 for us to have a reset in the country, a 610 00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:14,159 reset where traditional value still have honor and sway, where 611 00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:17,000 we are tolerant and we get to prove that we 612 00:34:17,079 --> 00:34:19,199 are not only that we are, but that we have been. 613 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,159 That we get to reset a lot of the things 614 00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:27,000 that have divided us over the past two or three decades. 615 00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:31,119 A lot of people thought that the race issue after 616 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:33,559 Obama's election would have gone away, but I think it 617 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,480 got a lot worse. I mean, we saw a lot more. 618 00:34:36,519 --> 00:34:39,400 We saw the BLM movement rise. We saw and then 619 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,719 we also thought that political correctness had kind of died off. 620 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,599 But it was replaced, as the left always does, with 621 00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:48,760 a new brand, and they call it diversity, equity, inclusion, 622 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,079 they call it woke, they call it they rename the 623 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:56,639 same things that they were they were peddling and try 624 00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:59,360 to convince you that it's new and you must do it. 625 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,280 When we had a Supreme Court justice that couldn't define 626 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,719 what a woman was, it's easy to become jaded and 627 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,519 think that is that the new norm and the great 628 00:35:08,639 --> 00:35:14,440 reset election that we had said, no, norms haven't necessarily changed. 629 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,840 I think our tolerances have improved a great deal. But 630 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:24,400 to see the diversity in Trump's base in this election 631 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,760 was heartworming to me because it meant that the left 632 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:32,760 now has to earn votes not just because of societal status, 633 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:41,159 meaning that just because your insert whatever, Indian, Black, Mexican, whatever, 634 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,679 that vote is no longer to be counted because of 635 00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:51,599 that bias that we now see across all spectrums of society, 636 00:35:51,639 --> 00:35:54,960 from young to old, from race to race, from culture 637 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,519 to culture. That the parties will have to work for you. 638 00:35:59,039 --> 00:36:02,920 They'll have to work to earn your trust. Also, something 639 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,599 I think was phenomenal this year is the recognition that 640 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:11,440 DC is broken, and it was recognized. It's wide and deep. 641 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,039 It is not just a surface level recognition of this, 642 00:36:14,599 --> 00:36:19,440 and I think that Republicans should be very wary of 643 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,880 trying to push through a lot of pork and a 644 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,920 lot of waste. I think the Doge movement is real. 645 00:36:25,159 --> 00:36:28,199 I think it's going to continue to escalate. That one 646 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,679 of two things will happen. It will be wildly successful 647 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,159 in helping us recalibrate the way in which we spend 648 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:39,320 money or and if it fails, it will be an 649 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:44,360 epic tumble back into the broken version of DC that 650 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:48,119 Americans put up with, and we will have admitted a 651 00:36:48,119 --> 00:36:51,360 political defeat that is not partisan, but that is an 652 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,079 economic political defeat for all Americans and our kids and 653 00:36:55,079 --> 00:36:57,960 our grandkids. So a lot to stay tuned for. I 654 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,599 hope you guys have a phenomenal, amazing New Year. And 655 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,199 it's been a pleasure to honor to be here. I'll 656 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,280 be back on the other side is I'll see you 657 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,760 next year. As people would say, have a great one 658 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:10,280 chat out. I'm signing off for now. I'll break a 659 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,159 lot of things so Pete doesn't have to stay tuned. 660 00:37:15,079 --> 00:37:17,400 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 661 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,440 so much for listening. I could not do the show 662 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,960 without your support and the support of the businesses that 663 00:37:22,079 --> 00:37:25,159 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 664 00:37:25,159 --> 00:37:26,840 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 665 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,480 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 666 00:37:29,599 --> 00:37:33,199 go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much 667 00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:37,599 for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.