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Speaker 2: Welcome back. A lot of people answer this last day
the year. By the way, hats off to one of
our listeners who astutely pointed out and I had covered
a lot of Sally Pipe's writings. That's who wrote the
previous article about the subsidies with Obamacare, and she had
done an interview with Mark Levin years ago in which
she talked about Canada's socialized medicine. Her mother died because
she was not given a colonoscopy in time, because those
are rationed in Canada by age. By the time she
had received it, she stage four colon cancer. And again,
this is the kind of thing that socialists never want
to admit. It's kind of it's kind of this odd,
this this this odd reality that they portray, which is that,
you know, we recognize that socialism has failed everywhere it's
ever been tried. We fully recognize that millions and millions
of people have suffered and died under it, but that's
because they didn't do it the way we want to
do it. We're different. We're going to do it, you know,
whether it's Bernie Sanders or Casio Cortez or any of these.
And and a lot of times the other nuanced position
is we're not socialist, we're we're we're democrats, socialists. For
Bernie Sanders tries to say, but if you look at
the policies, they're the same, we're going to do it differently,
and and and so I would take the socialist track
two different ways. On the one, there's the large scale socialist,
which is controlling the means like Venezuela does. You know,
inflation spirals out of control, that the country owns the
means of production, it just takes over every company, People suffer,
they die. The other is the people who want to
push a socialized medicine. Now you could have that. I
think we're moving in that direction where we're going to
have the same thing that a lot of other First
world countries have. You're gonna have a substandard or standard
socialized medical care. We can go anywhere and get stuff done.
Now it has caveats. I mean, I have a nephew
that had an infected toe in Italy, and because he
couldn't get he was below a certain age when this happened,
they couldn't use anesthesia, so they had to operate on
his toe while he was awake. Horrible, cutting him, fixing, horror.
I mean, primitive stuff. And you have a second tier,
which is private care. Now that to me would become
the worst from Democrats would screen bloody murder because you
would have you know this this presidential care and then
everybody else. But that seems to be the direction we're
headed in because there's no easy way out of this.
It would be neat if there was a paper free
if you could just pay as you go. I want
to go, I want to pay, I want to get
my I want to get my stuff done. I want
to go to my doctor, and I want to pay
whatever it is. Here's you go to the like you
go to a restaurant and you say, okay, I want
the stake dinner that's going to be twenty eight dollars.
I want I want the fish dinner. Well that's twenty three.
It's on the menu. Say hey, I would like to
get my physical, Well physical is one hundred bucks. And
if we order blood work, the blood work's going to
be whatever. It's just a ali cart thing. The doctor
tells you what you need, you look and see this
is what it costs, or I want to do that
or not very direct and you get rid of a
lot of the paperwork. I don't know if that will happen.
I think that the concierge services that I'm seeing erupt
around or doing stuff like that, but who knows. So
thanks for the astute listeners out there that are paying
attention to stuff. Now, the New Tolerance people, the New
Tolerance Campaign, which is looking at a lot of things
that are going on out there in the world. Ough,
funny phone calls that come in when I'm not in
the break Washington, d C. The New Tolerance Campaign, a
grassroots watchdog organization, unveiled its fourth annual Worst of the
Woke Awards to look back at the year's most outrageous
headline grabbing instances of woke run wild in the US
and twenty twenty four to ten institutions went to extreme
pressing a woke agenda on a weary public. Dei and
Star Wars drag queens at the Olympics, non binary toys.
They all made the cut. So here are the winners
of twenty twenty four. We'll bring them to you fun.
It's fun, but at the same time it happened this
is reality. The Acolyte, which was a Disney Star Wars thing.
They hoped for a hit, but they ended up with
a messy miss. Following the disastrous rollout of The Acolyte,
the Star Wars spin off crashed and burned, canceled after
only one season for the most predictable reason. It refused
to say true to Star Wars lore and instead sought
to shoehorn as much DEI into every episode as possible,
and all lesbian Coveni Force witches lamenting the galaxy not
accepting women like us, asking an alien for its pronouns,
a pronounced emphasis on race, and more all featured in
the show. Series creator Leslie Hedlin even went on record
stating that the inclusion of queer communities in the program
was deliberate because it would be natural if an all
female community existed. Now that's the kind of thing. How
many of you, when you're out in your world and
you're wanting to be entertained, get into a really you know,
you say, oh, gosh, this is something I've been looking
forward to seeing. You sit down to watch it because
you're intrigued by the story or the plot, or even
the characters. And then amidst this, you recognize because it's
in your face that they've inserted something that's a current
political perspective or dogma that serves as nothing but a
distraction from the storyline that you actually can tell it's
been forced. You're you're pushing an agenda in a movie
or entertainment, and that's what happened with The Acolyte, Crashed
and Burn. We find this a lot, and it's a
complete and utter distraction from what most people want in
their entertainment, which is to be just entertained. And I
think that some people do. I mean, when when Top
Gun came out Top Gun, Maverick, I will do Tom
Cruise as nutty as the scientology stuff is. That movie
was what America needed at that time. It was It
was remarkably entertaining. It avoided a lot of the cavsts.
It would even tell you which country they were going after.
But it was a great storyline. It was a great story,
great entertainment. Wasn't toxic masculinity either. Now the other one
a Super Bowl I guess fifty three forty three, fifty
three sixty three sixty three l v I I I
can't even get right. Super Bowl fifty eight Sorry, with
more than one hundred and twenty three million viewers, this
is another one of the winners of the DEI and mess.
Every year things United America like the Super Bowl, but
not this year. The NFL spoiled the fun with divisive,
woke posturing, presenting two separate national anthems before the big game,
a black national anthem and then another anthem for everybody
that wasn't black. And I remember that, I remember when
it happened. It was it was very odd and uncomfortable.
It was unnecessary, it wasn't It took away from what
was supposed to be something to help us forget about stuff.
Also a winner the Olympics. The Paris Olympics managed to
anger Christians, conservatives, and anyone with good taste in dancing.
The opening ceremony of the Global Athletic event began with
a tableau of drag queens that more than a few
people felt mocked. The last supper, the cross dressing star
at the center of the performance, who called herself Olympic Jesus,
only exacerbated that outrage. There's much more to this list.
By the way, we'll get to some of that.
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Speaker 2: So nervada, I think I got that right and everything
at me. Chad Adams here sitting in for Brett Sary
Pete Kallener News Talk eleven ten ninety nine three WBT
seven oh four five seven oh eleven ten. The call
in numbers five seven oh eleven ten. If you'd like
to be part of the broadcast, we'll have a guest
joining us at bottom of the hour, My good buddy
Jovis STARTI will be doing so and looking forward to
his his commentary on what's coming. He's been tracking this,
you know, the these next number of systems. I think
there's three of them that are going to kind of
train through the area that are going to get things
nice and chilly. It's going to feel like winter in winter,
believe it or not. And when we went through the
break we were talking about these kind of awards. How
that was ner, Thank you appreciate all you folks keeping
me straight up here. Now, let's see if I can
get to this. The rest of those awards from the
New Tolerance campaign, and we were talking about the Olympics
and the Dei stuff there, the Super Bowl and what
they did the Acolyte, which is what Disney through out there.
Now one of the oddest ones to me, and I
remember when this happened too, you might as I go through.
It's Harley Davidson. Harley Davidson one of the most iconic,
just just iconic brands in American history, just very American.
These overly loud, but that's their iconic noise is their motorcycles.
Harley Davidson had a rock solid, badass brand, and then
DEI came along. A video unveiled on Twitter showed the
company's CEO, Joshin Joshin Zeites, speaking at a conference in
twenty twenty in which he called himself the sustainable Taliban
and asserted Harley Davidson was quote trying to take on
traditional capitalism and trying to redefine it end quote. After
the uproar, Zeits issued a public statement denouncing Dei and
declaring the bike builder would pull back from the Woke Brink,
ending its participation with the odious Corporate Equality Index pushed
by recognized hate group the Human Rights Campaign. That's one
that happened this past year Columbia University. You'll remember this one.
During a three week few asco the administration of Columbia
University was paralyzed in the face of rapidly anti Semitic
and increasingly violent conduct, students took over the campus famed
Hamilton Hall, barricaded the entrance, and hung a Free Palestine
banner from a window. The inmates were running the asylum
at New York City's Ivy League School, with students issuing
a list of wild demands that included a complete divestment
from all Israel related businesses and amnesty from disciplinary actions
for students. Columbia's pushback and email declaring that bringing in
police at this time would be counterproductive. Things got so
hot that Columbia ended up canceling its university wide commencement ceremony.
And you have to you don't wonder. We know we've
seen what's happened in some of the most elite universities
in our country. The strangest, well not strangest, the most
insidious aspect of this at our university levels is how
the Palestinian left, and there is an has infiltrated our
political culture and become somewhat try to portray itself in
altruistic terms. So the terrorist thugs commit an atrocity a
nine to eleven or four times a nine to eleven
in Israel, and somehow that becomes a cry for sympathy
for the cause. It wasn't, and it just showed that
these people were trying to give cover to murderous thugs,
These these students, these misguided, arrogant leftist that that believe
they know that are that are climbing fools hill, as
my grandfather would say, and are trying to lecture everybody
else while ignoring this unbelievable violent deaths and calling that
somehow propaganda alas, that's it. And then Harvard, you know,
wanted to be one better following the unceremonious resignation of
university president Claudine Gay under allegations of rank. You'll remember
she was sitting in Congress and couldn't kind of define
anti Semitism. It was just couldn't do it. America's premier
Ivy League institution presented a case study in emotional fragility
of the aftermath of Trump's victory in the twenty twenty
fourth presidential election. Harvard professors canceled classes for two days.
These pathetic Harvard students, these these elite woke kooks, they're
just nuts, just absolute nuts, cancel classes for two days
to allow their students space to process the election. Do
you think these kids are going to be the ones
that are going to lead us to a new, more
enlightened world. They can't deal with the results of an election.
The school's Institute of Politics distributed conciliatory pastries and suites
all day on November sixth, and quizzes in the Intermediate
Microeconomics class were declared optional, henceforth as a reprieve from
post election trauma. That really happened. That's you think about.
You would think Harvard would be one of the toughest,
most interesting. Now, imagine if they taught their law students
the same way. Well, if you're on the losing side,
you know what, you need to eat some pastries, take
a couple of days off, and you need to We'll
just cancel you just don't even worry about continued education.
Imagine if you're surgeons, it's every time a surgery didn't
go bad, they just couldn't hack it anymore. Just they
couldn't can't do it. There's not enough anxiety medication on
the planet to get me through this. Imagine if your
kid was one of those kids.
Speaker 3: Mom, Dad, I can't deal with the election that is,
can you send me more money? I didn't want to
go to class right now. I need some pizza and
xanax so that SSRIs, maybe some bens of die pizza.
I don't know more stuff.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable. The other winner w PATH Watch, which is the
World Professional Association for Transgender Health hippocratic oath be damned.
This group came under fire for its role in one
of the most alarming medical scandals of our time. Behind
closed doors, doctors affiliated with that organization, who swore an
oath to do no harm privately discussed how sex change
procedures for miners are experimental, how they are untested, and
they are often devastatingly painful. The people inside the organization
knew this. The admissions directly contradicted their public facing advocacy
for the treatments, leaving families betrayed and children's bodies permanently altered.
That's another award winner for the year. Another one, Mattel,
This one's just fun. The company behind Barbie pushed the
boundaries of political correctness with the release of the world's
first gender neutral doll, the first neutral doll. You know,
and you're thinking about that, You're just like the toys
marketed as gender inclusive are designed to be a boy,
a girl neither or both. A boy, a girl neither
or both. A boy, a girl neither or both. Hmm,
neither or both. That's just Mattel hailed the launch as
a step toward greater inclusivity, but the move sparked pushback
among parents and child development experts. You produced a doll
you're known for Barbie and Ken. That's your number one brand,
Barbie and Ken, that's your brand. And then you have
to come out with a boy, a girl, neither or both.
Another one. You may not have heard about this one.
Penzi Spices, once crowned America's wokest company, Penzi's Spices stirred
the pot yet again this year. The seasoning shop is
known for promotional events such as Republicans Are Racist Weekend
and for recommending their customers quote, send the Jewish people
in your life if a photo of a couple sleeping
bags up in your attic with the message that you
will always have a place for them, they sent that.
In twenty twenty four of the company sparked widespread outrage
and calls for boycotts after their owner published an essay
on the business's website slamming the GOP of all places
for Democrat presidential nomine Kamala Harris to deliver remarks about
ending divisiveness. She chose them, I remember, send the Jewish
people in your life a photo of a couple sleeping
bags up in your attic with the message that you
will always have a place for them. Think about that.
That's the tolerant left for you. And finally, Jaguar luxury
car maker Jaguar rolled out a bizarre their words, not mine,
bizarre ad in December.
Speaker 3: Did you see it?
Speaker 2: Didn't of you see? Did you see the Jaguar ad?
I mean it took me a while. I saw it.
I'd heard it discussed, and then it popped up on TV.
A bizarre ad in December. They left audience scratching their heads.
A commercial filled with androgynist models and completely it didn't
even have a car edit Jaguar ad. I think when
I was hosting earlier in the month for Winterable, I
talked about this. To make matters worse, the auto manufacturer
literally took the Jaguar out of Jaguar, erasing the iconic
big cat from its logo. Critics called the company bud
Light two point zero. Elon Musk mockingly asked the company,
do you guys even sell cars? And Conservative parliament member
Nyjel Farraj predicted the UK brand will now go bust
a Jaguar, I mean, an iconic brand of automobiles took
their automobiles out of their ads, just gone the winner. However,
in a year field with hypocrisy and double standards, one
person went above and beyond to hold institutions to their
stated principles. That was Robbie Starbuck. A few people have
had more of an impact holding Corporate America's feet to
the fire than Starbuck. The filmmaker, activist, and political commentator
was already notable for standing up for free speech, religious liberty,
and parental rights. In twenty twenty four, he took his
advocacy to the next level with action that shined a
spotlight on devisive so called diversity equity inclusion programs up
in America. He's the one who compelled many companies to
stand down. Businesses long synonymous with blue collar America like
Harley Davidson, Caterpillar for John Deere, and Tractor Supply were
targets as he exposed them, and they started to roll
back their DEEI policies, termination of participation in the deceptively
called Corporate Equity Index, and an endo woke employee trainings.
So hats off to Robbie Starbuck. I'd also throw Charlie
Kirk in that it's not in their list, but Charlie
Kirk did a remarkable job of changing thereative on college
universities across the nation, leading to Trump getting more young
people's vote than Democrats. Good afternoon, chat out us here
for my good friend Pete Callender. Hope he's having a great,
great day break he deserves. It's been working very hard
here on WBTU News Talk eleven ten nine nine three
e wbt the calling number seven oh four five seven
oh eleven ten with us right now, though, someone who
I've gotten to know over the past probably fifteen years,
and one of the I consider on the front lines
of weather science, a true scientists, someone who co founded
WeatherBell Analytics, someone who has written extensively, has appeared nationally.
You've seen him on the Sean Hannity Show, and that
is Joe Bastardi. Joe, how the heck are you today?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: Very well, A happy new year to everyone, and you know,
hopefully twenty twenty five is going to turn out to
be a great year. I think the spirit of the
Carolinas or western North Carolina helping out after Aleen has
really shone brightly in what has been a very dark
situation as far as that goes. But there's no keeping
good people down, and I have a great deal of
affection for that area of the country. One of the
best friends I ever had is al Conklin. I still
have him as a real good friend. He's over on
the TV side, So I have a from a distance
this glancing admiration put it that way.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate those kind words. And clearly you you
have been you know, you discussed what was probably going
to happen in western North Carolina. Follow what you write.
You wrote about what happened and the conditions that led
to that horrific event.
Speaker 4: That was shooting fish in a barrel in September eighth.
We put put on Twitter that the last week of
September and the first week of October, I put that
thing on over one hundred times there would going to
be multiple hurricane strikes in the southeast part of the
United States. I do this thing called a tension Governor
DeSantis to try to get his attention. We started that
with Ian a couple of years ago, and then four
days before I just don't understand how the federal government
was not on a war footing. We put out biblical
proportioning flooding coming to the Carolinas, and the storm was
going to maintain itself going inland. Because it was a
very interesting situation. We were in something called the phase
eight of the man Julian oscillation, and to study the
phase eight phase one storms maintain intensity quite a bit
longer than other phases of that oscillation. In many of
the storms we've seen since twenty seventeen have all been
in either these certain phases of that and Julian oscillation.
They can see them coming, and I don't know what
was going on with the people before during and even after.
But as you know, and you follow me on Twitter
chat just as I follow you, you know how strongly
I feel about the neglect that has been shown. And
we've got more wickedly cold air coming. And certainly it's
been a cold December until the last week or so
we've warmed up. But now we have three weeks of
the coldest coldest opening three weeks of January it is
probably twenty eleven and maybe since nineteen ninety four. That's
on the way, and so hopefully people are ready for that.
Speaker 2: I've talked quite a bit about you prior to your
parents today, and I told the audience one of the
things that I have a great deal of admiration for
is that you look at historical events, You look at
historical weather oscillations. You look at what has happened as
a guide to see what may happen next. You know,
it's not just hey, we plug in data points to
an algorithm and it spits out a spaghetti model of
a hurricane. You're looking at actual data over the past
one hundred and forty years or so. I've seen you
do this with psychonic activity. I've seen you do it
with winter weather and I've been very curious about you
also post the euro Models and the National Weather of
the NWS models. What did you think about was I've
talked to several friends that have shown them your modeling
and what you said about it. The southeast coming up
around I guess beginning around the eighth of January or so,
it looks like for the next couple of weeks it
could be rather chilly down down south.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, we've been saying now since December tenth was
the first post January first through twenty, it's centered on
the fifth to fifth teenth would be very cold. And
I bring that up. I'm not trying to be pompous
or anything like that, or though I know it sounds
like it, because you have to establish the story to pee.
If you go to a movie and you walk in
when the movie's about to end and the forecast periods starting,
so the movie's about to end, you don't know what
happened before in the movie, And so we've been on
top of this for quite some time. I'm also telling
people that late January and into early in mid.
Speaker 5: February, you're liable to get it is warm here relative
to averages as it is cold coming up, and we
could sort of see that coming and then winter will
probably have a big end later in February into March,
maybe a late.
Speaker 4: Spring this year. The different methods that we're using to
look at that kind of thing. So, but you know,
my dad always saw me the foundation you stand on
today was built yesterday to reach for tomorrow, which means
if you want the weather and you if you can
look at all the history of things that have happened,
when you see something that looks similar to that, you
can then examine it better and try to come up
with an answer. And one of the sad things today
is I don't know if I've ever met a meteorologist
that I could say I'm smarter than all right, I'm
dead serious, or I have more talent then I do.
Think I loved you know, like someone said to me, Dad,
I love the weather. I love the weather, but you're
just ridiculous about how much you love the weather. And
so what happens is I'm obsessed with it, and I'm
obsessed with the past. And what happens is when you
look at all that I do this in history and
everything I look at, when you do that, you tend
to be more skeptical on what people are telling you
about outsourcing the talent God gave you to make a
forecast to some computer model. Now you know, this AI
is going to improve forecasting, but so far it's no
better than any of the other models. I mean, I've
been watching the AI comes in, the five or six
models come in four times a day, and the problem
is you get people who are trying to downplay what
humans could do, to sort of to sort of negate
the human factor and stuff. So we turn it all
over the machines that are putting out stuff. And because
the average person does not look at the weather, they're
not seeing the fact. Well wait a minute, that model
said we were going to get a foot of snow,
and now it says we're getting nothing. And so you know,
it's things like that. So one of the things I'd
advise the younger mediorologists to do is to dig in
to the past and look at the past, and then
you won't necessarily just buy everything you're told. And that's
what's going on today. Look, it's coming down to a
situation in our society where, especially in meteorology, what's the
use of having anybody doing any weather forecasting. I mean,
just get someone on there that just you know, will
recite whatever they're total to recite, because you've got a
model that's better than any forecaster. So if it comes
down to personality rather than skill, well, I mean, what's
the use of going to spend one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars getting a degree of meteorology if that's what
it's all about? Right?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? And Joe, you know you push back on the
Michael Mann narrative. You and I have had that discussion
many years. But since we're uping this break, I want
to get your final thoughts. You know, this colfront that's
coming through obvious or this new way of the gestrian
is going to wrap. It could affect the Florida citrus crops,
It could affect many things. Do you think there's going
to be any potential precipitation in this event or the
next couple weeks.
Speaker 4: I would think it's going to snow down here sometime
when in the next twenty days. I don't know the
details yet. On trying to pick out the different systems,
because you've got a whole bunch of You've got a
whole bunch of different characters that are all heading towards
the same same area. If they combine, then you get
the big storm. If they compete, then all it does
is relatively cold and dry. But I do think we're
going to break the snow drought that we're in here
in Charlotte. I know we're in a snow drought that
we saw some snow in the year in December. Some
of these is stuck on the ground. But I do
think that we're going to break it in this kind
of pattern. And the thing I'm worried, I'm actually concerned
about everything got itself together the right way, you'd have
an outbreak as bad as nineteen eighty five break in
inaugural outbreak, which, incidentally, you know, since Donald Trump's getting so.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's,
and before he died, my mom and my dad and
all of us really helped take care of him as
he got progressively worse. Forty years ago, there were no
treatments and not much support for caregivers and family. Things
are different today because of the work of so many people,
including the Alzheimer's Association of Western North Carolina. It's a
great organization with awesome people. They've got huge hearts. I've
been a supporter for like twenty five years. This cause
means a lot to me. I participate in the annual
Walk to End Alzheimer's and I am leading a Charlotte
team this year. It's called Pete's Pack. You can sign
up and join the team and walk with me. It's
on October nineteenth at truest Field in Uptown. Sign up
at alz dot org slash walk and then just look
for my team Pete's Pack, and there's also a link
in the podcast description here. Also, I'm going to be
mceing the Gastonia Walk on October fifth, So make a
team and join us or make a donation to help
me hit my goal. I would really appreciate it. There
are a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas and
you can go to alz dot org for all of
the dates and locations. We are closer than ever to
stopping Alzheimer's and if you can help us get there,
we would really appreciate it. Will you come walk with me?
For a different future, for families, for more time for treatments.
This is why I walk.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, I appreciate Joe taking the time to be
a part of this broadcast, and he's he's kind of
giving folks a warning here. We're we're we've kind of
become accustomed to this kind of mild weather. Was cold,
it was even cold out at the coast. Early late
November early December is very chilly, unseasonably so. But there's
and we get lulled into thinking that by the narrative
pushed on us by many news agencies that you know,
it's the heat that's that's dangerous, but the cold is absolutely,
absolutely terrifying it. And I say that because there's many
folks in western North Carolina that are trying to figure
out to make it. They just experienced another week of
floods and bad weather. There's many that are tents and
homes and having heat could become critical in the next two weeks.
I think it will be. I don't want it to be.
It's going to be critical in the areas in and
around Charlotte as well. That cold is potentially reminiscent of
nineteen eighty five, and if you couple that with inclement weather,
it could be it could be very very bad.
Speaker 3: It could be bad.
Speaker 2: It could be really bad. So just keep that in mind,
and I hope it isn't look I kind of in
a way. I hope I'm wrong. But I love winter weather,
so I would love to see snow. I would love
to see, you know, beautiful snow falling covering everything. But
I know it comes as a hindrance that it can
be very dangerous as well. So I don't pretend that
it's without consequence. It certainly can be. I just happen
to love snow. That doesn't mean I wish any harm
on anybody. And this year, by the way, I'm going
to try to get this right. There's no way I'm
going to get this right. But as we finish up
the year, it's easy to be reflective and to look
back on the past year, and you can look at
it a variety of ways. You could look back on
it and think about all the horrific lies that the
media told you miss, the way you were misled, the
way that politicians acted. Now, I would say that, over
the course of time, are you really surprised that any
given And I think both parties do this. I think
it's become worse in modern times. But politicians love to
take advantage of any given situation to push their agenda.
I think that many politicians like it when the other
side is destroying itself and they don't want to comment
on it, to get involved. And right now the Democrats
find themselves, you know, grabbing their own tails and setting
their own agenda on fire. And that's been long overdue.
It's happening. They've tried to have a kerfluffel with with
Trump and Elon. That's not going to go anywhere. They
try to do this with Mike Johnson and Trump, it's
not going to happen. I think what's interesting is the maturity,
the political maturity of Trump is of great assistance to
him and his team moving forward into this second term,
and in some ways, coming into this term with the
separation and all of the other stuff somewhat nullified, is
the opportunity to really see how well this this can go.
And I would also say for those of you who
look back on the air and get chagrined or overly chagrined,
as we get older, you tend to be more ah,
you know, like that, as Shane Gillis says, You know,
if for those of you who start watching in your
forties or thirties, you know World War II documentaries. It's
early stage Republican. It's a joke, but it's he's not wrong.
I mean Winston Churchill channel that and said if you
don't have a if you're not a liberal at twenty,
you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by forty,
you have no brain. There's a lot of truth. And
I'm paraphrasing, but that's kind of what he said. And
I would say advice always, it's good to be skeptical.
It's it's bad to be jaded, and it is always
healthy to be somewhat skeptical when people throw extremes out
at your as if they are truth. And that's why
when we move forward, I think that there's the opportunity
for us to have a reset in the country, a
reset where traditional value still have honor and sway, where
we are tolerant and we get to prove that we
are not only that we are, but that we have been.
That we get to reset a lot of the things
that have divided us over the past two or three decades.
A lot of people thought that the race issue after
Obama's election would have gone away, but I think it
got a lot worse. I mean, we saw a lot more.
We saw the BLM movement rise. We saw and then
we also thought that political correctness had kind of died off.
But it was replaced, as the left always does, with
a new brand, and they call it diversity, equity, inclusion,
they call it woke, they call it they rename the
same things that they were they were peddling and try
to convince you that it's new and you must do it.
When we had a Supreme Court justice that couldn't define
what a woman was, it's easy to become jaded and
think that is that the new norm and the great
reset election that we had said, no, norms haven't necessarily changed.
I think our tolerances have improved a great deal. But
to see the diversity in Trump's base in this election
was heartworming to me because it meant that the left
now has to earn votes not just because of societal status,
meaning that just because your insert whatever, Indian, Black, Mexican, whatever,
that vote is no longer to be counted because of
that bias that we now see across all spectrums of society,
from young to old, from race to race, from culture
to culture. That the parties will have to work for you.
They'll have to work to earn your trust. Also, something
I think was phenomenal this year is the recognition that
DC is broken, and it was recognized. It's wide and deep.
It is not just a surface level recognition of this,
and I think that Republicans should be very wary of
trying to push through a lot of pork and a
lot of waste. I think the Doge movement is real.
I think it's going to continue to escalate. That one
of two things will happen. It will be wildly successful
in helping us recalibrate the way in which we spend
money or and if it fails, it will be an
epic tumble back into the broken version of DC that
Americans put up with, and we will have admitted a
political defeat that is not partisan, but that is an
economic political defeat for all Americans and our kids and
our grandkids. So a lot to stay tuned for. I
hope you guys have a phenomenal, amazing New Year. And
it's been a pleasure to honor to be here. I'll
be back on the other side is I'll see you
next year. As people would say, have a great one
chat out. I'm signing off for now. I'll break a
lot of things so Pete doesn't have to stay tuned.
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