WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.160 I came to a realization yesterday when I was putting show. 2 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:04.839 I was trying to put show prep together, and I 3 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:09.039 just texted Ross and I'm like, this is dumb trying 4 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.439 to do this right now. So then you stay up 5 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:17.760 way too late, you watch way too many absolutely distraught people, 6 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:23.559 You get up way too early, start reading, you become 7 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:27.719 actually concerned about some people who are openly talking about 8 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:32.159 self harm and things like that. And that's the tragedy 9 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:34.560 of all of this. But the root of the tragedy 10 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:38.679 of all of this is also being demonstrated by a 11 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:39.439 big chunk. 12 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:40.159 Of the media right now. 13 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:46.759 Where I think the strategy and I'm not sure. I'd 14 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:51.880 have to remember back to when I was a wei one. 15 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:52.200 The the. 16 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:57.240 Idea that if you don't acknowledge it, it's not real, 17 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:02.200 right or you the kid with your hands over your eyes, 18 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:08.519 and that seeps into the populace man, and I look, 19 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:11.599 I don't know who's trolling when they post stuff like that, 20 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:21.799 and who's serious, But you were, you were misled, or 21 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:25.519 your expectations were not properly tempered, I guess would be 22 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:32.519 the way to say, nobody knows, nobody knows you think 23 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:36.599 you know, you think twenty sixteen Hillary Clinton, you think, 24 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:42.200 you know, and arguably maybe they were. They were less 25 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:46.599 misled this time. But like I'm seeing local TV stations. 26 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:48.680 In fact, let me just make sure this is one 27 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:49.920 thousand percent accurate. 28 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:55.920 It was about twenty minutes ago, you head on OVA. 29 00:01:57.359 --> 00:01:59.519 They have changed it. Okay. 30 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:02.159 So in the five o'clock hour this morning, I was 31 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:05.799 on w r L site and they had not called 32 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:08.840 the race for Trump or we're not reporting that they 33 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:12.039 were saying. In fact, they had a I should have screenshot. 34 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:15.439 They had a headline about how a couple of counties 35 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:19.400 in Michigan could still and then they called Michigan Wisconsin, 36 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:22.680 excuse me, and then they called Wisconsin. The problem is, uh, 37 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:26.719 like with r E L there, NBC right, NBC called it. 38 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:33.719 They had already called it, man, So forgive me if 39 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:36.080 I don't fully understand the uh the you know, the 40 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:38.360 the the strategy there, so to speak. 41 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:41.919 But yeah, ross, what how many hours sleep you're working on? 42 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:42.240 Buddy? 43 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:46.599 I saw you were tweeting like three hours ago, so 44 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:47.840 that's it. 45 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:48.800 Couldn't go to bed? 46 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:52.599 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, I mean it's. 47 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:55.240 Just a it's a it's a beautiful morning in America, 48 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:59.520 it is, Oh okay, it is And we talked to 49 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:04.199 Race Day. Yeah, you're right, they were last night. First off, 50 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:08.240 the speed between the networks compared to like X or Twitter, right, 51 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:11.039 there's no comparison there. And you realize why a lot 52 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:16.400 of the networks now are completely irrelevant because you would 53 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:19.960 have a state called either by this is Decision as 54 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:24.759 HQ or the even the EP or whatever, and you 55 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.319 would see it on TV maybe thirty forty minutes later. 56 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:29.080 But then when it came, when it started like being 57 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:31.520 obvious what was happening, and you saw the breakdown of 58 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:35.840 the anchors uh on n NBC or MSNBC, like Chuck Todt. 59 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:37.439 I was watching him and he looked like I was 60 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:40.560 going to have like a like a fit. He was pale, 61 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:45.680 he couldn't talk right, he was sort of shaken. When 62 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:49.919 that started happening, they started slow rolling these states. They 63 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:52.439 did not want to call these states, and it seemed 64 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:54.840 very very like I'm not gonna do it, not gonna 65 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:55.120 do it. 66 00:03:55.159 --> 00:04:01.719 No, Yeah, it's not real if you don't do it right. Yeah, yeah, dude. 67 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:03.840 I'm gonna need you to real quick do something because 68 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.479 I I don't have a TV in my Greensboro studio here, 69 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:09.039 which is really weird. Actually, now that I think about it, 70 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:12.360 can we do a welfare check on Joe and Mika? 71 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:15.960 The view today is going to be amazing. 72 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:21.399 Oh yeah, Oh, don't make me want to watch the view? 73 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:23.759 Oh make me? 74 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:27.319 And you know and Trump she got she got Cleveland 75 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:29.839 steamrolled is the term I was working on this morning 76 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:32.519 for what just happened to Kamala Harris. What do you 77 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:35.079 think I feel like that? That'll be there by the 78 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:37.000 way I'm looking at her. It was just getting the 79 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:39.800 button bar while you were talking. Where is her concession speech? 80 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:43.360 Where on the is it? What color is it? 81 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:46.240 Are you sitting? Are you sitting down? 82 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:46.560 I am? 83 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:47.600 I am physically seated. 84 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:54.639 Yes, amazingly. The the brat woman boss rat summer. Yeah, 85 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:58.439 the brat ladies sent the man out to do her 86 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:01.680 job at the end because she couldn't do it well. 87 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:03.720 To be fair, she ordered a man to do it. 88 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:05.800 So that's empowering, right. 89 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:08.040 I don't know, man, except when I'm doing this. 90 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:09.240 Yeah. 91 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:12.240 What other is that angle as well? Yeah? Did these 92 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:16.759 similarities in the last I tweeted this the other day 93 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:18.920 when I saw that Lady Gaga was going to be 94 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:22.879 up in Pennsylvania with her for her last UH speech, 95 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:23.720 Eve's speech. 96 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:28.279 If you don't remember, If you don't remember, I'm happy 97 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:31.879 to remind you the very last rally that Hillary Clinton 98 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:35.720 did in twenty sixteen was with Lady Gaga. It was 99 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:38.480 in North Carolina, was actually at the NC State University. 100 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:42.959 That was where she chose to do her final rally. Now, granted, 101 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:46.079 Harris did it in Pennsylvania, but she also brought Lady 102 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:50.600 Gaga in and then got together, you know, at campaign 103 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:54.920 HQ for the watch party. And then as things quickly 104 00:05:55.839 --> 00:06:01.319 began to come into focus, you you, it turned to. 105 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:03.279 A wake what are they telling you? 106 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:06.439 Yeah, Jake, let me just give you a gut check out. 107 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:09.319 And then this is what we are hearing here as 108 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:11.920 we've been sitting here reporting from the Harris headquarters. And 109 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:15.480 I think the operative word right now is silence. There's 110 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:18.319 not a lot being said because the Harris team appears 111 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:22.560 to be searching for bright spots in the map as 112 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:24.160 these results very very. 113 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:29.519 Soloh yeah, so well now there, so they're not talking 114 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:35.920 to them. Hillary Clinton's campaign stopped fielding media inquiries about 115 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:39.920 an hour forty five minutes to an hour prior to 116 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:42.439 them coming out and telling everyone to go home. If 117 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:46.240 you remember, and I'm and. 118 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:50.560 Like it's it's all. It all played out exactly the same, 119 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:51.480 still out there. 120 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:53.560 No plans for any concession, certainly at this point, but 121 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:55.879 I can't tell you. In conversations we've had with a 122 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:58.480 series of individuals, including a Democrat who was attending a 123 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:01.120 donor event that was taking place at one of the 124 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:04.519 glitzy hotels not far from where we are here in Washington, DC, 125 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:07.519 they say the atmosphere there was like a funeral. Another 126 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:09.959 person said that the situation, in their words, was just 127 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:11.519 quote not good. 128 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:12.319 Right now. 129 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:15.160 You know why that, You know why that party with 130 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:17.720 your biggest donors was like a funeral because they just 131 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:23.160 did the thing the Joker did, maybe not as dramatically, 132 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.560 but pretty close. Just did the thing the Joker did. 133 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:30.800 Get that big old pile of money, slide it on 134 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:34.160 fire man. And then, as Ross pointed out, we do this. 135 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:39.560 We still have votes to count, We still have states 136 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:44.319 that have not been called yet. We will continue overnight 137 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:49.639 to fight to make sure that every vote is counted, 138 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:55.160 that every voice has foken. So you won't hear from 139 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:56.920 the Vice president tonight. 140 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:02.079 I want you, guys, to recognize something from an audio perspective. 141 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:05.040 I'm going to nerd out on you a little, and 142 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:07.199 especially towards you get to the end, I want you 143 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:13.240 to listen to the reverberation of his voice, the echo 144 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:18.160 of his voice, which is not a thing that happens 145 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:21.920 in a room like that usually because it's filled with people. 146 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:28.199 But also there's murmuring, there's people shuffling around. So when 147 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:31.920 you're hearing clear levels of echo, it is dead silent, 148 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:37.679 it is not full. It is you're essentially speaking to yourself. 149 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:43.039 We still have votes to count, We still have states 150 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:47.639 that have not been called yet. We will continue overnight 151 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:52.919 to fight to make sure that every vote is counted, 152 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:59.639 that every vote, so you won't hear from the vice president. 153 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:05.320 Okay, So that's where we are, and for the first 154 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:08.159 the first or the second time, but the first since 155 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:12.600 the first time a president has had non a president 156 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:16.480 will have non consecutive terms, I e. Grover Cleveland, which 157 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:19.519 is why I'm calling her getting Cleveland steamrolled because I'm 158 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:20.279 four as well. 159 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:22.799 But that was that man. 160 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:28.080 Now that doesn't mean in North Carolina there weren't wins 161 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:29.399 for the Democrats. 162 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:30.759 And we will talk about that. 163 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:34.120 Wins for the Republicans, wins for the Democrats, But as 164 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:39.480 far as the country goes, it really quickly became not 165 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:44.320 the most worrisome or contentious race. Do you know what 166 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:46.840 I'm saying for either side? Because you basically in your 167 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:52.440 mind you knew what was up unless you're truly I 168 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:57.759 guess a believer. So anyway, what what a what a 169 00:09:57.919 --> 00:09:58.440 what a night? 170 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:00.240 Man? So an away? 171 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:02.279 Did Marky stay up with you or she just like, 172 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:04.559 uh get into his own devices. 173 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:07.679 She passed out. I want to say around like ten, Okay. 174 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:12.720 We're gonna we're gonna get into all this. Uh we 175 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:16.120 got uh, we got Van Jones. Goodness, Hey, do me 176 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:18.519 a fair put the Hugh Hewitt cut back up, because 177 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:21.159 that's the same dude next to Kate part there. 178 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:23.440 That's the same dude. And I'm so happy we get 179 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:24.440 to play these two together. 180 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:28.799 Oh, we got some really good stuff for you, and uh, 181 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:33.879 we'd like to hear from you absolutely. What'd you do 182 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:36.200 to a watch party? I went to some watch parties. 183 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.399 I'll fill you in on how that went. Most of 184 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:42.000 it really good, most of it really good. But man, 185 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:45.799 there's some weird, weird folk out there. But we'll look. 186 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:49.519 How are you feeling this morning? I? 187 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:52.559 Uh on, on the way into the radio station here, 188 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:57.559 I stopped to get a basically a fruit cup thing. 189 00:10:57.919 --> 00:10:59.799 Yes, I know, I'd much. 190 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:04.000 Rather have a big greasy biscoville thing, but be a 191 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:06.399 little responsible because I ate a bunch of barbecue last 192 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:12.360 night and there were fire There were some firefighters where 193 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:17.159 I stopped, and they saw the station vehicle ross and 194 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:23.480 I got a fist pump from firefighters this morning. So 195 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:25.600 good on you guys. Hey, you guys look bored. You 196 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:27.080 want me to go? You want you want me to 197 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:29.639 have ross arse at something? It's like maybe at the 198 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:35.159 next break. No, okay, all right, probably probably might not. 199 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:38.879 All right, we'll get into this the audio your calls 200 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:41.840 eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four 201 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.639 back in just a few, that's right, Nope, okay, well 202 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:48.519 you all can understand me, so we'll we'll rock it 203 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:51.080 out from here. Maybe let me take it down just 204 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:53.080 a notch there and see if that helps. 205 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:54.639 Do do do do do. 206 00:11:55.879 --> 00:12:00.360 All right, less muffled but not as loud. Right, all right, right, 207 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:02.600 there we go. Well you know what, we'll just work 208 00:12:02.639 --> 00:12:07.240 on that. So uh yeah, yeah, yesterday yesterday. It was 209 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:11.480 an interesting day. So I, as you know, I'm I'm 210 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:15.879 broadcasting in the Triad all this week, doing a thing 211 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:20.919 here with my super compressed microphone, and so I thought, 212 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:23.600 I don't normally do it, just because you know, we 213 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:28.559 work early. But I I thought I'm gonna swing by 214 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:31.000 a couple of the watch parties around the Triad, and 215 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:33.399 I reached out to a couple people kind of let 216 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:35.159 me know what was up because I was having trouble 217 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:40.919 figured out where everything was. And so pop over, I 218 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:42.320 get to, I get I go to I go to 219 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:46.639 one and I'm kind of I think I'm early because 220 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:48.200 they told me it started at one time and it 221 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.440 started a half hour later. But there are people there, 222 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:54.240 and I'm just conversing with some folks and we're talking 223 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:57.960 about the bomb threats in Georgia, right, what's up with that? 224 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:01.360 Is it Russia? That kind of stuff, because everything's Russia? 225 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:05.000 And I think we're talking about the bacon thing yesterday 226 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:09.120 and they had a one of the TV stations had sent, 227 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:11.720 you know, a little basically a b roll film crew, 228 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:14.919 and I chatted with them for a few minutes. Nice, 229 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:17.559 nice enough folks, very you know, very you could tell 230 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:20.000 that they're very early in their careers because they're getting 231 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:22.200 the go do the b roll over at the GP 232 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:23.000 watch party. 233 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:25.080 But hey, that's what you do in this business. You 234 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:25.960 cut your teeth, man. 235 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:28.720 And and then so I'm I'm over talking to this 236 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:31.559 one table and this guy comes over and he go, 237 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:33.440 hey can I can I talk to you real quick? 238 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:38.399 And I thought he either was, you know, longtime listener, 239 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:40.480 glad to meet you, which is the normal, Okay, hey 240 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:41.240 can I get a picture? 241 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:43.799 Things like that? I hate photos, but whatever. 242 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:46.240 And. 243 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:52.120 He was like he he was upset because I didn't 244 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:57.039 identify myself as a member of the media. 245 00:13:58.240 --> 00:13:58.600 Ross. 246 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:04.320 What is on our are black pullovers? What is on 247 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:05.919 gud You got one? We all have one. 248 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:09.360 I've never worn it though yet. It's the iHeartMedia logo. 249 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.360 And it's tiny, right, it's really tiny. You can barely 250 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:12.759 see either. 251 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:14.879 Yeah. 252 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:21.480 Yeah, Now I introduced myself with my name, They introduced 253 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:24.840 themselves with their names. We were grown adults having a 254 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:25.480 fine time. 255 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:26.360 And I'm not there. 256 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:29.639 I'm not there necessarily gathering content, at the very least 257 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:33.480 not negative content. Unless somebody something truly crazy happens and 258 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:35.480 I'm forced to sit here and tell you this story 259 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:40.879 and long story short basically now, and I want to 260 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:43.399 point out I don't know that this guy was in 261 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:47.879 any way, shape or form necessarily in charge, but he 262 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:49.240 he seemingly. 263 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:49.759 Had the supporters. 264 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:52.840 And so I left because he's all right, you don't 265 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:55.240 want me here unless I go stand over with the 266 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:57.879 film crew, I'm out. And then I went over some 267 00:14:57.960 --> 00:15:00.559 other ones. I went to Mike Causey, who we had 268 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:04.679 on yesterday. They were very very nice. Rossie gave me 269 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:06.600 his card. I don't know that that's going to get 270 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:08.399 your insurance deduction, but he asked me to give it 271 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:10.360 to you, So I'll give that to you next time 272 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:14.559 I see you. But yeah, man, just like some people 273 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:19.159 can't get out of their own way, and some of 274 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:24.759 those people are on TV and just absolutely unable to deal. 275 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:30.840 So we'll start our journey down the media landscape from 276 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:34.600 the election, and let's talk. I mentioned Mike Casey there. 277 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:38.679 He's running for insurance commissioner or rerunning his incumbent. I 278 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:41.320 we'll tell you where he and the Council of State 279 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:42.519 and some other folks landed. 280 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:43.600 And we'll do it next. 281 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:46.559 Even though many of you may be very excited with 282 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:53.840 Donald Trump's reelection, and it's the reaction that you're going 283 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:57.360 to see today you will feast on in your soul, 284 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:58.000 and that's fine. 285 00:15:58.080 --> 00:15:59.440 You look handle it. However you won. 286 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:03.240 The fact remains that in the state of North Carolina, 287 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:07.639 the next governor is gonna be Josh Stein, a man who, 288 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:12.039 according to the courts, cheated in one election and attempted 289 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:14.879 to manipulate an entire another one in a way that 290 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:21.440 he was not permitted to do. And his attorney general 291 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:25.600 is gonna be Jeff TikTok Jackson. And if you don't 292 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:31.080 know this dude, get to know him. So it's gonna 293 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:35.399 be it's gonna be a little weird. And also it 294 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:38.960 will probably be a lot of unless people are gonna 295 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:41.799 flip parties, We're gonna be running into situations where no, 296 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:46.840 nothing's gonna get done unless Stein and legislative leaders are 297 00:16:46.879 --> 00:16:52.039 willing to actually, you know, adult through this thing. Because 298 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:56.919 the super majority is likely not a thing anymore. Council 299 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:02.080 of State looks largely largely and not all. By the way, 300 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:04.240 not all of these races are official. I just want 301 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:05.960 to be very clear here, because there's a cop one 302 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:09.039 of these races is like, is it a thousand or something. 303 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:19.960 I mean really really close. So let's let's you know, 304 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:20.640 let's keep. 305 00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:21.279 That in mind. 306 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:23.920 And that is all going to be impactful, and it 307 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:29.519 is all going to you know, be something that we 308 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:33.200 in North Carolina deal with. But at the federal level, 309 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.599 things are just getting rolling. And I think, really and 310 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:41.359 Rosster and I are just talking off the air, and 311 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:44.799 here's the analogy that I made. Let's say you want 312 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:47.799 to bet on football. Okay, you want to do a 313 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:51.559 little I want to do a little sports gambling, do 314 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:55.519 your thing. And let's say you want to bet on 315 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:03.240 the Kansas City Chiefs. Ein't no Kansas City Chiefs next game. 316 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:05.240 But let's say also that in the middle of the 317 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:09.799 week we find out Patrick Mahomes he ain't playing. It's 318 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:14.319 hit by a truck or something. And you walk into 319 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:18.160 that betting situation on a moneyline bet or in some 320 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:20.440 other way, shape or form, where in your mind you're 321 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:25.240 still factoring that he's playing. Because you refuse to acknowledge 322 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:28.960 what has happened, you're gonna lose your money damn near 323 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:32.079 every time. And that is what you saw in the 324 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:41.559 world of journalism. You saw people who can't understand how 325 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:46.200 these things came to pass. They refused to factor in 326 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:52.880 the impact that somebody almost murdering Trump twice once Razor 327 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:57.119 thin and what that might have on people. That was 328 00:18:57.160 --> 00:18:59.960 a very powerful as jaded as we are, that was 329 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:01.799 an extremely powerful event. 330 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:04.000 No only yeah, not only was it a powerful event, 331 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:05.359 but you had the media who was acting like it 332 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:07.240 never happened to completely memory hold it and it did 333 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:08.759 it a lot of one adim people. Look what it 334 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:13.920 did to Mark Zuckerberg robot But yeah, Mark, well he 335 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:16.000 used to seem like a robot and now he seems 336 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:18.519 more human. And you see how he's handled stuff on 337 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:20.839 Facebook when it comes to this, it's been completely different. 338 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:23.039 He's like a different dude. He said it was the 339 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:26.200 most American photo what he's ever seen her most badass 340 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:30.440 as Yeah, yes, because he was. There's a lot of 341 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:33.680 people that saw that dude got shot at and we 342 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:34.519 saw this before in the. 343 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:38.319 Dude got shot shot right and we seen this. 344 00:19:38.279 --> 00:19:40.440 Before, Like how would Trump handled this? Oh he would 345 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:43.359 run away, look at coward, dude hit the ground, popped 346 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:45.559 up with his fist up saying fight that's in. 347 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:51.440 Well, I'm sorry, He'll never not funny, very nice, I know, 348 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:53.799 he'll never not be fuddy shoes. 349 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:57.839 Sorry, yeah, I'm sorry. 350 00:19:57.880 --> 00:20:00.799 Yeah, and then he popped up fist of the air. 351 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:03.880 The photo is so iconic that they had to memory 352 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:04.480 hole it too. 353 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:08.359 Yeah. I mean you're talking about how like, how is 354 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:12.279 somebody going to respond under pressure? Right? Yeah, there you go, 355 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:14.240 And yeah, there's a lot of it. There's a lot 356 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:16.119 of people across the globe, like leaders who are going 357 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:17.960 to look at that going Wow, you're telling me, put 358 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:19.400 is not going to see that be like, that's amazing. 359 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:22.200 You don't have to work. You know, wonder how that 360 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:22.680 dude's going. 361 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:25.440 You'll probably have them self shot. You'll probably have themself 362 00:20:25.480 --> 00:20:27.200 shot just to keep the edge man. 363 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:31.480 Right, Yeah, both ears look at that. Yeah, that's amazing. 364 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:32.720 And then of course you ever did the shoot, and 365 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:36.119 I'll go up to their thirtieth floor condo and bad, 366 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:37.519 bad things, just. 367 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:41.079 The way this all played out, like the law fair, 368 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:46.799 the mug shot, the attempt, everything, all of it, all 369 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:49.880 of it. Can't tell me. I'm sorry, you can't tell 370 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:52.319 me that God wasn't involved in some way. You can't. 371 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:54.039 It's it's a you can if. 372 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:57.759 You boo God on your party platform. The whole story 373 00:20:58.039 --> 00:20:59.000 it's just a miracle. 374 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:01.799 It's a it's an amazing comeback, the greatest political comeback 375 00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:02.680 in American history. 376 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:05.279 Now, does that mean Donald Trump's going to go in 377 00:21:05.319 --> 00:21:07.799 there and be able to accomplish everything that he promised? 378 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:09.839 I know, No he's not. 379 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:13.599 Now they are going to control the Senate, but again, 380 00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:19.200 you're not up to the sixty votes. And but also, 381 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:23.160 as much I hate to say it, that the expectation 382 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:26.519 for politicians now is that like even getting them to 383 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:29.480 attempt to do the things that they want to do. Right, 384 00:21:30.599 --> 00:21:33.000 to get him to do that seems to be the 385 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:37.279 high bar, which is it's the reality of politics, it's 386 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:38.480 the reality of Washington. 387 00:21:38.599 --> 00:21:41.000 But that's what people want to see. 388 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:46.079 And no matter how much Trump bothers you, but you 389 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:48.839 hold your nose vote for him. The one thing the 390 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.119 guy did attempt to do is really the big thing, 391 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:55.920 the big issues. Remember he was you didn't like, people 392 00:21:55.960 --> 00:21:57.559 didn't like how he was going to do it. Remember 393 00:21:57.559 --> 00:22:00.480 when he was like, i'll sign DACA today if you'll 394 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:05.079 give me six billion dollars for a wall, and they 395 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:07.519 sneered at him and Nancy did a photo op, right, 396 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:09.799 But he tried to do it. He tried to do 397 00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:13.240 it in his way, and so you know, we'll we'll 398 00:22:13.240 --> 00:22:15.359 take them as they come and we'll call it like 399 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:17.279 we see it, which is what you're expected to do 400 00:22:17.319 --> 00:22:20.039 in journalism. But if you're going to sit there and 401 00:22:20.119 --> 00:22:22.920