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And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:28,399 your support. 10 00:00:28,879 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 2: Dad Adams hosting sitting in for Pete Calendar, who's getting 11 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,719 some well deserved time off here on Newstalk eleven, ten 12 00:00:34,759 --> 00:00:38,560 ninety nine three WBT. Merry Merry Christmas to all and 13 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,520 to all, good afternoon, and we hope that we look 14 00:00:41,719 --> 00:00:44,079 from all of us here. We hope you are enjoying 15 00:00:44,119 --> 00:00:47,679 time with family, friends, whatever, you know, taking stock of 16 00:00:48,039 --> 00:00:50,799 the blessings we have, and able to reflect on the 17 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,159 reason for the season, so to speak. I say that 18 00:00:53,799 --> 00:00:59,079 because as we were, it's so funny. Conservatives are generally 19 00:00:59,119 --> 00:01:02,560 happy people. We don't see the world through these jaded 20 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,319 lenses that everybody's out to, uh, you know, to to 21 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,560 be you know, we're so woke that we can be uncomfortable, 22 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,680 and every we're triggered, We're not that triggered. But I 23 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:13,799 was triggered a little bit. I will say this as 24 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:17,840 we were going live on the air, I'm I'm I 25 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:22,079 was just curious, you know, infinitely curious. I think that's 26 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:23,640 what we I think is what media needs to be 27 00:01:23,799 --> 00:01:26,079 is more curious. I think we as individuals, you should 28 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,519 ask questions. And I don't mean asking your Alexa device 29 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,040 or your echo or your Siri. I think you should 30 00:01:31,359 --> 00:01:34,840 be inquisitive. I think it's the nature of who we 31 00:01:34,879 --> 00:01:37,799 should be is to be inquisitive. It's biblical. Even Thomas 32 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:39,959 was a little inquisitive, wasn't He was doubtful, but he 33 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,719 was inquisitive. Now I looked through Governor Cooper's Twitter feed. 34 00:01:44,719 --> 00:01:47,799 I just went there. I probably knew I shouldn't have 35 00:01:48,439 --> 00:01:51,120 based on my my bias as I went to his 36 00:01:51,439 --> 00:01:55,079 Twitter feed, So Governor Cooper at NC Governor, you can 37 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,680 look at it online. So I'm kind of scrolling through. 38 00:01:57,719 --> 00:02:00,120 I'm like, today's Christmas Eve. I wanted to govern Or 39 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:03,560 has anything out there about Christmas? Nothing? Not a mention 40 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:05,879 of Christmas. So I go back through because I know 41 00:02:06,359 --> 00:02:09,800 on every holiday, for every cultural reference. There is the 42 00:02:09,879 --> 00:02:13,560 woke governor, whether it's you know, he'll do it for Juneteenth, 43 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,319 he'll do it. He did it for Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving everyone. 44 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,599 He did it for Hanikah. He does it for Ramadan. 45 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:24,520 He does it for every potential cultural reference except Christmas. 46 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,599 He can't bring himself he be and it's so even funnier. 47 00:02:29,759 --> 00:02:33,719 So I pulled up just for fun. So I pulled him. 48 00:02:33,759 --> 00:02:36,080 I said, he makes a reference to a Christmas tree 49 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:38,879 kind of, And so I pulled up the state capital. 50 00:02:39,439 --> 00:02:43,080 When the NC State Capital they have their own Twitter feed, 51 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:45,639 and they said, don't forget to join us. This was 52 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,560 on December twelfth. I'm just going back, don't forget join 53 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:51,960 us at NC governor for the state tree lighting tonight. 54 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,400 Holiday starts at five thirty. Holiday music, what kind of 55 00:02:56,439 --> 00:02:59,960 holiday music. It's jolly good time for all NCA culture, 56 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:05,840 at ncculture, they cannot mention Christmas. And at a certain point, 57 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:10,840 you know it's intentional. You know it's intent. You know 58 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,960 that it's the projection. That's the problem our governor's always had. 59 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:20,520 He's a projection of progressive ideology while acting like he's not. 60 00:03:22,039 --> 00:03:23,919 He was a branch committee and he did this, That's 61 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:25,960 what it would be remembered for, was locking down and 62 00:03:26,039 --> 00:03:29,759 Mandy Cohen and separating people and closing DOWNSS. This has 63 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,319 been a governor who's entirety of political career view as 64 00:03:33,319 --> 00:03:36,800 a citizen, really can't associate with anything. I mean, I 65 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,800 think Republicans can associate him with more things. He was 66 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,120 able to convince the Republicans to expand Medicaid without going 67 00:03:43,159 --> 00:03:46,039 after waste fraud abuse, billions of dollars in waste for 68 00:03:46,039 --> 00:03:48,879 awn abuse. The Republicans in the House and said it said, well, 69 00:03:49,039 --> 00:03:51,639 okay with us, let's just expand Medicaid. Let's take more 70 00:03:51,639 --> 00:03:55,319 federal dollars that we don't have. And he's proud. The 71 00:03:55,319 --> 00:03:58,000 Governor's retweeted, you know, hey, we've got six hundred thousand. 72 00:03:58,039 --> 00:04:00,039 It's like a running lottery count. You know, it's a 73 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,800 billion o's in the lottery where there's eight hundred thousand 74 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,319 people in Medicaid. We're proud of the fact that ten 75 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:09,039 percent of North Carolinians are now been added to Medicaid 76 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,759 that we can't afford. It's an entitlement we just can't 77 00:04:12,319 --> 00:04:14,560 continue to. I love how we act like you know, 78 00:04:14,639 --> 00:04:17,959 Obamacare was just this wonderful thing. But we never it 79 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,199 was supposed to be the Affordable Care Act, and nothing 80 00:04:20,199 --> 00:04:23,759 about it's become more affordable from the end citizen standpoints like, oh, 81 00:04:23,759 --> 00:04:26,519 this is much more affordable because it's being subsidized. Whenever 82 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,959 you subsidize something, you think it's free. It's like a bond. 83 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,560 Oh bond, I'm all for bond. That's free government money, 84 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,000 isn't it free government money? A bond. I want more parks, 85 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:39,519 free government bond, free money. I want a new statue free, 86 00:04:39,639 --> 00:04:42,279 I want transit. I want to be free. Everything's free. 87 00:04:42,319 --> 00:04:44,160 It's gonna be bonded, it's gonna be in it's taxi 88 00:04:44,199 --> 00:04:49,360 grument financing. It's free. No, no, its not free. Nois 89 00:04:49,519 --> 00:04:54,439 nois So you have to pay for it somehow, whether 90 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,120 you borrow it, you have to pay for it. But 91 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,399 back to the governor. The governor will recognize everything in 92 00:05:00,439 --> 00:05:02,920 the world, every cultural reference. But right as of right now, 93 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:08,040 NC governor does not have anything up about Christmas. Nineteen 94 00:05:08,079 --> 00:05:10,839 hours ago, he has one about the shooting in Greensboro, 95 00:05:11,319 --> 00:05:14,680 and two hours ago, actually twenty one hours ago, he's 96 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:19,920 got about people being healthier. He's there's just medicaid expansion 97 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,399 made it, you know, into the holiday season, doesn't mention 98 00:05:22,439 --> 00:05:25,639 the holiday, doesn't mention Christmas. There's just nothing you can go. 99 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,639 It's hurricane relief, it's it's typical government clap trap stuff. 100 00:05:28,959 --> 00:05:31,399 Not a mention of Christmas. But if it's Kwanza it 101 00:05:31,399 --> 00:05:34,160 would be mentioned. If it's Thanksgiving, he'll at least mention 102 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,519 that because that's an American holiday. But that's and again 103 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,480 that's my rant a little bit about the nature of 104 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,560 where we find ourselves is in this woke kirk culture 105 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:47,600 that you can recognize everybody but the Christians, and our 106 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:52,639 governor kind of exemplifies that. That's the problem, and that's 107 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:57,079 that's the problem. It's just it is. It is. It 108 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,560 is odd, and at a certain point it's not. It's intentional. 109 00:06:02,399 --> 00:06:05,560 And that's the problem with all of this is that 110 00:06:05,639 --> 00:06:10,360 it's it's intentional. He there's an intent to not recognize 111 00:06:10,399 --> 00:06:15,000 Christmas because it would bother someone inside. So I went 112 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,560 and so I went out to Josh Stein's feed to see. Now, 113 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:21,199 I don't expect Josh stein. Stein is Jewish, highest ranking 114 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:24,519 Jewish official in North Carolina history, so you kind of 115 00:06:24,519 --> 00:06:27,480 would The only thing I would see is he does 116 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:31,720 have a hurk like a gingerbread contest house that he retweeted. 117 00:06:32,639 --> 00:06:36,360 But about the Supreme Court race. No mention of Christmas 118 00:06:36,439 --> 00:06:39,399 from Josh Stein. Now, you would think with Stein because 119 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,319 because he's Jewish and Christmas isn't his holiday, that he 120 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,279 would mention it because it would be a way to 121 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:49,160 extend cultural awareness to Josh Stein. Right, So Governor Cooper, 122 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,240 because he alleges he is a Christian, doesn't need to 123 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:53,240 recognize Christmas for the rest of you. But he has 124 00:06:53,319 --> 00:06:55,959 to recognize your holiday if you have one. So whatever 125 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:00,319 holiday you have, he has to recognize, but not his own. 126 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,560 And so Josh I guess would probably not would recognize 127 00:07:03,639 --> 00:07:06,360 Christmas because it's not I can't I can't keep track 128 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,160 of the bouncing ball. The beauty of this is in 129 00:07:08,199 --> 00:07:10,879 twenty five we're likely to see far less of this 130 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,279 kind of behavior. I think the Democrats in North Kahna 131 00:07:13,279 --> 00:07:17,000 will still want to not recognize this kind of stuff. 132 00:07:17,319 --> 00:07:20,439 For some reason. They're much more inclined to recognize any 133 00:07:20,519 --> 00:07:23,079 kind of wokeness and avoid anything that has to do 134 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,279 with the history of the country, because history is very 135 00:07:26,439 --> 00:07:31,319 replete with why we should recognize these things anyway, I 136 00:07:31,399 --> 00:07:33,319 digress away from the many things I want to talk 137 00:07:33,319 --> 00:07:34,959 about today, and there are many you want to get 138 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,879 in on the conversation at seven oh four five seven 139 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,199 oh eleven ten. Merry Christmas two seven o four five 140 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,920 seven oh eleven ten, and it's been it's been a 141 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,560 lot of fun. I do so. Today also is the 142 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,680 day that Ron Paul, I'm sorry, Rand Paul, his son, 143 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,279 the senator from Kentucky, releases his Festivus List. We will 144 00:07:53,319 --> 00:07:56,120 spend some time the Festivus List, that kind of If 145 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,079 you'll remember the old Seinfeldt show. Fest of Us was 146 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,279 the airing of ri even says it was this, you know, 147 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,360 whether there's a poll. It's absolutely hysterical, one of the 148 00:08:04,399 --> 00:08:06,920 best episodes of seinfeld Well, Rand Paul took it and 149 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,839 ran with it and now has created a political event 150 00:08:10,079 --> 00:08:14,639 every year at Christmas. For December twenty third, he releases 151 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:19,279 the Festivus Report on Government Waste, and it is hysterical 152 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:26,120 but also very sad because it's illustrative of how wasteful 153 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,720 our government, how out of touch our government is, whether 154 00:08:28,759 --> 00:08:31,040 it's in Republican or Democrat hands, how completely out of 155 00:08:31,079 --> 00:08:33,000 tested they are with your when it's your money. They 156 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:37,399 don't care, which is why the election of Donald Trump, 157 00:08:37,399 --> 00:08:40,000 at the appointing of his cabinet in this doze department 158 00:08:40,039 --> 00:08:43,679 of government efficiency is so critically important because we have 159 00:08:44,279 --> 00:08:48,919 more pork than a Smithfield operation. There is so much 160 00:08:49,039 --> 00:08:55,039 waste in our He documented over a trillion dollars in waste, 161 00:08:55,120 --> 00:09:01,559 a trillion. And you know, I rats with cocaine, pickleball courts, 162 00:09:01,639 --> 00:09:04,200 all sorts of stuff, and we'll go through some of 163 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,559 those just for your benefit, and and some other There's 164 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:09,679 quite a number of stories out there that we will 165 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:14,759 go through. I mentioned yesterday about the aging of Congress. 166 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:17,120 There was a kind of a little bit of a 167 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,600 heartbreaking story that will bring to you about how a 168 00:09:20,639 --> 00:09:23,799 member of Congress has been gone for six months and 169 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:24,919 no one really noticed. 170 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 1: So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, 171 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:31,519 and before he died, my mom and my dad and 172 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:33,519 all of us really helped take care of him as 173 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:36,720 he got progressively worse. Forty years ago, there were no 174 00:09:36,799 --> 00:09:40,840 treatments and not much support for caregivers and family. Things 175 00:09:40,919 --> 00:09:43,120 are different today because of the work of so many people, 176 00:09:43,159 --> 00:09:47,039 including the Alzheimer's Association of Western North Carolina. It's a 177 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,720 great organization with awesome people. They've got huge hearts. I've 178 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,240 been a supporter for like twenty five years. This cause 179 00:09:53,279 --> 00:09:56,279 means a lot to me. I participate in the annual 180 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,679 Walk to end Alzheimer's and I am leading a Charlotte 181 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,320 team this year. It's called Pete's Pack. You can sign 182 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,559 up and join the team and walk with me. It's 183 00:10:04,639 --> 00:10:08,840 on October nineteenth at Truest Field in Uptown. Sign up 184 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,480 at alz dot org slash walk and then just look 185 00:10:11,519 --> 00:10:14,320 for my team Pete's Pack, and there's also a link 186 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,600 in the podcast description here. Also, I'm going to be 187 00:10:16,759 --> 00:10:19,840 mceing the Gastonia Walk on October fifth, So make a 188 00:10:19,879 --> 00:10:22,279 team and join us or make a donation to help 189 00:10:22,279 --> 00:10:24,519 me hit my goal. I would really appreciate it. There 190 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:28,039 are a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas, and 191 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,679 you can go to alz dot org for all of 192 00:10:30,759 --> 00:10:34,240 the dates and locations. We are closer than ever to 193 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,639 stopping Alzheimer's and if you can help us get there, 194 00:10:37,759 --> 00:10:40,000 we would really appreciate it. Will you come walk with me? 195 00:10:40,279 --> 00:10:44,159 For a different future, for families, for more time for treatments. 196 00:10:44,639 --> 00:10:45,879 This is why I walk. 197 00:10:46,159 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 2: Nice chill music on a Christmas Eve, just nice. I 198 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:53,159 was kind of looking through weather maps. You know, that 199 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:56,279 infinite child at me. You know, we all have it. 200 00:10:56,799 --> 00:10:59,159 I think Christmas allows us to tap into that a 201 00:10:59,159 --> 00:11:02,960 little bit, you know, I hope you always can't. You know, 202 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:05,960 children are to be admired, children are to be to 203 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,960 listen to in any ways. Not to run the world, 204 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 of course, but who knows, maybe smarter than some of 205 00:11:13,039 --> 00:11:14,639 the people that are in DC right now. But it's 206 00:11:14,639 --> 00:11:16,200 interesting to call back to it because you always, you know, 207 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:17,679 in my mind, I grew up in a lot of 208 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,759 places that would never have you know, winter weather in 209 00:11:20,799 --> 00:11:22,600 the winter. I was in Puerto Rico as a kid, 210 00:11:22,639 --> 00:11:23,840 and you're not going to do that. And on the 211 00:11:23,879 --> 00:11:27,120 Texas Mexican border, no, not going to happen there. But 212 00:11:27,159 --> 00:11:29,080 a little bit of North Carolina and I'm looking here 213 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,480 and it's like, no, I have a picture of the 214 00:11:31,519 --> 00:11:35,240 snow map across the continental US, and there is very 215 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,639 little snow on the ground anywhere across the South all 216 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,240 the way over to Texas. Look like a spot or 217 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:44,799 two somewhere up in the mountain somewhere. Anyway, just throw 218 00:11:44,879 --> 00:11:48,240 that out there, not to be negative, just to be aware. 219 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,279 Now going over this is the sad story I referred 220 00:11:52,279 --> 00:11:53,759 to before we went to the break, and I don't 221 00:11:53,759 --> 00:11:56,799 want to linger on it, but I have asserted for 222 00:11:56,879 --> 00:12:00,080 some time that the members of Congress buy in large ones. 223 00:12:00,159 --> 00:12:03,559 They get there, it's like rooting out a virus. They 224 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:05,720 stay there forever. And I'm not being mean to your 225 00:12:05,799 --> 00:12:09,519 Congress individual or mine or anyone else. There's good people 226 00:12:09,519 --> 00:12:13,600 in Congress, believe it or not, but they stay. It's 227 00:12:13,639 --> 00:12:15,919 like a lifetime contract. It was never meant to be 228 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:22,080 a lifetime contract. And yeah, we have several octogenarians up there. 229 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,840 And here's the saddest one. This is I had just 230 00:12:25,879 --> 00:12:27,600 talked about this issue yesterday and that I read this 231 00:12:27,639 --> 00:12:29,919 story last night and I wanted to mention it. And 232 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:33,639 this is from Politico. Actually, Congress has long been home 233 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:37,360 to aging politicians facing serious health conditions, but the case 234 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,679 of retiring Representative Ka Granger is the latest evidence that 235 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:43,039 a new generation of Washington players are growing fed up 236 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:47,320 with the tradition of shielding officials infirmities from the world. 237 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,720 Reporting by a conservative activist on Friday, eighty one year 238 00:12:51,799 --> 00:12:56,039 old Texas Republican that's Kay Granger, who until last April 239 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:01,639 chaired the powerful Appropriations committee that conservative activists kind of 240 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,879 forced it to be, to admit she's been struggling with 241 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:10,440 dementia and residing in an assisted living facility despite continuing 242 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,480 to hold office. So she's been in that facility for 243 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:21,279 six months. She's been in an assisted living facility while 244 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,919 an active member of Congress who was just chairing one 245 00:13:23,919 --> 00:13:27,200 of the most powerful committees in all of DC. And 246 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,679 she's been as a Republican. But I mean, we can 247 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:31,879 talk about Joe Biden, so we can talk about Republicans. 248 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,480 She should have resigned. Now. Her family knew she had 249 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,879 issues prior to being in the assisted living facility, but 250 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:43,000 she continued to draw salary while not attending a single vote, 251 00:13:43,159 --> 00:13:46,120 not being present, not being a part of you're supposed 252 00:13:46,159 --> 00:13:51,600 to represent. If you can't represent, resign there almost thought 253 00:13:51,639 --> 00:13:54,200 to be an automatic, some kind of way to chat. 254 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:59,039 I mean, Mitch McConnell's that there are so many that 255 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,639 are just not I mean, when we were watching the 256 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:03,840 Dianne Feinstein for those of you remember, heard from the 257 00:14:03,919 --> 00:14:08,360 night she was in the Senate forever she's like ninety one. 258 00:14:08,399 --> 00:14:11,480 She was completely out of it. Completely not mentally there 259 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,440 being propped up, wheeled around, and people were being told, 260 00:14:14,519 --> 00:14:18,639 she's fine. She wasn't fine. She was a mess. Mitch 261 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:21,120 McCall's a mess. There's a bunch of them up there. 262 00:14:22,399 --> 00:14:25,320 It's like a retirement home for fat cats. I just 263 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,600 it was never supposed to be that way. And we've 264 00:14:29,639 --> 00:14:34,360 made a mockery of representation in this country by allowing 265 00:14:34,759 --> 00:14:39,519 to get this far. It is absurd as obscene, and 266 00:14:39,519 --> 00:14:42,480 and you wonder why DC. This is the funny thing. 267 00:14:42,639 --> 00:14:45,759 Government expenditures are about in the same condition that the 268 00:14:45,799 --> 00:14:49,159 members of Congress are. It's that some of them are 269 00:14:49,159 --> 00:14:51,200 in good shape, some programs are well wrong. Some are 270 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,440 in horrific shape. Should have been retired and put out 271 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,279 to pasture a long time ago. But there's so much 272 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:59,799 power vested in these people that the families and the 273 00:15:00,039 --> 00:15:06,480 staff and the special interest keep them. It's like a 274 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,960 bad episode of Weekend at Berning's. It's Weekend at Biden's. 275 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,039 You know, you would think there'd be a great parody 276 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,480 movie of them propping Biden up and hooking a rope 277 00:15:14,519 --> 00:15:16,159 to his hand and having him wave his hand at 278 00:15:16,159 --> 00:15:20,519 the crowd. You would think, you would think, but it 279 00:15:20,639 --> 00:15:23,840 is sad, so she's been living in a facility for 280 00:15:23,879 --> 00:15:26,919 six months. She hasn't voted. The revelations are sparking pie 281 00:15:26,919 --> 00:15:29,960 barties and backlash, strong scrutiny to other elderly lawmakers. Some 282 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,399 of the toughest comments have emerged from the right, with 283 00:15:32,559 --> 00:15:36,039 the Granger news prompting Elon Musk to float cognitive test 284 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,399 for elective officials, Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky saying he's 285 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:42,360 more concerned about the congressmen who have dementia and are 286 00:15:42,399 --> 00:15:45,399 still voting. Congress should do its job, and if you 287 00:15:45,399 --> 00:15:47,600 can't do your job, maybe shouldn't be there. Forty four 288 00:15:47,679 --> 00:15:50,440 year old Representative Tony Gonzalez and other Texas Republicans said 289 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:53,679 to CBS has faced the nation. The Granger episode caps 290 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,480 off a year in which weakness that come weaknesses that 291 00:15:56,519 --> 00:15:58,679 come with age play a major role in accelerating the 292 00:15:58,679 --> 00:16:02,480 Austro senior officials, including Joe Biden's withdrawal from the campaign. 293 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:06,080 More recent move by House Democrats to force out older 294 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,519 members trying to hold on to top committee posts that 295 00:16:08,559 --> 00:16:10,799 set the stage for lawmakers to take a harder line 296 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,279 with the next Congress poise to include ten senators and 297 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,279 twenty four House members older than the US life expectancy 298 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:22,840 of seventy seven point five. Thirty four members of Congress 299 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:27,440 will be older than the US life expectancy. Now I'm 300 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:29,600 not putting that out. I know some amazing folks that 301 00:16:29,639 --> 00:16:32,039 are in their nineties that mentally are still sharp and 302 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:34,960 stuff like that. But maybe that. I hate to suggest 303 00:16:35,039 --> 00:16:38,440 a cognitive test because I don't know that it's an 304 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,960 age thing for those members of Congress. I wish there 305 00:16:41,039 --> 00:16:44,559 was an aptitude for corruption, a corruption aptitude test. That 306 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,960 would be kind of cool. I doubt we'll see that. 307 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:48,679 But would it be neat if you had a you know, 308 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:51,279 there was some way Yep, you're going to be a 309 00:16:51,279 --> 00:16:54,879 corrupt official. Sorry, like a minority report type thing, very 310 00:16:54,919 --> 00:16:58,120 sci fi. Sorry, you can't be in Congress. You are 311 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:00,799 like ninety nine percent likely to be a corrupt official, 312 00:17:01,039 --> 00:17:04,640 take bribes, you know, get special favors. You're not there. 313 00:17:04,759 --> 00:17:07,680 Oh your stock portfolio, you overperform the market by five 314 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:11,720 thousand percent? Did you get some insider deals? Or would 315 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:14,160 it be neat if they created a mutual fund based 316 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,920 on members of Congress? So since they can trade stocks, 317 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:21,400 whatever they have, is this you know, the Congressional Mutual Fund, 318 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,680 and all of America can invest in it. So it's 319 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,400 like we wouldn't know the insider trading. We would just 320 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,640 we would just invest based on the level of corruption 321 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:34,400 they have that we assume they have. When the markets move, 322 00:17:34,519 --> 00:17:37,240 we move with Congress. That'd be a way to get 323 00:17:37,279 --> 00:17:39,640 around it, wouldn't we just invest the way they were? 324 00:17:40,319 --> 00:17:42,839 So as we move in next year, that's going to 325 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,160 be problematic. I think for some I think the Mitch 326 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,680 McConnell thing, you know, he says he wants to serve 327 00:17:47,799 --> 00:17:50,680 or run again, that it's it's this. I don't know 328 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,000 if it's arrogance. I don't know if it's dementia. I 329 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,640 don't know what it is. But there have been moments 330 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,319 where Mitch mcconnald is standing there and you can see 331 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:02,640 the lights, the lights dim, and he's not there at 332 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,799 least from a mental standpoint. He's rigid, he's locked on 333 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:08,799 his staff have to hold him up, and he kind 334 00:18:08,799 --> 00:18:11,480 of comes to later and if we're gonna make if 335 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,039 we're gonna you know, poke fun at Joe Biden, we 336 00:18:14,039 --> 00:18:16,599 need the two of the most powerful people up there. 337 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:20,400 Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden are checked out, and we 338 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,279 now know for a fact that they've been checked out. 339 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:25,920 We know from the reporting that did Joe Biden's checked out, 340 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:31,799 and we allowed the Democrats allowed for someone to be 341 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,599 put in the position of possibly being president without receiving 342 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:38,359 a single vote, while claiming that they're trying to save democracy. 343 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:44,440 And the hypocrisy of that rings in a fascinating way. 344 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,400 It rings at a level that you're just not the 345 00:18:47,519 --> 00:18:49,559 arrogance and the hubersence. Now, much more to go the 346 00:18:49,559 --> 00:18:51,559 Festust report, we'll get to. I wanted to mention the 347 00:18:51,559 --> 00:18:57,160 age thing and uh, the reporting on climate change. You know, 348 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:59,400 the governments are being pushing to push the rink and 349 00:18:59,559 --> 00:19:01,759 it's not Oh that's bad governance. Much more to go here, 350 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:03,599 all in the Peak Calendar radio show. 351 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:06,079 Speaker 1: You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense 352 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:09,559 of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the 353 00:19:09,559 --> 00:19:12,680 people of our past while transcending generations. They help us 354 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,799 process the meaning of life, and our stories are told 355 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,960 through images and videos. 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It's an amazing time and I'm blessed. 374 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:22,640 I'm very fortunate that family and friends and just should 375 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:24,960 be an amazing Christmas. And in spite of you know, 376 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,200 we can reflect on things that we've lost, people we've 377 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:28,920 lost in our lives, but also looking forward. It's a 378 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:34,039 time of optimism. So the New York Times, and I'm 379 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:42,400 not entirely I'm not entirely sure why this piece, I 380 00:20:42,759 --> 00:20:45,400 don't know. The New York Times picks Christmas Eve. Well, 381 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,359 actually it wasn't Christmas Eve, but it's pretty close to 382 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,039 Christmas Eve. Let's see when they publish this. Yeah, just 383 00:20:50,079 --> 00:20:53,319 a few days on the twenty first, Nicholas Christoph published 384 00:20:53,319 --> 00:20:56,319 a piece in The New York Times. So imagine, if 385 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:04,240 you will, any legacy media writing a piece on the 386 00:21:04,279 --> 00:21:08,279 eve or around some sacred holiday, whether it be a 387 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:16,240 Jewish holiday or a Muslim holiday, in which they assert 388 00:21:17,559 --> 00:21:23,119 that maybe the entirety of that faith shouldn't exist or 389 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:28,200 is based on a on fraud or lie. They wouldn't. 390 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,599 Can you imagine that they remember Salmon Rushdie wrote a 391 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,759 fictional book called Satanic Verses in which Muslims put out 392 00:21:34,759 --> 00:21:37,720 a fought. Well, they authorized the killing of Salmon Rushdie 393 00:21:37,839 --> 00:21:39,599 just for and he's he has since been attacked and 394 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,559 he's thank he's missing the vision in one that was 395 00:21:41,559 --> 00:21:45,039 a horrible attack, not too long ago, knife attack. But 396 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,880 imagine that that mainstream media, that the La Times or 397 00:21:49,319 --> 00:21:51,880 you know, the New York Times, whatever, these ABC, NBC 398 00:21:52,279 --> 00:21:55,359 that you know, right around the time a holiday was 399 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,720 going to happen, that they wrote a piece that just 400 00:21:57,839 --> 00:22:00,759 under they do it with Columbus a lot, that it 401 00:22:00,799 --> 00:22:02,799 was a religious thing, and they went after and attacked 402 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,839 Islam and said all of the Quran is based on 403 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,799 a lie. It's one thing to believe it, it's another 404 00:22:09,839 --> 00:22:12,079 to say it and run a story about it. They 405 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,839 wouldn't or are they? They would? They not do it 406 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,000 because they're afraid or because they're woke or both. I 407 00:22:18,039 --> 00:22:19,440 don't know. Yeah, I think you could make the argument 408 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,160 either way. But the New York Times decided to write 409 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,440 a piece. Here's the title of the piece, A conversation 410 00:22:25,559 --> 00:22:29,559 about the virgin birth that maybe wasn't. And what they're 411 00:22:29,559 --> 00:22:35,680 asserting is that on Christmas Eve they've published or not 412 00:22:35,799 --> 00:22:37,599 Christmas Eve they published a few days ago, but a 413 00:22:37,599 --> 00:22:39,720 lot of people saying Christmas Eve they publish a piece 414 00:22:39,839 --> 00:22:43,200 debunking the virgin birth and making the argument that Mary 415 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,359 either had an affair or was raped by a Roman 416 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:52,200 soldier named Pantherra. That's the argument that they made in 417 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:59,880 this piece. On the doorsteps of the major Christian holiday, 418 00:23:00,079 --> 00:23:02,839 the second major Christian knowledgy. What really defines the holiday 419 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:07,119 is the Resurrection. That's what. Without the Resurrection, there isn't Christianity, 420 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,119 there is no faith, there is no there's none of 421 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,119 this would matter. Christmas wouldn't exist without the resurrection, Christmas 422 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,759 is irrelevant. And obviously through Constantina and we consider and 423 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,480 talk all afternoon about how we ended up here with 424 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,839 Christmas tree and Yule logs and merging pagan and Christian 425 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,799 things and the winter solstice all of that. But for Christians, 426 00:23:26,039 --> 00:23:27,960 it is a date that's been arrived at that we 427 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,160 celebrate the birth of the Savior. That is the second 428 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,359 difding part of Christianity. It's the birth, and then then 429 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:39,319 he becomes known, and then he dies, and it's get 430 00:23:39,319 --> 00:23:41,240 resurrected in Easter. So we get the season. But the 431 00:23:41,279 --> 00:23:45,119 fact that The New York Times would do this is 432 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,200 rather interesting because, again, for those of you who listened 433 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,519 to me for some time, I talk about confirmation bias 434 00:23:51,599 --> 00:23:54,279 and that we all have some form of confirmation bias, 435 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,519 and that the real challenge for all of us is 436 00:23:56,559 --> 00:24:01,000 to look at our bias and read take that into account, 437 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,440 to question our own bias. The New York Times, the 438 00:24:04,559 --> 00:24:07,599 La Times, A lot of these more arrogant news sources, 439 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,559 they never do question their own bias, even as a 440 00:24:10,599 --> 00:24:12,920 conservative talk shows I do it all the time. We 441 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,480 have callers that disagree completely with me. I respect that 442 00:24:15,839 --> 00:24:18,400 we have usually a good spirited discussion. They're welcome to 443 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,200 be a part of the broadcast anytimes seven oh four, 444 00:24:20,319 --> 00:24:22,599 five seven oh eleven ten, five seven eleven ten here 445 00:24:22,599 --> 00:24:25,599 on this wonderful Christmas Eve. But it was just interesting 446 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,920 that that's the direction that New York Times. They could 447 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,839 have published that piece the rest of the year, it'd 448 00:24:30,839 --> 00:24:33,759 probably been a lotless but they publish it in a 449 00:24:33,839 --> 00:24:36,960 tactical way that can do the most damage at that 450 00:24:37,039 --> 00:24:41,119 moment in time. And that's the part that you know, 451 00:24:41,839 --> 00:24:46,680 is it's intentional. Governor Cooper can't mention Christmas. The New 452 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,400 York Times publishes a piece undermining the entirety of Christmas, 453 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:53,000 the virgin birth. You know that's probably not true. That's 454 00:24:53,079 --> 00:24:56,000 and that's what passes for And it's an opinion piece. 455 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:02,039 But they picked that particular time to do that to 456 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,559 trying don't want to spend too much time on giving it, 457 00:25:05,599 --> 00:25:07,480 but wanted to mention it too now. But it does 458 00:25:07,519 --> 00:25:08,920 take us to an interesting point as we get to 459 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:14,599 the next break, and that is that that Americans have 460 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,599 lost faith in the media. It's one of the things 461 00:25:16,599 --> 00:25:20,559 we shouldn't we shouldn't be here. It's a sad state 462 00:25:20,599 --> 00:25:22,599 of affairs that we are where we are, and there 463 00:25:22,599 --> 00:25:25,000 are people trying to say, you know, Americans have not 464 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,200 lost trust. There's this guy that's lefties that Americans have 465 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,240 not lost trust in the media. Republicans have. But when 466 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,440 you look at the rest of what he wrote, so 467 00:25:33,599 --> 00:25:35,519 it says, you know, only Republicans have lost trust in 468 00:25:35,519 --> 00:25:37,880 the media. And there's a graph he shows where it 469 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,759 shows this Republicans over time losing faith in the media. 470 00:25:40,799 --> 00:25:43,119 But when you look at the next chart, the guy 471 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,960 doesn't mention in the report. The next chart says, well, 472 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,000 if you look at Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated, they have 473 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,119 all dropped in faith in the media. They have all 474 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:56,640 lost faith in the media. And it's if you look 475 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:02,119 at nineteen seventy two, Republicans, about sixty eight per cent 476 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,039 of the sixty eight percent of folks in the Republican 477 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,880 side felt very confident that the news was fair, and 478 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,480 it was about seventy four percent of Democrats and about 479 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,079 fifty eight percent of independence they felt the media was fair, 480 00:26:16,279 --> 00:26:20,480 you know, was not tremendously biased. But from nineteen seventy 481 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,839 two all through the eighties, that started going down into 482 00:26:23,839 --> 00:26:26,000 the nineties into the Clinton era, and then it starts 483 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,759 getting kind of erratic. It goes up and down, up 484 00:26:27,799 --> 00:26:30,240 and down, up and down. But around right after Trump 485 00:26:30,319 --> 00:26:34,720 gets elected, trust in media amongst Democrats has reached the 486 00:26:34,799 --> 00:26:40,000 highest point since they started keeping those numbers. So the 487 00:26:40,079 --> 00:26:43,160 media at twenty sixteen, heading into twenty seventeen, it went 488 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:49,319 to almost eighty percent of Democrats felt the media was fair, good, 489 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,400 and fair now and at the same time, Republicans dropped 490 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,960 down to about fourteen percent feeling it's fair. This massive 491 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,680 disparity between Republicans and Democrats. The unafeel to were about 492 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,000 forty two percent thinking it was fair. So what's interesting 493 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,359 is go through that for you go through Trump, go 494 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,759 through COVID, and then go through Biden. And now Democrats 495 00:27:10,799 --> 00:27:12,759 have gone from almost eighty percent of them thinking of 496 00:27:12,799 --> 00:27:15,599 the media was fair or good down to fifty four percent, 497 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,359 so that they know that they were lied to. Democrats 498 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,240 are increasingly aware that they were completely lied to through 499 00:27:21,279 --> 00:27:24,960 Trump's first administration, increasing lie to through COVID, increasingly lied 500 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:29,160 to through the Biden administration. Republicans now are at twelve 501 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,279 percent twelve percent feel the media is good or fair, 502 00:27:33,319 --> 00:27:35,960 twenty seven percent of unaffiliated. So that's the nature of 503 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,720 where our country is. It's a dangerous time because people 504 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,599 are going to be picking where they get things from. 505 00:27:40,599 --> 00:27:43,200 They're gonna be comparing, and unfortunately, a lot of loons 506 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,440 and move back crazy people will be recognized through that. 507 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:53,440 But the media did this to itself, CNN, MSNBC, ABCCBS, 508 00:27:54,799 --> 00:27:57,680 all of them. They did this to themselves, and that 509 00:27:57,799 --> 00:28:00,960 leaves Americans not knowing who to trust. And then they 510 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,240 take their confirmation bias and they start digesting news that 511 00:28:04,319 --> 00:28:06,960 only they agree with. So if you wonder why we're divided, 512 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,039 there you go right now. And need you to take 513 00:28:09,039 --> 00:28:11,559 a break chat at I'm sitting in for Pete Calendar 514 00:28:11,599 --> 00:28:14,160 here on newstock eleven, ten ninety nine three WBT Christmas 515 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,440 Eve twenty twenty four. Much more to go. We'll be 516 00:28:16,559 --> 00:28:19,079 back in just a few minutes. Stay tuned all right. 517 00:28:19,079 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 1: Holiday season approaches and here's an idea give a gift 518 00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:26,559 that makes a difference with simply NC Goods, you directly 519 00:28:26,599 --> 00:28:30,880 support North Carolina's local artisans while gifting something truly unique. 520 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:34,359 Simply NC Goods. It's a curated box service owned by 521 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:38,000 two lifelong North Carolinians. The boxes bring the best of 522 00:28:38,079 --> 00:28:41,559 North Carolina directly to your doorstep. 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So I want 550 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,640 to mention that, as always, WBT doing amazing work, partnering 551 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,799 with folks in the community and trying to raise awareness. 552 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,240 Isaac Kerzog So I didn't finish sending this one out. 553 00:30:26,279 --> 00:30:27,599 I will in just a few moments. For those of 554 00:30:27,599 --> 00:30:31,720 you follow me on Twitter or x platform chat. Adam's 555 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:35,640 perspective sold I looked at Governor Cooper and Josh Stein's 556 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,400 Christmas wishes. I mentioned that earlier in the broadcast, and 557 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,440 so Isaac Kurzog from the Middle East says, you know, 558 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,759 to all our Christmas He's Jewish, To all our Christian 559 00:30:43,799 --> 00:30:47,559 sisters and brothers in Israel, the Middle East and around 560 00:30:47,599 --> 00:30:49,079 the world, we wish you a happy Christmas, a new 561 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,240 year fill with peace and prosperity, and a festive period 562 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,839 when we see our beloved hostages immediately return home around 563 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,559 the world the beautiful and festive Christmas tree. In the 564 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,200 village of Kaffre Yosef in northern Israel, we gathered the 565 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:04,440 regional council head Asamchity and leaders of Christian, Muslim Jewish 566 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,640 communities to try to unify the messages of peace. This 567 00:31:09,079 --> 00:31:13,240 is more, by the way, than anything that here we 568 00:31:13,279 --> 00:31:16,359 are in this country where we can celebrate all sorts 569 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:21,680 of faith. Then more than our Christian govenor wished for Christmas, 570 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,839 more than our governor elect Josh Stein has wished for Christmas. 571 00:31:24,839 --> 00:31:26,599 And again it sounds like I'm being very judging here, 572 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,200 not meaning to. It's an observation more than a judgment. 573 00:31:29,359 --> 00:31:31,640 I'm not passing judgment on either of those individuals. They 574 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,519 have I guess they have their reasons for why they 575 00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:37,559 don't want to wish you a merry Christmas. I don't know, 576 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,640 but I don't understand it. I don't understand why the 577 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,039 state of North Caroline puts a holiday tree up. Can't 578 00:31:42,039 --> 00:31:46,519 mention it's a Christmas tree. It is intentional. It is 579 00:31:46,599 --> 00:31:50,559 not accidental. It is an intentional They are concerned about 580 00:31:50,559 --> 00:31:55,079 offending someone, and we need to get past that. Christians 581 00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:57,119 are not offended if you wish them a merry Christmas. 582 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,279 They're not. And the people that are offended by someone 583 00:31:59,319 --> 00:32:01,880 wishing you a marry Christmas, they're the ones with the problem, 584 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,160 not the other way around. So it is. It is 585 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,519 a rather odd odd thing. Now, I want to get 586 00:32:08,519 --> 00:32:10,200 to one story before we get inside of the break, 587 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:12,920 and then we'll get to the festival stuff, I promise. 588 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,319 But this is worth knowing because the left continues. Like 589 00:32:16,559 --> 00:32:20,599 someone said yesterday, don't get the environmentalists cleaning up the 590 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,160 southern border because they'll turn it into climate change and 591 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,519 then it'll all go whackad do. And they were absolutely right. 592 00:32:25,559 --> 00:32:27,160 I don't remember the caller's name, but they did that. 593 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,559 But this was a story over at Vox, which is 594 00:32:30,599 --> 00:32:38,400 a decidedly left leaning place, and I'm constantly and do this. 595 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,920 I tell you, while you're watching TV with the holidays, 596 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,440 while you're watching different things, pay attention to the number 597 00:32:44,599 --> 00:32:51,279 of ways in which your entertainment pushes you tries to 598 00:32:51,319 --> 00:32:54,880 push you left. I'll give you an example of this. 599 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,960 So I'm watching a show on Netflix four episodes, and 600 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,599 I like a lot of British or European six episode 601 00:33:02,599 --> 00:33:04,599 four episodes. I don't like having to be invested for 602 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,680 ten years into a given show. I like something short, 603 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:08,200 like a movie that runs along, and they just turned 604 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,799 it into four episodes. So I was watching one called 605 00:33:10,839 --> 00:33:13,720 La Palma. It's on Netflix, you can see it. And 606 00:33:13,759 --> 00:33:18,119 it's a European disaster flick. You don't see many of those. Usually. 607 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,880 America is good at from the Towering Inferno on through 608 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,519 you know, the twenty twelve, any kind of cataclysmic movie. 609 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,200 The Americans just love disaster movies. We always have, and 610 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,079 some of them are really trashing, some of them pretty good. 611 00:33:30,079 --> 00:33:32,720 So this one was pretty interesting. It's an island off 612 00:33:32,759 --> 00:33:35,839 the coast of Spain, La Palma and Teneriff in these islands, 613 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,440 and there's a volcanic thing and it's a disaster. There's 614 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,960 going to be a tsunami, and they and they characters 615 00:33:41,759 --> 00:33:44,119 that and of itself. It's well done. It's very part 616 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,400 of it's very interesting, the tsunami side, the science mind, 617 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,160 it's kind of interesting. But they have one family to 618 00:33:50,279 --> 00:33:53,279 kind of focus on it that has a wife and 619 00:33:53,279 --> 00:33:57,440 a husband, the divorced their daughter. So there's only one 620 00:33:57,559 --> 00:34:02,920 romantic interest in the story. It's a teenage girl. And 621 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,880 in that story, the teenage girl is interested in another 622 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,079 teenage girl, and it becomes a central part of the story, 623 00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:11,280 not the story, but becomes how people live or die 624 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,599 in this in this disaster, inflick around that there wasn't 625 00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:16,559 a need. So if you look at that, you would 626 00:34:16,599 --> 00:34:19,639 think that the vast propensity of young girls are interested 627 00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:22,880 in other girls, but there was no. It's not that 628 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,440 they need not do that, it's that it distracts from 629 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,039 the story when it doesn't, when it seems more forced 630 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:32,559 than natural. If that makes sense, And you see this 631 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:35,039 in this is that this has been a problem for Disney, 632 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,280 it's been a problem for Paramount. It's been a problem 633 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,199 for so many different even Paramount. The ending of Yellowstone 634 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,280 very very pc the way if you haven't. I'm not 635 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:45,679 going to give it away, but a little bit of 636 00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:50,039 it is, you know that when when the Indians take 637 00:34:50,079 --> 00:34:54,039 over the Dunton ranch and start kicking over tombstones and 638 00:34:54,079 --> 00:34:57,079 stuff like that for the family and desecrating that as 639 00:34:57,119 --> 00:35:01,800 if that's that's some cow paybacker legit. That's the kind 640 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,960 of But you see it in subtle ways, this constant 641 00:35:05,119 --> 00:35:09,519 need to push you into a narrative and into a 642 00:35:09,519 --> 00:35:13,039 belief structure that is a creation. It's not necessarily natural, 643 00:35:13,079 --> 00:35:16,039 but it's a creation of the way they want the 644 00:35:16,039 --> 00:35:18,000 world to be. So this is the way the story 645 00:35:18,039 --> 00:35:20,599 goes over at Vox. Twenty twenty four is on track 646 00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:22,920 to become the hottest year since humans have been keeping tracked, 647 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:24,800 by the way, humans have only been keeping track for 648 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,159 about little over one hundred and some years. Beating out 649 00:35:27,159 --> 00:35:29,480 twenty twenty three hasn't done it, but we'll see the 650 00:35:29,559 --> 00:35:32,039 extraordinary back to back. By the way, there's a lot 651 00:35:32,119 --> 00:35:34,159 more to this story than just saying it's the hottest year. 652 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,599 The extraordinary back to back record breakers amplified disasters like 653 00:35:37,639 --> 00:35:41,159 heat waves, hurricanes. They didn't do anything about hurricanes. Hurricanes 654 00:35:41,159 --> 00:35:43,280 were no worse. That's not true, but they say it 655 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,920 and then they throw it in there. It's an unnecessary thing. 656 00:35:46,599 --> 00:35:48,960 And torrential downpours around the world. We've always had torrential 657 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,800 downpours around the world, claiming thousands of lives and causing 658 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,840 billions and damages. Also worth noting disasters over the past 659 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,360 several thousand years. Go look at them. Look it up 660 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,199 on your own, don't trust me. Go look at up 661 00:36:00,199 --> 00:36:03,920 on Wikipedia. You'll see that disasters killed hundreds of thousands 662 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,679 of people at one time. They killed more people long 663 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,880 ago than they do now, thankfully, and we have a 664 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,039 lot more people than it could kill. But we have 665 00:36:12,079 --> 00:36:15,440 a lot more development along these coastal edges in big cities. 666 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:19,039 So when they say billions in damages in constant dollars, 667 00:36:19,119 --> 00:36:21,519 I mean Vesuvius destroying the city of Pompeii. You could 668 00:36:21,519 --> 00:36:25,239 say that was hundreds of billions or billions of dollars. 669 00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:28,480 Few countries have emerged unscathed over the past two years, 670 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,760 but one place is known for its welcoming climate was 671 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,960 especially wounded. In twenty twenty three, Spain experienced a searing 672 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,480 early season heat wave, with temperatures topping one hundred and 673 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,320 one degrees Fahrenheart in the south of the country, followed 674 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,519 by more severe heat across the country in July. Now 675 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:49,039 it's had that, And acting like this is all connected 676 00:36:49,079 --> 00:36:52,719 to what humans have done is always and it's never 677 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,199 that humans slightly did it. It's that humans had done 678 00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:57,920 it in an extreme way. And it's an existential threat. 679 00:36:58,039 --> 00:37:00,519 Your children shouldn't have children, and the world is about 680 00:37:00,519 --> 00:37:03,119 to end, and thus we have to act now to 681 00:37:03,199 --> 00:37:05,360 socialize the world, and it's the only way we fix it. 682 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,320 And then you think to yourself, is government really fixed 683 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,159 any problem it's ever tried to solve? He really has. 684 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:13,280 Government's very bad at solving problems. But when you read 685 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,039 the headline, here the headline, here's the way the headline, 686 00:37:15,039 --> 00:37:17,599 climate change is pushing some governments to the breaking point. 687 00:37:18,599 --> 00:37:21,159 And I would say that's not true. Governments have just 688 00:37:21,199 --> 00:37:24,760 done a terrible job of governing. Spain isn't necessarily known 689 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,400 to have the most efficient government san In fact, it's 690 00:37:27,519 --> 00:37:29,960 kind of dicey with respect to how Barcelona is set 691 00:37:30,039 --> 00:37:32,840 up and Catalans, and it's just a bit of a 692 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,840 train wreck over there. But climate change doesn't push in anything. 693 00:37:36,079 --> 00:37:38,400 If you want to see an example of climate changing 694 00:37:38,559 --> 00:37:41,760 very fast. It's but the climate change. People say, Chad, 695 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,920 you're talking about the weather. It was horrible weather when 696 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,920 Napoleon marched on Moscow. You you should see that chart. 697 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:48,599 I'm not going to go into it in great detail, 698 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:53,480 but when Napoleon marched on Moscow, it was so cold 699 00:37:53,639 --> 00:37:56,360 that he lost had four hundred and twenty two thousand troops. 700 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,400 I think it came back with about twelve. He lost 701 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,159 over four hundred thousand people in the march on Moscow 702 00:38:02,159 --> 00:38:05,559 because the Russians just pulled back. The winter killed his troops. 703 00:38:05,559 --> 00:38:08,199 This was just the early eighteen hundreds. So from that 704 00:38:08,199 --> 00:38:10,039 point in time it out. Yeah, it's gotten a lot warmer. 705 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,719 Why was it so bleeding cold? Then you had a 706 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:16,639 mini ice age? Then it was horrible. Were we better 707 00:38:16,639 --> 00:38:20,559 when Greenland was green? Because Greenland was green at one time? Anyway, 708 00:38:20,639 --> 00:38:22,199 much more ago. We need to take a break right now, 709 00:38:22,559 --> 00:38:24,599 kickings off, getting ready to head up hour two of 710 00:38:24,639 --> 00:38:27,079 the Peak Calendar radio show here at Newstock eleven ten 711 00:38:27,199 --> 00:38:30,440 ninety nine three WBT seven oh four five seven eleven ten, 712 00:38:30,519 --> 00:38:33,039 five eleven ten second hour, Getting ready to be in 713 00:38:33,079 --> 00:38:37,320 to weite Stay tuned, all right. 714 00:38:37,119 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 1: That'll do it. For this episode. Thank you so much 715 00:38:39,519 --> 00:38:41,559 for listening. I could not do the show without your 716 00:38:41,599 --> 00:38:44,360 support and the support of the businesses that advertise on 717 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,199 the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too 718 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:48,920 and tell them you heard it here. 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