1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet, And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,280 your support. As we do every Monday at two o'clock, 10 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,320 we chat with ap Dylan. She is the publisher of 11 00:00:34,399 --> 00:00:36,960 More to the Story. It's a substack newsletter you can 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,759 subscribe to. She's also a reporter at the North State Journal. 13 00:00:39,759 --> 00:00:43,799 The website is NSJ online dot com. Ap, how are 14 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:44,280 you today? 15 00:00:45,119 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Pete, how are you? 16 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: I'm doing great as well. Yeah, So the long national 17 00:00:50,399 --> 00:00:55,479 nightmare is over right, the shutdown in the Democrats. 18 00:00:55,079 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 2: We hope. I mean, there's other votes that have to 19 00:00:57,359 --> 00:00:59,359 happen in order for this to move through the Senate 20 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:00,759 and then has to go back to the House, and 21 00:01:00,799 --> 00:01:03,079 the House is going to throw a fit. So you know, 22 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,400 I have no expectation that this is going to be 23 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,359 actually over for at least another week. 24 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah, I think, uh, I think the Democrats 25 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,120 are done. They'll they'll be squawking and stuff, but the 26 00:01:14,599 --> 00:01:16,879 I think the House leadership will go ahead and they'll 27 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,480 they'll rubber stamp what the Senate deal is because there's 28 00:01:20,599 --> 00:01:23,680 really no real concessions for Democrats in it, so. 29 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 3: They might I don't know. 30 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders col quite a fit on the floor last night. 31 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: So we'll see, right, But well, he's going to have 32 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,000 to get his uh they're gonna have He's gonna have 33 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,719 to get the uh, the eight Democrats to flip back. 34 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:37,239 I don't think he's going to be able to do that. 35 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 2: Well, I don't think so either. I mean, all eight 36 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,840 of them, none of them are for reelection right here, 37 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,120 so they've got no no feat to the fire kind 38 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:46,159 of moment there for them. 39 00:01:46,239 --> 00:01:47,519 Speaker 1: Yeah, no incentives at all. 40 00:01:47,799 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 2: Always retiring too, I think. 41 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:54,079 Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, uh here, yeah, so yeah, always look for 42 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,640 the incentives, you know, always look for the incentives with 43 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,920 these politicians. All right, So let's talk about the the DMV. 44 00:02:01,239 --> 00:02:06,079 Everyone's favorite topic. The North Carolina House Select Committee on 45 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:11,639 Government Deficiency heard updates from various state officials. Last week 46 00:02:11,719 --> 00:02:15,159 related to improving operations of the North Carolina Division of 47 00:02:15,199 --> 00:02:18,080 Motor Vehicles. They did a three hour hearing last week 48 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,960 and I assume you watched it, so I didn't have to, 49 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,960 so thank you for that absolutely. So what all was 50 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:27,280 what was reviewed? 51 00:02:28,719 --> 00:02:33,759 Speaker 2: Well, they wanted to know about the updates for efficiency 52 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,800 in terms of getting customers in and out easier, faster. 53 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,199 You know. Wait times was like the big thing, and 54 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:41,800 it's been the big thing for a long time. And 55 00:02:41,879 --> 00:02:44,840 anyone who's been to the DMV knows what they're talking 56 00:02:44,879 --> 00:02:48,120 about when they say wait times, it's usually three hours plus. 57 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,439 In fact, an audit had found that it was at 58 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:56,360 least two hours I believe it was. Yeah, a wait 59 00:02:56,439 --> 00:02:58,520 time was about two hours in July was what the 60 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:01,759 audit had found. It was three hours earlier in the year. 61 00:03:02,319 --> 00:03:05,520 And the new DMV Commissioner, Paul Tyne, was there and 62 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,080 he told the panel there the committee, that the average 63 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,319 weight time in DMB offices is dropped by an hour 64 00:03:11,319 --> 00:03:13,479 and a half since he came in. 65 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: So it's down to merely one hour and fifteen minutes. 66 00:03:18,759 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, it is. But that's a significant inroad considering 67 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,240 that it was three hours earlier this year, so you 68 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,520 know he's getting there. I can credit for moving that up. Yeah, 69 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,400 you know, they've hired a lot more people and a 70 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,159 lot more services are going to be coming, according to TYME, 71 00:03:36,439 --> 00:03:39,479 including team driver services, which is one of the largest 72 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,319 strains on their customer service time. They're going to allow 73 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:47,039 for graduated licenses to be applied for online to reduce 74 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:52,719 weight times. They're also looking at getting the driver's head 75 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,800 courses the people who teach those things to be able 76 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,840 to certify road tests to lighten the load at the offices. 77 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,039 Speaker 1: Yeah. So these are like their private very initiative, like 78 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,240 the private private driver instructor classes and stuff. 79 00:04:07,039 --> 00:04:08,919 Speaker 2: Right exactly, you know, the ones that the kids do 80 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:10,719 in the county and everything. They're working with them to 81 00:04:10,759 --> 00:04:13,520 try to make sure that that happens. And they've also 82 00:04:14,039 --> 00:04:18,240 streamlined some of the graduated licensed stuff already for the teens. 83 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,720 They don't have to do those driver logs and submit 84 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,759 those anymore, and they can they can upgrade their license 85 00:04:26,879 --> 00:04:31,519 from their their permit to their graduated you know on 86 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:33,600 the road license before nine is what they called the 87 00:04:33,639 --> 00:04:36,399 before nine license. They can do that online now. 88 00:04:36,639 --> 00:04:39,759 Speaker 1: So I have another idea, a proposal for how to 89 00:04:40,519 --> 00:04:45,079 really reduce this workload. Don't allow any team driving. 90 00:04:50,079 --> 00:04:52,439 Speaker 2: The one thing that they did institute, which I thought 91 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,160 was actually quite good and I used it myself, was 92 00:04:55,199 --> 00:04:58,480 they have this SMS signing system now where you basically 93 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:03,040 log in to their system using your phone and it 94 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,000 will tell you, it'll give you a call back and 95 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,759 say you need to be here in the next ten minutes. 96 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:08,480 You know your place in line is coming up, so 97 00:05:08,519 --> 00:05:10,160 you can go do other things and come back. You 98 00:05:10,199 --> 00:05:13,240 don't have to stand in the line. And that's really 99 00:05:13,439 --> 00:05:15,240 helps people's patients quite a bit. 100 00:05:15,519 --> 00:05:18,439 Speaker 1: So I went the other way. I went the other direction. 101 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:23,680 I went online and booked my appointment, my last appointment, 102 00:05:23,759 --> 00:05:27,360 this was probably six months ago, and took a day 103 00:05:27,399 --> 00:05:31,240 off from work, booked it like three months ahead of time, 104 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:33,680 and then drove an hour and a half to a 105 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,120 different part of the state. That's how I got into 106 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:37,079 a DMV office. 107 00:05:37,759 --> 00:05:40,079 Speaker 2: Yeah, that was also an issue that was brought up, 108 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:41,839 was that you know, people were having to drive to 109 00:05:41,879 --> 00:05:46,000 other counties to get to get an appointment. Yeah, and 110 00:05:46,199 --> 00:05:49,920 usually with folks in large urban area counties like Mecklenburg, 111 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:55,120 like Wake, Yes, Forsyth, places like that, and in the 112 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,720 Wilmington area and Onslow there were sometimes there was just 113 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:59,920 no appointments there, So they're having to go county over. 114 00:06:00,319 --> 00:06:01,800 That happened to my son and I when we did 115 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,040 his first kermit. We had to go over to Wilson County. 116 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:06,839 I live in Wake to go an next door to 117 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:08,399 Wilson to get him at an appointment. 118 00:06:08,439 --> 00:06:12,639 Speaker 1: Well, that just next door, that's not bad at all. Yeah, yeah, Ecklenburg, 119 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:14,160 I had to go all the way. I had to 120 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:15,480 go up to like Hickory area. 121 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 2: Oh gosh. 122 00:06:17,319 --> 00:06:19,399 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Like I literally took a day off of 123 00:06:19,399 --> 00:06:21,079 work because there was no way I could have made 124 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:25,079 the appointment, and and it only took me like ten minutes, 125 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:27,439 Like the whole appointment took ten minutes. 126 00:06:27,959 --> 00:06:28,199 Speaker 2: Yep. 127 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:30,199 Speaker 1: So it's just super Yeah. 128 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 2: They're looking at trying to fix that problem and hopefully 129 00:06:33,879 --> 00:06:36,480 moving a lot of the teen items out of the 130 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,560 way will help. See, you know, they get like eighty 131 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,959 percent maybe these seven percent of their customers or we'll 132 00:06:41,959 --> 00:06:42,519 still walk in. 133 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 3: So yeah, get rid. 134 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,519 Speaker 1: Of the team driving all of this stuff goes away. 135 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 2: I'm just saying, yeah, Yeah, they're talking about different ways 136 00:06:51,399 --> 00:06:54,120 to reduce those weight times and to streamline that process 137 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,279 and maybe make it its own thing. There was also 138 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:00,040 talk about spinning the DMV off from the NCDOT that 139 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:04,120 their finances are so interwoven that there was an issue 140 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,360 with that, and Time said that, you know, it would 141 00:07:06,399 --> 00:07:10,319 create more headaches than it created solutions, so well that 142 00:07:10,439 --> 00:07:11,000 was tabled. 143 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's also by interwoven. I think you mean 144 00:07:15,279 --> 00:07:19,199 that DMB funds the DOT. 145 00:07:18,639 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 3: Like, yeah, pretty much, right. 146 00:07:20,079 --> 00:07:22,879 Speaker 1: Like that's the deal, Like DOT doesn't want to have 147 00:07:22,959 --> 00:07:26,240 to lose a couple billion dollars out of their budget. 148 00:07:27,079 --> 00:07:30,279 Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, the DMV generates somewhere around two point 149 00:07:30,319 --> 00:07:33,920 two billion in revenue and a lot of that goes 150 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,680 right into the DOT and then only a certain percentage 151 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,199 I think something like thirty percent only comes back to 152 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,319 the DOT for their earth to the DMV for their 153 00:07:42,399 --> 00:07:45,680 services and operations, which has kept them from hiring more 154 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,600 people and modernizing their systems and doing all that stuff. Yeah, 155 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:52,000 because they're not getting half of what they're putting in back. Yeah, 156 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,040 so that's going to be something that I think they'll 157 00:07:54,079 --> 00:07:57,199 come back to. The DOT chief was there as well, 158 00:07:57,199 --> 00:07:58,879 but they didn't get to hear as much from them 159 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:00,480 as they wanted to. So I have a feeling there'll 160 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,839 be another hearing coming up with just the dot chief. 161 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:07,319 Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, as you report in your story two point 162 00:08:07,399 --> 00:08:12,279 two billion dollars generated in revenue by the DMV that 163 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,639 goes to the Department of Transportation, which takes in three 164 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:19,160 point seven billion in revenue. So two point two of 165 00:08:19,199 --> 00:08:22,399 the three point seven is coming from the DMV. So 166 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,319 it's no wonder why the Department of Transportation does not 167 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,720 want DMV to be spun out from under their control. 168 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:30,959 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. 169 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: So all right, let's let's shift gears a little. You 170 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:38,559 do a lot of reporting on your Substack newsletter. More 171 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:42,000 to the story is the is the substack there and 172 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:44,679 you people should subscribe to it. You'll get the updates 173 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:49,279 from ap and so this one here is uh, it's 174 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:54,440 the latest in a regular series that you do the 175 00:08:54,679 --> 00:09:01,000 illegal alien arrests in North Carolina. So I guess I 176 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:02,679 mean I can go here to the one here there's 177 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,679 Cabera's County represented. They got two uh guitar. 178 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 2: You're eleven that I pulled and they're they're from a 179 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,279 I have to credit this account. It's called immigrant Crimes 180 00:09:13,279 --> 00:09:17,720 on X and they do stuff from all around the country, 181 00:09:17,919 --> 00:09:20,960 and they put the state, the person's name, what they're 182 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,759 accused of, bookshots, all that kind of stuff, if they've 183 00:09:23,759 --> 00:09:26,240 got a deportation order on them, et cetera, et cetera. 184 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,440 And they're they're regularly posting these things, and they've done 185 00:09:29,519 --> 00:09:31,360 quite a bit of reporting on North Carolina. And I 186 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,320 started picking up on it, and I figured, hey, this 187 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:36,559 is a good source of information because I verified them 188 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,759 all that they these were real and they happened, So 189 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,799 I pulled them into my reporting. And you know, he 190 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,519 usually has at least four or five per month for 191 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,320 North Carolina. And these are just the ones that are 192 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,960 hitting this account's radar. I think there's probably many others 193 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,600 out there that aren't getting reported. Oh but you know, 194 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:56,960 some of these are pretty bad. You know, we're talking assault, 195 00:09:57,399 --> 00:10:03,080 you know, rape, child el sex crimes. You know, one 196 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,919 was a hit and run. I think, you know, so 197 00:10:06,039 --> 00:10:09,360 these aren't these aren't you know, very upstanding individuals. 198 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: And then you've got a report from the Center for 199 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:18,519 Immigration Studies that looked at the uh the unaccompanied Alien 200 00:10:18,799 --> 00:10:23,639 child or the UACs. This issue was real big, probably 201 00:10:23,639 --> 00:10:25,360 what about a year or so ago maybe, And then 202 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,159 it could just kind of fell off the radar, and 203 00:10:27,159 --> 00:10:29,279 Democrats were like, oh, it's not true at all, But 204 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,600 we didn't lose track of all these kids. Spoiler, Yes, 205 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,919 the government did lose track of a lot, like thousands 206 00:10:35,919 --> 00:10:39,240 and thousands of kids, these unaccompanied minors. 207 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:45,039 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, through Freedom of Information Act requests, the Center 208 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:50,159 for Immigration Studies found that HHS under Biden had lost 209 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,879 contact with one hundred and twelve and seventy two UACs 210 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,919 after thirty days of being released to the sponsors. So 211 00:10:56,919 --> 00:10:58,759 it's in a month of these people, of these kids 212 00:10:58,799 --> 00:11:02,200 being sent off to live with somebody else, they lost 213 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,960 contact with them and they couldn't determine their safety or whereabouts. 214 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,240 And additional data showed that they had transferred over two 215 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,159 hundred and thirty five thousand of these children to sponsors 216 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,799 around the country during the fiscal years I want to say, 217 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,879 between January twenty twenty one and December twenty twenty three, 218 00:11:19,919 --> 00:11:22,639 so two fiscal years there. So that's you know, like 219 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,399 you know, over one hundred thousand kids a year and 220 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:29,039 they couldn't determine where the heck they were. This summer, however, 221 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,639 the Trump administration of HHS that announced that they had 222 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:37,279 tracked down thirteen thousand of them. It's just a stone's 223 00:11:37,279 --> 00:11:40,159 throw from what's you know, the total there. But at 224 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:41,759 least those kids have been found, and some of them 225 00:11:41,759 --> 00:11:45,120 were found, you know, in strip clubs and they were 226 00:11:45,159 --> 00:11:49,720 being trafficked. So they rescued these kids. But there's one 227 00:11:49,759 --> 00:11:51,480 place to where we know that these kids were not 228 00:11:51,639 --> 00:11:56,679 being housed, and that's in Greensboro, North Carolina, where the 229 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:01,120 in the Hebrew Academy there had been taken over by 230 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:05,559 HSS under Biden and turned into a migrant center several 231 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:10,480 years ago with a huge multimillion dollar contract. And you know, 232 00:12:10,519 --> 00:12:12,799 over the couple of years that they this contract went on, 233 00:12:12,919 --> 00:12:16,480 not a single migrant child was housed there. And then 234 00:12:16,519 --> 00:12:18,320 they closed down operations this past spring. 235 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: Oh god, kind of suspicious. 236 00:12:21,799 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of suss Yeah, little. 237 00:12:23,919 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: Saus like the kids say, all right, yeah, Ap, Dylan, 238 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,440 you could read the whole report here add more to 239 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,799 the story under work at North State Journal at nsjonline 240 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:34,840 dot com. Ap, thanks for your time as. 241 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 2: Always, absolutely thanks for having me. 242 00:12:36,399 --> 00:12:38,519 Speaker 1: All right, take care, all right, if you're listening to 243 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:40,080 this show, you know, I try to keep up with 244 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:42,240 all sorts of current events and I know you do too, 245 00:12:42,399 --> 00:12:44,840 and you've probably heard me say get your news from 246 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:49,559 multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how you detect media bias, 247 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,159 which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. 248 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:55,960 It's an app, and it's a website and it combines 249 00:12:56,039 --> 00:12:58,039 news from around the world in one place so you 250 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,480 can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it 251 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:06,039 out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. 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I use 260 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,679 the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. 261 00:13:34,879 --> 00:13:37,639 Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it 262 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,840 also supports ground News as they make the media landscape 263 00:13:40,879 --> 00:13:45,320 more transparent. A bit of the breaking news doule up 264 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:51,759 doudle up. A ban on transgender women competitors is strongly 265 00:13:51,879 --> 00:13:55,600 expected to be in place for the twenty twenty eight Olympics, 266 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:59,320 but it remains unclear if there will be barriers against 267 00:13:59,399 --> 00:14:07,519 athletes with differences of sexual development or DSD. Did you 268 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,039 know that? Did you know that was a thing? I 269 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:14,639 did not know that was a thing? DSD differences of 270 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:22,440 sexual development after the boxing furor at Paris twenty twenty four. So, 271 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:26,600 according to The Daily Mail, under the existing rules, each 272 00:14:26,799 --> 00:14:30,279 sport is empowered to decide if transgender women, so in 273 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:35,639 other words, men can compete if they're testosterone levels fall 274 00:14:35,679 --> 00:14:41,759 below a designated threshold. But the International Olympic Committee, under 275 00:14:41,799 --> 00:14:46,600 new president Christy Coventry, is in discussions about a dramatic 276 00:14:46,759 --> 00:14:51,440 policy shift that would impose a blanket ban across all 277 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:56,879 sports for the Los Angeles Games. Such a move would 278 00:14:56,879 --> 00:15:01,679 prevent the kind of scenario that saw Laurel Hubbard contest 279 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:06,120 the weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics in twenty twenty one. 280 00:15:06,919 --> 00:15:10,200 Hubbard transitioned in twenty twelve, so a dude won the 281 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:15,840 weightlifting the women's weightlifting competition. While Olympics sources have confirmed 282 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,600 that such a measure is very much the quote direction 283 00:15:19,879 --> 00:15:24,320 of travel, it is highly unlikely to come into force 284 00:15:24,879 --> 00:15:31,480 before the Winter Olympics in Italy next February. So we 285 00:15:31,559 --> 00:15:36,879 got to do this with baby steps here, okay, baby steps, 286 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,679 So we can't possibly do this for the next Winter Olympics. 287 00:15:40,759 --> 00:15:44,399 So guys, if you want to compete win a gold, 288 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:49,559 this is your last chance. Winter Olympics in Italy. One 289 00:15:49,639 --> 00:15:53,159 report suggested that a rule change could be announced in February, 290 00:15:53,159 --> 00:15:55,600 but insiders say it could take between six months and 291 00:15:55,679 --> 00:16:01,080 a year for it to be approved and cleared. This 292 00:16:01,159 --> 00:16:06,639 is it's going to take a while. Apparently I did see. 293 00:16:09,799 --> 00:16:12,000 Let's see here, I'm because like this just came down. 294 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:17,559 This just broke, an IOC statement to the Daily Mail 295 00:16:17,639 --> 00:16:21,960 sport Raids quote. An update was given by the IOC's 296 00:16:22,039 --> 00:16:25,639 Director of Health, Medicine and Science to the IOC members 297 00:16:25,759 --> 00:16:29,960 last week during the IOC Commission meetings. The Working Group 298 00:16:30,039 --> 00:16:33,080 is continuing its discussions on this topic and no decisions 299 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:39,600 have been taken yet. Because I saw there was a 300 00:16:44,159 --> 00:16:49,080 there was this because the headline that I saw, I mean, look, 301 00:16:49,279 --> 00:16:51,360 if they do this, this is the right decision. So 302 00:16:51,399 --> 00:16:54,240 I don't want to drag them too hard, although you know, 303 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:58,440 them dragging their feet on this is a little weird. 304 00:16:58,559 --> 00:17:03,879 Oh yeah, IOC likely to announce new policy early in 305 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:09,359 New year after findings of a scientific review about the 306 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:19,279 permanent physical advantages of being born male. It took a 307 00:17:19,519 --> 00:17:24,279 super scientific review to figure that one out for the IOC, Hey, 308 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:27,400 you know what progresses progress? I guess you know. Stories 309 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:29,640 are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to 310 00:17:29,759 --> 00:17:33,160 understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our 311 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,720 past while transcending generations. 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I figured, uh start 330 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,279 off by saying I lost the training. 331 00:18:39,319 --> 00:18:42,519 Speaker 1: To thall, that's not a good way to start. That 332 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:43,599 is definitely not. 333 00:18:45,839 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 3: And I want to talk about the last forty days 334 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:50,799 and kind of I missed the first half of the program. 335 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:54,400 Speaker 1: Oh that was the best, but listen, listen, I had. 336 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 3: I had to go over some play though I'm sitting 337 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,640 or listen to some of that to understand and it's 338 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,920 gonna add to the program later. I saw the same 339 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,279 and the only person from five to so I say 340 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:09,160 curse a WBT in the in the context of from 341 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:13,319 five am to nine pm, I could be up listening 342 00:19:13,279 --> 00:19:14,960 to the whole entire time. I drive a dump truck. 343 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:15,640 It's easy to do. 344 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 1: Yeah. 345 00:19:16,279 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 3: So the last person that I would not listen to 346 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:19,720 is you. 347 00:19:20,079 --> 00:19:21,839 Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so. 348 00:19:22,599 --> 00:19:24,279 Speaker 3: But anyway, in relation to the last forty days, I 349 00:19:24,279 --> 00:19:26,279 don't know if you went over kind of an analysis 350 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,400 or an overview of the last forty days, and I 351 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:32,720 got a couple of questions in relation to polling, and 352 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:35,279 I'm feeling because I'm not looking at the pulling. If 353 00:19:35,279 --> 00:19:37,519 I had gone over the and you had been keeping 354 00:19:37,599 --> 00:19:39,519 up with the pulling right over the last forty days, 355 00:19:39,519 --> 00:19:41,319 and where are don or the pols? 356 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,039 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like, well, I don't. I don't talk 357 00:19:44,079 --> 00:19:48,400 about pulling. Uh. I don't talk about it as like, oh, 358 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,240 there's a new poll out today and it shows this. 359 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,680 I am more interested in trend lines of polling, you know, 360 00:19:53,759 --> 00:19:57,160 because that I think is more instructive than a single snapshot. 361 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,480 So if like you see movement away from you know, 362 00:20:01,559 --> 00:20:05,440 one candidate, like that's more instructive than just the individual 363 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:07,480 poll on any given day, if that makes sense. 364 00:20:07,799 --> 00:20:10,559 Speaker 3: All right, So yeah, I get that. So in the 365 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,279 last forty days, if I had looked at the polling, 366 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,799 what I've seen the court of public opinion seeing that 367 00:20:16,839 --> 00:20:20,720 the Republicans aren't responsible for me cut down in the no. 368 00:20:21,599 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: The polling would indicate that people were blaming Republicans and 369 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,960 that's why Democrats were continuing to not vote for the 370 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:30,920 clean c R. 371 00:20:32,079 --> 00:20:35,039 Speaker 3: Okay, So okay, Then my next question in relation to 372 00:20:35,039 --> 00:20:39,440 the Democrat party. I would see the SUMER side of 373 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,039 being looking at the polling and kind of knowing where 374 00:20:42,039 --> 00:20:46,440 it's going, but the AOC side would be kind of 375 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,880 like ignoring this if I'm maybe I'm wrong, maybe she 376 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,920 does and I'm trying to fit. I was wanting to 377 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:55,400 know kind of what there their their long range go 378 00:20:55,559 --> 00:21:00,000 on that they would they wanted the one point five. 379 00:21:00,839 --> 00:21:03,400 Speaker 1: So there is the first mistake. There was no long 380 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:07,039 term goal. That they didn't have one. That was their 381 00:21:07,079 --> 00:21:08,519 problem and that's why it failed. 382 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,279 Speaker 3: So the leftists, so the leftists really didn't expect to 383 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:13,839 get anything out of it. 384 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 1: No, they they they were happy with it being shut 385 00:21:17,319 --> 00:21:20,359 down because they thought that they could then use that 386 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,119 as leverage to make Republicans do things that Republicans have 387 00:21:24,599 --> 00:21:30,160 always opposed, namely the subsidies for Obamacare and snap benefits 388 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,400 for legal aliens. That was what the left is. 389 00:21:32,839 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, and I heard them say that. I mean, it's 390 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,079 a couple of people saying, of course correct, but okay, 391 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:41,920 so and they thought that, but okay, So my question 392 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,519 now is what changed? So when when the elections happened 393 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,640 and then they're there's the media is thrown out that 394 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:54,759 it's going to be bad for Republicans in like nationally, 395 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:59,440 and we're clapping back like that. They were expected to 396 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,680 win those so it doesn't mean anything the leftist looking 397 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,519 at that and saying that's going to push that's going 398 00:22:05,559 --> 00:22:08,480 to push Republicans to go for this right. Yeah, so 399 00:22:08,599 --> 00:22:09,279 get that right. 400 00:22:09,519 --> 00:22:12,799 Speaker 1: That was well, so that was what the more radical 401 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,680 elements in the Democrat Party were. And then layer into that, 402 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,839 then you've got sort of the establishment Democrats, guys like 403 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:23,759 Chuck Schumer, and they had gotten they took massive hits 404 00:22:23,799 --> 00:22:27,519 in their support among Democrat voters when they passed the 405 00:22:27,559 --> 00:22:31,480 Clean cr like six months ago, whatever it was that 406 00:22:31,519 --> 00:22:33,559 got us to this point. When they signed on and 407 00:22:33,559 --> 00:22:38,599 did that, the radicals in the Democrat Party went nuts. 408 00:22:38,839 --> 00:22:43,960 And Schumer's polling is now somewhere in like the like 409 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,920 fifteen to twenty percent range among Democrats in New York. 410 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:48,039 Speaker 2: Like. 411 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 1: So he's worried about his re election being upended in 412 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,839 a Democrat primary by the more radical elements in the 413 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:02,400 Democrat Party that would vote for AOC, the Democrats socialist candidate, 414 00:23:02,599 --> 00:23:05,319 that they would vote for her and oust him. He 415 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,960 comes out of this, he voted no, So he still 416 00:23:08,039 --> 00:23:12,279 voted no, but he allowed you know, eight Democrats to 417 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:16,200 vote yes to end the filibuster. So he even then 418 00:23:16,279 --> 00:23:19,240 he's taken a hit now because all the lefties are 419 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,720 like he either a is not keeping his people in line, 420 00:23:22,759 --> 00:23:25,960 so he's a bad leader, or B he orchestrated this 421 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,079 whole thing so he could still vote no and they 422 00:23:29,079 --> 00:23:31,119 could vote yes and the government could reopen. 423 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,359 Speaker 3: Okay, So he flipped the switch there. So that's the 424 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,799 only thing that happened is they didn't gain anything nationally 425 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,000 from the past election, so he finally had to flip 426 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,279 the switch. It's like, just let's pass this, let's get 427 00:23:43,279 --> 00:23:44,799 it back, right, So he was right. 428 00:23:44,839 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: So yea, So they wanted they wanted the base motivated. 429 00:23:49,519 --> 00:23:52,240 They wanted them not to target Democrats during the No 430 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,559 King's rally. Then came the election, and they wanted them 431 00:23:55,599 --> 00:23:59,480 motivated to turn out because the Democrats are quote fighting 432 00:24:00,519 --> 00:24:03,519 and uh that and so that's why the weekend after 433 00:24:03,559 --> 00:24:06,920 the election is when the Democrats are allowed to now 434 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:08,759 vote to end the filibuster. 435 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 3: So Schumer's up for re election win. 436 00:24:12,759 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: Next year, I believe next year. 437 00:24:14,759 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 3: I'm so I'm gonna assume because I don't think he 438 00:24:18,319 --> 00:24:19,839 pulled around. So I think he's going. 439 00:24:19,839 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 1: To just reply, right, that's where we said. Yeah, so 440 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,720 we covered so the first two hours of the show today, 441 00:24:24,839 --> 00:24:28,039 if you go back and pull the podcast, yeah we went. 442 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,920 We went through all of that. Yeah, so and that's 443 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:35,119 and that's now. I think Schumer's big dilemma is, you know, 444 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,799 if he's looking at polling and that's that shows he's 445 00:24:37,839 --> 00:24:41,440 in trouble for re election, does he just say I'm retiring, Like. 446 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, I got it. Let me just finished my saying 447 00:24:45,079 --> 00:24:49,200 that I know I'm an alpha mal so on, no way, 448 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:54,079 throw out the word. What does the word work? I've 449 00:24:54,079 --> 00:24:54,680 lost the word. 450 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:58,559 Speaker 1: Now we're full circle. We've come full circle. You lost 451 00:24:58,559 --> 00:25:02,160 your thought right to the and now it's at the end. 452 00:25:02,279 --> 00:25:05,319 You've it's in comedy, we call that a callback. That's 453 00:25:05,319 --> 00:25:05,839 what you've done. 454 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 3: I say, I'm just saying I am in no way 455 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,359 saying that I have a man cross. That's all I'm playing. 456 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,359 All right, Well, fair enough, thank you, thank you, you 457 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:14,039 brought me around. 458 00:25:14,039 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 1: Thank you all right, buddy, Yeah, have a great day. 459 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,880 Thanks for listening. I appreciate the call. Here's a great idea. 460 00:25:19,039 --> 00:25:21,799 How about making an escape to a really special and 461 00:25:21,839 --> 00:25:25,000 secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 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Selection for the 489 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:15,240 jury began on Monday. They wrapped up Friday morning and 490 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,279 then immediately went into opening statements. The prosecution was the 491 00:27:18,279 --> 00:27:23,200 first first up. They say Brooks only had ten seconds 492 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,400 of interaction with his killers. This is a story at 493 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:32,279 wbtv dot com by Brandy Beard. The prosecution said they 494 00:27:32,319 --> 00:27:38,440 ambushed him on both sides. Assistant DA Heidi Pearlman trying 495 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,160 the case, making the opening arguments. Pearlman also detailed the 496 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:46,160 prosecution's plan to introduce cell phone data that she claimed 497 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,759 would tie both men to the area of the sandwich 498 00:27:48,759 --> 00:27:54,079 shop around the time of the shooting. Connor's defense because 499 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:59,680 they're both being tried together. Connor's defense went next, asking 500 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:05,440 not to be fooled by the evidence. Don't be fooled 501 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:10,000 by the evidence people, reiterating that the burden of proof 502 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:15,000 lay on the prosecution. Well, that part's true. Staples defense 503 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:20,440 argued that quote close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. No, 504 00:28:20,519 --> 00:28:24,200 I'm just a country lawyer, saying the use of cell 505 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,079 phone data can only show areas close to where a 506 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:32,720 person was, not an exact time and location. Quote. Just 507 00:28:32,759 --> 00:28:35,640 as important as what the state is going to present 508 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,000 to you is what the state is not going to 509 00:28:38,039 --> 00:28:40,599 present to you. And some of this was discussed in 510 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,599 jury's selection, because the state is not going to have 511 00:28:44,319 --> 00:28:49,720 a murder weapon. By the way, don't need the murder weapon. 512 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,759 It's helpful, don't get me wrong. Any piece of evidence 513 00:28:52,839 --> 00:28:58,319 linking the murderer to the crime definitely helpful, but not necessary. 514 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:05,599 Not necessary. Shortly after opening statements, prosecutors showed body cam 515 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,960 footage from a CMPD officer who responded to Brooks sandwich 516 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,319 house on the morning of the murder. It was an 517 00:29:12,319 --> 00:29:14,880 emotional moment for several of the family members of the 518 00:29:15,119 --> 00:29:21,359 victim who wept obviously at this video seeing their loved one, 519 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,720 his twin brother, David Brooks. Scott's twin brother, David Brooks 520 00:29:25,759 --> 00:29:29,799 also testified Friday afternoon, telling the court that Scott had 521 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,759 visited him to check on him after David had suffered 522 00:29:32,759 --> 00:29:35,640 a bad back injury, and that was the last time 523 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:40,839 that the twin brother spoke. So Staples was charged with murder, 524 00:29:41,039 --> 00:29:43,920 robbery with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery with 525 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,799 a dangerous weapon, kidnapping, and possession of a firearm by 526 00:29:46,839 --> 00:29:51,359 a convicted felon. Connor was charged with murder, robbery with 527 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,519 a dangerous weapon, first degree kidnapping, and possession of a 528 00:29:54,519 --> 00:29:59,960 firearm by a felon. Brooks sandwich shop opened its door 529 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:05,079 in nineteen seventy three. It's been a Charlotte staple ever since. 530 00:30:05,359 --> 00:30:09,200 The twin brothers, David and Scott took over the business 531 00:30:10,559 --> 00:30:13,599 some years ago, and Scott was killed while opening the 532 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,799 restaurant six years ago. That's how long this case has 533 00:30:16,839 --> 00:30:20,160 taken to get to trial. Charlotte Meckelburg. Police said the 534 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,079 situation started as a robbery as the restaurant was known 535 00:30:23,119 --> 00:30:26,640 to handle cash. The suspects made out with about one 536 00:30:26,759 --> 00:30:31,599 hundred dollars. Connor was the first suspect arrested in March 537 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:36,799 of twenty twenty. Staples was then charged in November twenty twenty, 538 00:30:37,079 --> 00:30:41,640 but he was already in custody in connection with another murder. 539 00:30:42,319 --> 00:30:45,599 Police called the pair partners in crime, alleging their involvement 540 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:50,400 with other robberies and homicides in this same area. Staples 541 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:56,400 alone was accused of killing five people between December twenty 542 00:30:56,519 --> 00:31:02,599 nineteen and January twenty twenty. He's accused of killing five 543 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:08,039 people over a one and a half month period, and 544 00:31:08,079 --> 00:31:13,720 by the way that information will be permitted, they will 545 00:31:13,799 --> 00:31:18,680 get to use another deadly shooting as evidence in this trial. 546 00:31:21,039 --> 00:31:25,240 Jury selection comes or Sorry. This is another story at 547 00:31:25,279 --> 00:31:30,680 WSOCTV from last week where Judge lou Trosh ruled that 548 00:31:30,759 --> 00:31:36,279 prosecutors can talk about a double shooting double murder from 549 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,759 January twenty twenty, which was thirty two days after Brooks 550 00:31:40,839 --> 00:31:44,640 was killed. These two have extensive criminal backgrounds and are 551 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:52,440 connected to several homicides. They've got investigators that Staples became 552 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,119 a suspect in December twenty three, twenty nineteen, in the 553 00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:01,240 slaying of Anthony Leaks in Charlotte, and they were also 554 00:32:01,359 --> 00:32:05,680 charged in a double homicide involving Asa Shannon and Chavon Joseph, 555 00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:08,599 who were found dead in a suv along with Tondo 556 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,960 Avenue January eleventh. Both were shot in the head and 557 00:32:13,119 --> 00:32:17,079 police believe that they were first robbed and then they 558 00:32:17,079 --> 00:32:21,000 were murdered, so there would be no witnesses. We'll keep 559 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,240 you updated on this track. All right, that'll do it 560 00:32:24,279 --> 00:32:26,880 for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I 561 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,039 could not do the show without your support and the 562 00:32:29,079 --> 00:32:32,119 support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so 563 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,279 if you'd like, please support them too and tell them 564 00:32:34,319 --> 00:32:36,279 you heard it here. You can also become a patron 565 00:32:36,359 --> 00:32:40,559 at my Patreon page or go to vpetecallanershow dot com. Again, 566 00:32:40,799 --> 00:32:43,359 thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything 567 00:32:43,359 --> 00:32:48,000 while I'm gone.