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 --> 00:00:18,719 I daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to dpekclendarshow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet, And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:28,320 much for your support. 10 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 2: Kind Of to kick things off, I'm gonna take a 11 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:35,079 step back. When I listen to a lot, you know, 12 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,200 I don't listen to too much of it. I try to. 13 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,320 I do more reading than I know. It's hard to believe. 14 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:41,719 Even my friends are mace. I do more reading than talking. 15 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,159 I even't talked to myself. By the way, for those 16 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,039 of you who do, who have that InterVoice, you're likely 17 00:00:47,079 --> 00:00:50,799 to be more creative problem solvers because you run through scenarios, 18 00:00:50,799 --> 00:00:54,000 you run through you're you're constantly criticizing yourself. It's not 19 00:00:54,119 --> 00:00:57,159 having a multiple personality, it's just the way your brain 20 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:00,399 kind of clicks along. So having said that, I was 21 00:01:00,399 --> 00:01:05,159 doing a hike this morning and I was cogitating as 22 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:11,719 I perambulated and was thinking in terms of why we 23 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:14,640 find ourselves so far apart on a couple of things. 24 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,480 And to me, it's not so much partisan. It expresses 25 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:24,439 itself in Trumpian terms. It expresses itself in partisanship to 26 00:01:24,519 --> 00:01:29,280 a degree, but that's not That's how it comes across. 27 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:34,280 But that is not the underlying problems. In my opinion. 28 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,920 This is me, so you'll just have to bear with it, 29 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:42,920 and it is that we as a nation typically endeavor 30 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,920 to solve great problems. Now here's the reality of what 31 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,879 I'm about to say on that front, is that usually, 32 00:01:51,359 --> 00:01:57,439 historically speaking, we recognize the problems regardless of our perspective. 33 00:01:58,239 --> 00:02:02,120 In other words, I could say, right now, all of you, 34 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:06,400 you know, left leaning democrats or leftists, you want, I 35 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,360 would say, you want a safe neighborhood. If you and 36 00:02:08,439 --> 00:02:11,759 I were if we were neighbors, if we were neighbors 37 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,360 out on the street and our kids were planned, you 38 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,719 would want a safe neighborhood for your kids. You would 39 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:22,919 want good schools, you would want good roads, you would 40 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,319 want many of the same things. We would see many 41 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:30,639 of the issues. Likewise, Now, when we get to larger issues, 42 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,080 this is where we have a divorce. But let's go 43 00:02:33,159 --> 00:02:35,360 back in time a little bit. When the Framers were 44 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:40,080 creating the country. Even Thomas Jefferson, an owner of Slaves 45 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,520 by the Way, recognize that the issue of slavery needed 46 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,319 to be dealt with. But the only way to get 47 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,800 the Southern States to sign it and move forward and 48 00:02:47,879 --> 00:02:51,560 separate divorce from Great Britain was to not deal with 49 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:54,240 that issue. They many of them, knew this is a 50 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:58,759 problem moving forward. When we get to the eighteen sixties 51 00:02:59,599 --> 00:03:02,520 and all of this was percolating up, it was an 52 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:07,039 unsustainable problem. And the divorce happened, and it was violent 53 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:11,080 and it was horrific, But the divorce happened. Whether a 54 00:03:11,159 --> 00:03:13,240 state could leave the union was another one that was 55 00:03:15,199 --> 00:03:20,319 tested horrifically. The issue of slavery. It gets settled. We 56 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,000 move forward as a nation. We recognize and then the 57 00:03:23,039 --> 00:03:26,199 beauty of our nation is that we look back and go, Yep, 58 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,680 it was bad. We came together as a nation afterwards 59 00:03:30,719 --> 00:03:34,520 and we rectified this and women's suffrage, we moved through 60 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,840 to civil rights. All these we recognize pretty universally that 61 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,840 these are problems. I mean, there's you know, fringy people 62 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:43,560 that want to push back on these things, but we 63 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:49,039 general and we move forward. Hiptop diplomacy of Vietnam horrible, terrible. 64 00:03:49,039 --> 00:03:51,599 Hopefully we never do it again. Learned a lot, although 65 00:03:51,599 --> 00:03:55,800 we get involved in these intractable situations in Afghanistan and 66 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,039 we learn a little bit. But at least we let 67 00:03:59,039 --> 00:04:01,719 the military kind of deal with the targeting over in Afghanistan. 68 00:04:01,719 --> 00:04:04,800 We didn't do it in a boardroom, but I digress. 69 00:04:06,759 --> 00:04:11,719 We endeavored to solve great problems, the civil rights legislation 70 00:04:11,759 --> 00:04:14,639 of the sixties, even the creation of the Great Society. 71 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:19,560 There was a lot of recognition across the spectrum about 72 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,720 what the problems we saw, we solve them. We wanted 73 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,920 to solve them differently, but we wanted to solve them. Nonetheless. 74 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,240 One of the greatest unity moments early before nine eleven 75 00:04:30,319 --> 00:04:35,000 was Kennedy's Moonshot. So Kennedy comes along and in nineteen 76 00:04:35,079 --> 00:04:37,560 sixty one says, hey, you know, before the end of 77 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,800 this decade, we endeavored to put a man on the moon. 78 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,439 Now he didn't say bring him home, but that was 79 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:46,199 part of the solar We had to get him there. 80 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:47,839 But we have to get him home. We're not even 81 00:04:47,879 --> 00:04:50,959 going to strand him up there and thank you, mankind. 82 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:52,639 You die on the moon, but you did it. So 83 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,199 we had to get him there and back. So but 84 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,279 that was a great that was a huge endeavor that 85 00:04:56,439 --> 00:05:03,360 from a technological standpoint still stands as a magnificent accomplishment 86 00:05:03,399 --> 00:05:06,800 of mankind. And I say humankind for those of you 87 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:11,360 who are offended, but mankind. So we spend the better 88 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,680 part of that decade, and in nineteen sixteen it was 89 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,600 an artificial deadline, Kennedy said, by the end of this decade, 90 00:05:16,639 --> 00:05:19,480 and everyone took that seriously. So we have identified the problem. 91 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:20,839 What's the problem? We want to get a man to 92 00:05:20,879 --> 00:05:22,800 the moon. How do we do that? We've got when's 93 00:05:22,879 --> 00:05:24,839 the timeline? End of the decade? Okay, so we got 94 00:05:24,879 --> 00:05:26,959 to the end of nineteen sixty nine to get a 95 00:05:26,959 --> 00:05:29,319 man on the moon and back. How do we do that? 96 00:05:29,759 --> 00:05:32,720 Everyone comes together, and believe you me, they had debates, 97 00:05:32,759 --> 00:05:35,920 they had disagreements. A lot of those these people that 98 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,439 came together to solve this problem. And you saw a 99 00:05:39,439 --> 00:05:41,160 lot of that in the Apollo thirteen movie or if 100 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:43,199 you're familiar with that story, with duct tape and square 101 00:05:43,199 --> 00:05:46,040 boxes and round holes and stuff like that. But the 102 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,759 issue was you disagree, but the goal is this. The 103 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,800 problem is how to get them there and back, regardless 104 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,800 of your background. That's you know, we didn't disagree about that, 105 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,920 but we start rolling forward and we get to the 106 00:06:00,079 --> 00:06:03,160 point now. And it wasn't all at once that we 107 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:09,720 don't tend to recognize that certain things are problems the border. 108 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,199 If you lean right at all, you fully embrace and 109 00:06:13,319 --> 00:06:18,199 recognize that the border situation was untenable, it was unacceptable, 110 00:06:18,439 --> 00:06:22,639 it was a problem. We had hundreds of known people 111 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,600 on the terrorists watch lists that we encountered and caught. 112 00:06:25,879 --> 00:06:27,920 We don't know how many made it into the country, 113 00:06:28,319 --> 00:06:31,199 but that should have been and should be to this 114 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,240 day something that the political left goes, that's a problem. 115 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:37,120 We want to solve it now. What they did was 116 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:39,879 they repackaged it and put it out there for you saying, look, 117 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,120 Congress has a plan, and Donald Trump's trying to stop 118 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:46,279 the immigration plan. But that was too little, too late. 119 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,360 Number one. You know, if your boat is taking on 120 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,000 water and getting ready to sink, you stop the boat 121 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,879 from sinking before you go through the iterations of passing 122 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,959 a bill. You have to deal with the boat sinking first. 123 00:07:00,439 --> 00:07:02,759 And that's what the executive branch tried to convince you, 124 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:06,279 the American public, we can't do anything. That's what Congress 125 00:07:06,319 --> 00:07:07,839 has to do. We now know that was a lie. 126 00:07:08,519 --> 00:07:10,319 We now know, I don't care what your political party 127 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:11,800 or leanings are, we know that was a lie. The 128 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,560 immigration situation, that the executive branch of government responsible for 129 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,279 securing the country lie to the American public. 130 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: We don't know. 131 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:20,639 Speaker 2: We don't even know who was in charge of that lie. 132 00:07:21,399 --> 00:07:24,519 We know it wasn't the president, but it was a lie. 133 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,279 So when you step down from the executive level and 134 00:07:29,319 --> 00:07:32,160 you go, okay, well we can't seem to agree on that. 135 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:33,800 You look at the local level and you look at 136 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,399 big cities and rural America and this stuff. We all 137 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,279 heretofore agreed that we wanted safe communities, We wanted to 138 00:07:41,399 --> 00:07:44,519 enforce the law. We you know, the left would say, hey, 139 00:07:44,519 --> 00:07:46,759 we need to be a little more you know, sensitive 140 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,000 to racial issues, cultural issues, whatever, but the laws of law. 141 00:07:50,079 --> 00:07:50,279 Speaker 3: Right. 142 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 2: But what we see is a divorce on that as well, 143 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,680 where large cities like la would say, hey or New 144 00:07:56,759 --> 00:07:58,920 York cash list, fail you commit a crime, will bail 145 00:07:58,959 --> 00:08:02,879 you out no cash. You know, if you steal in la. 146 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:04,839 If it's blow a thousand dollars for really, that's a mission, 147 00:08:04,839 --> 00:08:07,480 We're not going to really and charge that. So those 148 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:12,680 two policies encouraged rampant criminal activity. We no longer find 149 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,600 ourselves in agreement with the political left on crime. So 150 00:08:16,839 --> 00:08:21,240 issue after issue after issue, we find ourselves a chasm, 151 00:08:21,279 --> 00:08:23,240 a grand canyon, if you will, that is both wide 152 00:08:23,279 --> 00:08:23,680 and deep. 153 00:08:24,279 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to 154 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,519 a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 155 00:08:30,639 --> 00:08:32,799 Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of 156 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:37,200 Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, 157 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,480 maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get 158 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,399 family and friends together for a big old reunion. 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You know, when 177 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:47,200 you and your significant other, if you're if you're fortunate 178 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:48,960 enough or unfortunate enough to be in one of those 179 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:53,799 situations you like to and when you are most successful 180 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:55,639 is when you're functioning as a team. And there's no 181 00:09:55,639 --> 00:09:57,600 way anyone's going to convince me that any couple of 182 00:09:57,639 --> 00:10:00,679 any size or model or shape gets along all the 183 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,600 time they do. There's some serious underlying problems there that 184 00:10:03,639 --> 00:10:06,600 are being not being addressed. They generally bump up, you 185 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,559 kind of move forward, and when you when you find 186 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,120 a way to move forward, that's when you're your strongest. 187 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:17,399 That's why married couples tend to do much better financially, 188 00:10:17,519 --> 00:10:22,279 is because they're moving ahead together and in society. Though, 189 00:10:22,279 --> 00:10:23,480 when I went to the break, I was talking about 190 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,840 the situation in like La or New York where I mean, 191 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:28,679 there was a shooting in Philadelphi last night. It was 192 00:10:28,919 --> 00:10:31,360 unflipp and believable, and someone taped it. I don't know 193 00:10:31,399 --> 00:10:33,360 if it was a ring doorbell camera or someone on 194 00:10:33,399 --> 00:10:35,799 their phone, but there were like fifteen people on a 195 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,039 front porch. They were like Uzzi's being pulled out. And 196 00:10:39,039 --> 00:10:40,639 I didn't mean to say the word like I really 197 00:10:40,639 --> 00:10:44,000 despise that in modern society's way too many. But there 198 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:49,360 were guns similar to Uzzi's, these highly automatic weapons. There 199 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,240 must have been, you know, eight hundred to one thousand 200 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,240 rounds discharged handguns going in one direction, and the other 201 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,799 people trying to take shelter under the brick wall of 202 00:10:58,919 --> 00:11:01,360 the porch that about two and a half the climbing 203 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:07,320 over that. It was this primitive warfare with guns that 204 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,399 was taking place. Thousands of rounds so I didn't mean 205 00:11:11,399 --> 00:11:14,039 to distract, but it's the we talk about neighborhood safety. 206 00:11:14,039 --> 00:11:17,720 Nobody wants that in their neighborhood. We find ourselves in 207 00:11:17,799 --> 00:11:22,840 society at this huge divorce. Not even we don't want 208 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:24,799 to be them. We're trying to keep from being divorced. 209 00:11:24,799 --> 00:11:27,120 You know, you hear people saying, hey, California is just 210 00:11:27,159 --> 00:11:29,480 a seed. We should cheer off the left coast, you know, 211 00:11:29,519 --> 00:11:32,279 get Oregon, Washington, and California and then get rid of 212 00:11:32,279 --> 00:11:34,480 some of those Northeast states. That's not the way we 213 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,240 solve problems. That's the ease that. It's the modern way, 214 00:11:37,279 --> 00:11:40,639 isn't it. Marriages are very much not all that sacred anymore. 215 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:42,600 It was like, oh, you can do better, grass is 216 00:11:42,639 --> 00:11:45,519 always greener, and and it's never it never is, oh 217 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:47,240 you can get rid of that guy, get rid of 218 00:11:47,279 --> 00:11:48,799 that girl, you can do better. Oh my gosh. Look, 219 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:50,919 being single is great. It's really not. And it's usually 220 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,200 your single frustrated friends that will tell you stuff like that. 221 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,320 It's an abdication of responsibility. And I'm not saying all 222 00:11:57,399 --> 00:12:00,519 because there are domestic violence situations. There are, There are 223 00:12:00,519 --> 00:12:03,799 a thousand different things that cause but in general there 224 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:05,600 are a lot of them that are just people that 225 00:12:05,639 --> 00:12:07,600 don't want to solve problems. They don't want to take 226 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:09,799 it seriously. There's a degree of narcissism at work. They 227 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:13,759 think they can always do better instead of pushing through 228 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,399 and solving the problem. And that's where we find ourselves 229 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:19,720 Republicans and Democrats in many ways. And I used to 230 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:22,759 I used to frustrate for friends and enemies, like I 231 00:12:22,759 --> 00:12:25,120 guess when I would give speeches all over the state 232 00:12:25,159 --> 00:12:27,360 and I would say, you ever notice that a nego. 233 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:31,399 Here's the problem with freedom, and it is that we 234 00:12:31,519 --> 00:12:34,279 exist somewhat in a natural free state. You know, we're 235 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,039 endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, and a 236 00:12:37,039 --> 00:12:39,000 lot of that is delineated in the Constitution. We have 237 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,559 the freedom to pursue things as long as we're not 238 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,879 hurting other people. You have the right to pursue free freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom. 239 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,679 Whenever there's a negotiation, Hey, you need to compromise. Whenever 240 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,879 there's a negotiating negotiations with the left. It is generally 241 00:12:52,919 --> 00:12:56,399 in this way abortion being kind of the outlier here, 242 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:02,559 but speaking in terms of just absolute freedom, the compromise 243 00:13:02,639 --> 00:13:05,759 with the left is always you on the right need 244 00:13:05,759 --> 00:13:10,279 to give up some freedoms for us to enact our legislation. 245 00:13:10,879 --> 00:13:13,600 Every compromise is about giving up. You want higher to 246 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:15,960 they want higher taxes. You want lower taxes. And when 247 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,480 they enact a higher tax they're encroaching on you on 248 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,679 property rights when they say, well, we need to enact 249 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,240 all these government regulations on your property, that's an erosion 250 00:13:24,279 --> 00:13:28,279 of So every negotiation is an erosion of freedom in 251 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:30,759 the modern era. And I think the right has just 252 00:13:30,799 --> 00:13:33,559 reached a point where we're done. We've given and given 253 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:35,480 and given, and you guys, and there's never it's never 254 00:13:35,519 --> 00:13:39,039 a there's never stopping point with you. You guys never 255 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:43,399 say Okay, we're good. We don't have to deal with 256 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:47,399 this issue again. In fact, Governor Youngkin in Virginia, you 257 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:48,720 know it's not in the media here, but if you're 258 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:51,960 following politics in Virginia, he has done a phenomenal job 259 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,519 of gutting regulations. I think he's gone through the books 260 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:57,159 and gotten rid of about twenty five percent of all 261 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,279 their existing regulations on the books, which just show society 262 00:14:01,279 --> 00:14:03,039 doesn't fall apart if you get rid of a lot 263 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,080 of those. In North Carolina, we needed to do the same. 264 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,600 We have many outdated regulations, many that are duplicative. We 265 00:14:08,639 --> 00:14:11,279 have many that serve no useful purpose. They have many 266 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:15,159 they are outdated. Many of our environmental regulations no longer 267 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,600 serve the purpose of protecting you and I. They don't. 268 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:22,919 They don't protect me, they don't protect you. They're just there, 269 00:14:23,279 --> 00:14:28,159 and in fact they're corrosive. So that would be a 270 00:14:28,159 --> 00:14:30,840 great endeavor for Bleft and Right to go through and say, hey, 271 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,840 what are the regulations that no longer serve a useful purpose, 272 00:14:33,879 --> 00:14:35,919 but are there nonetheless and are forcing our citizens to 273 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:37,759 comply with, which is a cost of money, which is 274 00:14:37,759 --> 00:14:41,480 a boat anchor on the economy. I said that in 275 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,519 a long winded way, so that was kind of the 276 00:14:45,519 --> 00:14:46,759 start of the show. I didn't mean to go on 277 00:14:46,799 --> 00:14:48,600 that long about it, but I wanted to frame it 278 00:14:48,639 --> 00:14:51,000 in a way that I felt was very fair. Public safety, 279 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,279 border security, even the trans issue in women's sports, that 280 00:14:54,360 --> 00:15:00,159 should not be a disagreement. Anybody with enough brain capacity 281 00:15:00,879 --> 00:15:04,600 to walk upright, should easily be able to say, you 282 00:15:04,639 --> 00:15:08,559 know what, X Y chromosome can't compete with XX chromosome. 283 00:15:08,919 --> 00:15:14,200 The advantages are too great. Period. It the political left 284 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:15,960 should say, you know what, that's a bridge too far 285 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,039 for even us. Let's deal with that issue and get 286 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:21,720 it off the table. But no, they can't do that, 287 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:27,440 and that's come on, Your girls are competing on I look, 288 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:29,399 if you go to lacrosse, if you've ever been to lacrosse, 289 00:15:29,399 --> 00:15:32,759 can you look at seventeen year olds play lacrosse? Look 290 00:15:32,759 --> 00:15:36,120 at the girls and guys. It's a chasm. It is 291 00:15:36,159 --> 00:15:38,559 a vast difference. The guys are fully padded, they got 292 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,159 helmets on. They run faster, they throw stronger, they hit harder. 293 00:15:41,639 --> 00:15:45,679 Girls across very different. They don't even wear helmets. But 294 00:15:45,759 --> 00:15:48,399 you put an X Y chromoson on that field, they 295 00:15:48,399 --> 00:15:54,039 will dominate, they will destroy, They will absolutely wipe the field. 296 00:15:54,799 --> 00:15:58,320 And it is this shouldn't be again if you can 297 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,039 walk up right even again, you know you're picking on 298 00:16:02,159 --> 00:16:04,720 people that can't welcoup. You pick on a governor ab 299 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,480 it from Texas. No, come on, let's have a little 300 00:16:08,519 --> 00:16:12,240 bit more sense. You're kind of defeating of things about 301 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,799 being upright. So the point being, we need to get 302 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:17,519 we need to get passed some of these things. I 303 00:16:17,559 --> 00:16:18,720 don't know how we do. I don't know how the 304 00:16:18,799 --> 00:16:22,159 left ever comes back. They've been given such a pass 305 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,679 for so long that you watch these videos, they're absolutely 306 00:16:25,799 --> 00:16:28,639 these people are melting down and their perspective is wrong, 307 00:16:29,039 --> 00:16:32,600 their facts are wrong, their their knowledge is wrong. Maybe 308 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,679 it's a failure of the public education system, maybe it's 309 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,639 the parents, maybe it's both. But we've got it. We've 310 00:16:37,679 --> 00:16:40,799 got to start solving the large problems in life, and 311 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:42,200 we've got to be on the at least the same 312 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,480 page where we can have the debates. If you identify 313 00:16:44,519 --> 00:16:46,759 the problem, you're ninety percent on the way to solving it. 314 00:16:47,159 --> 00:16:48,960 Just identify the problem, all right. 315 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:50,799 Speaker 1: If you're listening to this show, you know I try 316 00:16:50,799 --> 00:16:52,600 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 317 00:16:52,639 --> 00:16:54,679 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 318 00:16:54,759 --> 00:16:57,320 say get your news from multiple sources. 319 00:16:57,799 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 2: Why. 320 00:16:58,399 --> 00:17:01,159 Speaker 1: Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is 321 00:17:01,159 --> 00:17:04,240 why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an 322 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:07,720 app and it's a website, and it combines news from 323 00:17:07,759 --> 00:17:09,960 around the world in one place so you can compare 324 00:17:10,039 --> 00:17:13,079 coverage and verify information. 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Your subscription 335 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,680 then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 336 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:53,000 Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. 337 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 2: Now we were talking about, you know, big problems, and 338 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:02,880 we there's a huge chasm. We can't even agree on 339 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:04,759 what the problems are. If the left doesn't agree that 340 00:18:04,759 --> 00:18:06,799 the border is a problem, how do you solve a 341 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,319 problem that they don't even not a problem. I don't 342 00:18:09,319 --> 00:18:12,200 see what you're talking about. It's like, don't you see that, 343 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,359 you know, five hundred foot wave that's about to demolish 344 00:18:14,519 --> 00:18:17,359 you know, your city. No, I don't see a wave. 345 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,319 There must be climate change, you know, this kind of 346 00:18:20,319 --> 00:18:24,880 stuff that is just this detachment from reality. Now you're 347 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:26,400 welcome to be a part of things. I've got much 348 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:28,400 more to go because I want to get to where 349 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,920 A lot of people say, well, the AOC, Jasmine Crockett, 350 00:18:32,039 --> 00:18:35,559 that wing of the party, that's not the mainstream, that's 351 00:18:35,599 --> 00:18:38,880 not where the party really is. It is where there. 352 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,279 I don't want to believe that's where the Democrats are. 353 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,319 But you look at the victory of the Chicago mayor 354 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,960 that's moving left. You look at Mam Donnie's victory in 355 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,480 New York. Is a Democrat primary that's moving left. And 356 00:18:51,519 --> 00:18:53,599 where does the rest of the party. What do they 357 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,319 have to say? Some of the stalwarts in the party, 358 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,400 some of the the leaders in the party, what do 359 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:59,680 they have to say? Surely, I mean Nancy Pelosi's a 360 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:02,279 fate in the party, which she's still very powerful. Chuck 361 00:19:02,319 --> 00:19:07,640 Schumer hasn't rejected Mamdani uh Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority leader, 362 00:19:08,319 --> 00:19:11,319 highest ranking member of Congress for the Democrats. He said, 363 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:13,759 I'm meeting with him later this week. He wouldn't. I mean, 364 00:19:13,799 --> 00:19:18,319 this is a guy who's espoused taking away money and 365 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:22,599 redistributing it to other people, taxing certain people because of 366 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:24,839 just where they live and that they're white. I mean, 367 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:26,720 I couldn't believe he said that the white neighborhoods. But 368 00:19:26,759 --> 00:19:29,480 he did He's going to have government run grocery stores. 369 00:19:29,559 --> 00:19:33,359 He's going to take over rent control places. I mean, 370 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,359 if you're a property owner, your taxes are going up, 371 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,079 how do you pay the taxes in rent rent control? 372 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:38,680 When the rent's fixed and the government says you can't, 373 00:19:38,799 --> 00:19:44,400 you can't raise your und Sorry, you get in on 374 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,720 the conversation. Seven oh four five seven oh eleven ten, 375 00:19:46,799 --> 00:19:49,960 seven oh four five sevenh eleven ten. That's also the 376 00:19:50,039 --> 00:19:53,599 WBT text line driven by Liberty Viewing GMC. Same phone number. 377 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:56,200 You can call, you can text, They'll let me know 378 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,279 or they'll put you on one of the other. Now, 379 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:01,599 when I said that the is kind of coalescing there, 380 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,079 I don't just say that to be arbitrary. They literally, 381 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:11,400 they literally are coalescing around this. And I remind you 382 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,519 that there was a guy named Jim Clyburn, and Jim 383 00:20:14,559 --> 00:20:19,680 Clyburn is the guy who really salvaged Joe Biden. When 384 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:23,599 Joe Biden was doing terrible in the primaries in twenty twenty, 385 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,599 Jim Clyburn said, Hey, we need to get together and 386 00:20:26,599 --> 00:20:28,880 get behind Joe. And you know what, that was the beginning. 387 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,359 Joe then wins South Carolina after flailing in New Hampshire 388 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:36,519 and Iowa comes together. Clyburn, who in many aspects is 389 00:20:36,559 --> 00:20:40,160 seen as a center left kind of guy from South Carolina. 390 00:20:40,599 --> 00:20:43,440 But here's what he had to say about mam Donnie. So, 391 00:20:43,519 --> 00:20:46,759 mum Donnie's an avowed Democrat socialist. It is a socialist. 392 00:20:46,799 --> 00:20:49,759 I can count the number of socialist experiments that have 393 00:20:49,799 --> 00:20:53,559 worked out. In fact, it's not hard. It's not even mathematic. 394 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,599 You could say it's not a rational number because it's zero. 395 00:20:56,839 --> 00:21:00,559 It's not a prime, it's just zero. You have to count, 396 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,640 there's not one. And the left always says, well, we 397 00:21:03,759 --> 00:21:06,319 just do a different socialism workout. It doesn't. But here's 398 00:21:06,319 --> 00:21:10,720 what Cliburn had to say about Mumdani. Representative Clive from 399 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:11,359 South Carolina. 400 00:21:11,799 --> 00:21:15,640 Speaker 4: Point, do you support Mamdani's candidacy as the Democratic nominee 401 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:16,759 for for Mayor of New York? 402 00:21:18,559 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 3: Absolutely I do. I suppoth Democratic nominees. The fact of 403 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:28,960 the matter is my relationship with Cuomo goes back to 404 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:37,000 when he was Secretary of of Hood and the South 405 00:21:37,039 --> 00:21:45,640 Carolina got one of those uh inmpowerment zones because of 406 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:50,160 his help. Uh it happens to be something to Columbia 407 00:21:50,599 --> 00:21:54,440 empowerment zone. So just to. 408 00:21:54,319 --> 00:21:59,799 Speaker 4: Be clear, uh, you support Mamdanie's running or I guess 409 00:21:59,799 --> 00:22:03,720 his position as the Democratic primary winner. Is that an endorsement? 410 00:22:03,759 --> 00:22:07,640 Are you endorsing him as mayor of New York City? 411 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,559 Speaker 3: I support the Democratic nominee. 412 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 2: Now from you could discern from that that maybe Cliburne, 413 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,759 you know, the elevator didn't go to the top floor, 414 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,079 didn't have a full compliment of sandwiches in the picnic basket. 415 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:26,160 I don't know, pick your metaphor, but that is interesting 416 00:22:26,799 --> 00:22:28,200 that he said I support the nominee, and then he 417 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,319 starts talking about Cuomo, and then you know, the CNN 418 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,640 is like, uh, so do you support him or not? 419 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:39,000 I support the nominee. Theoretically, Cliburne and mom Donnie are 420 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:44,759 light years apart. But now you've got old school Democrats embracing, 421 00:22:45,559 --> 00:22:49,759 openly embracing a socialist candidate, which tells me that the 422 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,559 rudder has shifted, not back to the middle, not to 423 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,319 a more moderate perspective, not toward even a Bill Clinton 424 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,960 way of looking at things, but far left, toward the 425 00:22:59,039 --> 00:23:02,640 Jasmine Crockett. And I think this is a problem. I mean, 426 00:23:02,799 --> 00:23:05,599 I think North Carolina Democrats have done a magnificent job 427 00:23:06,039 --> 00:23:10,200 of avoiding being connected to their national party. If Josh 428 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,640 Stein were to come out and embrace Mom Donnie, if 429 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:17,440 Jeff Jackson, they won't. And the media and this is 430 00:23:17,519 --> 00:23:20,599 cowardly enough to not ask them, Hey, what do you 431 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,119 think about this guy? They don't have And then I 432 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,160 think if the media was, you know, had the courage 433 00:23:26,519 --> 00:23:29,200 to ask the question, I don't think that they would 434 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,359 have the courage to answer it in a direct way. 435 00:23:32,039 --> 00:23:35,880 That's what Democrats have this problem. They're so afraid to 436 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,119 offend the other members of their party. They can't just 437 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:39,839 be honest. One thing about Trump that a lot of 438 00:23:39,839 --> 00:23:42,960 people like to mind refreshing is he doesn't care what 439 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,640 the other the other part of the party says. He's 440 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,359 not looking for a pole test to answer. It's just 441 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:48,920 going to give you an answer, like it or not. 442 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,160 That's just the way he rolls. 443 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:51,880 Speaker 3: You know. 444 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 1: Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, 445 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,920 to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of 446 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,279 our past while transcending generations. They help us process the 447 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,759 meaning of life, and our stories are told through images 448 00:24:04,799 --> 00:24:08,599 and videos. Preserve your stories with creative video started in 449 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,519 nineteen ninety seven and Minhill, North Carolina. 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They 459 00:24:44,599 --> 00:24:47,480 are your life told through the eyes of everyone around 460 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,759 you and all who came before you, and they will 461 00:24:49,759 --> 00:24:53,119 tell others to come who you are. Visit creative video 462 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:54,079 dot com. 463 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 2: We don't have a lot of rational thought anymore. I mean, 464 00:24:56,759 --> 00:25:00,400 for Jim Clyburn to think that, Mom, Donnie, He's going 465 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,640 to support the nominee no matter what I mean, Mom 466 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,359 Donnie's got views that are completely contrary to what Cliburn 467 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,799 has expressed openly and been a part of for decades. 468 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,640 I mean, it's just this blind adherence people say well, people, 469 00:25:11,759 --> 00:25:13,839 what Trump are that way? No, no, no, no, no no. And 470 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:18,359 I can prove that MAGA nation is not a cult, 471 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:23,359 and that is the Epstein files. There's almost nobody on 472 00:25:23,519 --> 00:25:27,640 the MAGA right that is pleased with Pam Bondy saying, 473 00:25:27,839 --> 00:25:29,599 you know what, there's nothing to see here. I looked 474 00:25:29,599 --> 00:25:31,960 at the files. Wait, Pam Bondy, you told us there 475 00:25:32,039 --> 00:25:34,000 was something to see there, and now you're telling us 476 00:25:34,039 --> 00:25:36,640 there's nothing to see here, which you know. And I'm 477 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,799 telling you they may like Trump and they're not happy 478 00:25:38,799 --> 00:25:42,559 about this situation. It is not and these are not 479 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,039 folks to be taken for granted. And I'll guarantee you 480 00:25:46,079 --> 00:25:47,559 if Trump all of a sudden did a one ay 481 00:25:47,599 --> 00:25:49,480 said yeah, what, there's no problem at the border, the 482 00:25:49,559 --> 00:25:51,960 hell with all his bord security crap, they would turn 483 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,680 on him because that's what the idea they're wed to 484 00:25:55,839 --> 00:25:57,559 is that that was a problem we're going to solve. 485 00:25:57,599 --> 00:26:00,319 Trump has been consistent on this. He's consistent on the 486 00:26:00,319 --> 00:26:04,559 situation with NATO, He's consistent on his lack of desire 487 00:26:04,599 --> 00:26:06,559 to be embroiled in more wars. I think he's going 488 00:26:06,599 --> 00:26:08,759 to run into a little head win with the Ukrainian situation, 489 00:26:08,839 --> 00:26:12,359 because but he's also staked out. Hey, Russia, guys just 490 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:16,240 losing it. Can't deal with him anymore. And when you 491 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,000 can't deal with someone anymore, we saw what happened in Iran, 492 00:26:19,079 --> 00:26:26,880 didn't we. So I tell you that because Clyburn and 493 00:26:27,039 --> 00:26:31,519 other Democrats have a problem, they have a serious ideological 494 00:26:31,599 --> 00:26:34,839 problem moving forward. And I mentioned Josh Diine, the governor 495 00:26:34,839 --> 00:26:38,559 of the state of North Carolina, has a problem Governor Cooper. 496 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,319 By the way, we're on the street, and from several 497 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,079 folks inside that I happen to know, are saying that 498 00:26:44,319 --> 00:26:48,920 at a private gathering that Jeff Jackson kind of an 499 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,680 ap Dillon put it out there that Jeff Jackson and 500 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,119 others have said it too, that Jeff Jackson said Cooper's in. Well, 501 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,119 here's the issue, and I don't want to belabor this 502 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,240 one because we will talk about it later in the broadcast. 503 00:26:59,559 --> 00:27:03,200 The problem for Roy Cooper getting in his entire political 504 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:10,599 career has been defined by being risk averse. I say 505 00:27:10,599 --> 00:27:13,359 that because in every single instance when he ran, he 506 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,200 really did not face a significant challenge. He did not 507 00:27:17,319 --> 00:27:20,359 face his significant child. Pat McCrory was very wounded when 508 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,880 he was running for a second term HB two, which 509 00:27:23,279 --> 00:27:26,519 by the way, is aging better now in light of 510 00:27:26,599 --> 00:27:28,680 the reality of the world we live in. But HB two, 511 00:27:28,839 --> 00:27:32,440 the toll road situation in this area, then down east 512 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,799 with the Fisherman in the northeast part of the state. 513 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:41,640 McCrory was a very wounded first term governor facing a 514 00:27:41,759 --> 00:27:44,160 very well funded challenge. Now, a lot of criticism at 515 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,440 Cooper at the time was that he waited too long. 516 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,880 He waited forever. The Democrats, when you're gonn run, when 517 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,480 you're gonna run, when you're gonna run, he just didn't run. 518 00:27:50,519 --> 00:27:52,640 You're not gonna run. When's he gonna run. He waited 519 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,400 until he almost couldn't lose, and that's what he ran. 520 00:27:56,599 --> 00:27:58,640 And when he ran against Stan Forrest in the middle 521 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,359 of covid and and at the time, Cooper's not allowing 522 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,480 anyone to get out, so Dan Force couldn't raise money, 523 00:28:04,519 --> 00:28:06,559 couldn't get his word out. They criticized him for not 524 00:28:06,599 --> 00:28:08,359 wearing a mask. They went after. It was all these 525 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,039 personal attacks. So Cooper really didn't have to run on 526 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,440 any issues. He just had to run saying I'm not 527 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,160 that guy, and then he's out. He did his two 528 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,200 terms and he's out now. This race next year, were 529 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,400 Cooper to enter is a very different world because he 530 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,799 would be subject to massive criticisms, and he's not good 531 00:28:25,799 --> 00:28:28,599 at handling criticisms, and the media would ask him questions. 532 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:34,920 Because the media has been roundly, substantially and very forthrightly 533 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,720 criticized for not being critical. So that's a problem now. 534 00:28:39,839 --> 00:28:42,400 I say that because the political left finds hisself and 535 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,200 I'll give you an example of where the media is 536 00:28:44,279 --> 00:28:48,319 kind of waking up from a slumber and Chrystaliza not 537 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,519 exactly crystalize for those of you know leftist journalists, very 538 00:28:52,519 --> 00:28:55,279 critical of Trump, very passive on Biden. There's no thing 539 00:28:55,359 --> 00:28:57,960 to see here with Biden. Here's what he wrote just today. 540 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,200 This is where they're trying to get their reputations back 541 00:29:01,359 --> 00:29:04,119 post number one. In the final years of his presidency, 542 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,240 Joe Biden's top aids and his wife Jill hid him 543 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,519 from the media and the public in ways that we 544 00:29:09,559 --> 00:29:12,640 are only now beginning to fully grasp. So he did 545 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,640 a thread. If you follow social media, it's a thread. 546 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,160 It's one to that they're short, they're all short blasts. 547 00:29:17,319 --> 00:29:19,559 The second one on Tuesday, we got another look at 548 00:29:19,599 --> 00:29:23,039 how pervasive the effort to keep Biden from speaking extemporaneously 549 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,240 really was, and how it was continued even after his 550 00:29:26,319 --> 00:29:28,599 time in the White House. There's a book penned by 551 00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:31,359 Tyler Pager and two other political reporters, and it's called 552 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,400 twenty twenty four. It's pretty stunning, and the guy says, 553 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,720 when I reached mister Biden on his cell phone in 554 00:29:36,799 --> 00:29:39,200 late March, he answered and agreed to talk. I mean, 555 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,599 this is the reporter that got through Biden's cell phone 556 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,960 directly to the president. No one knows how he got it, 557 00:29:44,119 --> 00:29:46,200 but he got it. And when he did, you know, 558 00:29:46,279 --> 00:29:49,279 Biden said, Ah, he broke his silence on his successor 559 00:29:49,319 --> 00:29:52,240 to criticize the early weeks of Trump's second term. I 560 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,000 don't see anything he's done that's been productive. When I 561 00:29:55,039 --> 00:29:57,319 ask if he had any regrets about dropping out of 562 00:29:57,319 --> 00:30:01,000 the presidential race, mister Biden said in a detached tone, no, 563 00:30:01,319 --> 00:30:04,039 not now. I don't spend a lot of time on regrets. 564 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,039 Then he hung up because he was boarding a train. 565 00:30:06,799 --> 00:30:10,079 My brief conversation with Biden prompted a cascade of concerns 566 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,759 among his top aides. One screamed at me for calling 567 00:30:12,759 --> 00:30:16,599 the former president directly. Others texted furiously trying to figure 568 00:30:16,599 --> 00:30:19,559 out how I got the number. Mister Biden had seemed 569 00:30:19,599 --> 00:30:22,319 open to continuing the conversation, but my subsequent calls went 570 00:30:22,359 --> 00:30:24,960 straight into voicemail, and then he had an automated greeting, 571 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,079 and the two days later the greeting was replaced by 572 00:30:27,079 --> 00:30:30,160 a message from Bryce and saying this number has been changed, disconnected, 573 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:34,359 or no longer in service. The next one truth exposed 574 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,160 by that anecdote from Tyler's this the Biden inner circle 575 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,680 simply believes that Biden himself is no longer to be 576 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:44,759 trusted in any sort of non staged interaction. Even the 577 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,920 left reporters have turned. They finally see the error of 578 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:48,759 their own ways. 579 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,799 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 580 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,880 so much for listening. I could not do the show 581 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,400 without your support and the support of the businesses that 582 00:30:57,519 --> 00:31:00,599 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 583 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,279 them too and tell them you heard it here. 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