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<v Speaker 1>Number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.

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<v Speaker 1>It is also and I've done this every day this week,

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<v Speaker 1>so I will do it again just so that people

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<v Speaker 1>can ignore what I'm telling them and freak out next week.

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<v Speaker 1>Ross and I are not here next week, full stop.

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<v Speaker 1>So you know, sorry, but yeah, we're not going to

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<v Speaker 1>be here next week, which you know we did last

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<v Speaker 1>year and I think the year before in all the years,

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<v Speaker 1>but that we'll be back the week after, we think.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Ross is going to the moon with

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<v Speaker 1>his family. He's not going to be available. I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>do a little little traveling, little traveling myself.

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<v Speaker 2>I actually use the line in the meeting yesterday. There

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<v Speaker 2>was so we had like a meeting here and one

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<v Speaker 2>of the.

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<v Speaker 1>Seas, yeah I had. We had to get We have

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<v Speaker 1>a new big uber boss who came in to greet

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<v Speaker 1>us and we did a little get to know you

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<v Speaker 1>and I.

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<v Speaker 2>Was sitting next to a sales rep and they're like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>what do you need those scripts? And I'm like, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>close a business Thursday. And he's like, so you're Thanksgiving

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<v Speaker 2>how I'm like, yeah, it's like, where.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you going?

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<v Speaker 2>I said the moon?

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<v Speaker 1>The moon?

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<v Speaker 2>And he looks at me like what he says, what,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna be at the moon, so you better get

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<v Speaker 2>those scripts to me like asap because I.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's no uh, I don't think we have a

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<v Speaker 1>studio on the moon. Do we know microphones in the moon? Yeah, no,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a is that a scientific thing?

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<v Speaker 3>It is?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's no way to check that. How can this

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<v Speaker 1>sound carry right? Yeah? Yeah, that's a good point, except

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<v Speaker 1>you know the moon does have gravity, so there's that. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>well you have to be fair. Ross almost got us

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<v Speaker 1>fired when he walked in the room, So I just

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<v Speaker 1>want to point that out. We walk in, nobody's met

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<v Speaker 1>this dude. I shouldn't say nobody. I'm sure some of

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<v Speaker 1>our local bosses had. Nobody's met the new guy. Ross

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<v Speaker 1>strolls in wearing his uh, one of his favorite hats.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a very nice one.

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<v Speaker 2>That's one of my twenty bills hats.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, he's wearing a Bill's hat. A new guy

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<v Speaker 1>is from Kansas City, and so the first thing the

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<v Speaker 1>guy says to anyone as part of the meeting is

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<v Speaker 1>is accus Ross of trolling him.

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<v Speaker 2>He's like, are you really from New York? I'm like, yes,

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<v Speaker 2>say I'm go Bill's we had a good conversation after

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<v Speaker 2>the meeting for like fifteen to twenty minutes.

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<v Speaker 1>No, no, no, it was just about football. It's nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's good. So that's why I'm like, we should

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<v Speaker 1>be here after Thanksgiving. But like, what if you misread

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<v Speaker 1>how it went and he's just like, we'll not have

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<v Speaker 1>Bills fans around here. I mean, I'm just happy. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>a Vikings fan. All right, So, uh, coming up on

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<v Speaker 1>the Old Show today, we got some great audio. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going to get into that. I don't want to alarm you.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want to alarm you. But something else looks

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<v Speaker 1>like it has happened in the Russia Ukraine thing that

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<v Speaker 1>some people might be a little concerned about, because remember,

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<v Speaker 1>up to this point, what did we learn. We learned

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<v Speaker 1>the Biden administration told Ukraine, Hey, those long range missiles,

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<v Speaker 1>we got you the ones where we're like, but don't

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<v Speaker 1>shoot them into Russia interior. Yeah, if you want to

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<v Speaker 1>do that, that's fine, go ahead, bro, And they did.

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<v Speaker 1>We also gave them a crap ton apparently of anti

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<v Speaker 1>personnel minds. So that's you know, those are not horrendous

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<v Speaker 1>for many times years and decades to come. People still

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<v Speaker 1>get killed with mines in parts of this world from

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<v Speaker 1>long time ago, which does speak to the engineering of

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<v Speaker 1>the device, but also is pretty horrendous. So yeah, we

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<v Speaker 1>did that, and then yesterday this, and I would say

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<v Speaker 1>this is mostly confirmed, but not one hundred percent like everyone,

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<v Speaker 1>even intelligence officials, seem to think it's a it's a

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<v Speaker 1>certain thing. I'm pointing this out because it's Russia's never

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<v Speaker 1>used an ICBM in a in a battle. They have

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of them, right, This is essentially what you're

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<v Speaker 1>talking about when you're getting into when you know, when

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<v Speaker 1>you're getting into the old arms race of the sixties,

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<v Speaker 1>the seventies, eighties, even fifties for that matter. So yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so they went ahead and hold on, let me just

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<v Speaker 1>let me just go ahead and read this bad boy,

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<v Speaker 1>which is obviously not a problem at all. Oh where

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<v Speaker 1>did I put well? Anyway? So yeah, so they are

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<v Speaker 1>they are saying that this, this missile that came into

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<v Speaker 1>was fired into the Ukraine. Here we go, Russia's allegedly

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<v Speaker 1>launched an ICBM. Though it does look like the missile

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<v Speaker 1>had a conventional warhead. What it looks like is it

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<v Speaker 1>had a warhead that at a certain altitude, as a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of these missiles do, then broke into I think

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<v Speaker 1>six or eight, which I think is part of the pattern,

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<v Speaker 1>is why they're able to tell what this thing was.

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<v Speaker 1>And an ICBM is a payload issue obviously, so they

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<v Speaker 1>wanted to get a lot there, and clearly, clearly if

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<v Speaker 1>you look at the footage there it was.

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<v Speaker 3>It was.

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<v Speaker 1>It was successful in decimating literally like six blocks of

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<v Speaker 1>and I don't even know what it says. There were

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<v Speaker 1>some factories there. I don't know the totality of what

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<v Speaker 1>they were trying to stray. I'm going to try to

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<v Speaker 1>pronounce the name. Okay, didn't it props.

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<v Speaker 4>To no.

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<v Speaker 1>D n E prop E t r O vs. Prop tesk.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know the prop desk. We'll go with the

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<v Speaker 1>prop desk. Uh. In fact, OFFICI will say, not only

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<v Speaker 1>did they have the one capture where you can see

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<v Speaker 1>the six different parts of the missile blow up in total,

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<v Speaker 1>they think that there were four missiles, four warheads, four

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<v Speaker 1>separate ICBMs, so every day just a nice escalation there,

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<v Speaker 1>which will be the next guy's problem, if you know,

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<v Speaker 1>if if they haven't decimated one side or the other

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<v Speaker 1>by then, but you know the idea. You remember when

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<v Speaker 1>Trump said he'd have this solved in a week, already

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<v Speaker 1>said he'd have is solved in a week. Am I crazy? Ross?

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<v Speaker 1>Tell me if I'm crazy, you need to be committed,

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<v Speaker 1>because if I am, then I guess maybe we go home? Right? Uh,

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<v Speaker 1>tell me if I'm crazy? Do you think there are

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<v Speaker 1>people in the power the wholes of powers, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>really the people actually running the government, let's be honest,

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<v Speaker 1>not Joe Biden. Do you think there are people who

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<v Speaker 1>saw what happened in that election realize not only is

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<v Speaker 1>their their job gone here very shortly, but likely they've

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<v Speaker 1>done enough sketchy stuff that they could find themselves with

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<v Speaker 1>the DJ crawling up there behind. Do you think there

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<v Speaker 1>are people petty enough to go, well, the win I

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<v Speaker 1>won't give him is to be able to go in

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<v Speaker 1>and quell this thing. So we're going to escalate it

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<v Speaker 1>so we can't know completely. Okay, I'm not crazy. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes you just got to say this stuff out loud,

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<v Speaker 1>not just to yourself, but with other people around, Like,

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<v Speaker 1>are there people that are so callous that they would

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<v Speaker 1>do something to win a political argument that would take

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<v Speaker 1>the lives potentially of so many people.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, it goes pretty deep. It could go deeper too,

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<v Speaker 2>because there's lots of people that have speculated for a

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<v Speaker 2>while that there's a lot of corruption going on in Ukraine.

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<v Speaker 1>Well there is. Well I don't even have to speculate.

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<v Speaker 1>There is a lot of corruption in Ukraine. That's a

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<v Speaker 1>fact as we observe it here in the United States.

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<v Speaker 1>And that is the position of the federal government. I

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<v Speaker 1>know they want to pretend that it's not right.

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<v Speaker 2>So the longer they can make this thing go on,

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<v Speaker 2>and if they can escalate it, it's a way of

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<v Speaker 2>hiding their corruption.

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<v Speaker 1>It's hyped corruption there are you know, it's very strategic.

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<v Speaker 1>If you've ever seen why where exactly Putin is trying

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<v Speaker 1>to capture parts of Ukraine. If you put up a

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<v Speaker 1>map of the disputed areas basically for the purpose of this,

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<v Speaker 1>and then you put up a map of naturally occurring

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<v Speaker 1>deposits of natural gas and some oil, they mirror exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you put up the pipeline through Ukraine, that's

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<v Speaker 1>in there too. So this is for Putin. This is

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<v Speaker 1>a monetary thing. He doesn't give a crap about people

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<v Speaker 1>who consider themselves primarily Russian that live in the Dawn

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<v Speaker 1>whatever region. If you look at that map, he is

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<v Speaker 1>strategically targeting that pipeline and all of those deposits, which

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<v Speaker 1>essentially are like ninety five percent of Ukraine's deposits, and

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<v Speaker 1>they have a lot of them, which is why you

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<v Speaker 1>have American oil companies tripping over themselves to do these contracts.

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<v Speaker 1>Right they have bp Xon exon Mobile. I'm trying to

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<v Speaker 1>think of who are the other big international play But

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<v Speaker 1>the point is these big companies, they all have contracts

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<v Speaker 1>that are currently on hold to extract this stuff. Because

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<v Speaker 1>Ukraine doesn't even extract it itself per se. They let

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<v Speaker 1>these big companies come in and do it, and then

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<v Speaker 1>they just take the money. That's what Putin's going after

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<v Speaker 1>because he needs the money and that's the easiest money

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<v Speaker 1>out there for him. Right now. There is there are

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<v Speaker 1>more natural gas deposits in Ukraine than I think anywhere

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<v Speaker 1>in Russia is in a single geographic area. Because there's

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<v Speaker 1>a largely big, old, untapped part of it. That's what

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<v Speaker 1>he's targeting. So everyone knows what's up. So yeah, it

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<v Speaker 1>could be the I don't I got made to look

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<v Speaker 1>stupid and I might lose my job and my freedom,

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<v Speaker 1>so f all these people attitude, and then there's just

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<v Speaker 1>pure greed, which as we know, is a great motivator

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<v Speaker 1>for things like this. But then, but somebody, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>somebody here had to be like, yeah, no, you want

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<v Speaker 1>some mind. Sure, yeah, you want to shoot ICBMs yourself

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<v Speaker 1>into Russia or other long range missile devices, Sure, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>go ahead, man, absolutely, But I just wonder if for

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<v Speaker 1>some people the motivation isn't one of money, promise, power,

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<v Speaker 1>but rather just ruin over the other dude, because you're petty,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know what, I don't think I'm crazy and

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<v Speaker 1>speculating that that could be a motivator, because I have

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<v Speaker 1>not seen a good argument for saying you should do

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<v Speaker 1>that that I've read, and I've read several pieces from

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<v Speaker 1>all over the spectrum. I wanted the New York Times

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<v Speaker 1>to convince me. I wanted USA Today to convince me.

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted anybody some of these substack guys who writes

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<v Speaker 1>these big, long articles, and one most of them can't

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<v Speaker 1>believe it. And then even the ones like New York

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<v Speaker 1>Times were cool with it, they don't explain why. So

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<v Speaker 1>then I wake up and they're they're slinging ICBMs at

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<v Speaker 1>each other. This seems like the thing that, for decades

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<v Speaker 1>in this country was our single greatest fear, to the

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<v Speaker 1>point where school you had to inundate children with videos

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<v Speaker 1>saying that if you get under your desk, you won't

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<v Speaker 1>get superpowers or you know, eye in a Hiroshima shadow

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<v Speaker 1>like and and and then people built bunkers. I wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>alive long enough. I haven't been alive long enough to

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<v Speaker 1>truly appreciate it. I mean, we were The Berlin Wall

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<v Speaker 1>coming down is like an early childhood memory for me. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>So what you guys were hyped up on, especially in

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<v Speaker 1>the sixties for some of some of our older listeners,

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<v Speaker 1>like I can't imagine what that was like. But it

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<v Speaker 1>escalation right there, regardless. So you have more acronyms in

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<v Speaker 1>the military. You guys need to just chill pill man

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<v Speaker 1>or CP you could, although I think that's another acronym

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<v Speaker 1>and you shouldn't do that. Six twenty hang on Ross

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<v Speaker 1>is like, oh, my house tried to blow away.

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<v Speaker 2>It was super weird. And the entire time I'm thinking

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<v Speaker 1>That's why. That's that's why we had the conversation with

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<v Speaker 1>dear God, you do ever do you ever do a

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<v Speaker 2>I did up.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, do you ever do you ever had your tent

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<v Speaker 1>the wind take your try to take your tent? We're

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<v Speaker 1>just no. Because it was like the middle of the summer.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, yeah, well sometimes it gets winding in the summer too.

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<v Speaker 1>Like I had a tent I was in we were

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<v Speaker 1>a pretty significant sized tent. Like there's four guy, there's

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<v Speaker 1>This was near Crestedbue, Colorado, up in Black Canyon, which

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<v Speaker 1>the middle of the night, man four dudes trying to

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<v Speaker 1>and uh, we were just up and it absolutely decimated

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<v Speaker 1>way that we had that tethered down the video that

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<v Speaker 1>I'm seeing. The people in Swana Nooah are six Steak

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<v Speaker 1>Coleman six Steak Coleman tents and stuff they're sleeping in.

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<v Speaker 1>I mentioned coming up at eight o five. Now, normally

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<v Speaker 1>we chat with Stephen Kent. Unfortunately he had a he

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<v Speaker 1>So never fear, we decided, so we reach out to

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<v Speaker 1>If you're on Twitter, you've probably seen her stuff, Cassie Clark,

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<v Speaker 1>Carolina and bringing video and she's made inroads with local officials,

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<v Speaker 1>so you know, you're getting this straight dope, so to speak,

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<v Speaker 1>on a lot of this stuff. And yesterday I'm scrolling

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<v Speaker 1>talking about how uh they're you know, there's people obviously

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<v Speaker 1>sleeping intense We've we've, we've, we keep bringing this up

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<v Speaker 1>and we will keep bringing this up. And there are

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<v Speaker 1>people in communities eight weeks later with still no access

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<v Speaker 1>to proper groundwater water that you can you know, get

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<v Speaker 1>do you remember the fields of FEMA trailers after Katrina?

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<v Speaker 1>And remember it turned into such a problem that even

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<v Speaker 1>years later, there were still people living in them and

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<v Speaker 1>they were have and they're like, we need you to

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<v Speaker 1>move out of the FEMA trailer. These are temporary, you

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<v Speaker 1>can't and turn into a whole legal fight, and then

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<v Speaker 1>they were picking on the poor and stuff, and and

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<v Speaker 1>everyone was absolutely outraged that even that long after, they

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<v Speaker 1>would dare have the audacity to deny individuals FEMA trailers.

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<v Speaker 1>And of course it was turned into a left right

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<v Speaker 1>issue when in reality it's like, no, those temporary trailers.

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<v Speaker 1>And on the other side, they're like, yeah, but we

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<v Speaker 1>don't need them right now, so let people live in them.

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<v Speaker 1>And most normal people were kind of got both sides

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<v Speaker 1>of that, but also we're like, but everyone else was

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<v Speaker 1>able to help and get it together, so maybe it's better.

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<v Speaker 1>And then when they got in there, a bunch of

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<v Speaker 1>them were absolutely destroyed, and it was like a continuous

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<v Speaker 1>episode of hoarders going on, right, So I remember and

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<v Speaker 1>others were like, don't we have those I mean, not

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<v Speaker 1>the really gross ones, but we have the other ones, right,

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<v Speaker 1>just literally anything that can provide a certain level of

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<v Speaker 1>first world accommodation, especially when you're running around telling families

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<v Speaker 1>that if they don't find themselves in a situation where

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<v Speaker 1>they meet minimum requirements things like access to hot water.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, occupancy without access to hot water, I believe

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<v Speaker 1>is illegal in a hotel setting. I don't know how

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<v Speaker 1>it works in a setting like this, like if a

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<v Speaker 1>not know this until me and the boys booked us

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<v Speaker 1>a fun little drum run fishing trip to Hatteras And

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<v Speaker 1>for those of you've ever fished, when the drummer running there,

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<v Speaker 1>it's where my private island is just over there that

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<v Speaker 1>the state tried to climb. Amazing fishing and crazy, like

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<v Speaker 1>it's a crazy fishing experience because there's on this this

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<v Speaker 1>peninsula there's like one hundred people wading in the water,

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<v Speaker 1>and if some dude gets a drum, you reel it in,

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<v Speaker 1>but then he walked back away and you have to

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<v Speaker 1>watch because like drum on hooks are going by your feet. Man.

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<v Speaker 1>But there's a hotel there, which we had, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we booked like I think there was eight of us.

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<v Speaker 1>We had like eight, you know, eight rooms or whatever,

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<v Speaker 1>and well we showed up like the person iran. It

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<v Speaker 1>was like, I'm very sorry, I can't check you in.

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<v Speaker 1>Our our hot water system failed and they and they

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<v Speaker 1>found us another accommodation. They even bought us dinner, which

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<v Speaker 1>they didn't have to. I mean, just super nice people.

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<v Speaker 1>But they're like, we can't. So I don't know how

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<v Speaker 1>it works. But when you're threatening to take people's kids,

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<v Speaker 1>and I find out looking at Cassie's post yesterday that

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<v Speaker 1>there are FEMA trailers just chilling in Hickory with no

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<v Speaker 1>timeline to get them up there, I could get every

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<v Speaker 1>one of those trailers hold right now if I asked Russ,

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<v Speaker 1>do you believe that? Do you think if we asked

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<v Speaker 1>our audience, who's got a truck two inch ball and

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<v Speaker 1>maybe a half ton suspension minimum, that we could get

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<v Speaker 1>those trailers hold up and it would cost FEMA nothing.

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<v Speaker 1>We could do what you do it in five seconds?

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<v Speaker 1>Why aren't you tapping me? Well, we'll get them hold

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<v Speaker 1>up there. That would be no. You tell us where

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<v Speaker 1>they need to go. And this weekend, even though people

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<v Speaker 1>are preparing to go be with their families for Thanksgiving,

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<v Speaker 1>getting that last little bit of work done. People of

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<v Speaker 1>North Carolina would take the time out of their life,

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<v Speaker 1>the money out of their own pocket for the fuel

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<v Speaker 1>in many cases, and haul these wherever you want in

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<v Speaker 1>western North Carolina. So don't give me this. Oh there's

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<v Speaker 1>no timeline. We don't know what we're gonna do. That's

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<v Speaker 1>why we're gonna talk to Cassie. I want to know

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<v Speaker 1>how many are there and if the gate's locked. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>don't steal him. But this is absurd. This is absurd,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's fixable. It's immediately fixable. I was texting. I

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<v Speaker 1>the coast. He lives on the coast, like five minutes

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<v Speaker 1>north of the South Carolina border. That guy would drive up,

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<v Speaker 1>he said, I'll drive up. He goes, I'll one to

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<v Speaker 1>Ash County if you want, pointing to literally like as

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<v Speaker 1>far away as he could possibly be in a second.

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<v Speaker 1>And that dude has a very professional job. He's a doctor.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not Campbell. It's another guy, but I met him

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<v Speaker 1>through Campbell. He I mean, he'll pause his practice for

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<v Speaker 1>a day to do it. So I want to find

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<v Speaker 1>out what's up here, and we need to figure out

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<v Speaker 1>how we get this solved, because, just as Ross pointed out,

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<v Speaker 1>and you probably experienced everyone in North Carolina experience yesterday

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<v Speaker 1>that wind. If you think your house is gonna go, now,

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<v Speaker 1>imagine you're in polypropylene. Those are your walls. And solutions,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe not solutions for everybody, but solutions for some people,

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<v Speaker 1>which every little bit helps is a start. Sit there,

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<v Speaker 1>just hanging out, and to our governor and Lute, how

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<v Speaker 1>do you not go, why the hell do we have

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<v Speaker 1>these trailers sitting in one of our cities and we

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<v Speaker 1>can't get them Hickory, You're halfway there. You can't get

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<v Speaker 1>them up to people. The absolute absurdity. No comment on

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<v Speaker 1>the femas stuff. I will never forgive these two. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna have beef. I've had beef with Roy Cooper over

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<v Speaker 1>stuff and I'm fine with it being idological. And Josh

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<v Speaker 1>Stein with his silver spoon and his smirk and his

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<v Speaker 1>bad attitude and his handshake. Ross, did you see his handshake?

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<v Speaker 1>Did you see Josh Stein's handshake? Duh, I'm sorry handshakes.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna say it's probably because the other dude was

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<v Speaker 1>Did you see that? You see it? Though?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>I did see it yes.

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<v Speaker 1>You think that. You think the reason that his wrist

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<v Speaker 1>is turned upward like that, as though he's a king

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<v Speaker 1>asking for his ring to get I'm.

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<v Speaker 2>Going to give him the benefit of the doubt. And

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<v Speaker 2>I think the guy's hand he was shaking was probably

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<v Speaker 2>like an X man or something. It's like a mute

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<v Speaker 2>and it's super strong, and boom almost broke his wrist.

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<v Speaker 1>Because okay, it's not just because Josh Stein has one

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<v Speaker 1>of the weakest handshakes I've ever seen in my life.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not that. Okay, all right, I was I was confused.

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<v Speaker 1>Ross sent me straight here. So, yeah, we have all

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<v Speaker 1>those beefs. If you just get those trailers hold and

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<v Speaker 1>speak up, I'll I won't yell at you for a week.

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<v Speaker 1>How's that like? I will trade the integrity of my

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<v Speaker 1>story selection if it means they get help. I'll still

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<v Speaker 1>do stories, but I won't. Yeah, I'll let the audience

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<v Speaker 1>do it. How about it, guys, How come on, come

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<v Speaker 1>al Roy, these are your people, Josh dot these are

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<v Speaker 1>your people. You guys trade so heavily on your North

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<v Speaker 1>Carolina heritage, which is great, that's fine, And yet you've

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<v Speaker 1>chosen to side with the federal government when there's clearly

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<v Speaker 1>issues here. So that conversation coming up at eight oh five,

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<v Speaker 1>and it just makes me angry. And it makes me

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<v Speaker 1>angry because it's so easily that one thing, not the

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<v Speaker 1>totality of it, but the one thing is so easily solvable.

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<v Speaker 1>Because when you let governments solve it, they come up

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<v Speaker 1>with stuff. Did you know do you do? You guys

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<v Speaker 1>know what's happening in California right now with uh business taxes,

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<v Speaker 1>business payroll taxes. Oh, if you haven't seen this, it's crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>And frankly it's important. I know you say, well to California. No,

416
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<v Speaker 1>this is important because if this is in fact how

417
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<v Speaker 1>this works, North Carolina could have this happen to it,

418
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<v Speaker 1>and it would take politicians like Josh Stein to justify

419
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<v Speaker 1>and do something like this. Of course you need the

420
00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:25.839
<v Speaker 1>legislature too, and he doesn't have that, not yet. But

421
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<v Speaker 1>this is terrifying, and I want any of you who

422
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<v Speaker 1>work in a small working you don't want any of you.

423
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<v Speaker 1>This should offend any of you. People are sending me

424
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<v Speaker 1>pictures of the trailers. Now there's also an add there's

425
00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:51.240
<v Speaker 1>acres acres of FEMA trailers between Thomasville and Denton. On

426
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<v Speaker 1>Highway one oh nine. I could get them all holed

427
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<v Speaker 1>this weekend. I know the one lady can't call me

428
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<v Speaker 1>anymore because they fired her ass. Yes, and that's good.

429
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<v Speaker 1>Somebody actually was held accountable for not knowing how to

430
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<v Speaker 1>do their damn job. Okay, So whoever's making a call

431
00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:12.680
<v Speaker 1>now text me. I will use this radio platform and

432
00:25:12.799 --> 00:25:15.599
<v Speaker 1>every minute of my almost every minute, you know, wet

433
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<v Speaker 1>spots and we got to stay in business. But I

434
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<v Speaker 1>will use my platform across two of the three major

435
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<v Speaker 1>metros in this state. A company signals covering five six

436
00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:33.240
<v Speaker 1>million people. I don't even know what the full footprint

437
00:25:33.319 --> 00:25:36.200
<v Speaker 1>is of our signals. And I tell you what, I

438
00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:38.480
<v Speaker 1>could get every one of those trailers holed this weekend.

439
00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:45.680
<v Speaker 1>Let's do it. Let's public partner public private partnership this

440
00:25:46.200 --> 00:25:48.279
<v Speaker 1>and you know what I bet if I call our

441
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<v Speaker 1>buddy Pete down in Charlotte and our buddy Mark out

442
00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:55.240
<v Speaker 1>there in Asheville to the he's more on the receiving end.

443
00:25:56.160 --> 00:25:58.759
<v Speaker 1>Mark's the morning guy on the Asheville station. Pete obviously

444
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<v Speaker 1>we chat with Friday. There's Middays on BT. I think

445
00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:04.599
<v Speaker 1>between the three of us, we can get every one

446
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<v Speaker 1>of those things repositioned this weekend, and I think also

447
00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:12.279
<v Speaker 1>there'd be businesses stepping up to cover fuel and food

448
00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:15.920
<v Speaker 1>and all of that, because this is something that is

449
00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:19.119
<v Speaker 1>tangible that people can get behind. Now, if you want

450
00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:21.240
<v Speaker 1>to tell me those trailers are not the reason they're

451
00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:25.240
<v Speaker 1>not out there is because they're not functional. There's right there,

452
00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:27.759
<v Speaker 1>they've been stripped out or something in there. Well, then

453
00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:29.799
<v Speaker 1>why aren't there people out there working on them? Because

454
00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:33.559
<v Speaker 1>it seems like the shortest route to getting one rather

455
00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:37.440
<v Speaker 1>than just building new ones. We'll get into that. But

456
00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:42.279
<v Speaker 1>when we return, what's happening in California? Why it's happening,

457
00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:46.440
<v Speaker 1>which is an important component. And also we'll find out

458
00:26:46.519 --> 00:26:51.519
<v Speaker 1>who was responsible for the murder of Lake and Riley.

459
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<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, So all that more coming up

460
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<v Speaker 1>CaCO Day Radio program. Ross. I think I've already secured

461
00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:07.960
<v Speaker 1>forty trucks, and that's probably a light estimate. So what

462
00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:11.920
<v Speaker 1>are we doing, people, what are we doing? This is easy,

463
00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:14.279
<v Speaker 1>this is an easy win. Let's go ahead, Let's go

464
00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:17.119
<v Speaker 1>ahead and get this man. Let me get let me

465
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<v Speaker 1>get Jason on here. Jason, what's up?

466
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<v Speaker 5>Hey? If you're serious about this, I can probably get

467
00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:27.079
<v Speaker 5>you about thirty trucks if you give me enough head up.

468
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<v Speaker 1>If females are for the state government were to actually

469
00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:34.920
<v Speaker 1>say we if we give volunteers for this, and we

470
00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:36.680
<v Speaker 1>can go ahead and haul them, and they would allow

471
00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:40.640
<v Speaker 1>us to do that with stuff we already own. I'm

472
00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:43.759
<v Speaker 1>deadly serious, sir. I will spend I will spend whatever

473
00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:48.640
<v Speaker 1>it takes in valuable radio time not covering their own

474
00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:53.279
<v Speaker 1>scandalous behavior because this is our priority. And yeah, so

475
00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:53.880
<v Speaker 1>they won't.

476
00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:57.440
<v Speaker 5>I'll leave my number with Ross And if you're serious,

477
00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:01.440
<v Speaker 5>and I'm off next week and I you have at

478
00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:05.559
<v Speaker 5>least definitely one pickup truck round the clock from Monday

479
00:28:05.640 --> 00:28:08.000
<v Speaker 5>through Wednesday. If you're serious, I appreciate it.

480
00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:13.359
<v Speaker 1>I've got yeah, Jason, I want to be clear, I'm serious.

481
00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:17.519
<v Speaker 1>But the hurdle here is not whether we could do

482
00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:19.400
<v Speaker 1>I think we could do it, as evidence by your

483
00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:23.559
<v Speaker 1>calling all the emails. I'm getting easy. This would be easy, right,

484
00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:27.799
<v Speaker 1>But it's the it's the bureau the bureaucratic side of this.

485
00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:31.359
<v Speaker 1>So I'm putting it out into the universe that I

486
00:28:31.400 --> 00:28:36.240
<v Speaker 1>will personally sit here and and uh and and use

487
00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:39.240
<v Speaker 1>this radio time to get the people to get the

488
00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:43.559
<v Speaker 1>equipment to do whatever we can do if the bureaucracy

489
00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:46.400
<v Speaker 1>side will cooperate. So I want it out there, and

490
00:28:46.440 --> 00:28:49.200
<v Speaker 1>if you encounter anyone who has any sway over this,

491
00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:52.279
<v Speaker 1>you tell them that the crazy dude on the radio

492
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:54.000
<v Speaker 1>said they'll haul it tomorrow for you.

493
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<v Speaker 5>All right, Okay, A quick question. So uh Now, I've

494
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:03.839
<v Speaker 5>heard reports that people have brought county houses to those

495
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:06.359
<v Speaker 5>people and they're telling them they're not zoned for that

496
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:08.200
<v Speaker 5>area and they're not letting them bring.

497
00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:13.400
<v Speaker 1>That again. I've heard a lot of things. That's one

498
00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:15.279
<v Speaker 1>of the reasons I want to talk to Cassie today.

499
00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:18.279
<v Speaker 1>There was if you you've been were you when was

500
00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:20.720
<v Speaker 1>the last time you were in Ashville before the storm

501
00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:21.519
<v Speaker 1>went through, Sir.

502
00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:23.960
<v Speaker 5>We were there two weeks before.

503
00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:26.440
<v Speaker 1>Okay, you know, on the right, on the other side

504
00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:28.480
<v Speaker 1>of the river, we're going over to East Asheville. They

505
00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:31.279
<v Speaker 1>have that there's that whole neighborhood that's tiny houses right there.

506
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:35.240
<v Speaker 1>I guess that was absolutely devastated. So I did see

507
00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:37.839
<v Speaker 1>a report where they were replacing those, but I don't

508
00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:41.359
<v Speaker 1>know about the zoning in other areas. Some of the

509
00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:45.279
<v Speaker 1>thinking that's been done in the upper echelons of emergency response.

510
00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:50.119
<v Speaker 1>So I got this email, and this is good. This

511
00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:52.200
<v Speaker 1>is really good because I want you to know this

512
00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:54.640
<v Speaker 1>is something I considered before just spouting off on the radio,

513
00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:56.559
<v Speaker 1>which is not my usual m O. I usually just

514
00:29:56.599 --> 00:29:59.880
<v Speaker 1>say stuff and then deal with it. But I've given

515
00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:01.640
<v Speaker 1>the a lot of thought when I was looking at

516
00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:03.640
<v Speaker 1>this trailer thing. Again. I need to know what's going

517
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:08.119
<v Speaker 1>on there. But somebody wrote and they're absolutely correct, and

518
00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:11.720
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna solve I'm going to solve the problem, uh

519
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:14.839
<v Speaker 1>within ten seconds after and then I'll finish the California

520
00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:17.880
<v Speaker 1>story because it's crazy. He said, Well, I agree with you.

521
00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:20.319
<v Speaker 1>Let me give you some background. All those trailers will

522
00:30:20.359 --> 00:30:22.599
<v Speaker 1>have to be set up on a non flood plane

523
00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:26.359
<v Speaker 1>with water sewer and power. This will require flat land

524
00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:30.440
<v Speaker 1>with the lease and those other items in place. You're

525
00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:37.079
<v Speaker 1>absolutely right, sir, which is why it's already there. All

526
00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:42.480
<v Speaker 1>of this already exists, flat land, non flood plane and

527
00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:45.839
<v Speaker 1>water sewer and power hookups. Do you know how I

528
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:51.440
<v Speaker 1>know this because I've been camping before in the Pisca

529
00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:54.519
<v Speaker 1>National Forest and in other places of North Carolina where

530
00:30:54.519 --> 00:30:56.200
<v Speaker 1>the you don't even have to lease it from a

531
00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:59.960
<v Speaker 1>private individual. Do you know how many are v hook

532
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:04.759
<v Speaker 1>cup sites currently exist in places like Julian Price. In

533
00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:09.400
<v Speaker 1>places as you get down much further south, especially in

534
00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:13.759
<v Speaker 1>and around Swannanoa, around the Lake Lower area, these exist.

535
00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:18.920
<v Speaker 1>These are RV campsites at National Forest Campsites, campsites on

536
00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:21.720
<v Speaker 1>the Blue Ridge Parkway with RV hookups. They have a

537
00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:24.680
<v Speaker 1>series of road stuff. How do I know this because

538
00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:27.240
<v Speaker 1>while I'm not an RV camper, I know some guys

539
00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:30.519
<v Speaker 1>who went out and blew a lot of money, like

540
00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:35.640
<v Speaker 1>stupid rock star money on some crazy campers man, And

541
00:31:35.640 --> 00:31:39.319
<v Speaker 1>this is what they do. They go, they'll, they'll they'll

542
00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:42.079
<v Speaker 1>bank up someplace. And that's not even counting the KOA

543
00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:44.279
<v Speaker 1>stuff right when you get into the private campgrounds, where

544
00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:47.359
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure you could negotiate something. So these are flat

545
00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:53.960
<v Speaker 1>parcels by design, flat parcels by design, which in many

546
00:31:54.039 --> 00:31:57.799
<v Speaker 1>cases not look not all campsites have them, but if

547
00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:00.359
<v Speaker 1>you go to a campground I think in Ice they

548
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:03.799
<v Speaker 1>have what twenty five seventeen as you get down by

549
00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:07.640
<v Speaker 1>Little Switzerland there because I've tent camped in those. How

550
00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:11.960
<v Speaker 1>many RV hookups are on Mount Mitchell in that lower

551
00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:13.480
<v Speaker 1>lot just before you get up to the top with

552
00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:16.000
<v Speaker 1>the restaurant and everything. That whole lower lot is RV

553
00:32:16.039 --> 00:32:16.559
<v Speaker 1>stuff too.

554
00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:16.920
<v Speaker 5>Well.

555
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:18.559
<v Speaker 1>They have a tent, they have a tech camp areas

556
00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:20.920
<v Speaker 1>the highest up. Then they have RV's you get a

557
00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:24.920
<v Speaker 1>little down there. These have the infrastructure and hookups. These

558
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:28.359
<v Speaker 1>are by design flat parcels of land, because that is

559
00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:32.839
<v Speaker 1>what is demanded by RV people. Now does it crimp

560
00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:35.480
<v Speaker 1>RV people being able to maybe access some of these

561
00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:38.960
<v Speaker 1>right now? Yes, but you're telling me on land you

562
00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:42.599
<v Speaker 1>own that is already graded, that has the service that

563
00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:48.240
<v Speaker 1>is required here and FEMA trailers are twenty five feet

564
00:32:48.359 --> 00:32:50.880
<v Speaker 1>or forty feet. They have some bigger ones that are

565
00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:55.279
<v Speaker 1>meant not for living but for rather offices and working,

566
00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:57.319
<v Speaker 1>you know, like disaster work stuff. So we're not talking

567
00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.400
<v Speaker 1>about those. They're forty feet and twenty five feet. Why

568
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:06.839
<v Speaker 1>is that important because forty feet is generally the max length,

569
00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:10.240
<v Speaker 1>or it's slightly more, but it's you can usually go

570
00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:12.240
<v Speaker 1>forty and a half feet for some reason on these

571
00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:16.880
<v Speaker 1>that you can put on these parcels, these RV hookups.

572
00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:19.799
<v Speaker 1>You don't believe me. Go on to the there's there's

573
00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:24.119
<v Speaker 1>a website. There's tons of them, but just type camp

574
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:28.640
<v Speaker 1>RV camping Pisca National Forest, and you'll get slammed in

575
00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:31.680
<v Speaker 1>the face. You go to places like Outdoorsy, which is

576
00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:34.079
<v Speaker 1>it's like a hotels dot com for URV stay. You

577
00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:36.119
<v Speaker 1>search all this stuff where you can go to the

578
00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:38.799
<v Speaker 1>state website where you go to like reserve campsites, like

579
00:33:38.839 --> 00:33:41.400
<v Speaker 1>if you're going to Price, if you're going to any

580
00:33:41.440 --> 00:33:46.119
<v Speaker 1>of the other places. So I have thought about this,

581
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:49.240
<v Speaker 1>and you're absolutely right, and this is it's so great

582
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:54.759
<v Speaker 1>that we essentially have a solution right here. We've done

583
00:33:54.759 --> 00:33:56.839
<v Speaker 1>the work. We did the heavy lift. Go throw a

584
00:33:56.839 --> 00:33:59.680
<v Speaker 1>trailer on there. Is it gonna be one minute from

585
00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:03.720
<v Speaker 1>the person's former where their residence was? No, probably not.

586
00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.039
<v Speaker 1>Most people don't live a mile from the campground. But

587
00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:09.519
<v Speaker 1>it'll be closed. It'll be held a lot closer in

588
00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:11.880
<v Speaker 1>the Greensboro facility, which, by the way, why isn't that

589
00:34:11.880 --> 00:34:16.719
<v Speaker 1>filling up with people. I understand the frustration of giving

590
00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:20.079
<v Speaker 1>people vouchers for hotels that are sometimes two hours away.

591
00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:22.920
<v Speaker 1>I get it, But there with that many people displaced

592
00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:26.440
<v Speaker 1>and that that many problems out there, they just may

593
00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:29.960
<v Speaker 1>not exist. Plus, FEMA basically has the whole Cherokee casino,

594
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:31.920
<v Speaker 1>so I can't go there.

595
00:34:36.679 --> 00:34:37.119
<v Speaker 4>This is.

596
00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:41.559
<v Speaker 1>I'm telling you, I need to hear a logical objection

597
00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:43.920
<v Speaker 1>to what's going on, and it may exist. I hold

598
00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:47.280
<v Speaker 1>that out, but if not, let us help. Let us

599
00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:52.039
<v Speaker 1>help you. Let's do this. And if it means that

600
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:54.159
<v Speaker 1>I can't go camping up at Price this year, because

601
00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:56.320
<v Speaker 1>there's still people staying up there and they're on the

602
00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:58.920
<v Speaker 1>Lakeside site, which isn't the RV, that's a tent site,

603
00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:03.000
<v Speaker 1>so maybe I'd be okay, that's fine because I'm human

604
00:35:03.199 --> 00:35:05.039
<v Speaker 1>and I'm like those people don't have a home. I

605
00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:07.679
<v Speaker 1>just want to go catch some fish for the weekend.

606
00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:10.519
<v Speaker 1>This is easy stuff, Michael, what's up.

607
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:14.239
<v Speaker 5>I used to work for FEMA.

608
00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:19.280
<v Speaker 4>I'm retired Navy guy, and it's not hard to get

609
00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:21.639
<v Speaker 4>into a job like FEMA and work your way up

610
00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:27.039
<v Speaker 4>when you're military. You know, we're talking federal people. There's

611
00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:31.119
<v Speaker 4>good people on FEMA. But I started off as a courier.

612
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:37.280
<v Speaker 4>I did eliminated damage assessments. Katrina was when I really

613
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:40.400
<v Speaker 4>got my feet wet, and I just moved up the

614
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:43.760
<v Speaker 4>totem pole and out in the field. I was fine,

615
00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:46.599
<v Speaker 4>but the better I did, the more I did, the

616
00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:51.280
<v Speaker 4>more qualifications I got, they moved me into the management position.

617
00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:55.199
<v Speaker 4>So I was a housing chief and I did the

618
00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:58.719
<v Speaker 4>staging for the FEMA trailers for the mobile homes.

619
00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:04.920
<v Speaker 1>So so why wouldn't well before you tell us because

620
00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:08.559
<v Speaker 1>how it turned out. I'm just curious. Is it sounds

621
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:12.239
<v Speaker 1>so crazy that you would take in exempting an existing

622
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:16.960
<v Speaker 1>level campsite with sewer, water and electrical hookups and propose

623
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<v Speaker 1>putting a trailer that fits the dimensions of the plot

624
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<v Speaker 1>and doing so in an emergency fashion. Like does that

625
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<v Speaker 1>sound that crazy, sir? Because it doesn't sound crazy to me.

626
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<v Speaker 1>It sounds like a logical way to take advantage of

627
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<v Speaker 1>our resources.

628
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<v Speaker 4>It's not crazy. That's one of the things I did.

629
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<v Speaker 4>I was in construction until I got put out of

630
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<v Speaker 4>business by the illegals up in West Jefferson, and so

631
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:48.159
<v Speaker 4>that was one of the things I did. And we

632
00:36:48.199 --> 00:36:52.079
<v Speaker 4>would make what they call the FEMA sites. But you

633
00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:55.119
<v Speaker 4>could get a location, put a bunch of trailers out there,

634
00:36:55.639 --> 00:36:59.559
<v Speaker 4>but the people go out do their inspection. You've got

635
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:01.360
<v Speaker 4>to be able to put in a sewer system. You've

636
00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:02.880
<v Speaker 4>got to be able to get the power. You know,

637
00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:03.760
<v Speaker 4>it's like the two.

638
00:37:03.679 --> 00:37:07.159
<v Speaker 1>Main things that's your lot. So it's all there. I'm

639
00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:09.400
<v Speaker 1>going campus right already existing, yes.

640
00:37:09.320 --> 00:37:16.480
<v Speaker 4>And we used to use local contractors. After Katrina it

641
00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:22.000
<v Speaker 4>went to maybe six contractors throughout the United States, and

642
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:26.840
<v Speaker 4>the Katrina disaster was when it transitioned because we couldn't

643
00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:30.599
<v Speaker 4>figure out, why can't we get these local guys to

644
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:34.519
<v Speaker 4>move these trailers. We had to wait two weeks for

645
00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:37.679
<v Speaker 4>people get mobilized, and we were the ones that were

646
00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:41.280
<v Speaker 4>doing this, and we didn't even know because we hadn't

647
00:37:41.320 --> 00:37:45.639
<v Speaker 4>been informed. Well, we don't use local contractors anymore. I

648
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:50.719
<v Speaker 4>did a tornado down in Florida and the district person

649
00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:53.559
<v Speaker 4>running the Joint field office was I was not a

650
00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:57.800
<v Speaker 4>fan of his, and I told him, don't go on

651
00:37:57.840 --> 00:38:01.119
<v Speaker 4>the news, and it was the exact same thing, Why

652
00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:04.960
<v Speaker 4>are we waiting? Why are we waiting? And he said

653
00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:08.119
<v Speaker 4>I will get when I'm the news and told them

654
00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:11.800
<v Speaker 4>I'll have enough contractors in here halland trailers in two days.

655
00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:14.920
<v Speaker 4>We'll get it done. And I told him not to

656
00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:18.639
<v Speaker 4>do it. It probably loses his job. Well, government people

657
00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:21.960
<v Speaker 4>never lose their job no matter what they do. And

658
00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:25.679
<v Speaker 4>sure enough they sent another manager down.

659
00:38:26.679 --> 00:38:28.039
<v Speaker 1>And swamped them out.

660
00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:31.119
<v Speaker 4>I wanted to know why he made that comment on TV,

661
00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:35.639
<v Speaker 4>and it was because we've gone from local people that

662
00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:38.960
<v Speaker 4>can do exactly what you're saying. We went from that,

663
00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:43.840
<v Speaker 4>and when I became a contracting officer and they want

664
00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:45.760
<v Speaker 4>to move me to DC, that's what.

665
00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:46.320
<v Speaker 6>I got out.

666
00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:50.280
<v Speaker 4>I said, I can't stand this. This whole FEMA is

667
00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:55.400
<v Speaker 4>a taxpayer rip off. It's not con tuitional. It's a

668
00:38:55.480 --> 00:38:59.159
<v Speaker 4>eighty twenty eighty percent of the people are leeches. Twenty

669
00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:02.320
<v Speaker 4>percent of the people are people like me that get

670
00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:04.559
<v Speaker 4>into it. They want to do good, they want to

671
00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:07.840
<v Speaker 4>save the tax dollars, and it ain't happening. They got

672
00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:10.440
<v Speaker 4>six contractors that nobody can compete with.

673
00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:15.639
<v Speaker 1>What absolute lenescy. Meanwhile, I could go down to the

674
00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:20.320
<v Speaker 1>little brown jug and Joco and talk twenty people into

675
00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:22.840
<v Speaker 1>helping us ault trailers in five minutes, I.

676
00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:28.480
<v Speaker 4>Mean exactly exactly. And what they will do is these

677
00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:32.840
<v Speaker 4>six contractors who are so big. We're talking can you

678
00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:37.079
<v Speaker 4>mobilize like a situation like Katrina. You know, we're talking

679
00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:43.440
<v Speaker 4>to big ones. Can you mobilize people in forty eight hours?

680
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:46.280
<v Speaker 4>Well they say they can, but they can't. And what

681
00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:49.719
<v Speaker 4>they're doing is they're going to call They've got people

682
00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:52.920
<v Speaker 4>set up in different regions and they call them and say,

683
00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:56.159
<v Speaker 4>get the local contractors together and we're going to start

684
00:39:56.199 --> 00:40:01.239
<v Speaker 4>doing this. So see it went from the lower anyhow,

685
00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:02.840
<v Speaker 4>that's who they're going to.

686
00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:04.760
<v Speaker 5>Be making me for a lot of things.

687
00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:10.000
<v Speaker 4>But it's got to go through the government. And I mean,

688
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:13.599
<v Speaker 4>it's nuts. I couldn't stand it. I said, I'm done.

689
00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:15.719
<v Speaker 4>I'm not going to be a part of the problem.

690
00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:18.840
<v Speaker 4>I couldn't sleep at night and I was making money

691
00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:21.719
<v Speaker 4>hand over fist. And that's why these people don't quit.

692
00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:26.840
<v Speaker 4>It's too good of it's a gravy train. And and

693
00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:30.360
<v Speaker 4>I mean, in fact, to work for them.

694
00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:32.320
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they don't have to quit, sir. We can fire

695
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:34.840
<v Speaker 1>them if we had any stones about us, Like we

696
00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:37.440
<v Speaker 1>just fired the woman in charge of the Hurricane Matthew

697
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:40.760
<v Speaker 1>stuff here in North Carolina. You know why, because they're

698
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:43.360
<v Speaker 1>still they haven't done stuff a bunch of stuff, right,

699
00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:47.920
<v Speaker 1>So how hopeful, how how helpful can you be living

700
00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:50.559
<v Speaker 1>in a tent watching that they just had to finally

701
00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:55.280
<v Speaker 1>fire this woman in charge of Matthew of Matthew Hurricane

702
00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:57.559
<v Speaker 1>Matthew relief.

703
00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:03.280
<v Speaker 4>Somewhere else.

704
00:41:03.800 --> 00:41:06.320
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I'm sorry, I'm not paying God bless you

705
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:10.639
<v Speaker 1>for one to do thatand it and then people within FEMA,

706
00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:12.760
<v Speaker 1>and I have I have interviewed people with FEMA that

707
00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:15.400
<v Speaker 1>I thought were very confident in their jobs. But you're right.

708
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:17.440
<v Speaker 1>Once the man it's and this is like I was

709
00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:20.039
<v Speaker 1>talking about yesterday. Once the management attitude and thank you

710
00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:23.599
<v Speaker 1>very much for the call, Michael. The management attitude is

711
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:26.480
<v Speaker 1>is one that is wrought with bureaucracy and then they

712
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:30.320
<v Speaker 1>are willing to accept it. I don't know how you

713
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:33.239
<v Speaker 1>live with yourself there. You want me to make a

714
00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:35.400
<v Speaker 1>prediction that's running through my mind that I hope is

715
00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:37.800
<v Speaker 1>one hundred percent wrong, and people are gonna scream and

716
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:40.800
<v Speaker 1>say that I'm fear mongering. Somebody is going to freeze

717
00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:45.480
<v Speaker 1>to death. I'm a kid who grew up in the mountains.

718
00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:49.639
<v Speaker 1>Somebody's going to freeze to death. The what you need

719
00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:53.199
<v Speaker 1>to winter camp? Have how many of you have winter camped?

720
00:41:53.679 --> 00:41:57.079
<v Speaker 1>How many of you have winter camped where? Because you

721
00:41:57.119 --> 00:42:01.559
<v Speaker 1>didn't wrap enough blankets around the prope it turned to

722
00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:04.400
<v Speaker 1>gel in the canister? Did you know it can do that?

723
00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:05.480
<v Speaker 6>I do.

724
00:42:08.920 --> 00:42:11.960
<v Speaker 1>The amount of things that you need to be able

725
00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:15.840
<v Speaker 1>to do that, and that's not And also there's things

726
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:18.519
<v Speaker 1>you don't do. There are parts of the day where

727
00:42:18.519 --> 00:42:20.760
<v Speaker 1>you're not outside, you don't come in contact with water.

728
00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:23.920
<v Speaker 1>You don't drink alcohol in that situation because it gives

729
00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:26.679
<v Speaker 1>you a false sense of the internal temperature of your body.

730
00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:29.559
<v Speaker 1>And if you drink too much, people freeze to death

731
00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:34.880
<v Speaker 1>in tents. And somebody who's living in a tent for

732
00:42:34.920 --> 00:42:37.519
<v Speaker 1>eight weeks in Swanna Noah, thinking help will never come,

733
00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:45.440
<v Speaker 1>might damn well reach for the bottle. And then what

734
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:49.880
<v Speaker 1>are we gonna say? I shouldn't I should have called somebody?

735
00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:54.000
<v Speaker 1>Who who should they have called? I don't have any family,

736
00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:57.280
<v Speaker 1>I have friends. I don't have family not here. I mean,

737
00:42:57.320 --> 00:42:59.719
<v Speaker 1>I have two sisters and a brother. Other than that,

738
00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:06.760
<v Speaker 1>the rest of my family is dead, gone, and neither

739
00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:13.159
<v Speaker 1>of those three are anywhere near here. So what about that?

740
00:43:13.239 --> 00:43:15.079
<v Speaker 1>Remember that old lady who went back in her house

741
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:22.440
<v Speaker 1>and was the fatality there in Chimney Chimney Rock didn't

742
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:25.519
<v Speaker 1>have anybody, That's what they said. So now you're living

743
00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:27.920
<v Speaker 1>in a tent. You're getting a wall of wind that

744
00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:33.760
<v Speaker 1>is making homeowners nervous, home occupiers nervous, and you get

745
00:43:33.800 --> 00:43:36.519
<v Speaker 1>snow on top of it, and you get wet snows.

746
00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:38.280
<v Speaker 1>It's see, it's even gonna be worse. Than snow. It's

747
00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:41.000
<v Speaker 1>gonna be wet snow because of where the temperatures are

748
00:43:41.079 --> 00:43:46.199
<v Speaker 1>is right now, which is far worse. Is then you

749
00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:51.000
<v Speaker 1>get ice pretty quickly. It's just the whole thing is maddening,

750
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:55.000
<v Speaker 1>and the thing in California is maddening because it shows

751
00:43:55.039 --> 00:43:57.639
<v Speaker 1>you the inefficiency of stuff. So in the state of California,

752
00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:00.159
<v Speaker 1>they took that twenty million dollar loan to show up

753
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:04.400
<v Speaker 1>their unemployment fund, which they squandered through just hey, who

754
00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:08.119
<v Speaker 1>wants money, come to the money room. All of that happened,

755
00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:12.239
<v Speaker 1>and then they made a conscious decision budgeting to not

756
00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:17.519
<v Speaker 1>pay it. So this isn't They didn't have the money,

757
00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:19.599
<v Speaker 1>and now the bank's coming for their house, you know what,

758
00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:24.280
<v Speaker 1>like normal people deal with. They had the money per se, right,

759
00:44:24.280 --> 00:44:27.320
<v Speaker 1>they but they couldn't cut any of their their pets, stuff.

760
00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:30.320
<v Speaker 1>So they just didn't pay it. Why because the federal

761
00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:34.800
<v Speaker 1>government has recourse. And I learned about this when I

762
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:36.920
<v Speaker 1>saw it. Do you know who chef Andrew Gruel is

763
00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:39.960
<v Speaker 1>on Twitter? It's pretty He posts a lot, but he

764
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:44.480
<v Speaker 1>also owns a couple He owns restaurants in California. American

765
00:44:44.519 --> 00:44:46.840
<v Speaker 1>Gravy is one of them. Slapfish is the other one,

766
00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:49.280
<v Speaker 1>all right, And I think they have a few locations

767
00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:51.719
<v Speaker 1>in around La there. So he was doing his payroll

768
00:44:51.920 --> 00:44:54.480
<v Speaker 1>and he because you enter it into the state system

769
00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:56.599
<v Speaker 1>there for his payroll, and it was two thousand dollars more,

770
00:44:56.599 --> 00:44:58.000
<v Speaker 1>and they were trying to what the hell's the two

771
00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:01.079
<v Speaker 1>thousand Because when you take loan from the Feds as

772
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:05.639
<v Speaker 1>a state and you don't pay it, the backup their

773
00:45:05.760 --> 00:45:10.960
<v Speaker 1>leverage is they then tax your businesses. So every State

774
00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:15.800
<v Speaker 1>of California business that pays federal tax saw an increase.

775
00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:19.159
<v Speaker 1>His was two thousand dollars in one month. That's twenty

776
00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:23.039
<v Speaker 1>four thousand dollars a year for however long it takes

777
00:45:23.079 --> 00:45:26.760
<v Speaker 1>to meet this obligation that his business is and others

778
00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:30.119
<v Speaker 1>will have to pay because the state borrowed the money,

779
00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:33.480
<v Speaker 1>use them as the collateral, and is now forcing them.

780
00:45:33.519 --> 00:45:34.679
<v Speaker 1>And oh, by the way, if you try to sell

781
00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:38.880
<v Speaker 1>your business and leave, that's an exit tax. The amount

782
00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:40.960
<v Speaker 1>of absurdity that we're having to fish through on the

783
00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:44.079
<v Speaker 1>show today is crazy. We'll be back, but I want

784
00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:46.000
<v Speaker 1>to point out I'm putting this plan together on the

785
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:51.719
<v Speaker 1>fly while I'm doing a radio show. I know it

786
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:55.599
<v Speaker 1>doesn't sound impressive, but it's really I'm like having to

787
00:45:55.639 --> 00:45:59.480
<v Speaker 1>read stuff while I'm talking, okay, because I just want

788
00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:01.639
<v Speaker 1>to make sure. I'm like, I'm not crazy. If you

789
00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:04.519
<v Speaker 1>have trailers, you have trailer spots. I know I'm harping

790
00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:06.760
<v Speaker 1>on this, but hear me out. Three hundred and forty

791
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:10.800
<v Speaker 1>is the number of RV campgrounds that currently exist in

792
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:14.840
<v Speaker 1>the state of North Carolina's state owned or so state

793
00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:18.400
<v Speaker 1>parks or state owned attractions. Three hundred and forty. Now,

794
00:46:19.159 --> 00:46:22.199
<v Speaker 1>they're not all in Western North Carolina, however, the majority

795
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:27.639
<v Speaker 1>are and in western North Carolina. That number translates to

796
00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:31.079
<v Speaker 1>once you break it down by region, so not counting

797
00:46:31.079 --> 00:46:35.360
<v Speaker 1>the Piedmont, not counting eastern North Carolina. Currently, there are

798
00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:40.719
<v Speaker 1>four hundred and eighty one RV sites that include electrical, sewer,

799
00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:44.079
<v Speaker 1>and water. Now, some of them may have been impacted

800
00:46:44.199 --> 00:46:46.599
<v Speaker 1>for the same reason that people don't have access to

801
00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:50.119
<v Speaker 1>water or electricity in some areas of western North Carolina.

802
00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:54.360
<v Speaker 1>I yield that this is but those are just state

803
00:46:54.440 --> 00:46:57.719
<v Speaker 1>spaces and I did. This didn't dawn on me, but

804
00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:01.159
<v Speaker 1>then when I was researching this it did. In addition

805
00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:05.320
<v Speaker 1>to four hundred and eighty one camp sites which have

806
00:47:05.840 --> 00:47:10.639
<v Speaker 1>the basic necessities of life. They have. We the state

807
00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:15.280
<v Speaker 1>of North Carolina has one hundred and fifty one reservable cabins.

808
00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:22.320
<v Speaker 1>I forgot about these reservable cabins with sewer, water and electricity,

809
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:25.440
<v Speaker 1>with the exception of but these are not state ones.

810
00:47:26.239 --> 00:47:29.039
<v Speaker 1>Some of the cabins that are utilized along the Old

811
00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:32.760
<v Speaker 1>app trail up there, So that's not that doesn't count

812
00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:38.320
<v Speaker 1>anything in the federal system. So when I talk about

813
00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:40.760
<v Speaker 1>like Price, that's a state park. When you look at

814
00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:45.000
<v Speaker 1>campgrounds in the Pizga, those are generally federal Blue Ridge

815
00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:49.559
<v Speaker 1>Parkway federal, and I am. I can't track down the

816
00:47:49.639 --> 00:47:52.360
<v Speaker 1>number of the FED sites, but if there's four hundred

817
00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:55.400
<v Speaker 1>and eighty one r V sites plus one hundred and

818
00:47:55.440 --> 00:48:00.599
<v Speaker 1>fifty one cabins, you do almost six nred and fifty

819
00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:05.719
<v Speaker 1>people or not not just people families, families who are

820
00:48:05.719 --> 00:48:12.840
<v Speaker 1>living in a tent right now. Shouldn't be you grab

821
00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:14.599
<v Speaker 1>a call here, Alan, what's up?

822
00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:18.280
<v Speaker 6>Hey, thanks for taking my call. I hope you're doing

823
00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:20.039
<v Speaker 6>well your.

824
00:48:19.960 --> 00:48:24.199
<v Speaker 1>Last collar tent in the mountains, Sir, I'm doing fantastical.

825
00:48:26.639 --> 00:48:31.880
<v Speaker 1>And he's gonna tell I'm a retired Yeah, I'm a

826
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:34.360
<v Speaker 1>retired engineer from the North Carolina National Guard.

827
00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:38.280
<v Speaker 6>I've been on multiple state active duties, sure, And what

828
00:48:38.440 --> 00:48:41.119
<v Speaker 6>makes me frustrated is as soon as FEMA shows up

829
00:48:41.119 --> 00:48:45.360
<v Speaker 6>and the bureaucracy hits you can't do nothing. For example,

830
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:49.679
<v Speaker 6>we operate chainsaws. You could not operate chainsaws to help

831
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<v Speaker 6>the state of South Carolina because we weren't forestry certified

832
00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:56.519
<v Speaker 6>to operate a chainsaw. I understand if I'm cutting a

833
00:48:56.519 --> 00:48:59.360
<v Speaker 6>tree down beside a house, but if the treams are already

834
00:48:59.280 --> 00:49:02.039
<v Speaker 6>on the house, what does that matter? Licensed by the

835
00:49:02.039 --> 00:49:06.480
<v Speaker 6>military to use a chainsaw. The other thing is every

836
00:49:06.559 --> 00:49:09.880
<v Speaker 6>year we're looking for projects, the state buys the material

837
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:13.880
<v Speaker 6>to do the project. Why can't we repair FEMA trailers.

838
00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:16.519
<v Speaker 1>Right now? This is what I mean. If I don't

839
00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:18.960
<v Speaker 1>know that our old government, I don't know the full state.

840
00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:21.559
<v Speaker 1>But to your point, this is you guys are exactly

841
00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:25.599
<v Speaker 1>like explain explain to people, because I think people lost

842
00:49:25.639 --> 00:49:28.000
<v Speaker 1>it when they were hearing like the staging that was

843
00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:30.079
<v Speaker 1>going on down to Brag for like a week before

844
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:33.760
<v Speaker 1>they let those soldiers in. You guys have whole divisions

845
00:49:33.800 --> 00:49:36.039
<v Speaker 1>probably not the right word, but there are groups where

846
00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:39.599
<v Speaker 1>this is your moo, correct, this is it.

847
00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:42.800
<v Speaker 6>This is so in the engineers. In the engineers, we

848
00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:49.039
<v Speaker 6>have electricians, farmers, we have carpentry, masonry, we have heavy

849
00:49:49.039 --> 00:49:51.599
<v Speaker 6>equipment operators, so we can do everything from big a

850
00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:55.840
<v Speaker 6>foundation to put a roof on a house. The problem

851
00:49:55.880 --> 00:49:58.800
<v Speaker 6>is is when we get well, there's lots of problems.

852
00:49:58.840 --> 00:50:03.760
<v Speaker 6>But under previous administrations, we would, like I remember, we

853
00:50:03.800 --> 00:50:06.880
<v Speaker 6>would be on call twenty four hours. Hey, a hurricane's coming.

854
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:09.320
<v Speaker 6>Get your go bag ready in case we.

855
00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:10.000
<v Speaker 4>Get called up.

856
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:12.760
<v Speaker 6>You report to the armory within twenty four hours. We

857
00:50:12.760 --> 00:50:13.719
<v Speaker 6>were boots on the ground.

858
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:18.360
<v Speaker 1>But now my friend's telling me, like, they give them

859
00:50:18.360 --> 00:50:19.639
<v Speaker 1>three days of this time around them.

860
00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:22.280
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, they now they sit around, But I mean we

861
00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:26.800
<v Speaker 6>would already be staged closer to the area. Like, so

862
00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:29.559
<v Speaker 6>the hurricane's going to hit the mountains, So the day

863
00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:31.679
<v Speaker 6>before the hurricane hits, a lot of times we would

864
00:50:31.719 --> 00:50:34.519
<v Speaker 6>be staged in Hickory with all our equipment and all

865
00:50:34.519 --> 00:50:35.199
<v Speaker 6>our guys.

866
00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:36.679
<v Speaker 4>Ye, and we're ready to go.

867
00:50:37.320 --> 00:50:41.679
<v Speaker 6>And when when you're first on the ground, you usually

868
00:50:41.719 --> 00:50:44.920
<v Speaker 6>work with the local sheriff, local police, or the local

869
00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:49.159
<v Speaker 6>fire department, and we would help clear the routes for

870
00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:53.840
<v Speaker 6>emergency services. But then as soon as FEMA stepped in

871
00:50:54.039 --> 00:50:56.239
<v Speaker 6>it was like, stop what you're doing. We got to

872
00:50:56.239 --> 00:51:00.119
<v Speaker 6>get permission, we got to get authorization. And Casey's it

873
00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:03.159
<v Speaker 6>around for three or four days doing nothing and.

874
00:51:03.760 --> 00:51:07.000
<v Speaker 1>You dude, the chainsaw thing blows me away because South

875
00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:10.599
<v Speaker 1>Carolina is such a lawless land for everything else, so

876
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:11.800
<v Speaker 1>they didn't think you know how to run.

877
00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:14.960
<v Speaker 6>Well it wasn't, but it wasn't. But it wasn't South Carolina.

878
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:17.400
<v Speaker 6>That's just it. I mean we went down there, what

879
00:51:17.559 --> 00:51:21.519
<v Speaker 6>was it six seven years ago, Yeah, when they had

880
00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:25.840
<v Speaker 6>all the flooding, and you know, you're out there trying

881
00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:28.639
<v Speaker 6>to you want to operate a chainsaw, and anybody that

882
00:51:28.719 --> 00:51:31.480
<v Speaker 6>served in the military will tell you, like, you don't

883
00:51:31.480 --> 00:51:35.159
<v Speaker 6>just get licensed on a chainsaw. You get licensed on

884
00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:38.119
<v Speaker 6>every type of chainsaw the military has. So if there's

885
00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:40.199
<v Speaker 6>a chainsaw and you're not licensed on it, you can't

886
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:44.159
<v Speaker 6>use it. So, you know, I'm like, if I was

887
00:51:44.199 --> 00:51:47.920
<v Speaker 6>cutting a tree down free standing beside a house, you know,

888
00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:49.679
<v Speaker 6>I'd want to be concerned. I'd want somebody to be

889
00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:52.400
<v Speaker 6>licensed and bonded and all that. But if the tree

890
00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:54.440
<v Speaker 6>is already down and it's blocking the road and the

891
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:57.400
<v Speaker 6>ambulance seems to get through you to save somebody who

892
00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:01.119
<v Speaker 6>cares if your licensed is by the federal government to

893
00:52:01.159 --> 00:52:02.079
<v Speaker 6>cut down a truth.

894
00:52:03.079 --> 00:52:05.559
<v Speaker 1>My eleven year old nephew who can run a chainsaw,

895
00:52:06.440 --> 00:52:07.599
<v Speaker 1>just be honest, right, you.

896
00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:11.280
<v Speaker 6>Know, and you know, yeah, and if you just make

897
00:52:11.320 --> 00:52:12.760
<v Speaker 6>one cut and hook a chain up to it and

898
00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:15.519
<v Speaker 6>drag the tree off the road, at least then emergency

899
00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:18.159
<v Speaker 6>vehicles can get through. But you know, when they put

900
00:52:18.159 --> 00:52:20.119
<v Speaker 6>a stop to everything, and then you're sitting there scratching

901
00:52:20.159 --> 00:52:23.079
<v Speaker 6>your head like this is why I joined the National Guard,

902
00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:24.840
<v Speaker 6>because I get to serve in the military, but I

903
00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:28.119
<v Speaker 6>also get to serve my community. When the natural disaster

904
00:52:28.239 --> 00:52:31.800
<v Speaker 6>hits and and it's it gets so frustrating because you're

905
00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:34.360
<v Speaker 6>like sitting there for three or four days until you

906
00:52:34.360 --> 00:52:36.800
<v Speaker 6>get to do anything, and then it's like not even.

907
00:52:36.599 --> 00:52:39.920
<v Speaker 1>Really doing it, sharpening your blades, just waiting to turn

908
00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:44.719
<v Speaker 1>it on. Crazy Alan taking the vehicle. Yeah, hey, I

909
00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:46.960
<v Speaker 1>appreciate the call this morning, and you know, thank you

910
00:52:47.039 --> 00:52:50.280
<v Speaker 1>too for you know, making that commitments the community, even

911
00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:53.519
<v Speaker 1>if people stood in your way, so I can't even imagine.

912
00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:56.000
<v Speaker 6>I appreciate it, and thank you for all you guys do.

913
00:52:56.159 --> 00:52:56.320
<v Speaker 4>Man.

914
00:52:56.480 --> 00:52:57.800
<v Speaker 6>I love your show and I listened.

915
00:52:57.599 --> 00:52:58.800
<v Speaker 1>Every day we're blowhearts.

916
00:52:58.800 --> 00:52:58.920
<v Speaker 4>Man.

917
00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:00.840
<v Speaker 1>You're out there running a chain saw when they let you.

918
00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:02.039
<v Speaker 1>So that's that's good.

919
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:05.320
<v Speaker 6>Sick not anymore. I'm retired back case.

920
00:53:06.440 --> 00:53:08.719
<v Speaker 1>Oh so now you can't you're not you're not licensed.

921
00:53:08.760 --> 00:53:10.800
<v Speaker 1>I understand, all right, Alan appreciate it. Have a good

922
00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:14.039
<v Speaker 1>one there. Uh and then somebody else send me this email?

923
00:53:14.079 --> 00:53:14.440
<v Speaker 2>You here?

924
00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:16.679
<v Speaker 1>You ready? You just you was your craft some more?

925
00:53:16.719 --> 00:53:16.760
<v Speaker 6>This?

926
00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:19.559
<v Speaker 1>Why I'm sorry? Does any you want me to do

927
00:53:19.639 --> 00:53:21.679
<v Speaker 1>a story that's not this for just like two minutes

928
00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:25.800
<v Speaker 1>so we can all calm down because the next email

929
00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:29.360
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna read you it might put you over the

930
00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:32.280
<v Speaker 1>top instead. Why don't we go and real just real quick,

931
00:53:32.440 --> 00:53:35.079
<v Speaker 1>and then we'll do the weather in a moment. Let's

932
00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:38.840
<v Speaker 1>uh So the the the ghoul who murdered Lake and

933
00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:41.119
<v Speaker 1>Riley was sentenced to stay to life in prison, which

934
00:53:41.159 --> 00:53:43.679
<v Speaker 1>I hate Like this week, that guy and this that

935
00:53:43.880 --> 00:53:47.199
<v Speaker 1>sick woman who cooked her babies in the oven filmed

936
00:53:47.199 --> 00:53:51.000
<v Speaker 1>it to spite her boyfriend or husband both got life

937
00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:53.960
<v Speaker 1>and not the wood chipper, which is frank. I don't

938
00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:56.119
<v Speaker 1>know if I'm licensed to run one near Forrest, but

939
00:53:56.760 --> 00:53:59.440
<v Speaker 1>I think that's where they both should go. But how

940
00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:02.280
<v Speaker 1>did it happen well, CNN did the analysis.

941
00:54:02.280 --> 00:54:05.840
<v Speaker 7>It was important to note that all of this vitriol

942
00:54:05.920 --> 00:54:10.679
<v Speaker 7>that we're hearing from Republicans and President elect Trump regarding

943
00:54:10.760 --> 00:54:13.079
<v Speaker 7>the policies of the Biden administration, it's important to know

944
00:54:13.159 --> 00:54:17.679
<v Speaker 7>that President Trump, President elect Trump did force Republicans to

945
00:54:17.800 --> 00:54:22.400
<v Speaker 7>essentially tank a bipartisan border security bill that both sides

946
00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:25.480
<v Speaker 7>of the aisle said would have essentially addressed border security

947
00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:27.000
<v Speaker 7>and immigration issues.

948
00:54:27.039 --> 00:54:31.320
<v Speaker 1>Here, okay, about nine things, Y're one, the bill that

949
00:54:31.599 --> 00:54:35.880
<v Speaker 1>only contained twelve percent of its funding to actually dealing

950
00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:39.400
<v Speaker 1>with immigration stuff. The rest was Ukraine, Israel, bunch of

951
00:54:39.400 --> 00:54:42.239
<v Speaker 1>stuff that had nothing to do with it. Two, That

952
00:54:42.320 --> 00:54:45.559
<v Speaker 1>bill was proposed after Lakenriley was killed, so it would

953
00:54:45.559 --> 00:54:48.159
<v Speaker 1>have done nothing, And frankly, there's not a lot of

954
00:54:48.159 --> 00:54:51.719
<v Speaker 1>confidence it would have done anything anyway, because the monies

955
00:54:51.760 --> 00:54:55.880
<v Speaker 1>were about getting more people to the border and to

956
00:54:56.280 --> 00:54:59.800
<v Speaker 1>facilitate essentially the fast tracking of people into the country.

957
00:55:00.800 --> 00:55:03.599
<v Speaker 1>Now they were going to It wasn't remain in Mexico.

958
00:55:03.719 --> 00:55:06.400
<v Speaker 1>There was going to be some extra barriers there, but

959
00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:09.159
<v Speaker 1>it wouldn't do anything with dudes already running around who

960
00:55:09.159 --> 00:55:12.840
<v Speaker 1>had committed multiple crimes in multiple states. So the level

961
00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:15.280
<v Speaker 1>of dishonesty over there at CNN and others that like

962
00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:20.000
<v Speaker 1>MSNBC is probably going away. You realize that right as

963
00:55:20.039 --> 00:55:22.599
<v Speaker 1>you know it at least named that NBC wants that

964
00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:27.519
<v Speaker 1>carcass off of their payroll. They finally come to the

965
00:55:27.559 --> 00:55:31.039
<v Speaker 1>conclusion that it's damaging the NBC News brand. It's very

966
00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:34.280
<v Speaker 1>clear with the discussions they're having right now. The irony

967
00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:36.840
<v Speaker 1>is they don't recognize that the NBC News brand also

968
00:55:37.159 --> 00:55:41.079
<v Speaker 1>damages the NBC News brand. But you know who buys it?

969
00:55:41.119 --> 00:55:43.480
<v Speaker 1>Soros is kid who just bought all those radio stations?

970
00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:44.760
<v Speaker 1>Am I allowed to bring up Soros?

971
00:55:44.760 --> 00:55:44.880
<v Speaker 3>So that?

972
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:46.719
<v Speaker 1>I mean, they did just buy all those radio stations.

973
00:55:48.559 --> 00:55:51.119
<v Speaker 1>They buy that and then just flip it. What happens

974
00:55:51.199 --> 00:55:54.079
<v Speaker 1>to the immense salaries that people like Madow and them again?

975
00:55:56.239 --> 00:55:59.519
<v Speaker 1>And Morning Joe? Oh Man, what happens to Morning Joe?

976
00:55:59.639 --> 00:56:02.920
<v Speaker 1>Maybe that's why he's up in the winter White house

977
00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:07.039
<v Speaker 1>kissing butt. The other day anyway, raced Agic from the

978
00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:10.280
<v Speaker 1>Weather Channel, why'd you try to blow poor Ross's house

979
00:56:10.320 --> 00:56:11.519
<v Speaker 1>down yesterday?

980
00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:14.679
<v Speaker 8>I huffed and I puffed.

981
00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:17.400
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you did some huffing and puffing. It's the first

982
00:56:17.440 --> 00:56:19.360
<v Speaker 1>thing Ross said to me this morning's like, holy crap,

983
00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:22.320
<v Speaker 1>that wind yesterday My house almost blew over, So I

984
00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:24.119
<v Speaker 1>need you to not do that again.

985
00:56:24.880 --> 00:56:27.880
<v Speaker 8>Well that was the almost said arctic front. Not really

986
00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:29.719
<v Speaker 8>an Arctic front yet. We're getting into that time of

987
00:56:29.800 --> 00:56:32.119
<v Speaker 8>year though, I was the cold front and now the

988
00:56:32.159 --> 00:56:35.840
<v Speaker 8>chili temperatures. Just again, do you have a freeze watch

989
00:56:35.880 --> 00:56:38.639
<v Speaker 8>actually covering up most of the triangle here for tomorrow morning,

990
00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:41.320
<v Speaker 8>So the colder air continues to come in. I mean

991
00:56:41.400 --> 00:56:45.599
<v Speaker 8>we could get to the mid fiftiest. Yeah, yeah, they

992
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:48.599
<v Speaker 8>could be. They could be, but the wind's gonna make

993
00:56:48.599 --> 00:56:50.880
<v Speaker 8>it feel chillier. The winds haven't picked up yet. We'll

994
00:56:50.880 --> 00:56:52.800
<v Speaker 8>have to get the sun to continue to shine on

995
00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:55.599
<v Speaker 8>the atmosphere we call mixing. So once we see the

996
00:56:55.599 --> 00:56:58.400
<v Speaker 8>winds from the upper levels, it's a it's a physics thing.

997
00:56:58.679 --> 00:57:00.599
<v Speaker 8>I don't want to get into it already did, but

998
00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:02.599
<v Speaker 8>just it's going to be breezy to windy later, how

999
00:57:02.599 --> 00:57:04.440
<v Speaker 8>about that? And it's not going to feel like the

1000
00:57:04.440 --> 00:57:07.280
<v Speaker 8>fifties tonight near freezing. Thus the freeze watch for some

1001
00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:09.519
<v Speaker 8>of us that may not have had freezing temperatures yet.

1002
00:57:09.840 --> 00:57:12.119
<v Speaker 8>Tomorrow is still a gusty breeze in the low fifties.

1003
00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:13.960
<v Speaker 8>Over the weekend, we get a little mile they're back

1004
00:57:13.960 --> 00:57:16.519
<v Speaker 8>close to our above sixty degrees for the triangle, probably

1005
00:57:16.559 --> 00:57:19.519
<v Speaker 8>staying in the fifties for the triad and then near

1006
00:57:19.559 --> 00:57:21.719
<v Speaker 8>seventy Monday, so we will get warm up. This little

1007
00:57:21.760 --> 00:57:24.800
<v Speaker 8>cold snap in the mountains are winter weather advisories now,

1008
00:57:24.840 --> 00:57:28.519
<v Speaker 8>and they do get into the western North Carolina Mountains. Haywood,

1009
00:57:28.599 --> 00:57:31.639
<v Speaker 8>Yancey Counties, not bunkhom County where Ashville resides.

1010
00:57:31.719 --> 00:57:34.760
<v Speaker 1>So our buddy Mark's doing Okay, give me the haywood.

1011
00:57:34.760 --> 00:57:36.840
<v Speaker 1>There's a bunch of damage, and he give me the haywood.

1012
00:57:37.199 --> 00:57:38.719
<v Speaker 1>How cold is it going to be tonight? Because we

1013
00:57:38.760 --> 00:57:40.920
<v Speaker 1>have people living in tents and we have FEMA trailers

1014
00:57:40.920 --> 00:57:44.000
<v Speaker 1>sitting right Hickory that nobody will move. So sorry, I'm

1015
00:57:44.039 --> 00:57:45.880
<v Speaker 1>very Yeah, it's yeah.

1016
00:57:45.920 --> 00:57:49.440
<v Speaker 8>It's winds maybe twenty to thirty miles per hour snow.

1017
00:57:51.239 --> 00:57:54.079
<v Speaker 8>Hickory may see a slusher light accumulation, but there could

1018
00:57:54.079 --> 00:57:56.199
<v Speaker 8>be two to four inches in some of the higher

1019
00:57:56.199 --> 00:57:58.159
<v Speaker 8>peaks above two or three thousand feet, so really low

1020
00:57:58.239 --> 00:58:02.679
<v Speaker 8>times on where you are. Heywood, Heywood, Okay, so Heywood,

1021
00:58:02.719 --> 00:58:05.400
<v Speaker 8>Heywood County. Yeah, there may be a couple of inches

1022
00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:09.599
<v Speaker 8>of snow accumulating too. So let's see heywo Yancey Madison

1023
00:58:09.639 --> 00:58:13.320
<v Speaker 8>Counties in that heywood in the winter weather advisory that

1024
00:58:13.360 --> 00:58:16.400
<v Speaker 8>could be for up to maybe four to seven inches

1025
00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:18.679
<v Speaker 8>above five thousand feet so and the wind's gusting, so

1026
00:58:18.719 --> 00:58:19.599
<v Speaker 8>it's gonna feel like winter.

1027
00:58:20.360 --> 00:58:22.559
<v Speaker 1>Take every one of our election officials, dump them in

1028
00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:24.440
<v Speaker 1>their boxers out in the middle of that crap and

1029
00:58:24.519 --> 00:58:25.079
<v Speaker 1>just leave them.

1030
00:58:25.519 --> 00:58:26.920
<v Speaker 4>Just that'd be cute.

1031
00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:31.480
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's that's another word that's going for. That's not nices.

1032
00:58:31.639 --> 00:58:31.800
<v Speaker 3>Man.

1033
00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:34.760
<v Speaker 1>All right, you, I'm sorry to drag you into my

1034
00:58:34.800 --> 00:58:37.880
<v Speaker 1>cv atre problem. So yeah, problem, all right, we'll talk

1035
00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:40.159
<v Speaker 1>in an hour. I'll try to be nicer, uh seven

1036
00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:43.920
<v Speaker 1>eight CaCO Day Radio program, and it's just gonna ramp

1037
00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:49.000
<v Speaker 1>up because we're gonna chat with h social media may

1038
00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:51.039
<v Speaker 1>even I don't I don't even know what she calls herself,

1039
00:58:51.039 --> 00:58:54.320
<v Speaker 1>but anyway, Cassie Clark, who is she's up in this

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00:58:55.079 --> 00:58:57.119
<v Speaker 1>and we're gonna talk about all these things we've been

1041
00:58:57.199 --> 00:58:59.239
<v Speaker 1>rambling on. But when we come back, I'm gonna read

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00:58:59.239 --> 00:59:01.000
<v Speaker 1>you an email I just got from somebody who's in

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00:59:01.039 --> 00:59:06.679
<v Speaker 1>the the old power business, and it's it's it's gonna

1044
00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:10.039
<v Speaker 1>raise your blood pressure. So you've been warned. We'll be back.

1045
00:59:10.199 --> 00:59:12.440
<v Speaker 1>Want one more bite at this apple before we again.

1046
00:59:12.719 --> 00:59:17.400
<v Speaker 1>We go chat with Cassie Clark, social media influencer and

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00:59:17.559 --> 00:59:21.239
<v Speaker 1>uh a hawk on what's going on in North Carolina's

1048
00:59:21.519 --> 00:59:27.280
<v Speaker 1>western uh western mountains and uh this FEMA trailer thing.

1049
00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:30.639
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna we'll get into all of this. And by

1050
00:59:30.679 --> 00:59:34.079
<v Speaker 1>the way, I probably have one hundred trucks where people

1051
00:59:34.119 --> 00:59:36.559
<v Speaker 1>would immediately plus I gotta we got a bunch of

1052
00:59:36.559 --> 00:59:39.280
<v Speaker 1>great listeners that you know, they houl heavy equipment and whatnot.

1053
00:59:39.360 --> 00:59:42.280
<v Speaker 1>So the trucks they have or are We're not just

1054
00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:46.159
<v Speaker 1>talking f two fifties here. We're talking the big boys,

1055
00:59:46.719 --> 00:59:49.440
<v Speaker 1>which is good because it doesn't matter at that point.

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00:59:49.639 --> 00:59:49.760
<v Speaker 3>Uh.

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00:59:49.840 --> 00:59:51.760
<v Speaker 1>If you got the equipment to go ahead and haul it,

1058
00:59:52.800 --> 00:59:56.159
<v Speaker 1>then you do it. And the amount of people that

1059
00:59:56.199 --> 01:00:01.360
<v Speaker 1>would come forward within it will take nothing. And I

1060
01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:06.159
<v Speaker 1>don't care whether you're in your standard pickup truck. In fact,

1061
01:00:06.199 --> 01:00:07.679
<v Speaker 1>I was gonna look up the gross weight on one

1062
01:00:07.719 --> 01:00:10.719
<v Speaker 1>of these things. This coupled with the ability to have

1063
01:00:10.760 --> 01:00:13.679
<v Speaker 1>access to these campgrounds. I don't know why this isn't

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01:00:13.760 --> 01:00:15.639
<v Speaker 1>at the very least the first thing easy that you

1065
01:00:15.719 --> 01:00:18.679
<v Speaker 1>do and then do other stuff. So you you know,

1066
01:00:18.920 --> 01:00:21.519
<v Speaker 1>have your personal truck, have that dually you bought because

1067
01:00:21.719 --> 01:00:25.159
<v Speaker 1>you work a construction gig. Be a Kenworth pulling logs,

1068
01:00:25.760 --> 01:00:27.840
<v Speaker 1>a cab over pete with a refront, or a Jimmy

1069
01:00:27.880 --> 01:00:30.320
<v Speaker 1>holl And hoggs. I don't care, and some of you

1070
01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:32.800
<v Speaker 1>will get that reference. I don't care. And the people

1071
01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:35.519
<v Speaker 1>who are sitting intense freezing their ass off side, they

1072
01:00:35.519 --> 01:00:40.760
<v Speaker 1>don't care either. This is wild. And then I read

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01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:43.800
<v Speaker 1>this and then I just lose my mind more. Uh,

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01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:48.280
<v Speaker 1>all right, be very careful here. A lot of people,

1075
01:00:48.360 --> 01:00:50.880
<v Speaker 1>a lot of people and understandably don't want their names

1076
01:00:50.960 --> 01:00:56.960
<v Speaker 1>used because they're surrounded by bureaucrats. You do too, too. Okay,

1077
01:00:57.119 --> 01:00:59.719
<v Speaker 1>So I got this email. This is from a guy

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01:00:59.760 --> 01:01:03.519
<v Speaker 1>who who works as alignment or works with the linemen,

1079
01:01:04.760 --> 01:01:07.880
<v Speaker 1>and he says that quote. We went to what we

1080
01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:10.880
<v Speaker 1>went to restore in western North Carolina. The company, the

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01:01:10.920 --> 01:01:14.000
<v Speaker 1>power company, I'm not sure which one. Set up an

1082
01:01:14.239 --> 01:01:19.719
<v Speaker 1>entire camp with showers, lodging trailers, food tens, so commas.

1083
01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:23.320
<v Speaker 1>You know you got commissary, you got stores, you've got cafeteria,

1084
01:01:23.400 --> 01:01:25.519
<v Speaker 1>you've got the shower facilities, You've got all of this

1085
01:01:26.239 --> 01:01:31.559
<v Speaker 1>for thousands of linemen in a weekend. The mini city

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01:01:31.639 --> 01:01:35.239
<v Speaker 1>also includes its own fuel for everything, right, so they

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01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:37.679
<v Speaker 1>keep it all. I'm assuming it's massive general I don't know,

1088
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:41.119
<v Speaker 1>but it doesn't matter. They've set up a facility so

1089
01:01:41.159 --> 01:01:44.559
<v Speaker 1>that these linemen can do the really important work that

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01:01:44.559 --> 01:01:47.320
<v Speaker 1>they're doing, which is to spread out. And within a

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01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:51.000
<v Speaker 1>weekend they took a parcel of land and turned it

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01:01:51.039 --> 01:01:57.119
<v Speaker 1>into a thousands of multi thousands of people's city for

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01:01:57.440 --> 01:02:00.320
<v Speaker 1>people who are going to spend really long days working

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01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:02.920
<v Speaker 1>and need to be able just to you know, have

1095
01:02:03.039 --> 01:02:05.039
<v Speaker 1>five minutes to get some sleep and some food and

1096
01:02:05.079 --> 01:02:07.599
<v Speaker 1>all of it. And they're able to facilitate that. And

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01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:12.159
<v Speaker 1>you know why, because they're not the government. Because they're

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01:02:12.199 --> 01:02:15.320
<v Speaker 1>not the government, and so they can go ahead and

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01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:17.920
<v Speaker 1>do this. I surprised some bureaucrats not over there, like, oh,

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01:02:17.960 --> 01:02:20.199
<v Speaker 1>we brought the fire marshal, let's check see how many

1101
01:02:20.199 --> 01:02:22.400
<v Speaker 1>people you have to shut up. It's been me just

1102
01:02:22.440 --> 01:02:25.119
<v Speaker 1>trying not to lose my crap all morning. So now

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01:02:25.119 --> 01:02:27.719
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to push that responsibility off on our guest,

1104
01:02:27.960 --> 01:02:32.559
<v Speaker 1>Cassie Clark, you follow on Twitter at Dogwood Blooms, a

1105
01:02:32.679 --> 01:02:35.679
<v Speaker 1>very good source of what's been happening out in West

1106
01:02:35.719 --> 01:02:38.599
<v Speaker 1>North Carolina, Western North Carolina, and more specifically, what's not

1107
01:02:38.679 --> 01:02:41.880
<v Speaker 1>been happening, and that has been the focus this morning. Cassie,

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01:02:42.159 --> 01:02:43.079
<v Speaker 1>how you doing today?

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01:02:43.840 --> 01:02:44.320
<v Speaker 3>I'm good.

1110
01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:46.079
<v Speaker 5>How are you well?

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01:02:46.119 --> 01:02:48.599
<v Speaker 1>I'm not living in a tent in Swannanoah with two

1112
01:02:48.679 --> 01:02:50.559
<v Speaker 1>inches of forecasted wet snow.

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01:02:51.559 --> 01:02:53.639
<v Speaker 3>Oh that's a good thing, right, yeah.

1114
01:02:53.440 --> 01:02:57.360
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Unfortunately. Look, I saw your post yesterday and then

1115
01:02:57.360 --> 01:03:00.119
<v Speaker 1>our discussion this morning. I just wanted to prove a

1116
01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:02.440
<v Speaker 1>point and I want to talk about these FEMA trailers

1117
01:03:03.119 --> 01:03:05.519
<v Speaker 1>within one segment of this show. I've got one hundred

1118
01:03:05.559 --> 01:03:09.039
<v Speaker 1>and fifty people with trucks that can haul these things

1119
01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:13.159
<v Speaker 1>who will go drive there tomorrow. The need for flat

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01:03:13.159 --> 01:03:16.599
<v Speaker 1>space with sewer, water and electric exists in western North

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01:03:16.639 --> 01:03:20.159
<v Speaker 1>Carolina to the tune of four hundred and fifty one

1122
01:03:20.440 --> 01:03:24.079
<v Speaker 1>state park places one hundred and fifty cabins, and that's

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01:03:24.119 --> 01:03:28.320
<v Speaker 1>not counting fed campgrounds for urvs which are established and ready.

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01:03:28.960 --> 01:03:31.480
<v Speaker 1>Why what is going on in Hickory and why are

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01:03:31.480 --> 01:03:34.480
<v Speaker 1>those trailers there and not say in Price Park near

1126
01:03:34.519 --> 01:03:36.039
<v Speaker 1>Blowing Rock? What is going on?

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01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:41.400
<v Speaker 3>So I've been on the phone with multiple people who

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01:03:41.400 --> 01:03:44.360
<v Speaker 3>are involved in politics. You can know that I'm not.

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01:03:45.079 --> 01:03:48.840
<v Speaker 3>From what I understand. The problem with getting the trailers

1130
01:03:48.880 --> 01:03:51.519
<v Speaker 3>into western North Carolina is they will not set those

1131
01:03:51.599 --> 01:03:56.719
<v Speaker 3>up in floodplains. And after the storm, a great many

1132
01:03:56.760 --> 01:04:00.880
<v Speaker 3>people who are hurting right now own property where in floodplains.

1133
01:04:01.559 --> 01:04:05.360
<v Speaker 1>Understandable, and that's why when I say, I understand why

1134
01:04:05.400 --> 01:04:06.599
<v Speaker 1>you don't want to go stick it on a guy's

1135
01:04:06.639 --> 01:04:09.440
<v Speaker 1>plot of land if it's in a floodplain, although some

1136
01:04:09.519 --> 01:04:12.159
<v Speaker 1>of it I don't because of what they've now expanded

1137
01:04:12.159 --> 01:04:16.400
<v Speaker 1>the definition of floodplain. But those campgrounds are not they're

1138
01:04:16.400 --> 01:04:19.920
<v Speaker 1>specifically not that we don't build those in floodplains. If

1139
01:04:19.920 --> 01:04:22.639
<v Speaker 1>you go to Price, you'd understand, and I'm sure you've

1140
01:04:22.639 --> 01:04:25.159
<v Speaker 1>camped over the years and one of our beautiful campgrounds

1141
01:04:25.159 --> 01:04:28.920
<v Speaker 1>here in North Carolina. They don't build those in flood plains,

1142
01:04:29.920 --> 01:04:32.840
<v Speaker 1>and so they have and they're flat and they're ready

1143
01:04:32.920 --> 01:04:36.000
<v Speaker 1>to rock and roll. Has this even been discussed with

1144
01:04:36.079 --> 01:04:37.880
<v Speaker 1>any of the folks you've been speaking with, because it

1145
01:04:37.920 --> 01:04:40.320
<v Speaker 1>sounds like a solution, or at least a temporary solution.

1146
01:04:41.400 --> 01:04:43.679
<v Speaker 3>I have not heard that at all. But I think

1147
01:04:43.719 --> 01:04:47.800
<v Speaker 3>it's important to remember that hillbilly culture is different than

1148
01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:51.480
<v Speaker 3>anywhere else right. And so you know I've said this before.

1149
01:04:52.239 --> 01:04:54.920
<v Speaker 3>I'm a part owner of a piece of property in Canton,

1150
01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:57.519
<v Speaker 3>North Carolina. That piece of property has been in my

1151
01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:01.559
<v Speaker 3>family for five generations. To me, that piece of land

1152
01:05:02.079 --> 01:05:05.119
<v Speaker 3>is like my family. I love it dearly. You would

1153
01:05:05.119 --> 01:05:07.599
<v Speaker 3>not tell me that I cannot live there if I

1154
01:05:07.639 --> 01:05:10.360
<v Speaker 3>wanted to. You could not convince me of that, right.

1155
01:05:10.679 --> 01:05:13.079
<v Speaker 3>That's part of my culture. And so a lot of

1156
01:05:13.119 --> 01:05:16.599
<v Speaker 3>these people who live on these plots of land that

1157
01:05:16.679 --> 01:05:21.039
<v Speaker 3>have been flooded out, it's land that they've inherited, right,

1158
01:05:21.280 --> 01:05:23.480
<v Speaker 3>and so they're going to be just as attached to

1159
01:05:23.519 --> 01:05:26.800
<v Speaker 3>that piece of property as I am to mine. And

1160
01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:32.039
<v Speaker 3>so there's going to be a huge cultural disconnect between

1161
01:05:33.480 --> 01:05:37.679
<v Speaker 3>the rules and regulation set by FEMA and local entities

1162
01:05:38.119 --> 01:05:40.519
<v Speaker 3>and the people who are living on those plots of land.

1163
01:05:41.159 --> 01:05:43.480
<v Speaker 1>And let's talk about those people for a moment. And

1164
01:05:45.360 --> 01:05:48.400
<v Speaker 1>your family and my family have something in common that

1165
01:05:48.480 --> 01:05:54.800
<v Speaker 1>most people don't realize happened to families who homesteaded, you know,

1166
01:05:55.239 --> 01:05:58.719
<v Speaker 1>before the establishment of things like the Pisca National Forest

1167
01:05:59.159 --> 01:06:01.519
<v Speaker 1>or in my case, the Born National Forest. My family

1168
01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:04.840
<v Speaker 1>grew up a big chunk of that national forest you

1169
01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:09.000
<v Speaker 1>all enjoy used to be our property. Okay, and Andy,

1170
01:06:09.159 --> 01:06:11.519
<v Speaker 1>they went through this reclamation, they took this back, so

1171
01:06:11.559 --> 01:06:15.559
<v Speaker 1>it created significant trust issues with the descendants of people

1172
01:06:15.599 --> 01:06:22.239
<v Speaker 1>living there. What in your in your obviously knowed learned

1173
01:06:22.679 --> 01:06:25.800
<v Speaker 1>over your growing up there and your family being their opinion,

1174
01:06:26.599 --> 01:06:28.960
<v Speaker 1>what do you how do you think that most western

1175
01:06:29.079 --> 01:06:33.559
<v Speaker 1>North Carolina, especially legacy property owners like that view anything

1176
01:06:33.639 --> 01:06:37.519
<v Speaker 1>with the Feds based on that and several other things

1177
01:06:37.559 --> 01:06:41.719
<v Speaker 1>that have happened over the years. There's no trust there none.

1178
01:06:41.840 --> 01:06:44.800
<v Speaker 3>As far as this trust of the government goes. You're

1179
01:06:44.800 --> 01:06:47.599
<v Speaker 3>not going to find a place where that's more deeply

1180
01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:51.719
<v Speaker 3>entrenched than Appalascia. Right. I mean my family what you

1181
01:06:51.760 --> 01:06:54.679
<v Speaker 3>were talking about with the forest, My family roots are

1182
01:06:54.800 --> 01:06:58.440
<v Speaker 3>very deeply embedded in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

1183
01:06:58.840 --> 01:07:01.400
<v Speaker 3>Ask us how they got that, how they get how

1184
01:07:01.440 --> 01:07:02.039
<v Speaker 3>they get that? Right?

1185
01:07:02.239 --> 01:07:04.119
<v Speaker 1>You remember, you get to go there for free forever

1186
01:07:04.199 --> 01:07:04.440
<v Speaker 1>right now?

1187
01:07:04.480 --> 01:07:06.840
<v Speaker 3>Oh, you're supposed to, but now there's parking fees.

1188
01:07:07.360 --> 01:07:09.760
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so weird. Which is an actual which is a

1189
01:07:10.079 --> 01:07:12.519
<v Speaker 1>which is a promise that was made on the record

1190
01:07:12.840 --> 01:07:15.440
<v Speaker 1>to Cassie's family and others that they would never have

1191
01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:18.559
<v Speaker 1>to pay to access what used to be theirs that's correct.

1192
01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:20.880
<v Speaker 3>Just like the roads. Nowhere was a promise that we

1193
01:07:20.920 --> 01:07:23.880
<v Speaker 3>would have a road back to our family burial plots.

1194
01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:28.639
<v Speaker 3>That's they never completed that. Now there's wild pigs roawning

1195
01:07:28.679 --> 01:07:32.320
<v Speaker 3>around and they root up our burial spots and they

1196
01:07:32.320 --> 01:07:34.039
<v Speaker 3>won't allow us to put senses up.

1197
01:07:36.119 --> 01:07:37.920
<v Speaker 1>We had a guy calling in the last hour as

1198
01:07:37.960 --> 01:07:40.639
<v Speaker 1>a National Guardsman who said that when they went to

1199
01:07:40.679 --> 01:07:43.480
<v Speaker 1>respond to an emergency in South Carolina a few years ago,

1200
01:07:43.960 --> 01:07:46.599
<v Speaker 1>they are trained engineers. They're trained to literally run all

1201
01:07:46.639 --> 01:07:49.960
<v Speaker 1>the chainsaws. The FED stopped him because he wasn't for

1202
01:07:50.280 --> 01:07:53.119
<v Speaker 1>certified for chainsaw use. This is a guy in uniform

1203
01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:57.599
<v Speaker 1>whose mos is to run chainsaws. So yeah, it's it's wacky.

1204
01:07:57.599 --> 01:07:59.960
<v Speaker 1>But here's the thing. We can sit here and we

1205
01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:04.280
<v Speaker 1>grouse about this all we want. If these folks would

1206
01:08:04.440 --> 01:08:07.280
<v Speaker 1>just move out of the way, there's a solution for

1207
01:08:07.360 --> 01:08:09.519
<v Speaker 1>these trailers. It may not be a solution for everyone.

1208
01:08:09.559 --> 01:08:13.199
<v Speaker 1>But here's what I'm terrified about, Cassie. I've camped in

1209
01:08:13.239 --> 01:08:16.159
<v Speaker 1>the winter. The amount of preparation and things that you

1210
01:08:16.279 --> 01:08:20.039
<v Speaker 1>need and how careful you have to be cannot be over.

1211
01:08:21.439 --> 01:08:24.239
<v Speaker 1>I can't say it enough times. And whether it is

1212
01:08:24.319 --> 01:08:26.600
<v Speaker 1>things that you just you strictly don't consume alcohol in

1213
01:08:26.640 --> 01:08:29.359
<v Speaker 1>those situations give you a false sense of warmth. And

1214
01:08:29.720 --> 01:08:32.760
<v Speaker 1>the amount of people who have killed themselves with propane

1215
01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:38.279
<v Speaker 1>heaters or other heating elements. I am terrified that somebody

1216
01:08:38.319 --> 01:08:42.880
<v Speaker 1>in North Carolina is going to die winter camping, whether

1217
01:08:42.880 --> 01:08:46.359
<v Speaker 1>it's from long range pneumonia that catch their tent on fire,

1218
01:08:46.720 --> 01:08:49.560
<v Speaker 1>the wind, the damn near Blue House is over. Just

1219
01:08:49.600 --> 01:08:53.279
<v Speaker 1>going through the triangle yesterday cuts through you. This is

1220
01:08:53.399 --> 01:08:56.720
<v Speaker 1>we're getting into emergency range. When they're forecasting two inches

1221
01:08:56.760 --> 01:08:59.039
<v Speaker 1>of snow. People got to be freaking out up there.

1222
01:09:00.359 --> 01:09:03.119
<v Speaker 3>Oh, I'm sure. I mean, I have talked to several people,

1223
01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:05.239
<v Speaker 3>and I do want to correct the record on something

1224
01:09:05.960 --> 01:09:08.439
<v Speaker 3>yesterday in my video, I said that there were tent

1225
01:09:08.560 --> 01:09:12.239
<v Speaker 3>cities in Swanna. Noah. I've spoken to about four people

1226
01:09:12.520 --> 01:09:18.199
<v Speaker 3>who have confirmed that those are volunteer tents. So there's

1227
01:09:18.239 --> 01:09:23.760
<v Speaker 3>not actually people who are living in those particular tents.

1228
01:09:23.079 --> 01:09:26.600
<v Speaker 1>Yea for the one video, but the video that the

1229
01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:28.399
<v Speaker 1>dude did or the one where it's just kind of

1230
01:09:28.399 --> 01:09:30.800
<v Speaker 1>where they've spin around, because there's two different videos out there.

1231
01:09:31.199 --> 01:09:33.720
<v Speaker 3>Well, the one that I did yesterday, I said that

1232
01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:37.399
<v Speaker 3>there are two tent cities in Suanaoa. Those tent cities

1233
01:09:37.399 --> 01:09:41.159
<v Speaker 3>are actually full of volunteers. Now, does that mean that

1234
01:09:41.199 --> 01:09:42.760
<v Speaker 3>there aren't people living in tents?

1235
01:09:42.920 --> 01:09:43.000
<v Speaker 6>No.

1236
01:09:43.239 --> 01:09:46.680
<v Speaker 3>I actually spoke to someone, a preacher's wife last night

1237
01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:49.760
<v Speaker 3>who told me several areas where there are still people

1238
01:09:49.840 --> 01:09:52.079
<v Speaker 3>living in tents. I'm going to try to confirm that.

1239
01:09:53.640 --> 01:09:56.880
<v Speaker 3>But I also spoke to Sean Hendrix who let me

1240
01:09:56.920 --> 01:09:59.399
<v Speaker 3>vote that there are people living in RVs that he

1241
01:09:59.560 --> 01:10:04.399
<v Speaker 3>has actually resupplied who don't have electricity. Sure, so you're

1242
01:10:04.479 --> 01:10:07.600
<v Speaker 3>still talking about the same thing. You're talking about people

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<v Speaker 3>not having No.

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<v Speaker 1>No, no, that's one hundred percent there. And yeah, the

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<v Speaker 1>other video, I think they only identified four tenths rather

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<v Speaker 1>than tense cities. So I don't know. I'd be curious

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<v Speaker 1>to hear that though. But you're right, the amount of

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<v Speaker 1>people without power, that's confirmable because they report this. We

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<v Speaker 1>got an email earlier from a guy who's alignment said

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<v Speaker 1>that they constructed a city that literally houses, you know,

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01:10:32.880 --> 01:10:36.399
<v Speaker 1>thousands of people, which are just all the linemen working up.

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01:10:36.399 --> 01:10:40.600
<v Speaker 1>They're complete with cafeteria, lodging, shower facilities, entertainment facilities. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a city. They built a city in a weekend up there,

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<v Speaker 1>and they did it because they're a private company, and

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01:10:46.239 --> 01:10:49.920
<v Speaker 1>so I think that's where most people's frustration lies. Also,

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01:10:50.039 --> 01:10:53.600
<v Speaker 1>they're seeing things like this woman who thankfully was relieved

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<v Speaker 1>of her duties yesterday, who was in charge of the

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<v Speaker 1>Hurricane Matthew relief, which is we know simply hasn't arrived

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<v Speaker 1>for many people yet. And so if you're sitting in

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<v Speaker 1>the mountains watching that and you're thinking when was Matthew? Now,

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<v Speaker 1>you're extra terrified in your RV without energy or whatever

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<v Speaker 1>it may be.

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<v Speaker 3>ID said, I celebrated last night when I found out

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<v Speaker 3>that she had been relieved of her duties. I'm not kidding.

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<v Speaker 3>I sat down until about three shots and unshine and

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<v Speaker 3>celebrated because not only do I have roots in western

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<v Speaker 3>North Carolina, I have roots in eastern North Carolina too,

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<v Speaker 3>And so you know, no matter where you're at in

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01:11:32.439 --> 01:11:34.800
<v Speaker 3>the state, whatever is going on is impacting me and

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01:11:34.840 --> 01:11:37.880
<v Speaker 3>my family in some way. And that was vile when

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01:11:37.880 --> 01:11:41.319
<v Speaker 3>that came out that there are still people without homes

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<v Speaker 3>who were impacted by Matthew and Florence.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you make of the hearings, the FEMA hearings,

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<v Speaker 1>because do we had a second whistleblower or so to speak.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you guys didn't catch that. So you know

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01:11:53.840 --> 01:11:56.680
<v Speaker 1>the woman right who was fired, and she came on

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01:11:56.760 --> 01:11:59.000
<v Speaker 1>and said, no, this is kind of the atmosphere there

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01:11:59.039 --> 01:12:03.079
<v Speaker 1>at standard operating procedure. The second one came from a contractor,

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01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:06.840
<v Speaker 1>a FEMA contractor who, in a conversation with an elderly

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01:12:07.199 --> 01:12:12.159
<v Speaker 1>disabled veteran in Georgia, told Comer, the chair of the committee,

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01:12:12.479 --> 01:12:15.600
<v Speaker 1>that he recommended to this guy who was wondering where

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01:12:15.680 --> 01:12:20.600
<v Speaker 1>the help is to remove all Trump signage from his property.

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<v Speaker 1>So there's a couple things that make you go, what

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01:12:23.520 --> 01:12:25.880
<v Speaker 1>the heck's going on here? Not that our governor or

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01:12:26.079 --> 01:12:28.680
<v Speaker 1>soon to be governor care, but do you think at

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<v Speaker 1>the federal level they accomplish anything with that hearing, because

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01:12:31.600 --> 01:12:33.960
<v Speaker 1>now it just sounds like they're going to have they're

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<v Speaker 1>going to have an investigation with a blue ribbon panel,

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01:12:36.520 --> 01:12:38.800
<v Speaker 1>and that doesn't put that in one hand, and you

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01:12:38.880 --> 01:12:41.000
<v Speaker 1>know what in the other, And you know which one

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<v Speaker 1>fills up faster.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, anyone who knows me and knows me well knows

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<v Speaker 3>that I have zero trust in the government at all.

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01:12:47.760 --> 01:12:49.800
<v Speaker 3>I mean, that's part of my heritage, right, like I

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01:12:49.880 --> 01:12:52.840
<v Speaker 3>have left, right, That's all the same to me. And

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01:12:52.960 --> 01:12:57.920
<v Speaker 3>so did they accomplish anything? Did they ever know? You know,

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01:12:58.039 --> 01:13:00.079
<v Speaker 3>all they did was ask a couple of questions and

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<v Speaker 3>that's it. FEMA is going to continue to do what

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01:13:02.159 --> 01:13:05.000
<v Speaker 3>they've always done, and we're just going to continue to

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01:13:05.640 --> 01:13:08.760
<v Speaker 3>think money into them and people will continue to wait

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<v Speaker 3>for years on end, and trailers will sit somewhere and

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01:13:11.159 --> 01:13:14.199
<v Speaker 3>rot like they always have. I mean, whatever changes.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, let me ask you, this is nothing changes. So

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<v Speaker 1>let me let me ask you what do you think?

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01:13:21.279 --> 01:13:23.880
<v Speaker 1>What do you think? Is there an individual or maybe

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want you throwing names up. Is there something

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<v Speaker 1>that is a big hold up that you think is

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<v Speaker 1>seemingly easy to solve or is it just the totality

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<v Speaker 1>of the bureaucracy, Like, because I want to get stuff solved,

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01:13:37.880 --> 01:13:41.000
<v Speaker 1>so like this is and most people do. So is

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01:13:41.000 --> 01:13:43.319
<v Speaker 1>there one or two things that if people really put

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01:13:43.319 --> 01:13:47.000
<v Speaker 1>pressure on you think that would make things better there?

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01:13:47.039 --> 01:13:48.720
<v Speaker 1>From what you're observing.

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<v Speaker 3>I think that this is going to take the people

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<v Speaker 3>raising king honestly, I mean I've seen that. You know,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not a political pundit. I talk about culture, right,

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01:14:01.760 --> 01:14:04.680
<v Speaker 3>And this storm came and all of a sudden, my

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01:14:04.760 --> 01:14:07.960
<v Speaker 3>whole direction changed just because I want to deal with

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01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:11.520
<v Speaker 3>this particular topic right, and all of a sudden, I

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01:14:11.600 --> 01:14:16.560
<v Speaker 3>have politicians calling me and in my DMS all the time,

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01:14:16.680 --> 01:14:19.159
<v Speaker 3>like wanting to discuss, to discuss what we can do

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01:14:19.239 --> 01:14:22.119
<v Speaker 3>to make things better. Well, the honest answer to that

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01:14:22.239 --> 01:14:25.000
<v Speaker 3>is is obviously get rid of the red tape. You know,

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01:14:25.119 --> 01:14:28.720
<v Speaker 3>we just found out that trailers aren't being placed on

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01:14:28.880 --> 01:14:31.800
<v Speaker 3>people's property because they're in a floodplane. What kind of

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<v Speaker 3>sense does that make when this was a storm that

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<v Speaker 3>only occurs what once every hundred years, once every five

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<v Speaker 3>hundred years.

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<v Speaker 1>It was more than that, even I think it was

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01:14:40.520 --> 01:14:42.720
<v Speaker 1>even I think it were in the thousands. But to

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<v Speaker 1>your point, it's taken. Yeah, and they're temporary trailers. They're temporary, right,

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01:14:47.399 --> 01:14:51.000
<v Speaker 1>And I remember they staged an entire city of them

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<v Speaker 1>directly outside the city of New Orleans, which correct me

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<v Speaker 1>if I'm wrong. That's in a floodplane, right, because it's

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<v Speaker 1>under sea level.

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<v Speaker 3>Exactly. So they can do whatever they want, and they

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01:15:04.039 --> 01:15:06.279
<v Speaker 3>have proved it over and over again. So if they

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01:15:06.319 --> 01:15:08.880
<v Speaker 3>can do whatever they want, why can't they actually help

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01:15:09.000 --> 01:15:10.399
<v Speaker 3>the people and make a difference.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me ask you one last topic. This is one

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01:15:13.640 --> 01:15:15.640
<v Speaker 1>that gets batted around and people go, it's fake news,

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01:15:15.680 --> 01:15:19.159
<v Speaker 1>it's not. But I've seen too many videos of this now,

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01:15:19.199 --> 01:15:23.479
<v Speaker 1>so I'm curious what you think people who are fearful

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01:15:23.560 --> 01:15:26.640
<v Speaker 1>that the state will come in and take their kids

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01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:31.520
<v Speaker 1>because they're a they're in essentially not a legal living

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01:15:31.640 --> 01:15:35.960
<v Speaker 1>situation due to no fault of their own. But you know,

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<v Speaker 1>if they got the kids living in something without power, feasibly,

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01:15:39.439 --> 01:15:41.680
<v Speaker 1>DHS will come in and do some about it. So

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01:15:42.119 --> 01:15:46.359
<v Speaker 1>are people worried or are is there tangible evidence that

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01:15:46.359 --> 01:15:49.800
<v Speaker 1>that is something that could occur even though they're screaming

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01:15:49.840 --> 01:15:52.920
<v Speaker 1>for help. The breaking up of families, what is I'm

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01:15:52.960 --> 01:15:55.840
<v Speaker 1>sure you've gotten many of these videos, forward it to you.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you think?

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<v Speaker 3>Absolutely so, I'm not the biggest fan of DFS, particularly

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01:16:01.640 --> 01:16:04.560
<v Speaker 3>in western North Carolina. What I will say is that

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<v Speaker 3>I don't think that they're just going in and taking

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01:16:07.199 --> 01:16:10.680
<v Speaker 3>children really nilly. What's happening is is a lot of

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01:16:10.720 --> 01:16:14.520
<v Speaker 3>these people already have cases against them. Then Helene came,

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01:16:14.920 --> 01:16:21.000
<v Speaker 3>and when Helene came it it caused DSS to have

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01:16:21.039 --> 01:16:24.199
<v Speaker 3>a reason to go in and take those kids. So, yes,

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<v Speaker 3>there have been instances but those particular instances ended up

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01:16:28.800 --> 01:16:32.880
<v Speaker 3>being where there was already a case open. Could that

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01:16:33.000 --> 01:16:38.800
<v Speaker 3>progress from here? I don't put anything. You know, absolutely

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01:16:38.840 --> 01:16:41.039
<v Speaker 3>I think that it could happen. Will it I don't know.

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<v Speaker 3>Only time will tell.

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<v Speaker 1>But interesting Engel, actually can I you don't have to

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01:16:44.920 --> 01:16:48.359
<v Speaker 1>name names, have democrat? I know, I know you don't

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01:16:48.359 --> 01:16:50.479
<v Speaker 1>want to drug into this. But unfortunately, as soon as

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<v Speaker 1>you started talking about it, every leftist weirdo on the

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<v Speaker 1>internet started to attacking you. I see what's in your

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<v Speaker 1>post there. So the politicians who are calling you, I

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<v Speaker 1>want to know, and I hope the answer is yes.

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01:17:02.640 --> 01:17:05.800
<v Speaker 1>Are they on both sides of the aisle? Right? That's

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01:17:05.800 --> 01:17:07.000
<v Speaker 1>the only way this gets done?

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<v Speaker 3>No, they're not. And that really upsets me because, to

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<v Speaker 3>be quite frank, I'm not a like I said, I'm

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01:17:13.079 --> 01:17:15.159
<v Speaker 3>not a political pundit. I'm not one of these people

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01:17:15.199 --> 01:17:18.039
<v Speaker 3>out here who are bashing one side or the other.

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01:17:18.199 --> 01:17:21.359
<v Speaker 3>I try to be fairly equal. And the way that

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01:17:21.399 --> 01:17:23.319
<v Speaker 3>I treat this way, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, right, on both of them. That's how they that's

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01:17:25.680 --> 01:17:26.600
<v Speaker 1>the fairest way.

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<v Speaker 3>So right, And so it gives me the feeling that

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<v Speaker 3>there's only one side who actually cares about what's happening,

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<v Speaker 3>and that's not a good look for the Democrats.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I saw somebody comment they go, well, the

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<v Speaker 1>only reason the Republicans are doing it is because political reasons.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, do you think that the person with no

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<v Speaker 1>electricity and they're a trailer that the Hendricks folks have

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01:17:45.560 --> 01:17:47.239
<v Speaker 1>been nice enough for do you think you have a

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<v Speaker 1>crap why somebody wants to come up there and help them?

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think they do, right, And.

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<v Speaker 3>Let's not forget that Asphole is a solid blue city,

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01:17:56.359 --> 01:17:59.000
<v Speaker 3>you know, and y'all don't care about then those are

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01:17:59.159 --> 01:18:02.199
<v Speaker 3>people who vote for you, and so for no one

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01:18:02.279 --> 01:18:04.640
<v Speaker 3>at all to have reached out from the Democrat Party

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<v Speaker 3>is really disappointing.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, all right, well, look, I know some of them

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<v Speaker 1>listen because they steal little snippets and then bark about

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<v Speaker 1>it on Twitter. So hopefully they heard this part. We'll see, Cassie,

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<v Speaker 1>I got a role. It's at Dogwood Blooms. Your Twitter handle,

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<v Speaker 1>Folks should follow you. Lots lots of interesting stuff posted there.

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<v Speaker 1>We appreciate it this point.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you, Kasey.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, there you go. Cassie Clark here on the

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01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:36.039
<v Speaker 1>Cacoday Radio program so just a barrage of different topics,

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<v Speaker 1>all important ones though, and we'll be right back