Speaker 1: Ross and I were just chatting about the Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: sixty minutes interview. Not sure if any of you caught
Speaker 1: any of that. I gotta tell you, I didn't watch
Speaker 1: it live yesterday after I got done putting prep together.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I think it was because my theory, rosswell,
Speaker 1: I was so tired is I realized we don't have
Speaker 1: a one day work week this week. So so actually
Speaker 1: I went to bed pretty early and my thought was,
Speaker 1: I was going to get up in the morning. I
Speaker 1: was going to watch the Kamala Harris sixty minutes interview.
Speaker 1: And you know, just see how it went. Check that
Speaker 1: bad boy out? Did they softballer? They walk her through
Speaker 1: a bunch of you know, obvious questions. Did they just
Speaker 1: tear up for stuff like, well a range of one
Speaker 1: to satan? What do you think Trump is? And here's
Speaker 1: the thing. The questions weren't difficult, they weren't surprising. There
Speaker 1: were no gotcha questions. There were very obvious questions they
Speaker 1: were going to ask. And I'll play some of the audio,
Speaker 1: but I so, I literally I went to sleep. I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna get up early. I set my
Speaker 1: alarm for like an hour earlier, because I knew I
Speaker 1: was just conking out there, man.
Speaker 2: And.
Speaker 1: I don't know about two in the morning, one point
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning, I woke up and I had
Speaker 1: I had let the sleep time, right, I didn't put
Speaker 1: on on my TV. I was watching something, and so
Speaker 1: that thing still go Actually my iPad, my iPad is
Speaker 1: when I watch at night, and it just kind of
Speaker 1: conked out. Woke up and I'm like, oh, man, I
Speaker 1: forgot to turn that on. And I did that thing
Speaker 1: where you reach over to do it. And what I
Speaker 1: had forgotten is normally I had, like I have like
Speaker 1: a thing of water, right because I'll wake up and
Speaker 1: I'll be thirsty, and I had a thing of water,
Speaker 1: but I had it literally in a glass glass. And
Speaker 1: so like oh dark thirty in the morning, I reach
Speaker 1: over to turn it on and I just perfectly I
Speaker 1: hit my hand, knocked it off my side table, and
Speaker 1: it just shattered all over the floor. So I'm like, well, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm up, right, because at that point you're up, You're
Speaker 1: just like all right, we're gonna do this thing. And
Speaker 1: so I'm sitting there at like oh dark thirty in
Speaker 1: the morning, I'm like, well, let me go ahead and
Speaker 1: watch this. And I got to tell you, I thought
Speaker 1: it would put me back to sleep, and then my
Speaker 1: alarm would go off, and then I'd go ahead and
Speaker 1: do it because I had to. I was hooked, man,
Speaker 1: I was absolutely hooked. From the moment she explained in
Speaker 1: detail and specifically her policy and her thoughts surrounding Israel.
Speaker 1: I knew this was an interview I needed to watch,
Speaker 1: and so at that point I started sending poor Ross
Speaker 1: emails because I hadn't sent him the audio on this.
Speaker 1: I mean, I knew he would pull it in the morning,
Speaker 1: but I didn't send him the audio. And it's like
Speaker 1: every time I watched a clip, I'm like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: going on the show tomorrow, and then boom, I'd send
Speaker 1: that email over. So somehow I fell back asleep for
Speaker 1: like ninety minutes or something. So just probably not good,
Speaker 1: but whatever, we'll go ahead and do that. So if
Speaker 1: you didn't watch the sixty minutes Kamula interview, I, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play the audio and we'll look at those individually.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out what's going on here, because
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, that was even though all you
Speaker 1: didn't have to try that hard. That seemed like a
Speaker 1: pretty good piece of journalism there. I'll give credit where
Speaker 1: credit is due, and it only required very basic question.
Speaker 1: And what it did is it highlighted that, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: it highlighted the theory and the rumor that the reason
Speaker 1: they're going to try to biden her right basically keep
Speaker 1: her in a basement, keep her away from the press,
Speaker 1: is they realize internally that it's going to be an
Speaker 1: unmitigated disaster if somebody actually puts questions to her. And
Speaker 1: by the way, this is also an indictment of the
Speaker 1: handful of journalists that have interviewed this woman. You understand
Speaker 1: that this is an indictment of because when you see
Speaker 1: how easy it was to expose her absolute lack of
Speaker 1: a plan, understanding, comprehension, living in reality, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it. You got to look at MSNBC with
Speaker 1: their little softball interview. I know Tim Walls was there
Speaker 1: or no, I'm sorry MSNBS. He was the one Tim
Speaker 1: Walls was there for. But CNN. MSNBC had what the
Speaker 1: Tim Walls won, and then CNN had just the regular
Speaker 1: Kamala one. What else was she on? I guess she's
Speaker 1: gonna be on the view, but a handful of others.
Speaker 1: She was on some podcast people are upset, So she
Speaker 1: was on that Call Me Daddy podcast, which is it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a raunchy podcast. But ultimately I also understand
Speaker 1: why people go on there because it's a very popular podcast.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you've noticed when they do,
Speaker 1: like where they go walk around ask people around Santa
Speaker 1: Monica Beach or the pier there. You know, questions like
Speaker 1: who's the president, right, and they have no idea right.
Speaker 1: You're trying to reach those people. They may not vote,
Speaker 1: they may not know how to vote because they're dumb.
Speaker 1: But I kind of get that. But it but like
Speaker 1: she wasn't challenged ever, and it became so abundantly clear
Speaker 1: watching the sixty minutes interview. I don't even know where
Speaker 1: to let me start with the Israel thing, I guess
Speaker 1: because I mentioned that obviously yesterday was the anniversary of
Speaker 1: the slaughter, not just at the music festival but across
Speaker 1: many parts of Israel, and of course that also was
Speaker 1: that meant it was a celebratory time on college campuses,
Speaker 1: because that's what you do when people are literally slaughtered
Speaker 1: so that you know that's that's that's an issue. So
Speaker 1: of course she was asked about that yesterday, and thankfully
Speaker 1: she put it all in context. And this was the
Speaker 1: first one I saw on This is when I knew
Speaker 1: there'd be several cuts on the show.
Speaker 3: Prime Minister.
Speaker 4: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening well.
Speaker 1: Bill.
Speaker 5: The work that we have done has resulted in a
Speaker 5: number of movements in that re in by Israel that
Speaker 5: were very much prompted by or a result of many things,
Speaker 5: including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what wait, wait, hold on to the question,
Speaker 1: and you don't get all the questions, but the question
Speaker 1: was essentially, you guys have been pushing for a cease fire,
Speaker 1: You've you've laid some boundaries as it pertains to financial
Speaker 1: support for Israel, but yet it doesn't sound like netya,
Speaker 1: who's listening. That's the question essentially, what what do you
Speaker 1: do about that? And you got whatever the hell that was?
Speaker 4: Well, it seems that Prime Minister Netanyah who is not
Speaker 4: listening well.
Speaker 5: Bill, The work that we have done has resulted in
Speaker 5: a number of.
Speaker 6: Movements in that region.
Speaker 5: By Israel that were very much prompted by or a
Speaker 5: result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs
Speaker 5: to happen in the region.
Speaker 1: What does that even mean? All right? And so I'm like,
Speaker 1: you got to understand. I am like I've been awake
Speaker 1: for a minute, but I'm like that awake when you
Speaker 1: know you just somebody just broke into your house because
Speaker 1: that glass shattered. I don't know why. That's the most
Speaker 1: effective alarm clock you'll ever find, but I got wood floors.
Speaker 1: What are your drinking glasses now? Just because your ear
Speaker 1: and bare feet, you don't know if it's smashed went
Speaker 1: under the bed and it's now waiting for you on
Speaker 1: the other side. Like I was up and I thought
Speaker 1: I must have been coming out of like a coma
Speaker 1: listening to that thing.
Speaker 7: It's not just like what she's saying, It's it's how
Speaker 7: she looks when she's saying it.
Speaker 1: Yes, she looks conveyed on radio, the panic in her eyes.
Speaker 1: So like I have I have Why don't I call
Speaker 1: it a theory? I have a possibility, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: And the possibility is, well, there's two possible. One sixty
Speaker 1: minutes decided to do the bare minimum, because again, this
Speaker 1: is not master class fool you know, fooling her. He's
Speaker 1: not other than you know, with a with a concerned
Speaker 1: look the uh the guy from sixty minutes, he's not
Speaker 1: running traps on her. Sometimes journalists run traps. He's not.
Speaker 1: He's asking basic questions.
Speaker 7: But I mean, compared to what she's had, Yeah, for this,
Speaker 7: it seems very adversarial, right, it comparatively does.
Speaker 1: But you would agree that in the grand scheme of things,
Speaker 1: if you take you it's not an adversarial interview.
Speaker 7: No, But I mean when you go from the Call
Speaker 7: Me Daddy podcast or whatever it is to this, it's
Speaker 7: going to seem like it's more like, oh my god,
Speaker 7: he's attacking her. But it's also it's cut up like
Speaker 7: her previous interviews. It is, there's a lot of jump
Speaker 7: cuts in it, like a TikTok video. Uh huh, So
Speaker 7: what did they have to edit out of? This is
Speaker 7: what we got.
Speaker 1: I who the hell know? Maybe she wet her so
Speaker 1: I don't who knows, I don't know. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: all right, well fifteen minutes for wardrobe. I look, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 7: You ever think that maybe the the smashing of the
Speaker 7: cup on your floor is symbolic of the hairs campaign.
Speaker 1: Well, and that's so, this is where I'm going here,
Speaker 1: this is where I'm going. And I was kind of
Speaker 1: slow rolling into it, but let me just get into it.
Speaker 1: I wonder if in the same way that they that
Speaker 1: the media sat there and looked at that in that
Speaker 1: debate performance by Biden and went Okay, not only is
Speaker 1: the jig up, but now we look bad, right, because
Speaker 1: we've been sitting here essentially going no, that's not what
Speaker 1: are you talking about. He's great. He just I just
Speaker 1: took a mensa test and he's the smartest man in
Speaker 1: the world. What are you talking about? I I And
Speaker 1: they were just they were absolutely exposed for their trash behavior.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they are sitting here looking at the
Speaker 1: same polls that we're looking at for whatever reason, and
Speaker 1: plus you know, whatever internal stuff that they have available
Speaker 1: because the network's do internal too, and going all right,
Speaker 1: time to pretend to be journalists again because you know,
Speaker 1: we're the we're the only ones surviving the backside of this.
Speaker 1: I don't do this to instill confidence and Trump voters
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form. I'm purely analyzing it,
Speaker 1: and frankly, if you're a Trump supporter, I wouldn't get
Speaker 1: comfortable that being said, I'm trying to figure out an
Speaker 1: explanation for why all of the other members sixty minutes
Speaker 1: isn't some bastion of actual journalism. I could pull you
Speaker 1: cut after cut that we've played on the show where
Speaker 1: they're doing the same exact garbage, just ignoring stuff, coming
Speaker 1: out with state eight mints of fact that are clearly
Speaker 1: not statements. You remember whatever they're doing.
Speaker 7: Remember the interview they did with Trump right where he
Speaker 7: had to release the unedited version of it.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, you're not, They're not. These are not journalists
Speaker 1: you're dealing with in the purest sense.
Speaker 7: There's been a number of successive events that have happened recently.
Speaker 7: Just in a matter of weeks. You had the VP
Speaker 7: debate where Walls were advanced was amazing and Walls looked
Speaker 7: like an idiot. And then you had Walls on Fox News.
Speaker 7: You had their response to to the hurricane. So I mean,
Speaker 7: all these events are compounding, right, They're making her look
Speaker 7: like there are people stepping back going what is who
Speaker 7: is this person?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, to the extent that they did. I don't think
Speaker 1: that what they did to her was horrible on SNL.
Speaker 1: I think it was they were once again doing what
Speaker 1: they used to do, and that's try to find the
Speaker 1: funny and in what's going on and the concept of
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris watching the debate while he says I made
Speaker 1: friends with school shooters while she crushes her glass of wine.
Speaker 1: That's funny, man.
Speaker 7: I know they destroyed her in this skit Wall saying
Speaker 7: he thought he was at Epcot, right, that's funny still
Speaker 7: in my material, Sure, yeah, that's what I said, Yeah,
Speaker 7: you were right getting the phones.
Speaker 1: But it's when I said yesterday right, use of the
Speaker 1: Ross defense. So that's that's funny. But now I'm sitting there,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the sixty minutes going is it just funny?
Speaker 8: Is it?
Speaker 1: Or is it more than that?
Speaker 4: Was democracy best served by President Biden stepping down and
Speaker 4: basically handing you a nomination. He didn't have to go
Speaker 4: through a primary process, you didn't have to fight off
Speaker 4: other contenders. That's not really the way our system was
Speaker 4: intended to work.
Speaker 1: That is not a gotcha question, that's a that's a
Speaker 1: you guys did a unique thing? Explain to me why
Speaker 1: it's okay. He could have ordered it just the way
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, you guys did a really unique thing.
Speaker 1: Explain to me why this is okay? Does that sound adversarial,
Speaker 1: that doesn't sound adversarial, or how do you convince voters
Speaker 1: everything's good that doesn't sound And that's what he asked, straightforward.
Speaker 1: And it's an anticipation, an anticipatory question too. You should anticiity.
Speaker 1: I understand that you haven't had to deal with it,
Speaker 1: but you should anticipate at some point you're gonna get
Speaker 1: this question. All right, I'm sorry. Continue.
Speaker 5: President Biden made a decision that I think history is
Speaker 5: going to show is rare among leaders.
Speaker 1: Right, he made it. But then all of you made
Speaker 1: a decision too, right, everyone behind the scenes, Barack Obama probably,
Speaker 1: and then you, of.
Speaker 6: Course, which was to put country before self.
Speaker 5: And I am proud to have earned the support of
Speaker 5: the vast majority of delegates and to have been elected
Speaker 5: the Democratic nominee. I am proud to have received the
Speaker 5: endorsement of leaders around this country from every background and
Speaker 5: walk of life to fight in this election over the
Speaker 5: next month for our democracy.
Speaker 4: But I think this truncated process is why people think
Speaker 4: or saying they don't really know who you are.
Speaker 5: Look, I've been in this race for seventy days.
Speaker 1: All right, well that's true. Yeah, so you convinced what
Speaker 1: two thousand I can't remember how many delegates there are
Speaker 1: or whatever. Maybe that's just super whatever. You convinced a
Speaker 1: few thousand people who have a vested interest in adding
Speaker 1: some sanity to a process that's been upended. And then
Speaker 1: you went out and were able to convince the very
Speaker 1: same people who run the organizations and political local political
Speaker 1: parties to support you after it was already said you're
Speaker 1: the nominee. Good for you. That's like me going down
Speaker 1: to sales and trying to get support of the salespeople
Speaker 1: for the show. You understand that, right, Like me walking
Speaker 1: down to sales and being like, who wants to sell
Speaker 1: for this show? Who thinks that this is a good
Speaker 1: show to sell for? All right, we'll be back. Hang
Speaker 1: on Kamala Harrison insanity, Oh man, yeah, yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris on sixty minute. Let me do this by
Speaker 1: the way, before I go ahead and get back into
Speaker 1: the audio, because this is this is how you want
Speaker 1: to wake up. Listening to this disaster makes you have
Speaker 1: a couple of guests on the show today. I know
Speaker 1: we don't generally, excuse me, do two guests, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna get into it now. Seven oh five, Senator Ted
Speaker 1: Buddle joined us. Obviously, you know we're gonna talk to
Speaker 1: him about, right. I did see him on Fox News yesterday.
Speaker 1: In fact, I retweeted yesterday a video clip of that
Speaker 1: interview he did. I will he's using the term dragging
Speaker 1: their feet, which is Washington speak, which is actually, you know,
Speaker 1: a significant charge among the fake politeness that is Washington.
Speaker 1: But what I want to talk to Ted about, and
Speaker 1: we'll get into it, is I was told yesterday for
Speaker 1: about the umpteenth time that having questions about things, or
Speaker 1: noticing oddities, or listening to the actual people out there
Speaker 1: who are giving first hand accounts of incidents they've had,
Speaker 1: like having any interest in that is, according to FEMA,
Speaker 1: is making it so people don't want to avail themselves
Speaker 1: of FEMA. That is an actual That is an actual
Speaker 1: charge that they levied yesterday. If you have if you
Speaker 1: are questioning what's going on up there, you are sowing disinformation,
Speaker 1: which I don't understand how that works, right, because like
Speaker 1: some of these are videos of the incidents, right like
Speaker 1: the police officer in Ashville telling the owner of now
Speaker 1: a former mechanic shop that they can't even go onto
Speaker 1: their own property, which is, by the way, is it's
Speaker 1: perfectly calm around. There's there's literally dozens of people in
Speaker 1: the general vicinity. There's not water on the property, there's
Speaker 1: none of that. Can't go on there and retrieve their
Speaker 1: tools and what's left of their shot because it's gone.
Speaker 1: And I know that any of you out there who
Speaker 1: work at you know, as a mechanic or in a
Speaker 1: shop setting, you recognize the value of those tools. I honestly,
Speaker 1: I think the truck that you could hijack that would
Speaker 1: give you the most receipts is a snap on truck.
Speaker 1: That stuff ain't cheap man, all right, don't by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm no one, because I actually no one of the
Speaker 1: snap don't. Don't. Don't hijack him. But my point is
Speaker 1: it makes perfect sense. And there is unadulterated all you know,
Speaker 1: real time, one hundred percent video on this. It's not
Speaker 1: in dispute, but to air that, to question that, to
Speaker 1: wonder why blackhawks are doing rotor washes on food supplies. Ross,
Speaker 1: did you see that video of that helicopter coming in
Speaker 1: and wiping out all that food because it got you know,
Speaker 1: a helicopter gets really low over stuff. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of wind going on there, and like
Speaker 1: this black Hawk, it hovers down over like stacks of
Speaker 1: non perishable food and toiletries and all that and just
Speaker 1: destroys it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's pretty awful, and you wonder where the conspiracy
Speaker 7: theories come from.
Speaker 1: Right, and it did it twice? There were two or
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say it did it twice. There were two incidents. Now,
Speaker 1: could it absolutely be an inexperienced pilot who didn't know
Speaker 1: what the hell was? Sure? But like that's not pilots
Speaker 1: that I know. The pilots that I know, and I
Speaker 1: know quite a few private pilots or you know people
Speaker 1: people who have worked either from a military standpoint, who
Speaker 1: were pilots. I know fighter jet pilots. I know guys
Speaker 1: that flew helos, I know guys that still fly helos.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of guys who are smaller like moonies.
Speaker 1: Cirrus is the Cerrus SR twenty was. If if I'm
Speaker 1: ever blessed enough to be able to have my own
Speaker 1: little plane and I just need something from popping around regionally.
Speaker 1: I would love a serrus man like. But what I
Speaker 1: know about all those guys is when they're in the cockpit, man,
Speaker 1: they're there their business, right, So like that whole thing
Speaker 1: is just weird. But if I'm being told that questioning
Speaker 1: them by by FEMA yesterday, that questioning this and and
Speaker 1: and putting these things out is causing people to not
Speaker 1: try to register for their programs, I don't believe you now,
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. We have the story yesterday where
Speaker 1: some of the folks in back Cave were like, you
Speaker 1: know what, we don't even want FEMA here to get
Speaker 1: out of here. That's their personal decision. And it's not
Speaker 1: based on my radio show. That that woman who owns
Speaker 1: the what's the what is the diner there? I'm trying
Speaker 1: to remember the name of it. Is it Riverside? It
Speaker 1: might be Riverside Diner. Maybe that's down in Chimney that
Speaker 1: has that has to be gone. Write anything with the
Speaker 1: name Riverside in it probably is not doing well right now.
Speaker 1: Right One of the women, one of the women in
Speaker 1: that story I think was the woman from that place.
Speaker 1: She's not listening to this show. She should, y'all should,
Speaker 1: but she's not. She's she's she's basing this on her
Speaker 1: own experience. So when I go ahead and I talk
Speaker 1: about on my show the story that ran in the
Speaker 1: New York Post where she gave quotes over this stuff,
Speaker 1: is that hampering other people from availing themselves of your
Speaker 1: program or people not availing themselves of the program because
Speaker 1: they can't find you? What do you think is more likely?
Speaker 1: So I don't want to hear any of this garbage.
Speaker 1: So you know, maybe we need more of this, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk to the Senator about this, because at least
Speaker 1: he seems at least he's one of our two senators
Speaker 1: that seems intellectually curious about this stuff. There's no hope
Speaker 1: for the other guy, Senator slender Man. Good god, what
Speaker 1: an absolute wart on the behind of society during this time.
Speaker 1: That being said, we'll talk to him. Seven o five
Speaker 1: eight oh five. What is this when it comes to
Speaker 1: blackhaw If it was Guard, yeah, I can't even figure
Speaker 1: out that was Guard or you know, it could be
Speaker 1: could be a Although a lot of the big entities
Speaker 1: came out, like the Cajun Navy and others who do
Speaker 1: have helicopters, like it's not ours, I don't know it.
Speaker 1: Could it be a guardsman, it could absolutely, but like
Speaker 1: it doesn't make any sense. Like when you're when when
Speaker 1: you're a when you're a helicopter pilot, or you're a
Speaker 1: pilot in general. One of the things that you know,
Speaker 1: I know this, and I'm not a pilot. One of
Speaker 1: the things that you know is hand signals. Right there there,
Speaker 1: you understand hand signals, And it's clear in that video
Speaker 1: that you have former members of the military who are
Speaker 1: giving hand signals just as they would to a helo
Speaker 1: that is in a military situation that is trying to
Speaker 1: land or is you know, doing a number of things
Speaker 1: like it's all clearly happening. So excuse me. The whole
Speaker 1: thing is just strange dude now, and people going, what's
Speaker 1: the conspiracy. I don't know what the conspiracy is. I'm
Speaker 1: simply pointing out this thing happened. Like if you wanted
Speaker 1: to sabotage the whole operation, just dipping down with a
Speaker 1: helicopter and rotor washing a pile of foods, not going
Speaker 1: to accomplish that in one single location. So uh, I
Speaker 1: hear the theories out there, why can't I ask questions, so, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we gotta that's what the senator has on
Speaker 1: his plate here in about twenty minutes and then, Uh,
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to somebody who's actually been, you know,
Speaker 1: bouncing around doing stuff. We were we were going to
Speaker 1: try to we were trying to chat with Corey Mills,
Speaker 1: the Florida congressman, has been out there. But yeah, he's
Speaker 1: kind of a busy dude. I get that though. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you guys are on Twitter, Uh, one of the
Speaker 1: folks on Twitter who was up there? I saw her
Speaker 1: tweeting about it a whole bunch and visiting various community
Speaker 1: of these she's she's from there. He is a Twitter
Speaker 1: user by the name of Cassie Clark Ross. Were you
Speaker 1: familiar with her, Stuckey, I am.
Speaker 7: I mean she we've been following each other for a while.
Speaker 7: It made me laugh because she followed me after one
Speaker 7: of my olive garden jokes. Well, she replied, She replied,
Speaker 7: Oh my god, we should be best friends.
Speaker 1: To be fair, to be fair, to be fair. When
Speaker 1: I first saw her on Twitter, it was mostly her
Speaker 1: like establishing blood feuds with Florida barbecue joints and stuff.
Speaker 7: I mean, which which is well deserved?
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, hold on, you never had good barbecue?
Speaker 7: And listen, I'm just so loyal, you know, I'm loyal
Speaker 7: to my friends. Yeah, we could be loyal, like I can.
Speaker 1: You know, I can like North Carolina barbecue but also
Speaker 1: appreciate a beef brisket out of Texas. There are two
Speaker 1: different things. But whatever, all right, So, like, but I
Speaker 1: saw her. You know she's not political, well she tries
Speaker 1: not to be. There's a lot of people that bring
Speaker 1: her into the political frame. Well, there's nothing you can
Speaker 1: do about that, right, especially if you're having because I
Speaker 1: know she does like space and stuff. There's nothing you
Speaker 1: can do when you're essentially letting people have the mic. Right,
Speaker 1: that's like us doing a radio show and then you
Speaker 1: just putting calls on without screening them. Who the hell
Speaker 1: knows what you're gonna get, right, So I just I
Speaker 1: wanted her. I wanted her perspective as somebody who's a
Speaker 1: native from there or a native of North Carolina. I
Speaker 1: think she might have grown she grew up in Wilmington
Speaker 1: and moved the mountains or the other way around. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, right, And but you know it has those
Speaker 1: personal connections. Because it's one thing to show up and
Speaker 1: you don't really know folks there, but you're there to
Speaker 1: volunteer and see what's going on and recount your things.
Speaker 1: It's another thing when a local will pull you aside
Speaker 1: and go and let me tell you another thing, Like
Speaker 1: that's a big deal for gathering information. It's why if
Speaker 1: you're in the business that I'm in, establishing relationships is
Speaker 1: a good thing. The amount of crap that you get
Speaker 1: fed and told and whatnot obviously aids what you're doing.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna we're gonna chat with Cassie. What is
Speaker 1: her twittering? Dogwood? Was it Dogwood Blooms at Dogwood Blooms
Speaker 1: if you want to see her Twitter account anyway, we'll
Speaker 1: chat with her at eight oh five, So we got
Speaker 1: that going on. We'll find out what her favorite olive
Speaker 1: garden dishes, because that that's all will no she's lying
Speaker 1: or not.
Speaker 7: So I was actually I was absolutely like surprised, Like
Speaker 7: when her first profile picture a long time ago, I
Speaker 7: thought it was a picture of one of the Ulsen twins,
Speaker 7: like Mary Keeter Ashley, and I was like, she's using
Speaker 7: like an Ulsen twin And then I'm like, no, that's that.
Speaker 7: Oh my god. I'm like, she looks like she.
Speaker 1: Looks like an adult Ulsen twin. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So she probably doesn't have the baggage. That's another thing.
Speaker 1: Oh man, all right, so we'll chat with her, coming
Speaker 1: up at eight oh five. All right, So back to Kamala.
Speaker 1: Back to I just chatted this whole time, but whatever,
Speaker 1: Back to Kamala, because this sixty minutes thing, the only
Speaker 1: assumption I have is that they're looking at the numbers, going,
Speaker 1: this woman is gonna lose, and we got to do
Speaker 1: something so that we can we can still pretend to
Speaker 1: be journalists on the backside. I give no credit to
Speaker 1: sixty minutes wanting to do the right thing. I'm only
Speaker 1: trying to figure out why they chose to do the
Speaker 1: right thing, what forced their hand, And that's my theory.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you think it could get worse than the
Speaker 1: Israel stuff or the the the Hey, how are you
Speaker 1: the nominee stuff? You should hear the border stuff. Man,
Speaker 1: that's crazy.
Speaker 4: I've been covering the border for for years and so
Speaker 4: I know this is not a problem that started with
Speaker 4: your administration, but there was an history.
Speaker 1: I got a pod did you hear how she thought
Speaker 1: he was throwing her a lifeline?
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 1: Do you hear the anticipation in her voice, because again,
Speaker 1: this is not the beginning of the interview. This this mid interview,
Speaker 1: and she's already realizing this isn't going well, and there's
Speaker 1: there's like hopefulness in her voice.
Speaker 4: I've been covering the border for for years, and so
Speaker 4: I know this is not a problem that started with
Speaker 4: your administration, But there was an historic flood of undocumented
Speaker 4: immigrants coming across the border the first three years of
Speaker 4: your administration. As a matter of fact, arrivals quadrupled from
Speaker 4: the last year of President Trump. Was it a mistake
Speaker 4: to loosen the immigration policies as much as you did.
Speaker 5: It's a long standing problem and solutions are at hand,
Speaker 5: and from day one, literally we have been offering solutions.
Speaker 4: What I was asking was, was it a mistake to
Speaker 4: kind of allow that flood to happen in the first place.
Speaker 5: Think the policies that we have been proposing are about
Speaker 5: fixing a problem, not promoting a problem.
Speaker 3: Okay, but the numbers did quadruple.
Speaker 5: And the numbers today because of what we have done,
Speaker 5: we have but the flow of illegal immigration by half.
Speaker 6: We have to the sentinel by half.
Speaker 5: But we need Congress to be able to act to
Speaker 5: actually fix the problem.
Speaker 1: Right, But you don't because the things you undid you
Speaker 1: didn't use Congress to do.
Speaker 7: So she's getting angry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's getting answer. The audacity that she's going to
Speaker 1: get pressed on these questions is not sitting well with her.
Speaker 7: She goes from I could solve this to throwing Congress
Speaker 7: under the bus.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And look, here's the thing. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, she's not wrong in the sense that if
Speaker 1: you want to fully button up the border and do stuff,
Speaker 1: it is going to require not just executive orders, but
Speaker 1: rather an act of Congress, probably in conjunction with it.
Speaker 1: She's not wrong there, however, to say it's a problem
Speaker 1: you can control somewhat the scale of the problem, and
Speaker 1: it's apparent that you've chosen the other end of the scale,
Speaker 1: which is just, hey, let's let's go ahead and do this.
Speaker 1: And by do this, I mean we'll set up an
Speaker 1: app so you can start the process for you ever
Speaker 1: get here, we will fly thousands, fly in thousands of people.
Speaker 1: Thousands of people will fly them in. Remember that number
Speaker 1: that came out just before we went on vacation ross
Speaker 1: where they were like, here's the number of murderers and
Speaker 1: rapists that were literally let into the knowingly let into
Speaker 1: the country. That just that got memory holds so quick.
Speaker 1: In fact, if you don't know what that is, because
Speaker 1: it did get memory holds so quick. And then we
Speaker 1: had I don't know, we had this whole hurricane thing
Speaker 1: which kind of distracted us here in North Carolina. Allow
Speaker 1: me to retrieve that and talk about it, and more
Speaker 1: audio coming up in just a moment. Hang on hearing
Speaker 1: about ten minutes with Senator Ted Budd. But let's let's
Speaker 1: keep on the Kamala audio, shall we. And then we
Speaker 1: got so much of it we'll have to get some
Speaker 1: of it after Ted as well. But it did not
Speaker 1: go well, and like it didn't stand a chance. How
Speaker 1: about the things, just the flip flop stuff. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty standard question, right, it flip flopped on this. They
Speaker 1: love asking most politicians, usually not as many Democrats, but
Speaker 1: they love asking politicians, why'd you say this one thing
Speaker 1: and then this other? And famously some have pulled it off,
Speaker 1: like Barack Obama with gay marriage. Oh well, I thought
Speaker 1: about it, and now I'm this right, and then they
Speaker 1: gave him a pass. And you have to understand too.
Speaker 1: While this is going on, Kamala Harris is being interviewed,
Speaker 1: Walls is on Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Kimmel is hitting
Speaker 1: hard hitting questions like we really like you. I just
Speaker 1: want you to know we like you because you seem
Speaker 1: like a guy who empties the lint trap after every load.
Speaker 1: So that's what he's getting. She's getting this.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you what your critics and the column say.
Speaker 4: Okay, they say, the reason so many voters don't know
Speaker 4: you is that you have changed your position on so
Speaker 4: many things.
Speaker 3: You were against fracking, now you're for it.
Speaker 4: You supported looser immigration policies, now you're tightening them up.
Speaker 3: You're for medicare for all.
Speaker 4: Now you're not so many that people don't truly know what.
Speaker 3: You believe or what you stand for. And I know
Speaker 3: you've heard that.
Speaker 5: In the last four years, I have been Vice president
Speaker 5: of the United States, and I have been traveling our country,
Speaker 5: and I have been listening to folks and seeking what
Speaker 5: is possible in terms of common ground.
Speaker 6: I believe in building consensus.
Speaker 1: A couple guests joining us this morning so let's get
Speaker 1: right into that. We're going to kick things off with
Speaker 1: Senator Ted Budd joining us. How are you doing this morning, Senator.
Speaker 8: Hey, good morning, Cathie. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: You're busy, dude, man, I saw you on the TVs yesterday.
Speaker 1: You were doing senator stuff. I mean, you know, the
Speaker 1: work doesn't even though back in your I guess a
Speaker 1: district's the wrong word, but back in your state, obviously
Speaker 1: things continue to be insane, however you wish to interpret that.
Speaker 1: And so let's talk about what a day in your
Speaker 1: life looks like because right now, as you're probably aware,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people, and I know that I'm
Speaker 1: not allowed to say things like this under penalty of
Speaker 1: FEMA or Hillary Clinton, but there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: wondering if the federal government's doing everything that they should
Speaker 1: and can do. So talk about what you're doing on
Speaker 1: the regular right now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, all all hands on deck right now,
Speaker 8: Western North Carolina. So we get up early, we charge hard,
Speaker 8: we see what we need, and I kind of look
Speaker 8: at the role over the last probably what twelve days,
Speaker 8: since we've been kind of looking at how the storm
Speaker 8: is going to evolve. One Hey, if there's a leadership void,
Speaker 8: we'll step in and help. We want to bring resources
Speaker 8: to the area. We want to cut through red tape
Speaker 8: and get folks to work together. But I want to,
Speaker 8: you know, have a framework of gratitude for what has
Speaker 8: come to the state, whether that's a volunteer as an individual,
Speaker 8: somebody walking through a Samaritans First American Red Cross or
Speaker 8: Baptist on mission. We've just seen a lot of people
Speaker 8: really step up. So I want to say thankful, you know,
Speaker 8: thank you to them. There are government resources on the
Speaker 8: ground now, whether that's the Age Sake and Airborner and
Speaker 8: one hundred and first, and then you know FEMA. We
Speaker 8: reached out to another state that had dealt with FEMA
Speaker 8: and they said, look, you know, eventually they're going to
Speaker 8: be helpful, but they're going to disappoint you. It's just
Speaker 8: a bureaucratic morass. But also want to say thank you
Speaker 8: to I think their heart's in the right place. I
Speaker 8: think they're organizationally rather inefficient, but I do want to
Speaker 8: say thank you to them. I think they do the
Speaker 8: best they can. They need they need real leadership at
Speaker 8: the top, and you know from the administration that's what's missing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to echo this. I'm sorry to around.
Speaker 1: I want to echo this because I don't want to
Speaker 1: pee pee individual workers for FEMA is. This is not
Speaker 1: a judgment on them like any other thing. I think
Speaker 1: there are people that wish the lawyer did things differently,
Speaker 1: But there is clearly a leadership issue.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and that really starts at the top, whether it's
Speaker 8: screwing up the exit from Afghanistan two years ago, whether
Speaker 8: it's you know, or whether it's this in a crisis,
Speaker 8: This type of leadership at the top is not equipped
Speaker 8: to deal with the facts on the ground. And you know,
Speaker 8: it's very frustrating to me. But again, we have what
Speaker 8: we have.
Speaker 9: We have an election.
Speaker 8: This is a choice for America to sad, what do
Speaker 8: they want going forward? You know, do you want a
Speaker 8: mean sheet, a mean tweet and a good life or
Speaker 8: do you know, do you want you want total chaos,
Speaker 8: whether it's on the ground in the mountains of North Carolina,
Speaker 8: or in Afghanistan or in the Middle East, in Ukraine.
Speaker 8: That it's just so crazy that people have bought into
Speaker 8: in the last three and a half years under Joe Biden.
Speaker 8: Kamalai airis so very frustrating, but eventually it's you know,
Speaker 8: it's up to us as Americans, what do we want
Speaker 8: going forward?
Speaker 1: I think that some people wonder, if they're elected officials
Speaker 1: and you're in this bucket, are doing enough? I saw
Speaker 1: to you. I'm sure you saw Tom Cotton that interview
Speaker 1: the other day where she made the mistake of bringing
Speaker 1: up the funding for Lebanon and all of these things
Speaker 1: and pointing out that or the FEMA funding as it
Speaker 1: pertained to migrant resettlement and saying, well, these aren't the
Speaker 1: same thing. This is the gamesmanship that you got. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll throw you and hear you guys play up in
Speaker 1: DC right where you go. Well, actually that meme on
Speaker 1: the well, actually it's two separate funds. But the point
Speaker 1: remains that when when they needed money for stuff, they
Speaker 1: didn't have to go through you guys. They found money
Speaker 1: for stuff. I don't know where they found it, if
Speaker 1: it's in the couch cushions at the White House, but
Speaker 1: they found all this money for Lebanon. They came to
Speaker 1: you for these short term funding things in some instances,
Speaker 1: So explain the process because it's a really bad rebuttal
Speaker 1: when we watch them scramble for their priorities. But those
Speaker 1: priorities don't seem to be DC. That's what I think,
Speaker 1: or North Carolina, or really the US for that matter, citizens.
Speaker 1: And that's the part I think is really sticking in
Speaker 1: people's cross. Senator.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I totally agree I Bristol with the you guys
Speaker 8: kind of thing. I think we're out there doing everything
Speaker 8: we can.
Speaker 1: Well I couched it. I couched it, so but so
Speaker 1: explain to me why you're not those guys and what
Speaker 1: they need to be doing. So that's what I want.
Speaker 8: To look this is you think about the guy, you know,
Speaker 8: trying to ford gas to get in his truck to
Speaker 8: go to work, and you know, either if it's a
Speaker 8: deduction from his paycheck or he writes a quarterly check
Speaker 8: for a small business, he's not like sending one little
Speaker 8: check to the Lebanon and supporting headspel and then another
Speaker 8: little check over here, you know, to help with the
Speaker 8: folks who was here in North Carolina. It's all coming
Speaker 8: out of his or her paycheck. And I think that's
Speaker 8: why they're so frustrated when you got a billion dollars
Speaker 8: that go. They want the government deploy, even if it's
Speaker 8: somebody in Greensboro or Raleigh that wasn't directly affected by
Speaker 8: the storms to the west. They get mad when it's
Speaker 8: time for the government to step up. And they got
Speaker 8: a billion dollars out of FEMA that needs to go
Speaker 8: to North Carolina and the surrounding states to see in
Speaker 8: Georgia and Florida. But that billion dollars went to resettle
Speaker 8: people who are here legally, you know, a billion dollars
Speaker 8: at one point four billion dollars allocated, a billion dollars
Speaker 8: already spent. That's resettled people that shouldn't be here when
Speaker 8: we need help for the people that are paying their
Speaker 8: taxes day in and day out. And that's that's what's
Speaker 8: sticking people's crawl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, so how what do we do about it?
Speaker 1: And now you use the term I watched your interview yesterday,
Speaker 1: use the term flat footed, and I got to be honest,
Speaker 1: that might be the most aggressive criticism that I've heard.
Speaker 1: And Lee, especially from our two senators, don't even get
Speaker 1: me started against people with flat feet started.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, nothing against people with flat feet, of course, right,
Speaker 8: we see the uh, what we see a lack of speed,
Speaker 8: and that again back to the people on the ground.
Speaker 8: Whether that's the people on the ground with the clipboard
Speaker 8: at the picnic table, with being out of the grocery
Speaker 8: store that are helping folks, or whether it is the
Speaker 8: eighty second every one hundred first and by the way,
Speaker 8: I stopped and assault. They're a base and variant. And
Speaker 8: I talked to in listed folks yesterday. I talked to
Speaker 8: junior officers, uh, and they said, hey, we were ready
Speaker 8: day one.
Speaker 1: And I am, first of.
Speaker 8: All, I'm so grateful for them being on the ground.
Speaker 8: It's just the bureaucratic handwringing at the top, which is
Speaker 8: in the lack of decision making that is that has
Speaker 8: slowed things down. So it ain't FEMA. And they try
Speaker 8: to say, oh, you're criticized and femas. No I'm not,
Speaker 8: because that's eighty percent, ninety percent of that is like
Speaker 8: folks out there that they chose a career path so
Speaker 8: that they could help other people, but they're trapped in
Speaker 8: this leadership structure of bureaucracy and is very frustrating. So
Speaker 8: I see a lack of speed, a lack of coordination,
Speaker 8: failure to communicate with the pilots, for instance, and then
Speaker 8: all these rumors start and the rumors really start for
Speaker 8: a couple of reasons. One, you've had three and a
Speaker 8: half years of breaking down trust between your leaders and
Speaker 8: regular folks going to pay their taxes day in, day out,
Speaker 8: and so now all of a sudden, when the government
Speaker 8: asked you to trust them, they're going like, hey, you know,
Speaker 8: they're very, very skeptical. So it's hugely frustrating. So lack
Speaker 8: of speed, lack of coordination, and misplaced priorities. And that's
Speaker 8: the for instance, the billion dollars of FEMA that's resettled
Speaker 8: illegal aliens rather than putting folks on the ground visibly.
Speaker 8: I use the word visibly because I've got a list
Speaker 8: right here of all twenty five counties in the emergency
Speaker 8: declaration and a name and a contact number. But when
Speaker 8: you go, people don't know where these folks are. You know,
Speaker 8: they can get an eight hund number that says go
Speaker 8: to this grocery store and you can get you know,
Speaker 8: your resettlement money. They're getting denied. They're choked down on
Speaker 8: all these processes. So black of speed, lack of coordination,
Speaker 8: misplaced priority, that's the that's what's really happened. And this
Speaker 8: organization or in the Biden administration of Kamala Harris administration
Speaker 8: last three and a half years.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to offer a third one here and
Speaker 1: then I I want to ask you a question. The
Speaker 1: third one is the reason you're hearing rumors is because
Speaker 1: they're true, right, And I'm not talking about seizing cities
Speaker 1: for lithium minds or you know, some of the weather
Speaker 1: control machines, which gets then lumped in when I'm posting
Speaker 1: a video of a auto shop owner in Ashville that
Speaker 1: is videoed from start to finish, who wants to go
Speaker 1: find in the waste of their building. They're expensive tools,
Speaker 1: so people don't steal them, being shut out by the
Speaker 1: ability to do that. Yet there's dozens of people walking
Speaker 1: around the area and and so like, that's not a
Speaker 1: rumor anymore. So here's my question for you, what is
Speaker 1: wrong with people sharing this stuff? Because the response that
Speaker 1: I've gotten is that if you do it, FEMA yesterday
Speaker 1: said that by sharing this stuff and they're non specific
Speaker 1: on what all that encompasses, but basically unsubstantiated stuff that
Speaker 1: you are in people are not applying to FEMA. And
Speaker 1: and that's and it's because of that I think it
Speaker 1: more is your first point that people maybe don't trust FEMA,
Speaker 1: but some of that's of their own doing. So when
Speaker 1: you when people are sharing videos, it is verified first
Speaker 1: hand accounts, which not all of them are. Admittedly, people
Speaker 1: panic and they hear things and rumors go. But how
Speaker 1: else are you supposed to bring about change if you
Speaker 1: don't highlight the deficiencies and basically get told that if
Speaker 1: you share that on social media, you're hurting people. That's
Speaker 1: the absurdity that I think people are trying to process.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna agree with you totally there, because people need
Speaker 8: to show the discrepancies and the problems and highlight them
Speaker 8: so that in its hey, so that people can get better,
Speaker 8: other organizations can get better. It's a it's a way
Speaker 8: for regular folks that may not have a you know,
Speaker 8: like a political platform, like I've got to say, hey,
Speaker 8: you guys need to step up. We're paying you out
Speaker 8: of our paycheck each and every week. Uh, you know,
Speaker 8: to do your work and you need to. So I
Speaker 8: think it's a great platform. I'm simply referring to the
Speaker 8: ones you know that are that are the crazy rumors
Speaker 8: that are a distraction, but the real stuff, lack of
Speaker 8: accountability and problem that needs to be exposed.
Speaker 1: Okay, well and and and so you know, maybe somebody
Speaker 1: with a platform like me, I have a platform, you
Speaker 1: have a platform I'm familiar with, So like, why don't
Speaker 1: you be our guy. Let's let's you be you be
Speaker 1: our rand Paul Man. Let's go ahead and do this thing.
Speaker 8: Well we That's what I'm doing from morning tonight is
Speaker 8: building phone calls, sitting there in the office, sitting on
Speaker 8: this is burning up. And then I'm going in there,
Speaker 8: like let's say that there's the FAA steps in and
Speaker 8: tries to shut down an airport from these and volunteer
Speaker 8: helicopter and small aircraft pilots I'm calling them. I'm going like,
Speaker 8: you guys can't do this. But we all want to
Speaker 8: stay safe, we want to stay within the law. But
Speaker 8: you're over exerting your authority. Whether it's FAA, whether it's SEEMA,
Speaker 8: you know, whether it's getting a military branch to step
Speaker 8: up and work together. That's the thing when I start out,
Speaker 8: you know, stepping into the leadership boyd, bringing resources to
Speaker 8: the area to help people and cutting through red tape
Speaker 8: and getting folks to work together. So it's that last
Speaker 8: one right there, is they don't over exert your authority.
Speaker 8: There is nothing casey like North Carolinians helping North Carolinians
Speaker 8: neighbors or first on the scene. Then it was the
Speaker 8: volunteers and with a lot of bureaucratic delay. Now the
Speaker 8: government that people paid for is starting to help out
Speaker 8: too slow, too uncoordinated, to bureaucratic. Sure it's getting better,
Speaker 8: but with a lot of pressure from folks, whether it's
Speaker 8: on social media or whether it's you know, Chuck Edward's
Speaker 8: out West Virginia Fox who lived through this by the way,
Speaker 8: or me in the foothills here putting pressure on government
Speaker 8: to do.
Speaker 3: What they ought to do.
Speaker 1: What's the most absurd thing you've had to make a
Speaker 1: phone call in flex your senatorhood with you there's I.
Speaker 8: Mean, I would say, you know, somebody's trying to step
Speaker 8: in and shut down airspaces and saying, hey, you guys
Speaker 8: can't bring a pickup truck full of supplies onto the airfield,
Speaker 8: and you know I would just say, yeah you can,
Speaker 8: Yeah you can. So I'd say that's probably the most
Speaker 8: ridiculous thing.
Speaker 1: You know out west, But well that's that could be
Speaker 1: deadly And I'm not trying to be dramatic here, and
Speaker 1: I want to say this too, and I know you
Speaker 1: have some of it. I was raised in the mountains, man,
Speaker 1: the mountains of Wyoming, but mountains of North Carolina are
Speaker 1: the closest thing I've ever lived near since then that
Speaker 1: mirrors it. But the people are the same. And so
Speaker 1: when they're sitting there and they're wondering why some folks
Speaker 1: may not be reaching out, it maybe because they can't
Speaker 1: find them. But as you, you went to school at
Speaker 1: app right at school, Yeah you went to Okay, So yeah,
Speaker 1: like you, you spent years living up in the mountains too.
Speaker 1: Mountain people are different, man, They're just they're built different.
Speaker 1: And the self sufficiency that they have, even in the
Speaker 1: face like this, I think can be influential more so
Speaker 1: than what we may be seeing in Tampa. And I
Speaker 1: like people in Tampa. But city people and mountain people
Speaker 1: are different. Country people are different.
Speaker 2: You know this.
Speaker 1: You're a country person.
Speaker 8: You know. I live in rural data counties, less rural
Speaker 8: than when I was born and where a family moved
Speaker 8: here fifty years ago. But the mountain folks that are tough,
Speaker 8: they lived there, I mean they moved to Charlotte or Raleigh,
Speaker 8: or you know, tryad area or anywhere that's urban, and
Speaker 8: you know, some do, but some stay and they don't
Speaker 8: want to leave their homes. They're independent. They're there for
Speaker 8: a reason and they've got a certain psyche that says,
Speaker 8: we want just enough help so we can help ourselves
Speaker 8: and help our neighbors.
Speaker 2: And that's it.
Speaker 8: And when it comes down to help, we need to
Speaker 8: be ready for them. You know, if that's a chainsaw
Speaker 8: or a little bit of bar oil or two stroke
Speaker 8: oil just so they can run their chainsaws, We're going
Speaker 8: to do that. That's what the biggest help has been.
Speaker 8: If these helicopter pilots flying in, we're bringing you starlink
Speaker 8: and we're bringing you five gallons of gas that can
Speaker 8: run your generator for another day or two. You know,
Speaker 8: that's some of the biggest help that we've seen to
Speaker 8: get folks in these volunteer fire departments and small churches
Speaker 8: online and they have been just phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Well, I got ninety seconds tampaks like it's about to
Speaker 1: get destroyed. I'm not exaggerating. This looks this looks like
Speaker 1: worst case scenario. We're already not having the money there.
Speaker 1: Tell them explain to me in a minute, what you
Speaker 1: guys are doing so that when we have two massive
Speaker 1: disaster areas, we're able to still continue to help folks.
Speaker 8: Kathy, we should never ask government to do things that
Speaker 8: it's not constitutionally designed to do, because when there is
Speaker 8: a need, whether that is a real war or whether
Speaker 8: that is a you know, trying to war against the
Speaker 8: natural elements like a hurricane or two hurricanes or three,
Speaker 8: that's when we need it to be ready. And if
Speaker 8: you ask, if you have all these misplaced priorities, then
Speaker 8: when it comes time to help, Like we said earlier,
Speaker 8: flat government's called flat footed because it's been doing the
Speaker 8: wrong things for too long and too expensive. So get
Speaker 8: let's get refocused on what government should be doing so
Speaker 8: when it's time, it's there to help people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know why, but the Florida governor
Speaker 1: seems to have his you know what together versus our own.
Speaker 1: But I won't drag you into that. I will let
Speaker 1: you go, appreciated Senator, and we'll talk soon.
Speaker 8: Okay, thanks so much, Katy. We're praying for the people
Speaker 8: of Florida, even though we've got our own challenges here.
Speaker 3: In the state.
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, there you go. Senator Ted Budd joining
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Speaker 1: n B A player with a pen. Even though I
Speaker 1: under look, I understand what Russia's Russia was doing there,
Speaker 1: which is a good reason not to go to Russia.
Speaker 1: Do you remember, remember the guy on the tarmac, the
Speaker 1: other dude they got out of Russia? What was it,
Speaker 1: the Wall Street journal guy, right, and they were they
Speaker 1: literally stuck a microphone in his face and he gets
Speaker 1: off and like, well what did you learn? He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm never going to Russia again. Yeah, that's probably a
Speaker 1: good thought. So anyway, here's the part where I wanted
Speaker 1: to I wanted to get you ready. It appears that
Speaker 1: Russian armsteeler Victor Bout, also known as the Merchant of Death,
Speaker 1: might be selling weapons to the hoodie rebels so that
Speaker 1: they can shoot him at the US Navy and by night,
Speaker 1: I mean he is unapologetically, in fact allegedly broker at
Speaker 1: a ten million dollar deal to supply the Umeni based
Speaker 1: terror group with automatic weapons AK forty seven's as well
Speaker 1: as shoulder shoulder fired rockets, which again they're using there
Speaker 1: on the Southern Arabian Peninsula to fire repeatedly at US.
Speaker 1: Not just US, but a lot of military vessels. So
Speaker 1: we let the guy out and he's arming this rebel group,
Speaker 1: which is one part of the apparatus that is the
Speaker 1: Iranian proxy war on the US and Israel. Who could
Speaker 1: have seen this coming that the Merchant of Death Victor
Speaker 1: Bout would deal weapons to terrorists who are trying to
Speaker 1: murder Americans in Israeli and basically anyone who doesn't closely
Speaker 1: align with their version of Islam, which is really how
Speaker 1: they got their start. It was more about internal warring,
Speaker 1: which was then utilized by Iran to essentially set them
Speaker 1: up on a shooting range that is the entrance to
Speaker 1: the Red Sea there and just fire weapons and nondiscriminately
Speaker 1: at any military vessel they see from the US. Now,
Speaker 1: to be fair, I do have to balance this as
Speaker 1: we try to be fair. Ross will you look something
Speaker 1: up for me? Do you have a moment?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sure, Can you look up the amount of arms that
Speaker 1: Britney Griner has sold to the Hootie rebels so that
Speaker 1: they could attempt to kill US military members? Since since
Speaker 1: her release, I don't need this stuff. Release No, yeah,
Speaker 1: post post release from Russia. Whatever happened before then happened.
Speaker 7: It looks like uh none, oh norms oh okay, So
Speaker 7: probably hesbelah right, She's probably selling because he's you know,
Speaker 7: he They've got a contract with the Merchant of Death
Speaker 7: and with the Houthis So probably Hes belahs were grinders
Speaker 7: peddling her wares.
Speaker 1: Do we uh have anything?
Speaker 2: What is with that? You know what?
Speaker 1: This reminds you of? This reminds me of when we
Speaker 1: cut those five dudes LUs at Guantanmo for uh for
Speaker 1: oh god, what if I can't remember his bergdal right,
Speaker 1: and then like we ca or we killed two of
Speaker 1: them on the battlefield almost immediately because they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm back here, I'm gonna get back to terrorizing. Like
Speaker 1: it's like, who could have who could have seen? So
Speaker 1: this dude, there is a likelihood that this guy's weapons
Speaker 1: that he sold to them and I would buy him
Speaker 1: somewhere else was literally a rebuttal I saw in this yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they wouldn't buy because it's one last dude to
Speaker 1: buy from. There is a distinct possibility that one of
Speaker 1: these weapons could harm or even kill a military service
Speaker 1: member if the only reason it might not is because
Speaker 1: they're so bad at it, and you think sitting down
Speaker 1: there and doing this for a long time, you'd get
Speaker 1: reasonably better at it. But that doesn't seem to be
Speaker 1: the case. So yeah, yeah, you got you got him
Speaker 1: out of jail, and now the very same weapons may
Speaker 1: murder us right, and it's wild to me. Who could
Speaker 1: have seen it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I mean, like what were they expecting to happen? Because
Speaker 7: you're going to B and B Like he's gonna go
Speaker 7: to like the inner city and like teach you put
Speaker 7: a due rag on and he's gonna like teaching her city.
Speaker 7: Like he's in dangerous minds or something.
Speaker 1: He's already nine versions of that movie.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I don't understand it because like ninety nine
Speaker 7: percent of people hearing this information are like, oh really, nope,
Speaker 7: what wrong with Wait? Where do you go?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: No, oh I moved it? This is what I give
Speaker 7: her moving stuff on the button bar, Like everybody knows
Speaker 7: this is gonna happen. Ninety nine percent of people are like, yeah,
Speaker 7: of course he's gonna go back and sell weapons. What's
Speaker 7: his nickname? The merchant or the Angel of death?
Speaker 1: What are you the Merchant of death?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a there's a commerce who could have seen it?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 1: Who could have? Who could have? Who could have? Dude?
Speaker 1: When you earn a nick because like he didn't name
Speaker 1: himself merchant of death. If somebody started calling you merchant
Speaker 1: of how would you feel about you?
Speaker 7: Hope not anyway.
Speaker 1: Right, but if they're like, oh, that's ross merchant of
Speaker 1: death haze right, wait, how would you feel about that?
Speaker 7: I probably asking the wrong pretty badass, but.
Speaker 1: You don't actually sell weapons to terrorist organizations.
Speaker 7: Keep to myself, thank you?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah. It's like it's in the name.
Speaker 1: It's inherently in the name. He's the merchant of death.
Speaker 1: Oh man. And like, so think of some of the
Speaker 1: most badass nicknames in history, right, they didn't get them
Speaker 1: there because they you know, they're they're good dudes, right,
Speaker 1: Uh of Ladd the Paler, what do you think that
Speaker 1: was about? Do you think he liked ssh kabobs?
Speaker 7: I mean he likes those little sweedish meat balls.
Speaker 1: Oh those are good though. Are you talking to the
Speaker 1: ones at ikea?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I mean those are words?
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Like he
Speaker 1: didn't get those because you can get those for me.
Speaker 1: Paulse Okay, he got he was sticking meat on a pole.
Speaker 1: That is that is absolutely the case. But uh yeah
Speaker 1: yeah no, uh well I'm just looking at some I'm
Speaker 1: looking at all these nicknames I can't like in history,
Speaker 1: and they're all like the connotations are hey, hold on
Speaker 1: this there's the list I was looking for. I was
Speaker 1: actually looking this stuff up. Yeah, the Scourge of Carpathia.
Speaker 1: These are the other nicknames that they had for Vladdie
Speaker 1: and Paler, The Scourge of Carpathia, the Unholy, the despised. Right,
Speaker 1: you're not naming yourself that unless you're like a pro
Speaker 1: wrestler and it's your it's your your act. Okay.
Speaker 7: It's literally the trade meme that you see online where
Speaker 7: the guy sitting there and he's like, you know, I
Speaker 7: offer you this, and you will give me this. You
Speaker 7: will give me you know what is it? The the
Speaker 7: Unholy and I will give you.
Speaker 1: Brittany Grimer, uh Slowan Doom Melosavish's the butcher sure of Bosnia. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to think of some other ones. Doctor death.
Speaker 1: What's his bucket from Michigan?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 1: These are these all have Jack the Ripper right right.
Speaker 7: There's no coming back from that, like you're not going
Speaker 7: to turn your life around.
Speaker 1: No, No, you lean into it. And he leaned into
Speaker 1: it by going, hey, let me broke her a ten
Speaker 1: million dollar arms deal to the rebels. They keep shooting
Speaker 1: at the US Navy even though they just let me
Speaker 1: out of their prison for w NBA player who, by
Speaker 1: the way, her job was to come back and just
Speaker 1: be awful to Caitlin Clark like the rest of them.
Speaker 1: By the way, what's the other chick's name, the one
Speaker 1: that Kaylin Wood has the blood feud with, That is
Speaker 1: Angel Reese? Did you hear Angel? This was last week?
Speaker 1: So Angel Reese was was bemoaning the fact that people
Speaker 1: see her as a villain because sports don't have villains
Speaker 1: only her?
Speaker 2: What what.
Speaker 1: Are you have you sportsed before? Like you don't think
Speaker 1: that there's villains in sports now? Sometimes the villains are
Speaker 1: based on who you root for, right, But like there's
Speaker 1: lots of villains in sport. Do you watch hockey? Uh
Speaker 1: and just talk about enforcers man? That's a thing. So
Speaker 1: like the whole thing's absurd. But what's not absurd is
Speaker 1: he's now in a position to facilitate putting in the
Speaker 1: hands of absolute lunatics and when they're not you know,
Speaker 1: hooking up with their goat or sitting there on the
Speaker 1: shoreline slinging weapons at US Navy destroyers. And it was
Speaker 1: all so predictable. So there's a there's a lot in
Speaker 1: the Uh, there's a lot in the nicknames, in the nicknames,
Speaker 1: So all right, let's let's go ahead and grab ray
Speaker 1: thunder snow Stagic here. So he's with us. Who could
Speaker 1: have predicted the Merchant of Death that we traded that
Speaker 1: w NBA player for would be selling weapons to the
Speaker 1: hotel tables?
Speaker 9: I mean, who who would have thunked that would have happened?
Speaker 1: Dude? I was just I gotta pivot this quick. But
Speaker 1: I was just We're just chatting with one of our senator,
Speaker 1: Senator Ted Budd, and I asked the question at the end,
Speaker 1: and this, I think it's become a much bigger question
Speaker 1: if what happens to Tampa in Florida, for that matter,
Speaker 1: is what it looks like might happen coupled with what
Speaker 1: had you know, we're dealing with in North Carolina. And
Speaker 1: they're already having struggle. They need to get their crap
Speaker 1: together asap because this thing's coming. Man, And yesterday, in
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, this thing got a whole lot worse,
Speaker 1: at least from a predictive standpoint. So let's let's get
Speaker 1: into this.
Speaker 9: Yeah it did.
Speaker 10: I mean, listen, We're we focus on Tampa because it's easy, right,
Speaker 10: because it's the most vulnerable, maybe the most vulnerable.
Speaker 1: Braydenton just south is kind of where they're thinking, this
Speaker 1: thing comes on shore.
Speaker 9: You can you can tell me, but yeah, no, give
Speaker 9: or take.
Speaker 10: So they're really it's right and near just west of
Speaker 10: rain Inton, just to the east of Holmes Beach fen
Speaker 10: So it's kind of the south end of Tampa Bay
Speaker 10: where goes out into the Gulf of Mexico. But still
Speaker 10: the surge values, I'm still they're going ten to fifteen feet,
Speaker 10: which would double the record breaking surge from Helene. So
Speaker 10: you know, coming in as a major whether it's Tampa
Speaker 10: Bay is somewhere else, I mean, Tampa's just the most
Speaker 10: vulnerable the surge.
Speaker 9: You know, somebody.
Speaker 10: Is going to be in for bad things, including the wind,
Speaker 10: which could gust one ten plus trees down. You can
Speaker 10: have inland flooding with six to ten inches of rain.
Speaker 10: Yesterday broke some records fourth major hurricane of twenty twenty
Speaker 10: four peak winspeed one eighty and boy, when it started
Speaker 10: looking like it did yesterday with that pinhole eye, I
Speaker 10: think everybody said like, nope, I'm gonna take the zero.
Speaker 10: I'm getting out, And that's when you started seeing people
Speaker 10: because it's likely not going to get that strong again.
Speaker 10: It's forecasts to go back to one sixty briefly, so
Speaker 10: Cat five but weakening and the fifth lowest sure with
Speaker 10: that one und eighty mile prower winds of all time.
Speaker 10: So you know, some records not the strongest we've had
Speaker 10: in the Atlantic basin. But still, if it's not Tampa
Speaker 10: Bay case, it's going to be somebody luckily here go ahead, especially.
Speaker 1: Before you pivot, before you pivot. I saw this story
Speaker 1: yesterday and I didn't know this was a thing. Explain
Speaker 1: this thing to me. I saw a story. I'm assuming
Speaker 1: it's legit that a bunch of birds are trapped in
Speaker 1: the eye. Is that a thing that happens.
Speaker 9: I've never I don't know.
Speaker 1: From the Tampa newspaper they were selling that. What the
Speaker 1: how does how does that even work? Right? Well, it's
Speaker 1: off probably an issue.
Speaker 9: Right, Yes, I guess.
Speaker 10: It's like you're stuck at the top and you're spinning
Speaker 10: around so fast from the force, you just you can't
Speaker 10: get out of it.
Speaker 9: I can. I can see that.
Speaker 1: I hate me some seagulls, but damn dude, yeah.
Speaker 9: He's don't watch out anybody.
Speaker 1: I never seen that story ever a version of that.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's talk about closer to home here.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean really not a lot of change. No
Speaker 10: rain for the foreseeable future. That could be the next
Speaker 10: two weeks. Actually low mid seventies today, tomorrow, maybe near
Speaker 10: eighty again by the weekend Friday. You may dip a
Speaker 10: little bit, but pleasant weather expected. Nighttime lows in the
Speaker 10: upper forties lo to mid fifties through the period out
Speaker 10: for the Carolina beach especially South Carolina and the Georgia beaches.
Speaker 10: They did put up some alerts for surge and also
Speaker 10: some tropical storm watches as we watch Milton get back
Speaker 10: out over the open waters of Atlantic toward Thursday, maybe
Speaker 10: close enough to kick up some surfing, maybe some tropical
Speaker 10: storm conditions. I didn't see much except for some high
Speaker 10: surfing beach erosion for the Carolina beaches. But I mean
Speaker 10: they would have to take a pretty big swing to
Speaker 10: get into that rainfall inland, and I don't think any
Speaker 10: further than the coast for any chance of any rain
Speaker 10: at least at this time.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well we'll wait and see, and I
Speaker 1: guess worry about those birds, all right, Thanks man, appreciate it,
Speaker 1: all right, see it a bit, Yeah, Roz, I didn't
Speaker 1: put that in the stack, but I was reading that.
Speaker 1: I'm like that. Can you imagine you're you're you're some
Speaker 1: pain in the ass seagull and you're just you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is nice, this is fine in here. But every
Speaker 1: time you try to move twenty miles one way or
Speaker 1: the other, it's just the end of the world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds like bad news for birds Man. All right,
Speaker 1: seven forty nine, hang on to play some more audio.
Speaker 1: We just got a few minutes here, and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna chat with And I don't if you're on Twitter
Speaker 1: and you interact a lot of the accounts that we do,
Speaker 1: you probably know are Cassie Clark, who's she's basically a
Speaker 1: social media personality about things having to do with North Carolina.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not a political thing. So I wanted
Speaker 1: her perspective because I saw she was tweeting about her
Speaker 1: travels up through the mountains and uh, and again, I
Speaker 1: want to hear from people that have eyeballs on this stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be told by some administrator in
Speaker 1: Washington what I'm supposed to think. I'll do that for myself.
Speaker 1: Thank you. So we'll chat with her coming up here
Speaker 1: in just a just a few minutes. All right, So
Speaker 1: sixty minutes last night Kamala Harris on there and she
Speaker 1: actually again is she there wasn't trickery. They weren't screaming
Speaker 1: at her some of the stuff you've seen with Trump interviews.
Speaker 1: They were lightly pushing back on things, and she was
Speaker 1: absolutely disintegrating, absolutely disintegrating. Let me just give you one
Speaker 1: more example here. Oh, here we go. This is a
Speaker 1: good one. Check this out, and note that you have
Speaker 1: to watch the video so you can see the fear
Speaker 1: slash uh not understanding what's happening in her eyes. It's
Speaker 1: truly amazing. Well, hold on, there we go.
Speaker 5: My plan is about saying that when you invest in
Speaker 5: small businesses, you invest in the middle class, and you
Speaker 5: strengthen America's economy. Small businesses are part of the backbone
Speaker 5: of America's economy.
Speaker 3: But pardon me that, Vice President, the question was, how
Speaker 3: are you going to pay for it?
Speaker 5: Well, one of the things, so I'm going to make
Speaker 5: sure that the richest among us who can afford it,
Speaker 5: pay their fair share in taxes.
Speaker 6: It is not right that teachers and.
Speaker 5: Nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax rate than
Speaker 5: billionaires and the biggest corporation.
Speaker 6: And I plan on making that fair.
Speaker 3: But we're dealing with the real world here. But the
Speaker 3: real world includes how are you going to get this
Speaker 3: through Congress?
Speaker 5: You know, when you talk quietly with a lot of
Speaker 5: folks in Congress, they know exactly what I'm talking about
Speaker 5: because their constituents know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 6: Their constituents are those firefighters and teachers and nurses.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a busy show. We don't mind that.
Speaker 1: What's this kind of cruise control things? Thank you to
Speaker 1: Senator Ted Budd for joining us so one hour ago.
Speaker 1: Thank you to Kamala Harris for sitting down for that
Speaker 1: sixty minutes interview. But let's go ahead and get away
Speaker 1: from a little way. Politics is always going to be
Speaker 1: a part of this, But what I wanted is I
Speaker 1: want to a perspective from somebody who really doesn't do
Speaker 1: politics per se, but has a deep knowledge of western
Speaker 1: North Carolina and also the context to really sit down
Speaker 1: and talk to people and talk to them not just
Speaker 1: on a you know, the first person basis where you're
Speaker 1: meeting them, but where they trust you enough to really
Speaker 1: tell you how they really feel. And I noticed one
Speaker 1: of the Twitter accounts that I follow her I see
Speaker 1: from time to time. Normally she's out harboring blood feuds
Speaker 1: with Florida barbecue joints. But Dogwood Blooms is the handle.
Speaker 1: Her name is Cassie Clark, and she just toured the
Speaker 1: mountains up there talking to folks who wanted to welcome
Speaker 1: her on. Cassie, how you doing this morning?
Speaker 11: I'm good?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 1: Is that an inaccurate description on the blood feuds thing, though,
Speaker 1: because frankly, I think that's the first stuff I saw
Speaker 1: from you with the barbecue joints. So angry over barbecue
Speaker 1: in Florida versus North Carolina. People are nuts and they do.
Speaker 2: And I am. People call me the Queen of North
Speaker 2: Carolina as a little joke, and I am one hundred
Speaker 2: percent all in on supporting my state and our culture,
Speaker 2: and so yeah, I tend to make people.
Speaker 1: Mad, right and just be fair. That's that's normally what
Speaker 1: you're covering, just all things North Carolina. Give me some
Speaker 1: background real quick. I can't remember if you're from Wilmington
Speaker 1: and then live in the mountains or lived in the
Speaker 1: mountains and then moved to Wilmington. But what's your story
Speaker 1: just so folks know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so my mama is from Wilmington and she has
Speaker 2: very deep roots there, and then my daddy was from
Speaker 2: western North Carolina and I have very deep roots in Canton,
Speaker 2: and so my childhood was spent equally between the two places.
Speaker 2: And so I'm this weird mix of he'll billy beach.
Speaker 1: Bump, right, But every one of the Piedmonts say, why
Speaker 1: do you hate us? So that's fine, that's fine, that's okay.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about Canton. We'll get to Wilmington should
Speaker 1: the need arise here in the future. And you know,
Speaker 1: there's so much politics, there's a lot lot of people
Speaker 1: who are very upset. There's wild stuff floating around, and
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 1: Whether I'm talking to the senator, I'm talking to you,
Speaker 1: or we're taking calls from folks. So in your in
Speaker 1: your experience, and you can explain, because you went to
Speaker 1: a few different towns, right, what did you see going
Speaker 1: on when you were up there?
Speaker 2: So I always ask people not to pliticize me, because
Speaker 2: I don't do politics, and always warn them you don't
Speaker 2: want me to get into politics because I am part Hillbilly,
Speaker 2: and so we naturally distrust the government. We just do.
Speaker 2: We don't like outsiders, and that's just how it is.
Speaker 2: And so when I went home, I saw a lot
Speaker 2: of volunteers. I did not see FEMA personally. I didn't
Speaker 2: see them. I'm not saying they weren't there. I'm saying
Speaker 2: that in the areas that I went into, they were nowhere.
Speaker 3: To be found.
Speaker 1: And so, just just so folks know, while we're explaining this,
Speaker 1: what communities did you visit?
Speaker 11: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: So I went home to Canton. That was our first
Speaker 2: drop offs was in Canton. We went to lease us Sure,
Speaker 2: we went to Sandy Mush, we went to Crabtree. A
Speaker 2: lot of y'all aren't going to know these places. They're
Speaker 2: very tidy. And then we went back to Canton and
Speaker 2: all of those places I made sure to ask, have
Speaker 2: you guys seen FEMA? What's going on? And all of
Speaker 2: them said no. We've been getting supplies in from civilians.
Speaker 2: People are dropping stuff off at churches. We're making sure
Speaker 2: those get delivered. No word of FEMA whatsoever. Last Thursday,
Speaker 2: by the way.
Speaker 1: For those because we got a lot of transplants to
Speaker 1: North Carolina. I'm sure you're aware. For those of you wondering,
Speaker 1: Canton sits between Waynesville and Nashville, that's right. Yeah, did
Speaker 1: you go to the did you go to the casino?
Speaker 1: Go see what was up over at the Haras there
Speaker 1: in Cherokee. I'm just really cold.
Speaker 8: I did.
Speaker 1: What's going on there?
Speaker 11: I did not.
Speaker 2: I have a trip planned again in two weeks. I'm
Speaker 2: hoping to get some more information, to sit down and
Speaker 2: actually talk and hopefully interview some people from what to
Speaker 2: my understanding, FEMA is being cows in here is right now,
Speaker 2: and for me, that is extremely insulting. You know, there
Speaker 2: are people who don't have homes western North Carolina. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of elderly people up there. You know, where
Speaker 2: are they being you mean.
Speaker 11: They're what at you know?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: And elderly people love casinos. I would point that out
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: I don't know so much about in western North Carolina,
Speaker 2: but I mean, you know, where are they at right now?
Speaker 2: You know, I'm sure they're not in you know, a
Speaker 2: hotel room. And so to hear that FEMA is up there,
Speaker 2: one of the nicest hotels in the entire region, and
Speaker 2: there are people suffering everywhere. That just seems like an
Speaker 2: injustice to me.
Speaker 1: One of the things, and I'm sure that there's plenty
Speaker 1: of people listening, whether it's a hurricane, of fire, or
Speaker 1: some other natural disaster. One of the things that really
Speaker 1: is jarring is when something strikes where you're from, or
Speaker 1: where you were from, or wherever, where you have a
Speaker 1: base working knowledge and your visual part of your brain
Speaker 1: as to what the topography is supposed to look like,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it doesn't look like that.
Speaker 1: I'm from Wyoming, and right now my brother and his
Speaker 1: wife who still live out there, are trying to decide
Speaker 1: what they're going to do because of a giant fire
Speaker 1: that has come down, and they were sending me pictures
Speaker 1: of areas that I know outside of Dayton, Wyoming, and
Speaker 1: they don't look like they used to. So when you're
Speaker 1: going back to Canton, you know where, you know where stuck,
Speaker 1: you know where the swimming hole is, you know where
Speaker 1: you used to go hang out with friends, where you
Speaker 1: used to go get ice cream. So now you lay
Speaker 1: eyes on that, how different did it look to you?
Speaker 2: Downtown to me looked like a set from an old
Speaker 2: Western movie covered in dust roped off. You couldn't get in,
Speaker 2: the roads were down. I mean, it was it was jarring,
Speaker 2: It was heartbreaking. I was somebody sent me photos from
Speaker 2: Friday when the flooding first began and all of downtown
Speaker 2: was underwater. I mean, it was just hard wrenching to
Speaker 2: see it. And when you went up through Crabtree, you know,
Speaker 2: it looked like bomb went off in the middle of
Speaker 2: the creeks in where were was sandy Mush. It was like,
Speaker 2: Sandy Mush is a very difficult Yeah, it's a very
Speaker 2: difficult road.
Speaker 8: To begin with.
Speaker 2: Every two hundred feet the road was washed out, so
Speaker 2: you're working on one lane and a very steep area.
Speaker 2: There was still no power. I mean, it was just
Speaker 2: it was heartbreaking. And knowing that the majority of the
Speaker 2: help coming in were people like me that made it worse.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, here's something too that I don't think
Speaker 1: it has It has occurred to some people, but as
Speaker 1: a person who also grew up in the mountains, most
Speaker 1: mountain roads follow bodies of water. That's just the way
Speaker 1: that it was. It was these I shouldn't say most,
Speaker 1: but a lot of them do, especially a lot of
Speaker 1: the main ones. And when you go through rural North Carolina,
Speaker 1: like there's a place I like to go up in Asheville.
Speaker 1: I think every ounce of road is next to a
Speaker 1: river or a crikup then those are so they're the
Speaker 1: body of those bodies of water is so much wider
Speaker 1: than it was. I don't know they're going to be
Speaker 1: able to build roads inside those canyons and gullies is
Speaker 1: the same way we used to. I mean this, it
Speaker 1: may never look the same.
Speaker 2: I hate to say that. Hillbillies are pretty determined, and
Speaker 2: I feel like what can be fixed, they will most
Speaker 2: certainly fix it. And you know, I live through Ivan
Speaker 2: in two thousand and four and that completely destroyed the area,
Speaker 2: like the specific area where I'm from, and they came
Speaker 2: back from that, and so I have all hopes that
Speaker 2: they're gonna rebuild everywhere else.
Speaker 1: When you talk to people, we were chatting with the senator,
Speaker 1: you know, people have different mindsets when it comes to
Speaker 1: FEMA and outside help. And I pointed out one of
Speaker 1: the factors there, and you mentioned it is it's the
Speaker 1: type of people you're dealing with. And you know, frankly,
Speaker 1: same people I grew up with they would just assume
Speaker 1: not see federal help. And I'm not encouraging that, but
Speaker 1: I'm wondering how pervasive that attitude is where they're just like, fine,
Speaker 1: we'll do this ourselves.
Speaker 2: I think that's very pervasive in western North Carolina. I mean,
Speaker 2: we've kind of you know, I grew up on stories
Speaker 2: of you know, family lands being stolen by the government
Speaker 2: to create the Great Smokies. I grew up on tales
Speaker 2: of you know, the road to nowhere and the broken
Speaker 2: government promise behind that. I mean that directly impacted my family.
Speaker 2: I have deep roots in Swain County, and so I
Speaker 2: feel like people still feel that way up there. And
Speaker 2: I don't make any judgment on that either way. I
Speaker 2: mean that's you know, that's just the way it is.
Speaker 2: I would like to see them get more support. I
Speaker 2: would like, but of course we're in a place where,
Speaker 2: I mean, I've come to the point after all of
Speaker 2: this where I don't trust any government. I've never felt
Speaker 2: this way where I just like, literally have no faith whatsoever,
Speaker 2: and so I can understand how they feel.
Speaker 1: It's funny you mentioned the smoking about it literally happened
Speaker 1: to us with the National Forest. Yeah, that's the whole thing,
Speaker 1: and it will, it will impact generations of thinking. And
Speaker 1: this isn't this isn't helping. You've lived in North Carolina
Speaker 1: all your life. I'm not going to ask you how
Speaker 1: old you are, Cassie, But in those years, have you
Speaker 1: ever seen devastation like this in North Carolina on this scale?
Speaker 2: No, not on the scale. We're talking about at least
Speaker 2: twenty counties that experience severe flooding of some sort, and
Speaker 2: so that's one fifth of our state. And you know,
Speaker 2: when this happens in Wilmington, and of course I have
Speaker 2: fruits in Wilmington too. You know, the devastation that you
Speaker 2: see is never as bad as what I'm seeing back home.
Speaker 2: And the reason for that is is because people live
Speaker 2: in these little hollers.
Speaker 11: You know, a lot of.
Speaker 2: People live in very rural areas. And it seems like
Speaker 2: Aspell and Boone are getting all the attention. Well what
Speaker 2: about all these other people who live out in the
Speaker 2: middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't just agree with you, and to you know,
Speaker 1: to really put an emphasis on that. Remember, we're talking
Speaker 1: about eight hundred mile wide story. Let me give two
Speaker 1: facts to people. Eight hundred mile wide and we had
Speaker 1: storm desks confirmed storm desk from Mecklenburg to Ash County.
Speaker 1: If you all want to get a map out, that's
Speaker 1: the entire north south of the state and a little
Speaker 1: east west. That's an amazing footprint. So admittedly, I think
Speaker 1: people understand that this is not a typical hurricane operation
Speaker 1: where we're dealing with Wilmington maybe up to Newbern because
Speaker 1: it flooded up there. This is something that makes that
Speaker 1: is already pretty inaccessible in and of itself, that has
Speaker 1: made much more inaccessible by what happened.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and then you also have to consider, you know,
Speaker 2: this is going to impact you know, economy in western
Speaker 2: North Carolina horribly because right now is leaf season. This
Speaker 2: is when everybody goes up there to tour and look
Speaker 2: at the beautiful weaves and so everything being closed down
Speaker 2: right now this is going to be another huge hit.
Speaker 2: It's also really cold up there, and right now is
Speaker 2: the time when the tempts start dropping. So, I mean,
Speaker 2: there's all of these concerns going on, and the disorganization
Speaker 2: and getting things moving that's a problem. And you know,
Speaker 2: everybody else is worried about, you know, politics, I don't
Speaker 2: I don't care about politics, you know, And I've always
Speaker 2: begged everybody not to put me in the middle of it, because,
Speaker 2: like I said, I'm going to call out anybody who
Speaker 2: I think is doing wrong. So just leave me alone
Speaker 2: because no one's gonna like me. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: there's all of these things and all the rumors and
Speaker 2: all the bus it's just taking attention away from where
Speaker 2: that attention needs to be placed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was we got into this yesterday. With the
Speaker 1: economics of it. You left something out. People go look
Speaker 1: at leaves and then they drive ungodly slow for no reason,
Speaker 1: but you kind of understand why they're doing it. That's
Speaker 1: something a lot of community. Sorry, I just probably struck
Speaker 1: a nerve there, that is. But that's something that a
Speaker 1: lot of communities are going to miss out. On the
Speaker 1: Blue Rich Parkway, they're estimating late December for a lot
Speaker 1: of areas. I like to go to Price Julian Price
Speaker 1: could go camping there in the fall, and that doesn't
Speaker 1: look like that's going to be accessible. So even though
Speaker 1: you can drive around and look at leaves, you also
Speaker 1: have to have trees with leaves on them. So this
Speaker 1: is this is gonna be a big deal.
Speaker 11: Yes, it is.
Speaker 2: And that was one of the concerns in my hometown.
Speaker 2: Mayor and I do have to give major props to Canton.
Speaker 2: You know, they were doing really good. The like organization
Speaker 2: back home was wonderful, you know, from what I saw
Speaker 2: the churches, everybody was working together. They were quickly getting
Speaker 2: back on their feet. I wasn't seeing that everywhere.
Speaker 1: Well that's that is good. What would you say, is
Speaker 1: the hardest hip place that you visited? Was it Canton?
Speaker 2: I think it was probably Cude So Cuide is a
Speaker 2: very small town between Canton and Wainefull. It's basically just
Speaker 2: one little strip. There was no power on when we
Speaker 2: went up there. It looked like everything was still completely
Speaker 2: shut down. And from what I heard, the main off
Speaker 2: of the main strip when you get closer to the river,
Speaker 2: which is only i would say one or two streets away,
Speaker 2: that there was major devastation back there. We didn't go
Speaker 2: back there because we were on a you know, on schedule.
Speaker 2: We were trying to drop things off, so I didn't
Speaker 2: really get to look. I also heard that Bezel and
Speaker 2: Crusoe were hit really hard, which are also in Heywood County.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately I didn't get to see those, but I will
Speaker 2: try to get back in two weeks whenever I go
Speaker 2: back home.
Speaker 1: All right, So if somebody's wanting to head out earlier,
Speaker 1: they want to bring supplies, what is it people aren't
Speaker 1: thinking to bring that. Frankly, the folks up there would appreciate.
Speaker 2: What do you think right now? I would probably say
Speaker 2: propane is a big one. Something else that I've heard
Speaker 2: no one mentioned which drives me crazy is a lot
Speaker 2: of homes in western North Carolina are still heated by wood,
Speaker 2: which those are very popular up there, particularly, Yeah, in
Speaker 2: Heywood County, we have all these trees that are down.
Speaker 2: You know, I would hope that all of that wood
Speaker 2: would be cut up and go to homes for free heat.
Speaker 2: That would just make sense. You know, lighters, batteries, work gloves,
Speaker 2: chainsaw blades, you know, things like that are desperately needed
Speaker 2: right now. I think we've still got good amount of
Speaker 2: food and water coming in that, you know. I worry
Speaker 2: that volunteer and donation efforts are going to dry up
Speaker 2: long before they're in a stable place again.
Speaker 1: Well, if what happens down in Florida that is projected
Speaker 1: to happen to the city of Tampa, I my concern
Speaker 1: is that not that not that we can't handle two
Speaker 1: things at once, but some people just have an inability
Speaker 1: to do it. And it's very easy for the media
Speaker 1: to start focusing all their attention there because it is
Speaker 1: the active storm, but that could be devastating for North
Speaker 1: Carolina's recovery efforts. I got about thirty seconds if you
Speaker 1: want to respond.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and that I brought this up weeks ago is
Speaker 2: that you know, the next big thing will take all
Speaker 2: eyes off western North Carolina, and I'm going to try
Speaker 2: not to allow that to happen.
Speaker 1: If folks want to follow you on Twitter, it's at
Speaker 1: Dogwood Blooms, which in and of itself is a North
Speaker 1: Carolina reference and it's an interesting follow.
Speaker 3: I'll say that, Cassie, well, thank you, Casey. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And there will be when everything's better, there will be
Speaker 1: more barbecue blood feuds and they're fun to watch. But
Speaker 1: until then, Cassie, I appreciate it very much. Okay, thank
Speaker 1: you for having me on yep. So there you go.
Speaker 1: Like I said, we want first person, We got first person.
Speaker 1: That's what we're here for, and we'll be back with
Speaker 1: lots more coming up here on the CaCO Day Radio program.
Speaker 1: Like so, we don't normally do a couple guests there,
Speaker 1: but hopefully we got something out of that. I think
Speaker 1: we did. I got content, so yeah, for me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: There's there's so much going on though that it isn't
Speaker 1: hurricane related, and I just I want to kind of
Speaker 1: lean into some of that stuff first and foremost. If
Speaker 1: you haven't watched the Kamala Harris sixty minutes interview that
Speaker 1: aired yesterday, I am only and this is just a theory.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm correct. I wonder if they're
Speaker 1: looking at the numbers and they have made the decision
Speaker 1: like they made after the Biden debate, if you want
Speaker 1: to call it that beatdown, that we have to run
Speaker 1: cover for ourselves, right and in the sense that once
Speaker 1: Biden appeared like he appeared in that debate, all of
Speaker 1: these media outlets, even though you knew it and I
Speaker 1: knew it, We and most smart people, I think know it,
Speaker 1: some choose to dismiss it. But like they they were
Speaker 1: the Emperor with no clothes man, and they realized that
Speaker 1: it's so blatant that no reasonable person thinks that anyone
Speaker 1: who had any interaction with Biden during this period, including lawmakers,
Speaker 1: including members of the media staffers could in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form make a coherent argument that this dude
Speaker 1: isn't diminished and that there was a problem. And then
Speaker 1: they didn't even fully correct it. But whatever, it led
Speaker 1: to this. But the media had to scramble because they
Speaker 1: were indicted as well, and you saw the visual ross.
Speaker 1: Do you remember how vicious the media immediately turned on
Speaker 1: Biden and the Democrats for at least just a few
Speaker 1: days anyway, until they figured out the Kamalist stuff. Like
Speaker 1: it was absolute night and day when you were putting
Speaker 1: prep together, was it not completely Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was like finally, for the first time in years,
Speaker 7: it was like, there we have some honesty here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And they but understand that wasn't some moral compass
Speaker 1: thing that drove them to do completely politically motivated the
Speaker 1: cya and politically motivated one hundred percent. I wonder if
Speaker 1: that might be going on with Kamala and Walls. You
Speaker 1: had the SNL skits right, which weren't even that damaging
Speaker 1: in the grand scheme of things, but it was. But
Speaker 1: when you've spent years of them not parroting Biden really
Speaker 1: and not parroting Kamala really, but also considering even after
Speaker 1: he's out of office, with their opening, that opening segment
Speaker 1: that they do the opening skit uh, I can't remember.
Speaker 1: Somebody said it was like a dozen of them were Trump,
Speaker 1: which were and they were just mean Trump ones. But
Speaker 1: he's got it. Trump is a dude. You can absolutely parody.
Speaker 1: It's not difficult. And I even told you some of
Speaker 1: this stuff fun I think CHEETOHLINI is hilarious because I'm too.
Speaker 1: I under I understand it's how people use it. But
Speaker 1: I think that's funny. I think that's clever. That's just
Speaker 1: that's the immature me. But this wasn't that. This was
Speaker 1: really vicious stuff. And so for for that treatment to
Speaker 1: then start going over in that direction for the interviewer
Speaker 1: there on sixty minutes, and remember sixty minutes is as
Speaker 1: bad as the rest of them. They constantly have been,
Speaker 1: and they themselves have attempted to, in my in my
Speaker 1: opinion and probably a lot of other people, libel and
Speaker 1: slander Trump on some things. Remember Ross reminded me of
Speaker 1: this earlier. Remember, following that one sixty minutes interview, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump released the entire interview and not their edited version.
Speaker 1: Remember they scream bloody murder over it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that was the one with the Leslie Stall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they scream bloody murder over it. And he's just like, no,
Speaker 1: you've missed. You've so misrepresented what I said to you.
Speaker 1: Here's what was actually said. And if you watched it,
Speaker 1: you realized how twisted the whole thing was. So these
Speaker 1: are these aren't they? She didn't just accidentally fall in
Speaker 1: with some honest arbiter. So the question becomes, why did
Speaker 1: they continue to press her, and not even that aggressively
Speaker 1: so that she folded like a cheap accordion is the
Speaker 1: saying goes.
Speaker 7: I mean, because that's what happened, you can understand what
Speaker 7: happened with Walls and Fox News this past weekend because yes,
Speaker 7: Fox News and he looked completely unprepared, but this was CBS.
Speaker 7: I don't think she was expecting this at all.
Speaker 1: No, No, I think she thought she was good. And
Speaker 1: they did it to Walls too. We're just not highlight
Speaker 1: because we like the the Kamalist stuff. There's just so
Speaker 1: much of it, and and you have that, but you
Speaker 1: also couple that with and this is this is where
Speaker 1: the conspiracy starts to build. Biden's been outneecapping her did
Speaker 1: you see what happened with Ron DeSantis? All right, so
Speaker 1: ABC or CBA, one of the one of the c's
Speaker 1: UH decided, well, I guess CBS starts with the sea,
Speaker 1: but you get it. They decided that they were going
Speaker 1: to run this garbage story yesterday that Ron DeSantis UH
Speaker 1: wouldn't take a call from UH from Kamala right. Still
Speaker 1: the vice president still has the female apparatus. What what
Speaker 1: why why would he ignore her call? She's just trying
Speaker 1: to help and they and they just took they just
Speaker 1: took their word for it. So Ron DeSantis had a
Speaker 1: presser where he's trying to convince people to get out
Speaker 1: of Tampa.
Speaker 2: UH.
Speaker 1: Not quite as aggressive as the mayor of Tampa, who said,
Speaker 1: what was it? If you stay, you die? So you
Speaker 1: know that's and she she may not be wrong. And
Speaker 1: in fact, some people I know from Tampa I got
Speaker 1: in contact with yesterday who normally stay there, they left
Speaker 1: and I was blown away by one of them who left.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to name names because like that dude
Speaker 1: enjoys a hurricane. I think they're out of there. So
Speaker 1: DeSantis is trying to lay out what's going on, and
Speaker 1: did you they already have the Tropicana, which is the
Speaker 1: Devil Rays Stadium, which is which frankly is so far
Speaker 1: south in the Tampa metro it might be where it
Speaker 1: makes landfall, or well that that part of the coast
Speaker 1: is as you work inland and it is. The whole
Speaker 1: stadium is bunks for military and National guardsmen who are
Speaker 1: already there, read to go, waiting to do their thing.
Speaker 2: So he was.
Speaker 1: He demonstrated a level of organization that I wish we
Speaker 1: would have seen. That being said, they just had to
Speaker 1: get into this whole Oh well yeah, they DeSantis, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is Kamala.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We tried to call him and he wouldn't even take
Speaker 1: her call because he's playing politics with the storm. All right,
Speaker 1: well here's DeSantis form the press comm.
Speaker 12: My focus has not been on dealing with with Kamala Harris.
Speaker 12: I saw the news report. I didn't know she tried
Speaker 12: to contact me. But I'd also say, it's not about you, Kamala,
Speaker 12: It's about the people of Florida. My focus is exactly
Speaker 12: where it should be.
Speaker 1: And I can tell you this.
Speaker 12: I've worked on these hurricanes under both President Trump and
Speaker 12: President Biden. Neither of them ever tried to politicize it.
Speaker 12: She has never called on any of the storms we've
Speaker 12: had since she's been vice president until apparently now, Why
Speaker 12: all of a sudden is she trying to parachute in
Speaker 12: and inject herself when she's never shown any interest in
Speaker 12: the past. We know it's because of politics. We know
Speaker 12: it's because of her campaign. I have zero time to
Speaker 12: entertain these political games.
Speaker 1: And when I'm watching stuff like that. Oh so let
Speaker 1: me but let me give you the kneecap part of this.
Speaker 1: So he holds the stories out there, he holds that
Speaker 1: press conference, makes that statement. The majority of it was
Speaker 1: not about this, obviously, was about other stuff. But you know,
Speaker 1: of course they hit him with the question, and what
Speaker 1: does Joe Biden do? Not that Joe Biden probably did,
Speaker 1: What does the White House do? They post flipping photos
Speaker 1: of him and DeSantis on the phone together and not
Speaker 1: in the creepy Kamala Ashville thing where it's live. It's
Speaker 1: just photos of Biden sitting there. He's got I don't
Speaker 1: you know, He's got a couple of people in the room.
Speaker 1: He's got schematics, you know, just he's got this stuff
Speaker 1: you would look like you have when you're having this
Speaker 1: conversation and I don't know what the substance of it was,
Speaker 1: but to post that is to undermine this claim, this
Speaker 1: hail Mary claim that she's making. And remember this is
Speaker 1: just days after the dude who has not done the
Speaker 1: where he's just wandered into the press briefing room in years, right.
Speaker 7: He didn't do a press conference for three years, but
Speaker 7: he stumbles in and just rolls in and he's like, oh,
Speaker 7: by the way, while I'm.
Speaker 1: Here, Yeah, well I'm here, And immediately CNN is in
Speaker 1: the process of cutting to Kamala's rally where she's going
Speaker 1: to one hundred percent control of the narrative. They're in
Speaker 1: the process of making the throw because it was the
Speaker 1: White House press briefing, so they were airing that, and
Speaker 1: then they were gonna get away from that go to
Speaker 1: the Kamala Harris thing and they stay and they couldn't.
Speaker 1: They had to stick around. So this coverage, this free
Speaker 1: media she was going to get didn't arrive because he
Speaker 1: randomly at that moment did it. And then also really
Speaker 1: undermines this whole thing with the photo that Biden the
Speaker 1: White House posted under the Potus account. How am I
Speaker 1: not supposed to think something's up now. I don't don't
Speaker 1: get if you if you're if you're if you're you know,
Speaker 1: on team Trump, you know, don't. I wouldn't sit on
Speaker 1: your haunches on this. But if you're on team Kamala,
Speaker 1: you have to you have to keep in mind that
Speaker 1: it sounds like some people are backstabby.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 1: I know that sounds petty, but what else am I
Speaker 1: supposed to think?
Speaker 7: Dude? When he steps out and he's like, hey, I
Speaker 7: just want to say while I'm here, Yeah, you know
Speaker 7: that we sing from the same songbook, and you know
Speaker 7: all of her great idea, all of my policies were
Speaker 7: her policies, and yeah, what else you dude?
Speaker 1: Mocked Nixon tapes right where he's just like, I want
Speaker 1: to lower gas prices.
Speaker 7: And she's like, noison by three bucks?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh how did those lead? Crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean that's maybe that's how it gets worse. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I'm I'm watching all this stuff, and
Speaker 1: I'm watching all the people in the media and around
Speaker 1: and the world, the politics, and you know there's gonna
Speaker 1: be there's a cut bait moment. If it comes to that.
Speaker 1: It may not she could win right, but there people
Speaker 1: identify that cut bait moment and they're out of there.
Speaker 1: What do you think happened to Mark Robinson? They identified
Speaker 1: the cut bait moment and they were out of there.
Speaker 1: So it's a thing, all right, raced Agic, He's he's
Speaker 1: doing his thing weatherwise. Boy, they did a big old
Speaker 1: piece on our buddy Mark over there in Asheville.
Speaker 9: The Yeah, yeah, I don't know if you saw that.
Speaker 8: I did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that was that's a job. It's dude, it's
Speaker 1: it's I've slept on a on a blow up mattress
Speaker 1: in the radio station before. It's not fun. I've never
Speaker 1: done it as long as he was doing it.
Speaker 9: No, I thought a floor, Yeah I did the floor.
Speaker 9: Did'n have a blow up match? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Not not interesting co workers within like twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: It's not personal, it's just your.
Speaker 10: All kind of it's just what you are, right, It's
Speaker 10: just where you are and what you're doing. Especially for
Speaker 10: the circumstances that they were in, and I know he
Speaker 10: had sent.
Speaker 1: Home just you all know, his wife and kid couldn't
Speaker 1: get home because there was a wave of water coming
Speaker 1: down I forty, so they had to go to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: So he wouldn't. He didn't even say to his wife
Speaker 1: and kid for days and he just had to broadcast.
Speaker 1: It's wild stuff, man.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but this is I mean, this is what radio
Speaker 10: people do, right, and it was a just a great
Speaker 10: tud and great guy to a great bunch of people.
Speaker 9: I've been up there. It's it's it's really cool. But
Speaker 9: the same day done.
Speaker 1: You've been up there.
Speaker 9: I've been up there.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 9: Oh well, well I had it in but I'm waiting here.
Speaker 1: I am all right. Maybe when there's a big Cowboys
Speaker 1: game or something, or maybe when Clemson's at NC State
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 9: Dad, we could do that. Man, I can travel. It
Speaker 9: was actually was.
Speaker 10: It was the greatest thing in the parking lot. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 10: I know it probably won't go all right, I got I.
Speaker 1: Got he once again? This out all right real quick? Florida.
Speaker 1: Can we talk timeline in Florida this time around? I
Speaker 1: think people understand the the size of the threat, but yeah,
Speaker 1: timeline remains a bit elusive.
Speaker 10: Yeah, probably tropical storm force winds arriving sometime tomorrow evening
Speaker 10: tomorrow night, and then as we go through tomorrow night,
Speaker 10: hurricane force winds and early the morning hours on Thursday,
Speaker 10: probably the center crossing the west coast early morning or
Speaker 10: sometime late Wednesday night. So it depends on where exactly
Speaker 10: it goes and how much quicker it gets. So the
Speaker 10: latest track is just south on the south end of
Speaker 10: Tampa Bay, between Tampa Bay and Sarasota, so there may
Speaker 10: be some fluctuations in that. So that's the timing on
Speaker 10: when the worst will be and then across central Florida
Speaker 10: during the day on Thursday before moving out over on
Speaker 10: to the western Atlantic as we go through the afternoon
Speaker 10: evening I was on Thursday, and then it goes away.
Speaker 10: But you know, a massive storm, not as big in
Speaker 10: terms of diameter as Colleen was, but still record impacts
Speaker 10: water indubation records in Tampa Bay on its current forecast track.
Speaker 10: But either way, we focus on Tampa because it's the
Speaker 10: easiest and the most vulnerable. But if the track is
Speaker 10: further south of Tampa Bay, less surge, but still somebody
Speaker 10: is going to get it and get it good with
Speaker 10: one hundred and ten mile power wins and all that.
Speaker 10: So it looks like the worst later tomorrow, tomorronight and early.
Speaker 1: Thirstyeah, and really stagnant for us here ye too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is cop quiet. Yeah, sorry, man, just up against
Speaker 1: the clock here, but it's my own doing. So we'll
Speaker 1: talk to you tomorrow the problem and we'll come back
Speaker 1: with Jeff Bellinger.
Speaker 7: Casey.
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Speaker 13: in July. The Federal Reserve says that was new to
Speaker 13: the biggest declining in credit card balances in nearly three
Speaker 13: and a half years. Small business owner's views on the
Speaker 13: economy have not changed very much over the last month,
Speaker 13: and optimism index from the National Federation of Independent Business
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Speaker 13: in September, firms dialed back their capital spending plans, indicating
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, screw those things. Are you You're not as
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Speaker 9: I am not?
Speaker 13: Oh all right, just one, I'm just I'm not in
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Speaker 1: No, but who is really? All right, thank you, sir,
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Speaker 1: no no. I mean good on you ladies. Man, you
Speaker 1: got that figured out. I guess all right, real quick, Uh,
Speaker 1: we'll try to be tight here, Steve, what's up real quick?
Speaker 11: Good morning?
Speaker 2: Are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good? I got about forty five seconds for you
Speaker 1: and forty five for Laura, So get right.
Speaker 11: To it, sir, okay man always up in the out
Speaker 11: park in the mountains this weekend. And then from what
Speaker 11: I'm here, they made there's long eat target and stuff
Speaker 11: for the winner, survivor gear access just this small stuff gloves,
Speaker 11: ten warmers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, the.
Speaker 11: Survival stuff as well. They may they don't ask for nothing,
Speaker 11: and they're so gracious, they're such great people.
Speaker 1: Go to Costco had like a billion handwarmers in a
Speaker 1: box you could buy. Last I was there so and
Speaker 1: I saw that hus Varna actually made a huge donation
Speaker 1: on chains somebody since So that's awesome. Good to see
Speaker 1: companies stepping up. But yeah, that's it, and thanks for
Speaker 1: the colt. That's what people don't think about those little things.
Speaker 1: I mean, food and water is not not a it
Speaker 1: is a big deal, but it's a lot of little
Speaker 1: things that people start wanting