Speaker 1: How'd you spend your weekend? Everybody'd you have? Did? Did
Speaker 1: you spend it? I saw a lot of our listeners
Speaker 1: just because you know, it populates into my timeline, especially
Speaker 1: over on Facebook Twitter. I don't people get mad, They're
Speaker 1: all right, followed the show account, you didn't follow me back.
Speaker 1: I understand that. But we based the show accounts basically
Speaker 1: populated the way that it is. So it's also a
Speaker 1: newsfeed to make my job easier, so it's not personal.
Speaker 1: But over on Facebook, obviously it's a different situation. And
Speaker 1: the amount of people that are, you know, clearly fans
Speaker 1: of the show or have been. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: I irritated them at one point, but whose weekend was
Speaker 1: not going to the beach, hitting the you know, grilling
Speaker 1: out with the fan, but rather literally going to western
Speaker 1: North Carolina or in some way, shape or form supporting
Speaker 1: relief efforts there, doing church fundraisers and like that kind
Speaker 1: of amazing, kind of amazing what people like people will
Speaker 1: step up and do even in the face of this.
Speaker 1: So I thought it would be a good use of
Speaker 1: my weekend. And I have one of those personalities where
Speaker 1: if I decide I'm gonna deep dive something it becomes
Speaker 1: almost unhealthy. I'm sure that. I'm sure that's some sort
Speaker 1: of like obsessive compulsive thing, But that's okay. It aids
Speaker 1: me in my job. And I really set out over
Speaker 1: the weekend to do two things. One, try to get
Speaker 1: a handle not on the stealing lithium mimes or things
Speaker 1: like that, and if that's your thing, just don't even
Speaker 1: send me your study. If that happens, we'll cover it, okay,
Speaker 1: But rather really looking into the response, the timeline and
Speaker 1: you know, taking into a count first person narratives to
Speaker 1: reporters and how impactful that is one way or the other,
Speaker 1: and how the media chooses to use it too. And
Speaker 1: then and this was the more difficult part, I did
Speaker 1: a deep dive of Katrina, right, because that's kind of
Speaker 1: the example of Malfeasan's laziness in an aptitude in popular
Speaker 1: lore as it pertains to Hurricane Katrina, and specifically the
Speaker 1: victim under the bus. There was the former FEMA director
Speaker 1: Michael Brown or Brownie as he loathes being called by
Speaker 1: George Bush during the press conference, which really got that
Speaker 1: thing rolling. But and it's positively eye opening. And then
Speaker 1: while I'm doing that, I have to ingest a steady
Speaker 1: stream of articles from from you know, w R and
Speaker 1: the New York Times and all of that. So that's
Speaker 1: how the media component got in there. Everything's you know, basically,
Speaker 1: everything's everything's fine. It's a bunch of conspiracy theories. And
Speaker 1: then they'd be like, look, Tom Tillis said this, well,
Speaker 1: you know what we think of Tom Tillis on this show,
Speaker 1: and you know the governor of Tennessee said this, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but he has a vested interest in it appearing that
Speaker 1: everything's going fine because some of it's over in his state.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, it was positively eye opening. Let me
Speaker 1: just hit you with a little fun fact there, because
Speaker 1: it's interesting how we remember things who had the responsibility
Speaker 1: to evacuate New Orleans, who had the power and the
Speaker 1: responsibility to evacuate New Orleans, because that's one of the
Speaker 1: things that gets hung around the now. And I want
Speaker 1: to be clear, you're dealing with two fundamentally different situations.
Speaker 1: Yes they're both hurricanes, but you have a much more compacted,
Speaker 1: identifiable population center with Katrina in the in the city
Speaker 1: of New Orleans. It's not to say that Mississippi and
Speaker 1: Alabama didn't and even I think a little part of
Speaker 1: Texas didn't suffer you know, substantial damage. But the meat
Speaker 1: of what you were dealing with there from a concern
Speaker 1: standpoint was the city of New Orleans, which lay square
Speaker 1: in the state of Louisiana. And it is this is
Speaker 1: about what the Feds can do versus what state government
Speaker 1: can do. And this is this is really an important component.
Speaker 1: First and foremost, prior to Katrina and up to I
Speaker 1: think about a year after, the federal government could not
Speaker 1: evacuate a population center. You know that, right, because now
Speaker 1: you can now and and there are certain there's a
Speaker 1: lot of hoops, but it was because of the inability
Speaker 1: of the Feds to be able to evacuate New Orleans
Speaker 1: that they actually changed the law, because prior to that
Speaker 1: it would have essentially been you know, sending the military's
Speaker 1: posse comma tatus man. And I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know this, the Constitution takes a dim view. How they
Speaker 1: were able to achieve it, you can think is dubious.
Speaker 1: But they were not in a position to do that.
Speaker 1: So that's number one who who wouldn't do it. That
Speaker 1: would be the governor Blanco at the time, and Ray
Speaker 1: Nagan the and in pray it really would have fallen
Speaker 1: within the governor, but Ray Nagan, of course, who was
Speaker 1: the mayor of New Orleans. In fact, Nagan only came
Speaker 1: around on evacuating the city the morning of the night
Speaker 1: that had hit. And by then all the planes are
Speaker 1: out of there, They're gone all the you know, the
Speaker 1: airlines have taken every plane out of the airport there.
Speaker 1: Amtrak had suspended service basically throughout the state of Louisiana.
Speaker 1: And if you remember the pictures of all the school
Speaker 1: bus school buses that went underwater, most of the people
Speaker 1: who did a lot of the people who did evacuate, thankfully,
Speaker 1: a lot of people did. Also included a lot of
Speaker 1: school bus drivers. So that was number one. Number two,
Speaker 1: how is the media portraying this? If you watch the
Speaker 1: media for the most part, and they go and they
Speaker 1: talk to various people, they're talking to and playing people
Speaker 1: who I don't feel represent the majority of what I'm
Speaker 1: seeing on social media. Now, granted there's going to be
Speaker 1: a bias there on social media, but if you look
Speaker 1: at it, can you still see which accounts and account
Speaker 1: follows On Twitter? I challenge you to go and look
Speaker 1: at the show account which is primarily my primary Twitter feed,
Speaker 1: and you'll see that we follow all of the junk
Speaker 1: news organizations in my opinion, We follow RAO, we follow
Speaker 1: the New York Times. We fought because I want to
Speaker 1: know what everyone's reporting. But famously, one of the stories
Speaker 1: that really drove things forward from a media narrative was
Speaker 1: Anderson Cooper in a boat with it going and finding
Speaker 1: this family and you know, sitting there with them for
Speaker 1: hours and going, where's the rescue, where's the help? And
Speaker 1: this is a failure on the part of Bush. What
Speaker 1: people don't tell you is that Anderson Cooper had actually
Speaker 1: requested of FEMA to be able to ride in one
Speaker 1: of the rescue boats, which Michael Brown did turn down,
Speaker 1: his reasoning being that the rescue boats have a minimum
Speaker 1: number of crew to facilitate their operation, and the rest
Speaker 1: of the spots in the boat are for bumpah bah
Speaker 1: bum victims right who they're attempting to rescue. And it
Speaker 1: was explained to Cooper really the whole system and they
Speaker 1: were using a grid system there, meaning unfortunately, because it's
Speaker 1: a grid system, it may work the most efficiently, but
Speaker 1: depending on where you are, you may be on the
Speaker 1: inefficient side from a time perspective of the grid, is
Speaker 1: this too much on a Monday morning? Because I am
Speaker 1: bursting with information? And so what did Cooper do? He
Speaker 1: got his own boat, He got his he hired a
Speaker 1: guy in his own boat, and then went to the
Speaker 1: part of the grid that was explained to him was
Speaker 1: not first he went. He went to the part of
Speaker 1: the grid where they would be working around towards on
Speaker 1: the backside, because that's the reality there, there's no good choices.
Speaker 1: You got to go out and do this stuff. And
Speaker 1: he you know, he famously had that shot and no
Speaker 1: not to lene of him in a canoe fake shot.
Speaker 1: Another one he loves. He loves floodstuff for making big news.
Speaker 1: But Cooper that turned into the caused ajure. Look at
Speaker 1: these people on the roof of their house. Look at
Speaker 1: these people and he'd rescued and only CNN can fine them.
Speaker 1: And Michael Brown I read a piece that he wrote
Speaker 1: years later, and he said that he feels that one
Speaker 1: of his biggest mistakes was not to pacify and accommodate
Speaker 1: the media. So following the Anderson Cooper report, Time magazine
Speaker 1: decided they were going to descend upon him, and they
Speaker 1: did and they said that he lied on his resume. Also,
Speaker 1: Trent Lott, the former senator from Mississippi, threw him under
Speaker 1: the bus because they had a hospital ship that they
Speaker 1: wanted a position off the coast of Louisiana, and Trent
Speaker 1: Lott wanted it off the coast of Mississippi. And they're
Speaker 1: just like, the devastation is far worse than Louisiana. That's
Speaker 1: where're going to put our resources. And eventually Lot made enough,
Speaker 1: the thing ended up in Mississippi. He went above his head.
Speaker 1: So Time Magazine gets a hold of this. They questioned this,
Speaker 1: and they say that he lied about being an adjunct
Speaker 1: law professor. They just run the piece. It starts a
Speaker 1: congressional hearing. Well, it turns out he didn't wan, and
Speaker 1: in fact, there were sworn affidavits from literally everyone in
Speaker 1: the food chain on his former jobs. And eventually Time
Speaker 1: magazine sources they had to report quote felt that it
Speaker 1: was what they said was mischaracterized by the reporter. All
Speaker 1: of these things propelled forward, and all of these things
Speaker 1: the media was just salivating at the trough over right,
Speaker 1: and things changed dramatically when you then get into what
Speaker 1: we're talking about now, like where is the media curiosity
Speaker 1: for the timeline. We don't have to get into the
Speaker 1: crazy stuff. If this was a Republican president, the timeline
Speaker 1: of the federal response would be significant. And let me
Speaker 1: just let me just reacquaint you with the timeline. Okay. One,
Speaker 1: the devastation in North Carolina primarily took place on the
Speaker 1: twenty seventh of September. They made landfall the day before.
Speaker 1: Obviously it took a day to get to us. Okay,
Speaker 1: what do you think the federal response on the twenty eighth?
Speaker 1: Was you hear that silence, that's it? Twenty ninth, hear
Speaker 1: that silence, that's it, thirtieth yet more silence? Surely on
Speaker 1: October first, right, I mean, there's no way on October
Speaker 1: first we wouldn't begin an actual federal response to this
Speaker 1: thing one that is showing now. And I want to
Speaker 1: be clear here when I say federal response, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the military folk who literally have a team or
Speaker 1: at least an organized I don't even know how to
Speaker 1: say it. They have a plan for this. Okay, So
Speaker 1: how do you go about figuring out, you know, the timeliness.
Speaker 1: I think it changes once you find yourself with a
Speaker 1: with a plan that is predetermined, and good on them
Speaker 1: for that October first, not a October second. President Biden
Speaker 1: mobilizes the military. Now again there's National Guard and then
Speaker 1: there's the military side, which in two thousand and six
Speaker 1: became a thing, largely due to the criticism of Brown
Speaker 1: and Katrina. That's when he decided to mobilize the military.
Speaker 1: It was the next day that five hundred soldiers started
Speaker 1: to do what they were doing. October fourth was just
Speaker 1: in process. Okay, nobody's moving. October fifth, five hundred more
Speaker 1: soldiers are added for search and rescue. This is how
Speaker 1: you get videos of soldiers sitting down there on Bragg going,
Speaker 1: what are we doing? Can we go? We got to
Speaker 1: go do something. So of that timeline that roughly about
Speaker 1: a week and a half timeline, what you say is
Speaker 1: you saw half of those days. There wasn't a lot
Speaker 1: going on, not from a federal perspective. And I think
Speaker 1: it's okay to ask questions about this people, Oh, you're
Speaker 1: being political these Oh. And also the super Dome was
Speaker 1: another one that was Ray Nagan's decision. In fact, FEMA
Speaker 1: told him, no, that wouldn't work. People needed to get
Speaker 1: out of there. But Nagan didn't want to evacuate the
Speaker 1: city because he thought if they evacuated it turned it
Speaker 1: didn't turn out bad, it would kill his chances. Little
Speaker 1: did he know it was the absolute corruption within him
Speaker 1: that killed his chances. But and when you look at
Speaker 1: these two things and you set them side by side,
Speaker 1: you ask yourself, how am I not How can I
Speaker 1: not say that there's politics at play here once again,
Speaker 1: when it's so easy and clear to see, even if
Speaker 1: it's on the part of the media, and especially if
Speaker 1: it's on the part of the media. Ross always checks
Speaker 1: when I sent him a link to stuff when he's
Speaker 1: putting it in there, because sometimes I'll send a story
Speaker 1: and I don't notice it's like six months ago or
Speaker 1: something like that. Well, he had to be Uh, he
Speaker 1: had to be surprised yesterday because I was sending them
Speaker 1: stories from like two thousand and seven. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, yeah.
Speaker 1: Once you figure out where I'm going with this, you
Speaker 1: figure it out, you would not. Are you all sitting
Speaker 1: down this morning. I'm gonna need you to go ahead
Speaker 1: and take a seat this morning, because you're not gonna
Speaker 1: believe this.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Wr L was all over this. They were absolutely wr L.
Speaker 1: I used as a local example along with the New
Speaker 1: York Times. They were absolutely fixated on timelines, timelines that
Speaker 1: were much more compact than what we're seeing right here.
Speaker 1: And they wrote story after story after story, man. And
Speaker 1: that's fine, right, as long as they're being accurate with it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be up to people to go ahead and
Speaker 1: you know, decide how they feel about this stuff. Let's
Speaker 1: see here at some of the headlines here. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: let me do that. I'm just looking up at the
Speaker 1: clock here, all right. Well, actually, hold on, So here's
Speaker 1: Ril from two thousand and eight. This is when John
Speaker 1: McCain went down there. I remember John McCain was, you know,
Speaker 1: positioning to be the next president at that time. But
Speaker 1: Wril dutifully followed his trip down to New Orleans, placing
Speaker 1: as much blame as he could on Republicans and then
Speaker 1: obviously obviously it uh, you know, it's stuck. So you
Speaker 1: know what, I don't want to hear this garbage. Some
Speaker 1: of you have have sent emails You're just say, why
Speaker 1: don't we wait for this? No? No, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to you know why, because this is going to propel
Speaker 1: some of these things forward. And I also I need
Speaker 1: to know why the media was so willing to sit
Speaker 1: there in a duck boat with Anderson Cooper and decide
Speaker 1: that this is the reality of things on the ground.
Speaker 1: And now don't listen to the local citizens because their
Speaker 1: liars is what I hear. So we'll get into more
Speaker 1: of this coming up. Hang on. You know, normally on
Speaker 1: Monday I talk about let's see, oh yeah, the the
Speaker 1: Vikings going and conquering the UK. That's if you went
Speaker 1: over there, right, you're in charge. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: that works, but but no, I've just been and even
Speaker 1: this morning, I'm sitting here and I'm reading up on
Speaker 1: this stuff and what I found incontrovertible. Among the opinions
Speaker 1: of this piece that former female director Brown wrote is
Speaker 1: he said one of his biggest regrets was not accommodating
Speaker 1: the media. And I told you what happened where during Katrina,
Speaker 1: they Cooper wants them to literally drive him around in
Speaker 1: a rescue boat, so Anderson Cooper he and his team
Speaker 1: can film and they said, no, the seats in there
Speaker 1: are for victims and we're doing a grid system. They
Speaker 1: were all explained. So he and a cameraman rented a
Speaker 1: boat and went to the place they knew was last
Speaker 1: the grid system. That was intentional, and they you know,
Speaker 1: they taught, they talked to this family and then yes,
Speaker 1: they did rescue them themselves, but it created this whole
Speaker 1: narrative and it just spun from there. So if the
Speaker 1: media is willing to inject themselves there, and I pulled
Speaker 1: the old stories, WRL within days was running stories about
Speaker 1: ineptitude within the federal response. Why didn't they evacuate him
Speaker 1: pointing the finger at George Bush. Never mind the fact
Speaker 1: that legally it would have been a constitutional violation of
Speaker 1: posse commatatis to actually forcially evacuate a city, which is
Speaker 1: they've they've tweaked the law now I'm not sure how,
Speaker 1: but they have that would allow them, and they went
Speaker 1: in a very ideological directive almost immediately while people quote
Speaker 1: unquote were literally still dying. So excuse me, I reject
Speaker 1: all of your little you know, your stories over the week. Oh,
Speaker 1: the real story is the misinformation that's floating around out there. Well,
Speaker 1: that's every natural disaster. That's unfortunately a component of things,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it is a component because people
Speaker 1: are scared, people are seeing their lives upended. So when
Speaker 1: somebody lives in a town in North Carolina and they're
Speaker 1: seeing stuff where FEMA is saying that they won't come
Speaker 1: out and inspect a home because there's a road closed sign,
Speaker 1: even though you the homeowner, pointing to your house down
Speaker 1: the road and saying and your vehicles are clearly there,
Speaker 1: and they're saying, well, we can't go there. People are going.
Speaker 1: And you can go ahead and make an argument why
Speaker 1: they shouldn't. Maybe the road's closed because it's not structurally sound.
Speaker 1: That's a good argument. But to sit the simply sit
Speaker 1: there and go all these people are lunatics or they're
Speaker 1: even if you don't think they're lunatics, you just say, well,
Speaker 1: they're scared. So what they're saying is not true. How
Speaker 1: are you dism missing thousands of first person accounts as misinformation?
Speaker 1: It's misinformation if I send a story to Ross that
Speaker 1: it turns out to not be true, right, and we're
Speaker 1: not up in it. People explaining their first hand accounts,
Speaker 1: and maybe you investigate and you find out that they
Speaker 1: weren't being truthful. But oh, by the way, Time magazine
Speaker 1: wasn't truthful about Michael Brown, and they got the whole
Speaker 1: thing ended up in congressional investigations, So don't give me
Speaker 1: this garbage. And you ran the very same articles touting
Speaker 1: what Time was saying. You know why because I can
Speaker 1: go back and look it up on the internet and
Speaker 1: I did. You were a purveyor of misinformation, So don't
Speaker 1: give me that garbage. And first person accounts of reporting
Speaker 1: were exactly what drove the very famous Anderson Cooper boat
Speaker 1: rescue story. And you were more than happy to dig
Speaker 1: into Trump over Puerto Rico. Well, the storm was still happening.
Speaker 1: So on the long list of institutions that are seemingly
Speaker 1: letting people down, throw yourselves on there anyone in this state,
Speaker 1: within within the within the media apparatus of this state
Speaker 1: that doesn't have doesn't ask themselves why are there so
Speaker 1: many days of just crickets within the federal response, Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and dig into that, or why are thousands
Speaker 1: of people saying this thing that contradicts what the spokesperson
Speaker 1: for you know, for one of the government agencies is
Speaker 1: telling you in an interview room and does why does
Speaker 1: a local member of the legislature there's a reply I
Speaker 1: can't remember which one it was, who essentially put an
Speaker 1: email out saying Hey, you guys got to stop it.
Speaker 1: It's hampering relief effort. Explain to me how, and explain
Speaker 1: to me why a lone member, a Republican member of
Speaker 1: the North Carolina General Assembly, who on every every other
Speaker 1: day you think is literally satan in the way that
Speaker 1: you cover the legislature, right, you seethingly hate the Republicans.
Speaker 1: So why does one dude's Facebook post Trump everyone else?
Speaker 1: Is just because he's an elected official who you don't
Speaker 1: like anyway, And the answer is because it's making your
Speaker 1: team look bad. I'm going to give Harris credit. She
Speaker 1: went to Charlotte, and I'm damn glad she only went
Speaker 1: to Charlotte. I've told you how I feel about president
Speaker 1: presidential Okay, anyone who's going to require manipulating operations in
Speaker 1: a substantial manner doesn't need to be going to a
Speaker 1: disaster area. However, however, it did allow her to make
Speaker 1: another one of her stupid videos. Oh I just can't
Speaker 1: stand these. And if this woman gets elected, I feel
Speaker 1: like there's going to be four years or eight of
Speaker 1: these insane and you know the videos I'm talking about, right,
Speaker 1: it's where she's on a phone, she's not holding a phone,
Speaker 1: like a person who's ever used a phone, right, because
Speaker 1: there's two Like anybody's got a cell phone, which is
Speaker 1: all of you. How do you hold a phone to
Speaker 1: your ear if you're just talking by yourself. I'm literally
Speaker 1: doing the hand thing right now. You can't see it.
Speaker 1: Or if you put it on speaker, what do you do?
Speaker 1: You take the phone, you then put it out in
Speaker 1: front of you, maybe tip it up so the bottom
Speaker 1: of the phone is facing your mouth, depending on how
Speaker 1: loud it is, but you're staring at the screen almost
Speaker 1: as if you're reading it up close. That's how normal
Speaker 1: people do. She does this weird thing where it's like
Speaker 1: three inches off her ear but still on the side
Speaker 1: of her face. I don't understand it. And then what
Speaker 1: do they do? Whoever she's talking to on the phone
Speaker 1: and people I wish holds it like that. For audio,
Speaker 1: she's they're clearly not pulling. If you know, even if
Speaker 1: it's your first day in radio or your first day
Speaker 1: with ears, you know that the audio that you're hearing,
Speaker 1: and we'll play it for you is not being captured
Speaker 1: directly from the speaker at the base of her phone
Speaker 1: at a distance. So this whole thing is is very
Speaker 1: set up. And then whoever she's talking to on the phone, somehow,
Speaker 1: somehow has a camera crew and their side of it is.
Speaker 1: My question is did they actually tape that or is
Speaker 1: it like when we get spot loads where a client
Speaker 1: tapes their part first and then we gotta you gotta.
Speaker 1: That's the radio in me wondering like, is she even
Speaker 1: talking to her at that moment or are they just
Speaker 1: reading scripted lines and then they piece it together, which
Speaker 1: would almost be easier. So lo and behold, she calls
Speaker 1: the mayor of Ashville. Yep, calls Uh, let's see the
Speaker 1: mayor of Asheville. Was her name?
Speaker 3: Esther?
Speaker 1: Damn it? I just clicked off the story. Anyway, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna play the audio and I'll tell her name. So
Speaker 1: she calls the mayor of Ashville and we get treated
Speaker 1: to yet another one of these off word phone conversation things,
Speaker 1: complete with well, you know what, let's just go ahead
Speaker 1: and let you hear it for yourself, shall we?
Speaker 4: How are you doing? And I know that FEMA administrator
Speaker 4: Chris Well was with you, and there was some issue
Speaker 4: about some logjam around getting some of the food and
Speaker 4: water too. Has that been sorted out?
Speaker 5: The logistics were terrifically difficult because our highways were out.
Speaker 1: But we're we're seeing a lot.
Speaker 5: Of movement, all the effort coming in here, and the
Speaker 5: attention on helping us through this right now is growing
Speaker 5: and tremendous, and we're really appreciative, and I really appreciate
Speaker 5: you giving me a call.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, know that we want to do everything we can.
Speaker 4: And you know, I say, as a devout public servant,
Speaker 4: I know how bureaucracy can sometimes get in the way
Speaker 4: of speed. So please let everyone know if there are
Speaker 4: things that you need, if it's taken too long to
Speaker 4: get to you.
Speaker 5: Okay, I appreciate that, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: All right, take care of yourself.
Speaker 1: Well, what are we doing now? At least you didn't
Speaker 1: laugh during it would have been inappropriate, But I didn't
Speaker 1: have to here what are we doing? And I would
Speaker 1: be critical of the mayor of Asheville sitting there and
Speaker 1: taking you know, even if it's just a few minutes,
Speaker 1: pacifying this insanity. But as I just explained to you,
Speaker 1: the greatest regret that Michael Brown said that he had,
Speaker 1: or one of the greatest, was not kissing the media's behind. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it goes doubly so for politicians after you
Speaker 1: saw the what Trent Lott, for the former senator from Mississippi,
Speaker 1: did to Michael Brown screaming at him and I mean
Speaker 1: screaming obscenities at him, and then commandeering a medical ship
Speaker 1: that would have serviced people off the coast of New
Speaker 1: Orleans so it could go over to Mississippi. So you know,
Speaker 1: if you're a local politician, you probably probably got to
Speaker 1: play that game too. But I just be it's so weird, man.
Speaker 1: And then you know, they put the video out and
Speaker 1: it's a cut screen and the whole thing is strange.
Speaker 1: And I understand that since she decided not to go
Speaker 1: to Asheville, which again, thank you, you kind of have
Speaker 1: to do it that way, but you can do a
Speaker 1: zoom call like a normal person instead of this weird
Speaker 1: edited thing. What was the staff time to put that together?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just think it's so cringey, man,
Speaker 1: But maybe I'm a little biased. You can let me know,
Speaker 1: all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
Speaker 1: seventy four. What did you do over the weekend? I
Speaker 1: want first persons to I don't want to hear that
Speaker 1: you heard from somebody because my argument, and it's going
Speaker 1: to be I'll take it to my deathbed. My argument
Speaker 1: is the media malfeasan's here to one not question those days,
Speaker 1: those gaps two. To sit there and simply decide that
Speaker 1: thousands of people, some of which are going to be
Speaker 1: absolutely untrue. I understand that, But thousands and thousands of
Speaker 1: people just use the hashtags on Twitter Hurricane Helene, Helene,
Speaker 1: there's a couple others like Helene twenty twenty four or
Speaker 1: something like that. Click them and look at them, and
Speaker 1: you tell me all those people are being untruthful because
Speaker 1: that's what you're saying in number three, and it can't
Speaker 1: be it can't be pointed out enough. The money because
Speaker 1: this I saw Dana Bash getting into it with. It
Speaker 1: was Laura Trump over the weekend and Lara Trump brings
Speaker 1: up the seven hundred roughly seven hundred million and spending
Speaker 1: on the migrant program that passed through FEMA, And what
Speaker 1: every single one of these journalists will jump up and
Speaker 1: say is they'll sit there and say, well, that's for
Speaker 1: the whole year, which is true. That's fine, that is true,
Speaker 1: but it's coupled with immediate assistance and there's tons of stories. Right,
Speaker 1: The amount of money that just went to the what
Speaker 1: was it, fifty migrants they dropped off on Martha's vineyard,
Speaker 1: the federal spending on that within that week far eclipse,
Speaker 1: the initial allocation of what one point seven million dollars.
Speaker 1: Just understand that. And the argument they'll make is, well,
Speaker 1: it's out of a different fund, right, So the FEMA
Speaker 1: fund has for hurricane victims, and then they have almost
Speaker 1: a new fund with allocated money that was is for
Speaker 1: migrant resettlement and everything else under the sun. But that's
Speaker 1: not how that works, right, That doesn't work in your
Speaker 1: household like that. But even if you go the whole
Speaker 1: Dave Ramsey envelopes thing, if you put all your money
Speaker 1: in one envelope, you don't have money for the other envelope.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's absolutely childish. Right. Let's say let's say
Speaker 1: that Let's say Ross's budget for his house is one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars we're going to be generous here per month,
Speaker 1: and he's got five hundred for food, and then he's
Speaker 1: got five hundred for medieval weapons. All right, because he
Speaker 1: doesn't budget or you know, someone arguing budgets, well, but
Speaker 1: he happens to be at I don't know the Renaissance fair,
Speaker 1: and he sees a claymore for one thousand dollars he's
Speaker 1: got to have, and he spends both. You can't make
Speaker 1: an argument that, well, he had a sword fund and
Speaker 1: he also had a food fund. He doesn't have food.
Speaker 1: I know that that is far less complex than the
Speaker 1: totality of really how FEMA operates, but it's a launching
Speaker 1: point to look into it, like how fast we're able
Speaker 1: to mobilize on some of this stuff. These are all
Speaker 1: valid questions, and they're not going to go away on
Speaker 1: this show, but you should. You should look at any
Speaker 1: media who would sit there and tell you that and
Speaker 1: just actively ignore this. With everything I provided, I'm encouraging
Speaker 1: you to go check the hashtags on Twitter, on Facebook,
Speaker 1: search out the terms and go and look and understand
Speaker 1: and the media outlets are telling you that those people
Speaker 1: are full of crap. And then I want you to
Speaker 1: Google reporting from Hurricane Katrina and from Trump's Puerto Rico thing,
Speaker 1: and I want you to look at the reporting. You
Speaker 1: can time search. You can go to Google and enter
Speaker 1: a time and dates and other other places like this
Speaker 1: or other search engines and put a span so if
Speaker 1: you want September two thousand and five too, you know,
Speaker 1: two thousand try to remember the exact date of Katrina. But
Speaker 1: the point is look at that window and then and
Speaker 1: then search it within ral you can search within a
Speaker 1: specific website. Go ahead, look at the flavor of the
Speaker 1: reporting there and understand how much you're being lied to
Speaker 1: by ignoring big portions of the story, and then don't
Speaker 1: do business with them. That's mostly for I guess that's
Speaker 1: probably more for people it spend money on advertising, But
Speaker 1: ask yourself that question gets raised here, why would you
Speaker 1: buy ads on this horrible radio show that's just so mean?
Speaker 1: Well evaluate it, and I would argue that when you
Speaker 1: start to evaluate things, you start to understand the level
Speaker 1: of rot that you're dealing with there. And remember a
Speaker 1: lot of times, getting the government to step up faster
Speaker 1: is to shame them. That is why the media exists.
Speaker 1: And if they feel that now they've lost media that's
Speaker 1: normally on their side, then maybe, just maybe they'll do
Speaker 1: their damn jobs. That's my hope. Anyway. Six point fifty
Speaker 1: hang on, do you all see the penalty they put
Speaker 1: on Josh Down's all right? So this is he's a
Speaker 1: wide receiver for the Colts. I didn't realize they were
Speaker 1: doing this. So he gets his weird penalty. So they
Speaker 1: got a first down, and he did the thing where
Speaker 1: he's pointing two fingers but ones behind the they're so
Speaker 1: in a way, it kind of looks like you're holding
Speaker 1: a rifle. But it's the thing you've seen people first down.
Speaker 1: You've seen people throw since I don't know the advent
Speaker 1: of football. And he gets a penalty for it, and
Speaker 1: so I was I'm wondering, what's up with this? So
Speaker 1: apparently the NFL is cracking down on any celebrations that
Speaker 1: mimic anything havy to do with weapons, which include arrows.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's literally they literally use the word arrow.
Speaker 1: So just if you thought they couldn't get any more ridiculous,
Speaker 1: they can. And there it is. At least the Panthers
Speaker 1: players were nice enough to just fight each other with fisticuffs.
Speaker 1: That is a large amount of frustration down there. Man,
Speaker 1: Hold on, Hold on again, I'm logging for I. Look.
Speaker 1: I appreciate absolutely that it's a longtime friend that you
Speaker 1: trust out there, but it's more shameful if the media
Speaker 1: won't take first person accounts when they have been more
Speaker 1: than willing to in the past, or at the very
Speaker 1: least use them to explore stuff. Right, how is government
Speaker 1: malfeasance or ineptitude normally put out there somebody? It's not
Speaker 1: because the agency. Sometimes there's whistleblowers, but a lot of
Speaker 1: that seems politically motivated. A lot of times, it's enough
Speaker 1: people on the ground going this isn't working for us.
Speaker 1: And that has how we've seen wholesale change in the
Speaker 1: level of government in a bunch of different examples over
Speaker 1: the years. Right, you had enough people with the same
Speaker 1: bad shared experience that it eventually it started investigations. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they show graft and malfeasances. Sometimes they show people in
Speaker 1: a position that they shouldn't be in. But you got
Speaker 1: to get the ball roll in somehow. So it's just
Speaker 1: so damn embarrassing when you start digging into this stuff.
Speaker 1: And remember these were these are the very same groups
Speaker 1: who wouldn't even criticize Biden's clear, clear degenerative whatever's going
Speaker 1: on there, And then when it became too much to hide,
Speaker 1: they took it personally that it was now out there
Speaker 1: that they were clearly hiding at So I'm sorry if
Speaker 1: that doesn't instill a lot of confidence in me. But
Speaker 1: the people I feel the worst for are the people
Speaker 1: who truly need the help out there, who are dealing
Speaker 1: with some pretty Look, it's it's is it a unique situation? Sure,
Speaker 1: every single you know national one of these big emergencies
Speaker 1: is going to be because it's, you know, geographically unique.
Speaker 1: You get a storm aid because I saw people they're like, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, maybe maybe they should have evacuated. I'm like,
Speaker 1: evacuate what an eight hundred mile wide path that they
Speaker 1: didn't even know the totality of the path. Let's be
Speaker 1: very clear, right, because you got to evacuate befo for
Speaker 1: at the very least you should What do you mean
Speaker 1: by that? Evacuate western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. How
Speaker 1: does that work? In North Georgia? Where do they go?
Speaker 1: Do you know how many people you're talking about spread
Speaker 1: over this year? So I recognize the uniqueness of it,
Speaker 1: if you'll recognize that, necessarily approaching it in the same
Speaker 1: way that we have in the past isn't necessarily the
Speaker 1: best way. But I think we can all sit here
Speaker 1: and evaluate how things are going now. Elon Musk said
Speaker 1: that they weren't getting starlink satellites. Why should I believe
Speaker 1: a local elected official who's got some skin in the
Speaker 1: game versus Elon Musk telling us firsthand the communications and
Speaker 1: showing us the communications he's having with his people on
Speaker 1: the ground who are trying to get starlink units in there.
Speaker 1: Why is he on troubled because he's Elon Musk And
Speaker 1: if we're the standard. Do you see the Stanford band
Speaker 1: during the during their game on Saturday did an Elon?
Speaker 1: They mocked Elon Musk, which is just crazy to me
Speaker 1: because I would think that Stanford's producing a lot of
Speaker 1: students who probably would be pretty good people to work
Speaker 1: for Elon who probably want nothing to do with that,
Speaker 1: by the way, with the band running around and doing
Speaker 1: their thing, But like that's where we are right now.
Speaker 1: So if Elon Musk says that they can't get starlink
Speaker 1: satellites in there so that people can access the website
Speaker 1: that they have to go to to apply for their
Speaker 1: the disaster relief, it's not the only way to do it,
Speaker 1: but it's literally the way that they put out recommending
Speaker 1: that people go to this website, and like this is
Speaker 1: no brainer. Stuff I saw one of the cell phone
Speaker 1: companies was you know, people were like, you canceled my service.
Speaker 1: I don't have access to any of my banking or
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And I'm sure there's more to it, right,
Speaker 1: because do they cut your service on the first day.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it doesn't matter. And yes, I
Speaker 1: understand that there's a business thing there, but from a
Speaker 1: pr standpoint, it's stupid. What's double What's even worse though,
Speaker 1: is when people reach out or get somebody in this case,
Speaker 1: get somebody to reach out on their behalf, which the story.
Speaker 1: I saw this woman's mother, elderly mother, and she's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so we need your mom to go to this website
Speaker 1: and go ahead. And because they have like a program
Speaker 1: for disaster, which I had, most people, I guess didn't
Speaker 1: know that. I didn't know that, And I'm not going
Speaker 1: to say the name of it, because again it's first
Speaker 1: person and you can find it really easy. And you're telling, well,
Speaker 1: if you want your phone that, even in a non disaster,
Speaker 1: telling somebody who just had what is probably their primary
Speaker 1: Internet accessibility point that they have to then go to
Speaker 1: the website to go ahead and figure it. That's weird.
Speaker 1: During a disaster that just comes across as you're not
Speaker 1: paying attention. So you know, there's a lot of these
Speaker 1: little things. Now, is it a one off and shoot
Speaker 1: you whole response with it? No, not necessarily, But when
Speaker 1: you start noticing a pattern, I think it's I think
Speaker 1: you have to ask questions. And instead the media is
Speaker 1: not asking questions. They're putting out articles titled you know,
Speaker 1: everybody's making stuff up and you need to stop doing
Speaker 1: that because you're hampering the rescue efforts. Screw you. It's
Speaker 1: not disputed even if you feel that you have justified
Speaker 1: reasons in many of the stories that I actually do
Speaker 1: see emerging of things like helicopter pilot totally can't even
Speaker 1: go rescue now his own son. We can't evaluate if
Speaker 1: your home is damaged because there's a road close sign.
Speaker 1: Did you know that that was the most effective? Look
Speaker 1: at all you idiots who bought security systems and guns
Speaker 1: and you know, motions or whatever. Did you know if
Speaker 1: you just simply had a road close sign, it's apparently inaccessible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: crazy stuff, but that's an actual story there. And then,
Speaker 1: but the headlines after the day lose the lies, misinformation
Speaker 1: and hoaxes cloud the recovery. Maybe some of the misinformation
Speaker 1: that's clouding the recovery is coming from I don't know
Speaker 1: the people in charge of it. Have you considered that?
Speaker 1: And when I say the people in charge, I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean the person on the ground helping commalus stuffed
Speaker 1: toiletries in a bag. Do you see that video? She's
Speaker 1: sitting there and it's like, here's a travel sized deodorant
Speaker 1: and a toothbrush and toothpaste. And don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: if you lost everything and you're feeling, you know, just
Speaker 1: that nastiness around you, that's gonna be much appreciated. I'm
Speaker 1: just glad they had her doing that because she can
Speaker 1: do as little damage as possible there, Like maybe a
Speaker 1: bag gets two toothpaste, who the hell knows. Not a
Speaker 1: big problem. No, I'm talking about leadership, or a lack thereof.
Speaker 1: And that goes for the state of North Carolina. That
Speaker 1: goes for the federal government. That goes for local officials too.
Speaker 1: You know why, because you told the public you got them,
Speaker 1: We got you. Oh no, no, no, something happens. We
Speaker 1: have an emergency management agency, or we have a statewide agency,
Speaker 1: or even at the local level, disaster relief is something
Speaker 1: that is line eyed and budgeted on the preventive side,
Speaker 1: and then they, you know, try to get all the
Speaker 1: federal money to trickle down, but a lot of times
Speaker 1: they get it before. So like, your citizenry is expecting
Speaker 1: you to do this and you're not doing it, or
Speaker 1: maybe you are, but you got to look into it,
Speaker 1: and you can't just ask them now when there are
Speaker 1: literally thousands of people telling very similar stories about their frustration.
Speaker 1: And I totally recognize that some of that has to
Speaker 1: do with the fact that you're in the middle of
Speaker 1: a disaster and you're on edge, and you got to
Speaker 1: take some of it with a grain of salt. But
Speaker 1: some of the stuff's pretty simple. Got the helicopter rescuing people,
Speaker 1: you let him do it. If you have parameters where
Speaker 1: you want to, you know, from a let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and make sure that we're everyone safe. I understand then,
Speaker 1: But they didn't sound disagreeable to me. They just wanted
Speaker 1: to help. And if you're telling me that FEMA can't
Speaker 1: evaluate if a home has been essentially destroyed by the
Speaker 1: storm because they won't go around a road closed sign,
Speaker 1: how many disasters don't have road closed signs? Can you
Speaker 1: think of any large scale disasters over a geographic footprint?
Speaker 1: How many don't have road closed signs? You're telling me
Speaker 1: the thing hampering the ability to conduct this part of
Speaker 1: the relief effort can be thwarted by a closed road.
Speaker 1: How do you get anything done in any emergency? You're
Speaker 1: going to have to help me here, all right to
Speaker 1: the phones, Yes, Terry, what's up?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 6: Tuned in when you were asking about the.
Speaker 1: On the ground. Uh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I was in Spruce Pine where my sister
Speaker 6: and brother in law live. I took a chainsaw. She
Speaker 6: had two trees down in the yard when i'm his
Speaker 6: house and uh, I so, my wife and I spent
Speaker 6: all weekend there getting pretty sore doing that. So yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm not sure what your question is.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, I just so do you feel
Speaker 1: since you were up and I don't know if you
Speaker 1: just stay that your parents? Did you interact with any
Speaker 1: of the other folks around there in Spruce Pine? Because
Speaker 1: Spruce Priane was especially hard hit, and unfortunately Spruce Pine
Speaker 1: is also where one of the bigger conspiracy theories is
Speaker 1: because of the mining operations there. But what what was
Speaker 1: the general tenor when you talk to people, maybe the
Speaker 1: neighbors of the of your parents, and and like how
Speaker 1: do they feel things are going?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 6: Well, not far from her house was a is a
Speaker 6: strip mall in that the parking lot was just absolutely
Speaker 6: full of the trucks with supplies, coolers, water, baby supplies,
Speaker 6: all that kind of stuff, as well as a bunch
Speaker 6: of cherry pickers and things like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, sir, people think I want to
Speaker 1: come on the radio and just trash on people, but
Speaker 1: I don't. I want that. Right. If the means to
Speaker 1: the end is me being perceived as a jerk, that's fine,
Speaker 1: because that's what I want. I want the pee And
Speaker 1: I've been to Spruce Pines, lovely lotd I love the
Speaker 1: mountains man, and like so many of them. I want
Speaker 1: people in there, in these tight knit communities to know
Speaker 1: that we got their back and the rest of the state,
Speaker 1: and I'd hope they have ours. And so the ability
Speaker 1: to carry that out, even if you have to shame
Speaker 1: people would stand in the way because my authority that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. I'm willing to do that here, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that that was the case in
Speaker 1: Spruce Pine, and maybe they took enough grief that they
Speaker 1: backed off in some of these areas. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I think the media should want to find out.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad that in your parents' case that was helping.
Speaker 1: So you got the trees, so their house is their
Speaker 1: house going to be okay? I mean other than so
Speaker 1: you said a tree fell.
Speaker 6: On it, right, it was. It was more minor damage.
Speaker 6: I mean it was a lot worse, but uh not
Speaker 6: not to their house.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they were awesome. I'm pretty lucky that awesome.
Speaker 1: But you understand what I mean. I mean it could
Speaker 1: have been a lot worse, and they're safe, physically safe.
Speaker 1: So I mean that's that's what you asked for there.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Terry, I appreciate it. Okay, thank your Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's what I'm looking for. I don't again,
Speaker 1: I don't set out to be a jerk, but I'll
Speaker 1: use I'll use this platform if I think that it
Speaker 1: will benefit uh, you know, people up there and need help.
Speaker 1: I could go I go to Charlotte and stuff toothpaste
Speaker 1: and deodorant into bags. Or I could use the multi
Speaker 1: station blowtorch that is this show. I think we'll do that,
Speaker 1: and uh, I wish the rest of the media would
Speaker 1: also start asking questions.
Speaker 7: Jamal, go right ahead, Jasey, stopped calling yourself a jerk,
Speaker 7: because what you're doing is being true. I am watching
Speaker 7: the same people pull the same crap they pulled in
Speaker 7: twenty twenty, saying, oh, the laptop was faith information. Now
Speaker 7: we got the government agency coming out telling us the
Speaker 7: same thing they did to the people in Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 7: Don't believe the people who are they're telling you it's
Speaker 7: going on. Believe the government because we don't have an
Speaker 7: agenda to get this tackling Heffer elected. I mean, it's
Speaker 7: just down like this, just down like pathetic. Now case
Speaker 7: they keep setting up here saying, oh, it's misinformation, it's misinformation.
Speaker 7: Just believe the information from us. You people don't have
Speaker 7: the credibility to tell us to come to y'all. They
Speaker 7: don't have the credibility. And I'm sicking time of these
Speaker 7: sensified one tech Republicans. I don't know who Republican that was.
Speaker 7: They came out and get well they're doing but no,
Speaker 7: they're not. I remember when Hartane could gonna happen. First
Speaker 7: thing they were saying, or Shang came there, six things
Speaker 7: because we're like, hey, I want to read Hilton getting
Speaker 7: in there.
Speaker 8: He didn't care.
Speaker 7: About black people like black people are the only one
Speaker 7: was in New Orleans. Well, why aren't people saying Pamala
Speaker 7: Harris didn't care about those white ruled people up there
Speaker 7: because she didn't come out there?
Speaker 9: To me?
Speaker 1: Also say that Aca she not the president. She basically is,
Speaker 1: but she's not. Okay, So I just want to be
Speaker 1: a montly clear. Yes, you have to share the blame there.
Speaker 1: Biden doesn't need to escape this. He's yes, I understand
Speaker 1: that part of her job description is to provide some
Speaker 1: oversight on FEMA, and it's it's somewhat tenuous, but ultimately,
Speaker 1: you know, there's enough blame to go around here. And uh, frankly,
Speaker 1: if she's gonna sit here and point to the last
Speaker 1: four years as you know what qualifies her, then you
Speaker 1: should look at her mentor So I'm with you. Let
Speaker 1: me let me tell you this, Jamal, and I got
Speaker 1: I got a roll. Here's why I like your calls.
Speaker 1: I just made breakfast and you're the only caller I
Speaker 1: can actively eat while you're talking because I know you're
Speaker 1: not gonna stop, so I can't keep my breakfast. Well,
Speaker 1: I got you all right, I gotta go, I gotta go.
Speaker 1: Ah is that selfish? You're damn right it is, But
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just hungry this morning. All right,
Speaker 1: let me slip one more call in. We'll want to
Speaker 1: get all three and Donna go right ahead.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Casey, Good morning.
Speaker 9: A couple of things. First, to Patriots Toilette Stadium.
Speaker 3: They're not going to be able to celebrate anymore with
Speaker 3: their muskets.
Speaker 7: I guess uh it.
Speaker 1: Again, I have no idea, but that would require you
Speaker 1: guys to win.
Speaker 7: So true.
Speaker 3: So I don't see anyone in the media investigating whether
Speaker 3: or not distribution to these places through through FEMA are
Speaker 3: using their equity model.
Speaker 1: I I don't know, and but I will tell you
Speaker 1: that it will be interesting. I think that's something that
Speaker 1: will be more a pair in the post mortem.
Speaker 3: Yes, but I mean because yesterday they had a preparedness meeting.
Speaker 1: No, here's it. So don I knew who you're going
Speaker 1: with this that is it's actually not a preparedness meeting.
Speaker 1: It's from last year. Now, don't get me wrong. It
Speaker 1: is clearly it is clearly FEMA members and some other
Speaker 1: other organizations who are sitting there and having a conversation
Speaker 1: about such a thing. But it was part of a
Speaker 1: symposium basically okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, but still it shows
Speaker 1: you where the mindset's at. So I think it's you know.
Speaker 9: The.
Speaker 1: Well, but it's also a slice of folks that are
Speaker 1: in there. So the real question, and I got a role,
Speaker 1: the real question is are they going to do something
Speaker 1: like that? Are they going to prioritize based on and
Speaker 1: then pick it a mutable characteristic as they say? And
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that. But we'll keep
Speaker 1: watching and we'll be back that we actually we have
Speaker 1: a guest, so that'll be coming up eight oh five.
Speaker 1: We're going to be talking from the Trump campaign. I
Speaker 1: just want to be very clear identifiable here that this
Speaker 1: is this is a campaign person, so in this case
Speaker 1: from the Comm's office. But the point is the point
Speaker 1: is that we're going to go ahead and dive into
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess where their perception is. I'm also
Speaker 1: curious too, as we said, I haven't has Trump. I
Speaker 1: know that Trump's talked about it at his butler, his
Speaker 1: butler pa stop with Elon Musk, which was kind of
Speaker 1: what was it? Eight million people in the middle of
Speaker 1: the afternoon, in the middle of the weekend, with college
Speaker 1: sports back on, still took the time to go ahead
Speaker 1: and tune in for that. I was kind of impressive, actually,
Speaker 1: so you know, I just wanted to throw that out there. So, look,
Speaker 1: I understand that he's touched on it. I don't know
Speaker 1: that he's been as aggressive as I thought he was
Speaker 1: gonna be, though, I guess it's kind of my point.
Speaker 1: So anyway, so we're gonna chat with Caroline leave Itt
Speaker 1: uh Levitt. I think it's maybe levet or leave It.
Speaker 1: I don't even how to pronounce it, so ROSS have
Speaker 1: to clarify that for me. She's the National Press Secretary, right,
Speaker 1: so she's the she's in charge of all of the
Speaker 1: relationships there, obviously with members of the media. So we'll
Speaker 1: chat with her coming up at eight oh five, And yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about this. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: the Puerto Rico thing.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: I mentioned the Puerto Rico thing, and then I pulled
Speaker 1: the stuff from Katrina. The thing that was so wild
Speaker 1: about Puerto Rico is where we're told this is not political.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the mayor of San Juan uh Cruz,
Speaker 1: what was her name, Carmen, Yeah, it was Carmen Cruz.
Speaker 1: I thought Cecilia. Yeah, Carmen Cruz. And you remember she
Speaker 1: was she was essentially the anti Trump for all the
Speaker 1: media coverage. They had her out there and she made
Speaker 1: she literally did the Kanye thing. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys remember that she did the Donald Trump in
Speaker 1: this case, he hates brown people. What she actually said
Speaker 1: is if we were Anglos, this wouldn't be an issue.
Speaker 1: Now you can sit there and you can sit there
Speaker 1: and evaluate the job that Trump did. Arguably, it's a
Speaker 1: little more difficult because you're dealing See, you're dealing with
Speaker 1: a government that has had a lot of issues over
Speaker 1: the years with graft, corruption, misallocation of funds, and for
Speaker 1: a while they were trying to they were trying to
Speaker 1: point out that Cruz had something to do with that.
Speaker 1: But they had something Puerto Rico called the Telega telegram scandal,
Speaker 1: and basically they found out that a bunch of politicians
Speaker 1: at the I guess that at the national level, but
Speaker 1: I guess their governors will be at the state level
Speaker 1: of Puerto Rico. However you want to describe it. There
Speaker 1: was some funny business there and there was no intellectual
Speaker 1: curiosity on the part of the me because she was
Speaker 1: the pitbull fighting Trump to really go down that road.
Speaker 1: Not right away. Eventually it got too much. Some the
Speaker 1: telegram or the communications. There was a bunch of like
Speaker 1: chat logs that leaked, and it was the whole thing,
Speaker 1: and it was pretty clear that those funds were being
Speaker 1: thefted upon. Now, don't get me wrong, obviously, whenever we
Speaker 1: have an emergency, people will come out. You saw what
Speaker 1: was going on during COVID. It's will never know the
Speaker 1: full scope of it. But like examples included like a
Speaker 1: guy in North Carolina was arrested for creating a bunch
Speaker 1: of fake companies. They were all named after Lord. It
Speaker 1: was it Lord of the Ring. No, it was Game
Speaker 1: of Thrones characters or something like that. It was just
Speaker 1: the audacity was incredible. Some guy in Charlotte. But these
Speaker 1: are government officials. And eventually before the dust settled, now
Speaker 1: Cruz who was then brought into like the membership guy.
Speaker 1: They brought her into like some Democrat convention things so
Speaker 1: she could trash on Trump. The whole thing was crazy, man.
Speaker 1: But it turns out like one of her relatives, her
Speaker 1: brother or something, and then the Education Secretary and a
Speaker 1: handful of others. Man, they were just they were creating
Speaker 1: fake no bid contracts and then not doing the work
Speaker 1: and just siphoning dollars. It went on for a while,
Speaker 1: so you know, you could you can tell, you can
Speaker 1: tell real quickly where the interest lies and where it doesn't.
Speaker 1: And all you have to do is look at the
Speaker 1: post mortem once we actually know some more stuff, and
Speaker 1: I will tell you that if FEMA went out and
Speaker 1: the National Guard went out, and the true mobilization by
Speaker 1: Biden went out and they made a material positive impact
Speaker 1: and we're doing the best they can, I will be
Speaker 1: the first to sit here and tell you that that's
Speaker 1: it's that would be a good thing for me to
Speaker 1: be wrong about. At this point, I'm really really suspicious,
Speaker 1: except there's a few stories which I believe we have
Speaker 1: the truth on and frankly they should spur other inquiries.
Speaker 1: But it would be good to go down that road.
Speaker 1: And if I am wrong, then it means that the
Speaker 1: citizens of North Carolina, in western North Carolina got they
Speaker 1: got the help that they needed, or at the very
Speaker 1: least that we could muster. Because we're all human, we're
Speaker 1: all fallible. Okay, I will be glad to be wrong
Speaker 1: on that, and I'll eat the crow, because the crow
Speaker 1: in this case means, you know, people's lives got saved.
Speaker 1: But I don't think I am, or at the very least,
Speaker 1: I don't think you convinced me that I should even
Speaker 1: think that I am. And this isn't about because this
Speaker 1: is what they'll do. They'll come out and they'll be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys are conspiracy theories. You think they got a
Speaker 1: weather machine and they were steering hurricanes over red areas?
Speaker 1: All right, well, I haven't seen any evidence of that.
Speaker 1: But what about the person who just wanted their home
Speaker 1: evaluated and you told them to call you and then
Speaker 1: they looked at a road close sign and wouldn't proceed
Speaker 1: two hundred yards on the road in Back Cave. You
Speaker 1: know how big the city of Back Cave is. It's
Speaker 1: a postage stamp man. Do you know the people in
Speaker 1: Back Cave? I've seen this that literally the leadership there
Speaker 1: is basically said they don't have FEMA in there anymore,
Speaker 1: and their law enforcement has been supplemented by like Louisiana
Speaker 1: State troopers. I was looking at some of the photos
Speaker 1: and they have photos and they're explaining this story, and
Speaker 1: I don't think these people are wrong. Everything they've said
Speaker 1: makes sense and they've got receipts, so we'll see. But again,
Speaker 1: I don't believe that I am. So there's that. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: there's something behind the scenes that's really crazy going on,
Speaker 1: but you can't you can't convince me otherwise. Okay, Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is or people around him. It's there's some really
Speaker 1: petty stuff going on, but like deliciously petty. Do you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? Right? I know that that's a
Speaker 1: turn that gets it. It's a button turn that gets
Speaker 1: used on a lot of the YouTube gossip things. Oh yeah, petty, petty,
Speaker 1: This dude, this is this is side eye smile while
Speaker 1: they're stabbing you in the back, petty. So, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you realize that as Kamala was getting ready
Speaker 1: to do her thing in North Carolina, a crazy thing happened.
Speaker 1: You ready for this, so excuse me, Joe Biden decided,
Speaker 1: for the first time, I want to say, in what
Speaker 1: two years, maybe even more than that, stroll at the
Speaker 1: moment she's getting ready to do her thing, strolled into
Speaker 1: the White House press room and I mean during the
Speaker 1: general I don't mean with a setup press conference like
Speaker 1: him walking in during during a presser with Jean Pierre
Speaker 1: is something that we haven't seen in forever, and it's
Speaker 1: pretty obvious. Why So she's she's got her political rally
Speaker 1: on Friday, she's getting ready to, you know, talk about
Speaker 1: how how great everything is. And at that very moment
Speaker 1: that's going on and TV stations are literally switching to coverage.
Speaker 1: CNN was actively promoting and getting ready to switch coverage
Speaker 1: to Harris when from the press or like, all right,
Speaker 1: a few minutes, we're gonna go to Kamala Harris, who's
Speaker 1: having a rally, blah blah blah. And at the moment
Speaker 1: before they do it, Joe Biden strolled in. Well, now
Speaker 1: you can't cut away. You're there for whatever this thing's
Speaker 1: gonna be. And some see this as not an accident.
Speaker 1: And then what he said, what he said, Well that's
Speaker 1: even that's even crazier because basically he comes in and
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, so, hey, I hope everything's going great.
Speaker 1: By the way, every thing we've done has basically been her, right,
Speaker 1: She's she's she's been a very big part. She's helped
Speaker 1: us make all these decisions. Quote, I'm in constant contact
Speaker 1: with her. We're singing from the same song sheet she
Speaker 1: helped pass all the laws that are being employed. Now,
Speaker 1: these are actual phrases that he uttered. Do you think
Speaker 1: because this is what I do you think that that is? Honestly,
Speaker 1: if it's intentional on Biden's part to kneecap after he
Speaker 1: feels he was kneecapped, that would be petty, but it
Speaker 1: would also be politics. But if he concocted this plan
Speaker 1: to literally overshadow her, and this isn't the first time
Speaker 1: this has happened, or he's made the statements where he's like,
Speaker 1: oh no, all the stuff you hate, she helped think
Speaker 1: of it like that would be the biggest and best
Speaker 1: argument that he's not cognitively declined. Do you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Because he made that decision, I don't know
Speaker 1: how to read it other than that because he's not
Speaker 1: helping with that stuff, that's not helpful her campaign, people
Speaker 1: must lose their minds and yet, and then to do
Speaker 1: it right on top of when she's about to get
Speaker 1: all this free pub or it's people around him doing
Speaker 1: it because they feel that, you know, they're out of
Speaker 1: a job. Who the hell knows. But during the press briefing,
Speaker 1: Biden destroyed any notion that Harris was not in on
Speaker 1: these decisions. So what do you do if you're Harris?
Speaker 1: Do you start to figure out a way you can
Speaker 1: say that it's not true and then throw him under
Speaker 1: the buck. Because here's the deal. If he came out,
Speaker 1: this is my opinion, if he came out and just
Speaker 1: held a press conference and he's like, she's alone, right,
Speaker 1: I don't even talk to her because every time I do,
Speaker 1: she says something crazy. If Biden did that to ultimately
Speaker 1: throw her under the bus, I think they would twenty
Speaker 1: fifth Amendment. This guy tomorrow, go ahead, tell me I'm
Speaker 1: wrong tomorrow. They might not even wait till tomorrow. I
Speaker 1: might do it that day. Who the hell knows. This
Speaker 1: man's a lunatic seeing these things, So he's got to
Speaker 1: be he's got to be a little there's got to
Speaker 1: be subterfused there. I don't know. It's just I love
Speaker 1: a good little behind the scenes conspiracy kind of thing,
Speaker 1: and maybe that's the case. All right, let's get rased
Speaker 1: agic from the weather channels are a little late hitting
Speaker 1: you this morning, sir, and I don't want to have
Speaker 1: this conversation that we're gonna help to have. I don't
Speaker 1: want to have it. No, this one, Milton, and what
Speaker 1: Florida is getting ready for. And no, I don't want
Speaker 1: to have to have this. But we have to have it,
Speaker 1: So let's talk about it. Yeah, we do, Milton.
Speaker 10: They just put out a special statement now one twenty
Speaker 10: CAT three one and twenty mile per hour maximum sustained wins. Now,
Speaker 10: the differences between this and Helene coming in at a
Speaker 10: different angle, and right now it looks like a different area,
Speaker 10: at least for the center. As the five am update,
Speaker 10: Hurricane Center has Sarasota as where the center crosses as
Speaker 10: a major hurricane, but still could be record breaking and
Speaker 10: up to twelve foot or higher Serve Tampa Bay, Clearwater,
Speaker 10: Saint Pete and down toward Port Charlotte. So everybody I
Speaker 10: think of south of the areas that got hit hardest
Speaker 10: by Helene should be making preparations and wrapping them up
Speaker 10: soon for a major hurricane once again.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there will be impacts elsewhere, obviously away from the center,
Speaker 10: including those areas still cleaning up from Helene around the
Speaker 10: Big Bend.
Speaker 1: So we'll see.
Speaker 10: I'd say I got some outside concern for the coastal
Speaker 10: Carolinas if it's not just beach erosion and rough surf.
Speaker 10: The American Medal has been trying to keep the center
Speaker 10: a little further north than the rest of the guide,
Speaker 10: and so we'll see if that means anything later in
Speaker 10: the week for the southeast coast, places like Jacksonville and
Speaker 10: Tybee Island and southeast Georgia, maybe the coast of the Carolinas.
Speaker 10: We'll see if the tropical storm conditions get that far north.
Speaker 10: Other than that, we're really in good shape. Lots of
Speaker 10: high pressure, casey next several days the rest of the week,
Speaker 10: look at it sun and load of mid seventies for
Speaker 10: most of US. Overnight lows could get to the forties
Speaker 10: by midwekend beyond, so I really don't see a lot
Speaker 10: changing around here. Hopefully it stays that way, and the
Speaker 10: forecast looks try and sunny, maybe even through the weekend,
Speaker 10: getting back up near eighty degrees after a day today
Speaker 10: where we're close to eighty. So enjoy the dry weather
Speaker 10: and enjoy the sunshine, and uh, we'll hope for the
Speaker 10: best for those in Florida, right now look like they'll
Speaker 10: be most significantly impacted by Milton.
Speaker 1: Uh did you watch the game?
Speaker 7: You know what?
Speaker 1: I did not?
Speaker 10: I was busy this weekend.
Speaker 1: This lazy raised team is they don't even start for
Speaker 1: an hour and a half.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they had the rain delay. I was like, I
Speaker 10: woke up and they were still in it. I woke up,
Speaker 10: believe it or not, and I saw the I saw
Speaker 10: the game.
Speaker 1: When irritate you more than the average fan, because you're
Speaker 1: just like you probably look at the doctor. You're like,
Speaker 1: play was he's yeah, yeah, what do you did?
Speaker 7: Was?
Speaker 6: I don't know?
Speaker 1: All right? Honestly the game was pretty boring for the
Speaker 1: first half, but was it? Yeah, cowgirl, that sounds what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? All right? No Vikings, Yeah, don't, don't,
Speaker 1: don't Cursey, just go away now, all right, we'll talk
Speaker 1: in an hour. Appreciate it. Yeah, first thing Ros said
Speaker 1: to me this morning, I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1: Don't want to hear it. All right, we'll come back again.
Speaker 1: We'll chat coming up here in just a few minutes
Speaker 1: with the Press secretary for the Trump campaign, that is
Speaker 1: Caroline Lovett, and we'll get some insight into you know,
Speaker 1: with the president's up to right now, how the rally
Speaker 1: and Butler went obviously, and the Elon mus stuff, and
Speaker 1: then what the Trump campaign, because look, they're hearing and
Speaker 1: they're talking with people about what's going on in North Carolina,
Speaker 1: and I want to hear the Trump campaign described to me.
Speaker 1: And I think that many of you have already send
Speaker 1: me email they're like, watch out. She's very sharp. She
Speaker 1: is very sharp. So I think that she's in a
Speaker 1: position to really do a good job of explaining what
Speaker 1: specifically a Trump presidency would have done different than this.
Speaker 1: And so we'll pose that question coming up here on
Speaker 1: the CaCO Day radio program. Two days ago, three days no,
Speaker 1: what was sorry my brain man. He held in Faydeville.
Speaker 1: He held a town hall down there. Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: so that was sadderday. And then Harris visited there next day. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so you know, and he talked obviously a
Speaker 1: lot about you know, what was what's going on with
Speaker 1: FEMA and all the rest of that. So well, we're
Speaker 1: gonna deep dive into that. I can't pass this up though,
Speaker 1: because it's just so impressive and its stupidity. How many
Speaker 1: of you have ever tried to smuggle drugs through an airport.
Speaker 1: Hopefully none of you. But if you have, or if
Speaker 1: you're thinking about it, this is the worst way to
Speaker 1: do it. So the bar is now lower. A man
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia was arrested after a he went through the
Speaker 1: scanner there and I don't know if you know this,
Speaker 1: and maybe he didn't. That scanner can like see if
Speaker 1: you've got stuff in your prison wallet, and not just
Speaker 1: metallics but like other stuff, and so lo and behold
Speaker 1: they you know this guy, They see, hey, what is that?
Speaker 1: And sure enough, out of his growing area as it's described.
Speaker 1: But I'll let you figure out what they mean. They
Speaker 1: found a shotgun shell, which is problematic enough. They don't
Speaker 1: really like it when you bring ammo through. But the
Speaker 1: shotgun shell had been opened, the pellets and the powder
Speaker 1: and primer taken out of there and filled with meth
Speaker 1: and it was then shut and like sealed back up,
Speaker 1: so it looks like an untampered shotgun shell. What do
Speaker 1: you do, sir, even if there's no meth in it.
Speaker 1: You're getting arrested. You realize that, right, And a bunch
Speaker 1: of different people they're talking to, so hopefully she'll be
Speaker 1: along here in just a few minutes, and I just
Speaker 1: want it was Friday was the Trump thing. Friday was
Speaker 1: the Fayetteville town Hall, and then obviously Butler, PA was
Speaker 1: then into the weekend. But you know, in the Favale thing,
Speaker 1: obviously a big point of discussion was what's going on
Speaker 1: from a rescue efforts standpoint, So we'll get into that.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the other things I wanted to
Speaker 1: bring to your attention because obviously as you look through
Speaker 1: especially the mountains of North Carolina, there are there are
Speaker 1: varying degrees of devastation, right, that's just the reality of
Speaker 1: a storm like this. And you know, Ashville obviously has
Speaker 1: the highest population of any of the cities in the mountains,
Speaker 1: and they have the most casualties. I believe it's what
Speaker 1: seventy seven in North Carolina, or excuse me, seventy seven
Speaker 1: in Ashville, and they represent about half a little less
Speaker 1: than half of the total deaths in North Carolina. So
Speaker 1: I understand why there's a lot of focus there. But
Speaker 1: it's a lot of small towns, man, And there are
Speaker 1: a lot of small towns that frankly are getting ready
Speaker 1: to run headlong into the you know, the fall season,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure anyone who's been in North Carolina for
Speaker 1: five minutes Nose is an absolute economic powerhouse for many
Speaker 1: of the communities in western North Carolina, any of them
Speaker 1: that are near the Blue Ridge Parkway. And now I'm
Speaker 1: seeing reports and again I don't know how these whether
Speaker 1: these numbers will work or not. I just happened to
Speaker 1: check out where I like to go, which is Price,
Speaker 1: the Julian Price Campground there, which is just north to
Speaker 1: Blowing Rock on the Blue Ridge. They got nice, they
Speaker 1: got great camping facilities there. You can get lakeside fishing.
Speaker 1: Actually I shouldn't have said that, because now you guys
Speaker 1: will compete, but you can get you can camp on
Speaker 1: the lake side of the Blue Ridge or on the
Speaker 1: other side where they have the main stuff, and it's
Speaker 1: it's awesome. And then of course you've got everything that
Speaker 1: Blowing Rock and Boone has to offer there and that
Speaker 1: portion of the Blue Ridge. Currently they're saying it won't
Speaker 1: open until late December. So you know, these are impacts
Speaker 1: that will last a very long time. I can't imagine
Speaker 1: financially what it means to communities like Blowing Rock and Lynnville,
Speaker 1: and you know, pick your poison along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Speaker 1: What it's going to mean up and ahead of the
Speaker 1: costs they're being incurred with the cleanup right now, it's
Speaker 1: going to be it's blow you guys, been to blowing rock?
Speaker 1: When the when the the leaves are in their primary
Speaker 1: color change, good luck. It's like trying to get in
Speaker 1: and out of a of a like a wolf pack
Speaker 1: or a unc or a wake forest game. It's it's crazy, man,
Speaker 1: But that's you know, that's the reality there. So you
Speaker 1: want to put a number to what that means. It's
Speaker 1: pretty substantial. And it's not to say that people won't
Speaker 1: go there and they don't have to get on the
Speaker 1: Blue Ridge, but that's kind of the thing for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. How many of you have done a trip,
Speaker 1: a two city trip on the Blue Ridge Parkway, And
Speaker 1: if you have it, you should, right. I've taken I've
Speaker 1: taken an entire week off in the past and basically
Speaker 1: went all the way from down south of Ashville all
Speaker 1: the way up into Virginia and stopped along the way
Speaker 1: in uh, you know, and tried to stay in some
Speaker 1: of the little towns and just kind of soak it
Speaker 1: all up. I think it's amazing doing some fishing on
Speaker 1: the way all of that, and it will hamper their
Speaker 1: economies in the fall. And as we're basically already in
Speaker 1: the fall obviously, but when you really get into the prime,
Speaker 1: and frankly, there's also the part where you've got to
Speaker 1: have trees for leaves to change. And in some areas
Speaker 1: you've seen the pictures. Now, I was telling you about
Speaker 1: the story of one community, the town of Batcave, which
Speaker 1: I guess if you don't know where that is, it's
Speaker 1: like five minutes from Chimney Rock, just further towards Ashville.
Speaker 1: So if you're taking that highway up towards Ashville and
Speaker 1: you keep coming down the mountain, you go through back
Speaker 1: Cave and then you're in Chimney Rock there and eventually
Speaker 1: you hit Lake Lure. And so there was a there
Speaker 1: was this piece from the New York Post over the weekend,
Speaker 1: FEMA abandons devastated North Carolina town residents because they can't
Speaker 1: drive around a road, clothes sign, nobody's quote, nobody's bringing
Speaker 1: in supplies except civilians. That sounds like somebody pointed out
Speaker 1: on the social media, it sounds like a Babylon b headline.
Speaker 1: You were thwarted by a road close sign? How prevalent
Speaker 1: a road close signs in a hurricane after a hurricane
Speaker 1: has passed through, and there's a difference between roads gone
Speaker 1: right and roads closed because there's a lot of trees down. Yes,
Speaker 1: there is a safety issue there, but you're also dealing
Speaker 1: with people, especially when you get into the members. So
Speaker 1: do you think the members of the military that there's
Speaker 1: sending up there? Now, maybe they're not. The MOS isn't
Speaker 1: what everyone likes. But I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1: They have some vehicles that are kind of better than
Speaker 1: you for your Honda Civic. Okay, they can get around
Speaker 1: stuff through stuff like they have the technology. You're telling
Speaker 1: me that they couldn't facilitate the ability for people in
Speaker 1: that cave to be able to avail themselves of these
Speaker 1: programs because remember they got to go look at the house.
Speaker 1: Chelsea Atkins thirty eight, being interviewed here by the Post.
Speaker 1: FEMA called me and told me they wanted to inspect
Speaker 1: my house. Okay, understandable, right, you gotta do that because
Speaker 1: there's fraud out there. But when they showed up, she says, well,
Speaker 1: we're not allowed to go there. She told them quote,
Speaker 1: you can drive it fine, you just have to drive
Speaker 1: around the road clothes sign. They said that they could
Speaker 1: not do it. The article goes on. Left to fend
Speaker 1: for themselves, back Cave residents banded together, opening the roads
Speaker 1: and starting the arduous work of cleanup and recovery. Residents
Speaker 1: told resident people who live their first person, so you
Speaker 1: can see, I guess you can call all these people
Speaker 1: liars if you want. First person residents told them that
Speaker 1: they don't need FEMA now, and at this point they
Speaker 1: don't even want the disaster relief agency to come. And
Speaker 1: by the way, if you go look on a map
Speaker 1: to bat Cave right now, you can. You can approach
Speaker 1: it from the Charlotte's Are, from the Lake Lewer side,
Speaker 1: all three roads. I guess it kind of sits at
Speaker 1: an angle the roads there, but north, south and west
Speaker 1: you can't drive. Back Cave is the end of the
Speaker 1: road for all practical purposes right now. So you can
Speaker 1: get to bat Cave. This not be an issue. But
Speaker 1: they said we don't want them. Well. The second elderly
Speaker 1: residents of bat Cave have been airlifted to safety. Those
Speaker 1: left behind have seen virtually no sign of government agencies
Speaker 1: save for a handful of Louisiana State Police troopers which
Speaker 1: I told you about, who are quote keeping an eye
Speaker 1: on everything, though the intermittent were military. Chinook helicopters buzzing
Speaker 1: overhead serves as a reminder that people in the devastated
Speaker 1: west of the state are getting help, but not in
Speaker 1: back cave. Department of Transportation arrived to help, although they
Speaker 1: were grateful for the assist when it finally arrived. Did
Speaker 1: you guys see I know some of you saw this
Speaker 1: because a bunch of you sent me emails on this.
Speaker 1: Did you all see the Did you see the convoy
Speaker 1: of Walmart trucks with the police escort headed up that direction?
Speaker 1: I saw us with some folks in the triad were
Speaker 1: sending me this stuff. I guess it's good to be
Speaker 1: a preferred vendor. But also, why don't you put Walmart
Speaker 1: in charge of this? I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1: They're pretty good at getting stuff places A slightly tongue
Speaker 1: in cheek, but not really. Why is it? Why?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 1: And again, the the police escort is what kills me there.
Speaker 1: I'm good, by the way, I'm not, but it's like,
Speaker 1: so if I should so, if any of you have
Speaker 1: had trouble dropping off supplies, you should probably put a
Speaker 1: Walmart logo on the side of your truck man right
Speaker 1: let you ride through. And it is these intermittent, these differences,
Speaker 1: this this feeling that some are receiving more aid than others,
Speaker 1: that absolutely are going to occur to people. And it's
Speaker 1: not always accurate. Sometimes it's it's just it's because it's perception, right,
Speaker 1: But in this case, but in this case, it's like
Speaker 1: why why why don't you, uh, why don't you at
Speaker 1: least look into it? And that has been what has
Speaker 1: been very frustrating to us. So all right, let me
Speaker 1: do that. I guess I guess we're not going to
Speaker 1: have our guests. They're not off to a very good start,
Speaker 1: because this is the kind of stuff where I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to book people through you if they're
Speaker 1: not going to show up. So maybe that's where we
Speaker 1: find ourselves. Or maybe she works for FEMA. I know,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. All right, slightly, Let's grab a quick
Speaker 1: phone call here, Joe Anne, go right, Oh, hold on,
Speaker 1: just a second, what did I just do?
Speaker 7: There?
Speaker 1: We go, all right, Joe Anne, go right ahead, what's up?
Speaker 9: Heyk see first battle. Prayers and love and hugs to
Speaker 9: everybody in our high country who's suffering some much right now.
Speaker 9: What I wanted to tell you about is I've been
Speaker 9: on this since day one, working through my social media
Speaker 9: on Facebook and Twitter, and I had a couple Facebook
Speaker 9: friends reach out to me yesterday and they had driven
Speaker 9: all night up to western North Carolina. I had heavy
Speaker 9: equipment and supplies. And when they got there, let me
Speaker 9: just tell you that they ended up not being able
Speaker 9: to help anybody. And I went from one contact point, well,
Speaker 9: I would go to one place. I said, basically, what
Speaker 9: it was is a cluster. You know what they said,
Speaker 9: nobody knows what anybody else is getting.
Speaker 1: And let me say this, I again every time I
Speaker 1: criticized this, I also point out arguments that could be made,
Speaker 1: but they're not even making the arguments, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like you didn't want to drive around that
Speaker 1: road closed to they could simply say that it might
Speaker 1: be closed for structural reasons and you shouldn't be driving
Speaker 1: on it. Either let's facilitate this outside or maybe we'll
Speaker 1: walk to it if it's close enough, Like there are solutions.
Speaker 9: It's not even nice charge.
Speaker 1: When there's nobody in charge, it's your your screwtiny.
Speaker 9: The start, so they're not communicating. But the big thing
Speaker 9: is is two things. Number one, city officials and contact
Speaker 9: points head addresses of people who were either missing or
Speaker 9: had called for help and had not been reached in
Speaker 9: right and quote quote FEMA would not allow them to
Speaker 9: give it to any of the people that were there
Speaker 9: to help with search and rescue, had the ability and
Speaker 9: had the equipment to do it.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe they had. The other thing was devil's advocate here,
Speaker 1: Maybe they had a list, because I could understand if
Speaker 1: you have a list. But to your point, this is
Speaker 1: a very unique thing. Because of the sheer size of
Speaker 1: the footprint of the devastation, there is also there is
Speaker 1: always a segment of quote uncontacted. There's missing, confirmed missing,
Speaker 1: and then there's uncontacted. And that list of uncontacted has
Speaker 1: to be ungodly large just because you're dealing with so
Speaker 1: much moss.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, so why would you not give the addresses
Speaker 9: and the locations to the people who are there willing
Speaker 9: to help with the equipment and the knowledge and let
Speaker 9: them help you get to those people. The other thing
Speaker 9: is they what they did the other thing is is
Speaker 9: what they did do would send them on dead end jobs.
Speaker 9: So when they did send them somewhere, they got there
Speaker 9: to find out that the job had already been completed
Speaker 9: and they weren't even they didn't even have the knowledge
Speaker 9: of that.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's a strung indment of that. There's nobody
Speaker 1: who's there. They don't have a firm grasp on handling this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's very true.
Speaker 9: I want to offer you something if I could, I
Speaker 9: would like to give ross my Facebook page. The first
Speaker 9: who puts on my Facebook page have their testimony, also
Speaker 9: the testimony of a woman who lives there who was
Speaker 9: interviewed that it is the stuff is unreal, and she's
Speaker 9: she's a trusted residence, she has a business there, and
Speaker 9: it is, it is unreal, the stuff that's.
Speaker 1: Going on up there.
Speaker 9: And we have to know, you got's advocate and all that.
Speaker 1: What's what's unreal is that I'm supposed to approach it
Speaker 1: with the higher probability that that woman is lying versus
Speaker 1: folks from d C who strolled in days later. That's
Speaker 1: what exactly, YEA, how I'm supposed to count balance that?
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, I'm not going to do it. So
Speaker 1: all right, Joe, I think you actually emailed me earlier,
Speaker 1: didn't you? Or you posted on so you tagged it,
Speaker 1: but I can yeah, go ahead and eat you. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: email it. That's the easiest way. It's k C O
Speaker 1: D e A at iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 9: So okay, all right, all on the the e A one.
Speaker 1: Word, right, yeah, k C O D e A those
Speaker 1: six letters at iHeartMedia dot com. Because I'm just creating
Speaker 1: a big folder. But I'm keeping on this stuff and
Speaker 1: uh we'll go from there. Okay, Joanne, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for the call. I do appreciate it. Real quick,
Speaker 1: Preston's got about a minute.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, yes, I just returned from Benaudsville and just
Speaker 2: got last night.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Say that the true heroes on the ground is the
Speaker 2: local fire department and US people who are donating the goods.
Speaker 2: Samon Red Calls was absolutely unseen and unheard of in
Speaker 2: these mountains, in the smaller tails.
Speaker 1: I don't doubt it. Although I guess my question is
Speaker 1: what are what are residents in those town being told
Speaker 1: to do to avail themselves of things? Are they sending
Speaker 1: them notifications. Are they putting flyers out? I mean, how
Speaker 1: do those folks know who to get in contact with?
Speaker 1: In in in your experience.
Speaker 11: So as far as I can tail, they're only reaching
Speaker 11: out to each other. They're all posting up flyers of missing.
Speaker 11: They got names and lists hanging up at the fire department.
Speaker 2: Okay, these names missing and the dead ones is much
Speaker 2: longer than what's being reported on the national news.
Speaker 1: Well, I think with the missing, I think with the
Speaker 1: missing and or uncontacted, we don't have a firm number
Speaker 1: because again, the geography you're dealing with. So I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I don't think yeah, yeah, these numbers aren't
Speaker 1: done growing, sir. I don't disagree with you at all.
Speaker 1: Press and I got to go to break, but I
Speaker 1: appreciate you sharing your experience there. Yeah, I mean, this
Speaker 1: is the kind of thing where you could you could
Speaker 1: find as sad as this is to say, you could
Speaker 1: find bodies months later, depending on you know, how remote
Speaker 1: an area is. And remember we had deaths from Mecklenburg
Speaker 1: County to ash County. Check the map, do the math.
Speaker 1: That is a huge swath of land. All Right, we
Speaker 1: got to take a break. We'll be right back like
Speaker 1: I said, a lot of times, when they sit there
Speaker 1: and they set these things up, they look like twenty
Speaker 1: interviews in a row, which frankly I gotta jump off
Speaker 1: of throw myself out a window. I had to talk
Speaker 1: to twenty of me in a day. But you know,
Speaker 1: that's the gig they signed up for, and so you
Speaker 1: know sometimes it runs over. All right, it looks like
Speaker 1: we got a call coming in, so yeah, we'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and rock and roll on this because I got
Speaker 1: a lot of questions, man, a lot of questions, and
Speaker 1: both about North Carolina and a few other things. So
Speaker 1: all right, were ready to rock and roll there? Ross
Speaker 1: all right, here we go. All right, so let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get things rolling. Here. This is the She
Speaker 1: is the twenty twenty four National Press Secretary for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Cut her teeth coming up through like the intern stuff
Speaker 1: within the White House. So this has been her life,
Speaker 1: her adult life. So let's go ahead and if I
Speaker 1: can get the correct button here locome in Caroline Levitt,
Speaker 1: Good morning to you. How are you doing today?
Speaker 8: I'm doing well, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Hey do you do you travel with the president when
Speaker 1: he's out doing his rallies? You get to I do. Yes, indeed, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's good because I want to. I want to. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about what you're seeing out there. First,
Speaker 1: Let's start Friday. The President was in Fayetteville, or the
Speaker 1: former president was in Fayetteville. I think four thousand people
Speaker 1: showed up. And how did that event go? And what
Speaker 1: is it that people when I mean, obviously Trump's going
Speaker 1: to talk about what he wants to talk about. Hopefully
Speaker 1: he listens to, you know, folks like you, but a
Speaker 1: lot of it's going to be queued off the reaction
Speaker 1: he's getting from people I've noticed. So what was the
Speaker 1: reaction there in Fayetteville and what were the conversations.
Speaker 8: Well, Fayetteville was fantastic. It was a great crowd. We
Speaker 8: went to Fayetteville after going to Georgia to tour the
Speaker 8: hurricane damage. And we understand first of all that North
Speaker 8: Carolina has been hit so incredibly hard by Hurricane Helen,
Speaker 8: and our thoughts and prayers are with everyone in the state.
Speaker 8: I understand your radio station is not in the direct
Speaker 8: devastation was lefttern North Carolina, but still wanted to say that.
Speaker 8: So the President made his way to Faydville, spoke about
Speaker 8: the hurricane at the top. But the event was a
Speaker 8: town hall for veterans, focused on veterans' issues, and he
Speaker 8: took questions directly from voters. I think about ten questions
Speaker 8: from different people in the crowd, many of whom were
Speaker 8: veterans themselves, asking about how he's going to help them
Speaker 8: in a second administration. It was a great event. The
Speaker 8: cloud was very warm, very excited to see the president.
Speaker 8: In fact, at one point, an older gentleman stood up
Speaker 8: and offered his purple heart to President Trump. It was
Speaker 8: an amazing moment. There are e clips of it now
Speaker 8: on our social media, but I mean, there was not
Speaker 8: a dry eye in the room when this veteran who
Speaker 8: honorably served gave his surful heart to President Trump. And
Speaker 8: he said he did so after seeing or he wanted
Speaker 8: to do so, after seeing President Trump stand up and
Speaker 8: put a fist in the air and say fight, fight,
Speaker 8: fight after taking a bullet to the ear. And it
Speaker 8: was just a really special moment. We see these out
Speaker 8: on the campaign, Joe everywhere we go from say Atville,
Speaker 8: North Carolina, to Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Wisconsin and Michigan. Cousin
Speaker 8: Trump was in Wisconsin yesterday. So I think the American
Speaker 8: people are ready for real leadership, especially in the wake
Speaker 8: of all these crises we see currently with Kamala Harris
Speaker 8: and Joe Biden in the White House.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine the difficulty of your job versus others
Speaker 1: who've held your position because of the way that the
Speaker 1: media interacts with him. I mean, there's probably a headline
Speaker 1: saying he stole some guy's purple heart. If I did,
Speaker 1: but where Here's where the rubber meets the road in
Speaker 1: North Carolina. What frustrates me is that I'm that I'm
Speaker 1: being told that I should I should put all of
Speaker 1: my trust in a statement from a government official who
Speaker 1: I don't know, or I should disregard these thousands, and
Speaker 1: I mean thousands of social media posts of people explaining
Speaker 1: their own experience. And you guys ran in that. You
Speaker 1: guys ran into this when Trump was in the White House.
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico is a good example, and like anything after,
Speaker 1: the post mortem is always much more fascinating and much
Speaker 1: less covered. And we can get into Puerto Rico stuff,
Speaker 1: but that's not what we're here for. The fact remains
Speaker 1: that people are going to talk about what they perceive
Speaker 1: and Michael Brown, even though he is Forboden to speak
Speaker 1: of there in DC, he got a raw deal. But
Speaker 1: he said something one time, and that was, if you
Speaker 1: can't explain in one sentence who's in charge, nobody's in charge.
Speaker 1: So how do you go through your day dealing with
Speaker 1: the media that is clearly biased in the way that
Speaker 1: they're approaching things. What advice would you give to people
Speaker 1: in North Carolina who are dealing with the same thing,
Speaker 1: because that's right.
Speaker 8: Look, one hundred percent, we see this. I see this
Speaker 8: in my job every single day. I mean I could
Speaker 8: write an entire book and all of the instances I've
Speaker 8: seen from the fake news media either twisting President Trump's words,
Speaker 8: coming up with their own narrative. I mean they come
Speaker 8: to us, you know, with stories that they want to write,
Speaker 8: divide them with facts and data, and they still move
Speaker 8: forward with their story that is completely false. And it's
Speaker 8: such a disservice to the American publics who just wants
Speaker 8: honest information, especially in these times of crises. And you
Speaker 8: see the media is actually working over time right now
Speaker 8: not to criticize the current leadership that has been a
Speaker 8: total failure from coming from the White House and from
Speaker 8: FEMA and from the federal government. And to your point,
Speaker 8: how do we know that when we listen to our
Speaker 8: federl Americans on the ground, we listen to the fact
Speaker 8: that they've said they have not seen they didn't see
Speaker 8: a FEMA truck for the first seven days of this crisis.
Speaker 8: You hear them saying, how you know, other locals from
Speaker 8: other areas in North Carolina and elsewhere across the country,
Speaker 8: we're trying to come to bring water, to bring supplies,
Speaker 8: and the federal government once they set up, we're actually
Speaker 8: turning those people away and threatening to jail them for
Speaker 8: trying to supply our fellow Americans who are in a
Speaker 8: desperate time of need. You know, we will take President
Speaker 8: Trump and this team. We will take the words of
Speaker 8: the American people over the fake news every day of
Speaker 8: the week. It's the same thing that happened in Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 8: Right President Trump and Senator Events. We're calling into attention
Speaker 8: to what the concerns residents have had on the ground
Speaker 8: there for months, and they've been going to their city
Speaker 8: council meeting and they've been talking about the loss of
Speaker 8: life in their community because of illegal migrants. This town
Speaker 8: got twenty thousand illegal immigrants from Haiti just dumped on them,
Speaker 8: and nobody cares, nobody listens to them until President Trump
Speaker 8: brings it up. And then what does the media do.
Speaker 8: They lie about his words, They twist what he's saying,
Speaker 8: They take him out of context, and they demean the
Speaker 8: people who are hurting and suffering in these communities. And
Speaker 8: it's such a shame. You know, North Carolina right now
Speaker 8: is in a dire situation, as you know better than I.
Speaker 8: We have another hurricane now barreling towards Florida. FEMA has
Speaker 8: been wiped out in may Or has said that himself.
Speaker 8: Why because FEEMA has spent more than one billion dollars
Speaker 8: on illegal immigrant housing, transportation and free food and debit
Speaker 8: cards for illegal people, and now we don't have enough
Speaker 8: resources to take care of our own citizens. And rather
Speaker 8: than criticize that, the media is trying to say, we
Speaker 8: are lying about that fact, even though the media themselves
Speaker 8: have covered the fact that FEMA has spent all this
Speaker 8: money on the migrant crisis. It's just unbelievable. You can't
Speaker 8: trust anything they say. And so our I guess you
Speaker 8: asked My message to folks on the ground is don't
Speaker 8: believe the media. Listen to yourself, what you see happening
Speaker 8: taking place in your community, and continue to speak out.
Speaker 8: And social media is the most powerful way to do
Speaker 8: that right now, especially X where free speech is actually allowed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they wouldn't be attacking it as hard as I
Speaker 1: saw Hillary Clinton over the weekend. I don't know why
Speaker 1: they still stick a microphone in her face. She basically
Speaker 1: says social media is going to be the end of
Speaker 1: us because they can't control it. Two quick questions for
Speaker 1: and I'll let you go. Please tell me what Trump
Speaker 1: would have done differently in those first few days, and
Speaker 1: be specific I because I'm sure you guys have had
Speaker 1: this conversation.
Speaker 8: Well, he certainly wouldn't have been on the beach like
Speaker 8: Joe Biden, and he certainly wouldn't have continued with Ris
Speaker 8: the fundraisers in San Francisco like Kamala Harris. What he
Speaker 8: would have done is immediately activated the eighty second airborne
Speaker 8: out of Fort Liberty of course, for Bragg. Fort Bragg,
Speaker 8: as you know, is just a few hours away from
Speaker 8: where the devastation took place. And Kamala Harris and Joe
Speaker 8: Biden waited a week to deploy them. President Trump would
Speaker 8: have done that immediately. FEMA would not be bankrupt if
Speaker 8: he were in office. That money would have actually been
Speaker 8: reserved for situations like this and would have been directly
Speaker 8: allocated to folks on the ground. And I think you
Speaker 8: would see a business speed coming from the federal government
Speaker 8: with President Trump in command, rather than a bureaucratic speed,
Speaker 8: which is what we see happening right now because nobody
Speaker 8: knows who's in charge, and it's Kamala Harris and Jew
Speaker 8: Biden aren't charge, will their two career politicians who haven't
Speaker 8: gotten anything done in the private sector in their entire life.
Speaker 8: President Trump wants to run the government like a business,
Speaker 8: and that means you get results, you propose solutions quickly, and.
Speaker 7: You get it done.
Speaker 8: And we saw him do that in various instances throughout
Speaker 8: his first term and that's what would have happened in
Speaker 8: this situation now. And it's so unfortunate we don't have
Speaker 8: people like him in charge who are quick minded and
Speaker 8: come up with solutions, creative solutions as well. And I'm
Speaker 8: sure there you know, in that moment, there would have
Speaker 8: been various other creative ideas. President Trump and his his
Speaker 8: team would have come up with to solve this problem.
Speaker 8: But I mean just acting with with urgency would have
Speaker 8: been the first major difference, and I think it would
Speaker 8: have probably saved lives. And you know, it's so sad
Speaker 8: to say, and we pray to God that the death
Speaker 8: count doesn't continue to rise. But unfortunately, I think you
Speaker 8: know this crisis, we don't even know how badly, how
Speaker 8: bad it really is yet. Then it's because our government
Speaker 8: has been so slow to respond.
Speaker 1: And I'll give that, like I'll give him leeway. You're
Speaker 1: dealing with a footprint of eight hundred miles. We had
Speaker 1: deaths in Ash County, which is the far north I
Speaker 1: guess northwest top corner all the way down to Charlotte,
Speaker 1: which borders South Carolina. This is an immense undertaking, and
Speaker 1: so like there's gonna be mistakes made, but I don't
Speaker 1: feel I hope that I'm wrong. It's what I would
Speaker 1: say to you, Caroline, is I want this to be
Speaker 1: all right. Well, the folks were exaggerating and we did
Speaker 1: save lives, but I don't know if that'll be the case.
Speaker 1: Last question I got about a minute. He goes back
Speaker 1: to Butler. I've noticed and I pointed this out to
Speaker 1: a couple of people. I feel like Trump has like
Speaker 1: he's his mindset has changed since what happened for the better.
Speaker 1: I think that he's very reflective on what happened. Yet
Speaker 1: he took that stage with Elon. By the way, give
Speaker 1: me some of what Elon's on. How did that event go?
Speaker 1: And I saw eight nine million people watching. That's amazing
Speaker 1: in the middle of football.
Speaker 8: Yeah, nine million people watching on the live stream. About
Speaker 8: one hundred thousand people showed up in Butler, Pennsylvania, and
Speaker 8: it was just such a moving event.
Speaker 9: It was more than a rally.
Speaker 8: Our team, I have to give it to them, put
Speaker 8: on a world class event. You had, you know, singers
Speaker 8: at the end singing Hallelujah and opera. You had ahead
Speaker 8: of the event, just an amazing lineup of speakers of
Speaker 8: folks who were there on the ground at the first rally.
Speaker 8: You had the nurse who actually cared for President Trump
Speaker 8: in the hospital speaking about.
Speaker 9: Him in that moment, which I thought was.
Speaker 8: Incredibly moving and really shows the human side of President
Speaker 8: Trump that I see every day working for him and
Speaker 8: that those that.
Speaker 6: Know him know is so true.
Speaker 8: So it was just an amazing, amazing event. I think
Speaker 8: it brought new memories to the people of Butler who
Speaker 8: really need them. They have this tragic situation dumped on them,
Speaker 8: no fault of their own. And we love Pennsylvania. President
Speaker 8: Trump's going to be there quite a bit between now
Speaker 8: and November.
Speaker 1: Last question, did they have secret service on that very
Speaker 1: same roof?
Speaker 8: They sure did, and water tala everywhere. Yep, there were
Speaker 8: snipers all around us.
Speaker 1: Oh it's crazy because I thought, you know the slope
Speaker 1: all right, Well, we'll have to get in. That's some
Speaker 1: other time. Carolina. I love it from the Trump campaign.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate it this morning.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Take care.
Speaker 1: All right, and let's grab raced agent from the Weather Channel.
Speaker 1: All right, So she actually mentioned that in her interview.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the impending storm. What does that
Speaker 1: meaning for North Carolina and obviously Sarah friends in Florida.
Speaker 10: Friends in Florida.
Speaker 1: First Mine, I'm just gonna let you know I'm sorry
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, no problem, No, probably more bad things. I mean,
Speaker 10: we're at one twenty five right now, forecast to get stronger,
Speaker 10: maybe a Cat four serge wind. Obviously some of the
Speaker 10: places that were hit by Heleen, but not all of them,
Speaker 10: there will be some new places. Right now, they've got
Speaker 10: the center going across Sarasota as a Cat three, maybe
Speaker 10: stronger than that. So again, folks in Florida certainly hunkering
Speaker 10: down for to Carolina's We're a good shape sunny week.
Speaker 10: Warmest day today will be close to eighties, seventies the
Speaker 10: rest of the week. No rain in sight. Some concern
Speaker 10: with a jog further toward the north that we'll have
Speaker 10: to worry a little bit more about the southeast coast
Speaker 10: beaches and Carolina South Carolin Line, Georgia.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see as.
Speaker 10: The outer edge of the cone is close, and if
Speaker 10: that track goes further toward the west, we may have
Speaker 10: maybe some impacts for us some of the beaches.
Speaker 1: So'll keep an eye on that too. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: thanks sir, appreciate it. We'll come back with Jeff Bellinger.
Speaker 1: Hang on, well, good morning.
Speaker 12: Case. The news that more than a quarter of a
Speaker 12: million jobs were added in September gave stocks an ice
Speaker 12: boost on Friday, but investors thinking may have changed over
Speaker 12: the weekend. Job creation last month was so strong and
Speaker 12: so broad based that economists say it's unlikely the federal
Speaker 12: reserve will go for another jumbo interest rate cut when
Speaker 12: policymakers meet next month. Experts say that if rates are
Speaker 12: cut in November, it will likely be by a quarter point.
Speaker 12: So the futures are lower across the board. This morning,
Speaker 12: S and P futures down twenty one, Nasdaq futures down
Speaker 12: ninety five, the Dow futures are down one hundred and
Speaker 12: fifty four. We get the Conference Board's Employment Trends index
Speaker 12: later this morning. It could offer clues to whether job
Speaker 12: growth will remain strong through the rest of the year.
Speaker 12: Negotiators for Boeing and its largest union will resume contract
Speaker 12: talks today. A federal mediator has set up a meeting
Speaker 12: at a Seattle hotel. That strike by thirty three thousand
Speaker 12: Boeing machinists is entering its fourth week. Tax refund checks
Speaker 12: have become a popular target for male thieves. Millions of
Speaker 12: dollars worth of checks from the Internal Revenue Service have
Speaker 12: been stolen. One representative told The Wall Street Journal her
Speaker 12: office alone has received more than for a correction, more
Speaker 12: than two hundred reports about stolen checks. In many cases,
Speaker 12: replacement checks issued by the IRS have been stolen as well,
Speaker 12: and the case, Americans don't like talking about finances, people
Speaker 12: are more likely to open up about their preferences in
Speaker 12: the presidential election. A new survey by Bankrate says people
Speaker 12: are more more wary of money talk than politics or religion.
Speaker 1: Just thirty eight percent.
Speaker 12: Of the people polled said they were comfortable talking about
Speaker 12: their bank account balances, even with family and close friends.
Speaker 1: Casey, yeah, none of their business, all right, So thank
Speaker 1: you very much, Jeff, I appreciate it. Okay, take care,
Speaker 1: there you go, Jeff Bellinger. I real quick, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try to cobble together two stories. One of the things
Speaker 1: I found interesting over the weekend is CNN ran a
Speaker 1: piece about the absolute rampant fraud that took place in
Speaker 1: Minnesota under Walls and the COVID funds. In fact, it
Speaker 1: had the nation's largest fraud scheme as a percentage of
Speaker 1: received funds, and it's not even close. The absolute lack
Speaker 1: of oversight. And you couple that with SNL finally deciding
Speaker 1: to dig in kind of on Kamala but in the
Speaker 1: form of Tim Walls. They did show her rapidly drinking
Speaker 1: wine during the skit, but basically the skit was her
Speaker 1: and Doug Emhoff her husband sitting there and watching the
Speaker 1: vice presidential debate and then just reacting to what they saw.
Speaker 1: And you know what it was. It was what SNL
Speaker 1: should be doing this whole time. It was pretty damn funny.
Speaker 1: First and foremost, the part where he said he was
Speaker 1: at Tieneman Square during you know, the whole tank incident.
Speaker 1: He wasn't. And this this is how SNL played that out, Jane.
Speaker 5: But let's move on, Governor Walls. You claimed you were
Speaker 5: in Hong Kong during the nineteen eighty nine tenam And
Speaker 5: Square massacre when you were home in Minnesota. Can you
Speaker 5: explain that?
Speaker 9: So?
Speaker 1: I think what happened is I went to epcop.
Speaker 7: Around the whole world, and I had a couple in
Speaker 7: the Germany section, and I thought I went to China.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm a knucklehead, all right, So you know, maybe
Speaker 1: it's not as aggressive as you want, but you know, frankly,
Speaker 1: that's the way that they should be playing this stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, One more this on the school shooter thing.
Speaker 4: Okay, he's out there, he's doing this thing, whatever that
Speaker 4: may be.
Speaker 1: Okay, come on, just relax. You know, you haven't had
Speaker 1: a night off in three months.
Speaker 10: Do you want to watch something less stressful, like the
Speaker 10: Menandez Brothers show