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a federal judge yesterday declined to block Elon Musk's doge

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I'll get to that in a minute. But Robert has

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been waiting a long time for some reason. Hello Robert,

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welcome to the program, Pete.

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Speaker 3: I've been waiting a long time for a good reason.

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It's snowing here in Birkdale. That's where I am right now,

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and so it's.

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Speaker 1: All right, Robert, what's the mood. What's the mood in Huntersville.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're a little bit surprised to see that snow happened,

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but but I feel like we're I think I can

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speak for all of us, uh that.

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Speaker 3: We're confident we can handle it. It's just a just

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a light dusting, That's what I would call it. And

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uh so, but it's it's pretty. But before I hand

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it back to you, Pete, which is what I would

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normally do to I would say I would normally say

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back to you, Pete. But I do have a quick question.

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I read a tweet within the last hour or so

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from President Trump, uh kind of assessing the current situation

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with Zolensky and Ukraine. And he started it by saying

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that Zolensky is kind of a second rate comedian and

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went through to some reasons in saying that Zolensky invited

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this latest latest invasion by Putin. And I just wonder

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what are your thoughts as to whether Zolensky and Ukraine

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did indeed invite this latest incursion by Russia.

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Speaker 2: So I think, well, the first part of it as

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second rate comedian, I feel like that might be true,

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because it wasn't he like a he was like a

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late night talk show host or something like that before

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he ran for office, right, he was like the the

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Ukrainian John Stewart of The Daily Show. I think so

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that might be a reference to what Trump is talking

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about so I cannot confirm more deny. Look, humor is

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a very personal thing. You may find something funny that

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I do not vice versa. So I'm not going to Uh,

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I'm not going to judge what Trump's sense of humor is.

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But we do know that he likes to make fun

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of people. He has for years, So that's not that's

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nothing new. Now regarding the UH, this this idea that

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that Ukraine invited Russia, I yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's accurate.

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Speaker 2: But on the other hand, I know there is a

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school of thought out there that says the expansion of

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NATO and the UH, you know, the attempts by Ukraine

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to cozy up and to get NATO status to be

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included in NATO. That was always seen as a redline

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for the Russians. They did not want NATO on their doorstep,

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on their border. But I think, you know, Putin would

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have found any other reason he could have. But yeah,

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I mean that's the Yeah, he's a Putin is a

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bad actor and will find any rationalization to do whatever

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whatever it is he wants to do. He did it

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in Georgia, he did it in Crimea right, so I

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don't know why this would be any different.

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Speaker 1: Why what do you think?

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Speaker 3: I think, Yes, I agree that I think it's hard

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to make a case that that Zelenski and his country

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invited the invasion. Yeah, and yes, that's the only uh,

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that's the only reason that I've heard is that since

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since Ukraine has has at least subtly, or maybe more

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than subtly, posted a desire to join NATO, then Russia

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views that as a I guess they would say, a

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huge threat, although I'm not sure that's really a valid argument.

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The only thing I guess I'm hoping, Pete, is that

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I do hope that Trump is the one who can

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end this thing. And it may not end. It probably

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will not end the way that Zolensky wants it. By uh,

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he probably will have to give up maybe all the

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territory that he's already seated. But I do hope that

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that Trump can end it, hopefully and in a better

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way than than Biden ended Afghanistan.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because what's the alternative World War three? Like this

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is the problem when you're a nuclear superpower and you're

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muscling your next door neighbors, Like, what is what's the

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what is the recourse there. Ukraine has done I think

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a really good job of keeping the Russians at bay,

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but the Russians already took back a whole chunk of

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the land, and so they're not going to turn that

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back over. And I can disagree with them doing it,

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But now how do I enforce that? I mean, like,

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what's the like, what's the alternative, more, you know, more

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sanctions on the Russians, more penalties, right, Like, I I

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don't know where the off ramp is and I don't

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think it's realistic for people to say that Russia is

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going to be expelled from the conquered territory they've taken.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't see that.

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Speaker 2: I don't like it, but I don't I don't see

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how that's I don't see how that's an option.

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Speaker 3: Well, I guess these talks are just kind of starting

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with Rubio there, and we'll see. I think, I think

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the other leaders in the parties, like Lindsey Graham and

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Phone and Speaker Johnson, it'll be interesting to see how

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they weigh in and how they may even shape this

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final agreement.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, and look, Donald Trump has proven to everybody I

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think by this point that he will completely reverse himself, right,

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and so he may turn around and say terrible things

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about Vladimir Putin next and be all in on Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Like, well, well, we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 2: And so everybody that loses their mind over everything that

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he says, it's like, well, just you know, give him

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a week and he very well may reverse course and

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say something else if he wants to.

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Speaker 1: He wants to get the war ended.

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Speaker 2: So whatever he does to make that happen, he's going

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he's going to see as worth it. You know, whatever

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he says, whatever he has to say, or whatever he's

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going to say, I just want the deal. I want

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a deal done. And if it means that he's got

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to bring Zelensky to the table, he's got to browbeat Zelenski.

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He's got to get it through to Zelensky through his

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head that you're not getting your land back. And no

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matter how we feel about that, that is the reality.

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You're not going to get the land back because the

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world is not going to go to war with Russia

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and create World War III in order to get your

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land back.

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Speaker 1: I don't see that happening.

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Speaker 3: Correct, And of course, of course neither neither US nor Russia.

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What's anything like that. I think there's gonna have to

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be some way to allow Zelensky to save face, and

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someone like Ubo could probably be helpful in that regard.

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Speaker 1: Well, and maybe that's what this is.

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Speaker 2: Like, this is the way Zelensky gets to save face

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is that Trump trashes him, and then you know, he

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comes along and trashes Trump and works out some other

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deal and says, see we didn't need you.

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Speaker 1: Who cares?

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Speaker 2: Deal gets done and you know, a million and a

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half casualties later, war ends.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I don't know, Like I said.

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm no expert on Ukraine or the Donbas region.

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I spent all of my time becoming an expert on

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deep water submersibles a couple of months ago, and so

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that's yeah. I just you know, if I had known then,

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I would have spent more time on the Ukraine stuff.

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Speaker 1: Robert.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate the call, sir, Thanks for the report from Huntersville.

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Compelling and rich. So yeah, I don't know what the

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play is. I saw some people talking about, you know,

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Trump's comments, but like once again, Trump says a lot

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of stuff, He tweets a lot of stuff, and everybody

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that's like hanging on his every social media post and

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allowing that to dictate how they feel on any given day.

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Speaker 1: Guys like, what do the kids say? Touch grass? Right?

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Just walk away from it.

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Speaker 2: Just let whatever's happening happen, right, And we don't know

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what's happening. I don't need to know what's happening, because

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me knowing, like every intricacy of the negotiation process of

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whatever's unfolding there is beyond my expertise. And I may

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be the only person on social media to admit that

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there are a lot of experts out there on Ukraine

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and Russian history. You can go find them. They know

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all of the answers to how to fix it. So

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just I'm I'm looking at the transom here. I'm looking

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at some of the some of the reports that I'm seeing. Yeah,

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so apparently there are some flakes out there also some snow.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, it stopped outside the window.

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Speaker 2: Sorr, there was I saw like four they were like

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like like cloud dandruff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now it's gone.

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Speaker 2: It stopped here in West Charlotte though, So, I mean

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that's obviously not representative of the entire area. I have

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Speaker 2: Chris reports in that he saw ten snowflakes, so that's good.

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Terry here as well. Terry is also reporting here from Monroe.

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Speaker 1: Terry. Welcome to the program.

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Speaker 6: Jeff Birve.

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Speaker 5: The mood here is surprised.

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Speaker 1: Surprise.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean we were staying rain drops until tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 1: Guy, that must be terrifying. Terry.

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Speaker 5: I haven't out with snowshovels, just yeah. But we're optimistic.

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Speaker 2: And back to me. Yes, back to you, Pete. Thank

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you all right, Terry, I appreciate that compelling and rich. Yes,

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so apparently there is. I got another message here from

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Russ who says it might be time to panic. I

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spotted a few flakes in Gaston County about an hour ago,

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and now I'm seeing some flakes and some sleet coming

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down in the university area.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, Pete.

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Speaker 2: For real though, coming down pretty good near I seventy

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seven and Clanton Road.

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Speaker 1: Interesting.

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Speaker 2: Just keep our heads about us, all right, as Pat

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McCrory warned, don't put on your stupid hat. Okay, guys,

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it's still like thirty eight degrees or something. It's like

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it's you know, I understand how it's got to be,

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you know, cold, up in the atmosphere or up above us,

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you know. And that's the temperature that's gonna dictate what

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it is. But it ain't gonna last long when it

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We're gonna be fine. This is all okay, right, remain calm.

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Speaker 6: All right.

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Speaker 2: Next up here is uh, who do we have? This

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is Jerry? Jerry in south Park? Jerry, what's the move?

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Speaker 4: It's almost white out conditions here in South Park?

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Speaker 5: There's probably three maybe four snowflakes per billion parts of air.

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Speaker 2: That sounds terrifying as well. Jerry, how are you managing

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Speaker 7: I'm driving with one.

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Speaker 1: That does sound safe? By all A right back to you, Pete.

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Speaker 2: I think we lost Jerry there, Jerry, stay safe.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're supposed to remember, professionals, when we are doing

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this kind of operation storm panic coverage, you have to

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lock out the report by saying back to you Pete otherwise,

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my better judgment, we are activating Operation Snowman on the Street.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to have to do this, people, but

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here we are. In case you have never heard how

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this works.

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Speaker 2: We deputize, well, everybody. It's budgetary, you're not going to

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get paid anything, but we deputize everybody to do our

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man on the street. But you can't call it man

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on the street anymore. So they started calling it a

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person on the street. But then, of course it made

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for an uncomfortable acronym, the POS.

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Speaker 1: So we're going snow Man on the street.

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Speaker 2: And it's a it's the universal human kind of not

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man like gender thing. Anyway, The purpose here is to

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have you do what basically all news organizations do, which

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is to send people out stand someplace and tell me

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what's happening with the weather. And so you're going to

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be filing a report for us at WBT okay, and

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I'm going to toss it to you, and I'm going

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to throw it to you with the question what's the mood.

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You will then file your report. You give me the report,

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and this is very important. You have to say back

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to you, Pete. Otherwise I don't know you're done. So

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you have to say back to you, Pete. Now, if

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you want to work in some gnat, sound like an

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ice scraper, a chainsaw, maybe walking through the snow, something

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like that. That always adds to the richness of the audio. Also,

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if I have a follow up question for you, I'm

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going to ask you the question and then you this

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is very important, you say great question, Pete, right, because

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all reporters in the field always say that, great question, Pete.

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Speaker 1: Now, usually it's because the reporter.

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Speaker 2: Has sent the question in ahead of time, so they

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know it's a great question because they wrote it themselves.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, you're gonna.

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Speaker 2: Say, great question, Pete, and then you answer the question

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and then you lock it out again back to you, Pete.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: That's how we do snowman on the street. All right,

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So let's head on out now to read in Matthews.

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Read in Matthews reporting live. Read what's the mood?

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Speaker 5: Yes, Pete, the mood is absolute, sheer terror.

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Speaker 3: I saw one snowflake actually land on top of another.

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Speaker 5: One, and we're running for the hills.

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Speaker 8: And read yep, I'm here.

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Speaker 2: You got to toss it back. Read Oh my gosh,

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all right, Read back to you, Pete. You gotta say

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back to you, Pete, I don't know You're done. All right,

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We'll stay safe.

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Speaker 1: Read compelling and rich, all right.

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Speaker 2: Next up here we have this is I believe James

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is reporting live from near the Bojangles Coliseum, So that's

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East Charlotte, James.

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Speaker 9: What's the mood horrifying out here? Pete? This is James

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with on Woodland Drive, right off the Deepway, and my

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neighborhood is directly across from the boast Angles Arena. But

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even though we have flurries coming down, that just won't stop.

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This message is mainly for Pam the dam wonner, because,

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as you know, we have accidents here on this stretch

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of the Indianapolis Raceway from Startus Road to downtown every day,

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even in clear conditions, and I'm just terrified of what's

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going to be happening out there in the next little bit.

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This has been going off for twenty minutes now. They

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just won't stop, and so I wanted to call give

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her a prehptive update. But she can keep a watch

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lightut on the stretch because these amateur drivers get out

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here that are apparently on their way to the raceway Sunday,

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but they're just not there yet, and they're gonna get

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out there today, and I hate to think of what's

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going to come back to.

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Speaker 1: Up compelling and Rich.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, James, Stay safe out there. Harrowing tale from

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the Bojangles area. Bojangles Arena area. I should say, all right,

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next we go to uh, Doug in Chester.

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Speaker 1: Doug in Chester, Doug, what's the mood?

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Speaker 4: Oh, maybe it's coming down in Chester. I'll tell you

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I ain't seen.

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Speaker 10: Some minutes not like this.

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Speaker 5: Gim the National Convention there.

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Speaker 10: I'll take you.

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Speaker 11: Back to you.

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Speaker 2: All right, Thank you, Doug, compelling and Rich. I appreciate

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that report. Stay safe, a harrowing tale. Indeed, all right,

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we got James, we got Doug. Next up here, I

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believe we have This is Ralph out in Union County, Ralph, Ralph,

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what's the moody?

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Speaker 6: Well, there's panic, sheer panic out here. I think one

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soap lake coming out of Make Sure Deeds at Union County.

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Now I'm on the toll road. It's just like a

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mass blizzard. As I was getting on the toll road,

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I seen the store Clarks putting signs out no milk,

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no bread, no eggs. I mean, people are just inting

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sheer fear of getting stuck in their home or probably

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a good week.

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Speaker 2: Let's go back to you be now, Ralph, do we

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know if there are particular recipes that those ingredients would

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would be beneficial in?

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Speaker 6: Yes, milk bread. Back in the depression, a lot of

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people had to just eat milk, get a bowl of

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milk and put their bread in, maybe some maybe some

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cheese if he had some cheese in a little broccoli.

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But I mean it's just the pig Wiggly. I just

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see people just got screaming out in the parking lot

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of the Wiggly when I say a senior side back.

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Speaker 2: To you beat all right, thank you, Ralph, compelling and rich.

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Just for the record there, we are not going to

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reimburse you for that. Toll road expense. Okay, just want

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to make that clear. All right, I hope you had

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a happy holiday season. But tell me if something like

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this happened at your house. Your family and friends are

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gathered around, maybe y'all are in the living room, You're laughing,

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swapping stories, reminiscing, and then somebody says, hey, Dad, remember

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those old VHS tapes? Did you ever get them transferred?

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And then the room gets all quiet. All eyes are

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on Dad, who says, oh, you know, well, I've been

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meaning to but I just having gotten around to it. Look,

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don't let those priceless memories sit in a box for

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another year.

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Speaker 1: Remain calm.

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Speaker 2: The flurry that swept through earlier has passed. It left

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nothing in its wake. Remain calm. That being said, if

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you're not scared, I'm not doing my job as a

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media person. And so we have implemented operations.

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Speaker 1: Snowman on the.

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Speaker 2: Street, you are deputies to file reports. We are not

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paying you, but we are amassing the largest field reporting

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crew in North Carolina today. You can be part of

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it as long as you don't ask me for money.

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All you need to do is call seven oh four, five,

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seven oh eleven ten. I'm going to toss it to

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you from your location. I'm going to ask you what

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the mood is. You're going to give your report, and

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then you're going to lock it out. And I cannot

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stress the importance of this enough. You gotta lock it

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out back to you, Pete. All right, that's those are

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the rules.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: If I ask you a question because your report has

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been so compelling and rich, then you have to start

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your answer with great question, Pete, and then you lock

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it out after you're done answering the question, all right,

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and you do can be an Operation snow Panic or

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Storm Panic. SNOWMA again in twenty twenty five, Take two

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Snowman on the street. So now we go over to

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Tim near Huntersville. Tim, Hey, Pete, what's the mood in Huntersville?

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Speaker 8: Well, Pete, the roads are barely impassable. I just left

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Huntersville going southbound on seventy seven and I can barely

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progress about maybe an eighth of a mile per hour.

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Is so bad out here. We have cars that's been

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abandoned on the street. Cars has flipped over against the

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guard rail, and cars and flames in the ditches. I'm

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going to continue to try to progress southbound. The only

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people I see now that are able to make it

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any farther south is myself and the illegal aliens that's

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trying to deport themselves. They're trying to reach the southern

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border to the port that sells back to you, Pete.

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Speaker 2: Tim, thank you for the report. I do have a

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question for you, though. Have you tried the toll lane?

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Are you able to get into the toll lane?

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Speaker 8: No, Pete, I don't have any money for tolls, and

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I'm not running a tag on my truck, so they

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can't collect the tolls through the mail. Great question, Pete,

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and back to you Pete.

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Speaker 2: All right, great tim, thank you. That is a fantastic report.

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Compelling and rich. Let me go over to this is

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Amy in China. Grow Amy, what's the mood?

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Speaker 6: Hi?

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Speaker 5: What's its snowing?

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Speaker 7: It's snowing.

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Speaker 10: Everybody's excited. School was already out with remote learnings for today.

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Speaker 7: So there's no traffic, but.

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Speaker 2: There is still bread and milk at the grocery store.

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Speaker 9: I just left there.

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Speaker 5: Bear was getting a little bit.

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Speaker 10: Slim, but we're going to be okay.

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Speaker 1: Back to thank you Amy, compelling and rich.

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Speaker 2: By the way, the other thing you could use the

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eggs bread and milk is for obviously French toast.

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Speaker 1: That's the good news for today. Let's go to John

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John is in Matthews. John John, what's the mood in

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Matthews Going?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a lot of tension out here. I just

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pulled into the Exceon station in Matthews off seventy four,

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and everybody's kind of excited. I did see a couple flakes,

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and as I pulled in, I passed this massive dunk

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crook with a huge plow in front, and I noticed

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as I'm coming around and leaving. I did see a flake,

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and in fact, two flakes hit his windshield and he

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immediately started his engine. So things are progressing. Back to you, Pete.

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Speaker 2: Beg you John John with that live report from Matthews,

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compelling and rich. That's what we are, that's what we

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are always aiming for here. Obviously very very serious situation

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here in the Charlotte area, what with all of the

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lack of snow occurring right now. We now have a

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report from the speedway area.

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Speaker 1: CG, CG. What's the mood.

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Speaker 10: Oh wow, there was a little excitement. We had about

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fourteen flakes, so excited.

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Speaker 1: So it sounds like it's picking up and the truck.

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Speaker 10: We're ready to go there everywhere. But I'm a little disappointed.

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I just, at sixty seven years old, want to see

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enough snow to make a snow angel, and it's not happening.

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But I can smell it. So we're hoping back to Pete.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you, CJ. Compelling and rich. It's a

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fantastic report. I believe we have time for a final

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report of the hour here we shall go now over

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to This is from the University area where George is

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standing by George.

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Speaker 11: What's the mood, yeap, that is very tent here in university,

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very tense for everybody that hasn't just moved in from

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New Jersey and New York. However, it is a snow

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nato here in the university area. Well, actually, Pete, it

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just stopped back to you.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, just dodged a bullet there so close. It

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really is scary. It really is scary sometimes. By the way,

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it's always good if you can work in the analogy

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of it. Sounded like a freight train. Just a reporter

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tip there.

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Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you

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so much for listening.

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