WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:01.560 You want to get on the show this morning. That 2 00:00:01.800 --> 00:00:05.639 is uh, that is how we'll do it. Coming up. 3 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:09.919 I told you this week is gonna be just crazy 4 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:12.560 with all the names getting thrown out, so we will. 5 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:14.800 We'll give you a little round up with some of 6 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:17.879 the other folks who will likely serve in the Trump administration. 7 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:23.120 Obviously there's gonna be Senate confirmation for some of these folks. Yes, 8 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:25.679 I'm aware the Republicans are going to control that, but 9 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:30.280 you get a you know, you get like a gotta 10 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:33.479 Ran Paul and uh, maybe one or two other people, 11 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:38.119 and a lot of influence can be flexed. Mansion might 12 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:43.600 even play into that, so uh, we'll get there. But 13 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:48.679 the one that is obviously the big one is who 14 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:51.840 it who Trump wants for Secretary of State. And I'm 15 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:57.240 just curious how you're all feeling about that, Lil Marco 16 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:02.320 and I I know this is going to irritate some 17 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:08.120 of you, Okay, and that's that's fine. We're going to 18 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:10.239 be adults and we can go and have that conversation. 19 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:13.959 This isn't me judging whether I think Marco. I'll give 20 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:15.719 you my opinion on it, but but I just when 21 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:20.120 I set this up, whether Marco Rubio is going to 22 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:28.519 be a good fit as Secretary of State. It's the oppo, right, 23 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:34.000 So anyone who is out dealing on the world stage 24 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:36.519 on behalf of the United States. And it doesn't matter 25 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:40.439 whether you serve in a consulate somewhere, if you have 26 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:45.840 a governmental facing position meaning you and probably even if 27 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:49.640 you don't. Going back to the sheer dossiers that we 28 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:55.879 saw that even in Africa. Al Shabab remember when we 29 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:58.760 like we went in and rated their headquarters there in 30 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:04.439 Somalia and they found business records that literally look like 31 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:07.519 the HR department where you work. They'd be like, ah, 32 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:11.879 Muhammad didn't seem very excited to blow himself up. We'll 33 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:14.639 talk about that in his next review. Of course that's 34 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:18.599 not coming right. It was just it was If it 35 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:21.840 wasn't so damn serious, it would have been funny. All right, 36 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.479 It's a little funny because they just because there was 37 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:28.960 also like HR conflict resolution. I want you to think 38 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:30.639 about that. This is one of my favorite stories I 39 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:32.039 ever did. I don't have it all in front of me, 40 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:34.159 but I remember deep diving it for a whole show. 41 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:36.919 Like in the same way that you have a petty 42 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:42.599 squabble and you take it to your superiors. They would 43 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:45.560 do that and then they would document it. And by 44 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:51.240 the way, I have to assume that would be the 45 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:55.719 most dangerous office setting to steal your coworkers' lunches. Can 46 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:59.319 we agree on this? Like, you know, you go into 47 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:03.639 the break room to al shabab hq, right, and you 48 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:06.400 know Abdul bad himself. Oh, look at that. His wife 49 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:08.560 made him a nice sandwich and his otherwise made him 50 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:11.319 another nice sandwich, and then his other wife threw it 51 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:13.879 a drink in there, right, and you're thieving that thing. 52 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:17.000 You don't think Abdul's going to get some ideas as 53 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:19.199 to how he might be able to push back on 54 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:24.759 your thievery. I'm telling you it's a minefield, absolute minefield. 55 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:29.000 They had dossier's on US consulate members, not just for 56 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:31.120 the purpose of murdering them in the same way that 57 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:34.240 Russia takes compromat and all that. And I'm not saying 58 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:37.719 that's where we're going with Marco Rubio. We're going to 59 00:03:37.919 --> 00:03:42.560 the machismost side of this, okay, And that is when 60 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:45.080 they look up little Marco and this isn't a height thing. 61 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:48.159 So as they say on the Internet, all you short kings, 62 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:52.840 Calm down. It's the idea that the commander in chief 63 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:58.080 of the United States called you little Marco. Do you 64 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:05.159 understand what I'm asking in an administration and a philosophy 65 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:14.120 that is born of strength. Right, Hey, we're America. Don't 66 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:20.120 f with us. You know, we hit one button and 67 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:23.439 it defeats your whole military and we are on lunch 68 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:26.000 while we're doing it. You know that kind of attitude? 69 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:27.360 Is it? 70 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.480 Do you think that when Marco Rubio then has to 71 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:36.199 go in front of and then just insert whatever dictatorial 72 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:40.959 piece of crap, citizen murdering despot you want to think of, 73 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:45.120 when they have to do something with them and they 74 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:48.319 look up all the little Marco stuff. Do you think 75 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:53.720 that that period of the relationship between Marco Rubio and 76 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:55.480 now you can say it was a primary and it's 77 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:58.720 politics and all that. And what's crazy is people like 78 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:05.560 the same insane crap that we say in political uh 79 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:08.399 uh political contests where like it just go. It's where 80 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:12.319 they'll be like your father helped try to kill JFK. Right, 81 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:15.000 and then they're hugging it out and endorsing each other. 82 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.720 That is not purely an American thing, and it absolutely 83 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:20.639 happens elsewhere. You should be aware of that. I read 84 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:24.319 that what's the name of the book. It was the 85 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:28.279 same guy who did Primary Colors wrote uh maybe I 86 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:30.439 think maybe he co authored it. But basically they were 87 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:35.240 talking about, uh, how like the dirty tricks they play 88 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:37.240 in other stuff. And it's weird because like in the 89 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:41.240 British Parliament they say all the same stuff. But like 90 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:46.800 you ever watched the British Parliament work, it's it's it's 91 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:49.120 I don't want to say it's controlled chaos. I don't 92 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:52.800 know what that is. It's funny. It's funny to watch 93 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:54.720 them all scream at each other and r R and 94 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:59.279 bang on stuff and and then they have the giant 95 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:01.680 you know, I have the giant weapon re sitting around 96 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:04.600 the table there. I'm sorry, some British listeners gonna get back. 97 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:07.639 I'm aware that it's not just a weapon. It's a 98 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:11.240 cool weapon. But my point is, I understand all that 99 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:14.360 stuff happens. Do you think it undermines the ability of 100 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:18.800 Marco Rubio if they're like this guy's boss calls him 101 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:23.279 little Marco. That adorable And I don't know the answer 102 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:25.800 to that, but I have somebody that we're gonna ask 103 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:30.240 we have a Senator Ted Bud joining us because there's 104 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:33.160 two things going on. That's eighto five, right, Ross, I'm sorry, 105 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:36.079 just my phone closed from your text here. Yeah, eight 106 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:39.720 o five, So Ted Budd senator, he'll join us eight 107 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:42.040 o five. So that's one we're gonna talk about some 108 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:44.600 of these appointments. That's one of his colleagues. Now what 109 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:47.160 do I expect Ted to say? Probably like that he'll 110 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:49.959 be fine, and most likely he'll be fine. But I'm 111 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:56.399 just curious, like some guy who you've you've you've attempted 112 00:06:56.439 --> 00:07:00.199 to demasculate, you're now gonna send to be the face 113 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.680 of America around the world. But then I think to myself, well, 114 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:08.360 we sent John Kerry, we sent Hillary Clinton. Although Hillary 115 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:14.240 Clinton actually is terrifying. So yeah, I remember, remember there 116 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:17.360 is uh there is there are published pieces out there 117 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:20.600 that where the where the who have not been sued 118 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:28.079 that the the marriage on the skids that that took 119 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:31.720 place following the Monica Lewinsky sandal, where Hillary literally for 120 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:36.360 months didn't talk to Bill was only they only fixed 121 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:40.079 it because she was berating him to start bobbing the 122 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:42.920 hell out of Sarajevo, and he's like, if it'll shut 123 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:46.920 you up, which is a horrible way to choose conflicts. 124 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:52.279 So yeah, she terrifies me. But can can Lil Marco 125 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:57.000 go out there and uh and have enough respect? Maybe 126 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.560 the answer is the guy he answers to is Donald Trump, 127 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:01.879 and that's the dude you're scared of anyway because he's 128 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:07.560 quote unpredictable. Then uh, maybe maybe it's a moot point. 129 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:09.319 And then the second one is and this is the 130 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:13.720 big fight Senate Majority Leader, which I've always been bothered 131 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:18.399 by the Senate Majority Leader versus the speaker. Uh, the 132 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:22.000 way that they do things because the Speaker of the House, 133 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:25.639 it's out there right, everybody knows how everyone's vote, and 134 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:28.279 you're on the record with Senate it's it's a secret ballot. 135 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:35.320 So will it be Corning from Texas, Scott from Florida 136 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:39.679 or excuse me, Scott for Flora, Scott from South Carolina 137 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:43.679 or no, Like there's uh, there's there's three kind of 138 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:49.200 mains and then there's four or five. Maybees can a 139 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:51.320 non senator be it. I was gonna look that up, 140 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:54.000 thought maybe we'd make ross the head of the Senate. 141 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:56.879 You just rule over there, then maybe they get some 142 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:03.000 stuff done. So yeah, so uh he they have they 143 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:05.480 have bud marked down here because I'm looking at a 144 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.399 list of who they've stated support for for John Cornyn 145 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:12.840 from Texas and what's and what's wild is like people 146 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:17.320 either hate with the passion and the and and the 147 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:22.879 the fiery heat of a thousand suns all the other people, 148 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:26.159 or are want to marry the person that they're with, 149 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:28.600 Like there's no middle grade because usually if you got 150 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:30.440 four or five names out there, you kind of rank 151 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:33.639 them like there's the person you want to see, and 152 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:36.840 then there's the person okay, I guess, and then maybe 153 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:39.080 somebody you'd hold your nose for, and then you got 154 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:41.720 you get down into it where you're just like no, no, 155 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:44.679 you could never convince me. And that's you know, and 156 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:51.159 that's fine. Everyone's got to uh make up their make 157 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:54.519 up their their own minds, but they also don't have 158 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:57.200 to explain it. And I'm always curious how people get there. 159 00:09:57.200 --> 00:09:58.879 So I want to ask Ted how he's gotten there. 160 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:01.840 Maybe he hasn't, and maybe he's just erroneously listed in here. 161 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:06.840 Senator slender Man looks like he's gonna he wants to 162 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:10.480 go in a different direction. What time is slender Man's 163 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:13.360 interview today? We got but at eight oh five we're 164 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:16.399 gonna have the full Oh oh oh, that's right. We 165 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:20.080 don't put him on the show anymore, so we'll just 166 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:25.120 have to go with printed reports. Uh, then we get 167 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:27.960 into like recess appointments, it'll get there's a lot of 168 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.279 ground to cover today, and so I'm really really happy 169 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:34.000 that we're going to have the Senator on. Okay, all right, 170 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:37.399 eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. 171 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:42.120 It was, uh, this is not new, but the fact 172 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:45.279 that it's still how it is is why I'm going 173 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:48.840 to explain something to you. So going back to the 174 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:54.840 first oh November, Politico ran a report talking about the 175 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:59.240 response rate of people who were calling FEMA. Right, because 176 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:01.440 what do they tell you, anyone who was impacted by 177 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:04.399 the hurricane? What they tell you call FEMA. Here's the 178 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.159 number we were running. We were running PSA's for the number. 179 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:10.080 And that's fine, that's what they should do. Right, here's that. 180 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:12.799 And I understand people go, well, you know, sometimes the phone. 181 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:15.120 I understand that the phones and the internet aren't there, 182 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:17.960 but it's a starting point of launching off point eventually 183 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:21.159 you get to sell service. There is no perfect way 184 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:25.480 other than maybe shooting flares in the air. And I 185 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:28.799 also recognize that the staffing for FEMA when there's not 186 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:33.600 disasters going on shouldn't be the same for staffing for 187 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:37.200 FEMA when there are disasters going on. It's just not practical. 188 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:42.000 And so the complexity of that is FEMA contracts. They 189 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:46.240 roll people over from other parts of the government for 190 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:49.240 more of the administrative stuff. Right if you can answer 191 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:52.200 a phone for the Social Security Administration and run a 192 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:54.639 phone tree, you can answer a phone and run a 193 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:56.759 phone tree for FEMA with a little bit of training. 194 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.440 And it's not going to be perfect. But like everything 195 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:06.320 else in disaster response, nobody expects perfect. But you keep putting, 196 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:11.000 You keep doing things that are insane, Like we have 197 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:13.960 the amount of money that we still have that has 198 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:17.200 been unspent, and these zero amount of homes in many 199 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:20.799 communities going back to Hurricane Matthew that have been built. 200 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:24.840 That's a thing that still exists in North Carolina. And 201 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:28.240 if you're a new storm victim and you know that 202 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:32.000 Hurricane Matthew people are still waiting on getting their homes rebuilt, 203 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:38.080 what level of confidence does that give you. All right, 204 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:41.480 So what was the thing? Well, first, the FEMA lady 205 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:46.440 down in Florida says, she doesn't deny that she said 206 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:49.840 don't go to Trump homes. No, she now, and keep 207 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:53.000 in mind she did lose her job. She says she's 208 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:58.519 a patsy. All right, I'm listening. She says she was 209 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:05.720 a patsy. What she said is that this attitude, whether 210 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:09.200 it be official or unofficial, that it's in the best 211 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:12.559 interest of workers to avoid going to homes with Trump 212 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:16.960 signage was not her idea, or at the very least 213 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:21.200 not only her idea. And you know what, again, I 214 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:24.360 balance it that she lost her job. But here's where 215 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:27.039 it kind of makes sense. You're sitting around the lunch 216 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:31.320 room or you know, wherever these middle managers gather. You're 217 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:35.480 sharing your experience and yes, you have some opinion about 218 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:38.080 Trump people. In the same way that that photographer who 219 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:41.360 we talked about yesterday doesn't like the outcome of the election, 220 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:46.559 so he's stopping any volunteer work for hurricane victims. He's like, well, 221 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:48.840 they're mostly read County screwing. They get what they get. 222 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:52.480 So if you're FEMA and you're sitting there and you're 223 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:55.320 not immune to the politics of all of this, and 224 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:59.399 you're like, and that's normally who you see every day 225 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:02.679 on Fox News going, Hey, I'm Darryl, and Darryl's running 226 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:06.000 a red hat and Daryl's got himself a big old 227 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:10.840 Southern drawl, and Daryl's home just floated away. And if 228 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:13.279 he's on there a week later, living in a pup 229 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:15.120 town with his wife going where the hell are you, 230 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:21.879 there's a you could take that personally, and then you 231 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:24.120 see it over and over, and then you see politicians 232 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:27.519 or you see jackass radio hosts like me continuing to 233 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:31.039 point out these things like what do you mean you 234 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:36.879 won't drive one hundred feet around a thing, a wooden 235 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:38.919 barricade to go look at this house so that person 236 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:47.600 get disaster assistance. Well, sorry, can't do that. It doesn't matter. 237 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:51.320 It shouldn't matter, but it does because we're human and 238 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:53.720 we hear stuff, and that's people being critical of your 239 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:56.600 work or in this case, lack of work. Look at that. 240 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:58.440 I'll never get my house fixed if I ever find 241 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:04.639 myself in a hurricane. So the idea that that was 242 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:08.000 an additude, which she says, Patsy, because let's face it, 243 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:12.039 in the world of Patsy. That's not even a good Patsy, right, 244 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:15.960 h that's a forgettable Patsy. I don't even know her 245 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:17.120 name off the top of my head. I just know 246 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:19.320 where is the female lady? I'll get it for you, though. 247 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:23.799 You're gonna sit there and then you develop an attitude 248 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:26.159 and then you sit around that lunch room and you're like, oh, yeah, yeah, 249 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:28.080 I tell my guys not even to go near a 250 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:30.600 Trump house anymore? Are they just yelling and stuff? They're like, 251 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:33.919 where why is my Why don't you guys return my calls? 252 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:37.840 And there's an interesting reason that that would be said, 253 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.440 because remember I said that something from November first is 254 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:44.080 still the same today and I'm blown away by it, 255 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:47.679 or as of last night. I should say what that 256 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:51.240 is the audio for you? And some thoughts next here 257 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:54.279 on the CaCO Day radio program to say, should I 258 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:57.039 leave it for Jamal to say that's that's part of 259 00:15:57.039 --> 00:16:01.879 it because this is a two parter this opening this morning. Yeah, 260 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:03.960 I'll leave it. I'll leave it for Jamal. I'll let 261 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.039 you have your moment because uh, let me let me 262 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:08.240 make the other point and then we'll get phone calls. Okay, 263 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:12.200 all right, exercise. This is what I need you to do. 264 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:13.759 I know it's early and you hate it when I 265 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:15.519 do this. You're like, I'm just trying to get ready. 266 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:18.639 My kids are little terrorists. We're very busy. Just do 267 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:21.960 you have a coin or do you have a coin, 268 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:24.159 or do you just have anything you can flip? Okay, 269 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:29.879 take it, even if it's imaginary, call it in your 270 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:32.279 head and then give it a give it a once over. 271 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:40.480 Did you win? Not all of you? Statistically, probably about 272 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:42.679 half of you, although it's it could be way, but 273 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:46.480 you know that's the point of flipping a coin. So 274 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:49.000 fifty percent of you on one side of things, fifty 275 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:52.159 percent on the other. Now, pretend you're all hurricane victims. 276 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:53.240 Are you ready? 277 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:56.240 But it looks like the agency's problems go deeper than 278 00:16:56.320 --> 00:16:59.720 just one employee. We also found out that FEMA didn't 279 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:03.639 ads are half the calls it received for disasterrate. Half 280 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:06.799 the calls to FEMA after the hurricane went to voicemail, 281 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:08.039 no response. 282 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.880 Can you imagine sitting there in your community in western 283 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:17.160 North Carolina, a community that's devastated, community where people you 284 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:20.519 went to church with are dead and are not coming back. 285 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:24.240 But it's okay. You may not be able to find 286 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:26.920 the church because maybe the church isn't there anymore. And 287 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:29.880 as all of you take the advice which you were 288 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:33.319 told from FEMA to go ahead and reach out and 289 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:36.519 make that phone call, and even if you get a voicemail, 290 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:39.640 to not get a response. And by the way, again, 291 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:44.480 that reporting originated November one, on the heels of all 292 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:49.160 the daily wire stuff, and I should say on the 293 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:51.920 heels in that window there as we were learning about 294 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:56.319 the daily wire FEMA woman. And as of last night's 295 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:03.880 reporting is a cent actually the same that one. That's 296 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:07.799 been almost two weeks two. It's coming up on two 297 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.160 months since the hurricane what was it? What was landfall? 298 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:14.920 The twenty sixth of September, give it a day, twenty 299 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:17.400 seventh into the twenty eighth here in North Carolina, and 300 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:21.160 you know what happened. And that's not just North Carolina. 301 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:26.359 That's also Florida, that's Georgia, it's South Carolina, it's probably 302 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:31.200 I think a little into Tennessee, I believe. And half 303 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:34.279 of the people who were told this is how you 304 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:37.680 deal with this don't believe. Those other people don't believe 305 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:41.400 that guy on the radio's he's a peddler of misinformation 306 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:45.519 and half of it. What do you expect people to do? 307 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:47.920 And the audacity of some of these videos that I've 308 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:50.880 seen coming out, and I have held off getting in 309 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:53.880 deep diving the specifics, although I've reached out to a 310 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:56.720 couple of people in these videos and they have either 311 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:02.400 clarified some thing they said or they were not the 312 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:05.440 first they were not. They're not sure what's going to 313 00:19:05.480 --> 00:19:08.640 happen yet. But there are folks who are having to 314 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:12.920 make a decision, who have been staying in shelters, staying 315 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:16.079 in some sort of temporary housing, their family units or 316 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:18.480 at least half family units, maybe a single parent with 317 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:25.799 some kids, and that what they're where they're staying and 318 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:28.640 what they're doing, time may be running out. And the 319 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:31.759 inevitability is if they don't have a place for their 320 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:35.119 family and they have kids, and you know, they don't 321 00:19:35.160 --> 00:19:38.440 have a running water or which, by the way, I'm 322 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:44.519 here to tell you, or a hot water. Even I'm 323 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:46.960 here to tell you. I lived in an entire summer 324 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:50.839 as a minor. As a minor, an entire summer, so 325 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:54.400 end of May, right after we drove cows up basically 326 00:19:54.519 --> 00:19:57.359 until early September, because bo season was getting underway, and 327 00:19:57.400 --> 00:19:59.559 then it was right back in the mountains. I lived 328 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:02.319 and built in a half constructed cabin with some buddies 329 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:06.160 one summer, and we got our water from the creek. 330 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:09.799 We granted we you know, we hold food and stuff. 331 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:13.720 There's uh, we did a lot of fishing too, and 332 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:16.319 and we were fine. And we were miners and and 333 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:18.839 my mom should have had us taken away. Well, I 334 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:20.799 can't speak from other budies. Maybe their parents would have 335 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:25.079 owned them. But yeah, and so you're telling family units 336 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:27.920 they are now in this position where if whatever a 337 00:20:28.039 --> 00:20:30.720 shelter assistance may be coming to an end for whatever reason, 338 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:34.400 that even if they want to move into a facility 339 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:37.640 but it doesn't meet all of the normal occupancy requirements, 340 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:40.240 that there's a possibility the state could take their kids. 341 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:44.039 Those are the videos you're seeing emerging. We're I'm keeping 342 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:47.920 a sharp eye on this and and I promise you 343 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:49.680 if I if I get a hint that one of 344 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:52.759 those starts to transact, that's going to be the show 345 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:56.119 the next day, especially when you couple it with that 346 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:58.920 coin flip you just did and half of you you 347 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:07.559 haven't even getten a call back. I can't fathom that. 348 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.079 I can't understand why you're not and I'm not suggesting 349 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:13.200 him do this. I can't understand when you're sitting there 350 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:16.000 and you don't even have a call back. Although I 351 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:18.720 saw people go go who leaves a voicemail? All right, 352 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:21.359 we're not talking about idiot cell phone stuff. We're talking 353 00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:23.359 about people who may have had to go borrow a 354 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:27.000 sat phone from us, from somebody so they could even 355 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:30.920 get in the hopper there, who don't even get a 356 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:34.240 call back. The amount of you wonder why people are enraged. 357 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:40.440 That's maddening. Now let me give you the other side 358 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:43.640 of this, because FEMA will say things like, well, we 359 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:45.319 have to have a way to get back in touch 360 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:48.680 with people, and I understand that within the early days, 361 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:51.799 and I also understand that FEMA with two storms is 362 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:56.039 going to be overwhelmed. And I recognize that, which is 363 00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:58.119 why let me there's the last thing I'll say on 364 00:21:58.200 --> 00:21:59.960 this and then before we get into some phone call 365 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.480 phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight 366 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:07.960 seven four. By the way, I understand that there is 367 00:22:08.519 --> 00:22:12.759 zero reason to have staffing levels during non where there's 368 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:15.440 not emergencies going on at FEMA. The same as when 369 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:18.759 there are you would just have literally hundreds, if not 370 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.240 thousands of people just sitting around, which kind of describes 371 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:24.880 parts of the government. But no, in all seriousness, that's 372 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:28.640 not functional, and I'm okay with that because that's not 373 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:31.720 how a business would handle things. When a business has 374 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:37.160 an emergency, people have to change it up. They adapt 375 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:39.160 and I'll give you an example, and it is this 376 00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:43.599 exact thing. Okay, Ross, what happened when we had to 377 00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:46.880 go a full hurricane coverage on this year news talk station? 378 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:48.519 Was it just you and me? 379 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:51.640 No, it was every station in the cluster. 380 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:54.720 Oh weird. You mean the people from the music stations 381 00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:56.880 came over and did news. 382 00:22:56.599 --> 00:23:00.440 Talk product They did, Oh okay, the country station is well. 383 00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:03.880 But not the not the classic rock station. Right, they 384 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:05.839 didn't come out. I know they came over to Oh 385 00:23:05.960 --> 00:23:08.960 those those people can, but not the It was alternative 386 00:23:09.359 --> 00:23:12.559 not the alternative rock. It's just Chris and those got no. 387 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:14.720 Just to point out that had to happen because people 388 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:16.799 are gonna say, well, why didn't your stuf because they're like, 389 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:19.200 there's like two people here, like three. 390 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:23.240 Yeah, yeah, well it overwhelmed like our Ross and I 391 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:25.480 got most weekday we got it handled. I don't know 392 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:30.119 if you've heard this, but for the most part, but 393 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:33.079 with something like that where we're going, what what did 394 00:23:33.079 --> 00:23:36.839 we go thirty six or forty eight hours straight? I 395 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:40.240 think we uh uh, and we just did it in shifts, right, 396 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:42.559 and you have to transition over to do stuff. And 397 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:47.400 then we had people outside of normal broadcasts who are 398 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:50.960 in management, who are there and they're essentially they essentially 399 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:53.559 turn into interns for a lot of this. They're running copy, 400 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:56.960 they're coordinating. Not to mention, our news department, and this 401 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:00.160