1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:05,599 Speaker 2: What's going on? 2 00:00:05,799 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,119 is heard live every day from noon to three on 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,880 WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,199 like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, I Daily 6 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:19,239 show prep with all of the links, become a patron, 7 00:00:19,359 --> 00:00:22,640 go to dpekclendarshow dot com. Make sure you hit the 8 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,719 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right your smartphone 9 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,359 or tablet, and again, thank you so much for your support. 10 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,079 Speaker 2: Many of us measure our years by our birthdays. You know, 11 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,600 you have that birthday and you're like, how do I 12 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:36,000 feel the last I can tell you there are certain 13 00:00:36,039 --> 00:00:40,159 years that were absolutely horrible. I don't remember them necessarily 14 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,000 by January first. You know, we're the fiscal years in 15 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,560 October first. Anyway, lots of different ways to measure, but 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:51,200 by and large, our society looks at you know, January first. 17 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:53,640 They look back, it's the top ten list, top hundred list, 18 00:00:53,719 --> 00:00:56,119 every way of looking at these sideways, upside down, whatever, 19 00:00:56,439 --> 00:00:58,399 and we kind of take stock. And then we have 20 00:00:58,479 --> 00:01:02,439 these crazy New Year's resolutions, which lasts, especially if they're physical. 21 00:01:02,799 --> 00:01:04,719 Almost if you go to the gym. You know this, 22 00:01:04,879 --> 00:01:06,560 I'm not telling you anything you didn't already know. But 23 00:01:06,599 --> 00:01:08,560 maybe that's my job, remind you of things you already 24 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:10,719 knew but forgot to laugh at the first time. You 25 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,840 go to the gym on January sixth, and it's packed. 26 00:01:14,159 --> 00:01:16,239 You can barely get onto a machine you want to. 27 00:01:16,359 --> 00:01:18,400 You're gonna get ripped. It's gonna be great. You're gonna 28 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:20,359 look the best you've ever looked. It's gonna be amazing. 29 00:01:20,439 --> 00:01:24,120 About February the fifteenth, everyone's like, you know what, I think, 30 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:25,959 I'll just drive it down to once or twice a week, 31 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,040 and by March and by May all the gems are 32 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:35,000 advertising again. So it's the nature of our lack of focus. 33 00:01:35,879 --> 00:01:38,319 A lot of us have the attention span of, you know, 34 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:40,879 like a squirrel. With the respect to our life spans. 35 00:01:40,879 --> 00:01:43,000 I mean, squirrels are kind of instantaneously a little lot shorter, 36 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:44,920 so their attention span is much shorter, but ours is. 37 00:01:45,439 --> 00:01:47,519 You know, you're gonna be a gonna You're gonna work 38 00:01:47,519 --> 00:01:49,319 on an instrument, and I would say the people that 39 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,280 make it in life. Oh, by the way, the voice 40 00:01:52,319 --> 00:01:53,760 is a little strange. This is chat At. I'm singing 41 00:01:53,799 --> 00:01:55,359 in for Pete Calendar here on New stock eleven, ten 42 00:01:55,439 --> 00:01:58,359 ninety nine, three WBT, Happy Monday to you all, and 43 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,879 probably I was kind of do some back the envelope calculations. 44 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:05,319 I think this is like the seventh most likely week 45 00:02:05,359 --> 00:02:07,359 to not get a lot done, because you got a 46 00:02:07,359 --> 00:02:09,759 moral to everyone's getting ready for summer, have Labor Day 47 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:12,840 where everyone's getting back from summer, certainly Christmas and Thanksgiving 48 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,800 lots of days off, not a lot of productivity. So 49 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,479 there's four gone, and then you have to look at Easter, 50 00:02:17,599 --> 00:02:20,719 which is another one that's like five, and then it's 51 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:22,599 kind of a toss up. You know, banks get off 52 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:25,039 for President s Martin Luther King Day, everybody gets off, 53 00:02:25,039 --> 00:02:27,280 and if you're not doing anything like skiing, then that's 54 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,000 just a three day weekend. And then you get to 55 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,719 January first, and right in the middle of the week, 56 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,039 not a lot of productivity happening, kind of a it's 57 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,680 like a Thursday, So today's like a Thursday, and then 58 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,719 Thursday will be like a Thursday, and then another weekend, 59 00:02:39,759 --> 00:02:44,159 and then the dreariness of the year ensues and your 60 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,719 work and your slaving way, and at some point the 61 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,919 following year you're gonna be at a gas pump, or 62 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,159 you're gonna be standing in line at I don't know, 63 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,639 grocery store, and you're gonna think to yourself, I wonder 64 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,719 how much of my life I spend or have spent, 65 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,280 standing in line wait for something to happen. And when 66 00:03:02,319 --> 00:03:04,120 I get to the end, I'm going to look back 67 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,639 and go, wow, I wonder. You know, if you calculate 68 00:03:06,719 --> 00:03:09,719 that up at like thirty minutes a week times fifty 69 00:03:09,759 --> 00:03:11,400 two weeks times the number of years you're a live, 70 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,800 and you get to an obscene number of like now, 71 00:03:13,879 --> 00:03:17,319 I spent eight weeks of my life in line waiting 72 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,080 for crap. And if you add a Disney World in 73 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,199 there or some kind of theme park, then it's like 74 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,719 a lot more. But the last I digress because my 75 00:03:23,719 --> 00:03:27,960 attention span is thus so well, you'll get through the 76 00:03:28,039 --> 00:03:31,960 year and you have these ridiculous kind of things you 77 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,719 set up for yourself. And I would say that success 78 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,319 and you know this to be true, that the great 79 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,919 successes in life that you know, other than people that 80 00:03:40,039 --> 00:03:42,759 luck into things, but by and large ninety nine percent 81 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:49,840 are those that have a remarkable work ethic, show up early, 82 00:03:50,199 --> 00:03:55,080 leave late, and make the sacrifices. You know, overnight success 83 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:58,120 is about fifteen years for anyone paying attention. It really is. 84 00:03:58,199 --> 00:04:00,280 If you look around, if you're forty plus and you 85 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,240 look back at your friends in their twenties and thirties, 86 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,919 there may be a few happenstance opportunities there, but by 87 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,080 and large, it's the people that stuck with whatever it 88 00:04:08,159 --> 00:04:12,159 was they were doing and they became insanely successful because 89 00:04:12,199 --> 00:04:16,079 at a certain point, it's like a rock tumbling down 90 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,839 a hill or snowball for lack of a better analogy, 91 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:21,879 that at a certain point it picks up steam. And 92 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:26,240 then if you're really really at it, if you really 93 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:29,519 get at it and have some form of discipline, then 94 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:31,120 you're going to be great at whatever it is you 95 00:04:31,199 --> 00:04:33,040 choose to do. If you want to be a great musician. 96 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,720 I had a friend who was a talented musician. I said, man, 97 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:37,560 you're amazing to have that kind of talent. He says, 98 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,639 it's amazing how talented you can become working an hour 99 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,560 a day for fifteen years on the same thing. And 100 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,800 he's right and amazing. It didn't just come naturally. You 101 00:04:47,959 --> 00:04:50,560 just had to work at it. So the same thing 102 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,879 with everything in life, and at a certain point, if 103 00:04:52,879 --> 00:04:54,759 you're fortunate, and you stick with it enough, and you 104 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,600 don't take too many risks, and you don't do dumb things, 105 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,680 which we all will do. And you're going to find 106 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:02,680 a point where it's kind of a snowball, where your 107 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:07,519 worries are not about money. And that's a beautiful thing, 108 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,120 but at a certain point it's about you know your 109 00:05:11,199 --> 00:05:13,439 life and taking stock of your life and looking back 110 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,519 in saying and looking forward and saying, Okay, here's what 111 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,519 I've accomplished, Here's what I have yet to do, and 112 00:05:18,639 --> 00:05:21,000 I've got a limited time to do it. And what 113 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:22,319 do I want to make of that? What do I 114 00:05:22,319 --> 00:05:24,240 want to do with my hyphen between my birth date 115 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,120 and my death day? What is it I want to accomplish? 116 00:05:26,319 --> 00:05:28,680 And New Year's are often a way to take stock 117 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,560 of that, if for no other reason than kind of 118 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,360 a reflection of where you've been and kind of a 119 00:05:34,439 --> 00:05:38,240 window about where you want to go. So my hope 120 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:40,560 for all of you is that you take that moment. 121 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,639 It's not that you give yourself unachievable goals for the 122 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,639 next year. And as nutty as you thought, twenty twenty 123 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,360 four was make no mistake twenty twenty five will be 124 00:05:49,399 --> 00:05:53,879 equally so. Where we find ourselves at an accelerated technological pace, 125 00:05:54,519 --> 00:05:59,399 we find ourselves at a time when news has self immolated, 126 00:06:00,519 --> 00:06:04,240 where it has become the least trusted aspect of society. 127 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:08,720 We also have government agencies. So technology is heading forward 128 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,759 at light speed for lack. It really is at at 129 00:06:11,879 --> 00:06:15,600 at an unbelievable pace. It's an unsustainable pace with respect 130 00:06:15,639 --> 00:06:17,959 to how we conduct ourselves and act with one another. 131 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,319 You look at this, and a good example of that 132 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:23,040 is the iPhone was invented or brought to society in 133 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,360 about two thousand and seven, and we're now get three 134 00:06:26,759 --> 00:06:30,079 four phones free. You get these thousand dollars phones free, 135 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:36,959 and the small print is so weirdly un non understandable. 136 00:06:37,639 --> 00:06:40,079 It's cryptic in a way that like you found a 137 00:06:40,079 --> 00:06:43,720 foreign language cryptic. And it's like the time share of technology, 138 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:45,639 isn't it? Because they they rope you in for a 139 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:47,720 couple of years, they say, you get all this stuff 140 00:06:47,759 --> 00:06:50,079 for free, but it's kind of negated by the plan 141 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,839 you get. You have to get the best planned, but 142 00:06:51,879 --> 00:06:53,519 you don't realize you're getting the best plan because you 143 00:06:53,519 --> 00:06:55,160 want to use tech anyway. But even though most of 144 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,399 your gigabytes are used in your home Wi Fi or 145 00:06:57,399 --> 00:06:59,199 at the coffee shop down the street. And then you 146 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:00,639 go through this and all of a sudden you need 147 00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:04,160 a Rosetta stone to understand what the hell you're doing technology, 148 00:07:04,199 --> 00:07:08,279 And don't think that's going to become easier. You know, 149 00:07:08,639 --> 00:07:11,800 fifteen years ago, your names and passwords weren't that difficult, 150 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,920 were they? You had one or two? Now do you 151 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,279 keep how many times have you lost your password? On 152 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,720 the twenty applications you have to use. You think you 153 00:07:20,759 --> 00:07:22,839 can use the same one, but you can't because something's 154 00:07:22,839 --> 00:07:25,800 been compromised or someone hacked it, And all of a sudden, 155 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:27,959 you have to have fifteen to twenty different passwords, and 156 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,199 you hope that your master password doesn't get messed up 157 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,279 because you need that password to keep track of all 158 00:07:33,319 --> 00:07:38,480 the other passwords. That's and the level of complexity in 159 00:07:38,519 --> 00:07:42,120 our lives is very different than it was twenty and 160 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,360 thirty years ago. I mean, you know, back in the day, 161 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:45,959 you just had junk mail. You had a pile of 162 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,879 junk mail, you went through and through it away. Now 163 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,040 you're stuck with some junk mail, which is most of 164 00:07:50,079 --> 00:07:52,040 what comes to your mailbox. It's bills and junk mail, 165 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,720 but in your inbox. How many of you've run out 166 00:07:54,759 --> 00:07:58,160 of room on your Gmail or email accounts anywhere, and 167 00:07:58,199 --> 00:07:59,560 you have to go through and figure out how the 168 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,759 hell out I eradicate the past eight years of emails? 169 00:08:03,199 --> 00:08:05,160 How do I do that? You click? Wanted to try 170 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,399 and click click, click click. Some email apps to let 171 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,959 you do more than that, But it's difficult, and that 172 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,639 level of complexity will be added to another layer of 173 00:08:13,639 --> 00:08:17,639 complexity until somebody comes along and invents something that makes 174 00:08:17,639 --> 00:08:19,040 this rather simple. I don't know if it's going to 175 00:08:19,079 --> 00:08:20,639 be biometric. I mean a lot of your computers have 176 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:23,000 biometric centerm. Now I don't know what it will be. 177 00:08:23,279 --> 00:08:25,839 Maybe it's DNA. Take a hair's follicle and you stick 178 00:08:25,839 --> 00:08:28,279 it over scanner that's you for all of your passwords. 179 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:30,240 Then you steal someone's DNA, but you've gotta have two 180 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,399 factor authentication, So maybe it's a hair and an IRIS scan. 181 00:08:33,519 --> 00:08:36,720 I don't know. But we've got much to talk about today. 182 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,480 We're gonna be talking about the governor of our state's legacy. 183 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:41,120 We've got because there's a lot of people that are 184 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:43,720 trying to write the history, even though we know it's 185 00:08:43,759 --> 00:08:45,960 not true. We're gonna have to. We will address something 186 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,639 about Jimmy Carter. As much as there are many people 187 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,159 that are giving him great credibility and I as well, 188 00:08:53,159 --> 00:08:56,440 they should in some ways, but we also need to 189 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,080 be honest about his accomplishments as well. In the National 190 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,559 Review did a brutal overview and it's almost cruel. But 191 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:04,759 I would say that Donald Trump, what he had to 192 00:09:04,759 --> 00:09:06,960 say about Carter was quite kind. He said it on 193 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,279 true social We may get to that, but definitely Carter's legacy. 194 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,000 Some strange happenings with the weather. As beautiful as the 195 00:09:12,039 --> 00:09:16,200 weather may be at the moment, it belies something that's 196 00:09:16,399 --> 00:09:18,759 being predicted. I don't know how far will go, but 197 00:09:18,879 --> 00:09:23,600 it could be a brutally cold January, quite rentry for 198 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:25,399 the Charlotte area and all the way into Raleigh and 199 00:09:25,399 --> 00:09:28,799 even in eastern North Carolina. We'll see. 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That's 219 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,240 Create a Video dot Com. 220 00:10:36,039 --> 00:10:37,679 Speaker 2: A lot going on, As I mentioned before the break, 221 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:39,879 We're talking a little bit about Governor Cooper's legacy, the 222 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:43,000 Jimmy Carter things, some weather stuff, the predictions for North Carolina, 223 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,759 the Mike Johnson speaker race in the HB one visa program, 224 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,679 and the H one B visa program is the one. 225 00:10:50,799 --> 00:10:52,639 I don't want to make light of people who have 226 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,519 strong opinions on that. It's just when I look at this, 227 00:10:55,919 --> 00:10:58,759 it's it's like majoring in minor things. The H one 228 00:10:58,799 --> 00:11:01,519 B visa program is not a minor, but the disagreements 229 00:11:01,519 --> 00:11:04,279 on it really are. It's much ado about nothing. It's 230 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,559 mountains out of mole hills. It's important, but people's emotion 231 00:11:08,639 --> 00:11:13,000 get so tied in. This is not the southern border, 232 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,320 This is not terrorists coming into the country. This is 233 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:21,039 not people committing crimes against the American public. This is 234 00:11:21,159 --> 00:11:25,799 a work visa program that will be updated and changed. 235 00:11:25,799 --> 00:11:28,200 We'll get into that because there's an excellent piece on 236 00:11:28,279 --> 00:11:34,279 that that see who wrote that. Hey, I will get 237 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,240 to it. I can't see it right now, but it's 238 00:11:36,279 --> 00:11:37,840 worth it. It's a good one, and I promise i'll 239 00:11:37,879 --> 00:11:39,120 get through it now. I do want to get to 240 00:11:39,159 --> 00:11:41,799 long Leaf politics first, and if you want to get 241 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:46,519 on the conversation, as I said, you folks are all okay, 242 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,360 blur Wait one was Nirvana and no it was blur 243 00:11:50,399 --> 00:11:51,840 I guess the old thing was Blurke. Thank you, by 244 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:55,320 the way for setting me straight. Now over at long 245 00:11:55,399 --> 00:11:58,799 Leaf politics. They're talking about the what's next now Governor Cooper. 246 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,120 There's Ford Porter, who has been Governor Cooper's go to 247 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:06,440 leftist consultant. And I want to go back to how 248 00:12:06,519 --> 00:12:10,679 Cooper got to be governor. It's very the gravy train 249 00:12:10,879 --> 00:12:13,840 for Democrats to become governors very lucrative. It's been very good. 250 00:12:13,919 --> 00:12:15,320 It's been good for Cooper. It's not going to be 251 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:17,320 good for Josh Stein. And if you think about it, 252 00:12:18,039 --> 00:12:21,559 Governor Cooper sat at the Attorney General's office forever Democrats going, 253 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:22,759 are you're ever going to run? Are you're ever going 254 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,279 to run? And they waited till they had a wounded 255 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,320 candidate because Cooper didn't. Cooper doesn't like to go up 256 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:30,759 against a formidable candidate. He likes to go up against 257 00:12:30,799 --> 00:12:33,039 someone he really believes it's going to be easy to beat. 258 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,440 And when he beat McCrory, McCory was on the heels 259 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,919 of the House bill won the transgender issue way before 260 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,240 it has turned. I mean, if that were to happen today, 261 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,639 Governor Cooper would not have run against Governor McCrory. McCrory 262 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,840 would have probably won a second term. I mean, notwithstanding 263 00:12:48,879 --> 00:12:51,759 the issue in northeastern North Carolina with a fishing community. 264 00:12:51,799 --> 00:12:57,679 Notwithstanding the toll road issue, but the men and women's 265 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,279 bathroom issue is very different than it was when it 266 00:13:00,399 --> 00:13:03,879 was first brought up. I mean, it was just an assale. 267 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:06,519 It was just an assault on and McCrory. He was 268 00:13:06,519 --> 00:13:08,600 put in an awkward position by the legislature and Governor 269 00:13:08,639 --> 00:13:10,600 Cooper kind of walked in. And then when he ran 270 00:13:10,639 --> 00:13:13,600 for reelection, they had the cover of locking down everything 271 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:16,480 and they just lampooned how I mean, not how Weather. 272 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,600 They dan poomed Dan Forrest for unmasking and talking to people. 273 00:13:20,639 --> 00:13:22,799 Now history is going to be kinder to Dan Forest. 274 00:13:22,799 --> 00:13:25,159 It's not going to be remembered much. But he was right. 275 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,639 We shouldn't have locked down as much. But it elevated 276 00:13:27,639 --> 00:13:29,679 the careers of Roy Cooper allowed him to go to 277 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,360 a second term. This isn't one of the least accomplished governors, 278 00:13:32,879 --> 00:13:36,360 most accomplishment winning elections, least accomplished from actually doing things, 279 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,480 and they're trying to revise what he is and the 280 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:42,320 reason they're trying to revise what he is. Right now, 281 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,360 they're going to be poorted on thick Ford. Porter is 282 00:13:44,519 --> 00:13:46,360 even Governor Cooper's kind of saying, look at me, Look 283 00:13:46,399 --> 00:13:48,200 what I did. I was doing a great job as governor, 284 00:13:48,919 --> 00:13:51,559 and as I was reading this, I thought, this is 285 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,039 kind of this revisionist history thing that we're trying to 286 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,320 act like we've done such a remarkable He wrote about 287 00:13:59,159 --> 00:14:01,159 he wrote about him. He said, our state has come 288 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:03,440 a long way in eight years. Under Governor Cooper's leadership, 289 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:05,279 North Colna has become the best place on the planet 290 00:14:05,279 --> 00:14:07,440 to do business. He wrote that about himself or his 291 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,519 team wrote it about him? Now is he about him? Then? 292 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:16,000 His chief consultant often a lot of crowing about who 293 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,240 deserves credit for economic gains. The fact is that Governor 294 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:20,879 Cooper came into office with a deliberate, intentional plan to 295 00:14:20,919 --> 00:14:23,919 restore north Kin's reputation and make our state the epicenter 296 00:14:23,919 --> 00:14:26,200 for high paying growth industries of the future. And it 297 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,240 has worked. Now. What Ford Porter fails to tell you 298 00:14:29,919 --> 00:14:32,919 is that Governor Cooper didn't even sign a budget until 299 00:14:32,919 --> 00:14:35,600 twenty twenty one. The first four years of his governorship, 300 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,080 he was worked around, he was put in the corner, 301 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,559 he was put in time out like a child by 302 00:14:41,559 --> 00:14:45,080 the legislature. With Phil Berger, and they were able to 303 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:47,559 just get the budget through. In fact, the new tax rate, 304 00:14:47,639 --> 00:14:49,480 the individual tax rate in North Coline is going to 305 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:51,960 go from four point five down to four point twenty 306 00:14:52,039 --> 00:14:53,879 five this year, and the next year it's going to 307 00:14:53,919 --> 00:14:56,320 go down another quarter points. So your income taxes are 308 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,879 coming down, not because of Governor Cooper the Democrats, mind you, 309 00:14:58,919 --> 00:15:02,159 but because of the legislative leadership at the time. And 310 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,559 Governor Cooper was just he was kind of he's just 311 00:15:04,679 --> 00:15:08,120 in quarter in time out, being a good, little irrelevant governor. 312 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,799 He had nothing to do with North Conna's roaring comeback, 313 00:15:10,919 --> 00:15:13,879 very precious little, and he didn't even sign a budget 314 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,639 until the middle of the COVID pandemic. And he will 315 00:15:16,679 --> 00:15:20,440 be remembered more for that than anything he had other 316 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:23,399 than maybe Medicaid expansion, a massive expansion of a government 317 00:15:23,399 --> 00:15:28,720 program that is insolvent. So that's his legacy even though 318 00:15:28,759 --> 00:15:30,799 they're Trump. But the reason they're trying to do this 319 00:15:31,519 --> 00:15:33,080 it's not hard is because here wants some of the 320 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,679 predictions over at long Leaf Politics, and it's worth though 321 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,480 Andrew Dunn wrote it, so here are the bold and 322 00:15:38,519 --> 00:15:41,879 not sole predictions. Roy Cooper will run for US Senate 323 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,240 somehow we're already reaching the end of us under Tom 324 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,200 Tillis's second term. The prevailing wisdom is that outgoing Governor 325 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:50,559 Cooper will challenge him for the seat in twenty twenty six. 326 00:15:51,279 --> 00:15:53,840 Cooper certainly doesn't need to. He'll be nearly seventy years 327 00:15:53,879 --> 00:15:56,120 old by that election day and just serve two pretty 328 00:15:56,159 --> 00:15:59,440 successful from his perspective terms as governor. I just told 329 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,960 you that. But my gut says he'll run, not mine. 330 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:05,000 But the authors Cooper loves national politics too much and 331 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,360 has not had the chance to directly participate in it. 332 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,399 The author says, I think Cooper also values the chance 333 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,639 to stay at the head of the state Democratic Party. 334 00:16:13,039 --> 00:16:15,000 For this prediction to be successful, Cooper will need to 335 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,559 announce his candidacy pretty quickly. Now, two things here on 336 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,480 this prediction. One, Tillis is much more vulnerable in a 337 00:16:22,519 --> 00:16:27,120 Republican primary than I think against Cooper in a general butt. 338 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:31,240 Cooper does have a He's very well known, and he's 339 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,240 very well liked, mainly because people don't know anything about him. 340 00:16:34,519 --> 00:16:37,960 He's kind of the states mister Rogers of politics comes 341 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,720 in Good Day boys and girls. He even has the 342 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,360 intonation of a mister Rogers. He speaks in a very 343 00:16:43,919 --> 00:16:46,480 third grade level for everybody. It's not complicated. Every now 344 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,320 and then he gets mad at Republicans, but he sounds 345 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:52,759 like he's scolding them. But the issue for Cooper now 346 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,679 the under underside's the wrong word. Let me rephrase this 347 00:16:57,399 --> 00:17:00,919 the other conventional wisdom, that is from friends I have 348 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:04,559 in circles near him, And again I do not know 349 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:06,640 this to be true. This was what was related to 350 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:08,680 me is that his wife would like some time away 351 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,079 from politics. He's been in politics the entirety since the 352 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,720 ninety two, eighty nine, ninety two somewhere there, and his 353 00:17:14,759 --> 00:17:17,880 wife's kind of gone done. She'd like some time. Can't 354 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,000 say that we blame her. But taking a break he 355 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:21,920 would have about a year break. He'd be raising money 356 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,359 for a senator rate. So maybe the two years would 357 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,720 allow him that time away from politics to get back 358 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:31,799 into politics. Don't know. But that's the first prediction. So 359 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,880 what does that The first prediction leads us to the 360 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,240 second prediction that they make over at long Leaf, which 361 00:17:37,279 --> 00:17:39,799 is that Tillis, for his part, has already kicked off 362 00:17:39,799 --> 00:17:42,279 his reelection efforts with a high dollar fundraiser in DC. 363 00:17:43,079 --> 00:17:45,240 I would not have been surprised if Tillis had decided 364 00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:47,119 to retire from the Senate, but that does not appear 365 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,799 to be the case. The very online faction of the 366 00:17:49,799 --> 00:17:54,400 Republican Party has identified Tillis as a target, and there 367 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:56,920 are already rumblings about who might pose a serious primary 368 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,039 challenging to the senior senator. Sitting Senator, don't think that'll happen. 369 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:03,480 And so you've got to remember, for as much as 370 00:18:03,559 --> 00:18:06,200 you may think Tillis may have a challenge from the right, 371 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:09,519 who would it be. Who has the name ID, who 372 00:18:09,519 --> 00:18:15,079 has the organizational structure, who has the money to challenge Tillis? 373 00:18:15,079 --> 00:18:19,640 And that list is tiny. I mean right now, the Republicans, 374 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:23,119 though they've won a couple state level seats, not all 375 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,200 of them. In fact, they lost. They're actually down one. 376 00:18:26,799 --> 00:18:30,079 Republicans underperformed relative to many parts of the nation. In 377 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,599 the Republican circles. I don't care what some people, my 378 00:18:32,839 --> 00:18:34,839 several friends are like, No, we've done great. The Republicans 379 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:38,400 are doing great. They're doing they're they're mediocreing their way through. 380 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,599 But there there isn't really a name that you can 381 00:18:42,599 --> 00:18:44,920 think now. Anything can change in the next year. But 382 00:18:45,279 --> 00:18:48,039 I don't see any legislator challenging him. There's nobody from 383 00:18:48,039 --> 00:18:50,000 the state level. I mean, you would have had someone 384 00:18:50,039 --> 00:18:53,559 like how Weatherman is lieutenant governor or you or a 385 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,039 Dale follow up former treasurer, but I don't. I don't 386 00:18:56,039 --> 00:18:59,839 see that happening. So Tillis is probably going to coast 387 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,960 because why the prediction is that Trump will endorse till 388 00:19:04,039 --> 00:19:07,519 Us very early this cycle, preventing a challenge. Trump will 389 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:09,880 use the weight of his endorsement to extract loyalty from 390 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:11,960 Tillius and give Republicans a better chance to hold on 391 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,400 to the seat in the process. Now, from Trump's perspective, 392 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:20,000 if he can get Tillis in line, which till this 393 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:22,960 is kind of a you know, he's sent er right, 394 00:19:23,799 --> 00:19:26,039 how far will Trump be able to pull him in line? 395 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,039 But that would be that would be politically in Tillis's 396 00:19:30,039 --> 00:19:34,200 best interest to be MAGA heading forward, which would make 397 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,279 the race with Cooper fun. I think it would. The 398 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,599 other one is that Governor Josh Stein will veto fewer 399 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:42,839 than eight bills in twenty twenty five. That's an odd 400 00:19:42,839 --> 00:19:44,359 prediction because you don't know how many bills of the 401 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,559 legislature is going to pass in which ones he would veto. 402 00:19:46,839 --> 00:19:50,160 Cooper just annihilated the record for vetos in a gubernatorial term, 403 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,319 applying the stamp to a total of one hundred and 404 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:55,319 four bills over the course of eight years. That equates 405 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:59,079 to an average of thirteen vetos per year. The success 406 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,839 of those vetos was mixed. Cooper's last twenty nine veto's 407 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,880 were all overridden, but the forty seven before that were sustained. 408 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:10,359 Representing all the vetos from twenty nineteen through twenty twenty two, 409 00:20:10,559 --> 00:20:12,480 twenty twenty five will also look like the beginning of 410 00:20:12,519 --> 00:20:15,759 Cooper's term, more like the where there will be a 411 00:20:15,799 --> 00:20:18,440 mix of vetos overridden and sustained. But Josh Stein said, 412 00:20:18,599 --> 00:20:21,440 what will Josh Diin want to do? It will determine it. 413 00:20:21,799 --> 00:20:23,960 I don't think he'll have as many vetos. I think 414 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,200 he's going to even though his I think his landings 415 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,960 are far more left than Cooper's. I think he wants 416 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,079 to be seen as someone who gets things done more 417 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:36,000 than Cooper did, and he's much more outspoken. So we 418 00:20:36,079 --> 00:20:36,640 will see. 419 00:20:36,839 --> 00:20:38,759 Speaker 1: All right, Hey, real quick, if you would like to 420 00:20:38,799 --> 00:20:41,640 get your product or service in front of about ten 421 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,599 thousand people multiple times a day. 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They are as meaningful as you know Usain 434 00:21:15,079 --> 00:21:17,319 Kudzu will take over the state this coming year, or 435 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:21,920 that a unnamed storm will destroy Rawley this year. You 436 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,440 know these kind of you know, the liar's anonymous kind 437 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,799 of thing. Yeah, that's the ticket. So some other predictions, 438 00:21:27,839 --> 00:21:31,039 but these are a lot of these are based in observations. 439 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,000 I do agree with some of these. That Stein. They're 440 00:21:34,039 --> 00:21:36,480 saying the new governor will sign a budget into law. 441 00:21:36,559 --> 00:21:39,359 He'll say it didn't go far enough, but I don't 442 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,799 think he wants the record that Cooper had about being 443 00:21:42,839 --> 00:21:45,559 so obstinate Cooper. One thing about him that you know, 444 00:21:45,599 --> 00:21:46,920 if you get to know him at all, is that 445 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,720 he really doesn't like Republicans at all. He doesn't like them. 446 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,799 He didn't like him in the nineties, he didn't like 447 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,759 him in the two thousands. He has a thin skin. 448 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,799 He criticize me. He doesn't unlike Trump, who you know, 449 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,559 taxes people. Cooper just stews on things. And as much 450 00:22:01,599 --> 00:22:04,480 as he's likable from a public standpoint, he stews on 451 00:22:04,559 --> 00:22:08,960 him and and he's he's he's very secretive that he 452 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,920 doesn't have emails that you can look at, he doesn't 453 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,119 have text messages that are available for public inspection. He's 454 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:18,240 been that way for two decades. And that's just the way. 455 00:22:18,279 --> 00:22:20,400 I'm not casting aspersions, it's just the way he is. 456 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,279 Stein is much different. Stein is much more gregarious, much 457 00:22:23,279 --> 00:22:27,559 more likely to say things. So moving forward on this, 458 00:22:27,759 --> 00:22:30,559 one of the big predictions, and one of the biggest predictions, 459 00:22:30,599 --> 00:22:34,759 is that Senator Berger from Greensborough the powerful, the probably 460 00:22:34,799 --> 00:22:37,720 the single most powerful politician in all of Raleigh and 461 00:22:37,839 --> 00:22:40,559 has been for a very long time, kind of since 462 00:22:40,599 --> 00:22:43,799 the sunsetting of Mark Bass Knight and the the ironclad 463 00:22:43,839 --> 00:22:47,039 Democrat hold on North Carolina politics. That that Mark Bass 464 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,640 Knight and Tony Rand and Jim Black had until Jim 465 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,680 Black went to prison was broken, and Berger's assent to 466 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,920 the pro tem who crafted years of budgets, who crafted 467 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:04,039 the income tax cuts. I think his goal was to 468 00:23:04,039 --> 00:23:06,559 have North Carolina be a zero income tax state like 469 00:23:06,599 --> 00:23:09,359 Tennessee and Florida wanted to follow suit. So what we've 470 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,000 seen is this ratchet down. They've had several opportunities to 471 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:16,359 do it, but he didn't quite force that in through 472 00:23:16,519 --> 00:23:18,839 the Senate the House. It probably could have happened a 473 00:23:18,839 --> 00:23:21,279 few times, but they didn't go that far. They did 474 00:23:21,319 --> 00:23:24,759 go with the medicaid expansion, surprisingly and shockingly, but we 475 00:23:24,839 --> 00:23:27,559 will see a state income tax that, you know, going 476 00:23:27,559 --> 00:23:29,400 from four and a half to four point twenty five 477 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,640 next year goes to three point nine to nine. At 478 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:33,599 that rate, it'll be the end of my life before 479 00:23:33,599 --> 00:23:36,839 the income tax goes away, it seems like. But and 480 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,079 who knows, maybe another group will come in and figure 481 00:23:40,079 --> 00:23:42,400 that out and we can become because that would be 482 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:47,119 the next big change in the North Tolna business climate. 483 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,240 Would be a zero income tax state. It would be 484 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:53,160 an economic boom with respect not just to tourism but 485 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:57,079 to people moving here and building and building these fortune 486 00:23:57,079 --> 00:23:59,880 five hundred companies. Anyway, back to the prediction, Senate President 487 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,319 pro Tim phil Berger has been in leadership even longer 488 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:08,960 than Speaker More was. Speaker More was your House leader 489 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,319 for the past decade. He kept saying he wouldn't do 490 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,440 another term. That he did and then he carved out 491 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,559 a congressional district for himself, ran for it. And you know, 492 00:24:16,599 --> 00:24:19,160 there's many questions about his behavior, what he did, and 493 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,160 some of the court testimony that was against Speaker More, 494 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,720 if it was ever run in public, would be damning. 495 00:24:24,759 --> 00:24:27,880 But he carved out a congressional district. One that congressional 496 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,119 district that he carved out for himself. But he's gone, 497 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:32,720 or will be shortly. He'll be heading to d C 498 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,839 where because he could do even more. I guess Berger, 499 00:24:37,759 --> 00:24:39,880 since Republicans of Control have been setting the record for 500 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,000 the longest continuous term in that role, this could be 501 00:24:43,079 --> 00:24:45,359 his last. Buy him at the helm of the State Senate. 502 00:24:45,759 --> 00:24:49,039 This person from long leave politics thinks twenty twenty five 503 00:24:49,039 --> 00:24:50,359 will be the year in which the rank and file 504 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,359 members of the General Assembly grow discontent with the way 505 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,759 things are operating in rollery Berger's post will be on 506 00:24:55,799 --> 00:24:59,039 the shopping block rather than retire pursue higher office like more. 507 00:24:59,559 --> 00:25:02,240 A lot of will think Burger will run for reelection 508 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,640 as a regular member in twenty six. That would be 509 00:25:05,799 --> 00:25:11,599 a massive, massive shift, massive shift. Now the new lieutenant 510 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,359 governor another one that people you may not know the name. 511 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,240 A lot of people don't know her name is Rachel Hunt. 512 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,480 She's a devout lefty surprising. I was surprised that how 513 00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:22,920 Weatherman lost that race of all the ones that I 514 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:30,400 thought had a shot, but it was the unbelievable Robinson, 515 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,240 the anti Robinson sentiment and the groups that did a 516 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,960 remarkable job of tagging people and connecting them to Robinson 517 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,119 that were like Dan Bishop and how Weatherman and Michelle Moore. 518 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,519 All these people were tied into Mark Robinson even though 519 00:25:45,519 --> 00:25:48,599 they had nothing to do with Mark Robinson. But except 520 00:25:48,799 --> 00:25:51,240 sharing the party label that they had, Trump was able 521 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,720 to overcome it. Those three weren't. But Rachel Hunt winning 522 00:25:54,759 --> 00:25:58,319 that post. She wants a lot more attention. This is 523 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,160 an individual that will be I believe. I agree with 524 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,119 this prediction. She wants to be a high profile Democrat 525 00:26:05,519 --> 00:26:08,200 right now. Lieutenant governor position in North Carolina is very weak. 526 00:26:08,279 --> 00:26:11,240 It is constitutionally established as the president of the state Senate. 527 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,240 Over the last decade, lieutenant governors have regularly presided over 528 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,119 the Senate, but it has been exceedingly rare for there 529 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,599 to be a partisandifference. Now we have that, we have 530 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,279 a very left leaning Rachel Hunt presiding over the Senate 531 00:26:22,279 --> 00:26:25,559 that is run by Phil Berger. That's where we find ourselves. 532 00:26:26,759 --> 00:26:28,920 A lot of people predict that Lieutenant Governor Rachel Hunt 533 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,720 will use her position for a lot of rhetorical effect. 534 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,240 Other words, she wants to get more national attention. At 535 00:26:34,319 --> 00:26:36,559 least once this year, Hunt will earn herself a national 536 00:26:36,599 --> 00:26:40,039 headline for using her position over the Senate to blast 537 00:26:40,079 --> 00:26:42,839 the Republicans. That's the prediction. I think it's an easy 538 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,319 I think that's a very easy one because Rachel Hunt 539 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,720 is someone who really she if she were in DC, 540 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,759 she would be a member of the squad. That's how 541 00:26:50,799 --> 00:26:54,599 far left she really is politically. And I'm not None 542 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,359 of what I'm saying is intended to be mean or disrespectful. 543 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,200 I'm a conservative, conservative talk show host talk about conservative issues. 544 00:27:01,599 --> 00:27:04,279 That's why I'm here. It's what I do, and I've 545 00:27:04,319 --> 00:27:06,759 been that way for decades, even going back to college 546 00:27:06,839 --> 00:27:09,680 days when I was managing a conservative newspaper in the 547 00:27:09,759 --> 00:27:13,839 UNC system. So she is a devout lefty. She considers 548 00:27:13,839 --> 00:27:16,799 herself very progressive, and she does want to make national 549 00:27:16,839 --> 00:27:19,480 headlines because Josh Stein is going to be term limited 550 00:27:19,519 --> 00:27:21,480 to eight to two terms if he can manage to 551 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,640 get reelected. So where does Rachel Hunt go from there? 552 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,799 Who wants to be known? Does she want to launch 553 00:27:26,799 --> 00:27:30,279 yourself into national politics or does she just want to 554 00:27:30,319 --> 00:27:33,079 be able to replace Stein in eight years if that's 555 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,759 the case, because Stein will be the presumptive nominee for 556 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,920 twenty or twenty thirty I get, or twenty twenty eight, 557 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,759 I guess. So that's where we find ourselves if you 558 00:27:42,839 --> 00:27:45,279 have some opinions about what might take place seven oh four, five, 559 00:27:45,319 --> 00:27:48,160 seven oh eleven, ten, Yours News Talk eleven ten ninety 560 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,160 nine three WBT, And you know, as I look for it, 561 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,759 I hate I hate prediction. I hate predictive politics. But 562 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:59,759 some people lend themselves to it. Some people lend themselves 563 00:27:59,799 --> 00:28:05,119 well to predictive politics. You can kind of tell. You 564 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,640 can kind of tell by the way they conduct themselves. 565 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,400 So that's just the way it is right now though, WBT, 566 00:28:11,559 --> 00:28:14,960 in collaboration with the Mecklenburg County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, 567 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,039 is committed to amplifying community voices in providing hope and 568 00:28:18,079 --> 00:28:21,720 resources in the mental and behavioral health domains. For the 569 00:28:21,759 --> 00:28:24,359 month of December, we are navigating the holidays with Resilience. 570 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,359 Providing us with the toolbox needed to navigate is Hope 571 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,400 Haven Incorporated's Ms. Karen King, Senior Vice President. This program 572 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,400 is presented by the Mecklenburg County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. 573 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,640 Visit mechabc dot com for more information on their community 574 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:43,279 outreach initiatives. That's mechabc dot com. Find out more about 575 00:28:43,279 --> 00:28:46,000 that one of the many ways that WBT continues to 576 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,240 be a part of the community and push for the 577 00:28:48,279 --> 00:28:51,079 betterment of it. Now, when we get back from this break, 578 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,000 I don't know how much I want to delve into 579 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,799 it because it sounds like it's going to be negative. 580 00:28:54,799 --> 00:28:57,599 I'm reminded after the passing of Jimmy Carter, and by 581 00:28:57,599 --> 00:29:00,720 the way, Linda Lavin also passed away. Those who remember 582 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,799 the show Alice. She was a kind of a North Carolinian. 583 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,000 The last decades of her life, very active in the 584 00:29:06,039 --> 00:29:08,839 Wilmington area, directing plays and being active. She's even in 585 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,400 a Netflix series right now that that can be seen. 586 00:29:12,519 --> 00:29:14,759 But she passed away last night at eighty seven. But 587 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,960 on Carter's legacy, WBT, I think did a nice montage 588 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:23,240 about recognizing him. He received the Nobel Prize, but as 589 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,000 we've talked about last week, many Democrats do Obama received 590 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,640 the Nobel Peace Prize just for being elected. Carter is 591 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,119 recognized for a lot of his humanitarian work after he 592 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:37,559 was president, but it's easy to glossover. I've kind of 593 00:29:37,599 --> 00:29:42,519 in that Mark Antony Julius Caesar moment where Antony recognizes 594 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:46,559 that Caesar was powerful and must be remembered a certain way. 595 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,920 You know. That's what twenty four is like. It's like 596 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,920 you're always out of breath, wasn't I just walked around 597 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,279 for a second and wanted to stretch my legs and 598 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,720 take a deep breath. Now, moving ahead, as we were 599 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,839 looking at some of the predictions, I think there's a 600 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,359 couple more predictions that go beyond North Carolina, and the 601 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,799 big one coming up today, well not today, but shortly 602 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,599 will be the reelection of Speaker Mike Johnson. Now many 603 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,920 of you who I don't know why I got out 604 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,839 of read so much, but so Mike Johnson is Speaker 605 00:30:19,839 --> 00:30:23,440 of the House. Many on the MAGA right are upset 606 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,759 about this, and this is one of those issues that 607 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,480 I don't fully grasp. I get it. Look, I've been 608 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,240 around the conservative movement for decades, spoke at many a 609 00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:36,759 tea party gathering, I wrote about this stuff. I have 610 00:30:37,119 --> 00:30:38,480 seen it on the front lines. I've been on the 611 00:30:38,519 --> 00:30:42,160 front lines of stopping forest annexation. I have been against 612 00:30:42,319 --> 00:30:45,960 the erosion of property rights. I get all of it. 613 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,039 What I don't get is the hatred of one person. 614 00:30:50,559 --> 00:30:52,960 And it's really it's kind of strange because he is 615 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,839 not anti Trump at all. I mean, Mike Johnson is 616 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,599 took over from Speaker McCarthy and was an air election 617 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,720 after days and days of going back and forth without 618 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:04,880 who could do it. But you've got to look at 619 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:06,799 You've got to get to two hundred and eighteen votes 620 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:12,680 to get anything done in the king Conquerors. Johnson's been 621 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,240 able to navigate those. You can't. It doesn't matter if 622 00:31:15,279 --> 00:31:19,240 they were to elect Marjorie Taylor Green to the speakership tomorrow, 623 00:31:20,079 --> 00:31:22,319 that doesn't mean she can corral two hundred and eighteen 624 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,680 votes on any given issue to push the agenda forward, 625 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:32,039 because the further right the speaker's position becomes, the less 626 00:31:32,119 --> 00:31:34,200 likely that individual is to be able to get to 627 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,079 two hundred eighteen votes. It would be different if there 628 00:31:37,079 --> 00:31:40,519 were two hundred and sixty Republican House members. There aren't. 629 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,759 It's a slim slim majority, and you would have to 630 00:31:44,799 --> 00:31:47,640 play all sorts of parliamentary games to get to to 631 00:31:48,279 --> 00:31:50,400 a majority. On any given day. You would have to 632 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,160 use tricks like waiting til Democrats aren't there. You would 633 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,720 have to use tricks, you know, you'd have to stack committees. 634 00:31:56,119 --> 00:32:01,160 There was so much that would be unable to get done, 635 00:32:01,319 --> 00:32:03,640 and maybe the American public would like that, but in 636 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,599 many ways, right now, what we want to see is 637 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,839 DC kind of undone. And if Johnson can't get to 638 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,759 two hundred eighteen, we can't start draining the swamp because 639 00:32:12,799 --> 00:32:15,759 Trump's going to need an ally in the House to 640 00:32:15,839 --> 00:32:19,559 get things through legislatively, to get it to the Senate 641 00:32:19,599 --> 00:32:21,160 so that he can sign it into law. He can't 642 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,000 just lead because the one thing that would happen if 643 00:32:24,039 --> 00:32:25,759 they were to get stymied in the House is it 644 00:32:25,759 --> 00:32:29,240 would look like a dictatorial thing. So the political left 645 00:32:29,319 --> 00:32:32,240 would love for the Republicans to get stranded on this one. 646 00:32:32,519 --> 00:32:34,680 They've also got to certify the election for the president, 647 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,839 which means if it becomes a debate about who's going 648 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,359 to be the speaker, then Trump doesn't get certified as 649 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,079 the elected president. So there's so many things. The Democrats 650 00:32:44,119 --> 00:32:47,799 are just sitting back and kind of wink wink, nudge nudging, saying, 651 00:32:47,839 --> 00:32:50,440 look at them. They can't even get along with themselves. 652 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,720 They're playing homage to this kind of way of being 653 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,920 and they're enjoying it. Now. Ultimately, I think Johnson prevails. 654 00:32:59,039 --> 00:33:01,400 Trump came out and joy hors Johnson for the speakership, 655 00:33:01,599 --> 00:33:03,880 and people are screaming, how could he do that? Because 656 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,880 he knows he's pragmatic, he wants to get stuff done. 657 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,200 The only way to get stuff done is to have 658 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:08,880 a speaker that can get to two hundred and eighteen. 659 00:33:09,759 --> 00:33:11,400 And the further right you go, the less likely you're 660 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:12,960 gonna get to two eighteen. You're not even gonna have 661 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,559 a speaker. And you can say, well, just the heck 662 00:33:15,599 --> 00:33:18,039 with the Democrats, throw them all overboard. Okay, a lot 663 00:33:18,039 --> 00:33:21,559 of them are left of left. But there's a handful 664 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,319 that are moderate, that are that are that are that 665 00:33:24,359 --> 00:33:29,079 are questionable, that might even be salvageable, that might be 666 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,079 able to be turned to the right. But you can't 667 00:33:31,119 --> 00:33:34,880 do it by being extremist. And so as as much 668 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:38,680 as I get why people want a head in that direction, 669 00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:41,880 you have to be pragmatic enough to say, I want 670 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,599 to get stuff done. You know, would you rather be 671 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,880 right or would you rather get stuff done that you 672 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,319 agree with? And that's where we find ourselves on the 673 00:33:51,319 --> 00:33:54,319 speaker Johnson stuff it's it isn't It is an odd place. 674 00:33:54,359 --> 00:33:56,759 We'll probably talk about this later because there's some really 675 00:33:56,799 --> 00:34:00,319 good opinions on that subject matter looking out right now now. 676 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:02,880 And before he went to the break, I louted and 677 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:04,559 by the way, it was special thanks to Mike Done. 678 00:34:04,599 --> 00:34:06,599 He picked up on that Shakespearean chant right away. He 679 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,320 went right into Everybody remembers that line in high school, 680 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,360 friends of Romans, countryman, lend me your ears. They remember that. 681 00:34:13,599 --> 00:34:15,719 They don't necessarily remember what the rest of the speech 682 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,199 was about. But I'll kind of frame it because we're 683 00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:20,000 talking about Jimmy Carter and going to send some time 684 00:34:20,039 --> 00:34:22,440 about the passing at one hundred the longest lived ex 685 00:34:22,559 --> 00:34:25,039 president in the history of the country. Someone say the 686 00:34:25,079 --> 00:34:27,519 most religious. I don't know about that, because Zachary Taylor's 687 00:34:27,559 --> 00:34:30,000 pretty closed. He wouldn't be sworn in on his you know, 688 00:34:30,039 --> 00:34:32,719 as inauguration day. Short lived president gets sick and dies, 689 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:34,519 wouldn't be sworn in on a Sunday. And he's a 690 00:34:34,599 --> 00:34:40,239 very religious guy. But Carter is being remembered fondly. The 691 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,559 montage that WBT put together is quite nice. He's i think, 692 00:34:43,599 --> 00:34:47,360 by every account that I've read and seen, as an individual, 693 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,480 he was probably one of the nicest people you could meet, 694 00:34:50,559 --> 00:34:53,840 you know, the Georgia peanut farmer becomes governor, you know, 695 00:34:54,079 --> 00:34:57,800 and becomes President of the United States. The country is 696 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:02,440 in horrific shape when he leaves, and his work subsequent 697 00:35:02,519 --> 00:35:04,519 to being president that led to him getting a Nobel 698 00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:07,239 Prize with Habitat for Humanity. He got into a lot 699 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,239 of foreign affair issues after his presidency. He was married 700 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,199 for seventy seven years. I think his wife, Roslyn died 701 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,119 last year. If I'm not mistaken, I'm not looking at 702 00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:18,559 my computer right now. And in many ways the way 703 00:35:18,599 --> 00:35:23,920 he's being remembered is very fond Lee. It's very kind. 704 00:35:25,679 --> 00:35:29,480 Over at the National Review, they had some not as 705 00:35:29,519 --> 00:35:32,559 many kind things to say about the ex president, and 706 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,800 and it just a history is it can be very 707 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:43,320 difficult to to kind of frame things correctly because history 708 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:48,119 can gloss over a lot, and it can also make 709 00:35:48,159 --> 00:35:51,920 things I don't know. With Carter. I'm kind of torn 710 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,360 because some of what I'm about to read about Carter 711 00:35:54,519 --> 00:35:56,519 is not friendly. I don't mean to be disrespectful. He's 712 00:35:56,519 --> 00:35:59,760 going to lie it in the rotunda and be recognized 713 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,320 as it's almost a beatification process that we're seeing with him. 714 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,000 But here's some reality as well. And again you're going 715 00:36:07,079 --> 00:36:09,039 to throw tomatoes to radio right now for those of 716 00:36:09,039 --> 00:36:14,119 you who want to revel in Carter's you know, passing, 717 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,280 I mean in a good way. Prayers and thoughts for 718 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,519 his family obviously, and Trump said some very kind things. 719 00:36:18,519 --> 00:36:21,000 But here's what the Review had to say. It's it's 720 00:36:21,039 --> 00:36:23,559 a little bit brutal. So I'll just warn you Carter's 721 00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:26,159 true legacy is one of economic misery at home and 722 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,719 embarrassment on the world stage. He left the country in 723 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,000 its weakest position of the post World War two era. 724 00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,519 That is absolutely true. After being booted out of office 725 00:36:34,559 --> 00:36:37,840 in landslide fashion. The self described citizen the world spent 726 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,840 the rest of his life meddling in US foreign policy 727 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,480 and working against the US and its allies in a 728 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,559 matter that could fairly be described as trees and it's 729 00:36:44,599 --> 00:36:47,239 his obsessive hatred of Israel and pampaus belief that only 730 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,079 he could forge to Middle East peace led him to 731 00:36:50,119 --> 00:36:53,400 be friend terrorists and laid out lash out at American 732 00:36:53,599 --> 00:36:56,920 Jews who criticized it. That is true. He did. We 733 00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,320 don't remember that, but he did. He was Buddy's foetograph 734 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,400 with many of these people who were ardent terrorists against 735 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,960 our country's interest. But we want to gloss over that 736 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,400 and what he did with the economy, economy and with 737 00:37:07,599 --> 00:37:10,199 gas price. Remember that we were led to believe in 738 00:37:10,199 --> 00:37:13,119 the late seventies that we were about to have no 739 00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,920 more oil. It was you remember, there were people being 740 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,119 ration you could fill up your car like Monday, Wednesday 741 00:37:18,159 --> 00:37:21,280 and Friday, or maybe Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. It was. 742 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:22,920 It was there was no more oil. We were going 743 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,079 to run out of energy. It was peak oil. It 744 00:37:25,119 --> 00:37:28,239 was all these and and gas prices surged through the roof, 745 00:37:30,039 --> 00:37:31,360 and it was a lot of the pun in The 746 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,079 Iranians rose to prominence in such a way that the 747 00:37:35,159 --> 00:37:38,840 Russians invaded Afghanistan, which led to decades led to actually 748 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,840 us being there as well. So it was it was 749 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:46,880 rather disastrous. But his genteel mannerisms and the niceness with 750 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,920 which he approached things, the way he spoke, make you 751 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,679 forget all of that. They make you forget what was done. 752 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:55,639 That doesn't make him a horrible person. It just makes 753 00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,119 him misguided. And I think there was more about him 754 00:37:58,519 --> 00:38:02,400 from an international standpoint that was sorely misguided while he 755 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:06,800 meant well, and so's that's the nature of the imperfections 756 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:11,559 of human beings. I mean, he his his presidency led 757 00:38:11,559 --> 00:38:14,199 to the Reagan Revolution. Don't forget that. The way he 758 00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,119 left the country, he didn't leave it in better shape 759 00:38:16,559 --> 00:38:19,960 at all. It was worse off by every measure from 760 00:38:20,079 --> 00:38:22,239 I mean we left office, Inflation was at thirteen and 761 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,480 a half percent, interest rates were through the roof. You know, 762 00:38:25,559 --> 00:38:27,280 I think Biden is the only one that could make 763 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,280 Carter look better by comparison. 764 00:38:30,519 --> 00:38:32,440 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. 765 00:38:32,519 --> 00:38:33,880 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening. 766 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,119 Speaker 1: I could not do the show without your support and 767 00:38:36,159 --> 00:38:38,880 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, 768 00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:41,320 so if you'd like, please support them too and tell 769 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,079 them you heard it here. You can also become a 770 00:38:43,079 --> 00:38:47,760 patron at my Patreon page or go to dpetekaalanershow dot com. Again, 771 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,559 thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything 772 00:38:50,559 --> 00:38:55,519 while I'm gone.