Speaker 1: Even though we obviously, uh we were not on the air,
Speaker 1: just absolutely fixated like most of you on what is
Speaker 1: transpiring here in North Carolina. I if we get to
Speaker 1: everything today, I'm gonna be absolutely amazed. But you know
Speaker 1: that's it's just one of those kind of days. I
Speaker 1: do have to make sure something real quick. I can
Speaker 1: account for me. I can't, Russ, I can't account for
Speaker 1: what you were doing. And I just want to make
Speaker 1: sure I don't have to turn you in. You didn't
Speaker 1: learn to fly a helicopter, acquire a helicopter and then
Speaker 1: use it to fly into the remotest parts of the
Speaker 1: North Carolina Mountains and rescue people who've been standing upright
Speaker 1: in their own homes in chest deep water for twelve hours.
Speaker 2: You didn't. You didn't do that.
Speaker 3: Let me let me check unfortunately. No, no, okay, can't
Speaker 3: pilot helicopter. No okay, you would, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just want to I want to make sure you
Speaker 2: didn't do that.
Speaker 1: You didn't, you know, put a pack string together of
Speaker 1: horses or mules or anything like that, load it down
Speaker 1: with supplies like you're an old forty nine or prospector,
Speaker 1: and also delve into the remotest parts of North Carolina
Speaker 1: to bring food and insulin and other stuff to those
Speaker 1: stranded and missing loved ones.
Speaker 2: You didn't do that, did you. No?
Speaker 3: No, No, I did not.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you know how to put a pack string together?
Speaker 1: So to make sure they don't use that again. You
Speaker 1: didn't start a fundraiser with the intention of doing whatever
Speaker 1: you can to bring financial aid to people who, frankly
Speaker 1: just aren't going to feel relieved or happy, to quote
Speaker 1: the President, with seven hundred and fifty dollars in compensation.
Speaker 2: You didn't do that, did you.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: But we did donate, but to a raputable affiliated thing.
Speaker 1: You didn't start your owns.
Speaker 3: Definitely, not to the government.
Speaker 2: No, okay, all right, all right, so you didn't do that?
Speaker 2: All right, Well I don't.
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't have to turn you into
Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 3: So that's good. I mean, the people you were describing here,
Speaker 3: they sound super dangerous. Oh yeah, can you imagine some
Speaker 3: dude with airwolf who doesn't listen to the government.
Speaker 2: Is that that dude? Come on?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 2: Ah, that's good.
Speaker 1: I just want I wanted to make sure you were
Speaker 1: going to smirch the show. You didn't have a thirty
Speaker 1: year old business up in the mountains somewhere that.
Speaker 2: Isn't so anymore.
Speaker 1: And so you show up to where your thirty year
Speaker 1: old business is and you see just random people walking
Speaker 1: all around, and you look in this field that used
Speaker 1: to be your business that you've operated for thirty years,
Speaker 1: paying taxes in your community, and you realize that, let's
Speaker 1: say it's an auto repair business, and now your tools
Speaker 1: and your lifts and everything else that was inside, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I understand if you talk to a
Speaker 1: mechanic a shop's worth of tools, if you have three bays,
Speaker 1: multiple shops worth the tools, that's expensive. And then you
Speaker 1: go try to retrieve your tools so meth heads don't
Speaker 1: get them to sell and buy meth. You didn't attempt
Speaker 1: to do that, did you in the mountains?
Speaker 2: See what it now? Ross is having a check.
Speaker 3: I'm just checking my calendar here because some of it
Speaker 3: sounds familiar, and it turned ye I did not, I
Speaker 3: did not.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well, I just want to I just
Speaker 1: want to make sure, so dude, you, you and I
Speaker 1: are the same way, although probably you to a greater
Speaker 1: extent where if you do have some time off, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter whether it's fun, vacation or family time or
Speaker 1: emergency or whatever. You just you just turning off the flow.
Speaker 1: I tried to, I try to emulate your commitment to that.
Speaker 1: I noticed you were unable to do that.
Speaker 3: And I was. And I would say this though, yeah,
Speaker 3: because I had several friends reach out and they're like,
Speaker 3: are you a witch? Yeah, and I'm like, well, what
Speaker 3: do you mean? Am I a witch? This happened to
Speaker 3: go regularly because because we schedule our vacation in advance,
Speaker 3: like in advance, we look at it.
Speaker 1: Super in advance. Yeah, I know it doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: there's a whole but it is the whole thing.
Speaker 3: It has to be, just because the way things are
Speaker 3: around here because we were season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be very clear.
Speaker 1: We have we have vacation time and we wanted to
Speaker 1: get that out of the way. So we're here for
Speaker 1: the last home stretched month uninterrupted.
Speaker 3: But this thing has started to happen, where so we
Speaker 3: take this time off, we schedule it in advance, we
Speaker 3: we we go on the vacation that we've scheduled in advance,
Speaker 3: and then the world falls apart like something horrifical happened every.
Speaker 2: Single time, like we're holding it together.
Speaker 3: The last time we took vacation off, it was the
Speaker 3: assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. Right before it was I don't
Speaker 3: remember what it was, but it was something else big
Speaker 3: before that and before that, I'm like, we should just
Speaker 3: stop where if we are, we need to give people
Speaker 3: like advance notice just.
Speaker 2: Whoever is in charge. It's not a bribe.
Speaker 1: It's you know, ament non governmental organization or something with
Speaker 1: flow through dollars.
Speaker 2: They call it whatever you want.
Speaker 1: As I have to as I'm sitting there and I'm
Speaker 1: reading this, and let me explain. When whenever there's a
Speaker 1: hurricane or flooding or some sort of a big disastrous
Speaker 1: event there from a political component, there's going to be
Speaker 1: things that come up that strangely will come up depending
Speaker 1: on who's in office by one side and then the
Speaker 1: other side of the ah, it doesn't matter. And I
Speaker 1: hate to see the inconsistency there because I think it
Speaker 1: distracts that. Being said, there are there are things that
Speaker 1: are seemingly wholly unique going on here. But I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about lithium minds, Okay, stop it. What I am
Speaker 1: talking about is in you know, in in North Carolina,
Speaker 1: when it happens in your back. And you know, so
Speaker 1: many people, the amount of people that I talked to,
Speaker 1: and yes, some of them are government, former government military, Uh,
Speaker 1: contractors who find themselves uh you know a part of this,
Speaker 1: contractors who normally do who now don't, and and many others.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of head scratching going on.
Speaker 1: And so you know, people are out there and they're
Speaker 1: they're asking questions and I'm not talking about all you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're gonna seize all of western North Carolina and
Speaker 1: it's black rock and all that that stuff's out there.
Speaker 1: But the majority of people are sitting there and they're
Speaker 1: they're literally talking to people they know, or attempting to
Speaker 1: talk to people and know, or wondering about family members
Speaker 1: and finally getting in communication with them. And they're hearing
Speaker 1: these stories and they're they're going, what, what's what's the problem.
Speaker 1: Why on God's green Earth would you tell a helicopter?
Speaker 1: Now I under stand the argument that they're going to make,
Speaker 1: and the argument is, uh, if if you know, if
Speaker 1: you're a drug, people are using drones to fly insolent places.
Speaker 1: And then Pete Bootage is like, you, no, you can't
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, you can't have too many helicopters out there.
Speaker 1: It could hamper rescue efforts. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know this about helicopter pilots, well, pilots in general, they
Speaker 1: understand airspace. Which is the reason that when you put
Speaker 1: this this hold like you did for several hours while
Speaker 1: Biden came through that, you know they recognize it and
Speaker 1: they and then they don't go in there as much
Speaker 1: as they want to. But even when that's not on
Speaker 1: and you're telling them not to do this because airspace
Speaker 1: concerns and safety concerns, I would say to you, we
Speaker 1: deal with this every day quite well. You're bit in
Speaker 1: New York City and seeing the amount of things going
Speaker 1: on in that airspace. Western North Carolina could never compete
Speaker 1: with that. Don't care how many d and drones, by
Speaker 1: the way, have a ceiling.
Speaker 2: Look this stuff up.
Speaker 1: So if guy's flying and I understand that this is
Speaker 1: a unique situation with helicopters and drones and any of
Speaker 1: the rest of that, and there are safety issues, but
Speaker 1: there are further safety issues about delaying the ability of something.
Speaker 1: Did you see the picture I think it came from
Speaker 1: I saw it posted by I think one of the
Speaker 1: weather people in Charlotte. It's a family of twelve people.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're all family, but it's twelve
Speaker 1: people who are inside of this house and the water
Speaker 1: is to their their nipples and they're just standing there, waiting, filming,
Speaker 1: doing whatever they can to try to and eventually they
Speaker 1: were rescued. You think that person gets a fly and
Speaker 1: flip about your airspace stuff. And so when I see leaders,
Speaker 1: I was just reading a tweet this morning from Senator
Speaker 1: Garrett from Greensboro. You know what, I honestly, you weren't
Speaker 1: even on my radar, Sir, shut up scolding people or
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories, and and then you get into and and
Speaker 1: and and the the the body of the tweet. In fact,
Speaker 1: let me just read this garbage, because this is what
Speaker 1: I need. Multi millionaires sitting there and telling people, Oh,
Speaker 1: you need to you need to not do this. Hey,
Speaker 1: I got a question, uh, And I saw that several
Speaker 1: were pressing us to clearly mark Walker, and he's absolutely right.
Speaker 1: Senator Garrett, you have an eight hundred bed facility in
Speaker 1: your district that FEMA has dumped in a measurable amount
Speaker 1: of money. I don't know if it's all FEMA, but
Speaker 1: the government, the federal government has dumped a crap ton
Speaker 1: of money into because it's still in the preparing stages.
Speaker 1: People think that they're housing migrant kids there already, they're not.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the old Jewish Day School in Greensboro,
Speaker 1: which is an eight hundred bed facility which has not
Speaker 1: just campus for you know, students or or purport you
Speaker 1: know students, which was an inten or migrants River's house there,
Speaker 1: but also a substantial living.
Speaker 2: Facilities for staff.
Speaker 1: And you are just a you know, just a couple
Speaker 1: hours from one of the most impacted or the beginning
Speaker 1: of the most impacted areas in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: What are we doing? This should be a no brainer.
Speaker 2: You've already spent the money.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and it doesn't even have to be up
Speaker 1: to snuff for what it would be for you know,
Speaker 1: for kids. You think people who just watch their house destroyed,
Speaker 1: watch their family or friends die, who haven't showered in
Speaker 1: a week.
Speaker 2: Did you see the video of this.
Speaker 1: There's a company or a charity that their whole gig
Speaker 1: is they have these big pull.
Speaker 2: Behind trailers which are showers.
Speaker 1: So you know, I've seen these before out on mining sites.
Speaker 1: Them out for miners who are doing like you know,
Speaker 1: very rule drilling in Wyoming, as you know, just basically
Speaker 1: a locker room facility. But imagine, you know, if people
Speaker 1: haven't showered in a week and that's rolling up there,
Speaker 1: you think they wouldn't appreciate a little stability right now
Speaker 1: as they figure things out. I was absolutely disgusted. And
Speaker 1: then you're accused of politicizing it. What is people supposed
Speaker 1: to do when they're trying to base how they feel
Speaker 1: about what is a government program for all practical purposes?
Speaker 1: And I know that it's not going to be perfect,
Speaker 1: and you're working with some extreme geographical limitations. And yes,
Speaker 1: if you look at a list of a map on
Speaker 1: like go to Google Maps and put the traffic on
Speaker 1: there or the Apple Maps or whatever you want to do,
Speaker 1: and then just zoom in and out over North Carolina,
Speaker 1: that little red thing that's a road that's gone.
Speaker 2: It looks like it looks like Christmas lights. So I
Speaker 2: don't need to hear from you.
Speaker 1: I don't need to hear I don't need to hear
Speaker 1: people pondering for six days on whether the National Guard
Speaker 1: should be up there.
Speaker 2: I it's it's six days.
Speaker 1: Have Ross you ever driven, Well, you've never been to Asheville, right,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say.
Speaker 3: No, every time we go back to visit Marketing's family
Speaker 3: in Tennessee, we have to stop in Nashville.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was gonna say, but you drive past it.
Speaker 2: You just drove fast.
Speaker 3: We drove through it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Did it take you six hours to get there from Raleigh?
Speaker 1: That's fantail and are different, but they're basically north south.
Speaker 1: Six hours, I don't think so. No, Okay six days?
Speaker 1: Did it take you six days?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: No, you're pretty sure. What do we doing?
Speaker 1: I there's so much I want to talk about this morning,
Speaker 1: and we got we got a whole bunch of sound.
Speaker 2: I was hoping. I was hoping that we would have.
Speaker 1: We were going to chat with Congressman Corey Mills, who's
Speaker 1: a Florida congressman who has been up there busting his
Speaker 1: because I was watching his I just I want his impression,
Speaker 1: and I think that he'll give it to us.
Speaker 2: So let me tell you. It's not complimentary.
Speaker 1: And I get it that he's a Republican up there,
Speaker 1: but I'm watching videos where he's showing the stuff that
Speaker 1: he's talking about, and most of it's positive, by the way,
Speaker 1: but he has he has concerns. I'm chatting with former
Speaker 1: Congressman Mark Walker, who's who I saw was really on this. Hey,
Speaker 1: can we go ahead and get maybe use this female
Speaker 1: facility that we've paid all this money for when we
Speaker 1: actually need it right now? And it wouldn't involve ejecting people.
Speaker 1: Remember when they were housing migrants, they were like kicking
Speaker 1: veterans out of hotels.
Speaker 2: They just did it. Get at Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: That's not even here, so you know, And I texted
Speaker 1: him and I'm like, hey, like, did anybody say anything?
Speaker 2: And the run around that he's getting.
Speaker 1: At the state level as somebody who's got to roll
Speaker 1: it down as a former congressman is what are we doing?
Speaker 1: These seem easy? And so when you're not doing the
Speaker 1: easy And again I'm not talking about work, I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about soldiers. I saw some videos of some National
Speaker 1: Guards persons. I'm not gonna give any other descriptory. I
Speaker 1: don't want them to get in trouble. And they're sitting there,
Speaker 1: they're a uniform, They're.
Speaker 2: Like, what are we doing? Let's go.
Speaker 1: Did they live in North Carolina? And they want they
Speaker 1: want people not to be suffering up there, and they
Speaker 1: don't care if it's some you know, blue hair girl
Speaker 1: who charges ten dollars for writing poems as a busker
Speaker 1: in downtown Asheville, as or the most dug in government,
Speaker 1: untrusting backwoods North Carolina. You know a Republican dude, I
Speaker 1: don't care nobody. I didn't see anybody who was showing
Speaker 1: up against the advice of authorities to these rural areas
Speaker 1: with food and insulin and anybody go, who'd you vote for?
Speaker 1: So I'll be damned if I'm gonna watch that attitude
Speaker 1: kind of permeate and play out, and and and and
Speaker 1: watch common sense things not be enacted. Common sense. Yes, again,
Speaker 1: you can make an argument any way, shape or form,
Speaker 1: like we have a bunch more vehicles up there, we've
Speaker 1: got to coordinate it.
Speaker 2: We're we're worried about stability of the round.
Speaker 1: These are all things that are that are logical conclusions
Speaker 1: because you don't want however, it's it's it's like when
Speaker 1: you're talking to a doctor, right, and you may have
Speaker 1: a treatment that at the end of the day, if
Speaker 1: you're just stand alone healthy and took that treatment, you'd
Speaker 1: be literally like poisoning your body, or hurting yourself or
Speaker 1: or doing something that's very dangerous.
Speaker 2: But as as doctors will.
Speaker 1: Tell you, you you weigh that danger against the danger that
Speaker 1: you're facing. Then and only the do you come up
Speaker 1: with the prescription. This is something Kevin Campbell used to preach.
Speaker 1: Doctor Campbell, we have month is the cure as bad
Speaker 1: as what you're facing, and if it's not, then that's
Speaker 1: your route of treatment. Anyway, we'll be back lots of
Speaker 1: sound to get to hang on. I'm so upset with
Speaker 1: everything that I'm seeing, and again, not to the extent
Speaker 1: some people are.
Speaker 2: We we don't have to, we don't have to deep dive.
Speaker 1: Into so we'll watch it play out, we'll call it
Speaker 1: as we see it and learn you where we can.
Speaker 1: But ultimately, I'm so I can't use the words on
Speaker 1: the air that you are. You are damn right one
Speaker 1: of the questions that entered my brain and probably some
Speaker 1: of yours, and I am I am willing and happy
Speaker 1: to talk about this after I watch the upending of
Speaker 1: our constitution, norms and in many cases, laws that the
Speaker 1: public could agreed upon, that people were trying to do
Speaker 1: away with in the back room to make sure that
Speaker 1: during COVID, nobody was left behind for their ability to
Speaker 1: cast their vote in sometimes extraordinary and as josh Stein
Speaker 1: found out, illegal manners, that it is wholly appropriate that
Speaker 1: Western North Carolina is able to evaluate what is going
Speaker 1: on in their life right now and decide and have.
Speaker 2: Their voice heard for.
Speaker 1: Who they want to be in leadership positions, because this
Speaker 1: is your litmus test leaders right here. In a lot
Speaker 1: of places, but specifically Western North Carolina, this is your
Speaker 1: litmus test. So if you're a congress person, if you're
Speaker 1: running for governor or president.
Speaker 2: You're a local rep. You're a dog catcher.
Speaker 1: Your citizens need to be able to evaluate you. And
Speaker 1: I don't I don't at this point, a month away
Speaker 1: from the election, understand what that infrastructure is going to
Speaker 1: look like.
Speaker 2: Think about where you vote, Ross.
Speaker 1: You don't tell you have to tell me the location,
Speaker 1: But what kind of building or facility is where you vote?
Speaker 1: You're you're precinct for voting. It's like a library. It's
Speaker 1: a library, okay, Mine is a church. Uh and then
Speaker 1: they have a senior center right next to it too,
Speaker 1: which I think they've done it in there before.
Speaker 2: But it's a church.
Speaker 1: You know, churches and libraries a lot of them are
Speaker 1: gone right. In fact, who was that a hole who
Speaker 1: ran for Congress? Who got the lunatic we had on
Speaker 1: the air, who was bemoaning driving in western North Carolina?
Speaker 3: And this is the libraries Pete. Pete gets in arguments
Speaker 3: with the skeleton pe calendar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was driving and I just saw I shouldn't
Speaker 2: see libraries. I saw churches a bunch of buffoons. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that guy Betty feels good about his tweet.
Speaker 1: He also insulted mountain folk when he was on with us,
Speaker 1: and I called.
Speaker 2: I'm like, isn't that your district? Anyway? He didn't win,
Speaker 2: so uh, but yeah, have you ever you ever lived
Speaker 2: in a just like you If you.
Speaker 1: Live in a in a city like I can walk
Speaker 1: to my polling, my precinct. It's that close. And some
Speaker 1: of you are that's the same. You live out of
Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere, you live in a rural area.
Speaker 1: Chances are you got to travel. It might be it's
Speaker 1: probably a volunteer fire station. It could be ten miles
Speaker 1: from your house. Do you know how hard it is
Speaker 1: to go ten miles right now in parts of North Carolina?
Speaker 1: But you know what, I'm sitting here and I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm giving you my opinion.
Speaker 2: Why don't we talk to somebody who's.
Speaker 1: Been there on the ground, like just was just there
Speaker 1: and saw what there is to see and has a
Speaker 1: decades of experience to understand the possibilities that are available
Speaker 1: and the power to pull the trigger on these things,
Speaker 1: and and see what his take is. I'm talking, of
Speaker 1: course about the UH president, President Silver Alert, who decided
Speaker 1: to come down. And again, I'm not even gonna criticize.
Speaker 1: Here's my here's where my criticism doesn't lie. I think
Speaker 1: it's dumb that we play this game when there's a
Speaker 1: natural disaster, and you've heard me say it, where we
Speaker 1: decide that uh, the President of the United States if
Speaker 1: if they don't show up in five seconds themselves. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about relief themselves. They hate black people, to
Speaker 1: quote Kanye, or they hate mountain people or.
Speaker 2: Whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I think it's dumb. I don't think it's productive. I
Speaker 1: think it's one of the dumbest flip flop games have
Speaker 1: got you out there, because I don't want the president
Speaker 1: of the United States going to a disaster area where
Speaker 1: they are actively providing aid in a chaotic situation.
Speaker 2: It's pointless, it's useless.
Speaker 1: It shuts down airspace, it shuts down the ability of
Speaker 1: people to move around in that area. It's absolutely pointing.
Speaker 1: That's not where my criticism lies. This is where my
Speaker 1: criticism lies. This is Biden outside of the White House,
Speaker 1: little press gaggle, little question thrown in his way about
Speaker 1: the storm. And if I say the storm, do you
Speaker 1: think that there is a place in the South that
Speaker 1: in the United States? For that matter, if I say
Speaker 1: the storm, do you think there's anybody who's moderately plugged
Speaker 1: in that doesn't immediately realize I'm talking about the hurricane
Speaker 1: right Because these are the thoughts that I have. There's
Speaker 1: nobody in the US right now.
Speaker 2: I mean, I.
Speaker 1: Understand if there's multiple storms, and yes, multiple states were hit,
Speaker 1: but everyone knows what you're talking about. And it's not
Speaker 1: just even geographic. It's flipping nationwide. It's that devastating. It
Speaker 1: was an eight hundred mile across storm.
Speaker 2: Think about that. Now. If you say the fire, that
Speaker 2: might be regional.
Speaker 1: You guys probably don't know this, but right above the mountains,
Speaker 1: right above where I grew up, there's a big fire
Speaker 1: called the Elk Fire, and it is absolutely devastating, and
Speaker 1: I think they're going to have to evacuate the town
Speaker 1: of Dayton, Wyoming, where I have friends and everybody lived
Speaker 1: up the road up red Grade there. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of their houses are gone. So that's region. But
Speaker 1: the storm is the storm.
Speaker 2: So if you're the.
Speaker 1: President of the United States, where this is immediately recognizable,
Speaker 1: how does this happen?
Speaker 5: What do the states the storm zone need, like the president,
Speaker 5: what are the states of the storm zone?
Speaker 3: What do they need?
Speaker 7: What you saw today on.
Speaker 6: The storm zone?
Speaker 8: Yet there, I'm knowing what storm is talking about.
Speaker 9: That's everything that they need.
Speaker 6: They're very happy.
Speaker 1: So I am I wrong because that's not how that's
Speaker 1: every conversation that I had, everything that I saw. You're
Speaker 1: telling me that everything is manipulated media on Twitter, all
Speaker 1: of these videos, videos that we're gonna play the audio.
Speaker 2: Is that all I should just jettison? That is this?
Speaker 2: Don't believe my eyes? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: What do you mean they're happy? What a what a
Speaker 1: stupid thing to say? Collectively? And I don't care what
Speaker 1: it is. You could have a program giving away free
Speaker 1: Obama phones and everyone's not gonna be happy.
Speaker 2: Check it. There were stabbings this is.
Speaker 1: This is people who just lost everything that are highly emotional.
Speaker 2: They're all happy. How do you think they're going to
Speaker 2: react to that? Now?
Speaker 1: This is where thoughts enter my brain that some of
Speaker 1: you would describe as conspiratorial. But I'm gonna explain to
Speaker 1: you why it's not me sitting here and saying that
Speaker 1: I'm concerned with the ability of individuals. It's not because
Speaker 1: it just happens to be a deeply read part.
Speaker 2: Don't be fooled.
Speaker 1: Ashvill and Boone do their thing, but the moment you
Speaker 1: get outside of the city limits, that's red. And it's
Speaker 1: so read that even their collective counties are read by
Speaker 1: the time they get done counting votes. Do you understand
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Bunkham and Wataga, It's it's It's not
Speaker 1: you're saying it's playing politics, because it involves politics, But
Speaker 1: I think it's a It's a referendum on the job
Speaker 1: you're doing right now, and if you think the job
Speaker 1: that you're doing in these ways. He doesn't have to
Speaker 1: he was asked what do they need? He wasn't even
Speaker 1: asked how do they feel?
Speaker 2: Some of them.
Speaker 1: Feel happy and and and probably guilty because their home
Speaker 1: wasn't taken, and they're they're watching their neighbors devastated. Some
Speaker 1: of them feel reinvigorated, uh, in the sense of tragedy,
Speaker 1: because that's their general nature. But a whole hell of
Speaker 1: a lot of them feel abandoned. They feel like you
Speaker 1: don't care. They feel like their leadership is missing an action,
Speaker 1: and they feel offended that they would sit there and
Speaker 1: attempt to salvage their own belongings only to be screamed
Speaker 1: at by a person in uniform following orders.
Speaker 2: That's how they feel. They don't feel happy, and and
Speaker 2: and and and.
Speaker 1: Saying that, frankly, I understand why there may be people
Speaker 1: behind the scenes who go, you know, we don't really
Speaker 1: have to be quick about this because we got election
Speaker 1: here in a month. Because let me tell you, do
Speaker 1: you want people in western North Carolina go into the
Speaker 1: polls as a referendum on your leadership right now?
Speaker 2: I would argue that you don't.
Speaker 1: So if you don't, and you want to call me
Speaker 1: a conspiracy theorist, while I have watched for years.
Speaker 2: Where you accuse.
Speaker 1: A grand conspiracy of back door cigar smell, cigar smoke
Speaker 1: filled rooms of evil goop, going, how do we disinframe,
Speaker 1: enfranchise black people. And then they laugh evil in the
Speaker 1: night that you put that out there as this act
Speaker 1: as some secret cabal or project twenty twenty five and
Speaker 1: this conspiracy stuff to uh to go after your opponents.
Speaker 1: And you think people are capable of all of these
Speaker 1: things en mass your political opponents, then why are why
Speaker 1: would people not think you're capable? Hell, you're the one
Speaker 1: who thought it up. And it's as simple as.
Speaker 2: This slow roll what you're doing. A month is a
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 1: But not when you're talking talking about that level of devastation.
Speaker 1: So excuse me that people look at you who accuse
Speaker 1: your political opponents of grandiose conspiracies are dragging feed or
Speaker 1: making changes, all in a targeted effort to return to
Speaker 1: the heyday of your party. I'm talking you know, Clan
Speaker 1: Jim Crow, that you think that there is these these
Speaker 1: these cabals doing that. Excuse me when people look at
Speaker 1: what you're doing and wonder if you're projecting.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we will talk about it, and holy hell,
Speaker 2: what what what.
Speaker 3: Are you doing?
Speaker 1: And then you send Pete Buddha Jeedge sit there and
Speaker 1: tell some guy who's flying insulin to a guy who
Speaker 1: can't get out of his property. Who's going to go
Speaker 1: into a diabetic coma?
Speaker 2: You tell him this.
Speaker 10: Our goal is to make sure that funding is no
Speaker 10: obstacle to very quickly getting people the relief that they
Speaker 10: need and deserve. There's also some safety issues that come up,
Speaker 10: for example, uh, temporary flight restrictions to make sure that
Speaker 10: the airspace is queer for any flights or drone activity
Speaker 10: that that might be involved in helping to allow those
Speaker 10: emergency responders to do their.
Speaker 2: Shut up again.
Speaker 1: I inherently understand why drones and helicopters don't mix drones
Speaker 1: in playing any of that, but I also I also
Speaker 1: have a certain trust level with altitude restrictions, competency, and
Speaker 1: and the people that.
Speaker 2: Are out there.
Speaker 1: To to go ahead and handle this to be more on.
Speaker 1: Do you know how loud A helicopters not the black
Speaker 1: ones that follow you around at night? Those ones are
Speaker 1: on silent mode. There's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 1: But really, you know, loud a freaking helicopter is russ
Speaker 1: You ever been in a helicopter?
Speaker 3: I could tell you. I heard a bunch of them
Speaker 3: this this past week.
Speaker 2: Oh were you up in the mountains? I thought you said,
Speaker 2: you weren't up in the mountains.
Speaker 3: No, No, Like I said, we'd schedule a vacation way out.
Speaker 3: So and I'm not.
Speaker 2: Foot of the mountains, right, typically mountains.
Speaker 3: No, typically we would we would post photos of our vacation, right.
Speaker 3: But but we're sitting there with this seems like an
Speaker 3: awful thing that we're not going to do it. But
Speaker 3: where you are sitting there, we're at North topsail uh,
Speaker 3: and you can hear these helicopters fly out from before
Speaker 3: you can see them. You can hear them.
Speaker 2: They're there. Yeah, I get points not far.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that's where they do their their
Speaker 3: training or whatever it is, because there's so many there's
Speaker 3: a lot of bases out there. They fly back and forth.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's so much training ground. Yeah, driving up in there,
Speaker 1: and it extends all the way to like like way
Speaker 1: north of there too. They got so much crazy room
Speaker 1: where they do the bomb testing. So, yeah, you hear
Speaker 1: a lot of military stuff there.
Speaker 2: So that's weird.
Speaker 1: So they had a bunch of helicopters flying over huh,
Speaker 1: tons of them. Yeah, where were they were they flying west?
Speaker 3: It's back and forth across North topsil Oh, I get I.
Speaker 2: Can tell you that you're new to the state.
Speaker 1: North topsail is it's it's the beach, which is not
Speaker 1: western North Carolina.
Speaker 3: Any I can tell you like being on vacation and
Speaker 3: looking at all this stuff that's happening, right, you feel
Speaker 3: horrible because you're on vacation, but also like having a
Speaker 3: hard time sleeping at night, and then your your brain
Speaker 3: does drift into politics, and it felt horrible about it
Speaker 3: because there's people suffering and there's people dying, and you
Speaker 3: see all these videos and they're just got awful. Right,
Speaker 3: But just start thinking, and Marky said, what's wrong? And
Speaker 3: I'm saying, well, the margin of victory is so thin, right,
Speaker 3: and you've got these red counties that have just been
Speaker 3: completely wiped off the map. Yeah, these people are probably
Speaker 3: gonna be more vote motivated to vote, especially when you
Speaker 3: give them, you know, the insulting seven hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: dollars or whatever. It is unhappy that you can't even
Speaker 3: have and how are you even going to access that money?
Speaker 3: How are you supposed to access that money if you
Speaker 3: don't have internet? Right, even if these people are motivated
Speaker 3: to vote, how are they going to vote? Are they
Speaker 3: going to be able to vote? That could definitely, I mean,
Speaker 3: you hate for your brain to go there, but still,
Speaker 3: but also you don't.
Speaker 2: Want to deserve me. You don't deserve a voice.
Speaker 3: Man, you know what, the comedy to win and be
Speaker 3: running the running the country. That could definitely flip the
Speaker 3: steep blue.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you know what, the person currently running
Speaker 2: the country to still be running the country. This is
Speaker 2: why it's so much crazier. She's in office, Ray, I
Speaker 2: don't want to give her a promotion. Mm hmm. She's
Speaker 2: in office.
Speaker 1: By the way, do you know generally who within the
Speaker 1: cabinet oversees FEMA. I understand, I understand that there's pass through,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of like NASA and what they do
Speaker 1: when you get into the AID part of it.
Speaker 2: It's the vice president.
Speaker 1: Now, it's it's somewhat ceremonial, but what are we doing.
Speaker 1: Who more deserves a voice one month from now on
Speaker 1: how their government's doing than folks whose very existence will
Speaker 1: be predicated probably but not not all. A lot of
Speaker 1: tough people out they're going, you know, stru Allio, but
Speaker 1: a lot of people whose existence may hint on what
Speaker 1: the government does.
Speaker 2: So that's not playing politics. I'm sorry, that's not.
Speaker 1: Playing politics, and and you know, if the net result
Speaker 1: just happens to be uh, you know, more red people
Speaker 1: than blue people, well that's just the reality of it.
Speaker 1: I thought it didn't matter. I'm not sitting here saying, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know, don't whatever you do, don't give aid to
Speaker 1: Ashville to just use it to buy drugs and hit
Speaker 1: cops or there's none of that.
Speaker 2: I don't care you.
Speaker 1: I enjoy Ashville as crazy as it is, even though
Speaker 1: homeless people attack me with cigarettes and some of the
Speaker 1: some of the drum circles.
Speaker 2: It don't smell so nice. But I don't I don't
Speaker 2: wish them. Ill will and you know what's going to
Speaker 2: be crazy. What will be wild to me is.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to see if you do,
Speaker 1: if you do get a full vote in Asheville and
Speaker 1: they're able to facilitate this, and I understand there's murmurs
Speaker 1: that the legislature here in North Carolina's.
Speaker 2: Going to try to do something.
Speaker 1: I I wonder if Asheville's demographics look the same. I
Speaker 1: don't mean people leaving necessarily, there's going to be some
Speaker 1: of that, but once you're able to get a full total,
Speaker 1: I wonder if people go, what the hell man?
Speaker 2: Six days later.
Speaker 1: Anyway, six point fifty two, hang on, we'll be back.
Speaker 1: We got we got a bunch, we're going to get
Speaker 1: to just a little nuggets, little thing. Probably if you've
Speaker 1: been paying attention on social media, you've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of this.
Speaker 2: But hey, I'm here for those of you who you know.
Speaker 1: We're busy, maybe I don't know, trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how to help rescue family members the story, because again,
Speaker 1: this is this is impactful obviously for so many people.
Speaker 1: But even if your home in the Triangle or now
Speaker 1: I'm by Fayetteville or wherever you live in Green's bro
Speaker 1: didn't you know, didn't get the impact here. Chances are
Speaker 1: if you've lived in this state for five minutes, you
Speaker 1: know somebody up there.
Speaker 2: You I was thinking.
Speaker 1: About all the people that I know up in the
Speaker 1: mountains spread across I have.
Speaker 2: I have people I know very well in Ashville.
Speaker 1: I have very very very good friends up in the
Speaker 1: Sparta area back in ash County, And that's where my
Speaker 1: mind goes.
Speaker 2: And and so many of you are.
Speaker 1: Still wondering, what is even a week later, what is
Speaker 1: the full impact, what is it going to be, How
Speaker 1: is it going to play out. And so you spent
Speaker 1: your you spent your week and uh and and you know,
Speaker 1: talking to family members, what what are we going to do?
Speaker 1: Maybe your parents still live up there or they retired
Speaker 1: up there, and your grandfather or whatever, what do you?
Speaker 2: What are you going to do?
Speaker 1: People are having to make these hard choices and the
Speaker 1: while this is happening. And that's what I want to
Speaker 1: hear from from you. U.
Speaker 2: You have may Orcis out there.
Speaker 1: Listen to the report. We're gonna get your calls right
Speaker 1: after this audio cuck listen to the reporter attempt to
Speaker 1: clarify what sounds like he misspoke. You know, the classic politician,
Speaker 1: not just politicians, but this is very normally here where
Speaker 1: they're talking about dollar amounts and they mean to say trillion,
Speaker 1: but they say billion, or they mean to say billion
Speaker 1: but they say trillion. You know, like when Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: was saying, like three hundred and fifty million people are
Speaker 1: den she mean three hundred fifty thousand.
Speaker 2: So I don't know how he got.
Speaker 1: There, but I was going back to the COVID stuff, right,
Speaker 1: So it is not unusual for reporters who want to clarify.
Speaker 1: So when may orcus says this. I understand why the
Speaker 1: reporter wants to clarify because it sounds insane. See if
Speaker 1: you can figure out what I'm talking about.
Speaker 11: As a secretary, do you have a sense of how
Speaker 11: much money it's going to cost A to do this
Speaker 11: relief effort and B to do the rebuild effort wants
Speaker 11: to get there, and how much of that will be
Speaker 11: covered by companies and how much will be covered by
Speaker 11: the government.
Speaker 12: So this is a multi billion dollar undertaking in terms
Speaker 12: of the search and rescue and the response. I should
Speaker 12: note that we already have approved approximately one point seven
Speaker 12: million dollars in individual assistance that individuals million that individuals
Speaker 12: will be able to access. I believe what as early
Speaker 12: as tomorrow. It is a direct deposit into their accounts.
Speaker 12: But the rebuilding is something that is not for today,
Speaker 12: but that is going.
Speaker 1: To shut up one point seven million. You realize there's
Speaker 1: more people that live in what we would consider western
Speaker 1: North Carolina, right, I think it's it's pretty close. That's
Speaker 1: a dollar per person there. And I understand you talk
Speaker 1: about seven hundred and fifty and it's it's early, and
Speaker 1: you know you're saying more to that's it don't say
Speaker 1: that number out loud.
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: It's like a conversation Ross And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you mentioned this, but let me throw this out there.
Speaker 1: You know, what's going to be impactful in people's minds
Speaker 1: that seven hundred and fifty dollars one point seven million
Speaker 1: total and immediate aid. And you're telling folks to go
Speaker 1: to an ATM in a place with no power.
Speaker 2: Dude, It's it's absolutely infuriating.
Speaker 3: It's one of the things while we were out that
Speaker 3: really when I saw that number, the seven hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty dollars, it pissed me off. It really made me
Speaker 3: angry because you know, as a functional working adult, you pay,
Speaker 3: and you pay and you pay, and even when you die,
Speaker 3: they make you pay. And then somebody you're paying and
Speaker 3: then your life falls apart, you lose absolutely everything, and
Speaker 3: they and then you have Kamala Harris there on video
Speaker 3: talking about let them eat their seven you know, seven
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty dollars, your hurt eat let them eat
Speaker 3: their hurricane cake or whatever it's. It's it's and even
Speaker 3: people are like a devil's advocate. Well that was for groceries. Okay, fine,
Speaker 3: where are they supposed to buy the groceries. Where where
Speaker 3: are they supposed to put the groceries? Are they going
Speaker 3: to be able to access the funds to buy the groceries?
Speaker 3: It's so insane.
Speaker 1: Ault we're going to be perfect, right, No, it isn't,
Speaker 1: and I don't expect any government to be perfect, but
Speaker 1: these are logical questions.
Speaker 3: Especially and I'm not the first person to think this,
Speaker 3: and this is this is why I think it's so impactful,
Speaker 3: especially after we've said so much money over and over again.
Speaker 3: Every two months we hear, oh, we're sending another twenty
Speaker 3: three billion dollars to Ukraine or whatever it is. Really
Speaker 3: there's people that are like suffering this catastrophic event and
Speaker 3: you are offering them seven hundred fifty dollars. That's what
Speaker 3: you think these people are worth? It is so and
Speaker 3: I think this is why, and I mentioned this on
Speaker 3: on x and on Facebook. I think this that number
Speaker 3: seven hundred and fifty is going to have more of
Speaker 3: an electoral impact than any god awful debate performance that
Speaker 3: anyone could have. And that's the other inferiating part. Right,
Speaker 3: you have you have this horrible thing that happened, and
Speaker 3: remember when when when George Bush flooded the Katrina response.
Speaker 3: It's all you saw on the media for months on
Speaker 3: Loop twenty four to seven. This is Kamala Harge.
Speaker 2: The FEMA director. Yeah, who's Michael brad the original Michael Brown.
Speaker 3: This is this is Kamala Harrison's Katrina, right, that is
Speaker 3: what this is. And instead the journalists are focused on Oh.
Speaker 3: During the debate, Vance talked over a moderator and a
Speaker 3: man's played shot up.
Speaker 2: He broke the fourth wall.
Speaker 3: This is a thing that people can really relate to,
Speaker 3: this seven hundred fifty dollars, and I don't think they
Speaker 3: realize it, but I think it's going to have a
Speaker 3: huge electoral impact because people across the political spectrum when
Speaker 3: they see that, and they are people that we like.
Speaker 3: I said, you pay, and you pay, and you pay,
Speaker 3: and then you get the seven hundred and fifty that
Speaker 3: is infuriating.
Speaker 1: I'm not bragging at all. I spent seven hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars on Tuesday and it was a combination of
Speaker 1: groceries and apply a countertop applient, So I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get it. We get off into a whole discussion countertop
Speaker 1: appliance and a few things at Walmart and it was
Speaker 1: seven hundred. Now, granted one of the items was like
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars, but I spend seven hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars in one day in a Walmart this week, and
Speaker 1: it goes like that, seven hundred and fifty dollars. If
Speaker 1: you're lucky to be able to find a way to
Speaker 1: spend it. People, you're right, people aren't gonna forget it.
Speaker 1: All Right, let's go to the.
Speaker 2: Calls, Dave, what's up? Hello, day, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 13: Yeah? You know, I got a few things I'd like
Speaker 13: to say. First of all, I'm going to just rid
Speaker 13: of your stations right always from Clemens almost to the beat,
Speaker 13: like some of the governors and some of the concern
Speaker 13: and the senators are listening.
Speaker 2: How dare I sat on North tops and listen to
Speaker 2: this station? But anyway, go ahead, Oh.
Speaker 13: Yeah, hey Molly Mont. We'll get a house out in
Speaker 13: advance so I can hear you. Anyway, we need to
Speaker 13: get to find that what we're gonna do about this
Speaker 13: vocal because there's thousands of people in my the the voting,
Speaker 13: I think they neither payout needs to be at least
Speaker 13: two thousand per person, not the seven hundred dollars, sister.
Speaker 1: They're during Katrina, they criticized this where you're supposed to
Speaker 1: get and and they were handing cash out and at
Speaker 1: the end they transitioned to cash and so I thought
Speaker 1: it was a lesson learned there because it made sense.
Speaker 1: So you're right, sir, these are easy questions that people
Speaker 1: need to think about.
Speaker 2: And people.
Speaker 13: What burns me up there is I know you get
Speaker 13: some signatures and congressmen and probably in the governor listening
Speaker 13: to the station. I wish some of them would call
Speaker 13: in acted not retired, but acted congressman signatures and stuff
Speaker 13: there listening.
Speaker 1: Any state or federal let me say this, or any
Speaker 1: state or federal lawmaker wants to call this show right now,
Speaker 1: I will. You will be next up. I will put listeners,
Speaker 1: no offense. I will put listeners to the side for
Speaker 1: a moment so you can call and to me why
Speaker 1: this isn't an unmitigated disaster. I'm with you, Dave, and
Speaker 1: I will offer the forum right now to them. The
Speaker 1: phone numbers eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
Speaker 1: seven four. Are you happy? Because Biden says you're happy?
Speaker 1: And if you're not, what are you doing about it?
Speaker 1: All right, sorry, sir, I want to throw that out.
Speaker 13: I'm right, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, you got the point
Speaker 13: I want to hear from them down. You know, because
Speaker 13: we have an airbnb up and Cherokee. We can't even
Speaker 13: get to it.
Speaker 2: Oh we didn't run it to the FEMA people. It
Speaker 2: took over the casino.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1: They have the whole casino up there, which is good
Speaker 1: because and and yeah go maybe we'll recoup some of
Speaker 1: our tax dollars that we paid out.
Speaker 2: And I don't want this to be Dave. Did you
Speaker 2: have one other thing you want to say? You good, sir.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I got one other thing I wanted to say it.
Speaker 13: I just can't Molly. You just said, how the heck
Speaker 13: are you going to access the seven hundred dollars? And
Speaker 13: how are we going to vote? That's why say two things.
Speaker 13: I want to know that. Yeah, I'm just getting frustrated
Speaker 13: about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, I'm I'm I the the Thanks for the call, Dave.
Speaker 1: You ever get those you ever get those dark thoughts
Speaker 1: where you think you want to whack somebody with a hammer,
Speaker 1: not anyone specific.
Speaker 2: You're just so like ah, and I don't mean an
Speaker 2: you understand what I'm saying, but like you, you get
Speaker 2: that this the anger courses through you the on multiple occasions.
Speaker 1: I'm because and and and it's not it's the smugness
Speaker 1: of it all. Oh, you're not an approved vendor again.
Speaker 1: You could make an argument, in an effort to keep
Speaker 1: scammers and people from manipulating and attempting to take advantage
Speaker 1: of of a disaster like this, that you have you
Speaker 1: have to have some filters. But what businesses of yours?
Speaker 1: If a truck driver hauling a load of crates of
Speaker 1: non perishable food wants to go drop it somewhere where
Speaker 1: they've said they'd take it, and you're telling them they can't,
Speaker 1: Who the hell are you? Who the hell are you
Speaker 1: to tell a helicopter pilot who went and rescued half
Speaker 1: of a couple that he can't go back and rescue
Speaker 1: the other half.
Speaker 2: Who the hell are you?
Speaker 1: That's what That's what did it to me? Adam, Thanks
Speaker 1: for hanging on.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 7: So I'm making my first trip into a place called
Speaker 7: Little Switzerland on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Sure, I'll stop there all the time.
Speaker 1: They got a chocolate store there and uh oh yeah
Speaker 1: it's good people watch there man.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I'm originally from West Virginia, born and raised
Speaker 7: in Appalachia, And as soon as I've seen this, I
Speaker 7: immediately knew that nobody was coming for these people. So
Speaker 7: Sunday I learned down a pile of water went into
Speaker 7: Little Switzerland. I saw no government on the ground at all.
Speaker 7: It was just local people. The place is completely devastated.
Speaker 1: Million well, hold on, hold out for Little Switzerland where
Speaker 1: they have like the hotel, restaurant, the chocolate chop. That
Speaker 1: that place got hit too, because that's high up. That's
Speaker 1: right off the Blue Ridge there.
Speaker 7: Man correct sir, I was cutting by way through the
Speaker 7: Blue Ridge Parkway with my James Sawt. I was only
Speaker 7: able to make it to a place called Big Land Lodge.
Speaker 7: Actually couldn't even get all the way to Little Switzerland
Speaker 7: because that part of the Blue Bridge Parkway had a
Speaker 7: slip on it and you could get through it.
Speaker 1: Sure, I assume parts of the Blue Ridge obviously you're gone,
Speaker 1: But I'm just like Little Switzerland. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the actual elevation is, and maybe I miss thinking it,
Speaker 1: but Little Switzerland's up there. That drive from Little Switzerland
Speaker 1: to Asheville is almost straight downhill.
Speaker 7: It's between twenty five hundred and twenty seven hundred feet,
Speaker 7: the road just disappeared. I drove through multiple places where
Speaker 7: I was in the ditch because it was the guardrails
Speaker 7: are hanging off the road.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw some people make crazy decisions on ATVs and
Speaker 1: in vehicles. In some video, I saw a mom with
Speaker 1: her kids staring at a ravine ahead of a ten
Speaker 1: mile walk with the roads washed out, telling her kids
Speaker 1: they're going to climb over a house. Imagine you were
Speaker 1: with your young children and everything's gone. You have backpacks,
Speaker 1: and now you have to navigate your family in a
Speaker 1: treacherous climb over a ravine in a house to get
Speaker 1: to safety. I can't fathom it. So do you tell me?
Speaker 1: Do you think in a month people are going to
Speaker 1: be going to the polls?
Speaker 6: There?
Speaker 7: Absolutely not. So that was like after I had in that,
Speaker 7: I realized these people are not going to vote. They
Speaker 7: order through the lowest voter turnout from western Washington in
Speaker 7: probably modern history, and I just believe it's politically motivated.
Speaker 7: It's too easy to have.
Speaker 1: I want to be clear clear, you're not the guy
Speaker 1: calling and saying they did it with the heart machine.
Speaker 1: Because I saw people couching it. What you're talking about
Speaker 1: is the urgency to remedy.
Speaker 7: This, right, The urgency to remedy this is non existent.
Speaker 7: I try not to be a conspiracy curist. I do
Speaker 7: that about a thousand but I'm not going to get
Speaker 7: into all of that praisiness right that we see out
Speaker 7: there right now. It's just very obvious that the people
Speaker 7: of bat Palaccia are always secondhand citizens and the government.
Speaker 7: I mean, they're worth seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Is I gotta I gotta, I gotta spam text from
Speaker 1: one of these organizations that does voter turnout stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: just spam like, hey, how would you like to be
Speaker 1: a voting ambassador for Kamala Harris? Will pay you a
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars stipend, right, which is basically vote buying
Speaker 1: in my opinion. But they just offered me half of
Speaker 1: what somebody whose house floated away was offered.
Speaker 7: So yeah, prett quick, there's no work for them to
Speaker 7: even spend that money. High, there's no I saw one
Speaker 7: gas station they must have had their own generator, and
Speaker 7: the lines were like half a mile long for it.
Speaker 7: I'm sure that ran out of gas. That would would
Speaker 7: have been on Monday morning. I'm actually had it in
Speaker 7: the Marshall, North Carolina right now with another lawyer, though
Speaker 7: I'm trying to make it into there today.
Speaker 1: Well good luck to you, sir, and uh if they
Speaker 1: give you any grief. We want to hear about it,
Speaker 1: right because I mean, it's not happening, but I feel
Speaker 1: that it is all right. I appreciate that. And that's
Speaker 1: the other that's the other thing about people. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you this, this is it's not just mountain people.
Speaker 1: I whack, you know, whax a nostalgic community because I
Speaker 1: grew up in the mountains.
Speaker 2: But I rule people again, even though they don't live
Speaker 2: there anymore, they'll get up and take care of business.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: There's a reason that mom said there with their kids
Speaker 1: and what we're gonna walk ten miles? You know why,
Speaker 1: because my mom would have said that a natural desire.
Speaker 1: I'm not playing with.
Speaker 3: You, right, naturally, realise these are self sufficient people.
Speaker 1: Yes, you realize. We get stuck at on a ranch
Speaker 1: for two weeks. We had to buy We co own
Speaker 1: a greater. Do you know that we co own a
Speaker 1: great You know why because government a coming to make
Speaker 1: that road passable.
Speaker 2: You do what you gotta do. And you're telling people
Speaker 2: that are do what they got to do and are
Speaker 2: prepared to the extent that they can be. There's seven
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty bucks. I'll just go to the store.
Speaker 1: Well, I love it out here. I don't know why
Speaker 1: didn't you live near a store, sir? All right, we'll
Speaker 1: be over at the Cherokee Casino playing blackjack. Scrollio seven
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Speaker 1: coming up, and we'll give you some of those videos
Speaker 1: that I being told don't exist by the president.
Speaker 2: Because everyone's happy.
Speaker 1: That sound like people that are not happy. Hang on,
Speaker 1: by the way, all you hoarders. You saw the now
Speaker 1: to be fair. That's infuriating all on its own. The
Speaker 1: dock workers strike, especially when you look at the numbers
Speaker 1: and and what it was not their.
Speaker 2: Week to do this.
Speaker 1: It frankly probably what people had zero bandwidth for this, right.
Speaker 1: We just talking about the seven hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 1: in the devastation and you're sitting there going, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go and yeah, they offered us a big raise,
Speaker 1: but it's not enough.
Speaker 3: Ray You're like, oh, maybe I can like say with
Speaker 3: you guys, what are you guys making right now? They're like, oh,
Speaker 3: we're making, like I don't know, an average of one
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty six thousand a year. And they in place, you're.
Speaker 2: One thousand available in overtime just for asking.
Speaker 3: Right, and they were gonna give you the fifty percent
Speaker 3: increase and you're like, nah, we want seventy whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think the current offer that they're gonna
Speaker 1: take a two week pause from the strike, it's sixty
Speaker 1: two or sixty three percent.
Speaker 2: I don't have it right now. I hope they automate
Speaker 2: the crap out of it.
Speaker 1: Well, and that's the problem that was you went on
Speaker 1: and you saw people reacting to this, and then when
Speaker 1: they saw the numbers, so like bringing the robots, what
Speaker 1: the hell are you doing? And keep in mind when
Speaker 1: you shut down the ports and it's fresh in people's
Speaker 1: mind what happened is during during COVID, right, and and
Speaker 1: that was that was a you know, that wasn't a
Speaker 1: complete shut down, but it almost was you're gonna shut
Speaker 1: him down. Yeah, And then you couple that with no
Speaker 1: sympathy that you see the dude, who's.
Speaker 3: The I was gonna say. And then then you have
Speaker 3: like the gangster guy running it, who's saying he's gonna
Speaker 3: cripple everybody. Well, he's inside his nine hundred thousand dollars house.
Speaker 3: Was Bentley in his yacht outside?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry? Yachts?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, sorry plural right, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Elon
Speaker 3: Musk mention that he has this guy has some more
Speaker 3: yachts than he does. Well, you know, I have the
Speaker 3: same number of yachts that he does. Elon see him
Speaker 3: on a yacht. He must rent them. He's probably a renter.
Speaker 3: But which is fine. If you wants to own a yacht.
Speaker 3: He can't, right, who cares? Yeah, but I'm saying, don't.
Speaker 3: Don't go on and be like, oh whoe is us?
Speaker 3: We can barely survive off our one hundred and thirty
Speaker 3: six thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2: Although, to be fair, if you make one hundred thirty yeah,
Speaker 2: he doesn't make a hundred and thirty six thousand, Just
Speaker 2: to be clear, you making hire, no sales, and you
Speaker 2: got yachts and a Bentley and an estate.
Speaker 3: No, they're saying he made like like around a million
Speaker 3: a year. Whatever it was yeah, so like people aren't
Speaker 3: having sympathy. And then you couple that with uh, you
Speaker 3: know rond de Santis did. Ronda Santis said, you know,
Speaker 3: Port of Miami's kind of a big deal, kind of
Speaker 3: a big deal.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure where it ranks, but it's up there, Baltimore, Miami.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think, what.
Speaker 1: Are our biggest East Coast sports? Baltimore, Miami? Uh I
Speaker 1: is it? It's not New York. I mean, New York
Speaker 1: is a busy port, but just in the shipping of goods.
Speaker 1: But Wilmy, you know, we got we do a lot
Speaker 1: of business. Where where was our governor? Where was Roy
Speaker 1: Cooper along with Rond de Santis sitting there? And and
Speaker 1: obviously he could almost make it. He could say he
Speaker 1: wants to do it, but he needs to send the
Speaker 1: National Guard to the mountains, so he would even have
Speaker 1: an excuse not to do it for political expedients.
Speaker 3: This is amazing. I'm saying. What we need to do
Speaker 3: is like just hear me out. We need to clone
Speaker 3: him forty nine times, okay, and every state gets their
Speaker 3: own run.
Speaker 1: You gotta have a bonus because inevitably one of these
Speaker 1: moonbats will shoot at.
Speaker 3: Him allre you right, So all right, find fifty fifty five. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's fair, get behind the science. It's a morbid calculation.
Speaker 2: But am I wrong? I remember for a long time
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, Supreme Evil DeSantis a close number.
Speaker 1: Two in the minds of these lunatics. Yeah, he said,
Speaker 1: we're not shutting down the port of Miami. And because
Speaker 1: you're not just short, you're not just shutting down. From
Speaker 1: a work standpoint, the port many how many of you
Speaker 1: are driving a big rig right now? Who if the
Speaker 1: port shuts down, you're at home where you're fighting off
Speaker 1: everybody else for loads that don't involve the you know,
Speaker 1: any shipping that's got to go through a port.
Speaker 3: And this the optics on this were so awful, right,
Speaker 3: and then they were like, oh, well, we were suspending
Speaker 3: the strike until what is it, January fifteenth, right after
Speaker 3: the inauguration?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: Hold on?
Speaker 1: I thought they suspended it for the initial vote for
Speaker 1: two weeks.
Speaker 3: No, I was reading January fifteenth.
Speaker 1: All right, hold on, I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: I have it completely accurate. Yeah, I think that there
Speaker 1: were two dates in there. And I just we kind
Speaker 1: of got off on this because I was thinking about
Speaker 1: it all right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, here we go.
Speaker 2: I got it in front of me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, January fifteenth, to a lot of times, negotia. You're
Speaker 1: absolutely right. So what was the I think the October
Speaker 1: date was to submit it to.
Speaker 2: The deal, to the initial deal, to the negotiat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think maybe that's what I think the optics
Speaker 3: behind this. People realized how much they were making. They
Speaker 3: got super pissed off, right, and it's during this huge
Speaker 3: catastrophic hurricane that people are trying to recover from, the
Speaker 3: holidays are coming up. I think may Or Pete gets
Speaker 3: on the phone, he's like, Yo, can y'all install this
Speaker 3: until like after the inauguration? And then if Trump does win,
Speaker 3: right then it's gonna he's it's gonna to be his
Speaker 3: responsibility and be like, oh, look at the dock workers
Speaker 3: aren't striking. Everything's falling apart because of Trump. You sound
Speaker 3: like a conspiracy theorist here, do you know.
Speaker 1: They also announced that they're going to release those remember
Speaker 1: those Biden records from the university that everyone's like, hey,
Speaker 1: can we see those and they're like, no, you can't,
Speaker 1: they're in a secret vault or whatever. So and then
Speaker 1: they went over the archives the Archives has announced they're
Speaker 1: going to go ahead and release those Did you see
Speaker 1: that over the weekend?
Speaker 3: No, I missed it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're going to be releasing them on the
Speaker 1: sixth of November. Oh oh, what does that date stand out?
Speaker 1: So Wednesday? Let's see why? Now why does that say
Speaker 1: it's Wednesday, January or excuse me, November sixth?
Speaker 2: They really why does that stand out?
Speaker 6: Ross?
Speaker 2: Can you think of anything?
Speaker 3: No, but I'm just having this, this thought, this popped
Speaker 3: in my head. That were actually led by a holes
Speaker 3: and a lot of them deserve prison.
Speaker 2: I mean, some would say that's the case. Some would say,
Speaker 2: you're not far off. Man. You think this woman's got
Speaker 2: any time for dock workers strikes? You're out of here.
Speaker 1: You sweating on the pant By the way, the person
Speaker 1: who commented on this video, I can't believe she's swearing
Speaker 1: in front of her kids.
Speaker 2: Eat a bag of hit the wrong button, damn it?
Speaker 1: Those Okay, you don't know what's in the bag, but
Speaker 1: I'll let you fill in the blankes.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: The woman trying to cross a super canyon full of
Speaker 1: rushing water on a deteriorated road about to climb over
Speaker 1: a house with her kids swore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there are times that you swear in front of
Speaker 3: your children, and I imagine that's probably one of them.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I mean I'm not a parent, so
Speaker 1: I'll yield to you, but I feel like that sounds appropriate.
Speaker 2: This is basically what's stopping us from getting.
Speaker 6: Out of here.
Speaker 1: Climb over the house. Decisions you're held are those kids?
Speaker 1: What do you think the youngest is five six? You're
Speaker 1: wrangling kids that aren't in high school yet on like
Speaker 1: on Lewis and Clark Adventure.
Speaker 2: So I'm on team. We're led by a holes.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the far Bryan, you're up next,
Speaker 1: Go right ahead.
Speaker 9: Hey, how you doing, jay Zy?
Speaker 2: I'm doing, sir.
Speaker 9: So Friday morning, when I left out from Statesville, I
Speaker 9: got out from work early. My girlfriend was at Mornington
Speaker 9: and I drove from Statesville to Mordington around nine thirty
Speaker 9: ten o'clock. And I stayed in the left lane all
Speaker 9: the way on forty there's cars getting hit by trees
Speaker 9: and everything. I had to get off on exit one
Speaker 9: oh four because they shut down the highway right there
Speaker 9: and go around, and I could not reach her. I
Speaker 9: could not get in touch with her. To ask or
Speaker 9: what she needs for supplies. I saw it. My food
Speaker 9: line grabbed like hamburger, hot dog, get just little things.
Speaker 2: And cook up and other stuff.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I was I was really shaking to go through.
Speaker 2: Is she okay here?
Speaker 9: Yeah, she's okay. She owns a greenhouse there in Morganton
Speaker 9: and uh she lost a lot of products. Uh she
Speaker 9: she grew a lot of mums and stuff and it
Speaker 9: devastated that. Uh there's a bridge that's near her house
Speaker 9: off of sixty four that got totally wiped out, so
Speaker 9: now people have to go around, uh basically a mountain
Speaker 9: to get to her. I did cook a pot roast
Speaker 9: over the fire in a Dutch of it, which was
Speaker 9: pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: Okay, look at that you don't like, because you know,
Speaker 1: people make do man, people figure stuff out.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you're among them.
Speaker 13: So yeah, they.
Speaker 9: Haven't started their generator in like three or four years.
Speaker 9: And I broke it out, got it all fixed up,
Speaker 9: and then the cord on it, the contacts were all coroded.
Speaker 9: To sit there with a fingernail file to file contact
Speaker 9: to get it running.
Speaker 2: I've literally been there.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, all right, Well, hey, I'm I'm sure
Speaker 1: she's glad you're out there, and I'm happy she's okay.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the call there, Ryan, it is crazy.
Speaker 1: Let me fit one more call in this segment. We'll
Speaker 1: get to the rest here in the next Lorraine, and
Speaker 1: go right ahead, Hello, Loraine, Good morning, Lorraine. All right,
Speaker 1: put her on hold, and I think.
Speaker 2: We're gonna put her on hold? Why is that not
Speaker 2: putting her on hold?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 2: It goes all right, let's is it Race Stagic today.
Speaker 2: Let's get mister mister Stagic Are you there? Yes, sir, yep,
Speaker 2: we're here. Bro. We haven't talk sense, we haven't. It's
Speaker 2: been a while. Well, I mean, I can't even. I remember.
Speaker 1: I remember our conversation distinctly, and you used a word
Speaker 1: on Friday, and you said, I don't use that word lightly,
Speaker 1: and it was you.
Speaker 2: Know, it was gast catastrophic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you said you made a point when you don't
Speaker 1: people get when they see a constant twenty four to
Speaker 1: seven news and everything's the end of the world, even
Speaker 1: on the weather, sometimes people disregard things.
Speaker 2: And that stood out to me.
Speaker 3: And now I remember raised tone on front and I
Speaker 3: told my wife, I said, I don't I said, when
Speaker 3: Ray came on the air on Friday. I've never heard
Speaker 3: him that serious before my life, and it was like,
Speaker 3: this is going to be a big deal.
Speaker 1: It's like I tell people are scared of fly and
Speaker 1: if you see a flight attendant looking like she thinks
Speaker 1: she's going to die, that's when you get concerned.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's you know, And here's what happens is that
Speaker 5: you read within some of the discussions, and sometimes you
Speaker 5: read it whether it's the Weather Service of the hurricanes
Speaker 5: or anybody. Really there's always these words you have to
Speaker 5: before the precede, a word like catastrophic. You know, it's
Speaker 5: like potentially you know, could be life threatening or it
Speaker 5: was you know, is when you stay away from that
Speaker 5: and just say this is going to be a category
Speaker 5: where you're almost certain that it's going to be a
Speaker 5: catastrophic event for some I don't know, I was a
Speaker 5: there's a pretty high confidence and right you know it
Speaker 5: just I I can't even.
Speaker 1: It's catastrophic, not just because of the size of what
Speaker 1: you know, you're looking at the picture of that storm
Speaker 1: versus Katrina, which I saw a post everywhere, I mean
Speaker 1: an eight hundred miles storm. I mean, it's just like
Speaker 1: that's crazy but also even when you hear that and
Speaker 1: you live at the top of a mountain, right and
Speaker 1: there's twenty six hundred feet below you or whatever it.
Speaker 2: Is, and you're house washed away.
Speaker 1: Yeah that And I saw these I saw these people
Speaker 1: and these controls that come out.
Speaker 2: They're just like, well, maybe you shouldn't live in a
Speaker 2: flood zone, you would think, right about. They're just not
Speaker 2: at the beach.
Speaker 1: They're not at you know, they're not out on the
Speaker 1: outer banks with the house on stilts.
Speaker 2: They're they're in a mountain hollow.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's yeah, you know, part of the legacy
Speaker 5: of Helene will be will anybody remember that the precursor
Speaker 5: and the six plus inches rain they got before Helene
Speaker 5: got there?
Speaker 2: Now you take that element.
Speaker 5: Out, you know, what do you have? And it will
Speaker 5: never be able to answer that question.
Speaker 2: But that really didn't help saturation right.
Speaker 5: Right, because we had this trough, I had this front
Speaker 5: in some areas before Helene came in at over six
Speaker 5: inches of rain the day before or cumulically over I
Speaker 5: think it was two or three days, and so the
Speaker 5: ground saturated, the rivers were already running high, and I
Speaker 5: I couldn't I couldn't imagine because you know, we had
Speaker 5: that little shift in the track east and you know, originally,
Speaker 5: let's go back a day or two from you know,
Speaker 5: from when the event happened, that track was supposed to
Speaker 5: be further west. It was supposed to be eastern Georgian. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and into Tennessee. So you know, with that shift, and Sadley,
Speaker 5: I don't know, sadly or not, I've got some guilt
Speaker 5: about all this, but I wasn't Clemson, and the center
Speaker 5: came right over the top of us. So the tree
Speaker 5: came down and barely missed the house that we were
Speaker 5: staying in.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: And the power was out from the entire time we
Speaker 5: got there. We actually had power out before the storm
Speaker 5: even came.
Speaker 2: That was fun.
Speaker 5: And I was talking to Mark over in Ashville and
Speaker 5: I said, let's try to get on in the morning
Speaker 5: because it's coming right over, so it's heading right to you.
Speaker 5: And I could never. It was about six a m.
Speaker 5: And I could never. Once it's started with.
Speaker 1: Mark uh after the weekend, and he was just giving
Speaker 1: me this skinny because you know, we understand it from
Speaker 1: how do you how do you make the sausage during
Speaker 1: the situation when you're in the studio. They stayed on
Speaker 1: the air broadcasting man.
Speaker 2: For Yeah they did.
Speaker 1: I understand, Yeah, and he's good on them, but it's
Speaker 1: it's it's crazy, all right. So here's what I gotta
Speaker 1: ask you real quick. Sure, And I know there's the
Speaker 1: last thing people want to talk about. What is what
Speaker 1: is the other stort?
Speaker 5: Kirk like, Okay, let's go through that quickly. Let's go
Speaker 5: through this please, Kirk's a major Atlantic, no threat going
Speaker 5: away well away from US Leslie central eastern Atlantic, moving
Speaker 5: away from well away from the US mainland, not even
Speaker 5: into the islands. The next storm would be Milton. So
Speaker 5: we're past the l storm.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: If we do get a name storm, it would be
Speaker 5: Milton Milton. Yeah, I don't name them like Milton Bradley.
Speaker 2: But we get a pizza place in Raleigh.
Speaker 5: That's pizza, So that's where we would be. And there's
Speaker 5: an area of thunderstorms. It's going to take slow a
Speaker 5: lot of time in the Southern Caribbean in the Gulf.
Speaker 2: That may get into the Gulf next week.
Speaker 5: It's going to bring heavy rain to Florida areas that
Speaker 5: were hit by Helene over multiple days. But things just
Speaker 5: aren't happening quickly. The good news is it looks like
Speaker 5: if something does form, it is going to be south
Speaker 5: and it's going to be Florida next week. Certainly not
Speaker 5: good news for them, but for here in the Western Carolinas,
Speaker 5: especially in East Georgia, where there's still got power out
Speaker 5: and it may not rain here again. Some spotty stuff today,
Speaker 5: but it may not rain here again for the next
Speaker 5: two weeks. So we're going into dry, mild weather, a
Speaker 5: little bit cooler next week. Ac So the news is
Speaker 5: good on the weather front for the next several days.
Speaker 5: I don't like going out too far, but as I
Speaker 5: told Mark, I'm willing to extend myself, you know, ten days,
Speaker 5: maybe longer after I.
Speaker 2: Waited to get a best guess from you. For sure. Hey,
Speaker 2: I gotta go, but double chat an hour. Appreciate it.
Speaker 8: I just have a.
Speaker 14: Comment, and that is as of two days ago, I
Speaker 14: know that there were zero civilian corporate contracts through FEMA,
Speaker 14: and before major events like this, they already have those
Speaker 14: contracts written up so that FEMA can execute their mission.
Speaker 14: Bear have been thus far that I know of no contracts.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, if you have something, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you I don't believe you. I just
Speaker 1: I don't even I wouldn't even know how to check that.
Speaker 1: I mean, but if that's the case, again, we got
Speaker 1: we got a thousand soldiers sitting at Fort Bragg. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna call it liberty standing around. Some of them
Speaker 1: are making thanks for the call. There I saw this again.
Speaker 1: I saw members, uh you know, active duty military members
Speaker 1: as well as active duty National Guard members who were
Speaker 1: sitting there making videos sharing their frustration.
Speaker 2: I saw one woman, damn near in tears.
Speaker 1: She was I think she was a sergeant because she's
Speaker 1: that's where she's from. Putting the list together for what
Speaker 1: we're gonna chat about was quick work. I'm talking of
Speaker 1: course about our radio buddy to the South. That would
Speaker 1: be Pete Colendter Middays WBT and formally in this some
Speaker 1: of most you know this formerly spent years broadcasting in.
Speaker 2: Asheville for iHeart talk station out there.
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, Pete that I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people in the mountains, you know far more
Speaker 1: probably you've you've spoke with them. Everybody's happy, right, everybody
Speaker 1: has to ge up there. The lunacy man, where do
Speaker 1: we start? And I'll say it like this, and I'm
Speaker 1: curious to hear your take on this. I was just
Speaker 1: you know, the Cardinal and Pine, which is the funded newspaper,
Speaker 1: and they opened a bunch of these different states. You
Speaker 1: guys should know this, right, So when you're reading that,
Speaker 1: you're reading propaganda, which is fine, you're open about it.
Speaker 1: I was one of their authors in Durham wrote an
Speaker 1: op ed piece for MSNBC. I was just reading it.
Speaker 1: Billy Ball is his name, and it basically says Trump
Speaker 1: and Everybody's lying. And I'm telling you the heartless I
Speaker 1: could be critical about bias, the heartless audacity to spend
Speaker 1: more than ten minutes under the NC poll hashtag or
Speaker 1: the Hurricane Helene hashtag.
Speaker 2: Watch all of those videos.
Speaker 1: And understandably people are talking about personal experience, and sometimes
Speaker 1: they say stuff on there that isn't correct. You know,
Speaker 1: things you heard from another person because you're in a
Speaker 1: stressful situation to discount the totality of that. Biden did
Speaker 1: it because he's senile, maybe or he misspoke. Maybe this
Speaker 1: guy made an active decision and others have to paint
Speaker 1: a rosiest of pictures and I don't expect perfection, but
Speaker 1: these stories are maddening. So give me the Pete calendar
Speaker 1: longtime Asheville now Charlotte resident take on this whole.
Speaker 15: Thing, Well, yeah, it does strike me as a pretty
Speaker 15: amazing turnaround of how awesome the federal government has become
Speaker 15: over the last what nineteen years since Hurricane Katrina, when
Speaker 15: George W. Bush was in charge, and it was awful,
Speaker 15: it was terrible. They couldn't respond, they hated their own citizens,
Speaker 15: and all of those stories and narratives that were promulgated
Speaker 15: against George W. Bush, which of course, you know, led
Speaker 15: to not just.
Speaker 1: Bush the whole Remember they purged FEMA and cleue was it.
Speaker 1: Michael Brown was the director. Not that much on the
Speaker 1: other one, right, they purge the agency, so like you're.
Speaker 15: Right, yeah, yeah, and uh, and it costs Republicans in
Speaker 15: that two thousand and six midterm election, made him alaim
Speaker 15: made Bush a lame duck uh for the uh for
Speaker 15: the rest of his tenure. And and now all of
Speaker 15: a sudden, I guess BEMA has just done everything perfectly
Speaker 15: so far, which is pretty amazing. But no, this is
Speaker 15: there are there are political operatives that are worried about
Speaker 15: the impact that this is going to have on their aspirations,
Speaker 15: and I have just been ignoring those people because my
Speaker 15: focus over the last uh, you know, five.
Speaker 1: Days, concerns over voting or you know there just want
Speaker 1: to be clear here, yeah.
Speaker 15: Right, So there's there's that aspect to it as well.
Speaker 15: And there are and look or conspiracy theories promulgated on
Speaker 15: the right saying that I believe the Marjorie Taylor Green
Speaker 15: says that we can control hurricanes and they sent this
Speaker 15: through Trump Country basically, yeah, and and so again my
Speaker 15: focus has been on what is needed right now, and
Speaker 15: what is needed right now over you know, on on
Speaker 15: Monday and Tuesday is going to look a little bit
Speaker 15: different than what is needed today. That's going to look
Speaker 15: a little different than what's needed next week and next month.
Speaker 15: So right now, the thing is water, food, shelter, clothing, toiletries,
Speaker 15: and rescuing people like that's those are the those are
Speaker 15: the first orders. And anything outside of that I really
Speaker 15: don't have the bandwidth for because it's not helping. Sitting
Speaker 15: around and speculating online about the reason why this happened
Speaker 15: and who the day is and all of that is
Speaker 15: a waste of energy to me. Now, others may find
Speaker 15: some solace in that, Okay, have at it, but there
Speaker 15: is there is there are bigger issues that can save lives.
Speaker 15: Then of course you've got you know, the uh, the
Speaker 15: the people that are like trying to score political points
Speaker 15: in the wake of the the devastation, whether they're attacking
Speaker 15: you know, Asheville and all the liberals or the mountains
Speaker 15: and all the Trumpers. And again like I don't I
Speaker 15: don't care. I'm not checking von cards to pull people. Yeah,
Speaker 15: you're pull you're pulling people off of mountains. Now that
Speaker 15: being said, Uh, what I have been angry to hear
Speaker 15: of is and because I was a reporter, you were
Speaker 15: a reporter, and so you know, as you just said,
Speaker 15: people are going to report stuff in these types of situations.
Speaker 15: They're going to spread stories that they think are true
Speaker 15: that they want me to investigate and and that sort
Speaker 15: of thing. And what I've been telling people is just
Speaker 15: because I'm not uh amplifying a story on the airwaves
Speaker 15: doesn't mean I haven't seen it. It means I haven't
Speaker 15: been able to confirm it. And when you were able
Speaker 15: to then confirm that these things are occurring, when you
Speaker 15: start hearing similar stories or confirmation, then then I then
Speaker 15: bring the story because I'm not going to be spreading rumors.
Speaker 15: And so when we got the confirmation about you know,
Speaker 15: helicopter pilots being threatened with the rest and turned away,
Speaker 15: that makes me angry because again the focus is on
Speaker 15: first order of business, which is get the dying people
Speaker 15: off of the mountains, well half.
Speaker 2: Of them in the case of that one story, right when.
Speaker 7: They did get well.
Speaker 15: And the latest on that is that they did get
Speaker 15: the husband. This is at a lake lore where a
Speaker 15: fire chief told a private pilot who had rescued a
Speaker 15: woman left his son back at the house with the husband,
Speaker 15: brought her down the mountain, dropped her off, and then
Speaker 15: he was threatened with the rest if he was to
Speaker 15: go back up. And he said, oh, I'm not leaving
Speaker 15: my co pilot. I'm not leaving my son up there, right,
Speaker 15: And they said if you go back, and you were
Speaker 15: going to arrest you. So he went back and got
Speaker 15: his kid and he had to leave the husband there.
Speaker 15: He has that husband, then he's that guy, and he's
Speaker 15: what appears to be I don't know, like you know,
Speaker 15: sixty five or so. That guy started hiking down the mountain.
Speaker 15: The road washed out, mudslides all over the place, and
Speaker 15: he did get down. He made contact with the rescue
Speaker 15: group that had come down from Michigan that had originally
Speaker 15: tried to help that pilot, but they were then blocked
Speaker 15: from doing so by that local fire assistant fire chief,
Speaker 15: and the town of Lake war is standing by him,
Speaker 15: saying the town manager gave an interview to the Ashville
Speaker 15: TV station WLS saying, you know, well, no, he was,
Speaker 15: he was following protocol and the pilot hadn't you know,
Speaker 15: identified as his expertise to work in the area and
Speaker 15: all this stuff, and this is the stuff that I
Speaker 15: have no tolerance for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and let me tell you, let me just say this.
Speaker 1: On the voting thing, I think that there is an
Speaker 1: appropriate there are appropriate people to be working on that
Speaker 1: because I feel like the people, you know what, the
Speaker 1: people in western North Carolina need to have a voice,
Speaker 1: because this is a litmus test. It is happening a
Speaker 1: month out and I get it. And to some extent,
Speaker 1: people are going to project because they saw the mad
Speaker 1: scramble during COVID to manipulate the system right in the
Speaker 1: height of it.
Speaker 2: So and they've seen over the years.
Speaker 1: People accuse Republicans every time they change something with voting
Speaker 1: of doing secret racist backroom deals. So when people are
Speaker 1: sitting there and they got time to think, because everything's gone,
Speaker 1: when they got time to think, I don't begrudge them
Speaker 1: of wondering where the urgency is. Yes, even on that matter,
Speaker 1: because we're a month out from an election and they
Speaker 1: just got seven hundred and fifty dollars told that they're
Speaker 1: happy and they're able to do math and see spending
Speaker 1: with migrant stuff, which not all that comes out of
Speaker 1: the main budget, a lot of it's appropriated, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Shows the government can do that, and and
Speaker 1: they see that, and so I I feel that it
Speaker 1: is important. And I the rumblings are that North Carolina
Speaker 1: legislators are working on something might be mobile stuff. That's appropriate.
Speaker 1: As long as they're working on what else they need?
Speaker 1: Tell me why a thousand soldiers are sitting at BRAG
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 2: Liberty explain that to me.
Speaker 1: DeSantis used his for for and he and he probably
Speaker 1: stopped the dock workers strike too by threatening to essentially
Speaker 1: put him to work in Miami Port, right, and he
Speaker 1: did that proactively.
Speaker 15: Yeah, And apparently now they're they're uh, they're going to
Speaker 15: go back on onto the job, which yeah, I said
Speaker 15: yesterday when I saw that DeSantis uh said he was
Speaker 15: going to, you know, go down there and open the
Speaker 15: ports up, and uh, I mean just just shame on,
Speaker 15: Shame on that union, Shame on them, go to hell.
Speaker 1: You said, you're so angry today, and I'm matching your energy.
Speaker 1: I even though I was, I was off, I was
Speaker 1: having those moments. I'm sure this never happens to you.
Speaker 1: You're much more common collected. I was having those moments
Speaker 1: where anger permeates through your body and you you kind
Speaker 1: of like clench your grit, your reading stuff. And I'm
Speaker 1: so damn jaded on.
Speaker 2: What we do.
Speaker 1: And it was the helicopter and then the drones stuff. People,
Speaker 1: you got drones with insulin.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal.
Speaker 1: I understand helicopters and drones don't mix. But if we
Speaker 1: can facilitate New York Airspace, bring in some FAA, you
Speaker 1: know FAA people, some ATC people and handle this. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know this, Pete. Are you a
Speaker 1: pilot or do you know any pilots?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1: They're trained, and most pilots are very situationally aware, and
Speaker 1: there's a whole thing on. You know, if you ever
Speaker 1: sat in a in a plane with the headset on
Speaker 1: and listen to the a you see going back and forth,
Speaker 1: it's a Finally, it's not always finely tune, but for
Speaker 1: the most part it is. And when you're laying somebody
Speaker 1: of going into a diabetic shock versus telling somebody who
Speaker 1: is you know they can't fly a drone or their
Speaker 1: own helicopter for that matter, screw you, That's all I
Speaker 1: could say.
Speaker 2: So I'm with you, man.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 15: No, it's the selfishness of people that think their issue
Speaker 15: and it kind of goes to that Cardinal and Pine
Speaker 15: story too, which is that it comes from a place
Speaker 15: of selfishness. It's the belief that the thing you think
Speaker 15: you have to say, or the issue that you care
Speaker 15: about most, you know, I need to be able to
Speaker 15: abort more babies, like if that is the most important
Speaker 15: thing to you. While people are starving, dehydrating and dying
Speaker 15: from lack of medical care on the side of a
Speaker 15: mountain or even worse more horrifically, people don't understand what
Speaker 15: happens like when you get swept down a mountain in
Speaker 15: a mud slide. The debris huts to you and damages
Speaker 15: your body in ways that are unfathomable. And that's what
Speaker 15: people are trying to are trying to save that. That's
Speaker 15: what these rescuers are trying to go in and get.
Speaker 15: And if you, if you think your little pet political
Speaker 15: issue is more important than that, then you too, can
Speaker 15: go to hell. I don't care to hear anything about you.
Speaker 15: You need to make better decisions and better yet, you
Speaker 15: need to just get out of the business, because this
Speaker 15: is actually what the business is supposed to be about.
Speaker 15: And I say that as a radio guy, I understand.
Speaker 15: And look, there are a lot of local reporters that
Speaker 15: are doing really.
Speaker 1: Really good or you did too, and they are fundamentally
Speaker 1: different things. And I explain this every chance that I
Speaker 1: get right. Yeah, there is editorial and then there is
Speaker 1: what is supposed to be news, and you and I,
Speaker 1: having made that transition and worked in both, I don't
Speaker 1: recognize that line with a lot of news agencies anymore.
Speaker 1: And so when people see that and they're wondering, you're right,
Speaker 1: as two guys that have decades of experience in the industry,
Speaker 1: you've watched it disintegrate, and so I'm watching a guy
Speaker 1: who I don't know how long he's lived in North
Speaker 1: Carolina ignore all of that. I don't understand how your
Speaker 1: heart hardens to be able to do.
Speaker 2: That to score political points. So let me ask you.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, Pete.
Speaker 15: Well, I mean, well I was saying, I can answer that.
Speaker 15: I don't think it's necessarily it's a hardening of the heart.
Speaker 15: I think it is a recognition that government has failed
Speaker 15: here as it and looked as I expected.
Speaker 2: We're saying they did good and ignoring everything that he's seen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 15: Well right, it is that it is that they they
Speaker 15: have faith in government doing these things and it hasn't.
Speaker 4: It doesn't.
Speaker 15: The first response is always you, me, the neighbors, the community,
Speaker 15: then the locals. Right, the Feds can't do this, and
Speaker 15: I think they are worried about the impact on their
Speaker 15: h quest for control and power, and that is the
Speaker 15: highest order. That's the thing that animates and motivates them,
Speaker 15: and so the response being bad jeopardizes that quest, and
Speaker 15: I think that's what drives it. It's not now, I
Speaker 15: don't know, like to your point about the heart and heart.
Speaker 15: I don't know how you turn away from what you're
Speaker 15: seeing and make this the focus. That is a foreign
Speaker 15: concept to me because I don't care. Like I again,
Speaker 15: I'm not checking voter cards when pulling people out of creeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just to be clear, ash we you and I
Speaker 1: have talked about Asheville, right, and I point out some
Speaker 1: of the more interesting characters that live in that little
Speaker 1: triangular park downtown and throw cigarettes at me.
Speaker 2: I want them to be okay. I want the blue
Speaker 2: hair girl who wanted me to pay ten dollars to write,
Speaker 2: I want her to be okay, to write a poem
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 1: And in the same way that I want that old
Speaker 1: boy running is still up there, who doesn't trust government
Speaker 1: at all and could be the next Ruby Ridge of trial,
Speaker 1: I want him to be okay.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: It's it's so incredibly simple, and they're not okay. And
Speaker 1: I saw videos in Ashville of a woman is walking
Speaker 1: around in the walmart over there, and it looks worse
Speaker 1: than a San Fran looting man.
Speaker 2: And it's to be expected.
Speaker 1: And government can't control everything, and and understandably people are
Speaker 1: not always going to know what to do, but you
Speaker 1: can't say that everything that everything's okay, you can't not
Speaker 1: see the National Guarden there and more specifically, well, anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to go down a political road. I
Speaker 1: got about a minute left. So anything that you're seeing
Speaker 1: that you don't feel as being oh, I was going
Speaker 1: to point out, and you can't. You have to go
Speaker 1: ahead and use that Greensboro Jewish Day School facility which
Speaker 1: was literally getting ready to open and you're not even
Speaker 1: utilizing that. How are people not supposed to think that
Speaker 1: there's a level of incompetence for at the very least
Speaker 1: perhaps something more sinister like I get it forty five
Speaker 1: seconds pete. So where you at anything that we need
Speaker 1: to know you're not seeing and reported?
Speaker 15: Well, I would just say, uh, please keep these people
Speaker 15: of western North Carolina in your prayers. Uh, if you
Speaker 15: can help, please do so. Uh that what's gonna what
Speaker 15: what they're going to need is going to change right
Speaker 15: over the next week, two months to six months, and
Speaker 15: so don't forget about them. That's the biggest thing, uh,
Speaker 15: is not to forget about them. If you're looking for
Speaker 15: a charity, the one I always direct people to is
Speaker 15: a disaster relief organization based in Swannanoa. They were amazingly
Speaker 15: enough their warehouse with fair Heart with Hands, Heartswithhands dot
Speaker 15: org Hearts with Hands. Maridan's person has been doing great
Speaker 15: work as well.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 1: Pete sounds angry man. I don't know if I've ever
Speaker 1: heard Pete angry man. I know he gets but late
Speaker 1: and and I understand it like I get it, because
Speaker 1: there is the frustration where you're You're dealing with legitimate
Speaker 1: stuff and questions and life and death issues, and you
Speaker 1: you got people that are coming at you, uh on
Speaker 1: all political fronts, over over some of the some of
Speaker 1: these other issues, and then and then they scream at you.
Speaker 1: I had people sending me nasty grams last week, were
Speaker 1: even on the air, and nasty Grahams like I didn't hear.
Speaker 2: You talking about this? No, you didn't. You wantn't you
Speaker 2: know why?
Speaker 1: And and and so I you know, I discount some
Speaker 1: of that, and I want to have real conversations. But
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I lose my crap uh
Speaker 1: when I'm sitting there and like I knew they were
Speaker 1: going to do it, but the audacity of doing it
Speaker 1: still blew me away.
Speaker 2: W R A L. And then we'll get right into calls.
Speaker 1: W R A L ran a couple stories and I
Speaker 1: just had to like lock the phone, put it down
Speaker 1: and just be done with it. Okay, And I I'm
Speaker 1: get angry just talking about this the first one. And
Speaker 1: uh and as you can imagine, Uh, the one that
Speaker 1: I expected was, uh, it's uh, it's it's climate change.
Speaker 1: You got to learn to live with it.
Speaker 2: And and uh, oh, you know, this is what happens when
Speaker 2: you all want to drive an suv and go on vacation.
Speaker 2: And even though we live in big houses ourselves and
Speaker 2: we're hypocrites, we're gonna we're gonna scold you for this.
Speaker 2: And and I just knew that was coming. What what
Speaker 2: are you saying?
Speaker 1: Are you telling people who live in the mountains that
Speaker 1: they need to understand that you were right and this
Speaker 1: is all the cause of that because they made decisions
Speaker 1: to do things like buy afour we'll drive vehicle and
Speaker 1: you don't like it, even though you probably get carted
Speaker 1: around in one.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: If you're a politician and you do get a vehicle,
Speaker 2: it's usually one of those big old SUVs. Screw you
Speaker 2: the hell? What are you what are you talking about telling?
Speaker 13: So?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you should have about that SUV. Well,
Speaker 1: problem solved, it just floated away, leave me alone. That's
Speaker 1: within days, Ross has an SUV. I guess they're blaming
Speaker 1: you too, buddy, and and and that's gonna effend me.
Speaker 1: And then they wrote a pee I'm not even gonna
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna read the content of it. But
Speaker 1: the piece was basically blaming the Republicans in the legislature
Speaker 1: because they didn't want to let a group in DC
Speaker 1: dictate every was it biennial something like that, like every
Speaker 1: two or three years, basically building codes and which had
Speaker 1: gotten very aggressive on slope building, and they were saying, well,
Speaker 1: you know what they didn't do is they didn't adopt
Speaker 1: that any any home that's in a floodable area should
Speaker 1: be elevated at.
Speaker 2: Least one foot above.
Speaker 1: You tell me what an extra foot of elevation on
Speaker 1: your home, on the foundation of your home does in
Speaker 1: twenty six feet of water above the top line crest
Speaker 1: of a river. You think twenty six feet of water
Speaker 1: cares about your one foot? What are you doing?
Speaker 2: So, yeah, there there was a.
Speaker 1: Lot of moments when I it's probably a good thing.
Speaker 3: I wasn't immediately on that did you see the political cartoon?
Speaker 3: Which one the one with the I just reposted on
Speaker 3: the show account in casey on the radio and I
Speaker 3: saw from one of one of our one of our listeners,
Speaker 3: Mandy posted this. So it's a it's a map of
Speaker 3: north Yes, yeah, and it shows you know, there's there's
Speaker 3: the hurricane and it says, uh, you know, making mole
Speaker 3: hills out of mountains. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I you know, I saw people upset about it. I
Speaker 1: think their point. I thought the point of it was
Speaker 1: and was that this hurricane was so devastating it didn't
Speaker 1: matter that you were that high up. And I know
Speaker 1: that people interpreted differently, but yeah, I did see it.
Speaker 1: But still it's just you know what after the the
Speaker 1: Mark Robinson is a Klan member who, by the way,
Speaker 1: Mark Robinson's up there. Mark Robinson was up there and
Speaker 1: people I didn't see a bunch of them. I saw
Speaker 1: a couple of videos, but maybe he was just up there,
Speaker 1: I don't know, helping.
Speaker 3: No, he's been putting in the work since day one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, again, you know how you feel
Speaker 1: about politicians going over there. But if they're just busting
Speaker 1: their hump whatever, good, fine, wonderful spectacular. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get some calls here. Uh, Dave, you're up first. Robert
Speaker 1: will come to you in a moment. Go ahead, David, Hey, hey, Hello,
Speaker 1: Yeah you're on the air.
Speaker 13: Okay, yeah, I can't figure this out. Okay, I'm a Democrat.
Speaker 13: I'm getting read to vote Republican. Because Trump came locktail
Speaker 13: on the HELICOPTERIL on the way to somewhere else. Stop
Speaker 13: this also stuff next day to president shows up. If
Speaker 13: you bring it out of need for him to even.
Speaker 2: Be here, well, I want to be consistent, sir.
Speaker 1: Anyone who's under Secret Service protection doesn't need to come
Speaker 1: to the actual disaster area because it's logistically a problem.
Speaker 1: So I don't like Trump coming as much as I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want Biden coming. But there is a double standard
Speaker 1: for how they're interpreting this, because I just had to
Speaker 1: hear that Trump's trying to make this political and and
Speaker 1: and you don't and people this reporter was ignoring the
Speaker 1: other stuff.
Speaker 2: So I hear you, sir.
Speaker 1: So so Trump came here or came to North Carolina.
Speaker 1: I think Kamala is going to be here today or tomorrow,
Speaker 1: so we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 2: Is that the only thing driving you.
Speaker 13: Why he should waiting till late to get here. And well,
Speaker 13: I can see why the governors. I think he's out
Speaker 13: of office in less than four.
Speaker 1: Months, you know, well, I you know, but maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you want to get this one right because obviously we
Speaker 1: had some and thanks for the call day, we had
Speaker 1: some issues with we you know, we should have hurricane
Speaker 1: relief funds from another hurricane that are undistributed.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: But and again I just I don't want Kamala here,
Speaker 1: But I also don't want Trump up there anyone where
Speaker 1: there's a logistical thing and you're shutting down airspace. Now
Speaker 1: it's not to the extent it is with Kamala. I
Speaker 1: don't be on the fringes of it. Fine, come to
Speaker 1: the tryad. If you want do some stuff, go up
Speaker 1: to you know, good for a go to Marion or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I don't want anything hampering the ability of folks
Speaker 1: to receive help. Robert, go right ahead.
Speaker 6: Hey, casey, listen, I'm from Fayvl and I'm retired out
Speaker 6: from Fort Bride and what I don't understand, and maybe
Speaker 6: somebody can call in and explain this to me, and
Speaker 6: the common sense is beyond me. But instead of sending the.
Speaker 4: Eighty second up there all right to just hand out.
Speaker 7: War on that.
Speaker 8: They should have sent out the twentieth Engineer Brigade, a
Speaker 8: thousand of them with their.
Speaker 4: Seas, could have started clearing.
Speaker 8: Roads and they can actually go up and down the
Speaker 8: mountains one because I was in the twenty seventh Engineers,
Speaker 8: all right, and that's what we.
Speaker 4: Do, all right. So why in the commandery chief he
Speaker 4: makes this decision except to him who is sent out.
Speaker 4: He relays it down to the post commander, and then
Speaker 4: they send the troops off. They haven't even left yet.
Speaker 4: They should have been going Andrew hit. When Andrew hit.
Speaker 8: In Florida, we were out within twenty four hours. I
Speaker 8: know because I was part of that, all right. So
Speaker 8: I just don't get what's going on. It's ridiculous, and
Speaker 8: people to be really teed off.
Speaker 1: At the very least, we need an explanation. I saw
Speaker 1: some finger pointing where at first they're like, well, Roy's
Speaker 1: got to ask for it, and then it was may
Speaker 1: Orcus and the Department of Defense I think, and the
Speaker 1: President have to sign off. I don't know, but they
Speaker 1: all can get together in a room because they're all
Speaker 1: friends and explain to your point, why they're still sitting
Speaker 1: there because people think that they're already out there because
Speaker 1: they see pictures and thanks for the call, robber. They
Speaker 1: see pictures of what looked like nasvillcard and they are
Speaker 1: but not ours, right, and then not any.
Speaker 2: Of the active duty stuff we're going to use.
Speaker 1: Right, It's what you have said seen up to this
Speaker 1: point is not what we're talking about.
Speaker 2: These are two different things.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad that there are states that have their
Speaker 1: national Guard going, and I'm glad that there's national Guard
Speaker 1: that are even doing things up in North Carolina as
Speaker 1: it seems to be the hardest hit. But understand that
Speaker 1: a piece of that puzzle is still missing. And to
Speaker 1: our callers point to Robert's point, yeah, that's what these
Speaker 1: guys are trained to do. I have and would you
Speaker 1: see when you see an engineering battalion going through there.
Speaker 1: He's right, they got the toys.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 3: I have an next high school friend who is now
Speaker 3: a retired military and he was commenting on one of
Speaker 3: my Facebook posts on this talking about how every base
Speaker 3: has a brigade just for like disaster relief, and so
Speaker 3: typically it would take them about two days to get
Speaker 3: out there. He could see like maybe even four days,
Speaker 3: but six days. He just doesn't understand why that's positive,
Speaker 3: Like why that would happen. Well, he also says.
Speaker 1: The thing was anywhere, what eighteen hours anywhere in the
Speaker 1: world or something. Yeah, the unofficial thing.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but he said, but the national Guard should
Speaker 3: have been out there like the next day or that
Speaker 3: day like that. There's no reason that I got it.
Speaker 1: You got around people up, you got you got to
Speaker 1: do that. But you're right, you can start doing that.
Speaker 1: And you got to load up too. You got to prepare,
Speaker 1: you know, get everything ready. But your friend's right. Every
Speaker 1: military person, for a military person I've talked to, can't.
Speaker 2: Fathom six days.
Speaker 1: I you know, I'm not a military, so I you know,
Speaker 1: I can't speak to it from a first person, but
Speaker 1: I haven't met anyone in the military says it should
Speaker 1: take six.
Speaker 2: Days if everyone's on the ball.
Speaker 1: And again, people want to help, all right, real quick, Boston, Paul,
Speaker 1: what's up?
Speaker 13: You know they're spending all this leftover COVID money on
Speaker 13: pet projects like bike bike lanes and all this stuff.
Speaker 13: Why aren't that money being sent there? And why did
Speaker 13: I see helicopter after helicopter flying back and forth from
Speaker 13: Raleigh to the coast of Darren, Florence. But they can't
Speaker 13: send any helicopters out to the western part of this day.
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, that's it's true.
Speaker 2: That's that's true.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of hell, there was a lot
Speaker 2: of air traffic with.
Speaker 13: They had a jump carrier off the coast with helicopters
Speaker 13: flying in and out of Wilmington to tell people. But
Speaker 13: they can't do anything in the western part of the state.
Speaker 13: This big governors, the disgrace. This, this administration, this president's
Speaker 13: administration is a disgrace. This this country is looking like
Speaker 13: a third world country right now, being around a bunch
Speaker 13: of idiots.
Speaker 2: Well, why why don't you get your hat and your
Speaker 2: bat from back in the day and go up and regulate.
Speaker 13: The man I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, let us know how that goes.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get raised stage. Ike, you're sure to
Speaker 1: not go out, well, not regulate the weather. That sounds conspiratorial,
Speaker 1: but hopefully uh provide good news and we need some
Speaker 1: of that right now. So what you got, sir, Hello,
Speaker 1: mister stage all right, ross uh okay, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: so let me just reiterate what Ross was saying. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. We got a fill in today. Let
Speaker 1: me just reiterate what Ray was saying, and that is
Speaker 1: there is a lot on the horizon that could be
Speaker 1: right now as far as name storms go, it looks
Speaker 1: like the next two in the slot not going to
Speaker 1: come near us. And the third they'll figure it out
Speaker 1: and let us know, But for now expects some dry weather,
Speaker 1: which is sorely needed. All right, eight forty six will
Speaker 1: take a break, be right back.
Speaker 16: Good morning, Casey. Let's start off with the September job support.
Speaker 16: It's out, it's good. Non farm payrolls increasing by two
Speaker 16: hundred and fifty four thousand, Casey, That far acceeded what
Speaker 16: economists had anticipated, which was one hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 16: The unemployment rate, which was expected to remain a four
Speaker 16: point two percent or even slightly, took up to four
Speaker 16: point three. Instead, it went down to four point one percent.
Speaker 16: Average Arley earnings rose four tenths of a percent. Estimates
Speaker 16: were three tenths of a percent. Well what does it mean, Well,
Speaker 16: looking at the futures, it means a lot.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 16: The dows of two hundred eleven points an increase of
Speaker 16: half of a percent. The SMP is up close to
Speaker 16: seven tens to one percent. The NASDAK flying high right now,
Speaker 16: that is up exactly one percent.
Speaker 2: There's other good news.
Speaker 16: US doc workers suspended a three day st with ports
Speaker 16: set to reopen today. The International Longshoreman's Association and the
Speaker 16: US Maritime Association agreed to extend the previous contract until
Speaker 16: January fifteenth, as the two sides will restart negotiations on
Speaker 16: a long term deal that will include a massive pay
Speaker 16: increase of around sixty two percent over six years. The
Speaker 16: three day strike cost the US economy and estimated three
Speaker 16: to five billion dollars a day, the two major sticking
Speaker 16: points for a wage increase and protection from automation. Spirit
Speaker 16: Airlines has moved one step closer to filing for bankruptcy
Speaker 16: protection after efforts to restructure its debt fell through. The
Speaker 16: budget airline is looking for new financing from its creditors,
Speaker 16: as well as in exchange that would extend its current
Speaker 16: debt now. Spirit has been seeking a financial lifeline ever
Speaker 16: since a proposed sale to jeff Blue was nixed by
Speaker 16: a federal judge on antitrust grounds.
Speaker 3: According to the.
Speaker 16: Bloomberg Billionaires index. Mark Zuckerberg is now the second richest
Speaker 16: person in the world, only behind Elon Musk. As shares
Speaker 16: of meta platforms continue to rise, The Facebook founder bet
Speaker 16: heavily on the metaverse, which paid off as shares in
Speaker 16: Meta have risen twenty three percent in supporting better than
Speaker 16: expected second quarter results. Well Alphabet's autonomous driving unit, Weimo,
Speaker 16: is expanding its robotaxi fleet by installing its sensors and
Speaker 16: software and Hyundai evs, which will be built in Georgia.
Speaker 16: The Ionic fives will be built in significant volumes as
Speaker 16: Weimo continues to lead the pack in developing robotaxis. Currently
Speaker 16: Waymo's charging fares and small numbers in both San Francisco
Speaker 16: and Phoenix that will be of course expanding. While all
Speaker 16: indications show that inflation has slowed, prices at the supermarket
Speaker 16: have not seemed to have gotten the message. Last month,
Speaker 16: global food prices saw the largest jump in two and
Speaker 16: a half years. Sugar prices led across the board, rising
Speaker 16: commodities including cooking oil and wheat. Casey, the United Nations
Speaker 16: numbers show an increase in price of three percent for sugar.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not surprised and we got a bunch of
Speaker 2: stories here where you can't find anything to pay over
Speaker 2: priced stuff for, so pretty crazy, Dan, I appreciate it,
Speaker 2: my man. Will are you with us tomorrow?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 2: No, Jeff is back on Monday, Oh or monday.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry by a whole week screwed up. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll chat with him then and we appreciate it today.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, buddy.
Speaker 2: All right, have a good one there.
Speaker 1: Dan Schwartzman from Bloomberg joining us. I told you I
Speaker 1: get those pulsating things.
Speaker 2: I do you guys?
Speaker 1: Are you guys familiar with the story. Maybe you saw
Speaker 1: I know that our attention is elsewhere right now. But
Speaker 1: did you see the story of the girls. She's not
Speaker 1: a little girl anymore, but she was right. She was eleven,
Speaker 1: and she was she was good. It was under she
Speaker 1: was being held by Isis Hamas, basically a Gozen Hamas
Speaker 1: member who was basically go between with Isis. So I
Speaker 1: just read this CBS headlight. Well, she was there for
Speaker 1: ten years. The IDF freed her a few days ago.
Speaker 1: So she you know, she's twenty twenty one year old
Speaker 1: or twenty two year old woman now, just been living
Speaker 1: hell over in Gaza all these years. This is CBS's headline.
Speaker 1: See if you understand why I just lost my crap.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: A ya Zd woman kidnapped from her home by Isis
Speaker 1: terrorists in Iraq when she was just eleven years old,
Speaker 1: has been reunited with her family after years stranded in
Speaker 1: the Hamas ruled Gaza Strip. According to officials, she wasn't stranded, okay, right, stranded,
Speaker 1: you're using the word stranded. She was sold by Isis
Speaker 1: to a Gazzen Hamas member because he had buddies as
Speaker 1: human chattel. She was a sex slave at the age
Speaker 1: of eleven and then kept for ten years so she
Speaker 1: could be repeatedly raped. She wasn't stranded. She's not Gilligan. Okay,
Speaker 1: she's not you lost your phone and you can't call
Speaker 1: uber or whatever. She's not even the people a little
Speaker 1: early in the mountains of North Carolina right now