WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:03.560 Even though we obviously, uh we were not on the air, 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:07.839 just absolutely fixated like most of you on what is 3 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:15.199 transpiring here in North Carolina. I if we get to 4 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:20.120 everything today, I'm gonna be absolutely amazed. But you know 5 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:24.160 that's it's just one of those kind of days. I 6 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:26.879 do have to make sure something real quick. I can 7 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:29.960 account for me. I can't, Russ, I can't account for 8 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:32.799 what you were doing. And I just want to make 9 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.399 sure I don't have to turn you in. You didn't 10 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:39.920 learn to fly a helicopter, acquire a helicopter and then 11 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:42.439 use it to fly into the remotest parts of the 12 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:46.359 North Carolina Mountains and rescue people who've been standing upright 13 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:49.600 in their own homes in chest deep water for twelve hours. 14 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:50.479 You didn't. You didn't do that. 15 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:53.439 Let me let me check unfortunately. No, no, okay, can't 16 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:56.799 pilot helicopter. No okay, you would, Yeah. 17 00:00:56.679 --> 00:00:57.880 I just want to I want to make sure you 18 00:00:57.920 --> 00:00:58.359 didn't do that. 19 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:02.679 You didn't, you know, put a pack string together of 20 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:06.680 horses or mules or anything like that, load it down 21 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:10.200 with supplies like you're an old forty nine or prospector, 22 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:14.640 and also delve into the remotest parts of North Carolina 23 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:18.280 to bring food and insulin and other stuff to those 24 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:20.840 stranded and missing loved ones. 25 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:22.480 You didn't do that, did you. No? 26 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:23.040 No, No, I did not. 27 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:25.359 Okay, do you know how to put a pack string together? 28 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:29.439 So to make sure they don't use that again. You 29 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:34.239 didn't start a fundraiser with the intention of doing whatever 30 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:37.239 you can to bring financial aid to people who, frankly 31 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:42.599 just aren't going to feel relieved or happy, to quote 32 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:46.319 the President, with seven hundred and fifty dollars in compensation. 33 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:47.959 You didn't do that, did you. 34 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:48.000 No. 35 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:54.920 But we did donate, but to a raputable affiliated thing. 36 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:56.000 You didn't start your owns. 37 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:57.480 Definitely, not to the government. 38 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:00.719 No, okay, all right, all right, so you didn't do that? 39 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:02.280 All right, Well I don't. 40 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:03.799 I feel like I don't have to turn you into 41 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:05.599 the Department of Homeland Security. 42 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:10.719 So that's good. I mean, the people you were describing here, 43 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:14.759 they sound super dangerous. Oh yeah, can you imagine some 44 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:17.360 dude with airwolf who doesn't listen to the government. 45 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:20.000 Is that that dude? Come on? 46 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:20.280 Man? 47 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:23.400 Ah, that's good. 48 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:25.039 I just want I wanted to make sure you were 49 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:30.479 going to smirch the show. You didn't have a thirty 50 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:33.800 year old business up in the mountains somewhere that. 51 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:36.479 Isn't so anymore. 52 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:38.199 And so you show up to where your thirty year 53 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:41.759 old business is and you see just random people walking 54 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:43.759 all around, and you look in this field that used 55 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.360 to be your business that you've operated for thirty years, 56 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:50.360 paying taxes in your community, and you realize that, let's 57 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:53.280 say it's an auto repair business, and now your tools 58 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:56.360 and your lifts and everything else that was inside, which, 59 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:58.360 by the way, I understand if you talk to a 60 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:02.080 mechanic a shop's worth of tools, if you have three bays, 61 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:05.879 multiple shops worth the tools, that's expensive. And then you 62 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:09.960 go try to retrieve your tools so meth heads don't 63 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:14.680 get them to sell and buy meth. You didn't attempt 64 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:18.199 to do that, did you in the mountains? 65 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:20.360 See what it now? Ross is having a check. 66 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:22.759 I'm just checking my calendar here because some of it 67 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:24.879 sounds familiar, and it turned ye I did not, I 68 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:25.039 did not. 69 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:27.120 Okay, all right, Well, I just want to I just 70 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:31.000 want to make sure, so dude, you, you and I 71 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:34.080 are the same way, although probably you to a greater 72 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:36.759 extent where if you do have some time off, it 73 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:39.439 doesn't matter whether it's fun, vacation or family time or 74 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:43.280 emergency or whatever. You just you just turning off the flow. 75 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:46.319 I tried to, I try to emulate your commitment to that. 76 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:49.280 I noticed you were unable to do that. 77 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:53.639 And I was. And I would say this though, yeah, 78 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:56.840 because I had several friends reach out and they're like, 79 00:03:56.919 --> 00:03:59.560 are you a witch? Yeah, and I'm like, well, what 80 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:01.280 do you mean? Am I a witch? This happened to 81 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:05.719 go regularly because because we schedule our vacation in advance, 82 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:07.800 like in advance, we look at it. 83 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:09.599 Super in advance. Yeah, I know it doesn't sound like 84 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:11.319 there's a whole but it is the whole thing. 85 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:13.199 It has to be, just because the way things are 86 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:15.639 around here because we were season. 87 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:16.839 Yeah, it's going to be very clear. 88 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:20.240 We have we have vacation time and we wanted to 89 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:23.360 get that out of the way. So we're here for 90 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:25.680 the last home stretched month uninterrupted. 91 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:27.720 But this thing has started to happen, where so we 92 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:30.279 take this time off, we schedule it in advance, we 93 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:33.399 we we go on the vacation that we've scheduled in advance, 94 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:38.759 and then the world falls apart like something horrifical happened every. 95 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:40.480 Single time, like we're holding it together. 96 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:42.680 The last time we took vacation off, it was the 97 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:47.759 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. Right before it was I don't 98 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:49.360 remember what it was, but it was something else big 99 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:52.040 before that and before that, I'm like, we should just 100 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:54.439 stop where if we are, we need to give people 101 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:56.319 like advance notice just. 102 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:00.959 Whoever is in charge. It's not a bribe. 103 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:05.199 It's you know, ament non governmental organization or something with 104 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:06.000 flow through dollars. 105 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:07.240 They call it whatever you want. 106 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:13.079 As I have to as I'm sitting there and I'm 107 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:17.279 reading this, and let me explain. When whenever there's a 108 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:21.120 hurricane or flooding or some sort of a big disastrous 109 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:27.279 event there from a political component, there's going to be 110 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:32.240 things that come up that strangely will come up depending 111 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:34.519 on who's in office by one side and then the 112 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:37.279 other side of the ah, it doesn't matter. And I 113 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:39.759 hate to see the inconsistency there because I think it 114 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:45.079 distracts that. Being said, there are there are things that 115 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:49.279 are seemingly wholly unique going on here. But I'm not 116 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:53.279 talking about lithium minds, Okay, stop it. What I am 117 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:58.800 talking about is in you know, in in North Carolina, 118 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:01.480 when it happens in your back. And you know, so 119 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:03.639 many people, the amount of people that I talked to, 120 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:10.560 and yes, some of them are government, former government military, Uh, 121 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:16.720 contractors who find themselves uh you know a part of this, 122 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:20.759 contractors who normally do who now don't, and and many others. 123 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:24.079 There's a lot of head scratching going on. 124 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:28.680 And so you know, people are out there and they're 125 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:32.319 they're asking questions and I'm not talking about all you know, 126 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:35.000 they're they're gonna seize all of western North Carolina and 127 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:38.360 it's black rock and all that that stuff's out there. 128 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.800 But the majority of people are sitting there and they're 129 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:46.160 they're literally talking to people they know, or attempting to 130 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:48.600 talk to people and know, or wondering about family members 131 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.360 and finally getting in communication with them. And they're hearing 132 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:55.120 these stories and they're they're going, what, what's what's the problem. 133 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:59.399 Why on God's green Earth would you tell a helicopter? 134 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:02.720 Now I under stand the argument that they're going to make, 135 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:05.600 and the argument is, uh, if if you know, if 136 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:09.319 you're a drug, people are using drones to fly insolent places. 137 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:13.560 And then Pete Bootage is like, you, no, you can't 138 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:17.920 do that. Yeah, you can't have too many helicopters out there. 139 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:20.959 It could hamper rescue efforts. I don't know if you 140 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:27.199 know this about helicopter pilots, well, pilots in general, they 141 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:30.959 understand airspace. Which is the reason that when you put 142 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:33.560 this this hold like you did for several hours while 143 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:37.199 Biden came through that, you know they recognize it and 144 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:39.199 they and then they don't go in there as much 145 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:41.079 as they want to. But even when that's not on 146 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:44.439 and you're telling them not to do this because airspace 147 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:48.360 concerns and safety concerns, I would say to you, we 148 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:51.199 deal with this every day quite well. You're bit in 149 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:53.720 New York City and seeing the amount of things going 150 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:58.680 on in that airspace. Western North Carolina could never compete 151 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:02.600 with that. Don't care how many d and drones, by 152 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:04.199 the way, have a ceiling. 153 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:07.600 Look this stuff up. 154 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:11.079 So if guy's flying and I understand that this is 155 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:14.079 a unique situation with helicopters and drones and any of 156 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:18.279 the rest of that, and there are safety issues, but 157 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:21.959 there are further safety issues about delaying the ability of something. 158 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:25.319 Did you see the picture I think it came from 159 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:26.800 I saw it posted by I think one of the 160 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:30.519 weather people in Charlotte. It's a family of twelve people. 161 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:32.399 I don't know if they're all family, but it's twelve 162 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:36.080 people who are inside of this house and the water 163 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:42.080 is to their their nipples and they're just standing there, waiting, filming, 164 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:44.799 doing whatever they can to try to and eventually they 165 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:48.240 were rescued. You think that person gets a fly and 166 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:52.320 flip about your airspace stuff. And so when I see leaders, 167 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:54.879 I was just reading a tweet this morning from Senator 168 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:59.679 Garrett from Greensboro. You know what, I honestly, you weren't 169 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:04.320 even on my radar, Sir, shut up scolding people or 170 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:09.559 conspiracy theories, and and then you get into and and 171 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:12.519 and and the the the body of the tweet. In fact, 172 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:15.519 let me just read this garbage, because this is what 173 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:19.240 I need. Multi millionaires sitting there and telling people, Oh, 174 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:20.960 you need to you need to not do this. Hey, 175 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:23.559 I got a question, uh, And I saw that several 176 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:26.080 were pressing us to clearly mark Walker, and he's absolutely right. 177 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:30.320 Senator Garrett, you have an eight hundred bed facility in 178 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:35.080 your district that FEMA has dumped in a measurable amount 179 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:37.480 of money. I don't know if it's all FEMA, but 180 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:41.320 the government, the federal government has dumped a crap ton 181 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:45.240 of money into because it's still in the preparing stages. 182 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.240 People think that they're housing migrant kids there already, they're not. 183 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:51.440 I'm talking about the old Jewish Day School in Greensboro, 184 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:54.759 which is an eight hundred bed facility which has not 185 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.639 just campus for you know, students or or purport you 186 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.679 know students, which was an inten or migrants River's house there, 187 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:06.159 but also a substantial living. 188 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:07.200 Facilities for staff. 189 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:11.440 And you are just a you know, just a couple 190 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:15.240 hours from one of the most impacted or the beginning 191 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:17.639 of the most impacted areas in North Carolina. 192 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:23.080 What are we doing? This should be a no brainer. 193 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:24.759 You've already spent the money. 194 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.600 Well yeah, and it doesn't even have to be up 195 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:30.320 to snuff for what it would be for you know, 196 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:35.759 for kids. You think people who just watch their house destroyed, 197 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:43.320 watch their family or friends die, who haven't showered in 198 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:43.679 a week. 199 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:46.159 Did you see the video of this. 200 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:49.399 There's a company or a charity that their whole gig 201 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:50.879 is they have these big pull. 202 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.080 Behind trailers which are showers. 203 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:58.600 So you know, I've seen these before out on mining sites. 204 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:03.120 Them out for miners who are doing like you know, 205 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:08.000 very rule drilling in Wyoming, as you know, just basically 206 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:10.799 a locker room facility. But imagine, you know, if people 207 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:14.320 haven't showered in a week and that's rolling up there, 208 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:18.279 you think they wouldn't appreciate a little stability right now 209 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:22.759 as they figure things out. I was absolutely disgusted. And 210 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:26.840 then you're accused of politicizing it. What is people supposed 211 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:29.799 to do when they're trying to base how they feel 212 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:34.679 about what is a government program for all practical purposes? 213 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:36.360 And I know that it's not going to be perfect, 214 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:41.840 and you're working with some extreme geographical limitations. And yes, 215 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:44.440 if you look at a list of a map on 216 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.039 like go to Google Maps and put the traffic on 217 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:48.879 there or the Apple Maps or whatever you want to do, 218 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:52.519 and then just zoom in and out over North Carolina, 219 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:55.120 that little red thing that's a road that's gone. 220 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:02.279 It looks like it looks like Christmas lights. So I 221 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:03.759 don't need to hear from you. 222 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:06.279 I don't need to hear I don't need to hear 223 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:09.679 people pondering for six days on whether the National Guard 224 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:10.480 should be up there. 225 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:17.279 I it's it's six days. 226 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:20.639 Have Ross you ever driven, Well, you've never been to Asheville, right, 227 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:22.360 I was gonna say. 228 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:24.919 No, every time we go back to visit Marketing's family 229 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:26.519 in Tennessee, we have to stop in Nashville. 230 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:29.120 Okay, I was gonna say, but you drive past it. 231 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:29.919 You just drove fast. 232 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:31.000 We drove through it. Yeah. 233 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:31.279 Yeah. 234 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:34.120 Did it take you six hours to get there from Raleigh? 235 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:37.120 That's fantail and are different, but they're basically north south. 236 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:41.200 Six hours, I don't think so. No, Okay six days? 237 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:42.639 Did it take you six days? 238 00:12:42.679 --> 00:12:42.759 No? 239 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:45.960 No, you're pretty sure. What do we doing? 240 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:48.840 I there's so much I want to talk about this morning, 241 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:50.799 and we got we got a whole bunch of sound. 242 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:54.759 I was hoping. I was hoping that we would have. 243 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:57.679 We were going to chat with Congressman Corey Mills, who's 244 00:12:57.679 --> 00:12:59.759 a Florida congressman who has been up there busting his 245 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:06.399 because I was watching his I just I want his impression, 246 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:07.799 and I think that he'll give it to us. 247 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:09.399 So let me tell you. It's not complimentary. 248 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.320 And I get it that he's a Republican up there, 249 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:13.960 but I'm watching videos where he's showing the stuff that 250 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:17.919 he's talking about, and most of it's positive, by the way, 251 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:21.919 but he has he has concerns. I'm chatting with former 252 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:26.799 Congressman Mark Walker, who's who I saw was really on this. Hey, 253 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:29.799 can we go ahead and get maybe use this female 254 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:32.080 facility that we've paid all this money for when we 255 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:35.600 actually need it right now? And it wouldn't involve ejecting people. 256 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:38.759 Remember when they were housing migrants, they were like kicking 257 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:40.080 veterans out of hotels. 258 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:41.799 They just did it. Get at Massachusetts. 259 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:49.320 That's not even here, so you know, And I texted 260 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:52.559 him and I'm like, hey, like, did anybody say anything? 261 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:55.440 And the run around that he's getting. 262 00:13:57.200 --> 00:13:59.720 At the state level as somebody who's got to roll 263 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:03.039 it down as a former congressman is what are we doing? 264 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.840 These seem easy? And so when you're not doing the 265 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:13.799 easy And again I'm not talking about work, I'm not 266 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:18.840 talking about soldiers. I saw some videos of some National 267 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:22.360 Guards persons. I'm not gonna give any other descriptory. I 268 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:25.039 don't want them to get in trouble. And they're sitting there, 269 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:26.120 they're a uniform, They're. 270 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:27.960 Like, what are we doing? Let's go. 271 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:34.480 Did they live in North Carolina? And they want they 272 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:36.720 want people not to be suffering up there, and they 273 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:39.600 don't care if it's some you know, blue hair girl 274 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:42.759 who charges ten dollars for writing poems as a busker 275 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:48.759 in downtown Asheville, as or the most dug in government, 276 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:53.879 untrusting backwoods North Carolina. You know a Republican dude, I 277 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:57.120 don't care nobody. I didn't see anybody who was showing 278 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:01.279 up against the advice of authorities to these rural areas 279 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:04.480 with food and insulin and anybody go, who'd you vote for? 280 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:09.120 So I'll be damned if I'm gonna watch that attitude 281 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:12.240 kind of permeate and play out, and and and and 282 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:23.519 watch common sense things not be enacted. Common sense. Yes, again, 283 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:26.000 you can make an argument any way, shape or form, 284 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:27.840 like we have a bunch more vehicles up there, we've 285 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:28.600 got to coordinate it. 286 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:30.240 We're we're worried about stability of the round. 287 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:35.600 These are all things that are that are logical conclusions 288 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:40.799 because you don't want however, it's it's it's like when 289 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:43.120 you're talking to a doctor, right, and you may have 290 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:44.879 a treatment that at the end of the day, if 291 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:46.879 you're just stand alone healthy and took that treatment, you'd 292 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:49.600 be literally like poisoning your body, or hurting yourself or 293 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:52.120 or doing something that's very dangerous. 294 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:54.639 But as as doctors will. 295 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:58.000 Tell you, you you weigh that danger against the danger that 296 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:00.720 you're facing. Then and only the do you come up 297 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:03.360 with the prescription. This is something Kevin Campbell used to preach. 298 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:07.879 Doctor Campbell, we have month is the cure as bad 299 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:10.440 as what you're facing, and if it's not, then that's 300 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:14.759 your route of treatment. Anyway, we'll be back lots of 301 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:18.639 sound to get to hang on. I'm so upset with 302 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:21.320 everything that I'm seeing, and again, not to the extent 303 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:22.240 some people are. 304 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:25.480 We we don't have to, we don't have to deep dive. 305 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:28.159 Into so we'll watch it play out, we'll call it 306 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:30.080 as we see it and learn you where we can. 307 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:38.679 But ultimately, I'm so I can't use the words on 308 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:42.919 the air that you are. You are damn right one 309 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:45.720 of the questions that entered my brain and probably some 310 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:49.240 of yours, and I am I am willing and happy 311 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:53.360 to talk about this after I watch the upending of 312 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:58.799 our constitution, norms and in many cases, laws that the 313 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:03.519 public could agreed upon, that people were trying to do 314 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.960 away with in the back room to make sure that 315 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:10.480 during COVID, nobody was left behind for their ability to 316 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:14.200 cast their vote in sometimes extraordinary and as josh Stein 317 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:20.640 found out, illegal manners, that it is wholly appropriate that 318 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:26.359 Western North Carolina is able to evaluate what is going 319 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:30.079 on in their life right now and decide and have. 320 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:31.839 Their voice heard for. 321 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:37.680 Who they want to be in leadership positions, because this 322 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:42.720 is your litmus test leaders right here. In a lot 323 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:46.720 of places, but specifically Western North Carolina, this is your 324 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:49.079 litmus test. So if you're a congress person, if you're 325 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:51.400 running for governor or president. 326 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:53.400 You're a local rep. You're a dog catcher. 327 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:58.400 Your citizens need to be able to evaluate you. And 328 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:02.160 I don't I don't at this point, a month away 329 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:06.000 from the election, understand what that infrastructure is going to 330 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:06.440 look like. 331 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:10.079 Think about where you vote, Ross. 332 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:11.400 You don't tell you have to tell me the location, 333 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:14.319 But what kind of building or facility is where you vote? 334 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.240 You're you're precinct for voting. It's like a library. It's 335 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:25.920 a library, okay, Mine is a church. Uh and then 336 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:28.799 they have a senior center right next to it too, 337 00:18:28.839 --> 00:18:31.319 which I think they've done it in there before. 338 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:32.000 But it's a church. 339 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:37.240 You know, churches and libraries a lot of them are 340 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:42.039 gone right. In fact, who was that a hole who 341 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:44.920 ran for Congress? Who got the lunatic we had on 342 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:48.519 the air, who was bemoaning driving in western North Carolina? 343 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:51.359 And this is the libraries Pete. Pete gets in arguments 344 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:52.799 with the skeleton pe calendar. 345 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:56.079 Yeah, I was driving and I just saw I shouldn't 346 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:59.519 see libraries. I saw churches a bunch of buffoons. Yeah, 347 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:01.559 that guy Betty feels good about his tweet. 348 00:19:01.799 --> 00:19:05.440 He also insulted mountain folk when he was on with us, 349 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:06.240 and I called. 350 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:09.920 I'm like, isn't that your district? Anyway? He didn't win, 351 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:14.400 so uh, but yeah, have you ever you ever lived 352 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:16.079 in a just like you If you. 353 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:18.480 Live in a in a city like I can walk 354 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:21.480 to my polling, my precinct. It's that close. And some 355 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:23.880 of you are that's the same. You live out of 356 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:27.359 the middle of nowhere, you live in a rural area. 357 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:30.079 Chances are you got to travel. It might be it's 358 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:32.839 probably a volunteer fire station. It could be ten miles 359 00:19:32.839 --> 00:19:35.480 from your house. Do you know how hard it is 360 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:38.000 to go ten miles right now in parts of North Carolina? 361 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:42.279 But you know what, I'm sitting here and I'm just 362 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:43.640 I'm giving you my opinion. 363 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:46.279 Why don't we talk to somebody who's. 364 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:50.559 Been there on the ground, like just was just there 365 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:54.319 and saw what there is to see and has a 366 00:19:54.400 --> 00:20:00.960 decades of experience to understand the possibilities that are available 367 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:04.799 and the power to pull the trigger on these things, 368 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:08.160 and and see what his take is. I'm talking, of 369 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:15.319 course about the UH president, President Silver Alert, who decided 370 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:17.680 to come down. And again, I'm not even gonna criticize. 371 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:21.319 Here's my here's where my criticism doesn't lie. I think 372 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:24.400 it's dumb that we play this game when there's a 373 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:28.119 natural disaster, and you've heard me say it, where we 374 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:32.400 decide that uh, the President of the United States if 375 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:35.720 if they don't show up in five seconds themselves. I'm 376 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:39.799 not talking about relief themselves. They hate black people, to 377 00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:41.960 quote Kanye, or they hate mountain people or. 378 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:42.720 Whatever it is. 379 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:46.200 I think it's dumb. I don't think it's productive. I 380 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:48.759 think it's one of the dumbest flip flop games have 381 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:52.759 got you out there, because I don't want the president 382 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:56.200 of the United States going to a disaster area where 383 00:20:56.200 --> 00:21:01.039 they are actively providing aid in a chaotic situation. 384 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:02.400 It's pointless, it's useless. 385 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:06.279 It shuts down airspace, it shuts down the ability of 386 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:10.880 people to move around in that area. It's absolutely pointing. 387 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:15.240 That's not where my criticism lies. This is where my 388 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:18.279 criticism lies. This is Biden outside of the White House, 389 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.759 little press gaggle, little question thrown in his way about 390 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:28.440 the storm. And if I say the storm, do you 391 00:21:28.519 --> 00:21:31.599 think that there is a place in the South that 392 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:34.359 in the United States? For that matter, if I say 393 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:38.640 the storm, do you think there's anybody who's moderately plugged 394 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:42.240 in that doesn't immediately realize I'm talking about the hurricane 395 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:46.480 right Because these are the thoughts that I have. There's 396 00:21:46.680 --> 00:21:48.359 nobody in the US right now. 397 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:48.880 I mean, I. 398 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:52.079 Understand if there's multiple storms, and yes, multiple states were hit, 399 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:56.839 but everyone knows what you're talking about. And it's not 400 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:02.039 just even geographic. It's flipping nationwide. It's that devastating. It 401 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:04.759