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She is a 12 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,840 reporter at the North State Journal n sjonline dot com. 13 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,759 You can also read her substack called more to the story, Ap, 14 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:43,439 how are you? 15 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Pete, how are you doing? 16 00:00:45,759 --> 00:00:51,359 Speaker 2: I am doing okay. So you wrote about on your 17 00:00:51,399 --> 00:00:56,880 substack under the headline a nation mourns and you wrote 18 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,880 America has changed, It cannot and will not be the same. 19 00:01:01,399 --> 00:01:05,400 So how has it changed and why will it not 20 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:06,040 be the same? 21 00:01:07,239 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 3: Well, this felt different. The assassination Charlie Kirk just felt 22 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,879 different from any other event that I had witnessed in 23 00:01:14,879 --> 00:01:18,040 my lifetime. And it just there was like something shifted, 24 00:01:18,159 --> 00:01:21,519 like a like the tectonic plates underneath the Earth's crust, 25 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,519 like something just moved, and not in a good way. 26 00:01:26,079 --> 00:01:29,159 I'm hopefully, hopefully this is going to calm things down, 27 00:01:29,159 --> 00:01:31,159 but it doesn't seem to be going in that route. 28 00:01:31,239 --> 00:01:35,000 Considering that what we're seeing online with nasty messages being 29 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:40,280 posted about his death, I think that what the positive 30 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,120 side of this is and that things won't be the same, 31 00:01:43,239 --> 00:01:45,560 is that there's been a little bit of an awakening 32 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,239 going on. Turning point. USA has reported that they've had 33 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,879 tens of thousands of chapter new chapter requests filed with 34 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:58,040 them today for Vice President Vance set in for Charlie 35 00:01:58,079 --> 00:02:00,599 Kirk for his radio show today. I was watching part 36 00:02:00,599 --> 00:02:04,040 of that earlier, so there's things going in both directions, 37 00:02:04,079 --> 00:02:07,439 but there was a fundamental shift there. I mean, it 38 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,639 dropped a clear divide between those who would cheer a 39 00:02:11,719 --> 00:02:15,840 murder and those who would pray over one right. 40 00:02:15,879 --> 00:02:18,159 Speaker 2: And I saw a clip I'm trying to see if 41 00:02:18,159 --> 00:02:22,639 I can pull it up here Steven Miller with the administration. 42 00:02:24,159 --> 00:02:26,719 Speaker 1: He tells JD. 43 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:32,759 Speaker 2: Vance that they are going to be going after the organizations. 44 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,000 And in the first hour I talked a little bit 45 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,840 about some of the reporting and some of the stuff 46 00:02:37,879 --> 00:02:40,360 coming out of the government, the federal government saying that 47 00:02:40,759 --> 00:02:46,479 they are investigating people in the social media discord, group 48 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:50,479 chats and such that appeared to have knowledge some of 49 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:54,400 them may have had knowledge of the plot, and so 50 00:02:54,439 --> 00:02:56,639 now they're going to start trying to investigate them. But 51 00:02:56,879 --> 00:03:00,680 Miller also talked about going after the funding networks. Uh, 52 00:03:00,719 --> 00:03:04,719 these n g os, these nonprofits that have been uh, 53 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:09,039 you know, fomenting this kind of discord and chaos and 54 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:10,840 now assassination. 55 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 3: Well, I hope they're also going to look at some 56 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:19,280 of these violent extremist networks too, like seven sixty four Colm, Uh, 57 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,800 murder murder people dot com. It was another one. 58 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:26,439 Speaker 2: I think the wait, their name is murder people dot com. 59 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:29,159 Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe so. Yeah, it's a website that I believe. 60 00:03:29,199 --> 00:03:32,360 The Antidefamation League has written several things about these are 61 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,280 These are groups and organizations that literally radicalized children and 62 00:03:36,319 --> 00:03:42,439 teenagers and young adults into doing violent things. They use sexting, 63 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,879 they use blackmail, they use all kinds of different angles, 64 00:03:45,919 --> 00:03:51,080 and they get through these kids to online apps. There's 65 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,840 been some complaints in some lawsuits dealing with Robox with 66 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:57,439 predatory behavior and these kinds of groups finding their victims 67 00:03:57,439 --> 00:04:01,800 on platforms like that. Also, you know some other games 68 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,199 out there that we're children frequent and you know, it's 69 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:07,000 it's just prime for the picking. And they find a 70 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,840 kid who's just lonely and on there all the time, 71 00:04:08,879 --> 00:04:11,960 and they groom them. So I really hope that they're 72 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:13,360 going to be taking a look at some of those things. 73 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,000 I've written a few of those things on my sub 74 00:04:15,039 --> 00:04:19,120 stack about these things are called NPEs. So if folks 75 00:04:19,199 --> 00:04:20,439 want to go over and take a look at that, 76 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:22,480 I have some I have one post about the seven 77 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,879 sixty floor cult which resulted in the arrest right here 78 00:04:25,879 --> 00:04:28,199 in Chapel Hill in North Carolina not so long ago. 79 00:04:28,439 --> 00:04:31,319 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think we talked about it. I think 80 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:35,199 we did talk about that that that particular group I 81 00:04:35,199 --> 00:04:37,439 had not heard of, the murder people folks. 82 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of given away the game. That's that's not. 83 00:04:39,959 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 3: Very to the information. Yeah, that's fun reading. I'll tell 84 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,319 you what. It was highly depressing. Yeah, and it makes 85 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,120 you really want to just, you know, take a look 86 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,680 at your kids web browser history like every day. 87 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. 88 00:04:54,759 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 2: So yeah, and I do wonder if if we will 89 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:02,439 see some sorts of leasing of this kind of stuff 90 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,000 either by the platforms themselves. I don't know how you 91 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,920 would go about doing that. They speak in code, so 92 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:10,879 you know, they learned the words that are going to 93 00:05:10,959 --> 00:05:13,680 get them in trouble, and they just won't use those words. 94 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 3: So, yeah, they use words like cheese, pizza, and weird 95 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,439 things like that to talk about, you know, ordering up 96 00:05:20,639 --> 00:05:21,160 a child. 97 00:05:22,079 --> 00:05:23,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, and so like here's what like one of the 98 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,360 one of the people in this in this discord group 99 00:05:27,399 --> 00:05:32,759 apparently or on a TikTok account rather said because the 100 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:37,279 assassin's name was Tyler or is Tyler? And I said 101 00:05:37,399 --> 00:05:42,240 saw Tyler June thirty. And then right after Kirk was murdered, 102 00:05:42,639 --> 00:05:43,959 we bleeping did it? 103 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: Is what they said. And so people are. 104 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 2: Trying to decipher what does this Saw Tyler June thirty mean? Well, 105 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,600 the gun that they recovered was a Mauser thirty six 106 00:05:55,959 --> 00:06:01,240 bolt action rifle June thirty thirty six, And so like 107 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:05,360 are they giving out these code words and stuff as like, oh, 108 00:06:05,439 --> 00:06:08,480 we're all in on this, you know, this great victory 109 00:06:08,519 --> 00:06:12,759 of ours, which like I don't I said this last 110 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,800 hour and I've said it before since the assassination, which 111 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,600 is that they've made him. They've made Charlie Kirk more 112 00:06:18,639 --> 00:06:23,199 powerful in death than in life. And the amount of 113 00:06:23,199 --> 00:06:26,879 people now that are going out and watching videos of 114 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,160 Charlie Kirk and realizing, Oh, this guy's not saying anything 115 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:30,920 that's hateful. 116 00:06:31,319 --> 00:06:31,639 Speaker 1: He's not. 117 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:36,279 Speaker 2: He's not engaged in violence. His speech is not violence. 118 00:06:36,639 --> 00:06:38,800 And that's you know, one of the predicates I think 119 00:06:38,879 --> 00:06:43,759 that the left has used this equation of speech equalling 120 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:48,040 violence in order to then justify violence against speech. 121 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean he challenged their narratives, right, challenged 122 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:58,959 their ideologies, He challenged their basic platforms, and he rarely 123 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,839 lost one of those debates. He rarely you know, came 124 00:07:02,879 --> 00:07:05,480 away with you know, a draw or a tie or 125 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,120 that sort of thing. I mean, he made his arguments, 126 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,360 and I'll tell you, I would challenge anyone to go 127 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,319 and watch his videos. You're not going to find him cursing, slandering, 128 00:07:13,959 --> 00:07:16,040 or abusing any of the people that come up there. 129 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:16,759 Speaker 1: No, he doesn't. 130 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:18,839 Speaker 3: Maybe a little bit funny and put in a little 131 00:07:18,879 --> 00:07:22,920 bit of humor here and there, but he's not he's not. No. 132 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, And he would he would silence the crowd when 133 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,680 they would get rowdy towards a speaker that you disagreed, 134 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:30,800 you went to the front of the line, and so 135 00:07:30,879 --> 00:07:34,000 he like he that's those are the debates he wanted 136 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:38,680 to have. And like I've said for years, unchallenged ideas 137 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,839 are easy to hold. And what he did was challenge 138 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:43,959 ideas and well and. 139 00:07:43,839 --> 00:07:46,199 Speaker 3: He did it in a in a space that would 140 00:07:46,639 --> 00:07:49,079 pull pull on against him, right. 141 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 2: And those and the people that occupied those spaces. The 142 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,639 college kids were told by their teachers and professors and 143 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,240 administrators that this is a quote safe space, and that 144 00:07:59,399 --> 00:08:02,879 any language or words that might challenge your thoughts and 145 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,959 opinions that these are you know, triggering events, and we 146 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,680 got to give you a warning. And oh my gosh, 147 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:09,519 I don't feel safe. I can't stand here and listen 148 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,079 to a difference of opinion. It's like that's precisely what 149 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,800 you're supposed to do in college. Though that's why he 150 00:08:14,879 --> 00:08:17,680 went there, so maybe we should. 151 00:08:17,759 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 3: I found that website. It's the actual website is called 152 00:08:20,439 --> 00:08:21,360 watch People Die. 153 00:08:21,639 --> 00:08:23,199 Speaker 1: Oh that's how that's even better. 154 00:08:23,319 --> 00:08:26,079 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so sorry about that. I just pulled it 155 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:26,920 up while we were talking. 156 00:08:27,079 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: Wow. 157 00:08:27,639 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 2: Yeah again, Like I'm not I'm not sure you're going 158 00:08:30,439 --> 00:08:33,679 to be able to to convince law enforcement or a 159 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:36,879 jury that you didn't like you didn't have some sort 160 00:08:36,919 --> 00:08:41,120 of animus and an inspiration to violence with a name 161 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,360 like that, if they if they do track them down, yeah. 162 00:08:45,159 --> 00:08:47,759 Speaker 3: I mean, if they have if he's got ties to 163 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:52,720 certain certain discords, which apparently he did and made certain 164 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,320 comments within there, and other other individuals have been screenshots 165 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,879 of that. They've been posted it on x and places 166 00:08:58,879 --> 00:09:02,039 of screenshots of this one particular discord forum with people 167 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,559 agreeing or seeming to have knowledge that this is going 168 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,559 to happen, you know, like watch out on September tenth, right, 169 00:09:10,879 --> 00:09:13,960 you know something's going to happen, Like this wasn't his account, 170 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:15,600 This was other accounts, right. 171 00:09:16,399 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 2: Other accounts that were following his transgender boyfriend. That, Yeah, 172 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,960 they were followers of the other one twig. 173 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 3: Twigs or whatever. Yeah, it's a strange situation all the 174 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,120 way around. But I mean there's there's a common component 175 00:09:32,159 --> 00:09:35,600 between all the tragedies that we've seen with the recent 176 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:40,279 shootings of the Catholic school recently. You know, there was 177 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,399 one the same day in Colorado, and all these are 178 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,000 you know, in somewhere the articles and somewhere in the 179 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,440 reporting it will say that these kids are radicalized online. 180 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:54,879 Speaker 2: Right, so yeah, left wing radicalization. Which I noticed that 181 00:09:55,399 --> 00:09:58,200 there are a lot of people over the last few 182 00:09:58,279 --> 00:10:01,440 days that have been trying their hard artists to lie 183 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,799 about the obvious motive involved here that like I saw 184 00:10:06,799 --> 00:10:10,440 people trying to argue, like mainstream legacy media outlet people 185 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:12,919 trying to argue that like, we don't know what the 186 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,720 motive is. It appears it appears he came from a 187 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,480 Republican family, he was a he was a right winger, 188 00:10:18,519 --> 00:10:21,000 and all of this, like and none of that is true. 189 00:10:21,399 --> 00:10:24,080 And it almost makes me wonder, like, are you just 190 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:29,039 trying to pollute the environment? So nobody knows what the 191 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,360 truth actually is, right, because I think that, you. 192 00:10:32,279 --> 00:10:34,759 Speaker 3: Know, it's the old adage. You know, a lie gets 193 00:10:34,799 --> 00:10:36,519 us all the way around the world before the truth 194 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,440 gets its panton. Yeah, you know, he gets you know, 195 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,080 a million views that's completely inaccurate, and then you know, 196 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,840 the correction comes up and it gets like five views, yeah. 197 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 2: Right, or yeah, or they put it up on there. 198 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,120 What's the couple of the outlets have done this where 199 00:10:50,159 --> 00:10:53,360 they they promote the lie in the story on their 200 00:10:53,399 --> 00:10:56,720 main account on Twitter, reaching millions of people, and then 201 00:10:56,759 --> 00:11:00,240 their correction comes in the form of the pr account 202 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:02,759 for the news operation, and they've got like, you know, 203 00:11:02,879 --> 00:11:05,519 ten thousand followers, so nobody sees the correction. 204 00:11:05,799 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: It's just yeah, yeah, it's despicable. 205 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's you know why people should just, you know, 206 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,919 when all this information is coming out, take it with 207 00:11:13,039 --> 00:11:16,000 a giant shaker of salt. Yeah, and you know, wait 208 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,480 for everything to drop, because you know, the assumptions the 209 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,759 news media is you know, zero for a million when 210 00:11:21,799 --> 00:11:24,159 it gets you know, when things like this happen. Well, 211 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:25,759 and I yeah, first reporting. 212 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:27,639 Speaker 2: Right, and I always say that too, Like the initial 213 00:11:27,639 --> 00:11:32,600 reports are always going to contain false information, right. People 214 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,600 are racing to report what they know and find out 215 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,879 stuff and they get duped or they promote lies and 216 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,519 they get bad reports. And so like the information in 217 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:46,320 the initial hours after our tragedy, you should never you 218 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:50,919 should never believe them until you get verification. And usually 219 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:52,720 that takes a couple of days. And that's part of 220 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:56,320 what journalism is. And so we should give we should 221 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:01,320 have patients as they you know, as investigators, investigated, reporters report. 222 00:12:01,399 --> 00:12:03,799 We should give them the time and space to do that. 223 00:12:03,879 --> 00:12:06,840 And now we have a clearer, fuller picture. And I 224 00:12:06,879 --> 00:12:09,399 think we're going to get even a clearer picture what 225 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,399 after tomorrow when this guy makes his first appearance in court. Yeah, 226 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,080 and we're going to get some evidence presented by the prosecution, 227 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:18,120 I expect. 228 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 3: So yeah, I have a feeling it's going to be 229 00:12:20,279 --> 00:12:24,759 very watched. Yeah, we'll see what happens. There is a 230 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:28,080 there's a vigil here tonight in Raleigh for Charlie Kirk, 231 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,399 which I'll be covering for a North State journal. And 232 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:32,159 from what I understand, there's going to be one in 233 00:12:32,279 --> 00:12:35,480 Charlotte on Wednesday, So that's in your stomping grounds. 234 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:35,799 Speaker 1: Yep. 235 00:12:35,879 --> 00:12:38,879 Speaker 2: There's one in Monroe downtown Monroe. I've been told at 236 00:12:38,919 --> 00:12:40,000 seven tonight as well. 237 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 3: Yep. So we'll see. We'll see what said and who 238 00:12:42,799 --> 00:12:43,240 turns out. 239 00:12:43,279 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 2: Well, he may be interested to know this Argerie Keel 240 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:49,759 High School is doing an investigation to find out who 241 00:12:49,799 --> 00:12:53,559 painted on the high school rock live like Kirk. 242 00:12:54,279 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I saw that. I actually responded to a 243 00:12:56,639 --> 00:12:58,840 story that was posted about that, and I asked, you know, 244 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,840 so it's a unauthorized and I said, so was the 245 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,840 Black Lives Matter stuff in twenty twenty authorized? 246 00:13:05,039 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 4: Right? 247 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 1: Is every birthday message authorized, Like. 248 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 3: I thought, just the most ridiculous thing I'd ever I 249 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,960 had seen. Yeah, so far, I mean talked about splitting hairs, right. 250 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,879 Speaker 2: I thought the whole point was to paint that rock, 251 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,600 so you don't paint other you know, property at the 252 00:13:18,639 --> 00:13:19,440 school anyway. 253 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a freedom of expression rock. And you know 254 00:13:22,279 --> 00:13:24,480 clearly there are students who felt strongly about it and 255 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,039 they went and did it. I mean, if this is 256 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,919 their way of reaving morning or give you a tribute, 257 00:13:28,919 --> 00:13:30,600 then you know, let them get it out. You know, 258 00:13:30,639 --> 00:13:35,480 you shouldn't call it unauthorized. What kind of adult does 259 00:13:35,519 --> 00:13:37,120 that to children? I don't understand. 260 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:39,519 Speaker 1: We got to leave it there, Ap Dylan. 261 00:13:39,519 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 2: You can read her work at North State Journal NSJ online, 262 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,279 and you can also subscribe to her sub stack. It 263 00:13:45,399 --> 00:13:47,519 is called More to the Story, AP, Thanks so much 264 00:13:47,519 --> 00:13:49,720 for your time. So when I was a kid, my 265 00:13:49,759 --> 00:13:52,759 grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and before he died, my mom 266 00:13:52,799 --> 00:13:54,879 and my dad took care of him as he got worse. 267 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,840 Forty years ago, there were no treatments and not much 268 00:13:57,879 --> 00:14:01,559 support for caregivers and family. Things are different today because 269 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,320 of the work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's 270 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,919 Association of Western Carolina. It's a great organization with awesome 271 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,919 people with huge hearts. I've been a supporter for twenty 272 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,039 five years. This cause means a lot to me. I 273 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,399 participate in the annual walk to end Alzheimer's and I'm 274 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:20,440 leading a Charlotte team again this year, and it's called 275 00:14:20,519 --> 00:14:23,039 once again Pete's Pack. You can sign up and you 276 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,360 can join the team and walk with us. It's on 277 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:29,360 October eighteenth, that truest field. Sign up at alz dot 278 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:32,320 org slash Walk and then you can search for my 279 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,720 team name Pete's Pack. There's also a link at thepetepod 280 00:14:35,759 --> 00:14:38,000 dot com. There's also a link in the description of 281 00:14:38,039 --> 00:14:41,799 this podcast. Also, I'll be am seeing the Gastonia Walk 282 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,039 on October eleventh, and so you can make a team 283 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,519 and join that one too, or make a donation and 284 00:14:46,559 --> 00:14:48,879 help me hit my goal of five thousand dollars. If 285 00:14:48,879 --> 00:14:50,360 you do, I really appreciate it. 286 00:14:50,399 --> 00:14:50,879 Speaker 1: There are a. 287 00:14:50,799 --> 00:14:53,399 Speaker 2: Bunch of other walks all over the Carolinas. You can 288 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:56,159 go to alz dot org slash walk for all the 289 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,720 dates and locations. We're closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's. 290 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,480 Can you help us get there. Will you walk with 291 00:15:01,559 --> 00:15:04,679 me for a different future, for families, for more time 292 00:15:05,039 --> 00:15:08,679 for treatments. This is why we walk. I like what 293 00:15:08,799 --> 00:15:12,639 Jeff has opted to do. Jeff is claiming on Twitter 294 00:15:12,799 --> 00:15:17,519 that he painted the rjorie Kel rock. Jeff from South 295 00:15:17,559 --> 00:15:21,759 Carolina says there's no need to investigate. It was him 296 00:15:23,039 --> 00:15:29,080 and my response, I painted the rock, oh captain, my captain, 297 00:15:30,279 --> 00:15:34,639 I painted the rock. So if rdrie Kel's principal wants 298 00:15:34,679 --> 00:15:38,759 to investigate, investigation over, I painted the rock, you can 299 00:15:38,799 --> 00:15:39,480 pint it on me. 300 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:45,679 Speaker 1: I did it. Jill's here says on Twitter. It's a 301 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:46,200 pete tweet. 302 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,519 Speaker 2: She says, based on the nonsense that's been going on 303 00:15:49,559 --> 00:15:52,360 at rjorie Kel since it opened its doors, you would 304 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,399 think the principle would welcome an uplifting message on the rock. 305 00:15:55,919 --> 00:15:59,759 The rock is in much of the administrators and educators 306 00:15:59,759 --> 00:16:01,919 in our schools. All right, you hear me talk a 307 00:16:01,919 --> 00:16:05,559 lot about incentives, right, Well, let's talk about incentive trips, 308 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,519 the kind that companies offer employees to fire them up 309 00:16:08,559 --> 00:16:11,200 and reward their teams. If you own a business or 310 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:14,159 you work somewhere that offers these incentive trips, first. 311 00:16:13,919 --> 00:16:14,799 Speaker 1: Off, good for you. 312 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,559 Speaker 2: But also there is a custom app that's a game 313 00:16:17,639 --> 00:16:22,080 changer for these trips. It's called Incentive Tripkit. Private group messaging, 314 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:26,480 shared photos, you'r itinerary, travel details, all built into a single, 315 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,799 easy to use app. There's even a traveler locator, so 316 00:16:29,919 --> 00:16:32,759 Carl from Accounting doesn't get left behind. The best part 317 00:16:32,759 --> 00:16:36,639 about Incentive trip Kit it's totally private. No email captures, 318 00:16:36,879 --> 00:16:41,360 no sign ups, no cringe ads. It's simple, clean and secure. 319 00:16:41,519 --> 00:16:44,440 And when the trip is over, Incentive trip Kit turns 320 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,399 those highlights into a professional storytelling video. 321 00:16:47,639 --> 00:16:48,399 Speaker 1: So think about it. 322 00:16:48,519 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 2: When you launch next year's incentive trip campaign, that video 323 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:55,879 becomes your greatest motivator. Talk about a return on investment, right, 324 00:16:56,159 --> 00:16:59,320 you got to check out Incentive trip Kit for your business. 325 00:16:59,519 --> 00:17:02,960 Visit in incentive tripkit dot com because great trips deserve 326 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:08,359 even better returns ron in Rockhill he claims he painted 327 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:13,119 the rock at Audrie Kill High School. William He too 328 00:17:13,279 --> 00:17:15,799 claims to have painted the rock. Well, maybe not painted it, 329 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:18,400 he says, but I provided the red, white blue paint. 330 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:19,039 Speaker 1: That was used. 331 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 2: So put me on the investigation list as one involved. 332 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,119 If everybody claims to be the painter of the rock, 333 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:33,039 then I don't know who they can painted on, you know. 334 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 1: Hmmmm. 335 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 2: Jeff is lying he did not paint the rock. 336 00:17:40,559 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 1: It was me. 337 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:45,599 Speaker 2: Corey from Matthews Chris says no, it was me. I 338 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,200 painted the rock, and he says, stop this nonsense. I 339 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:54,319 painted that rock, and then he adds and I won't 340 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:56,759 stop until every high school in Charlotte has long lived 341 00:17:56,799 --> 00:18:00,960 Kirk on their rocks. Another Jeff, now claiming he did it. 342 00:18:02,599 --> 00:18:05,319 Anonymous says I helped to paint the rock. At Ardrikel 343 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,319 Rodney claims no it was him. Kenny from Bessemer City 344 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:14,400 says no it was him, and Bob claims it was 345 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:21,519 actually Bigfoot that painted the rock. Maybe it's Corey Booker, 346 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,559 he of the Spartacus moment right to be the case 347 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,799 ap Dillon also wrote at her substack about the murder 348 00:18:32,839 --> 00:18:37,559 of Irina Zarutzka, and she says the focus quickly became 349 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:41,039 Democrats soft on crime policies that allowed her assailant to 350 00:18:41,079 --> 00:18:43,759 Carlos Brown, a man with a long criminal history and 351 00:18:43,799 --> 00:18:46,359 clear mental health issues, to be allowed to roam the streets. 352 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,720 Former Governor Roy Cooper's Racial Justice Task Force, which he 353 00:18:50,759 --> 00:18:54,119 set up following the George Floyd riots. The summer of 354 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:58,200 fiery but mostly peaceful riots was highlighted as a prime 355 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:02,200 example of Democrats soft on policies and contributed to Brown 356 00:19:02,279 --> 00:19:06,119 being free. The General Assembly is now looking to introduce 357 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,039 a package of reforms aimed at making sure that what 358 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:12,839 happened to Zarutzka is not repeated. The key areas the 359 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,519 lawmakers say they want to handle when they come back 360 00:19:15,559 --> 00:19:20,079 into session in a I think a week. They want 361 00:19:20,079 --> 00:19:24,359 to end cashless bail, they want better vetting and training 362 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:28,599 of magistrates. They're going to look to reinstate the death penalty. 363 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,599 They're going to also look at laws on involuntary commitment, 364 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:35,000 and they want to look at the grants that have 365 00:19:35,079 --> 00:19:39,119 been handed out to cash list bail activist groups in 366 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:46,200 the Charlotte area. Then there was this exchange that occurred 367 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:51,720 on real time with Bill Maher over the weekend. He 368 00:19:51,839 --> 00:19:56,720 has on the program Tim Alberta from the Atlantic, and 369 00:19:56,799 --> 00:20:00,880 he has Ben Shapiro and they talk about out the 370 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,720 light rail murder out of Charlotte and listen to. 371 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 4: The wet the other horrible violence we saw this week. 372 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:07,920 And of course this is the kind of violence that 373 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,559 happens every day. Two lots of people of all racism 374 00:20:11,519 --> 00:20:14,680 and so forth. This happens to be a white girl 375 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,119 on a train who was killed by a black man. 376 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,319 So people are making a lot out of that. But 377 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,759 this happened in Charlotte, North Carolina, to me is tailor 378 00:20:22,839 --> 00:20:27,119 made for Republican victory because the mayor there in Charlotte. 379 00:20:28,039 --> 00:20:30,279 Of course, she said prayers and thoughts go out to 380 00:20:30,319 --> 00:20:35,400 the victim, and then she's not villainizing. Those who struggle 381 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:39,480 with their mental health are those who are unhoused. She 382 00:20:39,559 --> 00:20:42,920 couldn't give, she couldn't resist giving a shout out to 383 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,920 the mentally deranged, homeless demographic. I'm just going to say, 384 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,400 the Democrats are going to lose another election if they 385 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:53,319 don't get it. You can say homeless and crazy. We 386 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:56,319 could say those words, and you can come out against 387 00:20:56,319 --> 00:20:58,920 this fully. You know, why don't just do a land 388 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:06,160 acknowledgment before you say that. Sake? And this guy was 389 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:10,559 the guy whodit it had been arrested fourteen times. I mean, 390 00:21:10,759 --> 00:21:15,839 this recidivism, this is Trump's next low lying fruit. I'm 391 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,519 sure because when you look at some of the stats 392 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,559 of people like in Washington, d C. They say five 393 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:26,880 hundred people are responsible for seventy percent of the gun violence. 394 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,319 What is the point of arresting people if they go 395 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,880 right back on the street. What is the point of 396 00:21:32,279 --> 00:21:33,160 mass transit? 397 00:21:34,039 --> 00:21:36,839 Speaker 1: Listen to the crowd safe on it right? 398 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:44,680 Speaker 5: You know, Traditionally, built democrats representing urban areas had taken 399 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,799 these sort of soft on crime policies in part because 400 00:21:47,799 --> 00:21:51,240 they were afraid of alienating a core constituency, black voters. 401 00:21:51,799 --> 00:21:55,519 What's interesting is that even as polling has shown clearly 402 00:21:55,599 --> 00:21:58,519 that more and more black voters have advocated for tougher 403 00:21:58,559 --> 00:22:02,240 policing policies, many of these Democratic politicians have remained very 404 00:22:02,279 --> 00:22:05,240 reluctant to get tougher on crime. Why because they're afraid 405 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:06,799 of alienating a different demographic. 406 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,920 Speaker 1: It's so liberals in the subject, right, that's Tim Alberta, 407 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,039 and he's exactly right. 408 00:22:13,559 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 2: They don't want to alienate the other core constituency, which 409 00:22:18,079 --> 00:22:24,799 is the awfuls affluent white female liberals. And so you've 410 00:22:24,799 --> 00:22:29,039 got the people who are actually suffering under the defund 411 00:22:29,079 --> 00:22:34,599 the police movement, the soft on crime approach. The people 412 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:38,519 who are suffering under this are saying, we want more cops, 413 00:22:38,559 --> 00:22:42,480 we want more policing, we want justice. And you've got 414 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,680 this other Darren Well. I will make reference to the 415 00:22:45,759 --> 00:22:50,359 quote luxury beliefs of these liberal white women in the 416 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,000 suburbs that are like, no, we can't do that, that's 417 00:22:54,240 --> 00:23:00,319 mean systemic racism. Are these are lefties and they're not 418 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:05,599 advocating for a core part of the Democrat constituency. They're 419 00:23:05,599 --> 00:23:09,720 making their lives more difficult, more dangerous. And then Bill 420 00:23:09,799 --> 00:23:11,720 Maher goes on, and then now you're going to hear 421 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:13,240 Ben Shapiro Chriman. 422 00:23:13,319 --> 00:23:17,559 Speaker 4: It's so racist. It's kind of saying we think the 423 00:23:17,559 --> 00:23:18,960 black people are the criminals. 424 00:23:19,319 --> 00:23:23,279 Speaker 6: Some are not, most not most implicitly the argument that 425 00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:25,359 we happen is soft on crime to how in order 426 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,519 so they get black votes like black people want crime. 427 00:23:27,599 --> 00:23:30,799 It's racist, of course it is. Of course it's racist. 428 00:23:30,839 --> 00:23:33,359 And the idea that you're going to leave people on 429 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,960 the street because they are crazy is so benighted. Honestly, 430 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,799 it's cruel to people who are severely mentally ill, truly, 431 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,960 like leaving a bunch of people a horse schizophrenic, homeless 432 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,319 schizophrenics on the street not taking their drugs is not 433 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,519 good for them, it's not good for society. And releasing 434 00:23:47,519 --> 00:23:49,720 people back onto the streets after fourteen arrests, and then 435 00:23:49,759 --> 00:23:51,000 you know what the mayor said, She said, you know, 436 00:23:51,039 --> 00:23:52,799 we can't incarcerate our way out of this problem. 437 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:58,799 Speaker 7: Well, actually, actually you can't. It turns out that you 438 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:00,920 can certain part. 439 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:01,519 Speaker 3: Of this solution. 440 00:24:04,319 --> 00:24:08,839 Speaker 2: The crowd reaction tells you everything you need to know 441 00:24:09,079 --> 00:24:14,960 about the preference cascade. There has been a vibe shift, 442 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,720 not like Kamala Harris said, this is an actual one 443 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:26,279 the normies. The last week has been really clarifying. 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Ah, got that out 484 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,880 of the way, all right, Pete, I wanted to talk 485 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,039 to you a little bit about the light rail. Try 486 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,200 to make it real quick here. My wife and I 487 00:26:46,279 --> 00:26:49,839 period we're not regular periodically. Let's ride the light rail 488 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,200 and every time we're on there, we're look up and 489 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,039 now on the car we ask ourselves, you know, how 490 00:26:55,039 --> 00:26:57,599 many of those people paid for their fare like we did, 491 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,319 and how many did And so we were in Vancouver 492 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,359 a couple of weeks ago and we decided to ride 493 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,759 their rail system from the airport to downtown and it 494 00:27:07,839 --> 00:27:11,880 was amazing. So when you ride the rail system Vancouver, 495 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,119 you can't even get really, you walk up to the station, 496 00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:17,519 but you can't get until you buy your ticket. And 497 00:27:17,519 --> 00:27:19,880 then once you buy your ticket, you go up to 498 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,039 the barrier, you put your ticket on a pad there, 499 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,440 the gate swings open, you go through, and then it 500 00:27:25,559 --> 00:27:29,440 swiftly and firmly closes behind you. Then my wife comes through, 501 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:34,680 and so then we ride the train uptown and when 502 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,359 we get off in downtown Vancouver. This is what really 503 00:27:38,559 --> 00:27:41,440 shed the light for me, is when you're leaving the station, 504 00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:44,759 you have to use your ticket again to open the 505 00:27:44,799 --> 00:27:48,039 barrier to get out of the station. So what great 506 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,079 data is that for planning and scheduling. They know where 507 00:27:52,079 --> 00:27:54,480 I bought my ticket, they know where I got on 508 00:27:54,519 --> 00:27:56,680 the train, they know where I got off the train. 509 00:27:57,319 --> 00:28:00,599 I mean, it's so good. And whose idea was it 510 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,960 ever to make our system an honor system. It's just crazy. 511 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 2: Well, the original architects of the system, the Charlotte City leaders, 512 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:14,000 Metropolitan Transit Commission, and the original head of CATS Ron 513 00:28:14,079 --> 00:28:17,039 tober Right, they they were the ones that built the 514 00:28:17,079 --> 00:28:20,279 system the way it is, this open honor system. 515 00:28:21,039 --> 00:28:23,440 Speaker 7: And I've never liked it. I've never felt good about it, 516 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,359 but going to Vancouver just really opened my eyes. So yeah, 517 00:28:26,559 --> 00:28:28,319 that's what I wanted to say. And the second thing 518 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,880 is is they want more money to build a new line. Hey, 519 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:36,440 let's install some instill some integrity in our current line 520 00:28:36,519 --> 00:28:39,200 or our current system before we go build a new 521 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:40,200 line somewhere else. 522 00:28:40,559 --> 00:28:43,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fair point, Jim. Yeah, I appreciate the call, buddy. 523 00:28:43,279 --> 00:28:43,599 Speaker 1: Thank you. 524 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,039 Speaker 2: Good to hear from you. Enjoy the rest of your 525 00:28:45,079 --> 00:28:48,759 walk too. Now, this is a it's a major problem, 526 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,400 and not only from the safety perspective, but also from 527 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,559 the revenue site. You're asking us to approve an increase 528 00:28:55,599 --> 00:28:57,839 in our sales tax to fund an expansion of a 529 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,599 system that isn't collecting the full amount of money that 530 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,480 it should be collecting. That should offset some of the 531 00:29:03,559 --> 00:29:06,160 need for us to pay for the sales tax, right, 532 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:11,200 and it just seems obvious to me. All Right, that'll 533 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:12,480 do it for this episode. 534 00:29:12,519 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. 535 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,119 Speaker 2: I could not do the show without your support and 536 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,880 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, 537 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,319 So if you'd like, please support them too and tell 538 00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:23,079 them you heard it here. You can also become a 539 00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:27,759 patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, 540 00:29:28,039 --> 00:29:30,559 thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything 541 00:29:30,559 --> 00:29:32,279 while I'm gone.