1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,719 my daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to thepeakclendarshow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:29,359 much for your support. 10 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 2: Just a lot going on. 11 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 3: The weather, summer sun. Hey, if you ever were a pilot, 12 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,079 they'll tell you the sun causes all of it. It's 13 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,679 big ball of flames in the air. It causes everything. 14 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:42,039 Speaker 2: It drives. 15 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 3: Now, when we went to the break, Chad Adams, your 16 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:46,719 guesto sitting in for Pete Calendar. Hope he's enjoyed his 17 00:00:46,759 --> 00:00:49,240 time off News Talk eleven ten ninety nine three WBT 18 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:51,679 seven O four five seven oh eleven ten. The Call 19 00:00:51,719 --> 00:00:54,159 in numbers whatever you're doing to live, thrive and survive 20 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:56,600 five seven to eleven to the Call in Numbers. We 21 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,679 appreciate you listening now. You know, as I'm sitting here 22 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,439 studio doing my thing, all of you out there are 23 00:01:04,439 --> 00:01:06,680 doing yours that are listening. Whether you're out there on 24 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,079 the road, you're driving around, you might be listening on 25 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,680 the app, on the WBT app, you might be listening online. 26 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:15,159 You could be anywhere literally listening to this show on 27 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:20,319 this amazing station. But if you're at work, maybe you're 28 00:01:20,359 --> 00:01:25,439 at home, whatever you're doing, all of these issues, you 29 00:01:25,519 --> 00:01:28,159 have a perspective on those. The problem with social media 30 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,680 is has elevated so many people to subject matter experts, 31 00:01:31,079 --> 00:01:33,799 primarily the listeners of a show like this are looking 32 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,079 at their own lives. What do I think about these issues, 33 00:01:37,599 --> 00:01:40,280 How do I feel about what's going on? What do 34 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,400 I feel is important, especially if you have kids. If 35 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,200 you have kids, you've got so much coming at you. 36 00:01:45,239 --> 00:01:47,280 As I said yesterday, and I told my sister over 37 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,480 the weekend, you know what, you may not want to 38 00:01:49,519 --> 00:01:53,159 be political, but if you have kids, they're bringing the 39 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,879 politics home to you. They're bringing the stuff. That's one 40 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,560 thing to be spoon fed, you know, Aristotle and Archimedes 41 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:05,200 and math and geography and science and all that. It's 42 00:02:05,239 --> 00:02:11,680 another to be bringing home this gobblbee gook political stuff 43 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,719 and dropping it in your living room where you have 44 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:20,199 to kind of take this you know, backstep and figure 45 00:02:20,199 --> 00:02:23,080 out what the hell just happened. When your kid doesn't 46 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,199 think you should open the door for a woman because 47 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,719 well I would. Oh no, you're saying something negative about women, 48 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,080 or your daughter says hey, there's any number of things. 49 00:02:34,199 --> 00:02:35,520 I don't want to get into it too much. But 50 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,479 you may not want to be political, but I guarantee 51 00:02:38,479 --> 00:02:42,319 you it's coming to you so and I say this 52 00:02:42,439 --> 00:02:45,240 and this next story. It is not going to make 53 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,199 you feel better. I'll guarantee you it's not going to 54 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,520 make you. It's the Washington Examiner tends to be a 55 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:51,479 conservative viewpoint. 56 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 2: I'll tell you that up front. 57 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:57,879 Speaker 3: But Byron York has long been a journalist, leans more 58 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:00,599 right now than probably ever before. It's I don't think 59 00:03:00,599 --> 00:03:02,960 his perspectives are extreme. You can see him on on 60 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,400 Twitter and other or x I guess is the way 61 00:03:05,439 --> 00:03:05,680 to say. 62 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 2: And he and he he. 63 00:03:07,719 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 3: Has documented where the political left's activism has taken them. 64 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,879 And you could remember you've seen if you, if you, 65 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,120 if you lean conservative, whatsoever, you've seen the clips where 66 00:03:20,159 --> 00:03:23,280 Maxine Waters when Trump first got elected, when she's screaming 67 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,280 at a small gathering to say, you need to find 68 00:03:26,319 --> 00:03:28,560 them in restaurants or wherever, and you need to tell 69 00:03:28,599 --> 00:03:30,039 them they're not welcome here. 70 00:03:31,719 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 2: It was. 71 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 3: It was a call to interrupt an attack. And Betsy 72 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:36,479 Devalis was in a restaurant or by the way, or 73 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,280 vote got attack. They were self with Chuck Schumer, you know, 74 00:03:39,319 --> 00:03:41,759 stood on the steps of the Supreme's Court and basically 75 00:03:41,879 --> 00:03:45,120 said you're gonna regret the day. It was a threat 76 00:03:45,199 --> 00:03:48,159 to we know you are gorsts, we know who you are. 77 00:03:48,439 --> 00:03:51,800 Comey buried. It was a threat. He was issuing threats 78 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:57,520 on the steps of the courthouse. That's why the left 79 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,120 always screams about Trump, right Trump's trying to people hate immigrants. Know, 80 00:04:01,439 --> 00:04:03,280 he's trying to say it's a bad ombrace and there 81 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:08,159 are but words these people. So here's where we go 82 00:04:08,199 --> 00:04:11,800 where the political left. And again I frame this with 83 00:04:11,919 --> 00:04:15,080 respect to where Democrats in North Carolina right now, they 84 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:19,800 have a wall between themselves and their national Party and 85 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,560 they're doing and the political party, the DNC, well is 86 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,399 well aware that they cannot in many parts of this 87 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:32,279 country allow that wall to shatter because if all of 88 00:04:32,319 --> 00:04:38,040 a sudden, the races next year, the governor's race, the 89 00:04:38,079 --> 00:04:43,000 Senate race, well, if those races and there's no governor's 90 00:04:43,079 --> 00:04:46,839 race next year, starck Sorry, if the Senate race becomes 91 00:04:46,879 --> 00:04:49,759 a referendum on people like Mumdani and the political left 92 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,759 and where it finds itself, no Democrat will well, only 93 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,879 maybe Chapel Hill, maybe a few precincts in Charlotte, Asheville, Wilmington, 94 00:04:56,959 --> 00:04:59,399 the large cities, but it will be a blood letting 95 00:04:59,439 --> 00:05:03,240 for Democrats if next year is a referendum on the 96 00:05:03,319 --> 00:05:06,399 left of the new Left. So there has to be 97 00:05:06,439 --> 00:05:09,480 this wall of separation between people like Josh Stein and 98 00:05:09,519 --> 00:05:13,639 Jeff Jackson and their Democrat politics and those of Mamdani 99 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:22,199 and California, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, AOC. I'll guarantee you, promise 100 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,680 you this. AOC and Jasmine Crockett will not be coming 101 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,439 to North Carolina and speaking with Roy Cooper on stage. 102 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:31,480 They will do everything in their power to stop that. 103 00:05:31,879 --> 00:05:34,680 So here are the disturbing glimpses, the disturbing glimpses of 104 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,120 Democrat Annger. We know many Democrats were stunned when Donald 105 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:39,360 Trump won a second term. 106 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 2: This is Byron York. 107 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,399 Speaker 3: We know many are still angry about it, but we're 108 00:05:42,439 --> 00:05:44,519 just now learning how angry some of them are it's 109 00:05:44,519 --> 00:05:48,800 not just grandstanding Democrat lawmakers like Jasmine Crockett actually reports 110 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:51,279 that quote at town halls in their districts and in 111 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,600 one on one meetings with constituents and activists. Crockett's more 112 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,680 centrist Democrat House colleagues are quote facing a growing thrum 113 00:05:59,199 --> 00:06:01,519 of demands to the rules, fight dirty, and not be 114 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:02,399 afraid to get hurt. 115 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:03,759 Speaker 2: End quote quote. 116 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 3: Our own base is telling us that what we're doing 117 00:06:06,639 --> 00:06:09,000 is not good enough, said one Democrat lawmaker out of 118 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,639 nine quoted in the Axious articles. Some of them have 119 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:13,680 suggested what we really need to do is be willing 120 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:18,800 to get shot in protest around ice of facilities. That 121 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,399 there needs to be blood to grab attention of the 122 00:06:21,439 --> 00:06:22,199 press of the public. 123 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 2: End quote. 124 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:25,879 Speaker 3: Another lawmaker told, and this is Axios is reporting. This 125 00:06:25,959 --> 00:06:29,000 isn't this person that Byron York's rephrasing, what actually is 126 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:33,839 reported that ACXIOS constituents say quote civility isn't working and 127 00:06:33,959 --> 00:06:36,519 to get ready for quote violence, to fight to protect 128 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,519 our democracy and another set it's like the Roman colicy 129 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,600 on people just want more and more of this spectacle. Obviously, 130 00:06:43,079 --> 00:06:45,600 these are Democrats who have moved beyond the defeat them 131 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,160 at the ballot box stage of politics, and even beyond 132 00:06:48,199 --> 00:06:51,120 the protest by civil disobedient stage. They're ready to turn 133 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,600 a political fight into a physical one. Violence is already 134 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,519 going on and Alvarado, Texas, a militant group broadly allied 135 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,759 with Democrat views, launched what officials call a coordinated attack 136 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,000 on the Ice Prairie Land Attention Center on the fourth 137 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,839 of July. According to court documents, it started at ten 138 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,199 thirty PM when a group of ten to twelve ANTIFA 139 00:07:09,319 --> 00:07:13,240 radicals dressed in all black began shooting fireworks towards the building. 140 00:07:13,519 --> 00:07:16,560 Some began to vandalize parked cars when unarmed ICE workers 141 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,759 called nine to one one and Alvarado Police Department officer arrived. 142 00:07:19,879 --> 00:07:21,399 Speaker 2: Immediately after the. 143 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:23,519 Speaker 3: APD officer got out of his vehicle, an assailant in 144 00:07:23,519 --> 00:07:26,519 the woods opened fire, shooting the APD officer in the neck. 145 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,279 Then another government also opened fire at the unarmed Department 146 00:07:30,279 --> 00:07:33,399 of Homeland Security correctional officers. In total, the assailants shot 147 00:07:33,399 --> 00:07:37,000 approximately twenty to thirty rounds at the correctional officers. Police 148 00:07:37,079 --> 00:07:40,079 later found two ar style rifles and spent casings in 149 00:07:40,079 --> 00:07:43,199 the nearby woods. When the radicals ran away, police got them. 150 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:45,839 Some were still in the woods and some were escaping 151 00:07:45,839 --> 00:07:48,319 down a nearby road, including seven suspects who were dressed 152 00:07:48,319 --> 00:07:51,279 in black military style clothing. Some had body armor on, 153 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,040 some covered in mud, some were armed, some had radios. 154 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,839 The officer was hitting the next survived, and ten suspects 155 00:07:56,879 --> 00:08:00,240 were charged with attempted murder, the violent tip of the 156 00:08:00,279 --> 00:08:05,240 protests against the Trump enforcement of immigration. Another example of 157 00:08:05,319 --> 00:08:10,439 recent radicalization include far left Free Palestine extremists Elias Elias Rodriguez, 158 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,240 who is accused of killing two Israeli embassy staff members 159 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:17,800 outside the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington. Luigi Mangioni, considered 160 00:08:17,839 --> 00:08:20,040 a hear by many on the left, the accused killer 161 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,319 of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York 162 00:08:22,319 --> 00:08:27,199 City on December fourth, And this goes on and on. 163 00:08:27,279 --> 00:08:29,000 So what we're seeing, and that's just I'm only getting 164 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:30,319 to have I'm not going to read the entirety of 165 00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:35,399 the column. But what you see is an escalation. Once 166 00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:38,679 you cannot be civil, you get angry, and once your 167 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:42,399 anger is not met with public support, it turns to outrage. 168 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,919 And when your outrage is unmatched by public support, you 169 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:50,399 turn to violence, and that's the radical left. And this 170 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:52,440 is where people like Cliburne and others. At some point 171 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,600 the Democrats need to stand up to their own. There's 172 00:08:54,639 --> 00:08:56,639 plenty of division on the right. I'm not going to 173 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:00,519 pretend there's not. There is, but the political situation on 174 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:05,519 the left is damn near beyond unhealthy. 175 00:09:05,759 --> 00:09:07,399 Speaker 2: It's bad, all right. 176 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:09,279 Speaker 1: If you're listening to this show, you know I try 177 00:09:09,279 --> 00:09:11,039 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 178 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,159 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 179 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:17,399 say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because 180 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,120 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 181 00:09:20,159 --> 00:09:23,480 been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and 182 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,600 it's a website, and it combines news from around the 183 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,320 world in one place so you can compare coverage and 184 00:09:29,399 --> 00:09:33,240 verify information. 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Your subscription then not 195 00:10:05,799 --> 00:10:08,799 only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News 196 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,240 as they make the media landscape more transparent to me. 197 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 3: And I'm going to kind of rip the band aid 198 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:16,960 off a little bit for myself because I've tried to 199 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,440 be more I mean, I've really tried to reach to 200 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:23,679 be more than fair. I'm going to say something that 201 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:25,559 people in the audience, if they lean left, are going 202 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,399 to say, Oh, we're not surprised. People on the right, 203 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:31,159 we knew it. I think that the most substantive wrecking 204 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,879 ball that's been taken to the DC establishment in my life, 205 00:10:33,879 --> 00:10:35,279 to him as a guy that's in the Oval office 206 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:37,799 right now, I had as many questions about him in 207 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,039 twenty sixteen as anyone after the first term, looking at 208 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:42,840 what he was attempting to do and what was done 209 00:10:42,879 --> 00:10:47,679 to him. I've never seen the entirety of a given 210 00:10:47,759 --> 00:10:50,519 political class be so hell bent on destroying a single 211 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:51,480 individual as I have this. 212 00:10:51,519 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it. 213 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,639 Speaker 3: He can be bombassed. He can say outrageous things, many 214 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:57,720 of them have. Depends on what the definition of the 215 00:10:57,720 --> 00:10:59,559 word is is right, You heard Bill Clinton say that 216 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,360 almost it's some outrageous stuff. But they all knew they'd 217 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:04,879 play the game. You could play ball with them with 218 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:10,080 this president, he's he's not a pole driven guy. And 219 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,879 he says, it's so refreshing to hear a president that 220 00:11:12,919 --> 00:11:15,159 will answer a question, to hear any politician that'll just 221 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,919 answer it didn't consult the polls. It's the Democrats, you know, 222 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,879 constantly are using these poll tested phrases, and you see it. 223 00:11:23,919 --> 00:11:25,679 They all say the same thing, and it's like, are 224 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:27,240 you capable of independent thought? 225 00:11:27,279 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 2: I don't know. 226 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 3: But the most significant crime at the highest level to 227 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,799 me and Democrats ought to be as incensed as anyone, 228 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:45,240 is the cover up of the Biden mental detachment for 229 00:11:45,519 --> 00:11:50,200 the most powerful nation in the world to not know 230 00:11:50,279 --> 00:11:54,200 who's in charge. We had a duly elected president who 231 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:58,440 was clearly mentally vacant, who everyone who had een could 232 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,039 see saw it. You could see it, the wandering off stage, 233 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,360 the incoherence about answering the you know, and then he would. 234 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:05,799 Speaker 2: If he wants. 235 00:12:05,919 --> 00:12:07,879 Speaker 3: The most coherent he ever is is when he's angry, 236 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,679 Like when you see him get like, he would go 237 00:12:09,759 --> 00:12:12,440 from being Joe to angry Joe. And that was the 238 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,519 only and it was an inability and that comes from 239 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:21,519 an inability to gauge your emotional tracking that in order 240 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:23,279 to be taken serious, you have to be angry. It's 241 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:28,080 this overreaction to things. Clearly he had issues. His staff 242 00:12:28,159 --> 00:12:29,720 knew he has had issues. 243 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:31,519 Speaker 2: His wife knew it. They knew it. 244 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:36,039 Speaker 3: And the most telling, and this is incredulous to me, 245 00:12:36,159 --> 00:12:39,960 that who had access to the football? Not to me, 246 00:12:40,159 --> 00:12:43,200 whenever anything goes sideways, where's the football? That's the number 247 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,679 one question anyone should ask? Who has the football? Who 248 00:12:46,759 --> 00:12:50,360 can authorize a nuclear strike on another country? Who can 249 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:55,120 the president has that ultimately, and he wasn't all there. 250 00:12:55,399 --> 00:12:56,559 Speaker 2: So who was doing. 251 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 3: Who had access to all of that? Who was driving 252 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,120 the ship? It was it was an unelected individual or individuals. 253 00:13:04,159 --> 00:13:07,120 It was a team of conspira co conspirators. It's treason. 254 00:13:07,879 --> 00:13:11,799 They were circumventing the entirety of the US Constitution. Why 255 00:13:11,799 --> 00:13:15,720 there's not more outrage about this is beyond me to 256 00:13:15,759 --> 00:13:17,960 anyone who seriously looks at this. It's beyond them. You 257 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,279 hear Jonathan Turley talk about this all the time. Completely 258 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:25,320 subverted the US Constitution, completely bypassed chain of command, completely 259 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,240 went around the will of the American people, and just 260 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,559 left a doddering guy up there wandering off the halls 261 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:33,200 of the White House while they were doing everything. Who 262 00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:38,399 were they and what gives more credence to this is 263 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:42,240 what happened today. So there was an oversight committee meeting, 264 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:47,080 the House Oversight Committee. The Biden's physition, Kevin O'Connor, went 265 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,720 to a closed door he was subpoena. He goes to 266 00:13:49,759 --> 00:13:52,799 a closed door meeting where they're asked that at lasted 267 00:13:52,879 --> 00:13:54,360 less than an hour, it should have been hours long. 268 00:13:54,399 --> 00:13:56,840 What happened, Well, the guy walked out. His lawyer said 269 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:00,360 one thing. He pleaded the fifth a question after question 270 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,120 after question, anything about Joe Biden. 271 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 2: Hastien. I'm going to read. 272 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,279 Speaker 3: So James Comber comes out, and many of the people 273 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,360 know that Cumber's been on this committee. Chairman James Comber 274 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,840 from Kentucky has been on this circuit or this belief 275 00:14:13,879 --> 00:14:16,279 system for a very long time. I'm going to read 276 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:19,600 the first two questions that were asked, were you ever 277 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,440 told to lie about the president's health? He asked the 278 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:28,279 president's physician. The president's physician played the fifth. I cannot 279 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,240 answer that question on the grounds that it may impugne 280 00:14:32,279 --> 00:14:34,240 my imply my guilt or whatever. 281 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:36,559 Speaker 2: He would not answer that question. 282 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,679 Speaker 3: Second question, did you ever believe that President Biden was 283 00:14:39,759 --> 00:14:40,360 unfit to. 284 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:41,399 Speaker 2: Execute his duty? 285 00:14:42,039 --> 00:14:43,919 Speaker 3: I can't answer the question on the grounds that might 286 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:50,000 answer my incriminating So he clearly that that I mean. 287 00:14:50,039 --> 00:14:52,320 I know in America is you have to prove something. 288 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,639 But this isn't a court of law. Include the fifth 289 00:14:55,879 --> 00:15:01,559 but it is. Again, it's it's really unpressed for this 290 00:15:01,639 --> 00:15:05,039 level love cover up to go unanswered by the way 291 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,639 investigations were announced. I'm not a big fan of announcing 292 00:15:07,679 --> 00:15:13,759 investigations into James Comy and Brennan. The investigations announced, I'd 293 00:15:13,879 --> 00:15:17,759 rather you see indictments or prosecutions or arrest or something. 294 00:15:17,759 --> 00:15:20,440 But they are looking at those folks in the way 295 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,240 they conducted themselves for the past few years, using their 296 00:15:23,279 --> 00:15:27,320 positions of government power to punish and go after and 297 00:15:27,519 --> 00:15:30,320 use all of the resources to go after certain individuals. 298 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,639 Speaker 2: It looks like we don't know. But again the. 299 00:15:32,639 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 3: President's physician goes before the House Oversight Committee. They ask 300 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:42,559 him questions, he won't answer them, pleads the fifth and 301 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:44,840 they say, you know, hey, that his lawyer said. This 302 00:15:44,919 --> 00:15:46,919 is not an admission of guilt, but a response to 303 00:15:46,919 --> 00:15:50,559 what they say was an unprecedented investigatory scope that could 304 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,759 have violated the bounds of patient position privilege. Now, if 305 00:15:53,759 --> 00:15:55,919 they were to cross that bridge and go to they, 306 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,080 he could easily say, hey, I can't answer that because 307 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,320 it's patient physician confidence. Jelly with ask him, were you 308 00:16:01,399 --> 00:16:05,240 pressured by anyone outside of that? Any wouldn't answer. That's 309 00:16:05,279 --> 00:16:08,039 a very different if I say, if you can't answer 310 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:10,840 questions about the president's health, Okay, I get that, were 311 00:16:10,879 --> 00:16:12,159 you pressured by anybody else? 312 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 2: You can answer that question. 313 00:16:13,639 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 3: That has nothing to do with patient confidentiality, zero to 314 00:16:17,639 --> 00:16:18,000 do with it. 315 00:16:18,399 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to 316 00:16:21,159 --> 00:16:24,639 a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina? 317 00:16:24,759 --> 00:16:27,480 Just a quick drive up the mountain and cabins of Asheville. 318 00:16:27,519 --> 00:16:31,279 Is your connection. 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He's got more degrees 344 00:17:53,319 --> 00:17:57,559 than you can shake a stick out. Just he's He's 345 00:17:57,599 --> 00:18:01,359 such a down to earth individual, easy to talk to, funny, 346 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,359 great sense of humor, but at the same time, highly educated, 347 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,960 very profound in his approach to stuff. And so we're 348 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:09,599 going to talk a little bit about, you know, what's 349 00:18:09,599 --> 00:18:12,240 happening in North Carolina, what he sees on the regulatory front. Now, 350 00:18:12,319 --> 00:18:15,119 of course, you know, and Cooper was in. He's out, 351 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,799 even though a stellar career there. He's still active in 352 00:18:18,839 --> 00:18:21,359 North Carolina, lives in the Wilington area, but he works 353 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:26,119 in Raleigh. But just a very interesting gentleman. I've spoken 354 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,039 to him on many occasions about the Coastalaria Management Authority, 355 00:18:29,079 --> 00:18:32,319 which is an agency that has very little, if any oversight, 356 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,599 that controls a great deal of what happens in the coast. 357 00:18:34,599 --> 00:18:37,400 You find this that you know, the corp of engineers 358 00:18:37,519 --> 00:18:40,559 used to be very very Hey, here's how to solve 359 00:18:40,599 --> 00:18:43,680 the problem. Now it's become very political, and we see 360 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:47,960 this kind of erosion. We bear witness to the erosion 361 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:52,799 of property rights vis the environmental regulations, some of which 362 00:18:53,079 --> 00:18:58,480 have no bearing on making society better in any substantive way. 363 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,440 I mean a good example that is the Endangered Species Act. Oh, 364 00:19:01,599 --> 00:19:04,720 before your heads explode, hear me out on this Dangered 365 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,160 Species Act. A great piece of legislation. In some ways, 366 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:09,920 it recognizes that, hey, we need to be aware of 367 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,920 certain species that are being affected by over a hunting 368 00:19:13,079 --> 00:19:16,599 or whatever, whatever the case may be. But the problem 369 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,559 with it is that it's not necessarily about the species. 370 00:19:19,599 --> 00:19:23,079 It's about where the species is. If if on one 371 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:26,480 side of the mountain there's five thousand red toed knucklehead 372 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,559 squirrels and on the other side of the mountain there's two, 373 00:19:30,279 --> 00:19:35,720 then massive, you know, regulatory issues kick in and on 374 00:19:35,759 --> 00:19:37,880 that side of the mountain, everybody loses anything. Even though 375 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,920 the species the red tod knucklehead squirrel, which doesn't exist. 376 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,480 I'm using it to make a point. There's plenty of them. 377 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,839 They just happen to exist, not there. They exist here 378 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,240 plentiful not so plentiful over here, and that's a problem. 379 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,759 A really good example of this is down in Brunswick County. 380 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,359 The government was doing so there's a little town called 381 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,000 Bowling Spring Lake and it's funny it's not a lake 382 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,640 anymore because it was the dam was destroyed by a 383 00:20:01,759 --> 00:20:04,240 hurricane and they've never rebuilt it, or they haven't for 384 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:08,279 years now. And the irony there is again government not 385 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,240 being able to get stuff done that is not redone. 386 00:20:11,319 --> 00:20:13,640 So you drive through the lake and there's no lake. 387 00:20:14,079 --> 00:20:17,000 There's the bridge, but there's no lake. Now, having said 388 00:20:17,039 --> 00:20:21,359 that the government was going to do a survey geographical 389 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,960 surveys in this area to look for the red kackatd woodpecker, 390 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,559 not the pilot one, but the kakai anyway, they were 391 00:20:27,599 --> 00:20:32,519 looking to see where suitable habitat might be. So the 392 00:20:32,599 --> 00:20:36,480 goal red headed, red headed red cockadi woodpecker are there 393 00:20:36,519 --> 00:20:38,599 is there suitable habitat in this area? 394 00:20:38,759 --> 00:20:39,640 Speaker 2: They put it on the map. 395 00:20:39,799 --> 00:20:44,279 Speaker 3: Yes this is suitable. Now, when you get into people's 396 00:20:44,319 --> 00:20:48,920 property and you say that area is suitable, that means 397 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,240 that individual can no longer build a house on that lot. 398 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,839 They can no longer. So if people had saved up money, 399 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,599 had a lot down near the coast, and they wanted 400 00:20:58,599 --> 00:21:01,279 to build on it. One day, all of a sudden, 401 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:05,599 if that lot was considered suitable habitat, you're not allowed 402 00:21:05,599 --> 00:21:06,200 to build on it. 403 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 2: So what happened. 404 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 3: What was the net result of the surveys that were 405 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,319 going to be done in that area of your great state. 406 00:21:15,039 --> 00:21:19,119 It was that there was a record number of people 407 00:21:19,839 --> 00:21:24,559 clearcutting their land and their property. Why because if it's 408 00:21:24,599 --> 00:21:27,559 not suitable habitat, they can build on it. So what 409 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:32,279 did the Endangered Species Act and the guidelines therein create. 410 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:36,359 What it actually did was create a situation that made 411 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,720 it less likely for that species to proliferate. The truth 412 00:21:39,759 --> 00:21:43,359 of the matter is had there been exceptional or the 413 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,319 ability to build and say, hey, this is suitable habitat, 414 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:48,279 but we're looking at the you know, if it's still 415 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,480 ninety percent suitable or eighty percent, so whatever, that's better 416 00:21:51,519 --> 00:21:55,200 than zero. But no, the Endangered Species Act, like all acts, 417 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,359 like the American with Disabilities Act, these things are so 418 00:21:57,519 --> 00:22:01,680 pervasive and so aggressive that the deliterious to what actually 419 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:07,200 they wanted to achieve. And that's the problem. They never get. 420 00:22:07,799 --> 00:22:10,880 They never get revised. They never get updated, and they're 421 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,200 egregiously bad for many of the species and many of 422 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,240 the people that is affected. If you ever go to 423 00:22:16,519 --> 00:22:18,640 a hotel that doesn't have a swimming pool, you can 424 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,960 thank the American with Disabilities Act because they made them 425 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,720 put in a ludicrous crane that they have to maintain 426 00:22:24,759 --> 00:22:27,839 and keep that's very expensive for the one or two 427 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,640 people that might use it. It's hardly ever used can be. 428 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,440 But because of that, so a lot it was cheaper 429 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,240 for the hotel to just fill it in with cement, 430 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,920 not have a pool. That's just the nature of the 431 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,640 way that game gets played. Now we get back, I 432 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,559 do want to continue down, not with the Endangered Species Act, 433 00:22:43,599 --> 00:22:49,440 but to talk about the confusion and the ways, and 434 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,559 we've talked about this the entirety of the program so far, 435 00:22:52,039 --> 00:22:55,799 how society and how the clickbait world and how social 436 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,359 media and everybody's opinion matters, how it's made things much 437 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,279 more confused, using then they need to be, and there's 438 00:23:02,319 --> 00:23:08,279 a perpet in perpetuity, they desire to push people into 439 00:23:08,319 --> 00:23:10,680 more ignorance. And I don't mean that people are here. 440 00:23:10,759 --> 00:23:13,880 I think they choose to be or are selectively ignorant 441 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,240 and don't confuse me. My mind's already made up. 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They 458 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,240 are your life told through the eyes of everyone around 459 00:24:14,319 --> 00:24:16,599 you and all who came before you, and they will 460 00:24:16,599 --> 00:24:19,960 tell others to come who you are visit Creative video 461 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:20,839 dot com. 462 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 3: Appreciate everyone being a part of the broadcast right now. 463 00:24:23,559 --> 00:24:26,559 Do have a wonderful listener that I can't wait to 464 00:24:26,559 --> 00:24:28,880 hear from. His name is Glenn, and thank you Glenn. 465 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,559 If I understand right, you are a veteran. Thanks for 466 00:24:30,599 --> 00:24:32,240 calling and thanks for your service. What's on your brain? 467 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:34,839 Speaker 4: Thank you? Can you hear me? 468 00:24:35,839 --> 00:24:36,759 Speaker 2: I hear you. Fine. 469 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,039 Speaker 3: I may sound strange to you. You sound perfect on 470 00:24:39,079 --> 00:24:39,519 the radio. 471 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 4: Okay, that's fine. I love telling this story. I was 472 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,480 a National Guard officer North Carolina National Guard artillery type 473 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,920 we to train at Fort Bragg. We still do, I'm sure. 474 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:57,240 I was fire direction officer for a unit and we 475 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:03,319 had red cock hated with pecker nest or enclaves on 476 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:08,319 the impact areas at Fort Bragg, And any time that 477 00:25:08,759 --> 00:25:11,240 I received a fire mission, I had to go to 478 00:25:11,839 --> 00:25:15,279 a map that we called the Pecker Woods map and 479 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,839 the coordinates to make sure that we were not firing 480 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:25,079 into a little red goose egg that was a red 481 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,960 cock heated woodpecker area. It just, uh, you know, here 482 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:33,160 we are firing artillery with high explosives and somebody actually 483 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,920 got out there in the middle of all this impact 484 00:25:36,039 --> 00:25:39,680 area when they weren't shooting and figured out that red 485 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,799 cockaked woodpeckers would be much at home at this area. 486 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,519 So that's just. 487 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:48,319 Speaker 2: Glenn. 488 00:25:48,319 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 3: Did you say you had to check out the picker maps? 489 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,759 Speaker 4: They were called the pecker woods peckerwood. 490 00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:58,599 Speaker 2: That still cracks me up. 491 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,279 Speaker 3: I mean I lived at adjacent to that area in 492 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,559 Lee County, just north of Fort Bragg, and you could 493 00:26:04,599 --> 00:26:06,680 you could tell when they were doing shelling and heavy art. 494 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:08,960 You could always sell when they were ramping up for something. 495 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:10,200 Right before a desert storm. 496 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:11,799 Speaker 2: It goes crazy crazy. You hear it, You hear you 497 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:12,599 kind of feel that. 498 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 3: Muffled impact stuff, and then it just went silent and said, oh, 499 00:26:16,039 --> 00:26:19,519 something's getting ready to happen. But this is an interesting story, Glenn, 500 00:26:19,599 --> 00:26:21,880 and I appreciate your call because it is a great 501 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,759 story about the red cockaded woodpecker, and that is that 502 00:26:24,799 --> 00:26:27,440 the military was doing live train Huh are you there? 503 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 2: Baby? 504 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:29,400 Speaker 4: Did? 505 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,799 Speaker 2: Okay? Just I speak quickly sometimes. 506 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,400 Speaker 3: So the military is doing these live fires, they've done 507 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,559 it for decades and it would spark forest fires, and 508 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:43,880 those forest fires ended up protecting the long leaf pines. 509 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,440 So these long leaf pines have done very well in 510 00:26:46,519 --> 00:26:49,759 Fort Bragg because now they intentionally burn out underbrush, but 511 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,599 in so doing and protecting the long leaf pine, it 512 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,599 made it better for the woodpeckers. Then the woodpeckers come 513 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,119 in and all of a sudden, the military can't perform 514 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,079 missions because of the woodpecker. But it's considered a success 515 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:02,119 story for the woodpecker. 516 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,839 Speaker 2: So if you if you want to. 517 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,839 Speaker 4: It certainly was a detractor to our training. That's all 518 00:27:08,839 --> 00:27:09,359 I'll say to. 519 00:27:09,319 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 2: That, to our training. 520 00:27:12,039 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 3: I've Glenn, thank you for the levity that I appreciate 521 00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:17,000 the call, and thank you for being a part of 522 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:17,240 the show. 523 00:27:17,279 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 2: Okay, I love that the. 524 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 3: Cockaded woodpecker story and four Bragg and absolutely true. And 525 00:27:26,279 --> 00:27:30,519 the military's inadvertent rescuing of the long leaf pines Visa 526 00:27:30,559 --> 00:27:33,039 VI live fire exercises stat of the GROUNDIFI. By the way, 527 00:27:33,079 --> 00:27:36,920 long long leaf pines are designed by nature, are designed 528 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,119 for forest fires. In other words, when a forest fire 529 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:39,640 comes through. 530 00:27:39,839 --> 00:27:40,279 Speaker 2: Two things. 531 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,519 Speaker 3: The long leaf pines have very thick, deep bark that 532 00:27:43,599 --> 00:27:46,359 helped protect the tree. So as underbrush is getting burned, 533 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,359 that pine tree is really good at surviving. Also, the 534 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,039 roots go straight down. That's why not many people grow 535 00:27:52,079 --> 00:27:54,319 them for wood is because the roots go straight down 536 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:56,000 and so for the first couple of years that tree 537 00:27:56,039 --> 00:27:59,839 barely grows, but underground it's burrowing deeper and deeper and deeper. 538 00:28:00,079 --> 00:28:01,319 Speaker 2: Why they survived drought fairly. 539 00:28:01,319 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 3: Well, that's why they're really amazing trees. But they're also 540 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,759 good for woodpeckers, the red cockaded woodpecker. All of a sudden, 541 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:13,079 just imagine military units going back and say, okay, fellas freeze, 542 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,319 there's three nests downrange. 543 00:28:15,759 --> 00:28:16,559 Speaker 2: Go find out. 544 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,920 Speaker 3: You, John, you, Henry, go down range. See if you 545 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,240 find the nest. We'll shoot around him, look for any 546 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,119 other nest while you're there, and we'll add it up 547 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,640 to the woodpecker nest the woodpecker maps. So we've got 548 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,680 to have special wood. It's a way to avoid targets. 549 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,559 I guess, so you pretend those are civilians. Maybe, I 550 00:28:32,599 --> 00:28:36,200 don't know, just seems like. And now the funny thing 551 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:41,039 is the wildlife people consider that a massive success story 552 00:28:41,359 --> 00:28:47,559 because they've got the military working alongside the environmentalist Well, 553 00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:49,880 I guess you would call the military conservationists because they're 554 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,519 conservationists are just environmentalists with guns, right, and they have 555 00:28:52,559 --> 00:28:56,519 really big guns. And so now adjacent properties are joining 556 00:28:56,519 --> 00:28:59,559 the effort. Now, what those adjacent property owners don't understand 557 00:28:59,599 --> 00:29:04,599 is if their lands become red cockaded woodpecker habitats, then 558 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:09,319 they are kind of stuck still. The red kackady woodpecker 559 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,559 doing very well, by the way, kind of like polar bears. 560 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,039 Speaker 2: People keeping the polar bears are doing very well. They 561 00:29:14,079 --> 00:29:14,400 had been. 562 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:18,119 Speaker 3: There's twenty nine thousand polar bears now, so contrary to 563 00:29:18,119 --> 00:29:20,480 what they said in nineteen eighty eight, the polar bears, 564 00:29:20,839 --> 00:29:22,960 I guess they have a way of finding other polar 565 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,079 bears and making baby polar bears. And I didn't mean 566 00:29:26,119 --> 00:29:28,079 to digress, but my mind works that way, and so 567 00:29:29,319 --> 00:29:31,279 I wouldn't give you a little known fact about polar bears, 568 00:29:31,319 --> 00:29:32,720 but I don't want to distract you from what we're 569 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,079 talking about. Again, great story, Glenn, Thank you for the call. 570 00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 2: I appreciate you being a part of the broadcast as always. 571 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,039 Speaker 3: By the way, on the other side of this hour, 572 00:29:40,039 --> 00:29:42,799 we're gonna get to Donald Van Dervar. He the former 573 00:29:42,839 --> 00:29:46,839 head of the environment it's DEEQ, the environment of Department 574 00:29:46,839 --> 00:29:51,759 of Environmental Quality. He led that department under the McCory administration. 575 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:52,319 Speaker 2: He's been. 576 00:29:52,519 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 3: He was part of that department for two decades prior 577 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,319 to becoming head of that department. 578 00:29:57,559 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 2: Highly educated guy. 579 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 3: I look forward to the conversation because he has been 580 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,319 on the front lines of these kind of stories like 581 00:30:03,359 --> 00:30:07,480 Glenn talks about. He can tell you at where it's gone, 582 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,359 where it is. We knew the department went from d 583 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,400 NR Department of Environment Natural Resources. They kind of split 584 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,240 the department off and now it's just d EQ. But 585 00:30:16,279 --> 00:30:18,559 I look forward to that conversation with vander Roll on 586 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:19,359 the other side of the break. 587 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 588 00:30:23,519 --> 00:30:25,519 so much for listening. I could not do the show 589 00:30:25,519 --> 00:30:28,039 without your support and the support of the businesses that 590 00:30:28,119 --> 00:30:31,240 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 591 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:32,920 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 592 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,559 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 593 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,279 go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much 594 00:30:39,279 --> 00:30:42,559 for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.