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 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio and 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 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to thepeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,800 your support. Yes, our show was preempted just to smidge 10 00:00:32,719 --> 00:00:37,799 by the conclusion there of the Jimmy Carter funeral that 11 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:41,200 we broadcast live. Look, it is a historical moment, so 12 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,640 you know, that's what we do at WBT. I know 13 00:00:44,719 --> 00:00:47,200 people weren't happy about the coverage. I have seen the 14 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,880 ones of emails and messages, and I get it. You 15 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,359 didn't like Carter. I didn't like Carter either, but he 16 00:00:54,399 --> 00:00:56,799 was still the president, still a big deal. And also 17 00:00:57,119 --> 00:01:00,359 Donald Trump and Barack Obama sat next to each other 18 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,359 and actually, we're cracking jokes with each other. You could 19 00:01:03,399 --> 00:01:05,879 see them laughing. They were they were chit chatting and laughing. 20 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:11,120 So which is weird for Obama to be to be 21 00:01:11,159 --> 00:01:18,079 cracking jokes with Hitler. I don't understand, but okay. Message 22 00:01:18,079 --> 00:01:21,959 from Bill who says today was a unique opportunity for 23 00:01:22,079 --> 00:01:26,519 us to distinguish the difference between a failed presidency and 24 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:31,120 a presidential failure. I'm glad Carter lived long enough to 25 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:40,079 see it too. Dennis says, the main thing I remember 26 00:01:40,079 --> 00:01:43,480 about Carter's presidency was the gas lines at the service stations, 27 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:48,680 the rationing of gas right, odd, even, odd even right, 28 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,680 So on odd days, odd number days, if you had 29 00:01:52,719 --> 00:01:54,920 a license plate that had an odd or that was 30 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,959 the last number or began with an odd number, then 31 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,799 you would go get gas on those days. And if 32 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:02,920 you had an even number license plate, you would go 33 00:02:03,319 --> 00:02:09,960 to get your gas on the even days. Motoring was 34 00:02:10,039 --> 00:02:15,120 almost a motoring was almost a war zone, getting locks 35 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,599 for your gas caps. And then there was the Iran 36 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:22,280 hostage crisis. Yes, ty a yellow ribbon, right, and don't 37 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:27,360 forget Billy beer promoted by Jimmy's brother. It went well 38 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:33,199 with all those Carter pe nuts. Now, yeah, this is 39 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,520 the thing. The ret conning is what is what drives 40 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:43,000 me nuts. It's this the retroactive you know, hay geography 41 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,639 that is being written about Carter now and I understand 42 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:49,680 it's the funeral. People say nice things at the funeral, 43 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,240 right hopefully, And that is really like, you should live 44 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:55,800 a life where people will say nice things about you 45 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:02,400 at the funeral. What I detect is going to a 46 00:03:02,439 --> 00:03:06,199 funeral or paying respects to a guy and having to 47 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:10,280 listen to stump speeches for a man who was blown 48 00:03:10,319 --> 00:03:14,080 out of office and being told. 49 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:18,479 Speaker 2: That actually he really did all of these fantastic things 50 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,800 and we just didn't know it, right, We just all 51 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,360 finally caught up to Jimmy Carter's visionary success or something. 52 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: All right, let me go over and talk to David. Hello, David, 53 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:30,560 welcome to the show. 54 00:03:31,439 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 3: Hey, good afternoon. 55 00:03:32,599 --> 00:03:33,439 Speaker 1: Hey what's up. 56 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,159 Speaker 4: Well, you know, Dennis kind of stole my thunder because 57 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,759 here I am a high school kid in the late seventies. 58 00:03:41,199 --> 00:03:45,719 I've got a hopped up Pontiac and you can only 59 00:03:45,759 --> 00:03:48,120 buy ten gallons of gas, and I think I might 60 00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:51,199 have gotten maybe ten miles to the gallon. And I 61 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,319 can remember standing in line pushing my car because it 62 00:03:55,439 --> 00:03:58,199 burned too much gas in their idling, pushing it to 63 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,759 the gas pop to buy my gallons. 64 00:04:02,919 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: Oh, I believe it. Yeah, people had to, you know, 65 00:04:07,039 --> 00:04:10,599 not go to the grocery store. Right, They had to 66 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,039 you know, coordinate with their working spouse or non working 67 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,360 spouse whatever to make sure that they had the vehicles 68 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:19,040 so they could get to work and get to the 69 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:22,600 school and do their their daily activities and the like, 70 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:27,439 and or and how about remember when he was trying 71 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,759 to tell people that it's okay to set your thermostat 72 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:35,160 at a lower temperature to save the oil. Just wear 73 00:04:35,199 --> 00:04:37,639 more sweaters, memory, put on the put on the card 74 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,560 again or whatever, and like this was like this was 75 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,360 the policy, this is what they were recommending people. And 76 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,680 then he had the briefcase. He was like, I'm working 77 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:47,839 hard to fix the economy. He's running around with the 78 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,120 briefcase it to show it's a prop, right, to show 79 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,839 everybody that he's working. And then like some big breeze 80 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:58,040 comes along and and it like pulls the briefcase open and. 81 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 5: There's nothing in it and nothing in it, right, yeah, 82 00:05:00,959 --> 00:05:06,199 And I can't remember my daddy, my daddy yelling at 83 00:05:06,199 --> 00:05:09,160 the TV, yelling damn communists. 84 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: All right, David, I appreciate the call. Thank you, Sarah. 85 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,439 Let me go over and get Steve on. Hello Steve, 86 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:19,160 Hello Steve. 87 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:24,079 Speaker 6: Yeah, Hi, Hey, I'm seventy. I'm seventy years old. And uh, 88 00:05:24,439 --> 00:05:27,120 in my opinion, you know, I think Jimmy Covery had 89 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,879 a fantastic post presidency. He did he did so much. Uh, 90 00:05:32,519 --> 00:05:36,399 it was incredible as a press which. 91 00:05:36,199 --> 00:05:38,199 Speaker 1: Wait wait wait, what was the what wait? What did 92 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,360 he do that was incredible in his post presidency besides 93 00:05:41,399 --> 00:05:42,199 the Habitat for. 94 00:05:42,199 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 6: Humanity, all of these things and the things that he 95 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:54,360 did try to try to facilitate Uh uh people people 96 00:05:54,399 --> 00:05:58,399 around the world, have you heaving having put civil rights 97 00:05:58,439 --> 00:06:06,480 and and and able them to have a moniican of 98 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:07,959 of what the United States is. 99 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: He piled around, he cozied up, He cozied up to 100 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:18,480 communists and is lomists. Well, I just I disagree that 101 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,279 his post presidency is something that should be applauded. I 102 00:06:23,079 --> 00:06:27,000 do recognize the work that he did with Habitat for Humanity, Absolutely, 103 00:06:27,079 --> 00:06:28,800 that was some good stuff. But if you're going to 104 00:06:28,879 --> 00:06:31,759 talk about the work that he did on a global stage, no, 105 00:06:32,519 --> 00:06:35,519 I just I ran through the examples. The guy went 106 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,279 to the Soviet Union, he went to the ambassador for 107 00:06:39,319 --> 00:06:42,519 the Soviet Union and tried to get them to help 108 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,959 defeat Ronald Reagan during his re election. And I don't 109 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,160 care how much you may hate Reagan. And that really 110 00:06:48,199 --> 00:06:52,120 is the thing that bonded Gerald Ford with Jimmy Carter 111 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:55,120 was their hatred of Ronald Reagan. They both hated Reagan 112 00:06:55,199 --> 00:06:57,680 because they both saw Reagan as the reason why they 113 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,399 had lost, because Reagan ran against Ford, but Reagan lost Afford. 114 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,879 But then he came roaring back and beat Carter. Right, 115 00:07:03,959 --> 00:07:05,639 so they both did like Rag. 116 00:07:07,399 --> 00:07:11,319 Speaker 6: I agree with that. But whenever back, whenever the at 117 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,600 the hostages were taken, I was, I was, I was 118 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,639 a marine, and I know that when they were taken, 119 00:07:18,759 --> 00:07:23,480 we had a marine landing force that was that was 120 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,120 less than an hour away from the embassy, and they 121 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,240 were all geared up to go help that embassy. And 122 00:07:30,319 --> 00:07:31,519 Carter called him off. 123 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: That would not surprise me. 124 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,759 Speaker 6: And so from that point on, you know, you know, 125 00:07:39,639 --> 00:07:42,639 in my opinion, you know, his presidency was the worst. 126 00:07:42,759 --> 00:07:45,720 I mean, marginally worse than our current commander in chair. 127 00:07:45,879 --> 00:07:48,519 Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, well that's saying something. If you say 128 00:07:48,639 --> 00:07:52,959 he's worse than Biden, well I say, I. 129 00:07:52,959 --> 00:07:56,759 Speaker 6: Say marginally worse because Carter knew what he was doing. 130 00:07:57,199 --> 00:08:00,639 Speaker 1: Ah yeah, No, that's fair I got Thank you, Steve. 131 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,279 I appreciate the call. That's fair because Carter was sentient. 132 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,399 That makes sense. I'll give it to you now. I 133 00:08:07,399 --> 00:08:11,920 will say, just in my lifetime, while technically I was alive, 134 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,079 while Carter was president, I was not paying attention to 135 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:20,120 any of that. I was a toddler. So I don't 136 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:25,160 remember anything about the Carter presidency really, except like the 137 00:08:25,199 --> 00:08:30,959 burnt Siena and avocado green fashion that somehow or another 138 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,159 puked itself all over our interior. But other than that, 139 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,279 and I don't really blame Carter for that, but I could, 140 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:39,279 but I won't, but I'm not going to. I'm a 141 00:08:39,279 --> 00:08:46,320 bigger person. Speaking of terrible presidents, have you seen the 142 00:08:46,399 --> 00:08:50,120 fires out in California? It kind of seems a fitting 143 00:08:50,159 --> 00:08:54,200 way for Joe Biden's presidency to come to a conclusion. 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Hello, Alex, Hi, 168 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:18,000 how are you doing. 169 00:10:18,039 --> 00:10:20,639 Speaker 7: Hey, I'm well, I just want to say I have 170 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:23,120 two people to thank for my becoming a straight ticket 171 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,559 Republican voter, Rush Limbaugh and Jimmy Carter. 172 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,399 Speaker 1: That makes sense, And I think Joe Biden is going 173 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,120 to have much of the same impact on a lot 174 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:38,440 of people going forward now too. And I think this 175 00:10:38,639 --> 00:10:43,000 Karen Bass lady out of Los Angeles and Gavin Newsom 176 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,919 might very well have some sort of an impact in 177 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,120 the same way on a lot of Democrats in California. 178 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess it takes a script like that that 179 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:52,360 wows people up, you know. 180 00:10:52,759 --> 00:10:57,159 Speaker 1: H Yeah, I got you, Alex. I appreciate the call. 181 00:10:57,759 --> 00:11:00,279 Next up here is Greg. Hello, Greg, Well to the 182 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:01,759 shoe ape. 183 00:11:02,039 --> 00:11:06,559 Speaker 8: Hey, the oil embargo was nineteen seventy four, Okay, I 184 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:10,080 think that was Ford and. 185 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,519 Speaker 1: In seventy four, well, that may have been Nixon first though. 186 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 9: But yeah, and okay, but that's when you you can 187 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,879 only it was, you know, A or B on your 188 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:24,039 tag was who could get gas? And after that there 189 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:29,039 was no gas rationing after like seventy six. So I'm 190 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:33,919 not that I support anything that Carter. Did you know 191 00:11:34,399 --> 00:11:36,399 no one loves fourteen inflation. 192 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, but you cannot say that it was Jimmy Carter's 193 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,639 fault for the for the oil problems. 194 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,159 Speaker 8: I don't think so, because it was nineteen seventy four 195 00:11:46,279 --> 00:11:48,879 was the oil embargo. You can still see these old 196 00:11:48,919 --> 00:11:52,799 gas stations around that they've turned into convenience stores and 197 00:11:52,799 --> 00:11:59,480 stuff that independent gas gas stations had they couldn't get 198 00:11:59,519 --> 00:12:04,360 gas any more seventy four, and I remember waiting in mind. 199 00:12:05,519 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, now now they are fuel pizzas. All right, Greg, 200 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,120 I appreciate the NFL. Thank you, sir. Let me go 201 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,840 over to Jim. Hello, Jim, Welcome to the show. 202 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:20,039 Speaker 3: Yes, okay, I was back during Jimmy Carter's time. I 203 00:12:20,159 --> 00:12:22,360 was working with the company, had been working with them 204 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:27,840 for quite a while, and they had built several stages 205 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,679 of the building that they were in up and coming 206 00:12:30,759 --> 00:12:34,840 company did the New York sales office for them, and 207 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,639 turned right around. They bought the property that they started 208 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:43,879 off with, leasing it here in Gastonia, and then they 209 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:48,759 turned around and they signed alone prime plus three and 210 00:12:48,879 --> 00:12:52,919 during Jimmy Carter's tenure, the interest rate ran up. Prime 211 00:12:53,039 --> 00:12:56,320 rate went up to twenty one percent and it just 212 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:02,440 killed this company, and that happened all across the board. Now, 213 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:06,120 I have to admit he's a good Christian guy and everything, 214 00:13:06,159 --> 00:13:08,360 but I don't know that he had a real thing 215 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:15,600 about the realities of life and what went on. He 216 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:19,639 did a great thing by having Habitat and getting that started. 217 00:13:20,519 --> 00:13:24,639 I've been involved in that in the past. So there's 218 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,039 a lot of good things that he did before there 219 00:13:27,039 --> 00:13:28,600 were some things that were crushing. 220 00:13:28,799 --> 00:13:34,799 Speaker 1: Yeah. No, And look, this is the same for all people, right, Yes, 221 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,960 all people have things about them that are good and 222 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,519 that are not so good. And I'm fine with highlighting 223 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:46,840 people's achievements and the good and you know, how they 224 00:13:46,879 --> 00:13:50,159 lived their lives and their faith. I'm fine with all 225 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:54,360 of that. What I don't like is getting a campaign 226 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:57,759 stump speech as if he's running for president again. And 227 00:13:57,799 --> 00:13:59,720 I understand why they do it. It's to you know, 228 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,879 it's to calcify the legacy and to let everybody know 229 00:14:02,919 --> 00:14:05,799 that this guy was actually, you know, really awesome and 230 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:07,960 we just didn't know it. I understand why they did it. 231 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:09,120 I just don't appreciate it. 232 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't appreciate that either. Yeah, I know who 233 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,320 he is. I know what he was. I know both 234 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:16,120 sides of it. 235 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I got you, Jim. I appreciate the call, sir, 236 00:14:18,879 --> 00:14:22,600 because what is it except an example of it's a 237 00:14:22,639 --> 00:14:28,240 form of gaslighting for the people who lived through that time. 238 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:35,720 The eulogies were a form of gaslighting them that you 239 00:14:35,759 --> 00:14:39,440 didn't really experience these things, that he was actually better 240 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:41,919 and did so much of the awesome stuff, and you 241 00:14:41,919 --> 00:14:44,799 know you just didn't know it or didn't appreciate it. 242 00:14:45,159 --> 00:14:49,559 Now the truth can be told or something. So yeah, 243 00:14:49,559 --> 00:14:52,879 it's just a rewrite of the record, I think. And 244 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,120 again I know why they did it. I am just 245 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:01,519 here to offer some other perspective on it, to see 246 00:15:01,559 --> 00:15:04,600 the different angles, if you will. All right, I hope 247 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,159 you had a happy holiday season. But tell me if 248 00:15:07,159 --> 00:15:09,879 something like this happened at your house. Your family and 249 00:15:09,879 --> 00:15:12,519 friends are gathered around, maybe y'all are in the living room, 250 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:17,200 You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, and then somebody says, hey, Dad, 251 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,840 remember those old VHS tapes? Did you ever get them transferred? 252 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,919 And then the room gets all quiet. All eyes are 253 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,720 on Dad, who says, oh, you know, well, I've been 254 00:15:26,759 --> 00:15:29,600 meaning to but I just having gotten around to it. Look, 255 00:15:29,679 --> 00:15:32,879 don't let those priceless memories sit in a box for 256 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,720 another year. All right. 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Got 267 00:16:09,879 --> 00:16:15,360 a message on Twitter formerly known as X from Melissa. 268 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,200 It's a Pete tweet, she says, a mini well Stone 269 00:16:18,279 --> 00:16:21,159 memorial it was. Had this been before election day, there 270 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,559 probably would have been a marching band in cheerleaders at 271 00:16:23,559 --> 00:16:27,799 the church. During the Carter years, at a local savings bank, 272 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,759 people were bringing in stacks of savings bonds to convert 273 00:16:31,799 --> 00:16:36,000 to CDs Because interest rates were so high, the bank 274 00:16:36,039 --> 00:16:39,399 had an offer for go the first year of interest 275 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:45,080 in exchange for a compact car or small boat. I 276 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:48,840 kid you not, Now that is a deal right there. 277 00:16:49,039 --> 00:16:52,039 Like that's the thing too, like back in the day, 278 00:16:53,679 --> 00:16:56,840 like you just you wouldn't be able. You just wouldn't 279 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:58,399 be able to buy it. Like if you wanted to 280 00:16:58,399 --> 00:17:00,679 buy something and you wanted to get an extension of 281 00:17:00,759 --> 00:17:02,799 like a line of credit from the bank or something 282 00:17:02,799 --> 00:17:06,720 to buy I don't know, a washer or dryer or something. Nope, 283 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:09,279 you didn't get it. And that means you didn't buy 284 00:17:09,279 --> 00:17:11,559 the washer dryer. You had to keep saving your money, 285 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:18,960 like Russ says, No Pete, all Carter's policies were brilliant. 286 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:22,240 The people just couldn't realize it at the time. He 287 00:17:22,279 --> 00:17:24,680 didn't break energy in the economy and set up a 288 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,960 lot of dominoes for Middle East instability and Islamic terrorism. 289 00:17:29,079 --> 00:17:31,799 Wait a minute, isn't this exactly what the Biden administration 290 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:33,880 and media but I repeat myself, are telling us about 291 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:35,400 Biden's failed presidency. 292 00:17:35,759 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 10: It is. 293 00:17:36,039 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 1: Indeed, there are so many similarities. And we got up 294 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:46,000 next here is I guess Susan, Hello, Susan, welcome to 295 00:17:46,039 --> 00:17:46,559 the program. 296 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 4: Heybe hello. 297 00:17:49,319 --> 00:17:54,039 Speaker 11: The one thing that I remember about the Carter presidency. 298 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:59,839 Was he wanted to give everyone in America five hundred 299 00:18:00,839 --> 00:18:03,480 and even his own party turned against him. 300 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,599 Speaker 1: Did he wait? But did he? Did he throw in 301 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:11,079 a chicken in every pot, because like that might have 302 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:11,880 sealed the deal. 303 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,039 Speaker 11: I think you're right, you're onto it. 304 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:17,759 Speaker 1: Yeah, Susan, I appreciate the call. And what's funny though, 305 00:18:17,799 --> 00:18:20,079 is that people still like Joe Biden did that with 306 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:26,240 the student loan bailouts. Right, same kind of promise buying votes. Right, 307 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:31,000 Let's go talk with Ray. Hello, Ray, Hello Pete? 308 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:31,640 Speaker 10: How are you hey? 309 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,880 Speaker 1: I'm well, How are you good? 310 00:18:34,039 --> 00:18:37,160 Speaker 10: Uh? I've just had a well. The first time I 311 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,039 ever voted was in not well when I was twenty three. 312 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:44,279 I think in nineteen seventy six, I voted for Carter, 313 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,759 and I haven't voted for a Democrat of any strike 314 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:51,799 ever since. But uh, what's going to say? I had 315 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,599 like an aha moment this morning that probably hasn't just 316 00:18:55,680 --> 00:19:01,279 occurred to me. It may have, but we know Trump 317 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,079 was more popular in this last election than he was 318 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:12,240 the one before, and made inroads into blue areas pretty heavily, 319 00:19:12,279 --> 00:19:16,759 I think, if I understand it correctly, But he won 320 00:19:16,839 --> 00:19:22,319 those areas he won those areas better than he did 321 00:19:22,319 --> 00:19:28,519 in twenty sixteen. And the kicker is he won those 322 00:19:28,599 --> 00:19:36,000 areas in places that were less had less conservatives, because 323 00:19:36,079 --> 00:19:39,359 conservatives had about four years to move out of those areas. 324 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:44,680 So he made bigger inroads than we might believe or realize. 325 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:50,759 Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people flipping from Democrat to Republican. 326 00:19:52,279 --> 00:19:54,039 That would be Yeah, there would be a greater shift. 327 00:19:54,079 --> 00:19:55,920 I understand what you're saying. There's a greater shift than 328 00:19:55,960 --> 00:20:01,000 the data would might on its face indicate, because if 329 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,160 you've got Republicans that have already moved out, you'd have 330 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,200 to look at the proportions. But no, it's a fair 331 00:20:05,839 --> 00:20:08,319 I think it's a fair observation. I don't know how 332 00:20:08,319 --> 00:20:10,400 true it is in every single jurisdiction, but yeah, I 333 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,480 think you may be onto something there. Let me see here, 334 00:20:14,559 --> 00:20:17,359 Chip says, Oh, and to that point, wait until I 335 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,680 saw Adam Carolla's podcast he was doing. Adam Carolla lives 336 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:24,599 out in California, and he had actually applied. He testified 337 00:20:24,599 --> 00:20:26,680 in front of Congress a while back, and he talked 338 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:31,039 about how he had gone to apply to be a firefighter, 339 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:35,559 and they said to him, thanks for your application. The 340 00:20:35,599 --> 00:20:37,440 wait list because you're a white dude, is going to 341 00:20:37,519 --> 00:20:40,200 be seven years. And so he went to work in 342 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,440 construction and so he was a construction worker for seven years. 343 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,559 And then he gets a letter and they're like, hey, 344 00:20:45,599 --> 00:20:47,920 you can come back. It's your time. So he shows up. 345 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:51,319 He's standing in line. He said this to Congress and 346 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:54,000 he said. There's a woman standing behind him and he 347 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:58,319 asks her, Hey, how long We just had a curiosity. 348 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:03,599 How long ago did you apply? And she said wednesday. 349 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,599 And now these people in California that have just been 350 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:15,680 traumatized by the wildfires and devastated, they've lost everything. They're 351 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,200 now going to have to rebuild, and they are now 352 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:22,920 going to get the government that they voted for good 353 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,839 and hard. They are gonna have to go through the permitting, 354 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,559 the regulations, all of that stuff. They're gonna have to 355 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:32,279 go through all of this red tape. And as Corolla said, 356 00:21:32,319 --> 00:21:36,240 the guys camping out in the RVs, they're gonna be 357 00:21:36,319 --> 00:21:41,519 there like next week. They're gonna be part at these 358 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,200 places next week. And you're not gonna be able to 359 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,920 get back into your home, a new built home. You're 360 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:48,759 not gonna be able to get back in for like 361 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,920 four years. That's how long it's gonna take you because 362 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:56,799 of that, and that's going to radicalize people, much like 363 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:01,720 Jimmy Carter helped usher in Reagan, Biden Bass, mayor Bass 364 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:09,920 of La Newsom right. Nothing radicalizes people towards conservatism better 365 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:15,680 than Democrat policies in action and the failures of Democrat 366 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:22,279 uniparty control over at Bloomberg, I mentioned this earlier, so 367 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:26,119 let me pay it off. Flavia Kraus Jackson, writing at 368 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,680 Bloomberg dot Com, says America is burning in the dying 369 00:22:29,799 --> 00:22:33,920 days of Joe Biden's presidency. The symbolism is inescapable. As 370 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,160 wildfires rage across Los Angeles, engulfing the homes of the 371 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,400 rich and famous. The wins are also fanning the flames 372 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,839 of political polarization. Even in the face of a national tragedy, 373 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,920 Republicans and Democrats are at odds. President elect Donald Trump 374 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,400 blamed Governor Gavin Newsom for mismanaging water supplies because he 375 00:22:53,519 --> 00:22:59,400 warned you. Trump warned you for like six years. You 376 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,720 guys got to do better management of your resources and 377 00:23:02,759 --> 00:23:06,720 fire protection. Days from his swearing in, Trump is already 378 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,920 taking a scorched earth approach to his second term, threatening 379 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,880 US neighbors with tariffs, setting impossible targets for NATO partners, 380 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,680 even holding out the possibility of military action to seize 381 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,960 Greenland and the Panama Canal. At home, the California blaze 382 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,599 is yet another reminder that climate change doesn't distinguish between 383 00:23:24,599 --> 00:23:26,759 the haves and haves on. This is not a climate 384 00:23:26,839 --> 00:23:34,359 change event. This is Democrat misprioritization, maladministration, and mismanagement. That's 385 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:39,440 what this is. But always remember journalisming rule number two. 386 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,319 When the scandal is about a Republican, the story is 387 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:47,839 the scandal, And when a scandal involves a Democrat, the 388 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:52,880 story is the Republican reaction to the scale. Right, it's 389 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,480 what are the Republicans saying in reaction to and now 390 00:23:55,519 --> 00:23:58,400 they're getting that that's the focus of the story now 391 00:23:58,599 --> 00:24:03,599 is ooh, picks, they're criticizing the Democrats. How dare they 392 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,720 rather than you know, I don't know the utter failure 393 00:24:08,079 --> 00:24:12,839 of Democrats at the state, local, and national level in 394 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:17,319 California in these wildfires. Oh and also western North Carolina too. 395 00:24:17,839 --> 00:24:19,640 All right, if you're listening to this show, you know, 396 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,359 I try to keep up with all sorts of current 397 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,599 events and I know you do too, and you've probably 398 00:24:23,599 --> 00:24:27,880 heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, 399 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,640 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 400 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,839 I've been so impressed with ground News. 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I mean, 422 00:25:48,599 --> 00:25:54,920 good song, but still yeah, I made the exact same 423 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:59,720 comment when we were watching and Garth Brooks got up there, 424 00:26:00,039 --> 00:26:02,799 and why on earth did he not let Tricia Yearwood 425 00:26:02,839 --> 00:26:06,839 sing that song? His voice is shot. I was not 426 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,680 aware of that. He did not do a good job 427 00:26:09,759 --> 00:26:13,880 with that. And I'm not a Garth hater. Okay, that 428 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,119 does sound like Darth Vader, but I didn't mean that, 429 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,440 but it like, But I mean, I do mean that. 430 00:26:18,519 --> 00:26:21,799 I'm not a Garth hater. He's okay. I like some 431 00:26:21,839 --> 00:26:24,640 of his songs. In fact, I want a karaoke contest 432 00:26:24,839 --> 00:26:29,440 singing friends in low places. All that aside, his voice 433 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,480 was not good in this performance, first of all, and 434 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,799 second of all, the very first line of his song 435 00:26:33,839 --> 00:26:37,759 he's singing in a church at a you know, allegedly 436 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:42,839 really really devout baptist's funeral, and the first line is 437 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:47,640 imagine no religion, Imagine no Heaven? Like what wait, what 438 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:49,920 you guys are talking that he's in heaven. You guys 439 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,960 are talking about him seeing Rosalind again in all this 440 00:26:54,880 --> 00:27:01,200 Why what? Oh, he's an enigma. Let me get Steve 441 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,240 on real quick. Steve, I have about thirty seconds or 442 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:04,599 so for you, but it's all yours. 443 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 12: It's quick. I'll over daring those gas era And I 444 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,759 don't know if people mentioned this before, but the gas 445 00:27:11,759 --> 00:27:14,119 pumps didn't go over ninety nine cent, and it was 446 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,640 so confused everybody because they had to start selling gas 447 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,680 at a half a gallon and some of the stations 448 00:27:19,319 --> 00:27:22,279 sold gas by the leader and you could buy it 449 00:27:22,319 --> 00:27:24,960 on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays and you only had you 450 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,279 had to look at the pumps had to go to 451 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,680 ninety nine per cent, and so they had to get 452 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,039 all their pumps updated. But I don't know. You're right 453 00:27:31,039 --> 00:27:33,279 about the gas lighting. There's a lot of gas lighting 454 00:27:33,319 --> 00:27:34,079 going on right now. 455 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, now, I hear you, Steve. I appreciate the call. 456 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,160 I have heard that too. When the original gas pumps 457 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,480 were put in, they never contemplated gas going above a 458 00:27:42,519 --> 00:27:45,079 dollar a gallon, and so they only made like ninety 459 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,480 nine and a half cents or something. All right, that'll 460 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,119 do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 461 00:27:50,279 --> 00:27:52,400 I could not do the show without your support and 462 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,160 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, 463 00:27:55,519 --> 00:27:57,599 so if you'd like, please support them too and tell 464 00:27:57,599 --> 00:27:59,319 them you heard it here. 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