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your support. Yes, our show was preempted just to smidge
by the conclusion there of the Jimmy Carter funeral that
we broadcast live. Look, it is a historical moment, so
you know, that's what we do at WBT. I know
people weren't happy about the coverage. I have seen the
ones of emails and messages, and I get it. You
didn't like Carter. I didn't like Carter either, but he
was still the president, still a big deal. And also
Donald Trump and Barack Obama sat next to each other
and actually, we're cracking jokes with each other. You could
see them laughing. They were they were chit chatting and laughing.
So which is weird for Obama to be to be
cracking jokes with Hitler. I don't understand, but okay. Message
from Bill who says today was a unique opportunity for
us to distinguish the difference between a failed presidency and
a presidential failure. I'm glad Carter lived long enough to
see it too. Dennis says, the main thing I remember
about Carter's presidency was the gas lines at the service stations,
the rationing of gas right, odd, even, odd even right,
So on odd days, odd number days, if you had
a license plate that had an odd or that was
the last number or began with an odd number, then
you would go get gas on those days. And if
you had an even number license plate, you would go
to get your gas on the even days. Motoring was
almost a motoring was almost a war zone, getting locks
for your gas caps. And then there was the Iran
hostage crisis. Yes, ty a yellow ribbon, right, and don't
forget Billy beer promoted by Jimmy's brother. It went well
with all those Carter pe nuts. Now, yeah, this is
the thing. The ret conning is what is what drives
me nuts. It's this the retroactive you know, hay geography
that is being written about Carter now and I understand
it's the funeral. People say nice things at the funeral,
right hopefully, And that is really like, you should live
a life where people will say nice things about you
at the funeral. What I detect is going to a
funeral or paying respects to a guy and having to
listen to stump speeches for a man who was blown
out of office and being told.
Speaker 2: That actually he really did all of these fantastic things
and we just didn't know it, right, We just all
finally caught up to Jimmy Carter's visionary success or something.
Speaker 1: All right, let me go over and talk to David. Hello, David,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Hey, good afternoon.
Speaker 1: Hey what's up.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, Dennis kind of stole my thunder because
here I am a high school kid in the late seventies.
I've got a hopped up Pontiac and you can only
buy ten gallons of gas, and I think I might
have gotten maybe ten miles to the gallon. And I
can remember standing in line pushing my car because it
burned too much gas in their idling, pushing it to
the gas pop to buy my gallons.
Speaker 1: Oh, I believe it. Yeah, people had to, you know,
not go to the grocery store. Right, They had to
you know, coordinate with their working spouse or non working
spouse whatever to make sure that they had the vehicles
so they could get to work and get to the
school and do their their daily activities and the like,
and or and how about remember when he was trying
to tell people that it's okay to set your thermostat
at a lower temperature to save the oil. Just wear
more sweaters, memory, put on the put on the card
again or whatever, and like this was like this was
the policy, this is what they were recommending people. And
then he had the briefcase. He was like, I'm working
hard to fix the economy. He's running around with the
briefcase it to show it's a prop, right, to show
everybody that he's working. And then like some big breeze
comes along and and it like pulls the briefcase open and.
Speaker 5: There's nothing in it and nothing in it, right, yeah,
And I can't remember my daddy, my daddy yelling at
the TV, yelling damn communists.
Speaker 1: All right, David, I appreciate the call. Thank you, Sarah.
Let me go over and get Steve on. Hello Steve,
Hello Steve.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Hi, Hey, I'm seventy. I'm seventy years old. And uh,
in my opinion, you know, I think Jimmy Covery had
a fantastic post presidency. He did he did so much. Uh,
it was incredible as a press which.
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait, what was the what wait? What did
he do that was incredible in his post presidency besides
the Habitat for.
Speaker 6: Humanity, all of these things and the things that he
did try to try to facilitate Uh uh people people
around the world, have you heaving having put civil rights
and and and able them to have a moniican of
of what the United States is.
Speaker 1: He piled around, he cozied up, He cozied up to
communists and is lomists. Well, I just I disagree that
his post presidency is something that should be applauded. I
do recognize the work that he did with Habitat for Humanity, Absolutely,
that was some good stuff. But if you're going to
talk about the work that he did on a global stage, no,
I just I ran through the examples. The guy went
to the Soviet Union, he went to the ambassador for
the Soviet Union and tried to get them to help
defeat Ronald Reagan during his re election. And I don't
care how much you may hate Reagan. And that really
is the thing that bonded Gerald Ford with Jimmy Carter
was their hatred of Ronald Reagan. They both hated Reagan
because they both saw Reagan as the reason why they
had lost, because Reagan ran against Ford, but Reagan lost Afford.
But then he came roaring back and beat Carter. Right,
so they both did like Rag.
Speaker 6: I agree with that. But whenever back, whenever the at
the hostages were taken, I was, I was, I was
a marine, and I know that when they were taken,
we had a marine landing force that was that was
less than an hour away from the embassy, and they
were all geared up to go help that embassy. And
Carter called him off.
Speaker 1: That would not surprise me.
Speaker 6: And so from that point on, you know, you know,
in my opinion, you know, his presidency was the worst.
I mean, marginally worse than our current commander in chair.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, well that's saying something. If you say
he's worse than Biden, well I say, I.
Speaker 6: Say marginally worse because Carter knew what he was doing.
Speaker 1: Ah yeah, No, that's fair I got Thank you, Steve.
I appreciate the call. That's fair because Carter was sentient.
That makes sense. I'll give it to you now. I
will say, just in my lifetime, while technically I was alive,
while Carter was president, I was not paying attention to
any of that. I was a toddler. So I don't
remember anything about the Carter presidency really, except like the
burnt Siena and avocado green fashion that somehow or another
puked itself all over our interior. But other than that,
and I don't really blame Carter for that, but I could,
but I won't, but I'm not going to. I'm a
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Let's go over and talk with Alex. Hello, Alex, Hi,
how are you doing.
Speaker 7: Hey, I'm well, I just want to say I have
two people to thank for my becoming a straight ticket
Republican voter, Rush Limbaugh and Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 1: That makes sense, And I think Joe Biden is going
to have much of the same impact on a lot
of people going forward now too. And I think this
Karen Bass lady out of Los Angeles and Gavin Newsom
might very well have some sort of an impact in
the same way on a lot of Democrats in California.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess it takes a script like that that
wows people up, you know.
Speaker 1: H Yeah, I got you, Alex. I appreciate the call.
Next up here is Greg. Hello, Greg, Well to the
shoe ape.
Speaker 8: Hey, the oil embargo was nineteen seventy four, Okay, I
think that was Ford and.
Speaker 1: In seventy four, well, that may have been Nixon first though.
Speaker 9: But yeah, and okay, but that's when you you can
only it was, you know, A or B on your
tag was who could get gas? And after that there
was no gas rationing after like seventy six. So I'm
not that I support anything that Carter. Did you know
no one loves fourteen inflation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you cannot say that it was Jimmy Carter's
fault for the for the oil problems.
Speaker 8: I don't think so, because it was nineteen seventy four
was the oil embargo. You can still see these old
gas stations around that they've turned into convenience stores and
stuff that independent gas gas stations had they couldn't get
gas any more seventy four, and I remember waiting in mind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now now they are fuel pizzas. All right, Greg,
I appreciate the NFL. Thank you, sir. Let me go
over to Jim. Hello, Jim, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, I was back during Jimmy Carter's time. I
was working with the company, had been working with them
for quite a while, and they had built several stages
of the building that they were in up and coming
company did the New York sales office for them, and
turned right around. They bought the property that they started
off with, leasing it here in Gastonia, and then they
turned around and they signed alone prime plus three and
during Jimmy Carter's tenure, the interest rate ran up. Prime
rate went up to twenty one percent and it just
killed this company, and that happened all across the board. Now,
I have to admit he's a good Christian guy and everything,
but I don't know that he had a real thing
about the realities of life and what went on. He
did a great thing by having Habitat and getting that started.
I've been involved in that in the past. So there's
a lot of good things that he did before there
were some things that were crushing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, And look, this is the same for all people, right, Yes,
all people have things about them that are good and
that are not so good. And I'm fine with highlighting
people's achievements and the good and you know, how they
lived their lives and their faith. I'm fine with all
of that. What I don't like is getting a campaign
stump speech as if he's running for president again. And
I understand why they do it. It's to you know,
it's to calcify the legacy and to let everybody know
that this guy was actually, you know, really awesome and
we just didn't know it. I understand why they did it.
I just don't appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't appreciate that either. Yeah, I know who
he is. I know what he was. I know both
sides of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I got you, Jim. I appreciate the call, sir,
because what is it except an example of it's a
form of gaslighting for the people who lived through that time.
The eulogies were a form of gaslighting them that you
didn't really experience these things, that he was actually better
and did so much of the awesome stuff, and you
know you just didn't know it or didn't appreciate it.
Now the truth can be told or something. So yeah,
it's just a rewrite of the record, I think. And
again I know why they did it. I am just
here to offer some other perspective on it, to see
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a message on Twitter formerly known as X from Melissa.
It's a Pete tweet, she says, a mini well Stone
memorial it was. Had this been before election day, there
probably would have been a marching band in cheerleaders at
the church. During the Carter years, at a local savings bank,
people were bringing in stacks of savings bonds to convert
to CDs Because interest rates were so high, the bank
had an offer for go the first year of interest
in exchange for a compact car or small boat. I
kid you not, Now that is a deal right there.
Like that's the thing too, like back in the day,
like you just you wouldn't be able. You just wouldn't
be able to buy it. Like if you wanted to
buy something and you wanted to get an extension of
like a line of credit from the bank or something
to buy I don't know, a washer or dryer or something. Nope,
you didn't get it. And that means you didn't buy
the washer dryer. You had to keep saving your money,
like Russ says, No Pete, all Carter's policies were brilliant.
The people just couldn't realize it at the time. He
didn't break energy in the economy and set up a
lot of dominoes for Middle East instability and Islamic terrorism.
Wait a minute, isn't this exactly what the Biden administration
and media but I repeat myself, are telling us about
Biden's failed presidency.
Speaker 10: It is.
Speaker 1: Indeed, there are so many similarities. And we got up
next here is I guess Susan, Hello, Susan, welcome to
the program.
Speaker 4: Heybe hello.
Speaker 11: The one thing that I remember about the Carter presidency.
Was he wanted to give everyone in America five hundred
and even his own party turned against him.
Speaker 1: Did he wait? But did he? Did he throw in
a chicken in every pot, because like that might have
sealed the deal.
Speaker 11: I think you're right, you're onto it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Susan, I appreciate the call. And what's funny though,
is that people still like Joe Biden did that with
the student loan bailouts. Right, same kind of promise buying votes. Right,
Let's go talk with Ray. Hello, Ray, Hello Pete?
Speaker 10: How are you hey?
Speaker 1: I'm well, How are you good?
Speaker 10: Uh? I've just had a well. The first time I
ever voted was in not well when I was twenty three.
I think in nineteen seventy six, I voted for Carter,
and I haven't voted for a Democrat of any strike
ever since. But uh, what's going to say? I had
like an aha moment this morning that probably hasn't just
occurred to me. It may have, but we know Trump
was more popular in this last election than he was
the one before, and made inroads into blue areas pretty heavily,
I think, if I understand it correctly, But he won
those areas he won those areas better than he did
in twenty sixteen. And the kicker is he won those
areas in places that were less had less conservatives, because
conservatives had about four years to move out of those areas.
So he made bigger inroads than we might believe or realize.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people flipping from Democrat to Republican.
That would be Yeah, there would be a greater shift.
I understand what you're saying. There's a greater shift than
the data would might on its face indicate, because if
you've got Republicans that have already moved out, you'd have
to look at the proportions. But no, it's a fair
I think it's a fair observation. I don't know how
true it is in every single jurisdiction, but yeah, I
think you may be onto something there. Let me see here,
Chip says, Oh, and to that point, wait until I
saw Adam Carolla's podcast he was doing. Adam Carolla lives
out in California, and he had actually applied. He testified
in front of Congress a while back, and he talked
about how he had gone to apply to be a firefighter,
and they said to him, thanks for your application. The
wait list because you're a white dude, is going to
be seven years. And so he went to work in
construction and so he was a construction worker for seven years.
And then he gets a letter and they're like, hey,
you can come back. It's your time. So he shows up.
He's standing in line. He said this to Congress and
he said. There's a woman standing behind him and he
asks her, Hey, how long We just had a curiosity.
How long ago did you apply? And she said wednesday.
And now these people in California that have just been
traumatized by the wildfires and devastated, they've lost everything. They're
now going to have to rebuild, and they are now
going to get the government that they voted for good
and hard. They are gonna have to go through the permitting,
the regulations, all of that stuff. They're gonna have to
go through all of this red tape. And as Corolla said,
the guys camping out in the RVs, they're gonna be
there like next week. They're gonna be part at these
places next week. And you're not gonna be able to
get back into your home, a new built home. You're
not gonna be able to get back in for like
four years. That's how long it's gonna take you because
of that, and that's going to radicalize people, much like
Jimmy Carter helped usher in Reagan, Biden Bass, mayor Bass
of La Newsom right. Nothing radicalizes people towards conservatism better
than Democrat policies in action and the failures of Democrat
uniparty control over at Bloomberg, I mentioned this earlier, so
let me pay it off. Flavia Kraus Jackson, writing at
Bloomberg dot Com, says America is burning in the dying
days of Joe Biden's presidency. The symbolism is inescapable. As
wildfires rage across Los Angeles, engulfing the homes of the
rich and famous. The wins are also fanning the flames
of political polarization. Even in the face of a national tragedy,
Republicans and Democrats are at odds. President elect Donald Trump
blamed Governor Gavin Newsom for mismanaging water supplies because he
warned you. Trump warned you for like six years. You
guys got to do better management of your resources and
fire protection. Days from his swearing in, Trump is already
taking a scorched earth approach to his second term, threatening
US neighbors with tariffs, setting impossible targets for NATO partners,
even holding out the possibility of military action to seize
Greenland and the Panama Canal. At home, the California blaze
is yet another reminder that climate change doesn't distinguish between
the haves and haves on. This is not a climate
change event. This is Democrat misprioritization, maladministration, and mismanagement. That's
what this is. But always remember journalisming rule number two.
When the scandal is about a Republican, the story is
the scandal, And when a scandal involves a Democrat, the
story is the Republican reaction to the scale. Right, it's
what are the Republicans saying in reaction to and now
they're getting that that's the focus of the story now
is ooh, picks, they're criticizing the Democrats. How dare they
rather than you know, I don't know the utter failure
of Democrats at the state, local, and national level in
California in these wildfires. Oh and also western North Carolina too.
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is Pete at the Pete calendarshow dot com and on
Twitter at Pete Calener. I got a tweet here or
a message from mamaituted who says, I'm confused. Why did
they perform Imagine at both Jimmy Carter and his wife's
funeral for being as religious and Christian as they were
promoted to be. That song is far from it. I mean,
good song, but still yeah, I made the exact same
comment when we were watching and Garth Brooks got up there,
and why on earth did he not let Tricia Yearwood
sing that song? His voice is shot. I was not
aware of that. He did not do a good job
with that. And I'm not a Garth hater. Okay, that
does sound like Darth Vader, but I didn't mean that,
but it like, But I mean, I do mean that.
I'm not a Garth hater. He's okay. I like some
of his songs. In fact, I want a karaoke contest
singing friends in low places. All that aside, his voice
was not good in this performance, first of all, and
second of all, the very first line of his song
he's singing in a church at a you know, allegedly
really really devout baptist's funeral, and the first line is
imagine no religion, Imagine no Heaven? Like what wait, what
you guys are talking that he's in heaven. You guys
are talking about him seeing Rosalind again in all this
Why what? Oh, he's an enigma. Let me get Steve
on real quick. Steve, I have about thirty seconds or
so for you, but it's all yours.
Speaker 12: It's quick. I'll over daring those gas era And I
don't know if people mentioned this before, but the gas
pumps didn't go over ninety nine cent, and it was
so confused everybody because they had to start selling gas
at a half a gallon and some of the stations
sold gas by the leader and you could buy it
on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays and you only had you
had to look at the pumps had to go to
ninety nine per cent, and so they had to get
all their pumps updated. But I don't know. You're right
about the gas lighting. There's a lot of gas lighting
going on right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now, I hear you, Steve. I appreciate the call.
I have heard that too. When the original gas pumps
were put in, they never contemplated gas going above a
dollar a gallon, and so they only made like ninety
nine and a half cents or something. All right, that'll
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