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Obviously there's gonna be Senate confirmation for some of these folks. Yes, I'm aware the Republicans are going to control that, but you get a you know, you get like a gotta Ran Paul and uh, maybe one or two other people, and a lot of influence can be flexed. Mansion might even play into that, so uh, we'll get there. But the one that is obviously the big one is who

it who Trump wants for Secretary of State. And I'm just curious how you're all feeling about that, Lil Marco and I I know this is going to irritate some of you, Okay, and that's that's fine. We're going to be adults and we can go and have that conversation. This isn't me judging whether I think Marco. I'll give you my opinion on it, but but I just when I set this up, whether Marco Rubio is going to

be a good fit as Secretary of State. It's the oppo, right, So anyone who is out dealing on the world stage on behalf of the United States. And it doesn't matter whether you serve in a consulate somewhere, if you have a governmental facing position meaning you and probably even if you don't. Going back to the sheer dossiers that we

saw that even in Africa. Al Shabab remember when we like we went in and rated their headquarters there in Somalia and they found business records that literally look like the HR department where you work. They'd be like, ah, Muhammad didn't seem very excited to blow himself up. We'll talk about that in his next review. Of course that's not coming right. It was just it was If it wasn't so damn serious, it would have been funny. All right, It's a little funny because they just because there was

also like HR conflict resolution. I want you to think about that. This is one of my favorite stories I ever did. I don't have it all in front of me, but I remember deep diving it for a whole show. Like in the same way that you have a petty squabble and you take it to your superiors. They would do that and then they would document it. And by the way, I have to assume that would be the most dangerous office setting to steal your coworkers' lunches. Can

we agree on this? Like, you know, you go into the break room to al shabab hq, right, and you know Abdul bad himself. Oh, look at that. His wife made him a nice sandwich and his otherwise made him another nice sandwich, and then his other wife threw it a drink in there, right, and you're thieving that thing. You don't think Abdul's going to get some ideas as to how he might be able to push back on your thievery. I'm telling you it's a minefield, absolute minefield.

They had dossier's on US consulate members, not just for the purpose of murdering them in the same way that Russia takes compromat and all that. And I'm not saying that's where we're going with Marco Rubio. We're going to the machismost side of this, okay, And that is when they look up little Marco and this isn't a height thing. So as they say on the Internet, all you short kings, Calm down. It's the idea that the commander in chief

of the United States called you little Marco. Do you understand what I'm asking in an administration and a philosophy that is born of strength. Right, Hey, we're America. Don't f with us. You know, we hit one button and it defeats your whole military and we are on lunch while we're doing it. You know that kind of attitude?

uh political contests where like it just go. It's where they'll be like your father helped try to kill JFK. Right, and then they're hugging it out and endorsing each other. That is not purely an American thing, and it absolutely happens elsewhere. You should be aware of that. I read that what's the name of the book. It was the same guy who did Primary Colors wrote uh maybe I think maybe he co authored it. But basically they were talking about, uh, how like the dirty tricks they play

in other stuff. And it's weird because like in the British Parliament they say all the same stuff. But like you ever watched the British Parliament work, it's it's it's I don't want to say it's controlled chaos. I don't know what that is. It's funny. It's funny to watch them all scream at each other and r R and bang on stuff and and then they have the giant you know, I have the giant weapon re sitting around the table there. I'm sorry, some British listeners gonna get back.

I'm aware that it's not just a weapon. It's a cool weapon. But my point is, I understand all that stuff happens. Do you think it undermines the ability of Marco Rubio if they're like this guy's boss calls him little Marco. That adorable And I don't know the answer to that, but I have somebody that we're gonna ask we have a Senator Ted Bud joining us because there's two things going on. That's eighto five, right, Ross, I'm sorry,

just my phone closed from your text here. Yeah, eight o five, So Ted Budd senator, he'll join us eight o five. So that's one we're gonna talk about some of these appointments. That's one of his colleagues. Now what do I expect Ted to say? Probably like that he'll be fine, and most likely he'll be fine. But I'm just curious, like some guy who you've you've you've attempted to demasculate, you're now gonna send to be the face of America around the world. But then I think to myself, well,

we sent John Kerry, we sent Hillary Clinton. Although Hillary

Clinton actually is terrifying. So yeah, I remember, remember there is uh there is there are published pieces out there that where the where the who have not been sued that the the marriage on the skids that that took place following the Monica Lewinsky sandal, where Hillary literally for months didn't talk to Bill was only they only fixed it because she was berating him to start bobbing the hell out of Sarajevo, and he's like, if it'll shut you up, which is a horrible way to choose conflicts.

So yeah, she terrifies me. But can can Lil Marco go out there and uh and have enough respect? Maybe the answer is the guy he answers to is Donald Trump, and that's the dude you're scared of anyway because he's quote unpredictable. Then uh, maybe maybe it's a moot point. And then the second one is and this is the big fight Senate Majority Leader, which I've always been bothered

by the Senate Majority Leader versus the speaker. Uh, the way that they do things because the Speaker of the House, it's out there right, everybody knows how everyone's vote, and you're on the record with Senate it's it's a secret ballot. So will it be Corning from Texas, Scott from Florida or excuse me, Scott for Flora, Scott from South Carolina or no, Like there's uh, there's there's three kind of mains and then there's four or five. Maybees can a

non senator be it. I was gonna look that up, thought maybe we'd make ross the head of the Senate. You just rule over there, then maybe they get some

stuff done. So yeah, so uh he they have they have bud marked down here because I'm looking at a list of who they've stated support for for John Cornyn from Texas and what's and what's wild is like people either hate with the passion and the and and the the fiery heat of a thousand suns all the other people, or are want to marry the person that they're with, Like there's no middle grade because usually if you got four or five names out there, you kind of rank

them like there's the person you want to see, and then there's the person okay, I guess, and then maybe somebody you'd hold your nose for, and then you got you get down into it where you're just like no, no, you could never convince me. And that's you know, and that's fine. Everyone's got to uh make up their make up their their own minds, but they also don't have to explain it. And I'm always curious how people get there. So I want to ask Ted how he's gotten there.

Maybe he hasn't, and maybe he's just erroneously listed in here. Senator slender Man looks like he's gonna he wants to go in a different direction. What time is slender Man's interview today? We got but at eight oh five we're gonna have the full Oh oh oh, that's right. We don't put him on the show anymore, so we'll just have to go with printed reports. Uh, then we get into like recess appointments, it'll get there's a lot of ground to cover today, and so I'm really really happy

that we're going to have the Senator on. Okay, all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. It was, uh, this is not new, but the fact that it's still how it is is why I'm going to explain something to you. So going back to the first oh November, Politico ran a report talking about the response rate of people who were calling FEMA. Right, because what do they tell you, anyone who was impacted by the hurricane? What they tell you call FEMA. Here's the

number we were running. We were running PSA's for the number. And that's fine, that's what they should do. Right, here's that. And I understand people go, well, you know, sometimes the phone. I understand that the phones and the internet aren't there, but it's a starting point of launching off point eventually you get to sell service. There is no perfect way

other than maybe shooting flares in the air. And I also recognize that the staffing for FEMA when there's not disasters going on shouldn't be the same for staffing for FEMA when there are disasters going on. It's just not practical. And so the complexity of that is FEMA contracts. They roll people over from other parts of the government for

more of the administrative stuff. Right if you can answer a phone for the Social Security Administration and run a phone tree, you can answer a phone and run a phone tree for FEMA with a little bit of training. And it's not going to be perfect. But like everything

else in disaster response, nobody expects perfect. But you keep putting, You keep doing things that are insane, Like we have the amount of money that we still have that has been unspent, and these zero amount of homes in many communities going back to Hurricane Matthew that have been built. That's a thing that still exists in North Carolina. And if you're a new storm victim and you know that Hurricane Matthew people are still waiting on getting their homes rebuilt,

what level of confidence does that give you. All right, So what was the thing? Well, first, the FEMA lady down in Florida says, she doesn't deny that she said don't go to Trump homes. No, she now, and keep in mind she did lose her job. She says she's a patsy. All right, I'm listening. She says she was

a patsy. What she said is that this attitude, whether it be official or unofficial, that it's in the best interest of workers to avoid going to homes with Trump signage was not her idea, or at the very least not only her idea. And you know what, again, I balance it that she lost her job. But here's where it kind of makes sense. You're sitting around the lunch room or you know, wherever these middle managers gather. You're sharing your experience and yes, you have some opinion about

Trump people. In the same way that that photographer who we talked about yesterday doesn't like the outcome of the election, so he's stopping any volunteer work for hurricane victims. He's like, well, they're mostly read County screwing. They get what they get.

So if you're FEMA and you're sitting there and you're not immune to the politics of all of this, and you're like, and that's normally who you see every day on Fox News going, Hey, I'm Darryl, and Darryl's running a red hat and Daryl's got himself a big old

Southern drawl, and Daryl's home just floated away. And if he's on there a week later, living in a pup town with his wife going where the hell are you, there's a you could take that personally, and then you see it over and over, and then you see politicians or you see jackass radio hosts like me continuing to point out these things like what do you mean you won't drive one hundred feet around a thing, a wooden barricade to go look at this house so that person

get disaster assistance. Well, sorry, can't do that. It doesn't matter. It shouldn't matter, but it does because we're human and we hear stuff, and that's people being critical of your work or in this case, lack of work. Look at that. I'll never get my house fixed if I ever find myself in a hurricane. So the idea that that was an additude, which she says, Patsy, because let's face it, in the world of Patsy. That's not even a good Patsy, right, h that's a forgettable Patsy. I don't even know her

name off the top of my head. I just know where is the female lady? I'll get it for you, though. You're gonna sit there and then you develop an attitude and then you sit around that lunch room and you're like, oh, yeah, yeah, I tell my guys not even to go near a Trump house anymore? Are they just yelling and stuff? They're like, where why is my Why don't you guys return my calls?

And there's an interesting reason that that would be said, because remember I said that something from November first is still the same today and I'm blown away by it, or as of last night. I should say what that is the audio for you? And some thoughts next here on the CaCO Day radio program to say, should I leave it for Jamal to say that's that's part of it because this is a two parter this opening this morning. Yeah,

I'll leave it. I'll leave it for Jamal. I'll let you have your moment because uh, let me let me make the other point and then we'll get phone calls. Okay, all right, exercise. This is what I need you to do. I know it's early and you hate it when I do this. You're like, I'm just trying to get ready. My kids are little terrorists. We're very busy. Just do you have a coin or do you have a coin,

or do you just have anything you can flip? Okay, take it, even if it's imaginary, call it in your head and then give it a give it a once over. Did you win? Not all of you? Statistically, probably about half of you, although it's it could be way, but you know that's the point of flipping a coin. So fifty percent of you on one side of things, fifty percent on the other. Now, pretend you're all hurricane victims. Are you ready?

to not get a response. And by the way, again, that reporting originated November one, on the heels of all the daily wire stuff, and I should say on the heels in that window there as we were learning about the daily wire FEMA woman. And as of last night's reporting is a cent actually the same that one. That's been almost two weeks two. It's coming up on two months since the hurricane what was it? What was landfall?

The twenty sixth of September, give it a day, twenty seventh into the twenty eighth here in North Carolina, and you know what happened. And that's not just North Carolina. That's also Florida, that's Georgia, it's South Carolina, it's probably I think a little into Tennessee, I believe. And half of the people who were told this is how you deal with this don't believe. Those other people don't believe that guy on the radio's he's a peddler of misinformation

and half of it. What do you expect people to do? And the audacity of some of these videos that I've seen coming out, and I have held off getting in deep diving the specifics, although I've reached out to a couple of people in these videos and they have either clarified some thing they said or they were not the first they were not. They're not sure what's going to

happen yet. But there are folks who are having to make a decision, who have been staying in shelters, staying in some sort of temporary housing, their family units or at least half family units, maybe a single parent with some kids, and that what they're where they're staying and what they're doing, time may be running out. And the inevitability is if they don't have a place for their family and they have kids, and you know, they don't have a running water or which, by the way, I'm

here to tell you, or a hot water. Even I'm here to tell you. I lived in an entire summer as a minor. As a minor, an entire summer, so end of May, right after we drove cows up basically until early September, because bo season was getting underway, and then it was right back in the mountains. I lived and built in a half constructed cabin with some buddies one summer, and we got our water from the creek. We granted we you know, we hold food and stuff. There's uh, we did a lot of fishing too, and

and we were fine. And we were miners and and my mom should have had us taken away. Well, I can't speak from other budies. Maybe their parents would have owned them. But yeah, and so you're telling family units they are now in this position where if whatever a shelter assistance may be coming to an end for whatever reason, that even if they want to move into a facility but it doesn't meet all of the normal occupancy requirements, that there's a possibility the state could take their kids.

Those are the videos you're seeing emerging. We're I'm keeping a sharp eye on this and and I promise you if I if I get a hint that one of those starts to transact, that's going to be the show the next day, especially when you couple it with that coin flip you just did and half of you you haven't even getten a call back. I can't fathom that. I can't understand why you're not and I'm not suggesting him do this. I can't understand when you're sitting there

and you don't even have a call back. Although I saw people go go who leaves a voicemail? All right, we're not talking about idiot cell phone stuff. We're talking about people who may have had to go borrow a sat phone from us, from somebody so they could even get in the hopper there, who don't even get a call back. The amount of you wonder why people are enraged.

That's maddening. Now let me give you the other side of this, because FEMA will say things like, well, we have to have a way to get back in touch with people, and I understand that within the early days, and I also understand that FEMA with two storms is going to be overwhelmed. And I recognize that, which is why let me there's the last thing I'll say on this and then before we get into some phone call phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight

seven four. By the way, I understand that there is zero reason to have staffing levels during non where there's not emergencies going on at FEMA. The same as when there are you would just have literally hundreds, if not thousands of people just sitting around, which kind of describes parts of the government. But no, in all seriousness, that's not functional, and I'm okay with that because that's not how a business would handle things. When a business has

an emergency, people have to change it up. They adapt and I'll give you an example, and it is this exact thing. Okay, Ross, what happened when we had to go a full hurricane coverage on this year news talk station? Was it just you and me?

turn into interns for a lot of this. They're running copy, they're coordinating. Not to mention, our news department, and this is how you do it. And our company also has a mechanism where if we need a lot more news people on stuff, we have a network with the ability to do that. You know why, because that's how businesses plan for things, and that's why you need more business in there. I get when it's busy and everything's to

the wall. And this is not a critique of somebody who works at FEMA who sits there and bangs out every moment of their day trying to help people. If you're not getting it done, this is a management thing. And it sounds like management's just sitting around telling people to not go near Trump signs. It's positively enraging. And yet here we are, all right, let me grab this called Jamal Gorett ahead, sir, you know what, cac.

that claim. But what was crazy is the amount of stories I saw where the photo that they paired with the story was not this woman's photo, which was readily available, you've all seen it, but they would just they would put the FEMA director's photo in there. And that is a decision. Who, by the way, is a white woman and It's like, why would you when you're specifically doing a story about somebody you have a photo of, why would you put her boss?

How could you make it harder not answer or any of them? How angry would you be if you live where you live right now? Let's see, you live on a street with six houses. You all know each other, and you all get together and you're like, oh, that was crazy. All of you suffer damage, and three of your neighbors like, yeah, no, we got they came out in an evil and you're like, well, nobody called us back.

And then you find out that it was essentially half, you'd lose your mind and frankly, your neighbors, if they're good neighbors, would lose their minds on your behalf and probably help you because that's what normal people do. But we're not dealing with normal people. And where are the news agencies trying to hold this accountable? Other than me and a handful of others, I shouldn't say just a handful. I've seen some good reporting from what we would consider mainstream,

but it's few and far between. Where's the big boys, where's the CNC, and where's one am I? Where's the I will go with uh? Fox eight or XII. Well, some of them are doing reporting on the on the triadside. I think Fox eight has run some decent stories. But where's w R e L. Where is you know, if they're the they're they're the leader there. Where's w r L?

Why aren't they on their uh? Why aren't they on Twitter right now with their half million followers putting shedding light on this is a question I asked myself yesterday when I attempted to go count and check to see if there was any posting social media or posting of stories by w R e L and others on this craziness with the FEMA stuff right because they, like many others, were the ones telling you you're a horrible person. And as I go to check something amazing, something amazing occurred

to me, and you just wait for it. It's coming up next. You do not want to miss this. Hang on, I have I have a gazillion things. He's gonna really regret scheduling. I'm kidding now, He'll be fine, But no, we got a lot of We got a lot of ground to cover, so we'll get on that. Unfortunately, though I I have some bad news. We're gonna do a canceling. This is not how I wanted to start my morning, but it's frankly can't be helped. All right, So what

are we canceling Trump administration? Part due? Yeah, they got him, They got them, or they will they will soon have him. And no, not even for the reasons we discussed yesterday. But something new and exciting. Are you ready for this? Tip hawk astrologers? Yeah, do you remember these folks as the folks who, let's see, were slanderously trying to solve student murders out in Ohio or Ohio, Idaho. That lady's so whacked. I don't know if you saw that, like

the double down on that lawsuit. Yes, TikTok astrologers who overs almost overwhelmingly used the stars and the planets and everything to predict a decisive Harris video victory are now making videos explaining what's going on because they kind of look like maybe they're full of crap. There's a possibility you ever talked to you ever talked to somebody who's really into astrology, which is fine if you really want to be into it, if you want to be into it,

but like people think it's weird most of the time. Now, I can just be like, all right, that'll be amusing kind of like conspiracy theories, but like some people, really, some people will base super life decisions over, you know, astrological alignment. As I'm reading this article, this is a TikTok astrologers are convinced the election isn't over. Oh wait, you know what, ross I didn't. Oh, I tweeted this yesterday.

So actually, if you want to retweet it, but if you don't have to, if you just roll down a little, you'll see this tweeted out there. All right, so back back to back to this bad boy. Why would it take my I hate websites like that. You scroll and it auto loads the next story. I just hate you so much. So a the gaggle of TikTok astrologers, who, by the way, if you can't trust a TikTok astrologer, who can you trust or a TikTok psychic they're at

they're everywhere. They're usually like twenty three year old women. Some claim their witches, some claim there don't claim that they're just this that's more on the psychic side, and you had to pretty high profile example. Were one of these lunatics who also by the way, is still making content on this who started the whole thing that the college professor at the University of Idaho up in Moscow where those students were killed by that lunatic with a

knife allegedly. That whole story's bonkers when you when you read into it. But what's even crazier is you had a professor there who this girl just fixated on. Was like she did it, making up relationships all that, And what was the most insane part, if that isn't insane enough already, is the court battle because she'd get served literally with a law suits. She would she pretended to wipe her backside with it, which is always courts love that, but also it was she decided to represent herself and

it's a train wreck. So you're not dealing with the best and brightest. However, if you got a main line to the the Cosmos all lists. So why exactly is the fight not over? Well, for a couple reasons that are going to sound equally as insane. One meg Lee, who doesn't trust Meg Lee? Right, the astrologer probably all heard of her, she said, in the fact that they all seem to predict a Harris win. She said I stand by what I said. I don't think we've seen

the end of it all. It's just the beginning. Based on the astrology alone, Harris is president. Did you guys know that? Because one, she's not the president right now, and astrology wouldn't have anything to say because Joe Biden's the president right now. But I think she means in January, and that's not the numbers I saw. So here's where it gets. I'm gonna avoid being a four year old for this whole thing, but I'm going to slip into it, and there's nothing I can do. I apologize in advance.

being transitioned. Meanwhile, on Tuesday morning something amazing effect. Let me get the breaking news sounder for this, because I didn't realize Trump was having to deal with this. Unfortunately for Trump, as of Tuesday morning, when Harris's tenth House was transitioning, Uh, they determined that Jupiter was conjuncting his uranus. I'm reading this verbatim. I'm not making any of this up. I'm not I'm not repositioning words. I am reading this verbatim.

On Trump's chart, Jupiter was conjuncting his conjuncting like a conjunction uh, his uranus, which sounds you know what that sounds like. It sounds like your your your hands are tingling, or you're you're you got some lower back pain and you pop on web MD and it's like, oh, I'm sorry, you have a conjuncted uranus. By the way, who wants to hear that? Man? You're running to your way, probably not running like you're over the doctors, off doc, doc. I just found out I have a conjuncted uranus. Who

did it? Jupiter? Which, by the way, if there's gonna be a planet in our solar system to conjunct your Uranus. Jupiter's worst case possible, right. I know it's very gaseous, so maybe it's appropriate. But remember, like how much what do you can? You feel?

planets have spoken. Trump's got a conjuncted Uranus and Harris, I guess in Janu where he'll be the president. Let's see here? Who else do we go? We gotta buch You know, I'm not gonna read all these losers. Yeah, I think Megley really summed it up very well. There she's got Are you not gonna believe this? Most of them have crazy eyes. Who saw that coming? Who saw that? But let's get down to what this is. It's clicks, man.

If you look, every time there's something there, it's about And frankly they probably do good at a social media company. The ones who are really good at this, they tease, well, these are all these are things behind the scenes. So like in radio, they'll tell you. You know, you gotta be able to tease. So when I'm coming up to a break like I did earlier, where I'm like get you know, I'm like, hey, we're gonna flip a coin when we come back, and you don't want to miss it. That's

a tease. But you better pay off your teas. That's the part they haven't figured out here. Because Kamala Harris will not be I'll risk being in that montage video like the one about Trump. He won't be. Kamala Harris will not be president after inauguration day. Okay, I'll go out. I'm gonna go out on a limb here. In fact, in honor of one of my favorite movies, Trading Places, let's bet the usual. Ross you want to bet the usual from trading Places? I think we bet the usual.

So and if if what If Meglei wins, then I will send Meglei the usual and she can use it to get her crazy eyes fixed or at least have a down payment. Or maybe she gets her uranus conjuncted and needs to seek help for that. I don't know, but thank you TikTok for the only really useful thing you do, and that is highlight the crazy for me. All right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Now I'm the only I'm the only one who gets to be immature about this. I'm looking at

my email here. Some of you are not being mature. Could I instead take you over to a new growing trend, conspiracy. Okay, watch for it. You're already seeing at emerge, but it's important that you understand it. There is a period of time and we're in it right now, following the election. Once the media has accepted who they believe will be their on inauguration day, and I know not all of them have, but for the most part, they may say one thing, but they do the other and it doesn't

matter which direction it goes. It requires them to move the narrative on stories and it's something we do politically. Like you're guys, in charge. It's not as bad. They're guys in charge, their bloodthirsty killers. Sometimes that's the case. A lot of it's just politics, but it also requires

a momentum and an opinion shift. And so what you're going to see is all all of these things that you who voted for Trump have been losing your mind over, whether it is hurricane assistance, whether it's the border issue, whether it's the UH, whether it is the inflation, just the cost of groceries, cost of gas at certain times you have been told for three and a half years, and there is there's some remarkable stuff coming out about what happened. I swear I thought I put this in

the stack? Did I know? Did I?

did raise all this money. The only other person who could use it as part part of the current cycle presidential candidate was his running mate, and so it had they would have they would have literally walked away from an ungodly sum. I can't remember exactly what it was, which they probably should have looked at all the money you would have saved that she wasted. So they stuck with that, and that required them to essentially just change the name on stuff and then hand it over so

that she had access to all those dollars. So the Biden campaign became the Harris campaign, and with that came not just the money, but it came all of the research, the polling, the everything. And I'm actually surprised that Biden folks let some of this go over because it's not really useful with them anymore. The entire time that they were telling you everything's fine, they believed it. These are

this is internal stuff. This is this is from a one of the campaign, one of the actual people within the campaign, and what they were now that now they're just burned it down because they'll realize they've been lied to. But they when they walked in and they got a hold of the internal polling and how focus groups were tested during Biden's run when he was telling you, no, this is the best economy ever. They believed it. He probably believed because somebody told him and then it locked in.

But like people around him believe that because they were using best case scenariometrics, they were ignoring anything that didn't comport. Probably called one of these TikTok astrologers. And then when they had something they liked, they went with it. And he said that they firmly believed that in spite of a very very interesting number, which I will tell you, so were doing the tea's again, we're doing the teas

and you're not going this number. And then the transitioning of the American populace's position on the big issues of our day. That's what's begun. We'll get you the number, we'll play of the audio, we'll get their next hang on, all right, this, we'll catch up to this little conversation Rosser and I are having off the air. But let me hit you with this. Jon Favreau, who was a former speechwriter for Obama. He was a campaign co chair for Biden for one of the regions I think a

regional chair. Hey, this is one of the guys that's in the upper echelon of the Democrat Party. Okay, So he's being interviewed on pod Save America, which is not the number one podcast in the world, not the number two, not that I could we go down the list, yet somehow finds themselves with an HBO deal and all sorts of stuff because it's moon bets. It's a bunch of

moon bets. So I just want you to understand that this guy, who is a diagn thebold Democrat, worked in campaigns and staff for presidents and would be presidents, is being interviewed, is being interviewed. By the way, for those of you asking me to ask Ted Budd about Senate the Senate leadership, I'm on it. Okay, I got it. I'm good. I have a little trust in your boy. Or I'll just talk about astrology if you keep sending me stuff which would be very confusing to or maybe

he's into it and we'll learn something. Anyway, So Favreau, a leftist, is on a podcast full of leftists being then distributed on leftist media outlets. There is no expectation that he has to come in there and and be a wrecking ball. He can do the hymn and the han you know, and even the kind of intimate that the Trump cheated somehow away, that's what I expect, but he didn't. He started talking about that transition from the Biden campaigned to the Harris campaign and getting a hold

of all of those documents. And at the very moment, right just remember after the debate, when they said that the debate didn't materially impact their polling, and everyone went, how is that possible? Or when they were telling you everything's fine, how do you believe that? Favreau said two things. One he said that they believed it, and two and here's and I'll explain why. He also pointed out at the exact moment, they took over the most recent internal polling.

So in the moment that Biden said I'm out, Har's going to do this thing, the internal polling showed Joe Biden and Donald Trump's race, with Donald Trump receiving four hundred electoral votes. He would have received a court if you believe the internal polling, which arguably some people tend to believe more. I don't know about that, don't know about that that he was, he was, you know, you know, lose by one hundred and thirty whatever ballots or electoral votes.

That's my that's like reagan esque and it's not even a fair just straight comparison with the Reagan race when you get into third party stuff. But again, if Favre makes a I say, a fair point in that, I believe I think they're wrong, but I believe that they thought this, that people would sit there and they just they thought that they could beat Trump by doing nothing. And if that's going to be your strategy, you're hosed. Man,

You're hosed. Why because he's a semi known commodity. If he's just a rando and you didn't have and you can't feel any of the energy, Sure, fine, you may that may mathematically work out for you, but that was never a possibility. So have you the Harris campaign, Well then what do you gotta do. You got to go big or go home. Unfortunately they did both. We'll get

into the financials here in just a few minutes. All right, So here's the audio I wanted to talk about that we were transitioning too, and that is the media now has to unignore things that they claimed weren't happening.

been a week. Why isn't Tom Homan fixing it? Although, by the way, I don't think you want to challenge Tom Holman too, telling you, dude, he was very few people do I meet up up in Washington who are already in government where I immediately like them and I and it isn't necessarily for just what he does. He's just he's just a really I don't want to say funny because he's you know what, he reminds me of a little of something I get pegged with. So maybe

this is a little selfish where I come ross. Would you say occasion I can come off as a curmudgeon, you can too, for that matter, But would you say that as occasionally a thing? Yeah? Well, but you know, some like the thing is like I don't smile for pictures and whatnot people, but it's it's not me. I want to have a Holman's like that, but then he starts telling you stories and they're insane, and they're I don't want to say they're great, because a lot of

them aren't great. But he's also the last dude you want to challenge. If you've ever seen any of Tom Holman in doing congressional testimony, famously with aoc oh oh, it's good stuff, good stuff. He was the one who was on sixty minutes the other day when they're like, what do you do if there's families, He's like, well, we could to pour them together. And then a look on that woman's face at sixty minutes. That's Tom Mahoman.

Don't challenge that guy to get up and rolling. He's going to I can't even play his speech that he gave at one of the clothes at the one of the victory parties. He swearing the whole time, not the whole time, but a lot of it. But his attitude is you give me sixty He said that Trump told him he's got sixty days to get some order down there. The border patrol people are over the moon quote. Morale among US customs and Border Protection agents has skyrocketed, according

to the National Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez. These guys were in the dumpster. I want to say that they had positivity ratings about the job that they're doing in like the twentieth percentile, and that's now in the seventieth percentile. Acted to be. Trump has already taken action preparing to carry out his immigration agenda, tapping Tom Home and former Acting Director of ICE to serve as the

new borders are. I almost I'm kicking myself because last week when I or when the sixty minute stuff I was gonna have, I was gonna ask Ross to try to get home and on. I actually have a I have a number for him. He'll probably change that. That was dumb of him. Give me a cell. No, I won't abuse it, but I want to. I'd like to get him on, but I think he's going to be unget onnable for a little while. But we'll try. We'll try, because he's he's and I've interviewed him at the radio

row up in DC. But it is going to be imperative that the media switch it. So everything that wasn't a problem will now be a massive problem. And every single moment of every day it it doesn't. It doesn't. And by the way, to fix it if even if the Republicans say they fix it, if it's not the Democrats solution, that they'll still say it's broken. And that's the job of the media.

in Mexico for most of them. And that's where we're going. That's where we're going. Let's head to the view first show.

there's a lifeboat here and there. I think the rage about the border was also people here that are maybe insecure, homeless at times, making ends meet, and they don't have any of they can send their kid to college. That's the outrage of what I saw.

don't really change. I think people needed a reason to feel good and hopeful about voting for her, and absent that, a lot of frustrated voters apparently decided to go with the guy who wants to burn it all down.

white conservative. No, I'm just saying it because every Democrat that we have ever sat down with dinner with over the past five years who have kids that go to colleges say their kids are afraid to speak in class because they'll be canceled.

time around the college campuses. Every time they'd say it is they would say it's a result of Trump merely existing, which is a heckler's veto. But you should look that up if you don't know what that is. But now you got to you've got to repeal and you got to put in. You have to be like, you know, we were always here saying this. You heard morning Joe

there that Loune to tell. Oh, yeah, every time I went to a party on the Upper East Side or where they wherever they hang out, I'm sure that's probably where it is. We go there and uh, you know all the rich people say their kids go to colleges and they're all insane, all the colleges or insane. Well, I don't remember saying anything about that. And the grifters have to continue because they still have to have this

aura that they got it right. One of the king grifters in this case somebody who has photographed himself, campaigned for in previous times and co chaired a campaign with in the form of Jesse Mister Rainbow Push Jesse Jackson is Al Sharpton, who was Trump's buddy. There's a photo of Al Sharpton kissing Trump on the cheek or like leaning in for one would, and he's not even holding a bullhorn and he's not in a tracksuit. This guy's got to pivot faster than anybody.

all along. Donald Trump's the problem. And look, this problem that we chose to ignore is now a big problem. Mark my words. It's coming seven forty six race stage from the weather channel. He's coming at you with the weather Yo, yo yo. What's up?

so it shouldn't be a surprise. Sunny today, probably get load of mid sixties. Tonight mid upper thirties with maybe some frost, especially from the Triad west into the mountains and some of the nooks and crannies. Wednesday sunny and cool, mid upper fifties, but that is closer to normal, which is about sixty degrees Thursdays. Some rain possible in the afternoon and at night. Quarter and a half an inch of rain not a severe weather threat, not a flood issue.

Behind that front. We'll have sunshine back for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and again we'll get back into the sixties and maybe well into the sixties by Sunday, maybe seventy degrees for the triangle, returning by about Monday, and more sunshine, so a little chillier, especially tomorrow morning, and then a little wet weather, then some beautiful weather for another four or five day stretch, and we're gonna have to keep our eyes on the tropics because there is something that may

try to come out of the southwest Caribbean.

it takes. And when I say pay, I mean we are finding out who is getting a new gig. A lot of names coming out on the administration. And of course we're also trying to figure out who is going to be head of the Senate now that Republicans have re seized control. And to help us do that, one of the guys who's going to get to vote that is if I can get my phone screener to work. There we go, our own Senator Ted Budd. How are you doing this morning, Senator?

a couple of the restaurants. Everybody capital over by Phoenix Park and over there there's people like talking about resumes and stuff and us, and you know what, here's here's why I feel bad, because people are human and I work in an industry where a lot of times they may just be that you don't work here anymore, go

move across the country. It happens. I've been fortunate, so I don't wish that a pond, but there was a secret part of me and you can scold me if you will, where I'm just like good good.

of all? And what is your comfort level when he says things like the Department of Ed is out and we're going to give it back to the States and that's a lot of money. I mean, where does Ted bud land on that well.

their whole career. They're probably living in the thing. I didn't see the unbridled insanity that I have come to expect from where you work, sir. And my question is is it that people avenged? There's people who are losing their minds. Are they going to take it better? Or is this going to manifest in a different way versus what we saw last time, because it's injurious to the ability to get things done.

be respectful of law enforcement. You're going to say we need law enforcement.

help their home state. So I don't think they would, but I got to make sure there's no retribution for North Carolina, you know, or anybody has to protect their home state to make sure that they don't select somebody who doesn't ultimately win.

Florida the governor appoints. But you know, how do you mitigate any potential damage while still getting the best people?

replacement issues. But in Florida, you've got a friendly enough relationship between DeSantis and Trump where and he they're all Republicans and they're going to say, you know what, We're going to move.

that it is. Although to be fair, well, let me get my taker Bill here. To be fair, some of the stuff we're going to be canceling you might be okay with, but we still got to use the bell because rules is rules. Just like the Senate with their tradition of secret votes, we have our traditions around these parts. So AnyWho, all right, Number one? So yesterday I'm scrolling around,

I'm looking and I kind of got sidetracked earlier. I know you're shocked, but I was looking to see how different news outlets covered things and if they covered some stuff, which is something I do and it's really nerdy, but it helps to inform me. And that's why I can come on the radio and be like, can you believe such and such outlet isn't even talking about this?

So I wanted to see if ral I'm dreaming here had touched a couple stories so that I could use that, so I also don't have to embed my own link, which roster we still have the opinion that if you embed a link versus media, the algorithm is less favorable. Is that still the general consensus? Or do you pay attention to this stuff?

this isn't a throwaway account. Wral has four hundred and sixty thousand followers. They're halfway to a free blue check mark four hundred and sixty thousand, as best I can hell, it's probably. It's no. I shouldn't say it's probably because we know what we know on average, how people engage on both Twitter and other socials. It's it's hands down gotta be their biggest reach. It doesn't mean people necessarily engage, but eyeballs are seeing it. I follow Ario a lot

of you do. I follow them for a work thing. I see them all the time, and so I start looking and it says, you know, it says like five days, six days since the last post, and none of it's about. None of it is the election results. They pulled the rip chord or something's going on. So I thought, well, maybe they had maybe their social media manager left or whoever handled I don't know how they assign it. And so right now they're just not doing social because they're

prioritizing other stuff. Because I'm fair and I want to know what's going on, So I start going to their other socials. They're posting away, man, good stuff you know, are important? Stuff not important? So you know the stuff you put on social just like I do. They're throwing up what I'm a little smart here, there's more straight news, but they're putting it out there all the weather stuff which gets good clickthroughs, by the way, on social, and

I understand why they do it. You can't, you cannot, you cannot. Yes, I was at the Dublin or you know, it's very sad, sir, that many of you know the exact Irish restaurant I was at. Bar I was telling you I was at, and I didn't even say the name talk to somebody anyway. So so anyway, I'm I'm sitting there and I'm like, okay, well they're still posting on the other social, they're not posting on ral. Did

they take their ball and go home? So then I thought I'm gonna go because I follow a bunch of Ril's reporters, and it's harder for me when they when they lock their account or freeze their account, because if you know, when you see where it says, only people who are mentioned in this post or who are confirmed followers can comment. I've been followers back and forth, and

I've interacted with enough RAO people. Generally I don't see that if they if they freeze hers, So thank you to some of you who are then posting where like Laura Leslie had her she had kind of froze her Twitter. Now the other reporters were still a lot of them are still tweeting. But I also noticed something else in the header, where you know you write things, Sometimes Ross writes things without telling me. I'm just looking to make sure Nope looks good. Just as host Morning six nine.

If you look at the header of their Twitter, it's driving people to blue Sky and blue Sky abbreviated BS, which I think is great is the current awe. It's the parlor of the left and the current off ramp so that they have a crisp, clear echo chamber to go scream in. So and then people are on Twitter using the largesse of Twitter to promote people to go there. And and with all of those pieces, I am left with zero other conclusions. Then Ral had a tantrum and

left Twitter. And if I'm wrong, I will let you know. But with the evidence that I've just laid out, stopping tweeting on a five hundred thousand person account four hundred and sixty thousand, changing headers to drive people, hey, come join me on blue Sky, and still tweeting on the other social media, what am I to think? And then you really is somebody who's in this business that is insane, and it's insane because you're throwing four hundred and sixty

thousand followers down the drain. And with modern media, maybe not TV as much as newspaper having to adjust and adapt and find new ways to bring in money, and digital is a huge thing. I can't tell you the number of time ross have we ever sat in a meeting where somebody doesn't bring up digital revenue. It doesn't

exist now in the past ten years. No, it's it is a it is a wildly important component and it's a component that is live or die for people that work in this industry because are we have salespeople who digital is all they do. So in digital can be websites, but it also is podcasting for us and all that, and Ral's got their own way that they do it.

So for the TV station of record, or at the very least the high the one that generally although ABC eleven does kind of kick him in some day parts, but one of the top tier stations, just go I don't want to talk to those people anymore because for the most part, you would post stuff and a lot of people wouldn't engage with it. But if you posted one of your insane op eds or I don't know a cartoon of a lieutenant governor dressed in a clan row.

People had some thoughts and you you are a legendary regardless of what you think of w L wr L is a legendary media fixture. It was the Jesse Helms station. It was it was a lot of things. There's a lot of officials and Dan Leba not leb Attardi. It's got it's a really long like people that many of you who are from North Carolina grew up with. And maybe you've watched that transition, maybe you have some fought, maybe you love RIL right now. But to walk away

from a half million people. If I'm an advertiser and it depends what your component is and you are willingly sacrificing impressions as we call them to make a political point, I don't know what to think of that.

You're just on the on the the executive side of it. I don't know what to think. So my my thing to you is because I want to be accurate. If that's accurate, that's insane, that's crazy, And I'll just little me. Just get that for you're gonna need that in a bit. But if you see r L on Twitter, for all the Twitter folks, if you see them posting fresh stuff, hit me, just email me your message, mere tag me. Okay, And I'm very very curious. So that's number one. Number

two Disney's Hall of Presidents. Now technically it will be early next year when it actually closes. Disney has announced they're closing the Hall of Presidents. Some Okay, what I.

oh crap, put a yellow wig on it. That's a lot harder when it's a Harris animatronic. Is that what you're thinking? Yes, yes, so I was hoping the story was gonna be Ah, it's not. That's not what they said. So no, it's about as a little. Things are a little contentious right now. But also you don't have to make another one. Is there two Grover Cleveland's in there? Do we know? Is there two Grover Cleveland's? There's probably just one? Right, I got I've never asked myself this.

I've never been to the Hall of President's. I don't know the answer to that. I've just seen where they're all standing up there like you don't have to do anything. So also, are you taking your ball and going home to you absolute lunatics? Also, can I have the Harrison animatronic use it to like for Halloween decorations or maybe put a Santa outfit around Christmas and anime like? I hate for that to be a waste, but please God let that be the reason. Because they announced it right

after the election. So there you go. All right, Oh wait, hold on one more little cancel bell while we get rastagic from the weather channel here, Who better give us a good forecast or we'll cancel him?

for the weekend with milder tempters. Thursday is going to be a cool day only in the fifties, but back into the sixties, maybe seventy by early next week in the triangle. And Casey, do you have an area of disturbed weather in the Caribbean could move north next week? Some could be talking about in the tropics.

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