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to the future of their party. But if Donald Trump wins, open a few more bank accounts, because inevitably you and the media and everybody else will you will attempt to and probably achieve amongst a good portion of the population, to even if Trump cures cancer and there's world peace, to spin it as a negative thing that happened for America, because you will have been fundraising for four years off

everything and you will make money. Do you think the Democrat Party fundraised as well if Kamala Harris is the president.

fundamentally in charge. They can write whatever bill they want and who cares what the governor thinks, and then go ahead and override it and then boom, you get it in there. What do you think of that theory? So on the presidential side, she would be injurious to the party so much that her getting elected versus Trump being in there is a business perspective. Trump being in there

is better for them. They can whine, complain, they can fear monger and talk about AI Immortal super beans coming to you know, coming to hitler you and then send you, hey, chip in ten dollars to stop the AI Mortal super beans. And then idiots at work will be like, you know, based off of sound an incomplete SoundBite, will you know, go ahead and hit the apple pay and there you go.

I think, if I'm the Democrat Party and I'm looking at what's going on, her getting into office is now more injurious than letting him do it. From a financial perspective and a future of your party perspective. Prove me wrong, prove me wrong. I'm not, but you know, I guess you can try. I think that is the I think that is the correct take. And if you want, you want to get in a little chit chat about it, then I'm happy to do it. Eight eight eight nine

three four seven eight seven four. Here's the other thing. Now that I've taken a stick to half the equipment of my Greensborough studio, we can settle in and do this. It is election day, and as we do round these parts and a little yesterday, we'll do today. If you are a candidate on a ballot today and you want to pop, you want to call into the show and say, hey, how you doing a couple questions Russell, do a quick little verify thing with you, and we will go from there.

Have a little conversation, just you know, be a candidate within the signal range of the radio station. I don't want I want to say, if you're listening to the iHeart from Fairbanks, Alaska, God bless you, but nobody's voting for you. All right, So that those are the parameters and we will we'll make that available throughout the entire show. Okay, all right again eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. That'll I'll get you there on the show.

Let's see here. Okay, all right, I just reading this. Sorry, Engineering just sent me an email, and I just want to make sure that doesn't say there's a bomb get out. Oh okay, Boston, Paul's got chokes this morning? Do you forget your door key?

All right, So let's go ahead and do this, just because I want to get things all prepared for the audience. We gotta talk about the Joe Rogan thing. Who ross you saw that Rogan endorsed Trump?

that's it, it's over. And you know how I feel about the chicken little stuff. But also there's some really extraordinary stuff happening that normally doesn't happen. And maybe it's just because of who the candidates are, Joe Rogan and

coming out with an endorsement. There the cabal of former Democrats, and I don't you know, it's not like the former Republicans, like the Republicans for Harris who keeps spamming, spam texting me with stuff, right they'll send videos of these old white guys and they're like, ah uh, I hate Donald Trump right now, I'm a Republican. Well good for you. I don't know who the hell you are, and I don't care. I care that you're spamming my phone, and frankly,

I hope your power goes out. I don't want you harm to you, but I want you to be inconvenience for inconveniencing me. But like Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, A Kennedy, that's uh, that's those are That's a pretty substantial list there. So I don't know. Maybe it is. Maybe I'm the one who just doesn't recognize it as anything more than

posturing it. Don't get me wrong, it's important and there are a lot of there are a lot of things, but for too often, uh, you know, people talk about the uniparty a lot of the stuff that I'm being told right now. If you don't vote this way, then this thing's gonna happen three years down the road. The Republicans will help sign into Hull. So yeah, my salty this morning a little bit, a little bit, but it's gonna be crazy. However we do it. We'll get Canada interviews,

we'll watch a lecture return. We may not know who's the who won at this time tomorrow morning, which is that in and of itself is an absolute tragedy and there is no fundamentally okay explanation for that. I don't care what election officials to I don't care what anyone tells you them saying it's not possible is not truthful. It has been possible. It is possible, and if you need to make changes to make it possible, then make

it possible. It is. There is no explanation under the sun, valid explanation that you can't maintain a system where you're able to get this calculated. Look, money is not an object for you. For everything else in the world of government, you'll throw, you'll throw. Ukraine will get more money than the election than the election funding by a long shot this year. It is absolutely doable. But again there's somebody sees some benefit there so they don't do it. Six

for six Aco Day radio program. Hang on, how many inflatables do you have up right now? Ross? In all seriousness? How many you took down?

Some people are like, oh, they shouldn't be doing the podcast. No no, no, no no no. You get to go wherever you think you're gonna one reach people, but two also, it's a lot easier to lean on into somebody who's doing a podcast versus you know, like it's sixty minutes. Well, Hair's campaign doesn't have to lean into anybody whover at sixty minutes. They'll do the dirty work, as we've seen. But with a podcast, especially at that level, you can kind of

you can dictate terms to them. Doesn't mean they'll accept them. You saw and you saw what that looks like with Rogan right right where the Hair's campaign is like, sure, yeah, we'll do an interview. We'll do an interview on your three hour program, which it takes place in this very specific location, but we won't do it there and it will only be for a very you know, very short window compared to what they normally are. And Rogan said no, and then everyone's like, guys, look at that he hates

women or you know, insert whatever the thing is. So I get it, but you also have to understand the nature of it that the Harris campaign, the terms that we've seen every step of the way, are wholly unreasonable in any other journalistic setting. Right Remember remember how this all started with them sending questions to those radio hosts and then they end up firing the woman.

of how you do it. It's a little wink wink, nod nod kind of thing, right, they'll send, oh good, all right, Well, let me send you the press release we just sent out, which is them trying to dictate where you're gonna go. But they also recognize that you don't have to. You're gonna ask them what you're gonna ask with Harris. They they there is an expectation there, and it's also very apparent they're prepping her in a very strange way. Like I don't know if that's a

defense mechanism, the the whole Bacon incident. I'll give you the full context of it here in just a moment, but like, I don't know if that's some defense mechanism, if they thought if it's humor, it's you know what it sounds like. It sounds like somebody trying to meme too hard, do you know what I mean? Where you're just like you got her in there. The are so if you get if you get a tough question, which you want, you know what, No, here's what it is. Ross.

Do you remember when Lois on Family Guy was running for office?

to eleven, they'll just cheer for whatever. She's like, nine eleven, nine eleven, and then just keeps doing that, And that's that's the It's a really funny episode. I feel like the bacon stuff.

Day radio program. I can't tell, by the way, when we get into this conversation, I can't tell if I'm more excited or less excited now to see the Gladiator too. And if you don't know, oh the controversy that's brewing there, we're gonna have some fun with that coming up. I know it's election day, and and yes, if we we are, we are opening as we do. We got now two more hours left at least on my show, opening up the phone lines. If you are a candidate running for office.

Yesterday we had let's see, we had a guy running for a Wake County commissioner. We had Michelle Morrows running for the state superintendent of Public Education, and we yeah, nice, nice conversations there. We will Russell verify to make sure

it's you. He's got his own wacky system, and then uh, we'll we'll we'll chit chat, okay, And throughout all of that, we'll also talk about the various stories and and we'll make sure that we'll have we'll sit Ray Stagic down and make sure we'll do a wellness check on him, because holy crap, the cowboys are cursed this year. Holy cow So and and by the way, for calling in and it is ringing, try keep trying because Ross is he's screening others and having to go through verification and

there's only one Ross. We haven't cloned him yet, although it might be a good idea. All right, let me get to this. So this is this originated the article originated in the New York New York Times. Actually I have the New York Post version of it because it's not behind a paywall. So and what it what it does is it gives you an active play by play. Oh, let me give the phone number again real quick for

the candidates. And by the way, if you are working with a candidate, you know one personally, and you're like, but maybe they're not listening. They should be, but maybe they're not, you know, feel free to call telling the phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four and we'll we'll fit him in where we can.

That's how we roll. But no, we're not doing scheduling anything, So you don't call the candidate, can call sit hold like everybody else will go through because there are men and women of the people and I don't care right left, independent, doesn't matter to us. We'll talk to anybody mostly. So anyway, let me get back to this. What it does is it it shows you that the level of chaos this New York Times are the level of chaos associated with

how they're choosing to make their candidate available. The campaign is to make their candidate available is far outside the norms of anything I've ever seen. And the way that they're prepping her is either really bad or she's really really an idiot, like really an idiot, which is you know, always a possibility, is a so stupid, Thank you, ma'am. What is Boston? What is? Is he drunk on election? Dave, don't use words, bro real words, not Boston words. I

don't even understand what you're asking Boston. Paul could prep come a little better for an interview. So she's sitting down for an interview with a guy who hosts a show called Subway Takes. Okay, it's TikTok and Instagram and very popular. I'm not I've seen clips of it. But I don't watch a lot of podcasts the rogue. I'll watch Rogan stuff if the guest is pretty good, and normally not in its entirety, although I did watch the Trump and Vance ones in their entirety. I've found that

whole thing fascinating. So the host wants to talk about amongst his questions, he wants to talk about what's going on in Israel. Obviously that is a that's an active political topic discussion whatever. The campaign clearly does not want to talk about that. So the way this normally plays out is you ask the question, the candidate will give a very concise, quick answer, and then in their answer, try to move it to another topic. That's the game.

Everybody knows the game that does this. That's it. And I think they prepped her with something. They thought, what could we have her say that won't end up as a clip of people going what an idiot? So they arm her with tell people how much you like bacon, because that's what normal people like bacon. Normal people like bacon, why don't you? And then if the vegans get mad, I didn't say meat bacon, I just said bacon in general.

So if you like the fake bacon. Good on you, and then you don't end up as a SoundBite forty eight hours before the election. But there's a problem. I haven't told you who the host is yet. The host of Subway Takes is Kareem Rama. Are you starting to understand why this is so awkward? That's right, Kareem Rama, host of the popular TikTok Instagram show Subway Takes, chose not to air the interview. The show routinely features guests celebrities.

It's it tends to be light, but is not always from what I can see looking at a topics list, and they kind of mentioned this in the story too. However, the dude is Muslim, and so he wants to talk about it, and I don't really I don't fully know his take on it. Maybe he's like, you know, from the river to the sea, or maybe he's just like, you know, maybe we shouldn't be funding people murdering each other in uh parts of the world, and he believes that across the But I don't know, and we won't

know because the interview didn't air. Because when he broached the topic, she turned to him and started trying to convince him that bacon is a spice while laughing, Apparently, who does that now? I mean, there's not that the interview didn't go out, but you took the easiest softball thing you could try to spin it to and you dropped it on one of like a handful of people

who you could easily identify. Right, probably, don't you know, start talking about and trying to get the host to actively get into their thoughts on how delicious bacon is if you know they are Muslim, if you know they're Jewish, if you know you know, don't get into a shellfish thing. Right, you may be wrong, not everybody about you know keeps the loll or kosher any of the rest of it. But still, why would you do that? And arguably this

on a a college camp is dei setting. I think a student who started who brought up bacon with a professor who was clearly Muslim would pro or or vice versa, would probably find themselves in a disciplinary action for how is this not a microaggression? And again these are your

I'm playing by her rules. Rama then said he told the vice president he wanted to argue against taking off shoes on airplanes, which is a topic I admittedly I wasn't a hundred like, I don't really know all the ins and outs of that whole debate, but it doesn't matter. Very light, lighter thing. And then she brings the bacon thing up again. Rama when asked, Hey, bacon is a spice, right, you know this it's just so delicious, Rama said, I don't know, and she looked at him and goes, well,

think about it. It's pure flavor, at which point Rama paused the interview, asked Harris to return to the topic of Shoela's passengers on planes. He's giving her a softball, and she injected the thing that was the one thing you couldn't inject there, I guess. Then, recognizing that the bacon topic wasn't going to go anywhere, she then said, quote, how about anchovies on pizza? I like Ann Choviys on pizza, and Rama said, quote, I am one hundred percent unsure

on both of those. He said he was already apprehensive about the interview, especially with all of the stuff that they were trying to do, trying to do with you know, this is how it's going to work. Here's the guidelines, here's what you can or can't talk about, and so he pivoted to the shoe thing away from the Israel Israel Gaza stuff, and then he's like, well, we're not even going to air this. This is such a train wreck,

which he should have aired it. The fact that it's the train wreck, and her talking about Bacon to a dude who clearly is Muslim. If you've watched thirteen seconds of him talk about stuff during the show, he does not hide it. And they said, quote, well, we had told we told Rama that her topic list would include pork,

which that's just a weird thing. The interviewer and his manager say no, they never said that, And they produced for the New York Times the email exchange, and it doesn't say anything about pork.

You know that you know where the writer is, right, all right, So her writer is basically here is what must happen for her to be there, which is it was actually that was less, that was less problematic. That was in fact, it's it's so less problematic that I have another story that deals with demands from the New York Times staff, which actually are more arduous than Kamala's. Like that was the most normal thing about her. They didn't roll in and have to have only brown m

and ms. But apparently over at New York Times things are absolutely unraveling, just as they are over at the New York Post. And we're gonna go ahead and get into all of that. We'll talk Gladiator two, your calls, and more baby selling. Damn it, not a month goes by somebody didn't try to sell a baby. We'll get

to all that coming up. CaCO Day Radio program, ROSSI, you started an inflatable bragof here's a guy who says he's got nine inflatables, sir, it's not a contest, but if you want to put them all up, go ahead. All right, Well, let's let's get our next guest in again. We're talking to candidates. One of those candidates is Alvin Robinson. I said district too because for whatever reason, if that's what it literally showed on my little screen here, but

it's actually District twenty six. We're talking to Rockingham County n C. Senate Alvin Robinson is a is the candidate. To colonists, Now, how are you doing this morning, sir?

that restoration? Like, first and foremost the amount of power that we hand over to governor in that situation, which Roy Cooper, in my opinion, abused and in the court's opinion, also, how do how do we how do we stop that from happening again?

That constitution is also what holds these governors in check. And so we the people must must present that and and and we must enforce that, you know, and again going back to your original question, why am I running? Well, it is time for certain legislators here in North Carolina. I'm opposing Phil Berger, who's been in our state legislator for at least twenty two years and maybe twenty four. You know, it is time for them to go home because they're not protecting us. They're not abiding by our

federal or our state constitution on many fronts. And so how do we keep from happening again? Again? We the people need to be more involved and not allow them to just go and check and and and then allowing them to stay in office.

capacity pre COVID. So what what do you think that relationship is and is it better off? Is it worse off? You tell me from an insider's perspective.

I gotta, I gotta, I got a roll. But thank you very much for hanging on and chatting with us this morning. Okay, thank you for all right there you go, Alvin Robinson, that is okay, all right, Sorry you can't rouss and are talking off the air. I'll explain, but let me grab another candidate real quick in this time. Here, Alan Swain, this is district too. We verified it so from the see to the from the border to the sea.

I guess, Alan Swain, how you doing? This is congressional district too, I should say, what's going on this morning? How you doing? Alan?

and spend bill. We have nearly a thirty six trade dollar federal debt. She has not voted to help shore up or immigration wise close the border. She did not vote for HR two in May of twenty twenty three. She does not support her seventy percent of the people even school choice. She does not support school choice. I want to support our public schools systems. Don't get me wrong, but I think a person, a child's zip code in a poor school districts should not dictate their future career potential.

And yeah, my opponent, my opponent does not support Title nine protecting women in sports. I have three daughters. Uh, two of them will not would not have potentially gotten their scholarships to college had they been competing against men.

So if if you think that she's a rubber stand for Democrats and you you sound as though you're probably in line with everything the GOP wants, where do you differentiate where you where you you you go rogue? Like, is there an issue where that maybe both sides are going to be upset with? I mean, what what's separate rates you from just being the other side of the corner.

Pandemic levels. I will not support a continuing resolution like Miss Ross has every time so she can take her summer in winter vacations. I'm going to go up there to make a difference. I fully support term limits. I think we need some fresh, new ideas. I'm not a career politician. I'm on Social Security. I don't want to even before president for President Trump wanted no tax on Social Security. I'm tax going in when I put it in, and now I'm tax going out.

point one two miles. So some thick fog in spots, some scattered light rain as possible early other than that, partly sunning it up to eighty try it will stay in the seventies tomorrow another day close to eighty for the Triangle, maybe some showers Thursday at chance, to showers in the upper seventies, Friday in the mid seventies. And I really don't see temperatures going below normal here right through Veterans Day early next week and not a bunch

of rain around. We're kind of nickeled and dined with showers. Raphael tropical storms gonna become a hurricane. But weekend in the golf and head toward the North Gulf coast. Late in the week, some of that moisture may get drawn up into a front, bring some showers by maybe Saturday night, but again in a weakening phase.

eight nine three four seven eight seventy four. Wait, somebody's like, oh, you let so and so, I don't let Here's the deal with the with the politicians. Anybody can call. So if you're if you're on a ballot, I don't care if you're R or D, or if the audience does or doesn't like you. That's the purpose of this is to provide that opportunity, the opportunities provided to everyone. That's

how we roll. And we'll have these conversations and you'll notice I'm not asking people even what their party is. I'm confident you can probably figure it out. And frankly, you should be doing some of your own research, all right, Okay, so check this out. Gladiator two coming out, and apparently all the historians are mad. Do I expect them to get everything right?

The main one though. Oh that's great. Sorry, Ross has sent me a text I'm going to share with you here in just a moment. Excuse me. It's election day and you know many folks out there maybe standing online, you're going over to do that, you want to hit it early, get over to work, or maybe maybe you're gonna go a little later in the day, and so the spy reports start to flying in. We've had a couple of people call this morning. I think we've got

a third one here. In fact, let me just grab this call real quick, because it'll segue into where I'm going. Uh where, Yeah, you showed up to vote and things were a little different now Not everything is somebody trying to do some shenan Again. Sometimes you know there's technical issues or user air and you hope they get it worked out, and and again I think that the majority of the stuff that you see, the you know, little

the little reports, that's that's kind of what you're dealing with. However, other stuff happens too. Let me grab the Craig's call here real quick, get his spy report, and I'll explain what I mean. Craig, what's up?

pertinent to North Carolina. And here's why, because Pennsylvania, obviously both Trump and and Harris are that that's you know, that is arguably identified as the most important or at least in the top two in North Carolina, which is why the candidates won't leave us alone. If Harris doesn't win Pennsylvania, she can't win without North Carolina. Is the math as I understand it based on current polling trends.

So here's the tweet, Pennsylvania election integrity. Early this morning, we learned that Republican poll watchers in Philadelphia, York, Westmorland, Alleghany, that's Alleghany's Pittsburgh, Lehigh, Cambria, Wyoming and Lackawanna counties. I don't know if those are the most populous counties, they're definitely three of them are have to be right, Philly, Alleghany, probably Lehigh in Pennsylvania. So these are you know, these are the big districts in Pennsylvania. And so they were

turning away GOP pole watchers. According to Wiley, they deployed attorneys, engaged with local officials, and they have finally led them into the building. That's the stuff where people who who made the decision to deny entry to perfectly legal pole watchers. They have a process in Pennsylvania. Everybody knows what's up. Those people need to be taken from their in handcuffs

and charged. That's how you get election integrity. That's not an honest mistake, and you couldn't convince me that it is. It doesn't mean necessarily somebody wanted to cheat. It's people being children. You're dealing with people or being children. They're sitting in deals or deep blue districts. Most of those Philadelphia obviously Pittsburgh as well, but Philly and the three counties surrounding it that were in that list are very

very blue areas. And so it's likely that the people why I'm sure it's more than likely that the people the election, the heads of the elections are probably even if they're nonpartisan, democratically appointed, okay, or where Democrats are doing the appointing. So you get ahead of steam and you want to tell the people that you think are literally Nazis they can't come in because you think you have some sort of flex. You need to be held

accountable for that. And there's a thousand other things like if they tell you to leave and you feel you're in the right, get some get a law enforce or a trade. Don't raise your voice at people right, just say no, I'm in the right here. Let's get either law enforce or somebody in here, and let's figure it out, right, so you know, ross and never talking off the air.

and it fixed the problem. Yeah.

we have we have absolute statutes out there. They generally are more intended because it's you know, it's like poll workers themselves are not necessarily going to be the ones that get into a fistfight over stuff there. Sometimes they do, though, No, it's about basically corrupting the process and the ability of the process to be carried out properly. If you go in there and you are if you are a candidate that's in there campaigning too close, they could charge you.

If you are somebody who's in there actively campaigning voters in line or attempting to interfere in any way, shape or form with what they're doing, you, as Joe Blow's citizen, can be arrested and charged. Why can't those folks, because this isn't a whoopsie, this isn't the machine's not working. We got to get tech here. I'm one hundred percent I'm fine with that. That's the nature the nature of electronics. People who use them once every two years, all that

kind of stuff. But deciding you're not, you're going to simply exclude half of the representatives of you know, to make sure that they're free and fair. Whether you're doing it to be childish or you're doing it to be corrupt, it doesn't matter. You need to be out of there. You are not you know, you are not capable of doing this thing that you that you're there to do. And if you God help you, if you're some appointed or elected election official, you're clearly incompetent and you should

be discharged from your office. There's no uh, there's no there's there's no room not to right now because of how crazy everybody is to get this right? All right, let me grab this call Ryan, what's up?

Sometimes we get to talk about why Gladiator Too is a historical disaster because let's see here, they filled the in one scene, they filled the coliseum with sharks, and they say that most Romans wouldn't know what a shark is. And I actually looked this up, and I don't know if it's a Mediterranean thing. Do they not or that part of it? Do they not have sharks up in the I guess I never really contemplated it, so I don't know. They also took issue with rhinoceros fighting a bull,

but there's dudes riding them. They'd say that the gladiators didn't ride rhinoceroses. I don't care you, but actually people man like this movie may suck for a lot of reasons, but I do. Oh what was the other one? Oh? In one scene on the trailer, they see a Roman noble sipping tea in a cafe while reading the newspaper twelve hundred years before the invention of the printing press. That is true. Do you know how they used to you know how they used to do news. This is

deadly serious with this. So they had daily news service, and a dude would chisel and carve the news into a block of stone, and it would be in like five or six areas, so they'd have different dudes. They know what the news. They go over there and they would chisel, and then you get up in the morning, I guess, and oh, they didn't have cafes by the way, and then they you would go and you'd read the

Chiseled Stone, and then that I have a question. Do you think that they also had fake news and headlines during Chisel time? That'd be crazy. And can you imagine that now some guy with a chisel come along and he'd be like, I don't like what it says here, and then you know, Chisel another narrative in there, so uh, yeah,

there you go that. I don't know what that does for the movie, but I love watching the professor at the University of Chicago, professors at Princeton, Harvard, and UC Berkeley all losing their minds because the dude's writing a rhinoceros in a gladiator outfit, and consider it everything else they had there. I how do you know if they didn't know what a shark was? Oh, and apparently it's the wrong breed of rhinoceros, which I I'm not up on my rhino breeds, so I don't know what to

tell you. But anyway, there you go, all right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four, let's see we got Yeah, I would probably have the opportunity to chat with some couple more two or three politicians if you want. Get that in uh and we'll get an your call as well. But first, a twenty one year old Texas woman tried to do the thing which we don't understand why it's the thing. She tried to

sell her baby. I've seen people try to sell babies for taco bell and one thousand dollars on South Saunders Street, sell their baby for drugs? What was what was the other one we had where they were trying to sell a baby in a campground, those lunatics, and then they but you could rent the baby for a six pack. We just did that story. That's a true story. By the way, they were wanting to try to sell the baby, but you could test drive the baby for the low,

low price of a six pack. These people exist, and we'll tell you the story of twenty one year old Juniper Bryson and her own unique twist. And we'll do that coming up here, and your calls on the CaCO Day Radio program hang on the not people running for office, callers, I'll just let you know we're gonna get priority to Cannon. It's so nothing personal, but this is. It's their day. So that's why we're doing this, and we're gonna chat with a couple more right now. Uh, let's go ahead

and start with the lieutenant governor's race. How Weatherman, it joins us. How are you doing today?

into working with their hands, working in the trade. So I'm going to create what I call it two and two degree, So the kids that want to go into the trades but also want to go to college can do the first two years at a trade school, then transfer over to one of the four year universities and you have a skilled back degree maybe in graphic design, marketing, budget finance, business. Couple that with the skill set of the trades, and then drop a new generation of people

in working with their hands. I tell people all the time, if you're a young person, the quickest way to make six figures, the quickest way to be your own boss, and the quickest way to build a business that literally, if you work it right ten to fifteen years from now you could sell for seven plus figures is to work with your hands. Be that you know, plumbing, welding, HVAC, electrical, and so you know, I'd like to use it for that.

I think a lot of people need to realize too, that when you elected loosing a governor, you're also electing a governor in waiting. And I don't mean that, you know, in an ambitious way. I mean that you are you know, five times in our state history the governor has either died, been removed from all us, or otherwise incapacitated. And we have an automatic secession plan in North Carolina whether the

lieutenant governor does automatically ascend up. So when you elect a lieutenant governor, need to make sure you're electing a man or a woman that has the wisdom that the office entails the experience the office. In tenales, can they commute sentences pardons? And this is can they be the commander in chief of the Guard, the Air National Guard, or the ground Guard. Can they have near unilateral control of the real estate assets of the state of North Carolina,

which are immense. Can they preside over the ninety eight thousand state employees you know, et cetera, et cetera. And so you know my opportunity. What Dan gave me, other than being just a very loyal friend and a great trainer if you will, is he afforded me the opportunity o for ten years with him to travel this great state and to learn the state. I've been all in

under counties multiple times over the last ten years. Even in my own campaign for lieutenant governor, I double back with to all one hundred counties, most of them multiple times. And I think that's important because if you want to lead a state as a governor or lieutenant governor, I believe you need to intimately know it. You need to know its strengths so that you can play towards the strengths of the state, which equally need to know the weaknesses of the state so you can help mitigate them.

I think that is the essence of leadership.

through Friday to help you get those issues resolved. We help seniors with Medicare and prescription drugs every day. We built I want to continue to play for the folks in the Mountain counties impacted by the hurricane, and we've been up there every day helping those folks with victims assistance centers, insurance camps, or insurance villages, helping people get claims. I went to Washington, d c. Last week to meet with the Treasury Department in FEMA advocating for more help

for the people of western North Carolina. Up there a week before last and met with one hundred and fifty small business owners in the Ashville area. And you've got a lot of places that still don't have water, so there's a lot of needs. But you know, today's a big day, election day, so we're just encouraging people that haven't yet voted to get out vote today. This is so important. And I have pushed back hard Casey on what the insurance industry the rates they wanted to raise.

The Insurance Commissioner doesn't set rates in North Carolina. We have a what's called a North Carolina Rate Bureau. But I have said no to every proposed rate increase. We're in court right now on the big homeowners increase they're trying to give. Yeah, that's why we'll see how that comes out.

if we need help. I need people to go to my campaign website today Mike causey NC dot com and spread the word get their friends and neighbors to go vote. It's very important that we have a good turnout today and the polls are open until seven thirty tonight.

As I said earlier, seem as an hour ago high point Winston Salem, Davidson County ten mile visibility there, Ashboro seeing ten mile visibility, so better in some spot. Clouds will stick around and we'll get a slayers of light rain and showers as we move through this election day, but nothing really terrible case warm two and I think the best chance of rain is early partial sun, may try to get out then up for seventies later today, a mile sixty tonight, so late chance of a shower tomorrow,

maybe from showers Thursday. Highs are going to stay warm, mid upper seventies, maybe eighty degrees, and then Friday partial sun mid seventies and over the weekend, maybe some showers Saturday night. But not only are we not going to see much rain, although kind of looks like kind of messy out there, but we're not going to get much in a way of colder air either.

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I could physically convince myself to nap today. I don't know if that's achievable because it's just you wake up and I'm like, why is the Washington Monument on fire? What's happening? So we'll see. Let me grab a one quick call. Oh look at that. It's Donna. All right, Donna, what's up?