A terrible jobs report & brainwashing my listeners! (11-01-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] I do not believe that Bill Bixby and Lamont are the same person. Just a heads up on that. Here's a message. It's a Pete mail from Scott, who says, um, Pete, regarding the garbage in Puerto Rico, keep in mind, you don't want all of the garbage just on one side of the island. Otherwise it could possibly tip over, at least according to Congressman Hank Johnson of Georgia.

[00:00:53] No, see, that was Guam. He was worried about Guam tipping over, not Puerto Rico. I think Puerto Rico's bigger. So it doesn't, it, I don't think there's a risk of it tipping over if we put too many people on the island. This is what Hank Johnson was very, very concerned about. And people think I'm kidding this. By the way, I was reading, um, the other day, some, somebody who's going around and like doing, um, like voter interactions and stuff. I forget who it was, but they were talking about how, um,

[00:01:24] uh, they have to soft pedal. They actually have to, uh, to, they've got to clean up and minimize some of the positions that Harris has taken in the past, like the surgeries for prisoners, the trans surgeries for prisoners. And so they've had to like water some of that stuff down from the truth.

[00:01:46] Because people don't believe them when they tell them that these were positions that she took. Um, and so they, people don't believe it. So they've had to water them down in order to get people's opinions on some of this stuff. Uh, yeah. 704-570-1110. Uh, and the email is Pete at the Pete calendar show.com. Uh, Stan says, Pete calling, uh, the entire legacy media garbage.

[00:02:14] Is only racist. If you don't use the apostrophe. That's fair. See, like I said, the other day, as a, uh, journalism major in college with a degree, we took an entire course just on apostrophes.

[00:02:28] Apostrophes. So I feel like I am expert enough in the use of the apostrophe to tell you where, uh, it is. And it was not in that word. It makes no sense. So let's go over to line two here and talk with Tito. Welcome to the program. Tito.

[00:02:45] Good afternoon. How you doing? Uh, I'm all right. How are you?

[00:02:50] Good, good. Hey, um, this is a very quick call. Congratulations for your show, sir. And, um, and I just want to tell you that, uh, I already vote for president Trump because, um, I'm from Nicaragua and then, uh, Democrats, they helped to get the left in my country. So, and I call all Latino. I told him the old Latino to vote for president Trump.

[00:03:14] All right. And, uh, I don't, I don't see why they're going to get offense, uh, because they call out, I mean, uh, for the job of the guy, you know, with, uh, in New York. Uh, so I called all Latinos. I told all Latinos vote for president Trump. So.

[00:03:30] All right. It's not good. All right. Thank you very much.

[00:03:32] So Tito, can I ask you, do you, do you listen to, um, do you listen to Spanish radio?

[00:03:38] Yes, sir.

[00:03:39] So what is it like, what are they saying over on those stations?

[00:03:43] What do you hear?

[00:03:44] Well, um, I, I listen, uh, uh, one radio station from Miami.

[00:03:48] I got separate radio. So they, they, they, they, they tell me now, uh, uh, to vote for president Trump.

[00:03:54] Really?

[00:03:55] Because only they, they, they, they, they left, uh, uh, like Univision, uh, uh, you know, the TV, Telemundo, NBC, uh, I think NBC.

[00:04:04] Yeah.

[00:04:04] Uh, they're left, you know, they talking about, uh, uh, they talk garbage about president Trump, but they don't see, I mean, um, we would be, uh, president Trump did great.

[00:04:15] In the four years, he was a president, no war.

[00:04:18] And, and, and, you know, and everybody affect the economy right now, you know, and deflation and the border.

[00:04:25] We got to secure the border because all those criminals from, uh, from, uh, you know, about those countries, Venezuela, uh, Nicaragua, my country, you know, Ortega is a communist.

[00:04:35] And then he's sending, they're sending a bad people to this country.

[00:04:39] And then we don't want those kind of people here.

[00:04:42] All right.

[00:04:42] So do you know, is this, is this a common belief among, uh, people from Nicaragua or Venezuela that you know that they're saying that, that prisoners or bad people are being sent here?

[00:04:55] Yeah.

[00:04:56] Well, um, you know, uh, they send a criminal and that's true.

[00:05:00] What, uh, what, uh, what I listen, you know, because you see the Trencaragua, they're from Venezuela.

[00:05:07] You know, the young lady's here.

[00:05:09] So, uh, it's not right, you know?

[00:05:14] So, uh, well, well, well, president Trump, I think president Trump is going to win it and they're going to catch everybody and deport, you know?

[00:05:21] Do you think so?

[00:05:21] I agree with Mr. Trump.

[00:05:23] Oh, yes.

[00:05:23] Yes.

[00:05:24] Yes.

[00:05:24] And, and, and North Carolina and, uh, Pennsylvania, um, all of the three states, we got it.

[00:05:31] They got a vote for president Trump.

[00:05:33] And I know that listen to, uh, to, to your shows, sir.

[00:05:36] And all those, uh, those states.

[00:05:38] So let's go vote for president Trump.

[00:05:41] All right, Tito.

[00:05:42] Thank you for the call, sir.

[00:05:43] I appreciate it.

[00:05:44] All right.

[00:05:44] Take care.

[00:05:44] Thank you so much.

[00:05:45] Yeah.

[00:05:45] Bye now.

[00:05:46] Yeah.

[00:05:46] Um, yeah, I, like I said, I've been saying this for years.

[00:05:50] There's a realignment happening in the political parties.

[00:05:54] I think Tito is probably an example of it.

[00:05:57] Um, and I also think Liz Cheney is an example of it.

[00:06:02] Um, and I actually said this, nobody would know this because at the time I was a reporter,

[00:06:08] uh, for WBT, but, um, and I didn't put in any of the, the news reports, but I remember

[00:06:16] seeing and hearing people talking up in like Washington DC predominantly, they were talking

[00:06:21] about how, um, the neocons were taking over in the Republican party.

[00:06:28] And there were all of these people that they had no idea who these people were, not just

[00:06:33] neocons, but a lot of just a lot of, you know, newcomers to politics and they were, they

[00:06:39] were kind of hitching their wagons to the Republican party as the GOP became ascendant.

[00:06:46] And the concern was that in doing so you're losing the things that, that the GOP traditionally

[00:06:55] stood for.

[00:06:56] And I would submit that they did lose some of that, like this idea.

[00:07:01] And this, I'm not going to make this about climate change, but this is, it's sort of a

[00:07:05] similar argument where like, there's this idea that a particular moment in time is the

[00:07:12] optimal or is the way it should be and always will be and always was.

[00:07:17] And that's not the case.

[00:07:18] Things change.

[00:07:19] Everything changes, right?

[00:07:20] The only constant in life is change.

[00:07:23] And I learned this before I ever got into, uh, media.

[00:07:28] I worked in restaurants and bars and they go through these cycles and you could see it.

[00:07:35] And it didn't, it was pretty quick.

[00:07:37] You would open up a restaurant or a bar.

[00:07:40] Everybody would come and check it out.

[00:07:41] You'd be packed.

[00:07:43] And then another bar restaurant would open up down the road a couple of years later and

[00:07:47] everybody would go over there and that's the new hot place in town.

[00:07:50] And everything just kind of goes in cycles.

[00:07:52] And so you have to reinvent yourself.

[00:07:54] And so, uh, and this happens in economics as well.

[00:07:57] Oh, speaking of economics, um, did you hear the jobs report?

[00:08:01] The jobs numbers?

[00:08:04] Not good.

[00:08:05] Yeah, not good.

[00:08:07] Um, the, we apparently, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the jobs report came out

[00:08:13] and 12,000 jobs added in October.

[00:08:19] That is anemic.

[00:08:23] That is terrible.

[00:08:25] 12,000.

[00:08:27] Um, there were some other data points here.

[00:08:30] Let me see if I can pull them up.

[00:08:32] Um, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot.

[00:08:34] Yeah.

[00:08:34] The private sector actually lost jobs last month.

[00:08:39] Private sector payrolls down about 28,000.

[00:08:45] They were expected to grow by 70,000.

[00:08:51] So that is a, that is a, uh, an inversion or a flip of like 98,000 jobs.

[00:08:58] Missed it by that much.

[00:09:01] So where did the growth come from to make up that negative 28,000 and then go on the

[00:09:08] plus side 12,000?

[00:09:09] So that swing of what?

[00:09:10] 30,000 jobs.

[00:09:12] Where did those 30,000 jobs come from?

[00:09:15] Well, if it's not the private sector, that's right.

[00:09:19] It's the public sector.

[00:09:21] It's the government.

[00:09:21] I think those were the, uh, IRS agents that they hired.

[00:09:27] No, that's over time, Pete.

[00:09:29] It's over a decade.

[00:09:30] They're going to be going after billionaires.

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[00:10:39] Alrighty.

[00:10:40] Let's hear it.

[00:10:41] Willie, welcome to the program.

[00:10:43] Hello, Willie.

[00:10:44] Well, I don't claim to get it all right.

[00:10:47] I don't claim to know it all, but I will say this.

[00:10:50] And I don't blame Tito for this.

[00:10:52] The poor guy is misinformed.

[00:10:55] Obviously, he hasn't researched anything about Donald Trump.

[00:11:00] Obviously, he's been brainwashed by WBT, your show, The Bread Show, and also Vince Coakley,

[00:11:07] and Fox News and whatever, all rhetoric that he hears on the right-wing media.

[00:11:14] With that being said, what exactly is it that these Christians, these white, right-wing,

[00:11:25] and even not right-wing Christians who follow the Bible and who, you know, live and always proclaim this Jesus this and Jesus that,

[00:11:37] what is it about them that they see in Donald Trump, any goodness in Donald Trump,

[00:11:42] when the guy has proven over and over again how immoral he is, how he lies?

[00:11:49] Can you and I at least agree that he's a pathetic liar?

[00:11:52] Is that something you could at least admit?

[00:11:54] Why would you-

[00:11:55] Wait, so why is it pathetic liar?

[00:11:58] Can he just be a liar?

[00:11:59] Okay, a liar.

[00:12:00] Yeah, he lies.

[00:12:01] Absolutely.

[00:12:02] So do you.

[00:12:02] Okay.

[00:12:04] I'm sorry?

[00:12:04] So do you.

[00:12:06] Well, I don't go around saying that.

[00:12:09] Sure you do.

[00:12:09] You just did.

[00:12:11] How did I lie?

[00:12:12] All right.

[00:12:12] Well, first off, let me ask a question.

[00:12:14] Do you listen to WBT?

[00:12:16] Always.

[00:12:17] Right.

[00:12:17] So how is it then that Tito got brainwashed by us and you didn't?

[00:12:21] Well, obviously, you don't know what's coming out of the, on the airwaves when they talk about all the-

[00:12:26] That's not what I asked.

[00:12:26] No, no, no.

[00:12:27] That's not what I asked.

[00:12:27] How is it that you believe Tito got brainwashed but you didn't because you listen to the same content he does?

[00:12:35] Oh, because I'm, because he's talking about voting for Trump.

[00:12:38] No.

[00:12:38] How did he get brainwashed?

[00:12:41] By listening to you guys.

[00:12:42] You listen to us but you're not brainwashed, right?

[00:12:45] Of course.

[00:12:45] Well, I have enough sense to make my own decisions.

[00:12:48] Okay.

[00:12:48] So you're saying then that Tito doesn't have any sense because he came to a different conclusion so he must be brainwashed.

[00:12:55] Yeah, exactly.

[00:12:56] Right.

[00:12:56] So that's why I said that you're a liar.

[00:12:58] It's not his fault.

[00:12:59] No, that's why I say that you're a liar.

[00:13:01] You're lying to yourself, Willie.

[00:13:04] Right.

[00:13:04] You're lying to yourself because you're elevating yourself above Tito that you are smarter so you didn't fall for whatever it is that you think Tito fell for.

[00:13:14] And that's a lie to yourself.

[00:13:16] Well, I consider myself a smart enough-

[00:13:19] Of course you do.

[00:13:19] Make good choices.

[00:13:20] Sure.

[00:13:21] So does Tito.

[00:13:22] Hey, Willie.

[00:13:23] Willie.

[00:13:23] So, Tito, I would assume Tito does as well?

[00:13:28] Not the fact that he makes this.

[00:13:30] I mean, people, listen.

[00:13:31] He arrives at, no, Willie, he arrived at a different opinion than you did.

[00:13:35] He's looking at different things.

[00:13:37] He cited the reasons why he prefers Donald Trump as president.

[00:13:41] And you say that he's brainwashed to arrive at those conclusions after listening to the exact same content that you yourself claim to listen to.

[00:13:51] So rather than say, oh, well, he must be of a different opinion, you decide to say that it's not his fault because he's just not as intellectually superior as you are.

[00:14:02] And you were able to discern truth despite the attempts to brainwash you.

[00:14:09] Right.

[00:14:10] Yeah.

[00:14:10] So what I'm trying to-

[00:14:12] I did not listen to the whole-

[00:14:13] I listened to the very end of the conversation, but anybody that says and encourages anyone to even attempt to make an excuse or follow Trump or even vote for him, I would say that overall they've been brainwashed and misinformed.

[00:14:27] Yeah.

[00:14:27] And I would say-

[00:14:28] But Tito or Willie, I could say the same of you.

[00:14:33] Well, yes.

[00:14:34] Yeah.

[00:14:34] But the truth is, the truth is that as of now, you know, the man's still lying, continues to lie.

[00:14:42] Do you think Kamala Harris lies?

[00:14:45] They all lie, like you said.

[00:14:46] Okay.

[00:14:46] All right.

[00:14:47] So then, all right.

[00:14:47] So then why, all right.

[00:14:48] So, so then why is that then a disqualifying thing for Trump to be a liar, but not for Harris to be a liar?

[00:14:54] Well, I don't want to name.

[00:14:55] I have a list of maybe, you know, 10,000 things that disqualified Trump and not just my list.

[00:15:01] You said liar.

[00:15:02] You, you, you wanted me to admit that Trump's a liar.

[00:15:04] And I, I freely admit that he lies because everybody lies.

[00:15:08] All of the candidates lie.

[00:15:10] Politicians lie.

[00:15:11] It's a big difference when you and I perhaps, you know, throw a lie here and there.

[00:15:15] But when you're in a position of power and you're going to be president of the United States,

[00:15:18] like Joe Biden, include anybody.

[00:15:21] I don't care who it is.

[00:15:22] Right.

[00:15:23] Okay.

[00:15:23] So then Willie, you should not vote for anybody, I guess.

[00:15:27] Because everybody, everybody that's running for these offices lie.

[00:15:30] I thought it was understood that politicians lie.

[00:15:33] I am not, I am not going to just make a decision on someone lying.

[00:15:38] There's a lot of it.

[00:15:39] Like I said, there's 10,000 other reasons why.

[00:15:41] All right.

[00:15:41] So give me another reason.

[00:15:42] All right.

[00:15:43] Give me another reason.

[00:15:44] I don't look.

[00:15:45] Thanks very much for the call, buddy.

[00:15:47] No, no.

[00:15:47] You called me.

[00:15:48] Okay.

[00:15:48] Well, you called me, Willie.

[00:15:50] Well, I wanted to, I wanted you to, you know, raise your ratings by, you know, by my call

[00:15:56] and you listen to my voice.

[00:15:57] How about that?

[00:15:58] You want, oh, wait a minute.

[00:15:59] So hang on a second.

[00:16:00] Why would you help raise my ratings if all I'm doing is brainwashing people?

[00:16:04] Well, I believe, I believe in spread, you know, spreading love and help.

[00:16:07] Spreading brainwashing?

[00:16:08] Wait, but why would, how, how is it that I'm, okay, wait a minute.

[00:16:12] Why would you be trying to help me brainwash other people like Tito?

[00:16:16] Well, because, you know, you know, like the Christians say, that's what Jesus would do.

[00:16:19] Jesus would help brainwash people towards Satan?

[00:16:23] No, help you, help you.

[00:16:25] You're helping me brainwash people, which you think is bad.

[00:16:29] No, no, no.

[00:16:29] See, this is, this is, this, this doesn't, this is, uh, this doesn't make logical sense,

[00:16:34] Willie.

[00:16:35] Okay.

[00:16:36] Anyway, like I said.

[00:16:37] Yeah.

[00:16:38] So yeah, I'll give you another shot.

[00:16:39] I got about another minute and a half if you wanted to, to give me another reason why,

[00:16:43] besides the lying, why Donald Trump, uh, is not your cup of tea.

[00:16:48] Well, it's not just my cup of tea.

[00:16:51] It's fine.

[00:16:51] I'm just asking about you, Willie.

[00:16:53] I'm just asking.

[00:16:53] 50% of the country.

[00:16:54] Yeah.

[00:16:54] I'm just asking about you.

[00:16:56] We'll find out.

[00:16:56] But yeah, well, I'm just asking about you.

[00:16:58] What, what other of the 10,000 list?

[00:17:02] I don't have time.

[00:17:02] I got to eat my lunch.

[00:17:03] You don't have time.

[00:17:05] Okay.

[00:17:06] All right.

[00:17:06] All right.

[00:17:07] Yeah.

[00:17:07] All right.

[00:17:07] Take care, Willie.

[00:17:08] Uh, good luck with that.

[00:17:09] Um, just a heads up.

[00:17:11] I didn't vote for Donald Trump the last two times he ran.

[00:17:17] So, yeah, I don't, uh, wait a minute.

[00:17:24] Is this call part of the brainwashing operation?

[00:17:29] Go vote for Trump.

[00:17:41] Oh, sorry.

[00:17:43] Good Lord, man.

[00:17:45] No, I mean, look, you have a different opinion than Tito did.

[00:17:49] You're allowed to have a different opinion.

[00:17:51] And that's what we talk about on the show.

[00:17:53] Now, if you think that's brainwashing, I would submit to you.

[00:17:55] It's because you are unable to defend your positions.

[00:17:59] See?

[00:18:00] Unchallenged ideas are easy to hold.

[00:18:03] And I think we just, I think we just, uh, illustrated that.

[00:18:07] Right?

[00:18:07] Bunch of emails here.

[00:18:09] Um, K Kelly says, Willie won't be able to go eat his lunch because you did that for him.

[00:18:19] Willie got his lunch eaten before he had a chance to eat it.

[00:18:22] That's from Steve.

[00:18:23] I'm sensing a theme.

[00:18:25] Uh, Gary says, uh, it's a Pete tweet.

[00:18:27] He says, are the Democrat voters listening to you today freaking out because they feel Trump is winning?

[00:18:32] Because they have lost their minds with calls today.

[00:18:35] They think they sound super smart and just come off as ignorant.

[00:18:39] Well, this is why I say unchallenged ideas are easy to hold.

[00:18:45] And Democrats, and I guess it's, uh, especially obvious, um, with comms people inside the Democrat party.

[00:18:59] When something happens and they, they get treated on the very rare occasions, they get treated as if they were a Republican comms shop and they go to pieces.

[00:19:11] Republicans and conservatives deal with this kind of stuff all the time.

[00:19:15] And I've been doing this now since when?

[00:19:20] 2008?

[00:19:22] 2009?

[00:19:23] And I have heard the arguments and so I have learned how to discuss things with people and to defend ideas.

[00:19:33] And I don't just say stuff and make up opinions or, uh, or beliefs or anything like that.

[00:19:40] These are things that I have thought about and I believe to be true.

[00:19:45] And I assume that most people who advance their arguments believe what they're saying is true.

[00:19:50] I disagree that it is true, but I also know their argument.

[00:19:55] And a lot of times, as you've heard on the show today, a lot of people on the left don't actually know the other side's arguments.

[00:20:05] And they cannot defend their own because they just get fed a steady stream of, you are morally superior because you believe in fill in the blank slogan.

[00:20:17] And that's all they have for a large number of them.

[00:20:20] That's all they've got.

[00:20:21] It's just a slogan.

[00:20:23] And when you start asking them about the talking point or the slogan and, okay, well, why is that?

[00:20:29] Let's, let's dissect the philosophy that's behind this slogan.

[00:20:33] And they don't have anything there because they've never been asked to do so.

[00:20:39] I don't blame Willie in that scenario.

[00:20:43] Willie just knows that Donald Trump bad.

[00:20:46] That's all he needs to know.

[00:20:47] And if he just calls him a liar, I suspect that the people he is generally surrounded by, they're all like, yes.

[00:20:56] And that's enough.

[00:20:57] I've got examples of this on the right as well.

[00:21:00] The classic example I've used for years was Todd Akin, Senate candidate from Missouri, who said that if it's a, quote, legitimate rape, then the woman can't get pregnant.

[00:21:11] That the body has a way of shutting that down.

[00:21:13] Remember that guy?

[00:21:14] Republican.

[00:21:16] Lost.

[00:21:17] To Claire McCaskill in a seat that the Republicans should have won.

[00:21:22] But he says that it becomes this huge talking point and attack ad against him and every other Republican, because, of course, Republicans are always forced to play the defend or disavow game by the media.

[00:21:36] What did you think of Todd Akin's statement?

[00:21:37] Do you agree with Todd Akin?

[00:21:41] And he lost.

[00:21:43] And I have no doubt in my mind that Todd Akin had said that thing many, many times before.

[00:21:49] But nobody had ever challenged him because he probably surrounded himself with people that were like, yes, I agree.

[00:21:57] And then you say it in an interview.

[00:22:00] And there goes your career.

[00:22:03] Because the first time you got challenged on your idea, you could not defend it.

[00:22:09] Right?

[00:22:10] Resistance to pressure builds strength.

[00:22:14] By the way, this also occurs in a lot of, for a lot of kids with their religious upbringing.

[00:22:21] And the first time they get tested, when they go to college and they've got some, you know, leftist, atheist professor, and they're completely unprepared to defend their beliefs.

[00:22:34] And they end up being convinced that they've been wrong and lied to for their entire life.

[00:22:41] That's why you need to have the debate.

[00:22:44] That's what we do here.

[00:22:47] Well, we try to do.

[00:22:51] Let me see here.

[00:22:52] Trying to see who's up next here.

[00:22:53] I guess this is Ralph.

[00:22:54] Hello, Ralph.

[00:22:55] Welcome to the program.

[00:22:57] Well, glad to be with you today, Pete.

[00:23:02] Willie and everything knows so much information that is not true.

[00:23:07] And so he doesn't have any basis or facts to go on.

[00:23:12] But he is a throwback from the Keith Larson show a long time ago.

[00:23:18] But another point, too.

[00:23:20] I hope there wasn't no cockroaches in Willie's chimichanga.

[00:23:24] You know, that would not be good.

[00:23:26] No, I've heard the story.

[00:23:27] Yes, I have that story.

[00:23:29] I was going to do it during the good one coming on end of the show.

[00:23:36] But, you know, just a couple points.

[00:23:38] You know, this is what frustrates me.

[00:23:41] Kamala has met with Biden over the last three and a half years, a couple times a week.

[00:23:47] And how she didn't know that there was something incognitive about him and everything.

[00:23:54] And they should have invoked the 25th Amendment.

[00:23:57] But this was their plan.

[00:23:59] You know, the people, there were people running the shows.

[00:24:02] And I'm not going to name any names because I don't have any facts.

[00:24:05] But I do believe there were people behind the scenes pulling the strings for all the policies and everything that has gone down in the last three and a half years.

[00:24:18] Or either, you know, they put these policies in front of Biden and he had to run with them.

[00:24:23] Yeah.

[00:24:23] Well, I know.

[00:24:24] Look, Ralph, you don't.

[00:24:25] I can tell.

[00:24:26] I mean, we may not know all of the individual people, but they have said that.

[00:24:29] They've made that explicitly clear when they say you're voting for a team, that Biden's got a team around him.

[00:24:36] Right?

[00:24:38] Yeah.

[00:24:39] And everything.

[00:24:40] And what frustrates me is they're picking points, a lot of points, on his personal character and his past personal life.

[00:24:50] I have no interest in his past personal life.

[00:24:55] I vote on his policies.

[00:24:57] I'm an independent.

[00:24:59] You know, I look at the lies that have come out of liberalism.

[00:25:05] And just like Rush Limbaugh used to say, everything has to evolve.

[00:25:10] And so the Democratic Party has evolved, in my opinion, and it's just my opinion, into a corrupt, power-hungry machine that does not want to relinquish power at any cost.

[00:25:25] It does seem, yeah.

[00:25:27] It does seem that way.

[00:25:28] Ralph, yeah.

[00:25:29] Yeah, go ahead real quick.

[00:25:32] But, yeah, you know, I just wish people would get out there and Tito, praise Tito.

[00:25:39] You know, he is a true patriot for getting on the radio and endorsing, you know, Trump to his people and putting message out.

[00:25:50] You know, we need more patriots like Tito.

[00:25:52] Yeah.

[00:25:52] But that's all I got to say, Tito.

[00:25:53] All right, Ralph.

[00:25:54] I appreciate it, man.

[00:25:54] Have a great weekend.

[00:25:56] Along those lines, I got an email here from Jay who said, the morality train left the station a long time ago.

[00:26:05] The need for morality left during the Clinton administration.

[00:26:11] Right?

[00:26:11] This is what I keep trying to tell people on the left.

[00:26:14] Y'all won.

[00:26:16] This is your standard.

[00:26:18] This is what you asked for.

[00:26:20] You said the personal life stuff doesn't matter.

[00:26:25] And conservatives, people like me, said, no, it does matter.

[00:26:29] And we lost.

[00:26:31] You won.

[00:26:33] Your standard.

[00:26:35] You should be happy.

[00:26:37] Louise, welcome to the program.

[00:26:39] Hello, Louise.

[00:26:39] Louise.

[00:26:40] Yeah.

[00:26:41] Hello.

[00:26:42] Hello.

[00:26:43] Yes.

[00:26:43] Can you hear me?

[00:26:44] Yes, ma'am.

[00:26:45] I can.

[00:26:46] All right.

[00:26:47] So the bottom line is, as you know, you have to look at the action.

[00:26:54] And if the action for a candidate running is just, you know, this is like me dialing into soap opera land of the political politics.

[00:27:05] Well, I look my when I first started dating my now wife, Christy, she used to watch like one.

[00:27:12] I think she was down to like one soap opera.

[00:27:14] And I told her at the time that because she didn't follow politics at all.

[00:27:19] Not that she does really now, but she doesn't watch any soap operas anymore.

[00:27:21] But I told her, I said, politics is like a soap opera, except it matters.

[00:27:27] Yeah.

[00:27:27] But the thing of it is, so since that's the case, you've got to look at the action that somebody has done.

[00:27:35] And get a piece of paper, write down the action on the left, all the talk only.

[00:27:42] Promises are for not, not on this planet.

[00:27:47] You know, not unless you're canonized as saint.

[00:27:49] If you say something that you're going to do, then please verify, you know, I'm going to get the pope.

[00:27:56] I'm going to get that pope mobile and I'm going to make sure if there is actually a saint, use a politician.

[00:28:06] No.

[00:28:06] And I always say, do not fall in love with a politician because they will break your heart.

[00:28:11] And I don't know why we've come to this point in our lives where we believe that only the other sides, politicians, lie.

[00:28:19] They all do.

[00:28:20] And I thought that was, I mean, my entire life we always made jokes about politicians lying to get elected.

[00:28:26] So why would that have changed?

[00:28:29] Right.

[00:28:29] But we're really loving the person's talk.

[00:28:33] Mm-hmm.

[00:28:34] So since that's the case, you've got to just forget about what everybody's saying.

[00:28:40] And this is life or death.

[00:28:43] You've got to look at exactly the action they did.

[00:28:46] Because I believe myself, being in the 50s, at the end of the 40s, born, I heard what Eisenhower said.

[00:28:57] And you cannot, see, I believe the government should only handle, you know, the United States attacks to protect it for the safety.

[00:29:11] And that's it.

[00:29:12] Mm-hmm.

[00:29:13] You know.

[00:29:13] Yeah, national security.

[00:29:15] Yeah.

[00:29:16] Well, see, when I was growing up, let me just tell you, these churches, they're the ones that fed the poor.

[00:29:24] Mm-hmm.

[00:29:24] They're the ones that handled everything pertaining to charity, you know.

[00:29:30] And this thing in Asheville, you know, well, one other thing I want to say, you know, we're looking at the action.

[00:29:37] We have to.

[00:29:38] But we also have to turn the table around and look at the action of the voters.

[00:29:44] I'm after one guy, and I'm darn well going to make sure I'm going to bother the heck out of him, where he gets pissed because, did you vote?

[00:29:54] No, no, no, not yet.

[00:29:56] I said, look, you get an open door.

[00:29:59] You can never shut that door.

[00:30:01] You got to vote.

[00:30:03] Yeah.

[00:30:03] You know?

[00:30:04] Yeah.

[00:30:04] And we could, people could gab all they want about them being lazy or whatever, but what about yourself first?

[00:30:12] You got to get, I'm lazy, kick your butt and get out and vote.

[00:30:17] Go do the curbside voting.

[00:30:19] They'll come to you like a fast food place.

[00:30:23] Yeah.

[00:30:24] Louise, no, it's good.

[00:30:25] Yeah, it's good advice, Louise, that people go in.

[00:30:29] If you vote early, then you don't have to worry about it.

[00:30:31] And here's the thing also, that the resources that are now required to get out more people to vote are not going to be wasted on you because you've already voted.

[00:30:40] I appreciate the call, Louise.

[00:30:42] There was actually a, there's a lawyer.

[00:30:44] He does actually a lot of defense work for some of the J6ers.

[00:30:46] And he said, it's simple math, basically.

[00:30:50] And Democrats figured this out before the Republicans did that efforts to get the vote out early through mail-in or early in-person voting, that it not only banks the votes, it also greatly improves the effectiveness of election day get out the vote efforts.

[00:31:09] Because the fewer votes that remain to be cast on election day, the more resources per voter to get out the vote effort can dedicate.

[00:31:17] Right?

[00:31:18] So think about it.

[00:31:19] You got a campaign worker and they get a list of 50 people's names.

[00:31:26] And they're told, okay, call these people, text them, email them.

[00:31:30] Right?

[00:31:31] You got 50 people on your list.

[00:31:33] You got to reach out to all 50 of these people and get them to go turn out and vote.

[00:31:38] Um, those 50 voters are going to be then reached out to continuously over 10 hours.

[00:31:44] You may get 30 people to respond.

[00:31:46] You offer to send them a ride to pick them up.

[00:31:49] You send a campaign worker to get their mail-in ballot, whatever, where ballot harvesting is legal.

[00:31:54] Sometimes campaign workers might go through an apartment building and knock on the door of every single registered Democrat who hasn't voted.

[00:32:02] They go inside, help them complete their ballot, take it with them.

[00:32:05] Nursing homes in Wisconsin had like 100% voting in 2020 using this very method.

[00:32:11] Now consider the alternative.

[00:32:13] Right now what we're seeing is if the mail-in ballots are off by 25% for Democrats, that means you're not getting a list of 50 names.

[00:32:22] You're getting a list with 75 names.

[00:32:25] And that means you don't have as much time to reach out to 75 people as you did to reach out to 50.

[00:32:33] If you've got 75 names, you've got less time per name to chase them.

[00:32:38] So rather than getting that 30 that you got when you had a list of 50 names with less time, you might only get 25.

[00:32:45] And so now 50 votes have been lost.

[00:32:51] This is why this stuff matters.

[00:32:53] And it's why when you're looking at the early numbers and the number of the registered voters for each party that have turned out so far, this is what that translates into on election day.

[00:33:03] Is that the more people that have already voted early, you now don't have to chase them down to get them on election day, which means your list of 50 may be shorter than 50.

[00:33:16] And you may actually get more off of the shorter list than you would under a longer list.

[00:33:22] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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