Biggest losers in VP debate: CBS' moderators (10-02-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:26] [SPEAKER_03]: and again, thank you so much for your support last night I watched the vice presidential debate and

[00:00:34] [SPEAKER_03]: One question

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_03]: one question from see BS news

[00:00:43] [SPEAKER_03]: regarding

[00:00:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Hurricane Helene and it wasn't even about Helene. It wasn't about the victims

[00:00:51] [SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't about disaster response. It wasn't about helping them. It was about climate change

[00:01:01] [SPEAKER_03]: She took the one question the moderators Nora O'Donnell Margaret Brennan, I think or Brennan whatever her name is

[00:01:10] [SPEAKER_03]: O'Donnell wasn't even I mean

[00:01:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Margaret was I don't know what her last name is Brennan or Brennan. I forget

[00:01:18] [SPEAKER_03]: She was awful just absolutely awful

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't even know like for somebody who gets paid to read a teleprompter. It seemed like she was a

[00:01:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Rookie like she had never read a teleprompter before

[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know maybe she was nervous. I don't know

[00:01:35] [SPEAKER_03]: But you got you got recovery search and rescue teams

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_03]: still

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Running all over the mountains and

[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Your question is about climate change with follow-up questions about climate change

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the the moderators were terrible. I went and pulled this was from the very beginning the first two rounds of questions

[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_03]: I think it was

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_03]: But basically until JD Vance

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_03]: smacked back at the moderators

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Then of course he's accused of mansplaining

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_03]: because Margaret was wrong and

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_03]: They they after the first question

[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_03]: They they started, you know, they made some comments like before we move on

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm just gonna say this one thing this quote like

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Fact check where they said they weren't going to be fact checking because if you're going to do it for one

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_03]: You have to do it for both and God knows if you're gonna be doing a debate with Governor Tim Walz

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Who's a liar you're gonna be doing a lot of fact checks on him and they don't want to do that

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_03]: So they said we're not going to do fact checking and then of course they started right in making these little comments

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_03]: After the candidates would would talk and they would make these little comments about well actually

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_03]: And it was all directed at JD Vance until he finally said I thought you guys weren't going to be fact-checking

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_03]: But as long as we're doing this let me fact check you and

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Then of course they cut his mic

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_03]: And after that things seem to get a little bit better the moderators

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Weren't

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Engaging in this behavior after that and maybe that's all it took

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_03]: But then of course there's oh my gosh, I can't believe he fact check look

[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_03]: He's mansplaining

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_03]: So what so women could just say whatever they want to be wrong

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_03]: And if a guy says that you're wrong about that then that's mansplaining

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_03]: No

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_03]: No, you don't you don't get to have it like that

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_03]: If you if you cannot do battle in the arena of ideas get out of the arena

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Your gender doesn't matter

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_03]: So here's how it sounded I just put these clips together and you'll notice it the use of a

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Specific word that whenever they're pivoting and throwing it over to Tim Walz to respond

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_03]: You'll hear a word that they used and they only used it as

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_03]: The handoff the tee up for walls

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_03]: See if you can see if you can identify the word I'm talking tonight

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_07]: Our country is facing several unfolding crises. The Middle East is on the brink of war

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_07]: Americans are suffering from the catastrophic impact of hurricane Helene and now a labor strike as

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_07]: 25,000 dock workers from Maine to Texas are picketing by the way

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_03]: I never did ask anything about that last topic, which is a very large topic

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_03]: But especially when Tim Walz like I'm a union guy, you know, like well

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe ask the union guy about the union

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_03]: That's about to probably

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Cripple the relief efforts in Western North Carolina. Maybe ask him about that but no no climate change

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_07]: We're gonna begin tonight with the Middle East Margaret. Thank you Nora. Thank you senator

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_08]: Governor Walz. Do you care to respond to any of the allegations?

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_08]: Well, look gentlemen. We have a lot to get to Nora Margaret. Thank you

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_07]: Let's turn out a hurricane Helene the storm could become one of the deadliest on record more than

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_07]: 160 people are dead and hundreds more are missing

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_07]: Scientists say climate change makes these hurricanes larger

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_07]: stronger and more deadly because of the historic rainfall

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_07]: Senator Vance according to CBS News polling seven in ten Americans and more than 60 percent of

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_07]: Republicans under the age of 45

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_07]: Favor the US taking steps to try and reduce climate change

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_07]: Senator what responsibility would the Trump administration have to try and reduce the impact of climate change?

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_07]: I'll give you two minutes. Thank you senator

[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_07]: I want to give you an opportunity to respond there the governor mentioned that President Trump has called climate change a hoax

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_07]: Do you agree?

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_07]: Governor your time is up the overwhelming consensus among scientists is that the earth's climate is warming at an unprecedented rate Margaret

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_08]: Thank You Nora. We're gonna turn now to immigration

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_08]: governor

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_08]: Do you care to respond to any of those specific allegations?

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_08]: Including that the vice president is quote letting in fentanyl and using kids as drug mules among other things

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, well children

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_08]: It's senator the question was will you separate parents from their children?

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_08]: Even if their kids are US citizens, you have one minute

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_08]: Tim governor governor your time is up senator. I'll give you one minute, but let me just ask you the question first

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_08]: The governor has made the point and I think as a sitting lawmaker

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_08]: You know that Congress controls the purse strings and any funding

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_08]: So you have said repeatedly that Donald Trump would through executive action

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_08]: Solve this do you disagree?

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_08]: That Congress controls the purse strings that would need to support many of the changes that you would actually want to implement

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_08]: You have one minute

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_08]: Thank You governor and just to clarify for our viewers Springfield, Ohio does have a large number of Haitian migrants

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_08]: Who have legal status?

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_08]: Temporary protected

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_08]: Thank You senator we have so much to get to Margaret. I think it's important because

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_01]: The economy Margaret the rules were that you guys are gonna fact check and since you're fact checking me

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's important to say what's actually going on

[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_01]: So there's an application called the CBP one app where you can go on as an illegal migrant

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Apply for asylum or apply for parole and be granted legal status at the wave of a

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala Harris open border wand that is not a person coming in applying for a green card and waiting for ten years

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Thank You senator rotation of illegal immigration Margaret by

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_08]: For describing the legal

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Those laws have been on the book since 1990 thank you gentlemen the

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_08]: Gentlemen your the audience can't hear you because your mics are cut we have so much we want to get to thank you for explaining the legal process

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_07]: Nora, thank you Margaret the economy is a top concern for a vote along move along move along

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Nothing more to talk about here gosh a debate almost broke out

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean we can't have the two candidates going back and forth talking amongst each other

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_03]: It's like they're the candidates here

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_03]: We need the focus to be on the raging narcissists with control over the mics my gosh

[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_03]: We have so much to get to we have so much to get to busy busy busy. Yeah, I was a little displeased I

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_03]: As I said after J.D. Vance

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_03]: did that

[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Their little

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_03]: interjections stopped

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Like you just for clarity for the audience to know you're a liar

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[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Trying to sift through all of the different messages that I'm that I've been getting

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Over the last few days. It's picked up as people have gotten their communications restored, which really has been the biggest challenge is

[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Getting information a lot of people that have been

[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_03]: stranded

[00:10:50] [SPEAKER_03]: in the mountains they

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_03]: They don't have any access to any other information

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_03]: So some of them don't even know if help is coming, you know

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_03]: You've been trapped on the side of a mountain for four or five days

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_03]: you've run out of water and food and

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Their roads are not passable although now like the whole area is filled with

[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Helicopters just all over the place all the time, which is really good

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_03]: I

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_03]: also saw

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_03]: That the president has just announced at his direction

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_03]: The Secretary of Defense has approved the deployment of up to a thousand active duty soldiers to reinforce the North Carolina National Guard

[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Quote the soldiers will speed up the delivery of life-saving supplies of food water and medicine to isolated communities in North Carolina

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_03]: They have the manpower and logistical capabilities to get this vital job done and fast

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_03]: And it becomes effectively and effective immediately

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_03]: And you know President Biden is going to be in North Carolina today

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Meeting with officials. He's also going to do a flyover of the area

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Western North Carolina to survey the damage

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Don't know what kind of impact that's gonna have on air traffic

[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm sure they're not going to allow any any air traffic to be in the skies as they go through

[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_03]: but

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_03]: This is where we are ever since Katrina

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_03]: They have to

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_03]: They have to go they have to go over and look and have to see it in order to make sure that they don't get savaged in the media

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Um

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_03]: All right, let me go over to the phones here. We'll talk to Gina welcome to the show

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Let me get you off the speakerphone. I'm sorry. Um, I just want to make sure there's no echo. Yeah

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, I understand

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_06]: First of all, thank you for everything that you do and informing the public. I appreciate that

[00:12:45] [SPEAKER_06]: I listen to you while i'm working and I do work remote

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_06]: um, I understand that you may have a

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_06]: An interview with someone that is going to be from the spruce pines area. Is that correct?

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he's a former mechlemurg county commissioner jim pocket

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_03]: He retired up in spruce pine and I heard from him yesterday

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_03]: He had finally been able to get out of his house and get down the mountain to a point where he was able to

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Get a cell phone and so he's like they're they're

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Seeking help, uh, but also information

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, um, I

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Was curious there is

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, this potentially has a huge

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Impact for our national economy and it directly involves spruce spines

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_06]: And i'm pretty willing to bet most don't know how crucial to um, this region is and that

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Town is to our entire national economy because the most pure source for semiconductor silicon

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Um wafers comes from that town in the mountains at spruce pine

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_06]: And um, I understand it may have gone under water and it literally produces

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_06]: The only and most pure product that's used in every single cell phone made globally

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_06]: And other high tech components

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Um all smart technology is useless without it. That means cars

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_06]: phones computers

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_06]: And taiwan may make those chips

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_06]: But that little town provides the only pure raw material for those chips

[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_06]: You can look it up. It's it's it's rare and almost unheard of for a single site to control the global supply

[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Of such a crucial material and i'm wondering what's going on with that

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_02]: What do you mean? What's going on with that? We're aware of it. What what do you mean? What's going on with that?

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_06]: How decimated was it um now I I know about the disaster up there and and I know how crucial that is

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm thinking of something on a global economy high high tech which

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Really makes our country fly in in in this very tenuous

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_06]: Economy we have in this country now

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_06]: And i'm wondering if that reporter has any info about

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Um that mine or knows anything is it operational? Well, he's not a report what's going on. Okay. So first

[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_03]: He's not a reporter. He's just a retiree

[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, he's a former he's a former mecklenburg county commissioner who retired up to spruce pine

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_03]: He lives up there now. Uh, he is aware of the mine everybody that lives in spruce pine knows about the mine

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_03]: um and

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_03]: From and i talked with him yesterday. I don't know if he has any information about the status of the mine

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, but there is no water. So i'm not sure if the mine can operate without any water whatsoever

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Right

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_06]: It it's

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, I don't think most of the country most people

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_06]: know

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_06]: how

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Impacting this is for everybody. I mean the people there certainly it it's a disaster beyond all

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_06]: The human disaster alone and it's ongoing and it will be for a long time

[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_06]: But there's so many ties to that mountain

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_06]: That that those mountains that have things that people don't really

[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Have an awareness of how how the tentacles of this goes into the economy and everywhere

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_06]: It's um mind boggling. So um, I just wanted to put that out there to you

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, because I don't I don't think anybody is even beginning to fathom

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_06]: How deep well nobody knows yet. Gina. Nobody knows yet

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_03]: We we don't have any status update on the mine. We don't know what

[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean we can speculate but I don't like as I said yesterday my first priority is to get water to people

[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_03]: to rescue people

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Get them food get them clothing get them medical attention. Like that's the first thing

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_03]: So there'll be time to assess the the um

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_03]: The status of the mine

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_03]: But I can only do what I can do, you know, and it's like I got a I have to pick my battles

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_03]: And so like and the stuff I focus on because it's all day long all day long

[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm talking to people and getting information and compiling it. And so I've got a I've got to you know be economical

[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_03]: but no the mine is uh

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the mine is a vital resource

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_03]: And it does have a large impact on the global economy. You are correct. I appreciate the call

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[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_03]: um

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, just a complete disappointment last night in the

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_03]: The cbs moderators

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_03]: An opportunity to shine a light on the devastation and get help there there wasn't even like a relief number put up

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_03]: There was nothing it was like

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Like oh, yeah, this thing happened. Let's talk about climate change

[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Get out of your bubble

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Let me go over to mary k. Hello mary k

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_04]: At peace thank you for your comments. I totally agree about this avoidance of the bigger

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_04]: You know the 3000 pound gorilla in the room that they ignored

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_04]: um, and they went to climate change and I wanted to say that climate change in itself is

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_04]: a big hope and on x the

[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Old twitter if you go to that app get it on your phone and you just put in the

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_04]: With the little search bar where there's a little magnifying glass if you just put in there

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Founder weather of the weather channel. You can come up with a bunch of videos of this robust

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Bold businessman speaking on cnn and then another with meg and kelly

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_04]: And he's just flat out saying look i'm the founder of the weather channel. This is a complete hoax

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_04]: And the cnn reporter, of course is like well, how can you say that 90 percent of 97 percent of scientists including naztah

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Sciences are claiming it's real they've got real science behind this and he said no

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_04]: There's no real science real science is a debate

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_04]: The way that any simple house has this happened, of course

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_04]: He said it's simple the federal government gives out about two billion dollars a year

[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_04]: For research to science that will prove there is climate change

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_04]: So if you're a scientist and you want to get any money you have to make your science prove the narrative

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_03]: That's it simple. Well the uh, I believe years ago

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_03]: I interviewed uh the founder of the weather channel on this very topic and one of the things there that

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_03]: He talks about as do other

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Weather people is that the the lack of attention about the impact that the sun has

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_03]: on the

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_03]: On the climate change science and

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_03]: And so if you like the the atmospheric satellites and stuff versus the the land based the ground

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh temperature readings and ocean temperature readings

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_03]: He's like you got to go up high to understand what's happening underneath and that's part of the problem

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_03]: And yes follow the money as well. Mary. I appreciate the call. Um, yeah, it is that it's a big problem

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Um

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_03]: I believe climate change is happening. I don't know to the extent uh to what extent man is having on it

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_03]: But the idea that this is the optimal temperature right now at this moment that needs to be preserved

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_03]: I think is a fatal conceit based in hubris

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Of humans

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Right. It's like air conditioning or your hvac or your oven. It doesn't stay at 350 degrees

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_03]: constant

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_03]: It goes up to 360 and then it shuts off and it drops back down to like 340 and then it fires back up

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_03]: And so the average keeps it somewhere around 350

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_03]: But who's to say that this is the temperature that the earth is quote unquote supposed to be it has always changed now

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_03]: How much impact does uh, uh human activity have on that?

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_03]: And then what is the trade-off cost?

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_03]: These are all parts of the debate

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_03]: But if you just say you know climate change making hurricanes worse that gets you the funding and the headlines

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Let me go over to clay. Hey clay. Welcome to the show

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, p. So good to hear your voice man. You have no idea

[00:22:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I appreciate it. But what what's going on?

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'd live just outside of ashville up in fairview and I know

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I listen to you every day when you lived here. Oh, thanks

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And uh, I still listen to you every day on the tune in app

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and I listened all your podcasts. Thanks buddy. I appreciate that

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_00]: How are you doing and i'm doing all right man? Um, you know

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Six days into this we've kind of just settled down and settled in and hunker down

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_00]: We are so blessed to have a wonderful community

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Up here where I am and I know that it kind of stretches out all over the mountains

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, we we started having community meetings on saturday

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And pooling resources and making sure everybody was okay and accounted for

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody had gas for their generators

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I've had a couple hot showers at neighbor's houses and all these things just add up

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh in a community that's cut off

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Um from the rest of the world

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Right now at this time, um

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, it just it really does uh strike me that

[00:23:35] [SPEAKER_00]: We don't necessarily see our neighbors all the time up here in the mountains. Um, we all kind of live

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know separate but intertwined lives and um

[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody like I've I've lived up here 21 years

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And there were there were faces that I hadn't seen in years just because we passed

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Um at different times and um, but everybody came out and we got

[00:24:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Neighbors coming in coming back from california

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, we had neighbors who weren't here who said break into my house

[00:24:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Take all my food. Um, take my gas take my propane

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, it's just been an amazing outpouring of just neighborly support up here

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And uh, so I'm

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_00]: You know after this kind of thing happens to you you're like well

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm really going to get to know my neighbors now

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_00]: We're never gonna pass without stopping and talking sure um because we have all just been in this and shared this

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_00]: um

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Incredibly traumatic experience together

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And um, I just want to send prayers out to those people who are still trapped

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_00]: um

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_00]: and still being dug out and uh

[00:24:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And all the people, um, you know, it just breaks your heart to hear um older people. I'm 47 so I've you know

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I I just breaks my heart to hear a lot of the elderly folks who have been calling in not knowing what to do

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Um and just the the people and like I said, I listened to 570

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_00]: It's um a transistor radio has been our only

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh connection to the outside world and marx darling

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And tank and all those guys at 570 who stayed there for for days

[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_00]: On the air and they're still there right now

[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, it's just such a blessing and I you know

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like I said, I came down the mountain here and I got I got a couple bars

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_00]: So I immediately started trying to check in with people and then I got you on the app here

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's just it's just so um

[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Steadilying for the mind right now

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_00]: to hear uh

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_00]: The outside world and to know that we're on people's minds and

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, they're we're gonna need a lot of help here

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, this place is a wreck. Yeah, but uh, we'll all come together and do it uh together

[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_00]: So how did you want to touch base with the man? Well, I'm glad to hear from you

[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_00]: You guys and everybody

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, you I'm glad to hear from you and uh, if you take word back to fair view and to your neighbors

[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, you know, we're we're doing what we can

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, I don't think people realized how bad it was until about you know sunday night

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, when we started seeing stuff and started seeing the images in the after effect

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_03]: And of course every day that passes people realize it's getting worse

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_03]: But like there's a there's a massive mobilization effort. Uh, it's underway right now

[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean all sorts of resources are headed up the mountain. How did you get how did you get down?

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_03]: What uh, what route did you take down?

[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm on um, I'm up in fair view off 74 a um old fort road

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Is uh is passable, but there's some wash out there

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I uh, I haven't left my mountain a flat top mountain. I came down

[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm about a half mile from my house right now

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And was able to to pick up two bars on my cell phone. I got you. I'm not sure how uh, we've got

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_00]: We've got a little cell service up on top. Um from where my house is

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Several 100 more feet where and uh, we have a neighbor. Um, we pulled a starlink system out of his house

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_00]: So we do have connection, but I haven't I'm just staying out of the way up here. Yeah, um, I um

[00:27:14] [SPEAKER_00]: So i'm sitting on my mountain road right now

[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and it's just a beautiful day up here

[00:27:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And uh, you know

[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_00]: It'd be nice to

[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_00]: To not have uh, the whole situation going on below us

[00:27:27] [SPEAKER_00]: But uh, you like you said there there are so many people here and we hear

[00:27:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Helicopters flying over all the time and uh

[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_00]: So um

[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_00]: But uh, the neighbors who have gone out, you know, there's uh

[00:27:41] [SPEAKER_00]: There's just a lot of destruction. I'm not ready to go look at it yet

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I want to know where I work. Um, it's just been

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely devastated

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so yeah, um, but all all the people uh, I work at a school here and and all our employees have been accounted for and we're

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_00]: We're just hoping all our kids are uh safe and sound

[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_00]: With their families. Um, but it's just it's too soon to tell. We can't we don't know so yeah

[00:28:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, just think about all the kids out there who uh, aren't aren't able to get to school right now

[00:28:15] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a huge comfort to them

[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I work with special needs kids and I know their schedules are completely wrecked and thrown off so

[00:28:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Just prayers go out to all the kids out there who uh

[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Who are stuck in this? Um

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:28:30] [SPEAKER_00]: So play it's good. No, it's good to hear from you. You wanted to reach out

[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Please do again. Let's keep us posted

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, you know, I'm trying to get as much information from as many different areas up there as I can

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, and so I hadn't heard anybody from fair view. Uh, so far. So I'm glad to hear that

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Status update there, uh, that you guys are are doing okay

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Given the circumstances obviously

[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and glad to hear that

[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, absolutely clay working to help us. All right, buddy. Stay safe. Thank you. All right. God bless

[00:29:04] [SPEAKER_03]: So when I was a kid my grandpa died with alzheimer's and before he died my mom and my dad and all of us really

[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Helped take care of them as he got progressively worse

[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_03]: 40 years ago. There were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family

[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Things are different today because of the work of so many people including the alzheimer's association of western north carolina

[00:29:23] [SPEAKER_03]: It's a great organization with awesome people. They've got huge hearts. I've been a supporter for like 25 years

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_03]: This cause means a lot to me. I participate in the annual walk to end alzheimer's and

[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_03]: I am leading a charlotte team this year. It's called peets pack

[00:29:39] [SPEAKER_03]: You can sign up and join the team and walk with me

[00:29:41] [SPEAKER_03]: It's on october 19th at truest field in uptown sign up at alz.org

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Slash walk and then just look for my team peets pack

[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_03]: And there's also a link in the podcast description here

[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Also, i'm going to be mc the gastonia walk on october 5th

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_03]: So make a team and join us or make a donation to help me hit my goal

[00:30:00] [SPEAKER_03]: I would really appreciate it

[00:30:02] [SPEAKER_03]: There are a bunch of other walks around the carolinus and you can go to alz.org for all of the dates and locations

[00:30:09] [SPEAKER_03]: We are closer than ever to stopping alzheimer's

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_03]: And if you can help us get there, we would really appreciate it

[00:30:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Will you come walk with me for a different future for families for more time for treatments?

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_03]: This is why I walk a couple of messages here terry says

[00:30:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Help is coming from all over a team of guys one of whom is my son-in-law

[00:30:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Connected to a restaurant business from oak island southport

[00:30:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Have convoyed five vehicles to west canton

[00:30:42] [SPEAKER_03]: They set up a kitchen at crestview church free food for anybody in need

[00:30:47] [SPEAKER_03]: um

[00:30:49] [SPEAKER_03]: I saw a report of uh

[00:30:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Los angeles sent a fire truck

[00:30:56] [SPEAKER_03]: and jet skis

[00:30:57] [SPEAKER_03]: They drove across the country

[00:31:00] [SPEAKER_03]: um

[00:31:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Talked to a friend of mine up in black mountain this morning. He said he saw

[00:31:08] [SPEAKER_03]: A cruise from vermont that had driven down

[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_03]: um

[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Cindy says uh, Cindy in rock hills says pete. I love your show. I listen every day your sense of humor is refreshing

[00:31:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks for giving the information for hearts with hands yesterday

[00:31:27] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm too lazy to go out and collect items needed and i'm also not sure who may or may not be legitimate

[00:31:32] [SPEAKER_03]: I sent some money to hearts with hands this morning. They sound like a great organization

[00:31:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, they are a great organization. Thank you. Cindy for the help. We appreciate that heartswithhands.org is the um

[00:31:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Is the organization they are based in swananoa and

[00:31:52] Um

[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_03]: I got a message from aviva who says

[00:31:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I heard you mentioned hearts with hands

[00:32:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, the power of radio friend of mine has contacts

[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_03]: With the manufacturer of dude wipes personal hygiene wipes

[00:32:08] [SPEAKER_03]: And is now in the process of coordinating delivery of their product. Thank you for the tip

[00:32:13] [SPEAKER_03]: He literally called me to ask about local organizations

[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Accepting donations about five minutes after I heard you talk about hearts with hands

[00:32:26] [SPEAKER_03]: No such thing as coincidence, you know

[00:32:29] [SPEAKER_03]: um

[00:32:31] [SPEAKER_03]: There is

[00:32:33] [SPEAKER_03]: also an alert here from uh

[00:32:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Tyson foods meals that matter hurricane helene relief

[00:32:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, they were in florida. They went to georgia. Uh, and now, uh, they've deployed their teams

[00:32:47] [SPEAKER_03]: um to

[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Um to western north carolina as well, uh in weaverville, which

[00:32:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Is just outside just uh north of ashville proper. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening

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