Chad Adams Fills In For Pete Kaliner 01-03-25 Hour 2

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[00:00:28] You know your devices, this is the funny thing, you know it listens to you. I mean, Apple just paid out, I don't know, $95 million because their phones listen to you. And here's how you know. Your phones are not, at a certain point, you know, you say technology is indistinguishable from magic.

[00:00:45] We see that because if you, if I were to find, you know, a group that had never been exposed to technology, I would look like Merlin, right? And look at this. And I'd show them a digital image of themselves and they would gasp.

[00:00:56] I'd make digital noises with a phone or, I don't know, alter an image. They would really flip out their ever-loving minds. They'd think I have the power to alter and, you know, morph into something.

[00:01:05] The point being that, you know, we, this digital age is just, just kind of fascinating. But now having said that, while we, your, your phones do listen to you and you know this because if you're on Facebook, how many of you have looked at Facebook or any social media and you're scrolling through and all of a sudden you're like, I just had this conversation with my wife.

[00:01:23] And, uh, that, that's what we were talking about. How, well, you know, there's, I can get international flights at a discount or I, I was looking at that golf club or, oh my gosh, I, I had no idea.

[00:01:34] I was looking for sweaters and all of a sudden all these sweaters pop up. It's just, it's not accidental. I mean, whether your echo devices are listening to you or your, your, your, your microphone on your remote control for your TV.

[00:01:45] Yes. A lot of your remote controls for your TVs have microphones in them. You're being listened to all the time.

[00:01:50] But while we were in the break, this is so funny. And I don't, I don't, I'm not saying that because this would have been a whole new level of complex.

[00:01:57] This would be my computer listening to me and translating into Twitter, which it didn't because the, where these stories popped up were actually in my feed.

[00:02:06] And I've got a lot of stuff in my feed. It wasn't an ad, but this is kind of interesting.

[00:02:12] While we were in break, this just happened. The British police were called to a house after a neighbor heard screams.

[00:02:18] They found a young girl naked and drunk with seven Pakistani men. They arrested the girl for being drunk and convicted her.

[00:02:27] They reportedly didn't even question the men that that got posted. I don't make this stuff up.

[00:02:36] I talked about this that happened and got posted while we were in the break.

[00:02:41] I reposted. You can read it in my Twitter feed and the press conference is there.

[00:02:47] This is the, it's just unreal. The fear.

[00:02:53] You know, in this country, there, there is a similar, you're familiar with this concept.

[00:03:00] And by the way, my name's Chad. I'm sitting in for Pete Callender. Hour number two, News Talk 1110 993 WBT 704 570 1110 570 1110.

[00:03:09] The calling numbers.

[00:03:11] The way to put this in perspective is, it's like the mafia witness story, right?

[00:03:18] So all this investigation gets done. You find the bad guy and you go to, to put him on the, you've got to convict him because it's not just about arresting them.

[00:03:27] You got to convict them to put them in jail. And there are these witnesses and the FBI says, tell you what, we'll protect you.

[00:03:32] And a lot of people won't testify against the mob. Why? Because they, they're going to get whacked.

[00:03:39] They're going to get rubbed out. They're going to get shot, killed, whatever, put in a cement barrel and buried somewhere like Jimmy Hoffa.

[00:03:45] So we see that that's a form of terrorism. You know, it's as bad as Al Capone was, and he was one of the most murderous thugs every, every, ever known.

[00:03:56] A lot of the people in the, in certain parts of Chicago loved him because he'd give away turkeys on Thanksgiving.

[00:04:02] Well, the radical Islam wing of things isn't about giving away turkeys to anybody. They're just about killing you if you disagree with them.

[00:04:09] And, and the police and law enforcement and politicians in countries where this becomes a thing are afraid of them.

[00:04:17] You know, Pablo Escobar had a, his policy, he had a very simple political philosophy when he would run across people, which was silver or lead.

[00:04:30] He could pay you off. If you didn't say anything, you worked for him, you got silver, silver or lead.

[00:04:39] Or, or they just kill you. It's really cheap to kill you.

[00:04:42] If you don't value human life, killing someone, Joaquin Guzman, El Chapo would build tunnels into our country to transport drugs and then kill the people who made the tunnel.

[00:04:55] Just kill them. Because then only he knew where the tunnel was.

[00:05:00] No one could rat him out.

[00:05:05] That when you don't value human life, that's, that's the psychopathy at work.

[00:05:11] They, and these radical terrorists, they don't eat, they don't value your life.

[00:05:16] They certainly don't value their own.

[00:05:19] If they don't value their own life, they don't value yours.

[00:05:21] They don't, dying is, you know, I don't know why they think there'd be virgins in the afterlife, but that's kind of one of the things they go for.

[00:05:31] It's just, and then the subjugation of women, I completely don't understand why the political left isn't all about that.

[00:05:37] You would think of all things they want to, when Biden comes out and tells you that the number one threat to the country is white supremacy.

[00:05:44] No, not even close. That's not aging well, is it?

[00:05:47] It's not going to age well.

[00:05:48] But that was, that was just one of the stories that floated across while we're in the break.

[00:05:52] The other one, let me see if I can get the other one because the other one was just, was equally, I couldn't believe that two of them happened while I was in the break that I was able to repost.

[00:06:01] And it was about King Charles.

[00:06:02] Remember I told you how he's one of the weakest monarch?

[00:06:04] This got posted.

[00:06:05] How can it possibly be allowed to happen in modern age society?

[00:06:08] Where does King Charles, why doesn't he say something or do something about all of this?

[00:06:12] And when the civilian government leadership has totally failed.

[00:06:15] About the 1,400 kids being raped in the UK is because authority were afraid of racist claims.

[00:06:21] I talked to you about that.

[00:06:23] I talked to you about the King.

[00:06:24] Now people are writing about this.

[00:06:25] I didn't tell them to write that and they weren't listening to the show because it's someone far, far away.

[00:06:29] But it is a story.

[00:06:31] And it's, as much as I don't care about the Meghan Markle, I can't believe that Meghan Markle and whoever the heck she's married to, one of the British royalty guys, don't care.

[00:06:40] Don't pay attention.

[00:06:41] Truly don't care.

[00:06:42] Gets more attention than this, which is real.

[00:06:46] And coming to a neighborhood near you someday.

[00:06:49] And we talked about it yesterday on the show.

[00:06:51] We had some callers and we were talking about the radicalization issue.

[00:06:54] The entire series that was filmed here in Charlotte was known as Homeland was kind of about a guy who'd been radicalized.

[00:07:01] He was ready to take out threats against his own country.

[00:07:07] So there isn't an easy solution.

[00:07:09] But one thing, one thing that I am thankful for with the incoming administration, it, the America First movement is real.

[00:07:18] There are a lot of people that get exactly what I'm telling you now.

[00:07:21] They understand it.

[00:07:23] It is constant.

[00:07:24] You have to constantly defend it.

[00:07:26] Freedom isn't free.

[00:07:27] All of these things, they are important moving forward.

[00:07:30] Much more to discuss.

[00:07:31] I will get back to the dinosaur highway.

[00:07:33] I promise.

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[00:08:49] Now, having said all that, we do have a couple of people on hold.

[00:08:52] Joe, you have been waiting.

[00:08:54] And then we'll get to Alex.

[00:08:55] Joe, what's on your brain today?

[00:08:57] Happy New Year to you.

[00:08:59] And Happy New Year to you.

[00:09:00] Thank you so much.

[00:09:01] I was listening to the beginning of your introduction of your show, and you were quoting this lady from Europe in reference to all the points you were making about, I think it was free speech and some other things in there.

[00:09:17] And she made a report or stated something in an article or a post or something.

[00:09:24] And at the end of it, she said, and if this is true, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[00:09:30] And I'm like, well, you just accused the man of one, two, three, four things.

[00:09:36] And then at the end, you say, and if this is true.

[00:09:39] That's kind of a nonsensical way of viewing something that's credible in value, don't you think?

[00:09:48] Well, she didn't claim it was true.

[00:09:50] She's saying if it is true, then you have a right to say, like I can say, the individual that went in front of Trump's towers, it has been reported that he was an unbalanced radical Muslim.

[00:10:03] If that is true, all hell's going to break loose.

[00:10:06] That's an opinion.

[00:10:07] If it's true, I believe that she was arrested for saying that.

[00:10:11] You think that's okay to arrest somebody for saying if?

[00:10:14] She didn't say he was.

[00:10:15] She said if.

[00:10:16] I think prior to the if, she made statements that were in fact statements and then said if it was true.

[00:10:26] She claimed that a suspect, quote, was an asylum seeker who came to the UK by boat last year and was on an MI6 watch list.

[00:10:34] She said that and then said if this is true.

[00:10:36] So she's even saying maybe that's not true.

[00:10:39] If it is true, that's pretty bad.

[00:10:41] And if it sounds like I'm yelling at you, I'm not.

[00:10:43] I appreciate your call.

[00:10:44] So I'm just a passionate person.

[00:10:46] So that's what I'm saying if it's true.

[00:10:49] So she's wrote an opinion.

[00:10:51] Hey, this guy was on MI6 watch.

[00:10:53] If that's true, then all hell's going to break loose.

[00:10:57] And you can't do that.

[00:10:58] The problem is free speech isn't guaranteed in Great Britain like it is here.

[00:11:04] Now, if we get to the point that you can't express your opinion disagreeing with me or I can't say something because it can be interpreted wrongly, that's a problem.

[00:11:14] Wouldn't you agree?

[00:11:15] Well, the thing is, what I agree on is don't make what you're saying convoluted the way I see what she said.

[00:11:25] Don't make it a convoluted.

[00:11:27] It's either two plus two is four.

[00:11:29] Don't give me, well, he's two plus three.

[00:11:32] And if that's true, the answer is six.

[00:11:35] No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[00:11:38] We have muddied the water, making everything political so much.

[00:11:43] And I don't even know what's going on in other parts.

[00:11:46] We have way too much here in America in reference to looking at terrorism and all of that to even try and turn our head towards some other country.

[00:11:58] Well, I say I bring the British situation up because it is giving us a window into where we could be going.

[00:12:07] I think Great Britain has some serious problems right now.

[00:12:09] They're having identity problems.

[00:12:11] They're having serious issues with abuse of women.

[00:12:13] That scandal is huge and growing.

[00:12:16] We have similar situations here.

[00:12:18] My point there is do you believe, and I think we're going to be on similar pages.

[00:12:23] I don't think we'll be too far.

[00:12:24] Do you believe you should go to jail for stating an opinion online, even if it's crazy?

[00:12:30] You know, I said the earth is flat and dinosaurs are still living in the caves of western North Carolina.

[00:12:36] Should I go – that's not hate speech, but if I said maybe the dinosaurs are radical Islamists, do you think I should go to jail for that?

[00:12:42] If you're stating something that is not true and you're stating it and it is going out to the public and it can incite certain responses that are unhealthy for the community at large, yes, you should go to jail.

[00:12:59] So do you think all of those kids that protested at Columbia University calling for the killing of Jews should all be arrested?

[00:13:07] Any one of them that –

[00:13:09] But they weren't.

[00:13:09] But they weren't.

[00:13:10] But they weren't.

[00:13:12] The killing of Jews.

[00:13:13] Right.

[00:13:13] But they did.

[00:13:14] You have that on video just like we have a lot of other incidents on video.

[00:13:19] If you have them on video stating things like that in public, yes, that is not cool.

[00:13:27] Okay.

[00:13:28] Well, I mean –

[00:13:29] I mean, you can have an opinion.

[00:13:31] But for me to have an opinion that everybody that goes to church should be incinerated, I mean, you know, that's a wacko statement.

[00:13:42] Something needs to be evaluated there.

[00:13:44] So if you were calling for an intifada, which is basically an uprising that takes place in the form of violent terrorism, they were chanting that.

[00:13:55] Hundreds of people on the streets of New York on New Year's Day, they were chanting it uniformly.

[00:14:02] They're calling for an uprising in the form of violent terrorism.

[00:14:06] Should they have the right to say that?

[00:14:08] There should be some videos going to the –

[00:14:11] There are.

[00:14:11] You can see it.

[00:14:12] Look it up.

[00:14:12] You can look it up.

[00:14:14] They're all on video.

[00:14:15] Hey, start arresting me.

[00:14:18] Okay.

[00:14:19] Start arresting me.

[00:14:19] Well, I get concerned about that.

[00:14:22] You know, as much as I may disagree with you, I'll go to my death defending your right to disagree with me.

[00:14:26] So I appreciate you calling in, okay?

[00:14:29] Thank you.

[00:14:31] Always, always a pleasure.

[00:14:32] Now we're going to get over to Alex.

[00:14:34] Alex, welcome to the show.

[00:14:34] How are you today?

[00:14:35] Thank you.

[00:14:36] I just want to say that I'm sick and tired of these American politicians,

[00:14:40] everybody from George W. Bush to Barack Hussein Obama trying to brainwash the American people into thinking that Islam is a religion of peace.

[00:14:48] Every time they'd commit an act of terrorism, the first thing out of the mouths of these politicians are, Islam is a religion of peace.

[00:14:54] Islam is a religion of peace.

[00:14:56] It's not.

[00:14:56] It's a violent, bloody cult and always has been.

[00:14:59] They persecute Christians and Jews in their countries, in the Muslim countries.

[00:15:05] And yet Muslims have freedom of worship in all the Western democracies, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, you name it.

[00:15:15] And all the Western democracies afford freedom of worship to Muslims and people of other faiths.

[00:15:22] But that's not reciprocal.

[00:15:25] In Islamic countries, Christians and Jews are treated in a terrible situation.

[00:15:31] It's just terrible the way they're treated.

[00:15:33] And I was just wanting to say with regard to what's taking place in Britain, when I look at what's happening today,

[00:15:41] I thank God and I thank my Scottish Highlander ancestors that they left that cursed island 250 years ago.

[00:15:47] And I never want to set foot over there ever again.

[00:15:51] And it's just sick of what's happening in this world, the way that radical Islam has just laid siege to Western civilization.

[00:16:00] And something should be done about it.

[00:16:02] That's all I've got to say.

[00:16:03] Well, Alex, I appreciate you calling, man.

[00:16:06] And as many, you know, there are a lot of people that will hear what Alex said and think that he's railing against one faith.

[00:16:15] He's declaring kind of a religious war, an intifada, for lack of a better word.

[00:16:20] But what he's saying, he made, I believe, some very, very strong points.

[00:16:25] Now, he said it his way.

[00:16:26] I'll restate it a little bit.

[00:16:28] He is correct.

[00:16:30] Muslim countries, by and large, have a zero tolerance for any other form of religion.

[00:16:38] So when he calls it a cult, usually a religion is not threatened by other religions.

[00:16:44] The fact that you are a Christian, you are not threatened by people who might be Jews.

[00:16:48] Jews, in general, at least the ones I know and when I was studying over in Israel for a while, Jews are not threatened by the fact that you are a Christian.

[00:16:56] You can be a Christian in Israel and go pretty any, all the holy sites, you can do everything.

[00:17:01] Jews can be in this country, do whatever.

[00:17:03] People who want to practice Islam can go to a mosque in this country anytime they want to.

[00:17:08] But you can't do that in Saudi Arabia.

[00:17:10] You can't do that in China.

[00:17:13] You can't do that in many of these other Muslim countries.

[00:17:17] And, I mean, the Syrian situation, if you want to, look it up.

[00:17:20] Look at the number of Christian dead, like 900,000 in the past decade plus.

[00:17:26] Christians aren't just persecuted.

[00:17:27] They are beheaded and killed.

[00:17:30] I mean, they're just killed and killed.

[00:17:31] Well, you are killed if you're beheaded.

[00:17:32] But don't pretend for a minute that it is – and he makes a point.

[00:17:39] The way it is showing up on the world stage, it cannot profess to be a religion of peace in the way it's doing it right now.

[00:17:55] It can't be.

[00:17:56] If it were really – if these were emissaries of peace around the planet, they would be the first ones hunting down and going after their extremists.

[00:18:04] It wouldn't take necessarily the intel from the CIA or MI6.

[00:18:08] It wouldn't take the FBI, MI5.

[00:18:11] It wouldn't take Mossad and all these other intel agencies around the world to root them out because the countries that they take refuge in would hunt them down and root them out.

[00:18:21] They're not.

[00:18:23] But someone just chimed in on my message board, DMed me.

[00:18:27] Most Muslims are not terrorists.

[00:18:29] However, most terrorists are Muslims.

[00:18:31] Very valid point.

[00:18:32] It is well said.

[00:18:35] All right.

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[00:19:41] Talking about the notion that Western civilization is really in decline across almost every measure.

[00:19:51] Now, it is amazing.

[00:19:52] Western culture is the breeding ground of innovation.

[00:19:56] It's the elevation of arts in many ways.

[00:19:59] It is where more grand things happen for humanity than any other place on the planet.

[00:20:05] You look at the space race.

[00:20:06] You look at medical technology.

[00:20:07] You look at just research into the understanding of who we are, why we're here, all of that.

[00:20:14] It is the current cradle of civilization.

[00:20:17] It is across the planet.

[00:20:19] Now, there are outliers to this.

[00:20:20] There are things that happen in other countries too that are pushing, but the envelope gets pushed here.

[00:20:25] It gets pushed in some parts of Europe, but mainly here.

[00:20:27] This is where the aspiration, the center of aspirations on the planet is this country.

[00:20:32] At the same time, from other parts of this world, the suppression of all of that is underway.

[00:20:38] And that's what we've been talking a lot about.

[00:20:40] The suppression of human ingenuity, the suppression of human innovation, the suppression of equality, the suppression of freedom.

[00:20:50] That's what a lot of these other countries are engaged in.

[00:20:53] A lot of the radical Islamic movement grounded in Islamic countries that are not pushed back on by those countries.

[00:21:01] It is to lead via terror.

[00:21:06] The Iranians are not afraid of terror.

[00:21:07] They're afraid of a ground invasion or missiles coming down from here, but they're not afraid.

[00:21:11] They encourage – they pay for terror.

[00:21:13] They pay organizations to go kill innocent people on a regular basis.

[00:21:17] They do it with Houthis.

[00:21:18] They do it with Hezbollah.

[00:21:19] They do it with the folks over in Gaza, that Hamas, that a lot of young folks in this country don't want to believe exist.

[00:21:26] They've done a remarkable job of brainwashing youngins in this country to believe it's about a Palestinian freedom or a free Palestine.

[00:21:34] There isn't a Palestinian country.

[00:21:38] But that's – and but we want to act like there's a way you don't – when you say you don't negotiate with terrorists, you can't negotiate with the leaders of Iran.

[00:21:47] You can't.

[00:21:48] John Kerry is foolish enough.

[00:21:49] I mean he's the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century.

[00:21:52] Neville Chamberlain comes back and says, see, Hitler's not going to be aggressive.

[00:21:55] And that leads to the rise of Winston Churchill, and we know the rest of history.

[00:21:58] But John Kerry comes back and waves in our faces, see, Iranians are good.

[00:22:02] We need to give them back their $10 billion, which they proceed to fund terrorism, fund missiles raining down on Israel, fund all these horrible things.

[00:22:09] And it's an Islamic state.

[00:22:12] And again, I will challenge the folks that practice Islam.

[00:22:16] If it is, if you want people to believe it is a religion of peace, then you guys have got a lot of homework to do because that's – those are the countries that need to go out and root out these fundamentalist wackadoos.

[00:22:28] That did only want to kill and take people with them on the way.

[00:22:31] Now, just want to also, in the news, the Speaker Johnson race, he has – he's lost support from at least two.

[00:22:41] He needed – he could only lose one, and Thomas Massey was the one that said, I'm not going to vote for Speaker Johnson.

[00:22:45] And so there's another one that has voted against him.

[00:22:50] So on the first round, Johnson is going to lose the first round.

[00:22:53] I don't know how far it was supposed to start around 1 o'clock or 12 or 12.15, but they have to swear in the new members.

[00:23:00] There was a lot going on today.

[00:23:02] And so Ralph Norman is the second Republican that didn't vote for Johnson.

[00:23:07] So with the loss of two and no Democrats – because the lockstep Democrats aren't going to vote for him.

[00:23:12] They're just not.

[00:23:12] They're Hakeem Jeffries, and so that's the way that's going.

[00:23:15] You have to get to the magic number.

[00:23:17] I think it was 218.

[00:23:19] Johnson's not going to get there.

[00:23:20] So we're going to drag this out.

[00:23:22] Everybody will vote.

[00:23:22] Then they'll vote again.

[00:23:23] And one would hope that, okay, Massey and Norman made their points.

[00:23:28] They said stuff, and now they need to get back in line and get this done because nothing – you can't affirm Trump's election.

[00:23:38] You can't certify the election results.

[00:23:41] You can't move the agenda forward.

[00:23:43] There's a lot that just doesn't take place.

[00:23:44] Now, the funny – the real giggle part of this one is that Kamala Harris forgot the words to the Pledge of Allegiance while she was conducting business in Congress today.

[00:23:59] And someone wrote, hey, this kind of summarizes her political career in a way.

[00:24:03] She couldn't even say the Pledge of Allegiance.

[00:24:06] You'd think you could, like, mumble that on the verge of sleep.

[00:24:09] All of us can.

[00:24:10] And it just – that's indicative of really who she is.

[00:24:15] She's not really engaged.

[00:24:17] She's not that profound.

[00:24:18] She's not that deep and didn't know the Pledge of Allegiance, so that's a problem.

[00:24:22] So we'll see how the – Trump reiterated his support for Johnson, by the way, and it didn't – it's not wavering.

[00:24:28] I don't – I cannot fathom.

[00:24:32] And as conservative as I am, and I'm more conservative than Johnson, and I'm a big believer in let's break D.C., let's drain the swamp.

[00:24:41] I'm in.

[00:24:41] I'm all in.

[00:24:42] I have been.

[00:24:43] I am not a Keynesian economist.

[00:24:45] I am much more of the Austrian way of looking at things that we need to be responsible in the way we spend other people's money.

[00:24:52] We need to quit our dependence on the federal government.

[00:24:55] We've got to get back to more local control, more state control, less federal oversight of anything.

[00:25:02] We can't do that unless you can govern in Congress, and the important – if you want to be remotely pragmatic, there is no other member of Congress that's going to be able to get anything done and get to a majority on passing legislation setting the agenda.

[00:25:20] So when Massey, who is very conservative, almost to a fault at this point apparently, they're acting politically.

[00:25:29] They're blowing up their own party because it's not that they have anyone else in mind that would be better than Johnson.

[00:25:37] I'm hoping that this is just a little grandstanding to try to remind Johnson, hey, remember what team you play for.

[00:25:45] So that's my hope because I can't imagine what else they're trying to accomplish.

[00:25:50] Byron Donalds is not going to be Speaker of the House.

[00:25:52] They're not going to get 218 votes for Byron Donalds.

[00:25:55] They're not going to get 218 votes for Massey.

[00:25:57] You're not going to get 218 votes for anybody that is way out there on the right because you've got to get the rest of the Republicans.

[00:26:05] And to pretend that all 218 are of the same ilk, they're not.

[00:26:08] Unlike Democrats, who will – you rarely see Democrats not get in line.

[00:26:13] They stay on the plantation.

[00:26:14] They do.

[00:26:15] They like being on the plantation, and they like fealty, and they like that.

[00:26:19] I mean it wasn't that long ago you saw them kneeling in the Capitol and recognizing George Floyd.

[00:26:25] They do these virtue signaling things that just show you that they're not – they're remarkably unserious.

[00:26:31] They're remarkably unserious when they told us for a year that Biden – or actually years that Biden was sharp as a tack.

[00:26:36] He wasn't.

[00:26:37] We know that.

[00:26:37] I'm not going to rehash that.

[00:26:38] But the thing with this, the Republicans, it's not that they need to get in line to get on the plantation.

[00:26:43] They've got to decide if you want to accomplish things or not.

[00:26:46] And right now, Johnson's the only guy who can.

[00:26:48] He's the only guy who can wield the gavel and move the agenda forward, and they're going to have to reconcile that.

[00:26:55] John Thune over in the Senate, that's going to be fascinating with Mitch McConnell stepping aside and John Thune taking the mantle.

[00:27:00] So I think – I'm excited to see what Thune – he's, you know, obviously sharper.

[00:27:05] He's experienced.

[00:27:06] It's going to be interesting to see how he runs the Senate.

[00:27:08] All right.

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[00:28:19] Maybe it's the Speaker Johnson race.

[00:28:21] By the way, he has lost the first round.

[00:28:24] We'll get into that in just a second.

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[00:30:34] It's kind of like, I love tropical systems.

[00:30:36] I'm fascinated by weather.

[00:30:38] But you know what?

[00:30:39] They're extremely devastating.

[00:30:40] I used to drive to them and, you know, just the raw power of nature.

[00:30:45] I've been to volcanoes in Costa Rica.

[00:30:47] The raw power of nature astounds me.

[00:30:50] To think that Yellowstone erupting would fundamentally alter life on this planet in a way that we can't even fathom.

[00:30:58] That's one of the largest calderas of active magma and active geothermal activity on the planet Earth.

[00:31:04] If it were to go, much of us would go with it.

[00:31:08] It's hard to fathom that the size and scope and power of nature.

[00:31:12] And you see that in winter and summer and in tectonic shifts.

[00:31:16] Now, I do want to get to a couple of other things that are not nearly as unpleasant.

[00:31:22] And by the way, we will bring you the track.

[00:31:24] The people who voted against Johnson in the first round was Keith Self.

[00:31:28] He's from Texas.

[00:31:29] S-E-L-F.

[00:31:30] Ralph Norman from South Carolina, who had indicated he might be voting against Johnson.

[00:31:34] Kind of hedged.

[00:31:35] But he voted, I think, he voted against Johnson.

[00:31:38] And then Thomas Massey.

[00:31:39] So Johnson could only lose one.

[00:31:40] He lost three.

[00:31:42] So the first round.

[00:31:44] And it looks like they keep trying to act like someone changed their vote.

[00:31:46] I keep looking at the vote tracker.

[00:31:48] And now it's been, is this the second time?

[00:31:52] So now it's, nope.

[00:31:53] He's got 216.

[00:31:54] He's lost three votes.

[00:31:56] He could lose one.

[00:31:56] He lost three.

[00:31:57] So those are the three.

[00:31:59] So Democrats voted in lockstep.

[00:32:01] Hakeem Jeffries got 215 votes.

[00:32:03] Representative Johnson got 216 votes.

[00:32:05] And the other three Republicans voted for other folks, including Byron Donalds.

[00:32:10] One of the votes was for Byron Donalds.

[00:32:12] So we'll bring that to you live as, as it happens because it's happening in real time.

[00:32:17] So hopefully by the time we finish the show today, we'll, we'll get there.

[00:32:21] I don't know if we will, but I hope we will.

[00:32:26] I do want to get to some other interesting things.

[00:32:29] As we follow up, it sounds like I'm just a bearer of bad news.

[00:32:32] Even when I'm looking at it myself, the World Health Organization has come out and said that there were how many?

[00:32:41] I'm going to try to get the number correct here because I don't want to mislead you in any way.

[00:32:45] It's on cancer.

[00:32:47] A quarter of all new cancer cases may have been missed during the COVID pandemic, according to the World Health Organization.

[00:32:56] Researchers said that lockdown restrictions and pressures on the system saw a drop of 23% globally, suggesting it was not identified in around 1 million people.

[00:33:08] A million cases of cancer that were not diagnosed in a timely fashion and in many cases remain undiagnosed today.

[00:33:16] That's the World Health Study was an analysis of more than 240 different studies providing the first comprehensive worldwide assessment of the impact of COVID on cancer care.

[00:33:27] That's a million undiagnosed cases.

[00:33:30] Now, I want you to think they're the ones that were also pushing for people to not go get checked out.

[00:33:35] Roy Cooper, now ex-governor of North Ghana, was pushing for you not to go get checked out.

[00:33:41] He was the lockdown governor.

[00:33:42] And look, I'll say that.

[00:33:43] I absolutely believe that.

[00:33:44] In Great Britain, I could be arrested for saying a hate speech.

[00:33:47] You're saying Governor Cooper wanted to kill people.

[00:33:48] No, I'm saying his policies did lead to people dying of cancers unnecessarily because of not getting diagnosed.

[00:33:55] This is the kind of – we have to look at the impact of policy on people.

[00:34:02] We're seeing it in education.

[00:34:03] We have an entire minor generation of kids, kindergarten through third grade through the pandemic, that have massive speech problems, massive language assimilation problems.

[00:34:14] Because of so many people being masked up, they couldn't emulate human speech.

[00:34:20] They couldn't form the words, their lips.

[00:34:23] Children are mimics.

[00:34:24] At a very young age, they're mimics.

[00:34:25] And if they can't mimic, they can't do it.

[00:34:27] They can't learn it.

[00:34:29] And learning it later, you're not designed.

[00:34:31] You as a human are designed for certain things to happen at certain key points in life.

[00:34:34] Like crawling around on the ground.

[00:34:37] At a certain point, you pull up on a table.

[00:34:39] You kind of try to stand.

[00:34:40] At a certain point, you walk.

[00:34:41] At a certain point, you're potty trained.

[00:34:43] At a certain point, these are all developmental moments in a child's life.

[00:34:48] And mimicking, mimicking, looking at the way you form sound by pushing air through the various formations in your mouth and throat, and you create fricatives.

[00:34:59] You create linguistically sounds.

[00:35:02] You can't do that.

[00:35:03] You don't learn it.

[00:35:04] And then you're older.

[00:35:05] It's much more difficult to learn.

[00:35:07] Kind of like learning a language.

[00:35:08] Much more difficult to learn a language when you're older than when you're young.

[00:35:10] When your brain is ready to put that in the proper filing system.

[00:35:13] Now your brain's a little older, and you've got to find the filing system and then get all the other crap that's in the filing system out of the way and file it appropriately to learn the language.

[00:35:22] That aren't the case.

[00:35:26] So, I'm trying to figure things out here.

[00:35:28] So, that being said, we won't know.

[00:35:33] And I do hope that there's a lot of introspection about all of this.

[00:35:37] I hope that we really do spend some time figuring out what all went wrong during COVID and the policies that really hampered, hurt, and injured a lot of people.

[00:35:51] I hope that we do.

[00:35:52] I truly do hope that we do get to the bottom line.

[00:35:55] Now, so, having said that, the other thing I want to get to was, which was, about, I don't want to get to the digital health.

[00:36:03] There is something I do want to get to.

[00:36:05] It is that, and it's another belief system I have, and it's a strong one, which is that you, me, all of us, the new challenges for our generation moving ahead, and you know it, you know it when I say it, is the seven circles of digital hell.

[00:36:20] How many of you struggle to keep track of your passwords?

[00:36:23] You struggle to keep track of all of the accounts, things you get.

[00:36:28] And then when things get older, meaning stuff you haven't used in years, and then you go back.

[00:36:33] So, you know what, I'm going to do it in the next segment.

[00:36:36] But for your edification, if you're thinking about your life, we are becoming infinitely more complex in just doing day-to-day stuff.

[00:36:46] So, while we can communicate with people far more effectively, we can do all sorts of things.

[00:36:52] At the same time, because of encryption and bad guys and spams and malware and viruses and everything else, your life is increasingly complicated from a digital footprint standpoint and from a paperwork standpoint.

[00:37:07] I mean, how many of you have a lot of your payments set up on Autodraft, and then you get an alert when someone raises the price on stuff, and you didn't realize that your cable bill went up or that your wireless billing went up?

[00:37:21] And yet, you've got to keep track.

[00:37:22] Then you go to try to change it.

[00:37:24] You forgot the password.

[00:37:26] Now, maybe you've got a digital key that helps you get into that, but you don't remember the digital key pass.

[00:37:31] And you have to change your password, and then you get these long archaic – even Domino's, trying to order a flipping pizza.

[00:37:37] I don't know how many of you have forgotten your password there.

[00:37:39] It's infuriating how difficult it is.

[00:37:42] How many of you – and I've done this – how many of you have just created brand-new accounts because it was so complicated trying to figure out how to get into an old account somewhere that you just created a new account for a given app?

[00:37:53] And how many apps do you think you keep track of?

[00:37:58] As you're going through your life, how many applications do you believe that you are trying to keep track of just to make things work?

[00:38:07] And I think that number is probably pretty high.

[00:38:10] I'll bet you most of you keep track and don't realize it about 20 different apps that have names and password.

[00:38:15] And I'm not just talking about your social media, your Instagram, your Pinterest, your Facebook, your Twitter, but then all of your energy apps, you know, like Duke Power, I don't know, whatever, your bank, you know, Uber, all the rest of them.

[00:38:30] You've got to have all that stuff.

[00:38:30] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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