Chad Adams Fills In For Pete Williams 12-31-24 Hour 3

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[00:00:28] Welcome back. A lot of people antsy this last day of the year. By the way, hats off to one of our listeners who astutely pointed out, and I had covered a lot of Sally Pipe's writings. That's who wrote the previous article about the subsidies with Obamacare. And she had done an interview with Mark Levin years ago in which she talked about Canada's socialized medicine. Her mother died because she was not given a colonoscopy in time because those are rationed in Canada by age.

[00:00:58] By the time she had received it, she was stage four colon cancer. And again, this is the kind of thing that socialists never want to admit. It's kind of this odd reality that they portray, which is that, you know, we recognize that socialism has failed everywhere it's ever been tried.

[00:01:23] We fully recognize that millions and millions of people have suffered and died under it, but that's because they didn't do it the way we want to do it. We're different. We're going to do it, you know, whether it's Bernie Sanders or Ocasio-Cortez or any of these.

[00:01:40] And a lot of times the other nuanced position is we're not socialist. We're Democrat socialists, Bernie Sanders tries to say. But if you look at the policies, they're the same.

[00:01:50] We're going to do it differently. And so I would take the socialist track two different ways. On the one, there's the large scale socialist, which is controlling the means like Venezuela does where, you know, inflation spirals out of control.

[00:02:02] The country owns the means of production. It just takes over every company. People suffer. They die.

[00:02:07] The other is the people who want to push a socialized medicine. Now, you could have that. I think we're moving in that direction where we're going to have the same thing that a lot of other first world countries have.

[00:02:21] You're going to have a substandard or standard socialized medical care where you can go anywhere and get stuff done.

[00:02:27] Now, it has caveats. I mean, I have a nephew that had an infected toe in Italy and because he couldn't get he was below a certain age when this happened, they couldn't use anesthesia.

[00:02:40] So they had to operate on his toe while he was awake. Horrible. Cutting him, fixing horrible, I mean, primitive stuff.

[00:02:52] And you have a second tier, which is private care. Now, that to me would become the worst from from Democrats would scream bloody murder because you would have, you know, this this presidential care and then everybody else.

[00:03:04] But that seems to be the direction we're headed in because there's no easy way out of this.

[00:03:09] It would be neat if there was a paper free. If you could just pay as you go. I want to go. I want to pay. I want to get get my I want to get my stuff done.

[00:03:18] I want to go to my doctor and I want to pay whatever it is. Here's you go to like you go to a restaurant. You say, OK, I want the steak dinner. That's going to be twenty eight dollars.

[00:03:25] I want the I want the fish dinner. Oh, that's twenty three. It's on the menu. Say, hey, I would like to get to get my physical.

[00:03:31] Well, a physical is a hundred bucks. And if we order blood work, the blood work's going to be whatever.

[00:03:36] And it's just a a la carte thing. The doctor tells you what you need. You look and see this is what it costs.

[00:03:40] I want to do that or not. It's very direct. And you get rid of a lot of the paperwork.

[00:03:44] I don't know if that will happen. I think that the concierge services that I'm seeing erupt around or doing stuff like that.

[00:03:50] But who knows? So thanks for the astute listeners out there that are paying attention to stuff.

[00:03:54] Now, the new tolerance people, the new tolerance campaign, which is looking at a lot of things that are going on out there in the world.

[00:04:03] Oh, funny phone calls that come in when I'm not in the break.

[00:04:08] Washington, D.C., the new tolerance campaign, a grassroots watchdog organization, unveiled its fourth annual worst of the woke awards.

[00:04:15] A look back at the year's most outrageous headline grabbing instances of woke run wild in the U.S.

[00:04:20] In 2024, 10 institutions went to extreme, pressing a woke agenda on a weary public DEI and Star Wars drag queens at the Olympics, non-binary toys.

[00:04:30] They all made the cut. So here are the winners of 2024. We'll bring them to you.

[00:04:35] Fun. It's fun. But at the same time, it happened. This is reality.

[00:04:40] The Acolyte, which was a Disney Star Wars thing, they hoped for a hit, but they ended up with a messy miss following the disastrous rollout of the Acolyte.

[00:04:49] The Star Wars spinoff crashed and burned, canceled after only one season for the most predictable reason.

[00:04:54] It refused to stay true to Star Wars lore and instead sought to shoehorn as much DEI into every episode as possible.

[00:05:01] An all lesbian coven of force, force witches lamenting the galaxy, not accepting women like us asking an alien for its pronouns, a pronounced emphasis on race and more.

[00:05:13] All featured in the show. Series creator Leslie Hedlund even went on record stating that the inclusion of queer communities in the program was deliberate because it, quote, would be natural if an all female community existed.

[00:05:25] Now, that's the kind of thing. How many of you, when you're out in your world and you're wanting to be entertained, get into a really, you know, you say, oh, gosh, this is something I've been looking forward to seeing.

[00:05:36] You sit down to watch it because you're intrigued by the story or the plot or even the characters.

[00:05:43] And then amidst this, you recognize, because it's in your face, that they've inserted something that's a current political perspective or dogma that serves as nothing but a distraction from the storyline.

[00:05:57] That it's that you actually can tell it's been forced.

[00:06:03] That you're pushing an agenda in a movie or entertainment, and that's what happened with the Acolyte crashed and burned.

[00:06:08] We find this a lot, and it's a complete and utter distraction from what most people want in their entertainment, which is to be just entertained.

[00:06:17] And I think that some people do. I mean, when Top Gun came out, Top Gun Maverick, I will give Tom Cruise as nutty as the Scientology stuff is.

[00:06:26] That movie was what America needed at that time. It was remarkably entertaining. It avoided a lot of the cavities.

[00:06:33] It wouldn't even tell you which country they were going after, but it was a great storyline. It was a great story, great entertainment.

[00:06:39] It wasn't toxic masculinity either. Now, the other one, Super Bowl, I guess, 53.

[00:06:46] 43, 53, 63, 63. L-V-I-I-I. I can't even get it right. Super Bowl 58. Sorry.

[00:06:53] With more than 123 million viewers, this is another one of the winners of the DEI and the mess every year, few things unite America like the Super Bowl.

[00:07:01] But not this year. The NFL spoiled the fun with divisive, woke posturing, presenting two separate national anthems

[00:07:08] before the big game, a black national anthem, and then another anthem for everybody that wasn't black.

[00:07:14] And I remember that. I remember when it happened. It was very odd and uncomfortable.

[00:07:20] It was unnecessary. It took away from what was supposed to be something to help us forget about stuff.

[00:07:27] Also a winner, the Olympics. The Paris Olympics managed to anger Christians, conservatives, and anyone with good taste in dancing.

[00:07:34] The opening ceremony of the global athletic event began with a tableau of drag queens that more than a few people felt mocked.

[00:07:41] The Last Supper, the cross-dressing star at the center of the performance who called herself Olympic Jesus, only exacerbated that outrage.

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[00:08:54] So, Nirvana. I think I got that one right.

[00:08:59] They're throwing everything at me.

[00:09:00] Chad Adams here sitting in for Pete Callener.

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[00:09:12] We'll have a guest joining us at the bottom of the hour.

[00:09:14] My good buddy Joe Bastardi will be doing so and looking forward to his commentary on what's coming.

[00:09:19] He's been tracking these next number of systems.

[00:09:23] I think there's three of them that are going to kind of train through the area that are going to get things nice and chilly.

[00:09:28] Hopefully, it's going to feel like winter in winter, believe it or not.

[00:09:31] And when we went through the break, we were talking about these kind of awards.

[00:09:37] Now, that was Nirvana.

[00:09:39] Thank you.

[00:09:40] Appreciate all you folks keeping me straight up here.

[00:09:42] Now, let's see if I can get to the rest of those awards from the new tolerance campaign.

[00:09:47] And we were talking about the Olympics and the DEI stuff there, the Super Bowl and what they did, the Acolyte, which is what Disney threw out there.

[00:09:54] Now, one of the oddest ones to me, and I remember when this happened too, you might as I go through it, it's Harley Davidson.

[00:09:59] Harley Davidson, one of the most iconic brands in American history, just very American, these overly loud, but that's their iconic noise is their motorcycles.

[00:10:14] Harley Davidson had a rock-solid, badass brand, and then DEI came along.

[00:10:19] A video unveiled on Twitter showed the company's CEO, Joshin Zeitz, speaking at a conference in 2020 in which he called himself the sustainable Taliban and asserted Harley Davidson was, quote,

[00:10:33] trying to take on traditional capitalism and trying to redefine it, end quote.

[00:10:38] After the uproar, Zeitz issued a public statement denouncing DEI and declaring the bike builder would pull back from the woke brink, ending its participation with the odious corporate equality index pushed by recognized hate group the Human Rights Campaign.

[00:10:54] That's one that happened this past year.

[00:10:56] Columbia University, you'll remember this one.

[00:10:58] During a three-week fiasco, the administration of Columbia University was paralyzed in the face of rabidly anti-Semitic and increasingly violent conduct.

[00:11:07] Students took over the campus-famed Hamilton Hall, barricaded the entrance, and hung a free Palestine banner from a window.

[00:11:14] The inmates were running the asylum at New York City's Ivy League school with students issuing a list of wild demands that included a complete divestment from all Israel-related businesses and amnesty from disciplinary actions for students.

[00:11:27] Columbia's pushback? An email declaring that bringing in police at this time would be counterproductive.

[00:11:34] Things got so hot that Columbia ended up canceling its university-wide commencement ceremony.

[00:11:39] And you have to – you don't wonder.

[00:11:41] We know.

[00:11:42] We've seen what's happened in some of the most elite universities in our country.

[00:11:46] The strangest – well, not strangest.

[00:11:49] The most insidious aspect of this at our university levels is how the Palestinian left has infiltrated our political culture and become somewhat – it tried to portray itself in altruistic terms.

[00:12:09] So the terrorist thugs commit an atrocity, a 9-11 or four times a 9-11 in Israel, and somehow that becomes a cry for sympathy for the cause.

[00:12:23] It wasn't.

[00:12:24] And it just showed that these people were trying to give cover to murderous thugs, these students, these misguided, arrogant leftists that believe they know – that are climbing Fool's Hill, as my grandfather would say, and are trying to lecture everybody else while ignoring this unbelievable, violent deaths and calling that somehow propaganda.

[00:12:50] But alas, that's it.

[00:12:52] And then Harvard wanted to be one better.

[00:12:54] Following the unceremonious resignation of university president Claudine Gay under allegations of rank plagiarism, you'll remember she was sitting in Congress and couldn't kind of define anti-Semitism.

[00:13:04] It was just – she was just – couldn't do it.

[00:13:06] America's premier Ivy League institution presented a case study in emotional fragility in the aftermath of Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election.

[00:13:14] Harvard professors canceled classes for two days.

[00:13:18] These pathetic Harvard students, these elite woke kooks, they're just nuts, just absolute nuts, canceled classes for two days to allow their students space to process the election.

[00:13:33] Do you think these kids are going to be the ones that are going to lead us to a new, more enlightened world?

[00:13:39] They can't deal with the results of an election.

[00:13:45] Ugh.

[00:13:46] The school's Institute of Politics distributed conciliatory pastries and sweets all day on November 6th, and quizzes in the intermediate microeconomics class were declared optional henceforth as a reprieve from post-election trauma.

[00:14:01] That really happened.

[00:14:04] That's – you think about – you would think Harvard would be one of the toughest, most interesting.

[00:14:10] Now, imagine if they taught their law students the same way.

[00:14:13] Well, if you're on the losing side, you know what?

[00:14:15] You need to eat some pastries, take a couple days off, and you need to – we'll just cancel.

[00:14:21] Just don't even worry about continued education.

[00:14:25] Imagine if you're surgeons.

[00:14:27] It's every time a surgery didn't go bad.

[00:14:29] They just couldn't hack it anymore.

[00:14:30] Just – they couldn't.

[00:14:31] Can't do it.

[00:14:32] There's not enough anxiety medication on the planet to get me through this.

[00:14:36] Imagine if your kid was one of those kids.

[00:14:39] Mom, Dad, I can't deal with the election.

[00:14:41] That isn't – can you send – send me more money?

[00:14:43] I don't want to go to class right now.

[00:14:45] I'm going to eat some pizza and Xanax and some SSRIs, maybe some benzodiazepines.

[00:14:52] I don't know.

[00:14:52] More stuff.

[00:14:56] Unbelievable.

[00:14:57] The other winner, WPATH, W-P-A-T-H, which is the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

[00:15:05] Hippocratic Oath Be Damned, this group came under fire for its role in one of the most alarming medical scandals of our time.

[00:15:11] Behind closed doors, doctors affiliated with that organization who swore an oath to do no harm privately discussed how sex change procedures for minors are experimental, how they are untested, and they are often devastatingly painful.

[00:15:29] The people inside the organization knew this.

[00:15:31] The admissions directly contradicted their public-facing advocacy for the treatments, leaving families betrayed and children's bodies permanently altered.

[00:15:42] That's another award winner for the year.

[00:15:45] Another one, Mattel.

[00:15:47] This one's just fun.

[00:15:49] The company behind Barbie pushed the boundaries of political correctness with the release of the world's first gender-neutral doll.

[00:15:57] The first gender-neutral doll.

[00:16:00] And you're thinking about that.

[00:16:03] You're just like, the toys marketed as gender-inclusive are designed to be a boy, a girl, neither, or both.

[00:16:11] A boy, a girl, neither, or both.

[00:16:14] A boy, a girl, neither, or both.

[00:16:16] Hmm.

[00:16:17] Neither.

[00:16:18] Or both.

[00:16:19] That's just...

[00:16:20] Mattel hailed the launch as a step toward greater inclusivity, but the move sparked pushback among parents and child development experts.

[00:16:27] You produced a doll.

[00:16:29] You're known for Barbie and Ken.

[00:16:32] That's your number one brand.

[00:16:34] Barbie and Ken.

[00:16:36] That's your brand.

[00:16:38] And then you have to come out with a boy, a girl, neither, or both.

[00:16:42] Hmm.

[00:16:43] Another one.

[00:16:43] You may not have heard about this one.

[00:16:44] When Penzi Spices, once crowned America's wokest company, Penzi Spices stirred the pot yet again this year, the seasoning shop is known for promotional events such as Republicans are racist weekend.

[00:16:55] And for recommending to their customers, quote, send the Jewish people in your life a photo of a couple sleeping bags up in your attic with the message that you will always have a place for them.

[00:17:07] They sent that.

[00:17:32] Think about that.

[00:17:37] That's the tolerant left for you.

[00:17:39] And finally, Jaguar.

[00:17:41] Luxury car maker Jaguar rolled out a bizarre...

[00:17:43] Their words, not mine.

[00:17:44] Bizarre ad in December.

[00:17:45] Did you see it?

[00:17:46] Didn't any of you see the...

[00:17:47] Did you see the Jaguar ad?

[00:17:48] I mean, it took me a while.

[00:17:49] I saw it.

[00:17:50] I'd heard it discussed, and then it popped up on TV.

[00:17:53] A bizarre ad in December that left audience scratching their heads.

[00:17:55] A commercial filled with androgynous models and completely...

[00:17:58] It didn't even have a car in it, the Jaguar ad.

[00:18:00] I think when I was hosting earlier in the month for Winter Bowl, I talked about this.

[00:18:04] To make matters worse, the auto manufacturer literally took the Jaguar out of Jaguar, erasing the iconic big cat from its logo.

[00:18:12] Critics called the company Bud Light 2.0.

[00:18:15] Elon Musk mockingly asked the company,

[00:18:17] Do you guys even sell cars?

[00:18:18] And Conservative Parliament member Nigel Farage predicted the UK brand will now go bust.

[00:18:23] A Jaguar.

[00:18:24] I mean, an iconic brand of automobiles took their automobiles out of their heads.

[00:18:31] Just gone.

[00:18:33] The winner, however, in a year filled with hypocrisy and double standards,

[00:18:37] one person went above and beyond to hold institutions to their stated principles.

[00:18:40] That was Robbie Starbuck.

[00:18:41] Few people have had more of an impact holding corporate America's feet to the fire than Starbuck.

[00:18:45] The filmmaker, activist, and political commentator was already notable for standing up for free speech, religious liberty, and parental rights.

[00:18:51] In 2024, he took his advocacy to the next level.

[00:18:54] With action that shined a spotlight on divisive so-called diversity, equity, inclusion programs in corporate America.

[00:19:01] He's the one who compelled many companies to stand down.

[00:19:04] Businesses long synonymous with blue-collar America like Harley-Davidson, Caterpillar, Ford, John Deere, and Tractor Supply were targets as he exposed them.

[00:19:12] And they started to roll back their DEI policies.

[00:19:15] Termination of participation in the deceptively called corporate equity index and an end to woke employee trainings.

[00:19:21] So hats off to Robbie Starbuck.

[00:19:23] I'd also throw Charlie Kirk in that.

[00:19:24] It's not in their list, but Charlie Kirk did a remarkable job of changing the narrative of college universities across the nation,

[00:19:30] leading to Trump getting more young people's vote than Democrats.

[00:19:32] Good afternoon.

[00:19:34] Chad Adams here for my good friend Pete Callender.

[00:19:37] Hope he's having a great, great break.

[00:19:39] He deserves it.

[00:19:40] He's been working very hard here on WBT.

[00:19:43] News Talk 1110-993-WBT.

[00:19:46] The calling number is 704-570-1110.

[00:19:48] With us right now, though, someone who I've gotten to know over the past probably 15 years,

[00:19:53] and one of the – I consider on the front lines of weather science, a true scientist,

[00:19:58] someone who co-founded Weatherbell Analytics, someone who has written extensively, has appeared nationally.

[00:20:03] You've seen him on the Sean Hannity Show, and that is Joe Bastardi.

[00:20:07] Joe, how the heck are you today?

[00:20:09] Oh, very well.

[00:20:10] Happy New Year to everyone.

[00:20:11] And, you know, hopefully 2025 is going to turn out to be a great year.

[00:20:16] I think the spirit of the Carolinas, the Western North Carolina, helping out after Helene has really shown brightly

[00:20:23] in what has been a very dark situation as far as that goes.

[00:20:28] But there's no keeping good people down, and I have a great deal of affection for that area of the country.

[00:20:35] One of the best friends I ever had is Al Conklin.

[00:20:39] I still have him as a real good friend.

[00:20:41] He's over on the TV side.

[00:20:42] So I have a – from a distance, this glancing admiration, put it that way.

[00:20:50] Well, I appreciate those kind words, and clearly you have been – you know,

[00:20:55] you discussed what was probably going to happen in Western North Carolina.

[00:20:58] I follow what you write.

[00:20:59] You wrote about what happened and the conditions that led to that horrific event.

[00:21:04] That was shooting fish in a barrel.

[00:21:06] On September 8th, we put it on Twitter that the last week of September and the first week of October,

[00:21:13] I put that thing on over 100 times, there would be multiple hurricane strikes in the southeast part of the United States.

[00:21:19] I do this thing called Attention Governor DeSantis to try to get his attention.

[00:21:24] We started that with Ian a couple of years ago.

[00:21:26] And then four days before, I just don't understand how the federal government was not on our war footing.

[00:21:35] We put out biblical proportioning flooding coming to the Carolinas,

[00:21:39] and the storm was going to maintain itself going inland because it was a very interesting situation.

[00:21:47] We were in something called the Phase 8 of the Matt and Julian Oscillation.

[00:21:51] And if you study the Phase 8, Phase 1, storms maintain intensity quite a bit longer than other phases of that oscillation.

[00:22:01] And many of the storms we've seen since 2017 have all been in these certain phases of the Matt and Julian Oscillation.

[00:22:10] So you can see them coming.

[00:22:13] And I don't know what was going on with people before, during, and even after.

[00:22:19] But as you know, and you follow me on Twitter, Chad, just as I follow you,

[00:22:24] you know how strongly I feel about the neglect that has been shown.

[00:22:29] And we've got more wickedly cold air coming.

[00:22:32] And certainly it's been a cold December until the last week or so we've warmed up.

[00:22:39] But now we have three weeks of the coldest opening three weeks of January since probably 2011,

[00:22:47] and maybe since 1994 that's on the way.

[00:22:51] And so hopefully people are ready for that.

[00:22:55] I've talked quite a bit about you prior to your appearance today, and I told the audience,

[00:22:59] one of the things that I have a great deal of admiration for is that you look at historical events.

[00:23:05] You look at historical weather oscillations.

[00:23:08] You look at what has happened as a guide to see what may happen next.

[00:23:13] It's not just, hey, we plug in data points to an algorithm and it spits out a spaghetti model of a hurricane.

[00:23:21] You're looking at actual data over the past 140 years or so.

[00:23:25] I've seen you do this with cyclonic activity.

[00:23:28] I've seen you do it with winter weather.

[00:23:30] And I've been very curious about you also post the Euro models and the national weather, the NWS models.

[00:23:37] What did you think about what's – I've talked to several friends and shown them your modeling and what you said about it.

[00:23:43] The southeast coming up around – I guess beginning around the 8th of January or so.

[00:23:47] It looks like for the next couple of weeks it could be rather chilly down south.

[00:23:52] Well, yeah, we've been saying now since December 10th was the first postage, January 1st through 20th.

[00:23:58] It's centered on the 5th through 15th.

[00:24:00] It would be very cold.

[00:24:01] And I bring that up.

[00:24:03] I'm not trying to be pompous or anything like that, although I know it sounds like it.

[00:24:06] Because you have to establish the story to – if you go to a movie and you walk in when the movie's about to end,

[00:24:14] and the forecast period's starting so the movie's about to end,

[00:24:18] you don't know what happened before in the movie.

[00:24:21] And so we've been on top of this for quite some time.

[00:24:26] I'm also telling people that late January and into early and mid-February,

[00:24:30] you're liable to get it as warm here relative to averages as it is cold coming up.

[00:24:36] And we can sort of see that coming.

[00:24:38] And then winter will probably have a big end later in February into March, maybe a late spring this year.

[00:24:45] There are different methods that we're using to look at that kind of thing.

[00:24:50] But, you know, my dad always taught me the foundation you stand on today was built yesterday to reach for tomorrow,

[00:24:56] which means if you watch the weather and if you can look at all the history of things that have happened,

[00:25:06] when you see something that looks similar to that, you can then examine it better and try to come up with an answer.

[00:25:14] And one of the sad things today is I don't know if I've ever met a meteorologist that I could say I'm smarter than.

[00:25:24] All right?

[00:25:25] I'm dead serious.

[00:25:26] Or I have more talent than.

[00:25:28] And I do think I love, you know, someone said to me, Dad, I love the weather.

[00:25:34] I love the weather.

[00:25:36] But you're just ridiculous about how much you love the weather.

[00:25:39] And so what happens is I'm obsessed with it and I'm obsessed with the past.

[00:25:44] And what happens is when you look at all that, I do this in history and everything I look at.

[00:25:50] But when you do that, you tend to be more skeptical on what people are telling you about outsourcing the talent God gave you to make a forecast to some computer model.

[00:26:01] Now, you know, this AI is going to improve forecasting.

[00:26:06] But so far, it's no better than any of the other models.

[00:26:11] I mean, I've been watching the AI comes in, the five or six models come in four times a day.

[00:26:15] And the problem is you get people who are trying to downplay what humans could do to sort of negate the human factor and stuff.

[00:26:26] So we turn it all over to machines that are putting out stuff.

[00:26:30] And because the average person does not look at the weather, they're not seeing the fact, well, wait a minute.

[00:26:37] That model said we were going to get a foot of snow, and now it says we're getting nothing.

[00:26:41] And so, you know, it's things like that.

[00:26:45] One of the things I'd advise the younger meteorologists to do is to dig in to the past and look at the past.

[00:26:53] And then you won't necessarily just buy everything you're told.

[00:26:57] And that's what's going on today.

[00:26:59] Look, it's coming down to a situation in our society where, especially in meteorology,

[00:27:05] what's the use of having anybody doing any weather forecasting?

[00:27:10] I mean, just get someone on there that just will recite whatever they're told to recite because you've got a model that's better than any forecaster.

[00:27:21] So if it comes down to personality rather than skill, well, I mean, what's the use of going and spending $150,000 getting a degree of meteorology if that's what it's all about, right?

[00:27:34] Absolutely.

[00:27:34] And, Joe, you know, you push back on the Michael Mann narrative.

[00:27:37] You and I have had that discussion many years.

[00:27:40] But since we're up against a break, I want to get your final thoughts.

[00:27:43] You know, this cold front that's coming through, or this new way of the gesturing is going to wrap, it could affect the Florida citrus crops.

[00:27:50] It could affect many things.

[00:27:51] Do you think there's going to be any potential precipitation in this event or the next couple weeks?

[00:27:56] I would think it's going to snow down here sometime within the next 20 days.

[00:28:01] I don't know the details yet on trying to pick out the different systems because you've got a whole bunch of different characters that are all heading toward the same area.

[00:28:12] If they combine, then you get the big storm.

[00:28:15] If they compete, then all it does is it's relatively cold and dry.

[00:28:20] But I do think we're going to break the snow drought that we're in here in Charlotte.

[00:28:26] I know we're in a snow drought.

[00:28:27] There was some snow in the air in December.

[00:28:30] Some of these are stuck on the ground.

[00:28:31] But I do think that we're going to break it in this kind of pattern.

[00:28:35] And the thing I'm worried, I'm actually concerned about, if everything got itself together the right way, you'd have an outbreak as bad as the 1985 Reagan inaugural outbreak.

[00:28:46] Which, incidentally, you know, since Donald Trump's getting...

[00:28:50] So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's.

[00:28:53] And before he died, my mom and my dad and all of us really helped take care of him as he got progressively worse.

[00:28:59] Forty years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family.

[00:29:04] Things are different today because of the work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of Western North Carolina.

[00:29:10] It's a great organization with awesome people.

[00:29:13] They've got huge hearts.

[00:29:14] I've been a supporter for like 25 years.

[00:29:16] This cause means a lot to me.

[00:29:18] I participate in the annual walk to end Alzheimer's.

[00:29:21] And I am leading a Charlotte team this year.

[00:29:24] It's called Pete's Pack.

[00:29:25] You can sign up and join the team and walk with me.

[00:29:28] It's on October 19th at Truist Field in Uptown.

[00:29:31] Sign up at alz.org slash walk and then just look for my team, Pete's Pack.

[00:29:37] And there's also a link in the podcast description here.

[00:29:39] Also, I'm going to be emceeing the Gastonia Walk on October 5th.

[00:29:43] So make a team and join us or make a donation to help me hit my goal.

[00:29:46] I would really appreciate it.

[00:29:48] There are a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas.

[00:29:51] And you can go to alz.org for all of the dates and locations.

[00:29:55] We are closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's.

[00:29:59] And if you can help us get there, we would really appreciate it.

[00:30:03] Will you come walk with me for a different future, for families, for more time, for treatments?

[00:30:08] This is why I walk.

[00:30:09] Good afternoon.

[00:30:10] Appreciate Joe taking the time to be a part of this broadcast.

[00:30:13] And he's kind of giving folks a warning here.

[00:30:18] We've kind of become accustomed to this kind of mild weather.

[00:30:21] It was cold.

[00:30:21] It was even cold down at the coast late November, early December.

[00:30:25] It was very chilly, unseasonably so.

[00:30:29] And we get lulled into thinking by the narrative pushed on us by many news agencies that it's the heat that's dangerous.

[00:30:38] But the cold is absolutely terrifying.

[00:30:42] And I say that because there's many folks in western North Carolina that are trying to figure out how to make it.

[00:30:48] They just experienced another week of floods and bad weather.

[00:30:53] There's many that are tents and homes.

[00:30:55] And having heat could become critical in the next two weeks.

[00:30:59] I think it will be.

[00:31:00] I don't want it to be.

[00:31:02] It's going to be critical in the areas in and around Charlotte as well.

[00:31:05] That cold is potentially reminiscent of 1985.

[00:31:09] And if you couple that with inclement weather, it could be very, very bad.

[00:31:17] It could be bad.

[00:31:18] It could be really bad.

[00:31:19] So just keep that in mind.

[00:31:21] And I hope it isn't.

[00:31:21] Now, look, I kind of, in a way, I hope I'm wrong.

[00:31:24] But I love winter weather.

[00:31:25] So I would love to see snow.

[00:31:27] I would love to see, you know, beautiful snow falling, covering everything.

[00:31:32] But I know it comes as a hindrance and it can be very dangerous as well.

[00:31:35] So I don't pretend that it's without consequence.

[00:31:38] It certainly can be.

[00:31:39] I just happen to love snow.

[00:31:41] That doesn't mean I wish any harm on anybody.

[00:31:43] And this year, by the way, I'm going to try to get this right.

[00:31:46] There's no way I'm going to get this right.

[00:31:48] But as we finish up the year, it's easy to be reflective and to look back on the past year.

[00:31:54] And you can look at it a variety of ways.

[00:31:57] You can look back on it and think about all the horrific lies that the media told you, the way you were misled, the way that politicians acted.

[00:32:08] Now, I would say that over the course of time, are you really surprised that any given – and I think both parties do this.

[00:32:15] I think it's become worse in modern times.

[00:32:17] But politicians love to take advantage of any given situation to push their agenda.

[00:32:26] I think that many politicians like it when the other side is destroying itself and they don't want to comment on or get involved.

[00:32:34] And right now, the Democrats find themselves grabbing their own tails and setting their own agenda on fire.

[00:32:40] And that's been long overdue.

[00:32:43] It's happening.

[00:32:43] They've tried to have a kerfluffle with Trump and Elon.

[00:32:46] It's not going to go anywhere.

[00:32:48] They tried to do this with Mike Johnson and Trump.

[00:32:50] It's not going to happen.

[00:32:51] I think what's interesting is the maturity, the political maturity of Trump is of great assistance to him and his team moving forward into this second term.

[00:33:02] And in some ways, coming into this term with the separation and all of the other stuff somewhat nullified is the opportunity to really see how well this can go.

[00:33:15] And I would also say, for those of you who look back on the air and get chagrined or overly chagrined, as we get older, you tend to be more like that.

[00:33:24] As Shane Gillis says, for those of you who start watching in your 40s or 30s World War II documentaries, it's early-stage Republican.

[00:33:32] It's a joke.

[00:33:32] But he's not wrong.

[00:33:35] I mean, Winston Churchill channeled that and said, if you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart.

[00:33:39] If you're not a conservative by 40, you have no brain.

[00:33:41] There's a lot of truth.

[00:33:42] And I'm paraphrasing, but that's kind of what he said.

[00:33:45] And I would say advise always it's good to be skeptical.

[00:33:50] It's bad to be jaded.

[00:33:53] And it is always healthy to be somewhat skeptical when people throw extremes out at you as if they are truth.

[00:34:02] And that's why when we move forward, I think that there's the opportunity for us to have a reset in the country, a reset where traditional values still have honor and sway, where we are tolerant.

[00:34:15] And we get to prove that we are not only that we are, but that we have been, that we get to reset a lot of the things that have divided us over the past two or three decades.

[00:34:26] A lot of people thought that the race issue after Obama's election would have gone away, but I think it got a lot worse.

[00:34:35] I mean, we saw a lot more.

[00:34:36] We saw the BLM movement rise.

[00:34:38] We saw – and then we also thought that political correctness had kind of died off, but it was replaced, as the left always does, with a new brand.

[00:34:46] They call it diversity, equity, inclusion.

[00:34:48] They call it woke.

[00:34:50] They call it – they rename the same things that they were peddling and try to convince you that it's new and you must do it.

[00:34:59] When we had a Supreme Court justice that couldn't define what a woman was, it's easy to become jaded and think that, is that the new norm?

[00:35:07] And the great reset election that we had said no.

[00:35:12] Norms haven't necessarily changed.

[00:35:14] I think our tolerances have improved a great deal, but to see the diversity in Trump's base in this election was heartwarming to me because it meant that the left now has to earn votes not just because of societal status.

[00:35:32] Meaning that just because you're – insert whatever – Indian, black, Mexican, whatever – that vote is no longer to be counted because of that bias.

[00:35:46] That we now see across all spectrums of society from young to old, from race to race, from culture to culture, that the parties will have to work for you.

[00:35:58] They'll have to work to earn your trust.

[00:36:01] Also, something I think was phenomenal this year is the recognition that D.C. is broken, and it was recognized it's wide and deep.

[00:36:11] It is not just a surface-level recognition of this.

[00:36:14] And I think that Republicans should be very wary of trying to push through a lot of pork and a lot of waste.

[00:36:22] I think the Doge movement is real.

[00:36:25] I think it's going to continue to escalate.

[00:36:27] One of two things will happen.

[00:36:29] It will be wildly successful in helping us recalibrate the way in which we spend money.

[00:36:34] Or, and if it fails, it will be an epic tumble back into the broken version of D.C. that Americans put up with.

[00:36:46] And we will have admitted a political defeat that is not partisan, but that is an economic political defeat for all Americans and our kids and our grandkids.

[00:36:55] So, a lot to stay tuned for.

[00:36:57] I hope you guys have a phenomenal, amazing new year.

[00:37:02] And it's been a pleasure and honor to be here.

[00:37:04] I'll be back on the other side as I'll see you next year, as people would say.

[00:37:08] Have a great one.

[00:37:08] Chad Adams signing off for now.

[00:37:09] I'll break a lot of things so Pete doesn't have to.

[00:37:11] Stay tuned.

[00:37:14] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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