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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_02]: So, at the end of the last hour there, last segment, I played this Tim Walz, who's a liar,
[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_02]: the emotional support governor for Kamala Harris.
[00:00:39] [SPEAKER_02]: He was out on the campaign trail and he is, I guess, abandoning, although it's hard to
[00:00:44] [SPEAKER_02]: say because he's a liar.
[00:00:46] [SPEAKER_02]: So we don't know when he said, mind your own business, when it came to abortion, he's apparently
[00:00:53] [SPEAKER_02]: not interested in minding his own business.
[00:00:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And he's telling people, don't mind your own business when you're at the grocery store.
[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_02]: You need to go up to people and ask them whether they have voted and then you need to get them
[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_02]: to go vote for Harris.
[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_02]: So, I guess, don't mind your business.
[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[00:01:16] [SPEAKER_02]: What can I say?
[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just from a middle class family.
[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_02]: So, Tim Walz says to cost people at the grocery store, talk politics.
[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_02]: And then he was joined on the stage by his wife.
[00:01:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, you know me, I do not make references about people's appearance.
[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't attack people for their appearance and that, you know, you don't have any control
[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_02]: over that to some extent.
[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you could take care of yourself, you know, wipe the gunk out of your eyes, that
[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_02]: kind of thing.
[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, and I'll make fun of people's appearances.
[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_02]: But there's something about people's eyes.
[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_02]: They're a window into the soul and brain.
[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And they're literally connected to your brain.
[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_02]: So, when I see, I reference this with Joe Biden.
[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_02]: When, you know, to me it was obvious that he was in cognitive decline because I could
[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_02]: see in his eyes several years ago this stare that he had, you know.
[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_02]: This and I recognized that stare because I have seen it before.
[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I've talked about this before.
[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_02]: My granddad had Alzheimer's.
[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_02]: I recognize, I don't know a way to describe it except to say that there's this like it's
[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_02]: like a, it's almost like this vacant sparkle kind of a thing.
[00:02:45] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's almost like a childlike wide-eye kind of, huh?
[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, and I saw it in Biden.
[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_02]: I remember seeing it in my grandfather, which by the way, that's why I do the walk to end
[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Alzheimer's.
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[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_02]: And I've got a team I put together.
[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_02]: It's called Pete's Pack.
[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_02]: And you can go to alz.org slash walk and search for Pete's Pack and it'll show up.
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[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_02]: That's going to be on October 19th.
[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_02]: There's also a walk.
[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_02]: There are walks everywhere.
[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_02]: I think there's one actually in a couple of days up in Mooresville.
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[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_02]: because I got to be there, you know, high-fiving everybody when they, you know, when they cross
[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_02]: the finish line.
[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_02]: So October 5th is the Gastonia walk.
[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I'll be there as well, but you can make a donation.
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[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_02]: So I appreciate anybody's help and thank you to everybody who has donated some really generous
[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_02]: donations over the last week or so.
[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_02]: And thank you very much for that.
[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I really do appreciate it.
[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_02]: And I know the Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina appreciates it.
[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a very good organization.
[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_02]: So that's why I could recognize in Biden that similarity was because it's in the eyes.
[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_02]: The eyes tell you so much.
[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_02]: And Governor Tim Walz, who's a liar, his wife, she's got something going on with her eyes.
[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_02]: And I've got a clip here.
[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_02]: You may have heard it already, but if not, it's new to you.
[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_02]: And obviously, this is radio, so you can't see her eyes.
[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_02]: But I think you can get a general sense.
[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_02]: And I've seen her described as because she is a former teacher, I guess.
[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if she's still a teacher, but she's been the first lady of Minnesota as her husband's
[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_02]: been governor.
[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know if she's still a teacher or not, but she's that teacher.
[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_02]: We've all had one, at least one.
[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_02]: She's that teacher.
[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And so here was so far.
[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_02]: OK, I will play first.
[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_02]: I will play the.
[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_02]: The Tim Walz clip.
[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_02]: And then I'll play his wife's clip.
[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Gwen is her name, Gwen Waltz.
[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_04]: This thing's going to be a battle for the next 52 days.
[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_04]: It's going to be in rooms, one in rooms just like this.
[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_04]: It's going to be one door to door, call to call, five dollar donation.
[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Trying to have that hard conversation in the produce aisle with the person you saw there at the grocery store and ask, have you voted yet?
[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Again, the only hard conversation you have in the produce aisle is about the firmness of the melons.
[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_02]: That's it.
[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_02]: OK, that's the only hard when you're.
[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_02]: That's it.
[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_02]: The only hard conversation you should be having there.
[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Michael sends a message.
[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, how I hate to hear Kamala speak or cackle or whatever she does.
[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_02]: It is torture listening to her.
[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, dang.
[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I can't stand to hear Walz speak either.
[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Wait till you hear Gwen.
[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But I kind of liked it when she did this.
[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Turn the page.
[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_02]: So what she's doing there is making that hand motion of turn the page.
[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_02]: She's super enamored with Kamala Harris using the hand motion to turn the page.
[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Turn the page.
[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Turn the page.
[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_00]: You like that?
[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, so I need you to be with me and practice with me.
[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_00]: What are we going to do?
[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to turn the page.
[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, pretty good.
[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Do it again.
[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to turn the page.
[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to turn the page.
[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be watching you because when I see Wisconsin and I'm watching National Land TV because it's a pretty important place in Minnesota.
[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll help you practice with this.
[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_00]: You just show me this.
[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Turn the page.
[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And you know what else that looks like?
[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Bye bye.
[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, that's enough.
[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my gosh.
[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_02]: And she does this thing with her eyes.
[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure it's not intentional.
[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_02]: She can't help it, I guess.
[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_02]: It just seems like she's got kind of the crazy eyes.
[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not saying she is.
[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just saying like that's like the look on her face, the expressions she's giving while the crowd is cheering.
[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_02]: I.
[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_02]: That's just my read.
[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_02]: And what do I know?
[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm no psychiatrist or eye expert.
[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, Bert, welcome to the program.
[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Hello, Bert.
[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, that's another Maggie voice, as we talked about last week.
[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_01]: That voice you hear all day long just from the brain out.
[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_01]: But I was going to say that tomorrow she needs to do is she needs to get pictures of her answers.
[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_01]: So when she's asked a question, she can just show up the picture and not say anything.
[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Just put it in front of her face for like five seconds.
[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like flashcards.
[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and she can go after if she wants to, but at least we can see her answer.
[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it might make more sense.
[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, the problem is that she would have to first craft some sort of specific answer.
[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know if she's able to do that.
[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I guess she might also put them upside down and sideways and stuff.
[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_01]: So it's still not make sense, but.
[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, no.
[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_02]: I think you're onto something here.
[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_02]: How about this?
[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Venn diagrams.
[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_02]: She should do all of her answers with Venn diagram.
[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, the circles that overlap and stuff like that, because she really, really, really loves Venn diagrams.
[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_02]: We learned that a couple of years ago.
[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_02]: So maybe I think, yeah, I like it.
[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_02]: I like it.
[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Either way, it's got to be better.
[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Bert, I appreciate the call.
[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a great idea.
[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_02]: See, look, free advice.
[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Free advice for the Harris Walls campaign.
[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Flashcards of pictures and Venn diagrams for all your answers.
[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_02]: You just hold them in front of your face.
[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_02]: You can have staffers do the homework for you on that, too.
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[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_02]: A couple of tweets here. Apparently,
[00:10:50] [SPEAKER_02]: apparently people are not cool with this idea of being approached in the produce section
[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_02]: and being asked who they're voting for.
[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_02]: It's so weird.
[00:11:03] What?
[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, so here's one from AppPatriateGirl, it's a P tweet.
[00:11:12] [SPEAKER_02]: She says, I would love for somebody to accost me at a Harris Teeter.
[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I can promise you, I would be the last person that you would want to talk to on that.
[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, let's have a hard conversation about why you should vote for Kamala.
[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no.
[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Russ says, as an introvert, approaching me in a store is a form of assault
[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_02]: and I will flee if possible, but could resort to violence if feel cornered.
[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_02]: That's possible too.
[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_02]: You just never know how this stuff is going to turn out.
[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_02]: And Lawrence tweets,
[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Pete, picking lemons in the grocery store or the voting booth.
[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_02]: It's all kind of the same, ain't it?
[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_02]: That's fair.
[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Um,
[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's see here. Oh,
[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Did you get your pager delivered in the mail?
[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_02]: All of you Hamas holeys who are out there protesting against the genocide.
[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Have you got your pager delivered?
[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you might want to think twice about putting that bad boy on.
[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Just a heads up on that.
[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, apparently, and it's not just in Lebanon, the country of Lebanon.
[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Pagers are very, very popular in Lebanon, but also apparently in and around Damascus, Syria.
[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they really like the pagers, even though we have cell phone technology
[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_02]: and they've got cell phones and such.
[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, how else do you do like your remote control, you know, bomb explosions, right?
[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, come on. So they've got cell phones.
[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_02]: But, um, but pagers are apparently a pretty popular thing in Lebanon and in Syria.
[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know where else those are the two places I've seen these reported,
[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_02]: but apparently some big mistake was made in the manufacturing process or something
[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_02]: because a whole bunch of pagers just exploded all at the same time.
[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Apparently, there was a recent shipment that of pagers that was sent over to Lebanon and Syria.
[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_02]: And then a whole bunch of these guys got them.
[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_02]: And it seems to be predominantly men for some reason that they have all of these pagers.
[00:13:31] [SPEAKER_02]: And then the pagers exploded while they were, you know, clipped to their belts.
[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And so, yeah, there's been some significant damage.
[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_02]: A bunch of people have been killed by these exploding pagers.
[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Like I think there's like a dozen deaths.
[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_02]: There's like several dozen seriously injured people.
[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, did I mention that the guys are Hezbollah?
[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're, yeah, they're part of Hezbollah or Hezbollah if you will.
[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Or even if you won't, it doesn't matter to me.
[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, yeah.
[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_02]: So, uh, several Hezbollah members in and around Damascus, Syria were killed
[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_02]: and critically wounded after their pagers exploded.
[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_02]: The incidents occurred simultaneously with coordinated explosions in Lebanon.
[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Hmm. It's weird that they would all go off at the same time like that.
[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_02]: So a lot of people are blaming Israel for this.
[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_02]: If you can imagine that. They're rushed to blame the Jews, right?
[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Just, yeah, of course.
[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but in this case, I do think it's actually the Israelis.
[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_02]: I do think they did this.
[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_02]: And I notice there, uh, there are a lot of people that are very, very upset about this.
[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_02]: How dare they plant explosives in pagers that were delivered to Hezbollah?
[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_02]: And then, well, that would be, wouldn't that be a very targeted strike?
[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Right?
[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_02]: And I've seen some videos of these like from like shops and stuff where people
[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_02]: are walking around with the pagers on and it blows up and it doesn't,
[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_02]: it doesn't hurt anybody around them apparently.
[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_02]: It, I guess it's a directed blast and it goes inward.
[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And so, yeah, it's messed up some dudes very badly.
[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but if you got the pager that, and you put it on,
[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_02]: then that would indicate that you're part of Hezbollah because it was a shipment to Hezbollah.
[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Right?
[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_02]: And these are the people that have been sending bombs and missiles and stuff
[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_02]: just indiscriminately trying to kill as many people as possible into Northern Israel.
[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_02]: So now I'm supposed to be mad at the targeted attacks on Hezbollah members
[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_02]: and I'm supposed to be more mad at that than I am at the indiscriminate killing
[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_02]: of civilians in Israel with the bombing campaign.
[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that doesn't make sense.
[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I'm still waiting on my pager to be delivered.
[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know where it is. It's weird.
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[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Back in July, Reuters did a story about Hezbollah
[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_02]: and its fight against Israel.
[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to read to you just three sentences.
[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Israel's electronic eavesdropping,
[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_02]: including hacking into cell phones and computers,
[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_02]: is also widely regarded as among the world's most sophisticated.
[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Hezbollah has learned from its losses and adapted its tactics in response.
[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Six sources familiar with the group's operations told Reuters
[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_02]: speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security matters.
[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Cell phones, which can be used to track a user's location,
[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_02]: have been banned from the battlefield in favor of more old-fashioned
[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_02]: communication means, including pagers and couriers
[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_02]: who deliver verbal messages in person.
[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_02]: So Brent Scherr from, he's the managing editor at The Daily Wire.
[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_02]: He says, yeah, Hezbollah probably shouldn't have gone bragging to Reuters
[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_02]: about how it's now using pagers, huh?
[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_02]: That was...
[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_02]: We got pagers, man! We're using pagers now!
[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_02]: They got the brand new shipment of the pagers in and they all exploded
[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_02]: all at once, which makes sense, by the way.
[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_02]: If you're going to do an op like that, that makes sense because,
[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_02]: you know, much like shooting at the oil cans,
[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_02]: once people catch on, then they start, you know,
[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_02]: getting rid of the oil cans.
[00:18:29] So...
[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Um...
[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Let me see here. I had another...
[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, from Jim, who says that the pagers were probably made in Israel
[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_02]: but stamped China. That's possible.
[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_02]: That is possible.
[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, they obviously got a hold of the shipment
[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_02]: before it was set to be delivered and they installed
[00:18:52] uh...
[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_02]: explosives in the pagers.
[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And then they sent a signal to blow up all the pagers all at once.
[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Because once, you know, if you're doing it intermittently,
[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_02]: then people are like, oh my gosh, his, you know,
[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_02]: your pager blew up and that pager blew up and that one blew up.
[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, they got a ton of people that are at the hospital now
[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_02]: with, you know, injuries around the groinal area.
[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's the... Is that right?
[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_02]: The groinal area.
[00:19:25] So...
[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Um...
[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Speaking of explosives,
[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Ohio Governor Mike DeWine
[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_02]: stated that 33 bomb threats
[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_02]: that were made against schools in Springfield, Ohio,
[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_02]: that they were all hoaxes.
[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Every single one of them. 33.
[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_02]: And remember,
[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_02]: the hoaxes that we know they are hoaxes now.
[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_02]: But all of these bomb threats
[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_02]: were pinned on Donald Trump and J.D. Vance
[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_02]: because of what Trump said about
[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_02]: they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs, right?
[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_02]: At the debate.
[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Talking about the Biden administration,
[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Harris administration,
[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_02]: bringing in 20,000 Haitians
[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_02]: and dropping them into a town of 60,000 people.
[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_02]: And creating such stress
[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_02]: and altering the fabric of that little society,
[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_02]: that town society.
[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_02]: And there have been reports from people in the town,
[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_02]: I've said from the beginning,
[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_02]: I do not know if these things are true,
[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_02]: but this is what people in the town are saying.
[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_02]: But I also know from my own, you know,
[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_02]: neighborhood Facebook group,
[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_02]: people say a lot of stupid stuff.
[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_02]: People have ideas in their head
[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_02]: that are better left in their heads
[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_02]: and not expressed in a public format, you know?
[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_02]: And they see something
[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_02]: and they automatically spin these tales
[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_02]: of what they believe is happening
[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_02]: and it's actually not the case.
[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know if it's true or not.
[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_02]: And yes, I've seen some videos.
[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I know about the geese, right?
[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_02]: But I also recognize, as I said the other day,
[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_02]: that it is the only thing said at that debate
[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_02]: that anybody remembers.
[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_02]: A week later,
[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_02]: that one comment of Trump's is the only thing.
[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Now people think, oh, he did it on purpose.
[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_02]: See, this is how he plays the media, whatever.
[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if he did that on purpose
[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_02]: or if he was just believing the memes or what.
[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_02]: But the fact remains
[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_02]: is that the media has been hyper-focused on this
[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_02]: and then there were bomb threats
[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_02]: called into municipal buildings
[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_02]: and schools and the like in this town.
[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_02]: And Trump and J.D. Vance were blamed
[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_02]: for those bomb threats.
[00:21:50] [SPEAKER_02]: And now it turns out that they are all hoaxes.
[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Here's the Governor Mike DeWine.
[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why I say that.
[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_05]: At least 33 separate bomb threats,
[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_05]: each one of which has been responded to.
[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_05]: And each one of whom has been found as a hoax.
[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_05]: So 33 threats, 33 hoaxes.
[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_05]: I want to make that very, very clear.
[00:22:24] [SPEAKER_05]: None of these had any validity at all.
[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_05]: We know that people are very, very concerned.
[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_05]: And we have taken some actions
[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_05]: and in a moment I'll let Andy Wilson go into more detail.
[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_05]: But we've moved resources into Springfield.
[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_05]: So I want to say to the parents in Springfield
[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_05]: these hoaxes, these threats have all been hoaxes.
[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_05]: None of them have panned out.
[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_05]: We have people, unfortunately, overseas
[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_05]: who are taking these actions.
[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_05]: Some of them are coming from one particular country.
[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_05]: We think that this is, you know,
[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_05]: one more opportunity to mess with the United States.
[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_05]: And they're continuing to do that.
[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_05]: So we cannot let the bad guys win.
[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_05]: Our schools must remain open.
[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_02]: What country do you think he's talking about?
[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_02]: At first I was thinking Haiti.
[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_02]: At first I was like, they're mad, you know.
[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_02]: But then I was thinking, no, Nigeria.
[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Right?
[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Because that's where all this stuff comes from,
[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_02]: all these scams.
[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_02]: But then I started thinking Russia.
[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_02]: I hope somebody tells me.
[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_02]: That's very interesting.
[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_02]: So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's.
[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And before he died, my mom and my dad
[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_02]: and all of us really helped take care of him
[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_02]: as he got progressively worse.
[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_02]: 40 years ago, there were no treatments
[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_02]: and not much support for caregivers and family.
[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Things are different today because of the work
[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_02]: of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association
[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_02]: of Western North Carolina.
[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a great organization with awesome people.
[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_02]: They've got huge hearts.
[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_02]: I've been a supporter for like 25 years.
[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_02]: This cause means a lot to me.
[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I participate in the annual Walk to End Alzheimer's
[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_02]: and I am leading a Charlotte team this year.
[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_02]: It's called Pete's Pack.
[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_02]: You can sign up and join the team and walk with me.
[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_02]: It's on October 19th at Truist Field in Uptown.
[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Sign up at alz.org slash walk
[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_02]: and then just look for my team, Pete's Pack.
[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_02]: And there's also a link in the podcast description here.
[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Also, I'm going to be emceeing the Gastonia Walk
[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_02]: on October 5th.
[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_02]: So make a team and join us
[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_02]: or make a donation to help me hit my goal.
[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I would really appreciate it.
[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_02]: There are a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas
[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_02]: and you can go to alz.org
[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_02]: for all of the dates and locations.
[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_02]: We are closer than ever to the end of the pandemic.
[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_02]: We are closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's
[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_02]: and if you can help us get there,
[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_02]: we would really appreciate it.
[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Will you come walk with me for a different future?
[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_02]: For families, for more time, for treatments?
[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_02]: This is why I walk.
[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Tom Elliott, the founder of Grabean News Service,
[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_02]: talking about this bomb threat hoax
[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_02]: that occurred in Springfield.
[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_02]: He said, this is how the fake news sausage is made.
[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Trump and Vance highlight stories
[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_02]: that are embarrassing to Kamala Harris.
[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Step two, anonymous bomb threats
[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_02]: slash KKK flyers mysteriously appear
[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_02]: undermining Trump and Vance.
[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Number three, the media, legacy media,
[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_02]: floods the zone.
[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Number four, bomb threats then get revealed
[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_02]: as a foreign hoax,
[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_02]: which by the way, who does that benefit?
[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Not Donald Trump, right?
[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_02]: It benefits his opponent
[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_02]: who was endorsed by Vladimir Putin
[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_02]: the other day, remember?
[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Right, so the bomb threats
[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_02]: are revealed as a foreign hoax
[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_02]: and then the media keep flooding the zone
[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_02]: with the original fake news story anyway.
[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_02]: And he did an analysis on the media coverage.
[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_02]: He says corporate media spent
[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_02]: at least 350 hours circulating the bomb threats.
[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_02]: 350 hours circulating the bomb threat story.
[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Then Governor DeWine announces
[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_02]: the bomb threats were all hoaxes.
[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Three hours were spent last night
[00:26:26] [SPEAKER_02]: announcing the hoax versus 35 hours
[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_02]: discussing the original bomb threats
[00:26:31] [SPEAKER_02]: in a single day.
[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_02]: And today, only one hour
[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_02]: announcing that they were hoaxes,
[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_02]: 11 hours still circulating
[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_02]: the original fake news.
[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Flooding the zone.
[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Same thing happened with the crime stats.
[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_02]: You'll recall Donald Trump during the debate
[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_02]: when David Muir attempted to fact check
[00:26:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Trump when he was talking about
[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_02]: crime rates going up.
[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_06]: All over the world, crime is down.
[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_06]: All over the world except here.
[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Crime here is up and through the roof
[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_06]: despite their fraudulent statements
[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_06]: that they made.
[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Crime in this country is through the roof
[00:27:14] [SPEAKER_06]: and we have a new form of crime
[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_06]: it's called migrant crime
[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_06]: and it's happening at levels
[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_06]: that nobody thought possible.
[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_03]: President Trump, as you know,
[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_03]: the FBI says overall violent crime
[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_03]: is actually coming down in this country.
[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_02]: You're calling him a liar, right?
[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Like that's the fancy way of saying
[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_02]: you're a liar.
[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Because as you know,
[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_02]: what you just said is not true.
[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Trump then interjects with a fact check of his own.
[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Excuse me, the FBI defrauded,
[00:27:41] [SPEAKER_06]: they were defrauding statements.
[00:27:43] [SPEAKER_06]: They didn't include the worst cities.
[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_06]: They didn't include the cities
[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_06]: with the worst crime.
[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_06]: It was a fraud.
[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_02]: A.P. Dillon, who has a sub stack,
[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_02]: she's a reporter,
[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_02]: you can find her online as well.
[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_02]: She has a 1885 blog as well.
[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And she does what she calls quick hits.
[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_02]: And she said Trump was correct.
[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Under Biden-Harris in 2021,
[00:28:09] [SPEAKER_02]: the FBI started a new reporting system
[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_02]: which excluded major cities
[00:28:13] [SPEAKER_02]: like Los Angeles and New York City.
[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Those two cities stopped reporting
[00:28:18] [SPEAKER_02]: their numbers to the FBI
[00:28:21] [SPEAKER_02]: according to the Crime Prevention Resource Center.
[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_02]: At least 6,000 law enforcement agencies
[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_02]: across the country do not provide data
[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_02]: into the reporting system.
[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_02]: 6,000.
[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_02]: In other words,
[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_02]: 25% of the country's crime data
[00:28:39] [SPEAKER_02]: was not captured
[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_02]: by the FBI's quarterly
[00:28:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Unified Crime Statistics Report,
[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_02]: the UCS.
[00:28:50] [SPEAKER_02]: That was always sort of the quote Bible
[00:28:53] [SPEAKER_02]: when it came to crime stats.
[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And in 2021,
[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_02]: they created a new report
[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_02]: reporting system
[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_02]: to exclude the big cities.
[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Why would you do that?
[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Also, the 2023 National Crime Victimization
[00:29:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Survey just came out.
[00:29:07] [SPEAKER_02]: This is for 23, last year.
[00:29:09] [SPEAKER_02]: The survey gives a better snapshot
[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_02]: of what's really happening
[00:29:12] [SPEAKER_02]: when it comes to crime reporting
[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_02]: because it tracks crimes per 1,000 people
[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_02]: over the age of 12.
[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_02]: And it shows crime is up.
[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_02]: The rate of violent crime spiked in 2022
[00:29:23] [SPEAKER_02]: at almost 10 per 1,000 people.
[00:29:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Now the survey,
[00:29:28] [SPEAKER_02]: the overall victimization rate
[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_02]: between 22 and 23
[00:29:32] [SPEAKER_02]: dropped by 1%.
[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_02]: With 23 and a half
[00:29:37] [SPEAKER_02]: violent victimizations
[00:29:39] [SPEAKER_02]: per 1,000 persons.
[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_02]: It was 23 and a half.
[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_02]: It has now dropped to
[00:29:45] [SPEAKER_02]: 22 and a half.
[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Out of every 1,000 people,
[00:29:49] [SPEAKER_02]: 22 and a half or 23,
[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_02]: 23 of them
[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_02]: will be victims of violent crimes.
[00:29:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Aggravated assaults,
[00:29:58] [SPEAKER_02]: dropped by 1%.
[00:29:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Rape dropped
[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_02]: and robbery dropped
[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_02]: in 2020.
[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_02]: It went up since then
[00:30:10] [SPEAKER_02]: for 2023.
[00:30:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Instances of reported violent crime
[00:30:14] [SPEAKER_02]: is up almost three points
[00:30:16] [SPEAKER_02]: since 2020.
[00:30:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Those are the actual stats.
[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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