That lithium mine in NC!!!! (10-07-2024--Hour3)

[00:00:04] [SPEAKER_07]: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon to 3 on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, go to thepetekalendershow.com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button, get every episode for free, write to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for your support.

[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_07]: All right, let's start off with the phone call. Here is Mark. Welcome to the show. Hello, Mark.

[00:00:35] [SPEAKER_07]: Yes, how are you?

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_07]: Hey, I'm okay, Mark. How are you?

[00:00:41] [SPEAKER_04]: This whole thing, it's hard to laugh about it, but all the craziness that we hear, if half of it's true, it's too bad. But why don't we do a recovery plan that all the people that are in favor of all the EV vehicles will send the electronic ambulance,

[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_04]: we'll send the electric helicopter. They won't be made for 20 years. We'll do that. And then the other people that are enjoying the diesel burning bucket trucks that are bringing service back to all these unfortunate people, you know, let them have the diesel trucks.

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_07]: So I'm sure this sounded like a good thought when you first had it, probably on Facebook or something, right? Did you see this on Facebook or maybe some...

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_04]: No, I have not. I have not. I don't do Facebook.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_07]: Okay. Right. TikTok? Twitter?

[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_04]: No, I don't do any of that.

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_07]: You don't do any social media? You came up with that idea all on your own to let people die rather than save them with the gas-powered stuff?

[00:01:46] [SPEAKER_04]: No, that's not really what I mean. I mean...

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_04]: All right. Well, then say what you mean.

[00:01:50] [SPEAKER_04]: They need to understand that these trucks will save their lives.

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I agree, Mark. So here's what I would recommend. You frame it like that rather than the way you initially framed it.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_07]: Because the way you initially framed it, even for somebody like me who agrees with the point that you were trying to make,

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm repulsed by the way you made it.

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, and I take that very, very well. Very well. And I was wrong.

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_04]: I do not want that at all.

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_04]: We shipped up two truckloads of goods for these people last week, Thursday and Friday.

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_04]: And hopefully they get to the people that need them.

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_04]: And we're doing everything we can.

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_07]: No, and I appreciate that.

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, like I said, I don't think there's anybody checking voter cards and stuff, you know,

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_07]: when they're handing out supplies and relief stuff.

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_07]: No one's asking political affiliations when they're, you know, rescuing people.

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_07]: And that's as it should be.

[00:02:45] [SPEAKER_07]: Like what the work you guys are doing and your efforts, like that's as it should be.

[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_07]: But I take your point that it is a real-time example of policy failures, right,

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_07]: when it comes to alternative sources of energy that are not, at this point,

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_07]: they are not at a place where they could respond to this.

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_07]: They couldn't do this kind of work.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_04]: I wish I was so articulate.

[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, it's a gift.

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_07]: Sometimes it's a burden, too.

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_07]: No, I appreciate it.

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_07]: You always straighten me out.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that's all right.

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_07]: No, Mark, I appreciate it.

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_07]: And I just, yeah, so like I, and I understood the point.

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_07]: And I totally get what you're trying to say.

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_07]: I've heard people saying it, and I've seen this sort of similar argument.

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_07]: And I just bristle at it because it comes across a certain way,

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_07]: even if it's not intended that way.

[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_07]: So, no, I get it.

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that is not my intention at all.

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_04]: And I'm sorry to have said it the way I said it.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_04]: That's all right.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_04]: I apologize.

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_04]: You're fine.

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_04]: It's not me at all.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_04]: If you knew me personally, everybody that knows me,

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_04]: it's like he's the most giving guy in the world.

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_04]: My businesses give to a lot of things, and I like it.

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_04]: And, no, I apologize for that.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, yeah, it's fine.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_07]: You framed it better the second time,

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_07]: so let's just pretend the call started there.

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_07]: All right?

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_07]: All right, cool.

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_07]: Mark, thank you, buddy.

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_07]: I appreciate it.

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_07]: Good to hear from you.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_07]: Let me jump over and talk with Rob.

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_07]: Hello, Rob.

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_07]: Welcome to the show.

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_07]: Rob.

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_07]: Hey, Pete.

[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_07]: Yo, what's up?

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_01]: I just want to touch base.

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I think you were talking about trying to do mitigation up there.

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_01]: It would be really hard to do them when you think about it.

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_01]: You've got the French Broad River.

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_01]: You've got the Catawba River.

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_01]: You've got a few major waterways.

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_01]: But a lot of them, a lot of the creeks and everything that flooded up there,

[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_01]: I was at the brewery three weeks ago in Old Fort,

[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_01]: and the creek next to it is two feet wide and about three inches deep.

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_05]: Right.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_01]: As of three weeks ago.

[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_01]: So when that creek every hundred years goes to 17 feet or higher,

[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_01]: you know, I think you could protect Asheville and some other areas.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_01]: But like the Salto River is like the new river,

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_01]: but it doesn't really go near any larger cities.

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_01]: It just winds all around the mountains.

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And I just don't think people realize that most of these creeks up there are two feet wide and three or four inches deep.

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes most of the year.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Most of the year.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_07]: Like the little, I don't, well, I did not see the video of slippery rock.

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_07]: You know, the one that everybody rides down because it's like literally a slide, right?

[00:05:34] [SPEAKER_07]: And very minimal.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_07]: You know exactly what I'm talking about.

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_07]: Very little water, but enough where it basically makes a slide down the rock, slide and rock.

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_07]: And so I saw a video of one of those types of formations and before and then during the storm.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_07]: And it was a raging waterfall during the storm.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_07]: Right.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_07]: Like that's, that is, and this is a 1,000 year flood.

[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_07]: We have literally never seen anything like this before in recorded history.

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_07]: So like, I get that.

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_07]: But I also wonder if there is like there, I know there are ways because like Billmore Village floods a lot, right?

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_07]: Swan and Noa River down there floods a lot.

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_07]: So there are certain things that can be done in order to move water into certain areas and let it pool up there and then release into different way, different paths and stuff.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_07]: But maybe it requires something going further up the mountain in order to try to create catch basins to slow the water before it makes its way into all of those little tributaries.

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I know Virginia's done a pretty good job with their dams and Tennessee.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And it probably is something we need to look at for the larger population centers.

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_01]: But you know, all of Western North Carolina got hit.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_01]: I ride motorcycles.

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I ride motorcycles and I go up there six or seven times a year, all the way from Johnson City to Lake Lure.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_01]: I've traveled all that area this past year.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's a big piece.

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_01]: That's a big area.

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's basically all, all of the, you know, a big chunk of Western North Carolina.

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_01]: And it'll come back, reinvention.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_01]: So you'll have new people coming in.

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_01]: But the problem is, is just like any storms, the 80-20 rule, you know, 80% of the poor people in the poor areas, you know, I just hope they get taken care of.

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Because the other 20%, you know, they live higher on the mountain.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_01]: They have the money to fix things.

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_01]: But it's all the people in the smaller towns that work in Asheville.

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, those are the ones that, you know, are going to be impacted the most.

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_07]: It's just a tragedy.

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_07]: Rob, I appreciate the call.

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_01]: One last thing.

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_01]: I've got a friend up there that's helping out.

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, they're doing a really good job around Asheville and all the smaller towns.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_01]: But I agree with everybody that's talked about everywhere besides Asheville, little Switzerland area, all the way up north.

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Of course, I know there's people there that have never seen FEMA since this thing started or heard from them.

[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure.

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm absolutely sure.

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_07]: And that is to be expected, first off, because it's a very large federal government bureaucracy, right?

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_07]: So it doesn't move very quickly to begin with.

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_07]: And then you're dealing with, I am unaware of a similar response challenge than this that could compare to this.

[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_07]: Because even I was looking at a comparison with Katrina, and I've got it here in the stack of stuff in the show prep.

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_07]: And one of the guys who worked in the federal government on Katrina, he's like, the challenges that you're dealing with in the mountains are just so different than Katrina.

[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_07]: And you don't have a large bay or ocean next to it so you could stage off the coast or anything.

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_07]: Like, you're just limited by the mountains, by the topography.

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_07]: Right.

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_07]: It's just very difficult.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's why so many ex-military, National Guard from other states, people that have actually spent time in our mountains that live out of state, that's why they came in so quickly.

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Because they understand our mountains.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_01]: And they're like nowhere else.

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_01]: And I think this is definitely on par with Katrina.

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_01]: With Katrina, you had to have a boat to go.

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I used to live in New Orleans, so I know Katrina very well.

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, you had to go on a boat to get everywhere here.

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_01]: You have to have a small helicopter to get all those people in western North Carolina.

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, and we've got people from the Cajun Navy that are here, and they were born out of Katrina, if I recall correctly.

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_07]: Right?

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_07]: So...

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_01]: They've been doing a great job.

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_01]: My buddy that's up there, he's stationed right next to them, right across from the IGA or the center.

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Cajun Navy's set up right there.

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that's a good spot.

[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_07]: Black Mountain.

[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, absolutely.

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_07]: Rob, thanks, buddy.

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_07]: I appreciate the call.

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_07]: All right.

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_07]: Take care.

[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_07]: You too.

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[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_07]: Thanks again to everybody who showed up for the Alzheimer's Walk, the Walk to End Alzheimer's, I should say.

[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_07]: Because otherwise it sounds like you show up to walk and then you get Alzheimer's.

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_07]: That's not the case.

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_07]: It's the Walk to End Alzheimer's.

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_07]: All the money that is raised is used to fund research for a cure and support services for family and caregivers,

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_07]: which is huge.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_07]: And we did the walk in Gastonia on Saturday.

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_07]: It was a lot of fun.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_07]: And so I'll be doing the next one, walking with my team.

[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_07]: If you want to join the team, go to alz.org slash walk.

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_07]: And you could sign up.

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_07]: Just do a search for Pete's Pack.

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_07]: You can join my team.

[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_07]: I have a link also in the podcast description.

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_07]: I've got a link at the PeteCalendarShow.com.

[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_07]: So, yeah, if you want to come to the Charlotte one, it's at Truist Field on the 19th, Saturday morning the 19th.

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_07]: And it's like a one-mile walk and a two-mile walk.

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_07]: So you can choose when you're walking the route.

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_07]: And so you can either, you know, peel off and cut it short or you can do the whole thing and that's two miles.

[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_07]: So after like, it's like a 20-minute walk.

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_07]: That's it.

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_07]: And we do like the flower ceremony at the beginning.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_07]: It's really cool.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_07]: So if you want to join, we'd love to have you.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_07]: All right.

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_07]: I got a message here from Kevin.

[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_07]: And he says,

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_07]: We definitely live in the best country in the world.

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_07]: I know the devastation is bad in our state and the response has been really heartwarming.

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_07]: That's been well discussed already.

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_07]: Many like to complain about how bad FEMA is, how bad the government response is, and so on.

[00:12:55] [SPEAKER_07]: But compared to what happens in places like, say, Africa or India, when flooding or a hurricane happens, like we have it really good.

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_07]: There's no such thing as insurance and no such thing as any government assistance in those places besides maybe some rice to eat.

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_07]: And many times that comes from the UN, which is like, that's the U.S.

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, also in China.

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_07]: China.

[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_07]: But so here's a story.

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_07]: Buddy of mine served in the Peace Corps.

[00:13:26] [SPEAKER_07]: And after college, he went to the Peace Corps.

[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_07]: And he went to.

[00:13:31] [SPEAKER_07]: I think he went to Guinea.

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_07]: Or Papua New Guinea.

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_07]: Something like that.

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_07]: I forget where.

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_07]: But it was somewhere in Africa.

[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_07]: And they had all of the bags of rice from China piled up on pallets and the locals wouldn't eat it.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_07]: And they called it something.

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_07]: That I will roughly translate for FCC purposes to be poop rice.

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_07]: They.

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_07]: They would not eat it.

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_07]: If it had the Chinese logos on it, because China was also buying up their.

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_07]: Fecal matter waste stuff.

[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_07]: And they.

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_07]: And so the locals believed that they were using it and they think they actually were using it to fertilize the rice crops.

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_07]: And so the locals would not eat the rice that came from China.

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_07]: I don't know why I remember that story.

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_07]: But there you go.

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_07]: Anyway.

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_07]: Kevin says, of course, this is no consolation to those that lost everything in our state.

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_07]: But.

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I mean, you see the way other countries respond.

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_07]: And a lot of them in a lot of places in the world.

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_07]: It's just.

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_07]: This is that's there's nothing.

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_07]: Way higher death tolls.

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, gosh, here it is.

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_07]: Here it is.

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_07]: Kim sent it to me.

[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_07]: Kim says, my crazy brother-in-law.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_07]: Kim, Texas, who knows everything.

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_07]: She capitalizes that puts it in the scare quotes as well.

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_07]: Who knows everything and lives on memes.

[00:15:17] [SPEAKER_07]: A man cannot live on memes alone, Kim.

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_07]: Anyway, he lives on memes and he knows everything.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_07]: And he sent me this.

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_07]: What truth is in this?

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_07]: OK, so let's go ahead and do it.

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_07]: I covered it a little bit earlier.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_07]: There.

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_07]: Um.

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_07]: I saw this as well.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_07]: It was making the rounds.

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_07]: This exact same meme.

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_07]: This blue box with the white letters.

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_07]: And this is what conspiracy theorists do.

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_07]: They will.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_07]: They will argue by interrogation.

[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_07]: They never actually make an assertion.

[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_07]: They never connect the dots for you.

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_07]: They just ask you a series of questions and then kind of shrug their shoulders, raise their hands, palm up.

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_07]: And they go, well, what do you think it means?

[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_07]: No, that's.

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_07]: You're not prosecuting a case here where where you don't get to connect the dots and tell me what you are alleging.

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_07]: Make the assertion.

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_07]: And they don't do this.

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_07]: So here's what this post says.

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_07]: Wouldn't it be crazy if one of the richest lithium deposits in the world was right outside of Asheville?

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_07]: OK, so let me take a stab at answering that.

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_07]: First off, no, it would not be crazy.

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_07]: You know why?

[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_07]: Because Asheville is in the mountains.

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_07]: And that's where a lot of ore deposits are located.

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_07]: Did you know that?

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_07]: It's true.

[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_07]: Mountains have ore deposits.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_07]: This is actually well known and has been known for like the better part of a millennia.

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_07]: Ever since we had to start extracting this stuff from mountains.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_07]: Right.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_07]: Very good.

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_07]: OK, so it would not surprise me.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_07]: It would not be crazy to learn that lithium is located in the mountains near Asheville.

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_07]: Number one.

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_07]: Number two.

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_07]: Would it be crazy if one of these was located right outside of Asheville?

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_07]: As I just said, no, it wouldn't be crazy.

[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_07]: But also, yes, it kind of would because it hasn't been discovered yet.

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_07]: Because the lithium deposit they're talking about is actually in Gaston County, which is where the lithium mine is.

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_07]: Not outside of Asheville.

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_07]: Unless, of course, you're just drawing a circle outside of Asheville for like, oh, 120 miles.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_07]: Right.

[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_07]: And maybe in Texas, 120 miles counts as in the neighborhood.

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_07]: But here, not so much here.

[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_07]: We look at Kings Mountain, Gaston County to be a bit of a different place than Asheville.

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_07]: Next question.

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_07]: Wouldn't it be crazy if the largest lithium mining company in the world three days before the flood began submitted the permits for their mine right outside Asheville of North Carolina?

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_07]: OK, once again, it's not right outside Asheville.

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, number two, no, it would not be crazy because the news stories about the lithium mine that you and I have heard of for the last, oh, I don't know, year, two years.

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_07]: Right.

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_07]: We are well aware that the lithium mining operation wanted to expand.

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_07]: They wanted to mine more because the price of lithium rose.

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_07]: The demand rose.

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_07]: They wanted to make more money.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_07]: So they're like, hey, we want to expand by like 900 feet or something like that.

[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_07]: So they submitted the paperwork for it.

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_07]: Would it be crazy if the mining company was just given $250 million in grants to help with construction of their mine right outside Asheville, North Carolina?

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_07]: They keep saying that as if this is like it's true.

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_07]: It's not.

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_07]: So the $250 million in grants.

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_07]: No, that would not be crazy because politicians pay corporations money all the time.

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_07]: I don't like it, but they do this stuff all the time.

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_07]: They also don't say the anonymous memester here does not tell you which government agency did it.

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_07]: It would not surprise me if it was the state.

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_07]: It would not surprise me if it was the feds for that matter.

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_07]: But I don't know because they don't say because they're not making an argument.

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_07]: They're just asking questions.

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_07]: Wouldn't it be crazy if less than a month before the flood started, BlackRock acquired 2.2 million shares of stock in the mining company?

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_07]: No, that would not be crazy.

[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_07]: BlackRock is literally the largest investment house.

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_07]: Right?

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_07]: They invest in everything.

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_07]: Everybody's got something in BlackRock and BlackRock's got something in everything.

[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_07]: That's not surprising.

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_07]: Wouldn't it be crazy if the residents that opposed the mine had their homes and property destroyed?

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_07]: Not true.

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_07]: Maybe there were some people living up around Asheville that had their homes destroyed by the storm.

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_07]: But they don't live in Kings Mountain.

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_07]: And if there are people that were opposed to the mining operation that had their homes destroyed by the hurricane,

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm not sure what your argument is.

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_07]: That somehow or another, BlackRock sent a hurricane to wipe out the entire western part of the state in order to get at the hundred people in Kings Mountain?

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_07]: That opposed it at a public hearing?

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_07]: This is nuts, people.

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_07]: Just stop it.

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[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_07]: By the way, another question I have about this stupid conspiracy theory.

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_07]: The whole point was to what?

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_07]: You create, I'm assuming you created the hurricane or you're steering the hurricane to take out the local residents around Kings Mountain who were opposed to the expansion of the lithium mining operation.

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_07]: Right?

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_07]: Right?

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_07]: So, you're targeting just like the 100 people or something that are there.

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_07]: So, you're going to create this hurricane, right?

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_07]: I guess.

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm assuming you can create the hurricane.

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_07]: Or you just saw it as an opportunity, so then you directed it to hit this area, which actually didn't even get hit, really.

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_07]: And then it plows through Western North Carolina, killing all of the hundreds of people there and ruining everything there, not taking out the lithium mining operation.

[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_07]: But again, the target wasn't the mine.

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_07]: The target was the people who opposed the expansion of the current mining operation because it's currently going on right now.

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_07]: And so, you would risk, like if you're BlackRock and you're doing this, you're risking the destruction of the mine and the killing of all of the mine workers, which seems to me to be, I don't know, a bit counterproductive considering you just bought 2 million shares in lithium mining.

[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_07]: In either Albemarle or Piedmont lithium.

[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_07]: I don't know which one supposedly because they never tell you which company they invested in, which mining operation, but they're both.

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_07]: Both of these names are in Kings Mountain.

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_07]: They're in Gaston County at that lithium deposit.

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_07]: So, if you're BlackRock, what's the cheaper way to go here?

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_07]: One path is, as I described, create the hurricane and then direct the hurricane via some kind of heretofore unknown way to direct hurricanes to hit certain areas or something.

[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_07]: Right?

[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_07]: So, you're going to do all of that, risk the operation of the mine because you want to take out a couple of people that spoke out at a town hall meeting.

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_07]: Right?

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_07]: That's the argument.

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_07]: All right, what would that cost?

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_07]: I don't know the answer to that.

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_07]: The conspiracy theorists never put a price tag on it, so I don't know.

[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_07]: But on the other side, let me throw out another option that if I were BlackRock, I might pursue instead.

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_07]: You know what it is?

[00:24:08] [SPEAKER_07]: I would just buy off the local politicians.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_07]: Because they're probably going to go pretty cheap.

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_07]: Right?

[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_07]: You give them each like half a million dollars or something, and then they vote to approve the expansion.

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_07]: And then you're done.

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_07]: You don't even have to create the hurricane.

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_07]: You don't have to worry about people leaking out details or somebody like, hey, I don't think we should be creating this hurricane.

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_07]: Or, hey, we shouldn't be directing this hurricane.

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_07]: Hey, we're going to risk our own lithium mine that we just invested in.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_07]: But, like, it just seems like a cheaper way to go, you know?

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_07]: Just buy the politicians.

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_07]: Or buy the people at the town hall.

[00:24:45] [SPEAKER_07]: Just be like, hey, you know what?

[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_07]: We want to expand the mine.

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_07]: Here's, you know, here's half a million to you.

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_07]: And you pay them all off, and then they move away.

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_07]: Like, historically speaking, that's usually how that sort of thing is done.

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_07]: So, I don't know.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_07]: Also, can we direct the hurricanes?

[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_07]: Is that a thing?

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_07]: Because I'm seeing people, and they apparently are, like, their politics are, generally speaking, on the right.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, it's just conspiracy nutballery here.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_07]: So, I don't know where their politics are on all issues.

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_07]: But are we saying then that we can control the climate?

[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_07]: Is that what we're saying?

[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_07]: Because I thought we couldn't.

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_07]: But now I'm hearing that we kind of can't.

[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_07]: So, if we can control the climate, doesn't that feed into the left's arguments?

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_07]: This is what I mean about these types of conspiracy theories.

[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_07]: When you start asking questions and you identify actual pieces of information, a lot of this stuff just falls apart.

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_07]: Let me go over here and talk to Tim.

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_07]: Hello, Tim.

[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_07]: Welcome to the show.

[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, Peyton.

[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Hey.

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks, sir.

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Appreciate everything you're doing.

[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to give you a little shopping list for what they need in the mountains.

[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_03]: I had two of my nephews, which are ex-veterans.

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_03]: And things that they need out there are farm supplies as far as farm feed, cattle feed, hay, and such like this.

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_03]: They also need port-a-potties and ways to take showers.

[00:26:26] [SPEAKER_07]: There is...

[00:26:26] [SPEAKER_07]: I have seen some...

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_07]: I forget who's running them.

[00:26:31] [SPEAKER_07]: But I have seen delivery of some portable showers at certain locations.

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_07]: I saw one in Asheville the other day.

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_07]: So, I don't know how widespread that stuff is yet.

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_03]: He said that they're...

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Once you get there, he said they're basically taking a bath with a bottle of water or a baby wipe.

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_03]: This is the people who are going to volunteer.

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_03]: He said if you go up there, make sure you take your own stuff to make sure that you do not take or deprive anybody of any of the donated products.

[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_05]: Right.

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_03]: And that they're all sleeping on the ground and using the woods for a portable...

[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_03]: For the body.

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_03]: But he said that this time when he goes up, that he is actually taking a truckload and a trailerload of nothing but hay and cattle feed and chicken feed and stuff like this for the folks up there with the animals.

[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_07]: Now, that's a good idea, too.

[00:27:25] [SPEAKER_07]: A lot of people forget.

[00:27:27] [SPEAKER_07]: A lot of small farmers up there.

[00:27:29] [SPEAKER_07]: So, this is one of the things why what I learned up there when I was working up there was that there are so many of these small farmers because the topography doesn't allow for really large farm operations.

[00:27:43] [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, there are some.

[00:27:43] [SPEAKER_07]: I don't want to say there aren't any.

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_07]: But generally and historically, it's been a lot of small farms because the land doesn't allow you to grow, you know, these huge tracts of crops and such.

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Correct.

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Correct.

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_03]: And he said what was...

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_03]: If there's anything left, it hasn't been water covered in mud.

[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_03]: So, when he went up there last weekend, he come back.

[00:28:08] [SPEAKER_03]: He basically went up and reconned what they needed.

[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_03]: And he said there's plenty of water, stuff like this.

[00:28:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Of course, they constantly need water.

[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_03]: But he said that he's taking animal feed up there and wanted me to put that on there and to help them out.

[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_03]: They're going back up there this weekend to deliver that.

[00:28:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Along with...

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_07]: Are there any organizations...

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_07]: Do you know of any organizations that are sort of spearheading the animal feed part?

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_03]: No.

[00:28:39] [SPEAKER_03]: No.

[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_03]: He's going...

[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_03]: He's going...

[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Part of his charge is up in Rockwell.

[00:28:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh-huh.

[00:28:43] [SPEAKER_03]: And he's also part of his...

[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_03]: The DFW that he's part of.

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.

[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_03]: In the Rockwell area.

[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_03]: And they're gathering...

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Of course, he's taking up a lot...

[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_03]: The truck's going to be loading down with coats and warm clothing and such.

[00:28:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:29:01] [SPEAKER_03]: He's taking a 25-foot trailer, 26-foot trailer down there with a couple rolls of hay and big bags of animal feed.

[00:29:09] [SPEAKER_03]: So...

[00:29:09] [SPEAKER_03]: And he said the big thing they need...

[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_03]: He said they need strong backs.

[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Hmm.

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_03]: They need people to get out there to be able to move stuff and get to the people that are stranded.

[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_03]: That they...

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Some things that the machinery just can't get to.

[00:29:24] [SPEAKER_07]: Right.

[00:29:25] [SPEAKER_07]: Do me a favor, Tim.

[00:29:26] [SPEAKER_07]: If you...

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_07]: You said this was your brother?

[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_03]: No.

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_03]: It's my...

[00:29:31] [SPEAKER_03]: My two nephews.

[00:29:32] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, nephews.

[00:29:33] [SPEAKER_03]: And my two sons are born up there this weekend.

[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_07]: So if they can get me the name of some organization that is helping with the animal feed component,

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_07]: so this way I can direct people if they want to make donations that way,

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_07]: whether it's either through a monetary donation directly to the organization

[00:29:58] [SPEAKER_07]: or if there's local pickups or drop-off locations, I should say,

[00:30:02] [SPEAKER_07]: then I can...

[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm happy to spread that word.

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_07]: Just...

[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_07]: I need the information...

[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_07]: I just need some information from some...

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_07]: About some organization that's doing it.

[00:30:11] [SPEAKER_07]: Because I don't want to ever be sort of a middleman for a scam, you know?

[00:30:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, sir.

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_03]: I understand completely.

[00:30:18] [SPEAKER_07]: Cool.

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_07]: All right.

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_07]: So, yeah, if you can get info like that and then either call it back in to me

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_07]: or send me an email, pete at thepeetcalendarshow.com,

[00:30:26] [SPEAKER_07]: and then I can relay it.

[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_03]: I sure will.

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Pete, thank you for everything you've done.

[00:30:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes, sir.

[00:30:33] [SPEAKER_03]: And good, bittersweet way.

[00:30:34] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm enjoying your share because I really appreciate what you're doing.

[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, thanks, Tim.

[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_07]: I appreciate what you're doing as well.

[00:30:39] [SPEAKER_07]: Thanks, sir.

[00:30:40] [SPEAKER_07]: Take it easy.

[00:30:41] [SPEAKER_07]: So, when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's.

[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_07]: And before he died, my mom and my dad and all of us really helped take care of him

[00:30:48] [SPEAKER_07]: as he got progressively worse.

[00:30:50] [SPEAKER_07]: Forty years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family.

[00:30:55] [SPEAKER_07]: Things are different today because of the work of so many people,

[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_07]: including the Alzheimer's Association of Western North Carolina.

[00:31:01] [SPEAKER_07]: It's a great organization with awesome people.

[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_07]: They've got huge hearts.

[00:31:05] [SPEAKER_07]: I've been a supporter for like 25 years.

[00:31:07] [SPEAKER_07]: This cause means a lot to me.

[00:31:09] [SPEAKER_07]: I participate in the annual walk to end Alzheimer's,

[00:31:12] [SPEAKER_07]: and I am leading a Charlotte team this year.

[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_07]: It's called Pete's Pack.

[00:31:16] [SPEAKER_07]: You can sign up and join the team and walk with me.

[00:31:19] [SPEAKER_07]: It's on October 19th at Truist Field in Uptown.

[00:31:23] [SPEAKER_07]: Sign up at alz.org slash walk, and then just look for my team, Pete's Pack.

[00:31:28] [SPEAKER_07]: And there's also a link in the podcast description here.

[00:31:30] [SPEAKER_07]: Also, I'm going to be emceeing the Gastonia Walk on October 5th,

[00:31:34] [SPEAKER_07]: so make a team and join us.

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_07]: Or make a donation to help me hit my goal.

[00:31:38] [SPEAKER_07]: I would really appreciate it.

[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_07]: There are a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas,

[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_07]: and you can go to alz.org for all of the dates and locations.

[00:31:47] [SPEAKER_07]: We are closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's,

[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_07]: and if you can help us get there, we would really appreciate it.

[00:31:54] [SPEAKER_07]: Will you come walk with me for a different future,

[00:31:56] [SPEAKER_07]: for families, for more time, for treatments?

[00:31:59] [SPEAKER_07]: This is why I walk.

[00:32:02] [SPEAKER_07]: Regarding the animals, I know it's not livestock,

[00:32:06] [SPEAKER_07]: but there is a really good shelter in Asheville that they got decimated.

[00:32:16] [SPEAKER_07]: It's called Brother Wolf,

[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_07]: and they are in the middle of a massive fundraising campaign now.

[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_07]: They got somebody to donate half a million dollars in a matching challenge.

[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_07]: So they're trying to raise a whole bunch of money

[00:32:34] [SPEAKER_07]: so they could rebuild their animal shelter.

[00:32:36] [SPEAKER_07]: It's a no-kill shelter, Brother Wolf.

[00:32:38] [SPEAKER_07]: So we had done work with them when I was up in Asheville years ago.

[00:32:44] [SPEAKER_07]: Great organization.

[00:32:46] [SPEAKER_07]: It's like a pet adoption, stuff like that.

[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_07]: It's not wolves.

[00:32:50] [SPEAKER_07]: It's called Brother Wolf.

[00:32:51] [SPEAKER_07]: They don't adopt wolves.

[00:32:54] [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, that would be dangerous.

[00:32:58] [SPEAKER_07]: Alan, welcome to the program.

[00:32:59] [SPEAKER_07]: Hello, Alan.

[00:33:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, Pete.

[00:33:02] [SPEAKER_00]: How are you?

[00:33:02] [SPEAKER_07]: Hey, I'm good.

[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_07]: What's going on?

[00:33:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Good.

[00:33:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Heard from...

[00:33:07] [SPEAKER_00]: We always contribute to the Humane Society in Charlotte.

[00:33:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

[00:33:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And the Humane Society up in Asheville got obliterated,

[00:33:17] [SPEAKER_00]: and they've taken the animals and brought them to Charlotte

[00:33:21] [SPEAKER_00]: to try to help alleviate the stress out there.

[00:33:24] [SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm.

[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_07]: So are they...

[00:33:26] [SPEAKER_07]: So, yeah.

[00:33:27] [SPEAKER_07]: So what, if people can do the adoptions or...

[00:33:31] [SPEAKER_07]: What do they call them?

[00:33:33] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:33:34] [SPEAKER_07]: Like a part-time adoption?

[00:33:35] [SPEAKER_07]: I forget what they call them.

[00:33:36] [SPEAKER_07]: Mm-hmm.

[00:33:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they can do the temporary adoption or whatever,

[00:33:40] [SPEAKER_00]: but that's off to these people in Charlotte

[00:33:43] [SPEAKER_00]: for helping out the people in Asheville.

[00:33:45] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:33:46] [SPEAKER_07]: That's a good one.

[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_07]: Alan, I appreciate it.

[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you, sir.

[00:33:48] [SPEAKER_07]: Let me go over and...

[00:33:50] [SPEAKER_07]: Okay.

[00:33:51] [SPEAKER_07]: Joe.

[00:33:52] [SPEAKER_07]: Hello, Joe.

[00:33:55] [SPEAKER_07]: Hello?

[00:33:56] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.

[00:33:58] [SPEAKER_07]: Hello?

[00:33:59] [SPEAKER_07]: Hey, Pete.

[00:33:59] [SPEAKER_07]: How are you?

[00:34:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, I'm all right.

[00:34:01] [SPEAKER_07]: What's up?

[00:34:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Good.

[00:34:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, listen, I'm going to apologize up front

[00:34:06] [SPEAKER_02]: because I've been on hold

[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_02]: and my phone is close to dying,

[00:34:11] [SPEAKER_02]: but let me try this anyway.

[00:34:14] [SPEAKER_02]: I want to...

[00:34:16] [SPEAKER_02]: If I was an independent,

[00:34:18] [SPEAKER_02]: this would be a big tell for me.

[00:34:20] [SPEAKER_02]: When Kamala Harris runs an ad,

[00:34:23] [SPEAKER_02]: it's all words.

[00:34:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Trump said this.

[00:34:28] [SPEAKER_02]: So-and-so did this.

[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_02]: They take a thing out of context.

[00:34:33] [SPEAKER_02]: But here's the key.

[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_02]: They never source where their quotes come from.

[00:34:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Now, when Trump runs an ad,

[00:34:44] [SPEAKER_02]: every ad that's run,

[00:34:47] [SPEAKER_02]: quotes, pictures, you name it,

[00:34:50] [SPEAKER_02]: above it or below it,

[00:34:52] [SPEAKER_02]: says New York Times, October 7th,

[00:34:55] [SPEAKER_02]: 19...

[00:34:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Excuse me.

[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_02]: 2023.

[00:35:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And I tested them.

[00:35:04] [SPEAKER_02]: I went and I took a couple of them

[00:35:06] [SPEAKER_02]: and I went to the source and the date

[00:35:10] [SPEAKER_02]: and sure enough, it was there.

[00:35:13] [SPEAKER_07]: I believe those are requirements.

[00:35:14] [SPEAKER_07]: If you're quoting something like that,

[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_07]: you're showing some sort of a news article,

[00:35:19] [SPEAKER_07]: I think there may be requirements about that.

[00:35:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I didn't know that, Pete,

[00:35:23] [SPEAKER_02]: but if you look at Kamala's,

[00:35:25] [SPEAKER_02]: there is nothing.

[00:35:27] [SPEAKER_02]: There is nothing.

[00:35:29] [SPEAKER_02]: She doesn't...

[00:35:30] [SPEAKER_02]: She does not identify the source

[00:35:33] [SPEAKER_02]: from which she gets her information from.

[00:35:37] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, well, I mean,

[00:35:37] [SPEAKER_07]: if you're just going on the air

[00:35:38] [SPEAKER_07]: and saying like,

[00:35:39] [SPEAKER_07]: oh, Donald Trump wants to do Project 2025,

[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_07]: and then you don't cite something,

[00:35:44] [SPEAKER_07]: right.

[00:35:44] [SPEAKER_07]: She's just...

[00:35:45] [SPEAKER_07]: It's just rhetoric.

[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_07]: No, I understand the point.

[00:35:48] [SPEAKER_07]: All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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