We are now in a demoralization op (09-20-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:27] [SPEAKER_02]: for your support. Let me play real quick a soundbite. This is from the interview that Andrew

[00:00:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Kaczynski from CNN did over the computer, so it was like a Zoom video deal. So he did get

[00:00:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Mark Robinson to comment on the story. And this is the exchange that CNN chose to air. This is,

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_02]: as I have heard stated before, selectively edited. You're going to hear the edits,

[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_02]: not by me, by CNN. So I don't know what they kept in or took out, whatever. But here is the,

[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_02]: well, I do know what they kept in obviously, but I don't know the context. I don't know

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_02]: all the questions. All I know is what has been provided to me. And this is that exchange.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_03]: This is not us. These are not our words. And this is not anything that is characteristic of

[00:01:26] [SPEAKER_03]: me nor has it ever been. The people here of North Carolina know, I have been completely

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_03]: transparent about my history, all the warts. We put them all out. We let folks know about it.

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_03]: But the folks here also know my character. They know who I am. They know my voice,

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_03]: so to speak. This is not my voice. This is not things that we would ever say or even

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_00]: think. And so absolutely we do. How do you explain all of the matching details on this profile? The

[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_00]: profile on Newt Africa lists your full name as Mark Robinson. The email listed on the account

[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_00]: is an email that you used, you have used elsewhere on the internet, including with your photo.

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_00]: You have used that name, mini soldier on multiple social media accounts, including Twitter,

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Pinterest, Black Planet and YouTube. How can you deny with all of these matching details that this is

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_03]: you? Look, I'm not going to get into the minutiae of how somebody manufactured this,

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_02]: uh, these selectious tabloid lives. Wrong answer. Wrong answer. The answer is that's not me.

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_02]: That's not my handle. I never used this mini soldier handle unless he did.

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Right. So this is going to be the larger problem is if it is true that

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_02]: now it's, it's the lying. It's the covering up and now you lose any kind of support. And this is why

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Republicans are wary to come to his defense because they don't know what is true if any of it

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_02]: or it or if it's false or how much of it he goes on here. But I can tell you this,

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_03]: there's been over $1 million spent on me through AI by a billionaire son who's bound and determined

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_03]: to destroy me. The things that people can do with the internet now is incredible. But what I

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_03]: can tell you is this again, these are not my words. This is simply tabloid trash being used as a

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_03]: distraction from the substantive issues that the people of this state are facing. We have

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_03]: addressed it. We have said it's not true and we wish we could move on and get busy with the

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_00]: business of the people of the state. Okay. Well, these posts, they do take place over a five

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: year period from 2008 to 2013. You mentioned AI, are you saying that somebody was somehow

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_00]: manufacturing biographical details to exactly match you using your username? Look, I have no idea how

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_03]: this was done. I have absolutely no idea how it was done. And I have five weeks left in this campaign

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_03]: to focus on the substantive issues that North Carolinians face. I did not have time for

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_00]: tabloid trash. There have been rumors that some of your campaign staff have quit. Can you tell us

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_03]: if that's true or not? Absolutely not. And we are not getting out of this race. There are people

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_03]: who are counting on us to win this race because again, we don't want a governor who's going to be

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_03]: a person that can't be counted on to tell the truth. And I can assure you my opponent has been

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_03]: taken to court for not telling the truth in campaigns. And he's been completely dishonest

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_03]: in his ads against me. This camp is so desperate to destroy us. It's just like Clarence Thomas said

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_03]: years ago, this is a high tech lynching. And you know, back long years ago, they used to use

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_02]: rope now they're using table. I think he needs to do more interviews. Like I said, the space is

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_02]: open to him and I'd like to know very specific questions to help me determine whether or not

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_02]: this stuff is or is not true. That's all. Let me go to the phones now. This is Lee. Welcome to the show,

[00:05:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Lee. Yes, hello. Let me get you off the speakerphone here. I was with... Okay, I have a quick question

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_01]: before I make my quick comment. Am I to understand that these posts, supposed posts,

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_01]: literally had his photograph on it as well? Yes.

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Who in the right mind on that kind of a site does that? I asked the same question. Why would you

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_02]: put your real name and your real photo on that site? But then again, I have not seen the site

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_02]: because it's behind the payroll. You got to pay to get into the site and I'm not going to do

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_02]: that. I don't want all of the ads that are going to be bombarding me on Facebook for the next year and a

[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_01]: half if I did. Okay. Well, my only comment is I agree with a lot of the previous callers.

[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_01]: My first knee-jerk reaction is like, oh no, how could somebody... But the more I look at it,

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_01]: consider the source. Consider... And I was thinking, did he have his actual

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_01]: photograph supposedly on there? And some of the verbiage going back that far matches verbiage

[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_01]: of today or in the last couple of years, not that far back. And Nazi... How many times has

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_01]: been thrown around during the past? No, let's see what? Six years or so. Nazi. I tend to give him

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_01]: more of the benefit of the doubt. I truly do. I think you look at the timing of it.

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Is there a question mark still hanging in my head? Yes. But I tend to still stay more behind him.

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I do. The other thought that I had in this is that I think North Carolina is pretty much a big

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_01]: focus of the Democratic Party. I'm 70 years old and I have had about... I'm an independent,

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_01]: registered as an independent voter. I suddenly, in the past, I'd say three weeks,

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_01]: I've been getting maybe... I got three calls from the Democratic Party.

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's been incessant nonstop. The focus is pretty big on my state with this election.

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And last night, I got a call from someone in Seattle, Washington with a Californian

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_01]: and she was asking me who I was going to vote for and if I knew and yada-yada.

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_01]: And I was saying, how did you get my number? How did you this? How did you that? I said,

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_01]: this is myself. And she did say to me, well, your state is critical.

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm thinking that this state is a big target for something like this.

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, and I will tell you that the Kamala Harris campaign, they just announced their dropping...

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a six-figure buy, maybe million into North Carolina, tying Donald Trump to

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Mark Robinson. That was announced today. So you are absolutely correct. Lee,

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_02]: I do appreciate the phone call. Let me get Dan on here before the traffic report. Hello, Dan.

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_04]: I see. How are you this?

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Fabulous Friday.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm all right.

[00:08:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, I'm curious if the Democrats and the left-tard, left-tard...

[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_02]: All right. Hey, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, just use... I don't want to have to sift through all of the

[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_02]: different names and stuff that you're using. Just use the real names.

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. Yeah, yeah.

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_04]: No worries. If they believe that this tactic works of slinging manure like this,

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_04]: I think we could actually feed some really good stuff to Fox News, like pictures of Kamala

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_04]: in grade school and junior high with a Bible or with a rosary, or pictures perhaps of Kamala making

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_04]: a donation to a homeless center, or perhaps even graphic evidence that she voted for all

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_04]: of the conservative Supreme Court justices while she was in Congress.

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_04]: That's a great smear campaign. I think if they buy into that kind of crap...

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_02]: That would be damaging, I think. Yes, that would be damaging. Dan, I appreciate the call.

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[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm doing it now for the fourth. I know that all of the offensive comments come only on that one website,

[00:11:12] [SPEAKER_02]: but in order to prove it's him they link to all of these other social media profiles

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_02]: with the same username. But there aren't any other offensive things on these other sites.

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_02]: The Pinterest one, there was no followers, no friends. It's like a blank account.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_02]: And the Twitter account was apparently taken over by somebody else yesterday.

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Some existing Twitter user renamed their username to be Mini Soldier.

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know what the process or mechanics are of all of these other websites and platforms

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_02]: that if you do change your username, does that make it look like all of your old posts

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_02]: are under your username? So in other words, on Twitter, if I were to change my name,

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_02]: let's say the name is available, Mark Robinson. I changed my username to Mark Robinson.

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_02]: All of my previous tweets will say at Mark Robinson is the same mechanic being used

[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_02]: on this website. I don't know. Did CNN check that? They don't say if they checked that.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_02]: John, welcome to the show. Hello, John.

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_05]: Hey, Pete, I think you're right. All we really know is the story is short on the important,

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_05]: responsible details and heavy on the salacious damaging details. But anybody who

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_05]: does web development or is good with computers knows you can go into a Chrome browser on your

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_05]: computer and use the developer tools to edit the source code of the webpage and actually change

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_05]: what you see on your machine for that webpage. You could easily take a screenshot after dropping

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_05]: all of the information that would be impossible or hard to believe that would actually be him

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_05]: like his picture profile on a site like this. You could put that in there in the source code,

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_05]: see it on your desktop, take a screenshot of it. It doesn't change the webpage. It just changes

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_05]: what you see for that page on your machine. That could easily be done for all the perfect

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_05]: account information that they could easily just put in there because they know they can

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_05]: trace it back to current stuff that really is his. Right. Yeah, and that's what I mean.

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_02]: I have a lot of questions about the technical side of it. I'm sure there are many,

[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_02]: there are more questions I don't even know to ask because I don't know the tech side of it.

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_02]: And the CNN report doesn't provide any of those answers. It reminds me of when the DNC gave

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_05]: the FBI an image of a Hillary server instead of actually giving the server, which would have

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_05]: all the relevant details and not a fixed set of information. So it just, maybe there's some

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_05]: DNC fingerprints on this too because if I remember correctly, didn't that story get originally

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_05]: put out by CNN for Hillary server? Yeah. Maybe. Yeah, John, yeah. Appreciate the call. That's

[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_02]: a good point. Here's another email from another John who says, how many million websites are there?

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_02]: How would somebody know to go find this weird insignificant website to look for marks?

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_02]: And then how do they find posts that are 12 years old? Was the technology even around 12 years ago

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_02]: to support archiving that much information for what I assume is a relatively small website?

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_02]: By the way, do you remember Dan Rather? I do. Do you remember what did him in?

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_02]: I do. Right. It was the fake letter George Bush supposedly sent that turned out the

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_02]: font did not exist when that letter supposedly was written. It was a record of his

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_02]: time in the Air National Guard and it was a fraud. And some internet people pinpointed

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_02]: the fraudulent nature of it based on the font that was used because the font wasn't created

[00:15:17] [SPEAKER_02]: at the time the supposed letter was sent. It was a fraud. And to this day, Dan Rather

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_02]: cannot bring himself to acknowledge that it was a fraud even though it got him fired.

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[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_02]: posts from the nude Africa website attributed to mini soldier, a username purportedly run by

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Mark Robinson, believe the most offensive posts made on that website about a decade ago

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_02]: have now been collected into a kindergarten book to be made available for story time sessions.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_02]: That's my understanding. By the way, if Mark Robinson was in fact a Nazi,

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_02]: wouldn't that make him more popular with the Democrat base?

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, well maybe not in North Carolina, but like Michigan he would lock down Michigan.

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Let me go to some of the tweets. These are Pete tweets from Greg.

[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_02]: The best evidence that the Robinson story is true and not AI sci-fi is that they,

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Stein, did not need to do it. He was tanking in the polls, Robinson was tanking in the polls

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_02]: and had no chance should have run fall well too late.

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's a fair assessment, right? They didn't have to do it. However, I could also make

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_02]: a counter argument. They like to do this. They enjoy it. It's fun and they want a large blast

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_02]: radius, right? Robinson was already expected to lose much like every lieutenant governor in

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_02]: modern history has when they run for governor. That's just North Carolina's way. We put people

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_02]: into the LG's office and then don't let them into the governor's bench. I think

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Bev Perdue was the only one. So that, it's possible. I told, I briefly mentioned a story.

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_02]: When I first started as a reporter, there was a Democrat congressman. I had done multiple

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_02]: interviews with him over the years and I knew one of the guys that worked on his campaign and he

[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_02]: talked about how they had gotten photos of his Republican opponent in a race and the photos

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_02]: were, I'm trying to remember. I think they were at like a strip club or a bachelor party or something

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_02]: and it would have tanked the guy's chances. And the Democrat official, the elected official said,

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_02]: no, we're not going to do anything with this stuff. He's like, we don't need to. They didn't leak

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_02]: it out. They didn't need to. They were going to win. So if Stein didn't need to do this, then

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_02]: why do it? Carolina Journal reported that it came from the Stein camp.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_02]: They gave it to CNN. That's totally believable. It's also possible that Josh Stein didn't know

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_02]: what was being worked up. Maybe he didn't green light the thing. Maybe he said no

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_02]: and his staffers did it anyway. I don't know. But somebody developed the information

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_02]: and then handed it off. I've heard that it was somebody that knew Robinson or somebody that

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_02]: was on the website, right? Because it's a paywall site. Like how do you find out about those

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_02]: posts? Like how do you know to go to that website and go back to that time frame? How do you

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_02]: know that? I don't have answers to these things. Once again, as I said at the very beginning,

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if it's true. It would not shock me if it was true and it would not shock me

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_02]: if it wasn't true. Alan says, I would like to, sorry, I would have to wonder

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_02]: if state resources were used to get access to this information if it was even real.

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_02]: That would be the bigger scandal to investigate.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Republicans don't refer to themselves as Nazis. They know Nazis are leftists. It's the leftists

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_02]: that don't realize who they themselves are. Also, Lauder Milk just dropped a nuke on the J6

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_02]: narrative. I have not seen that. Thirsty says this would suggest that some people on the

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_02]: interwebs pretend to be someone they are not and goodness gracious may even represent

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_02]: themselves as celebrities or politicians. I'm pretty sure that's against the law and never happens.

[00:21:00] [SPEAKER_02]: I did get a message too about, well, he should sue or he can sue. Why doesn't he just sue?

[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, as a public figure, you are very limited in what you can do when it comes to defamation,

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_02]: slander, libel, that sort of thing. I don't know if he is pursuing this or not. I don't know

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_02]: who he would go after because if CNN believes that what they developed is true, then that could

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_02]: insulate them from a lawsuit. Plus, the guy's trying to run for an election right now.

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I think personally, if this was me and somebody did this to me, I would be

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_02]: raising hell. I would be soliciting lawyers try to go after whoever I need to go after,

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_02]: subpoena, everything. I want to know everything. That's what I would be doing

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_02]: because I haven't done this stuff. So that's what I would be doing.

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Jay says, in my opinion, you shouldn't be saying he said this and that when these things

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_02]: that seem suspect, yeah, well, I'm sorry. I'm going to use a pronoun. Would you prefer I say she?

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to say he said she said whatever. I don't know who the, I don't know,

[00:22:24] [SPEAKER_02]: but I've been very clear about that. Ronnie wants to know if Mark Robinson has been linked with

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_02]: P Diddy yet. I don't know much. I don't think so. Not sure.

[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_02]: They didn't bring, think about that this is from Margo. She says, think about this.

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_02]: They didn't bring forth a woman to say bad things about Mark Robinson.

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_02]: They use a BS message board with fonts that don't match that has now shut down from outsiders.

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_02]: I guess that has now been shut down from outside. Really? It's been shut down?

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_02]: The nude Africa members area is still open. So if you are a member, you can still click in,

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_02]: but the message board is closed while we do some maintenance. That's interesting.

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. So you can create these types of fake screenshots. Craig says it is fake.

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_02]: I would bet my house. This is a left-wing setup that establishment Republicans took the

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_02]: bait because they can't stand a real conservative fighter. I am mad the more I read about it.

[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_02]: I said from the beginning, the biggest problem with the story is that CNN did it.

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_02]: But honestly, if this came from, because there is a school of thought, let me say,

[00:24:01] [SPEAKER_02]: that Republicans were the ones. There were some Republicans that did this, which is,

[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_02]: if that's the case, that would surprise me. These are consultants or the establishment

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_02]: or whatever. The Republicans were behind all of this, APO research dump, whatever.

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Like that's just, you realize the damage you're doing to all of these other Republican

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_02]: candidates. But if it was, let's just entertain because this is what I do.

[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Right? Let's say that's true. Why would Republicans go to CNN?

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Why would they give it to CNN? Because they know CNN will do it. You know nobody else will do it.

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_02]: But then you realize when you give it to CNN, Republican voters are less likely to believe

[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_02]: it. So what's the point? So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's and before

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_02]: he died, my mom and my dad and all of us really helped take care of them as he got

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_02]: progressively worse. 40 years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_02]: and family. Things are different today because of the work of so many people, including the

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Alzheimer's Association of Western North Carolina. It's a great organization with awesome people.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_02]: They've got huge hearts. I've been a supporter for like 25 years. This cause means a lot to me.

[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_02]: I participate in the annual walk to end Alzheimer's and I am leading a Charlotte

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_02]: team this year. It's called Pete's Pack. You can sign up and join the team and walk with me.

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_02]: It's on October 19th at Truist Field in Uptown. Sign up at alz.org slash walk and then just

[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_02]: look for my team, Pete's Pack. And there's also a link in the podcast description here.

[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Also I'm going to be emceeing the Gastonia Walk on October 5th, so make a team and join us

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_02]: or make a donation to help me hit my goal. I would really appreciate it. There are

[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_02]: bunch of other walks around the Carolinas and you can go to alz.org for all of the dates and

[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_02]: locations. We are closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's and if you can help us get there,

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_02]: we would really appreciate it. Will you come walk with me for a different future,

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_02]: for families, for more time, for treatments? This is why I walk.

[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to go back to the topic I played earlier in the hour only saying those aren't my words.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_02]: He has not unequivocally denied ever having an account on the porn site. The wording of his

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_02]: response seems calculated. It did. I don't like when politicians say we this and we that,

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_02]: nor do I like it when they cry we, we, we all the way home. I don't like any of those

[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_02]: actions. Oh no, I don't. I understand why they do it. They do it to be more inclusive. They do it

[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_02]: like we're all on the same team. I get that but I think they start saying it all the time

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_02]: because they don't want to be like called a narcissist and look at their ego driven. It's

[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_02]: all about you know, I, I, I, me, me, me, that kind of thing. I get it but this isn't

[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_02]: about everybody. This is about you, one person. So let me go back to the phones here. Here

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_02]: is Sean. Welcome to the show. Hello, Sean. Hey, how you doing? All right, man. What's going on?

[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_06]: I got three comments I got to say. This what happened is called politics. So all your listeners,

[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_06]: if you got some dirty stuff in your bag from back when whenever they gonna dig it up.

[00:27:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, so this is yeah well hang on to your point number one. This is why when political

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_02]: campaign managers and stuff sit down with the candidates, they usually ask them something

[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_02]: along the lines of what is the worst thing you've done? Like what are your dark secrets?

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_02]: You got, and you have to be honest. You got to tell them because otherwise they're not going

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_02]: to be able to prepare you if it comes out or they're gonna tell you, uh yeah that is going to

[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_06]: come out. You're not running. That is correct. And I'm gonna get to that point and the

[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_06]: second one I want to say right quick. If it was me, if I wasn't true, I will follow

[00:28:02] [SPEAKER_06]: definition point the first thing this morning. So all your, all your listeners keep on going.

[00:28:06] [SPEAKER_06]: If it wasn't me, I'll follow the definition. And my last one, you blame Donald Trump. All

[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_06]: your Republicans listen to Donald Trump. Y'all had two more candidates that were much better

[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_06]: than Mark Robinson but you know you go follow that Donald Trump and this is what you did

[00:28:20] [SPEAKER_02]: and this what you get. So Sean some hang on Sean real quick. So some a little bit of

[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_02]: history I mentioned earlier that Lieutenant governors don't win when they run for governor.

[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_02]: That's only what happened one time um and in North Carolina. So that's the first thing. But

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_02]: the other part of it is that uh setting Lieutenant governors always win their party's nomination

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_06]: for governor. Well I'm just saying you know we kind of purple here so it could have went

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_06]: any way if you were a fellow candidate. No. I'm just saying but your listeners always

[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_02]: want to know. It wasn't Trump. No Sean it wasn't Trump. It was Mark Robinson. Here

[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_02]: I'll even do you one better though. Here you go. This is an angle that I'm sure

[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_02]: you can chew on for a while which is that white Republicans really really want a black Republican

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_02]: like Mark Robinson to be the standard bearer. They really do. You know why? Because they are

[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_02]: in my opinion overly sensitive to the smears of the left and they they want to prove

[00:29:22] [SPEAKER_02]: because even though they say they don't care a lot of people do care especially older people

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_02]: when the term racist was thrown around originally so much against white people white Republicans

[00:29:32] [SPEAKER_02]: they were very uh very hurt by that and so they would very much would like to have a person of

[00:29:38] [SPEAKER_02]: color elevated so it insulates them from that charge and it's like look at look at us we are

[00:29:45] [SPEAKER_02]: not this terrible thing you've accused us of and maybe that makes them a little bit more

[00:29:49] [SPEAKER_02]: willing to look past problems with a candidate. Well you you picked the wrong one because

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Mark Robinson I could have told you that guy Mark Robinson he could be all basket or whatever

[00:29:59] [SPEAKER_06]: but I could just tell that wasn't the one you wanted to to run in a state of no come on.

[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah they would have done well yeah let me let me let me actually this right quick yeah I'm a

[00:30:07] [SPEAKER_06]: brother you know you always your your your listeners always say hey we're gonna vote for

[00:30:11] [SPEAKER_06]: the black guy because he's an office but he definitely won't go get my vote I'm gonna

[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_06]: tell you that right now buddy wait what I'm getting out where do you wait what most of

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_06]: your listeners most Republicans most people and politics that oh they're gonna vote for the

[00:30:24] [SPEAKER_06]: black person just because he's black that's what most of your Republicans or people say

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_06]: they have it long you got a black person he's gonna get in there that he's gonna vote for him

[00:30:33] [SPEAKER_06]: he was gonna get probably two percent of the black vote of North Carolina with no black person

[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_02]: that I know of was gonna go to okay well Sean just because you don't know anybody that would

[00:30:43] [SPEAKER_02]: vote for the guy doesn't mean that your two percent figure is Sean Sean

[00:30:47] [SPEAKER_02]: anecdotal evidence is not proof of anything so except that you accept no Sean Sean I'm a

[00:30:54] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm a black person so okay I fantastic Sean I don't care it doesn't that doesn't matter what

[00:31:00] [SPEAKER_02]: matters that you cited some two percent projection do you have any evidence to support that assertion

[00:31:05] [SPEAKER_06]: there you go you want to be all correct numbers we can say 10% he was gonna get 25% but he

[00:31:11] [SPEAKER_06]: wasn't gonna get the black American vote what color gonna get what did I just did I

[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_02]: have Sean did anybody ever say that did any you've heard people say that he's gonna get all the black

[00:31:20] [SPEAKER_02]: vote did you hear my comment I did hear your comment I'm trying because now it's because now

[00:31:26] [SPEAKER_02]: you're not making sense so did you think that people on this station and callers to this

[00:31:31] [SPEAKER_02]: station believed that Mark Robinson because he's black that all blacks were gonna go vote for him

[00:31:36] [SPEAKER_06]: you you think you've heard that isn't that the national saying no y'all just saying no no

[00:31:43] [SPEAKER_02]: no no say you don't keep going no Sean the no Sean the and this is borne out by the data

[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_02]: which is that African-American voters vote overwhelmingly for Democrats inside right and

[00:31:57] [SPEAKER_02]: inside the Democrat Party when putting up a white male versus a black male in a Democrat primary

[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_02]: in an at large or a statewide kind of a race the black voters tend to vote more for the

[00:32:11] [SPEAKER_06]: black candidates okay anymore I think more robertson black right yes he is so y'all want to put up

[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_06]: y'all y'all want to put up a black person and a republican party stating that they may get a

[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_06]: percentage of the black vote maybe it wasn't gonna happen with him well so he could know he

[00:32:28] [SPEAKER_02]: was going to get a percentage of the black vote I don't know what it is and here's the thing

[00:32:32] [SPEAKER_02]: you don't either you don't either let me agree all right that'll do it for this episode

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