America Future Debates On The Brett Winterble Show

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Speaker 1: And welcome.
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Speaker 2: It is the Brentwitterable Show.
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Speaker 3: Its great to be with you, and I got so much good stuff that we're gonna be talking about here today, but I got to start with something that it just has me perplexed. I don't understand this at all in so many ways. So there are these different storylines that are moving as it relates to America at two point fifty. And one of the things that these people, I can't figure this out at all. But here's what essentially is happening. National pride, faith in major institutions, and belief in the American dream declined in new NBC News polling. So I'm imagining you in your car. I'm imagining you in your house. Maybe you're cooking, maybe you're, you know, luxurating, whatever you're doing. Do you dislike the country, Because I'm just gonna go right and cut to the cut to the chase. Do you not like the United States of America? Now I understand that there's gonna be different answers. We're gonna have these wackos that'll call in and they'll say.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't like the United States of America. Oh, because I just died. Don't go blah blah blah blah.
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Speaker 3: Okay, fine, where you're gonna go? North Korea? South Korea?
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Speaker 2: Where are you're gonna go?
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Speaker 3: So this is MSNBC, an NBC News product poll America at two point fifty is riven. I love that they're trying to use big words riven with doubt and pessimism, but with glimmers of hope.
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Speaker 2: What's that?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's right.
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Speaker 3: You're thinking that Devin Newsom is going to come and save you.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's a good point.
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Speaker 3: Americans have a bleak outlook on the nation's future ahead of its two hundred and fiftieth birthday next month, with most saying the US has already seen its best days.
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Speaker 2: You believe that.
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Speaker 3: I don't believe that, and a record low number saying that they are extremely proud to be Americans. According to the new NBC News poll. Overall the serve a sponsored by this is the stupidest name for a company, okay that they're using. Overall the survey sponsored by more Perfect, a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to advancing the democracy. We've advanced a lot of the democracy we really have, you just don't pay attention to. It shows that Americans believe their country has achieved many of the goals of its founders, but it's now falling short in living up to certain central tenets of the democratic experiment.
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Speaker 2: They are split.
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Speaker 3: Almost evenly over whether the Constitution has stood the test of time, so.
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Speaker 2: That what that all is is damn it.
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Speaker 3: They they overturned Roe versus Wade, and they have not made it more perfect.
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Speaker 2: This is nonsense. And they have little faith in their institutions.
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Speaker 3: Who the people that are institutionalized have very little faith in the institutions.
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Speaker 2: What are you talking about, including the federal government.
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Speaker 3: Well, why don't you go run, Why don't you go run for office, Why don't you go change it up? The media and the high tech industry. Okay, So they're saying the country stinks because these are all Democrats. You got to know this. Okay, You've got to know this. So they're all sitting there and they're saying, the federal government, the media, and the high tech industry, those are the problems in this country.
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Speaker 2: Those are the problems. Even the military, which.
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Speaker 3: Ranks highest among institutions tested and retains the confidence of most Americans.
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Speaker 2: Well, good for.
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Speaker 3: That, you actually are respectful took a long time after Vietnam, didn't it with all those hippies. Don't ever forget There was a woman who sat on a anti aircraft gun in Hanoi. Her name is very well known, and she turned in American gis who were trying to send messages to their families. Are you a fonda of her? But Americans also share core values and are willing to engage each other on their differences. According to the survey, which includes three thousand.
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Speaker 2: Wow, that's a big survey. What have we got in this country?
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Speaker 3: Three hundred million, three hundred maybe four hundred million, five hundred million, three thousand people, Holy cow, amazing contacted contacted by phone and text message you're goofy, You're goofy from May twenty ninth through June seventh, okay. Contemplating the results, Democratic pulster Jeff Horwitz of Heart Research Associates, who conducted the alongside Republican polster Bill mcinturf of Politic of a Public Opinion Strategies, reflected on Benjamin Franklin's observation that the image of the half sun on the back of George Washington's chair was rising, not setting. At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention today, As the astute political observer that he was, Franklin might take a more nuanced look at that chair and agree with its citizens who assess the sun as setting on its institutions.
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Speaker 2: But rising among its citizens. Oh that's so beautiful.
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Speaker 3: That's so beautiful, Bernie Sanders, Zorhan. All these folks, those are the ones that they want to make the United States of America into.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you got to understand this.
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Speaker 3: The poll reveals a polity deeply divided along partisan, generational, educational, and class lines, but mostly united in its certainty that the American dream is harder to attain now than it was a generation ago. Well, do you think that every stock market move is going to go up? It took a lot to get from the beginning of this country to the Industrial Revolution, to go into the space age. I'm sorry, if you're nervous about this, go out there and invent something, build something, create something, do all of that.
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Speaker 2: Get off your duff.
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Speaker 3: The sun is not signing a sign on the United States of America, no way, know how. Among adults, seventy eight percent say the American dream is further out of reach. Fine, so fix it. Go do something about it. Nobody is coming to rescue you. Now, I'll take all callers on this seven oh four five seven zero one zero seven nine. I'll take all callers. You want to call in and tell me the country stinks. All right, I'll listen to it. I'll let you say have your say on that. You believe the country is strong, I'll take it, no problem. I want to know, do you think we're failing in this country? I don't think it's true. I think the media is trying to gin up another divide on the holiday most important in the last sixty years. All right, this is what we got to see.
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back.
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Speaker 2: It's the Bretwinable Show, so.
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Speaker 3: MSNBC, NBC, all these different outlets are calling for you to be miserable because we've got this incredible celebration.
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Speaker 2: That we're having.
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Speaker 3: And it's really I think it's I think it's really ugly, ugly in this regard because the kids are watching us. Got understand that kids are watching us. And when I went and I dug into this institutional sort of rot that we've got because the media is always just they're just ready to sit there and do their thing, and they're not gonna they're just gonna say, oh, well, we just did a poll.
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Speaker 2: We pulled it, and that's what the polls were.
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Speaker 3: I mean, my gosh, we pulled three thousand adults nationally in the country of the United States from May the twenty ninth to June the seventh. And it seems to us with NBC News and Roper polling that they don't people don't like.
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Speaker 2: The United States anymore.
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Speaker 3: They think our best days are beyond us. Kind of interesting. It's not the first time Americans have questioned whether that a dream is a mirage, but there have been nine point increases since twenty sixteen, when when sixty nine percent of adults said it was harder to achieve than it had been for prior generations. That is absolutely possible. That is absolutely there's a lot of reasons for that. You go back to the offshoring of our workers, you go back to Bill Clinton, you go back to you know, all the bad sort of trade deals that were going on.
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Speaker 2: Here.
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Speaker 3: You've got a lot of money coming into the country right now, and you've got a lot of money in the country right now that are coming in from around the world. There's a lot of people that are seemingly, I think, unlessen if I'm wrong.
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Speaker 2: They seem to be having a good time with the World Cup.
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Speaker 3: You got all these people loving the country that aren't even from the country, but they love to throw these sorts of things. Institutions have taken a pounding in the public square in recent years. Ooh, tell me more, Tell me more about this, with politicians often seeing advantage in piling on that has always existed.
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Speaker 2: Don't play games.
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Speaker 3: The combination of americans perceptions of establishment failure and a steady drum beat of negativity from the political leaders has had a devastating effect on their standing, and the new surveys reinforce other polls showing that Americans are fed up with major institutions and has lost and has lost faith in them. Well, what are your big institutions? What are the big institutions you're talking about? I don't know who that is. I don't even know what it is. What institutions are you talking about? The Congress, the Senate? Are you talking about something else? Like you're just not happy, because you're just not happy. And you know what, some once upon a time, somebody would say, take a lap, you're not happy, Take a lap let's see what you got.
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Speaker 2: This is about as low as it's gotten in this period. Okay, I may as well hang it up.
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Speaker 3: We may as well just shut this thing down and it over to whoever and see if they can run it in a better way. For the first time in the poll's histories, a majority fifty two percent say that they have very little confidence or no confidence at all in the federal government. You do know there are two parties. Can you kind of just give us a sense of which party you are mostly unhappy with?
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Speaker 1: You know what?
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Speaker 2: The answer is, right, it's.
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Speaker 3: Going to be them, No matter whoever it is, it's going to be them. They're the problem. We have to get rid of those people. They're the problem. And even greater share of adults fifty six percent now say they feel the same way about Congress, compared to forty eight percent in twenty nineteen and thirty nine percent in twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 2: Well, the world is a different place.
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Speaker 3: The Supreme Court rates a little better, with thirty one percent of registered voters saying they have a great deal or of course quite a bit of confidence in the justices. That's that's a big that's a big thing right there. That's huge.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's take some calls.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to reach out. I want to see what the folks are thinking. Chris, what's on your mind? What are you saying about the country.
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Speaker 5: I'm saying, God bless America right on, and so good to me. It's been so good to me, Brod. I'm I'm a nineteen seventy seven gen xer who had a hell of a hard childhood, really really crappy upbringing with I mean, I love my parents, but very nasty. Divorce, ended up in foster care, bounced around, and I was in a private school. I ended up graduating a year early and had an opportunity to move to the South, and I took it at age of seventeen, drove my dad's nineteen sixty six Pontiac tempest nice with nothing but a Duffel bag with a few clothes in it. And I am now forty nine, and I've got a wife of almost thirty years, two grown sons. One's a math teacher, one's a marine. My first job salary paid sixteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars, and my son just got out of the Marines and his first salary is eighty five thousand.
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Speaker 6: Wow.
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Speaker 5: Wow's that's that mean?
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Speaker 4: Come out? Man?
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Speaker 7: My kids are hard worker. You know I was top bottom.
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Speaker 5: Made them through stuff. Yeah, and you know they work hard and they you know, if you want to make money and people say hard work don't pay off, look at the trades, you know. That's what I got into a bench. I'm I install and sell for covering and we do really well.
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Speaker 7: Awesome, we do really well.
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Speaker 2: That's awesome. That's awesome.
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Speaker 3: See, this is these people are all a bunch of sad sacks. I don't understand this. I don't understand why everybody's freaking out.
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Speaker 2: Nobody's telling you to work.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's that's probably a lot of it. That's probably a lot of it right there, my friend. Thanks so much for being here, Chris, I appreciate you. Thanks Brett, Yeah, being by I be well man.
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Speaker 2: All right, great to be back with you.
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Speaker 3: Brett wintererble show our telephone number seven oh four five seven zero one zero seven nine, and I want to reach out to Ralph who's been patiently holding on. Ralph, welcome to the show. What is on your mind, my.
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Speaker 6: Friend or Brett?
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Speaker 8: This is the land of Opportunity, and there is no excuse for people not to feel good.
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Speaker 6: About this country. I mean that we've learned.
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Speaker 8: We try to learn from our mistakes. But people can go out and seek whatever fortune they want to.
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Speaker 6: Nobody's holding on that right.
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Speaker 8: You know you can, You can a lot of You can go to a lot of successful people and you might have to make an appointment with them, but you can seek advice and run ideas by them and get their input and a lot of their crossroads and the things they've had to overcome. They've already done it, and they might can help you. But most people will take the time to give you a hand up, not a handouts. And in our fast food mentality, a lot of people want instant gratification and they want something for nothing. Generations go, people work two and three jobs to put food on their table, single mom center children to college. There is these people that are so only about two or three percent probably of society that really thinks like this.
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Speaker 6: But these people just don't grasp it.
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Speaker 8: They don't get they got to get out of the pajamas, They got to dust off the cheetos, dust off.
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Speaker 6: Their hands, and get out there and maybe get them alone. More famous Edward or mural broadcaster say get out there and cut some grass and maybe might be crime.
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Speaker 2: While you grasp that's right, that's right, that's that's exactly right.
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Speaker 3: So just to bring everybody into the into the loop of what we're talking about here. So NBC News did did one of these things where they're going to ask you whether or not you like the country, how do you feel about it? So the headline on this one right here was America at two point fifty is riven with doubt and pessimism, but with glimmers of hope.
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Speaker 2: Okay, now that's fine. I understand that that's.
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Speaker 3: That's what the what, that's the offer that they're giving us. That's what they're trying to tell us that this has got to be and we're going to answer these questions. But I want to expand this just a little bit more, Ralph, because Axios did their own poll, and you want to know something, this thing, this made me go bunkers. There are people who don't want to put their flags out on fourth of July.
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Speaker 6: I mean, what I just bought two flags.
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Speaker 8: I don't say the name of the company, but this American made company, uh make them in America.
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Speaker 6: And so I want to support them.
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Speaker 8: But these are these are people that are putting up excuses because they.
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Speaker 6: Don't I mean, they don't want to even get out there and try. That's right that they want the government.
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Speaker 8: They want to hand out, they want they want their free stuff.
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Speaker 6: And I'm tired of it.
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Speaker 8: Man.
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Speaker 6: We're seeing all kinds.
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Speaker 4: Of fraud now.
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Speaker 2: And yes, yes, I worked at.
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Speaker 8: A overnight company, second biggest one in the world, part time driving a tractor trailer, simultaneously running a business for twenty eight years, just for the insurance, insurance and benefits. And like I say, people back in the depression.
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Speaker 6: You know, they made it through that. They might ate a lot of potatoes and.
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Speaker 8: Stuff like that, but they got up every morning and hit their you know, their feet.
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Speaker 6: Hit the floor, and they did something.
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Speaker 9: I mean, I know a lot some of them gave up.
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Speaker 6: But then you just can't.
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Speaker 8: You can't have this mentality of just these whiners. And I don't have no sympathy for them, and I do have compassion. A little guy in our neighborhood come around asking for odd jobs.
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Speaker 6: About three weeks ago. I put into work. That's got But I'm out of town a.
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Speaker 9: Lot on the weekends.
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Speaker 6: I need to have some plants.
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Speaker 8: Water and everything, and so, you know, I asking what other services he had and stuff like that.
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Speaker 9: You know.
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Speaker 6: But we need people, and there's a lot of people like that, of course.
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Speaker 2: And you need to be proud.
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Speaker 8: About what you accomplish when you're in the land.
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Speaker 6: That you could accomplish anything.
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Speaker 3: That's right, that's absolutely right. And the world is clamoring to come into our country. I mean, my goodness, I mean, come on now. And a lot of them are to come into work. They want to work, they want to get it done. Thanks so much, Ralph, It's always great to talk to you, brother.
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Speaker 6: Thank you, sir.
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Speaker 2: You got it.
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Speaker 3: Stay safe out there. The American experiment the lack of trust and institutions. This is still from the NBC News. The lack of trust and institutions is also taking a toll on American pride.
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Speaker 2: Oh, let's get a load of this.
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Speaker 3: In the years immediately following September eleventh, two thousand and one terrorist attacks on the US, as many as seventy percent of Americans said they felt extremely proud of their country. Even after that period of national unity forged by tragedy. Most adults reported high levels of American pride through the start of the Trump first term. Overall, at that time, eighty two percent said they were extremely or very proud of the country, but numbers have dived since then, and just thirty three percent now say that they're extremely proud to be an American.
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Speaker 2: Do you buy that number?
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Speaker 3: That thirty three percent is the number to be extremely proud to be an American, with another twenty three percent describing themselves very proud, and twenty one percent saying that they are only a little or not at all proud to be an American. Holy cow, Holy cow, you're talking about the country. You're not talking about the president, the vice president anybody else.
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Speaker 2: You're talking about the country. What are you doing? You're doing it wrong. I love this country. I love that. I've loved this country my entire life.
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Speaker 3: I don't care who who the president's in there and whatever, because that the president is the president.
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Speaker 2: We are the people. We the people. It's amazing.
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Speaker 3: And I'm gonna tell you what caused this, this this thing that you just heard from me. I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you when I get back, because I know exactly what's going on, no doubt about it, no doubt about it at all.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Grant woodable show. Good to be with you.
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Speaker 3: Let's uh check in with Joe.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Joe, what's on your mind?
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Speaker 1: How are you? I?
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Speaker 2: I'm great? How are you?
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Speaker 10: Let me start this off by saying a very something, very controversial. God bless America.
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Speaker 2: Amen. That's absolutely right.
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Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 10: Hey, listen, you know I say that, yes, we have problems in this country that I would call them, you know, opportunities.
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Speaker 4: To get better.
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Speaker 10: The one thing that bothers me the most at this time is the influx of immigration Muslims participating in a open and plain sight takeover of America.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so let me ask you a question. So let me ask you a question. Okay, So let's say.
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Speaker 3: That you know, people decide at some point in time that this is this is getting too hot or whatever it is. So how do you how do you fix that?
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Speaker 10: That's I don't have I mean, I could give you some suggestion.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, because I know exactly what I know what The answer is the answer is we have we can do anything we want in the country. Yeah, okay, and so and so with that in mind, so, so with that, what because it depends on who's running the government at whatever particular time. And that's that's what I'm talking about, because what you have to do is you have to and thanks to the Call, we have the ability to change anything we want. That that's the beauty of what the founders did. They left us the blueprint to change and ratify certain things and and develop certain things, and then suddenly, okay, if that doesn't work, we'll just we'll just finish that. The country is made up of human beings, right, The country is made up of human beings.
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Speaker 2: Nobody has every answer, But what.
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Speaker 3: You hope to do is to try to get to a place where people are able to be exploring their best possible outcomes. And if you have criminals, or if you have people that you don't necessarily want to see, or any of this sort of stuff, well, you know, the thing is people get to choose their religion in this country. That you get to choose your religion, You get to have whatever you want to do, you get your beliefs, you get all of this sort of stuff. And what I fear all the time is to the bad old days with Merrick Garland and the spying on Catholic churches that Joe Biden.
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Speaker 2: Ordered to be happening.
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Speaker 3: And you remember the people that were just getting hammered because they were protesting in front of planned parenthoods and things like that. And then suddenly you go down and you get the knock on your door on that night. I mean, that is a terrible thing. The way you fight, you take all of the stuff that you have at your disposal, so you could sue, you can ratify, you can do whatever it is. It's going to be legal and the way you would want to have it going. But I don't want to give up any of my rights. I don't want to give up any of my God given rights because like, well, I don't like that guy, or I don't like those people, or I don't like that you know what.
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Speaker 2: The United States of America is an incredible place now.
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Speaker 3: When it comes to criminality, when it comes to fraud, when it comes to people stealing money, absolutely man, round them up, put them in jail, and then you know, do whatever comes next.
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Speaker 2: But the fact is.
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Speaker 3: There are a lot of really good people in our country.
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Speaker 2: I mean a really good people.
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Speaker 3: Everybody kind of draws onto this thing where they say, oh, this is dangerous this is terrible. We have to stop it in every possible way.
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Speaker 2: We have bad guys.
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Speaker 3: We have bad guys in our country, but we have really great people in our country too, and they may be of a different persuasion in terms of politics. I don't want to give up any of my freedoms because the minute you start giving up your freedoms, it becomes it becomes something that isn't right. You know, you go back in time Franklin Dell and Roosevelt. When I was out for the UH for my holiday, I watched the entirety of the Roosevelt storyline that UH.
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Speaker 2: That that was fantastic. It was absolutely fantastic.
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Speaker 3: You had people in the United States who were Americans who were born here, and we put them in camps because they were Japanese. We that is a terrible thing to do. And it was Franklin Roosevelt who did that, and it was Dingle Whoo who did it as well. And you know, we don't in turn people because of how they look or what their you know, traditions are and things like that, because if you start going down that road, they're gonna come and knock on your door. It's it's it's It's absolutely incredible the way this country has been able to morph and move and and pivot and do all these sorts of things. And I think, I think this country has got a lot right in front of it. I think these this next generation is going to be something that is going to be spectacular because they've been They've been dealt a couple of rough blows with COVID.
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Speaker 2: And and and and the meltdowns and things like that.
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Speaker 3: But this is a resilient generation. This generation is resilient. I see so many young people busting their their backs doing jobs that are you know, hard jobs, and and and you know, when you think about all of this, I wouldn't try. I wouldn't trade all of MSNBC for for anything to change our country. Our country is fantastic. We're not perfect, but we're awesome and we're gonna do big things. I can't wait to see what this road runs like for the next twenty five fifty years. I'm serious, I want to see what this looks like. It's going to be a fascinating thing. It's going to be an incredible trip. And in that regard, we get to hand off our our stuff that we have done and we will hopefully at that moment be told that we did the right things. We didn't do it right all the time, but that we did the right things by the people of this country. But I also want to cut profligate spending, and I also want to cut profligate nonsense stuff.
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Speaker 2: Oh, welcome back.
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Speaker 4: Great to be with you.
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Speaker 2: So how's it going. How's it going today?
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Speaker 7: Really?
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Speaker 3: Oh that's great, that's wonderful. I'm so happy about this. Uh, let's dive into a couple of other big stories. Uh, we've got we've got some really incredible sound. In fact, I think I'm going to go with the sound if I can, mister producer, because I think we've got We've just got such wonderful interesting stuff right here on the table.
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Speaker 2: So going back just a little bit. Uh, yesterday we were.
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Speaker 3: Talking about what was going on with Gavin Newsom, and Gavin Newsom is apparently under an investigation. Well hmmm, apparently people don't want to talk about it. Apparently people don't want to talk about this at all.
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Speaker 2: So let me give you a cut. Number three. This is Elie Honigg.
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Speaker 3: He's a big time lawyer and he is breaking this down and he gets it very very clear in the Gavin Newsom sweepstakes, cut number three please go.
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Speaker 11: And I think there's serious reason to doubt the narrative that's being offered by Gavin Newsom, which is that he is being specifically targeted by Donald Trump for political retribution. Now, to be sure, it is a fact that this administration has done that time and again, from Letitia James to Jim Comey, to Jerome Powell, to Mark Kelly on down the line. But based on the facts we know here, we don't know everything, it does not appear that that's what's happening here. First of all, very importantly, as Paula said, the reporting is that this investigation did not initiate from Donald Trump or even from prosecutors in DC, so, not from Pam Bondi when she was ag not from Todd Blanche. Rather, it arose organically from the US Attorney's office out in the Eastern District of California, based on a whistleblower complaint reportedly, which is a normal way that cases start. And second of all, if they are in fact investigating people around Gavin Newsom, as pologists reported, then sure you would expect people to be FEDS to be knocking on doors and asking questions of people around Gavin Newsom.
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Speaker 2: So I think the narrative that he offered.
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Speaker 11: Up today is self serving and a bit overly simplistic given the actual facts as.
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Speaker 6: We know them.
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Speaker 3: All Right, So let me go to cut number two. This is Senator Padilla from California. He's a he's a very you know, austere guy, a serious guy.
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Speaker 2: And they tried to ask him about it.
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Speaker 3: But hey, what's going on with what's happening with with Gavin Newsom?
00:35:34
Speaker 2: I mean, is there an investigation going on here too? What's happening cut number two?
00:35:37
Speaker 12: Senator Patio, what's your response to Gavin Newsom now being under investigation by the Trump administration.
00:35:43
Speaker 1: It's a just the.
00:35:47
Speaker 10: Just the next rest in a long line of the Trumpet administration weaponizing the apropment of justice to go after his received political enemies.
00:35:53
Speaker 2: This was done under the Biden administration. Enough about this.
00:35:56
Speaker 12: California news is not covering up the investigation and Gavin Newsom started under Biden, but California media is not reporting that.
00:36:02
Speaker 2: Why do you think that is?
00:36:05
Speaker 3: And he just walks out, He just goes into the elevator and disappears. And all that sort of stuff. So think about this for a second. Gavin Newsom is very wealthy. He is wealthy, beyond wealthy, all right. I think he's a he's got a I think he's like twenty five thirty.
00:36:29
Speaker 2: Million dollars in terms of his stuff.
00:36:32
Speaker 3: Now he gets paid to be the governor of the state of California and it's like two hundred and forty two thousand dollars. Well, he's buying up all these houses, he's buying up all this stuff. It's like this kind of thing is happening, and he's he's flying high. Why would he come out and out himself as being under an investigation and then just trying to tap that to tap that to Donald Trump. Donald Trump has been busy with the war for like, I don't know what four months, six months. He's not he doesn't he's not even talking to Gavin Newsom. He's not even thinking about Gavin Newsom. He's trying to get all this stuff squared away. So why does Gavin Newsom come out and say you can go after you can go after me, but don't go after my wife.
00:37:26
Speaker 2: But you can go after me.
00:37:27
Speaker 3: Well, you know who the target It appears to be is him and.
00:37:35
Speaker 2: His wife and his wife.
00:37:37
Speaker 3: Okay, so here's the thing. I don't know what the underlying stuff is. Nobody has seen this stuff yet really, But here's where it gets really freaky. He had somebody on staff who was managing the money of the sort of stuff that they do with, you know, campaigns and all this sort of stuff, and she apparently had decided that she's going to dip into that fund of money. And there may not be receipts, there may not be this, there may not be that. Now, that's what I have heard out of the state of California. But you have to also understand something else.
00:38:29
Speaker 2: Did you guys see.
00:38:30
Speaker 3: Who was who came out in the last forty eight hours and is now jawing again?
00:38:36
Speaker 2: Have you anybody? Anybody? Anybody? Hillary Clinton?
00:38:42
Speaker 3: Hillary Clinton is back. And I'm telling you right now, she could easily knock him off. She could easily knock off Gavin Newsom, and she can be the aggrieved person and all that sort of stuff and everything like that. I'm telling you this. This feels like a hit and it's not from Trump. Trump doesn't have to bother with with Gavin Newsome. He doesn't have to do any of that. There's enough corruption, right, I mean, we we had all these examples in California with people who were not alive, who were you know, getting getting massages and all that.
00:39:18
Speaker 2: Sort of stuff.
00:39:19
Speaker 3: This is a this is going to be a really big dumpster fire.
00:39:25
Speaker 2: And you want to know when it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen when you.
00:39:28
Speaker 3: Get into the midterm cycles, because run, once you go into that mid time, midterm cycle, that thing is going to take off like a rocket ship, because you're gonna have everybody but uh, the child of God to go out there and do this stuff. I think it's I think this is a very interesting thing. And you know who I think is gonna throw him under the bus. I think it's gonna be uh. I think it's gonna be the uh, the folks that don't know necessarily like them that much.
00:40:02
Speaker 2: That's just this my guess. It's just my guess.
00:40:09
Speaker 3: Welcome back, Brett Winnable shows.
00:40:11
Speaker 2: Great to be with you.
00:40:12
Speaker 3: Let's jump out and talk to Ernest patiently holding on Earnest, Welcome to the program.
00:40:17
Speaker 2: Hi, right, how you doing?
00:40:19
Speaker 13: Was I was going to comment that you got off on the Japanese and tournaments in World War Two, and of course said.
00:40:28
Speaker 14: Midway not going away.
00:40:29
Speaker 9: It did.
00:40:30
Speaker 13: We lost all of our carriers and they attacked Pearl Harbor and took it over. That whole scenario might be viewed a little differently today, But the problem is several education. You're talking about that Japanese in tournament. Today's young students probably can't even hear about that because they're, you know, the political correctness would.
00:40:54
Speaker 1: Not want to.
00:40:55
Speaker 13: Bring that up and harm the sensitivities of Asia Americans. That's the whole all the way through. These children, that's what I'm going to call them. They don't even know who fought in World War Two. Probably they don't know who fought in Vietnam. They probably don't know who their senators are. You can not that I don't watch Fox News, but if people did, they would see you go out with a microphone, you ask them who their senators are, and they don't know it. Education system has failed America. We are at the dawn of a dark day in this country because we have illiterate They don't understand government, they don't understand money. We have an illiterate younger generation growing up that's sure, they're going to be enamored by people saying, hey, we can give you all this stuff for free.
00:41:48
Speaker 1: Now.
00:41:48
Speaker 13: The other thing is is the failure of the criminal justice system, specifically federal law white white collar crime. And I think it goes the whole way you're talking about Gavin Newsom on investigation. Yes, well we've had We've had people under investigation for years. The ones they seem to want to put in jail is Donald Trump because the Democratic Party has tried for what ten years to put he and his family in jail. But the problem is, Gavin knew somewhere the eighty billion go for that that high speed rail. They never even laid an inch.
00:42:24
Speaker 3: No, no, no, it's a it's a hundred it's like one hundred and forty billion dollars.
00:42:30
Speaker 13: Yeah, well but it went to some mngos or something did back, probably to the Democratic Party.
00:42:36
Speaker 2: That's right, we had I would.
00:42:39
Speaker 4: I'm still wondering.
00:42:40
Speaker 13: I'm still wondering after Portland, who's for years, don't they know where the money's being is coming from?
00:42:48
Speaker 14: What billionaires? Maybe they haven't.
00:42:50
Speaker 13: Arrested anybody because the same billionaires the fun Dan teeth are giving billions millions to Republicans too.
00:43:00
Speaker 4: That's what the problem is.
00:43:01
Speaker 3: Well, that's how you look at that. Look, I'll give you a name. You're ready for a name? Dan, Dan rosten Kowski, Remember that guy? I mean, holy cow, I'll give you another one.
00:43:12
Speaker 2: No not, I don't want to. I don't want to get your heart broken.
00:43:15
Speaker 3: But thanks so much for being out there. Ernest, You're always a great caller. Uh, Tony, what's on your mind today?
00:43:20
Speaker 14: How are you, britt?
00:43:21
Speaker 2: I'm great.
00:43:23
Speaker 7: You know that I follow something on Twitter just to share with you. Okay, Gavin Newsom's cheefe of staff is turning some evidence against him.
00:43:32
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and you know.
00:43:34
Speaker 7: That the thing is whether it's that I still think that his aunt's gonna be his waterloo?
00:43:43
Speaker 2: Is it?
00:43:43
Speaker 3: I've never really gotten the evidence that Nancy Pelosi is is his aunt.
00:43:50
Speaker 2: But you know, but but you know who? But I'll tell you something here. Are you ready for this?
00:43:55
Speaker 3: This is gonna blow your mind. Do you know who he got into business with?
00:44:02
Speaker 8: No?
00:44:03
Speaker 7: Donald Trump?
00:44:04
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, this is crazy.
00:44:06
Speaker 3: He he got all of his seed money in the beginning of this thing where he was growing up in like nineteen ninety two, and all this sort of stuff we're talking about. We're talking about the Getties. The Getties. He was he was hooked into the Getties.
00:44:26
Speaker 7: That that is whensical it best, sir.
00:44:31
Speaker 2: That's the thing, man, that's the story.
00:44:34
Speaker 3: He got he got there, he got the seed money, and that's where they got to build up their their whole big deal.
00:44:39
Speaker 2: That's where it comes from.
00:44:40
Speaker 7: Well, I tell you what, round and round we go, my friend.
00:44:44
Speaker 3: That's here you too, buddy, appreciate it. Thanks for being out there, Tony Alta, It's been so long.
00:44:50
Speaker 2: What's on your mind?
00:44:52
Speaker 13: Hi?
00:44:52
Speaker 15: How are you welcome back?
00:44:54
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I appreciate you having me back behind the mic.
00:44:59
Speaker 15: Yeah, we are happy to see you back. Well, I want to talk about this beautiful America and about what you know, when you heard about the survey that twenty two percent only love America, that's what it said.
00:45:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very correct.
00:45:15
Speaker 15: This is really stead. I mean, I don't believe the media anyway, because they're all propaganda and they don't even believe the things that they're doing. They're just doing it to get the money. And second, I believe we live in the best time of life of eirth on this history celebrating two hundred and fifty years for America. We are so fortunate. We America lifted the human conditions from you know, centuries ago. People here or don't appreciate because some of them has it easy, which is good. You know, they came poor, they become rich, that's fine. But many of them are even not American, and they don't care. They don't have loyalty to America. And it's very very sad that they don't appreciate because they never left the backs. You know, if they will go to Venezuela or Nicaragua or you know, Russia, China, maybe they will open their eyes and see, you know, how people leave and what condition they have, and maybe they will come back and appreciate. And you know, education, as we talk about it many times, you know, they don't teach the right things. And I think, you know the best things that we can do. I mean, I come from a country that I was not oppressive, so I don't like here. You know, when we have our independent Day, they show a movie of all the wars that we had and songs and people are proud and putting their flags and happiness even though as you know, we always under attack and under words, but we are okay. We cherish our freedom with the pain that we have. You know, like the Memorial Day, we all go to the cemetery. It doesn't matter if you have a soldier that passed away from your family or not. We all go as the kids. We put flowers. We comfort some people that don't have nobody to do, you know, things for them, and you become attached to your country, to your people because you do things. It's not always to get something from the country for you. You have to give two to your community, to your country, to your parents, to the people around. And I think people here become so complacant and so ratt and spoiled yea, that they don't appreciate.
00:47:46
Speaker 2: Too easily what they have. And you know, yeah, yeah, it's too easy.
00:47:49
Speaker 3: This is like oh yeah, I just I'll just order something up and it'll come to my house and that's that's what I'm going to do.
00:47:54
Speaker 2: But you have to put put it.
00:47:56
Speaker 3: You have to put your effort into the country free to make the country as strong as it can possibly be. Alana, I love talking to you. Thank you so much for being there today, and God bless you.
00:48:08
Speaker 2: My recital I think it's very vital. That's right on top.
00:48:18
Speaker 16: Round, that's right on top.
00:48:19
Speaker 3: It's tricky in it's tricky. Oh you know what this means, ladies and gentlemen, you know what this means. Oh, I'm so happy to have the coach mac doherty back. It's been far too long. We've been crossing like ships in the in the ocean. How you doing their coach?
00:48:37
Speaker 4: You know, Brett, it's been at least a month, I think, I know, and I'm starting to worry, like maybe you give me the heisman.
00:48:44
Speaker 1: You know, keeping me out. But Andrew, you got Andrew.
00:48:49
Speaker 4: On on the on the phone line now, so maybe I need to butter up to Andrew to make sure my calls go through.
00:48:56
Speaker 3: Oh, we're gonna make sure. We're gonna make sure of it. Okay, we're gonna get back on the regular as you like to say.
00:49:01
Speaker 1: Okay, that's right, that's right, that's right. It's great to be back with you. I hope you had a great vacation.
00:49:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was wonderful. It was it was wonderful, but a good time. Went to the outer Banks, had a great time, a lot of a.
00:49:11
Speaker 1: Lot of good the outer Banks.
00:49:13
Speaker 2: Oh, it's great. Absolutely fantastic.
00:49:16
Speaker 3: I want to I wanted to bring you on the show because I mean, there's nobody better that that I would love to get your reaction from, and that's you.
00:49:26
Speaker 2: With the winning of the Knicks, I mean, holy.
00:49:29
Speaker 3: Cow, coach, I mean you must you must have been on sky high, you know, heaven, heaven, man, that's that must have been?
00:49:37
Speaker 2: What it was? What tell me about it?
00:49:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been it's been a minute. You know, it's been a minute. Nineteen seventy three. They won it in sixty nine and seventy three. Matter of fact, I have a pitcher of Walt Frazier and I in before a hornet game a few years ago, and I was doing some scouting and I saw Clyde you know as we call him in New York, and I sat next to one. We talked and he had his two championship brings on and I had my championship bring on and so we took a picture. You know, those were they, you know, just think of you know, it's the largest city in the country, right and one of the larger cities, you know, in the world, and the impact that sports have on cities is immeasurable. And that's why people want That's why communities want sports teams. My daughter lives in New York. Her boyfriend doesn't really care about sports that much. They got into it, like they planned on watching the games, and my daughter sent me a couple of pictures. She was walking in the West Village and there were people sitting on the sidewalk because somebody from their building cast the game onto the side of a building.
00:50:58
Speaker 1: So they all.
00:50:59
Speaker 4: Sat down on the street corner. Like I'm talking about like a hundred people, like, you know, eating froyo and chilling out watching the game.
00:51:09
Speaker 1: You know it.
00:51:11
Speaker 4: It brought people together. Dare I say the left and the right, yes, both pulling for the Knicks.
00:51:20
Speaker 3: Talk a little bit about because you're a coach and you you understand the dynamics here. So like I was watching, I was very enamored of listening to Jay Wright and talking about how they built uh they built it at the at the college race and then and the pre and there you know, in the winning of the championship. How does that come to pass? Like is that like just magic in a bottle? How does that happen?
00:51:49
Speaker 2: Coach?
00:51:50
Speaker 3: Where you get these guys right on where it's supposed to be.
00:51:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, it's man. You know, first of all, people calling the Nova Knicks after Villanova because Jay writes, fingerprints are all over that championship, because of the three players that came from Villanova that started for the Knicks and led by Jalen Brunson.
00:52:20
Speaker 1: I talk about this all the time.
00:52:21
Speaker 4: You've heard me talk about this, all right, I now call it the championship triangle because I'm trademarking it.
00:52:30
Speaker 1: You have talent at the.
00:52:31
Speaker 4: Top, you have systems at the bottom, and culture in the other corner. And so the better your systems, the better your culture, the better talent you attract, the better it will perform. Okay, and so they have. You can have great systems of great talent, but if your cultures thinks nothing else matters, so culture trumps it. I say culture is king. And Jay had an unbelievable culture at Villanova, and he recruit it. Okay, you trained to it, you disciplined to it, and you fire to it. And I think what you saw, you know, in the NBA, as much as the leadership transitions a little bit, it's really a partnership between the coach and the best player. That's where it's ideal. And so when you have your best player Jalen Brunson has the character that he has, then you've got something special. And I remember Mike Brown compared Jalen to Steph Curry and Tim Duncan because he said that they're quiet leaders. You know, they don't pound their chest, they don't draw attention. They just show up every day and work their tailoff. And I remember being at a practice when Greg Popovich was coaching the Spurs and Tim Duncan was on the team, and he after practice thanked Tim Duncan allowing him to coach him Hart, allowing coach Popovitch to coach him Hart.
00:54:06
Speaker 1: Because if you can do.
00:54:07
Speaker 4: That to your best player, everything else falls in line. So what we used to say at Kansas when I was an assistant for Roy Williams character wins championships. Listen, I am surprised. Like I scouted Jalen Brunson, I thought he would be a second round pick. I think he was a late first round pick of the Mavericks. Iron ironically, he and Lucat Dontis were both recruited drafted by the Mavericks in the same draft, holy neither ones with the Mavericks, right, and both are stars of the respective organizations. However, don't don't let me digress. I didn't think Jalen was gonna be that good. He's six maybe six two, not athletics. He doesn't finish above the rim. He does not have elite speed or quickness. What he has is elite toughness, savvy and and character and and I think that's why they won the championship.
00:55:16
Speaker 2: Is he the glue guy?
00:55:17
Speaker 1: Is that?
00:55:18
Speaker 2: Is he the glue guy?
00:55:19
Speaker 1: Like? Who you know? Glue guy?
00:55:21
Speaker 4: Like that's a bad connotation.
00:55:24
Speaker 2: It is the n b A.
00:55:25
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't want to be called the glue guy, Like you don't want to be called a role player?
00:55:29
Speaker 1: Now they don't, they don't. I'm serious.
00:55:31
Speaker 4: I remember when I coached and I I one of my players.
00:55:37
Speaker 1: He was.
00:55:38
Speaker 4: It was noted in the noted in a in a paper you know, role player called him a role player headline, great article. He hated it because in the n b A or you know, high level players, when you call him a role player, you basically tell him they suck.
00:55:55
Speaker 13: So a glue guy.
00:55:56
Speaker 2: I take that back, like the glue guy now.
00:55:58
Speaker 4: Now, now I was a role player. Dick Vital had me like a role player of the decade. Yeah, Like I loved it because I need, I.
00:56:07
Speaker 6: Knew, I knew who I was, right, the blue guy.
00:56:11
Speaker 4: I was the glue guy Elmer's they called me Elmers.
00:56:15
Speaker 1: And and so.
00:56:16
Speaker 4: But I I took it as a compliment because I knew my role.
00:56:20
Speaker 1: I knew what I wasn't.
00:56:21
Speaker 4: Yes, and I think self awareness is important in anything, whether it's leadership or business or basketball. But no, no, he's not a glue guy. Like glue guy is a guy you think it was, not the great player, but he just kind of does the right thing on the court.
00:56:40
Speaker 1: You know. You might say Jason Hart's a glue guy.
00:56:42
Speaker 2: Oh there you go.
00:56:42
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, but Jalen Brunson is a star, all.
00:56:46
Speaker 2: Right, So he's a star.
00:56:47
Speaker 3: With that in mind, and you've you've given us so much great information. Talk a little bit about your coaching and what you're doing where people can reach out to Yeah.
00:56:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, executive coaching. Been doing that for seven years now. Yeah, as a vistage chair, and I do private coaching. Matter of fact, I'm branching off and starting a vertical in the dental space. I've been doing that for about six months because I see Dennis really have some unique needs. They went to dental school, not business school, and and and they are the economic driver. They're the product and the service. So when they're not driving revenue, they're not productive. And they enter the space with a lot of debt. And so it's hard to run a business from the chair, right, Like you're in a.
00:57:39
Speaker 1: Chair all day. Right.
00:57:41
Speaker 4: Imagine if you were trying to run the radio station while you're doing your show for eight hours. That's dentistry. So you got to manage sales, You got to manage front desk, you got to manage from like yeah, yeah, and a half million dollars in debt.
00:58:01
Speaker 2: Wow?
00:58:02
Speaker 4: Got a manage from like yeah yeah, yeah, and you've got a half million dollars in debt?
00:58:09
Speaker 2: Wow.
00:58:10
Speaker 3: All right, So where do people if they want, if folks want to reach out and uh and get with you, where where do they go?
00:58:16
Speaker 1: Yeah?
00:58:16
Speaker 4: Dartycoaching dot com. That's d h E r t Y Coaching dot com. Or email me at Matt at dartycoaching dot com.
00:58:24
Speaker 3: Hey, coach, it's been too long. It'll be much shorter in the in the future. Here and I appreciate you being here, my friend.
00:58:30
Speaker 1: Hey, go Nixt go Caine.
00:58:32
Speaker 2: Oh there you go about that sucking up to the other. All right, ladies and gentlemen.
00:58:41
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00:59:32
Speaker 2: Is it dinner time yet?
00:59:33
Speaker 11: Like?
00:59:34
Speaker 2: Is it as it technically dinner time yet?
00:59:37
Speaker 1: All right?
00:59:39
Speaker 2: I might do it. I came across this story and I don't know why. It just hit me, and I don't want anybody else to, you know, freak out.
00:59:51
Speaker 3: Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes cockroaches. Transferring genes across species doesn't just happen in microbes. What Last week we looked at a new study of the origin of complex cells, one that showed that our ancestors' genomes were pieced together from bits and pieces of multiple species. It put a spotlight on the phenomenon called horizontal gene transfer, in which a gene from one species is then incorporated into the genome of a distantly related species. The frequency of horizontal gene transfer means that, in addition to the neatly branching trees that relate species by common descent, there are small threads connecting distant branches of the tree of life.
01:01:16
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
01:01:20
Speaker 3: But I I this is this is terrible. I don't want to do anything with this, uh, with this story, with this cockroad story. Because if they're going out there and they're picking up all the genomes and then they're like mixing and matching right and doing their thing. What happens when in the middle of the night in your kitchen, it goes walking across a cake. Are we gonna have Are we gonna have a cake with the with the with the genomes what is this going to be? Are we gonna suddenly become something that we really should never become? Like U like the fly? Yes, that's where I was going, Nick like the fly.
01:02:07
Speaker 2: No, yeah, no, don't die. Hell gosh, no, that's just so bad. See.
01:02:13
Speaker 3: See, I am willing to buy in on space as long as I don't have to go to space. But cockroaches no, No, But you know what you have to think about this. This is this is serious. I mean, I imagine we have like a bunch of exterminators in the audience and they do their stuff, and we have incredible companies that that help us out so that.
01:02:39
Speaker 2: We you know, we we we want to keep it all like right on and perfect.
01:02:43
Speaker 3: But my goodness, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know about this, he says. I think I'm just gonna wrap myself in some uh saran wrap and when I go to bed at night, I'm just gonna lay in it, and that thing can go running over me as much as you want. But I ain't gonna get that. I'm not gonna get the genome of a cock aroach on me. And I don't know this is this, I just this is very upsetting to me. You know what we'll do. We will de upset coming up in the next segment of the program, because I've got much more sound, I got much more stories. And yes, yes, I will talk about Iran.
01:03:21
Speaker 2: I the Iran thing is.
01:03:25
Speaker 3: I just don't know what we're gonna see. But I've got thoughts and i will share them with you. Plus anything that you want to raise, Give.
01:03:35
Speaker 2: Me full, give me bogging me. That's at Aza. Welcome back.
01:03:46
Speaker 3: It's the Brent Whiterbal Show, our number three underway, and boy we got I got a story that just popped that.
01:03:55
Speaker 2: I can't even believe.
01:03:56
Speaker 3: I cannot even believe given all the track records, all the sort of stuff that's going on.
01:04:03
Speaker 2: This is something that is shocking to me. I'll tell you later. No, I'm gonna do it right now.
01:04:10
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna.
01:04:11
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna blow you guys up. I promise. Okay, here it is. This is the headline Fox News.
01:04:20
Speaker 3: Hillary Clinton breaks with Democratic critics by backing Trump's Gaza Plan as the only game in town.
01:04:34
Speaker 2: Clinton says.
01:04:36
Speaker 3: Plan provides pathway to Israeli security, gaza reconstruction, and self determination here's what she's saying. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered a surprised praise for President Trump's handling of the Israel Hamas war while appearing in a New York City meet up earlier this week. The unexpected show of support came as Clinton spoke with the New Yorkers David Remnick during a conversation in which.
01:05:19
Speaker 2: The no No, No, No, not that, which.
01:05:23
Speaker 3: In which the former Democratic presidential candidate touched on topics ranging from Israel and Iran's conflict to President Trump's President Biden's decision to run for reelection. Remnick then turned the questions on and she said what she said. She said that she thinks that Donald Trump has got the only game in town when it comes to trying to fix the issue with Gaza and the Palaestidians and Hamas and all this sort of stuff. So I'm telling you right now, I'm telling you, right now, mark this, Mark this with big marker, you know, big marker on the on the wall. I'm telling you right now, she's gonna run. She's gonna run for the presidency, and she's got a really good reason to do it. You want to know why everybody who's running is crazy on the Democrat side. I mean, my goodness, every everyone who's running on the left is just out of their mind. And I'll tell you what would probably end up happening. You would probably end up with this particular thing. You would probably have it going to Hillary Clinton versus.
01:06:51
Speaker 2: AOC.
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Speaker 3: And if oh, yes, that's no, I'm not saying they're gonna team up. I'm saying she's gonna squash. She's gonna say no, way, no, how forget about it. That's absolutely what. Oh this see, now we're gonna get I said earlier in the in the program that wait till you get to the other side of the midterms, and then everybody's gonna go running. She's got the ability to raise money, she's got a whole bunch of stuff. And remember in the Democratic Party, nobody really cares about the Epstein thing with this with her, this is this is something that I think is.
01:07:39
Speaker 2: Interesting. She said in the comment.
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Speaker 3: I really believe if we took a twenty point plan, which starts with the disarmament of hamas a huge important step to be accomplished, but took all of the twenty points so that it wasn't to disarm, so that it was to disarm Hamas and maybe do some reconstruction and build some hotels resorts on the coast. Clinton said she lifted directly from the President. He was talking about, We're gonna build a great facility here.
01:08:22
Speaker 2: This is gonna be awesome.
01:08:23
Speaker 3: Gaza's gonna be like the next you know, tropical place where people are gonna want to go.
01:08:30
Speaker 2: But first you gotta build it. First, you gotta build it.
01:08:36
Speaker 3: Tying into this, obviously, the President of the United States came out today, talked about the fine print, talked about the issues that were connected to the three hundred billion dollar development framework buried in the new Iran memorandum. And I'm gonna tell you what I think is gonna happen here. I think nothing is going to happen. I think this is just going to be kind of like it's going to be its own sort of thing by itself, not Hamas, not Gaza. I'm talking now about Iron And what I think is going to happen is this piece of paper that they signed and the MOUs and all that kind of stuff. That's just to say, listen, we're talking to each other. If we need to have a conversation. We'll have a conversation, but you know what, we want to get the heck out of here. We want to have low oil prices, we want to have all this stuff. I've got an election coming up here before you know it, and I need to be in the clear.
01:09:36
Speaker 2: And I think that is what's going to happen.
01:09:38
Speaker 3: I think the entirety of this matter, with the eighteen points or the fourteen points or whatever that was, I don't think that that's in any way, shape or form anything that's going to come to pass. And I'll tell you later on in this hour why. I think we're going to see another actor come in there with the the Iranians. And it's a country that most people don't think about in any way or form.
01:10:08
Speaker 2: So I do think this is what's going to happen.
01:10:12
Speaker 3: Hillary Clinton also delivered a rare endorsement of Trump's approach to the entire Middle East.
01:10:19
Speaker 2: By the way, you know what that means.
01:10:23
Speaker 3: That means that she and Bill want to get back in the business of building operations and things like that. This is this is this is a very interesting time. It's almost like you would say the adults are trying to get back in charge. You know, you think about the people who are running right now, get get the wackos out of the picture. Right But Rama Manuel, he's running, Rama Manuel is running. Hill think I'm convinced that Hillary Clinton is going to run for the presidency and I don't think. I don't think she's going to get the nomination. But who knows why because she's not radical enough. She's not like over there, we have to lock these people up. I mean, she's she's not going to go play that game. She's gonna try to get the scuttle, get that money.
01:11:18
Speaker 2: You're gonna get that money and see how it.
01:11:27
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01:12:18
Speaker 2: Oh boy, we got bad news.
01:12:21
Speaker 3: Subcontractors on the Obama Presidential Center are owed millions of dollars in back pay. Subcontractors say they're owed millions face financial ruin after helping build the Obama Presidential Center. Adamson Plumbing owner Mike Owen says that his company is owed nearly four million dollars on the project. The Obama Presidential Center was billed as a lasting legacy to former President Barack Obama, and its construction was touted as an ambitious model built with the aggressive goals for my minority owned and local businesses.
01:13:27
Speaker 2: But what's happening now?
01:13:31
Speaker 3: But now some of the very subcontractors hope who helped to build the nineteen point three acre campus on Chicago's South Side say that they are facing financial ruin as they race to recover millions of dollars that they claim remain unpaid a head of the center's opening the grand opening on Friday. Overall construction costs were reported to be eight hundred and thirty million dollars in twenty twenty one and have climbed past the one billion mark. This, ladies and gentlemen, this, this is this is something I thought like, how do you if you're going to build a big building, how do you fund it? Is it all on spec? I can't believe that it would be on spec? And I can't believe that he doesn't have enough of that money in the administration there where that he could he could he could pay these people. A Fox News Digital investigation identified people multiple people in construction firms claiming losses ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to tens of millions of dollars. The allegations cut against one of the centers defining goals helping minority owned businesses and local contractors growing through one of Chicago's highest profile construction projects. Several of the complaints were viewed by Fox Digital come from firms that were supposed to benefit from that very thing. Among them is Adamson Plumbing, whose owner Mike Owen says he is nearly four million dollars in the red after years of work on the project. This guy is just a regular guy who's got a company and they're not paying him.
01:16:10
Speaker 2: He's not getting paid.
01:16:12
Speaker 3: He says, that's a hole that no subcontractor small business can survive.
01:16:20
Speaker 2: This is a man.
01:16:21
Speaker 3: This is an African American man who took this job so that he would be able to finish this subcontractor owners interviewed by Fox News Digital described what the character what they characterized as chaotic work environments marked by repeated design changes, rework scheduling disruptions, and extensive oversight and years long compensation disputes.
01:16:59
Speaker 2: So they're fighting over the money, is what is going on here?
01:17:06
Speaker 1: I mean.
01:17:07
Speaker 3: I thought you had to like put a percentage down to build the building and then get it finished, right.
01:17:15
Speaker 2: I mean I don't want to. I don't want to be a pain in the neck.
01:17:22
Speaker 3: But maybe maybe President Obama should call up Donald Trump and say, hey, how do we get this thing finished? I mean the president the Yeah, President Trump. I mean he's he's got the expertise. But why aren't they paying the people. Allegations emerged days after a Fox News Digital investigation reported that the Obama Foundation's Reserve Fund, originally promoted as four hundred and seventy million dollars in financial safeguards to help protect taxpayers if the project encountered financial trouble, remains in roughly one million dollars. Standing outside of the of the Center on a gloomy Friday afternoon, Owen flipped through his spreadsheets and his financial records that he said documented millions of dollars in losses tied to the project. So that's why, obviously, that's why he went to Fox. Went to Fox to say, hey, look, we're not getting paid. I'm not getting paid. My guys are not getting paid. Owen said that the project stretched on for years longer than anticipated, forcing the company to absorb millions of dollars in labor, overhead costs, and work demands changed and expanded. He said that the losses have drained the company's reserves.
01:19:13
Speaker 2: I mean, this is just a guy.
01:19:15
Speaker 3: Why aren't I mean, I don't, he said, I have had eight hours. I haven't had eight hours or six hours in over a year, he said, because he's worried about.
01:19:28
Speaker 2: All of this.
01:19:29
Speaker 3: So who's supposed to pay for this? The Obama Foundation, Obama's private nonprofit organization that oversees the construction, told Fox News Digital that it paid Lakeside Alliance as the project's construction manager, and the Lakeside was responsible for hiring and managing and paying subcontractors working on the center.
01:19:59
Speaker 2: Wow, but today if you can't, it doesn't matter. Yeah, that's right.
01:20:16
Speaker 3: You want it all, but you can't have it. That's okay, that's okay. A lot of a lot of people are still trying to do that.
01:20:21
Speaker 2: It's good. Let's welcome to the program. Jim, Jim, what's on your mind today?
01:20:26
Speaker 4: Sir?
01:20:27
Speaker 14: Yes, sir, thank you for having me on once again. Yes, I was going to wait till Friday to answer the question.
01:20:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, you are you are going to answer it on Friday. Yeah, you're gonn answer it on Friday. Yes, people, people, I want to be I want to be clear so everybody understands I say. I posited on Monday, I said, what is the most important invention that was created in the United States? Because of the you know, because of what we're doing right. This is the two hundred and fiftieth. So on the middle part of the show, which will be the second hour, I want to hear your answers for that. But what do you want to talk about as it relates to jd Vance.
01:21:13
Speaker 14: Yes, this appearance on the View was absolutely exempilary. This man has the key he holds in his heart. In his soul, his spiritual constitution has the key, the ability to bring us all together. You could see it in every way, shape and form of how he was handled in the most diplomatic terms and pros he could muster with some of the most virulent haters of the president, and you can see that this is the next phase, this is the the next place we must go. We have pretty much for the most part the volume of the kinetic contest with the other side of the Aisle okay, which would include any the theocracy which has been pummeled into the submission.
01:22:16
Speaker 4: That is over.
01:22:17
Speaker 14: Now what we need, what you need now is you need to have the salesman come in and sell people the idea of what your property is going to look like in the future. And that is what he is doing. He Donald is a developer and he's done the most important part of the project. He's done the demolition, and now the people have to believe in what's going to be there. And that's what we have. Now we have the man who is going to sell us the concept of what our future is going to be, what it's going to look at look like, how it's going to be better for our children, how they're.
01:22:59
Speaker 9: Going to live and in uh yeah, habit and you know, and yeah habitat No.
01:23:09
Speaker 3: No, I get it. I get it all right. I think that's interesting, good stuff, Jim. And we'll have to uh, we'll hold that in abeyance and then call back in on Friday.
01:23:18
Speaker 2: Okay. So it's good to talk to you. Here's the thing we get.
01:23:23
Speaker 3: These people are sending us messages, and some of these messages are very very interesting to me. I want to share them with you, Okay, I want to share them. This is a person nine. Why didn't they file a lean before it was closed on? I don't know, you know, with the with the business, you know, all the business stuff that's going on there.
01:23:45
Speaker 2: I don't know why they didn't do it. What else do we have over here?
01:23:50
Speaker 3: We got Kenton says, hey, I went there just because of your advertisement. What okay, So you went there just for the advertisement. I'm perfectly healthy. Oh this is this is a craft body scan. Okay, okay, Kenton, Okay, I'm gonna read this. Hey, I went there just because of your advertisement. I'm perfectly healthy, I thought. And they found a decent size calcium deposit in my heart. So the doctor says that this is the greatest thing that I could have happened early prevention. So I've already got a cardio cardiologist appointment next month.
01:24:34
Speaker 2: God bless you.
01:24:35
Speaker 3: I'm so happy Kenton that you did that. This is I've been scanned, my wife's been scanned. I know a bunch of people who have gone for the scans and it's it's really incredible technology. It's not it's not like what it used to be. It's it's really something that's a hugely important thing. So God bless you, and keep keep up, keep up the good work, and let it let's know how everything turns out for you, Kenton. Okay, that was fantastic, Brett. This is from James Brett. I hate to say, but typically minority owned businesses are not a good fit for this type of the project. I can only imagine the GC and construction manager being capable of a.
01:25:23
Speaker 2: Project that size.
01:25:26
Speaker 3: There are very few general contractors in the US that could build a project that size. I wonder who bonded the project. Also, where did it go from four hundred million to over a billion? That sounds fishy to me. By the way, I'm a commercial GC and we do larger projects, but nothing of that magnitude. Well, here's the thing. First of all, you have a very big reservoir of people working. They're in the in Chicago, and I don't know how this all, this all comes apart. I don't know how this all goes because this this is a real problem, and these are people who are really gonna gonna suffer. Obama should President Obama should go down and talk to these guys and say, listen, I'm gonna make you a whole.
01:26:19
Speaker 2: But I don't know what do I know?
01:26:21
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe this is a kind of a runaway project that never really got to where it was supposed to be.
01:26:35
Speaker 1: He's got love.
01:26:41
Speaker 3: Time.
01:26:43
Speaker 2: I'm playing a song for you.
01:26:44
Speaker 3: I'm playing a little reflex because I think somebody's got some reflex going on. Uh, breaking Brett Jensen, I'm pulling him in here.
01:26:53
Speaker 2: What's going on? Breaking bread Jensen? Tell us, tell.
01:26:56
Speaker 1: Us just a little bit of a busy day.
01:26:58
Speaker 16: Final five finalists four the new interim mayor were released today. So we've got that out of like one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty people.
01:27:06
Speaker 2: Wow, So we've got that.
01:27:07
Speaker 16: We've got the Mecklenburg County thinking about suing the General Assembly up in Raleigh, because the General Assembly says, no, you're going to have to pay back the NCDOT for going back on your vote to expand I seventy seven. We've spent seventy million dollars, So now you owe the state seventy million dollars.
01:27:24
Speaker 3: Wow.
01:27:25
Speaker 16: So there's that, which, by the way, means just real quick and I'll get into this later tonight. But also what just to clarify, it's not like say, Mecklenburg County or the city shop can say, hey, those funds that you're going to give us, just keep them right right, No, no, no, no, you have to write a check out of the general fund of your callers to the North Counta Department of Transportation.
01:27:47
Speaker 2: He was losing. That's right, Oh my, exactly right on top of that, yes, sir.
01:27:52
Speaker 16: But then there's those little bit of news that's been going on today.
01:27:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just curious, what's what's happening, what's happening here?
01:27:58
Speaker 16: So well, I just got to just as I'm literally talking, you.
01:28:01
Speaker 3: Don't know, you don't have to, you don't have to, you know, give it to us here, but give.
01:28:05
Speaker 16: Somebody so uh so I broke news not even five minutes ago. If I were my own agent, or I guess I am on my own agent. I need an agent right now to really build me up because I have just destroyed the city of Charlotte today with all the media. But like everyone's giving me credit in citing like oh, according to WBT, so, we were the first ones to break that Crystal Hill has been she's not in charge of things anymore, right, And uh, we didn't know if there was retirement. We didn't know if it was resignation. There's speculation that there was a forced retirement, you know, forced resignation, quitterby fire type thing. You know, we had heard about for a while now about a possible investigation into the finance department, the HR department for let's just say irregularities. And then, no, you don't have to say allegedly anymore, Bright Winnable, you don't have to say allegedly anymore. I'm the one reporter. You don't have to worry about it. You don't have to cover yourself. We're good. There is no alley like so I got it. So but yees, so I broke in the parking lot that uh, not even five ten minutes ago that CMS administrators were just told that doctor Crystal Hill has been put on paid administrative leave. And I want to make sure I read this properly, and it's because we'll.
01:29:32
Speaker 1: Make sure that's right.
01:29:33
Speaker 2: That's okay.
01:29:34
Speaker 16: WBT has learned I just put this out eleven minutes ago. WBT has learned that CMS administrators were just told that Superintendent doctor Crystal Hill has been placed on administrative leave with pay pending an investigation into administrative and operational oversight. Okay, Deputy superintendent, which is one of her best friends, Melissa Bogknight, will assume the duties. So and then I just got tech did actual letter. Yeah, as people listen to me, yep, you go to my Twitter account or excuse me, I want to make sure I give elon credit my ex account.
01:30:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, And Brent underscored.
01:30:13
Speaker 16: Jensen because you're getting ready to read the letter in about thirty seconds.
01:30:16
Speaker 2: That's it. He's putting it up there. And so.
01:30:21
Speaker 3: What's the next shoot offull Brett Jensen, Well.
01:30:25
Speaker 16: They're gonna have to do this investigations into her and she turns fifty in on January, Crystal Hill and at which time because she will have spent enough time in the system and with your crew, the PTO days and six days and all that that she will have reached thirty years of service come January, which means if she retired at the age of fifty, then she would be able to get she would have roughly between one hundred and fifty one hundred and sixty thousand dollars per year for the rest of her life her life. Yeah, like to sit on the beach and drink pina clock.
01:31:00
Speaker 2: There you go.
01:31:01
Speaker 3: Uh you, this is mandatory listening with breaking Bretjnsen. Stick around. He's gonna give you all the stuff you need to know. Thanks so much man for jumping in here.
01:31:10
Speaker 1: We really