1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,319 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 2: We pick off where we left off, we pick up, 4 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 2: we pick up where we left off yesterday. And that 5 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 2: is the desperate attempt by the Democrats to claw back 6 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 2: from the hole they've dug themselves in. You see, they 7 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 2: had to have Joe Biden because the people who actually 8 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 2: run the country, he's manageable. They've broken him and he's 9 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 2: just happy to be president and let them govern. But 10 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 2: it was getting so bad that through the summer it 11 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 2: looked like he might die before November, or fall out, collapse, 12 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 2: fall asleep. It was looking bad. On his hundredth birthday, 13 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 2: Jimmy Carter was wheeled out in his hospital bed that 14 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 2: he lives in and he was wheeled out. 15 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: They did a flyover. 16 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 2: For President Carter on his hundredth birthday, and it was 17 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 2: like a corpse. You just laid there, his mouth a gog, 18 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 2: a gape, his eyes don't move. He's translucent and he's 19 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 2: just feather light and you don't actually know if he 20 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 2: is alive or not. It's kind of a weekend at 21 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 2: Bernie's Deal and you can't recognize that that was ever 22 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 2: Jimmy Carter. 23 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: I don't just so y'all know, I don't want to 24 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: live that long. I don't want to live that point. 25 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 2: That's a corpse with the pulse, and that's terrible. And 26 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 2: I saw that on the screen and I thought, man, 27 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 2: Biden's even worse than the last time I saw him. 28 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 1: But it turned out it wasn't Biden. It was Jimmy Carter. 29 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 2: So then they got to get him out and Biden, 30 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 2: bless his heart. 31 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: This is like a movie character, you know, it's kind. 32 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 2: Of a forty eight Hours, the old Eddie Murphy what's 33 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:33,639 Speaker 2: the guy's name. 34 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,119 Speaker 1: That was in there with him? 35 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 2: No, okay, trading places. He's in the position now and 36 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 2: so he's kind of enjoying it, and Jill's really enjoying it. 37 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 2: So then they go with then they go with Kamala. Well, 38 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 2: that was a mistake. That was a real mistake. Your 39 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 2: favorite baseball team ever drafted the guy or traded for 40 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 2: a guy. 41 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: And they get to. 42 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,239 Speaker 2: Town and you realize, oh my goodness, we had this guy, 43 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,399 Speaker 2: I bray you, who I'm told is a nice guy. 44 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 2: The Astros brought him in and spent a bunch of 45 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 2: money on him, and it was an absolute bust. Or 46 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 2: for that matter, Deshaun Watson, and he was a bust 47 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 2: on a whole different level. 48 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: He may go to prison for it. 49 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 2: But so here you got Kamala Harris and she's in 50 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 2: trouble and Tim Watz was supposed to help. But I 51 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 2: think he's worse than she is. I really do. So 52 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 2: they're trying to get her on TV shows and get 53 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 2: some interviews, and she is more unlikable than even Hillary Clinton, 54 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 2: and that's a fact. So they put her on the 55 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 2: Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Well, this is going to 56 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 2: be it. He so desperately wants to impress the Democrats 57 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 2: what a good little. 58 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: Minion he is. 59 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 2: And she rolled out a new accent, She rolled out 60 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 2: a new give this a listen. 61 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 3: Have you know empathy, man? You know for the suffering 62 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 3: of other people? Have you no sense of purpose? 63 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 4: Is that. 64 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: A tinge of Jamaican? Or what is it again, Ramond? 65 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: Have you no empathy? 66 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 4: Man? You know. 67 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 3: The suffering of other people? Have you no sense of purpose? 68 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 2: Oddly enough, the things she says are exactly the thing 69 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 2: you think about her. She said that, she said over 70 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 2: the weekend, I'm not a pathological liar, like Trump. Odd 71 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,799 Speaker 2: you would say that who announces they're not a pathological 72 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 2: liar except a pathological liar. That's what's so damn creepy 73 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 2: about this woman. You think about all the accents, and 74 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 2: it's in keeping. It's in keeping with everything about her. 75 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 2: Everything is fake. She's just trying it on. Tomorrow's all 76 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 2: prominal SiO, I'm from o liar, and the next day 77 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 2: it's a valley girl. There's no there there. That's just it. 78 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 2: There's no there there. She's just trying to be something 79 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 2: so that she can be elected whatever it is you 80 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 2: need her to be. Here's a little montage to take 81 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,799 Speaker 2: us to the break of the phony accents she's tried 82 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 2: out over just the last few years. 83 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 1: Shank a union number for sick leave. 84 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 5: You better thank a union member for paid leave. You 85 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 5: better thank a union member for vacation time. Let us 86 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 5: get to the next sixty four days. 87 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: And you all helped us win. 88 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 5: In twenty twenty, and we're gonna do it again in 89 00:05:53,680 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 5: twenty twenty four, Yes we will. You know, the one 90 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 5: thing about all of us is we like hard work. 91 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: Hard work is good work. Hard work is good work. 92 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: The thing that we like about. 93 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 6: Hard work is we have fun doing hard work. 94 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 5: Can I get a warness? 95 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: All my life? I had to fight? It ain't over. 96 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 2: With us. 97 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 5: In government, we campaign with the plan uppercase t uppercase 98 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,479 Speaker 5: p D plan, and then the environment is such that 99 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,799 Speaker 5: we're expected to defend the plan, even when the first 100 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:49,799 Speaker 5: time we roll it out there may be some glitches 101 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 5: and it's time to reevaluate and then do it again. 102 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 6: It's just reasonable. 103 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 5: I support the Second Amendment, but it is reasonable to 104 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 5: say we need an assault weapons ban. It's reasonable to 105 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 5: say we need you versa background Jackson. 106 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 1: Yeah, we need red flag laws. 107 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 5: And I will tell you when we get this done together, 108 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 5: my friend, and when I am president, I. 109 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 6: Will take on the bad actors. 110 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 3: Who exploit a crisis. 111 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 4: Is at sake? 112 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 5: Leading up to January fifth, look at what's happening right 113 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 5: now in this state. We're looking across the country at 114 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 5: so much devastation, people who have lost family members, lost 115 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 5: time being able to go to work, lost time in 116 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 5: terms of our children's education, in the days of their 117 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 5: education they have missed. There's been so much loss these years, 118 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 5: and in particular this year, we're looking here in George 119 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 5: at the fact that one in seven families is describing. 120 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: Their household is being hungry. 121 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 5: We're in the midst of a hunger crisis in America 122 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 5: and it's hitting George hard. One in seven describing hunger 123 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 5: in their households. One in six Georgian families are describing 124 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 5: an aditability or difficulty to pay rent. One in four 125 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 5: small businesses in Georgia. 126 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 4: To be able to afford a nice meal with Michael 127 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 4: Berry that's gotten harder because of Kamala Harris's policies. 128 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: I become friends with school shooters. 129 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 7: When you stop and think about how horrendously awful that 130 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 7: sounds to the parents of children murdered by school shooters, 131 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 7: you know, it's one thing. If you forgive the person 132 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 7: who takes your loved one's life, that is yours to 133 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 7: withhold or give that forgiveness. But for someone else to 134 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 7: forgive when they're not suffering. If we don't stand up 135 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 7: to this sort of nonsense. When the Boston massacre occurred, 136 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 7: I'm not going to say their name. I'm not going 137 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:25,319 Speaker 7: to honor them by saying their name. 138 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,959 Speaker 2: The two brothers who were involved, the two Muslims who 139 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,959 Speaker 2: had come here from I think Chechnya that. 140 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: Planned that all out. They maimed people. 141 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 2: We had that beautiful woman on, Rebecca Gregory, what was 142 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 2: her name, Rebecca? 143 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: She'd written a book. She ended up having. 144 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 2: Dozens and dozens of surgeries and finally she just decided 145 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,839 Speaker 2: to take the leg off. It really really affected her life, 146 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 2: but she's so positive. 147 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: She went on. People's lives were ruined and lost. It 148 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: was horrible. 149 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 2: Stone put them on the cover of the Rolling Stone 150 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 2: to quote doctor hook a great honor. And the picture 151 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 2: was taken I think it was Annie Leebwood's. It was 152 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 2: taken as if you know this was some sex symbol. 153 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 2: This guy massacred people and then killed the cops. 154 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: This monster. 155 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 2: There's there's a perversion on the left of making awful 156 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 2: people into misunderstood artists and wonderful people, and the rest 157 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 2: of us who feel authentic emotions are made out to 158 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 2: be awful. 159 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 1: Well, f you if it happens to you, how would 160 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: you feel? That's what I want to tell these people. 161 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 2: That's what I want to tell these people on behalf 162 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 2: of the families who suffer in silence. Somebody pisses me off, 163 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 2: I can go on the air the next day and 164 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 2: rip them to open My son had a coach named 165 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 2: David Crook. He's an absolute monster of a human being. 166 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 2: He coached little League so that he could get his 167 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 2: kid every bit of time on the field and try 168 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 2: to get him a college scholarship to the school he 169 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 2: wanted to go to. And it's legend the kinds of 170 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 2: things he did, screaming at other kids. He screwed my 171 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:30,839 Speaker 2: kid over, and I've got receipts. It's a pretty nasty story. 172 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 2: But I decided that I would make him regret that 173 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 2: for the rest of his life, and maybe, just maybe 174 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:40,679 Speaker 2: he won't screw anyone else over as a result of it. 175 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 2: I have a platform. I am vindictive, I am outspoken. 176 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 2: I like conflict. Conflict resolve things. It's resolves things. It's 177 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 2: the crucible. But so many of these families that suffer 178 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 2: from what the Tim Waltz is and the Kamala Harris 179 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 2: is all do, so many of them are just quiet, 180 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:13,439 Speaker 2: often Christian folks, Catholic Hispanics like Joscelyn Nunger's parents or 181 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 2: mother when she was raped and. 182 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,439 Speaker 1: Murdered, tortured and murdered here in Houston. 183 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 2: These aren't people who like me, can get in front 184 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 2: of a camera, and tell their story. They just suffer 185 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 2: and it makes me crazy. So when I hear Tim 186 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 2: Wallace say that, it makes me crazy. 187 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: So I've become friends with school shooters. That's a non starter. 188 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 2: He cannot be allowed to win this election now because 189 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 2: of that. But you think of all the things, Think 190 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 2: about our servicemen who were killed in Afghanistan because of 191 00:12:53,360 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 2: Biden's botched withdrawal, Think about the inflation, think about all 192 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 2: the horrible things that have happened on the Biden Harris 193 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 2: watch because of their policies. So yesterday on The View, 194 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 2: Kamala Harris is asked, would you do anything different? 195 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 8: If anything, would you have done something differently than President 196 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 8: Biden during the past four years. 197 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 6: There is not a thing that comes to mind in 198 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 6: terms of and I've been a part of most of 199 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,439 Speaker 6: the decisions that have had impact. 200 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: See, this is the delicate balance. 201 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 2: Does she say Biden's awful, elect me, I'll change everything, 202 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 2: or does she say I've really been running the country 203 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 2: for four years. 204 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,079 Speaker 1: I'm ready, Because you can't have both. 205 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 2: Molly Ball is a senior political correspondent for The Wall 206 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 2: Street Journal. She was on CNN and she was asked 207 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 2: about that answer during the day yesterday on the view 208 00:13:58,280 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 2: and this is what she said. 209 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:04,199 Speaker 8: Done something differently than President Biden during the past four years. 210 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 6: There is done a thing that comes to mind. Now, 211 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 6: what do you make of that? 212 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 9: I'm surprised, frankly, that she doesn't have more to say 213 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 9: about this, given that she and her campaign know that 214 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 9: this is one of the main questions that voters have 215 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 9: about her, and one of the main things she's been 216 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 9: trying to establish as part of her candidacy is the 217 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 9: idea that she would represent a break from the past 218 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 9: four years and to not be able to come up 219 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 9: with something to say in that moment. She continues to 220 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 9: not be particularly nimble on her feet in a lot 221 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 9: of these interviews, and this is a very obvious question 222 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 9: that gave her an opportunity, frankly, to differentiate herself in 223 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 9: a way that would have made news, that would have 224 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 9: answered I think the curiosity of a lot of voters 225 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 9: who want to know how she would lead differently, and 226 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 9: she's not very specific in laying that out, and she 227 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 9: can't point to a decision she would have made differently, 228 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 9: which you know in an electorate that thinks that that 229 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 9: doesn't like the way this administration has led and that 230 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 9: doesn't like the track that the country is on. That 231 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 9: may not be a very satisfactory answer. 232 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 6: I mean it's a delicate damp. 233 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 2: I mean, this isn't such a big thing to say normally, 234 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 2: but to have the media have CNN pointing out, hey lady, 235 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 2: if you say there are no regrets, that's a non starter. 236 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 8: Governor, you previously opposed an assault weapons ban, but it 237 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 8: only later in your political career did you change your position. 238 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 4: Wise, Michael Barry had become friends with school shooters. 239 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: I really saw in Pa. 240 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 2: I saw the Cajun Navy, my kuon as friends come 241 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 2: in to save us, and then we help them after that. 242 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 2: These moments inspire me and we shouldn't let this moment pass. 243 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 2: For all the sadness we see in North Carolina and 244 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 2: now with what's going on in Florida, we should take 245 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 2: a moment when we see real heroism. This is why 246 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 2: you build monuments, because then people want to do the 247 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 2: things that person did that the monument is built for. 248 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 2: I'd like to build a monument right here, right now 249 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 2: to w w n C in Asheville, North Carolina. We 250 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 2: have Mark Starling, who is the Grand puba of all 251 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 2: programming there. There's a wonderful story in the Citizen Times. 252 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 2: I've posted it to Facebook and to our page about 253 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 2: these guys. They they got shut in at the station. 254 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 2: They didn't complain. They said, we got a job to do. 255 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 2: We gotta we got to help the people. We got 256 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 2: to connect the people, we got to comfort the people. 257 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: And they did it. 258 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 2: Mark Starling, do you have a sounder you can use 259 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 2: for Mark Starley, a propers Hold on, Mark, We've got it. 260 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: We've got to do this properly. 261 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 2: Maybe a walk up song, something to pay tribute to 262 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 2: this man and his team and what they've done. It 263 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 2: really is incredible. We're working on your walk up. So 264 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 2: we didn't think about this ahead of time. You got 265 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 2: it all right? Here we go bring that down. This 266 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 2: is This is the article in the Citizen Times in Ashville, 267 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 2: North Carolina, where they broadcast trapped in the station by 268 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 2: falling trees, offline, no power, no water, negligible cell phone reception. 269 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 2: A team of local broadcasters stayed on air as Tropical Storm. 270 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: Helene brought flooding. 271 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 2: And devastation to western North Carolina. 272 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: A week and a half later, they're still there. 273 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 2: Fielding NonStop phone calls from community members and trying to 274 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 2: connect those with needs to those with the skills and 275 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 2: resources to fill them. It began September twenty seventh, as 276 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 2: news director and morning show host Mark Starling rode out 277 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:39,640 Speaker 2: tropical Storm Halane in iHeartRadio's West Asheville studio miles away. 278 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 2: His wife, Brandy, was braced in an suv with their 279 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:47,120 Speaker 2: son and four dogs at the Sidingo station in Black Mountain, 280 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 2: watching waves come over the top of the I forty 281 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 2: five overpass. She'd been trying to get to the studio. Man, 282 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I get choked up because my wife and kids. 283 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 2: I was giving a speech in Baton Rouge when Harvey 284 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 2: hit and I couldn't get back into town and they 285 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 2: had to walk through the water chest high and dangerous. 286 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,360 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Mark Starling. 287 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,399 Speaker 2: I thought that if I made enough jokes at the beginning, 288 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 2: I'd keep from crying. 289 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,360 Speaker 1: Brother, I'm not even kidding. You are a badass. 290 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,440 Speaker 2: You guys on behalf of all the people of Asheville, 291 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 2: North Carolina. Thank you for what you guys have done. 292 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 2: This really is amazing, This really is amazing. I had 293 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,199 Speaker 2: radio people from across the country reaching out to me 294 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 2: with this story is have you seen these guys and 295 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 2: see what they did? I mean, not every hero wears capes. 296 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 2: I hope you will. 297 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: I'm going to send you this audio. 298 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 2: I want you to share this conversation with everybody at 299 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 2: your station and tell them that this is truly inspirational. 300 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 4: I really appreciate you seeing that. Mike. It's it's peter 301 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:54,400 Speaker 4: hell of a time. But you know, Western North Carolina 302 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 4: is one of the most determined places I have ever lived. 303 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:03,439 Speaker 4: These people here in the mountains are amazing, and as 304 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 4: much as I wish I could say that it was 305 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:11,439 Speaker 4: it was me. I have a team that is the 306 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 4: most top notch radio professionals I have ever been blessed 307 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,120 Speaker 4: to work with. And they're all music people. They're all 308 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 4: music radio people, and they stepped into a role that 309 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 4: was one of the most difficult, heart wrenching stories to 310 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 4: cover and they did it like total pros. They are 311 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 4: simply amazing. It's you know, fourteen days living in a 312 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 4: conference room has taught me an awful lot. I'll be 313 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 4: honest with you. Number One, make sure that you have 314 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,400 Speaker 4: more to eat than just chili. If a hurricane is coming. 315 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 4: In radio, stations before you lock. The two guys in 316 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 4: the station with nothing to eat but chili, that seemed 317 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 4: like a cool, cruel trick from God. But you know, 318 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 4: we moved a hunt and we conquered that one. You know, 319 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 4: the way this took place was just really amazing. You know, 320 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 4: we had no water, no power, no cell phone, no internet, 321 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 4: and a buddy of mine had heard he was listening 322 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 4: when we actually we were on the air when when 323 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 4: the internet went out. It was I can tell you 324 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 4: it was two thirty nine and thirty six seconds when 325 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 4: the internet went out, and he heard me say that 326 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,440 Speaker 4: over the air, and he immediately jumped into action. He 327 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 4: grabbed his hand rate handheld Ham radio. He got it 328 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 4: to the radio station. Somehow or another handed me that 329 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 4: hand radio and said, Mark, the Ham Radio Operators Network 330 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 4: is up and running. They're waiting for you. They're at 331 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 4: your disposal. They've got everything you need. And so from 332 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 4: that point on, my producer, Tank Spencer, who is yeah, 333 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:43,959 Speaker 4: Window Tank, He's amazing. He's absolutely amazing. He is one 334 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:46,919 Speaker 4: of the most incredible people I have ever met and 335 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 4: been blessed to work with. We sat and we listened 336 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,439 Speaker 4: to the Ham radio. We drotted down the information that 337 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 4: we were getting. We would we were in regular programming, 338 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 4: that we would not regular programming off and we would 339 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 4: go back and do two or three hours of just 340 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,160 Speaker 4: the information that we had gotten, live rescues that were happening. 341 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 4: You know, where was you know, where did you need 342 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 4: to stay away from? Where was the who was at 343 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,119 Speaker 4: next risk for being wiped out by a flood? That 344 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 4: type of thing. Once that, once we got through that, 345 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 4: we spent about twelve to fourteen hours that way kind 346 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 4: of getting information out to the people. That was until 347 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 4: our fantastic engineering team at the iHeartRadio Emergency Engineering Crew 348 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 4: out of Atlanta, we saw them appear like apparitions in 349 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 4: the hallway with a Starlink satellite dish strapped to their back, 350 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 4: and I knew we were going to be okay. They 351 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 4: had us back on the air line no time, Amen, 352 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 4: brother Amen, Like we were on the air the whole time. 353 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 4: The only thing, the only medium that people could rely 354 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 4: on in this storm was AM and FM radio. And 355 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,679 Speaker 4: if there was ever a story that could light a 356 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 4: fire under the butts of Congress and get them to 357 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 4: sign this AM bill, AM radio and cars, this should 358 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 4: be the story right here. It was. Once we were 359 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 4: back online, everything took a turn, Michael. Everything changed because 360 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 4: we had made it through the storm and now it 361 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 4: was time to survive. And that's exactly what we helped 362 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,399 Speaker 4: our listeners do not necessarily survival life and death, surviving 363 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 4: by sanity. We gave people a place to call in 364 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 4: and tell us they were scared, to tell us that 365 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 4: they had lost everything, to tell us that they didn't 366 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 4: know what they were going to do, and we were 367 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 4: able to be a calming voice for them to tell them, look, 368 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 4: we are going to get through this together. 369 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 1: Mark, for just a moment to be okay, can you 370 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 1: spare just a few more moments. I want to talk 371 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: to you about what's going on in your community. 372 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 2: The station is ww INN. See his name is Mark Starling. 373 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 2: He is the program director there. They got they got 374 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 2: flooded in, they couldn't get out of the studio. They 375 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 2: made the most of it. I love these stories incredibly inspire. 376 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 5: Everybody needs to be woke. 377 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 4: I just. 378 00:22:58,359 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: Welcome. 379 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 2: We're talking to Mark Starling. He is the program director. 380 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:04,439 Speaker 2: That means he runs. 381 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: A program director is the person who decides who. 382 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 2: Goes on the air and the news that it's a 383 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:14,400 Speaker 2: news talk station there in Asheville, North Carolina. 384 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 1: It's called ww NC. 385 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 2: And with everything you've seen, body bags, a loss of life, devastation, 386 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 2: homes just being knocked down. Look, there are a lot 387 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 2: of heroes in the middle of all this. Elon Musk 388 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 2: is one of them. And Starling and bringing it in 389 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 2: the folks who've you know, from kid Rock to the 390 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 2: folks who've donated. 391 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 1: So many of you who may not be famous. 392 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 2: Have driven, have donated, have have sent It's incredible what 393 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 2: you've done. And it's at moments like this that you 394 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 2: see the best of the human spirit. Mark Starling is 395 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 2: our guest. 396 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:54,160 Speaker 4: Mark. 397 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: Let's talk about exactly. 398 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 2: Where is your community in under I mean, I hate 399 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 2: to ask this question, but we've had a significant loss 400 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 2: of life and we've had a significant recovery effort. I 401 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 2: wouldn't wish this on the worst places in the world. 402 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 2: Talk a little bit about put your journalism hat on 403 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 2: and tell us where we are. 404 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 4: So obviously, the recovery operation is ongoing, and it will 405 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 4: probably be ongoing for the better part of a year, 406 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:29,719 Speaker 4: if not longer. There is power back in a lot 407 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 4: of places. There are still a lot of places that 408 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:35,160 Speaker 4: do not have power. All of the city of Ashville 409 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 4: is out of Our water system was destroyed by eighty 410 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 4: five percent, so essentially it was demolished. The self service 411 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 4: is back. It still remains spotty in some places, but 412 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 4: folks are getting by right, folks, Folks are rallying together, 413 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,679 Speaker 4: and they're taking care of each other. And you know, 414 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 4: one of the things that I've when I've been talking 415 00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 4: to people, they said to me, they said, you know, 416 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 4: I've been I've never checked on my neighbors as much 417 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 4: as I've checked on my neighbors now. And the first 418 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 4: time I did it, I didn't even bother to ask 419 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 4: who they voted for before I cared if they were 420 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 4: all right. And I thought that was kind of funny, 421 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 4: because when you look at pre storm and poststorm, none 422 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 4: of that stuff that was ongoing pre storm matters, nothing 423 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 4: outside of western North Carolina matters right now to us now, 424 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 4: we are very much worried about our friends in Florida 425 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 4: with the hurricane that's coming in down there, but we 426 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 4: are concentrated here on really getting the infrastructure back online, 427 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 4: getting our people taken care of, getting them sheltered, getting 428 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 4: them fed, getting making sure they've got the supplies that 429 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 4: they need and most importantly, you know, getting our kids 430 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 4: back in school. We can't afford another COVID type situation 431 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,360 Speaker 4: where our kids are out of school for this long 432 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:51,400 Speaker 4: is the Has the federal response been lackluster? I would 433 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 4: say it has. As someone who would consider themselves a 434 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:57,440 Speaker 4: victim of this storm, I can't be in my house 435 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 4: right now. Matter of fact, I was on my way 436 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,679 Speaker 4: to my house when I got the call that to 437 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 4: come on the show. And look, FEMA doesn't necessarily do 438 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,120 Speaker 4: things easily, but it's the federal government, and I don't 439 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 4: know why anybody would expect the federal government to make 440 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 4: anything easy or uncomplicated. You know, we are of course, 441 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 4: we have the stories of people not getting you know, 442 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 4: their aid or getting denied. And what we are finding 443 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 4: is is that if people are using the telephones who 444 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,159 Speaker 4: apply for FEMA disaster assistance, or they're using the app, 445 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 4: they're almost getting denied immediately every time. And so we 446 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 4: have said go to the tent in person, take your 447 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 4: paperwork with you, and talk to a person. Nine times 448 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 4: out of ten, Michael, that decision is reversed and those 449 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 4: people are approved to get their disaster assistance so that 450 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 4: they can go on to the next step of applying 451 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 4: for a FEMA loan. There is a lot of misinformation 452 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,680 Speaker 4: out there. There is a lot of half information out there. 453 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 4: Would I would ask that people just question everything they 454 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 4: read when it comes down to the response in Western 455 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,880 Speaker 4: North Carolina. Again, do I think they relate to the game. 456 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,640 Speaker 4: Considering the fact that we had eighty five to ninety 457 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 4: private helicopter pilots in the air before FEMA could even 458 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 4: blink their eyes and rescuing people and delivering starlink units. 459 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:19,119 Speaker 4: Greg Biffle, Nascar driver, he picked somehow he got a 460 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,679 Speaker 4: load of starlink unit and started flying around in his 461 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 4: own helicopter giving them to people so that they could 462 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 4: be connected again and they could get information. The response 463 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 4: from the private sector is what we'll save Western North Carolina. 464 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 4: He will have nothing to do with FEMA. Now, I 465 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 4: don't want to knock the people with FEMA on the ground. 466 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 4: These are not the bureaucrats that make this system so 467 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,239 Speaker 4: damn confusing and so ridiculous to try to navigate. Some 468 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 4: of these people actually lost homes and lost lost family, 469 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 4: lost They were victims of this storm as well, you know. 470 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 4: So I've been asking people please try to walk with 471 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 4: some grace through this. I know it's difficult, and I'll 472 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 4: tell you, Michael, I've had several phone calls from people 473 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 4: that said, Mark, I took your advice and I just 474 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 4: tried to take my grace with me and really keep 475 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,639 Speaker 4: a stiff upper lip and just deal with this at 476 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 4: a at a as rationally as I could. And you 477 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 4: know it worked out for them. Again, do I think 478 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:21,879 Speaker 4: the federal response has been lackluster. I do, but we 479 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,679 Speaker 4: are getting our people taken care of, and I do 480 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 4: believe that it will be the private sector that rebuild 481 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 4: western North Carolina and turns this place into the crown 482 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,239 Speaker 4: jewel of the Blue Ridge Mountains as it once was. 483 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 2: A man, I'm not gonna lie to you this. 484 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 1: This chokes me up. Mark. You're you're I can tell 485 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: you're so tired. 486 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 2: You've got the sand in the back of your eyes, 487 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 2: kind of tired, You've got the grit in your throat, 488 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,960 Speaker 2: you've got the kind of foggy brain. But you also 489 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 2: know that this is a moment that you've been called 490 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 2: to and that you've got You've got to do what 491 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 2: you've got to do. This is when a man becomes 492 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 2: a man. This is when you put away your childish 493 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,240 Speaker 2: things and do what your duty is to do. And 494 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 2: it's a it's a beautiful thing to hear. I'm going 495 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 2: to put you on the spot. And this is why 496 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 2: at awards ceremonies you never thank one person because you'll 497 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,960 Speaker 2: forget someone. But I want you to tell me some 498 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 2: of the folks just just give their names so they 499 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 2: get a national audience. At ww NC radio that got 500 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 2: flooded in, stayed there, stayed on the air, served the 501 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 2: community despite it all in the in the radio world, folks, 502 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 2: I'll tell y'all, in our industry, the people who do 503 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 2: what we do, these guys are the heroes of the 504 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 2: moment because of what they've done. We're all talking about it. 505 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 2: Mention some of those names so that their families get 506 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 2: to hear them bragged on. 507 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 4: So first and foremost, I have to say Tank Spencer. 508 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 4: Tank Spencer and I were at the station starting on 509 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 4: Thursday and we kind of rode this. We had asked 510 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 4: our other air staff and our sales staff. You know 511 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 4: the best thing that you can do for us during 512 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 4: the storm is you can be at home, because we're 513 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 4: going to need to reach out to you to find 514 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 4: out what's going on in your section of town. Tell 515 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 4: me what's happening in your section of town. So Tank 516 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 4: and I were there through the duration of the storm 517 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 4: at the radio station, trapped in there by trees that 518 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 4: had fallen. As soon as those trees got out, as 519 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 4: soon as they got those trees moved, our team came 520 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 4: in like the cavalry. Eddie Fox, Amanda Fox, Jeremy Green, 521 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 4: Josh Michael, Ariel Rhymer, Brian Hall, I mean, John hewittt 522 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 4: our engineer, you know the names are. It's just these 523 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 4: folks here. This air staff has been incredible. They were 524 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 4: given the impossible task of keeping people calm and being 525 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 4: a gentle voice when people were at their worst, when 526 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 4: when the when the worst time in a person's life. 527 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 4: They could have lost loved ones, they could have lost 528 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 4: their homes, and they were on edge. That staff, our 529 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 4: staff was able to provide these people with comfort. We've 530 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 4: cried with them on the air, We've laughed with them 531 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 4: on the air. We've we've met them in the front 532 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 4: parking lot of the radio station when they came by 533 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 4: and they just needed a hug, and they came by 534 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 4: with cookies, or they came by with a cast role 535 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 4: because in the South, yes we feel better. Everybody bring 536 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 4: me a cast roles, esta cast roles, or they answer 537 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 4: to anything. These people are just amazing, Michael. I mean 538 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 4: they just I can't say no good things about them. 539 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 4: They they have changed my view of humanity. 540 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 2: Mark Starling, hang tight right there, Program director w w 541 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 2: NC Asheville, North Carolina, hit so hard by the storm.