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Speaker 1: Bold rever It and occasionally random the Sunday hang with

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Speaker 1: playing Fuck podcast and it starts. Now, you don't want.

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Speaker 2: To end up in one of these com lads.

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Speaker 3: They're like, yeah, I like guns and muscles and show tunes.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's a little weird what they've got going on.

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Speaker 2: It reminds me, but not in a funny way of

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Speaker 2: getting like really uncomfortable because it's clear that he hasn't

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Speaker 2: ever been around a woman. And that's kind of how

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Speaker 2: I would say men who are pretending to vote for

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Speaker 2: Kamala are when it comes to their masculinity, they are

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Speaker 2: very divorced from what it is to be a man,

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Speaker 2: unlike our Crocket Coffee drinkers who are loaded with masculinity.

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Speaker 1: I want to know how much how much.

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Speaker 2: Would you have to get paid to appear in a

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Speaker 2: men for kamala ad?

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Speaker 3: Is there a dollar retirement retirement level?

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Speaker 4: Money?

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Speaker 3: Like it would have to be like I never have

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Speaker 2: You would you would just never be able to be

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Speaker 2: seen again, like you would do the ad and then

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Speaker 3: I'm actually surprised by this, I guess because they want

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Speaker 3: to appeal to the folks, you know, as democrats, the folks.

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Speaker 3: But I think that the obvious move, for the more

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Speaker 3: these one of these actors who's taking like, you know,

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Speaker 3: or whatever is super jacked at least while they're making

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Speaker 3: the movie, and they tell everybody they just like, have

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Speaker 3: them come forward and be like, oh, like I am

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Speaker 3: thour and like I love Kamala Harris. You know, but

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Speaker 3: I guess they want they don't want the Hollywood elite thing,

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Speaker 3: so instead they've got these guys Like That's what I

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Speaker 3: Ryan Gradusky said this in response to this ad on

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Speaker 3: doesn't seem like they have a testosterone deficiency to be

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Speaker 3: the exemplar of masculinity. That's a fair point. I don't

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Speaker 3: know why they can't get this right, but I think

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Speaker 5: I don't know, you're not.

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Speaker 2: A football guy, but it always makes me laugh when

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Speaker 2: they do football and they have people who can't throw

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Speaker 2: his whole That this ad feels like that they thought, Hey,

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Speaker 2: what do men like to do? They have a random

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Speaker 2: and it just comes off as you have no idea

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Speaker 2: And also, by the way, the pivot, have you ever

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Speaker 2: a variety of opinions on abortion. That conversation has never occurred. Now,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, guys who support abortion say, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm a big I'm a big abortion guy. Just just

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Speaker 1: Head a home with me.

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Speaker 2: I mean a lot of this is total bs designed

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Speaker 6: I'm a man, I'm a man. I'm a man man,

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Speaker 6: and I'm man enough.

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Speaker 2: I'm man enough to enjoy a barrel proof bourbon neat,

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Speaker 2: man enough to cook my steak rare.

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Speaker 6: Man enough to deadlift five hundred and breed out of

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Speaker 6: my daughter's hair. Do you think I'm afraid to rebuild

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Speaker 6: a carburetor? How you CARBURETD for breakfast? I'm afraid of bears.

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Speaker 6: That's what beer hugs move form. I'll tell you another thing.

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Speaker 6: I sure I'm not afraid of women. I'm not afraid

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Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of women.

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Speaker 5: They want to control their bodies, I say, go for it.

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Speaker 6: They want to use ivy. You have to start a family.

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Speaker 6: I'm not afraid of families.

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Speaker 7: They want to be child ass cat ladies, pam all

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Speaker 6: Woman wants to be president?

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Speaker 8: Well, I hope she has the guts to look me

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Speaker 6: Because I'm man enough to support women, man enough to

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Speaker 4: Man enough to not ban young women from reading Little

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Speaker 6: One of those pants books that the sisters like. I'm

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Speaker 6: man enough to raw doga flight it sucked, not worth it.

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Speaker 6: I'm man enough to be emotional in front of my wife,

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Speaker 6: I'm man enough to tell you that I cry.

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Speaker 8: I love actually Goodwill, Hunting, Wish Side Story and Brett,

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Speaker 8: And I'm sick of so called men domineering, belittling, and

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Speaker 6: That's not how my mama raised me. I love women.

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Speaker 8: I love women who support their families, women who decide

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Speaker 5: And I'm man enough to help them win.

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Speaker 3: This hour, we want to spend a little more on

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Speaker 3: the problem is that we've actually gone beyond Kamala's lack

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Speaker 3: We're always talking about when I say they don't buy

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Speaker 3: Forget about Democrats. They'll vote Democrat, they would vote any Demo.

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Speaker 3: It it doesn't matter. But Clay, when we look at that

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Speaker 3: and try to figure out what works what doesn't. Kamala

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Speaker 3: And this is really interesting. I know they played this

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Speaker 3: get out there for Kamala and vote for Kamala. We

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Speaker 3: got to do more. You know, you're not enthusiastic enough.

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Speaker 3: This is in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, a place I've

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Speaker 3: spent some time. It is the generally poorest and has

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Speaker 3: It's a tough area. They went around to ask people

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Speaker 6: What do you think of her?

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Speaker 1: Garbage?

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Speaker 7: Fake phony?

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Speaker 6: She's part of the problem of the country.

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Speaker 9: God bless her because I don't know what she's trying

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Speaker 9: to play, but she ain't from the streets.

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Speaker 5: If you want to have a terrorist attech, I don't

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Speaker 5: think she would know what to do.

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Speaker 1: Trump.

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Speaker 4: We already know what Trump would do.

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Speaker 6: What would he do?

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Speaker 2: Trum would get rid of Pamala Harris says she has

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Speaker 2: the same exact policies as Joe Biden.

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Speaker 6: Is that what you want?

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Speaker 3: Why would we want that?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 6: Because where is it getting us deeper in debt? Deeper

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Speaker 4: A lot of people vote because she's black.

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Speaker 2: You don't vote put nobody because of a color, you know,

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Speaker 2: TV to double the disguise.

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Speaker 3: Who are you voting for Trump or Kamala Trump Trump Trump,

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Speaker 3: It'd be I'm going for Trump.

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Speaker 5: Go off with Donald J. Trump Trump Trump because he's rail,

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Speaker 5: Dannald Trump, or wait, look.

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Speaker 3: Can I just we always want to present things honestly, right, Clay,

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Speaker 3: the Kama's gonna win the black vote overwhelmingly, but Trump

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Speaker 3: at this point you'd have to go back, you know,

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Speaker 3: many many elections, but beyond that, when Barack Obama was

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Speaker 3: about Barack Obama. Right, you know what I'm saying like this,

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know, this is showing you the black

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Speaker 3: community is truly unenthusiastic about Kamala. Even if they're going

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Speaker 3: to overwhelm the vote for Kamala, it'll make a difference

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Speaker 3: in this election.

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Speaker 2: I said, for a while, we bet on it that

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Speaker 2: I thought twenty five percent or more of black men

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Speaker 2: that as we sit a little bit over three weeks

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: In fact, eight hundred and two eight two two eight

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Speaker 2: a two, I'd love to hear from black men what

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Speaker 2: that you need to show up and vote for Kamala

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Speaker 2: and you're sexist and a misogynist basically, if you're not

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Speaker 2: willing to.

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Speaker 1: Vote for her.

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Speaker 3: If someone says, you know, I'm not going I'm never

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Speaker 2: So I think I'd love to hear from you eight

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Speaker 3: We haven't said this for Clay. Any Democrat that had

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Speaker 2: But this is where they are.

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Speaker 3: Look, Clay, We're we're just giving the We're just giving

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Speaker 2: Let me hit you with a thing that's going on

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Speaker 2: I just want to start with this, when did you

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Speaker 5: our phones go down, and so we had no communication

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Speaker 5: with the outside world. We had no way to get

440
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,919
Speaker 5: any sort of new information. We had no way to

441
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,879
Speaker 5: use our phones, we had no cell service. A buddy

442
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:14,960
Speaker 5: of mine happened to be listening over in West Dashville

443
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,880
Speaker 5: and heard us say, listen, folks at a we're at

444
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 5: a disadvantage here. We don't have any information. We can't

445
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:21,840
Speaker 5: take your phone calls. We're going to go back to

446
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:25,200
Speaker 5: regular programming and try to gather some information. He actually

447
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:27,000
Speaker 5: ended up hiking up here. He drove as close as

448
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 5: he could, hiked in with a Ham radio had already

449
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,240
Speaker 5: talked to the Ham radio network around here and said, hey,

450
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,360
Speaker 5: look Mark, Mark is going to key up the mic.

451
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:36,440
Speaker 5: He's going to try to get all the information he

452
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,000
Speaker 5: can from you guys, and then he's going to go

453
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:39,800
Speaker 5: back on the air and he and Tank are going

454
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,040
Speaker 5: to relay it to everybody that's listening. And that's how

455
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,480
Speaker 5: we operated for about twelve to fourteen hours. We heard

456
00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,879
Speaker 5: a noise out in the hallway and we were on

457
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,520
Speaker 5: a break, and we stuck our heads out there, and

458
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,919
Speaker 5: here are the most beautiful sight I've ever seen, was

459
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,880
Speaker 5: tow iHeartRadio engineers with a starlink strapped at their back

460
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:56,680
Speaker 5: coming down the hallway. And I knew at that point

461
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Speaker 5: we were okay.

462
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Speaker 2: So euon starlink is the reason and you were able

463
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Speaker 2: to get back on the internet.

464
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,880
Speaker 5: Correct, Correct, So we got back on the internet Saturday night,

465
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 5: and we basically stayed round the clock taking phone calls,

466
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 5: listening to I mean people were scared. No one ever

467
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,439
Speaker 5: thought a hurricane would come to western North Carolina, and

468
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 5: Tank and I kind of sat and talked about it,

469
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 5: and we were like, look, it's going to be our

470
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 5: job to help these people get through this hurricane. The

471
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:24,119
Speaker 5: noises you're gonna hear in the middle of the night

472
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:26,520
Speaker 5: are going to scare the crap out of you. You're

473
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:28,520
Speaker 5: not gonna know what's going on because you can't see anything,

474
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,359
Speaker 5: and when you wake up tomorrow morning, it could be

475
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 5: even a scarier site when you look outside. And so

476
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,720
Speaker 5: we were really trying to just kind of prep people

477
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 5: for this and like really walk them through step by step.

478
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:40,920
Speaker 5: It's you know, and we kept saying, look, it's okay

479
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,960
Speaker 5: to not be okay. This is a super scary time.

480
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 5: The phone calls started coming in and they started getting

481
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,680
Speaker 5: scarier and scarier and scarier. We took a call from

482
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 5: a gentleman who was up on the second floor of

483
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 5: his house with his wife and their seven year old grandson.

484
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,520
Speaker 5: He called and we were chatting with him, and this

485
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,040
Speaker 5: was literally like minutes before everything kind of went chaotic,

486
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 5: and he says, oh, you know, we're gonna be okay.

487
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 5: We're We've had flooding here before. They weren't okay. They

488
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,239
Speaker 5: didn't make it, and itvled you on. They called us

489
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 5: on the air and they he talked to us and

490
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,679
Speaker 5: he said, you know, I've been meeting to clean this

491
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 5: place out. I wanted to kind of downsize. He's like,

492
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:20,199
Speaker 5: it looks like that's going to be taken care of

493
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,480
Speaker 5: for me. And within hours they were gone. So we

494
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,719
Speaker 5: realized then that we had to have a connection, and

495
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 5: so we decided that hey, listen, if you know someone

496
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 5: that's missing, call us here at the radio station, give

497
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 5: us their name and address and phone number, and we

498
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 5: will like, we're going to try to crowdsource wellness checks.

499
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,120
Speaker 5: So we started doing that and we get a call

500
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Speaker 5: from this guy's name is Chris Henderson and he is

501
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 5: an absolute angel, and he said, listen, I'm out here

502
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,439
Speaker 5: doing wellness checks. What if we team up together and

503
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 5: we and you start taking the names of the addresses,

504
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 5: you send them to me and I'll send my team

505
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 5: out there. So we did, and as of right now,

506
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 5: I think we are at like one hundred and forty

507
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,120
Speaker 5: eight families that have been reunited with their loved ones.

508
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 5: I think it was like four hundred and twenty eight

509
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 5: people or something like that. And then we started the

510
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 5: iHeartRadio Ashville Chainsaw Gang, and we've got a group of

511
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 5: chainsaw cutters and they literally just go and take houses

512
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,880
Speaker 5: or trees off people's houses and they don't charge them.

513
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 5: This is all stuff that we were able to crowdsource

514
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,679
Speaker 5: through the power of radio, and I think that for

515
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 5: us is really what the story is here. When the

516
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 5: TV couldn't do it, the newspaper couldn't do it, there

517
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 5: was nothing online. The only thing left was AMFM radio.

518
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 5: All seven stations stayed on the air simulcasted. When our

519
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 5: team was able to get into the building, the cavalry

520
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 5: had arrived and we went. We were walled the wall.

521
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 5: I actually got to sleep at home for the first

522
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 5: time last night.

523
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,160
Speaker 2: You were sleeping here at the station.

524
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 5: I've been here. I was at the station for fourteen days,

525
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 5: never went home. My wife she wasn't going to evacuate,

526
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 5: and needs to say, I wasn't too happy about that.

527
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 5: Got a call on Friday morning and she said, you

528
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 5: know what, We've had to evacuate. We're at a gas station.

529
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,160
Speaker 5: I've got all four dogs and our son Eli. We're

530
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 5: just going to have to ride it out here. There

531
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Speaker 5: are actually waves coming cresting over the top of the

532
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 5: overpass down on the Highway nine in Black Mountain, which

533
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 5: is where we live it and it was one of

534
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 5: the hardest hit areas. And I didn't hear from her

535
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 5: for forty eight hours. And when she did call, we

536
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 5: were on the air and she had actually gone to

537
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,679
Speaker 5: a Black Mountain town hall meeting that they had. She

538
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 5: called in and my producer Tanky puts their caller's name

539
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 5: up on the screen and I looked over and I thought,

540
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 5: what is it. Wait, this can't be. She's the only

541
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 5: Brandy I know that spells it with too ease at

542
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,199
Speaker 5: the end. And from pretty much that point on, it

543
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 5: was it was waterworks. It was just I was just

544
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,439
Speaker 5: so happy to know that they were okay. I have

545
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 5: not seen them since the Wednesday they were evacuated Downstern

546
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 5: lost house with our four dogs, and they're doing great.

547
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 5: They you know, it just we made it out. We

548
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 5: met a lot better than a lot of folks, did.

549
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 5: I mean, we took some damage to our home, but

550
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 5: nothing in comparison to what some of these folks have lost.

551
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 3: Mark. Appreciate you being with us and giving us First

552
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 3: of all, this is just this incredible story about what

553
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 3: you and the station have been through and also been

554
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 3: able to accomplish over the last two weeks. What is

555
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 3: the what are the imminent needs right now? I mean,

556
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 3: what is the focus of these rescue and recovery now? Really,

557
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 3: I guess more recovery efforts currently going forward, Like what

558
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 3: has to happen, what needs need to be met, what's

559
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 3: on the ground doing at all of that?

560
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,679
Speaker 5: So, you know, as far as like supplies that that

561
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 5: have come in, I mean, it has just been it

562
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 5: has been an American outpouring. It's incredible to see the

563
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 5: amount of supplies that we have, and right now we're

564
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 5: really good on supplies. But this is not a short

565
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,360
Speaker 5: term situation. Our water system was decimated by about eighty

566
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 5: five percent of it. I think there's eighteen hundred miles

567
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 5: of waterline in Ashville. Eighty five percent of it's gone.

568
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 5: So what we're really you know, what we're really hoped

569
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,199
Speaker 5: for is that we can get the water back online

570
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 5: as fast as possible. They're measuring that time off out

571
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 5: of water in weeks and not days. Power is back on.

572
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 5: There's still about a thirty thousand people in Bunkham County,

573
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,199
Speaker 5: which is where we are, that is that that are

574
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 5: still without power. It's getting better and better every day.

575
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 5: But you know, I think what we're worried about in

576
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 5: the long term is we've got cooler weather moving in

577
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 5: and we've got people who used to have homes that

578
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,199
Speaker 5: don't have homes. And really, you know, I think the

579
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:30,919
Speaker 5: big thing is is all of these groups that are

580
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 5: on the ground in here, whether they are doing you know,

581
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 5: whether they're doing recovery work or whether they're doing supply work.

582
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,160
Speaker 5: We work with a group called Heartswidthands dot org. It's

583
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 5: a local charity. They're based out of Swannanoah, which was

584
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 5: one of the most devastated areas, and strangely, every single

585
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 5: thing around their warehouse was destroyed, but their warehouse wasn't touched.

586
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 5: They have two functions. They feed all of our first

587
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 5: responders hot meals every day, and then they also package

588
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 5: food boxes for pickup and delivery for folks who are

589
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 5: in need in the community. You know, usually hearts with

590
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 5: hands as they're the ones that are loading up the

591
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,440
Speaker 5: trailers and are taken to Florida or somewhere else. I

592
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 5: don't think anybody ever thought it was gonna happen here,

593
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 5: and you know, this storm was so different because of

594
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 5: the terrain. You know, a storm hits Florida, you got

595
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 5: miles of beachline for the water to reced to. There's

596
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 5: nowhere for the water to recede to here. So it

597
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 5: was literally like a thirty five foot wall of water

598
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 5: and debris that came down the French Broad River and

599
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 5: just decimated everything in its path. I mean, there are

600
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 5: there are towns that used to be here that don't

601
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 5: exist anymore. And it's you know, as someone who covered

602
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 5: hurricanes their entire career living in Florida, I've never been

603
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 5: through anything like this before. I mean, the just the

604
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 5: fury that the water has brought to western North Carolina

605
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 5: is just incredible.

606
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 2: I think this is important. I was just talking out

607
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 2: front with a state trooper who came by. We're talking

608
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 2: with Mark Starling, hosts six to nine AM Eastern morning

609
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 2: shows on this incredible story here at five seventy am WWNC.

610
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,239
Speaker 2: I forty many things. I asked out front. How long

611
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 2: is this gonna take? He said, this is gonna take

612
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 2: years to rebuild. So for people out there who haven't

613
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 2: done anything yet, maybe they haven't recognized the severity of this.

614
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 2: There's gonna be a need for help here for months

615
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 2: and months to come.

616
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 5: If not years. I mean, we're a tourism based economy.

617
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 5: There's only one thing to see here right now, and

618
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 5: that's destruction. Yeah. You know, hotels are not able to

619
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 5: rent hotel rooms because you can't rent a hotel room

620
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 5: without running water.

621
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Speaker 2: So that is pretty much I just don't have running

622
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 2: water still at the radio still, that's right.

623
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've been without water since I believe it was

624
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 5: Friday is when we lost water. Yeah, it's it is.

625
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 5: It's an untenable situation for a lot of people. And

626
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 5: there are people that are leaving. You know, there were

627
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 5: certain places that right after the storm happened and that

628
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 5: they were saying, listen, if you can leave, leave, help's

629
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 5: not coming. And it's like, well, who oh, wait a second. Here,

630
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 5: these are our communities. We're not going anywhere. And you know,

631
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 5: for what we wanted to do here at the radio station,

632
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 5: at iHeart Asheville was we wanted to show the community that, like,

633
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 5: we can get through this. Yeah, and we've been kind

634
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 5: of repeating this line. Community is the answer to this crisis.

635
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 5: And it is amazing. You know, people have I always

636
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 5: go back to this one phone call and a guy

637
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 5: called in and he says, you know, I've helped so

638
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 5: many of my neighbors today and I didn't even ask you.

639
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 5: They voted for first And it's just kind of that,

640
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 5: like everything else outside of Western North Carolina, everything else

641
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 5: doesn't matter right now. Like our job as a station

642
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 5: and as a group of stations and as an airstaff

643
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 5: is to kind of unite our community and bring us

644
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 5: bring everyone together and get through this together. I mean,

645
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 5: it's going to be a heavy lift. And what we

646
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 5: have seen is the absolute best in humanity in an

647
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 5: absolute horrific, horrific time.

648
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 2: We asked whether it was appropriate to even try to

649
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 2: come in here. You guys need so much help. This

650
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 2: story was we want you to help get this story here.

651
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 2: You're talking to all fifty states right now. You're talking

652
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 2: to people all over the world, really, but certainly in

653
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 2: all fifty states. What would you ask of them? What

654
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Speaker 2: can they do if they're listening right now and they're

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Speaker 2: hearing about how bad things are in Western North Carolina.

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Speaker 5: Honestly, I would I would recommend giving. Yeah, if you

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Speaker 5: can give please give heartswithands dot org is again such

658
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 5: a wonderful organization. It's local. All that money stays local

659
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 5: as far as help goes. If you have a skill

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Speaker 5: and it's and and you feel like it would be worthy.

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Speaker 5: We need help here.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: The cleanup, the cleanup for the most part has gone

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Speaker 5: pretty well, but there is just so much of it.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: We've got our our chainsaw teams from the radio station.

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Speaker 5: They're running wide open pretty much from six a m.

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Speaker 5: Until seven or eight o'clock at night. And you know,

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Speaker 5: the one thing I guess that we don't need is

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Speaker 5: people coming to Western North Carolina per se to the

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Speaker 5: to the the heavy disaster zones and kind of clogging

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Speaker 5: things up. There are areas in western North Carolina that

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Speaker 5: are open for business.

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Speaker 1: Maggie Valley.

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Speaker 5: I got a call today from a business owner. He's like,

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Speaker 5: hey man, He's like, I run a knife shop, and

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Speaker 5: he's like, we're totally open for business here and and

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Speaker 5: we would really rather you know, like direct people to

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Speaker 5: us if you if you can't, if they can't hang

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Speaker 5: out in Nashville, tell them to go come up to

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Speaker 5: Maggie Valley and see us, or go to Waynesville. And

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Speaker 5: you know there's a there's some there's some good truth

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Speaker 5: to that because these other these other areas, they too

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Speaker 5: are tourist economies.

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Speaker 2: This is what happened in Hawaii, right, everybody decided they

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Speaker 2: didn't want to go to Hawaii, bucking the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: So one more time that website, and by the way,

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Speaker 2: what you did, thanks to you and and the sacrifices

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Speaker 2: that you made for your family. I can't even imagine

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Speaker 2: what you've gone through talking to so many people in

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Speaker 2: so many positions of peril.

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Speaker 1: This is the best of radio.

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Speaker 5: It absolutely is. And I gotta I have to shout

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Speaker 5: out my team because the team here at iHeart Ashville

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Speaker 5: is truly the most incredible group of people. They're most

696
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Speaker 5: of our staff works on music stations. They're not familiar

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Speaker 5: with the news talk format. That didn't matter because it

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Speaker 5: wasn't such a so much of a formatic thing. It

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Speaker 5: was we just need to be able to show people

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Speaker 5: that we're here to and we care and we're gonna

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Speaker 5: help you one way or the other. If we can't

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Speaker 5: help you, we will find someone to help you. And

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Speaker 5: that's how it's worked out. And the community has answered

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Speaker 5: those calls and said, hey, you know what, I can

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Speaker 5: go over there and check on this guy. You know,

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Speaker 5: I'm on my way to my next appointment. I'll stop

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Speaker 5: by and make sure that they're okay. It's the power

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Speaker 5: of radio, and it is the power of this iHeartRadio

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Speaker 5: Ashville team. They are just such an incredible group of humans.

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Speaker 5: You know, Tank Spencer and I were here by ourselves

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Speaker 5: for the first portion of the storm because our team

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Speaker 5: couldn't get here. I don't know if you saw coming

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Speaker 5: well you didn't see it coming in because you came

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Speaker 5: it from the air, but coming up our driveways line,

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Speaker 5: it was lined with about a hundred trees. Every tree

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Speaker 5: came down, there was no way to get in or out.

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Speaker 5: It crushed the fence in the front. Once those trees

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Speaker 5: got out of the way, our team was unstoppable in

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Speaker 5: and they just they just got it done. And they

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Speaker 5: have continued to you know, this is our home, this

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Speaker 5: is our community, and and we we we want to

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Speaker 5: just see it built back. We know it's going to

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Speaker 5: take time, and we know it's going to be heavy lifting,

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Speaker 5: but this is where we call home and Western North

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Speaker 5: Carolina mountain folks are different. I got news for you

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Speaker 5: Mountain folk are tough and that we're we will really,

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Speaker 5: we will rebuild this community. It may not look exactly

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Speaker 5: like it did. Uh, it'll be better. That's that's the

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Speaker 5: way I feel. And I feel like our community is

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Speaker 5: more united today than we ever have been in the

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Speaker 5: past because of this storm. And if that's the good

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Speaker 5: that we can that we can pull out of this,

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Speaker 5: I'll take it all day long.

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Speaker 2: I want to think again. And if you didn't hear

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Speaker 2: the full thing, it'll be up on the podcast. We

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Speaker 2: wanted to share with you what the experience has been

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Speaker 2: like for people in Ashville and surrounding communities in western

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Speaker 2: North Carolina eastern Tennessee. UH and Mark Starling, who was

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Speaker 2: the host that was on with us in the opening

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Speaker 2: segment of this hour from five to seventy AMWWNC. Buck,

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Speaker 2: You've talked about this a lot. Radio uniquely connects with

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Speaker 2: the audience. There are lots of different medias, there are

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Speaker 2: lots of different ways that people make connections, writing, TV,

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00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,760
Speaker 2: a variety of different subjects, but radio at its core

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Speaker 2: really connects with people. And I thought the stories that

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Speaker 2: he was sharing in a time of crisis here really

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Speaker 2: connected with you. In all fifty.

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Speaker 3: States and my family in Ashville at the height of

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Speaker 3: the storm and its destruction, or in the morning after it,

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Speaker 3: they were listening on that station. Carrie told me before

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Speaker 3: Clay I even knew you were going to Ashville, said,

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Speaker 3: you've got to talk to these guys. The iHeart team

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Speaker 3: in Ashville has just been all hands on deck, not

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Speaker 3: just to get information out, but also to coordinate response

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Speaker 3: and rescue efforts. It's an amazing thing. But yes, you

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Speaker 3: can imagine for people who had their house, you know,

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Speaker 3: partially carved in by falling trees, surrounded by lethal floodwaters

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Speaker 3: on all sides, roads either washed away or blocked by trees.

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Speaker 3: To hear on on AM or FM radio, we know

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Speaker 3: you're out there, We're in your community. We're coming for you.

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Speaker 3: Hold tight. Help is on the way. Think of how

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Speaker 3: meaningful that is, and it was the only way to

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Speaker 3: get people.

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Speaker 1: That message, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: We want to continue to update you with everything going

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Speaker 2: on in the world of politics as well. I'm here

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Speaker 2: in Ashville. You heard, By the way, heartswithands dot org

768
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Speaker 2: is a great organization local that you can donate too.

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Speaker 2: If you were moved by the stories that you heard

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Speaker 2: being shared by Mark Starling and many others who are

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Speaker 2: talking to us outside and around the scenes. Here as

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Speaker 2: I'm in Ashville.

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Speaker 1: Sunday drop with Clay and Buck.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back in and play Travis Buck Sexton. Shit, oh,

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Speaker 2: a couple of you wanting to weigh in with the

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Speaker 2: question of how you reacted to being lectured by Barack Obama.

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Speaker 2: I asked for blackmle callers who are listening to the

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Speaker 2: show right now. Tony lives in Long Beach, California now

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Speaker 2: used to live in Detroit. What did you think when

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Speaker 2: you saw the story Barack Obama saying, Hey, basically, you're

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Speaker 2: a sexist, you're misogynist if you're not voting for Kamala

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Speaker 2: and you're a black.

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Speaker 4: Guy, well good AFTERNUE guys love the show. And I'm

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Speaker 4: literally the black sheep of the family. I mean, I

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Speaker 4: usually go fifteen years one when I go back to Detroit,

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Speaker 4: but even back then, in two thousand, I was saying,

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Speaker 4: this guy is not from the hood. He grew up

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Speaker 4: in Chicago. He was say from Chicago, went to private school.

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Speaker 4: We just going to Hawaii, And I kept harping that

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Speaker 4: why are we listening to this individual? And they my

791
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Speaker 4: family was my sister attorney, and my family all there.

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Speaker 4: They just they're still stuck on that Democratic plantation. But

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Speaker 4: we have healthy debates. But I've never listened to Obama

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Speaker 4: no matter what he said.

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Speaker 2: You know, do you find so you've been, you said,

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Speaker 2: a black sheep for a little while, do you find

797
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Speaker 2: more support for Trump in twenty twenty four when you

798
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Speaker 2: talk to other black voters or do you still feel

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Speaker 2: like you're a bit on an island in California?

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Speaker 4: It's a little bit more, I mean, if not, I mean,

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Speaker 4: I would say Trump's gonna get about twenty five thirty percent.

802
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,399
Speaker 4: So I think it's just only weak men would vote

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Speaker 4: for Kalala or they don't want to upset their wives.

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Speaker 4: Most most men would do that. But I've told the

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Speaker 4: screener my family came up with my daughter's graduation last year.

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Speaker 4: Fifteen people came with the Roscoe chicken and waffles, and

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Speaker 4: they had the Obama place. So I said to Calilow,

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Speaker 4: I said, I'll take the Obama play, which like two

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Speaker 4: plays of nothing and Hope and a couple of cars.

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Speaker 4: I didn't get the response that I needed, but I

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Speaker 4: think you guys would enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the call congratulations to your daughter, by

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Speaker 2: the way, I think it was on the graduation. We

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Speaker 2: got a bunch of more callers who went a weigh in.

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Speaker 2: I asked for black men listening to give us their

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Speaker 2: feedback on Barack Obama basically calling you out if you're

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Speaker 2: not voting for commle as, saying you're misogynistic, you're sexist

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Speaker 2: quad in South Carolina. What did you think?

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Speaker 10: I thought that was pretty insultant, honestly, because I used

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Speaker 10: to vote Democrat up until twenty sixteen. When Trump asks

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Speaker 10: us what we had to lose, you know, I think

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Speaker 10: that was a much better approaches than making promises they

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Speaker 10: had no intention on keeping. So I've been voting Republican

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Speaker 10: ever since twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Do you feel any more momentum for Trump among blackmail

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Speaker 2: voters in twenty twenty four than you did in sixteen

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Speaker 2: or twenty I'm just kind of curious what you see

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Speaker 2: and hear in your social network.

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Speaker 10: I see a lot of people that I talked to

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Speaker 10: are like, actually really loud about Trump, and if they

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Speaker 10: hear other people insulting them, they're actually quick to jump

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Speaker 10: in and defend them.

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Speaker 2: That's interesting, and you feel that's different than it may

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Speaker 2: have been in sixteen when you were coming on board

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Speaker 2: the Trump train.

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Speaker 10: I mean in sixteen, it seemed more like people with

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Speaker 10: tiptoeing around it. Nobody really wanted to say out loud. Yeah,

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Speaker 10: so you know, it was one of the few people

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Speaker 10: in my circle that didn't care what people thought about it.

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Speaker 2: So well, join the club. Thank you for the caalk one.

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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 2: That's one of the things you had to do, certainly

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Speaker 2: early on and even today, you have to be willing

844
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Speaker 2: to take some slings and arrows to and not necessarily

845
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Speaker 2: care what other people say. Javon and can't know. Hyo,

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Speaker 2: what are you hearing? What'd you think of what Obama said?

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Speaker 4: Fellows?

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Speaker 9: Let me tell you this, this is the most insulting

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Speaker 9: thing ever. All right, just because I'm black, you mean

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Speaker 9: to kut me because this man is the same skin color,

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Speaker 9: I'm supposed to vote for this person. No, that's not

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Speaker 9: how it works. That's called getting oaky dope. And you

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00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 9: know what our people been getting played for a long time.

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Speaker 9: All the brothers and sisters out there, I hope you

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Speaker 9: understand this. That is the party of slavery. Joe Biden

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00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 9: was a party of segregation. They are the party of

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Speaker 9: all these clinics. You know, these young ladies go to

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Speaker 9: these clinics. Party of Margaret's. Is that her name? I

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00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 9: believe I'm may mispronounced. But let me tell you this,

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Speaker 9: I don't care if it's Charlemagne to God. I don't

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Speaker 9: care if you're an athlete. I don't care who you are.

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Speaker 9: Just because your skin's the same color does not mean

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Speaker 9: that that is the reason I got to vote for you.

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Speaker 9: Let me tell you this. Everybody, listen up. Donald Trump

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Speaker 9: does what he says, says what he does, and it's

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Speaker 9: the thing in the street. Take off this. He keeps

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Speaker 9: it one hundred percent real.

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Speaker 4: Just like he spoke about with the Detroit crowd.

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Speaker 9: He's keeping it real and that's why we respect him,

870
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 9: and that's why I'm going to vote for it.

871
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 2: Thank you for the call. I lock last one of

872
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 2: the day, West Palm Beach, Florida. What do you think

873
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 2: about Obama?

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Speaker 7: I feel it's very disrespectful and it's very very insulting

875
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 7: for Obama to come out with a nam lecture US

876
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 7: or we should go and vote. We vote on principal.

877
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 7: So that's what I wanted to say. And I also

878
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 7: want to say, Buck, I wanted to see in that

879
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,240
Speaker 7: red bib when you give Jesse Kelly that lobster.

880
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you for the Locks. I promise you. I

881
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 3: have not forgotten my bet with Jesse. Locks is paying

882
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 3: attention to that one too. I have to go take

883
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 3: Jesse Kelly. It's so funny. I had to take Clay

884
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,280
Speaker 3: to a place where they brought his stakeout in a

885
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 3: gold case and there was a whole song and dance,

886
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 3: literal song and dance around it.

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00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:23,800
Speaker 2: Jesse.

888
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 3: No, no, Jesse just wants red lobster. He did say

889
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 3: all you can eat shrimp part of it. And I

890
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,720
Speaker 3: have to put a lobster bib on him on video.

891
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 3: So Jesse Kelly shout out to you. You got to

892
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 3: come down to Florida. There are red lobsters in Florida.

893
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 3: And I will, I will, I will make good on

894
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 3: this bet. Locks. I got you on that one.

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Speaker 1: I promise Sunday Sizzle with Clay and Buck