July 9, 2025 • 42 mins
Wednesday 07/09/25 Hour 1. With candidate for North Carolina Lt. Governor, Dr. Josh McConkey.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Giggity giey geggity goo.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Earth is spinning slightly faster, making July ninth, July twenty second,
and August fifth up to one point five milliseconds shorter.
At this rate, we will have a twenty five hour
day in just two hundred million years. So if you
are running late, congratulations, you're technically early by a fraction
of a blink. Now go enjoy your extra micro nap.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
This is not headline news.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Several websites so reporting that today will be one of
the shortest days in history due to the Earth's rotation.
If you want to make it last longer, just watch golf.
Shoppers are expected to pay nearly twenty four billion dollars
during the four days of Amazon Prime Day. If my
calculations are correct, that's enough to pay for Jeff Bezos'
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next three weddings. Timothy Chalomy shaved his head or the
next Dune movie, and somehow the top of his head
still has more hair than his mustache, and bacon flavored
cinnamon toast crunch is now for sale. Not to be outdone,
Cheerios now includes rocks of black tar heroin. This is
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not headline news.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Wake up the cup.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
It cannot joy a gallon, canjam cab.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Cam in this present crisis. Government is not the solution
to our problem. Government is the problem.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
This is Charlotte County Speaks. Your chance to let your
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Speaker 1 (02:51):
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thousands of hours of myself. You got the Clay and
the Buck, the Dana, the Jesse. So you're good to go.
Got some stuff coming up here. July twentieth, one to
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five pm down at the Wyvern in Pontagorda. You can
it's going to be a Warrior Wellness fundraiser and you
can join for a special evening dedicated afternoon, really dedicated
to honoring and supporting our local veterans through Warrior Wellness.
It's an organization that empowers those who've served by providing
access to essential health and wellness services. Your generous contributions
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will support directly veterans by funding gym memberships, personal training sessions,
swimming lessons, holistic health services. Warrior Wellness committed to fostering
not only physical fitness, but also mental and emotional well
being through camaraderie and a strong sense of community or deuvs.
All kinds of stuff else going on, silent auctions and
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whatnot right there. It's going to be at the Perch
three to sixty rooftop up there at the Wyver July twentieth,
one to five pm. If you need more information or
you'd like to make a donation, log onto Warrior dashw
dot com. Also something important that you should you and
your family should all know how to do, and that
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of course is CPR and the Punagorda Charlotte Library is
going to host a family and Friends CPR program taught
by the Punagorda Fire Department. Coming up Tuesday, August fifth,
from five point thirty to seven, You're going to get
a hands on session designed to build your confidence and
responding to sudden cardiac arrest. It's a free class. It
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doesn't provide any certification, but you're gonna leave with a
free informational booklet from SharePoint Health and the knowledge to
make a difference when only seconds count. And you should
all know how to do CPR. Huh, probably could use
a refresher, but I've had many personal intimate moments with
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Resessa Ann, so I think I can probably handle it there.
Coming up bottom of the hour, we're gonna be talking
with doctor Josh mcconkeye. He's an Air Force colonel. He's
also a candidate for Lieutenant governor of North Carolina, and
we're going to be talking about his book, Be The
Weight Behind the Spear, and also how the Big Beautiful
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Bill is going to be affecting healthcare.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
So you got that.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Going for you today. What are we celebrating Not a
whole lot. Really, We've got National Dimples Day, So for
those of you with dimples, the Happy Happy Day National
here we go National Sugar Cookie Day. There we are
something worthy of celebration, and uh, I don't know, I
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don't know how this is gonna go here. I this
uh it just seems a little too convenient for this
to pop up. But according to Fox News, usually.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Yeah, so you.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
When the leaks are being leaked, it's usually to the Wappo,
the New York Slimes, CNN. But now this one has
been leaked to Fox News. Quote two sources described the
FBI's view of the duo's interactions as a conspiracy, which
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could open up a wide range of potential prosectorial options.
Duo we're talking about, of course, Comy and Brennan Via
Fox News. Former CIA director John prune Face Brennan and
former FBI director James Stretch Comy under criminal investigation for
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potential wrong du potential wrongdoing related to the Trump Russia probe,
in including allegedly making false statements to Congress. Justice Department,
sources told Fox News Digital. CIA director John Ratcliffe referred
to evidence of wrongdoing by Brennan to FBI director Cash
Betel for potential prosecution. DOJ's sources told Fox News Digital.
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The sources said that the referral was received in Fox
News Digital that a criminal investigation into Prune Face Brennan
was opened and is underway. DOJ sources declined to provide
further details. Unclear at this point if the investigation spans
beyond his alleged lying to Congress. As for Stretch Comy,
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DOJ sources said that an investigation into the former director
is underway, but could not share details of what specifically
is being probe. The full scope of the criminal investigation
into Brennan and Comy is unclear, but two sources describe
the FBI's view of the duo's interactions as a quote conspiracy,
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which could open up a wide range of potential prosecutorial options.
The FBI and CIA declined comment, I hope it's true.
I hope we.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
Finally get to see justice from these guys, but I
don't know the timing of it in relation to the
Epstein debacle, to me like it's possibly.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
More of a distraction than an actual prosecution. I hope
it's the latter. I hope they're prosecuting them. We already
know they lied. We already know the scum that those two,
as well as fifty one others are but I'm not
holding my breath on this one at all, though I
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am keeping a good thought two six fifteen eighty toll
free eight eight eight four four one fifteen eighty on
the on the good news side, on the actual stuff
that actually did happen, the Supreme Court green lights Trump's
administration planned a downsize government and shrink government payroll. Supreme
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Court has approved a request for intervention by the High
Court and blocked a lower level court ruling that stopped
Trump from reducing the size of government in an eight
to one ruling with only Catanji Brown Jackson in descent.
The Court has stayed the lower court ruling. And wow, KBJ,
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you know it's obvious she's an idiot, just a complete,
inarticulate moron who talks way too much. And as Sundance says,
and we already know, KBJ was a radical dei implant
operation conducted by the people around former President Barry Storro
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and the people around President Obama knew how stupid and
ideological KBJ was about constitutional law when they organized her
ascension plan. Stupidity was a feature of their agenda, not
a flaw. She's an embarrassment to the Court and to
our nation, Hell.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
What was it? Was it?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Sotomayor KBJ starts rattling off about out the wrong case.
I mean, just see this sore on the gateway pundit.
Eight one decision Supreme Court obliterated the Clinton appointed Judge
Susan Ilston's May twenty second injunction that had blocked Trump's
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sweeping plan to slash the federal bloat and reorganized twenty agencies.
Only Justice Kateenji Brown Jackson dissented, and even her fellow
liberal Justice Sonya Sotomayor had to coach here on the
basics of the case. Damn Judge eilsten Uh. The order
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froze thousands of reduction in force notices and slammed the
brakes on Trump's Executive Order fourteen to two ten, which
directs agency heads to quote promptly undertake preparations to initiate
large scale reductions in force. The order is the cornerstone
of Trump's pledge to de weaponize the bureaucracy and returned
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power to the people. Jackson, who appeared to be arguing
a case entirely different from the one that was actually
before the court, was the only one in descent. In
her fiery fifteen page descent, this broad talks way too much,
Jackson launched into a long winded history lesson about executive overreach,
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Congress's role in creating federal agencies in the past president's
requests for reorganization authority. She insisted that Trump's Executive Order
fourteen two ten amounted to an illegal, critical transformation of
the federal bureaucracy that could not move forward out congressional approval.
But her alarmist was descent was so far off base
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that even Justice Sotomayo had to step in and gently
remind Jackson that the Court wasn't even ruling on the
merits of the reorganization plans himself. So to my arm
made it abundantly clear in her concurrence, the Executive Order
merely instructed agencies to plan reorganizations quote, consistent with applicable law.
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The actual restructuring plans haven't even been challenged in this phase.
The case is about their legality. Whoo whooh, she says,
I agree, So to my owner, I agree with Justice
Jackson that the President cannot restructure federal agencies in a
manner inconsistent with congressional mandates. However, the relevant executive order
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directs agencies to plan reorganizations and reductions in force consistent
with applicable law. Application for Stay two A, and the
resulting joint memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget
in the Office of Personnel Management reiterates as much the
plans themselves are not before this court at this stage.
We thus have no occasion to consider whether they can
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and will be carried out consistent with the constraints of law.
So I joined the court's state because it leaves the
District Court free to consider those questions. In the first instance,
She's an idiot KBJ. I mean, just a blithering idiot.
And when even you get your leftist colleagues to say, hey,
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stupid sh you know she's an idiot two six, fifteen
eighty toll Free eight eight eight four four one fifteen eighty.
This disturbing news. I'm not into the whole cloud seating thing.
I think it's I think it's stupid. I think you
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need to let nature take its course. And we now
have the CEO of a weather modification company revealing that
cloud seating operations were in fact conducted in Texas just
two days before the deadly flood not good? Huh.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Could he be opening him his company to a lawsuit?
I think possibly? CEO of weather modification technology company has
confirmed that cloud seating operations did take place in Texas
just two days before the deadly Central Texas flood occurred.
NBC News reported that Augustus do Rico, the CEO of
rain Maker, a weather modification company, said that planes had
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released silver iodide in the atmosphere in Texas two days
prior to the fatal floods that have claimed over one
hundred lives. Do Rico claims the cloud seating operations did
not cause the flooding in Texas. Well, if it caused
the rain, how did it not cause the flooding? Per Bloomberg.
According to Dorico, Rainmaker flew a brief twenty minute cloud
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seating mission in south central Texas last Tuesday, but suspended
all operations that same day due to abnormally eye moisture
content in the air. The two clouds seated during the
Tuesday flight would have dissipated after a few hours and
would have had no effect on the floods. Several days later,
he added, well, that could just be him covering his butt.
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Cloud seating involves using chemicals, often particles of silver iodide,
to trigger the formation of ice crystals or droplets from
water that's already present in a cloud but not being
efficiently turned into rain. Though the technique has been studied
for decades, it remains difficult to predict the additional rainfall
that cloud seating operations can generate, with estimates ranging widely
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from zero to twenty percent. What is clear is that
the technique would not have been able to generate the
record breaking rainfall seen in Texas, so there's a little
bit of good news there. So much rain fell that
the Guadalupe River at Kerrville, one of the epicenters of
the floods, rose some twenty six feet in less than
an hour overnight on Friday.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Based on meteorological evidence, the Texas floods were caused by
a powerful natural weather system, with the thunderstorms fed by
very moist air from the warm Gulf of Mexico, said
Andrew Charlton Perez, professor of meteorology at the University of
Reading in the UK, in a post on xd RICO
shared quote. The last seating mission prior to the July
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fourth event was nearly was done during the early afternoon
of July second, when a brief cloud seating mission was
flown over the eastern portions of south central Texas and
two clouds were seated. Yet the clouds that were seated
on July second dissipated over twenty four hours prior to
the developing storm complex that would produce the flooding rainfall.
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Did Rainmaker conduct any operations that could have impacted the floods? No,
The last seating mission prior to the fourth was during
the afternoon of July second, So he's claiming no. I'm
thinking he's probably correct, but still, I just don't like that.
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The whole idea of weather modification, I find it rather disturbing.
I don't think we need to be doing it.
Speaker 10 (18:08):
Come on, I ain't asking for the world here. I'm
just asking for eight ball and two million dollars owed
somebody in his family. Think about somebody else for once.
Speaker 11 (18:17):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks News Radio
fifteen eighty WCCs.
Speaker 12 (18:25):
I'm starting to see more and more stories out there
and hearing more and more from Americans who bought homes
over the past few years with mortgage rates at six
point five percent or higher. Gambling, gambling, basically keeping their
fingers crossed that rates were going to come down and
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they were going to be able to refinance.
Speaker 13 (18:51):
That hasn't happened.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
And here's here's a.
Speaker 13 (18:55):
Tip, people, you don't do that.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
You don't do that.
Speaker 13 (19:02):
You basically, when you buy a home, that home payment
that you're paying, you better make sure that you can
afford it. You don't say to yourself, hey, you know,
we can pay a little bit more for a few
months and then rates are gonna come down and we're
going to refinance.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Never ever do that.
Speaker 13 (19:22):
Watchdog on Wall Street dot Com.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FMWCCF nine
thirty two on a home day Wednesday, here at Charlotte
County Speaks Ken Lovejoy with you and via teams, I've
got doctor Josh McCaughey, air Force colonel, a candidate for
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina and author of Be the
Weight Behind the Spear. Doctor, thank you very much for
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taking time to be with us this morning.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
Very good morning. Thank you for having me on the show.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So now you've got a huge resume here which I
hope gets you elected, because let's face it, maybe you
should be running for governor, not lieutenant governor, but a
commander of the four fifty ninth Aeromedical Staging Squadron at
Aviews Andrews Air Base. You got a Pulett surprise nominee
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for your book, be the Weight Behind the Spear, Leader
of the Weight Behind the Spear Foundation, and you all
were also involved in a lot of the flood recovery
that took place during Helene. Tell us more about that
and tell us what you think how this big, beautiful
bill is going to be impacting healthcare.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
So yeah, thank you very much, appreciate that warm introduction.
You know, the Weight behind the Spear Foundation, I'm very
proud to be a part of that. We've partnered with
Samaritan's Purse and Edward Graham. So I was last up
in western North Carolina about three weeks ago with Edward
Graham getting a tour of the area. There's still a
lot of damage from Hurricane Helene. We're definitely opening for
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business in western North Carolina, so please come visit one
of the more beautiful parts of the country, but there's
still quite a bit of damage and lots of construction
to go. You know, it's a great organization. It's taken
a lot of time. But you know, if people do
want to learn more on how they can contribute, they
can go to Wait behind the Spear, dot Com, w E, I,
G H T and Forward Slash Foundation.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Awesome. So how does how do you think that the
big beautiful bill is going to impact healthcare?
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Now?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I mean you're right there in the second certainly.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
Yeah. So I'm an emergency position. I've practiced for twenty years.
I was a duke professor. You know, there have been
some big concerns with this bill about some Medicaid cuts,
and you know, I just want to set that record straight.
The Democrats really every time you try to cut any program,
you know, they screamed, the sky is falling, the sky
is falling. Everyone's going to lose their medical lose their Medicaid.
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That's not true. So there were stiff they were in
the bill. It specifically stated, you know, if you are
a single mother, if you have children under fourteen years
of age, if you have a disability, if you're a
disabled veteran, you will not have any effects. Now, if
you're an able bodied man or woman. You're twenty twenty
five years old, you know, on medicaid, you know, have
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a work requirement. Good, so eighty hours a week, it's
it's very eighty hours a month. And so you know,
that's not too much to ask. It doesn't even have
to be work. It can be volunteer work. Personally. I
used to work eighty hours a week or more as
a resident physician. Yeah, so you're crime your river, okaywo
hours a month. It's not too much to ask.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
A lot of people might not know, but going through residency,
you guys get beat up pretty good.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
Oh, I worked one hundred and ten. I think my
record was one hundred and ten hours when I was
on your thraascic surgery. Incredibly unsafe. I think it's the
illegal now, but this was, you know, twenty some years ago.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
So and I don't think anybody on our side of
the aisle would disagree with if you're able bodied, you know,
hanging around at home doing nothing and getting medicaid, you
need to be working and you know, welfare and unemployment,
I mean that stuff needs to be You need to
be out there working and earning. You know, you don't work,
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you don't eat and too many people are just on
the couch collecting what I find amazing amounts of money
for doing absolutely nothing.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
And the Congressional Budget Office when they did some calculations
on that, I think they underestimated it a bit. But
there should get about three hundred and twenty five billion
dollars in, you know, getting people off of Medicaid that
are perfectly capable and able to work. And I think
it's more important than just the financial side of that.
But when people get out and work, you take pride
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in work. You take pride in being part of something
an organization, or contributing to your community. You know that
loss of that work ethic and pride in working, you know,
has had a significant impact on the amount of people
that are now jumping on Medicaid. And you see anxiety, depression.
I see a lot of suicides in my emergency department.
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You know, this younger population has a lot of struggles.
There's been a lot of unique challenges and just getting
them back to work is a huge part of getting
them back to that path on recovery for mental health.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
True, and as well, there was a lot of illegal
aliens that were on the Medicaid doal too and this
is going to be able to remove them as well.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
Correct, Yes, well, they put specific language in the bill,
but the Senate parliamentarian removed it. So there was questions
on whether that was even illegal or not to do so,
but the specific requirement was removed. Now, illegal immigration, you
know that they're not supposed to have act to those,
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but that's been overridden by several states, you know, majority
blue states when you look at More, the West Coast, California,
even New York, they were granting some access to those.
It's not supposed to happen, but that specific language was
removed from the bill.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Unfortunately, in regards to defense spending, how do you think
that's the big beautiful bill affects that.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
Well. As a military commander, so I just finished my
command tour at Andrews my fiscal year twenty three, So
twenty twenty three, I was operating on thirteen percent of
my budget request one three, which is absolutely insane. And
when you talk about how I'm so much happier with
the Trump administration's focus on military readiness and delivering that lethality,
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this is exactly what I'm talking about. You put your
money where your mouth is that increased budget is going
to help us get ready and prepare for future engagement
engagements hopefully if we don't have those, but you have
to be ready. That readiness is deterrence. And when you're
doing it at thirteen percent, you can just imagine any
organization running on thirteen percent of their budget, it's not
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going to get the mission done.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Now, you were also active duty during the time of
Trump's first term and then you got to see Biden's term.
Can give us a little bit of the contrast between
the two.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Yeah, so I was an active reservist. So yeah, not
active duty, but as an active reservist, you know, commander
at Andrews Air Force Base, the focus on the previous administration,
and you know, I support civilian led leadership for our military.
It's been that way since our inception. I support the Constitution.
I disagreed with a lot of the policies of the
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Biden administration. The really hard push towards quotas and DEI was,
it was quite crippling, and you saw the effect that
it had on morale and recruiting. I mean, the numbers
speak for themselves. Who were missioning recruiting goal after a
recruiting goal within one month. Going from November the election
in twenty twenty four to December, blew through their recruiting goals.
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We have met our entire yearly recruiting goal for the
Air Force three or four months early. People are taking
pride in serving in our military, wearing that uniform, being
part of that mission to deliver lethality when called upon.
That's why people serve this country, that type of pride,
and it's great to see. I'm very happy with this industry.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah, definitely. Most definitely back to North Carolina. I'm not
too impressed with your governor and you're running for lieutenant governor.
What's the political landscape looking like up there?
Speaker 8 (27:44):
So? North Carolina has become a swing state. It's a
battleground state in presidential elections. We were able to pull
through for Trump in twenty twenty four. Unfortunately, we had
a governor candidate in twenty twenty four that had I
think a lot of people saw that CNN hit piece
on Mark Robinson just months before the general election. That
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was pretty devastating. It took down the entire party. We
lost our governor race, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, as
well as Attorney general. So it's it's a very reliably
red state anywhere outside of Charlotte and Raleigh and and
tiny blue dots in Ashville. But we really are looking
for some purpose driven leadership, some true conservative leadership, and
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I'm going to step in and fill that role here
at the lieutenant governor.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
H Yeah, you would think that the Republicans might have
a better chance just based on the performance of the
governor during Helene and since hasn't been fantastic in my opinion,
in regards to, you know, helping the actual people of
North Carolina. Who's the who's the governor candidate?
Speaker 8 (28:54):
So so it's right now we have it's Josh Stein,
and it's been nothing more than a continuation of Cooper's
failed policies in North Carolina. The Lieutenant Governor Rachel Hunt
is just more continuation of those bad policies, and we
need some we need some balance in Raleigh, and that's
where I'm going to step in and take over that
lieutenant governor position.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Awesome, Uh, what are your what's your reaction to, uh
to Tom tillis not running again for Senator.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
Yeah, that was huge news throughout all of North Carolina.
Sent a lot of reverberations and nationally as well, because
this seat is going to determine who maintains control of
the Senate of the US Senate. So there have been
some big names. I've certainly had a lot of discussions
with my team who have been in discussions with the
Trump you know campaign as well. You know, we've taught
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Laura Trump is probably the biggest name, along with Michael Wattley.
And then there's a couple of congressmen that have been
you know, talked about as well. Pat Harrigan is probably
one of the biggest professional members in North Carolina that's
getting a close look at. And well, we're happy to
support whoever comes out of that with the Trump's blessings.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So tell us a little bit about the book, Be
the Weight behind the Sphere again, congratulations recently nominated for
a Pulitzer Prize. Tell us more about the book and
where people can get it.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
Yeah, thank you very much. So Be the Weight behind
the Spear is my personal leadership ethos. We've had an
entire generation of Americans now that have been shut out
of school, shut out of churches and their communities, and
we have a very huge mental health crisis. This is
what I deal with my emergency department every day. We
need people to engage their communities. This is my prescription
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to address this issue and hopefully save this next generation,
build our next generation of leaders. It's available. We have
an audiobook, an ebook, and the paperback. It's at Amazon
dot com. It's at Barnes and Noble. And if you
go to Weight behind the Spear dot com w E
I G H T Weight behind the Spear dot com
you can learn more. There's a lot of videos and
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information on what we're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
And how can people find your campaign website.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
So we are stronger together. Life is a team sport
and I need everybody on board. It's stronger NC dot.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Com, Stronger NC dot Com. So log on there, folks
and drop a dime in the kiddie form. We need
more people like him, particularly in North Carolina. They need
some help up there. And again, thank you very much
for your service and continued success. We've been talking with
doctor Josh McConkey, also Air Force colonel combat physician, running
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for the position of Lieutenant governor in North Carolina and
that's coming up next year.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
Eh yes, sir, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Best of luck to you and we hope talk to
you again.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Sir.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
All right, thank you, quick break, folks, and we'll be
right back.
Speaker 10 (32:04):
Come on, I ain't asking for the world here. I'm
just asking for eight ball and two million dollars owed
somebody in this family. Think about somebody else for want.
Speaker 11 (32:14):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County speaks on news
radio fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 14 (32:22):
Five years ago. My brother decided to be a vegan,
and I've spent multiple Thanksgivings with him, and I one
hundred percent would prefer my next Thanksgiving start with my
dad walking in and saying, I'm a lady now. Then
I went spending another Thanksgiving where my brother keeps asking me,
is there butter in this? I'm like, there's butter in everything?
Speaker 4 (32:44):
That is the true meaning of Thanksgiving?
Speaker 14 (32:46):
Is butter in everything? My brother, who's hardcore. My brother
will not eat honey. My brother said, the vegans who
eat honey are called vegans. I found out he didn't
eat honey because one day he was over my apartment
and I just sort of threw a granola barb at
him because he looked like he was starving, and he
picked it up, and he just started reading the label.
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If there was a logo for veganism, it should be
someone at your home reading a label.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Found a problem, mon.
Speaker 15 (33:50):
Ray, keep song fall. Loads of cheese that.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Fall from my eyes.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
As I see in my brood.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Set down and the doom that's red.
Speaker 15 (34:25):
It's a sea.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Old blue.
Speaker 15 (34:36):
I can't help. I can't help but thinking.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Like when the sun.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
Used to come shining in my back door.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Now the sun it's time to rain.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
Oh my laught and has time to pay.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
It's a pain.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Love the same, Oh. Blues News Radio fifteen eighty one
hundred point nine FMWCCF nine point fifty three on the
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money on a humpday Wednesday, the little Peter Frampton in
the background doing some blues for us. Today is today
really the shortest day in history, as a lot of
websites and news reports have been coming out, no new
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it isn't that was actually last year. Yep, yep, yep.
The rotation of the Earth speeds up and slows down
depending on a few things. The biggest factor is how
far away the moon is. And the good news if
you're having a rough one, today is going to be
one point three milliseconds shorter than normal. Yeah yeah, yeah,
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less than the blink of an eye. That's just over
one one thousandth of a second that you won't have
to experience. The bad news is you're not going to
notice it at all, and it is not actually a record.
Dailymail dot Com went full clickbait with their headline calling
it the shortest den history, but according to calculations, it
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won't even be the shortest day of twenty twenty five.
July twenty second is going to be one point three
eight milliseconds shorter, and August fifth will be the shortest
day of this year at one point five milliseconds short
of a full twenty four hours. There's an outside chance
the Earth spins slightly faster than expected today, but the
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shortest day ever recorded was last year on July fifth,
twenty twenty four, which was one point six six milliseconds shorter.
So again, blink of an eye, you're not going to
notice it. Two oh six fifteen eighty. What else we
(37:36):
got here, Oh, Travel and Leisure, This is the big
news here. In fact, we can call it breaking news, really,
isn't I just wanted to push the button?
Speaker 7 (37:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Travel and Leisure put out its annual list of the
top US cities to visit, and for the very first
time since twenty twelve, Charleston, southa Is not number one.
Charleston held the top spot for twelve straight years, but
one hundred and eighty thousand readers voted and the newest
(38:12):
best bestest city in America is Santa Feed No Mexico,
Santa Fe. So you got that going for you. Santa
Fe scored the highest thanks to its three hundred days
of sunshine, excellent food options, natural beauty. Charleston fel to
(38:34):
number three this year. Top US cities to visit according
to Travel in Leisure in the year twenty twenty five
are Santa Fe, New Orleans take your flat jacket with you, Charleston, Savannah, Georgia, Alexandria, Virginia, Honolulu,
Been there, nice, beautiful, Got to visit it, Greenville, South Carolina,
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New York, New York City. Yeah, I guess you probably
want to go visit it before it goes straight to
hell because it is Another great city that you can
go visit is Ashville, North Carolina. One of my best
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friends still lives up there. I just had some friends
go up there and visit too, so Chicago. Been to
Chicago back in the eighties, had a good time there,
saw some museums. Went to second city, Santa Fe ranked
nineteenth worldwide. The number one city in world that Travel
(39:42):
and Leisure said you need to go visit is Central
Mexico's San Miguel de Allende. Mexico City also made the
top ten at number seven. Chiang Mai, Thailand is second worldwide.
The Tokyo Bangkok Jaipur, India, book your travel plans. I
(40:04):
guess now? Uh? You happy? You?
Speaker 4 (40:10):
You?
Speaker 7 (40:10):
You?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Hourly workers? Are you happy in your in your jeb?
Do you like your jib? You want a nine to
five that pays hourly? Apparently here's the top job that
you need to apply for. You just might just buy
Cheetos in bulk. A new poll of shift workers found
that the happiest hourly job you can have is that
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a weed or vape store.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Marijuana, the burning weed when it's roots in.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Hell of weed and vape store employees feel good or
amazing about their job. National average across all hourly jobs
was seventy eight percent. Seems kind of high.
Speaker 8 (41:00):
Get it.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Here are the five hourly jobs with the highest job
satisfaction number. One weeder vape stores at ninety two percent,
catering at ninety one percent, cafes and coffee shops at
ninety percent, dentist office ninety percent, and gym's eighty nine percent.
Hourly employees at community centers, sit down restaurants, and gun
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shops also ranked very high in job satisfaction. At the
other end of the list, hourly workers at pharmacies are
most likely to feel stressed or frustrated by their job.
Rest of the bottom five. Postal workers. Yeah, yeah, because
they feel a little guilty about facilitating vote fraud. Probably.
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Amazon drivers aren't that happy. Make a good wage, but
having to pee in a bottle doesn't really. Yeah, they
get hassled quite a bit. People at veterinary clinics, hourly
workers at doctors' offices, and other hourly jobs in healthcare.
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All right, there you go. Fake news radio update on
the way. We'll be back. WCCF Punta Gordon
Speaker 7 (42:20):
Shauna County's only news talk radio station, serving you around
the clock.
Giggity giey geggity goo.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Earth is spinning slightly faster, making July ninth, July twenty second,
and August fifth up to one point five milliseconds shorter.
At this rate, we will have a twenty five hour
day in just two hundred million years. So if you
are running late, congratulations, you're technically early by a fraction
of a blink. Now go enjoy your extra micro nap.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
This is not headline news.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Several websites so reporting that today will be one of
the shortest days in history due to the Earth's rotation.
If you want to make it last longer, just watch golf.
Shoppers are expected to pay nearly twenty four billion dollars
during the four days of Amazon Prime Day. If my
calculations are correct, that's enough to pay for Jeff Bezos'
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next three weddings. Timothy Chalomy shaved his head or the
next Dune movie, and somehow the top of his head
still has more hair than his mustache, and bacon flavored
cinnamon toast crunch is now for sale. Not to be outdone,
Cheerios now includes rocks of black tar heroin. This is
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not headline news.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Wake up the cup.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
It cannot joy a gallon, canjam cab.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Cam in this present crisis. Government is not the solution
to our problem. Government is the problem.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
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Speaker 1 (02:51):
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thousands of hours of myself. You got the Clay and
the Buck, the Dana, the Jesse. So you're good to go.
Got some stuff coming up here. July twentieth, one to
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five pm down at the Wyvern in Pontagorda. You can
it's going to be a Warrior Wellness fundraiser and you
can join for a special evening dedicated afternoon, really dedicated
to honoring and supporting our local veterans through Warrior Wellness.
It's an organization that empowers those who've served by providing
access to essential health and wellness services. Your generous contributions
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will support directly veterans by funding gym memberships, personal training sessions,
swimming lessons, holistic health services. Warrior Wellness committed to fostering
not only physical fitness, but also mental and emotional well
being through camaraderie and a strong sense of community or deuvs.
All kinds of stuff else going on, silent auctions and
(04:25):
whatnot right there. It's going to be at the Perch
three to sixty rooftop up there at the Wyver July twentieth,
one to five pm. If you need more information or
you'd like to make a donation, log onto Warrior dashw
dot com. Also something important that you should you and
your family should all know how to do, and that
(04:46):
of course is CPR and the Punagorda Charlotte Library is
going to host a family and Friends CPR program taught
by the Punagorda Fire Department. Coming up Tuesday, August fifth,
from five point thirty to seven, You're going to get
a hands on session designed to build your confidence and
responding to sudden cardiac arrest. It's a free class. It
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doesn't provide any certification, but you're gonna leave with a
free informational booklet from SharePoint Health and the knowledge to
make a difference when only seconds count. And you should
all know how to do CPR. Huh, probably could use
a refresher, but I've had many personal intimate moments with
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Resessa Ann, so I think I can probably handle it there.
Coming up bottom of the hour, we're gonna be talking
with doctor Josh mcconkeye. He's an Air Force colonel. He's
also a candidate for Lieutenant governor of North Carolina, and
we're going to be talking about his book, Be The
Weight Behind the Spear, and also how the Big Beautiful
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Bill is going to be affecting healthcare.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
So you got that.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Going for you today. What are we celebrating Not a
whole lot. Really, We've got National Dimples Day, So for
those of you with dimples, the Happy Happy Day National
here we go National Sugar Cookie Day. There we are
something worthy of celebration, and uh, I don't know, I
(06:24):
don't know how this is gonna go here. I this
uh it just seems a little too convenient for this
to pop up. But according to Fox News, usually.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Yeah, so you.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
When the leaks are being leaked, it's usually to the Wappo,
the New York Slimes, CNN. But now this one has
been leaked to Fox News. Quote two sources described the
FBI's view of the duo's interactions as a conspiracy, which
(07:05):
could open up a wide range of potential prosectorial options.
Duo we're talking about, of course, Comy and Brennan Via
Fox News. Former CIA director John prune Face Brennan and
former FBI director James Stretch Comy under criminal investigation for
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potential wrong du potential wrongdoing related to the Trump Russia probe,
in including allegedly making false statements to Congress. Justice Department,
sources told Fox News Digital. CIA director John Ratcliffe referred
to evidence of wrongdoing by Brennan to FBI director Cash
Betel for potential prosecution. DOJ's sources told Fox News Digital.
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The sources said that the referral was received in Fox
News Digital that a criminal investigation into Prune Face Brennan
was opened and is underway. DOJ sources declined to provide
further details. Unclear at this point if the investigation spans
beyond his alleged lying to Congress. As for Stretch Comy,
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DOJ sources said that an investigation into the former director
is underway, but could not share details of what specifically
is being probe. The full scope of the criminal investigation
into Brennan and Comy is unclear, but two sources describe
the FBI's view of the duo's interactions as a quote conspiracy,
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which could open up a wide range of potential prosecutorial options.
The FBI and CIA declined comment, I hope it's true.
I hope we.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
Finally get to see justice from these guys, but I
don't know the timing of it in relation to the
Epstein debacle, to me like it's possibly.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
More of a distraction than an actual prosecution. I hope
it's the latter. I hope they're prosecuting them. We already
know they lied. We already know the scum that those two,
as well as fifty one others are but I'm not
holding my breath on this one at all, though I
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am keeping a good thought two six fifteen eighty toll
free eight eight eight four four one fifteen eighty on
the on the good news side, on the actual stuff
that actually did happen, the Supreme Court green lights Trump's
administration planned a downsize government and shrink government payroll. Supreme
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Court has approved a request for intervention by the High
Court and blocked a lower level court ruling that stopped
Trump from reducing the size of government in an eight
to one ruling with only Catanji Brown Jackson in descent.
The Court has stayed the lower court ruling. And wow, KBJ,
(10:13):
you know it's obvious she's an idiot, just a complete,
inarticulate moron who talks way too much. And as Sundance says,
and we already know, KBJ was a radical dei implant
operation conducted by the people around former President Barry Storro
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and the people around President Obama knew how stupid and
ideological KBJ was about constitutional law when they organized her
ascension plan. Stupidity was a feature of their agenda, not
a flaw. She's an embarrassment to the Court and to
our nation, Hell.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
What was it? Was it?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Sotomayor KBJ starts rattling off about out the wrong case.
I mean, just see this sore on the gateway pundit.
Eight one decision Supreme Court obliterated the Clinton appointed Judge
Susan Ilston's May twenty second injunction that had blocked Trump's
(11:18):
sweeping plan to slash the federal bloat and reorganized twenty agencies.
Only Justice Kateenji Brown Jackson dissented, and even her fellow
liberal Justice Sonya Sotomayor had to coach here on the
basics of the case. Damn Judge eilsten Uh. The order
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froze thousands of reduction in force notices and slammed the
brakes on Trump's Executive Order fourteen to two ten, which
directs agency heads to quote promptly undertake preparations to initiate
large scale reductions in force. The order is the cornerstone
of Trump's pledge to de weaponize the bureaucracy and returned
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power to the people. Jackson, who appeared to be arguing
a case entirely different from the one that was actually
before the court, was the only one in descent. In
her fiery fifteen page descent, this broad talks way too much,
Jackson launched into a long winded history lesson about executive overreach,
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Congress's role in creating federal agencies in the past president's
requests for reorganization authority. She insisted that Trump's Executive Order
fourteen two ten amounted to an illegal, critical transformation of
the federal bureaucracy that could not move forward out congressional approval.
But her alarmist was descent was so far off base
(12:45):
that even Justice Sotomayo had to step in and gently
remind Jackson that the Court wasn't even ruling on the
merits of the reorganization plans himself. So to my arm
made it abundantly clear in her concurrence, the Executive Order
merely instructed agencies to plan reorganizations quote, consistent with applicable law.
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The actual restructuring plans haven't even been challenged in this phase.
The case is about their legality. Whoo whooh, she says,
I agree, So to my owner, I agree with Justice
Jackson that the President cannot restructure federal agencies in a
manner inconsistent with congressional mandates. However, the relevant executive order
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directs agencies to plan reorganizations and reductions in force consistent
with applicable law. Application for Stay two A, and the
resulting joint memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget
in the Office of Personnel Management reiterates as much the
plans themselves are not before this court at this stage.
We thus have no occasion to consider whether they can
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and will be carried out consistent with the constraints of law.
So I joined the court's state because it leaves the
District Court free to consider those questions. In the first instance,
She's an idiot KBJ. I mean, just a blithering idiot.
And when even you get your leftist colleagues to say, hey,
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stupid sh you know she's an idiot two six, fifteen
eighty toll Free eight eight eight four four one fifteen eighty.
This disturbing news. I'm not into the whole cloud seating thing.
I think it's I think it's stupid. I think you
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need to let nature take its course. And we now
have the CEO of a weather modification company revealing that
cloud seating operations were in fact conducted in Texas just
two days before the deadly flood not good? Huh.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Could he be opening him his company to a lawsuit?
I think possibly? CEO of weather modification technology company has
confirmed that cloud seating operations did take place in Texas
just two days before the deadly Central Texas flood occurred.
NBC News reported that Augustus do Rico, the CEO of
rain Maker, a weather modification company, said that planes had
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released silver iodide in the atmosphere in Texas two days
prior to the fatal floods that have claimed over one
hundred lives. Do Rico claims the cloud seating operations did
not cause the flooding in Texas. Well, if it caused
the rain, how did it not cause the flooding? Per Bloomberg.
According to Dorico, Rainmaker flew a brief twenty minute cloud
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seating mission in south central Texas last Tuesday, but suspended
all operations that same day due to abnormally eye moisture
content in the air. The two clouds seated during the
Tuesday flight would have dissipated after a few hours and
would have had no effect on the floods. Several days later,
he added, well, that could just be him covering his butt.
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Cloud seating involves using chemicals, often particles of silver iodide,
to trigger the formation of ice crystals or droplets from
water that's already present in a cloud but not being
efficiently turned into rain. Though the technique has been studied
for decades, it remains difficult to predict the additional rainfall
that cloud seating operations can generate, with estimates ranging widely
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from zero to twenty percent. What is clear is that
the technique would not have been able to generate the
record breaking rainfall seen in Texas, so there's a little
bit of good news there. So much rain fell that
the Guadalupe River at Kerrville, one of the epicenters of
the floods, rose some twenty six feet in less than
an hour overnight on Friday.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Based on meteorological evidence, the Texas floods were caused by
a powerful natural weather system, with the thunderstorms fed by
very moist air from the warm Gulf of Mexico, said
Andrew Charlton Perez, professor of meteorology at the University of
Reading in the UK, in a post on xd RICO
shared quote. The last seating mission prior to the July
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fourth event was nearly was done during the early afternoon
of July second, when a brief cloud seating mission was
flown over the eastern portions of south central Texas and
two clouds were seated. Yet the clouds that were seated
on July second dissipated over twenty four hours prior to
the developing storm complex that would produce the flooding rainfall.
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Did Rainmaker conduct any operations that could have impacted the floods? No,
The last seating mission prior to the fourth was during
the afternoon of July second, So he's claiming no. I'm
thinking he's probably correct, but still, I just don't like that.
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The whole idea of weather modification, I find it rather disturbing.
I don't think we need to be doing it.
Speaker 10 (18:08):
Come on, I ain't asking for the world here. I'm
just asking for eight ball and two million dollars owed
somebody in his family. Think about somebody else for once.
Speaker 11 (18:17):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks News Radio
fifteen eighty WCCs.
Speaker 12 (18:25):
I'm starting to see more and more stories out there
and hearing more and more from Americans who bought homes
over the past few years with mortgage rates at six
point five percent or higher. Gambling, gambling, basically keeping their
fingers crossed that rates were going to come down and
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they were going to be able to refinance.
Speaker 13 (18:51):
That hasn't happened.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
And here's here's a.
Speaker 13 (18:55):
Tip, people, you don't do that.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
You don't do that.
Speaker 13 (19:02):
You basically, when you buy a home, that home payment
that you're paying, you better make sure that you can
afford it. You don't say to yourself, hey, you know,
we can pay a little bit more for a few
months and then rates are gonna come down and we're
going to refinance.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Never ever do that.
Speaker 13 (19:22):
Watchdog on Wall Street dot Com.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FMWCCF nine
thirty two on a home day Wednesday, here at Charlotte
County Speaks Ken Lovejoy with you and via teams, I've
got doctor Josh McCaughey, air Force colonel, a candidate for
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina and author of Be the
Weight Behind the Spear. Doctor, thank you very much for
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taking time to be with us this morning.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
Very good morning. Thank you for having me on the show.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So now you've got a huge resume here which I
hope gets you elected, because let's face it, maybe you
should be running for governor, not lieutenant governor, but a
commander of the four fifty ninth Aeromedical Staging Squadron at
Aviews Andrews Air Base. You got a Pulett surprise nominee
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for your book, be the Weight Behind the Spear, Leader
of the Weight Behind the Spear Foundation, and you all
were also involved in a lot of the flood recovery
that took place during Helene. Tell us more about that
and tell us what you think how this big, beautiful
bill is going to be impacting healthcare.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
So yeah, thank you very much, appreciate that warm introduction.
You know, the Weight behind the Spear Foundation, I'm very
proud to be a part of that. We've partnered with
Samaritan's Purse and Edward Graham. So I was last up
in western North Carolina about three weeks ago with Edward
Graham getting a tour of the area. There's still a
lot of damage from Hurricane Helene. We're definitely opening for
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business in western North Carolina, so please come visit one
of the more beautiful parts of the country, but there's
still quite a bit of damage and lots of construction
to go. You know, it's a great organization. It's taken
a lot of time. But you know, if people do
want to learn more on how they can contribute, they
can go to Wait behind the Spear, dot Com, w E, I,
G H T and Forward Slash Foundation.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Awesome. So how does how do you think that the
big beautiful bill is going to impact healthcare?
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Now?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I mean you're right there in the second certainly.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
Yeah. So I'm an emergency position. I've practiced for twenty years.
I was a duke professor. You know, there have been
some big concerns with this bill about some Medicaid cuts,
and you know, I just want to set that record straight.
The Democrats really every time you try to cut any program,
you know, they screamed, the sky is falling, the sky
is falling. Everyone's going to lose their medical lose their Medicaid.
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That's not true. So there were stiff they were in
the bill. It specifically stated, you know, if you are
a single mother, if you have children under fourteen years
of age, if you have a disability, if you're a
disabled veteran, you will not have any effects. Now, if
you're an able bodied man or woman. You're twenty twenty
five years old, you know, on medicaid, you know, have
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a work requirement. Good, so eighty hours a week, it's
it's very eighty hours a month. And so you know,
that's not too much to ask. It doesn't even have
to be work. It can be volunteer work. Personally. I
used to work eighty hours a week or more as
a resident physician. Yeah, so you're crime your river, okaywo
hours a month. It's not too much to ask.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
A lot of people might not know, but going through residency,
you guys get beat up pretty good.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
Oh, I worked one hundred and ten. I think my
record was one hundred and ten hours when I was
on your thraascic surgery. Incredibly unsafe. I think it's the
illegal now, but this was, you know, twenty some years ago.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
So and I don't think anybody on our side of
the aisle would disagree with if you're able bodied, you know,
hanging around at home doing nothing and getting medicaid, you
need to be working and you know, welfare and unemployment,
I mean that stuff needs to be You need to
be out there working and earning. You know, you don't work,
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you don't eat and too many people are just on
the couch collecting what I find amazing amounts of money
for doing absolutely nothing.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
And the Congressional Budget Office when they did some calculations
on that, I think they underestimated it a bit. But
there should get about three hundred and twenty five billion
dollars in, you know, getting people off of Medicaid that
are perfectly capable and able to work. And I think
it's more important than just the financial side of that.
But when people get out and work, you take pride
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in work. You take pride in being part of something
an organization, or contributing to your community. You know that
loss of that work ethic and pride in working, you know,
has had a significant impact on the amount of people
that are now jumping on Medicaid. And you see anxiety, depression.
I see a lot of suicides in my emergency department.
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You know, this younger population has a lot of struggles.
There's been a lot of unique challenges and just getting
them back to work is a huge part of getting
them back to that path on recovery for mental health.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
True, and as well, there was a lot of illegal
aliens that were on the Medicaid doal too and this
is going to be able to remove them as well.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
Correct, Yes, well, they put specific language in the bill,
but the Senate parliamentarian removed it. So there was questions
on whether that was even illegal or not to do so,
but the specific requirement was removed. Now, illegal immigration, you
know that they're not supposed to have act to those,
(25:00):
but that's been overridden by several states, you know, majority
blue states when you look at More, the West Coast, California,
even New York, they were granting some access to those.
It's not supposed to happen, but that specific language was
removed from the bill.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Unfortunately, in regards to defense spending, how do you think
that's the big beautiful bill affects that.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
Well. As a military commander, so I just finished my
command tour at Andrews my fiscal year twenty three, So
twenty twenty three, I was operating on thirteen percent of
my budget request one three, which is absolutely insane. And
when you talk about how I'm so much happier with
the Trump administration's focus on military readiness and delivering that lethality,
(25:48):
this is exactly what I'm talking about. You put your
money where your mouth is that increased budget is going
to help us get ready and prepare for future engagement
engagements hopefully if we don't have those, but you have
to be ready. That readiness is deterrence. And when you're
doing it at thirteen percent, you can just imagine any
organization running on thirteen percent of their budget, it's not
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going to get the mission done.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Now, you were also active duty during the time of
Trump's first term and then you got to see Biden's term.
Can give us a little bit of the contrast between
the two.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Yeah, so I was an active reservist. So yeah, not
active duty, but as an active reservist, you know, commander
at Andrews Air Force Base, the focus on the previous administration,
and you know, I support civilian led leadership for our military.
It's been that way since our inception. I support the Constitution.
I disagreed with a lot of the policies of the
(26:43):
Biden administration. The really hard push towards quotas and DEI was,
it was quite crippling, and you saw the effect that
it had on morale and recruiting. I mean, the numbers
speak for themselves. Who were missioning recruiting goal after a
recruiting goal within one month. Going from November the election
in twenty twenty four to December, blew through their recruiting goals.
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We have met our entire yearly recruiting goal for the
Air Force three or four months early. People are taking
pride in serving in our military, wearing that uniform, being
part of that mission to deliver lethality when called upon.
That's why people serve this country, that type of pride,
and it's great to see. I'm very happy with this industry.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah, definitely. Most definitely back to North Carolina. I'm not
too impressed with your governor and you're running for lieutenant governor.
What's the political landscape looking like up there?
Speaker 8 (27:44):
So? North Carolina has become a swing state. It's a
battleground state in presidential elections. We were able to pull
through for Trump in twenty twenty four. Unfortunately, we had
a governor candidate in twenty twenty four that had I
think a lot of people saw that CNN hit piece
on Mark Robinson just months before the general election. That
(28:05):
was pretty devastating. It took down the entire party. We
lost our governor race, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, as
well as Attorney general. So it's it's a very reliably
red state anywhere outside of Charlotte and Raleigh and and
tiny blue dots in Ashville. But we really are looking
for some purpose driven leadership, some true conservative leadership, and
(28:28):
I'm going to step in and fill that role here
at the lieutenant governor.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
H Yeah, you would think that the Republicans might have
a better chance just based on the performance of the
governor during Helene and since hasn't been fantastic in my opinion,
in regards to, you know, helping the actual people of
North Carolina. Who's the who's the governor candidate?
Speaker 8 (28:54):
So so it's right now we have it's Josh Stein,
and it's been nothing more than a continuation of Cooper's
failed policies in North Carolina. The Lieutenant Governor Rachel Hunt
is just more continuation of those bad policies, and we
need some we need some balance in Raleigh, and that's
where I'm going to step in and take over that
lieutenant governor position.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Awesome, Uh, what are your what's your reaction to, uh
to Tom tillis not running again for Senator.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
Yeah, that was huge news throughout all of North Carolina.
Sent a lot of reverberations and nationally as well, because
this seat is going to determine who maintains control of
the Senate of the US Senate. So there have been
some big names. I've certainly had a lot of discussions
with my team who have been in discussions with the
Trump you know campaign as well. You know, we've taught
(29:48):
Laura Trump is probably the biggest name, along with Michael Wattley.
And then there's a couple of congressmen that have been
you know, talked about as well. Pat Harrigan is probably
one of the biggest professional members in North Carolina that's
getting a close look at. And well, we're happy to
support whoever comes out of that with the Trump's blessings.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So tell us a little bit about the book, Be
the Weight behind the Sphere again, congratulations recently nominated for
a Pulitzer Prize. Tell us more about the book and
where people can get it.
Speaker 8 (30:22):
Yeah, thank you very much. So Be the Weight behind
the Spear is my personal leadership ethos. We've had an
entire generation of Americans now that have been shut out
of school, shut out of churches and their communities, and
we have a very huge mental health crisis. This is
what I deal with my emergency department every day. We
need people to engage their communities. This is my prescription
(30:45):
to address this issue and hopefully save this next generation,
build our next generation of leaders. It's available. We have
an audiobook, an ebook, and the paperback. It's at Amazon
dot com. It's at Barnes and Noble. And if you
go to Weight behind the Spear dot com w E
I G H T Weight behind the Spear dot com
you can learn more. There's a lot of videos and
(31:07):
information on what we're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
And how can people find your campaign website.
Speaker 8 (31:14):
So we are stronger together. Life is a team sport
and I need everybody on board. It's stronger NC dot.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Com, Stronger NC dot Com. So log on there, folks
and drop a dime in the kiddie form. We need
more people like him, particularly in North Carolina. They need
some help up there. And again, thank you very much
for your service and continued success. We've been talking with
doctor Josh McConkey, also Air Force colonel combat physician, running
(31:46):
for the position of Lieutenant governor in North Carolina and
that's coming up next year.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
Eh yes, sir, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Best of luck to you and we hope talk to
you again.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Sir.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
All right, thank you, quick break, folks, and we'll be
right back.
Speaker 10 (32:04):
Come on, I ain't asking for the world here. I'm
just asking for eight ball and two million dollars owed
somebody in this family. Think about somebody else for want.
Speaker 11 (32:14):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County speaks on news
radio fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 14 (32:22):
Five years ago. My brother decided to be a vegan,
and I've spent multiple Thanksgivings with him, and I one
hundred percent would prefer my next Thanksgiving start with my
dad walking in and saying, I'm a lady now. Then
I went spending another Thanksgiving where my brother keeps asking me,
is there butter in this? I'm like, there's butter in everything?
Speaker 4 (32:44):
That is the true meaning of Thanksgiving?
Speaker 14 (32:46):
Is butter in everything? My brother, who's hardcore. My brother
will not eat honey. My brother said, the vegans who
eat honey are called vegans. I found out he didn't
eat honey because one day he was over my apartment
and I just sort of threw a granola barb at
him because he looked like he was starving, and he
picked it up, and he just started reading the label.
(33:08):
If there was a logo for veganism, it should be
someone at your home reading a label.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Found a problem, mon.
Speaker 15 (33:50):
Ray, keep song fall. Loads of cheese that.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Fall from my eyes.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
As I see in my brood.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Set down and the doom that's red.
Speaker 15 (34:25):
It's a sea.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Old blue.
Speaker 15 (34:36):
I can't help. I can't help but thinking.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Like when the sun.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
Used to come shining in my back door.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Now the sun it's time to rain.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
Oh my laught and has time to pay.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
It's a pain.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Love the same, Oh. Blues News Radio fifteen eighty one
hundred point nine FMWCCF nine point fifty three on the
(35:37):
money on a humpday Wednesday, the little Peter Frampton in
the background doing some blues for us. Today is today
really the shortest day in history, as a lot of
websites and news reports have been coming out, no new
(36:01):
it isn't that was actually last year. Yep, yep, yep.
The rotation of the Earth speeds up and slows down
depending on a few things. The biggest factor is how
far away the moon is. And the good news if
you're having a rough one, today is going to be
one point three milliseconds shorter than normal. Yeah yeah, yeah,
(36:28):
less than the blink of an eye. That's just over
one one thousandth of a second that you won't have
to experience. The bad news is you're not going to
notice it at all, and it is not actually a record.
Dailymail dot Com went full clickbait with their headline calling
it the shortest den history, but according to calculations, it
(36:50):
won't even be the shortest day of twenty twenty five.
July twenty second is going to be one point three
eight milliseconds shorter, and August fifth will be the shortest
day of this year at one point five milliseconds short
of a full twenty four hours. There's an outside chance
the Earth spins slightly faster than expected today, but the
(37:14):
shortest day ever recorded was last year on July fifth,
twenty twenty four, which was one point six six milliseconds shorter.
So again, blink of an eye, you're not going to
notice it. Two oh six fifteen eighty. What else we
(37:36):
got here, Oh, Travel and Leisure, This is the big
news here. In fact, we can call it breaking news, really,
isn't I just wanted to push the button?
Speaker 7 (37:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Travel and Leisure put out its annual list of the
top US cities to visit, and for the very first
time since twenty twelve, Charleston, southa Is not number one.
Charleston held the top spot for twelve straight years, but
one hundred and eighty thousand readers voted and the newest
(38:12):
best bestest city in America is Santa Feed No Mexico,
Santa Fe. So you got that going for you. Santa
Fe scored the highest thanks to its three hundred days
of sunshine, excellent food options, natural beauty. Charleston fel to
(38:34):
number three this year. Top US cities to visit according
to Travel in Leisure in the year twenty twenty five
are Santa Fe, New Orleans take your flat jacket with you, Charleston, Savannah, Georgia, Alexandria, Virginia, Honolulu,
Been there, nice, beautiful, Got to visit it, Greenville, South Carolina,
(38:57):
New York, New York City. Yeah, I guess you probably
want to go visit it before it goes straight to
hell because it is Another great city that you can
go visit is Ashville, North Carolina. One of my best
(39:18):
friends still lives up there. I just had some friends
go up there and visit too, so Chicago. Been to
Chicago back in the eighties, had a good time there,
saw some museums. Went to second city, Santa Fe ranked
nineteenth worldwide. The number one city in world that Travel
(39:42):
and Leisure said you need to go visit is Central
Mexico's San Miguel de Allende. Mexico City also made the
top ten at number seven. Chiang Mai, Thailand is second worldwide.
The Tokyo Bangkok Jaipur, India, book your travel plans. I
(40:04):
guess now? Uh? You happy? You?
Speaker 4 (40:10):
You?
Speaker 7 (40:10):
You?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Hourly workers? Are you happy in your in your jeb?
Do you like your jib? You want a nine to
five that pays hourly? Apparently here's the top job that
you need to apply for. You just might just buy
Cheetos in bulk. A new poll of shift workers found
that the happiest hourly job you can have is that
(40:37):
a weed or vape store.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Marijuana, the burning weed when it's roots in.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Hell of weed and vape store employees feel good or
amazing about their job. National average across all hourly jobs
was seventy eight percent. Seems kind of high.
Speaker 8 (41:00):
Get it.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Here are the five hourly jobs with the highest job
satisfaction number. One weeder vape stores at ninety two percent,
catering at ninety one percent, cafes and coffee shops at
ninety percent, dentist office ninety percent, and gym's eighty nine percent.
Hourly employees at community centers, sit down restaurants, and gun
(41:23):
shops also ranked very high in job satisfaction. At the
other end of the list, hourly workers at pharmacies are
most likely to feel stressed or frustrated by their job.
Rest of the bottom five. Postal workers. Yeah, yeah, because
they feel a little guilty about facilitating vote fraud. Probably.
(41:44):
Amazon drivers aren't that happy. Make a good wage, but
having to pee in a bottle doesn't really. Yeah, they
get hassled quite a bit. People at veterinary clinics, hourly
workers at doctors' offices, and other hourly jobs in healthcare.
(42:04):
All right, there you go. Fake news radio update on
the way. We'll be back. WCCF Punta Gordon
Speaker 7 (42:20):
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