CSB - Amy Thaler - US Corespondent

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Country, Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on gold Sport,
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
From Well Time to go stateside catch up with the
US corresponded Amy Taylor, Amy, good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good morning, b K. It's a stunning fall day today.
I went for a great hike. I'm loving the weather.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
No, it's been wet and certainly in Otago. Had your
daughter gone to Otaga University, they had some terrible weather
over the weekend. State of emergency was pretty bad.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Actually, oh no, I didn't hear about that. I did
hear about the boat that had some issues, the naval ship,
so you could say, what see what see.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
One hundred million dollars one hundred million dollar naval ship?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yes, right, I hate it when that happens.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Let's get on to I guess the election really getting
down to the business and the countdown to the elections down.
Last week we had the vice presidential debate. Everything seemed
to be pretty nice in that event.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, I have to be honest, b Kay, I didn't
watch it. I mean, I really wanted to see Waltz,
but I just couldn't stomach to see Vance. But I
understand it was really pretty impressive because it was actually
more of a debate than all the other presidential debates
in recent times because they actually debated. They were you know,

(01:28):
talking about policies and issues, and they weren't just going
after each other personally and you know, talking about too
many lives and whatnot. And you know, from what I hear,
Vance is, I mean, Vance is smart. He's Yale educated.
He's a smart, sharp guy, and is the golden boy
to take over if Trump doesn't win. You know, he's

(01:50):
the next up, which is I think kind of scary
because the guy's smart, and he talks well and he
presents well. So I don't know, but the reports are
that he, you know, did very well until the very
end when Waltz asked him, did he agree that Trump
lost the lastic election? And he gave what walt said
was a damning non answer, right, and tried to pivot

(02:14):
to the future, which was about censorship as it related
to COVID. But I don't understand how that's the future
because COVID was in twenty twenty. But that's you know, interesting.
But the Dems jumped on that exchange and thought that
was Waltz's kind of you know, glowing section of the debate.

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And with hours, within hours, they released an ad panning
vance and then they created another really powerful ad showing
previous peaceful transitions of power between the parties, including so
let's it went from Ford to Carter to Reagan to
the first Bush to Clinton to the other Bush, to

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Obama to Trump, and then showed the chaos of January
and they had these lovely notes from president to president
and then just the utter chaos of January sixth with Biden.
It was really really powerful.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Talk about votes and elections, A county clerk I've read
somewhere in Colorado has been convicted of vote rigging from
the last election.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, and I don't think she's going to be the
only one, because apparently they did open some investigations to
a whole slew of them. This woman Tina Peters, who
if you Google and look up the video of her
being arrested, it's quite entertaining. Out of Colorado. She was
convicted of tampering with the voting machines that were under

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her control in a failed attempt to prove that they
were used to rig the last election. The judge told
her off in her sentencing, saying she abused her position
to advance the false claims about the election and as
a result became this celebrity, and Peters, interestingly enough, remained
absolutely defiant and continued that meant that Trump was cheated

(04:06):
out of winning by the voting machines. I don't know
if you remember we talked about the dominion case of
the voting machine. Anyway, it's not looking good for her
or others because I think there are going to be
other cases that are going to come out.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
And on a said note, I guess that the death
toll continues to rise in the in the recent cyclhone
it hit the South, it has We're.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Up to two hundred and twenty seven. Half of those
are in North Carolina. The rest are kind of Tennessee
and Georgia. It is just an absolute mess. They're still
like enormous amounts of mud. The devastation is really shocking.
It's going to be some time. I have friends that
were planning on going down to Ashville, and we were

(04:51):
on the height this morning and talking about it, and
I said, you know, the roads can't even get down there.
But even if you could, the airbnb you booked, you know,
that's going to be used for people that lost their homes.
There's just not going to be the accommodation, and that's
a high tourist environment there. The devastating effects are going
to continue for a long long time. I'm afraid.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Absolutely, thoughts with those people. I mean, great to catch up.
Let's do it again next week. Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Sounds good. BK, have a good one.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
That's a