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Interesting FACTS About Hurricanes, Florida, and "Gorebal" Warming · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: Funny how things work out. Morning friends, Welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: Morning Show with Preston Scott. He's Osea. I'm Preston and ruminators.
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  Speaker 1: Good to be with you, Wednesday, October ninth. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of you from central Florida are up in the listening area,
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  Speaker 1: and of course we have folks listening across the country
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  Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio, and we thank you for that. But it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: I started following this gentleman's work back a few years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and lo and behold, a listener of this show new
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  Speaker 1: personally Scott Beacon, the b Line Blogger, and the website
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  Speaker 1: where you can find his work is bline Blogger dot
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  Speaker 1: blogspot dot com. And now Scott is a friend of
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  Speaker 1: the program. Scott, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great. How you doing this morning in.
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  Speaker 1: Preston, I'm doing well. A couple of weeks ago, we
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  Speaker 1: were not well. We were worried about what was coming
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  Speaker 1: our way. I'm curious you wrote about the aftermath of
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  Speaker 1: Hurricane Helene, But I'm curious why what caused you to
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  Speaker 1: want to do some digging as you normally do and write.
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  Speaker 2: Well. I became a little curious and interested because I
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  Speaker 2: well remember all the media coverage and the things that
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  Speaker 2: went on in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. And if
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  Speaker 2: you recall back to those days, it was just wall
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  Speaker 2: to wall media coverage, the cable news. It was twenty
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  Speaker 2: four to seven New York Times, I think went a
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  Speaker 2: week and almost every story on the front page was Katrina, Katrina,
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  Speaker 2: Katrina and the response. And as you recall, there was
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  Speaker 2: a lot of criticism of FEMA and President Bush as
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  Speaker 2: to how that response was managed. And it just was
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  Speaker 2: kind of interesting when you look at the destruction and
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  Speaker 2: the devastation to the people, especially in the Appalachian area
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  Speaker 2: of western North Carolina eastern Tennessee. It was a very
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  Speaker 2: muted response, and I found that very curious in looking
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  Speaker 2: at what was going on and trying to figure out
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  Speaker 2: why is that. I mean, you know, part of it
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  Speaker 2: could be that, you know, New Orleans was an urban
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  Speaker 2: area easier to get coverage in there you have a
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  Speaker 2: mountainous region. Was that the reason or was it a
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  Speaker 2: reason that the media was really trying to cover for
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  Speaker 2: the Biden administration and the muted response. I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: went through a period of time here. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: saw one summary It was probably a good five or
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  Speaker 2: six days that there was very little with regard to
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  Speaker 2: a federal response, you know, Biden, that did not mobilize,
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  Speaker 2: even though they got the troops there at Fort Bragg
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  Speaker 2: that could easily come over there with equipment, et cetera,
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  Speaker 2: and none of that was done. Didn't seem to happen
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  Speaker 2: until Donald Trump went down to Valdosa, Georgia, kind of
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  Speaker 2: near you, and all of a sudden it kind of
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  Speaker 2: got ramped up. It was just kind of been interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Then Alejandro Mayorcis, Homeland Security Director, announced that there just
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  Speaker 1: won't be enough money should another storm hit. They might
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  Speaker 1: be able to cover everything for this storm, but future
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  Speaker 1: storms are out of money. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people Scott were surprised that FEMA was underneath the auspices
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  Speaker 1: of Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. And you know, when you look at that, and
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  Speaker 2: that's something I looked in as well. You know, FEMA,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, FEMA has a budget of about thirty billion
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  Speaker 2: dollars a year. You know, put that in context. If
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  Speaker 2: it was a Fortune five hundred company, it would be
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  Speaker 2: bigger than McDonald's. They've got fourteen thousand full time equivalent
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  Speaker 2: employees on the payroll of FEMA. And then to say
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  Speaker 2: you don't have enough money, and then you find out,
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  Speaker 2: as the revelations continue, that they funded one point four
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars with regard to illegal immigration, settling, transportation, housing,
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  Speaker 2: shelter and grants over the last couple of years. And
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  Speaker 2: it just makes your head scratch. You're saying, we're spending
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  Speaker 2: this kind of money on illegal immigration, which in some respect,
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  Speaker 2: the open border policy is a man made disaster, and
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  Speaker 2: you have a natural disaster, which really what was FEMA
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  Speaker 2: was created to handle, and there's no money left. It
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  Speaker 2: really is almost unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Get it off your mind, get it off your chest.
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  Speaker 1: You have a story you want to share, Write him
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  Speaker 1: at Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Welcome to the Morning
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  Speaker 1: Show with Preston Scott. All Right, eleven past the Hour
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  Speaker 1: with Scott Beacon and again his work can be found
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  Speaker 1: at Bline Blogger dot blogspot dot com and you will
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  Speaker 1: get some great data driven information and analysis and some
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  Speaker 1: opinion from Scott. Scott. I want to I want to
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  Speaker 1: expand a little bit because we've talked about over the
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  Speaker 1: last few days the money misappropriated by Homeland Security to
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  Speaker 1: shelter illegals that have broken into this country. But you
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  Speaker 1: dug into releases by FEMA, actual releases that delineate where
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  Speaker 1: some of this money is gone in bits and pieces
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  Speaker 1: share some of that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's a long list of headlines that I put
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  Speaker 2: in my blog, you know, with regard to you know,
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  Speaker 2: grants that were given to you to New York City
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  Speaker 2: or this place or that. I mean, it's it's been
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  Speaker 2: parceled out in a lot of different grants for communities
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  Speaker 2: who are receiving the vigrants. I think if you go
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  Speaker 2: back in the history, it started out normally, let's say
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  Speaker 2: in twenty one twenty two. It started primarily in the
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  Speaker 2: border states, who are really taking most of the pressure
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  Speaker 2: early on with the open border situation, and then it
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  Speaker 2: started moving to some of the Blue States as New
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  Speaker 2: York City, Chicago, et cetera, as a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: migrants or illegal immigrants ended up there. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: tremendous amount of money when you look at it, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I could see where the citizens of these
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  Speaker 2: areas affected by Helene are upset because they're sitting there
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  Speaker 2: in dire straits and to find out that illegal immigration
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  Speaker 2: has really stolen that money in some respects, and this
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  Speaker 2: really goes to a point that I'd made in my
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  Speaker 2: blog before. You know, when you look at the topic
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  Speaker 2: of illegal immigration, there's the initial effect, but then there's
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  Speaker 2: a compound effect that goes with that, right that we're
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  Speaker 2: going to look with for years. And this is certainly
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  Speaker 2: a great example of a compound effect because you know,
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  Speaker 2: one point four billion dollars and in the defense of
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  Speaker 2: Biden illustration, Well, that was in a separate account. You
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  Speaker 2: know that really wasn't taken away from the FEMA efforts. Well,
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  Speaker 2: yes it is. I mean, if you have a thirty
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  Speaker 2: billion dollar budget and you've siphoned off money to go
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  Speaker 2: to an illegal immigrant problem, that's money that should be
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  Speaker 2: there to help US citizens deal with the natural disasters.
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  Speaker 2: And the fact that it's not is a compound effect.
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  Speaker 2: And we see the same thing, you know, with our hospitals,
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  Speaker 2: with our schools, with the sustainability issues that legal immigration
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  Speaker 2: just don't get talked about enough. It's affecting every phase
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  Speaker 2: of our life here in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Scott, we documented that in the wake of Michael, which
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  Speaker 1: was impacting not just us a little bit, but certainly
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  Speaker 1: our listeners in the Panama City area directly. There were
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  Speaker 1: no concerts there were no fundraisers, there was nothing made
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  Speaker 1: of it. Many of us believe that it was because
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  Speaker 1: it's a conservative, Republican part of the state that's even
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  Speaker 1: more conservative than the rest of the state. You look
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  Speaker 1: at the area to our east that has been hit
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  Speaker 1: three times in sixteen months. No concerts, no fundraisers, no benefits.
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  Speaker 1: And so we've grown accustomed to certain areas not getting
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  Speaker 1: the favor of the Hollywood and the concert crowds and
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  Speaker 1: the muckety MUCKs because they frankly have overtly said they're
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  Speaker 1: not giving money because those are Republican areas. You pointed
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  Speaker 1: to that in your blog about a lot of these
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  Speaker 1: areas in North Carolina being Trump strongholds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, that western North Carolina area in particular. I
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  Speaker 2: think you look at the numbers from twenty twenty of
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  Speaker 2: the twenty five counties that were declared the federal disaster,
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  Speaker 2: all but two voted for Trump, and they actually provided
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  Speaker 2: him about a twenty five percent margin, So that translates
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  Speaker 2: into about two hundred and thirty four thousand votes, and
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  Speaker 2: he only won the state by seventy four thousand, So
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's a real concern. And when this initially
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  Speaker 2: hurt was Heleian initially hit, And a lot of media
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  Speaker 2: coverage was of assvill Oh. I've been to Asshl a
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  Speaker 2: number of times, AshEL is a very liberal city, yep.
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  Speaker 2: And and I thought that maybe that would turn the
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  Speaker 2: tide a little bit here because that was kind of
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  Speaker 2: an epicenter. But it appears not. And you really see
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  Speaker 2: very little of people from Hollywood or anyplace else that say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: let's have a fundraiser for these people because they're you know,
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of dire straits there.
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  Speaker 1: But Scott, it's one thing for the Hollywood to thumb
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  Speaker 1: their nose at it. We're like, yeah, whatever. But when
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  Speaker 1: the federal government is not delivering aid and you can
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  Speaker 1: start to see the possibilities that it might be to
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  Speaker 1: somehow suppress the vote, that's alarming.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is alarming. And and you look at the
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  Speaker 2: way FEMA is being managed. I mean, I saw a
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  Speaker 2: story this morning that's just as a head scratcher. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: But FEMA delivered to one community there three palettes of
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  Speaker 2: electric chainsaws. Okay, so electric chainsaws at a place that
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  Speaker 2: has no electricity? What does that do? And obviously you've
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  Speaker 2: got to know that why do they have electric chainsaws? Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's green right. We can't have a gas power chain saw.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to deliver electric power chain sauce. It's the
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  Speaker 2: height of idiots.
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  Speaker 1: This is and Ihearts radio station. Back with Scott Beacon,
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  Speaker 1: the Beeline blogger, and he took on the topic of
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  Speaker 1: Hurricane Helene talked about the response or the lack thereof
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  Speaker 1: by the federal government, misappropriation of funding. But Scott, you
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  Speaker 1: also broadened out a little bit. You went to the macro,
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  Speaker 1: which I loved because a constant theme around here is
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  Speaker 1: you always hear the expression we haven't had a storm
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  Speaker 1: like this since, and then there's an and we haven't
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  Speaker 1: had temperatures like this since, and there's a number. And
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  Speaker 1: those numbers are often numbers that go back to long
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  Speaker 1: before the industrial age of this country, long before we
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  Speaker 1: heard about global warming. Tell me what your data showed you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're right, Preston. I mean you typically when you
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  Speaker 2: see storms like this, it's always unprecedented. We haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: anything like this in so many years, and it's all
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  Speaker 2: due to climate change. But if you look at the
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  Speaker 2: area that we're talking about here with Helene, that's those
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  Speaker 2: directly affected up around the Ashville, North Carolina area. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the evidence is they had similar flooding in In fact,
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  Speaker 2: some say it was stronger in nineteen sixteen and again
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen forty. Now I understand, you know people, not
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  Speaker 2: many of us were around in those years and so
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  Speaker 2: people don't have that history. But the reality is they
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  Speaker 2: had just as a severe a situations at that point
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  Speaker 2: in time as we're seeing today. So this really isn't unprecedented.
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  Speaker 2: And you looked back to nineteen sixteen and what were
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  Speaker 2: the global carbon emissions at that point in time, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what caused that flood? I mean, what caused the hurricane
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  Speaker 2: that dropped that amount of rain back in that time. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we keep hearing this that's unprecedented. And if
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  Speaker 2: you have you look at the data, which I've got
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  Speaker 2: a chart in my blog on this topic. It goes
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  Speaker 2: back and shows the hurricanes by decade. There is no
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  Speaker 2: real discernible change in the number of hurricanes by decade.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, you know, I think, as you alluded to before,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you went how many years in Florida without
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  Speaker 2: a major hurricane over a decade? Now you're getting hit.
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  Speaker 2: But you know that's you know, that's the weather. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: if you look at major hurricanes, the data seems to
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  Speaker 2: indicate in the trend since the eighteen fifties, at least
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  Speaker 2: since the nineteen thirties, the trend is actually down. There
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  Speaker 2: were many more severe hurricanes in the early part of
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  Speaker 2: the twentieth centre than we've seen in the twenty first century.
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  Speaker 2: So unfortunately, you know, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, which we're seeing
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  Speaker 2: out in Wyoming and Idaho right now, it's a part
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  Speaker 2: of life. We're not capable of controlling the forces of nature.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's been proven over and over again. The
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  Speaker 2: thing that is controllable or man made disasters like illegal immigration,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, that's really what we ought to be
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  Speaker 2: focusing on, is what we can really control, and forget
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  Speaker 2: about things we can't control, like the climate.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my worry, Scott, is that the decision to
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  Speaker 1: I guess politicize weather is going to at some point
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  Speaker 1: cost lives because people are going to disregard forecasts if
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  Speaker 1: they keep saying that there's going to be this, that
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  Speaker 1: or the other type of storm Category four, category five.
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  Speaker 1: It's like they continue to say that Helene was a
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  Speaker 1: Cat for storm. It just wasn't. There's no days that
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  Speaker 1: indicates it was a Cat three storm, and there's limited
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  Speaker 1: data to show that it might have been a Cat
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  Speaker 1: two storm. But people will start to disregard these forecasts
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  Speaker 1: down the road if they find them to be false,
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  Speaker 1: and they will eventually disregard, and then there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a bad storm at some point and people are
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  Speaker 1: going to die because they will not believe what they're
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  Speaker 1: being told exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And the same thing we're spending. They want to spend
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  Speaker 2: trillions of dollars to fight climate change, and that's taking
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  Speaker 2: away the amount of money that we might need to
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  Speaker 2: actually deal with van the deal with natural disasters that
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  Speaker 2: we would help people, and we're spending on frivolous things
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  Speaker 2: that really aren't going to make a bunch of difference
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  Speaker 2: in the long run anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Scott Beacon with us. Scott is a prolific writer, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll call them a researcher. You just love to crunch
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  Speaker 1: numbers man, You love to dig into data. Tell us
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  Speaker 1: about the latest blog.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I like truth. I mean, that's what I really wanted.
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  Speaker 1: How dare you, sir, bring that word into my show?
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  Speaker 2: And the truth is usually the data. Yeah. My lightest
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  Speaker 2: blog is up this morning is on the whole question
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  Speaker 2: of you know, taxes and the truth about taxes. And
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  Speaker 2: we hear so much about from Kamala Harris, for example,
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  Speaker 2: how she's going to solve all the problems by raising
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  Speaker 2: taxes on billionaires, and I really have the numbers there
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  Speaker 2: that kind of puts that in context and perspective that
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  Speaker 2: it's it's really just a lie. I mean to put
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  Speaker 2: it bluntly, it's a lie. It's not possible to zoo
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  Speaker 2: what she's trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe you would say that there are people
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  Speaker 1: that would lie to us that are running for office. Scott,
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  Speaker 1: You're you're dipping to loads that frankly, sir, are not
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  Speaker 1: becoming Hey, thank you, my friend. I appreciate the time
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, keep up the good work for us, and thanks.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Scott Beacon the b line blogger. You
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  Speaker 1: can read about Scott. You can read all of his
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  Speaker 1: work just go to be line blogger all one word
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  Speaker 1: dot blogspot dot com. MHM