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"Who is to blame for Electric Costs?" (FTTxJT Mon 083126 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Do you support adding four more seats to the Supreme Court, Congressman?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 3: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works at a steel mill. He's damn near every day.
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  Speaker 4: Leaves for work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 5: Drops a kid to school in the long way.
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  Speaker 2: Joe has everything he dreamed of. All the treasures that
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  Speaker 2: he needs.
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  Speaker 6: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 7: He only aims.
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  Speaker 2: To please you. Thank you for letting me be of
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  Speaker 2: service to you this morning. So monomaniacal in our pursuit,
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  Speaker 2: I forget to do things like say, hey, September 11th, 10th, 11th, 12th,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be out in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. When we
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  Speaker 2: get back from there, a big concert situation, which is
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  Speaker 2: if you were around last year, you probably have an
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  Speaker 2: inkling of what it is, but nothing's been announced yet.
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  Speaker 2: So I can't tell you, but wink, wink. nudge, nudge,
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  Speaker 2: say no more, a wink is as good as a
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  Speaker 2: nod to a blind man or whatever the expression was there,
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  Speaker 2: but just for planning purposes only. That's what the sheriff's
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  Speaker 2: departments always say when they send out some press release,
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  Speaker 2: and it's for planning purposes only. But we get just
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  Speaker 2: wound up into the news of the day, and we
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  Speaker 2: just launch right in, And we forget to blow our
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  Speaker 2: own horn, even if it was possible. There, a quick follow-up.
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  Speaker 2: We did the follow-up to the spoof hound, which is
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  Speaker 2: actually that. It's a hound that doesn't do anything. It's
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  Speaker 2: not real. It's legendary. It was created in World War
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  Speaker 2: II by some GI along the way. The car, however,
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  Speaker 2: that we were just talking to Bob, about is not
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  Speaker 2: the Lada, but the Trabant. Trabant is a German automobile,
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  Speaker 2: but unlike the Volkswagens and Audis, it's an East German automobile.
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  Speaker 2: And it's because East Germany didn't have a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of steel. They made, ostensibly made the body panels out
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  Speaker 2: of a mixture of cotton fabric and resin. And it's
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  Speaker 2: the anti- pinto. So the pinto used to start rusting
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  Speaker 2: in the showroom. This one won't ever rust. As a
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact, it's considered a biological eco-hazard because the
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  Speaker 2: body panels just don't break down. And you can't burn
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  Speaker 2: them because of the petrochemicals used to make the resin
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  Speaker 2: that the cloth is in. And it's a mess. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure some East German engineer... This is a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: But our first things this morning, fun and frolic notwithstanding,
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  Speaker 2: lots of things going on in the world. United States
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  Speaker 2: took some shots at rocket launchers along the coast of
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  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, causing the oil
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  Speaker 2: industry to raise its prices because oil That's what they do. Interestingly,
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  Speaker 2: nothing from the oil industry about the huge deal that
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  Speaker 2: the United States cut and Chevron is going to be
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  Speaker 2: into Venezuela getting all those oil derricks working again. One
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  Speaker 2: person has died in 15. Others are missing after a
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  Speaker 2: flash flood in the Grand Canyon. Colorado River knocked out
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  Speaker 2: water pipelines and the National Park Service said A 46-year-old
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  Speaker 2: man was discovered downstream after the flood. Meanwhile, rescuers still
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  Speaker 2: trying to add to the number of people rescued. However,
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  Speaker 2: it seems more and more frequently they find more deceased
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  Speaker 2: as the death toll from the China-Tibet flooding has reached
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  Speaker 2: 900 people. Still 4,700 are missing. Iceland's voters rejected a
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  Speaker 2: plan that would restart negotiations to get the country into
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  Speaker 2: the European Union again. Opponents defeated the measure 52.8% to 47.2%.
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  Speaker 2: Certain reporters from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,
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  Speaker 2: and Bloomberg were not given press credentials to the group
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  Speaker 2: of 20 in Asheville, North Carolina. Scott Besson, Treasury Secretary,
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  Speaker 2: told the Associated Press Sunday that, quote, it has nothing
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  Speaker 2: to do with point of view. They did point out
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  Speaker 2: that New York Times reporter Alan Rappaport was not given
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  Speaker 2: press credentials, but Jim Tankersley was, so therefore you will
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  Speaker 2: get coverage. Department of Homeland Security denies allegations that migrants
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  Speaker 2: in U.S. immigration detention experienced abusive and violent treatment. Former
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  Speaker 2: President Barack Obama is out there campaigning for cash to
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  Speaker 2: help his buddy Eric Holder out in their redistricting campaign.
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  Speaker 2: And those are some of our first things on this
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning here on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 14: Love that guy.
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  Speaker 3: On a need-to-know basis, because you need to know the
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  Speaker 3: first thing today.
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  Speaker 21: More than a ballot, it's about whether we believe that
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  Speaker 21: every person should have a voice in our democracy, and
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  Speaker 21: I do.
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  Speaker 9: It's about.
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  Speaker 21: Mark writes in.
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  Speaker 2: JT in the morning radio at Gmail dot com. Why
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  Speaker 2: do you call it cheating, Joe? If Congressman Clyburn wants
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  Speaker 2: to pack the court and Governor Spanberger wants to give
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  Speaker 2: the vote to whoever is around at the time and
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  Speaker 2: President Obama and Attorney General Holder want to redistrict to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that their party never loses. Why do you
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  Speaker 2: call that cheating? I've checked. Everything they're doing is within
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  Speaker 2: the letter of the law. Mark, I'm going to call
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  Speaker 2: you Greg Brady from here on out because you're doing
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  Speaker 2: the exact words thing. Yes.
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  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 2: The thing about Eric Holder and Barack Obama and I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure somebody, whoever's written her speeches for Abigail Spanberger, they
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  Speaker 2: understand what is legally permissible. Go back to what Clyburn
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  Speaker 2: was saying about packing the court. and in what he
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  Speaker 2: wants this new packed court to do.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, since we are on the topic of the court,
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  Speaker 1: let's speak more broadly about it. Former Vice President Kamala
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  Speaker 1: Harris shares some of your criticisms. Clearly, she's called for
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  Speaker 1: expanding the Supreme Court from nine justices to 13.
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  Speaker 2: Because anything Kamala Harris suggests has got to be good.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, Kristen Welker goes on.
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  Speaker 1: Do you support adding four more seats to the Supreme Court, Congressman?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 23: I think that we are in a position now.
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  Speaker 2: And none of this, none of the idea of adding
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court justices is illegitimate. But what he says about
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  Speaker 2: what he wants them to do is coming up.
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  Speaker 23: It's a pretty good number. A big as dozen will
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  Speaker 23: be a good number to have on the court. And
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  Speaker 23: I would hope we would get people on the court
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  Speaker 23: who will follow... the constitutional underpinnings of this great nation
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  Speaker 23: of ours.
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  Speaker 2: Constitutional underpinnings. Not the Constitution, but the constitutional underpinnings. And
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  Speaker 2: that's the red flag warning right there. He wants to
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  Speaker 2: pack the court with people who look at the aspirations
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  Speaker 2: of welfare. Oh, well, it says promote the general welfare system.
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  Speaker 2: So taking from the rich and giving to the poor
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  Speaker 2: is welfare. And it says welfare is right here in
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  Speaker 2: the constitutional underpinnings, Joe. It's the interpretive dance. It's the
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  Speaker 2: we can make it up as we go along way
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  Speaker 2: of approaching this. That's what he wants. He wants Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court justices that will say, Sure, there's nothing that says
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  Speaker 2: you can have a right to a house, but there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing that says you can't. So we're just going to
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  Speaker 2: invent it. Sort of the John Roberts feelings about the constitutionality.
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  Speaker 2: John Roberts said, well, the law doesn't provide a constitutional
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  Speaker 2: undergirding for Obamacare. So I'm going to change what the
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  Speaker 2: law says so that Congress will have the authority to
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  Speaker 2: to tax. Congress didn't want the authority to levy a
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  Speaker 2: tax because then people might have caught on that Obamacare
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  Speaker 2: wasn't all it was going to be shaken out to be.
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  Speaker 2: But John Roberts carried the water for them. And yes,
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  Speaker 2: John Roberts was appointed by a Republican. Let me get
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  Speaker 2: to you at 434-882-4217. Isaac Orr is going to come
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  Speaker 2: up with us in a little while, talk about data
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  Speaker 2: centers and the bait and switch that's going on with them.
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  Speaker 2: But let me get to you. Good morning. You're on
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  Speaker 2: the air with Joe. First thing this morning. Who's this?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: It's Kareem. Good morning, Kareem. How's your Monday going?
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  Speaker 4: Rainy, foggy, and mountainous.
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  Speaker 2: So beautiful.
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  Speaker 24: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: What part of the country? Is that Virginia or is
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  Speaker 2: that somewhere else?
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  Speaker 4: Western Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. That's all right. Well, once you get into
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  Speaker 2: that part of western Pennsylvania, it's kind of good to
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  Speaker 2: have a fog so that you don't see everything you're
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  Speaker 2: driving into.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I just happened to turn on the radio and
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  Speaker 4: listen to you. That's Jim Clauburn you were playing, correct?
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  Speaker 19: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Ironically, the South Carolina representative to Congress, just like the
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  Speaker 2: one that said we can't get rid of slavery. That
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  Speaker 2: is an interesting point.
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  Speaker 4: Going back a little bit in history, if you recall,
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  Speaker 4: Joe Biden was not doing too well in the primaries,
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  Speaker 4: but once they got to South Carolina, it's suddenly they
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  Speaker 4: all cleaned up and then he, he did very well there.
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  Speaker 2: And the next thing I know, just.
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  Speaker 4: Within 24 hours, most of his, his opponents had dropped out,
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  Speaker 4: pledged their support to him. to a podium and great
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  Speaker 4: dress like a presidential podium. And it gives a, well,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to win the rest of the country.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: He talked about what he would do as president, Jim Clyburn.
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  Speaker 4: There is a judge that everybody was hoping Biden's team
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  Speaker 4: would pick instead of Kataji Brown Jackson, who was much more,
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  Speaker 4: much more.
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  Speaker 2: Seasoned and much more. She knows what a woman is.
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  Speaker 4: I'll put it that way. So to hear Clyburn, who
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  Speaker 4: has for decades towed the line and done everything as film,
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  Speaker 4: working to finally get that judge appointed to the Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 4: even if he has to stack the court, it does
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  Speaker 4: make sense. The things that happened today may be reactionary.
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  Speaker 4: to things that happened yesterday, but chances are they were
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  Speaker 4: because of deals that were made in the past that
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  Speaker 4: were people left holding.
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  Speaker 2: A bag, so to speak.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, Joe, I'll get off so the gentleman can get
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  Speaker 4: on and talk about data centers. You have a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for your call. Drive safely there, Kareem, out in
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  Speaker 2: western PA. Good thing in western PA, most of the
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  Speaker 2: roads until you get into Pittsburgh are straight. And even
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  Speaker 2: the ones that are straight just go way downhill, really far,
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  Speaker 2: really fast. But one of the things he was pointing
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  Speaker 2: out is that statecraft is more often than not about
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  Speaker 2: the preamble to what you're going to say. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Governor Spanberger said, being invited by Al Sharpton to speak
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  Speaker 2: to his Martin Luther King rally. Remember, Martin Luther King
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  Speaker 2: was trying to stop the black vote from being diluted.
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  Speaker 2: And here we are 63 years later trying to dilute
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  Speaker 2: the black vote with a speech or a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: speeches there. This is Governor Spanberger at this rally.
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  Speaker 21: The right to vote is about more than a ballot.
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  Speaker 21: It's about whether we believe that every person should have
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  Speaker 21: a voice in our democracy, and I do.
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  Speaker 2: Notice she didn't say citizen. So whoever wrote the speech
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  Speaker 2: for her made sure the word citizen wasn't there. And
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  Speaker 2: it may sound pedantic to pick on, but these are lawyers.
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  Speaker 2: They're all lawyers. The speechwriters are lawyers. The politicians are lawyers.
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  Speaker 2: They understand that if you don't say a word, then
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  Speaker 2: the word can't be inferred. But the hearer can say, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: she means citizens. No, she doesn't mean citizens. She means anyone.
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  Speaker 2: If you're here, you get to vote. That's what she's
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us this morning. So down there
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  Speaker 2: is all, you know, none of this higher electric costs.
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  Speaker 2: thank you for taking some time out with us this morning, Isaac.
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  Speaker 2: And am I wrong that, you know, the costs of
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• 30:04
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm great, Joe.
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  Speaker 17: Thanks for having me on the show.
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  Speaker 12: So.
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  Speaker 12: Pjm region which is stands for pennsylvania jersey maryland but
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  Speaker 12: other states and there's not enough reliable power plant capacity
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  Speaker 12: essentially that the people at pjm have set up they
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  Speaker 2: Hang on a second here. Hang on one second. So
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  Speaker 2: so first, they're the ones that have closed the power plants.
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  Speaker 2: Then they arbitrarily determine what the electric load is needs
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  Speaker 2: to be and tell us, you know, that's like saying, well,
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  Speaker 12: So PJM doesn't actually close the power plants themselves. The
• 31:17
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• 31:20
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• 31:23
  Speaker 12: of left trying to restack the blocks in the Jenga Tower.
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  Speaker 12: So essentially what's happened over the years, states like Virginia,
• 31:32
  Speaker 12: New Jersey, Maryland have implemented power.
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  Speaker 17: The coal plants to shut down.
• 31:47
  Speaker 12: And they thought that the amount of electricity that we
• 31:50
  Speaker 12: were going to need was going to keep going down forever.
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  Speaker 17: And then all of a sudden, data centers.
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  Speaker 12: You know, become a large consumer of electricity. And all
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: of these blue states that had been the supply of
• 32:06
  Speaker 12: coal and natural gas plants on the system are now
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  Speaker 12: blaming the data centers for wanting electricity instead of their
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  Speaker 12: in the first place.
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  Speaker 2: But the data centers existed. So Ralph Northam was signing
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  Speaker 2: What the load was coming from these data centers. So
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  Speaker 2: it makes it even more impeachable, the decision-making going into this,
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, I agree with that.
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  Speaker 12: There is a big difference between the data centers that
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  Speaker 12: were online before we started using it for artificial intelligence
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• 33:29
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  Speaker 2: So what what is the best answer? I know that
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  Speaker 2: let us build our own power generating facilities. We'll cover
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  Speaker 2: our roofs with solar panels and put, you know, small
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  Speaker 2: come through an area and everything like that. Is that
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  Speaker 17: I think that deserves to be one of the answers.
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  Speaker 12: And I think it's frankly a good answer because if
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  Speaker 12: So my friend Travis Fisher over at the Cato Institute
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  Speaker 12: is really pushing for this. He calls it consumer regulated electricity. And,
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  Speaker 12: you know, I think it's a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: I think consumer regulated everything is a good idea. But
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  Speaker 2: then again, that's how I roll there because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: of Always On Energy Inc. Research. Are there places, because
• 35:26
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  Speaker 12: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: But that we could pattern after and look at what
• 35:39
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, Ohio is a good one.
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  Speaker 12: They're letting these behind-the-meter data centers.
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  Speaker 17: So I think that basically anywhere that's going.
• 36:01
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• 36:11
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• 36:16
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  Speaker 2: What about this West Virginia company that has figured out
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• 36:51
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  Speaker 3: by Joe Thomas on the talk media network.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Is it, is it really? And that's the problem is
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: a lot of the leftists believe that burning things, creating
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: electricity is, is, somehow an abomination to the world. And
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: we were talking, Isaac Orr on with us this morning
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: for the Always On Energy Research Group. Isaac, we were
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: talking about this company out of West Virginia who's found
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: all these new ways to use coal and create energy
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  Speaker 2: out of coal and turning it into hydrogen and diesel fuel, Frontierus.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: It's got a $ 850 million coal conversion theory. Is that
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: where we're headed in this? It's like, okay, you won't
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: let us use coal to make the steam to spin
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: the generators, but Maybe we can use it for other stuff.
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  Speaker 12: I think that, you know, places need to use the
• 45:35
  Speaker 12: resources that are available to them in the smartest way possible. But,
• 45:40
  Speaker 12: you know, let's not focus on exclusively generating electricity within
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  Speaker 12: your state borders either, because, you know, there are some
• 45:48
  Speaker 12: states where they don't have a lot of coal, natural
• 45:51
  Speaker 12: gas or suitable sites for nuclear plants.
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  Speaker 17: So if you need to import it, that's fine.
• 45:57
  Speaker 12: I mean, people out East import food from the Midwest
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  Speaker 12: all the time, and we don't have a problem with that.
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  Speaker 17: And it's actually good.
• 46:04
  Speaker 12: It keeps the prices from spiking or going down too
• 46:10
  Speaker 12: much for everybody.
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  Speaker 17: So it's good to have those resources.
• 46:15
  Speaker 12: If you have the resources and they're economically viable in
• 46:18
  Speaker 12: a free market, then of course, use them.
• 46:20
  Speaker 17: Don't give them away.
• 46:21
  Speaker 12: That's been the problem for the last 20 years is
• 46:24
  Speaker 12: the government's artificially suppressed the coal industry and probably up wind,
• 46:29
  Speaker 12: solar and batteries with subsidies and mandates. So essentially, we're
• 46:34
  Speaker 12: picking losers to be winners in the current energy policy landscape.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Well, it's as my friend Chris Horner calls it, the
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  Speaker 2: world's second oldest profession, rent seeking. We have taxpayer money
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: and we're looking to give it to somebody. And that
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: sure beats going out and trying to earn the money
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: the old fashioned way. Does it require I mean, is
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: this something that needs to be federal or can it
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: be a state by state process to get it right, Isaac?
• 47:07
  Speaker 17: So it's both, but the federal.
• 47:13
  Speaker 12: A lot of power for the states to create their
• 47:17
  Speaker 12: own energy policies. So that's why we have a website,
• 47:21
  Speaker 12: a new report called bluestateshighrates.com. And you go there and
• 47:28
  Speaker 12: you can see the difference in cost between states. And
• 47:31
  Speaker 12: if you look at a map of the electricity prices
• 47:34
  Speaker 12: in the United States and you make blue above the
• 47:37
  Speaker 12: national average and red below the national average, it almost
• 47:41
  Speaker 12: looks exactly like an electoral college map.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: So everyone on.
• 47:47
  Speaker 12: The show listening, go to bluestateshighrates.com and check it out.
• 47:52
  Speaker 12: Virginia is one of the six blue states that is
• 47:54
  Speaker 12: below the national average. So that's one of the outliers
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  Speaker 12: for now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's new to us. We had the Youngkin administration
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  Speaker 2: for a little bit. So, you know, it's not like
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  Speaker 2: we've been blue for two decades or so. I'm sure
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Governor Spanberger wants to play catch-up with us.
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  Speaker 17: I mean, rejoining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
• 48:22
  Speaker 12: Report saying it's going to cost $ 13 a month, that's
• 48:26
  Speaker 12: a big increase. So, you know, when we're talking energy affordability,
• 48:30
  Speaker 12: we need to be pulling every lever at our disposal
• 48:34
  Speaker 12: in order to keep costs as low as possible. And
• 48:36
  Speaker 12: that's just not what happens under more, you know, liberal
• 48:39
  Speaker 12: or progressive administrations.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Isaac. And what's the website address again?
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  Speaker 17: Bluestateshighrates.com.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: It's the Always On Energy Research Group. He's co-founder of it. Isaac,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for taking some time out with us this morning.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, thank you very much. Oh, we're all flashing back,
• 49:02
  Speaker 17: aren't we?
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  Speaker 21: They're at 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 9: I'm fascinated by this West Virginia company.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: But also the idea, and this 334-882-4217. I'm fascinated by
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: this West Virginia company, but also the idea, and this is,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: it's like a $ 2. 1 billion company, but the coal industry
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: itself would have been way more lucrative than that if
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: it had been allowed to continue. So yes, regulation has
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: created this frontiers or created the opportunity for them to
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: come in and say, hey, maybe we can do something
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: different with coal. And it's some of your money is
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: better than none of your money, I guess, is the
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: paradigm there. But it still comes down to the fact
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: that this was born out of this regulatory capture that
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: said coal bad. And it's beyond that. It's fire bad.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Burning is bad. Because the essence of our electric generation,
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: thank you, Dr. Watt, is we create steam from fire.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: And then the steam being more powerful than the fire itself,
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: spins the turbines that create the electricity so let me
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: get to you before we run out of time here
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: this morning last call uh good morning you're on the
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: air with joe first thing this morning who's this and.
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  Speaker 30: I'm not even falling off my chair this morning although
• 50:51
  Speaker 30: i did buy some really amazing things at the auction
• 50:55
  Speaker 30: over the weekend all.
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  Speaker 2: Right but uh We only have about a minute left
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  Speaker 2: before the news comes.
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  Speaker 30: Yeah, the things you're talking about this morning, you've been
• 51:07
  Speaker 30: talking about a long time. The free market stuff has
• 51:12
  Speaker 30: been distorted, both in energy usage. I mean, I hopped
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  Speaker 30: in there in 2014 with my former Hegelian Marxist wife.
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  Speaker 2: Got an incredibly.
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  Speaker 30: Different view of that than most people. And got to
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  Speaker 30: go on to Sweden, which in many ways has more
• 51:36
  Speaker 30: free markets. They've stayed out of a lot of wars
• 51:40
  Speaker 30: as well. So there is one other thing you ought
• 51:46
  Speaker 30: to investigate. There are some incredible power cables that I
• 51:51
  Speaker 30: learned about. I think it was either a red pill.
• 51:55
  Speaker 30: or Amis Institute, or both, I can't remember. But they
• 52:02
  Speaker 30: have made these big power cables. They're way more efficient
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  Speaker 30: than they were in the past.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take a look into that. And I know that
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  Speaker 2: that's also controversial because as Virginia doesn't want to generate
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: its own electricity, same with California and New York, they
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: need power lines to bring it in from somewhere, and
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: that becomes controversial as well. Andy, you have a blessed morning, sir.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: Thank you for the call.
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  Speaker 19: You too.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, and thank you from.
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  Speaker 2: So remember, just the leftists are Wile E. Coyote, and
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  Speaker 2: Till tomorrow, so long, and thanks for all the fish.
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