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Mike Haridopolos | 06-26-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Congress and Mike Herodophoulis, are you ready for the millions
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  Speaker 1: of New Yorkers who are continuing to come down to
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  Speaker 1: your estate? That's the first question.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is amazing. He is the best real estate
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  Speaker 2: agent we have. We appreciate the good work of the mayor.
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  Speaker 2: You know, communism where everyone shares the misery equally. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you very much, mayor and mind Domini.
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  Speaker 1: But what are some of the other issues. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you've got a big governor's election going on right now
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  Speaker 1: in Florida, and I don't think that the polls are
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  Speaker 1: too troubling. It looks like Byron Donald's is going to
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  Speaker 1: be there and they'll have continued to remember Florida used
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  Speaker 1: to be a swing state, but it becomes more and
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  Speaker 1: more red, and more and more decisively pro capitalist and
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  Speaker 1: pro American every day. But what are some of the
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  Speaker 1: other issues that you're facing there? I mean, honestly, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's still a big barometer of America, as hard as
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  Speaker 1: it is for a New Yorker like me to say.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it is still the place to me. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, no state income tax were attracting a
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  Speaker 2: lot of those big company Northeast and One of the
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  Speaker 2: boom in industries, of course, is the space history. You
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  Speaker 2: saw the recentuation of SpaceX seven to five treaure and
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  Speaker 2: you're just seeing huge investments there. It's really booming because
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  Speaker 2: people are voting with their feet. They realize that New
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  Speaker 2: York is not the same anymore, and they realize in
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  Speaker 2: Florida you get a lot more for your money, and
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  Speaker 2: so people are moving down here, not just for the
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  Speaker 2: weather or for the tourism, but for the jobs of
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  Speaker 2: the future. And so we're booming because other states just
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  Speaker 2: can't compare. Because at the end of the day, what
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  Speaker 2: the unique American experiment is all about is this boring
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  Speaker 2: term called federalism. Federalism is voting.
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  Speaker 1: With your individuals, and Congressman is rubber banding a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking to Congressman Mike Carodopolis will try to get
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  Speaker 1: a better connection with him. Another issue we probably could
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  Speaker 1: talk with him about is the fact that there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Venezuelans who live in Florida, and clearly
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  Speaker 1: right now that's going to be ane O.
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  Speaker 3: NASA is part of his district. That's the manything you
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  Speaker 3: like about NaSTA.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know if we can hear us now
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  Speaker 1: but not yet ever, trying to get a better connection
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  Speaker 1: to than Cocoa Beach. And by the way, them back. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to call him back. By the way, if
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  Speaker 1: you've never been to a launch in Cocoa Beach, particularly
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  Speaker 1: at night, I highly recommend it because if you go,
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  Speaker 1: they let you get pretty close relatively to the launch
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  Speaker 1: pad and as you watch it, which is amazing to see,
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  Speaker 1: and the spacecraft flies over your head, you feel the heat,
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  Speaker 1: the intense heat of the rocket boosters.
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  Speaker 3: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: You've been there too, it was just a visit. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't live there, Fernando, give me break, But yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: going to these launches is something I highly recommend, something
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  Speaker 1: that New Yorkers are completely unaware of. They we should
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  Speaker 1: check out, all right, Congress, when your back, we were
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  Speaker 1: waxing poetic about the fact that you represent and you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned it a little bit the space industry, and I
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  Speaker 1: was telling everyone that you got to go to these launches,
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  Speaker 1: especially these night launches. It's such a great thing in
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  Speaker 1: Cocoa Beach.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's fantastic. I mean it's really neat and literally
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  Speaker 2: when they take off, whenber they take off, every two
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  Speaker 2: and a half days now, that's how prolific the flys
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  Speaker 2: are going off. If you go one of these flights
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  Speaker 2: at midnight, it's literally twelve noon for about thirty seconds.
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  Speaker 2: That's the power and thrust of these engines that go off,
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  Speaker 2: and it's creating the satellite networks that connect us all
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  Speaker 2: around the world today. And they're also the future of
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  Speaker 2: the military is you know, we need all of these
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that our men and women in the
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  Speaker 2: military have those GPS technology and can maneuver around the
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  Speaker 2: world successfully. It's an exciting time. In the next few years,
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  Speaker 2: we're actually going to have a moon base and propel
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  Speaker 2: ourselves to Mars because I'll pull there.
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  Speaker 1: And Congress and Mike Carriyoupolis, this isn't just about NASA.
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  Speaker 1: This is about helping Americans economically. You know, for years
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  Speaker 1: the argument against the space program was we got all
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  Speaker 1: these problems here on Earth. We can't but if we
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  Speaker 1: get satellites, for example, with solar panels that can capture
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  Speaker 1: solar power at much higher intensity than we do here
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  Speaker 1: on the grounds, and we can ai data centers in
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  Speaker 1: space instead of a year, I mean, this is going
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  Speaker 1: to create a Finally, some power surplus for us and
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  Speaker 1: some money. I mean you talked about the SpaceX IPO.
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  Speaker 1: This is no longer aoh don't we can't afford it
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  Speaker 1: any more?
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  Speaker 2: Thing is it now? It is not as again, but
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  Speaker 2: it is proven by the SpaceX valuation at at almost
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  Speaker 2: two trillion dollars. It's the future. It's with the where
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  Speaker 2: innovation is coming from. And look, no one wants a
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  Speaker 2: data center in their backyard. And Elon Musk has proven
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  Speaker 2: over and over again, whether it be a Tesla, SpaceX,
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  Speaker 2: PayPal of course now where it used to be Twitter.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he has revolutionized the way we do business
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  Speaker 2: every day. He's giving blind people the ability to see.
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  Speaker 2: I have a lot of confidence that he's going to
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  Speaker 2: break through a lot of technologies that we reduce energy
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  Speaker 2: costs and don't have some of these concerns that people
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  Speaker 2: have about aa AI data centers, which of course use
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  Speaker 2: a lot of energy, let alone water. Congressman, have you
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  Speaker 2: met Elon Musk?
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  Speaker 3: I have.
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  Speaker 2: I don't interact with them regularly, but I have met him.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I chair the Space Committee here in the Congress,
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  Speaker 2: and we could not be more thrilled that we have
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  Speaker 2: billionaires in my backyard. Spending a lot of money, creating
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  Speaker 2: a hell of a lot of jobs. Because remember Florida
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  Speaker 2: used to be known as kind of service jobs, Disney jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Now you have this space industry here, we have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the big military contractors down here. So it's
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  Speaker 2: become a big high tech or what they call basically
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  Speaker 2: these STEM program science, Technology, engineering and math because we're
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  Speaker 2: simply doing it better. We actually have school choice instead
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  Speaker 2: of being run by the unions like they are in
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  Speaker 2: New York.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Blue Origin because we've talked about SpaceX
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  Speaker 1: Blue Origin. You know, they've got a ways to go.
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  Speaker 1: They had that crash on the launch pad recently. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, listen, every business needs good competition. So as
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  Speaker 1: much as you're interacting with SpaceX and they're they're the
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  Speaker 1: leaders right now in private aviation for sure, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's really much arguing that. What can you do?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, let's get back to our first question. How
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  Speaker 1: can you invite more business into the area and so
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  Speaker 1: that there is more competition.
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  Speaker 2: That's a beautiful thing. When you guys come on down here,
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  Speaker 2: when you eventually leave New York, you'll actually come to
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  Speaker 2: my district, and they have again Blue Origin, Esa, Relativity,
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  Speaker 2: there's even a new company called Stoke. These are all
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  Speaker 2: rocket companies that are now started to compete with SpaceX.
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  Speaker 2: But Blue Origins a fantastic company. Yeah, they had that
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  Speaker 2: problem on the launch pad, but they've figured that out,
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  Speaker 2: I think, and they're the ones who are also going
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  Speaker 2: to be landing on the Moon. It's not just the
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  Speaker 2: SpaceX Lander, but Blue Origin also has a contract with
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  Speaker 2: NASA to be the second lander that will go into
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  Speaker 2: the Moon. And so they're doing great work. Again, one
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  Speaker 2: thing that's Elon must has said, and I believe space
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  Speaker 2: is hard, so you're going to have some challenges. The
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  Speaker 2: good news is, as you know, with that recent explosion,
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  Speaker 2: it was a static test. No astronauts are on board.
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  Speaker 2: Yes we had an explosion, but they're already ramping up
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  Speaker 2: their activities because I want that competition. That's what drives
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  Speaker 2: down costs and that's what allowed this industry to really
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  Speaker 2: no pun intended take off.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Elon musk Is really brought down the cost and efficiencies.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I was very, very disgusted that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I've been in the aviation industry for fifty years, maybe sixty.
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  Speaker 3: In the fact is we had to concord seventy you know,
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  Speaker 3: a seventy year old technology, and we have not replaced
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  Speaker 3: the concord with supersonic airplanes at oil in the aviation industry,
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  Speaker 3: in the space industry, I mean, we haven't come up.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't come that far. I mean, Elon Musks is
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  Speaker 3: making progress by being able to create rocket ships that
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  Speaker 3: take off and land so you don't just throw them
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  Speaker 3: away in the Atlantic Ocean all over again. So Elon
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  Speaker 3: Musk has done a lot for the space industry.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no doubt, John, You're exactly right. And that's the future.
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  Speaker 2: I mean again, you're gonna see eventually tourism. You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: see people living on the Moon because the innovative things
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  Speaker 2: he takes on and Elon must challenges people like that.
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  Speaker 2: Other innovators come in and play hard, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to do. To your point, for too long,
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  Speaker 2: this technology is static. Now it's changing and I think
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  Speaker 2: much for the better. And it is bringing down costs
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  Speaker 2: radically to put things up in space more than tenfold
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  Speaker 2: in the recent years.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the one thing we know is that there won't
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  Speaker 1: be a rent freeze on the moon. Congressman, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Congress coming on and my carrotopha, We'll talk to you again,
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  Speaker 3: real suit. Yeah no, rest now, Thank you.
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