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"Scotland Depraved" (Wednesday August 27, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Not that I don't have the right to do anything
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I want to do.
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Speaker 2: I'm the President of the United States. First thing today
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on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas, the second
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most Famous Thomas and Charlotte's if I think our.
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Speaker 3: Country is engaged, Kenned is engangering.
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Speaker 4: All the sounds of all the skull caps popping off
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the never trumpers on this Ted s D morning, you
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get a welfare check on Adam Kinsinger coming up Denver Riggleman.
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Is he okay? John Bolton? No, don't send anyone to
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John Bolton's house. We have folks lining up on the phone.
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So let's get our first things out here so you
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know what we're talking about. Senate Banking Committee is going
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to start hearings on Stephen Moran, president Trump's nominee to
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the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Meanwhile, Lisa Cook is
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challenging her dismissal from the board in court. Federal Reserve
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said it will comply with whatever the court ruling is
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in the hearing. President Trump's administration asked the Supreme Court
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to intervene in its efforts to withhold billions of dollars
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in foreign aid organizations and lift the injunction stopping it.
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Scott Bessen, US Treasury Secretary said customs collections could top
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five hundred billion dollars in the first year. Health and
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Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior alluded to a
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September announcement regarding the cause of autism. Cracker Bowrell has
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scrapped its new logo, already telling its followers on social media,
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we thank our guests for sharing your voices and they're
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bringing back the old timer design. And Trump is appealing
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the court decision that upheld fraud findings against him but
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erased a half billion dollar penalty against him for things
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that he now says, if there's no penalty, how could
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I have committed a crime? And Taylor Swift is now
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engaged to NFL star Travis Kelcey, And apparently the Instagram
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post broke the world record for the most shared Instagram
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post out there, joining us now on the new called
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in Line at four three four eight eight two four
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two one seven. Once we tell you the news, we
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want to hear how it's impacting you where you are.
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Doctor Clark, good morning, what's going on?
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Speaker 5: Sir well?
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Speaker 6: Joe on just all a Twitter and can barely talk
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on the phone.
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Speaker 4: Is it because of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey?
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Speaker 5: It is?
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Speaker 6: It is whether engaged. What a wonderful world. It'll be
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a storybook wedding like Cinderella or something. Maybe she'll have glasslookers.
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: Oh, if anyone can afford Crystal's slippers, it's Taylor Swift.
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So let's go to let's cook.
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Speaker 6: And you're not the boss of mate, you know, do
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you think this is an outlier with federal employees show
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or do you think that this is reflective of the
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pervasive and just attitude of we're federal employees, we are
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an entity of and to ourselves, and we are accountable
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to no one.
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Speaker 5: Bingo, That's it.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that's what I was just saying to Bob,
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is that this is what we've watched with these school
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boards and these university boards that have just said, yeah, whatever,
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change the name on the door. He won't notice. And
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they ignore the president's requests and they're like, no, he
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can't take away our money. They were in court about
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the recisions regarding overseas aid they act like he can't
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do these things.
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Speaker 6: Well, you remember when Donald Trump said they're after you.
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I'm just in the way.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, very true.
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Speaker 4: I said it on January twenty first, twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 7: Did she says she's.
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Speaker 6: Not accountable to Donald Trump, But what she means is
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she's not accountable to.
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Speaker 5: You or I Yeah, very true, very true.
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Speaker 6: We are not accountable to the American people.
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Speaker 4: No, the American people are just the necessary evil, if
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you will, they are what was the line from the
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movie Blade Runner, either you're blade Runner or you're little people.
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And that's the attitude these people have is you're an
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outsider and they're the special smart ones.
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Speaker 5: Blade Runner.
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Speaker 6: That's the greatest speech ever at the end.
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Speaker 5: Of a movie.
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Speaker 6: Joe, Oh yeah, I've seen things you people wouldn't leave.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. No, Rutger Howard was on fire.
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Speaker 4: Off the shoulder of Orion.
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Speaker 6: But anyway, Yeah, the ho Lisa Cook thing could not
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put a better bow on the entire attitude. It's the
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same thing at FBI, dj CIA, NSA. It's the group.
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If it ends with an A, they're just not accountable.
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Speaker 4: No, And because nobody has held them accountable for decades.
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I mean, part of what we're talking about here at
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the State Policy Network is the Federal government continues to
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take authority. Nobody says, no, you don't have that authority,
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because I think it's comforting to be able to blame
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somebody far afield, Why would you want to take responsibility
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for something going, you know, pear shaped in your community.
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Speaker 5: It's easier to blame a bureaucrat.
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Speaker 4: It's on my job is so well, it's Washington, you know,
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we have to do this or we have to we
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have to enforce these laws because it's Washington. It's the
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it's been allowed to go on so long.
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Speaker 6: Do you had the reverse of six Zepper Tyrannus yesterday?
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We need Latin for the opposite of public servant whatever,
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Latin for service via public or something.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, No, it's public.
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Speaker 2: The first thing today by Joe Thomas on the Tunk
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Speaker 20: Time from.
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Speaker 4: To bring the Dample.
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Speaker 5: Do little Bits into with the spear.
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Speaker 4: Not State Policy Network. Thank you for joining us. Brought
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But go read Victor Davis Hansen and my stuff as well.
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We were posting stuff every day from here and our
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friends at the Virginia Institute for Public Policy a DO
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tank and there are lots of them here. This is
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a whole conference full of d tanks there. Page Lambermont
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was last on. We were talking from the Virginia Institute
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for Public Policy. Good to see again, How are.
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Speaker 20: You doing good?
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Speaker 11: How are you?
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Speaker 20: Thanks for having me so.
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Speaker 4: Last we spoke, we were talking about the electric grid.
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I presume that everything's fixed now and the electric grid
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is secure and we don't have to worry about anything.
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And those mean data centers have all moved to Canada.
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Speaker 20: It's entirely resolved. Yet No, it's definitely an ongoing problem.
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I mean, power demand is rising at a time while
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we're closing reliable units, and that is not a mixture
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for success. So building new power is really where the
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game's at.
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Speaker 4: So a question that popped up last time we were
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talk fucking page was I have an expression for my sons.
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Do some video game design, and there's an expression in
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the video game design. I think Bethesda coined it. It's
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not a flaw, it's a feature. And so you know,
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while you had the last ten years of leftist policy
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saying less energy, less energy, get rid of power plants,
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get rid of power plants, it's almost as if they
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knew the data center boom was coming and we've been
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set up.
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Speaker 3: Is that?
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Speaker 5: Am I wrong?
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Speaker 20: I think you're right in a way. Like they definitely
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the goal of having less power was to have and
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use less power, and I actually think that they didn't
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see it coming because it's actually the undoing of their
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entire idea. In a time of stagnant power demand growth,
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you can sort of afford to not prioritize building new
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power plants and making it easier to build new new
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power plants and keeping reliable plants online in a time
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of growing demand. You can't, And so it's actually done.
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I think the opposite. It's for a lot of companies
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and a lot of people who historically were like very
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in favor of when in solar, very in favor of,
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you know, decarbonizing our energy sector and doing that at
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all costs, to reassess them, to understand that reliability is
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an important value and just because we've historically had it
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doesn't mean it's not something that we have to cultivate.
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Reliability is something that you have to actually cultivate and
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work toward, and it's an attribute that needs to be
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considered just the same as you consider any other trade
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off and energy.
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Speaker 4: She's with the Competitive Enterprise INSTITUTECEI dot org. They've been
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here probably as long as there's been a here here
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when it comes to the Green New Deal, the idea
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of decarbonization, all of the you know, melting ice cubes
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in the sea, and al Gore almost since before al
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Gore knew he was al Gore, the CI has been
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out there trying to hold the flashlight into the darkness
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of this. And I'm fascinated to hear you say that
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you think the smartest people in the room wink wink,
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we weren't smart enough to see this coming. And I
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agree with you, because group think can be very much
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like that. Is that kind of what this was, That
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the inertia of the Michael Man, the hockey stick, the
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you know, the ice age, the global warming, whatever it is,
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just got to be a point where they couldn't go
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against it.
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Speaker 20: I think in a way, I think part of it
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is sort of you know, like the end of history,
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sort of an idea like the Francis fukuiama, We've kind
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of arrived, We've arrived. I think there was very much
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an idea that we had sort of arrived at peak
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power demand. We'd arrived at the most we could possibly
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do with all of these things, the end of like
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what our innovative potential to use and need more would be,
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and that now is the time to you know, economize
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and become more efficient and use less and learn to
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use less and learn to want less. And I think
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that what like the AI power demand question and other
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like technological developments that are happening is saying is we
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are an energy rich society, and we want to continue
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to be an energy rich society, because an energy rich
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society is what breeds the innovation that lets us go
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to the next level. And so I think what we're
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seeing is the end of the end of history. Right
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We're not at that stagnation point anymore. We're at a
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time where we can do and want more. We can
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see a vision for the future that requires using more
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energy and having more energy available to do these things.
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We're not talking about wanting energy to waste it. We're
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talking about harnessing it to do new and interesting things
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and to reach new frontiers. And I think that sort
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of the de growth agenda, the idea that we should
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use and do and have less, is just being repudiated
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by this new development. And it's showing that, you know,
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to use less energy is all fine and good when
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it's the other guy using less energy. It's all fine
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and good when your neighbors are turning down the air conditioning.
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But I mean, we're in Louisiana in August right now.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 20: I don't know if anyone wants to be turning off,
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you know, for the sake of economizing on.
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Speaker 4: Energy, and if they do, I don't want to sit
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next to them for too long either. Page lam Vermont
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is on with us from the State Policy Network, and
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I think you're I think your spot on is that
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in theory the lot. There are lots of things in
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theory that are nice.
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Speaker 20: You know.
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Speaker 4: I have friends who will often, you know, I'll get
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into a cocktail party situation and they'll start talking about
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an agrarian world. They'll hear that I'm vegetarian, that my
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wife has a farm on our property. Oh well, let
19:33
me tell you, you know, if we had all farms,
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we wouldn't need money. I'm like, until you need a
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blacksmith who can't farm because he's blacksmith, and so where
19:42
does he get his food from? And they're like, ah,
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I said, you've immediately created currency.
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Speaker 20: Then you just exchange in a barter system until the
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point at which currency is invented. Yeah, you do it,
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but you do it over and over again. You're always
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gonna end up back at a point where people have
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a unit of trade, right, and.
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Speaker 4: So, so it's not the beginning of the end, it's
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the end of the beginning is what you're saying. And
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so be kind to the poor lost d smagger out
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there who's had their whole rug pulled out from under them,
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and sadly it's because they were using AI to do
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their modeling. And now the AI monster has come back
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to say, oh, yeah, we needed electricity. But now that
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being said, let's look at it. And I think you
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and I talked about this. This is the opportunity to
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really innovate energy production. Smaller, not bigger, don't centralize the
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power grid, you know, make unique little gridlets almost.
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Speaker 20: Right, Yeah, I mean, I think that the future of
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power offers lots of different solutions for all sizes of problem.
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I think that we're never going to get to a
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point where people aren't building gigawatt facilities anymore, like you're
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going to be building your one, two, three gigawat gas plant,
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nuclear plant, whatever, what have you. But there are applications
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for which small makes more sense. There's applications for which
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one hundred megawatt reactor, one hundred megawat gas turbine, you know,
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a solar panel, whatever it is makes sense in your
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particular situation.
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Speaker 4: Well, especially if you're running a data center, you know,
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and I've seen this all over even Virginia, where they're saying, hey, listen,
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Governor Youngkin wants to do these module ar nar nuclear
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hard meat, President Bush reactors, and they want them at
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these data centers, saying we'll take one and we'll just
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not even get onto the grid, will be our own
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little grid and generate our own electricity.
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Speaker 21: Yeah.
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Speaker 20: I think that a lot of microgrid stuff and a
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lot of behind the meter electricity ideas are going to
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be really forthcoming as the data center broom continues.
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Speaker 5: I appreciate it, Taylor.
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Speaker 4: It's a page Lambermont of the Competitive Enterprise Institute CEI
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dot org here in New Orleans at the State Policy Network,
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brought to you by Daily Signal dot com and Virginia
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Speaker 4: So what is the public policy world page? A lot
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of what we're just seeing here is these are all
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groups like the Virginia Institute.
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Speaker 20: Get Investment tax credit and production tax credit from.
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Speaker 4: The uh CEO. I meant.
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Speaker 20: Getting the government out of the way, getting the government.
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Speaker 4: Out, Apologie said, Emergencies back here in our flagship city
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had us paying the other direction there. Apologies for that,
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as we had to tractor trailer crashes in around our
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flagship station, taking us away from task. Apologies for the
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awkward silences there for you. A couple of folks texting
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in on the subject of Lisa Cook and her insistence
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that she ignored the president's firing. And a lot of
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this stems from a narrative that the news wants to
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tell anyway, that the president is this oligark, this dictator,
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this fellow who's just going to do whatever he wants.
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And she's got a right to go into court as
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any employee does, and say I was wrongfully terminated. But
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she's got to provide evidence to that. It can't just
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be narrative. It can't just beh I don't feel like
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I should have been fired.
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Speaker 5: It's it's more.
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Speaker 4: Along the line's point to the evidence that says and
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because this has never happened before, there's no precedent to
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you know, whether or not she has the You know,
30:18
the president has the authorities, he has the authority to
30:21
replace them. So the presumption of course then is you
30:32
then have the authority to take them off the board
30:36
at the same time nobody ever has before.
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Speaker 5: That's where the ability for the press.
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Speaker 4: To tell the story the way they want to tell
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it comes, because it's never been that way. Ellen writes
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into four three, four, eight, eight, two four to two
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one seven, everyone going on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey
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her She said, but you know, have you seen the
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Scottish girls getting arrested for fighting off migrants with a
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knife and a hatchet?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I have the story, and the story is they shouldn't
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have done it. The story is that they're racist, they're intolerant.
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Even the British press does the same thing that American press, and.
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Speaker 3: That the that.
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Speaker 4: The that it was in their inbred racism for you seeing,
31:36
you know, migrants coming towards them and approaching them. And
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the video again is just a frozen moment or six
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or twelve in time, and you don't know what preceded
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the video beginning, but it sure looks like they were
31:56
harassing these two girls and they chased them all off.
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And in Europe apparently that's a no no. Remember when
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the Ohio state president told it was Ohio State, Oregon State.
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It was one of the o's O University said, just
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just fall over and pee yourself. When you're about to
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be the victim of a sexual assault, just just fall
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over and pee yourself. That will make your attacker go away.
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Don't fend them off yourself. Don't take matters into your
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own hands. The video is very much so this one
32:37
from Terry. Don't know gender Terry, so I'm not going
32:42
to say you know, ma'am or sir. It could be
32:45
either listening to us in Colorado, he said, what was
32:50
the name of the young lady who wanted to do
32:52
more work in Colorado? It was Lisa Kulis and she
32:57
is with Constituting America. That's the group that Janine Turner
33:01
and gosh, the Virginian in the group, I've forgotten her name.
33:11
All of a sudden, Gillespie started to help kids get
33:20
a grasp of the Constitution. If you want, I'll give
33:22
you email addresses for Lisa and you can get with
33:25
her and hook up with her on this one. But
33:29
I wanted to get to this email from Frank, that
33:33
one I can gather gender on you. Frank, he said,
33:38
I can't believe that nobody is talking about the cause
33:41
of autism. Story Joe am I the only one who
33:44
sent you any email about it. Well, yeah, you are, actually,
33:48
Frank the only one. I thought it would be a
33:49
bigger story. And maybe it's reserving judgment until the actual
33:55
announcement is made because we've heard this one before. Know
34:00
to go, get go, get me the Pam PONDI file
34:04
of I've got Epstein's files right here. I mean, you
34:06
know it's is this RFK Junior's version of I've got I've.
34:10
Speaker 5: Got the Autism files right on my desk. I'll be
34:13
releasing him real soon.
34:16
Speaker 4: So having been down this rodeo before with the Epstein files,
34:22
I think a lot of people are like, oh, and
34:25
I think it's worth looking into it. There are several people, though,
34:31
who have reached out to me on this stuff, on
34:33
the subject of the autism.
34:36
Speaker 5: And RFK Junior and.
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Speaker 4: The statistics that he uses, And this one I think
34:42
is a telling one. This goes back always but I
34:45
saved it because it was kind of random. It wasn't
34:49
off of a point we had made. But now that
34:52
we have a news story about autism, I received this
34:56
email month or two ago, hastening, I don't know, warning
35:03
that be careful of the statistics Mike rights because we
35:08
have expanded what is considered on the spectrum to a
35:13
greater degree. I'm sure there were many people in the
35:17
sixties that would have been considered on the spectrum that
35:22
weren't because we weren't putting them on the paperwork that way.
35:27
Speaker 5: And I agree that I don't know if.
35:29
Speaker 4: The number is large enough to Mike to get to
35:34
that level. I mean, the changes and the percentages of
35:39
the population are stunning, and just counting that up to
35:46
expanding what quote unquote the spectrum is I'm not sure
35:52
if that all those numbers can come from the same situation,
35:58
because I just think the numbers are so stunning in extreme.
36:09
I didn't finish this email from earlier. I received an
36:12
email about Jason F. Wright and his book about Katrina,
36:18
and I wound up getting talking about myself again. Apologies,
36:23
I apologies, I knew you asked. You were asking about
36:26
the book that I had mentioned that is about Katrina
36:30
per Se as we approach the twentieth anniversary of it
36:33
here in New Orleans, notable, but not as much as
36:37
you think, see.
36:38
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, there.
36:41
Speaker 4: Is apparently quite a bit being planned, but it's not
36:45
like in your face probably because it's a tourist area,
36:48
and this is more about the.
36:50
Speaker 5: Locals than it is about the tourists.
36:52
Speaker 4: But the book I had mentioned, I apologies I didn't
36:55
get to it when you emailed me earlier, and I
36:58
just got talking about Jason Wright and the fact that
37:00
I know him and the Christmas to Ours Guide.
37:04
Speaker 5: But the book he wrote that's.
37:07
Speaker 4: Set in and around Hurricane Katrina is called Recovering Charles,
37:13
and it's about a young man who has to go
37:16
to New Orleans post Katrina to locate what may or
37:22
may not have happened to his father, who had ditched
37:26
on the family years ago. And he's just held acrimony
37:31
to the fact that Dad left and finds that he's
37:35
had a whole different life in New Orleans the scenario.
37:44
So that's the situation in the book. It's called Recovering Charles.
37:48
Speaker 5: Jason F.
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Speaker 4: Wright is the author there. As we finish up from
37:53
the State Policy Network today, more to come. It continues
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through the day today and then we head homes, so
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we'll have more for you.
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Speaker 4: Today live from the Annual State Policy Network meeting in
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the French Quarter here. Brought to you by the Virginia
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Institute for Public Policy Virginia Institute dot org. Like I said,
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you know, there's lots of think tanks out there. Virginia
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Institute definitely a do tank. And brought to you by
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still to that estimable position. Lee Shack is here from
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the American Legislative Exchange Council and their name says it all.
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And I guess this is a home run kind of
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event for you, Lee, where all these policy networks from
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all fifty states are here. It's the's got to be
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your people.
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Speaker 27: Yeah, it's a huge shot of adrenaline coming to a
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conference like this, being with the best minds in state policy.
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You know, so many principled leaders here and there's so
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much that we can learn. And I'm excited too, coming
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off of the ALLOC annual meeting that we had a
45:19
couple of weeks ago where we brought together fifteen hundred
45:23
friends state legislators from around the country to just share
45:26
best practices and ideas. And there is a ton of
45:29
momentum across the states right now.
45:31
Speaker 4: Well, and we were talking about that yesterday on the
45:34
program as well, that even amongst my friends of the
45:37
Democratic Party, persuasion federalism is on the march. And I
45:43
have to thank Donald Trump for that, because when the
45:47
University of Virginia professors are talking federalism, which is fair
45:51
because I don't know their founder, you know, started the
45:55
whole idea of federalism. Their first president, certainly it was
46:00
James Madison, by the way, if you're wondering who the
46:02
first UVA president was, you know, and and there all
46:06
of a sudden saying, hold it, we need to break
46:08
free of the federal government because they can't just boss
46:11
us around with bags full of money. Well, yeah, we've
46:15
been saying that all along, haven't we. Lee that's right.
46:18
Speaker 27: And you know, I'll give credit to huge credit to
46:20
the Trump administration. I've never seen this before, and I
46:24
think I hear this from so many state legislators. You know,
46:27
what's been really great is the White House has brought
46:30
in groups of you know, state delegations from across the
46:34
country for policy events to pair them with members of
46:38
the administration and say, how can we work with you,
46:41
How can we help make you successful in your states?
46:43
And then vice versa, how can the states help advance
46:47
the president's you know goals. So, you know, ALEC has
46:50
been really proud to take part in those meetings with
46:53
delegations from states like Ohio and Missouri and Louisiana and
46:57
the list goes on and on. But I've really ever
47:00
seen anything like it. And at ALEC, we're so proud
47:03
to partner to be part of that movement of federalism.
47:06
It's incredible to see it put in practice.
47:08
Speaker 4: So if you're listening to this after the fact and
47:11
you can podcast it, replay that part because most and
47:15
by most I mean ninety to ninety five percent of
47:18
the news coverage is referring to Donald Trump as a
47:20
want to be dictator caesar in you know, a long
47:24
red tie all of these things when he's the first
47:27
president in your career, Lee that's been bringing in the
47:30
states saying, you guys need to be doing this because
47:34
we're going to have to stop soon.
47:36
Speaker 27: Yeah, that's exactly right. And you know, a lot of
47:38
the priorities are things that your listeners really really care
47:42
about when you talk about lowering taxes, expanding education freedom.
47:47
I mean just earlier this year during National School Choice Week,
47:51
Alec was proud to participate in an event at the
47:54
White House where he brought in governors from around the
47:57
country and highlighted the states that had done universal education freedom.
48:02
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, Virginia was not one of them yet, but we're
48:05
working on it. This election could be a big do
48:08
towards it. Win some Sears was a huge proponent of it.
48:13
You know, in her first year as Lieutenant governor, we
48:16
missed and I think, you know, we could have used
48:18
your help on this. We completely missed the point that
48:21
rural communities didn't support school choice as much because there
48:26
weren't that many schools to choose from in the rural communities. Now,
48:29
with the micro school movement and all these things, you
48:32
know that the charter schools, homeschooling is growing. I really
48:37
think the rural communities are on board as well. We
48:39
could have a huge victory in Virginia on school choice,
48:42
don't you think.
48:43
Speaker 27: I totally agree, And you know, we should just look
48:45
to West Virginia, look to our neighbor. West Virginia was
48:49
the first state in the country to pass universal education
48:53
freedom in school choice. That was with ALEX current National
48:56
Chair Senator Patricia Rucker who sponsored That's come an ALEC
49:00
model policy that has spread across the country.
49:03
Speaker 4: But you're exactly right.
49:04
Speaker 27: There are challenges that come with rural schools and urban
49:09
schools and you name it. But it's been an incredible
49:12
movement over the last I would say five years. It's
49:14
really ramped up since the pandemic to see all these
49:17
different options and how parents are really demanding to take
49:20
control of their children's education. And then just to put
49:24
a fine point on it, to circle back, we've seen
49:27
great support for this movement out of the Trump administration
49:31
the Department of Education, I mean talk about talk about
49:34
federalism and sending things back to the states and dismantling
49:37
the federal bureaucracy.
49:40
Speaker 4: Who would have thought we'd see a day where we
49:44
actually didn't have a Department of Education anymore. And I
49:49
appreciate it for all the work you guys do at
49:52
ALEC and joining us here on this beautiful Tedsdy morning
49:58
here at the at this State Policy Network conference that
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I think is going to you know, continue this is
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like the thirty third and along, but you know, for
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the for the first time they're seeing they're seeing the.
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Speaker 5: The fruits of it.
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Speaker 4: And it's interesting how you know it's it's caused by
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that couple of emails I would send a story out
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of I don't know whether this is oh, this is
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the London Telegraph girl on bladed weapon charts. And we've
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told you this in the past that England.
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Speaker 5: Does have a restriction on knives.
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Speaker 4: Now they've obviously guns no goods, so now you can't
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have knives. The story reads, and Ellen sent this, it's
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just a photograph of the Evening Telegraph newspaper.
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Speaker 5: Arcane right.
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Speaker 4: Fourteen year old girl has been charged after allegedly being
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caught with a bladed weapon in Dundee. Police were called
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to Saint Anne Lane just off of was that Cusper
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Cooper Angus Road in Lochhee shortly after seven point thirty.
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It followed reports of a girl having a bladed weapon.
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And nowhere in the story does it mention that they
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were fending off anyone who was trying to assault them.
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That was apparently an inconvenient part of the story. Why
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include that into your news coverage of it? Do you
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think America has a monopoly on that kind of biased
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news coverage?
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Speaker 5: But apparently not.
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Speaker 4: But it goes back and when they do acknowledge what
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they were fending off, they were the racists. They were
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the ones who were attacking the immigrants, the migrants not
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making them feel welcome.
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Speaker 5: And this is the stuff, like I mentioned the university president.
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Speaker 4: That encouraged their kids just to you know, the girls
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on their campus.
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Speaker 5: I was told.
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Speaker 4: I was told it was the University of Colorado at Boulder,
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so shows you what I know, just to lay down
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on the floor and pee and that will you know,
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fend off their attackers. I guess is the log chick
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quote quote in that story. So again, thank you for
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everyone who's tuned in today. We'll be back here again
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tomorrow with more from the State Policy Network.
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