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"Turn on your Gas Light" (FTTxJT Wed 091626 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I'm more mega now make America great again than I've
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  Speaker 1: ever been.
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  Speaker 2: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 2: Media Network by Joe Thomas. Music.
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  Speaker 3: we start up every morning, but just for the sake
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  Speaker 3: of it, we celebrate it here on this radio show
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  Speaker 3: that unabashedly calls itself a radio show. Sure, just to
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  Speaker 3: stay with the cool kids, you can be my content creators.
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  Speaker 3: But there are legalities to words like content. If I'm
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  Speaker 3: content creating, then I can't be held liable if my
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  Speaker 3: stories are false. I'm sorry, it was just content. Sounded
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  Speaker 3: like news. You told me that so-and-so did such-and-such. Well,
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  Speaker 3: that was just content. It was like a podcast. It
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  Speaker 3: was a true crime kind of thing.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah, words. Words are funny like that. But you
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  Speaker 3: can be my content creators at 434- 882-4217. I will
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  Speaker 3: hold you to a certain level of truthiness, though, there
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  Speaker 3: in and for through the end. After I tell you
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  Speaker 3: what went on last night, and lots went on last night,
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  Speaker 3: I tell you this right now, Kennedy Center and AI
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  Speaker 3: and all of this stuff going on, Iran votes, And
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  Speaker 3: why do you think Iran is counting down the days
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  Speaker 3: to the midterm elections? Why do you think? U.S. Constitution
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  Speaker 3: Day tomorrow, in celebration of the very thing they want
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  Speaker 3: to tell you is incapable of managing our business today.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the things we were talking about in
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  Speaker 3: the previous hour, and again, if you miss any of
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  Speaker 3: and get posted up there. So here we go with
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  Speaker 3: our first things, and then we can discuss at 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 3: For the third time, the U.S. House has voted to
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  Speaker 3: end the war in Iran. approving a War Powers Resolution
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  Speaker 3: 220-204 with a few more Republicans than last time joining
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats to vote to end the conflict, which, as
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  Speaker 3: the administration says, ended a while ago. Meanwhile, though, J.D.
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  Speaker 3: Vance says the conflict with the Iranian regime is going
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  Speaker 3: to move its face towards preventing military capability buildups again.
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  Speaker 3: Congressman Tommy Massey, with the months he has left in
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  Speaker 3: the House, introduced eight articles of impeachment Tuesday against War
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  Speaker 3: Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of helping to carry out
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  Speaker 3: an unauthorized war, which, of course, they just voted to deauthorize.
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  Speaker 3: Reagan National Airport, demanding that lawmakers do more to prevent
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 3: on this tense day. We ran up into the news.
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  Speaker 3: Joel was just making a point about living on the
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  Speaker 3: gas-lit streets of America, so I wanted to hang on
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  Speaker 3: to him. So all of those cans of worms you opened,
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  Speaker 3: to me, it It is that authority complex that we've–
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  Speaker 3: the point I was making to John in his text
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  Speaker 3: is that we've ceded the authority because we've been told
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  Speaker 3: we're too dumb to deal with it, that our constitution
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  Speaker 3: is incapable of dealing with the world of the internet,
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  Speaker 3: never mind AI. I'm sorry. It does. All you have
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  Speaker 3: to do is be Clarence Thomas or– Antonin Scalia and
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  Speaker 3: put the thing right up on the wall against the Constitution.
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  Speaker 3: You remember, you're a young fella, but you might remember transparencies.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember transparency? So transparencies, kids, were what we
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  Speaker 3: used to have to use before there was Photoshop, where
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  Speaker 3: a teacher would actually have to, or what's the slideshow
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  Speaker 3: thing in Microsoft, the slide maker at PowerPoint, where you
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  Speaker 3: would actually have to have a transparent piece of something
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  Speaker 3: with a drawing on it. Then to make your point,
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  Speaker 3: you would overlay another drawing on top of it. Take
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  Speaker 3: that as a metaphor for what guys like Clarence Thomas
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  Speaker 3: do with the Constitution. So you've got a transparency that's
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  Speaker 3: got all the issues dealing with artificial intelligence. And then
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  Speaker 3: you take the transparency that has the Bill of Rights
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  Speaker 3: on top of it and you look at the two
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  Speaker 3: of them and you're like, oh, OK, now I can
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  Speaker 3: see why this is dealt with in the Constitution. And
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  Speaker 3: that's what we're not doing anymore. And it's because they
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  Speaker 3: need us to support the idea of us not having
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  Speaker 3: a say anymore, because the only way this country goes
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  Speaker 3: down is if we give it up. And we haven't
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  Speaker 3: gotten there yet, but they are working on it, Joel.
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  Speaker 3: They're working very hard on it. And one of the
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  Speaker 3: things that we have to work on is the elected king.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe both parties are starting to realize it, but
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  Speaker 3: we need a lot of other work done before we
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  Speaker 3: get back to putting the presidency back into its proper place.
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  Speaker 3: And I say this looking at the policies President Trump
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  Speaker 3: is following and not having a problem with them. But
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  Speaker 3: where is Congress in this? Where is Congress on these things?
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  Speaker 3: And this is why I've checked. It's been two weeks
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  Speaker 3: since I've mentioned the 1929 Permanent Reapportionment Act. We need
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  Speaker 3: this repealed so that we get a constitutionally constructed Congress
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  Speaker 3: so that we have lots of different factions, lots of
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  Speaker 3: different parties, a forced coalition building. within Congress so that
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  Speaker 3: they can do the work we send them to do,
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  Speaker 3: put the Senate back in control of the several states,
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  Speaker 3: even put the states in charge of creating the federal budget,
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  Speaker 3: and then get out of our pockets with the IRS,
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  Speaker 3: get out of our pockets with the FBI, and go
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  Speaker 3: back to the constitutional layout that you were supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be in. Because all this stuff gets fixed if we
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  Speaker 3: can do that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you made a good point, too.
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  Speaker 6: Why is Ted Cruz worried about a stupid sports bill
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  Speaker 6: for colleges versus the SAVE Act in America?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Ted, pass the damn SAVE Act. Fix the filibuster
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  Speaker 3: so that we can have the SAVE Act. Make Mark
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  Speaker 3: Warner stand there for 12 or 13 hours and talk.
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  Speaker 3: I'd pay cash money to see Mark Warner try to
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  Speaker 3: speak coherently for 16 or 17 hours. Because guess what?
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  Speaker 3: This open-ended zombie cloture is one of the great constitutional breakdowns.
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  Speaker 3: And I point right to Harry Reid as part of it.
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  Speaker 3: Mitch McConnell as well.
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  Speaker 4: Where's Mr. Smith?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's the thing. And be careful with Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Smith.
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  Speaker 3: He was part of the whole.
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  Speaker 10: I know.
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  Speaker 3: He was part of the whole William Randolph Hearst construct
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  Speaker 3: that the Senate wasn't working for you anymore. And we
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  Speaker 3: need to popularly elect these people. Anyway, Joel, good stuff,
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  Speaker 3: my friend. Hang in there. Stay cool. And I mean
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  Speaker 3: that more than just, you know, the 70s T-shirt. And
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  Speaker 3: a couple of things. Oh, and the text messages.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: There you go again. 1929 Act. You want thousands of
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  Speaker 3: Congress people. Well, if we have millions of people, we
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  Speaker 3: should have This is the part where Jefferson was so
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  Speaker 3: prescient when he wrote, experience hath shown, and I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to do a bad job of quoting the Declaration of Independence,
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  Speaker 3: and you'd think after 250 years we'd be able to
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  Speaker 3: quote the Declaration of Independence better. But the experience hath shown,
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  Speaker 3: how did he say it, that people... are more likely
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  Speaker 3: to just ignore the pains that they're suffering under. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not saying it as eloquently.
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  Speaker 10: What?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. All right, so to quote him specifically,
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  Speaker 3: All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to
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  Speaker 3: suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
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  Speaker 3: abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. So we've
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  Speaker 3: grown accustomed to these things. We've grown accustomed to, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have 60 votes, you can't get anything past
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  Speaker 3: the Senate. Well, no, the people who want to stand
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  Speaker 3: in the way of that, the should actually have to
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  Speaker 3: work for it. You can't just say, cloture, and then
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  Speaker 3: walk away and get to go home and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: have rubber chicken lunches. If you want a filibuster, filibuster,
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  Speaker 3: go ahead, stand there, hold the floor up. This whole
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  Speaker 3: idea of just, oh, we call cloture, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's like when you were playing Ring-A-Lario when you were
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  Speaker 3: a kid. I'm on home base. A kid made it
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  Speaker 3: to your dad's garage door, and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 3: he's on base, so you can't do anything to him.
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  Speaker 3: Scott in Virginia Beach writes in to 434-882-4217 with the
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  Speaker 3: phrase that pays. How did we get here? This is
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  Speaker 3: the phrase that gets us here. Why don't we do something?
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  Speaker 3: Somebody should do something. Elect me and I will do something.
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  Speaker 3: Our dear friend for the second time, referring to best-selling
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  Speaker 3: gone wrong in so many places in our world. The
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  Speaker 3: scenario plays out like this. Joe, Joe, this is something,
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  Speaker 3: and you said we must do something, so therefore you
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  Speaker 3: must do this. We say we must do something, and
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  Speaker 3: then somebody says, I've got a thing. All right, well,
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  Speaker 3: there you go. Now we've done something. Regardless of whether
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  Speaker 3: it's right, wrong, or indifferent, or constitutional, we must do
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  Speaker 3: something about this immediately, immediately, immediately, harumph. Harumph, harumph, harumph,
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  Speaker 3: And they're having the same problems in the European Union that.
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  Speaker 3: They had in the American colonies these United States of
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  Speaker 3: federal government from infringing, that word comes up. So they constructed,
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  Speaker 3: Mason thought would be preeminently important to protect the individual
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  Speaker 3: from the centralized government was.
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  Speaker 3: That no congressional district be larger than 50,000 people. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this numeral because in 1780, 1790, when this was all
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  Speaker 3: going on, the only citizens that were to be counted
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  Speaker 3: per se for that were male property owners. And I
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  Speaker 3: females would have been in the list. So let's expand
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  Speaker 3: it a little bit. Let's make it 100,000 You want
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  Speaker 3: to be even more great? Now, let's leave it at 100,000.
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  Speaker 3: And this, of course, assumes citizenship. With a U.S. population
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  Speaker 3: We've got 343 million people divided by 100,000 equals, yes,
• 34:39
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  Speaker 7: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because that's how many citizens we have. That's how many
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  Speaker 3: from there. 434-882-4217. So I understand that you're thinking of
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  Speaker 3: So first, your background, the roadless rule, and then talk
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  Speaker 4: So it's a 25-year-old rule.
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  Speaker 6: It's been in place since way back in the Clinton administration.
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  Speaker 6: that a lot of folks thought deserved protecting from, you know,
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: further logging activity and stuff like that. You know, some
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: of the trees in our roadless areas were alive when
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: Christ was born.
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: Right, right.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: I've seen some good documentaries on that, some of these
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: redwoods and such. So they want to repeal it now?
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so yes, they do. And the.
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: Thing is, is that if you repeal it, then ostensibly
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: there's a reason. And the reason usually is they want
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: to build new logging roads to access these particular stands
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: of forest for... for logging companies and so forth. And
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: we're a fiscally conservative organization. And, you know, we currently
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: have 368,000 miles of roads in our national forest.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: Is logging having a problem with access to it? I
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: know where we're flagged from here in central Virginia. Logging
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: is actually one of the biggest industries.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, logging doesn't have.
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: Problem with access adequate temporary is a lot of the
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: problem is with logging on national forest is it's become
• 46:57
  Speaker 6: over the years.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: It's been a lot less profitable.
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: Because you have tree farms and, you know, that kind
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: of thing that that competes and you can't. They can't
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: go into a natural area with steep mountains and stuff
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: like that and log without being subsidized by the taxpayers
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: in terms of the road building or low-cost logging sales
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: and so forth like that. So we have 368,000 miles
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: of roads already. And just to fix the existing ones
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: that are in disrepair, would cost us taxpayers an additional $ 10.
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: 8 billion.
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: And so what we ask is, why would any fiscal conservative,
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: without the sense God gave a billy goat, want to
• 47:46
  Speaker 6: sink taxpayer dollars into new forest roads when we're $ 40
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: trillion in debt and can't even take care of the
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: ones we currently have?
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: So one of the questions that I've had, and this
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: goes beyond the forest, is these logging trucks come out
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: of rural areas, often traveling great distances on little two-lane
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: highways once they're out of the forest to bring these
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: logs to the mills where they might be used. And
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: that is something that seems like it creates more of
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: a perilous situation than do we have more or enough
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: roads in the forest areas.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: But if you ever met one on a small two-lane road,
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: you kind of know.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, I see them all the time right out in
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: front of my house.
• 48:35
  Speaker 10: U.S.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: 15 in Virginia is logging trucks all the time running
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: through there. So why are they looking to repeal this?
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: Is it because of the Canadian border skirmish over tariffs
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: and lumber and that kind of thing? Is this like
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: a give back to the industry saying, hey, listen, we're
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: going to kind of mess you up with Canada?
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: Well, I think to give back to the industry part is,
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: I mean, the way the administration's operated, you know, whether
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: it's oil and gas or mining or timber or whatever,
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: it's they want to maximize profit off of our public lands.
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: And so they saw this roadless rule, and it only
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: covers about 30 of our national forest. The rest of
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: it's open for logging. The other 70% is open for logging.
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: But they decided they wanted to get rid of it.
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: And one of the excuses they made was that they said, well,
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: we need better access to fight forest fires.
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: The problem is that doesn't quite stand up to the
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: smell test because the.
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: If you think about, so look at our roadless areas,
• 49:46
  Speaker 6: we have far fewer incidences of wildfire and less acreage
• 49:51
  Speaker 6: burned in these roadless areas than we do in the
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: areas that have roads.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: Interesting.
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: And the reason that is, it's pretty simple.
• 50:00
  Speaker 6: More than 90% of all wildfires occur within half mile
• 50:03
  Speaker 6: of a road.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: And a lot of them are connected to human activity.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: Put that into air quotes.
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: Exactly. That's where I was getting. Yeah.
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: Roughly 88% of wildfires are caused by people. So if
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: you want less wildfires, and by the way, these old
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: stands of forest are our most fire-resistant forest. I mean,
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: if you ever look at like a North American rainforest
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: type area with hundreds and thousands of year-old trees... the
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: understory is moist. There's moss, there's, there's a lot of stuff.
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: And so there, the sunlight doesn't get down there. So
• 50:42
  Speaker 6: it stays moist. So they're more fire resistant. When you
• 50:45
  Speaker 6: clear those things out and the sun comes in, you
• 50:47
  Speaker 6: have a much drier forest floor and that's more susceptible
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: to the big wildfires. But, um, so if you got 80%,
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: 88% of our wildfires caused by people and you want to, you're,
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: you're saying that you're doing this for, for fire control. Um, Essentially,
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: to me, it sounds like this rollback would be adopting
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: an easier access for fire bugs approach to addressing forest fires.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: David, let me let me ask you this, because the
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: question is, are we going to build the roads and
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: then the loggers use them? Or are we just taking
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: away the restriction? And if a logger wants to go somewhere,
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: they can still file for the permits to go there.
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: Now, that's the thing that bugs us is that. taxpayers
• 51:33
  Speaker 6: pay for the logging roads. So the logging roads, they're
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: mostly built to subsidize these logging operations because if they
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: had to build the roads and pay for them and
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: maintain them, the whole operation would be unprofitable.
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, just go.
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: To a logging company and say, hey, would you be
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: willing to pay for and maintain this road that gives
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: you access to the trees? No, they won't. So taxpayers
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: have been subsidizing logging since shortly after World War II.
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: Interesting. Here's the real kicker.
• 52:08
  Speaker 6: Many of these logging operations are providing timber to China because,
• 52:14
  Speaker 6: especially in the western U.S., it's more economical from their perspective.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: David, we're running up into our news here. Where can
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: people find out more about what you do?
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so especially on this issue, go to our website, conservativestewards.org. Conservativestewards.org. Yeah,
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: we have an alert.
• 52:36
  Speaker 6: We have a lot of information about this up there,
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: and so people can go there and look. Yeah, we
• 52:40
  Speaker 6: just don't want to keep digging our hole in debt
• 52:43
  Speaker 6: any further than we have to.
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: Thank you, David. I appreciate it for you. Thank you
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: for listening as well. Until tomorrow morning, so long and
• 52:50
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