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PA Farmer Turned Down $15 Million Offer For His Land · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: I see both sides to this particular story you're about
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I am leaning one way, but i'll tell you after
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  Speaker 1: you tell us.
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  Speaker 2: Left or right?
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  Speaker 1: Left or right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. A farmer in Silver Spring Township, Pennsylvania, has turned
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  Speaker 2: down a fifteen million dollar offer from a data center
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  Speaker 2: developer because he said he has lived on this land
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  Speaker 2: for fifty years and he wants to preserve his farm
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  Speaker 2: through a local land preservation program instead. So he was
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  Speaker 2: offered fifteen million bucks to hand over his farm and
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  Speaker 2: walk away.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be like, buy cows? You peace out? Man?
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  Speaker 2: Would you really? Yo? Really?
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  Speaker 1: I'm out? But I also see his loyalty. Yeah, his
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  Speaker 1: ground preserving observing. I get that part. Yeah, how do
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  Speaker 1: you say no to fifteen million dollars? Come on, I
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  Speaker 1: don't you know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are hamburgers. I'm out. They're more than.
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  Speaker 2: Cows port cows.
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  Speaker 1: You do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I feel very torn because I'm with him. I
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  Speaker 2: would want to preserve the farm. He's going to work
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  Speaker 2: with the local land preservation program because I think it's
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  Speaker 2: so important. But standing by your values and morals when
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  Speaker 2: fifteen million is being flushed in your day makes it
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  Speaker 2: a little tough. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think I've seen stories about here in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: You ever see like a bunch of high rises around
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  Speaker 1: like a small building, and I'm thinking those are people
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  Speaker 1: that probably they had a chance, yes, and maybe sell,
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  Speaker 1: but they just stood their ground and they want to
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  Speaker 1: stay there.
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  Speaker 2: And that happened right at Macy's, like right on the pillar. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was like a hot dog stand or something that
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  Speaker 2: just wouldn't sell when Macy's was coming in to put
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  Speaker 2: up their big department store on thirty fourth Street with
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  Speaker 2: sunglasses hut for a long time. I'm not sure what
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  Speaker 2: it is now, but yeah, there's just a little store
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  Speaker 2: on the corner and then the rest is Macy's.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would take the fifteen million and your final answer.
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  Speaker 2: Christine, I am so torn I.
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  Speaker 1: Milking cows the rest of your life or fifteen million.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, baby, you're protecting that land again. Fifteen million, okay,
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  Speaker 2: fifteen million.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you did give us a text four four three
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  Speaker 1: six three. I'm sure you see both sides of it too.
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  Speaker 1: But money, money, money, yeah, cash is king. All right,
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