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"Conservatism in Portlandia" Monday August 25, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: A much higher chance of dying in New Orleans, Louisiana
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than you do in New York City.
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Speaker 2: The first thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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Joe Thomas, the second most famous Thomas and Charlott's goes.
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Speaker 3: Your word set steal mem You have a day, Thanks Scarborough.
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Speaker 4: I needed that at least for work.
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Speaker 5: When the sun comes up, drops a pet at the school.
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Speaker 6: Joe has everything A Jane do all the treasure said, needs.
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Speaker 7: No one that Joe's as smile.
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Speaker 3: He only as my wife needs to hear. Joe, bless
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you for letting me be of service to you this morning.
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Speaker 4: I want to be Joe here hold these truths.
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Speaker 3: Four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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After we tell you the news, I'd like to hear
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how it's impacting.
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Speaker 4: You where you live.
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Speaker 3: We here in New Orleans this morning in the French
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Quarter at the State Policy Network Annual meeting, and so
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many great folks. John Charles from the Cascade Policy Institute
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is going to join us in a little while from Oregon.
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Speaker 4: And then just to prove to.
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Speaker 3: You that these blue states have conservative groups trying to
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work on keeping it sane. And then Silvinus Salinas the
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CEO of the Empire Center, who is a New York's version.
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I think you'll hear some of my friends, Caleb Taylor,
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some of these folks from the Virginia Institute for Public Policy,
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one of our sponsors of this special half week long
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broadcast here from the French Quarter. We're also going to
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visit with our friends from the World War Two Museum.
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My family has a display there. My dad was held
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in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippines,
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and apparently he and my grandfather, Dad and my grandfather fashioned.
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Speaker 4: Rifles out of bedposts to use. They had an intel.
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Speaker 3: So it was a fascinating story that my dad never
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bothered to tell me. I only found this out for
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my aunt who was there, and she was much more
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effusive about their prison camp time than my dad ever was.
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My dad was classically one of those that happened. Then
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I'm dealing with what's going on right now. Let's focus
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on today. So it's like Bill Parson, not Bill Parcell,
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Bill Belichick, you know, seven seconds in a cloud of dust.
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He was the original process guy there. You know, I
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never never dwelled on the past, always looking, you know,
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at what's going on right now, seven seconds in front
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of you, et cetera, et cetera. So we'll get into
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that as well. While we're here and Daily Signal. You'll
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about this all craziness about what's going on behind the
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scenes with the Western District of Virginia and the US
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attorney there. You know, everyone's afraid to go on the
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record stories like this. You know, it's like, oh, I
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don't want to make Trump look bad, and all of
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these things, keeping people from saying stuff, you know, the
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quiet stuff out loud. But we will run the actual
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news of the day, like my dad would say, you know,
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don't worry about what happened, worry about what's going on.
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Pentagon has, according to a leaker who has leaked information
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to The Washington Post, published it in their Pentagon Papers
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section that supposedly the administration is planning to deploy the
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National Guard to Chicago. That's what Joe Scarborough to make
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a statement that it's more dangerous in Mike Johnson's home
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state of Louisiana aka Shreveport and New Orleans than it
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is in New York or and these other cities. US
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Envoy Thomas Barrick was in Israel dangerous place of its
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his leaders, including Israel's Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer
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Vance was on an NBC over Sunday morning talking about
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significant concessions that Russia has communicated to the administration regarding
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the end of.
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Speaker 4: The war with Ukraine.
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Speaker 3: He said those include Ukraine getting security guarantees protecting against
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future Russian aggressions. Meanwhile, as Ukraine celebrated its independence Day
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on Sunday, US President Donald Trump's envoy, Keith Kellogg, was
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there while drones were striking near a nuclear plant in Moscow.
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As the conflict approaches its fourth year, new South Korean
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president talk about conflicts that haven't been resolved. South Korean
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President Lee J. Mung is in Washington to meet with
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President Trump today to talk about China as they continue
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Speaker 4: We'll have fun in the big easy.
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Speaker 22: Arlo Guthrie is still alive and kicking in the city
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of New Orleans.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it.
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Speaker 22: If you want to feel like you're one hundred and five.
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Speaker 4: At least I did. Well.
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Speaker 3: So what's your You know, and it's interesting New Orleans
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from a sports standpoint, you know, there are iconic stadiums,
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and they're all enormously old. And every time you know,
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a team says.
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Speaker 21: Oh, we need to get a new stadium because ours
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was built in nineteen ninety nine, I'm like, call Chicago
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please and ask them about Wrigley Field, or Boston and
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Fenway Park or even Dodger Stadium.
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Speaker 22: You're more likely to see Zion Williams in the former
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Duke Star in a restaurant than you are a gym because.
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Speaker 3: A couple of lbs's we're talking about practice, we're talking
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about it. But the Superdome, the Superdome is one of
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those you know, it doesn't look like but I mean,
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don't talk about replacing the Superdome ever, since Katrina here
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in New Orleans. I mean, this is like sanctified ground,
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even more so in New Orleans than it is like
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Wrigley Field in Chicago.
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Speaker 22: Okay, I'll have a trivia question for you. The name
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the halftime act that experienced the blackout during a Super
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Bowl halftime if you can name that, If you can
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name that act anyway, bicking, I have no idea. Even
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before any athlete or coach or GM or owner accomplishes anything,
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it's the boardroom table, the whiteboard, the mobile phone, the
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zoom call.
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Speaker 4: Right, It's all about decisions. Well, this is why.
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Speaker 22: This is the most intriguing decision that has to be
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made in quite some time. Keegan Bradley should he or
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should he not become a playing captain in this September's
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Ryder Cup at Bethpage. Now he's coming off a great performance,
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a top ten at East Lake.
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Speaker 4: He finished seventh.
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Speaker 22: His vice captains Web Simpson, Brand Snetticker, Kevin Kisner, Jim
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Fury and Gary Woodland sat back this weekend, said Keegan.
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They've been talking every day for you know, the last year.
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They said they were going to talk to Keegan over
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the weekend. But now they talked behind his back, and
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they're you know, they're they're trying to decide what to
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do with Keegan, who wrapped up what he called.
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Speaker 4: His favorite season.
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Speaker 22: Well, there is a decision should I play or should
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I not play? When it comes September and that third
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weekend at bethpage Black.
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Speaker 23: I think gone through a lot of stuff this year.
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I didn't know how I was going to handle it.
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Probably the way I did. This is a whole other animal.
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I have no clue. That's going to be really difficult.
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So when I get done here, we're going to talk
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to my vice captains. We sort of put everything on.
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Speaker 20: Hold the last couple of days.
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Speaker 23: I think they were trying to leave me alone. But
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we'll get in touch with them and get our final
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decisions together. Saw a lot of great Americans play great today,
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which makes me happy.
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Speaker 22: See Keegan Bradley. We've talked a lot about Bob Rotella.
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Keigan Bradley is a Barbara Teller disciple. Undoubtedly he'll have
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Bob on the phone and say should I do this?
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Speaker 20: Now?
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Speaker 22: With all that being said, the potential members, guys like
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Justin Thomas and Colin morikawas he wednsday is selection day,
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Patrick Cantley. They're in agreement that Keegan's going to do
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what's best for the team. Does he play or does
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he just sit back, coach and organize.
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Speaker 23: I'm sure they've been talking behind my back as I'm
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out there. I know they have a separate chat without me.
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I'm sure they have some of their opinions that they
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want to tell me what they think. No matter what
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decision that I make here, the only thing I care
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about is on Sunday of the Ryder Cup that we
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win the Ryder Cup, then I'll know I made the
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right decision.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 22: He is damned if he does damned if he doesn't.
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So if he plays and they win, oh what a
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great decision. If he plays and loses a couple of matches,
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well of course he's going to be, you know, toasted.
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Speaker 4: How could he do this? Blah blah blah, all right,
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foot wedge.
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Speaker 22: The US has not had a playing captain in the
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Ryder Cup since some guy named Rnal Palmer in nineteen
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sixty three.
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Speaker 4: Really American win big that year twenty three to nine.
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Speaker 22: Now, since the sixties, the captain's responsibilities have grown well.
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Since sixty three, the format went to three days, not two.
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Speaker 4: Now there are wild.
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Speaker 22: Card selections and managing personalities and egos, which could be
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a full time job. Anyway, the media onslaught that you
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have to handle, you have to make a speech, you
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have to speak at two or three dinners. And after
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nineteen sixty three, the PGA bylaws said captains cannot play.
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However that rule was changed. There's strategic importance, there's pairings.
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So do you put yourself going, yeah, I'm gonna play
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with I'm gonna play with Scotti Scheffler on Saturday, you know,
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because you got to do Perry Friday, Saturday Sunday makes
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no difference. All twelve players play, so it doesn't make
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any difference. But now do you decide to throw yourself
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in the mix and and you know, play around or
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do you play too?
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Speaker 4: How good are you playing? And I think what you do?
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I don't know if it's me.
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Speaker 22: I put it up to my vice captains and they go,
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you know, I know, on a buddy trip, I had
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several of my friends, like you know, Cassella and people
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like that, saying, Joe, why don't you just sit in
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the townhouse, why don't you just sit No, I'm.
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Speaker 4: Just I'm kidding, but I mean, now it becomes what
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do we do?
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Speaker 22: And so I think the vice captains will help him
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make the decision, and I think he'll put it up
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for a vote. Maybe it'll be a team vote after
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he selects everybody on Wednesday.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 22: It is the biggest decision of twenty twenty five golf anyway,
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goal lines.
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Speaker 4: Stand or do we run or pass?
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Speaker 22: It's the biggest decision in twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 4: And that's why I love this story.
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Speaker 3: Oh well, I mean it's it is unique golf. Uh,
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it's golf more akin to you know, what you and
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me would play where it's like, yeah, you'd play the
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guy on with you.
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Speaker 22: Yeah, and the pressure because the United States has not
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done all that well in the recent years in the
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Ryder Cup.
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Speaker 4: So all right, So now a couple of other notes.
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Speaker 22: Joe forty This morning Saturday, a sign collectible card featuring
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signatures and pictures of Michael Jordan Kobe Bryant sold for
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thirteen million dollars. It surpassed the nineteen fifty two Mantle
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Rookie card that went.
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Speaker 4: For twelve point six.
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Speaker 22: The Jordan Bryant card is the second most expensive sports
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collectible all time, behind the jersey that Babe Ruth wore
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in nineteen thirty two when he made the famous called
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shot lasture.
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Speaker 4: Into collectibles.
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Speaker 22: So that card, which had the NBA logo on it,
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had two signatures, has got a picture of Jordan and Kobe. Uh,
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twelve point six was the you know if you're if
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you're into that kind of thing.
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Speaker 4: So and of course it was all going to charity,
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I'm sure of course.
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Speaker 22: Well no, probably not, no, no, not at all.
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Speaker 3: And people wonder why, you know, sports celebrities are you know,
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get salty about signing autographs. You know it was who
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was the was it the the gymnast from LSU that
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got Livvy? Yeah, she got Livy done. She got Oh
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the people come up to me in the airport, I
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get guess what, Livy? When they stopped coming up to you.
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That's it's when you know, you know, maybe a new
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career choice or you know, what am I going to do?
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Speaker 4: You know, there's no gymnast, Livy.
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Speaker 22: You're making you're making ten million a year. Uh, you know,
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being in a swimsuit and just showing people, you know,
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and dating Paul Skins and just let it rest.
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Speaker 4: Will you?
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Speaker 22: You know the great story about a month ago she
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got turned down trying to buy bab Speaking of Babe Ruth,
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she tried to buy the Babe Ruth apartment in New York.
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And they they're very the real whoever controls that, they're
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very particularly there's all kinds of people that been that
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have tried to buy it have been turned down.
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Speaker 4: Livy got she got turned down. Who turns down? Let
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me done? You know now?
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Speaker 3: I bet you, I'll bet you if if Hank Steinbrenner
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could sign Paul's schemes to a free agent contract, he.
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Speaker 4: Would cut that deal.
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Speaker 22: Yeah, probably another that's another whiteboard decision.
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Speaker 4: So well, you have fun in New Orleans.
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Speaker 22: Oh are you there for a couple of days or one?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're here through Wednesday. We fly out Wednesday night,
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and so you know, and we'll eat a little bit.
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I don't I don't have a ton of money. And
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that's the trouble with these places is you know, a
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five dollars cheeseburger is now a thirty dollars cheeseburger.
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Speaker 4: So anyway, so all right, we'll figure But Bud Foster's
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going to join us Wednesday too, So that's.
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Speaker 3: Right, very good. That's right for h the in for
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Speaker 19: For spending money about to help feed his little sisters.
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Speaker 31: It's on making mornings great again.
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Speaker 2: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
28:22
Speaker 3: That's us, Thank you for joining us. That's where we
28:36
are this morning for the State Policy Network Public Annual meeting.
28:40
Speaker 4: First time and they were all scrambling.
28:42
Speaker 3: I don't know what do we do with a radio
28:44
show here, but they've been such gracious hosts and brought
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to you by the Daily Signal and I'll be podcasting
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Daily Signal dot com from there and my friends at
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the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, for whom I've worked
28:59
for almost twenty years, joining us now, and I wrote
29:02
reached out to most everyone who's going to be here
29:05
making presentations and part of the group, but especially given
29:09
how many folks interact with the program out of Oregon,
29:12
both listening at KUFO and k fi R. John Charles
29:18
is joining us from the Cascade Policy Institute, and John,
29:22
thank you very much for taking some time out. It's
29:25
Cascade Policy dot org is where you find them online.
29:30
How are you doing and have you gotten to New
29:32
Orleans yet?
29:35
Speaker 20: I arrived here yesterday.
29:37
Speaker 9: I had a wonderful Cagun dinner last night, and will
29:40
conference a self will swing into action later today.
29:44
Speaker 3: Talk about and I was reading your piece and it
29:47
struck so close to home because Virginia went through the
29:50
same thing where all of a sudden, the Department of
29:52
Transportation turned their pockets inside out and said, I don't
29:56
know where all the money went. And like so many things,
30:00
whether it's marijuana or you name it, the state says, oh,
30:03
if we tax this, we'll never have to tax anything again.
30:06
Until they come back with their pockets turns inside out.
30:10
Talk about what happened and if it's the same thing
30:13
that was happening in Virginia where they just couldn't tax
30:16
automobiles and gasoline enough and the Department of Transportation ran
30:22
out of money.
30:23
Speaker 9: Anyway, well, it's kind of a complex situation.
30:30
Speaker 20: There's a lot of blame.
30:31
Speaker 9: To be shared by some you know, i'd say mismanagement
30:35
on the part of ODAT.
30:36
Speaker 20: But also beginning twenty.
30:40
Speaker 9: Four years ago, the state legislature started passing a series
30:43
of bills creating new revenue streams for ODAD, but also
30:51
legally restricting where the money could go and directing it.
30:56
And as odo's money from registration fee and gas tacks
31:02
mile taxes increased, only a small portion of that was
31:06
available for basic road maintenance.
31:08
Speaker 20: Of course, the legislature called.
31:10
Speaker 9: Them to spend it on a bunch of capital projects,
31:14
sort of shining new objects that were either not necessary or,
31:19
in one case of.
31:20
Speaker 20: A may project was just a bad idea.
31:23
Speaker 9: So over twenty five years, the amount of money for
31:26
maintenance has been slowly plateauing and then starting to decline.
31:32
Speaker 20: Coupled with perhaps a more serious problem.
31:35
Speaker 9: That the legislature also authorized the agency to sell bonds
31:41
to get money today paid back by debt service on
31:46
future gas tax revenues, and that really creates a situation
31:50
where debt service becomes a tapeworm that eats away your
31:54
general fund over time. So last year they had debt
31:59
service a three hundred and fifty eight million dollars and
32:02
that eight up fifty five percent of their guess tax money.
32:05
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
32:06
Speaker 9: So the legislature itself has legislature itself has caused quite
32:10
a bit of the problem. And so we've recommended to
32:12
them for the special session coming up on the twenty
32:15
ninth that they I would give the agency more flexibility
32:20
to spend money on maintenance and also to pay off
32:25
there what is now a three point nine billion dollar
32:28
liability on deat service paid off with lottery funds rather
32:33
than raise new gas axes.
32:36
Speaker 3: It's a much better idea, but it's a warning I
32:39
always give people when they start talking about whether it's
32:41
urban renewal projects or transport to you know, especially you know,
32:45
these light rail projects and things like that, and they
32:47
always say, oh, but we'll make so.
32:49
Speaker 4: Much money in tax revenue.
32:51
Speaker 3: They call it tax increment financing, or they just go
32:54
out and do it directly, sell bonds, and it never materializes.
32:58
I've yet one time in forty years of doing this
33:01
seeing it turnaround and actually create all, if not more
33:05
of the tax revenue. They're always coming back in twenty
33:08
years saying, ah, we just didn't you know, we're going
33:11
to have to and they try to play fast and
33:13
loose with it. John, thank you for taking us inside
33:16
yet another proofable point, data point.
33:19
Speaker 4: In these issues. And you know so much better things Oregonians.
33:26
Speaker 3: And it strikes me that, you know, living in Charlottesville, Virginia,
33:30
I often get this from people saying, Joe, why do
33:32
you why do you try? It's you know, it's a
33:34
crazy left wing town or you know, and Oregon gets
33:38
a reputation, you know, you know, even some of the
33:42
left wing comet comics, like the folks who did Portlandia
33:45
take you know some time at how Oregon can swing
33:49
so far to the left. But there's so many great
33:51
people and it's such a beautiful place. Talk about your
33:55
membership and the people who are there. And if at
33:59
some point maybe the governor and the Democrats in Oregon
34:04
dragged too many people towards the Overton window and people
34:07
in Oregon start waking up and tapping into conservative policies.
34:12
I have to imagine that's what you get up every
34:14
morning hoping.
34:17
Speaker 9: Well when the governor of the current governor, when she
34:19
won her last race, she only took i think six
34:25
out of the thirty six counties.
34:27
Speaker 4: Wow.
34:27
Speaker 9: So the majority of Oregon counties are rural and they're
34:32
very conservative. And it wasn't that long ago. For instance,
34:37
in around two thousand, when the former governor, Kate Brown
34:40
was a young state senator and was just voted to
34:44
be in charge of her Democratic caucus. Her total caucus
34:48
had ten members. Well, it's a thirty members senate. She
34:51
was routinely on the wrong end of twenty to ten votes,
34:54
and the Republicans also had the House. So most things
34:59
in politics start cyclical, and you have to take a
35:02
longer view. And yes, over the last twenty years, Oregon
35:06
has become a very much a blue state, very much
35:10
enamored with large central planning schemes. But those planning schemes
35:15
inevitably fail, and that presents an opportunity for those of
35:20
us who were in the small government, free market greena
35:24
to say, hey, we're you know, we're still here, our
35:26
ideas have merit, and we're ready whenever you get tired
35:30
of failing. We're still here, and I think that moment
35:34
is coming for Oregon. It's kind of what I call
35:38
Joe Biden debate moment. Sure, you know, a little more
35:43
than a year ago, millions and millions of voters were
35:45
horrified to discover that everything they thought they knew about
35:48
Joe Biden was wrong and things came crashing down for them.
35:52
And Oregon is going to experience its own Biden debate moment.
35:57
Speaker 3: Well, I think that a lot of people are because
36:01
every time I think they've reached a point where they
36:03
can't possibly say here, hold my beer, they do it again.
36:07
And Hakeem Jefferees over the weekend was doubling down on
36:11
more of these, you know, crazy policies that have never
36:14
been proven and are routinely being proven in live action
36:19
that they don't work.
36:21
Speaker 4: You know.
36:22
Speaker 3: One of the things I was talking to fella on
36:25
the way over here. There's a conference going on nearby
36:28
about housing and housing costs. I said, gosh, that's like
36:32
this one of the two biggest issues in this state
36:36
policy network is liberating I guess is the word housing?
36:41
How is how is housing in Oregon? You know, I
36:45
imagine it's got to be facing the same struggles it
36:48
is all across the country, with onerous government policies killing it.
36:54
Speaker 9: Well, we're probably the worst off in that we have
36:57
the most onerous statewide land you regulatory system. You really
37:02
can only build or at least easily build housing inside
37:09
these urban growth boundaries that we've had for half a
37:12
century and arguments, I think the sixth largest state, and
37:17
yet our urban growth boundaries restrict housing developments to about
37:23
one percent of the land mass of the state. God,
37:27
so it's almost impossible to build anything, including housing A
37:32
ninety nine percent of the land and fifty five percent
37:35
of the land is owned by the federal government, so
37:37
that's a build zone. So okay, Well, the laws of
37:44
supplying demand and housing would say that at some point
37:48
you need more land, you need to make it easier
37:51
to build.
37:52
Speaker 20: And the.
37:54
Speaker 9: Progressives, who are basically kind of mean, really they have
37:58
a wind that's nine percent.
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Speaker 29: If you came across someone struggling with hunger, how would
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Speaker 5: Would you notice a sixteen year old boy who got
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his first.
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Speaker 19: Job Franks for spending money but to help feed his
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little sisters.
42:19
Speaker 30: Or a mother who's in between jobs and sometimes goes
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to bed hungry so her kids can have dinner.
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Speaker 5: Or a fourteen year old girl who signs up to
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every after.
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Speaker 20: It's on.
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Speaker 2: Amaze your friends. Here A first thing today by Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 3: Here at the State Policy Network annual meeting. John Charles
44:23
is on with us from the Cascade Institute. That's Oregon's
44:29
conservative voice there and John, you were talking right before
44:33
we went to break in. Is so funny because our
44:35
flagship city, Charlotte'sville, they have this five percent you can
44:40
only build in five percent of the county. And I
44:42
thought that was draconian. You're telling me, I mean, it's
44:46
one percent of Oregon can have houses or homes or
44:49
anything built on it.
44:51
Speaker 9: They act as if they act as if they're ninety
44:55
nine to one ratio were reduced to ninety eight to two,
44:59
that would be crisis pay.
45:01
Speaker 20: Oh my gosh, pay pay over paradise. Dogs and cats
45:04
living together.
45:05
Speaker 9: Terrible gosh, no, it's so you know, they've that's part
45:11
of it. And so if you're a young person you
45:14
have almost no chance. Me young, I say, coming out
45:16
of college or high school, you have almost no chance
45:18
over the next decade of owning a home. So we
45:22
were now seeing population plateauing and opportunities are better elsewhere,
45:28
and hey, there are forty nine other states. And as
45:32
I understand that they don't have to stay in Oregon.
45:36
Speaker 3: What obviously your voice is one of those voices speaking
45:39
out on it. Is it gaining traction? You said, it's
45:42
only been you know, twenty years, this lurch to the
45:45
left in Oregon. Our people in the decision making world
45:50
looking at, you know, downzoning. I was just talking to
45:52
a young lady from Marcadas who said, the city of
45:55
Houston's completely eliminated, you know, type zoning. So if you
46:01
have an empty warehouse that nobody's using, you can tear
46:04
it down and build apartments there if you want to
46:06
without having to go through the whole rezoning process.
46:11
Speaker 16: Right.
46:11
Speaker 9: Well, Houston has long been known as the anti Portland
46:14
for that reason.
46:15
Speaker 20: And yes, so zoning.
46:20
Speaker 9: Frankly, almost any place in Texas is easy to build
46:24
and that's why it's a primary reason why there's a
46:28
lot of housing and moderately price housing in Texas. In Oregon,
46:32
will things change, I don't know. I mean, public policy
46:35
is frequently a matter of king of the mountain. You
46:38
get here first, you defend the mountain and ownerous zoning
46:43
has been in place for about fifty two years in Oregon,
46:46
and it's possible that that's going to be as permanent
46:50
as gambling in Nevada. If you want to get rid
46:53
of gambling in Nevada, you should probably just leave Nevada
46:56
because that's probably not going to happen.
46:58
Speaker 4: I hope that doesn't happen.
46:59
Speaker 9: I don't know on the overlay depressing about Orion, but zoning,
47:03
strict zoning is has a big home court advantage here.
47:07
Speaker 3: Well, keep talking about a cascade policy dot org. John Charles,
47:12
I appreciate it. Look forward to meeting you in person
47:14
as the conference gets underway today here in New Orleans.
47:18
And keep fighting the good fight and being one of
47:20
those voices. And I appreciate you visiting us this morning.
47:24
All right, thanks for the call eight yours as well
47:27
at four three four eight eight two four two one
47:30
seven is how you get to us tell you the
47:33
news will break down the news reactions.
47:36
Speaker 4: Especially to this petition.
47:38
Speaker 3: And I appreciate earlier we told you two point five
47:41
million people think it's getting up upwards of three, but
47:44
it's still, you know, one percent of the American population.
47:48
Speaker 4: And this is we talk a.
47:51
Speaker 3: Lot, I guess about, and we say it in the abstract,
47:54
but you don't understand if you don't understand how the
47:58
Overton window works. Donald Trump is the first person in
48:05
the conservative world. And I don't even necessarily say, I mean,
48:09
there are more ardent conservatives, especially when it comes to
48:13
things like debt and deficit spending and everything, but he's.
48:16
Speaker 4: The first person since Reagan.
48:22
Speaker 3: To apply the principles of the Overton window to liberty based,
48:30
common sense constitutional.
48:34
Speaker 4: Points.
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Speaker 3: And he didn't even do it per se in the
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first Trump term. He's doing it this term where he's
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just saying, you know, you can argue with him, but
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he's going to keep saying it, we need police to
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enforce the laws, that kind of thing. He keeps doing it,
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and then Joe Scarborough has to discuss it. You know,
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even if Joe Scarborough says nutty stuff like he had
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just said this morning. You know, I guess he couldn't
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count on Al Sharpton to be nutty enough for him.
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So Joe Scarborough had to testify for the Windows of
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the truth was they.
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Speaker 21: Were on with.
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Speaker 3: Al Sharpton was on the panel, and I guess Al
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wasn't being crazy enough.
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Speaker 4: So Joe had to say, this.
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Speaker 1: A much higher chance of dying in New Orleans, Louisiana
49:33
than you do in New York City.
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Speaker 3: But that's Trump dragging the Overton window back to the
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side of you need police on the streets to protect.
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Speaker 4: You from crime.
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Speaker 3: And now you've even got guys like Joe Scarborough talking
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about it, and you talk about it, then people started going, oh, well,
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it's what about that? And the left has been doing
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this forever. It's just John was pointing out from Org
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fifty years ago, they said we should never build anything anywhere,
50:04
and then when housing became inaffordable for the average Oregonian,
50:08
they say, well, it's the greedy rich people that are
50:11
keeping you from your housing. And they say it, and
50:16
then it makes you debate it. But by debating it,
50:19
you've you've graced it with reality, You've anointed it with
50:26
a certain amount of gravitass for even discussing nutty stuff.
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Speaker 4: Like should boys play girls sports?
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Speaker 3: That this whole transathlete stuff is is a is classic.
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Speaker 4: I mean it it is played out.
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Speaker 3: If you don't understand the Overton window, since this whole
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debate over boys playing girls' sports, you never will. It
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is a master's class in it. And it's so ham
50:59
handed to be so obvious that I think the left
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realized or was thinking that nobody would bring this up
51:07
and that, but you talk about it. Oh, but they
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just want to participate. What was it, Thomas, no relation.
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I'm not going to call him Leah. No, there's a
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guy college athlete, middling swimmer, good enough to be like
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two hundredth in the nation. It's a better swimmer than
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I am. And my dad was a letterman swimmer at Cornell.
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He never thought about swimming against women. I mean, I'm
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sure he went swimming with women, especially at Cornell, probably
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in the finger Lakes, but I don't want to go there.
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That was before he met my mom. But it never
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struck him that, gee, you know, I could win some
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gold medals if I swam against girls, and then you
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get the boxers and the basketball players.
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Speaker 4: I mean, there was.
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Speaker 3: A it was a joke, was it the Daily Caller
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was it was the one that did the spoof video
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is called Lady Ballers.
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Speaker 4: It's a spoof video.
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Speaker 3: It's it's not quite movie length, but it's not a
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twenty second meme on Instagram either. But they do this
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whole thing about a women's basketball league, and somebody, one
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team owner says, you know, there's nothing that says it
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has to be women, you know, And so they get
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a bunch of guys basketball players to say they they've
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become women, and then their rival team shows up with
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like Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley and really houses them.
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Speaker 4: But I mean, the point.
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Speaker 3: Is it's so ridiculous, but by discussing it, they drag it.
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