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On today's episode of the Blended Back Program, we have a special guest on the show, Rep. Thomas Massey (R-VA) joins us to talk about the border, horses on the highway, the budget, and our lack of understanding of what's going on in Washington.
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podcast today goes everywhere from horses on the highway to the the budget for the you know
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tuck and shove or whatever the transgender underwear that the that the uh the the white
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house now wants us to buy uh that's in our our new budget no they've trimmed right to the bone
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um but if you need any of that transgender underpants the government's there for you
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we talk about that um all the way to red heifers and our just lack of understanding of everything
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that's going on today on today's podcast right after this the founders of this country understood
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that freedom is never more than a moment away from vanishing in an unarmed population that's why they
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created the second amendment i believe in that freedom and that responsibility that we have
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protected by the second amendment but not every emergency is the same sometimes you know like my
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daughter does not like guns okay great but i want her to be safe that's why at christmas i gave her a
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burner launcher it has um a really effective stopping power 60 feet away you can hit them uh and you can
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use a all kinds of they have pepper you know pepper gas uh rounds but they also have tear grit gas rounds
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that i recommend she put in because that'll stop somebody for about 40 minutes so you have somebody
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coming at you you have something going on somebody's coming towards your car you could just roll your
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window down just a little bit boom be within five feet of them and it's tear gas maybe you could get
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you're listening to the best of the blend back program
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welcome to the blend back program let's welcome congressman thomas massey thomas how'd you have
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how was your sleep last night i bet you slept like a baby i i slept like a baby i cried for two hours
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and i slept for two hours oh my gosh first of all how does your office go through a bill like this
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uh we call it control f control f that sucker which is you know the hotkey for searching it
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finding things in it and now not only do you have to search the bill text there are addendums that
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aren't even in the bill that are just as long as the bill that lists things like the year marks so
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you've got to go get other documents to find out what's in it
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are people going to vote for this you know it's a there's a real question of whether a majority of
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republicans will vote for it i i think almost every democrat is going to vote for it and that
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in itself should be damning uh some of the earmarks that we see in it are funding venues that have drag
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shows drag queen shows that include children uh training for how to transition without uh consent
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of parents involved all the way down to ages 13 proms gay proms for ages 12 to 18 uh with rooms off to
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the side in case it's just too much out there at the prom uh just crazy stuff in this
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uh well it'd be interesting to see uh what do you think about uh johnson's handling of all of this
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i mean i thought this was what we were fighting against well you know he's our general but i think
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he's been captured by by the swamp uh i don't you know we had lots of options here we had the thing
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in law it's still in law it will be gone after today but it's still in law uh the one percent
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automatic cut if we just did a cr if we just did a cr past april 30th all of the programs get cut
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one percent and nobody gets an earmark that should that should have been the speaker's default position
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and he should have drugged these sobs past april 30th and into that condition and then he could
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have negotiated that they these guys would run over their own mother to get their earmarks he could
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have negotiated some stupid little earmarks to get some border security or something
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well speaking of border security i mean yesterday was pretty good right i mean look at all the look
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at all the young women and families and children that came uh scuttling across our border yesterday
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i thought they did it with respect uh and especially all those nursing babies
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it's so demoralizing to see people in u.s uniforms uh being overrun and given terms of engagement to
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basically say surrender to the invaders uh it was demoralizing for our country
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and it's demoralizing for the troops these guys if you're going to put them in harm's way
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let them do what they're supposed to do and defend themselves this is now the national guard at the
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border means nothing it was a photo op the whole time if they can't do what they're supposed to do
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then pull their asses out and i'm directing that to greg abbott yeah amen uh and we honestly we should
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have our own forces there at the border stopping this but they need to have rules of engagement that
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aren't as you said just photo op rules of engagement it makes our country look weak and
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it just invites more people to come to the border why are we giving what is it 500 how much did i say
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that was stew hundreds of millions of dollars to jordan and egypt uh to be able to protect their
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borders why are we paying for that it makes no sense there's also 300 million in this omnibus
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for ukraine you know i wanted to have you on today to talk about your resolution your resolution
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um your your your uh amendment that you want to add to the constitution which i mean it has no chance of
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passing uh thomas because there's no common sense anymore and the press i saw when you when you uh
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suggested this i'm all in and the press ran headlines like gop now wants to control your food
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what right what or that i'm for listeria and e coli or something like that look what i did is i threw
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out there a constitutional amendment and i put a little bit of thought into it because when i the
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basically a constitutional amendment that guarantees your right to be able to grow food and to purchase
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food from the sources that you want because right now we've descended into this corptocracy where four
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companies control all the meat a few cooperatives control all the milk uh you we see amish farmers
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just living off the land selling to people going to to jail uh having all their food confiscated
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our founding fathers i don't think ever contemplated this getting to this point and so they didn't put
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this in the bill of rights because it was just too obvious uh but i think that's we need something
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like this now you know i ran it by mike lee before i threw it up there on social media i'm looking for
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democrat co-sponsor because i think that's key and it's hard to draft the constitutional amendment
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that doesn't do something accidental for instance my first version right i i thought man this is great
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and i read it and i'm like no the left is going to say this guarantees your everybody's right to food
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stamps and that's not what i want to do so so this actually stems from this this amish guy who's been
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arrested is being hassled by the i don't know fda fbi i don't know some three-letter agency that now
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you know thinks that they can you know go in with a swat team to an amish farmer and this is ridiculous
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it's absolutely ridiculous it is ridiculous and this is they've harassed him multiple times this time
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i believe it's over milk sales before it was over beef he's not the only amish person there are other
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ones who are being prosecuted there's a guy i think it's samuel fisher in virginia who's being
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prosecuted and so i came up with this amendment and let me read it it's pretty short the right of the
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people to grow food and to purchase food from the source of their choice shall not be infringed and
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congress shall make no law regulating the production and distribution of food products
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which do not move across state lines it's a it's a very tight and compact uh amendment but it covers
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a lot of things in there first of all i'm trying to basically get the feds out of the meat processing
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that's that's local that's just intrastate that's what the second clause is about congress shall make
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no law regulating the production and distribution of food products uh and you know it's a shame i have to
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do that but anyways there's we got this big meat oligopoly that's enabled and enhanced by the usda
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the over regulation they just regulate all the little guys out of it but the first clause here
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the right of people to grow food you know you have a right to political speech for instance whatever
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you know your city or can do an ordinance and whatever but they can't keep you from putting a sign
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up in your yard saying who you're going to vote for i think you should be able to grow tomatoes
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without getting thrown out of your house for instance uh and then one other thing that this
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amendment covers your ability to purchase food from the source of your choice now this is the people who
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bought food from amos miller in pennsylvania they did cross state lines but that food did cross state
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lines i'm told but they the people who bought it knew what they were buying and you should never be
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deprived of the ability to have a contract between two consenting adults to purchase food
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no no i disagree with you to purchase food you can have just a uh contract with one human adult
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to another human adult that's ridiculous we need to start mutilating our children without parental
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consent what is wrong with you thomas massey we should be focusing on the mutilation of our children
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and mutilate them some more without any adult supervision at all just the government telling
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us what to do i'm sorry i i forgot he i'm sorry i forgot the key to good health is always multiple
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vaccines and mind controlling drugs yeah i'm sorry go ahead i've got off the narrative here perfect
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i know um i i i i have to tell you that when i saw that you said that you know you can't do it over
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state lines i thought to myself and maybe mike talked to you about this i mean you're you're smart
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enough to know this is what the commerce clause this is what threw the commerce clause under the
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bus that you know they regulate all commerce uh but it was supposed to be between states but it
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happened because of wheat and they said well you know that wheat it it you know it's pollen kind of
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goes in the air and goes across state lines so we have to regulate that now so how are you thinking
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you're going to get this across well and and this is actually to countermand that horrible supreme
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court decision where they said a guy couldn't grow his own wheat and feed it to his own animals
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because if he grew his own wheat he wasn't buying wheat in interstate commerce and so that he was
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affecting interstate commerce by introducing more wheat into the overall supply even though none of it
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crossed state lines and so that's what it was you're right yeah and this is to to countermand
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that horrible decision that the supreme court made and uh and that's why i said you know food
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products which do not move across state lines instead of saying interstate commerce we have to
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physically say if it's not going across state lines then it's not state commerce and that that supreme
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court decision if people want to look it up was wickard v filburn yes wickard v filburn that that is such
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i it's been years since i've read it that court case changed everything and uh you know i don't
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know if i don't know if we can get congress to pass anything um anymore but uh thank you for the
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common sense on this and the bill you're you're not voting for the bill right oh heck no by the way
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but i think it was mike lee suggested i could name my constitutional amendment roscoe filburn's uh revenge
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all right thomas thank you so much god bless you thank you that would have been a uh fun like m night
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shamalan twist if he voted for the bill at the end of that interview he's like yeah no i'm totally
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no i mean what are you gonna do you know gotta pass it so otherwise the world melts down and i think by
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the way we should know i think that was perhaps the nerdiest joke ever made on the show the roscoe
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filburn reference i think that was and i give i applaud thomas massey that is perhaps it's not
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another horse on the highway yes horses on the highway this is a horse galloping down i-76 in philadelphia
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beautiful racehorse no idea how it found an on-ramp but it did uh and that's kind of what the world we
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live in gee haven't seen this one before now what i'm going to show you here is um is something we
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haven't seen before but it's not just a horse on the highway it's a horse on the highway with a
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chimpanzee holding braveheart sword on top of the horse on the highway this is something you've never
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heard before you remember uh the ccp the chinese communist party linked company named goshen
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we talked about it i don't know a while back they um the town council had made some agreement
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with this communist party company goshen to come in and build this huge factory in their town
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well the the uh the board didn't actually talk to the people about it what they had was a
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developmental agreement a development agreement and uh it was supposed to be ratified but by the time
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that it came out to the public uh and the public heard about it they kicked and and got all of the
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members off of that board evicted they were all recalled but now that's the horse on the highway
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here is the monkey with the broadsword on top so the communist party of china is now suing this
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american township for breach of contract so we have the communists suing their way in to a town in america
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well okay so what else is new bruce baker is here he is from uh micosta environmental and security
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alliance he's the president of that and he has all the details on this uh wow bruce i've never heard
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anything like this you're right glenn and thanks first of all thanks for having me on the the show i it's
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an honor to be talking with you and i i appreciate this opportunity to bring this forward thank you
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you're you're right yes uh you're right though um there was a a development agreement that was in my
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view uh improperly executed between goshen and the prior the old township board in particular
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not even really with the board just with the supervisor and then attested by the the clerk and
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so um what happened was um the township supervisor was working on this development agreement um with
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goshen and he brought what was called a first draft of the development agreement to an august 1st
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meeting of the board they discussed the first draft and then but it wasn't complete first draft like a
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rough draft not complete so the board approved for the supervisor to continue working with goshen
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the ccp tide ev and whatever uh lithium battery company um to continue uh working with goshen to
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finalize that development agreement and and it wasn't just some small minor uh finalizing it was
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the terms and conditions is what they approved for him to finalize that right okay and so and then
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obviously you know glenn you would need okay you have a rough or first draft they say supervisor go
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finalize it with the company goshen and then of course bring that back in a final version so that the
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board and the public can review it and so that they can then vote that the board in a public
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meeting can vote on it that never happened well i mean even the communist even the communist state
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of michigan has an open meetings act don't they i mean where you have to have everything done in
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public yes okay the open in the michigan statue open meetings act requires this is a public body the
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township board is a public body they're required to have all decisions discussions and votes
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made in a public forum in a public meeting you know with proper notification all that so what happened
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glenn is just three weeks after the board told jim chapman the the then supervisor and by the way he was
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under a recall um process at that time he was up he was wow a month for real so he was he's trying
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to jam this thing through and they had lots of pressure on him to jam this thing through why
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because goshen wouldn't get 125 million dollars of michigan cip grant money if they didn't have oh my
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gosh so they knew they had to jam before they got pulled before they you know potentially were going
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to get you know thrown out of office which is exactly what happened all five of the eligible board
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members did get recalled and thrown out of office and replaced but anyways so three weeks so they
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reviewed the the um first draft of the agreement on august 1st and then on august 22nd jim chapman
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signed a final agreement and who was the other signer on there chen lee the president of goshen okay i i
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believe he's a ccp member himself but or lee chen chen lee anyways he signed it jim chapman signed it
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the clerk attested to jim's signature so there's three signatures on the document but this was on august
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22nd there was no meeting between no meeting of the board between august 1st and august 22nd and so um
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so that final document never came back to the board for discussion for review for public comment
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i mean that's the most important thing this is a board that's supposed to be working for the people
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but instead they do this behind the scenes backdoor deal um to get this thing signed why because there's
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a lot of money writing on it right and they just want it done you know jim chapman and the old board
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and uh they they were kind of characterized by not listening to the public they they repeatedly the
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public asked just do a survey get the public's opinion about this goshen they refused to every
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surrounding township did surveys regarding this goshen plant but green charter township under the old
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board refused to even do a survey all of the surveys they came back 60 70 80 percent that they didn't
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want the goshen facility here and even an outside company came in and did a survey in green township
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and that came back like 80 90 percent people didn't want that ocean plant there it's it's not like a
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small little band of people who are saying you know we don't want this it's it's the vast majority
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but the old board they had kind of gotten brainwashed or gaslighted or well no they're just
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they're just doing it the way they're just doing it the way china does it which is you know one man
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he signs everything he makes all the decisions that's i mean that's the way you do it in china
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why not here so what's going to happen they've taken you to court what's going to happen here
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did did goshen get the money from the state okay so that's a great question they got 23.4 23.6
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million dollars so not all of the 125 million okay the so the development agreement was put in place
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but i allege that it was improperly put in place okay it was signed but we believe that's a void
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invalid document and so they did get goshen received over 23 million dollars to purchase land
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now the state of michigan if this if that development agreement is is invalid the state of
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michigan holds a mortgage on that land and they could theoretically claw that that land back you know
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but anyways they didn't get the other 100 million yet because they have to hit certain milestones
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but one of those all of those they tell they hit those milestones they have to have a development
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agreement in place otherwise they're not even eligible so this federal so that the new board there's a new
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board um who is is taking steps to um not participate like the old board did not to be as welcoming
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as the old board did because they ran on a no goshen position and so the new board has said we're not
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going to support you and so now so but the development agreement says you have to support us
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okay and so that's what goes ensuing over in federal court right now they're saying the new board you're
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not supporting us like the development agreement requires you to see the old board was trying to
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hand tie the new board fortunately they really screwed up and they improperly executed that
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development agreement so in my view that and many others a lot of attorneys a lot of people who know
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township and open meeting act law have reviewed this and we believe that that development agreement is
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invalid and really goshen they're bringing it to federal court that's the first thing that they're
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asking the judge to rule on is this development agreement valid or not valid and and i you know
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just have to pray that the that the judge does the right thing the judge stands for the people
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that who were you know the people are the ones whose rights were trampled you know in this by not
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following the open meetings act so that the judge would stand with the people and say that no that
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development agreement is no good you've got to go back to the starting board well i think we're saying
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the same thing here bruce but i want to make sure i don't want somebody that is a judge is standing with
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the people i want him to stand with the law and if if uh if there if this is the way it is then that's
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the way it is um i i can't imagine being goshen wanting to build my plant in a city where it's entirely
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hostile to me absolutely you know and that's again a great point you know glenn so chuck salen
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um so he's i believe the vp of northern american operations for goshen so he's the highest
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goshen guy here he said at a meeting he said well look if the this was earlier on well if the people
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of the area don't want it in other words the plant if they don't want goshen to build here we'll just go
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somewhere else well it couldn't be more clear that the people of the community do not want this i
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mean five surrounding townships all came back with surveys that said they don't we recalled the entire
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eligible you know the entire board uh you know i don't think i've ever seen that happen right right
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and then and other surveys have done it's like we've got you know this summer we had hundreds of
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signs around no goshen and so it's like it's really clear that the community majority there's a
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handful there's some people who um are for it because they think that they'll sell land at you
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know way more than it's worth or they'll it'll prop up their business you know i get that you know
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that's fine but most people just don't want it because the environmental potential you know problems
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as well as the ccp ties um so anyways uh i'm surprised though that chuck salen wasn't more of a man of
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his word on that because he says look if the people don't want it here we'll go somewhere else
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yeah well clearly the people don't want it and they're just digging in their heels and they're
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just trying to shove it in all right if you want to um help be involved uh when does this go to court
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that's not that's not known yet i mean there's yeah not known yet but um there's there's gonna be a
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lot of steps we're working right now okay on declarations you know where individuals are
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signing declarations um yeah and and there's a lot of work i had to do um we're gonna be filing
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a demand letter you know mason's gonna be pretty active if somebody wants if somebody wants to help
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you bruce how do they do it well i think if they went to our our website and i hate to you know be
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that guy because i know everybody is looking for donations but you know we could spend hundreds of
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thousands of dollars and not just this fight but other fights against goshen but www.protectmecosta.org
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and mecosta is m-e-c-o-s-t-a so www.protectmecosta.org or you can just google mesa m-e-s-a you know
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goshen mesa michigan goshen and it'll come up because we've been pretty active but if you go to
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our website and donate we're gonna have we're probably gonna end up with hundreds of thousands
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of hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal costs and um of course you will we need to do right we
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need to put on you know the fight all right protectmecosta.org you can go there and donate if
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you can get involved this is first time i've seen a a foreign hostile country take a town in america to
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court to force them to be able to open up a factory from that communist hostile country
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it's insane and can't stand bruce baker thank you very much it's protectmecosta.org
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hello you how are you doing well thank you it's so great to meet you i think you were in studio last
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week with me and uh your podcast has come out it is fascinating i've just you're a fascinating guy
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um but i wanted to bring stew in because stew is our he's our client he's our you know climate change
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skeptic you know he unlike you and me they just think that this whole thing is a sham um and you
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we were in the hallway afterwards and you you showed me a book that you have on on climate change
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and i i thought oh i wish i would have asked you come on the show so today's the day let's talk
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about climate change and global warming yeah well there is a lot of skepticism about global warming
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i think that skepticism is gone based on some studies that were published a year ago where they
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basically looked at temperature records not on the continents but a couple of hundred miles offshore
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all around the world that way you take out the uh elevation effect and uh you're right at sea level
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uh so uh and it basically shows that the climate has been exceptionally stable from 900 a.d
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to about 1950 a.d uh stable to within plus or minus 0.06 degrees centigrade it's never happened
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before in human history it's unique to our time and that's how we were able to launch uh technology
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and civilization at such a rapid rate uh during that time and what it shows is that the natural
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cycles are cooling the planet uh they've been cooling the planet since about 9 500 years ago
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that's been balanced by human activity warming the planet and for 9 500 years they were an almost
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perfect balance the climate very slowly cooled uh but only by one degree over 9 500 years what's
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happened since 1950 is human activity has accelerated and so it's now superseding the natural cooling
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cycles and it's gone up by one degree centigrade in the past 70 years and the concern is if it goes up
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another degree or two that could melt the winter polar ice cap and if that happens then we bring on
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global cooling that brings on the next ice age right so this stew see i told you global cooling and global
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warming was real now uh now hugh uh how does this uh how does this play into humans and what we should
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be doing do you buy into all of the uh uh uh you know we should put sun umbrellas out
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uh in space so that's why i wrote the book weathering climate change is to make the point we can
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restabilize the climate while we boost the world economy we don't need politicians to get involved
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uh because if you give people strong enough economic incentive they'll do it right away and
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so i load the book up of all these ways that we can substantially boost the world economy while we
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stabilize the climate and at the same time enhance the world's ecosystems so that everybody wins there
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really are win-win solutions out there so give me give me some simple ones that that we could do
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well a really simple one uh and it's already been implemented in the western nations is to stop
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burning coal and burn natural gas instead when you do that you release only about half the greenhouse
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gases that you do with coal there is no particular matter of pollution so you sell you solve a major
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health crisis but i just wrote an article saying that in parts of india the life expectancy is
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shortened by eight years that's for 460 million people their life expectancy is shortened uh by
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eight years because of burning coal instead of natural gas well okay but wait hang on just a second
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i was just hang on just a second i was with a i was with a scientific you know uh eco guy just the
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other day and he said no glenn natural gas is just as bad that's why the government is trying to
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stop all natural gas as well and i'm like dude for years you told us it was the cleanest now you're
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telling us it's deadly as well well it does release greenhouse gases i don't look at natural gas as a
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permanent solution but i think it would buy us the time we need uh to come up with what i think is a
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great solution thorium nuclear reactors thorium nuclear reactors are not like uranium nuclear
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reactors the radioactive waste is safe to handle after 100 to 200 years instead of 50 000 years
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it's impossible to have a meltdown you can't use it to make nuclear weapons and it delivers 300 times
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the energy that you get from uranium and thorium is three times more abundant uh it actually has the
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potential to deliver electricity for us for much less than what we get from water power which is
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currently the cheapest source of elect of energy we have on the planet but it's going to take at least
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a decade to scale it up to where it could supply all of our energy natural gas will buy us that time
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and in the meantime it cuts greenhouse gas emissions uh by about a half now it's the fastest way we can
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lower greenhouse gas emissions i mean the problem with solar and wind it's going to take time to scale
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it up and solar and wind also have ecological consequences that you don't get with thorium and uh so
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i mean hang on just a second you say it's going to take 10 years to to ramp this up i've never
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heard of thorium uh i've never heard of a thorium nuclear reactor uh i think it might take a little
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longer because nobody is talking about that hugh well they are now because i mean for example india is
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facing a major health crisis uh as i said uh the life expectancy has has now 12 years less if you live
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in delhi eight years less if you live in the ganges valley for the country as a whole it's five years
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less and uh and then by the way coal is more expensive than natural gas and so uh and that india
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actually sits on a lot of thorium and incidentally we had thorium nuclear reactors in the 1960s
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the reason why we didn't scale them up back then you can't use them to make nuclear weapons
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but now that's considered an advantage we could actually give nuclear reactors to to rogue countries
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and not worry that they're going to use it to make nuclear weapons i have a uh i have a woman on
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next week's podcast she's she's amazing she's this entrepreneur she's a black woman from uh africa
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and i'm trying to remember what country in africa and she moved to the west when she was young and
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the first thing she thought was why do they have all of these things that we don't have in africa and
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one of the things is because you don't have energy you know you're still you're still burning wood uh to
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cook your food and um she thinks it's she thinks it's uh a little racist of people to tell the the
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continent of africa you can't have power because of global warming so you're going to be stuck there
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and we talked about nuclear power nuclear power hydrogen those are the those are the things of
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the future i think natural gas even but now that's on the no-no list um but i don't think
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you that there's there's a lot of people uh that are in a part of this movement that are not
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political now uh and it's it's all about pushing ideas that are very very expensive will cripple
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everything and uh and wouldn't work well you know if you try to get people to sacrifice their standard
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of living they're going to find a way to cheat and if they don't somebody else will so that's why i'm
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convinced we have to give people a strong economic incentive you mentioned africa uh the sahara desert
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has been expanding because people have been stripping wood off the edge for fuel how about
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giving the africans all the kerosene they want for free on the promise that they'll work with us to
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shrink the sahara desert at the time of the roman empire the sahara desert was one-tenth the size that
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it is today if we were to shrink it number one it would provide an economic income because they could
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grow grain in what is now the sahara desert it would soak up greenhouse gases so it helps stabilize the
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climate uh and again everybody wins ecosystem would recover how they have an income they don't have now
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and we pull greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere so we could do the same thing here in north america
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yeah go ahead i i just i and i've only got about a minute left but i i grew up hearing that we breathe out
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uh co2 and the trees breathe it in and they breathe out oxygen and we breathe in oxygen and it was kind
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of the circle of life thing uh how come we're not really standing on that anymore when when did it
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become such a problem that it you know uh was killing everything well i'm advocating that we let lumber
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companies go into our national parks and selectively harvest the big old trees because they don't pull
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many greenhouse gases of the atmosphere they're in danger of dying and decaying and releasing greenhouse
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gases replant them with young trees they'll pull greenhouse gases at a factor two to four times more
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uh the ecosystem will recover because that's healthier for that and you don't we won't be seeing a lot of
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dead trees in the national forest you're gonna you won't have forest fires right so um but they are
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now closing all of that off i mean there there are common sense solutions to everything um and we don't
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seem to hear about them very often hugh ross astrophysicist um uh global warming and what can be done
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i i his website is reasons.org i i can't tell you uh hugh how much i enjoyed our our conversation the
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other day about genesis and how everything is explained that genesis actually explains the
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scientific pattern on how everything is created and i i just found it fascinating thank you so much you
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well my pleasure thank you you got it um you get that podcast wherever you get your podcasts
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