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smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much for

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your support. Years ago, when Obama was president, he called

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it Sinco di quatro. At some speech on Cinco de Mayo,

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he called it Sinco de Quatro, and I used to

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play the sound bite every year of him saying it.

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It wasn't until about six months ago when I got Christy,

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my wife, to watch the series' Arrested Development. That was

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the name of the annual party in that comedy series.

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They it was like it took place in like San

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Diego or something, and they set up a Cinco des

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Quatro party in order to try to draw the crowd

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away from the Cinco de Mayo party. And I realized,

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I think Obama was a fan of Arrested Development. Maybe

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that's that's why he said it anyway, Happy Cinco de

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Mayo to all who celebrate. I may be a little

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punchy here. I'm I've been popping the leaves like their

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pezz because, uh, over the weekend. I don't know how

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you spent your weekend. I hope you had a good

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time and uh, you know, spent it in a productive fashion.

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My weekend was productive. We uh we shoveled five tons

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of rocks. Christy and I did around are all of

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the the planter beds because you know, the HOA was

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cracking down on everybody not updating, freshening up their mulch

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in the garden beds and such. I was like, you

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know what, I'm just so tired of having to keep

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going back every six months and putting down mulch and

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pine needles and everything else. So I just got a

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massive delivery of rocks and I thought this is going

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to be the way to go. And now I am

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in pain. Oh my gosh, I'm in pain. So I

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feel like I just got multiple COVID booster shots or something.

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It's just every muscle. I did not get the booster shots, no,

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so I don't even know, but that's what that's what

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I heard happened. Anyway, Let's start with science, actually some

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COVID related stuff. But first you remember the science doctor Fauci.

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Do you remember one of the programs. No, no, no,

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not the way he fought the AIDS people that were

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trying to get like different treatments for HIV AIDS at

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the time. Not that and not the not the COVID stuff.

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But you remember the beagle experiments. Remember that stuff that

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all came out a couple of years ago. So get this.

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The National Institutes of Health director Jay Badacharia recently announced

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that the agency has closed its last in house beagle

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laboratory on the NIH campus. The announcement comes just days

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after Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk posted on

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Twitter formerly known as X, that he would investigate funding

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beagle experiments. A report from the White Code Waste Project

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the WCW detailed the lab's history of allegedly pumping pneumonia

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causing bacteria into more than two thousand beagles lungs, bleeding

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them out, and forcing them into septic shock for deadly experiments.

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Shortly after the Trump administration took office, the FDA announced

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in April that it would phase out an animal testing

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requirement for antibody therapies and other drugs in favor of

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testing on materials that mimic human organs, which seems like

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a more humane way to go, right, Like, it's just materials.

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It's it's not on. It's not on like a living animal.

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More importantly, it's not on a cute living animal. Right,

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and cute by the way, when it comes to animals

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and pets, it's basically it's due to eyebrows. I think

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if the animal has eyebrows, that's what makes it cute.

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Generally speaking. During Trump's first terms science, look, I don't

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make the rules. That's the Yeah, that's the rule. During

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Trump's first term in twenty nineteen, the administration closed the

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government's largest cat lab. Twenty nineteen. I feel like this

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should be I don't know, like this should be what

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Donald Trump is truthing out on the truth social right,

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why not highlight the fact that you're saving cats and dogs,

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like I feel like that would be a bit of

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a pr win. You know. PETA People for the Ethical

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Treatment of Animals in twenty twenty one highlighted the science

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doctor Anthony Fauci's alleged approval of funding for tests in Tunisia,

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where beagle puppies were drugged and their heads were locked

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in cages filled with hungry, infected sandflies. Is that really

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science or is this just torture? Like? Are you just

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torturing animals? Because I feel like that's one of the

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precursor steps to serial killing, right, don't you always see

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that in the TV shows and such? It's like, oh, yeah,

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that kid down the block, he killed some people's pets

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and then lo and behold he stepped up to humans.

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You know. The Indiana based company that bred the beagles

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for the research a company called Nvigo and Bigo and Vigo. Anyway,

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they pleaded guilty in twenty twenty four to neglecting thousands

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of dogs that it's Cumberland, Virginia breeding facility, and will

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be required to pay more than thirty five million dollars

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in fines. According to the American Veterinarian Sorry, the American

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Veterinary Medical Association PETA is awaiting information about the condition

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of the dogs that will be released and if they

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are in good enough shape to be placed in a home.

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They say they stand ready to help, see so they're

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not just about the wacky protesting too, like, yes, they

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will strip naked. Well, actually they don't even do the

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naked stripping anymore. Like they used to strip naked, spray

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paint the body as like an animal, and then you know,

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put to put the person in a cage. They usually

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we get like hot models, you know, and they would

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paint them up and they'd be nude in the They

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don't even do that anymore. Now they make fake cow

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robots that like shame people if they're wearing leather. In Greenville,

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South Carolina, downtown. It's just so no. But they are

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going to help with the beagal replacement operation, which is good.

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That's very good for them. That's good news. Not so

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good news. The Department of Health and Human Services has

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implemented a pause on research at one of the country's

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most highly secure research labs following repeated safety incidents. So

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they're doing tests on like COVID stuff, SARSKOV two, the

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Ebola virus, lass of fever, eastern equine encephalitis. This is

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a yeah, this is up in DC. This is at

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Fort Dietrich's Integrated Research Facility And according to Fox News

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Digital Report, these incidents have been occurring for the last

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few years. So the facility is now put on pause

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as they so they cannot conduct their risky research on

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the deadly infectious diseases. It's one of only a handful

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across North America and it's part of the National Institute

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of Allergy and Infectious Diseases once again, and is located

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at the US Army Base Fort Dietrich outside of Washington, DC.

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The research there studies treatment and prevention of deadly, high

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consequence diseases. Okay, so what happened, Well, it may or

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may not have something to do with a lover's quarrel.

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So the Department of Health and Human Services has issued

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a pause on all research at one of the country's

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most highly secure research lambs for Dietrich's Integrated Research facility

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outside of DC why Well. According to an HHS official

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who was willing to speak on the matter under the

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condition of anonymity. The pause stemmed from a lover's spat

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between researchers at the facility. The spat resulted in one

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of the individuals poking holes in the other's personal protective equipment.

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You're working in an infectious laboratory and now you're stooping

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your colleague. Things obviously go sideways and you attempt to

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murder them and oh maybe like a couple million people too,

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because that's what would have happened. Right If you're you're

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poking holes in their ppe, they're going to get sick,

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they're going to contract something that they're working on, and

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then they're going to go spread it. So that individual,

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the whole poker has been fired. I think they should

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also be charged attempted murder. And if there's some sort

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of a charge I don't know, like from the anthrax era,

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maybe you know, like biological terrorism something, throw that at

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them too. This is this is unbelievable. I mean, I

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thought that the astronaut wearing the diapers traveling across country

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to go attack her lover's wife or whatever it was, like,

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I thought that was a crazy story. This, The AJHS

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official said the incident is just the latest example of

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safety incidents at the high risk Lab, which this person

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blamed on a poor safety culture at the lab that

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was enabled by the previous administration. I don't know if

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that's true or not. It's an anonymous source, but like,

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that's yeah, the whole poker needs to be charged tempted

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murder at the very least. Meanwhile, Trump is ordering the

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FEDS to look at reopening Alcatraz. I have a proposal.

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I have a proposal. How about we relocate the lab

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to Alcatraz Island. Let's because that's that Look, that thing

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is not going to reopen. I don't think that's I

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don't think they can reopen it. It wasn't even open

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that long. I watched Escape from Alcatraz, Like all you

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need is a couple of paper mache heads and you're out. Like,

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I don't know, I don't think it's going to reopen.

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It's also a big tourist thing, so you got to

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find some other way to, you know, I don't know,

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make the island profitable. But Donald Trump is calling for

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the Notorious prison. Are there any prisons they called the

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Seacod prison down in El Salvador, They called that one

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the Notorious prison. This is a notorious prison. Also, are

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there any prisons that aren't notorious? It's now historical landmark

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right off the coast of San Francisco in the in

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the bay there. He wants it to be rebuilt. He

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wants it to be rebuilt bigger, obviously, and reopened so

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it can house the country's most ruthless and violent criminals.

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Trump made the announcement in a truth social post on

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Sunday evening, which is how we legislate now. Alcatraz opened

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in nineteen thirty four, but the prison located on a

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twenty two acre spit of rock. I don't know what

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a spit of rock is. It's an island, right, It's

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a okay anyway. It was closed after twenty nine years.

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It was only open twenty nine years. It is one

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in a quarter miles one and a quarter mile, yeah,

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one and a quarter mile from the shore. The Bay

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area island was considered practically escape proof, although there were

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fourteen documented attempted escapes, The most notorious one from the

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Notorious prison was the June eleventh, nineteen sixty two escape

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by John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris, which inspired

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escape from Alcatraz. It remains a mystery whether the three

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reached the shore and survived, although the FBI says no,

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they drowned. But it's the FBI, so I don't know.

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The three prisoners chiseled an escape route from their own

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jail cells and built makeshift paper mache heads. The final

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attempt to escape from the prison almost six months later,

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inspired what has become the swimming route of the Escape

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from Alcatraz Triathlon. See now, you're not going to be

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able to do a triathlon if you reopened the prison.

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The final attempt to escape. Oh I already read that. Sorry,

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It's most notorious inmates include gangster's Whitey Bulger, Al Capone,

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George machine Gun Kelly, who married Megan Fox if I

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recall correctly, also the infamous, not notorious but infamous Birdman

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of Alcatraz, Robert Stroud, and Public Enemy number one Alvin Karpis.

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Alcatraz ultimately closed in nineteen sixty three. You know why

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not because of the attempted escapes. No, the island operations

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proved far more costly than mainland based prisons, which kind

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of makes sense, right, I've heard everything is more expensive

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on an island. You got to ship everything in. Everything

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has to come over by boat. It's just a very

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expensive operation to run, particularly compared to the compared to

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the prisons on the mainland. Alcatraz Island today is a

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popular San Francisco tourist attraction operated by the National Park Service.

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I doubt it's going to happen, all right. So spring

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on Alcatraz Islands. Make that the lab island this way.

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in each other's PPEs, then it's just it's on the island,

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you know, and then we'll know, Oh, something bad happened

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at the land, right, because the whole island is now dead,

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and then it's not gonna it won't get over to

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the mainland. You know, you could do like quarantines and

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stuff very easily around that island. And speaking of labs,

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North Carolina is looking at stricter rules for lab grown meat. Well, see, okay,

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I may actually try it. No, see, I got texture

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issues with food, Like I won't eat peaches because they

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got hair on them that fuzz. I don't like it,

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And so I don't know, Like I guess I would

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have to see the meat and I have to like

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kind of i'd have to poke it with the fork

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and see what it does, like cause if it if it,

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if it jiggles, I'm not gonna eat it, you know. Yeah,

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I don't think I'm gonna eat No, how might I

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don't know. I don't know. But the Annual Farm Act

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is making its way through the North Carolina legislature and

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agriculture as wral's Will Duran reports. Agriculture is North Carolina's

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largest industry, pumping over one hundred billion dollars a year

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into the state economy, but the industry also faces a

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number of headwinds. They talk about the bird flu, the

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tariff policies, a lot of uncertainty. So one of the

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things they're looking to do is to ban raw milk

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enact stricter rules for lab grown meat. By the way,

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did you see like that robot in China started attacking

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the human robot builders. Could the same happen with lab

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grown meat? I don't know, Like if you make this

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meat and then it like it could go crazy. Maybe,

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I don't know. I'm not a scientist. Ooh, how about

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putting the lab grown meat on the robots? Like you?

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You could grow the meat around the robot's skeleton, you know,

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you can make them look you can make them look hilarious. Actually,

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but now they also want in the farm bill they

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were also in some of the other pieces of legislation.

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They also want to make it harder for solar companies

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to expand onto farmland. They also want to make it

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harder for people to sue pesticide companies for making them sick.

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And they want to ban certain foreign companies from buying

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up farmland inside our state. So there's a whole raft

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of bills. This is I forgot to wish you happy

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happy crossover week. That's what's happening this week at the legislature.

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Got the deadline coming up where all the bills from

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the House have to be filed and in and all

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the bills in the Senate have to be filed and

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into the system, and then everything crosses over. So all

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the House bills go to the Senate and all the

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Senate bills go to the House, and they put the

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deadline on there. So this way you don't get you know,

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people just constantly throwing new bills while they're trying to

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wrap up the session, and they're doing the budget too,

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so but the Farm Act is a regular thing. So

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they're always making changes to the farm policy. All right,

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So first off is the raw milk ban because of

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the bird flu threat. The New Farm Act proposes banning

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raw milk. Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler is pushing for the change,

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saying raw milk has always been dangerous for people to drink,

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but needs to finally be banned now because of the

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evidence that it transmits bird flu. I did not know this,

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But then again, I do not drink raw milk. I

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know some people I don't. Actually well, I know one

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person who I think tried it for a little while

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a couple of years ago. I don't even know if

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she still drinks it. She's not dead, nor does she

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have bird flu, so maybe she stopped. I don't know.

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I was unaware that bird flu spread with the raw milk,

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but I guess it kind of makes sense. It's raw,

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like that whole Louis pasture process that it seemed like

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a beneficial thing, so raw milk. According to Will Duran

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at the WRL TV station, raw milk is popular among

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some conservative social media influencers and politicians, however, including Trump's

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top health official Robert F. Kennedy. Jr. Noted conservative Robert

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Yeah, so he's a fan of

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the raw milk. I did not know that. I do

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know he not a conservative. I do know that. Also.

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The friend that I had that drank it was not

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a conservative either. So I'm not aware that that the

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raw milk thing is limited to conservatives or conservative social

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media influencers. I'm not saying there aren't some that are

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out there that are saying that, no doubt, I have

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no doubt there are. This is like the the anti

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vax stuff when we would see these outbreaks of measles,

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mumps or whatever, and it was always in like these

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crunchy granola communities or private schools. It wasn't like the

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anti vax stuff from the right is a new thing

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like this is pretty as far as I can tell,

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it's been a pretty recent development, and I think it's

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mainly due to COVID and the disillusionment of a lot

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of people about you know, the ex birds telling us

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what the science and data is all about. So I'm yeah,

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I'm not so sure about that line there in this story.

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But Troxel are acknowledged to his fellow Republicans in the

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legislature this week that the proposed band could be pretty

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controversial even if it would protect public health. But nobody

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came and spoke against it or for it, for that matter,

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so maybe not. I like, how many people are actually

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drinking raw milk? Like it hasn't even registered on my

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radar as like a fad. I just know it's like,

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I don't know, there's always been like gross, I don't know.

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I watched the documentary series Boardwalk Empire, and some women

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drank a bunch of raw milk in order to miscarry,

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So like ever since then, I was like, nope, I'm

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I don't want to miscarry. All right, if you're listening

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media landscape more transparent. Go on over the Farm Bill

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and some of the farming relates legislation that is making

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its way through the legislature the General Assembly. They want

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to the Farm Act would make it harder to sue

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pesticide companies for health harms, which bill sponsor Senator Brent

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Jackson from Samson County Republican said is a direct response

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to the lawsuits over Roundup and its alleged links to cancer.

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Roundup's current manufacturer, Bayer, paid nearly ten billion dollars to

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settle round Up lawsuits in twenty twenty. I have not

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done a deep dive on any of this. I'm just

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giving you the headlines here, just giving you the info

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from WRAL. It would also the bill also increases penalties

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for people who steal crops or who skirt regulations for

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shellfish farming. It's a big problem. Require schools to grant

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excused absences for students who want to compete in equestrian

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events or attend livestock shows. One of the more contentious bills,

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House Bill seven twenty nine, would repeal the property tax

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credits that are given to solar energy companies. AG Commissioner

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Steve Troxler and other Republicans said too many farmers have

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been selling their land to solar companies. By the way,

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do you know what solar companies do to put up

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those solar farms? I mean just complete environmental devastation, Like

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they will clear cut acres twenty thirty forty fifty acres

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and they just bulldoze it all flat and then burn

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all of the trees and stuff for the earth. Obviously,

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this threatens large farming corporations, which typically get this do

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not own their own farms. They contract out to individual

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farmers around the state. So those farmers work their own

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land and then they have a contract with the farming corporation.

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But if a solar company comes in and gives them

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a bunch of money, then it's like, hey, we'll just

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put up these panels and now I'll get paid without

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doing all of the farming, and it's a steady source

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of income you don't have to worry about, you know,

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like oh we had a bed you know, dry summer,

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and so I lost the crops or whatever. The fewer

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farms there are, though, the harder it will be for

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the big companies to find subcontractors to grow their products.

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That could lead to higher prices, fewer goods, or both.

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Republican lawmakers are proposing to keep in place. Here's the key,

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the tax credits for farmers, but repeal the tax credits

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for solar companies. The solar industry, you might imagine, opposes

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this bill, and so do Democrats. They point out that

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if Republicans are really concerned about saving farmland, they would

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also repeal tax breaks given to home builders, which, well,

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that is one way to get more homeless people. See,

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they say, you got to make it less lucrative to

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turn the farms into new subdivisions. Democrats asked Wednesday if

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Republicans planned to also repeal the home builder tax credits

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as well as the solar tax credits. They were told

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that wasn't on the table. The home builder industry contribute

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substantial amounts of money to Republican politicians in North Carolina,

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and to be fair, they have contributed large sums of

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money to Democrats as well. They spread the money all around,

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particularly when the party in power right has a majority

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and they can pass bills. So you've right you want

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to donate to them, so you can lobby them, get

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access to them and let them know, hey, this isn't

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a good thing. Hey you should keep my tax breaks.

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So they're going to phase out the tax credit that

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the solar companies get for their assets for the panels

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that are on the farmland, and so the idea there

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is that without that subsidy, it will become less financially

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attractive for the solar companies to compete with the farming industry.

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Joel Olsen, a solar developer, said the proposal will hurt

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rural county's ability to fund schools, jails, and other parts

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of the local budgets, since counties collect far higher property

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taxes on solar farms than on many other rural land uses,

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including agricultural farming, and finally, lab grown meat. House Bill

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one thirty four would put stricter labeling rules on lab

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grown meat. That passed one oh six to eleven and

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is now sitting in the state Senate. Last week, the

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House also pushed forward House Bill one thirty five, which

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would ban public K twelve schools, community college and public

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universities from purchasing any lab grown meats in the future.

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So they don't want the lab grown meats to be

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given to the kids. You shall eat the pink slime,

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but not the lab grown meat. I'm just kidding. I

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don't think they serve. They don't serve the pink slime

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in our schools. I don't think that was a big story,

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remember that, Oh the pink slime. That was quite the scare.

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That was like growing up, we thought we were all

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going to die of, like like drowning in quicksand that

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was our big fear. It's just, I don't know, it's

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like a it's a panic and it just sweeps across

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the country. And for some reason, when we were kids,

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we all thought we were going to get you sucked

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down into some sand pit. All right. That'll do it

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at my Patreon page or go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Again,

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thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything

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while I'm gone.