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for your support. Hey, welcome to the program. It is

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me Pete Calendar, It is I Pete Calender. Hope you

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had a fantastic holiday season. I was off for two

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straight weeks, not that anybody really noticed. I think, thank

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you very much to Chad Adams for filling in. I

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think was Chad the only fill in I caught. I

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think he was the only one that filled in for me.

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But I also know Nick Craig did a bunch of

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substitute work, and Brett Winterbol apparently just took over everybody's

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show across the country. As I understand, he fill in

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work for various national shows all over the all over

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the country. No, I had a good vacation. I got

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a lot done. Like I spent. I spent two days

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actually writing twenty twenty five on all of my checks,

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just to kind of get the muscle memory going. You know, well,

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this way you avoid the embarrassment and mistakes at the

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grocery checkout, you know, so you just kind of so

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I just just two straight days just writing twenty Yes,

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I went through a lot of checks. I had to

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avoid a lot of checks, but I'm writing twenty twenty

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five everywhere now, so it was worth it. I had

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nine recalls done on my car all well, I mean

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all at once. It's not like I took it in

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for nine different appointments. I brought it all in and

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over to the planet Mitsubishi folks, and they were they

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they were like, oh, yeah, you got a recall here.

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I said, yeah, that's I got a text message and

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like you got to get a So I said, okay, fine,

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I'll take it in for the recall because you got

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to take it to the dealership. And they were like,

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whoa you've got You've got nine recalls still open on

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this vehicle because he is twelve years old. And I've

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never I don't think I've never taken it in for

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the recall work and so I got them all done

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at once. I will say I was pleasantly surprised. The

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guy who is the uh, the counter guy at the

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at the dealership, the service area, he was awesome. It is.

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He made eye contact, he had a good attitude, he

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was smiling, he was conversational. Younger fella like. I was

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really impressed. So kudos to them. Let's see, I got

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some lumber cut. I mean I had had somebody else

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cut it, but I had to go to the lumber

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yard and pick out the board and then they cut

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it up. Carolina lumber. These are not These are not

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a Carolina Urban Lumber. These are not sponsors of the program.

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I just said, it was a really good experience. So

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like down there we picked I'm do some shelves. So

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I just needed a weird shape to fit in the

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stupid toilet rooms that they build in these houses. I

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do not understand why they build a separate toilet room

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in the bathroom. The whole room is the bathroom, guys. Anyway,

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So they have they built this little toilet closet and

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so you go in there and there's like nothing in there.

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So got some shelves cut. What else? Oh, I cleaned

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up my iPod because I've lost a couple of accounts

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over the years, and so I basically had to rip

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every single CD that I own back into a rebuilt library.

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That took me about a week. When but I was

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also doing the twenty twenty five checked training, so I

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was multitasking, so there was some overlap there. But that

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guy I did all that. I did production work for

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the ads for the UH. I made a digital digital

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ad that's going to go out onto the Twitter machine.

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Oh and then I just saw as if this, as

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if this couldn't get any better, I just saw that

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Fidel Trudeau resigned. Like what a day I am having.

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Now I have remembered how to speak. I'm writing twenty

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twenty five on my checks and Fidel Trudeau has resigned

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up in Canada. That is fantastic news for Canadians. Also,

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be aware one o'clock they're going to be doing the

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certification of the presidential election results up in Congress. We're

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not going to carry it live because it's really kind

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of boring. They just, you know, we'll give more votes

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to it, and they just call out the state names

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and stuff whatever. So but we'll dip in and out

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just in case, you know, an insurrection breaks out and

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three o'clock. Also, North Carolina's new governor, Josh Stein, will

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have his cabinet members sworn at, sworn in, sorry, sworn in.

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The Swearing Act comes later swearing in. So yes that

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now you're completely up to date on how I spend

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two weeks, as if you were interested. Now, I will

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note there has been some some more fingers in the

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eyes of Americans by the president staffers. I think that's

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what we should just call this administration at this point,

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because it's not Biden, right, and it hasn't been. And

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we went over this half a month ago longer when

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I say it like that, But before I went on vacation,

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we had the big Wall Street Journal report that showed,

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with what fifty sources that the president has been incognitive

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decline and has been getting worse and worse and worse.

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But there were signs of this during the twenty twenty campaign.

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They knew this, His handlers knew it, his staffers and aids,

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everybody knew it. Of course, now they're pretending like every

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other day, they'll be flipping back and forth pretending that

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they knew or that they didn't just depending on what

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the current need is. This is one of the nice

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things about being a Democrat, being a leftist is that

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you get to have these sliding positions based on whatever

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the need right now is right, like believe all women

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or not sex's under when I except when it's not right,

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Back and forth, back and forth, depending on whatever the

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current issue is. So I saw this story over the weekend.

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This actually is the story from the Huffington Puffington Post, right,

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Biden bans fossil fuel drilling across six hundred million acres

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of US waters and Huffington Post hardly a conservative rig

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President Joe Biden permanently banned oil and gas drilling across

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six hundred and twenty five million acres of federal waters

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along with cementing Biden's legacy. So they're so gosh, they're

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so focused on this legacy thing for him. I said

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this on Twitter when they're talking about, you know, Joe

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Biden's legacy, trying to build his legacy, and he's They're

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they're going out there and trying to burnish his legacy

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with all the commutations. Right, I was on vacation for that.

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I'm sure that got covered in great detail over the

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last two weeks, like all of these people that Joe

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Biden has commuted sentences for, I mean, besides his son,

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but like all of the other people, you know, part

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of his legacy. And he's doing all of this for

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his legacy, and he's trying to tell people what his

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legacy is and all that. It's like, guys, legacies are

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like nicknames. Okay, the author of the nickname can't be

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the one that's getting the nickname. They got to be different.

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You don't get to you don't get to make up

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your own nickname and then tell everybody that this is

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what you're going by. Now, you know, that's kind of

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the deal with the legacies. Also, Jimmy Carter, speaking of legacies,

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Jimmy Carter, his body is laying in repose at the

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Capitol and people are going by. They're going to be

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doing the funeral and all of that. So Jimmy Carter

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passed away there by cementing Joe Biden as the worst

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living ex president. Now, so there's that legacy that he's

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got going for him. But I find this of note

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that you're going to ban fossil fuel drilling as the

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Huffington Post calls it, or as I would call it,

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you know, energy exploration and development. So they're going to

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ban this in six hundred million acres of US waters.

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They're doing it by executive order, and this is supposed

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to cement his legacy on combating global climate change. Quick question,

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why now? Why not immediately when he got into office?

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Huffington Post does this story about Joe Biden permanently banning

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oil and gas drilling across six hundred and twenty five

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million acres of federal waters, cementing Biden's legacy on combating

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global climate change. The withdrawal is likely to deliver a

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lasting blow to President elect Donald Trump's plans for unfettered

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fossil fuel development in the coming years. And my question,

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because you know me, I'm a why guy. Yes, I'm

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also a wise guy, but I am also a why guy.

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Why why now, why are you doing this now if

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it was so important? Right, because that would be the

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first I would imagine first response to the question of why. Because,

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by the way, when you're interviewing somebody or you know,

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like lawyers will be asking questions, they know what the

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answers should be. That's why they ask those questions to

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get them on the record. So, okay, ask the question

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why are you doing this? And they say, to comeback

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global climate change. That's the cover story. The real motive

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is to jam up Donald Trump right to prevent him

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from doing what he has promised to do. Okay, why

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so let's go with your cover story. Then why now?

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Why are you waiting until you're you know, one foot

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out the door before you implement this kind of super important,

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really critical executive order to ban all of the oil

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drilling off the coasts of the country. Why now? Well,

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if they had done it, say three years ago, well,

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that would not be helpful to Joe Biden, right, because

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the investment in energy production, right, the money would dry

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up and people and companies would look to do other

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things with their capital, might impact the markets in a

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very negative way. And if I remember correctly, now I

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am old enough to remember this. You may not be,

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but I am that three years ago Joe Biden was

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drawing down all of the strategic petroleum reserves. He was

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taken out all of the oil to try to keep

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the gas prices low because inflation was driving down his

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poll numbers, I mean further driving down his poll numbers

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because they were really low after the Afghanistan withdrawal. But

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besides that, like further driving down those numbers, and so

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you couldn't do it then because it might hurt him courage,

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as Dan Rather would say, that's right, that is political

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courage right there. Right. That's how important the climate change

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agenda is to Joe that when forced to choose between

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his own political prospects, his own polling, and doing what

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obviously has to be done to save Gaya Earth, he

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chose himself. That's it, right, that's the It's just like

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with Justin Trudeau, baby Fidel up there in Canada, same thing.

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Did you hear his comment today with something like, oh,

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there's you know, all of this internal strife going on

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inside of his political party and his governing party and

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all of this, and so he can't possibly devote enough

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attention to leading the country if he's dealing with this

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internal strife. No, because if you were going to win,

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then it wouldn't matter. Right, if you were going to

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beat back whatever the opposition was from within your own

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party or co, then it wouldn't matter. You would beat

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it back and you would continue on. No, the problem

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is he can't win. He's not winning, he's losing, and

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so therefore he's going to pretend that the cover story

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is the truth, which is he's doing it for the

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good of other people. See, people are so transparent. All right,

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I hope you had a happy holiday season. But tell

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me if something like this happened at your house. Your

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family and friends are gathered around, Maybe y'all are in

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the living room, you're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, and then

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somebody says, hey, Dad, remember those old VHS tapes? Did

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you ever get them transferred? And then the room gets

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all quiet. All eyes are on Dad, who says, oh,

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Biden on his way out, well, let's be clear, the

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presidential staffers on their way out the door had Joe

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Biden sign an executive order to ban offshore drilling for

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all of our federal waters. The order, the largest such

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mineral withdrawal in US history, permanently protects coastal waters spanning

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the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as the

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Eastern Gulf of Mexico and forty four million acres of

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the Northern Bearing Sea that's off the coast of western Alaska.

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In a statement, Biden or his staff invoked the latest

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environmental disaster out in these drilling platforms, the deep Water

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Horizon oil spill from twenty ten. That's been now fifteen years, folks,

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fifteen years. You're still getting mileage out of that one,

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are you okay? They said in their statement, the staffers

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dead quote, it's not worth the risks. So again, well

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then why now was it not worth the risks four

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years ago? Up until now, you've been letting this occur.

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But now you're gonna block it off for Trump. Huffington

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Post piece by Christyangelo says the sweeping protections rely on

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a provision of the nineteen fifty three Outer Continental Shelf

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Lands Act, or the OCSLA or the ax LA as

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I like to call it, which gives presidents the power

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to permanently block offshore leasing for oil and gas development.

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The law, however, does not include language giving presidents the

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authority to reverse such a withdrawal. When so, this is

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the problem. When Congress wrote the law, they did not

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write into the law that the president can reverse himself

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or herself or reverse a prior order. It was like, no,

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once you do it, that's it all done, locked in

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forever and ever. They didn't say it was locked in forever,

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but that's been the practical implication, as was litigated by

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the norm preserving Barack Obama. Right. Yes, this was litigated

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when Obama did the same thing on the way out

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of the door in twenty nineteen. He did the same thing,

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and when Trump came in and tried to reverse it,

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it got litigated, and an Obama judge sided with Obama.

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When President Obama invoked the same provision of the law

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in twenty sixteen to block offshore drilling in large areas

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of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans twenty sixteen, Hey, man,

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I thought he was out in twenty sex oh, so

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he did it on his way his way out the

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door as well. Twenty sixteen, he wanted to block offshore

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drilling in large areas of the Arctic and it Alantic oceans.

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A White House official said that the protections would stand

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the test of time. That has proven true. In twenty nineteen,

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a judge Obama pointed ruled that Trump's executive order in

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twenty seventeen revoking the Obama era ban was unlawful and

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only Congress could lift such a withdrawal. So I went

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back and looked at the story. At the time. This

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was from March twenty nineteen at The New York Times,

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piece by Choral Development. Sorry Choral Davenport. Sorry I thought

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it was really somebody named Coral is doing environmental writing

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at the New York Times. Again with the Dickensian names anyway.

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In a major legal blow to President Trump's push to

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expand offshore oil and gas to element, a federal judge

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ruled that an executive order by mister Trump that lifted

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an Obama era ban on oil and gas drilling in

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the Arctic Ocean and parts of the North Atlantic Coast

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was unlawful. This is once again one of those things

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where the Democrat president puts something in place and then

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nobody can never take it away. The decision by Judge

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Sharon Gleeson of the U. S. District Court for the

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District of Alaska concluded that President Barack Obama's twenty fifteen

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and twenty sixteen withdrawal from drilling of about one hundred

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and twenty million acres of Arctic Ocean and about three

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point eight million acres in the Atlantic Quote will remain

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in force and effect unlessened until revoked by Congress. She

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wrote that an executive order by mister Trump in April

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of twenty seventeen that revoked the drilling ban was unlawful

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because it exceeded the president's authority. So we found an

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instance of where the left is not all in on

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presidential authority. It's when the other guy's got power then

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it's like, oh no, no, no, no, we're not cool with that.

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We want our guy to be able to write these

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executive orders and do the stuff we want him to

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do with the stroke of a pen or the dialing

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of a phone. And when he's then gone, and we

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got the orange man in there, and the Orange man

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wants to now use his pen and his phone to

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undo the thing that was done by the pen and

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the phone. Well, now you can't do that, see once

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you write these So okay, well, if this is the case,

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then how about Donald Trump then just say, okay, you

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know what we're gonna do, like all of this stuff

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in an executive order and we'll put it in place,

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and then you guys can't undo this one forever and ever. No, no, no,

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I'm sure that'll get litigated, and I'm sure that the

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Democrats and the leftist lawyers with the wardrobe change will

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of course overturn that the case adds to a growing

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roster of legal losses for mister Trump's efforts to undo

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Obama's environmental legacy. Experts and environmental law estimate that the

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Trump administration has now lost about forty environmental cases in

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federal courts. Most immediately, the decision will force the Interior

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Department to withdraw the waters of the Arctic Ocean from

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its upcoming plan on where they would lease federal waters

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to oil companies for drilling. Later on, in this pretty

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lengthy piece, they say mister Obama's efforts to use his

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executive authority to ban drilling in the Arctic Ocean and

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Trump's efforts to undo that ban are legally unprecedented. This

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was never done before, because nobody had ever contemplated this

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kind of twisting of the law. Again, like for people

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that grew up, you know, older or longer ago than

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about ten years. Like the idea that gender and sex

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are two different things, and you can be a different

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gender than your sex, like that, that whole concept is

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just poof, just out of nowhere, out of the blue, right,

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and then everybody has to scramble to adopt this new mantra,

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this new tenet of the religion, and that blowing up

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of the norms and that and the kicker on it

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to me has always been like nobody ever points that out,

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that this is a destruction of long held mutual understandings

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and that creates a high trust in our society. And

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when you blow up the norms, you then create more

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and more distrust and you see it everywhere. All right,

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if you're listening to this show, you know I try

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as they make the media landscape more transparent. Steve molloy

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is a senior legal fellow at the Energy and Environment

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Legal Institute. He joins me now and he has a

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piece over at the New York Post headline Trump will

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make America energy dominant with Frack executive executive Cabinet pick. Steve.

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Welcome to the show, sir.

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Speaker 2: How are you hey, Pete, Thanks for having me. I'm

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doing great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Good.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 1: First off, I was going over the ban in through

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the executive order that the President did of all of

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the federal waters try to jam up Trump on his

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way in. Do you have any thoughts on that as

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he's walking out the door, you know, to protect the

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climate now versus say four years ago when he first

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got into office.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I mean, I guess the good news is

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that anything that Joe Biden does, Donald Trump can undo.

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It's just that when Donald Trump undoes it. He's going

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to have to be very careful to dot all the

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odds and cross all the t's because the Greens who

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are going to sue are going to forum shop. They're

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going to find a Biden Obama Clinton judge that is

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going to rule their way issue some sort of national injunction.

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And you know, our federal court system is so lame

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and slow that it'll take a while for it to

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get undone. So President Trump's is gonna have to be

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very careful. I think we're going to need more aggressive

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federal conservative judges and you know everything will be okay.

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Speaker 1: So Trump has nominated a fella by the name of

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Chris Wright to be the Secretary of Energy. So who

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is this guy?

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Speaker 2: Well, so, Chris Wright is a very successful energy executive.

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He specialized has specialized in fracking. He has started a

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couple fracking companies. He's become a billionaire. Interestingly enough, he

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will be the first Secretary of Energy that has any

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experience in the energy industry. Now, I don't you know,

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Conservatives have wanted to get rid of the Department of Energy,

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and I agree with that. It's a Carter and Carter

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era invention. It's not needed, but as long as we

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have it, we might as well have energy policy influenced

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by an actual energy executive.

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Speaker 1: So you add something in your piece. I did not

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know this. Ninety percent of oil production today involves fracking. Yeah,

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what is so? How is that possible? I did not.

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I guess they're not separate things.

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Speaker 2: Well, fracking is a technique, right, It's an engineering technique

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for producing oil, And we used to just drill for

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oil conventionally, and then during the two thousands fracking became

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feasible and has just taken over the industry. And so

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that's that is largely how we became energy dominant during

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Trump one. It's it's through frack. Because of fracking and

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all the possibilities in unlocked is how Obama was able

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to wage war successfully against the coal industry. Okay, because

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you know, fracking just makes everything more possible. We have

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essentially infinite oil and gas now because of fracking. So yeah,

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it's very important to as fracking. He's not just some

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bizarre technology that we can do without. We need it.

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Speaker 1: I guess I thought fracking was about gas versus oil production.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, NK cracked oil too.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So I did not know that interesting. Okay,

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So you're right also that the Biden administration handed back

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to Opek control over the global price of oil. So

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how did he do that? And is that why we

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saw prices what they were?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So during Trump won, we were energy dominant. We

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had crushed the price of oil. The oil industry didn't

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like that too much, but we had crushed the price

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of oil. The United States was the marginal producer, meaning

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we were in charge of the global price of oil.

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As soon as Biden came in he announced all his

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anti fossil fuel policies. Investors got scared. The United States.

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Although we have all these oil reserves, they basically became

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non existent. And all that put Opek back in charge

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of the price of oil. And you know, now that

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Donald Trump is coming back, all that's going to go away.

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We're going to be we're going to be the marginal

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producer again, and we're going to be winning. We're going

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to be energy dominant.

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Speaker 1: Steve molloy he is the senior legal fellow at the

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Energy and Environmental Legal Institute. And if you want to

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read this piece, it is at the New York Post.

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But I know you do other work. You got a

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site or anywhere else you want to direct people to

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go find more of what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: I do most of what I do on X at

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junk Science.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's probably where I read most of your work,

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but I may have a slight addiction to X or

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Twitter if you prefer. All right, Steve malloy, great to

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talk with you, sir, Thank you so much. You all right,

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take care. That's Steve Molloy again. The name of this

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piece is called Trump will make America Energy Dominant with

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frack exec Cabinet pick, and that cabinet pick is Liberty

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Energy CEO Chris Right, all right, that'll do it for

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this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could

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not do the show without your support and the support

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

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while I'm gone.