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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, my good friend James Dixon is on the line
with us now the Michigan Enjoy or the podcast, and
of course down I'm seventy five over on X and Twitter. James, welcome,
and we appreciate you being here with us today and.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We a little bit clearer.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I don't know what it's like where you're at, but
it looks like they still got issues up north, and
that should really be nice if we could just have
a summer here with some Blu skuys again.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You know, it's so good to hear your voice this morning.
But yeah, you know, was just up in northern Michigan
the other day, up in Benzie County speaking to the
Republicans there, and you know, just some great friends showing
me around, showing me Frankfort and Arcadia, the beaches, gorgeous
God's Country, Lake Michigan, like the stuff you dream about,
(00:46):
the stuff they should be on a postcard. Except when
I posted the pictures, people were like, well, where's the lake.
Where's the lake? Like I could see that there, you know,
there's something off in the distance, there's a fastness. It
was so smoky that it just obscured our beauty. And
in a state that only has like ninety nice days
(01:06):
a year. Summer is Michigan. Michigan is summer. And so
to take that from us for what the second third
year in a row. Now Canada's problem has become our
problem and we have to start talking about it that way.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, and what I'm so you know, so.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Fired up about, I guess, uh it's so hot over
here is the fact that they, you know, Dana Nasa
wants to sue everybody over She wants to shut out
in cold plants right and left. But she doesn't say
a peep about any of this in Canada. And I
would think if you really truly cared about the environment,
(01:48):
you know, Greta and Gretchen and Dana, all of them
would be lumped in together saying wait a.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Minute, blah, But we we don't.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's it's it's crickets from from all of all them.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
And that to me, I think we have to point
out why.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I think it's important because we've got to understand why
we've got this problem, why we're here. We're here because
they all had these crazy policies. In fact, they wanted
to they wanted to make sure that the force didn't
get cut down in a certain way.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
We just left everything the way it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Is naturally, just you know, a state of nature naturally. Well,
you know, if you go back to the way things were,
you know all of that time, throughout the years, there
were forest fires and there were smoke, and there was
all kinds of things happening. But you know, I just
take a biblical approach to this. You know, back in
the beginning of the book there in Genesis says that
(02:42):
we're supposed to be good stewards of this whole thing,
and that would include to me, making sure we're taking
good care and forest management, and that means clearing some
of these areas. And now, I know Canada's got a
lot of it, right, I know they got a lot
of it. But I really do not believe that there's
nothing we can't do. There is this defeatist attitude out
(03:04):
there that just some people just say.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Well, there's just nothing we can do about that. I
just don't believe that.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Oh No, I mean forest management is part of having forest.
That is part of sewardship, right, and the idea that
what the forest is should just never be touched. It
was made perfect, it could never be altered. That's an
idea that comes from year zero communism, and what's undergirding
it is this idea that Native Americans, and I guess
(03:33):
Native Canadians were the real true sewards of the land,
and ever since the white man came, it's been corrupted
and now it's about commerce and all these things and
taking from the land. Have you ever been to a
Native American reservation? You ever seen footage of one? Is
that people being great stewards of what God has given them? No,
(03:54):
it's not. We're to think that if we just let
everything go back to the way it was, it'd be great. No,
it wouldn't. And so the idea that, you know, none
of this should be managed, just let the fires burn,
let things do what they do. That's not really the
world we live in. And I think the data Nestle
(04:15):
point is so fascinating. This is a woman who wants
us to unplug from line five, which fuels all the
planes at Metro Airport, but she hasn't put any of
her weight behind the Canada wildfires. What's wrong with this picture?
And journalism we're taught to listen for the dog that's
not barking. Ain't and Nussel are watchdog. Her silence here
(04:36):
is deafening.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Very good point.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Another piece of this that I find very disturbing if
people don't understand, it's directly tight end this whole environmental approach.
Directly tight end to how much you and I are
now paying for energy prices, wind solar and unicorn farts
put online, cold plants pulled offline at the same time
that they want us to plug all of our tesla's in.
But way, it's not the teslas that are sucking up
(05:02):
all the juice. It's really the AI and of course
the data centers. Eventually they are going to do most
of the the consumption. And that's that's before we start
with manufacturing it again. And I get I just talked
about Trump bringing all this money back, and we're seeing billions,
hundreds of billions of dollars being brought in by Apple,
but we can't see that investment. You won't see as
much here in Michigan if it's not affordable or feasible
(05:25):
for these businesses to do it, and the energy is
going to be part of that. I just put it
all together. But also, look, that's the thirty thousand foot view.
At the end of the day, right here on Main Street,
so to speak, or in your backyard.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
How much are you paying for your energy? Right now?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It is absolutely You open up the envelope and almost
I almost hear this right as I open up the envelope.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh d holy look at the price of that. I mean,
it's incredible, it is.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I haven't seen a bill all summer that starts with
less than a three. You know, we run the ac
we do that, but and it hasn't been an especially
hot summer either. It just costs more to do all
the same things that you did two three years ago. Right,
there's no more or less forest than there was in
Canada five years ago. Why weren't we hearing about this?
(06:17):
How come these forest virus? How come this was not
a staple of our childhood, Like I don't remember, oh
one of every three summers was kind of smoking.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And they know the worst part is James is like,
now this whole drumbeat of yeah, you know, this is
just the way it is. They're trying to normalize it. Yes,
just suck it up and get used to it, is
what they're.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Notice they've covered it as a partisan issue. The Detroit
News just had a story. Congressional Republicans have sent a
letter to Canada asking them to take this on. So
now it's going to be Republicans say it's a problem.
Democrats in the media that alliance will treat it as
a conspiracy theory rather than anyone saying, hey, what is
(07:01):
the actual source. It's going to become. Republicans say this,
Democrats say that that's a sick. The media is actively
part of our problem here. It's why our discourse is
so stupid. It's because of the choices they make.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
The same.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Sky's as fog that Hayes hanging over Republicans is hanging
over Democrats.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
We're all a bit outraged about this.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
All right, Well, the smoke falls on the just and
the unjust.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Right said one.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
More thing here, James, I got to tie into this
because it's important. What's happening in Canada right now may
be coming our way. One hundred million dollars in disasters
relief is stuck in the Michigan Senate ninety days after
House Republicans approved the emergency aid for families devastated by
the March eye storms. We got all of that timber
on the ground. What happens next year when it's dry,
(07:49):
lightning strikes and now we got fire from one leg
to the other, stretching across the bent, and.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You know we're going to be too broke to do
anything about it. I mean, this is got you either
plan ahead or you plan behind. You know, there's two
kinds of people I noticed, you know. So there's one
type of person who will say, there's rain in the
weather report, I better start making it home. There's another
type of person that needs the rain to actually start
(08:17):
in the storm to actually hit, and then they'll start
heading home in the middle of the storm. Yeah, oh yeah,
you don't have to be that second group, but the
Democrats who run Michigan sure want us to be. And
it's just we are at risk, so we're dealing with
someone else's problem right now. Next year Canada can be saying, hey,
what's with all the smoke from Michigan.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Well, you know, I want to just show people what
it's like in Canada right now, because I've after I
talked about this on action that people start chiming in
from everywhere. Canadians are saying, hey, pray for us, because
this is what it's like here. They're telling us not
to try and even help clear any of the areas
because our health with these fires, because we'll be fined
(08:59):
if we even go into the woods.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Effective four pm today, we're telling Nova Scotians stay out
of the woods. We are restricting travel and activities that
really aren't necessary for most of us. Hiking, camping, fishing,
and the use of vehicles in the woods are not permitted.
Trail systems through woods are off limits. Camping is allowed,
(09:24):
but only in official campgrounds. The fine for violating any
of these bands is the same as the fine for
the ban I'm burning twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
By the way, this is the same thing Gretchen Whitner
pulled here, all the Kavidians, those governors, same thing they
all pulled. It's from the same playbook. They want absolute control.
It to authoritarian. By the way, Duggan and Benson will
be just as bad if they make it in. This
is something that I think everyone needs to understand where
(09:57):
all this comes from.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
It's evil.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
You know, all you can do is just stay home.
I tell you what Canada needs is not less people involved.
They need more people. And so that's a letter to
Canada that you know. John James said it was a
nice idea. I would direct mind to President Trump. You know,
when the neighbors have a dog that bites one of
your kids, and it's always kind of noisy over there,
(10:23):
it's time for dad to talk to the neighbors, right.
I asked a friend who works at the Michigan Environment Department, like, hey,
you guys talk about all these environmental prices. We have
literally smoke building over from another place. What are you
doing about it? They said, we're issuing air quality alerts.
Like that was the absolute limit on one what they
(10:43):
could do. So this is bigger Whitmer. It's bigger than Eagle,
It's bigger than John James. This is Donald Trump. Donald
Trump needs to get involved and say, hey, Canada, either
you guys manage your forest fires or we will.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I think it's about time. I agree.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I think it's just another thing he can tack on.
He's having enough a hard time as it is dealing
with them right now and fitting on their real refusal
to actually man up on that, and that's already causing
you know, hundreds of thousands of lives. But you know what, Canada,
it's time, it's time to get your act together. My
(11:25):
good friend James Dixon. Always a pleasure folks can find you.
I know the Michigan enjoy your podcast. Always a great place.
But my favorite maybe Acts down I seventy five.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Thank you sir.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Hey, anything big, we gotta watch for you coming up quickly.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, we're gonna be talking about this whole thing. We're
gonna be talking about on the next episode, the post
news world order and why the wildfires are being covered
the way they are by the media.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
All right, back after this
Hey, my good friend James Dixon is on the line
with us now the Michigan Enjoy or the podcast, and
of course down I'm seventy five over on X and Twitter. James, welcome,
and we appreciate you being here with us today and.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We a little bit clearer.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I don't know what it's like where you're at, but
it looks like they still got issues up north, and
that should really be nice if we could just have
a summer here with some Blu skuys again.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You know, it's so good to hear your voice this morning.
But yeah, you know, was just up in northern Michigan
the other day, up in Benzie County speaking to the
Republicans there, and you know, just some great friends showing
me around, showing me Frankfort and Arcadia, the beaches, gorgeous
God's Country, Lake Michigan, like the stuff you dream about,
(00:46):
the stuff they should be on a postcard. Except when
I posted the pictures, people were like, well, where's the lake.
Where's the lake? Like I could see that there, you know,
there's something off in the distance, there's a fastness. It
was so smoky that it just obscured our beauty. And
in a state that only has like ninety nice days
(01:06):
a year. Summer is Michigan. Michigan is summer. And so
to take that from us for what the second third
year in a row. Now Canada's problem has become our
problem and we have to start talking about it that way.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, and what I'm so you know, so.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Fired up about, I guess, uh it's so hot over
here is the fact that they, you know, Dana Nasa
wants to sue everybody over She wants to shut out
in cold plants right and left. But she doesn't say
a peep about any of this in Canada. And I
would think if you really truly cared about the environment,
(01:48):
you know, Greta and Gretchen and Dana, all of them
would be lumped in together saying wait a.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Minute, blah, But we we don't.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's it's it's crickets from from all of all them.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
And that to me, I think we have to point
out why.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I think it's important because we've got to understand why
we've got this problem, why we're here. We're here because
they all had these crazy policies. In fact, they wanted
to they wanted to make sure that the force didn't
get cut down in a certain way.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
We just left everything the way it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Is naturally, just you know, a state of nature naturally. Well,
you know, if you go back to the way things were,
you know all of that time, throughout the years, there
were forest fires and there were smoke, and there was
all kinds of things happening. But you know, I just
take a biblical approach to this. You know, back in
the beginning of the book there in Genesis says that
(02:42):
we're supposed to be good stewards of this whole thing,
and that would include to me, making sure we're taking
good care and forest management, and that means clearing some
of these areas. And now, I know Canada's got a
lot of it, right, I know they got a lot
of it. But I really do not believe that there's
nothing we can't do. There is this defeatist attitude out
(03:04):
there that just some people just say.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Well, there's just nothing we can do about that. I
just don't believe that.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Oh No, I mean forest management is part of having forest.
That is part of sewardship, right, and the idea that
what the forest is should just never be touched. It
was made perfect, it could never be altered. That's an
idea that comes from year zero communism, and what's undergirding
it is this idea that Native Americans, and I guess
(03:33):
Native Canadians were the real true sewards of the land,
and ever since the white man came, it's been corrupted
and now it's about commerce and all these things and
taking from the land. Have you ever been to a
Native American reservation? You ever seen footage of one? Is
that people being great stewards of what God has given them? No,
(03:54):
it's not. We're to think that if we just let
everything go back to the way it was, it'd be great. No,
it wouldn't. And so the idea that, you know, none
of this should be managed, just let the fires burn,
let things do what they do. That's not really the
world we live in. And I think the data Nestle
(04:15):
point is so fascinating. This is a woman who wants
us to unplug from line five, which fuels all the
planes at Metro Airport, but she hasn't put any of
her weight behind the Canada wildfires. What's wrong with this picture?
And journalism we're taught to listen for the dog that's
not barking. Ain't and Nussel are watchdog. Her silence here
(04:36):
is deafening.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Very good point.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Another piece of this that I find very disturbing if
people don't understand, it's directly tight end this whole environmental approach.
Directly tight end to how much you and I are
now paying for energy prices, wind solar and unicorn farts
put online, cold plants pulled offline at the same time
that they want us to plug all of our tesla's in.
But way, it's not the teslas that are sucking up
(05:02):
all the juice. It's really the AI and of course
the data centers. Eventually they are going to do most
of the the consumption. And that's that's before we start
with manufacturing it again. And I get I just talked
about Trump bringing all this money back, and we're seeing billions,
hundreds of billions of dollars being brought in by Apple,
but we can't see that investment. You won't see as
much here in Michigan if it's not affordable or feasible
(05:25):
for these businesses to do it, and the energy is
going to be part of that. I just put it
all together. But also, look, that's the thirty thousand foot view.
At the end of the day, right here on Main Street,
so to speak, or in your backyard.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
How much are you paying for your energy? Right now?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It is absolutely You open up the envelope and almost
I almost hear this right as I open up the envelope.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh d holy look at the price of that. I mean,
it's incredible, it is.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I haven't seen a bill all summer that starts with
less than a three. You know, we run the ac
we do that, but and it hasn't been an especially
hot summer either. It just costs more to do all
the same things that you did two three years ago. Right,
there's no more or less forest than there was in
Canada five years ago. Why weren't we hearing about this?
(06:17):
How come these forest virus? How come this was not
a staple of our childhood, Like I don't remember, oh
one of every three summers was kind of smoking.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And they know the worst part is James is like,
now this whole drumbeat of yeah, you know, this is
just the way it is. They're trying to normalize it. Yes,
just suck it up and get used to it, is
what they're.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Notice they've covered it as a partisan issue. The Detroit
News just had a story. Congressional Republicans have sent a
letter to Canada asking them to take this on. So
now it's going to be Republicans say it's a problem.
Democrats in the media that alliance will treat it as
a conspiracy theory rather than anyone saying, hey, what is
(07:01):
the actual source. It's going to become. Republicans say this,
Democrats say that that's a sick. The media is actively
part of our problem here. It's why our discourse is
so stupid. It's because of the choices they make.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
The same.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Sky's as fog that Hayes hanging over Republicans is hanging
over Democrats.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
We're all a bit outraged about this.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
All right, Well, the smoke falls on the just and
the unjust.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Right said one.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
More thing here, James, I got to tie into this
because it's important. What's happening in Canada right now may
be coming our way. One hundred million dollars in disasters
relief is stuck in the Michigan Senate ninety days after
House Republicans approved the emergency aid for families devastated by
the March eye storms. We got all of that timber
on the ground. What happens next year when it's dry,
(07:49):
lightning strikes and now we got fire from one leg
to the other, stretching across the bent, and.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You know we're going to be too broke to do
anything about it. I mean, this is got you either
plan ahead or you plan behind. You know, there's two
kinds of people I noticed, you know. So there's one
type of person who will say, there's rain in the
weather report, I better start making it home. There's another
type of person that needs the rain to actually start
(08:17):
in the storm to actually hit, and then they'll start
heading home in the middle of the storm. Yeah, oh yeah,
you don't have to be that second group, but the
Democrats who run Michigan sure want us to be. And
it's just we are at risk, so we're dealing with
someone else's problem right now. Next year Canada can be saying, hey,
what's with all the smoke from Michigan.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Well, you know, I want to just show people what
it's like in Canada right now, because I've after I
talked about this on action that people start chiming in
from everywhere. Canadians are saying, hey, pray for us, because
this is what it's like here. They're telling us not
to try and even help clear any of the areas
because our health with these fires, because we'll be fined
(08:59):
if we even go into the woods.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Effective four pm today, we're telling Nova Scotians stay out
of the woods. We are restricting travel and activities that
really aren't necessary for most of us. Hiking, camping, fishing,
and the use of vehicles in the woods are not permitted.
Trail systems through woods are off limits. Camping is allowed,
(09:24):
but only in official campgrounds. The fine for violating any
of these bands is the same as the fine for
the ban I'm burning twenty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
By the way, this is the same thing Gretchen Whitner
pulled here, all the Kavidians, those governors, same thing they
all pulled. It's from the same playbook. They want absolute control.
It to authoritarian. By the way, Duggan and Benson will
be just as bad if they make it in. This
is something that I think everyone needs to understand where
(09:57):
all this comes from.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
It's evil.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
You know, all you can do is just stay home.
I tell you what Canada needs is not less people involved.
They need more people. And so that's a letter to
Canada that you know. John James said it was a
nice idea. I would direct mind to President Trump. You know,
when the neighbors have a dog that bites one of
your kids, and it's always kind of noisy over there,
(10:23):
it's time for dad to talk to the neighbors, right.
I asked a friend who works at the Michigan Environment Department, like, hey,
you guys talk about all these environmental prices. We have
literally smoke building over from another place. What are you
doing about it? They said, we're issuing air quality alerts.
Like that was the absolute limit on one what they
(10:43):
could do. So this is bigger Whitmer. It's bigger than Eagle,
It's bigger than John James. This is Donald Trump. Donald
Trump needs to get involved and say, hey, Canada, either
you guys manage your forest fires or we will.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I think it's about time. I agree.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I think it's just another thing he can tack on.
He's having enough a hard time as it is dealing
with them right now and fitting on their real refusal
to actually man up on that, and that's already causing
you know, hundreds of thousands of lives. But you know what, Canada,
it's time, it's time to get your act together. My
(11:25):
good friend James Dixon. Always a pleasure folks can find you.
I know the Michigan enjoy your podcast. Always a great place.
But my favorite maybe Acts down I seventy five.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Thank you sir.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Hey, anything big, we gotta watch for you coming up quickly.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, we're gonna be talking about this whole thing. We're
gonna be talking about on the next episode, the post
news world order and why the wildfires are being covered
the way they are by the media.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
All right, back after this
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