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All right, good evening, world, Good evening, America. Welcome to
The Reformer radio show. I'm your host, Alan Barteleman. Our
topic tonight, Our topic tonight, how Homo ignoramus caused his
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own extinction. We invite you to call in and give
us your opinion. Wherever we are in the world. Nine
O nine three eight three eight thousand, nine O nine
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of us can easily obey them. Be rational, use reason
and verifiable facts. Please, no vile or vulgar language. No
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personal attacks, or you will go bye bye. All around
the world, human beings are being human. Wherever I go,
I can find common dialogue with people like Paul Simon
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and says it's the myth of fingerprints. Speaking metaphorically, of course,
I've seen them all and they are all the same.
We're all in the same boat. We're all in the
same planet, Earth, spaceship Earth. We all suffer when climate
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change comes about. So let's talk about how Homo ignoramus.
That has nothing to do with Homo sexual. Homo is
a species that we all belong to. We are Homo sapiens.
But now it seems that some of us have devolved
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into Homo ignoramus. We don't believe in science. Some of
us ah science has bunk. We don't believe in climate change,
even though the vast majority of scientists in the world
tell us that we're pumping CO two into the atmosphere
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and that is causing the climate to change, causing colder colds,
hotter hots How is it where you are? Is it
very hot today? There's a heat wave over the Midwest?
Is it very cold unseasonably cold today? Is there a
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lot of rain that seems to constantly rain and rain
and rain more and more. Those are atmospheric rivers caused
by climate change. Is it freezing where you are when
it shouldn't be? Or is it very summary when it
shouldn't be. How about the polar bears in Alaska that
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are coming in emaciated, skinny polar bears? Why because they
can't catch their prey. The icebergs are gone. They can't
catch the penguin, they can't catch the occasional fish. They're dying.
You want to see a polar bear, better go to
the zoo. You want to take that cruise up to
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Alaska to see them, You're contributed into global warming. Don't
take the cruise. The polar bears don't want to see you.
You want to see them nice cuddly little Yeah, think
about it twice. So how is that homoweagnorramus? How are
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we destroying our planet? Well, there's a lot of ways.
Some of the ways is our lifestyle. You know, we
want to have the big car, the big powerful car,
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pump out that power. That's what ice engines do. Internal
combustion engines, ice cars do that. So as long as
we continue to do that and don't continue to switch
to electric vehicles or more fuel efficient vehicles, will continue
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to kill ourselves. So every time you start up that
Dodge Demon in the driveway or your five to zero
must Stang or any kind of ice car, you're contributing
to your grandchildren's demands and that nice let them right
in the back seat and hear your car screech. But
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when you get an EV, there's no gas, there's no oil.
You plug it in at your house. You save thousands
in gas. You're going to have a very efficient, high
torque vehicle. The Ford Mustang EV will do zero to
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sixty and three point five stock Man. The torque on
those is great. You will be happy that you got one.
Go test drive one or with some of the more
expensive evs too. All cars, you know, basically in America
is starting around fifty grand today American cars. That's where
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you can step step into the Ford Mustang EV. I
bought one, man, am I happy? I haven't looked back,
so you know, Basically, you rotate the tires, change the
washer fluid cost me twenty two dollars at my thirty
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thousand mile check. Sweet deal. You have to have a
specially trained mechanic to be able to do it. It
requires a little electronic taking. But man, you're gonna love
your ev Why don't you. Some of you might think
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that there's you know, no climate change out there right now.
I say, I don't feel the difference. It's like an
analogy that's been made. Some people talk about boiling a frog.
You take a frog, you throw them in a pot
of boiling water. Man, that frogs right out of there.
He's no fool. But you put it in cold water
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and bringing that water to a boil, and he tolerates
a little bit little he m, this is not much different.
This is nice. I mean, I don't know what's going
on with the frog, said, but he'll boil where he
would jump out if he get right away. We're the
same way. Little change is incremental changes. They don't seem
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to bother us, so we deny climate change. Whose interest
is that? In certain not ours? In my not so
humble opinion, it's in the interests of large corporate interests,
oil interests, uh, other interests. You know who? There's no
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oil shortage in America. You know who pumps the most
oil in the world, either pumps or fracks. Dumb, dumb, dumb,
dumb dumb. Uh, guess who the United States? We even
expert oil. Now there's no oil shortage. We don't need
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to pump, baby pump, because if we do, the price
of oil will go down. The big corporations don't want that.
We've opened up under the current administration all these oil
leases at giveaway prices. Who's buying the oil leases? Nobody?
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Because the more you pump, the greater there the amount
of oil, the lower the price. Oil is called a
fungible substance. It has a price all around the world.
You can check the price of a barrel of sweet
crud today and it's a complete economic mess. We don't
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need more oil. All this climate change has begun since
the late nineteenth century, when the United States realized it
had oil reserves. Many of you may have seen the
pretty cool movie There Must Be Blood. It's about an
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oil wildcatter who opens up a whole lot of wells
and makes a whole lot of money. Well, it has
very little to do with climate change. It shows you
the ruthlessness of their old companies. Congress now has proposals
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in front of it, the big beautiful bill, want to
encourage that, but they're backing off on that because they're
oil producing states, realizing it's their ocs getting gourd with
some of those. You know, our grandchildren are going to
pay for our excesses today. Our grandchildren are going to
be saddled right now if that bill goes through with
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three times the debt that we have today, and they're
going to live in a vastly changed earth and climate change.
Have you apologized to your grandchildren for murdering their future?
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I have. It's a stark reality. Don't be like that frog.
It's a reality. The climate is changing, whether you like
it or not, whether you want to acknowledge you feel
it or not. Force fires, the town of Paradise decimated,
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other towns at Los Angeles decimated, Malibu decimated by fire.
All of us know this, what's causing this. This is
not normal. This is the new aberration. Please people, let's
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stop it before it's too late. It may be too
late now, but does that mean we don't try If
your house is on fire. You don't go out and
get a hose or call the fire department. You just say, eh,
I give up. No, I'm not backing down. I'm not
giving up. The reformer is going to keep trying to
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stop this. Some other things that are going on. And
by the way, I invite you.
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To call in three eight three area code three eight
three eight thousand, Area code nine oh nine three eight
three nine thousand.
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Give us a call. You know the rules. Please give
us your question, your comments. I don't care what it is.
We'll have a dialogue. We'll have a respectful dialogue and
talk about it. Maybe you have something to contribute. Oh,
we have so many problems. You know. The United States
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credit rating has been downgraded. Used to be the highest
credit rating on earth, triplea plus plus plus. We sell
Treasury bonds, which is owning the United States. It's a
guaranteed payment. There is nothing finer than the US Treasury bond.
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They've been downgraded. What does that mean? That means that
the buyer demands more interest. That's our national debt. We
have to pay more into this. Well, we won't put
our grandchildren. And who's the biggest holder jeopardy theme. Who's
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the biggest holder of United States treasury bills? Russia, Mom
and pop Americans or China. Times up China, So we're
paying them more money. They're are our greatest economic competitor,
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but they know where to invest, and they're happy at
clams that our credit rating has been downgraded because they're
going to earn more when they cash in those treasury bonds.
Even our economic rivals understand that the best investment in
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the world is America. But how to take us really
for a ride? Continue polluting the earth, continue downgrading treasury bonds,
continue the interest raise on them. That's how somebody's making
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America grovel again. Oh we never groveled before, I should
say again, but now we're groveling to economic interests. Who's
putting us in that position. You have a v vote,
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You have a mind, You have the ability to rationally
think those things aren't right. They're just not right. We
have the power. This is a democracy. The last time
I looked, we have the power to stop this. Educate yourselves,
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talk to your legislators, demand rational answers, and vote. Register
and vote. Go to Walmart, a great store, a great store. Sure,
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it's where America shops because they put mom and pop
out of business, and now mom and popp are the
greeters at the door, and their kids are stocking the
shelves and manning them cash registers until they get more
automatic cash registers. But I saw a sign the other night.
They're offering nineteen dollars an hour in one state for
night stalkers. That's not bad, that's not bad. I don't
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know what benefits they get, but nineteen bucks an hour,
you know, almost a living wage for one person in
some states, not a living wage in California. Look up
living wage by the way, that's what it costs for
one person to support themselves, or two persons or three.
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See what your living wage ought to be. But you
go to Walmart, you're going to find that iPhone and
I watched there made in China. What else is made
in China? You beats, headphones, clothing, kitchen gadgets of all kinds.
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Everything virtually except fresh produce is made in China. Comes
from China or somewhere overseas. And what's China taking from us? Well,
all kinds of money. But you know, they also grow
almonds in California. They own the land, they own the
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almond trees. They've cut out the American middleman. Almonds are
a thirsty crop. They use a lot, extraordinary amount of water.
But the Chinese are taking our water through almonds, and
we're sitting back and just allowing them to do it.
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In the south of the United States and Saudi Arabians
are growing alfalfa and hey ostensibly to feed their beautiful
Arabian horses and their cattle and their sheep. No pork,
No pork. They're basically hijacking water in the form of
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alfalfa and hay, using it for their purposes, cutting us
out of the profit. They have desolinization like nobody else
in the world in Saudi Arabia. Yet they need more
and more water and they're getting it from us. Is
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that fair? I don't know. Are they an honest broker?
Going back to nine to eleven those of you who
remember the date, or those of you have heard of it,
nine to eleven thousand, the two thousand and two thousand
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and one. Who's in those airplanes that brought down the
World Center. That's two of them, one of them that
hit the Pentagon that's three, and the fourth one that
the Brave passengers crashed into the ground, knowing that they
would die, but to save the rest of us. Who
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hijacked those aircraft with box cutters had learned to fly
in the United States. Who did that, they were all
Saudi citizens. We misunderstand the world so much from our view,
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we completely misunderstand. Not to get too far into religion,
but and everybody's entitled to their religion. You can look
at the different sects of Islam. Start with Wahabbism, which
is the Wahabi sect, which is the Saudist. Look at
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the Shia, which are the Iranians. Look at Tassunni, who
are largely in Iraq. There are seven major sects of Islam,
just like there's Protestants, Catholics, Mormons, all kinds, different sects
of Christians. We used to joke in my church that
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God loved Christians best, he made so many different kinds
of us. All religions have schisms, and so does Islam.
I'm not going to denigrate Islam at all. I'm not
going to denigrate Christianity. I'm not going to denigrate any
religion or agnostic or atheism. You believe what you care
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to believe. But who's on our side, and who's not
Why did we attack President Bush attack Iraq after September eleventh?
There weren't Iraqis on that aircraft, but there were Saudis.
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Twenty one Saudis the United States sounds like the gang
that couldn't shoot Street. We attacked the wrong guy and
did it stop anything? Did it stop al Kaieda? Not really?
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By the way, Osama bin Laden a Saudi, wealthy Saudi
came from a construction company family. Contemplate that we've got
a terrible situation. We have oil mixed up with religion.
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Oil was the old driver of economies, and as it fades,
the geopolitical situation in fades. You know, the Saudis now
pump a fraction of what they did a few years
ago because it's the biggest exporter and producer of oil
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in the world. We have so much that we can
export it. Oil is called a fungible substance. That means
you can take your barrel of oil here and sell it.
You can take your barrel of oil there and sell it.
It's good all over the world, just like gold, just
like silver, just like any commodity. They're fungible. Learn soybeing
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all those things. It's all about the supply and demand
for those things. The more demand there is, the higher
the price. The more supply, the lower the price. Very
simple economics at its core, supply and demand. You got it,
I want it. We settle on a fair market price.
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A willing seller to a willing buyer. I don't know
of any major religion that does not call for us
to be good stewards of the earth. All the major
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religions call for us to be good stewards of the earth,
and very few of us are. Oh know, for those
of you who are God fearing, neither Christians, Muslims, Jews.
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The command is the same in all the Abrahamic religions,
and as well as in the in the Eastern religions, Hinduism, Bahai.
All the religions, be a good steward of the earth,
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take care of what we have. Yeah, some of us
don't follow it. If I sound like I'm randing, I am.
If I sound like I'm raving, I'm not. I am
not personally a scientist. My training is in law, but
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I depend on scientists to give me their opinion. In
nineteen ninety nine, the Sierra Club set as its major
goal the stop of climate change. But still so many
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little factions depend upon saving their critters instead of getting
into the big picture. So now other organizations like the
Center for Biological Diversity are kind of taking the lead.
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We have a situation, my friends, that I hope we
can solve. What's your opinion? Have a question, to have
a comment, call in and call us at nine oh
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nine nine. Any question, any comment. I don't care what
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your question or comment is, as long as it's respectful, rational, reasonable.
Let's have a dialogue about it. We've got a heck
of a situation here in the world. I'm going to
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climate change that is going to kill if not my generation,
us old guys, old ladies, but our grandchildren. I know
you love your grandchildren. I know your grandchildren are just
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like mine, the smartest, brightest, happiest little children of the world,
aren't they? Or your kids? If you're from a younger
generation like my son and stepkids, don't you enjoy bouncing
the little tykes on your knee? Don't you enjoy raising
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them happy? Healthy, Watch them take their first steps, listen
to them utter their first word. Don't you enjoy that
first day that you send them off to school and
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they come back. You know, they leave cried. Sometimes, boy,
they come back and they say, oh, teacher's so nice.
Listen to my ABC's I could count to nine, Daddy, mommy,
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I can read. What do we have except our future
and our families. There's nothing else in the world except
you know that any of you would kill if anybody
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tried to harm your grandchild, boy, you'd be autumn. You'd
be staying your ground, you'd be pulling those weapons. You'd
use a baseball bat, your ver tea bare hands to
protect their lives from any kind of arm. But the
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climate is changing, and what are most many of us doing.
Speaker 9 (33:55):
Absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
We're sitting boiling for all like a bunch of ignorant amphibians.
Homo ignoramus. Are you homo ignoramis? Do you doubt what
I'm saying? Prove me wrong. I'm willing to hear your science.
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I'm willing to hear your silly belief anything. Prove ninety
nine point nine percent of the scientists involved in climate
study are wrong when they say that human cause is
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changing the climate of our planet. Elon wants to go
to Mars and we'll have a new planet. We won't
have to worry about this one. Hey, Elon, jump on
the first Falcon nine, go right for it. Get up
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there with your satellites and keep on going. Have a
nice trip. Richest man in the world, Elon, I got
to sign for you. You come on over and talk
to me. Don't bring your ketamine with you either. Don't
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bring your racism. We don't need Afrikaans racists in America.
They don't want to be here. Let me not get
off on, mister musk. Yes, some people's like the scripture says,
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for the love of money is the root of all evil,
and it is easier for a camel to get through
the eye of a needle than for a rich man
to achieve heaven. All about the Benjamins or in their case,
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I know, I guess Benjamin's highest denomination we make. I
can't imagine a guy with billions of dollars, man, what
I would do with billions of dollars? I would do
with Bill and Melinda Gates have done. They're giving it
all away. They're wiping out malaria in the world. They're
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saving human lives and tend to spend all their money
except a very small amount that they're going to leave.
They're setting up foundations. Thank you, mister Gates. And also
thank you to Warren Buffett. Hath Hathaway, burn sure Hathaway.
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Excuse me, I wish I could afford one's share. He's
giving all of his away. Give give, give it away.
Thank you, Warren Buffett, thank you, thank you very much.
He's going to give untold billions to benefit those of
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us who are not as fortunate and as smart as
wise as he. Thank you very much, mister Buffett. I
appreciate it. By the way, if you'd like to subscribe
it by an ad to my show, give me a
call it area code nine oh nine three or three
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I'd be happy to plug your show and have your participation.
And by the way, any other advertisers out there, if
you're interested in getting your message out to the world,
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this is the place. It doesn't cost a whole lot.
You can buy a little, you can buy a lot.
I guarantee you're got to get some results because this
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have something to prove, and we won't back down. It
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about your Democrats, how about your Republicans that are interested
in climate change? How about your independence? You know you
can pay for educational information and you can do it legally.
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You designed the educational ad, we'll put it on. We'll
get your message out there. I'll take ads from I
take ads from anybody with the possible exception of Satan
himself to get this message out there. If your dog
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put an ad on, not a problem. If you're nonprofit, fine,
If you're already a subscriber to other advertising you know NBC, ABC, FOX,
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add dollars. It's cheaper than any of them, and we
have worldwide participation. Okay, enough plug, enough sales stop. So
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what are we going to do about pollution? What can
you do to stop this? Okay, I've outlined the problem
for you. Now I'm going to come with some things
that you can do. One, You can get involved. You
can call your local environmental advocate organization and join and participate. Two,
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you can go before your local boards, your city council,
your county supervisors, your school boards, and you can tell
them start to follow leads standards and construction. That means
that leads rates the environmental capacity in certain ways. Demand
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that your city institute leads standards for itself and for
new construction. Demand so rooftop solar be a part of
every home.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
You well, the rebates may or may not be available
next year, but if you put in solar and you
buy it, you get a seven thousand, five hundred dollars
tax credit, not a rebate, a credit. If you owe
seven thousand, five hundred that wipes out what you owe
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to the rs in the state of California. You get
an additional two thousand, five hundred dollars, And that's not
a tax credit, that's a cash payment. So seventy five
hundred plus twenty five hundred is that ten thousand dollars
ninety five hundred whatever You're going to spit and not
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take that. Man, if you're a homeowner and you owe
federal taxes, that's the way to go. That reduces the
cost of your solar by ten thousand dollars. And if
you put in a solar array, including a couple of
high capacity batteries so you'll have electricity at night when
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it's dark, you know that'll round you're thirty thirty five,
maybe a little less. They're going to take ten grand off.
Think you buy that outright for twenty thousand dollars. Don't
get involved in an interest plan. Come up with twenty grand.
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You know what you would pay to re landscape your
house or buy a used car. You can have virtually
free electricity. What's your electric bill now? Hundred two hundred,
three hundred dollars a month? It'll be down like my
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neighbor seven bucks a month, wow, seven dollars a month.
Look in the solar. The best deal is buying it outright. Next,
there are solar leases where you give it back essentially
to the solar provider. Not near as good a deal,
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but it will level out your electric bill to a
certain extent. Another thing you can do is simply can serve.
Look at your electric bill now, see what your average
use is, and then go on the website of your
electrical provider and see how you could save with other plans.
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You don't have to pay the big plan all the time.
If you know to own an electric vehicle. In southern California,
SCEE offers a special time of use program. You can
cut back your electrical use between either four and nine
or foreign and nine or five and nine in the evenings.
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Don't use then because that's the highest price. Because there's
a most demand when people come home, they want to
cook and turn on the lights, and most activities are happening.
But after nine o'clock nine pm, all night long, the
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rates are down. They go slightly up in the morning,
and then all day long until four or five pm,
your rate is low. Plan to use your electricity when
the rate is low. You can bring your bill down.
Now you don't have to do another thing except that.
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And what else can you do on your level. It's
absolutely beneficial to you. I've told you get that ev
But you know you can recycle, reuse, and just plan
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recycle those bottles and cans. It's not as good a
deal as it used to be. The prices are way down.
Please don't try to recycle somebody else's copper wiring you
thieves out there. I don't think any thieves are listening
to this show. But you got scrap metal around the house,
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sell it. I mean, you know, aluminum cans are worth
a bundle difference Seinfeld show where they take the cans
to another state and try to make more money. You
can't get away with that anymore because they're Mark California.
But you know they made a funny show and interior
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it was pretty good. But recycling, don't throw out those
aluminum cans after you drink your beer or your soda. Recycle.
All you got to do is throw them in a
plastic bag, and every six months or year, you haul
them down to the recycler, You sort them out, they
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weigh it. You get forty to fifty bucks. Hey night,
you know, a night of bowling, a night out with
the kids, a little you know, a little fun, it's
worth it. I don't see any of us throwing nickels
and dimes and quarters in the trash, but you'll throw
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aluminum cans and plastic bottles. Those are cash. Don't do it.
I don't think you're doing it now intentionally, but maybe
some of us don't know. Let's keep those things. You know,
(48:05):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 8 (48:08):
I have.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
I have so many T shirts. I have a mass
in my life. I don't have room for anymore. I
have drawers stuff with them. I vow to wear a
different T shirt every day just because I can't. And
I've also avowed I'm not going to buy another T
shirt until I wear out an existing one. Why because
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they're made of textiles, which costs me water. Most of
our textiles now are coming from offshore. Look at look
in the back of your collar. Now where's that? Where's
that clothing? Maid, China, Vietnam, Cabodia, Hano, Mexico. Textiles probably
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not being made in the United States. We're buying it
from overseas. Wearing it a couple of times, that's thrown
it away. By the way, when you donated it winds
up with some kid in Africa wearing an Adidas shirt
has no idea what Adidas is, but he's got your
old shirt. No, it didn't get donated to the poor
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in America. It got sold off to Africa and other
poor nations, which kills their native industry of building native cloth.
What a mess. Don't buy the new outfit unless you
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absolutely don't have one and have to have it. Ladies,
do you really have to have that? Think that that
influencer wears on TikTok? I know, you dirty little secret ladies.
Some of you buy it, you hide the tag and
you return it and you gaining the system. Now you're
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killing yourselves because when that gets back to Amazon or
whoever you bought it from, they know. But it's not
worth a hassle for them to jump you about it
and make you pay. Don't buy that cute little outfit
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that you just got to have. I know, especially with
younger people, that you want to be fashionable. You need
to fit in to be different. Okay, that's your impulse,
but what's your rationality? Tell you? Come on, kids, I
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know you want all the latest new stuff. You don't
want to go out in rags, well some of you do. Actually,
you're cutting holes in your in your trousers. You're going
out looking like you're poor, like you can't afford to
patch it. But it's brand new and it costs one
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hundred dollars. Hey, I buy my leviyes for the usual
price that they wear out just fine. I put natural
holes in mind. I got leviyes older than some of you.
And that's not a plug for LEVI. I gott some
wranglers on that. Do you really have to have all
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that stuff that pollutes that? It's very production pollutes. Okay,
you want to go out and look like Ms Barbie,
you want to dress like that all the time. You
think that makes you a better person or you a
better person inside saying you know what I'm like. Gretititune,
(52:18):
the young woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize. Why
a while a teenager, she wears old used clothes. Greta, congratulations.
If you're listening, I'll give you free advertising. Come on
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this show and talk about what you've done. You're not
a slave to fashion. Thank you, Gretititune. I wish more
people would be like her instead of consumers using over
and over. What else could you do before we go?
(53:03):
Teach your children. Teach your children well, just like the song.
Teach your children well. Teach them not to be consumers.
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Teach them to use and reuse because there are futures.
Teach those kids, please, come on. You teach your children
to look both ways before they cross the streets or
car doesn't hit them. You teach them that there's really
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no ghosts, which is under their beds, so they don't
have unreasonable fears. We teach all these things in the
modern society we need. We teach them not to approach
a barking dog with a foaming mouth. But we don't
teach them don't pollute, be wise, you know, drink water
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instead of soda. All the things we can teach them.
Teach them not to leave the lights on. I don't,
my pops. We don't have to light up the whole house. Hey,
you'd leave the door open. You get to warm the
whole block. That was quite some time ago, you know.
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I know we teach our children these things. I know
most of many of us do. But we need to
point that towards more, more earth friendly things. We only
have one planet, we only have one chance. We only
get one life, except maybe eternal life. And what is
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eternal life? Whether you believe that there's a heaven or not,
life is here. I derive more pleasure from this life.
I don't know whether I'm gonna what's gonna happen when
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I die. I don't know if I'm gonna get recycled,
if my spirit will go back into the great mass
those but I'm teaching my children no matter what you believe,
it's the way you act here on Earth that's gonna
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live forever in mankind. To live in the name, it's
nothing to live in mankind. That's what's important. There's so
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many things that we can do for our planet. I
know it's hard to tell people don't travel, don't go
out and have that grand vacation or things like that.
There's so many people traveling around the country now. All
the bikers are coming around South Dakota and going up
to getting ready to go to Sturgees. They're coming from
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all over the country. And for the most part, you know,
I mean, they're burning gas. But you know, these big
bikes today don't pollute as much. That's great. Let's you know,
there's an electric motorcycle out there. You guys want to
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ride a burner, man, you want to ride ride something
that's quick, that's got torque. You go try an electric bike.
It'll shut down most street bikes that you'll find. Now, Man,
you'll be happy you won't pollute. It's hard to say,
don't go on vacation. But when you do use and reuse,
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be wise, you know, cut down, cut down, on the pollution.
See America today in your Chevrolet, like Dannis Shore used
to sing for those of you remember those days, but
don't pollute. Chevy makes a couple of real nice electric vehicles.
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I really, I really would like to see people running them.
And I'm a forward guy. What else can we do?
Teach you children, well, teach your children to respect the
planet they live on.
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to me. That's all you gotta do, folks, that's all
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you gotta do. I know there's nobody out there that
hates his family or her family except people who are insane.
Don't not like an insane person. Don't keep doing the
same bad thing over and over and expect a different result.
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That's one of the definitions of insanity. Let's get our
act together. We're all Americans, we all have the same goals.
We're all human beings being human. It's the myth of fingerprints.
I've seen them all and we are all the same. So,
(59:02):
ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell you good night,
good luck, thank you for tuning in, thank you for
listening to me and being so patient. I'm here for you. You're
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personal attacks, or you will go bye bye. All around
the world, human beings are being human. Wherever I go,
I can find common dialogue with people like Paul Simon
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and says it's the myth of fingerprints. Speaking metaphorically, of course,
I've seen them all and they are all the same.
We're all in the same boat. We're all in the
same planet, Earth, spaceship Earth. We all suffer when climate
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change comes about. So let's talk about how Homo ignoramus.
That has nothing to do with Homo sexual. Homo is
a species that we all belong to. We are Homo sapiens.
But now it seems that some of us have devolved
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into Homo ignoramus. We don't believe in science. Some of
us ah science has bunk. We don't believe in climate change,
even though the vast majority of scientists in the world
tell us that we're pumping CO two into the atmosphere
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and that is causing the climate to change, causing colder colds,
hotter hots How is it where you are? Is it
very hot today? There's a heat wave over the Midwest?
Is it very cold unseasonably cold today? Is there a
(08:28):
lot of rain that seems to constantly rain and rain
and rain more and more. Those are atmospheric rivers caused
by climate change. Is it freezing where you are when
it shouldn't be? Or is it very summary when it
shouldn't be. How about the polar bears in Alaska that
(08:50):
are coming in emaciated, skinny polar bears? Why because they
can't catch their prey. The icebergs are gone. They can't
catch the penguin, they can't catch the occasional fish. They're dying.
You want to see a polar bear, better go to
the zoo. You want to take that cruise up to
(09:14):
Alaska to see them, You're contributed into global warming. Don't
take the cruise. The polar bears don't want to see you.
You want to see them nice cuddly little Yeah, think
about it twice. So how is that homoweagnorramus? How are
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we destroying our planet? Well, there's a lot of ways.
Some of the ways is our lifestyle. You know, we
want to have the big car, the big powerful car,
(10:02):
pump out that power. That's what ice engines do. Internal
combustion engines, ice cars do that. So as long as
we continue to do that and don't continue to switch
to electric vehicles or more fuel efficient vehicles, will continue
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to kill ourselves. So every time you start up that
Dodge Demon in the driveway or your five to zero
must Stang or any kind of ice car, you're contributing
to your grandchildren's demands and that nice let them right
in the back seat and hear your car screech. But
(10:44):
when you get an EV, there's no gas, there's no oil.
You plug it in at your house. You save thousands
in gas. You're going to have a very efficient, high
torque vehicle. The Ford Mustang EV will do zero to
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sixty and three point five stock Man. The torque on
those is great. You will be happy that you got one.
Go test drive one or with some of the more
expensive evs too. All cars, you know, basically in America
is starting around fifty grand today American cars. That's where
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you can step step into the Ford Mustang EV. I
bought one, man, am I happy? I haven't looked back,
so you know, Basically, you rotate the tires, change the
washer fluid cost me twenty two dollars at my thirty
(11:46):
thousand mile check. Sweet deal. You have to have a
specially trained mechanic to be able to do it. It
requires a little electronic taking. But man, you're gonna love
your ev Why don't you. Some of you might think
(12:07):
that there's you know, no climate change out there right now.
I say, I don't feel the difference. It's like an
analogy that's been made. Some people talk about boiling a frog.
You take a frog, you throw them in a pot
of boiling water. Man, that frogs right out of there.
He's no fool. But you put it in cold water
(12:28):
and bringing that water to a boil, and he tolerates
a little bit little he m, this is not much different.
This is nice. I mean, I don't know what's going
on with the frog, said, but he'll boil where he
would jump out if he get right away. We're the
same way. Little change is incremental changes. They don't seem
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to bother us, so we deny climate change. Whose interest
is that? In certain not ours? In my not so
humble opinion, it's in the interests of large corporate interests,
oil interests, uh, other interests. You know who? There's no
(13:17):
oil shortage in America. You know who pumps the most
oil in the world, either pumps or fracks. Dumb, dumb, dumb,
dumb dumb. Uh, guess who the United States? We even
expert oil. Now there's no oil shortage. We don't need
(13:40):
to pump, baby pump, because if we do, the price
of oil will go down. The big corporations don't want that.
We've opened up under the current administration all these oil
leases at giveaway prices. Who's buying the oil leases? Nobody?
(14:01):
Because the more you pump, the greater there the amount
of oil, the lower the price. Oil is called a
fungible substance. It has a price all around the world.
You can check the price of a barrel of sweet
crud today and it's a complete economic mess. We don't
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need more oil. All this climate change has begun since
the late nineteenth century, when the United States realized it
had oil reserves. Many of you may have seen the
pretty cool movie There Must Be Blood. It's about an
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oil wildcatter who opens up a whole lot of wells
and makes a whole lot of money. Well, it has
very little to do with climate change. It shows you
the ruthlessness of their old companies. Congress now has proposals
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in front of it, the big beautiful bill, want to
encourage that, but they're backing off on that because they're
oil producing states, realizing it's their ocs getting gourd with
some of those. You know, our grandchildren are going to
pay for our excesses today. Our grandchildren are going to
be saddled right now if that bill goes through with
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three times the debt that we have today, and they're
going to live in a vastly changed earth and climate change.
Have you apologized to your grandchildren for murdering their future?
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I have. It's a stark reality. Don't be like that frog.
It's a reality. The climate is changing, whether you like
it or not, whether you want to acknowledge you feel
it or not. Force fires, the town of Paradise decimated,
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other towns at Los Angeles decimated, Malibu decimated by fire.
All of us know this, what's causing this. This is
not normal. This is the new aberration. Please people, let's
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stop it before it's too late. It may be too
late now, but does that mean we don't try If
your house is on fire. You don't go out and
get a hose or call the fire department. You just say, eh,
I give up. No, I'm not backing down. I'm not
giving up. The reformer is going to keep trying to
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stop this. Some other things that are going on. And
by the way, I invite you.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
To call in three eight three area code three eight
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Give us a call. You know the rules. Please give
us your question, your comments. I don't care what it is.
We'll have a dialogue. We'll have a respectful dialogue and
talk about it. Maybe you have something to contribute. Oh,
we have so many problems. You know. The United States
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credit rating has been downgraded. Used to be the highest
credit rating on earth, triplea plus plus plus. We sell
Treasury bonds, which is owning the United States. It's a
guaranteed payment. There is nothing finer than the US Treasury bond.
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They've been downgraded. What does that mean? That means that
the buyer demands more interest. That's our national debt. We
have to pay more into this. Well, we won't put
our grandchildren. And who's the biggest holder jeopardy theme. Who's
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the biggest holder of United States treasury bills? Russia, Mom
and pop Americans or China. Times up China, So we're
paying them more money. They're are our greatest economic competitor,
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but they know where to invest, and they're happy at
clams that our credit rating has been downgraded because they're
going to earn more when they cash in those treasury bonds.
Even our economic rivals understand that the best investment in
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the world is America. But how to take us really
for a ride? Continue polluting the earth, continue downgrading treasury bonds,
continue the interest raise on them. That's how somebody's making
(19:38):
America grovel again. Oh we never groveled before, I should
say again, but now we're groveling to economic interests. Who's
putting us in that position. You have a v vote,
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You have a mind, You have the ability to rationally
think those things aren't right. They're just not right. We
have the power. This is a democracy. The last time
I looked, we have the power to stop this. Educate yourselves,
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talk to your legislators, demand rational answers, and vote. Register
and vote. Go to Walmart, a great store, a great store. Sure,
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it's where America shops because they put mom and pop
out of business, and now mom and popp are the
greeters at the door, and their kids are stocking the
shelves and manning them cash registers until they get more
automatic cash registers. But I saw a sign the other night.
They're offering nineteen dollars an hour in one state for
night stalkers. That's not bad, that's not bad. I don't
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know what benefits they get, but nineteen bucks an hour,
you know, almost a living wage for one person in
some states, not a living wage in California. Look up
living wage by the way, that's what it costs for
one person to support themselves, or two persons or three.
(21:38):
See what your living wage ought to be. But you
go to Walmart, you're going to find that iPhone and
I watched there made in China. What else is made
in China? You beats, headphones, clothing, kitchen gadgets of all kinds.
(22:04):
Everything virtually except fresh produce is made in China. Comes
from China or somewhere overseas. And what's China taking from us? Well,
all kinds of money. But you know, they also grow
almonds in California. They own the land, they own the
(22:29):
almond trees. They've cut out the American middleman. Almonds are
a thirsty crop. They use a lot, extraordinary amount of water.
But the Chinese are taking our water through almonds, and
we're sitting back and just allowing them to do it.
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In the south of the United States and Saudi Arabians
are growing alfalfa and hey ostensibly to feed their beautiful
Arabian horses and their cattle and their sheep. No pork,
No pork. They're basically hijacking water in the form of
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alfalfa and hay, using it for their purposes, cutting us
out of the profit. They have desolinization like nobody else
in the world in Saudi Arabia. Yet they need more
and more water and they're getting it from us. Is
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that fair? I don't know. Are they an honest broker?
Going back to nine to eleven those of you who
remember the date, or those of you have heard of it,
nine to eleven thousand, the two thousand and two thousand
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and one. Who's in those airplanes that brought down the
World Center. That's two of them, one of them that
hit the Pentagon that's three, and the fourth one that
the Brave passengers crashed into the ground, knowing that they
would die, but to save the rest of us. Who
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hijacked those aircraft with box cutters had learned to fly
in the United States. Who did that, they were all
Saudi citizens. We misunderstand the world so much from our view,
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we completely misunderstand. Not to get too far into religion,
but and everybody's entitled to their religion. You can look
at the different sects of Islam. Start with Wahabbism, which
is the Wahabi sect, which is the Saudist. Look at
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the Shia, which are the Iranians. Look at Tassunni, who
are largely in Iraq. There are seven major sects of Islam,
just like there's Protestants, Catholics, Mormons, all kinds, different sects
of Christians. We used to joke in my church that
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God loved Christians best, he made so many different kinds
of us. All religions have schisms, and so does Islam.
I'm not going to denigrate Islam at all. I'm not
going to denigrate Christianity. I'm not going to denigrate any
religion or agnostic or atheism. You believe what you care
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to believe. But who's on our side, and who's not
Why did we attack President Bush attack Iraq after September eleventh?
There weren't Iraqis on that aircraft, but there were Saudis.
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Twenty one Saudis the United States sounds like the gang
that couldn't shoot Street. We attacked the wrong guy and
did it stop anything? Did it stop al Kaieda? Not really?
(26:44):
By the way, Osama bin Laden a Saudi, wealthy Saudi
came from a construction company family. Contemplate that we've got
a terrible situation. We have oil mixed up with religion.
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Oil was the old driver of economies, and as it fades,
the geopolitical situation in fades. You know, the Saudis now
pump a fraction of what they did a few years
ago because it's the biggest exporter and producer of oil
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in the world. We have so much that we can
export it. Oil is called a fungible substance. That means
you can take your barrel of oil here and sell it.
You can take your barrel of oil there and sell it.
It's good all over the world, just like gold, just
like silver, just like any commodity. They're fungible. Learn soybeing
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all those things. It's all about the supply and demand
for those things. The more demand there is, the higher
the price. The more supply, the lower the price. Very
simple economics at its core, supply and demand. You got it,
I want it. We settle on a fair market price.
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A willing seller to a willing buyer. I don't know
of any major religion that does not call for us
to be good stewards of the earth. All the major
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religions call for us to be good stewards of the earth,
and very few of us are. Oh know, for those
of you who are God fearing, neither Christians, Muslims, Jews.
(29:06):
The command is the same in all the Abrahamic religions,
and as well as in the in the Eastern religions, Hinduism, Bahai.
All the religions, be a good steward of the earth,
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take care of what we have. Yeah, some of us
don't follow it. If I sound like I'm randing, I am.
If I sound like I'm raving, I'm not. I am
not personally a scientist. My training is in law, but
(29:58):
I depend on scientists to give me their opinion. In
nineteen ninety nine, the Sierra Club set as its major
goal the stop of climate change. But still so many
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little factions depend upon saving their critters instead of getting
into the big picture. So now other organizations like the
Center for Biological Diversity are kind of taking the lead.
(30:42):
We have a situation, my friends, that I hope we
can solve. What's your opinion? Have a question, to have
a comment, call in and call us at nine oh
nine Eric code nine O nine eight Eric code nine
nine nine. Any question, any comment. I don't care what
(31:05):
your question or comment is, as long as it's respectful, rational, reasonable.
Let's have a dialogue about it. We've got a heck
of a situation here in the world. I'm going to
(31:28):
climate change that is going to kill if not my generation,
us old guys, old ladies, but our grandchildren. I know
you love your grandchildren. I know your grandchildren are just
(31:49):
like mine, the smartest, brightest, happiest little children of the world,
aren't they? Or your kids? If you're from a younger
generation like my son and stepkids, don't you enjoy bouncing
the little tykes on your knee? Don't you enjoy raising
(32:14):
them happy? Healthy, Watch them take their first steps, listen
to them utter their first word. Don't you enjoy that
first day that you send them off to school and
(32:39):
they come back. You know, they leave cried. Sometimes, boy,
they come back and they say, oh, teacher's so nice.
Listen to my ABC's I could count to nine, Daddy, mommy,
(33:00):
I can read. What do we have except our future
and our families. There's nothing else in the world except
you know that any of you would kill if anybody
(33:22):
tried to harm your grandchild, boy, you'd be autumn. You'd
be staying your ground, you'd be pulling those weapons. You'd
use a baseball bat, your ver tea bare hands to
protect their lives from any kind of arm. But the
(33:44):
climate is changing, and what are most many of us doing.
Speaker 9 (33:55):
Absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
We're sitting boiling for all like a bunch of ignorant amphibians.
Homo ignoramus. Are you homo ignoramis? Do you doubt what
I'm saying? Prove me wrong. I'm willing to hear your science.
(34:26):
I'm willing to hear your silly belief anything. Prove ninety
nine point nine percent of the scientists involved in climate
study are wrong when they say that human cause is
(34:53):
changing the climate of our planet. Elon wants to go
to Mars and we'll have a new planet. We won't
have to worry about this one. Hey, Elon, jump on
the first Falcon nine, go right for it. Get up
(35:16):
there with your satellites and keep on going. Have a
nice trip. Richest man in the world, Elon, I got
to sign for you. You come on over and talk
to me. Don't bring your ketamine with you either. Don't
(35:46):
bring your racism. We don't need Afrikaans racists in America.
They don't want to be here. Let me not get
off on, mister musk. Yes, some people's like the scripture says,
(36:07):
for the love of money is the root of all evil,
and it is easier for a camel to get through
the eye of a needle than for a rich man
to achieve heaven. All about the Benjamins or in their case,
(36:35):
I know, I guess Benjamin's highest denomination we make. I
can't imagine a guy with billions of dollars, man, what
I would do with billions of dollars? I would do
with Bill and Melinda Gates have done. They're giving it
all away. They're wiping out malaria in the world. They're
(36:58):
saving human lives and tend to spend all their money
except a very small amount that they're going to leave.
They're setting up foundations. Thank you, mister Gates. And also
thank you to Warren Buffett. Hath Hathaway, burn sure Hathaway.
(37:21):
Excuse me, I wish I could afford one's share. He's
giving all of his away. Give give, give it away.
Thank you, Warren Buffett, thank you, thank you very much.
He's going to give untold billions to benefit those of
(37:44):
us who are not as fortunate and as smart as
wise as he. Thank you very much, mister Buffett. I
appreciate it. By the way, if you'd like to subscribe
it by an ad to my show, give me a
call it area code nine oh nine three or three
eight thousand nine No, three nine thousand, same goes for you.
(38:08):
Bill Gates ads for sale. I'm sure you can afford it.
I'd be happy to plug your show and have your participation.
And by the way, any other advertisers out there, if
you're interested in getting your message out to the world,
(38:28):
this is the place. It doesn't cost a whole lot.
You can buy a little, you can buy a lot.
I guarantee you're got to get some results because this
show is going somewhere. We have something to say, we
have something to prove, and we won't back down. It
(38:55):
might surprise you to know that it costs a little
money to rises endeavor. I would appreciate some support. How
about your Democrats, how about your Republicans that are interested
in climate change? How about your independence? You know you
can pay for educational information and you can do it legally.
(39:27):
You designed the educational ad, we'll put it on. We'll
get your message out there. I'll take ads from I
take ads from anybody with the possible exception of Satan
himself to get this message out there. If your dog
(39:50):
wants to put an ad on, your cat wants to
put an ad on, not a problem. If you're nonprofit, fine,
If you're already a subscriber to other advertising you know NBC, ABC, FOX,
(40:11):
National Public Broadcasting. Here's a good place to spend your
add dollars. It's cheaper than any of them, and we
have worldwide participation. Okay, enough plug, enough sales stop. So
(40:31):
what are we going to do about pollution? What can
you do to stop this? Okay, I've outlined the problem
for you. Now I'm going to come with some things
that you can do. One, You can get involved. You
can call your local environmental advocate organization and join and participate. Two,
(41:00):
you can go before your local boards, your city council,
your county supervisors, your school boards, and you can tell
them start to follow leads standards and construction. That means
that leads rates the environmental capacity in certain ways. Demand
(41:33):
that your city institute leads standards for itself and for
new construction. Demand so rooftop solar be a part of
every home.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
You well, the rebates may or may not be available
next year, but if you put in solar and you
buy it, you get a seven thousand, five hundred dollars
tax credit, not a rebate, a credit. If you owe
seven thousand, five hundred that wipes out what you owe
(42:13):
to the rs in the state of California. You get
an additional two thousand, five hundred dollars, And that's not
a tax credit, that's a cash payment. So seventy five
hundred plus twenty five hundred is that ten thousand dollars
ninety five hundred whatever You're going to spit and not
(42:37):
take that. Man, if you're a homeowner and you owe
federal taxes, that's the way to go. That reduces the
cost of your solar by ten thousand dollars. And if
you put in a solar array, including a couple of
high capacity batteries so you'll have electricity at night when
(43:02):
it's dark, you know that'll round you're thirty thirty five,
maybe a little less. They're going to take ten grand off.
Think you buy that outright for twenty thousand dollars. Don't
get involved in an interest plan. Come up with twenty grand.
(43:22):
You know what you would pay to re landscape your
house or buy a used car. You can have virtually
free electricity. What's your electric bill now? Hundred two hundred,
three hundred dollars a month? It'll be down like my
(43:42):
neighbor seven bucks a month, wow, seven dollars a month.
Look in the solar. The best deal is buying it outright. Next,
there are solar leases where you give it back essentially
to the solar provider. Not near as good a deal,
(44:08):
but it will level out your electric bill to a
certain extent. Another thing you can do is simply can serve.
Look at your electric bill now, see what your average
use is, and then go on the website of your
electrical provider and see how you could save with other plans.
(44:33):
You don't have to pay the big plan all the time.
If you know to own an electric vehicle. In southern California,
SCEE offers a special time of use program. You can
cut back your electrical use between either four and nine
or foreign and nine or five and nine in the evenings.
(44:55):
Don't use then because that's the highest price. Because there's
a most demand when people come home, they want to
cook and turn on the lights, and most activities are happening.
But after nine o'clock nine pm, all night long, the
(45:15):
rates are down. They go slightly up in the morning,
and then all day long until four or five pm,
your rate is low. Plan to use your electricity when
the rate is low. You can bring your bill down.
Now you don't have to do another thing except that.
(45:39):
And what else can you do on your level. It's
absolutely beneficial to you. I've told you get that ev
But you know you can recycle, reuse, and just plan
(46:05):
recycle those bottles and cans. It's not as good a
deal as it used to be. The prices are way down.
Please don't try to recycle somebody else's copper wiring you
thieves out there. I don't think any thieves are listening
to this show. But you got scrap metal around the house,
(46:35):
sell it. I mean, you know, aluminum cans are worth
a bundle difference Seinfeld show where they take the cans
to another state and try to make more money. You
can't get away with that anymore because they're Mark California.
But you know they made a funny show and interior
(46:57):
it was pretty good. But recycling, don't throw out those
aluminum cans after you drink your beer or your soda. Recycle.
All you got to do is throw them in a
plastic bag, and every six months or year, you haul
them down to the recycler, You sort them out, they
(47:21):
weigh it. You get forty to fifty bucks. Hey night,
you know, a night of bowling, a night out with
the kids, a little you know, a little fun, it's
worth it. I don't see any of us throwing nickels
and dimes and quarters in the trash, but you'll throw
(47:44):
aluminum cans and plastic bottles. Those are cash. Don't do it.
I don't think you're doing it now intentionally, but maybe
some of us don't know. Let's keep those things. You know,
(48:05):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 8 (48:08):
I have.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
I have so many T shirts. I have a mass
in my life. I don't have room for anymore. I
have drawers stuff with them. I vow to wear a
different T shirt every day just because I can't. And
I've also avowed I'm not going to buy another T
shirt until I wear out an existing one. Why because
(48:33):
they're made of textiles, which costs me water. Most of
our textiles now are coming from offshore. Look at look
in the back of your collar. Now where's that? Where's
that clothing? Maid, China, Vietnam, Cabodia, Hano, Mexico. Textiles probably
(49:02):
not being made in the United States. We're buying it
from overseas. Wearing it a couple of times, that's thrown
it away. By the way, when you donated it winds
up with some kid in Africa wearing an Adidas shirt
has no idea what Adidas is, but he's got your
old shirt. No, it didn't get donated to the poor
(49:27):
in America. It got sold off to Africa and other
poor nations, which kills their native industry of building native cloth.
What a mess. Don't buy the new outfit unless you
(49:48):
absolutely don't have one and have to have it. Ladies,
do you really have to have that? Think that that
influencer wears on TikTok? I know, you dirty little secret ladies.
Some of you buy it, you hide the tag and
you return it and you gaining the system. Now you're
(50:13):
killing yourselves because when that gets back to Amazon or
whoever you bought it from, they know. But it's not
worth a hassle for them to jump you about it
and make you pay. Don't buy that cute little outfit
(50:38):
that you just got to have. I know, especially with
younger people, that you want to be fashionable. You need
to fit in to be different. Okay, that's your impulse,
but what's your rationality? Tell you? Come on, kids, I
(51:04):
know you want all the latest new stuff. You don't
want to go out in rags, well some of you do. Actually,
you're cutting holes in your in your trousers. You're going
out looking like you're poor, like you can't afford to
patch it. But it's brand new and it costs one
(51:25):
hundred dollars. Hey, I buy my leviyes for the usual
price that they wear out just fine. I put natural
holes in mind. I got leviyes older than some of you.
And that's not a plug for LEVI. I gott some
wranglers on that. Do you really have to have all
(51:50):
that stuff that pollutes that? It's very production pollutes. Okay,
you want to go out and look like Ms Barbie,
you want to dress like that all the time. You
think that makes you a better person or you a
better person inside saying you know what I'm like. Gretititune,
(52:18):
the young woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize. Why
a while a teenager, she wears old used clothes. Greta, congratulations.
If you're listening, I'll give you free advertising. Come on
(52:39):
this show and talk about what you've done. You're not
a slave to fashion. Thank you, Gretititune. I wish more
people would be like her instead of consumers using over
and over. What else could you do before we go?
(53:03):
Teach your children. Teach your children well, just like the song.
Teach your children well. Teach them not to be consumers.
(53:27):
Teach them to use and reuse because there are futures.
Teach those kids, please, come on. You teach your children
to look both ways before they cross the streets or
car doesn't hit them. You teach them that there's really
(53:48):
no ghosts, which is under their beds, so they don't
have unreasonable fears. We teach all these things in the
modern society we need. We teach them not to approach
a barking dog with a foaming mouth. But we don't
teach them don't pollute, be wise, you know, drink water
(54:11):
instead of soda. All the things we can teach them.
Teach them not to leave the lights on. I don't,
my pops. We don't have to light up the whole house. Hey,
you'd leave the door open. You get to warm the
whole block. That was quite some time ago, you know.
(54:32):
I know we teach our children these things. I know
most of many of us do. But we need to
point that towards more, more earth friendly things. We only
have one planet, we only have one chance. We only
get one life, except maybe eternal life. And what is
(54:55):
eternal life? Whether you believe that there's a heaven or not,
life is here. I derive more pleasure from this life.
I don't know whether I'm gonna what's gonna happen when
(55:15):
I die. I don't know if I'm gonna get recycled,
if my spirit will go back into the great mass
those but I'm teaching my children no matter what you believe,
it's the way you act here on Earth that's gonna
(55:35):
live forever in mankind. To live in the name, it's
nothing to live in mankind. That's what's important. There's so
(56:00):
many things that we can do for our planet. I
know it's hard to tell people don't travel, don't go
out and have that grand vacation or things like that.
There's so many people traveling around the country now. All
the bikers are coming around South Dakota and going up
to getting ready to go to Sturgees. They're coming from
(56:22):
all over the country. And for the most part, you know,
I mean, they're burning gas. But you know, these big
bikes today don't pollute as much. That's great. Let's you know,
there's an electric motorcycle out there. You guys want to
(56:45):
ride a burner, man, you want to ride ride something
that's quick, that's got torque. You go try an electric bike.
It'll shut down most street bikes that you'll find. Now, Man,
you'll be happy you won't pollute. It's hard to say,
don't go on vacation. But when you do use and reuse,
(57:07):
be wise, you know, cut down, cut down, on the pollution.
See America today in your Chevrolet, like Dannis Shore used
to sing for those of you remember those days, but
don't pollute. Chevy makes a couple of real nice electric vehicles.
(57:33):
I really, I really would like to see people running them.
And I'm a forward guy. What else can we do?
Teach you children, well, teach your children to respect the
planet they live on.
Speaker 1 (57:53):
R E.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
S P E c T. Find out what it means
to me. That's all you gotta do, folks, that's all
(58:15):
you gotta do. I know there's nobody out there that
hates his family or her family except people who are insane.
Don't not like an insane person. Don't keep doing the
same bad thing over and over and expect a different result.
(58:38):
That's one of the definitions of insanity. Let's get our
act together. We're all Americans, we all have the same goals.
We're all human beings being human. It's the myth of fingerprints.
I've seen them all and we are all the same. So,
(59:02):
ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell you good night,
good luck, thank you for tuning in, thank you for
listening to me and being so patient. I'm here for you. You're
here for me. We're here for our families, for our future.
(59:22):
Thank you. We'll see you next week on the Reform
from a radio show, when our topic will be the
re introduction of wolves. Is that a good idea or
a bad idea? Our guest literally dances with wolves. Please
tune in. Thank you for letting me to the Reformer.
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