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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Battleground Podcast. Today we have an incredible,

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Speaker 1: incredible guest. His name is Mark Casky. Mark is the

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Speaker 1: CEO of Steel Nation. He started that company with six

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Speaker 2: Last fifteen years he's.

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Speaker 1: Grown into almost three hundred and fifty million dollars in sales.

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Speaker 2: He's a leader on all fronts.

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Speaker 1: And then we talked about, you know what it was

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Speaker 1: like starting a company, the fear that maybe ran through

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Speaker 1: his heart when he was investing that investing that money

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Speaker 1: in the first phases of Steel Nation. Obviously, we talked

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Speaker 1: about the importance of energy and you know, American energy independence,

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Speaker 1: energy dominance. I know I talk about this issue a lot,

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Speaker 1: but it's so so important.

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Speaker 2: I think it's the most important issue.

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Speaker 1: That we face today because it's woven into every fabric

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Speaker 1: of light. You like the lights on in the restaurant

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Speaker 1: that you're at, You like cheap energy bills, You like

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Speaker 1: filling up your car and not spending a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: It's all tied into the energy industry. You like having

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Speaker 1: a strong America, you like our enemies being weak. You

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Speaker 1: like America having the biggest baddest military of the block.

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Speaker 2: It's all tied in to our energy industry and Mark.

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Speaker 1: What I like about Mark is that we live at

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Speaker 1: a time where the biggest titans in the industry shall

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Speaker 2: They have all the money in the world.

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Speaker 1: To take the fight to the radical left and these issues,

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Speaker 1: who would, by the way, completely dismantle our energy industry

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Speaker 1: basically everybody.

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Speaker 2: But all of the.

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Speaker 1: Companies that have the ability to take the fight to

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Speaker 1: them and shape a national, national narrative that is positive

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Speaker 2: It's like they appease every step of the way.

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Speaker 1: They feed the crocodile expecting to survive, but the reality.

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Speaker 2: Is they're just going to be eaten last. And so

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Speaker 2: Mark is a warrior.

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Speaker 1: He takes the fight to these people every single day,

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Speaker 1: not emotionally but fact based arguments. And so he's a leader,

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Speaker 1: he's an entrepreneur, he's a warrior. His company, Steal Nation,

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Speaker 1: is incredible. So without further ado, I really really.

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Speaker 2: Hope you enjoy my conversation with Mark.

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Speaker 1: And as always, like if you like this show, you

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Speaker 1: like what you see, you like what you hear, please subscribe,

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Speaker 1: like that. So as always, thank you for listening. Hope

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Speaker 1: you enjoy my interview with Mark. Take care. Mark Caskey,

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Speaker 1: CEO of Steal Nation, Thanks so much for coming on the.

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Speaker 3: Welcome Thanks Sean, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: So you are a pretty remarkable guy, you know, as

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Speaker 1: anybody that follows me knows, I am. I am a

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Speaker 1: because not just because I think it's important to be

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Speaker 1: And it lifts up the middle class. It's good for

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Speaker 1: our economy, it's good for national security. It creates jobs,

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Speaker 1: the things that frustrates me, and we talked a little

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Speaker 2: Actually move the ball down the field. But you're not

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Speaker 1: You're a fighter, and in this this space desperately needs fighters.

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Speaker 3: Mark. That's that's the hell of a compliment. I appreciate

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Speaker 3: Sean On. You know, I'm self employed. I started Steel Nation.

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Speaker 3: We just celebrate our fifteen year anniversary. I come from

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Speaker 3: When when President Obama was elected in o eight. He

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Speaker 3: We still manufacture in America. It's a lot cleaner than

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Speaker 3: it was back in nineteen eighty. But I saw steel decimated.

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Speaker 3: town of Marcellus, New York. Marcel's, New York is right

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Speaker 3: It's a natural occurrence, right, So you know, so I

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Speaker 3: You know, we are producing more natural gas than any

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Speaker 3: and we're just gonna shut this down for some We're seeing,

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Speaker 3: we're seeing all the things that are happening here. We

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Speaker 3: you know. And we're going to do that over and

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Speaker 3: over and over again throughout America. No, for some time,

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Speaker 1: No, I complete Look, I mean what you're saying, hits

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Speaker 1: I saw how decimated it was, and my family felt

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Speaker 2: That we have here.

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Speaker 1: But if you look at what like are many of

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Speaker 1: the way, Republican and Democrat have overlooked these issues in

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Speaker 1: so many different ways. Marked all you have to do

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Speaker 1: in Fomba. You probably never even heard of it, but

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Speaker 1: I know where Homer City is. I lived just outside Gillanople.

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Speaker 1: Take a drive through some of these small towns and

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Speaker 1: when that's when people don't understand that these types of

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Speaker 1: these types of jobs are legacy based, like your father,

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Speaker 1: your grandfather did them. So now you do them right,

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Speaker 1: and you pluck you take that away from people. And

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Speaker 1: then you have the left say something so callous like wow,

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Speaker 1: we'll just we'll just teach them how to use computers

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Speaker 1: or they can learn to code. I just think, like,

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Speaker 3: Right. It's funny. They don't want us to make anything

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Speaker 1: So explain explain to people. You know, I know what

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Speaker 3: that happening? You know, sexism? You know, we grew up

431
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 3: in the seventies, you know where the glorious steinem brought

432
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 3: women to the front and future as it should be,

433
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,959
Speaker 3: where we're equal and the pay is coming up and

434
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 3: and all these things. It's got so much better. But

435
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,439
Speaker 3: with the last let's let's create all these problems and

436
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 3: then let's implode America. Not from outside, not not from

437
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 3: pute and doing anything, not from China to anything. Let's

438
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 3: implode it internally, right, And that's exactly what we're seeing

439
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 3: right now. And I don't want to be the COVID

440
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 3: the COVID guy. But man, we fell in lockstock and

441
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 3: barrel on this COVID shutdown. Right, Did we push back?

442
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 3: We pushed back? Did most Americans push back the most?

443
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:33,959
Speaker 3: Give me the job? I want more jabs, that's going

444
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 3: to save me, you know. And then so COVID even

445
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 3: acted as a separation of of the voxers and the

446
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,160
Speaker 3: non vaxers, you know, So we continue that, the left

447
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 3: continues to create these problems, the sexes, the haves that

448
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,360
Speaker 3: have bounce. It's breaking down America as we know it. Yeah,

449
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 3: the use it.

450
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Speaker 2: I mean, you're completely right.

451
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Speaker 1: I mean what's been I always say that, you know,

452
00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: when you see these companies and they're so we're a

453
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 1: wash with them today, Mark these companies that say diversity

454
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: is our strength, It's like it frustrates me because a

455
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 1: guy haven't been in the military myself and served with

456
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: people of every color, race, creed, religion, Like none of

457
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Speaker 1: that should matter to us. Like we were all Americans

458
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: at our core fighting for one mission. We all loved

459
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Speaker 1: each other and it didn't matter. So when people say

460
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Speaker 1: and companies say diversity is our strength, it's not necessarily true,

461
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 1: because it's only part of the story. What our greatest

462
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 1: strength in this country is and always has been, is

463
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Speaker 1: our ability to our ability to unify beyond those differences.

464
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Speaker 1: And as you said, I grew you know, I grew

465
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Speaker 1: up in like I said, in the eighties where we

466
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Speaker 1: were taught in social studies class, that America is great

467
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: because we're a melting pot. We take what's amazing about

468
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Speaker 1: all of these other cultures and we bring them here,

469
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Speaker 1: and we don't discard the differences. But those people become Americans,

470
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Speaker 1: and that is shifted and and and part of this

471
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Speaker 1: is part of my issue with Republicans who are just

472
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: you know how all I care about is low taxes

473
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Speaker 1: and small government. And by the way, that stuff is very,

474
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Speaker 1: very important. But Republicans or the right has seeded all

475
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Speaker 1: of these little cultural fights that at the time were

476
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 1: little but have grown into huge fires today. We seeded Hollywood,

477
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 1: we seeded the entertainment industry, we seated our schools, we

478
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 1: seeded the media.

479
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:25,679
Speaker 2: All of these.

480
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Speaker 1: Small cultural fights for the past twenty years, we gave

481
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Speaker 1: them to the left and didn't engage on that front

482
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Speaker 1: because all we cared about was small government and low taxes,

483
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: which again is important. But we're seeing this play out

484
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 1: in real time now where the Left tries to divide

485
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Speaker 1: us among all of our many differences, because if we're

486
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Speaker 1: fighting amongst each other, we're not paying attention to the

487
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: horribly in irresponsible policies that they're implementing, like you said,

488
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 1: which is Reggie, which will absolutely crush this state and

489
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 1: crush the people, by the way, on both sides to

490
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Speaker 1: the isle. In fact, it will disproportionately affect lower income

491
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Speaker 1: people because you know, if energy prices go up, it's

492
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: not the top one percent that are going to have

493
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Speaker 1: problem putting food on the table for their families, or

494
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Speaker 1: filling up their car or heating their home. It's going

495
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: to be the people that make the least and they're

496
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Speaker 1: the ones that are going to be affected. So that's

497
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Speaker 1: why I always think that there's like a there's a

498
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Speaker 1: moral component to this argument as well. And I Mark,

499
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Speaker 1: I got to ask you, tell me about how a

500
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Speaker 1: guy like you, who's a generational steel worker goes from

501
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 1: that to becoming an entrepreneur with the first college educated

502
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Speaker 1: in your family. I think you said, yeah, becoming an

503
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,440
Speaker 1: entrepreneur and building coal fired plants. How do you go

504
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: from you know, steel worker to entrepreneur.

505
00:27:53,680 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 3: You get fired from every job, you know, I try.

506
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 2: That's an amazing answer, that's a great answer.

507
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 3: It's God's honest truth. I've been fired through. You know.

508
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 3: My first job in high school was Brookside Lumber in

509
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,199
Speaker 3: Bethel Park. And you know, the customer is always right

510
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 3: until you get that one customer that I had to

511
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 3: prove he was wrong, and I was fired that day

512
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 3: after five years of working there. Now, I try to

513
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 3: keep my ego intact, but I have a lot of

514
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 3: good ideas and I try to look at the world

515
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,199
Speaker 3: from a lot of I try to look at it

516
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 3: from the left, from the right, and I try to

517
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 3: look at business the same way Sean. And you know

518
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 3: a lot of my early jobs were in construction. A

519
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 3: lot of them were family owned or tightly held. And

520
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 3: you know, my big question would always why are we

521
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 3: doing it this way? And the answer was, well, we've

522
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 3: been doing this this way since nineteen fifty two or

523
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Speaker 3: nineteen four, you know, however long this company's been in business, Well,

524
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 3: you're doing it wrong. Well know, I was usually showing

525
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Speaker 3: the door. The door that afternoon man growing up in

526
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,479
Speaker 3: Winston said in North Carolina. My dad left Pittsburgh. Mom

527
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 3: and dad left Pittsburgh to go work for Eastern Airlines.

528
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 3: And my dad loved the New South. You know, he

529
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 3: could he was a high school graduate. You know, he

530
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 3: could read pretty good. He was a Central Cafe and guy,

531
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Speaker 3: you know, at the time was probably at least a

532
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 3: two year second year of college, you know, back when

533
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 3: Central was really you know, putting out some really smart

534
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 3: people back in the forties and fifties. And anyway, grew

535
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 3: up in the South. We had a neighbor. His name

536
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 3: is Richard Budd, and uh we were really tight with them.

537
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 3: My brother and uh, one of one of their kids,

538
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 3: John Bud, were born at the same time, so our

539
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 3: mother's got to share uh maternity awards. So he became

540
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 3: good friends and ended up living, you know, right up

541
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 3: the street from one another. Richard Budd left his house

542
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 3: at three o'clock in the morning and he went and

543
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 3: cleaned office buildings and hadn't done before seven in the morning,

544
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 3: you know. And I can remember him doing this, and

545
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 3: then he worked all night and you know, started hiring people.

546
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 3: I watched him build a business and I helped him.

547
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 3: We went and he would pay us under the table

548
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,719
Speaker 3: a dollar an hour, you know whatever it was back

549
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 3: in the Remember remember doing yard work over in his

550
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 3: house and we had to pick green onions. He would

551
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 3: he would pass point zero three cents for every green

552
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 3: onion that we At the end of the day, you'd

553
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 3: make eleven dollars.

554
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 2: And you know, that's a lot of green onions.

555
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 3: Man, that's a lot of green Yeah, tell me about it.

556
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 3: But he was my idol. He was my entrepreneurial idol,

557
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 3: you know, right next to ROBERTA. Clementi and Dwayne Ammon

558
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 3: on the music side. And I just I watched Richard

559
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 3: Budd and today Bud Services they cover all the southeast

560
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 3: up into Maryland, all the way to the Florida and

561
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 3: Alabama and Mississippi, and they're over a billion dollars and

562
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 3: they still concentration is janitorial service for office buildings. Wow,

563
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 3: the son is named Ted Bud. Ted Budd is now

564
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 3: the new Senator of North Carolina that was just elected

565
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 3: past November.

566
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Speaker 2: Get out of here. I did not make the connection.

567
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 2: That is crazy. I did not know that.

568
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 3: Our neighbors growing up, they they they think like I do.

569
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 3: They they're you know, very conservative on the way they think,

570
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 3: and they're very conservative with a with a pocketbook with

571
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 3: politics and everything else. And Ted Budd is going to

572
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 3: be a lifetime great.

573
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 2: So he's a great He is a great guy. He

574
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 2: is a great guy. He is I did not know that.

575
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 2: What a crazy, crazy small world, what a crazy connection.

576
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 3: Yep.

577
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 2: So this guy was so his dad, it was his dad.

578
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 2: That was your entrepreneurial idol.

579
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 3: Richard Bud. We called him uncle rich Yeah, that's crazy.

580
00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 3: That's still alive and and still goes the office. Joe Joe,

581
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 3: who's my age, runs the company and does a great job.

582
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 3: And you know, they're just just great entrepreneurs. So growing up,

583
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 3: I always wanted to own a business. What am I

584
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 3: gonna do? You know? And finally, after being fired so

585
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 3: many times, I had to uh and uh and I

586
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 3: and I had a marketing my wife and I had

587
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 3: a marketing agency where we most mostly dealt with developers

588
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 3: such as you know like Rod piet Jack Piett were

589
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 3: clients Heartland Holmes, Ryan Holmes ed Ryan was a developed

590
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 3: and we helped them develop Southpoint Back and then they

591
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 3: really put us on the map. And that was before

592
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 3: I got into construction. Uh and way before I got

593
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 3: an oil and gas. But you know, that was kind

594
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 3: of my surf, the first first entree into entrepreneurship. What

595
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 3: kind of killed it? Didn't kill it. We could have

596
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 3: kept going, but everybody was getting their own computer. Everybody

597
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 3: was an artist. And you know these we have, we

598
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 3: have more megabytes on these things, and you know, just

599
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 3: the camera. And I'm tired of fighting technology. But you know,

600
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 3: I right as soon as I you know, my local

601
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 3: watering hole is Frankie Eyes up here on the Route nineteen.

602
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 3: And I got to meet all these guys from Louisiana

603
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 3: and Texas and Oklahoma driving these white trucks and you know,

604
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 3: wearing these fr clothing and things like that. And you know,

605
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 3: I got to meet these guys and these are real people.

606
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 3: They're just like our steel workers here in western Pennsylvania,

607
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 3: just like our coal miners here in West Virginia, Ohio.

608
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 3: The real guys. And they took me down to the

609
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 3: wing and they knew that coal was going down. They said,

610
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 3: why don't you learn how to do compressor buildings? And

611
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 3: I went to the original rens. Well, there's eight miles

612
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 3: across the hill over here, and they showed me the

613
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 3: ropesess and you really need to learn compression, and I did.

614
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 3: I stayed up for thirty six hours and many pots

615
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 3: of coffee and mountain dew, and I learned what compressor

616
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 3: stations were all about. They're loud, they're obnoxious. They're usually

617
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 3: in the middle of nowhere. But as you know, if

618
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 3: we look right in Cannsburg, we use I seventy nine.

619
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Speaker 3: On the east side of I seventy nine tends to

620
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 3: be dry gas, on the west side tends to be

621
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 3: wet gas. You know. So we're getting into the suburbs,

622
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 3: you know of Hickory, Pennsylvania, and Cecil Township and things

623
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 3: like that, and it just amazed me. And when I

624
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 3: first visited the first compressor station, it was so loud.

625
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 3: I had ear plugs on, but even with ear plugs,

626
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 3: it was like being in a jet you know, right

627
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 3: next to a jet engine. And I had that Eureka moment,

628
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 3: you know that above me, I can build these things cleaner, cooler, quieter,

629
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 3: and safer and at less costs. And I did. I

630
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:41,720
Speaker 3: started the company two weeks after that, six thousand dollars

631
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 3: to my name. By ten o'clock that morning, the six

632
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 3: thousand dollars was gone. I used the deposits on buildings.

633
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Speaker 1: Today, I want to talk about something that's been on

634
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: the minds of many Americans lately, energy independence. With rising

635
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: energy prices and geopolitical tensions, it's more important than ever

636
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: for our country to be self sufficient when it comes

637
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: to our energy needs. And that's where Deep Well Services

638
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 1: comes in. They're a company that's not only dedicated to

639
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: delivering top not services to the oil and gas industry,

640
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: but they're also committed to the goal of American energy independence.

641
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: With their cutting edge technology an expert team of professionals,

642
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: they're helping to unlock new sources of domestic energy and

643
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,760
Speaker 1: reduce our dependence on foreign oil. But that's not all.

644
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: Deep Well Services is also a great American company that's

645
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:44,760
Speaker 1: hiring like crazy right now, and they're not just looking

646
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: for anyone. They're seeking out talented and hard working individuals

647
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,760
Speaker 1: who want to join their team and make a difference.

648
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: And with competitive salaries and benefits, it's a great opportunity

649
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: to not only work for a patriotic company, but also

650
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,879
Speaker 1: build a rewarding career in the energy sector. So if

651
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: you're looking for a job with purpose and meaning or

652
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 1: if you're simply passionate about American energy independence, then you

653
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: should definitely check out Deep Well Services. Visit their website

654
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: at Deepwellservices dot com to learn more about their company

655
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 1: and career opportunities. What was going through your mind? I mean,

656
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: so put us in your shoes there, because so many

657
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: of the people that tune into us, our entrepreneurs, leaders

658
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: themselves in different industries and also worker. I mean, we've

659
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: got a national audience. But take us to that moment

660
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: where you are looking at that six thousand dollars in

661
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: your bank account and thinking, like, what are you thinking?

662
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: Like if you spend like because it's not it is

663
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: so difficult living paycheck to paycheck and not knowing what

664
00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: the next month looks like. And you're taking six thousand

665
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: dollars and you're investing it into an idea that I

666
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 1: got to believe at the time, Mark you didn't. There's

667
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: no guarantees in life, especially in a business. So what

668
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: were you thinking?

669
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 3: So two things. Number One, I knew that this oil

670
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 3: and gas was gonna the Marcellus. The Marcellus miracle is

671
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 3: what I call it, showing I knew it was going

672
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 3: to take off. We had the infrastructure here to do it.

673
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 3: We you know, whether it was God or Mother Nature

674
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 3: put this under our feet millions of years ago. The

675
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 3: beauty of the Marcello's shell is so much shallower to

676
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 3: drill into. We don't have to go down twenty thousand feet.

677
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 3: We can go six thousand. As we get more closer

678
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 3: to Marcello's New York, it comes out, the shell comes

679
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 3: out of the ground. So there's wells up in Tioga County,

680
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,760
Speaker 3: the Susquehanna, you know, that are less than a thousand feet.

681
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 3: It's hard to do the horizontal drilling at less than

682
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 3: a thousand feet, but it's a lot cheaper than going

683
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 3: down twenty thousand feet or even ten. So I knew

684
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 3: that there was There was only two competitors. They were

685
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 3: both out of Houston, and they'd been in business that's

686
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 3: the nineteen fifties, and I still compete against them today.

687
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 3: But I knew that we could be with my plant.

688
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 3: I was affiliated with a plant here in Ambridge that

689
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 3: is unfortunately it burned down about five years ago, out

690
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,720
Speaker 3: of business. You know, a couple hundred people lost their jobs.

691
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,280
Speaker 3: I knew that the plant that I was in steel

692
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 3: buildings already for a couple quite a few years before that.

693
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 3: I knew our plant could service them. I knew that

694
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 3: I could sell it. I knew that we could do

695
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 3: it cheaper, safer, quieter, cooler, and all the other. There

696
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,280
Speaker 3: was another thing that I had in my back pocket

697
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 3: is when the company I worked for before, I had

698
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,240
Speaker 3: worked for about a year on Warner Robbins Air Force

699
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 3: Base down in Warner Robins, Georgia. Okay, this is a

700
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 3: huge plant, four hundred thousand feet. The planes came in.

701
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,479
Speaker 3: You'll know some of this. The planes every so many

702
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 3: cycles have to be rebuilt, so you have to tear

703
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 3: down the whole plane, take the all the skin off it.

704
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 3: So they were redoing all the you know, the jet engine,

705
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 3: everything that went into the fighter jets, the bigger the

706
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 3: cargo planes and stuff like that. I had a real

707
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 3: good idea I was about to land that and that

708
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 3: was all that was a two point six million dollar

709
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 3: company or project. I'm sorry, I knew that was going

710
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 3: to come in. So that made that six thousand dollars

711
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 3: not as risky and I had, but it was still

712
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 3: a premonition. It could have gone wrong. But we within

713
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 3: three months in September of that year we did get

714
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 3: this two point six million dollar contract to build that,

715
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 3: so that I had that in my back pocket.

716
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,399
Speaker 2: So were you already ready to go? Mark?

717
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 1: You already had the employees, the equipment, things that you

718
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 1: needed to make that happen.

719
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 2: No, so how did you know?

720
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: So how did you scale up so quickly to get

721
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: it done?

722
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 3: You know? That's that spare bedroom was the best friend

723
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,760
Speaker 3: I had, so I I could start working at five

724
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 3: and you know, work until ten at night, you know,

725
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 3: going to meet customers. But I knew enough people in

726
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 3: the business that I had to work with in my

727
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 3: previous job to join. You know, I had enough steel erectors,

728
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,320
Speaker 3: I had enough concrete people. I knew a lot of

729
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 3: electrical companies here that were dying to get in this

730
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 3: business as well. You know, somebody told me, and it

731
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 3: might have been Richard Budd from Bud Services. You know,

732
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,240
Speaker 3: don't go into business with other people, and I didn't

733
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 3: for many years. Now I have a partner in the

734
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 3: last three years. His name is Mark Dooley. Because he's

735
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 3: such a good president, he's the president of Steel Nation.

736
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 3: Now I'm the CEO and founder because he gets to

737
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 3: do all the work with the banks, and the human

738
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 3: resources and things like that I'm not very good at it.

739
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 3: I'm good at selling and I've just designed twenty five

740
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 3: hundred buildings and I can sell. I used to eskimos,

741
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 3: but not really good at debits and credits and human

742
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,320
Speaker 3: resources and ESG. Not to say that we're not a SG,

743
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 3: but it's just not my vallet.

744
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,240
Speaker 2: With Hey, every every every why.

745
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: Guy needs a how guy, you know, Yeah, yeah, exactly.

746
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 2: It sounds like he's your how guy.

747
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, he du Duels does a great job, is his nickname.

748
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 3: But I just knew, Yeah, as an entrepreneur, you know

749
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 3: when things are gonna go that if if you look

750
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 3: back to eight, the rest of the country was you know,

751
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 3: the Shearson Lehman's and you know, the other banks were

752
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 3: just imploding upon itself. Wall Street was was imploding. People

753
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 3: were losing their houses. They had these ridiculous mortgages, you know,

754
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 3: all the things that were happening in the recession of

755
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 3: seven eight. It was scary times. And I had to

756
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 3: do it because I had no job to go to.

757
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 3: I had to create this thing, you know, and as

758
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 3: an entrepreneur you have to believe in yourself. It is

759
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 3: similar to military. You have to believe in your platoon.

760
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 3: My eventual team that I did build, build, you know,

761
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 3: all the subcontractors that I had, I had lined, all

762
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 3: the subcontracts was up before I even incorporated. They were

763
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 3: on board. And all of Pittsburgh companies just like just

764
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 3: like we are, you know, centered here now, they travel

765
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 3: with us. You know, they're out in uh and you

766
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 3: just fin us up a job in Utah. Having a

767
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 3: bunch of them up in northern Pennsylvania right now, a

768
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 3: bunch in Ohio, bunch in West Virginia, Ohio, big time.

769
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 3: We're doing all kind of workover towards Cincinnati. It's it's

770
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,760
Speaker 3: for oil and gas, but it's distribution. It's not the

771
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 3: compressor stations that were used to you know, it's but yeah,

772
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 3: the teammates that that we teamed up with fifteen years ago,

773
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,720
Speaker 3: we still worked together and see each other all the time.

774
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 2: No, I mean, and.

775
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: So you you built, so you you built this company

776
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: Steel Nation, six thousand bucks to your name and a

777
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: spare bedroom to over three hundred million dollars in sales

778
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:58,320
Speaker 1: and two five hundred oil and gas projects completed. I

779
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: mean that's yeah, in fifteen years today, right today's your

780
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: fifteen year anniversary.

781
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, push pushing three fifty three hundred and fifty million,

782
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 3: which you know, which is incredible when I when I

783
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 3: do the math, you know.

784
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: Looking back, what do you what do you think about

785
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: that those last fifteen years? Do you ever think that, well,

786
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: it sounded like you had an idea that the direction

787
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 1: that the oil and gas industry was gone with Marcella shale,

788
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: But do you ever think that it would be three

789
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million pushing three hundred and fifty million

790
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: in sales?

791
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 2: Do you ever think that would be your future?

792
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 3: I thought it'd be higher than that by now. I

793
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 3: thought I really thought that we would we would go overseas.

794
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 3: We're not ready to do that yet. The overseas markets

795
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 3: in oil and gas are very tricky. We're gonna keep

796
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 3: we're can he keep it domestic for for for a while.

797
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 3: There's no reason we can't get down to South America,

798
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 3: you know, going going to the OPEC countries are just

799
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 3: culturally very hard to do. But yeah, I knew we'd

800
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 3: be this big, but I want to be bigger. You know.

801
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 3: We we were just going, we were doubling in triple

802
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 3: every year until COVID hit. You know, twenty nineteen was

803
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 3: our eighteen and nineteen. We were just gangbusters. Twenty twenty,

804
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 3: you know, you started hearing about people getting sick in

805
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 3: the fall, and there was nothing on the media about it.

806
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 3: But the smart ones knew, the people that really paid

807
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 3: attention knew there was something going on. At the end

808
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 3: of that year, and by January, we definitely knew. And

809
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 3: you know, I had COVID. I've never been I'm very

810
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 3: proud that I've never been jabbed, but I fought it off.

811
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 3: I fought it off with it. I re meced, and

812
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:44,760
Speaker 3: I know this is off subject.

813
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 2: No, no, it's okay.

814
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: We can talk about this because because this is something

815
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,359
Speaker 1: that I'm really passionate about. COVID really pissed me off.

816
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, like we actually had you said, people

817
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: listen to the government here and and so true.

818
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:00,879
Speaker 2: But the way that we.

819
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 1: Responded to COVID is shaking my faith in government in

820
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,919
Speaker 1: the way I'd never thought possible. They were talking about

821
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: our government locked people's private businesses down, locked people in

822
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Speaker 1: their homes, forced them to mask up, knowing, knowing, and

823
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: I know that there was a lot of unknown especially

824
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the pandemic. And I get that,

825
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: but like, there there were studies out there that cloth

826
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: masking was not effective. There were studies out there that

827
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: said lockdowns would not work. Yet they still locked us

828
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: in our homes and they closed people's private businesses. I mean,

829
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:33,839
Speaker 1: like this is how I was running for Congress during

830
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: all of this. So it was it was like real

831
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 1: difficult to you know, run a campaign when everything is

832
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: shut down. But nonetheless, I was still getting calls every

833
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: day from businesses saying, like this is how I make

834
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: my living. I can't like you think about like a

835
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 1: hairdresser or something with a small hair salon. I mean,

836
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: these people were these people were crushed. That was there,

837
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: that was the only way that they could make a

838
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 1: living on Our government callous they shut them down like

839
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: it's insane. And not only that, like people were accepting,

840
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: people were accepting their loved ones dying alone. I mean, yo,

841
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 1: you weren't allowed to even go say good body or

842
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,240
Speaker 1: loved one because of COVID. I mean, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

843
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 1: It just and that now we find out, like all

844
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: of this stuff continues to come out. I mean, I

845
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: was one of the first people in January of twenty

846
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: twenty to say, wait a second, there is a COVID

847
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 1: research virology like weaponized COVID research lab in Wuhan, and

848
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 1: we're saying this thing came from a wet market? Are

849
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: you freaking kidding me like that. I'm not saying that

850
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: the Chinese like weaponized it on purpose, but maybe there

851
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 1: was a leak. I mean, maybe it got out in

852
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: another way? Are we too smart to use common sense?

853
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: And I was called a crazy conspiracy theorist. And look,

854
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: now you have all these vaccine experts, like this doctor

855
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 1: Hots guy who was refusing to debate Robert Kennedy Junior

856
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: on Joe Rogan. Now we find out that now he

857
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: had connections and along with the NIH to the Wuhan

858
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 1: Virology clinical log with Anthonyauci, these were the people that

859
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,720
Speaker 1: were pushing the policies on us all in the first place.

860
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is this is something I could

861
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 1: go on about all day. These people are corrupt liars

862
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: that hurt this country and we should never ever ever

863
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: give them amnesty. It just it makes me so upset.

864
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: And to hear that you're affected by COVID as well.

865
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: Here you are growing like Gangbusters in eighteen, nineteen and

866
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: twenty happens. And you know, just like everybody else in COVID.

867
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 3: Well, you're not going to say someone to say it

868
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 3: it wasn't just China, it was the United States. Okay, absolutely, yeah,

869
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 3: let's speak throwing that this is going to take twenty

870
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 3: or thirty years to come out. It's coming out right now, right,

871
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 3: it's it's Maderna, it's.

872
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 2: All the big that's exactly right.

873
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 3: It's Russia was involved, France was involved, Germany was involved.

874
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 3: This is a worldwide thing to shut us down, you know,

875
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 3: and it's the movement towards the left. What better ways

876
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 3: can we check on? These people were gonna shut them down,

877
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 3: and let's see if they obey. And we did. And

878
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 3: that's what's scary about the people that obeyed. What you

879
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 3: know on that subject, it's scary to me. The health.

880
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 3: The doctors knew, okay, the doctors knew that that that

881
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 3: these jobs were ineffective. They knew that. They knew that

882
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 3: imecan that that dose that I took, you know, I

883
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 3: five horse, had five horses. Then we went down. You

884
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 3: have a tube. It looks like akulking gun because the

885
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 3: tube about a foot long, and it's for a two

886
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,879
Speaker 3: thousand pound horse, and it has all these lines in it,

887
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,439
Speaker 3: you know, and you cut it like a stick of butter. Right.

888
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 3: I said, well, I'm two hundred and fifteen pounds and

889
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 3: I'm gonna just take this much of ironmectin, and my

890
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 3: wife's gonna take this much, and my kids are gonna

891
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 3: take their grandma's gonna take it too. And we all

892
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 3: did and we came. It was the worst eighteen hours

893
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,760
Speaker 3: of my life, but we were great. Two days later.

894
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 3: Uh they went and got you know, tested again. It

895
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 3: was gone, you know. And so if I go back

896
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 3: to twenty eighteen nineteen, we're doing forty four million a year.

897
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,359
Speaker 3: When COVID came in all the oil and gas shut down.

898
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 3: We were essential workers thanks thanks to some of my

899
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 3: local reps that got all of our companies as essential.

900
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 3: But we went down to less than fifteen million for

901
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 3: the two COVID years twenty and twenty one. We're going

902
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,479
Speaker 3: gang lessers right now. All those jobs that were shut

903
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 3: down are now coming back. We built the MVP in

904
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 3: twenty eighteen. In twenty nineteen, the Mountain Valley Pipeline. There's

905
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 3: you know, with the EQT being from Pittsburgh. The three

906
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 3: stations that we built were Bradshaw Harris and Bradshaw Harris Installer,

907
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 3: Bradshaw Harrison stallwarth Those are the three MVPs. The fourth

908
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 3: one is supposed to be called Lambert and when they

909
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 3: you know, these are the Steeler MVPs, which is a

910
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 3: great story. You know what, We built those four years

911
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 3: ago and the Left has been fighting us for more

912
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 3: than that for ten years now. Finally we're going to

913
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 3: get this thing done this fall. It come hell or

914
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 3: high water unless something crazy happens. But you know, Mansion

915
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 3: has movement forward, Biden has signed off on it. But

916
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,760
Speaker 3: we've seen crazy things happen, right.

917
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I mean what's crazy about is that pipelines

918
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:32,320
Speaker 1: are by far the safest way to transport this stuff.

919
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 1: So what the left would rather have you drive in

920
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: on roads or trains, which is far more dangerous and

921
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: far more it's far worse for the environment to do

922
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 1: it that way. So again, if the Left cared about

923
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: the environment, that they would want the pipeline technology. Anybody

924
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:51,879
Speaker 1: that's towards some of these pipeline facilities which I have,

925
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:54,399
Speaker 1: I mean some of these pipelines like some of these

926
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 1: pipelines like have a zero ethane or methane tolerance, Like

927
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: they've got censers on every so far in these pipelines

928
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: that can detect just the smallest bit of methane. And

929
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: these companies have quick reaction forces to get out there

930
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: and stop it.

931
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:09,280
Speaker 2: And I mean these places like I mean.

932
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 1: If people watch Star Trek or Star Wars there, they're

933
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:13,240
Speaker 1: like a damn space shuttle.

934
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 2: They're so advanced.

935
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 1: Yet the Left, like these purple haired grad students that

936
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 1: are out there waving around these climate change signs that

937
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 1: don't know a damn thing about oil and natural gas.

938
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: That's the technology involved to keep it safe. They've never

939
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: been out to a site. They don't care about the environment.

940
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: You know, who does care about the environment. The oil

941
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:33,839
Speaker 1: and gas workers and the people that are out there

942
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: working those sites every day because they live in those communities.

943
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 2: Of course they care about the environment. You know.

944
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 1: Yet we're at war with these great patriots that make

945
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 1: our quality of life better. People like you Mark and

946
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: your company and your workers. They make this country better.

947
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 1: Like you go to the bar at night, you go

948
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: to a restaurant, like the lights are on in that

949
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 1: bar because of the work that you and your people

950
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: are doing. Yet the left is trying to shut that down,

951
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 1: and they're using bullshit talking points in climate propaganda and

952
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: climate chains.

953
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:02,240
Speaker 2: And by the way, they've been wrong for the last

954
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 2: fifty years.

955
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,439
Speaker 1: It was global coaling, then global warming, and now it's

956
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: climate change. Now it's like they've been wrong on every

957
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,880
Speaker 1: major prediction. So why do we keep I know that

958
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 1: this is a rhetorical question for you because you're at

959
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 1: war with these idiots every day, But why do we

960
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: continue to listen to these people? Like It's just it's

961
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 1: mind blowing to me.

962
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 3: The less spent nine billion dollars last year on fighting

963
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 3: oil and gas. Wow, fighting just just nine billion. I'm

964
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 3: guessing next year somewhere around eleven. They're winning the battle.

965
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 3: They really are. You know, ten years ago when this

966
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 3: industry was really they wanted to do the severance tax.

967
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 2: You remember, I do, Yes, Pennsylvania did.

968
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 3: And we had about one thousand white trucks and I'm

969
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:51,799
Speaker 3: getting let me, let me get my year correct. This

970
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 3: is probably two thousand. I started the coping in eight

971
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 3: this is probably twenty ten. Between ten and twelve, we

972
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 3: had about a thousand and trucks through the Marcello's Shale

973
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:06,399
Speaker 3: Coalition was just starting at that time, and let's meet

974
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 3: in Harrisburg and let's bring our trucks right to the

975
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:12,919
Speaker 3: bottom of the hill there and let's protest. And we did,

976
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 3: and we had our hard hats on, we had our

977
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,280
Speaker 3: fr gear on. I had everybody in my company there

978
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 3: and it was the best showing that we've ever had.

979
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:26,359
Speaker 3: But since then, we've lost the momentum. We've lost. I

980
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 3: believe that we've lost one hundred thousand workers oil gas workers,

981
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 3: not just direct but companies like mine that to services.

982
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 3: You know, we lost twenty we had to downsize twenty

983
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 3: people during COVID. That's slowly slowly coming back up. But

984
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 3: we don't have those big rallies anymore. And you see

985
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 3: what's in the news. I don't care if it's the Post,

986
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:53,439
Speaker 3: is that, the Observer Reporter, the Tribune Review. There's never

987
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 3: anything good to say about it all.

988
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 2: It's relentless. It's relenting.

989
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I lay this at the feet of

990
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 1: you know, BP shell shover on these huge companies, these

991
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 1: multi billion dollar global companies.

992
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 2: You know, like, what are you doing?

993
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 1: You know, they they should be I just feel like

994
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,799
Speaker 1: what they do, and I know I've met many of

995
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: their lobbyists on Capitol Hill and in Harrisburg. I know

996
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: them well and buy and large. I think they're great people,

997
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,359
Speaker 1: but they are content to just appease. And they think

998
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 1: that if they cut a couple million dollar check every

999
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 1: year to the right politician, the right pack, the right organization,

1000
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 1: that the left will relent and let them let them

1001
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:35,359
Speaker 1: stay in business. The end state goal is shutting them

1002
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: all down. No matter how much money that they give them,

1003
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:41,319
Speaker 1: the left will never be happy with it, so they

1004
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: might as well fight to the bitter end. It's it's

1005
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 1: like they're like it's like appeasement, like they're feeding the

1006
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:51,800
Speaker 1: alligator expecting to get eaten last it. It's just these

1007
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: companies need to fight back because look, we talked about

1008
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 1: it earlier. Mark sixty six percent of the country right

1009
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: now is at risk of rolling blackouts. I mean, what

1010
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: the hell is that? Like, No, what the hell is that?

1011
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: It's just so it's so crazy to me.

1012
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 3: Last week Shell came out and said, we're dropping a

1013
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 3: lot of this ESG stuff and we're going to drop

1014
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,880
Speaker 3: our big move to wind and solar, and we're going

1015
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 3: to concentrate on what we do best, and we're going

1016
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 3: to see. I think the tides are turning. I'm I'm

1017
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 3: I'm feeling good that that that. I think as Americas

1018
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 3: we've had enough of this this garbage, right, I think

1019
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 3: so too. Man, I got something I want to bring up.

1020
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 3: Two weeks ago Semens. Semens is the biggest, biggest company

1021
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 3: in Germany. Angela Markel ten years ago said we were

1022
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 3: going to shut down fossil fuels, We're going to do

1023
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 3: nothing but solar and wind. Well, if you've ever been

1024
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 3: to Germany, they're like Pittsburgh, you know, you get eight

1025
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 3: days the sun a year, you know, and depending on

1026
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 3: how the wind blows, you know. So, uh, Semens just

1027
00:55:56,239 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 3: last week came out and with a major announcement that

1028
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 3: said their wind turbines are defective and we have to

1029
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 3: shut a majority of those down and everything that we

1030
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 3: have on order right now is not going to be

1031
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:15,280
Speaker 3: done for years. Okay, this is the biggest private company

1032
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:18,360
Speaker 3: in Europe that has a major default on these wind

1033
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 3: things this past So we had that last week. What

1034
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 3: we hear Monday morning morning that Lordstown Electrical Evs is

1035
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 3: shutting down, is in bankruptcy. How many? How many hundreds

1036
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 3: of millions, if not billions, has put back into that.

1037
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:43,359
Speaker 3: Everybody remembers that's where the GM plant was, just north

1038
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 3: of Youngstown on the turn Ohio Turnpike. That we would

1039
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 3: always back in the day, we would set our uh,

1040
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 3: set our technome or set and see how long this

1041
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:56,840
Speaker 3: planet was. It was one point two miles long, okay,

1042
00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:00,360
Speaker 3: and just as deep. And who who's the you already

1043
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 3: shareholder of that Chinese company? Okay? So Lord's town is

1044
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 3: now out.

1045
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: And by the way, how many taxpayer dollars? How many

1046
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:11,880
Speaker 1: subsidies did they get on the backs of the American taxpayer.

1047
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:15,399
Speaker 1: Now they're out of business. And so it's these subsidies

1048
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: that make it difficult for private businesses like yours to

1049
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 1: compete with them because it's not a level playing field.

1050
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 1: So when you hear these politicians out there using these

1051
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 1: talking points about crony capitalism and subsidies for you know, renewables,

1052
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 1: green energy, wind and solar, this is what they mean.

1053
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: They're taking money out of your paycheck and they're giving

1054
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 1: it to these green companies that go out of business.

1055
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: But you know who gets rich all the people who

1056
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: own them. And in this case it's the Chinese. It's

1057
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: a Chinese parent company.

1058
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 3: Let's face it. China start an investment in rare earth

1059
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 3: minds thirty forty years ago, all through South America, all

1060
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 3: through Africa, all through Asia. Yeah, we have very few

1061
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 3: rarers here. We haven't. We have a moratorium on rare

1062
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 3: earth's mining that mister Biden just put in, I believe

1063
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 3: two three months ago. Where's all the rare earth gonna

1064
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 3: be mined? China owns those minds, as you know, child labor,

1065
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 3: slave labor, and all the rest, and you need all

1066
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 3: those we don't have them here to make the panels.

1067
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 3: We can't make the panels here in America. They have

1068
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 3: to be China has it locked up, and we're gonna

1069
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 3: We're gonna spend trillions, trillions and trillions and trillhies helping

1070
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:31,439
Speaker 3: China out.

1071
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 2: It's so frustrating. It's so frustrating to me.

1072
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Speaker 1: It's so frustrating to me because they do have market

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00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: share in many of the rare earth minerals. So this,

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00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: like this transition to the Green New Deal, as these

1075
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 1: idiots on the Democrats side of the House in Congress

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00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: talk about the transition to a Green New Deal, means

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00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 1: transitioning to like China being one step further of their

1078
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: global goal of being the world's loan superpower, making everybody

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00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 1: dependent on them. And you talk about you're a guy

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00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 1: that started in coal, and I know a lot of

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Speaker 1: the a lot of folks in western Pennsylvania and in Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: like Cliff Forest As one of them is a coal guy.

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00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 1: Like like you got why are we even shutting down

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00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: coal for example? And a lot of those plants have

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00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 1: like transition to natural gas or maybe they even went

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00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 1: out of business, you know. But but China is putting

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00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:25,440
Speaker 1: in two coal fired plants every week, you know. And yeah,

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00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 1: here we are not only are we shutting down our

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00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: coal and other power plants and making it difficult for

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Speaker 1: guys like you to do a business. In New York City,

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Speaker 1: they're getting rid of coal fired pizza ovens for Christ's sake,

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Speaker 1: I mean, are you kidding me? And China's putting in

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00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:41,920
Speaker 1: two coal fired power How does this how does this

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00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: save on global greenhouse gas at all?

1095
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Speaker 3: Like?

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00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 2: What are We're doing nothing but lowering our own quality

1097
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 2: of life at the expense of all of our enemies.

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00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 3: The Kyota Accord, in the Paris Accord, were exactly the same.

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00:59:56,520 --> 01:00:01,440
Speaker 3: It was to make America pay worldwide. Why and we

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01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 3: were smart enough to get the hell out of that. Right,

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01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 3: So to take that thought process to another level, Ohio

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Speaker 3: and West Virginia have no plans on joining Reggie. They

1103
01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 3: know it's evil. Right, you go back three months when

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01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 3: the Palestine East Palestine trained. That was some nasty, nasty

1105
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 3: shit they were.

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Speaker 1: Carrying right forty five minutes from my house, forty five

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Speaker 1: minutes away.

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Speaker 3: Right on the border of Pennsylvania. Right. If Reggie would

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01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 3: have been in camera, Barblada and I were just talking

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01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:32,000
Speaker 3: about this a couple of weeks ago. If Reggie would

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01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 3: have been in Pennsylvania, all the fumes that leaked over

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01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 3: from the train wreck into Pennsylvania, we would have had

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01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 3: to pay carbon tax in the tune of eight hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty to million to one billion dollars. That's how

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Speaker 3: much fumes came off that train. There's no reason they

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01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:52,480
Speaker 3: shouldn't have been underground in pipelines. But that's a whole

1117
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 3: other story that they don't want to hear. Right, So yeah,

1118
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Speaker 3: So why is America America is always the cop you know, militarily,

1119
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:02,520
Speaker 3: you know we're going to be the peacemaker, and you know,

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Speaker 3: and have bases all over which which probably was a

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01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 3: smart move, you know, back in the forties and fifties

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01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 3: after WW two in Korea and all the rest. But

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Speaker 3: why are we always the peacemaker, the policeman. Why do

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Speaker 3: we always have the Kyoto Cords, the Paris Court, you know,

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Speaker 3: we're going to clean up while China builds two Homer

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Speaker 3: cities a week, and your numbers are correct, two Homer

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Speaker 3: city size. They have no intention of lowering the amount

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Speaker 3: of coal. Neither does India, neither does Russia, and neither

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01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 3: does any these third world countries. How are they going

1130
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:42,160
Speaker 3: to afford evs or solar panels or these massive turbines.

1131
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 3: They can't. We always forget that one third of the

1132
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 3: world is still burning dung in their houses right outside

1133
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Speaker 3: my brother lives in Thailand. There's no forest left in Thailand.

1134
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Speaker 3: That's all they had to burn. They didn't. They don't

1135
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Speaker 3: have coal, they don't have nasty you know. So a

1136
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 3: third of the world has no toilets, has no electricity.

1137
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Speaker 3: You know. My friend alex As Epstein, which is he

1138
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 3: was on.

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Speaker 2: Top of I love it. He's a great guy, very

1140
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 2: good guy.

1141
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:15,480
Speaker 3: Fantastic. He you know, his his book is on the

1142
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:20,680
Speaker 3: fossil fuel use is saving the world. The longevity of

1143
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:23,880
Speaker 3: people that are now getting natural gas or call any

1144
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 3: fossil fuels that are getting energy, it increases their lifetime

1145
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 3: approximately ten years right now in today's that's a lot

1146
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 3: of years if you're if you're looking at the difference

1147
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 3: between last year I didn't have any any energy and

1148
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:39,960
Speaker 3: this year I do boom ten year, improving in your lifetime,

1149
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:45,000
Speaker 3: your quality of life, the maternity, you know, everything goes up.

1150
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Speaker 3: This is modern America. What are we like? You said,

1151
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:53,840
Speaker 3: sixty six modern America? Modern world? Okay, the Jetsons as

1152
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 3: we were kids in the sixties watching this stuff flying

1153
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 3: around a little cars, we're there. We're there, and they're

1154
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:04,000
Speaker 3: gonna take our energy off of us. We're sixty six

1155
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 3: percent of Americans aren't going to be able to get it.

1156
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 3: Maybe this summer, maybe this fall in the endo the

1157
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 3: wintertime when we're when it gets cold. Think think about

1158
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 3: how cold it has been in the last three months. Right,

1159
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 3: we have this, We have these fires. You smell do

1160
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 3: you smell that smell this morning?

1161
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:23,560
Speaker 2: Yet?

1162
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, it didn't smell like like wood burning. It to me,

1163
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:30,000
Speaker 3: it smelled like the old sulfur that you'd smell in

1164
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:33,400
Speaker 3: the mills were booming in the seventies. And maybe this

1165
01:03:33,480 --> 01:03:37,560
Speaker 3: is a conspiracy theory of me. What if what if

1166
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:41,640
Speaker 3: the left burn all those millions of acres up there

1167
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:45,840
Speaker 3: to call this global warming? Okay, But meanwhile, our air,

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Speaker 3: it hasn't been above eighty degrees in weeks. We're getting

1169
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Speaker 3: on this smoke in this northern air coming down this

1170
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 3: cold spell. But well it's climate change now, you know

1171
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:56,920
Speaker 3: everything wi this is so so damn cold in the

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Speaker 3: middle of June.

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Speaker 1: I mean, well, yeah, by the way, I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's you know, conspiracy theory. Many of these wildfires, you

1175
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:08,400
Speaker 1: get politicians like Gavin Newsoen coming out and be oh,

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01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:10,320
Speaker 1: this is climate change. You come to find out three

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Speaker 1: weeks later it was some kid in the middle of

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Speaker 1: an It was arson, you know, somebody lit a fire

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Speaker 1: on purpose. And so, yeah, the left, none of this

1180
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:23,720
Speaker 1: is beyond the left. I mean, this is what they do.

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Speaker 1: And whether it's with you know, the Black Lives Matter

1182
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:31,200
Speaker 1: or Antifa riots, you know, all of twenty twenty, you know,

1183
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:34,280
Speaker 1: starting these fires and then blaming them on climate change.

1184
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:37,120
Speaker 1: This is what the left does. And why I think

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01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:40,720
Speaker 1: we live at such a dangerous time is that the media.

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01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:42,720
Speaker 1: We don't have a real media in this country that

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01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:46,680
Speaker 1: actually reports the facts and calls them out. If we did,

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01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be able to have freedom of maneuver like this,

1189
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Speaker 1: you know, on the on the political battlefield, so to speak,

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Speaker 1: in America. And and so you know, I've kept you

1191
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:00,880
Speaker 1: for like over an hour, and I'm for your time.

1192
01:05:00,880 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 1: But let me ask you this mark, what do.

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01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:03,439
Speaker 2: We have to do?

1194
01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 1: Like what are the next what's the next phase of

1195
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:08,480
Speaker 1: the operation to push back against these crazy people?

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Speaker 3: So me and a guy named John Gallo, and UH

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01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:19,320
Speaker 3: and now Brian Lynn and UH Matt Leaper, the four

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01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 3: of us so far, and Sonya Gonzalez she she works

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Speaker 3: for you, G two, we have started the American Oil

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Speaker 3: and Gas Alliance. Okay, I think I think you're familiar

1201
01:05:28,920 --> 01:05:31,400
Speaker 3: with a little bit, yes, from from some you know,

1202
01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:36,240
Speaker 3: we we have many many alliances or similar organizations and

1203
01:05:36,280 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 3: alphabet soup of organizations. I'm a member of all of them,

1204
01:05:39,200 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 3: all of them from the Marcello's Shell Coalition A P, A,

1205
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 3: A A D. They're all great organizations, you know. We

1206
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:49,760
Speaker 3: all have my my little band, h my Southern rock band,

1207
01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:51,000
Speaker 3: and I don't know if you can see my my

1208
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:53,120
Speaker 3: home studio here. I was having having trouble with my

1209
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:56,200
Speaker 3: internet at sophomore from my homes to you know. We

1210
01:05:56,200 --> 01:05:58,920
Speaker 3: we played at the Marianna Sportsman's Club. It was a

1211
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:02,480
Speaker 3: trout fishing tournament. It raised tens of thousands for charity,

1212
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:05,440
Speaker 3: you know, those types of things for the American American

1213
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 3: Patrollum Association, which is real heavy right here. But again

1214
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 3: a lot of those are more involved in raising money

1215
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 3: for charity and those type and scholarships and things, which

1216
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 3: are all great things, but they don't really fight back

1217
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:23,000
Speaker 3: like we want to fight back. We want to be

1218
01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:26,320
Speaker 3: on We want to be on Fox News, We want

1219
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:28,800
Speaker 3: to be on CNN. You know, we want to talk

1220
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:32,880
Speaker 3: facts and figures. I just wrote down something this morning.

1221
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Speaker 3: You know the Impact fees, Pennsylvania Impact Fees Act thirteen.

1222
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 3: If you remember your time, you know, this past year

1223
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Speaker 3: set a record for all of Pennsylvania. The impact fees

1224
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Speaker 3: were two hundred and ninety eight million dollars, pushing three

1225
01:06:51,760 --> 01:06:55,080
Speaker 3: hundred million. Last year was two hundred and seventy eight thousand.

1226
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Speaker 3: Washington County where I sit right now was the biggest

1227
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:02,240
Speaker 3: beneficiary at nine point one million. Susquehanna County was right

1228
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 3: below that eight point nine to date. To date in

1229
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:11,240
Speaker 3: the last ten years since it was installed, totally paid

1230
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 3: by oil and gas companies two point five billion total

1231
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 3: billion to Pennsylvania number one. Where's all this money going? Right,

1232
01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 3: where's Washington County or nine point one million going? You know,

1233
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 3: there's a lot of we're losing on the in the media,

1234
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 3: but there's a lot of great stories to tell. Like

1235
01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:39,320
Speaker 3: I just said, there there's a lot of money involved.

1236
01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:42,400
Speaker 3: We make a lot of money at Steel Nation. We

1237
01:07:43,120 --> 01:07:46,080
Speaker 3: charge a lot more than we would in general construction

1238
01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:49,000
Speaker 3: building a house because there's a lot of safety involved

1239
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 3: in those types of things. And you know, all this

1240
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:54,360
Speaker 3: protocol that we have to follow costs a lot of money.

1241
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 3: We have a great story to tell. When I when

1242
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:00,200
Speaker 3: I was on the Pennsylvania d EP, I would tell

1243
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:04,360
Speaker 3: that story all the time. And and but I'm usually

1244
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 3: preaching to the choir kind of like you and I

1245
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:09,520
Speaker 3: are right now. You know, but we need to get

1246
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 3: out and in and on the CNN and and in

1247
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 3: front of the left. You know, this this this hair

1248
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:18,720
Speaker 3: that I that I wear there has has a couple

1249
01:08:18,760 --> 01:08:22,519
Speaker 3: of different different different meanings. Number one, my wife told

1250
01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:24,839
Speaker 3: me to grow it. And the wife always wins anything.

1251
01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:29,320
Speaker 2: Yes, I agree, the good decision, good decisive there.

1252
01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:32,240
Speaker 3: This is a funny thing. Seven years ago, I'm playing

1253
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:35,320
Speaker 3: at the local local roadhouse and I get off stage

1254
01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 3: and my wife had a couple of glasses of wine

1255
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:39,280
Speaker 3: and she goes, you look like a cop up there.

1256
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:42,120
Speaker 3: I said, some of my best friends are cops. You

1257
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:45,760
Speaker 3: know cut you know, we work out together in the gym.

1258
01:08:45,880 --> 01:08:48,120
Speaker 3: She goes, no, if you're gonna if you're gonna play guitar,

1259
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:50,000
Speaker 3: you gotta have some hair. I said, okay, I'll grow

1260
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:53,160
Speaker 3: the hair. But uh what the hair does as well,

1261
01:08:53,320 --> 01:08:55,080
Speaker 3: and it allows me to do a little bit of

1262
01:08:55,160 --> 01:08:58,360
Speaker 3: infiltration into the far left eco terrace. Okay, And I've

1263
01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:05,600
Speaker 3: done it twice and they accept me with open arms.

1264
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:07,320
Speaker 2: You look like a hippie or something.

1265
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:14,519
Speaker 3: Wear my Grateful Dead shirt and so you know. I

1266
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 3: try to talk to the far left on this. Unfortunately

1267
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:23,280
Speaker 3: they're not being You can't talk to them.

1268
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:25,559
Speaker 1: It's like a religion to them. That's why I call

1269
01:09:25,560 --> 01:09:27,840
Speaker 1: it the International Church of Climate Change. They're all they're

1270
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:29,120
Speaker 1: all religious zealots.

1271
01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:31,519
Speaker 2: About this stuff. They it's crazy.

1272
01:09:32,320 --> 01:09:35,160
Speaker 3: I take them to oil gas sites. I show them,

1273
01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:38,000
Speaker 3: you know, the deps right over here, you know, in

1274
01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:42,160
Speaker 3: their truck taking notes, the Federal epas over here taking notes,

1275
01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:44,920
Speaker 3: the Fish, Fish and Game Commission. When we're up north,

1276
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 3: we're you know, the the and and all these different

1277
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:53,400
Speaker 3: divisions are walking. We're the cleanest energy known demand nuclear

1278
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 3: may be a little bit cleaner, but the three, the

1279
01:09:55,840 --> 01:10:00,360
Speaker 3: three bad publicity since you know, the early nineteen late

1280
01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:03,000
Speaker 3: seventies only early and I have started three Mile in

1281
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 3: Chernobyle and then the Fukajima one. We're never going to

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Speaker 3: build another plant. The last one is being built right

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Speaker 3: now in Georgia. It's a small plant. We might see

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01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:16,719
Speaker 3: some miniature nuclear plants, but media wise, you know, nuclear

1285
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 3: will never build another plant. So what's our alternative? Is

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01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:24,799
Speaker 3: alternative covering up two thirds of America with solar panels

1287
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:27,800
Speaker 3: and these ugly windmills that I don't know if you

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Speaker 3: ever travel on the term never seemed like the windmills.

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01:10:31,400 --> 01:10:35,679
Speaker 3: They never work, never work, and you know what they say,

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Speaker 3: planned maintenance, planned maintenance.

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Speaker 1: The windmills are going to end up like Pennsylvania roads.

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Speaker 1: For Christ's sake, that's going to be telling you who

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Speaker 1: that's terrible.

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01:10:45,760 --> 01:10:48,639
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe they work. You know, well, look look what's

1295
01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 3: happened in the ocean now, the all the right whales

1296
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:52,800
Speaker 3: are turning up dead on the on the beaches of

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01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:56,360
Speaker 3: Marsha's vineyard with all these people. They hate it, you know,

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Speaker 3: not in my backyard, right.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine buying an ocean front house for probably

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01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:02,840
Speaker 1: ten million dollars or something like that, and then these

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Speaker 1: government idiots putting a bunch of windmills out there in

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Speaker 1: the ocean.

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Speaker 2: Can you can you imagine?

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Speaker 3: I couldn't imagine.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how does that make the environment look better?

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01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:16,200
Speaker 1: How is that cleaner? How is drilling for mining for

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01:11:16,280 --> 01:11:19,479
Speaker 1: rare earth minerals better for the earth. That's why it

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01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 1: keeps coming back to this. But if they cared about

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Speaker 1: that at all, they would totally embrace natural gas, it

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Speaker 1: would totally embrace fracking.

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Speaker 3: Well, my buddy's twenty thousand dollars trailer camp, you know

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01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 3: that sits on beautiful you know, off of ninety nine

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Speaker 3: near State College, that he had the nicest view in

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Speaker 3: the history, and now it's just covered with praying manaces.

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Speaker 3: That are you know, maybe spending maybe probably not. You know,

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01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:48,599
Speaker 3: we're losing the war. But we think thanks to people

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Speaker 3: like you in a lot of these other associations in

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Speaker 3: America for Prosperity. I was interviewed by them last week.

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01:11:54,360 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 3: It was fantastic. We need to fight back and we

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Speaker 3: need to be realist about this. Uh. My buddy John

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01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 3: Gallop always says, we don't, we don't need to get

1322
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:06,800
Speaker 3: off on these political tangents which we tend to. You know,

1323
01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:09,479
Speaker 3: we know, let's just fight fight fire with fire and

1324
01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:12,160
Speaker 3: use facts and figures and really do and look look

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Speaker 3: at the carbon that we've cleaned up and the methane

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Speaker 3: that we've cleaned up. You know, you know my eight

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Speaker 3: years or my my yeah, my six years on the

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01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:24,479
Speaker 3: the d EP. We always gave uh the public speaking

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01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:26,800
Speaker 3: format for the first ten minutes. Anybody could sign up

1330
01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:29,240
Speaker 3: to public speak. Well, it's always the Sierra Club and

1331
01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 3: Earth Justice and you know, environmental justice warriors and and

1332
01:12:33,640 --> 01:12:35,439
Speaker 3: all that. And they would they would point to me

1333
01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 3: because the new line is the oil and gas guy,

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01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:41,320
Speaker 3: and they said, you're the biggest producer of methane in Pennsylvania.

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01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:43,800
Speaker 3: And I had a little cheat sheet and I'd pull

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01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:46,840
Speaker 3: out my facts and figures, And I'd say, do you

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01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:49,160
Speaker 3: know what the biggest polluter of methane is? You know,

1338
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:51,679
Speaker 3: in the in the world they say frackers, Your frackers

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01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:56,600
Speaker 3: are evil. No, Actually it's vulcan underground fissures in the

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01:12:56,600 --> 01:13:00,839
Speaker 3: earth and volcanoes underwater the oceans are the biggest releases

1341
01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 3: of methane. And you can't compare any the amounts of

1342
01:13:05,560 --> 01:13:09,120
Speaker 3: methane that Mother Nature releases, whether it's up in Marcellus,

1343
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:12,559
Speaker 3: New York with a bubbling brook, or whether it's you

1344
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:15,680
Speaker 3: know over Faithful that every thirteen minutes goes off and

1345
01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:18,760
Speaker 3: people take pictures of their families, you know, out in Yellowstone,

1346
01:13:18,760 --> 01:13:23,920
Speaker 3: And that's methane. Methane naturally releases, you know, through the

1347
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:27,280
Speaker 3: ground and fissures and cracks and canyons and volcanoes and

1348
01:13:27,320 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 3: everywhere else. When you look at man made that you know,

1349
01:13:32,240 --> 01:13:35,400
Speaker 3: the man made is really landfills number one. That we're

1350
01:13:35,400 --> 01:13:38,040
Speaker 3: starting to pull methane off there, which is good. We're

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01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:41,360
Speaker 3: doing big plant in the up by the Greater Pittsburgh

1352
01:13:41,360 --> 01:13:45,080
Speaker 3: Airport right now, you know. So it's all these facts

1353
01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:49,800
Speaker 3: and figures we fight back. The Mother Nature takes care

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01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:52,040
Speaker 3: of the first eleven. We're not till number twelve we

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01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:56,360
Speaker 3: get into landfills. And let's not even go down about

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01:13:56,360 --> 01:13:58,280
Speaker 3: cow farts, you know, and you know I'm still gonna

1357
01:13:58,280 --> 01:13:58,639
Speaker 3: eat meat.

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01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:05,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's eat the bugs live in a pod.

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01:14:05,320 --> 01:14:08,120
Speaker 2: That's what the left. That's what these as you say, Eco.

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01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:10,559
Speaker 1: Terrice, that's what they want for for us, you know,

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01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:15,680
Speaker 1: that's the part of the goal. And yeah, I Mark, what,

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01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:18,800
Speaker 1: So where can people find you? How can people support you?

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01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:19,640
Speaker 3: Uh?

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01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:22,240
Speaker 2: What can people do to get involved to help?

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01:14:23,640 --> 01:14:26,720
Speaker 3: Like I said before, the American Oil and Gas Alliance

1366
01:14:27,200 --> 01:14:29,840
Speaker 3: uh spelled out just like you hear at dot org.

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01:14:30,320 --> 01:14:34,000
Speaker 3: We just started the website about two weeks ago. We're

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01:14:34,479 --> 01:14:37,280
Speaker 3: starting to have our we have our some fun driving

1369
01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:40,519
Speaker 3: going on right now, some some really good sponsors. We're

1370
01:14:40,720 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 3: about to announce in the coming after after July fourth holiday. Uh.

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01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:48,080
Speaker 3: That's where mainly find us right there. But all the

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01:14:48,240 --> 01:14:51,400
Speaker 3: organizations center out there are worthy, you know, support them,

1373
01:14:51,439 --> 01:14:54,040
Speaker 3: become a member. If you work in the industry, speak up,

1374
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:56,400
Speaker 3: Speak to your neighbors, speak to your pastors, you know,

1375
01:14:57,120 --> 01:14:59,360
Speaker 3: the people that you go to church with, that you

1376
01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:02,120
Speaker 3: go to school with, and and talk about these things

1377
01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:05,240
Speaker 3: and let's debate it. Let's we've we've lost the ability

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01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:08,599
Speaker 3: to debate. You know. We I make fun of how

1379
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:12,880
Speaker 3: parliament works in in in England and in Canada, but

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01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:16,200
Speaker 3: my god, can they they debate where we can't. You know,

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01:15:16,240 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 3: we just we just point fingers, you know, and AOC

1382
01:15:19,360 --> 01:15:21,160
Speaker 3: and her crowd, and they point it right back to

1383
01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:25,599
Speaker 3: you know, as hardcore you know, conservatives. Let's debate these things.

1384
01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:28,160
Speaker 3: Let's let's look at facts and figures. Let's look at

1385
01:15:28,200 --> 01:15:33,160
Speaker 3: where the greening of America is doing nothing, nothing such.

1386
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 3: You know, we need more energy than we've ever needed.

1387
01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:40,280
Speaker 3: These third world countries, a third of the world doesn't

1388
01:15:40,280 --> 01:15:43,320
Speaker 3: have energy. They're gonna need electricity and it's not gonna

1389
01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 3: be the ev electricity. They're they're gonna burn coal for this.

1390
01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:51,320
Speaker 3: Let's do it right, Hey, we do everything right. We're

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01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:55,880
Speaker 3: the cleanest burners of coal. We're the best nuclear designers

1392
01:15:55,920 --> 01:16:00,400
Speaker 3: out there. Uh, natural gas by far, you know, they're

1393
01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:05,160
Speaker 3: they're talking about Russian National natural gas. Russian's natural gas

1394
01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:08,000
Speaker 3: has nothing that's so dirty you wouldn't believe it. And

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01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:09,320
Speaker 3: I don't want to get to the science of that.

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01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:11,479
Speaker 3: I know a person of the clock. We do it

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01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:14,720
Speaker 3: the best of anywhere in the world. And let's not

1398
01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:19,120
Speaker 3: let these this pipe dream. I shouldn't say pipe dream.

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01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:22,280
Speaker 3: We need more pipes, right, we need more pipes on

1400
01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:25,880
Speaker 3: the ground. But this this silly pipe dream that we're

1401
01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:29,160
Speaker 3: going to cover the world with these solar panels in

1402
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:31,960
Speaker 3: one hundred years. We don't know if it's gonna be hydrogen.

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01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 3: We don't know if it's going to be nuclear. It's

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01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 3: certainly not going to be solar. You know, we don't

1405
01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:41,000
Speaker 3: know what's going to be out there one hundred years.

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01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:44,400
Speaker 3: And to shut down the economic miracle of the Marcellus

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01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 3: and Utica Schelle for for Pennsylvania's Ohios, West Virginia mainly,

1408
01:16:48,720 --> 01:16:52,839
Speaker 3: and to shut down petroleum for this entire country energy

1409
01:16:53,160 --> 01:16:57,560
Speaker 3: to go to some far fetched pipe dream is ridiculous.

1410
01:16:57,880 --> 01:16:59,200
Speaker 3: We need alf flight back on it.

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01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:02,320
Speaker 1: We said, God, we'll end it there. Man, I mean

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01:17:02,360 --> 01:17:05,920
Speaker 1: I completely agree with you, Mark. I think you're awesome.

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01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:11,360
Speaker 1: You're a warrior, Mark Casky, CEO of Steel Nation, six

1414
01:17:11,400 --> 01:17:13,799
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in your bank account and a spare bedroom

1415
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:16,519
Speaker 1: pushing three hundred and fifty million dollars in sales in

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01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:17,360
Speaker 1: fifteen years.

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01:17:17,360 --> 01:17:18,759
Speaker 2: Man, like you're you're a leader.

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01:17:19,479 --> 01:17:21,360
Speaker 1: You're the exactly the kind of person that we'd like

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01:17:21,439 --> 01:17:24,200
Speaker 1: to have on this on this show, on this podcast.

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Speaker 1: So I'm very very grateful for your time, thanks for

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01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:30,559
Speaker 1: joining us, and we'd love to have you back at

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01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:31,480
Speaker 1: some point.

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Speaker 3: And I'll see it. See as soon we got to

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01:17:33,160 --> 01:17:35,120
Speaker 3: meet and we met in person when you were running,

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01:17:35,320 --> 01:17:38,639
Speaker 3: but it was so fast. I'll see you soon for lunch.

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01:17:38,960 --> 01:17:42,240
Speaker 2: Yep, you got it. Beers on me. Thanks Sean, all right,

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01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:42,800
Speaker 2: see you, Mark.

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01:17:42,920 --> 01:17:43,200
Speaker 3: Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Okay, everybody, that was it. That was Mark Caski, CEO

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01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:54,560
Speaker 1: of Steel Nation. Thank you for listening to Battleground Podcast.

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01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:59,240
Speaker 1: As always, never quit, never surrender. Thank you so much

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01:17:59,320 --> 01:18:03,120
Speaker 1: for listening. God bless you all, and God bless this

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01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:07,040
Speaker 1: exceptional country that we call Take care

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Speaker 3: M hmm