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Speaker 1: And I haven't heard a lot of people analyze this,

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Speaker 2: That really gets into I think it's really interesting theory,

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Speaker 3: I doubt that's in the near future.

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Speaker 2: However, if the Mexican government increasingly feels like it's pushed

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Speaker 1: What do they say democrats care about? And I want

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Speaker 2: It would be as though we were, let's say, if

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Speaker 1: At least climate change. You can argue, there's something to

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Speaker 3: What do they want? That's crazy?

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Speaker 3: You've seen, But Clay, you've seen that.

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Speaker 2: The Trump administration, for example, I think has again if

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Speaker 3: And as if Joe Biden could remember more than two

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Speaker 3: Have equal rights in all fifty states.

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Speaker 2: And so then it's just about like, do we need

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Speaker 1: Tells you I would submit to you, Buck, And I

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Speaker 1: Trump got more gay and lesbian support in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: Well that the problem Clay is that this is who

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Speaker 2: So the messaging isn't the problem. Americans have gotten it

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Speaker 2: Perhaps an interesting future ahead for US Canada relations, That's

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Speaker 3: Some people are saying, probably going to be very different.

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Speaker 2: Here is Donald Trump himself talking about I don't know

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Speaker 2: a vision of Canada going forward playing what I'd like

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Speaker 4: Canada become our fifty first state. We give them protection,

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Speaker 4: They could do it very easily.

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Speaker 4: We don't need them for lumber, We don't need them

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Speaker 4: Why are we willing to lose between one hundred billion

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Speaker 2: It's different Clay fifty first state. He says, that's just

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Speaker 1: All right, we need to have more fun with this

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Speaker 1: and we come back Buck because as a history nerd,

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Speaker 1: Trump moving at the speed of government at a minimum,

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Speaker 1: What I will say about Trump talking about Canada becoming

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Speaker 1: I don't think that AIDS and A bets the overall

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Speaker 1: I understand the concept of hey, inside of the federalism framework,

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Speaker 3: Now, if you wanted to pick a rural part.

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Speaker 2: then a you know, very cosmopolitan city based fifty second state,

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Speaker 2: that would be the more rational way to handle it personally.

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Speaker 1: But that's a dispute that what's happened back in the day.

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Speaker 1: We have an idea, and I think what Trump has

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Speaker 2: I have the only things of value hanging on my

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I haven't anyway, Sorry, you got me excited

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Speaker 1: So what I love about them is that they show

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Speaker 1: But there is a subtle twist of the historical record

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Speaker 2: I have an excellent book here on my shelf. This

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Speaker 3: But you know, we don't think of.

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Speaker 2: being fought over by imperial powers at the time, and

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Speaker 2: that it really was quite arbitrary and things could have

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Speaker 2: been quite different at the time, you know, afterwards, based

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Speaker 2: upon a few battles and a few relatively you know,

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Speaker 2: fortuitous happenstance situations.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let me give you my craziest decision any states

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Speaker 1: ever made when it came to territory. The state of

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Speaker 1: Alabama was offered before anybody knew that the sandy white

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Speaker 1: beaches of the Gulf of America would become some of

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Speaker 1: the most valuable real estate in all of America, the

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Speaker 1: state of Alabama, because if you look at it, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't really make.

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Speaker 2: Sense geographically, right. You have Florida, which extends as a

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Speaker 2: peninsula down and then you have the so called Panhandle, which,

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Speaker 2: if you think about, you know, like a typical pan

453
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Speaker 2: like a small little strip of land that runs essentially

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Speaker 2: directly south of Alabama all the way down to where

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Speaker 2: it meets Alabama. Buck they offered Florida, did the State

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Speaker 2: of Alabama the right to take that land? Alabama, some

457
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Speaker 2: of you might say, this is just what Alabama politicians

458
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Speaker 2: have been doing for a long time, totally bungled that offer,

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Speaker 2: didn't take advantage of it, and now that.

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Speaker 1: Is the most conservative part of Florida. Now, no one

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Speaker 1: knew this in the eighteen hundreds when they were making

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Speaker 1: that choice. But if you go back and look at

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Speaker 1: elections in two thousand, certainly in two thousand, but in

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Speaker 1: many of the close elections that have occurred in our

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Speaker 1: country where Florida was sort of the tipping point, if

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Speaker 1: all of those votes had gone to Alabama, it wouldn't

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Speaker 1: really have changed the overall outcome of the state of Alabama.

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Speaker 1: It's a very conservative, Republican leaning state. Also, it would

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Speaker 1: have made the state of Alabama infinitely wealthier because the

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Speaker 1: property along the Gulf Coast is again some of the

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Speaker 1: most valuable in our entire nation. Now instead they have

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Speaker 1: a tiny little pinprick Alabama does. If you look at

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Speaker 1: the way the map works of the Gulf Coast, and

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Speaker 1: the state of Florida has the most conservative ribbon running

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Speaker 1: right along the Gulf coast. That is the Panhandle from

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Speaker 1: basically the Florida Bama for those of you who know

477
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Speaker 1: that bar which is a fabulous bar buck, half of

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Speaker 1: it's in Alabama, half of it's in Florida. It's right

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Speaker 1: on the on the beautiful the Gulf of America. It's

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Speaker 1: an amazing spot, all the way down, all the way

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Speaker 1: to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Speaker 3: You can be in the state of Florida. Didn't. Nobody

483
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 3: knows this story. Didn't. It's funny you it would have

484
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Speaker 3: been living on the Alabama coast. Clay.

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Speaker 2: West Virginia split off from Virginia right before the Civil.

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Speaker 3: War during the Civil War.

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Speaker 1: During the Civil War, the West Virginia the because it

488
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Speaker 1: was a supremely mountainous region of Virginia.

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Speaker 3: They never had big crops.

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Speaker 1: And uh and uh and and farms and slavery in

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Speaker 1: the same way. And so it broke off and became

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Speaker 1: an independent state during the Civil.

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Speaker 3: War eighteen sixty. Right, I thought the refused to seceed. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And you.

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Speaker 2: Know that's interesting because people laugh at the idea. And

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Speaker 2: you know, we sit here talk about how many listeners

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Speaker 2: we have in California and how we're you know, we

498
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 2: feel a strong bond with you Republicans in California and

499
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 2: in New York, you know, in these big blue states

500
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 2: because we are the voice behind enemy lines for you. Right,

501
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 2: you know, you're not alone We're like the transmission on

502
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Speaker 2: the on the ham radio after the zombie apocalypse that says,

503
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Speaker 2: don't worry, like there is civilization. You can come to

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Speaker 2: these coordinates and we'll keep you safe from the zombies.

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00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 2: Every zombie apocalyst movie has that. But the truth is,

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Speaker 2: every time there's a conversation about a state splitting up,

507
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 2: people always dismissed it out of him. We've actually had

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Speaker 2: states split up into other states. Never mind no states

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Speaker 2: being admitted into the Union.

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Speaker 3: Buck.

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Speaker 1: You talk about old maps. Back in the day they

512
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Speaker 1: had north and south. I think that would be longitudinal lines, right,

513
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: but the initial colonies just continued west. They didn't really

514
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Speaker 1: know where the boundary of the states ended. So there

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Speaker 1: are some maps like you'll North Carolina. It's not it's

516
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Speaker 1: not a crazy thing that North Carolina and Tennessee are

517
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Speaker 1: basically on the same latitude longitude, not obviously, but you

518
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Speaker 1: look right across like that was the state of North

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Speaker 1: Carolina that just kept extending on into infinity until enough

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Speaker 1: people went into Tennessee and decided they were going to

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Speaker 1: create their own state.

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Speaker 2: And you know, to bring it into the current context,

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Speaker 2: I think Clay, First of all, Trump's got a lot

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Speaker 2: of negotiating going on right now regarding the Panama Canal.

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Speaker 2: There's been talk about Greenland too, and the US having

526
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Speaker 2: by contract, and obviously there's a whole deep history here.

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Speaker 2: We built the Panama Canal. We lost a lot of

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Speaker 2: people doing it. It was a hellish thing, people dying

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Speaker 2: of malaria and typhus and you know, yellow fever and

530
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Speaker 2: all kinds of stuff. But we built the Panama Canal,

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Speaker 2: and then Jimmy Carter right decided, you know what, it's all,

532
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Speaker 2: it's all Panama, but the same way that you know,

533
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Speaker 2: why is Guama US territory? Well, it is because it

534
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: is because we made it that way, and everyone seems

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00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 2: kind of happy with it. There's no reason why you

536
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 2: can't have negotiations over some of these things, because a

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Speaker 2: nation is not just a land mass defined by rivers,

538
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Speaker 2: oceans or mountains, right.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's.

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Speaker 2: Always there's always borders that are arbitrary that are drawn,

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Speaker 2: and there's competing polities, competing nation states that make determinations

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Speaker 2: about who should be in charge of what. In the

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Speaker 2: context of Greenland, you know what it's it's Oh, it's

544
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Speaker 2: been a part of Denmark for such a long time.

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Speaker 2: Why Now, look, if the people of Greenland don't want

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Speaker 2: to be a part of America, that's up to them, fine.

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00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 2: But if they wanted to vote in favor of joining

548
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Speaker 2: US as there, why is that such a There's nothing

549
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 2: crazy about that.

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Speaker 3: It's funny. We think that's crazy. Why is that? Or

551
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 3: rather people say that's crazy? Why is that crazy?

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Speaker 1: Because in most of our lives, maps have remained relatively

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Speaker 1: fixed in our geographic arena, and so that's this is

554
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Speaker 1: why I think is so important about this. Trump is

555
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: basically signaling the country isn't settled, right, We still have

556
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: more growth and opportunity ahead of us, both economically but

557
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: also maybe geographically. And talking about it, remember when he

558
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: first started talking about Greenland, everybody thought it was crazy.

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00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: Now I think there's a decent number of people out

560
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: there that are like, yeah, you know what, they may

561
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Speaker 1: vote to leave Denmark, stop being a colony of Denmark,

562
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Speaker 1: and maybe they would like to be supported by the

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Speaker 1: United States.

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Speaker 2: We've had a new country. Uh, just over the last

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Speaker 2: decade or so, Clay on the spot, what is the

566
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 2: new country? TikTok, TikTok. We got a million dollar question

567
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 2: for Clay. I don't know who the million is coming from.

568
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 2: I'm just saying it would be now.

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Speaker 1: I mean in Africa, it seems like they were coming

570
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: up with new countries all the time. So I'm very

571
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: close in Africa, you're close. South Sudan, South Sudan, South Sudan, the.

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00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 2: Newest not not doing well these days, I might add,

573
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 2: by the way, no one pays any attention speaking of

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Speaker 2: not big rock concerts about it.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Africa, Buck, only fifty percent of Africa has electricity.

576
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Speaker 3: Do you know this?

577
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Speaker 1: Only fifty percent of there's a big graphic about It's

578
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: like ninety percent of some African countries still don't have electricity.

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00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 2: Well, when you say electricity, you mean wait, are we

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00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 2: talking about twenty four to seven access to it? Or

581
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 2: are we talking about I think just like it's wired

582
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 2: and you have, you know, reliable access to are we

583
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 2: talking about by land mass? But like the population centers

584
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 2: in Africa overwhelmingly have electricity in terms of from the

585
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Speaker 2: New York Times that I took a photo of over

586
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Speaker 2: the weekend that I was staggered maybe considered to be Yeah,

587
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 2: that showed the percentage of many of these countries that

588
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 2: still do not have electricity when I was in Afghanistan.

589
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Speaker 2: I think the estimate was that roughly twenty percent of

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Speaker 2: the country had access to reliable Like this is the thing, right,

591
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 2: reliable electricity because you can always travel and get to

592
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 2: a place as a generator. So I think, you know,

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00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 2: I want to see what the New York Times is saying.

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00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 2: How you kind of frame it really matters. But about

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00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 2: twenty percent of the country had real electric access and

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Speaker 2: twenty percent of the country could read.

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Speaker 3: That was the statistic they had.

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Speaker 1: So here's a stat for you, buck, forty five percent

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Speaker 1: of Nigeria doesn't have electricity. I just sent it to you.

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Speaker 1: This is nerd out stuff. We'll talk about it when

601
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Speaker 1: we come back. This was in the New York Times

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Speaker 1: over the weekend because I took a picture of it.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of blown away. I think you've got the

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Speaker 1: read you're nerding out now on the map over I'm

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Speaker 1: it's too.

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Speaker 2: but she sent me is fascinating Africa electricity access map.

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Speaker 2: It was very, very interesting, which is in the New

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00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 2: York Times, so they do have occasionally interesting data. Electricity

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00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 2: stayed on in my apartment, which was a excess. You

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00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 2: made it through a text telling me I think that

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Speaker 2: I think that the electrical company guys might be Clay

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Speaker 2: and Buck listeners, and they like, we're gonna give me

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Speaker 2: till three o'clock Eastern time because we did shut in.

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Speaker 2: Uh the all power went out last week during the show,

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Speaker 2: and uh, I did, yeah, and so that was not ideal.

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Speaker 3: I was sitting in darkness.

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Speaker 2: The radio kept working, but for a little while, yes,

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Speaker 2: for a while, you started to beep. Then the beeping happened,

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Speaker 2: and I had to step aside when the beeping because

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Speaker 2: it sounded like we were on the countdown to the

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Speaker 2: asteroid exploding or something in here. Uh so, yeah, we've

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Speaker 2: wanted to take some calls. Do we still have any

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Speaker 2: calls up? Or do we scare them away by not

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Speaker 2: taking them before?

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Speaker 3: Guys?

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Speaker 2: Let me know play the Oh you know what, I

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Speaker 2: got one thing. Maybe we can talk about this tomorrow

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Speaker 2: because I want to talk about today. Washington Examiner had

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Speaker 2: this story that Pacific Palisades rebuilt in LA. You see

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Speaker 2: this must include low income housing. Yeah, people aren't happy

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Speaker 2: about that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Being a Democrat sometimes means you actually have to deal

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Speaker 2: with Democrat stuff.

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Speaker 3: And I think we should discuss how this.

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Speaker 2: Some of us said it's going to be a very

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Speaker 2: slow rebuild, and it's going to be a very different rebuild.

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Speaker 2: But this is what happens Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: They're in trouble and they're dealing with the consequences of

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Speaker 1: their choices. The consequences, however, of the nation's choices have

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Speaker 1: been fabulous, and we're going to continue to break them

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Speaker 1: down with you every single day. As one victory after

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Speaker 1: another rolls in from Trump two point zero. I can't

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Speaker 1: get enough of it. I know y'all can't either. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you tomorrow, same bat time, same bat channel. Stay healthy,

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Speaker 1: everybody flues everywhere