John Reeves
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first heard Dec 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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And that's dependable kinds of energy that doesn't depend on the wind or the sun. But ironically, some people pretend that you have to have a conversation. But for the foreseeable future, fossil fuels are part of our stack. And for me, energy security is very important. You know, national security.
I mean, like if we can't if we can't power our economy, then it's going to it's a significant risk for our economy and our American way. And and now we I think we're a net exporter of energy there. So I think that's a good thing. I think that's a great way to be. And it's being honest about that and the path forward.
And I think everything has to be on the table because we have to have a portfolio that produces the kinds of energy that we're going to need to power our economy.
Well, of course. I mean, I'm a free speech kind of person. And I think social media, it's kind of difficult to control. There's a difference between misinformation or just outright lying, or it's an agenda of a foreign nation that's trying to sow all these kinds of sentiments and those kinds of things. And
And it's kind of difficult to police all those things, and it's an ongoing kind of a situation. But I'm always going to try to err on the side of free speech. And then there's incredibly more and more kinds of platforms, just like one I'm on right now, talking about these kinds of things.
And I'm not clutching my pearls if there's having conversations that I may or may not agree or disagree on what's being talked about those things. But I think people are also there's also a level of responsibility to be to discern what you're hearing. It's like I think that's true or I think that's trash or it's like those kinds of thing.
And just because always asking myself and what I'm read, is that just true or is there a perspective? Where is it coming from? Who's behind those kinds of a thing? So, I mean, it's a difficult kind of what's the appropriate kind of balance, but it's absolutely, it's also a fact that there are bad actors behind some of those kinds of conversations or some of those kinds of conversations.
misinformation as well too and absolutely incitement incitement is not free speech you know and encouraging people uh for for um violence or those kinds of a thing i uh i mean it's it's it's it's dangerous yeah
Yeah. Well, but the other thing that had a significant impact was in 2020, I forget his name, but he had to investigate, you know, Clinton's about the call me. Yeah. Like, you know, two weeks out. That was like the ultimate October surprise. Right. And that undeniable that had a significant impact.
It absolutely it absolutely did as well, too. So, I mean, that's why there's both sides and they have agendas to suppress some kinds of a thing or to bring something to the front. And it's undeniable that it can have an impact on that as well, too. I never went down either of those rabbit holes, whether it was the Clinton emails or if it was the Hunter Biden's kind of laptop.
But it hasn't really changed overall the dynamic that in our cycles, the last three cycles, it's really – it's about – For me, it's about a referendum on what we want, a vision for America. Is it a Trump kinds of a vision or do we have an alternative? And I've always been very clear it's going to be incredibly close and it's going to be incredibly at times very divisive.
And here we are now, and it's still back to a coin toss. And I've always predicted that it would be even back to 2016 because we're really going to have a lot settled out before this election. It's going to take America in a very two stark and distinctive kinds of directions.
Well, hey, I flagged when Musk got involved. I flagged that. Anyone can look online. I can say that. It's like, well, you know, endorsements and surrogacy doesn't really amount for much. It doesn't count for much and sometimes. But, I mean, that was a significant thing. and he's getting involved, and he's showing up at those kinds of events.
I mean, in some sense, I've said this publicly, that he's even a bigger kinds of star than Trump can be. And for some people in Pennsylvania, like that's Tony Stark. He's involved in undeniably kinds of important things like SpaceX, or he was one of the original charter, he was on the charter of Open IA. He was involved in that, too. So, I mean, that's significant.
And I don't agree with some of his views on politics, but it's undeniable that he can move the needle in some sense of convince some people that it's like, hey, if he says that he's the right choice for president, that's going to resonate in some circles in Pennsylvania. And I've warned that. And acknowledging it, it's just like that. That's it's just like, hey, I know people and they admire him.
And you may not agree with his politics, but you really it's impossible to ignore that he is going to have a level of of impact on that. Yeah.
And of course, I'm open to any kinds of ideas and all those kinds of a thing on all of that. One side doesn't have a monopoly on good ideas or important kinds of issues that are matter to them. So and it's like. The choices and the kinds of things and how he's chosen to participate, especially and very personally in Pennsylvania. I'm like, hey, here's where we are. That's part of the dynamic here.
You know, calling it out and acknowledging that I'm not moving against that. I'm not criticizing whatever. It's just like, hey, it's happening. So and that I think that's part of why things continue to get tighter. And that that's that's kind of here we where we are.
I agree. Go to McDonald's in the U.K. The French fries has three ingredients, potatoes, salt, and I think maybe oil. And look at what's in America's side on that. It's much different. I support that. But if anything, more of – and I know your city that we're in now, Austin, has an amazing food kind of scene.
And again, if anything, more of the crunchy, more liberal side, we're on part of the whole organic kinds of a thing and more impurity and things. I don't think that's an issue. And honestly, I don't think that that's going to be the kind of mantle that somebody like RFK Jr. – that's not his –
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