Host Ryan Wrecker discusses energy independence, baseball history, and McConnell's health.

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Ryan Wrecker: And welcome back. Uh, thank you for the text messages coming in. I do like seeing that. Uh, one person said, "Always good to hear you on WORD. First thing I think of, the second I hear your voice, is Thanksgiving broadcasts explaining the benefits of bringing your own gravy boat." Isn't that great? It's amazing the things that you remember about people. And it's so funny because I listen to a lot of radio, I like to listen to other talk shows and kind of get a landscape of what's out there and hear what people are doing. And the things that you remember about them, if you ever get to meet them in real life and you say, "I remember that one time you talked about this," it's always like, of all the things, why would you remember that? I get that. So, I understand why you remember the gravy boat, because that is, I think, one of my greatest contributions to American society, to let you know that it's okay for you to bring your own gravy boat to a holiday get-together so you don't have to be that far from gravy whenever you need to put yourself, you know, a little dab of gravy or a little bit extra on. There's nothing worse than you go through a long, long line of family members and then you sit down and you're eating, and you're like, "Man, I could use a little bit more gravy on these potatoes," or, "Man, wouldn't that be nice, a little gravy on this turkey?" I don't want to get up. I guess I'll just eat it without. Or, you just have your own gravy boat next to you. Isn't that great? That's the stuff that people remember. One person—so thank you for that, uh, that was Warren texting in. Happy 4th of July to you, too. One person said, "Because of the Supreme Court news this week, something has not been talked about. What about oil companies are now able to get to the billions and billions of barrels in the Gulf of America, 100 miles offshore? This would make us even more energy independent." I know they're working towards that. It's not one of those things where the oil is just sitting there waiting to be picked up and we just need to send an Uber over—the shipping container boat comparison to an Uber. It's not like that. It takes a little bit of time, and I understand that the deal with Venezuela means American oil companies can start extracting and putting the infrastructure in place, which takes a lot of time. And I know that that could be a little frustrating. But, let me put it this way. Remember the Keystone Pipeline and coming out of Canada? There was a big old nice pipeline that would send oil and other natural gas—different methods of energy to help continue to make us energy independent in the sense that if something were to happen and we needed to keep what is over on this side of the hemisphere, we'd at least not be totally messed up. Uh, so you have other politicians come in and said, "We're going to stop this pipeline." And you know what? They were already constructing it, and it would have made things a lot easier for us if they never would have stopped that construction. If that pipeline were in place today, think about how much cheaper our energy prices would be as opposed to some of the alternate methods that they use in order to get oil out of Canada. It's so stupid. They're putting it on a truck, they're putting them on trains, they're shipping it in that way. That's so inefficient. A pipeline would have been so much easier and more cost-effective. But instead they said, "Well, that's not great for the environment, a pipeline." You know what's great for the environment? How about buying it from overseas where they have zero safety regulations and zero environmental concerns, and, you know, let them mess themselves up? Oh yeah, you know what? You don't care about it when it's in that type of context. But, oh boy, you put a pipeline together and you disturb some wildlife because it goes through a forest? Give me a break. Um, I think that is, in the grand scheme of things, would have been a lot ...

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