K-E-N-N Thank you, Rich. Appreciate that. 43 degrees in Anchorage, 46 in Palmer, 43 in Soldotna, 42 in Homer, 44 in Talkeetna, 36 in Fairbanks. Minus three in Prudhoe Bay and some of the other places that listen to us. 65, Seattle. 51, New York. Akaroa, New Zealand. 61. Pensacola, Florida, 70. Tampa, Florida, 74. Tifton, Georgia, 70. And Lake Havasu City, it's the closest thing to the sun we have, 94.
Well, welcome. And joining me now, it's always nice to have somebody on that you like and have a great deal of respect for. And this gentleman, he fits the bill, John Hendricks. And John, how are you? Good. How are you doing? Well, I'm good. President, CEO, HX and Fury Operating Alaska, you are the only Alaskan-owned company.
company of your type here in the state, right? You have no other... Nobody else owns you. You own yourself, right? Our company is 100% Alaskans. We're the only Alaskan-owned... Oil and gas producer. That's pretty impressive. I like that. And you're an Alaskan boy, too, right? There should be more of us, yes. Yeah, I'm from Holman.
Okay, so you graduated from Homer back in 1975. You were a wrestler, right? You went to the University of Tennessee on a scholarship? Correct. So I better be nice to you. Yeah, and a shout-out for all those. We got our 50-year class reunion this year. Does that sound possible? And Homer, yeah. That does not sound possible, does it? No, it just passes by, you know. I mean, gosh, 20 years of his career.
In the oil and gas sector, then you're pushing 50, you know? Well, now, you've worked literally all over the world. You've worked for BP, and I know you also work with... The Walker administration is the chief oil and gas advisor back in 2016, 2018. He worked for Nanocorp. Apache. So you've been all over the place, and you've seen it all. What's your assessment of what we have here that you're dealing with? Sadly, I think Alaskans.
We got spoiled early on. I think they kind of got it when it was just Cook Inlet. But when the boom days hit Prudhoe Bay and the big dollars came and they went up there, we became dependent and we went... They went trophy hunting for oil and gas, and we went trophy hunting for taxation and royalties on them. And then they did a lot of good things back then, the BPs and the ARCOs and the Shells and the Exxons.
You know, now's the time and place for, they're still there, but others need to come along, and Alaskans need to know how oil and gas work. And really... Alaskans, everyday Alaskans, don't really understand it. They don't understand what a royalty is, which is a tax on your gross, and what a tax is, and how it all works.
how you get money into this state and how much is at risk financially because you just can't go down and go to any bank to get a loan. Ada is the only one that came to our rescue to buy this property. And I guess it's really interesting that we don't know very much, but yet we depend so much on the oil and gas industry. I find that to be just very, very interesting. Shouldn't we know more? Shouldn't we be teaching this stuff?
in school? Yeah, and quite frankly, you know, I was in the business 30 some odd years. I learned a lot buying this company. You know, you learn a lot because of necessity.
I used to be a wells engineer, operations engineer, fixing fracking, doing coil tubing drilling and coil tubing completions on the slope and workovers. But it's different when you get in the world of... of basically making a plan of development, adhering to the plan of development, understanding how royalties and taxes affect your bottom line, knowing there's difference in how you tax oil and gas properties than your other properties.
You know, our tax basis, and people have seen it, you know, we sued the state because we paid $25 million for the asset, and they valued just our fixed assets at $82 million. Well, it said they may look at that, but it didn't say they had to look at the purchase of these values. So that's our disagreement with the state. So in your estimation, is the state helpful to you?
Or do they not quite understand how to grow the oil and gas industry? And have the oil and gas industry grown in spite of the state? I think you need knowledge. literally all the way up through the organization. It just takes one person to stop it. And then they have to be passionate about it. They have to really want it. And I think they're also suspicious about oil and gas, even though you're a local oil and gas person that grew up here. They're always suspect, and they want to see it.
Even Willikowski has been always asking people at the Ogun, show me your bottom line, show me your data. We pulled him aside and showed him our data last year. Here's our profit and loss statement. We lost money and we paid the state more money than we made. Well, that's hardly a way to run a business, John. No, I know. So that's why we won on the royalty relief, and that's why we're thankful for the state for doing that.
But we have to continue. Ever since we bought the company in 2020, we've been trying to fix this asset so we can deliver gas for Alaskans. And we believe it can. Now, that's one of the things that I think is extremely important to us here in South Central. And that is I keep hearing that, you know, we want to import gas, and it's kind of like taking coals to Newcastle. It's like we've got gas. How much gas would you say you guys...
or exploring for that, how much would you say you have out there in a Cook Inlet? We've been saying we have about 300 bees of gas in Cook Inlet. Others, some of our competitors have stated we have 1.T's of gas, which is equivalent to $10 an M. That's like $12 billion. We're not going to get ahead of ourselves or anything else. All of our assets are basically Alaskan-owned. I own no property out of the state. I have no other asset oil and gas leases outside of Cook Inlet.
I have about maybe 87,000 acres in Cook Inlet area under two or three different parcels. And so our focus is on this. So we're pro-Cook Inlet, and we don't have anything. Driving us to, you know, I have always been a big proponent of the North Slope gas. But we have to be realistic on the price of that gas. But we're here to bring decent gas. in a timely fashion to Alaskans. One thing Alaskans need to know is the permanent fund last year, 2024, is valued at $914,000.
$914,315,000, which equates to $1,700 per person. Okay? Remember that number. Last year, Alaskans paid out $900 million for cooking with gas. So if gas prices double, take away your permanent fund, you're using it to pay for gas. Wow. That's astonishing. It's that $900 million, right? I'm just talking about the people in Cook Inlet that need this gas.
So that's why I'm not a big proponent on bringing gas in. No one looks at the big picture. We don't have anybody that really looks at all energy systems and says, what do they bring to the table and when, right? It's like the Dixon Glacier overspill delivers 1.4 bees of gas a year equivalent. It's a $350 million project. We drilled a well for $12 million last year that drills.
delivers the same thing. And that's a $350 million project. My God, the 10% interest on that stuff a year is $35 million. That'd be great. Feed me that money and I'll drill all you want. Well, I guess that's part of what I think we want to see happen. You've just done something, and maybe you can explain this to me as a kind of a... a layman in this world. You said you've got four 20-inch conduction casings.
that you drilled to depth on a platform, which would then expand the platform from 6 to 12 wells, which would then give us more gas. Tell me about the significance of that. Well, that's fantastic, because we have the same... basically structure. And it's like taking a four-plex and developing a six-plex apartment building and making it a 12-plex. So we can now basically, it gives us the chance to drill six more wells because we could...
double up on two of the silos that are still there on the platform. And we basically drove through the monopod, the singular cylinder in the center of our platform. four more 20-inch conductors, which are driven about 150 to 180 feet into the subsurface below the seabed. And you use that as a way of drilling through with the bit to go to your new zones.
So we've got a spider map that basically protects us from intersecting, and we have identified 27 well locations in and around our platform within a three-mile radius that we hope to drill. So, John, when could you be delivering gas? Oh, we're already delivering gas. Yeah, we're delivering. We're the second largest producer in the Cook Inlet. When are you going to be the first largest? Come on. I hope so, but Hill Club doesn't seem to want to sell.
But, you know, basically really the number two as far as percentages is Shugash Electric. They produce more than us because they're the majority shareholder of Beluga gas field. But as an operator, we're the second largest operator. I mean, we operate what we own. Hillcorp operates on behalf of Chugach. But we're the second largest operator in Cook Inlet.
Since this summer, we've grown from 5% to 7.5% of the Cook Inlet demand, and we hope one day to get to 25%. Well, let's hope so. So does it look as if we're going to have to import gas, John? Well, I would say no. I would say, look, I mean, when anybody owns a field and stuff, you know what your installed production capacity is. You know everything from the reservoir all the way.
You need to do a basin analysis too, right? How much does the Cook Inlet basin hold? When I was at Apache, we shot $300 million of seismic. What is the state and everybody doing with the seismic data they shot and others? to identify where their potential gas reserves could be. And the other thing is, the big thing with Cook Inlet is we have sort of like a...
A very rare economy in which it's basically a stranded gas here. I can't compete with shipping my gas out of state, and gas can't compete with me bringing it in. And we're at a limit that we can only sell up to 70 bees of gas a year, which is equivalent to about 190 million standard cubic feet a day. So...
If right now all of us are sitting above like $200 million a day, why are we going to drill more gas? Or is someone going to sell it, buy it, if we leave it shut in? Those are the conversations we need to have. Because... I'm not going to spend $20 million a well and not be able to sell my gas. Absolutely. Of course. So how can...
How can we get this moving? How can people help get this moving? Because this is really a lifelong. Without gas, we're in serious trouble. Well, just remember that $900 million prize. Right. Gas prices double. Alaskans pay $900 million. That's basically a billion dollars, right? Yes. And the permanent fund for all Alaskans was $914 million last year. So, you know, it's...
We don't ever, until people really feel the pain, necessity builds innovation, I think. Yes. Until there's a necessity, because I think this warm winter. Probably put it off another year. We knew it last year. And it's easy for people to bring in gas because their mandate is to make sure Alaskans have gas.
They should have a mandate that says you've got to look at it for the cheapest price, or local gas would be that way, but it doesn't. The priority is making sure Alaskans have heat for their homes. And if they can do that... They can do it. But we're trying to say you don't need it. But we're a one-trick pony, basically. We represent Cook Inlet. I don't have assets on the North Slope. I'm the only member of Aoga. that Board Member Yoga only operates in Cook Inlet. Wow. Well, I... Even...
You can't say you need gas in Cook Inlet if all of a sudden Cook Inlet gets gas, and then it's hard to basically push the pipeline down, right? Well, it's going to be really interesting. And, John, I think this is the beginning of a lot of conversations, and you've brought some very...
Good information information that I never had before and I think information our audience has never had before This is this is something I think that needs to be front and center as a conversation for Alaskans because this is extremely important and I'd like to see a local operator, you know, lead the way because, you know, we're...
This is what we do. Local business is absolutely important to us. Yeah, and we were a firm believer. When we bought the company, it was basically owned by German, and we only had one employee in the state of Alaska. And now we have 22, 24 employees working in the state of Alaska that are homegrown right here in Alaska. And I think there ought to be more companies like our companies. I used to be a commercial fisherman.
Commercial fishermen, you know, they fight for themselves independently, right? And Alaska hasn't really seen that. A lot of people don't know how royalties work. Royalties are, you know. Oil and gas pays 12.5% to 16% royalties off their gross. Mining pays two. Timber pays none because we took them out of business. And fishing pays none. Everybody always jumps on oil and gas, and I think oil and gas is doing their part. But we've got to make it so that we can incentivize Cook Inlet.
to continue to drill and explore, explore and drill for gas. But someone's got to get that safety net that if you go out there and you discover a big field and you spend $100 million in exploration. You want to bring gas online, and you can't bring it online because Anchorage has a ceiling on how much gas they can take. Gas storage helps with that to some degree. And if we could get mines to sign contracts, that would help too.
Well, John, I appreciate your taking time today to kind of go through this, and there's a lot left that we could talk about. Unfortunately, we're out of time. I'd love to be able to call on you in the future and help. and get your expertise on this. And please, in the meantime, let us know if there's something that we can be doing to help.
spur this and help local business and help local gas development because we're on board. So just let us know. Okay, Mike. We're Alaskans. We're trying to do our part. Absolutely. Thank you, John, so much. Thank you, sir. Bye. All right. John Hendricks from HEX, HEX, and Fury. Alaska, owned and operated by Alaskans. How about that? That's a great line. All right. Let's do this, Crash. Let's take our break now. We'll be right back. Call Mike. Call Crash. Call 907-522-0650.
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We had a longer segment with John Hendricks, which I thought was extremely valuable. Gosh, he brought some really interesting information to us on the... the gas situation in Cook Inlet, which is something that we all should be concerned about and interested in.
So I thought that was an important interview to have. And, of course, Crash, that's on the podcast, correct? When we put the podcast up. Yeah, right after 6 o'clock, it'll be up there. It'll be the first, obviously, the first segment of the podcast. So if you don't want to suffer through the entire show and you want to hear.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. We haven't even gone through it. The piece of valuable information you're going to get today we knocked out right off the bat so you don't have to listen to the whole program. No, we figured John's the smartest guy that's going to be on today. We decided to get him on first. All right, when we come back, I got an email from a guy across the sea, somebody I haven't...
spoken to in a while. It's an old classmate who lives, as they say, across the pond. And he wrote a poem. He was always kind of a literate guy and kind of had a... hobby of writing poems. But apparently he's been listening. He hasn't told me anything about why. I hope he's okay. And he wrote a poem, Crash, about us. Are you ready for that?
Boy, am I. I've heard a lot of dirty limericks regarding the show. A string of expletives that to this day is still hovering over Big Lake a few times but never an official poem. No, this guy's actually got credentials. That's all I'll say. There once was a show from Nantucket. No, not that one. And anyway, he suggests that he remain anonymous, perhaps. Not doing the content of the poem. He just doesn't want to admit to anybody he listens to the program. That's correct. That's correct.
He is apparently quite a literate man in his community that people know. I don't think he wants people to know exactly what he's been writing. Smart move, bud. Yes. Once people find out that they listen to us, that's it. All credibility goes right out the window. Exactly. Anyway, let's take a quick break. We'll come right back with the poem.
Carl's show with crash on news radio, six 50 K E N I run a business and not thinking about podcasting. Think again, more Americans listen to podcasts, then add supported streaming music. It's not very long, but it's pithy. Pithy is what it is. Are you ready? Boy, am I. Okay. He says some nice things about you in here, by the way. I mean, we'll just let her rip. Let's see what happens. All right. Here it is.
It says, Mike speaks firmly with seasoned grace, a voice like winter, strong in place, and crash beside him, quick and keen, a sharper edge, a wit unseen. The callers come with thoughts in tow. Some speak fast and some speak slow. A farmer's plight, a worker's wage, a leader's fault, a nation's stage. So let them talk, let questions flow across the waves where cold winds blow, for in the north, where they stand tall, their voices rise to speak for all.
That was pretty good, actually. Yeah, that wasn't bad. I have one from another listener in Newark that just called me a dumbass. It's a little bit different. A keen wit unseen. Yeah, that's a lot of big words and those and vows, but I'll take that all as a compliment. Again, it's not being called a name from some gal from Newark. Yeah, well, you know, what can you say about Newark?
Or Nork. Right. No, that was very nice. Yeah, I thought it was. I thought it was, you know, the fact that... It felt like I was reading a chapter in The Lord of the Rings about this show. It's very Robert Frostian. Is it? I don't know who that is, but I'll agree with you. Robert Frost was a great American poet. Oh, all right. And it had kind of a meter-like frost. Okay.
I think that's the first poem I've ever sat through. Although that's not true because songs are kind of poems, right? Yeah, songs are poems. Yeah, so it's kind of the same thing. Well, I hope you like it. I thought it was good. It was good.
So, you know, there are some literate people out there that listen to us, and now I know why they won't admit it. Yeah, next time I get in an argument with my wife, I'm like, you better, you know, step off, because I'm a king wit unseen. That's right. Hey, man, there are people writing poems about us. Yeah, I think that's actual. I think that would be like a lore. I think that's lore. Is that what that is? Yes. Yeah. All right.
All right, 439. Make it 440. What the heck? We're on a roll today anyway. Got a note from one of our listeners about the bond issue. for the town square. Business leaders, property owners, and downtown Anchorage are deeply invested, this is from the Daily News, in the vitality, safety, and long-term success of our community. The proposed bonds...
Parks Bond include funds allocated for improvement to Town Square Park, not just as much needed update in public space. It is an investment in the very future of downtown. Okay, now I probably would say, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, all that sounds great. But we've done this before. You know, we already built the town square park. You know, remember we sold bricks?
For that thing? Did you guys ever buy a brick for that area? It was down by the pack. And we bought a brick for the company. But a lot of people did. I don't know what happened. What happened to the brick? Are they still there? Buying a brick, is that like that scam where you buy part of a highway? Is that kind of the same thing? Or a star. Yeah, you buy someone, you tell someone you bought them a star for Christmas and they say thank you and then make fun of you and you leave the room.
It's like making a contribution to the human fund. It's kind of the same thing. That's a Seinfeld reference, by the way. That's kind of how I feel when I look at this. Well, the downtown Town Square Park, remember we had a fountain there. They took the fountain out because it was causing trouble. Right, so was that what the bricks people paid for? They built that fountain? No, no, that was built.
by a private guy. Okay, so what are the bricks you paid for? Where did those go? What happened to those? They were supposed to go near the pack, and they were kind of... Oh, right now, kind of where the town square is and all that? Right. Yeah, so chances are, if you paid for a brick, a homeless guy... on it that probably is or use it to build right yeah that's constant's going to use it to build a to build an outhouse right two million dollar outhouse with the brick you paid for that's right
Yeah, now that reeks of buying a star or a highway. That's awesome. So anyway, we had that. And then they decided that the town square, we had to get rid of the fountain because it was causing trouble. It was driving. ne'er-do-wells of the town square. Right. Okay, so we got rid of the fountain, but you know what? The ne'er-do-wells didn't leave, did they? No, they didn't.
So they decided we need to cut down the trees. No, but all you're really doing at that point is giving them more space to lay around. Right, so we cut down the trees because we wanted to see them. Yeah, let's give them a wider landscape to inhabit. Does it make any sense? No. So anyway, one of our listeners wrote this, says, if this bond issue comes up on your show, the following is my opinion. I would not support this bond. The taxpayers of Anchorage bought and paid for the current park.
There was a great deal of money and effort put into the current park, including people buying decorative bricks used to pave the pathways. Downtown Anchorage was vibrant and managed any safety issues. It would be foolish to pay for a second park when the city government didn't take care of the first one. City management needs to demonstrate they can and will take care of the things. like the park before asking citizens to pay for a second one.
It's like buying an iPhone for a teenager. They lose it. Then they ask for a second phone with promises they'll take care of it. Well, I absolutely agree with our listener here. That's exactly right. So I'm voting no. Not that I dislike parks. I love parks. But it shows me that the city can't take care of parks. You're an anti-parkite. I know. Next thing you know, they're going to have their own...
Spaces and tools and things. I don't know. What? It's like, what are they doing? They say, well, it's wrecked. We have to do it again. No. You had one chance. Fix what you have. You know? I mean, it's just awful what they did to that place. All right. It is 445. Let's take our break. We'll come back. The legislature did something yesterday that is troubling. It's troubling. It's troubling.
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And we might want to take this up on the next hour, but I wanted to kind of at least introduce it and kind of get it out there. 33 Alaska House members. According to Suzanne Downing, this is her headline, 33 Alaska House members raise white flag to Canada, turn their backs on President Trump. Now, what did they do? They passed a resolution on Monday that essentially said, you know, we've got a great relationship with Canada and we don't want to fight.
We don't want these restrictive trade policies. We oppose the restrictive trade policies. We do business together. We work together. And all of those things are true in terms of our relationship with the... with the Canadians to our east they're good people you know we work with them a lot of the people are you know families on the other side of the border and all of that and I've got I've had nothing against Canadians absolutely nothing
I had a business in Canada for 15 years and had nothing but good things to say about the people I worked with. and the quality of work that they did, and their integrity, and their honesty, and their stick-to-itiveness, and their work ethic, all of those things. However, I'm an American. My country isn't being treated fairly.
at least in my estimation and in the estimation of the man I voted for president, then we have to do something about it. And that doesn't mean we have to get angry at each other. That doesn't mean we have to beat each other up. It means we've got to fix it. That's kind of what President Trump is trying to do. Now, he has his own particular style, I'll admit. But nevertheless, the point that he's making, I think, has validity.
For instance, before this whole trade kerfuffle jumped into the prominence of the headlines, some U.S. goods were allowed into Canada tariff-free. which is great, and we do the same thing there, while other goods and services were not. Now, coming from a dairy state, New York, believe it or not, is a dairy state or at least it was. I remember years ago you couldn't get American milk in Canada.
There was a high tariff, but the Canadians could sell milk into New York and to the rest of the country. So milk has a 270% tariff. Our milk... It has a 270% tap on it if you want to get it in Canada as well. It puts it out of reach doesn't it? Cheese 245% tariff. Butter, 298% tariff. Chicken, 237% tariff. Now, they've had these tariffs in effect for a long, long time. So, we've got to figure out how to do this. Now, we need fair trade as well as free trade.
And that's really the point here. And the other point to the situation is that President Trump wanted the Canadians to do a couple of things. Beef up their border security. and pay some more money to help with defense. And I think we had Senator Sullivan on here a couple, three weeks ago, talking about how they spend very little.
on defense and said, well, it will take them 10 years to be able to spend the kind of money that he thought and the president thought they should be spending. And again, defense is expensive. And yet we provide it. And it's not that they don't do anything. I'm not saying that. But the United States bears a lot of the burden of defense for North America. And so that's another part of it. But the fentanyl is something that the president believes is a major problem on our border coming from Canada.
Now, I know the Canadians are trying, and I think that's wonderful, and we wish them luck, and if there's a way we can help stem the tide of the fentanyl, I think we should be doing it. We should be working together. This is where we are. So the question then arises. The state of Alaska, as I read this, seems terrified that...
The Canadians are going to put all these tariffs on us, and they're going to kill our economy. What the heck are you guys thinking down there in Juneau? Are you paying attention? This is a deal that the president is trying to work and make. He doesn't wish to cause pay to anybody.
The United States or Canada. But he wants to stop fentanyl. He wants to get a commitment. And he wants to be able to allow our... manufacturers and our farmers to have the same access to that country as they have to ours now you tell me what's unfair about that but instead of looking at this thing in a calm, rational way, which I think you should, and figuring out how America can work with their good neighbors and friends.
family really we've got a special relationship with Canada you know how we can how we can work this out I mean in any family sometimes you get some arguments and fights okay that's all right we'll fix it we'll make a work we'll make it better And when we're done, it's going to be better. But this shows me the resolve of our legislature. This shows me a lot.
Oh my goodness, we're going to have to pay more money. We can't do that. So let's just take a knee. That's what I see when I see this resolution. It was introduced by House Majority Leader Chuck Kopp. There's another one in the Senate introduced by Senate Majority Leader Kathy Giesel. So you've got Giesel and Kopp. Do I have to say any more than that, really, honestly? I mean, come on. And so they managed to drag the rest of the legislature along with them, and I have no idea why.
I got to tell you, I'm actually baffled by this. We can get into this on the other side of the news. Again, I have nothing against Canada. I love the country. and the people but we're Americans and we should be thinking about America and thinking about supporting our president I don't think Cobb voted for Trump, nor do I think Kiesel did. Nor do I think a lot of people in that legislature that are Democrats did. The Republicans, I'm just shocked at. But we'll be right back. Stay with us.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. It is 5-0-7, hour number two of our show on the 25th day. of this month, the year of our Lord, 2025. As we said at the beginning, well, the end of last hour, now the beginning of this hour, 33 instances from Suzanne Downing at Muscrete. 33 Alaska House members raised the white flag to Canada and turned their backs on President Trump. Now, what they did was they passed a resolution essentially saying that we shouldn't have these tariffs.
on Canada, even though Canada has some pretty restrictive tariffs on us, even though the premier of British Columbia threatened to put tolls on the Alcan Highway, where we send trucks up through British Columbia and sometimes into Yukon to take goods and products to Alaska. And he was doing that specifically to target Alaska. When we had Senator Sullivan on the show, we talked about that.
And Senator Sullivan was none too happy about hearing about this. And he said, well, maybe what we should do is just bypass their ports, see if we can't get something through Congress, which we did during COVID. And bypass their ports. So we don't have to stop in Vancouver. Just come on straight up. And that caused a tizzy on the other side. They were all upset.
And they should have been because we're talking about billions of dollars. We don't have that many trucks going through British Columbia. But the problem is if Trump decided to do the same thing on this side and stop produce and things coming from Mexico through America, that will cause a bigger problem. And so the Canadian truckers decided, hey, you know, maybe you guys don't want to do this. And, you know, I'm looking at all of this and I'm thinking, you know.
As Trump said to Zelensky, you have no cards. Well, there's not a lot of cards on the other side of the border. That doesn't mean you push them around. That doesn't mean you bully them. What it means to say is that you should say, look, guys. Let's equalize these tariffs and give me a little help on the fentanyl and we can all go together. As far as the 51st state and all that other nonsense is concerned,
You know, Canada is not going to become our 51st state. If Canada wanted to become our 51st state, tell us about it. But I'm not interested in Canada becoming a 51st state. There would only be like a couple of Canadian provinces that actually, I think, would be beneficial to the United States. But most of the country is liberal, which is okay. That's the way they like it.
But it's not in keeping with how I think. It doesn't mean I wouldn't get along with them, and I did. You know, it's just kind of a lot of noise at this point. The main part is keeping fentanyl out of America, beefing up the border security, and having fair trade. That's it. Those are the things that we need to look at. Meanwhile, our legislature, this wasn't done in my mind. This is just my opinion. You can agree with me or not.
This wasn't done to protect Alaska or to say, hey, we're good friends. We know we're good friends. This was done as a slap in the face to President Trump by the very people who don't like him. And what they did was they managed to cajole and drag the rest of the legislature along with them. Seriously.
And I've got to say, you know, and I like a lot of the people that are down there, and, you know, that's what I'm going to say. I'm just going to say that. But I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed that you didn't say, hey, you know what? I'm not interested in this. I'm not going to vote for it. Go away. Now everybody down there is the Secretary of State. First of all, the state of Alaska has no business in national politics. None. Stay out of it. You can barely run the state.
don't try to run the country secondly don't you folks down there have something to do that we pay you for that we elected you for this isn't one of those things There's something called a budget. The school issue. The permanent fund dividend. Remember that thing, that little thing you guys steal from us every year? Yeah, am I getting angry? You're damn right I am getting angry. Because we pay you, we've elected you to do our business. This isn't.
We have a national government that does what you're trying to stick your nose in. I don't care what your personal beliefs are. If you want to do this, write a freaking letter. Don't say that my state is going to do this. I don't know if the governor gets these resolutions, but if he does, he should veto it. Just on the basis of the fact that you guys have other things to do that you should be working on.
Do you remember a couple of months ago when the Anchorage Assembly got involved in the war in Ukraine? I know! Remember that? When they voted on something that didn't mean... Stay in your lane. I mean, it's fine to have an opinion on this, but it's not within your purview. This has nothing to do with why you got elected. If you're focusing on this...
There's no way you're going to convince us that you have nothing else that you need to be focusing on. We all know that you fall short in that arena each and every day. So to go ahead, it's a slap in the face to the people that voted for you and sent you to... you know to act within our best interest that you have no business being involved this is not this this again stay in your lane this it's ridiculous well and again this was from the people that don't like trump
That's what this is. It's all about an agenda. It wouldn't matter what it was he proposed. They would be against it because of who came up with the idea. And I'll tell you this. Donald Trump has pretty much...
acquiescent, given the state of Alaska, everything that we've been asking for over the course of the last couple of years. Everything that we were complaining about with the last administration, why can't we do this? Why can't we have this? Why can't we have that? He said, yeah, I love Alaska.
Here, you can have all that stuff. And then they're going to turn around and do this, whether you like Donald Trump or not. And even if you're a big fan of the man, there's no way that you don't recognize the fact that, well, you know, you can hold a grudge every once in a while, right?
But why would you want to go down that road when, number one, it's not within your purview, and number two, it's going to be ineffectual. It's not going to do anything. It's just smoke and mirrors, and it's solely what you just said. It has nothing to do with the content. It has to do with the person that brought it up. That's all it is. And it's blatant and it's obvious and it's ridiculous. Well, it is. And so I would hope that the legislature.
We shouldn't pay them for the time they put in on this thing. It's another award-winning idea from Kathy Giesel. That's what this is. Well, this is a Chuck Copp, Kathy Giesel production. As you said earlier, that's all you really need to know. Just throw those two names out there, and then after that, it's all Charlie Brown's teacher and white noise. It's stupid. Exactly. It's like, we hate Trump. Trump's no good. We never liked Trump.
And so there you go. Well, you know what? The guy's doing a good job. That's my opinion. If it's not yours, then write the guy a letter and tell him so. But what you're doing... You're pulling Alaska into an area it shouldn't be in. If you really feel this way, write a letter. Write your own letter. Don't use the state of Alaska. Don't use the imprimatur of the state of Alaska for your own personal grudges. And that's what this is. And for those people, those legislators.
who went along with this, you should be ashamed of yourselves. And I'm going to say that to you. And I'll say it to your faces. Stop this nonsense. And I hope the Senate has the cojones to stop it. They don't have enough members to stop it. But I hope somebody... does something and says, we shouldn't even be talking about this nonsense. You want to be Secretary of State? Then go tell Trump you want to be Secretary of State.
You know, go run for the United States House or the United States Senate. Then maybe you'll have some standing here to say something as a legislative body. But you don't. This is just, you know, it's not like you have nothing to do down there. You got all your work done? Is that right? I don't think so. You guys can't figure out the simplest things. And you want to tackle this? This shows me how simply minded some of you are.
It's really embarrassing, and I want to turn the page on it, and I want to forget, hopefully forget, that some of you did this. We'll be right back. Be a part of the show on News Radio 650 KENI. Look at a chair. Alaska total traffic cameras on this Tuesday evening. Steady traffic. Sunshine that will stay with us through the rest of the week. For Alaska's weather source, I'm meteorologist. Aaron Morrison. Now, back to the Mike Procaro Show with Crash on NewsRadio 650 KENI.
it is 523 let's go to bob hi bob yes sir i agree with you a hundred percent we do have some slight problems though And people are going to get mad at me for saying this, but we are a non-producing state. All we produce is oil and some fish. Right. We get everything from everybody else. All our raw materials, everything. So...
This tariff deal is probably going to hurt us a little bit more, but I do not agree with what the legislature did. One of the things that would help is to get the governor... And our senators and congressmen together with Trump and say, how fast can we open up the Tongass? Let's get the chainsaws running. Because that's a lot of what we get from Canada is wood.
Well, we should be doing our own stuff. I mean, the idea that we were buying electric power in the Midwest and East is kind of silly. Shouldn't we be doing that ourselves? Oh, I agree 100%. The only problem we have here in the state of Alaska is the state of Alaska Republican Party. All they want to do is collect money and put out who you should vote for.
Instead of collecting money and putting out commercials on who you shouldn't vote for because this person's a rhino. I mean, really. I mean, they collect all this money. The state party collects all this money. and then they spend it in ways that apparently aren't working. They need to rethink this and say, hey, every time we have an election, we've got five different people running for Republican.
Well, let's pick through and weed through and say who we don't want. That would be nice. I mean, if I was, I don't have much money, I'm not a major donor, but if I was, that's exactly what I'd be telling them. If you were a major donor, you could say that, and they'd have to listen to you, wouldn't they?
Yeah, but I'm not a major donor, so they don't listen to me. But we do, Bob. To the point of where you just say, hey, I'm not going to vote Republican. I'm just going to vote independent or whatever because the Republicans aren't helping. I mean, they really aren't. At least the Democrats aren't lying to me. They tell me they want to steal my dividend. Yep, they do. Republicans lie to me and tell me they're going to save me my dividend and get me my back money.
And the whole time the Dividend Department wipes out all their back records so they can't back pay anybody. Well, Bob, I appreciate your call. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. All right. Let's go to Jim. Hi, Jim. Hello. Yeah. Okay, yeah, I'm Jim. I'm an Air Force veteran and about a 60-year veteran in Alaska, 60 years. in alaska and uh i say good for them good for that legislature for standing up to the bully because you know as a veteran and i'm embarrassed
I'm embarrassed by the bully. I'm embarrassed by some of the decisions. You know, we turn on our allies. We got allies that have been with us for 200 years, you know, Canada, and we denigrate them. We started this thing. They didn't start it. We started it. Did we start it, really? Yeah, Trump started it with his big mouth. Why did he start it?
Why did he start it? How did he start it? By denigrating the leaders. No, but why? Calling them names. Why? Because he's a bully. That's why. He's a bully. Are we not getting, are the Canadians doing everything they can to keep fentanyl out? Oh, come on with the fentanyl for crying out loud. That's just a minuscule thing or the whole thing that's coming from them. Oh, yeah, wow. Yeah, you know.
45 pounds can kill 10 million people. Did you know that? Yeah, well, this is not the way to deal with people. Well, you know, what about our tariffs? Negotiate. Jim. Jim, what about our tariffs? You know, they've got these enormous tariffs against our farmers and against other things, and we don't have the same tariffs that are against them. So shouldn't we have equal tariffs? I mean, shouldn't we have fair trade? We don't.
We got competition is what we got. We need competition. We don't have... If I'm a farmer... If I'm a farmer and I want to sell my milk in Canada, they're going to slap a 275% tariff on my milk. I don't do that to them. Is that fair? Yeah. I'll tell you, all these tariffs and all this bullion is going to affect Alaska. We're a neighbor of Canada. So we should let them take advantage of us? No, nothing good.
Nothing good can come out of bullying people. We're not bullying them. That's what this guy is doing. They're bullying us with the tariffs. They've got these high tariffs on us. Do you know that? Do you think that's right? I know what you're saying. I don't disagree with what you're saying in terms of they're our ally, they're our friends. As I said, I had a business in Canada for 15 years. I love the country and I love the people, but there's a point.
Well, you have to stand up and say enough. Yeah, but the point is we're doing this to Europe too. And the only people we're not going after is our enemies. I mean, it's ridiculous the way we're treating people. You heard in this thing about the release of that information, you know, on that. Bami and... Right, the Houthis? Yeah. The Houthis.
You know, you listen to the way they were talking about Europeans in there, you know, denigrating them. Those are our allies. And did they talk that way about us, you think? You know, I haven't heard that. I haven't heard that. Okay, well. I haven't heard the Canadians talking. Have you been in Canada? I've been in Canada. Okay. I like Canada too. As I say, I had a business there for 15 years.
People, you know, look, with Canada, Canada's like, it's part of a family. Did you ever have an argument with somebody in your family? People do that. It doesn't mean that you hate them. But I don't, no, I don't treat them, I don't treat families like Trump treats. Canada. I don't do that. Well, I don't treat my family that way either. I'm just saying that if you're having an argument with somebody... Why would the president of our country do that? I mean, there's just no reason for it. And I...
You know, you're denigrating the legislature for standing up. Yeah, because they're taking a knee when they don't have to take a knee. No, they're not taking a knee. They're standing up. Yeah, they are. They've got the guts to stand up. Yeah, they've got the guts to not stand up. They've got the guts to take a knee. That's not America. You know, that's not what we do. But you're saying that...
You know, they don't have the right to do that. No, they have the right. They have the right to do it. You don't have the right to be a water boy for Trump. I'm not being a water boy for anybody. No, you know, they have the right to their opinion just as you have the right to your opinion. And I'm giving you valuable air time on my show to express your opinion, and you're doing it. And I appreciate that.
Does it mean I dislike you? No. I think you're probably a pretty good guy. I appreciate that. We have a country that we can still do that. Absolutely. And you know what? You know what? If somebody tried to tell me that you couldn't talk, they'd have a problem with me. Okay, I appreciate that. You have every right. Jim, unfortunately I'm out of time, but I appreciate the call, and I appreciate the fact that you have been a veteran defending this country. Thank you for that.
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Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Tuesday evening, there is Back to the Mike Peccaro Show. All right 537 let's do this let's go to Michelle hi Michelle hey I just wanted to say that Jim is a prime example of why the Republican Party in the state of Alaska is going down in flames. If he is a Republican, okay, he could be a Republican like Murkowski and Giesel. I'm not sure. But he would rather screw all of the Alaskans.
and the United States citizens by letting them pay for everything for every other country. Let them take advantage of us over and over again on tariffs and everything else. And stick it to the little guys, stick it to the people in Alaska, stick it to the people nationally. He would rather that happen than Trump standing up and protecting the citizens of the United States of America.
This has been going on for 50, 60 years where all these other countries have been taking advantage of us. Trump is coming in. He's been having to be the bad guy because no other president in the last 60, 70 years would do it. He's coming in, trying to get it. He's ripping off the Band-Aid, trying to get everything straightened out so that the United States can prosper again. In the meantime, our Republican, and that's in quotes, legislature, and, you know, Julie Cologne.
Roger Holland, McCabe, all those people need to come on your show and explain themselves because what they did was they straddled the line. They didn't want to, they didn't want to, like Jamie Allard, she stood up. Kathy Pilton, she stood up and two other people stood up. It was four Republicans that truly stood up against that resolution. All the other ones caved.
And they're going to try to come on your show and say, oh, it was this, that, and the other, just like Yunt did with his bill. Okay? No. It is time for the people of Alaska, the true conservatives, the true Republicans, to stand up and say this is not acceptable.
You would never see the Democrats breaking rank. No matter how crazy they are, they stick together. And in this case, we've got people like Jim, who I... seriously doubt is a conservative that he would rather give everything away he would rather taxpayers pay for everything for every other country well to open the door for every single person in the world to come here so we can pay for it rather than stand up
and protect our own citizens for our own future. It literally blows my mind how many people like this are out there. I don't know what else to say. Okay, well, I think you said it all. I hope so. Somebody will call in and agree with me, okay? Because it's just, it's absolutely outrageous that our own people that are supposed to be Republicans. And I saw Holland, Cologne.
You know, some other people that I can't... Well, Holland is an independent. Wow. It's Kai Holland. It's not the other Holland. No, Holland is an independent. Okay, I was confusing that with Roger Holland then. No, it's not Roger. I'm sorry, Roger. But, yeah, what I'm saying is that... Okay, people follow Jamie Allard. Okay, kind of take her lead. She kind of is the most conservative right now. Kathy Tilton, she's kind of been a little wonky on some votes, but she's conservative.
stick together. We cannot let these people get away with this. They are joining and voting with the Democratic Party. Alaska, I'm sorry, it's blue now. It's literally blue. We have a legislature that is admonishing the president of the United States when he wants to open us up for prosperity like in the 80s. When my uncle used to go work on the pipeline and come back with pocketfuls of money and buy everything for everybody. We have the opportunity for that now. And they're blowing it.
They're just going to flush it down the toilet. Well, don't they have other things to do that they actually are supposed to be doing than this? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, this isn't what they're supposed to be doing. I heard, too, that they got all that wording off of a Canada website. So the where as that, they actually got off of a Canadian... pro-Canada website. Well, you know, give the Canadians credit. They got what they wanted.
I want to be friendly and nice too, but not at the expense of our own people. We can't afford to live here. People are leaving in droves. And we need to make it so our own people can live here. Do you think Canada? Would you ever see another country in the world writing, whether a legislator would write something like that to the president? No, you would not see it.
But we have Republicans signing off on that. It blows my mind. All right. Well, you shouldn't be surprised by anything the legislature does. I'm not. Thank you, Mike. All right. 522-0650. Let's go to Tom. Hi, Tom. Hey, Mike. I got in the tail end of that conversation with, you know, I don't want to be derogatory. to anybody but that idiot Jim. He calls himself a conservative. He realistically, if you want to tell the truth, he probably voted for Kamala and Tampon Tim. The left...
is so stupid, they can't pour pee out of a boot with the directions on the heel. And the guy, I don't know... He can't be conservative. He sounded, you know, left of left. But, yeah, nothing that happens in Alaska. down in the state, surprises me. It's a typical, the lady that was just on, it's typical that Democrats never cross the line, but the Republicans always do. I don't know why.
You know, it just never makes sense what happens that way. But, you know, be that it may, I know I always call and I'm preaching to the choir, but that gym guy, he's an idiot. I'm sorry. Totally wrong. Okay. All right. Well, thank you, Tom. Appreciate your call. All right. 543. Let's go to Chuck. Hi, Chuck. Hey, Mike. How are you doing? I'm good. Thanks.
First of all, I totally agree with that lady. She has killed so many degrees with her. I totally agree with her. I mean, Canada is such a great country and so good to us that they boo our own national anthem in their second country, you know? I mean, it's just, you know, and legislators turn into the wrong part of Canada, because the west side of Canada is very conservative, where the east side is very liberal.
You know, it's just a joke. It's just ridiculous. The legislators that we have now, Murkowski in office, are because of guys like Jim. Oh, I'm conservative. Maybe. You know, it's just ridiculous. He's entitled his own opinion, as wrong as it may be. Unfortunately, he fought for the country so he could give his own opinion. But, you know, it's wrong. He's totally wrong on it.
Well, I mean, again, we're in America, and I believe he has a right to say what he wants to say, and people can respond, and that's what you're doing. You're responding. He said he was in the Air Force. I applaud him for his service to the country. But come on, dude, wake up and look at where the country is.
Well, he was equating, I think, you know, and I don't disagree with the fact that we need to have the lies and be nice and friendly and all that stuff. But it's a reciprocal thing. They've got to be nice to us, too. And the problem is... For years, we've had these unbalanced tariffs, not only with Canada but with Europe.
And Trump is finally saying, hey, you want to be in NATO and you want to have all this defense? Well, then step up and start paying your fair share. And also, by the way, we're not going to put up with these tariffs anymore. And, oh, by the way... We're getting these drugs into our country, and even though he didn't seem to think that was important or didn't think it was a problem, it is a problem, and this was Trump's way. Now, he doesn't like...
Trump, that's okay. You don't have to like Trump. And he doesn't like Trump's mannerisms. And he doesn't like Trump's attitude. That's okay. But Trump isn't wrong in what he's saying. And that, to me, is where it is. Exactly. And, you know, like he said, too, he's like, he said that you're buying in the hoopla about fentanyl. I'm like, are you serious? I mean, you know, everybody knows we have a fentanyl problem.
Everybody knows drugs are killing thousands of America a day. But we have to turn our head to a fentanyl problem because we're buying into it. No, that's what we're trying to do is not buy it. Well, it's not an excuse for what Trump is doing. It is one of the reasons why he's doing what he's doing. Now, could he have done it in a different way? I'm sure he could. But that's not him. That's not Donald Trump. Donald Trump is a...
You know, he's going to come right at you. And you know what's funny is all these people that yell and scream about it, what happens? He comes out smelling like a rose at the end of it all. He's going, yeah. He's going to win. He's getting the country fixed. We're going to, you know, look at the border, you know. I mean, the border has changed, right, dramatically.
And it's going to get better. And this is going to drive the people that hate him even more crazy because he's going to be successful. And they don't know what to do. They have nowhere to go. They've got no answers. The answer is we should be nice. Well, of course we should be nice, but we shouldn't be nice at our expense.
You know? I mean, the other guy should be nice to us, too. Instead of calling it a tariff, it's called a tax against them booing our national anthem. Okay. Which I wasn't too pleased about, either. I've got to tell you. No. And then when they came here, we didn't boo theirs. Well, they did in Boston. It's just ridiculous. People, you know, just relax.
Let Trump do what he's doing. He's doing a fine job. And if you don't believe in it, you've got another three and a half years to worry about it and then vote out the way you want it. Exactly. Thank you, Chuck. Appreciate it. Have a good day. All right. It is 548. We'll be back. The Mike Porcaro Show with Crash on NewsRadio 650.
K-E-N-I. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Tuesday evening. There is steady and heavy traffic now all around the Anchorage Bowl. Tudor Road's got a pretty good slowdown on it. You're all being presenting this to me. The legislature got all of the materials that they did for this document, as Michelle was talking about, from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Partners in Prosperity.
So if you go to that particular website, you'll find everything you need to know about where the Alaska State Legislature got their information. Oh, my gosh. You know, unreal. They can't even go through their own research. All right, let's go to Eric. Hi, Eric. Hi, that lady wanted someone to agree with her. I'll agree with her. I used to work at the legislature 20 years ago, back when a Republican had the majority of the caucus, and things have changed.
and not in a good way. I'm sorry. No, they haven't. They have not. I don't know what the Republicans of today are doing, but you got a good clip of rhinos in there. And just because they say they're a Republican doesn't mean they are. And that woman was absolutely correct. Let Trump do what he's doing. Yes, you be polite.
But when your friends and neighbors are taking advantage of you, you stand up for yourself. That's all that's happened. That's all that's happened, yeah. I mean, they don't like the guy. I understand that. But this is something that the legislature... It's not like they finished all their work, and it's not like they're good at what they're doing. They've got work to do. They're supposed to be down there working on budgets and all kinds of other things, and they're not doing...
That they're working on this stuff. I'd like my PFD. Yes, exactly. Balance your dang budget and do your job. This is not. part of their job. Exactly. Eric, thank you for the call. Appreciate it. All right, 5-2-2-0-6-50. Crash, I wanted to ask you a couple of quickies here while we've got about two minutes. You know, the legislature is always talking about a $1,000 PFD, right? That seems to be what they shoot for.
every year okay so let's let's take a look at this in 1980 they gave us a thousand dollars right right and that's oh boy that was a lot of money do you know what that thousand dollars in 1980 is worth today 400 bucks No. Today, that $1,000 would be worth $3,855. I was going the opposite direction. No, the $1,000 today in 1980 dollars is worth $259. Wow. So, you know, when they're saying, well, $1,000, okay, I'll tell you what, you give me $1,000 of $1,980, that's $3,800.
Isn't that about what they should be giving us? Yeah, that's pretty close to what the statutory payout would be. Yeah, you see? Isn't that funny how that works out? I mean, like you just said, and the gentleman we just had on the air just said, they're not concerned with that. They're concerned with Canada right now and President Trump instead of...
fulfilling campaign promises and doing right by their constituents and doing the things they promised they would put at the forefront and make a priority if we entrusted them with our vote. Instead, they'd do the exact opposite and do this, which is ineffectual. completely and totally out of their lane. Exactly. Exactly. And I've got to tell you, they need to stop and think about what they're doing.
and change course. As I said earlier, and I'm not the only one that said it, if for no other reason, then there are going to be ramifications for this from the White House. Yes, there are. There are going to be. It's going to affect the state in an adverse fashion. It's not going to be pretty. And it's going to be their fault. Yeah. Well, way to go, guys. Way to look out for yourself. Way to shoot yourselves in the foot. Okay? There you did. I said it. This was an unforced error. You know?
And you did it to yourself. You can't be hurt by what you don't say. And they should have just kept their mouths shut. Exactly. Exactly. All right, well, we'll see everybody tomorrow. Tomorrow the Doc will be in with us. He's in tonight, too, so you can catch him at 6.05, and you can catch him tomorrow at 4 o'clock. We'll see you then.
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