Crunch Time In Pennsylvania Politics

Politics gets weird when yard signs vanish overnight and someone tries to hack your ads right as momentum hits. We’re Hillbilly John Marietta and PA State Senate candidate Al Buckton, and we talk candidly about what the last two weeks before an election really look like in Greene County and Washington County: tight timelines, nonstop outreach, and the pressure that shows up the moment a race gets competitive. 

From there, we get into what voters are actually saying at the doors. The cost of living keeps coming up, especially taxes, groceries, and utility bills that feel impossible for working families and seniors. We also unpack endorsements and vetting, including Peters Township’s process and the FOAC questionnaire that drills into constitutional law and Second Amendment issues, plus why we think that kind of scrutiny matters more than flashy mailers. 

We don’t dodge the big policy fights either. We talk energy and economic development, including the debate over data centers, grid demand, job promises, and why “progress” only works when the infrastructure and benefits make sense for local people. We also hit election integrity and voter ID, frustration with party insiders, and why small business growth often comes down to practical networking rather than photo ops. 

If you care about Pennsylvania politics, PA State Senate races, energy policy, local jobs, and what a grassroots campaign sounds like when it’s unfiltered, press play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who follows local elections, and leave a review with the one issue you want candidates to answer clearly.

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Transcript

Welcome And Why It’s Tense

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Hey everybody, and I want to thank you for tuning in for the Hillbilly John Radio Show slash podcast. Uh it's been a busy week. Uh we we were trying to get this done on Tuesday, and uh well it's now Wednesday, and uh um it'll probably get uh edited and put up on Thursday.

John’s Endorsement For Al Buckton

SPEAKER_01 1:10

So uh we're we're we're having to watch how we do things and watch our backs and move around a little bit in uh incognito right now because we got people that don't like us. How about that? But, anyways, uh thank you. And if you want to be part of the uh podcast, uh please tune in or please get a hold of me and uh we'll make sure that we we put you on. Uh, we got some big things happening in the next couple weeks. Uh but um today let's get started. I'll tell you what, folks. Yes, I'll tell you what. Out here in Green County, Washington County, in that little piece of beaver, we got a good man running for state senate. Yes, Al Buckton. I just call him Al. This fellow's from right here. Grew up in a single wad with six brothers and sisters, daddy in the coal mines, mama working hard. He built a masonry company with his own two hands, created good jobs, and he's a humanitarian through and through. Al's the kind of man who'll stop what he's doing to help just about anybody who needs it. This is John Marietta, the hillbilly, and I'm proud to stand behind Al Bucton for the PA State Senate. Yes, Al Bucton for State Senate, everyone. On May 19th, we need to get out and vote for Al Bucton for State Senate, and God bless each and every one of you, and God bless Al Bucton and the great state of Pennsylvania. Hey, I I wanted uh do a little endorsement for you, Al. I know you're everybody can see you on the podcast. Appreciate it. And uh I don't know, it's no big deal. We got we got we got another big one coming for you. Uh, we were we're working on this afternoon, and I just haven't got uh contact with some people, but we're we're hoping to we're hoping we get another big one for you too. Uh uh, and not that I'm I'm just a hillbullet.

SPEAKER_02 2:58

You're more than just a hillbilly, you're a patriot.

SPEAKER_01 3:01

But, anyways, uh I thank you for that. I I I will I thank you. Um, but anyway, anyways, we're here. We're uh two weeks out of the election. And uh crunch time. It's in uh we're running out of signs. Do we do we order more signs? We got more signs coming in.

SPEAKER_02 3:18

We did order more signs.

Two Weeks Out And Missing Signs

SPEAKER_01 3:20

It seems like uh I was having a problem. Uh if anybody knows, you know, we will gladly give them to you after the election. So if you want to take them home and put them on a wall or something, just give us a chance to get through the election and we'll we'll buy some more signs for you to frame and put on your wall.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

They're they're uh I guess they're good for target practice. And uh, I don't know what they're doing with them. I uh I buy so many signs, I don't even know how many thousands of signs I bought. Um, they always just mysteriously disappear. Yeah, it's it's it's a uh a mystery.

SPEAKER_01 3:52

My my people when I when I ran for office, they got they got they get so frustrated. We put a sign there yesterday, it's gone. I'd say, hey, you know what? Put another sign there. I said, don't worry about it. I said, we we we don't have time to we don't have time to fight with these people. Uh and that's what they're wanting. Yeah. And they're the it's just it's just a way to draw your attention away from things. Okay, Al, let's get busy. Uh we get we're gonna get you in the Senate, state. There's no doubt about it. I have I have 100% call confidence in this. Um we're working, we're working hard with uh you and trying to get things done. Uh the views on Facebook. Um, by the way, if you're gonna hack me, you're gonna have to do better than what you did because you know what? They I have IT people that know what they're doing, and uh they they tried to hack all my stuff here on uh Sunday night. And uh we caught we we we we we caught we just happened to be doing something, uh taking a five-minute break, drinking a cup of coffee, and uh I I looked at something and I said, There's something going on, and right away uh my man caught it, and uh we we shut it down and we got we was able to skirt uh they they were trying to take your ads down, Al.

SPEAKER_02 4:59

That's what I was gonna ask you. What exactly were they hacking?

SPEAKER_01 5:02

Well, they were trying to take your ads down. One of them, one of them had just started, which was which is really funny. One of them had just started and it had 15,000 views, and the other one started the day before, and it had like 20,000. And uh what we're pushing them, uh, we're helping you push the Marietta Broadcasting thing, is we're pushing them all over the all over the county. We're doing TV ads on on the on the streaming networks for you. Uh and uh but you know what? If you're gonna do this, you know what? You have to find somebody that's uh a little smarter than the hillbelly. So, anyways, uh back to back to you. We uh we got we got a short period of time. Al's got his jacket on, he's going out and he's gonna have a good time tonight at Peter's Peter's Township, right?

SPEAKER_02 5:45

Peter's Township. I was uh I was very humbling experience last night at Peter's Township. They endorsed me, um, their whole board. It was uh it was almost unanimous. There was one one no vote. Um, and obviously it was one of the people that uh tried to sue me. So I knew that was gonna be a no, but uh they have been just uh fantastic to me into the

Attempted Hacking And Ad Takedowns

SPEAKER_02 6:10

campaign to the movement. They really, you know, it uh a lot of these endorsements that people give, they just give them willingness.

SPEAKER_03 6:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:19

Um I and I appreciate what they did. They interviewed me for two hours, like six people, and then again I spoke, I don't know how many times in front of their body. Um, and I spoke one time with uh my opponent who was just a soup salad sandwich when she spoke. Um, I don't know what would have happened there, but um they really did their research and due diligence, and they did the right thing. Uh, and I appreciate that. It was a very, very humbling experience. Again, like I said, that they endorsed me last night. And that means a lot. That means more to me than than an organization like uh a big group that nobody even really knows who you are. No, um well, we've seen FOAC endorsed you too.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

Which is FOAC, that's huge, which is which is uh most uh the people that run for office, and I will tell you this most of the people running from office don't even want to talk to FOAC because the the process it isn't like can you it's a big deal.

SPEAKER_02 7:23

It's a big deal. That was um that was almost like a two-hour test. There was like 55 questions on there, um, mostly on constitutional law, um, Second Amendment, um, different scenarios. It was extremely tough. Um, but but we aced it and um had about an hour interview with uh one of their representatives. Um that was a very hard, hard one too. Um so I I'm I'm really appreciative to have those those two endorsements right there uh mean a lot.

SPEAKER_01 7:56

And I and I I I see things moving forward, I see I see how good things are. Let's face it, if if the your opponent wasn't worried, and I and and let's and I I'll call her Mrs. Deweys because that's her last name. Exactly. That's her last name. She she she and uh um if they weren't worried, they wouldn't be spending three hundred thousand dollars a week to try to beat you. Probably more, probably more now.

SPEAKER_02 8:26

I I would say more. She's definitely gonna spend a couple million dollars to try to beat me, and she's gonna fail. Um, the people see through it. You know, when I I was out knocking on doors, I knocked on 200 doors Saturday. Okay. Um I had three people that were just not interested that were voting for her. And obviously, in the business that I'm in with people and knowing people, I can read people pretty good. It's kind of like uh, you know, your your hypersensitive. So when when a person wants to invite you in and talk to you for so long, you know they're not BSing. You know what I mean? You know they're engaged with you and they and they want to find out all they can. And

Peters Township Backing And FOAC Test

SPEAKER_02 9:10

and by the time I leave, you know, they're supporting me. But it was it was very weird to see 200 doors, 200 people, and only three that were supporting her. That was strange. Now, I don't know what the polls are right now. Um, that's not up to me. That's up to the advisors um and consultants that I have to handle that stuff. But my polls are when I go to the doors and I see these people and I hear their concerns, you know, about the the cost of living. That's you just can't do it anymore. The taxes, you can't do it anymore. I heard that from so many, so many people. Um a lot of the elderly, elderly are really, they're really afraid. Um, you know, they cut back on their on their food, they cut back on everything. You know, my opponent has this commercial out that's a bunch of bullshit that says she's lowered taxes, she's cut the cost of of living down and cut utility cost. Well, my friend, I got a electric bill and it was through the roof now. And all these people I'm knocking on their doors, they're they're not believing that. Well, that's that's a lie.

SPEAKER_01 10:22

This is what uh I'm hearing. Um, I have of a couple friends. I will welcome friends. They're but I haven't known them for very long, but they're they're in Ohio, they're in they're in southern part of Ohio, and they're trying to bring you they uh in in Virginia, uh where they brought these data centers. Yes. And one thing that they said that you can count on with all these data centers is is your electric bill will go up. The one fella told me down in Virginia, he said my electric bill went up 30 percent. And he says, I'm from what I'm understanding, that's like the average when they bring these in. So so at least if we were mining coal, if we were pushing natural gas, we could be selling energy somewhere, somewhere. And the in the one uh fellow in Virginia, uh, he told me he said that uh he said they they promised us all these jobs, and he says, Yeah, there was jobs everywhere they were building it. Just construction temporary. He said after it was done, he said there was 12, and he said two of them were security people. Yeah, so he said, so 10 people, and he said the other thing was that in order to work in these data set and data centers, you have to have a level of education that's beyond what most people can even have. Sure, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:42

So uh when I win this primary, um Rita, my helper, we put together a plan. We're gonna take, I'm gonna rent three Greyhound buses, and we're gonna load up people, and we are gonna actually go down to Virginia. We have his plan put together to educate people, see what it's about. Um, because I don't know all that much about it except what I read. You know what I mean? So um, I'm not a person that does anything. Obviously, you know me, it's gotta be about research and data. Um, so I want to get some people and go down there and check them out. Um, my thing is my plan that I have, and I'm for progress, 100% for progress.

SPEAKER_01 12:27

Yeah, we have we both of us have cell phones, both of us. It has to be right. Will we drive automatic transmissions now? Yeah, I mean, yeah, it has to be right.

SPEAKER_02 12:34

So my my big thing is, you know, let's let's do, you know, most of them have the two turbines in their their um power plants.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:44

Let's make them do four, you know, do two, two with gas, two with coal, however you want to do it. So when the two are down for maintenance every quarter, they can hop onto the other two and it doesn't hurt the grid. Um, you know, that there's other ways, and that was part of Trump's plan. So I don't know why, you know, my opponent and all these people, they're getting away from what Trump actually actually was implementing. You know, uh obviously we know about the Crown Act. He was totally against that. Yeah, we know about Act 77. She went against him with the Save American Act.

SPEAKER_01 13:16

That that that the Act 77, no matter how you look at it, that's the reason why President Trump didn't serve two consecutive terms. There's no doubt about it. 100%. I believe it 100%.

SPEAKER_02 13:27

I'm all about ID. You know, I mean, you show your ID. What is the big problem with showing an ID? Well, that's discriminating. No, it's not discriminating. That's just your way to cheat. And these people are cheaters. And I'm afraid, I'm afraid right now that our party, it's fractured, it's fractured bad because the people they've woken up to see what's going on when you endorse candidates 10 months before time, um, which knocks everybody else out of the out of the race. You can't even have it's it's handpicked people that they get in a system. It's no good, it's no good at all. And I think the re the Republican Party of Peters Township did the right thing last night. They did it at the right time, they did the vetting. Um, I commend them. I give them all the credit in the world.

SPEAKER_01 14:17

These the and what what you have to realize,

Door Knocking And Cost Of Living Anger

SPEAKER_01 14:20

these are the people that are are out helping knock on doors, they're out, they're out talking to people, they're talking to their neighbors. And yeah, and this is something that they didn't count on. No, I mean, these are the people that are stepping up and saying, you know what, we've had all we can stand, and we're we're gonna we're gonna take back all these Senate seats. Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be it's gonna be, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:45

I I do. I think we're gonna we're gonna be fine in the Senate. I mean, we've held it since 1994. Um, and and that's a whole other story. I could talk about what we didn't get done since we've held it since 1994, when we did have the House majority as Republicans and did have a Republican governor at the same time. So we've had those scenarios before and still didn't get anything done. The wrong people. You have the wrong people, and they keep voting in all of their, you know, corrupt uh swamp rats, and and that's what you have. You have the high utilities, you have the high cost of fuel, you have all these uh the high cost of living. Everything is just it's wrong.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

Well, I I was talking, uh well, I actually didn't talk to him. He messaged a friend of mine's in the trucking business, and he told me, he says, John, he said, I'm gonna put a surcharge back on everything. Yeah, he said, I have to put a surcharge back on. He didn't and I I said to him, What are you what are you thinking? And he said, Well, he said, I'm gonna give it another week or two. He said, Hopefully they get this straightened out. But he said, I'm I'm hearing from most of my clients right now that uh, and he has several trucks, he said he said they don't mind paying a little bit more for gas, right? A little bit more for gas right now because we we can't let Iran have the nuclear capability.

SPEAKER_02 16:07

You can't, no, you can't at all.

SPEAKER_01 16:09

Um, and what what people don't realize is and this is the other thing that I and I now I'm gonna step up on a soapbox. If we hadn't killed that Keystone pipeline, your gas prices would be probably a dollar and a half a gallon less. Because what our it's not a problem, it's a good thing, but most of the oil in the United States is what they consider sweet, which is which has less contaminants in it. And our refineries aren't set up to do that because we've always brought oil in from Venezuela, we brought oil in from garbage oil from yeah, across the sea, and and it is dirtier oil. If we would have been able to do that with the with this with the uh shale oil coming out of Canada with the Keystone Pipeline, we would be able to mix it and we'd be able to refine it right here. And that's what the problem is. It's the cost of refining it, and it has to be a lot of this has to be refined somewhere else because we're not set up to do it. And people say, Well, change things. Well, yeah, okay. It isn't like I can go out and send send Jethro out to ch flip a valve and then we're changed. There's a lot of work to do on this, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:22

I just you know, it government is a is a strange thing. Um it's a terrible thing. Well, it's a terrible thing, but it really doesn't have to be a terrible thing.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

It don't have to be.

SPEAKER_02 17:33

But when you have people in there that don't know what the hell they're doing, then it becomes a terrible thing. Yeah. So just for instance, you know, they gave um a grant to, if you're familiar with 21 going towards the Walmart up there, okay. All that dirt digging they're going that they have going on, they're putting in a new sewage line. Five hundred thousand dollars they gave to get two restaurants in there. That's our tax money going to facilitate two businesses to put two restaurants in.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

And and and I'm talking about down by Waynesburg.

SPEAKER_02 18:07

Yeah, and I'm okay with that, but then across the street, you have a businessman that made a development there that spent millions of his own money that they never gave a penny to, where the Walmart sits, where the WWU building sits, where producer supply sits. They never gave him anything, they've they jacked his taxes up and beat him down. And I I I commend him for just staying here because I'm telling you, I would have just packed up and left, and he could have grew

Data Centers And Rising Power Bills

SPEAKER_02 18:40

grew weeds.

SPEAKER_01 18:41

I've I I've I've become to know you right now. Uh you you would have fought the battle.

SPEAKER_02 18:45

Yeah, I yeah, well, I didn't want to. I would have thought about it. But here's a guy that's a homegrown guy, yeah, putting his own money out there. They should have helped him out. He's the guy that that we want to help out. So you're gonna bring in a Chipotle and uh Mother McDonald's or some fast food place, right? We give him a half a million dollars. It's just not right, it doesn't sit right with me at all. You know, I I want to get progress, I wanna I want to spur people on. I met with a guy this morning and he's like, you know, I'd really like to start a business. I said, okay. What do you do? He said, I'm a fire marshal. I said, here you go. I said, let's do this. Why don't you find a little shop, get your storefront property, cheap rent. I said, uh start selling fire extinguishers, safety signs, all kinds of other things. I said, there's 1,500 gas wells around here, range resources, EQT, plus all these other businesses. He's like, I've been wanting to do that. He said, but I don't know how to. So I said, SBA loans are impossible. They're impossible. You need you need a doctorate, uh, you need to be a lawyer to fill those out. Most people can't even get them. So forget about the SBA. So networking. Networking is so important. I call a guy that has a business called Recon Group. He does that kind of stuff. There's nothing in the area down there that actually has that type of system set up. So right now, I created a business for these two guys, they're gonna partner up and open one up down in Washington. Just like that. I mean, they don't have that skill set that we have as business owners as with the networking. All they want to do is go get their picture taken after it's already opened.

SPEAKER_01 20:40

Yeah, or or or or before it gets opened, and then they got to figure out how to how to spin it.

SPEAKER_02 20:46

You're not gonna see me, John, and all these photo ops. You're not gonna people take pictures, they're gonna have to come to where I'm getting work done. I'm going to be behind the desk like you are, getting work done. That's what I do.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

We have to get that that's the one thing that I really uh uh I I want to see move forward. I want to see people going forward. With industry. Industry has in industry fixes it. Industry fixes the taxes, industry fixes the the the housing problem, industry will fix these things. I don't understand why in the in this area. And I'm and I'm gonna include Fayette and Somerset and Bedford and um um Washington and Green County and and people we'll even we'll even take all uh Beaver County. Why can't we have someone that makes tires here? Everybody has four of them on her car.

SPEAKER_02 21:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:53

Okay, so evidently everybody needs four tires. Why can't we be making tires here?

SPEAKER_02 21:58

There's a lot of things. Why aren't we making drugs? I that's my that's part of my plan for Charleroi. I've been in contact with some people in the defense industry to get the drones made down there with the old Pyrex plant. I mean, these people have no vision, they have tunnel vision. That's what they have. They are totally incapable.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

They have vision. Their vision comes up every four years when they need re-elected. That's the only time you get these fancy mailers that they that they about what they're what they're gonna do or what they've already done. And most of the stuff that got done while they were in office would have happened no matter what. I mean, it was just it just would have happened because it it wasn't like they pushed

Energy Mix And The Keystone Argument

SPEAKER_01 22:40

hard to do anything. They don't go home at night and fret over it. The only time they're fretting is three weeks before the election.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

That's that's the truth. And obviously, you could tell that by the TV ads that's coming out against me about how bad of a person I am. I just I I love when they come out because I laugh at them. I do because everything about it is a lie. Where they said I raised the taxes on the school board. I mean, uh all this stuff is a lie about, you know, I personally sued 23 people. No, my business sued 23 people because they didn't pay their bill. And I have a fiduciary duty as a CEO under the guidelines to make sure the company gets its money because that money goes to pay my employees and their health insurance, and their health insurance, so they took the money out of my employees.

SPEAKER_01 23:32

Well, let's think about this a little bit. Uh, and and I'm gonna bring this up. The the mess that happened down in Charleroi with with with all the Hessians, just down her and and and she's trying to spin it like these people that come in originally that named Charleroi were in the glass.

SPEAKER_02 23:48

Oh, the Belgian thing, that was another super solid.

SPEAKER_01 23:51

But yeah, I mean, okay, they made glass and they were they were good people and they were these people that are showing up, they're getting they're getting a snap card, they're getting a phone, and they're getting everything, everything. I mean, everything care education, yeah. I mean, they they're they're doing better, they're doing better than what it's not just here, it's across the whole state. Yeah, it's billions of dollars that we have to pay for. And just think about it, if it wasn't such a big problem, how come it was on President Trump's radar? Yeah, I mean, how come it was?

SPEAKER_02 24:21

Yeah, it it was, and then for her to say, well, now she's blaming uh Congressman Rischenthaler, who's a good friend of mine, and I'll stick up for him. He's a very good congressman. I went down to DC many times with him, and I seen what goes on down there. And believe me, it's not pleasant, it's a fight every day because they want to impeach our president every day, these Democrats. And you know what? That's her mentality. It's the Democrat mentality, the ideology. That's what my opponent believes in, you know, and her husband. Well, her husband, Bill Deweys.

Voter ID And Party Frustration

SPEAKER_02 24:55

I mean, you know, convicted, felon, criminal. Um, he still is a Democrat. You know, they said, Well, you were a Democrat. I was a Democrat. And when I seen President Trump coming in, going down the escalator, that was it. I changed. I said, because that's what I've been looking for. That's the guy. I'm gonna follow him. Um, a businessman, smart, knows how to fix things, solve problems, create, you know, the problem with economy, the problem with businessmen.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

And and it's a good problem. Don't ever take time to worry about who you're gonna have to answer.

unknown 25:34

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Yeah, I mean, it if they if they called you up and told you, I don't know, we'll say that you you had it, yeah, I got it. I just bought you just bought a D6, yeah, and they're they're gonna drop it off, and there isn't nobody here. You you're you're you're here, yep. You're here.

SPEAKER_02 25:49

I you know what that's funny you said that because I mean, I mean, here in the middle of the night loading excavators when they come in. Yeah, I mean, that's that's no.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

But but but I mean, and you you don't you don't take time to answer, and I and I never forget uh I worked for a fellow that was millionaire several times over, and he told me one day, um, he says, he says, once you get to the point where you're running your own company and you're answering, you have to you have to answer for everything. He says, they you go to the doctors and he laughed about it. He said, and they take that bone out where you have to explain things to people. And he don't, and he's and in the same breath, he told me, he says, John, I pay you to do something. He says, if it's wrong, I'll fix it. Yep, he said, and I'll stand beside you. But if you do nothing, you need to find another job. And that's and that's what the problem is. Most people will say, Oh, what happens if I do this? No, let's do it and find out. And uh, you know, you don't you don't pay an attorney.

SPEAKER_02 26:48

I think, and that's a good point. I think they're so afraid to do anything because they're so afraid to make a mistake. Well, they're calculating votes. Well, they're cowards, they're they have no backbone, yeah. And uh that's that's not me. I mean, and obviously that's not President Trump. I mean, it's it's a really good thing, but like I said, it it was uh a real eye-opener down there, but she blamed Thomas Reichstaller. Then she started to say, it's a federal thing, it's a federal thing. Well, yeah, it's a federal thing to get them out of there now, but you facilitated them coming in by letting them have state funds, taxpayer money, our money. And and like I said, I was down there the other day. The Belgians, when they came in, they built the city, yeah, they worked, they contributed to society, they built the churches, they built the railroads, they did everything. This no, total opposite.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

Yeah, just think about this. My great great grandfather came here, right?

Grants, Taxes, And Picking Winners

SPEAKER_01 27:50

They stopped him, he came in to Ellis Island, came from Scotland, right? He was a blacksmith, right? He had to have somebody here to sponsor him before he could get in. And they had to show where the job was. Well, one of his one of my uncles or at the time, like a great uncle, great-great uncle, he had to go to New York to get him and they asked him about a job. Well, they were afraid to lie. They said he there's not a blacksmith's job for him in Dunbar right now, but there's a stone cutter's job. And the guy at the thing at the at the when they were letting him in said, Well, I guess both of them use a hammer, so he they let him come. But I mean, you think about what they did. I mean, they they started when when he walked off of that ship, he he had he had a few tools in it with him in a bag, and that's all he had. He had one change of clothes.

SPEAKER_02 28:42

Yeah, I listen, I know all about it.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

Um I mean, you came from you came from them same kind of roots that I did.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

I did, I did. I uh like I said, I was 17 when I graduated, and I was directly down to Virginia to learn something, to learn to trade. I was finishing concrete at a plant in the middle of the night for Inca, a uh company out of Europe, and um it was what's known now as the Metro. I did finish the concrete on the concrete segments. There were so many of them that complete 13 that complete one's one circle that goes in there. And um, I mean, I just turned 18. A kid that that you know, it's uh it's a different, different time then, you know. I mean, I guess it's how hungry you are and what you want for your life, you know. I mean, we grew up poor, and I swore I was like, I'm never living like that again. It was it was tough. So, but and here's here's a unique thing. There's 7.9 million jobs out there right now, right now for men. 7.9 million labor and industry, that's their numbers. There's 7.2 men, workable men from the ages of I think it was 18 to 40, 7.2 million men that are not working, that are able to work, that are on some type of system. Put them together. Well, I mean, it's a shame.

Industry Vision And Local Manufacturing

SPEAKER_01 30:10

One last time. Well, I mean, we might uh might get it showing next week. We'll see how things go. Um I'd appreciate it. But uh um give us some context.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

Um buckedinforpa.com. Uh that's our website. You can go on there, there's a lot of cool things on there. Um, Buckedin for Senate on Facebook, and we're we're everywhere now. Um, we're on X. Um, I don't even know I don't even know about that stuff. You're like you're like me. Yeah, yeah. I gotta ask the 11-year-old, well, she's 12 or 13 now, but how to you know open my phone. But there's a lot of different uh uh social media platforms that they can reach out to us on. And uh obviously my phone number is 412-779-0117. I give it to everybody, and it's uh almichael7 at gmail.com. That is my direct email. Um, reach out to me. I'd really like to hear from you.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

Yeah, I and I and I tell you what, um we become friends over the last, and I and I really appreciate everything you've done for me and and uh and anything I can do for you in the future. We're gonna keep on moving. A lot of people think that uh this is gonna end, but um the guy across the the across from me right now has bigger plans for us than than this.

SPEAKER_02 31:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:23

So, but anyways, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_02 31:25

Appreciate you.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

And I and uh we're gonna close up. Thank you. Have a nice day, everybody. Thank you for tuning in.