come up. it s going to to be bright all evening long. and today s faith and friends concert series we have the house fires here live. they ve been practicing, and it was beautiful. absolutely. rachel: yeah. we love having all this great music here on the weekends. we re not jealous of the week days anymore, now we have our music. pete: just co-opted it for six weeks. they are setting the house on fire here, it s a wake-up call. rachel: it s i awesome. there s so much energy in the green room. we can t wait to bring them out later in the show. joey: they sound so great. you go to concerts, that doesn t sound quite as good as the radio. that was beautiful. pete: very, very well cone. well done. we re one hour into a four-hour tour, one hour behind where we were yesterday. so you do the math of what that all means, i don t know. we re going to start with this, at least two people are kid in california dead in california as major flooding devastates entire communities. thousa
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have all now got to be exceptional. thank you for coming in just before your summer break. what did you think of what keir starmer had to say? as ever you can e mail me and we will share some of your views towards the end of the show or use the hashtag on social media if you are that way inclined. what did you make of that? i am head and hands. what did you make of that? i am head and hands- 0n what did you make of that? i am head and hands. on just what did you make of that? i am head and hands. on just stop what did you make of that? i am head and hands. on just stop oil, - what did you make of that? i am head and hands. on just stop oil, keir - and hands. onjust stop oil, keir starmer is talking about how he totally rejects blah blah blah, but they voted against, time and time again in the house of commons, when we were trying to create new laws to enable the police to stop those people gluing themselves to the roads so his mum and others can get to hospital. it s saying one t
biden s administration is saying one thing, doing another, and joe manchin s chiming in and joining the team here. it s green energy policies that have pushed us in this direction. what do you expect car companies to do if you re telling them they basically have to create electric vehicles and we, through our own regulation, have made it where we don t have mines anywhere, to we can t make these batteries the same way china because. they re pushing for offshore or wind, but it s okay because rachel: it s children in africa, who cares? pete: you flashed a graphic, it s not just ford, it s gm, tesla, volkswagen the government has put those companies in the place where they do these types of things. by the way, china, they launched a war cabinet in october, they re implementing the largest military buildup since world war ii, they re trying to sanction-proof their own regime and mobilizing the civilian population for war. i mean, this is a country that