texas-oklahoma. are have you ever been to ocktoberfest, done it in germany? pete: have you? will: yes, i have done that. what is it like? it is a ball. it is rachel: was there more drinking than last night? will: very similar. it is, you go to a huge tent and, there is just people everywhere you stand. no seats. you stand at a table. you get to know people, strangers, it s a day event. you know, so it is drawn over long period of time. the mugs are gigantic. pete: yep. will: get a bruise, get a bruise underneath the knuckle, all day long you re lifting this. rachel: exercise. will: it is stereotypical of what they call them? maids? pete: as you see it in the movies. will: it really is. she comes out i don t know how many mugs. they are gigantic, she has a way of carrying them. it is so fun. rachel: how is the food? will: germany is not my favorite food. we re going to have some food out here. will: this is going to be excellent i m sure. pete: i ve been to a beer hall i
maybe this widget doesn t get done, doesn t get made but our national security is so important. you just can t mess around with that mission. pete: yeah. the more differentiated and distinct you are, how difficult it is people are attracted to that. oh, karn i attain that. not, oh, we re just like everybody else except we wear camouflage. that is where it become as less attractive alternative. and leaders like lloyd austin, i mean, my goodness, talk about a textbook case of somebody who couldn t lead his way out after brown paper bag. just not a leader. who should been fired after what happened in afghanistan. pete: or fired others instead excused it away. rachel: we re on it. renaming bases. pete: we re renaming bases everything is fine. oh, man. we have a few additional headlines for you. we ll try not to depress you.
look at reality? i see killing pipelines. putting more regulations. that is what i m seeing. that doesn t encourage investment in the united states energy sector and that is what we need right now. the u.s. energy sector right now is so underinvested. we need millions, if not billions of dollars to get our power grid to where it needs to be, to increase oil and gas production to keep the lights on. if we don t do that, we re going to be following that same path. we re going to be wondering whether we can keep the lights on or keep the heat on during winter. rachel: a lot of americans don t understand that in germany people are, middle class, upper class people are going into the woods, they re chopping down wood. they re hiring people to do it for them to bring wood in, because they don t think they will have enough energy to warm their homes over the winter. i m concerned, phil, about manufacturing in europe. energy prices will affect that. so if the manufacturing sector collapses, fo