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And yeah, so some of those aren't.
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Number one the Big Three, well it's a big one
at least they're trying to make it out to be.
More Epstein files released, including in this trove what I
believe may be one of the reasons you for Trump
really uh speak out against the what he calls hoax
in this scenario, not that the story's not real, not
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that there hasn't been issues, and not that Epstein wasn't
up to some really serious.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And six stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
No, but the way they're trying to portray it now
they've released Congress included this this birthday book message, which
we'll go through a little bit later on today, seems
to be an absolute hoax of all hoaxes. So many
thing's wrong with this little piece of I don't know
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if it's a card or piece of paper that was
typed out and then signed by President Trump. Well, the
signature that if you compare it doesn't really even resemble
is the message is also a little off. And all
of these things causing folks, experts lawmakers alike to be skeptical,
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noting the drawing style, the signature don't match anything Trump's
known for doing in the past. But that's not what
you'll hear if you tune end to the mainstream narrative
this morning.
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Number two.
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That's why you come here again. All the truth, including
the story about the big wing. With the Supreme Court
yesterday for Trump and Ice, a six Street decision known
versus per Domo scottis lifting the injection blocking immigration agents
from stopping and arresting individuals in Los Angeles without probable
cause even when race, language, job, or location were factors.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
All of those can be complete.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Included the yeah the ruling restoring broad enforcement authority in La,
signaling a major legal victory for the administration's immigration crackdown. Yeah,
and as you can imagine, the mayor of La Karen Bass,
the one who let her town burn, she doesn't like
it either. She is dissenting, she says from that decision herself.
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Here's what Karen Bass had to say yesterday day.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
The Supreme Court, the very body that used to advanced
civil rights and defend personal liberties, liberties, has now given
the green light for law enforcement to profile and detain
Angelino's based on their race.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Now she cares.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Apparently didn't care enough to come back home during the
wildfire state overseas during her tip.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
What was she in Africa? Someplace like that? I think
is the situation? Now she care? She cares here.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
President Trump launching a bold new initiative yesterday called America
Praise Chapping yesterday when he gave a speech at the
Museum of the Bible, which you say, but if if
you've never been and you get a chance to take
the family to Washington, d C. On one of these
big trips sight saying and whatnot, I highly recommend it.
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I was just there a couple of months back, and
it's absolutely beautiful. You got to get in and check
it out. And there's lots to see there. So he's
asking folks to devote themselves rededicate to being one nation
under God. I had of nations two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
the celebration course coming next year, calling on every state's
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faith communities to gather in groups of ten and pray
for the.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Country for one hour weekly.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Trump also pledged new Education Department guidance to protect prayer
in public schools and donated his family Bible to the museum,
the Museum of the Bible. Civil liberties experts promptly raising
concerns over a potent but of course they are.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But their religion is the state. So oh, it's true.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Every time we hear this separation of churches state, well,
their church.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Is the state.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
These folks on the left, just the truth, that's all
it is. I got lots to lots to talk about
still yet today we'll have a couple of guests that
you're gonna want to hear from it. Like I mentioned earlier,
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a lot happening in the nation's capital and even our
state as well. But the stories that matter most. A
lot of times happen in your own backyard, and one
of them, we'll talk with some folks in Ottawa County
that are fighting the good fight again. You saw this
happen in Green Charter Township, Macosta County when they fought
against that Chinese Communist Party link battery plant they tried
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to put in gushin up north.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You remember that big story China.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, well they've had a similar fight on their hands
here a little bit closer home. We'll get into that
story that you're not gonna want to trust me on
this talk of the folks, right smack dab in the
middle of it.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
After that call, Justin now at six one six seven
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Michigan Live with Justin Barclay on News Radio Wood thirteen
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All right, quick, right, we're back with more next. Don't
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It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on News Radio
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Speaker 7 (08:31):
If ive, a new battery energy storage facility could be
coming to Wattawa County. Key Capture Energy is looking to
build a plant in Blended Township, but some members of
the community say it'll hurt their farm. Rich Area newsaids
Adriana Dourria spoke with neighbors in the area to get
their reaction to the proposal. She has more from Blendon Township.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
This is the proposed location for this battery energy storage facility.
It's going to be right here behind this substation in
the world. It's said to take up over fifteen acres
of land and this is a very rural area that
is going to soon potentially become industrial that.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's a battery energy storage system. As you mentioned, they
call it best. The reporter just said, it's a rural area,
it's farm a lot of farm land, and it's an
area that's going to become industrial. Think about the chemicals
and things used inside of that system. Bev Horing is
with us here now. She's been at the forefront of this,
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reached out a while back, and I'm glad we can
finally get you on TOV to tell this story. I
now you trying to shine a light on this so
that folks understand what's going on. Welcome on, appreciate you
taking the time to be here with us this morning.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Well thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Justin you all are in the middle of a fight
that same sort of issue. I think people are finding
themselves in at different places. They don't really get in
a lot of ways, I think before the attention that
they deserve in these fights. A lot of times these
things just they sort of seem to get railroaded or
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ram rotted in and they they really don't get a
choice in the matter. But in recent years people have
decided to stand up and you guys are in there,
tell us what about this system that's coming in that
you're fighting, Why you don't like it? And the process
is how it's played out so far.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Well, basically the potential dangers that it has is what
concerns us. Like you said, we are a farm rich area.
In therefore, if anything should happen, which many of already
had fires, the thermal runoff fire is very toxic. The
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land around that is damaged from the toxins will never
be usable again. And unfortunately with our farm, our land
completely surrounded right where the battery farm is going to
be going into.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So what what would power the batteries? Is this regular
coal fired plants that are going to produce the energy
to fire?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
This?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Is it solar? Is it wind? Do they talk about that?
And why do they need batteries?
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Well, they say that wind and solar are not going
to be in their electrical pull it. So my assumption
is it's all coming from our coal plant. They're going
to pull the electric off the line, stored into the
lithium ion batteries, and when the need is high, they
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will release it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I don't understand why they can't just produce like they
always have. This seems like there's a solutionaire without a problem.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Well, our governor is trying to shut down the Campbell plan,
so that's why we're starting to see all this solar
and wind farms coming up into play here.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, I understand that, and I understand that they've been working.
By the way, that's the same reason why our bills
keep going up too.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
There's a story out of Ohio today and I don't
know if you saw this. Well, we talk about this
a little bit later on coming up in tech Talk
this morning with our good friend Trent kenebby Affordable I Store.
But in Ohio there's a bill out there. Lawmakers are
trying to put it together to allow utility companies to
limit your energy usage. So, in other words, if we
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get a peak time and they need to pull more
energy for you know, manufacturing or something that they deem
as a higher priority than you in your in your home,
they'd be able to do that, which which is why
to me. But with the meters and everything else that
they have these days, and of course this story, it
sort of lines up that they might want to do this,
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and I guess we're probably forgetting the elephant in the room,
which is all the data facilities and the AI eventually
that they're going to try and get up to speed
and running. That's going to probably be more drained than
you or I and any of us running our big
screen TV in a refrigerator or anything else in the
house with the air conditioner. At the same time, even
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if we're plugging our tessels in, we're still not going
to be the type of drain that that they're going
to be. So I understand that they're looking for different
ways to do things in this day and age.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But in your situation, you say not in.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
My backyard, No, definitely not. Farmland is being attacked here
in Michigan, in West Michigan, very farm Rich just north
of US is three hundred acres that they're looking at
to do an AI data center. Well, that's probably part
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of the reason why they want to put in a
battery farm here, because they do drain the area town
and cause brownout. Now, West Michigan, we don't deal with brownout,
but yet they think we're going to. So there's got
to be a correlation between all the solar farms, wind farms,
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and the data center is going in that they're looking
at us to hold electricity, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Some maybe the saddest part of this is that none
of this should have ever been a problem in the
first place. The wind solar and pardon my French, but
I call a wind solar and unicorn farts. Oh, that's
what they're pushing on all of us, all this sort
of pie in the sky fantastical technology that I don't
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think really isn't is improven to do any sort of
good for anyone just yet, and I don't know that
it ever will except for draining our pockets. And then
I think the other issue is they talk about affordable
and reliable, Well, I don't think this technology is either one.
As you just mentioned the brownouts. That's the quiet part
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they're saying out I guess outloud.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
Now Michigan is the worst place for solar and wind,
and so we need to keep our Campbell plant coal.
We need to look at nuclear. That's where our electricity
comes from. We're not going to be able to produce
enough to do much of anything with Michigan's.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Weather one of the things. And Bev Harge is with
us right now. They're looking at a battery storage. It's
called Bess Facility there near right next to the farm.
She's on Blended Township there in Ottawa County, and residents
are standing up and finding this. We've heard from a
number of folks have reached out and said, please talk
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about this. Uh and Bev, You've got a Facebook community
where people are sharing not just the word on this,
but some things that are happening throughout the state as well.
But this this, this has come to the forefront, this particular,
this particular subject.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You're even hearing from people.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I noticed that Joe Moss has come out as an
Otawa County commissioner with a strong statement against us. Have
you heard from any elected officials on this? You mentioned
you know that this is starting to kind of pick
up speed.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
We've contacted a few different of our local ones. We
have not heard a whole lot back from them, just
that they're looking into it.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
So at this.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Time we do have Joe Moss behind us, we have
Brendan Muhir behind us, and they are big helps in
the push to oppose the battery farm.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And again, for you all, this is not just an
environmental issue, but it's an issue of what happens to
the legacy of the farm and what will you be
able to do if there is a problem. There are
there leaks often do you have any background the research
on how this plays out and what it looks like
when these facilities go bad.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Here's the interesting thing. Ksee is a very young company
and the battery containers that they want to put here
as of yet have not been in production in operation.
I looked into it a little bit more. There are
different states that are going to be using them, but
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right at this point they're only UL tested and therefore
they have no true testing other than the UL testing
on what's going to happen with these after youth and
most if you look at them at four years, that's
when they start having the problems. And the interesting thing
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is case in their application holds the rights to at
four years sell off the rights to another company, so
therefore they can keep themselves clean by selling off before
the problems start.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And I can't imagine that the that the life on
these things is is that is that long? Bev Will
you come back? I want to definitely continue to have
this conversation with you. Maybe we can speak off the
line here in a little bit as well. But will
you come back with more information about this and as
you all continue to try and get the word out,
I'd love to have you do that. But also what
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can people do if they hear this and they want
to help support you all?
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Right now, well, we could use prayers. Right now September fifteenth,
we have a board meeting and the board has an
ounce that the application has been received and will then
go on to the planning committee. So we do need prayers.
I'm looking for people to email, to call and oppose.
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Let the board know, the township know that we do
not need to become industrialized here. We want to stay
the farming community that we are. At this point, we're
just getting ready to set up for donations. We have
not gotten that far yet. We're in the process right
now of doing that.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well, we will will make sure that we keep people
apprized of this and acid prayers, anything else that you'd
like for people to know, or anywhere you.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Want them to go.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Well, if you're in the township or the neighboring townships
that will be also affected by any thing that happens
with those battery containers, please show up to the planning
committee meeting that's in October, but also September. We really
need you to show up in to show that you're
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opposing this to the board meeting on September fifteen, seven pm.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Now, we'll make sure we put this information links to
the stories as well online in our stack today daf
onarga as the folks here in Blennon Township, Ottawa County
fight to oppose what would be a battery battery energy
storage system there. They say they have real concerns about
Thank you so much for taking the time, BEV. We
appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Oh, thank you justin. I appreciate it too.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Absolutely, praying for you guys, and we'll continue to keep
folks up there in here. Those stories come through tech
Talk more on this subjects back after this and we
check our bond the hour as hang on. Lots of
questions about this battery plan. I'm gonna put the story
on the stack today at Justin Barclay dot com so
you can check it out. But it's we were just
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talking about this off here. It's not this whole thing
is it's it's nothing new here. These types of things
are happening over and over again. And if they weren't
pushing wind solar and unicorn farts this whole time, you
would there would be no need for for any of this.
I know it's the same with the Green Charter township
situation and gosh and whatnot. Yet they still continue to
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push these these ideas, this agenda and uh, this is
just another battle. Look the you see how successful they've
been with Goshen. These things are possible, but they are
They're going to be long drawn out and uh and protracted,
and unfortunately in situations or rural areas. They seem to
have a real target right now. So Blended Township is
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in for it. But they do have some folks that
are in the fight with them. That sounds good, and
we'll make sure that we continue to connect people.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Hey, we got lots to time.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
In fact, we'll talk a little bit more about that
battery situation and a few other major announcements on a
tech Talk segment this.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Morning, sack into the latest in tech and how it
affects you and your world. This is tech Talk Tuesday
on Wood Radios West Michigan Live.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Our good friend Trent.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Can it be a football lize store like Michigan Drive.
It's Dandelle is standing by Brand River Tech as well.
You got questions, He'll answer them all for you. Good morning,
my friend. Appreciate you taking the time to be here
with us today. How are you doing good?
Speaker 9 (22:23):
Justin good morning?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Hey, you have some big announcements coming today.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Apple has a big day. They got a new phone coming.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It looks like, at least anyway, we may see a
couple other things on that list too. I want to
talk about a few of those big announcements. But first
there's something that we were just talking about which I
thought was kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Obviously, this battery plan.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I just dropped the story in sort of Oh, by
the way, as we were discussing that it's in Ohio.
They have a bill now that's actually Republicans pushing it,
which is kind of that would allow these utility companies
to throttle people's energy. Now, this is in Ohio, that's
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not far from us. We can imagine that, you know
that if they can do it, the probably might be
an effort to get that done here. All that might
i'd say, most likely come from the Democrat side here
in Michigan when they look at this. But to me,
will you watch these stories, it really is it's it's
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concerning because again, all of this is about control. It's
about turning power off for us probably when we need
it most. And the truth is that they've had the
ability to do this for a long time now, we
we just didn't know about it. This bill would make
it completely lawful, according to what it looks like they're
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trying to push.
Speaker 9 (23:52):
Yeah, justin These programs have been out for ages for
I don't know fifteen years now, as far as back
as I've known about locally here where you could volunteer
to have a little device but on your air conditioner
with consumers you know, energy locally And my first house
is when I heard about this, probably fifteen years ago,
and it was a volunteery program. It was not required,
it was not forced by the government. There was some
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education about it. I almost signed up for it at
the time. I thought Hey, that's that's not a bad idea.
Save some money right there. But on the other hand,
if it's ninety five degrees and you need air conditioning
and you don't have the ability to have that unless
you call in you get a certain number exceptions a year.
It was just like this is messy. And then obviously
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we get here today where it's like, hey, the power
grids are really struggling. They're struggling because of renewable energies
are not hitting the demands and the marks that they
should be hitting because the math has been how do
you want to say this inaccurate conveniently, not used accurately,
And so they really have a problem where if they
don't curb peak demand, they're going to have to either
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go nuclear or some other methods natural gas to increase
those peak demand hours. They actually had emergency alerts issued
in Ohio during the summer, and that really scared them
to realize that, Hey, if we don't put something together,
we're going to have to add more capacity or push
these programs on people in a more forcible way. And
I don't like that. If they want to have a
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voluntary program, fine, but when the government forces us, what
we can do just and there's tons of ways that
we can help smooth the peak demand in our energy grid.
There's buy back from people that can generate their own stuff.
Back in twenty eighteen, when they Consumers Energy and other
utilities revamp the buyback program, they give so little money
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for people to pay back solar, wind, natural gas, other
forms of generating electricity to put that back into the
grid during peak times that it's not even worth doing.
If they were serious about this, they would incentivize buyback
of electricity from customers who do have the means to
generate that during peak time. So it's it's very political
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justin there's a lot more going on this than just
turning your thermostat back a few degrees when it's really hot.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Do you remember and you you made this point and
I kind of laughed chuckled thinking about that because you said, yeah,
this was a volunteer thing. I remember making the point.
There were a lot of us who said, look, it's
going to start with hey, if you want a better rate,
you can do this, but eventually they're just going to
tell you this is what you're going to do. And
there are a lot of people that actually fought, and
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you know they're looked at kind of crazy. They're probably
having the last laugh now for what they smart meters
taking off of their homes or or fighting that, because
that's one of the ways that they can they can
use and control down to the very house, what what
your energy flow looks like and how that works. You
know what's interesting to watch this now is it's kind
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of it's all coming into uh, into the big picture.
People are starting to really see what it what it
all means. Uh and uh, this is not going anywhere, folks.
Your bill is going up. In fact, there's a story
out of Ottawa County yesterday. I think it's George. I
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don't remember which, which which township it was, but they've
got their water bill just went up like fifty percent,
Like their water bill went through the roof.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
And people aren't going nuts over a water bill.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Same thing's going to happen with your power bill, with
your light bill, gas as well, and how much you're
going to be able to get because all the data center,
the AI, all of that, it's coming. They can't turn
it down. I don't think they're going to have the
wavos Rancherro's to do that anyway, and they may they
may actually be forced because of the competition that we're in,
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uh seemingly anyway with with countries like China. It's it's
a new it's Georgetown township.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Tammy said. By the way, water the water.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I saw people lined up to talk about the water
on Facebook the other day. Gosh, there's so many people
on line to talk about that there because they're just
ticked off.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
And I don't blame them.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
But this is something that I think has taken a
lot of people by surprise and really shouldn't trend.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Yeah, justin this summer, these last couple of summer bills
July and August, our home electricity bill was twenty five
percent higher than any of the past summers, you know, ever,
And that's because of the increased rates a slightly warmer summer,
for sure, But a big part of it's that peak
rate that we've only had the last couple of years,
during the middle of the day when you need it most.
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So And I don't know all the financials of the
electricity companies and all that works, but it seems like
they're never short on money. Why that gets passed on
to us with all their programs and incentives, and justin
it's even getting in the commercial world too. New electrical
services for commercial have crazy rules within have to separate
power supplies for lighting from heating and cooling and other things,
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which costs a ton of extra infrastructure costs for electrical
panels and wiring, all because they're planning on more and
more control for businesses, not just homes but as well
as businesses in the future, to control the power. That's
really what it comes down to. And right now, like
you said before, it's under the guise of you know,
helping with with peak rates, but once that equipment's all
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in there, if there's an emergency and the grid is
short on power, you know as well as I do,
they're going to issue an emergency order and cut people
to quote unquote save the grid.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I think it's been one of the biggest issues, and
I think you'll continue to see this and to the
the election here next year and beyond. But the electric
bills particularly and how much people are paced, not just here,
in fact, they're having the same issues down in Indiana, Ohio,
some of these other places where we're gonna it's going
to continue to be front and center so we're going
(29:57):
to follow that for you. Make sure we stay on
top of it all. Okay, I got a couple of stories,
just trying to figure out where we go next. There's
not a lot of time to get through all the
stuff we want to get today, so let me do this.
Your average attention span is now just eight seconds and dropping,
so we'll have eight seconds to spend on this conversation, Trent,
(30:21):
make it brief, but it's social media and everything else.
And boy, I think people are really starting, especially kids,
starting to fill this in school and other places. Your
focus just doesn't last like it used two doesn't.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
Yeah, justin our brains are amazing, amazing creations. Really in
all the swiping, all of the quick, the short videos,
everything is a quick attention span right on the internet,
the ads to swiping, the video shorts, everything is just
for a few seconds, and that makes our brain less
receptive to anything longer. And it's really people that do
(30:58):
studies on this show that it's destroying our brain. It's
destroying our ability to think, focus and actually retain core
pieces of information to make critical decisions. People are doing
it in a moment instead of waiting more than eight
seconds to say, hey, should I response to this message?
Should I cut this guy off when I'm driving down
the road. It literally has its tentacles into everything, and
(31:20):
it's literally to blame on social media and modern tech
is programming our brains and it's bad.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, Trent, can it be a footal Lize store limas
you can drive and stand down. Another big day today
for Apple and a big announcement's coming out today. A
new iPhone we may be getting, is this right? An
iPhone Air, new watches, heart rate tracking air pods. I
don't know if you want or I think you might
even need any of those, but Trent, apparently those announcements
(31:47):
are expected to meet made a little bit later today.
What can we look forward to?
Speaker 9 (31:54):
Yeah, we'll have this information all by late afternoon. But yes,
brand new iPhone seventeen Air, a slim down version of
the iPhone, same screen size as the normal phones, but
a slimmer, lighter version. That's going to be The rumors
are saying it might be a little bit more expensive
than the average phone, which I was surprised to see.
I wish they would have a little bit more affordable
(32:16):
new basic phone. They have new watches, to new watches.
They have an Ultra three, which is their premium watch.
There's a lot of things that are being released, but
the key here is just incremental upgrades. This is about
a twenty five percent upgrade at the very most from
any one feature. So if you're looking for a crazy
(32:36):
powerful camera or twice the battery life, you're not going
to get it this update round. If you want something
more major in the future, they're saying this air phone,
this iPhone seventeen air may pave the way for an
Apple foldable phone, which Apple hasn't touched, but they're saying
this might be the test model for half of the
foldable phone that they're going to release next year. Is
(32:58):
the rumors.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I don't need a vulnerable phone. I don't know about you,
but it just doesn't seem to be on my radar. Hey,
if you're like me and you're thinking I don't need
that new phone either, I just need something that works
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There.
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That's our Lizzie and I get our phones and devices
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to be here with us today.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
Thanks justin, have a great day.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
You got a Trent. Can it be.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
At a tech talk segment that you may want to
go back and listen to over again. There's some really
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All right back in moments.
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Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner. This Tuesday, September ninth,
I'm Robin Poffman. It's a Midwesterner. Dot News original story
here in Michigan, an EVY battery company bails on Governor
Whitmer despite taxpayer funding. The company a global mining giant
called Sportskewe will continue to explore opportunities elsewhere. Last year,
(35:49):
Whitmer promising the two hundred million dollar ev battery plant
in Detroit would create up to six hundred jobs and
build on our economic momentum. More woke lunacy here in Michigan,
Democrat State Senator Jeremy Moss says we're keeping boys in
girls bathrooms and showers. This after the Michigan House passing
a bathroom bill along party lines. It would ban transgender
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students from using school bathrooms as the gender they identify with,
and Michigan House Democrats claiming Republicans want to defund the police,
but the facts tell a very different story. House Republicans
want budget increases funding for law enforcement, contrary to what
Democrats are saying. Speaker Hall or Republicans says, our budget
does not get rid of one state police trooper. For
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We even cut some of our best segments up for you.
So this segment with Trent with a segment with Bevue
just started today. We'll cut those up. Yes, certainly talked
to a Congressman, John James is running for governor. It
cut that up and then it'll become its own segment,
and you can even listen to those peace by peace
(38:23):
when you'd like to there and get everything sort of
bite sized, bite sized ways of doing it. President Trump
yesterday saying, and we'll talk about this on the after
show at the Bible Museum, it's tyrants who are denying
our rights and the rights that come from God. That's right,
(38:44):
Tim Kain, the rights that come from God. He made
that point talking to leaders in the faith because.
Speaker 10 (38:50):
Things happened for our country. It's amazing the way it
seems to work that way. And under the Trump administration,
we're defending our rights and restoring our identity as a
nation under God. We are one nation under God and
we always will.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
That has a fantastic moment.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
We talked about that yesterday if you missed it, a
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And yeah, so some of those aren't.
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Number one the Big Three, well it's a big one
at least they're trying to make it out to be.
More Epstein files released, including in this trove what I
believe may be one of the reasons you for Trump
really uh speak out against the what he calls hoax
in this scenario, not that the story's not real, not
(02:24):
that there hasn't been issues, and not that Epstein wasn't
up to some really serious.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And six stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
No, but the way they're trying to portray it now
they've released Congress included this this birthday book message, which
we'll go through a little bit later on today, seems
to be an absolute hoax of all hoaxes. So many
thing's wrong with this little piece of I don't know
(02:52):
if it's a card or piece of paper that was
typed out and then signed by President Trump. Well, the
signature that if you compare it doesn't really even resemble
is the message is also a little off. And all
of these things causing folks, experts lawmakers alike to be skeptical,
(03:14):
noting the drawing style, the signature don't match anything Trump's
known for doing in the past. But that's not what
you'll hear if you tune end to the mainstream narrative
this morning.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Number two.
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That's why you come here again. All the truth, including
the story about the big wing. With the Supreme Court
yesterday for Trump and Ice, a six Street decision known
versus per Domo scottis lifting the injection blocking immigration agents
from stopping and arresting individuals in Los Angeles without probable
cause even when race, language, job, or location were factors.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
All of those can be complete.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Included the yeah the ruling restoring broad enforcement authority in La,
signaling a major legal victory for the administration's immigration crackdown. Yeah,
and as you can imagine, the mayor of La Karen Bass,
the one who let her town burn, she doesn't like
it either. She is dissenting, she says from that decision herself.
(04:15):
Here's what Karen Bass had to say yesterday day.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
The Supreme Court, the very body that used to advanced
civil rights and defend personal liberties, liberties, has now given
the green light for law enforcement to profile and detain
Angelino's based on their race.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Now she cares.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Apparently didn't care enough to come back home during the
wildfire state overseas during her tip.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
What was she in Africa? Someplace like that? I think
is the situation? Now she care? She cares here.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
President Trump launching a bold new initiative yesterday called America
Praise Chapping yesterday when he gave a speech at the
Museum of the Bible, which you say, but if if
you've never been and you get a chance to take
the family to Washington, d C. On one of these
big trips sight saying and whatnot, I highly recommend it.
(05:09):
I was just there a couple of months back, and
it's absolutely beautiful. You got to get in and check
it out. And there's lots to see there. So he's
asking folks to devote themselves rededicate to being one nation
under God. I had of nations two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
the celebration course coming next year, calling on every state's
(05:31):
faith communities to gather in groups of ten and pray
for the.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Country for one hour weekly.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Trump also pledged new Education Department guidance to protect prayer
in public schools and donated his family Bible to the museum,
the Museum of the Bible. Civil liberties experts promptly raising
concerns over a potent but of course they are.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
But their religion is the state. So oh, it's true.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Every time we hear this separation of churches state, well,
their church.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Is the state.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
These folks on the left, just the truth, that's all
it is. I got lots to lots to talk about
still yet today we'll have a couple of guests that
you're gonna want to hear from it. Like I mentioned earlier,
(06:26):
a lot happening in the nation's capital and even our
state as well. But the stories that matter most. A
lot of times happen in your own backyard, and one
of them, we'll talk with some folks in Ottawa County
that are fighting the good fight again. You saw this
happen in Green Charter Township, Macosta County when they fought
against that Chinese Communist Party link battery plant they tried
(06:48):
to put in gushin up north.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You remember that big story China.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, well they've had a similar fight on their hands
here a little bit closer home. We'll get into that
story that you're not gonna want to trust me on
this talk of the folks, right smack dab in the
middle of it.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
After that call, Justin now at six one six seven
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All right, quick, right, we're back with more next. Don't
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Here are your headlines. From The Midwesterner this Tuesday, September
ninth time, Robin Poffman, It's a Midwesterner dot news original story.
Michigan State Senator Malory McMorrow complains about the cost of
watching football, but then wants to create a Lion's ticket tacks.
The complaint contradicts efforts by McMorrow and other Senate Democrats
in recent years to concoct an amusement tax for fans
(07:54):
of Lions games and others that never ultimately materialized. In
other news, a large gale a legal immigration raid at
a Hundi battery plant construction site in Georgia, raising questions
here in Michigan over oversight failures and questions whether similar
practices may be in play here. Federal agencies detaining about
four hundred and fifty illegals that construction site in Georgia
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Speaker 7 (08:31):
If ive, a new battery energy storage facility could be
coming to Wattawa County. Key Capture Energy is looking to
build a plant in Blended Township, but some members of
the community say it'll hurt their farm. Rich Area newsaids
Adriana Dourria spoke with neighbors in the area to get
their reaction to the proposal. She has more from Blendon Township.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
This is the proposed location for this battery energy storage facility.
It's going to be right here behind this substation in
the world. It's said to take up over fifteen acres
of land and this is a very rural area that
is going to soon potentially become industrial that.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's a battery energy storage system. As you mentioned, they
call it best. The reporter just said, it's a rural area,
it's farm a lot of farm land, and it's an
area that's going to become industrial. Think about the chemicals
and things used inside of that system. Bev Horing is
with us here now. She's been at the forefront of this,
(09:32):
reached out a while back, and I'm glad we can
finally get you on TOV to tell this story. I
now you trying to shine a light on this so
that folks understand what's going on. Welcome on, appreciate you
taking the time to be here with us this morning.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Well thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Justin you all are in the middle of a fight
that same sort of issue. I think people are finding
themselves in at different places. They don't really get in
a lot of ways, I think before the attention that
they deserve in these fights. A lot of times these
things just they sort of seem to get railroaded or
(10:04):
ram rotted in and they they really don't get a
choice in the matter. But in recent years people have
decided to stand up and you guys are in there,
tell us what about this system that's coming in that
you're fighting, Why you don't like it? And the process
is how it's played out so far.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Well, basically the potential dangers that it has is what
concerns us. Like you said, we are a farm rich area.
In therefore, if anything should happen, which many of already
had fires, the thermal runoff fire is very toxic. The
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land around that is damaged from the toxins will never
be usable again. And unfortunately with our farm, our land
completely surrounded right where the battery farm is going to
be going into.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So what what would power the batteries? Is this regular
coal fired plants that are going to produce the energy
to fire?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
This?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Is it solar? Is it wind? Do they talk about that?
And why do they need batteries?
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Well, they say that wind and solar are not going
to be in their electrical pull it. So my assumption
is it's all coming from our coal plant. They're going
to pull the electric off the line, stored into the
lithium ion batteries, and when the need is high, they
(11:45):
will release it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I don't understand why they can't just produce like they
always have. This seems like there's a solutionaire without a problem.
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Well, our governor is trying to shut down the Campbell plan,
so that's why we're starting to see all this solar
and wind farms coming up into play here.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, I understand that, and I understand that they've been working.
By the way, that's the same reason why our bills
keep going up too.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
There's a story out of Ohio today and I don't
know if you saw this. Well, we talk about this
a little bit later on coming up in tech Talk
this morning with our good friend Trent kenebby Affordable I Store.
But in Ohio there's a bill out there. Lawmakers are
trying to put it together to allow utility companies to
limit your energy usage. So, in other words, if we
(12:46):
get a peak time and they need to pull more
energy for you know, manufacturing or something that they deem
as a higher priority than you in your in your home,
they'd be able to do that, which which is why
to me. But with the meters and everything else that
they have these days, and of course this story, it
sort of lines up that they might want to do this,
(13:07):
and I guess we're probably forgetting the elephant in the room,
which is all the data facilities and the AI eventually
that they're going to try and get up to speed
and running. That's going to probably be more drained than
you or I and any of us running our big
screen TV in a refrigerator or anything else in the
house with the air conditioner. At the same time, even
(13:29):
if we're plugging our tessels in, we're still not going
to be the type of drain that that they're going
to be. So I understand that they're looking for different
ways to do things in this day and age.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But in your situation, you say not in.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
My backyard, No, definitely not. Farmland is being attacked here
in Michigan, in West Michigan, very farm Rich just north
of US is three hundred acres that they're looking at
to do an AI data center. Well, that's probably part
(14:05):
of the reason why they want to put in a
battery farm here, because they do drain the area town
and cause brownout. Now, West Michigan, we don't deal with brownout,
but yet they think we're going to. So there's got
to be a correlation between all the solar farms, wind farms,
(14:26):
and the data center is going in that they're looking
at us to hold electricity, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Some maybe the saddest part of this is that none
of this should have ever been a problem in the
first place. The wind solar and pardon my French, but
I call a wind solar and unicorn farts. Oh, that's
what they're pushing on all of us, all this sort
of pie in the sky fantastical technology that I don't
(14:55):
think really isn't is improven to do any sort of
good for anyone just yet, and I don't know that
it ever will except for draining our pockets. And then
I think the other issue is they talk about affordable
and reliable, Well, I don't think this technology is either one.
As you just mentioned the brownouts. That's the quiet part
(15:15):
they're saying out I guess outloud.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
Now Michigan is the worst place for solar and wind,
and so we need to keep our Campbell plant coal.
We need to look at nuclear. That's where our electricity
comes from. We're not going to be able to produce
enough to do much of anything with Michigan's.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Weather one of the things. And Bev Harge is with
us right now. They're looking at a battery storage. It's
called Bess Facility there near right next to the farm.
She's on Blended Township there in Ottawa County, and residents
are standing up and finding this. We've heard from a
number of folks have reached out and said, please talk
(15:59):
about this. Uh and Bev, You've got a Facebook community
where people are sharing not just the word on this,
but some things that are happening throughout the state as well.
But this this, this has come to the forefront, this particular,
this particular subject.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You're even hearing from people.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I noticed that Joe Moss has come out as an
Otawa County commissioner with a strong statement against us. Have
you heard from any elected officials on this? You mentioned
you know that this is starting to kind of pick
up speed.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
We've contacted a few different of our local ones. We
have not heard a whole lot back from them, just
that they're looking into it.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
So at this.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Time we do have Joe Moss behind us, we have
Brendan Muhir behind us, and they are big helps in
the push to oppose the battery farm.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And again, for you all, this is not just an
environmental issue, but it's an issue of what happens to
the legacy of the farm and what will you be
able to do if there is a problem. There are
there leaks often do you have any background the research
on how this plays out and what it looks like
when these facilities go bad.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Here's the interesting thing. Ksee is a very young company
and the battery containers that they want to put here
as of yet have not been in production in operation.
I looked into it a little bit more. There are
different states that are going to be using them, but
(17:44):
right at this point they're only UL tested and therefore
they have no true testing other than the UL testing
on what's going to happen with these after youth and
most if you look at them at four years, that's
when they start having the problems. And the interesting thing
(18:04):
is case in their application holds the rights to at
four years sell off the rights to another company, so
therefore they can keep themselves clean by selling off before
the problems start.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And I can't imagine that the that the life on
these things is is that is that long? Bev Will
you come back? I want to definitely continue to have
this conversation with you. Maybe we can speak off the
line here in a little bit as well. But will
you come back with more information about this and as
you all continue to try and get the word out,
I'd love to have you do that. But also what
(18:45):
can people do if they hear this and they want
to help support you all?
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Right now, well, we could use prayers. Right now September fifteenth,
we have a board meeting and the board has an
ounce that the application has been received and will then
go on to the planning committee. So we do need prayers.
I'm looking for people to email, to call and oppose.
(19:13):
Let the board know, the township know that we do
not need to become industrialized here. We want to stay
the farming community that we are. At this point, we're
just getting ready to set up for donations. We have
not gotten that far yet. We're in the process right
now of doing that.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well, we will will make sure that we keep people
apprized of this and acid prayers, anything else that you'd
like for people to know, or anywhere you.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Want them to go.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Well, if you're in the township or the neighboring townships
that will be also affected by any thing that happens
with those battery containers, please show up to the planning
committee meeting that's in October, but also September. We really
need you to show up in to show that you're
(20:09):
opposing this to the board meeting on September fifteen, seven pm.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Now, we'll make sure we put this information links to
the stories as well online in our stack today daf
onarga as the folks here in Blennon Township, Ottawa County
fight to oppose what would be a battery battery energy
storage system there. They say they have real concerns about
Thank you so much for taking the time, BEV. We
appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Oh, thank you justin. I appreciate it too.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Absolutely, praying for you guys, and we'll continue to keep
folks up there in here. Those stories come through tech
Talk more on this subjects back after this and we
check our bond the hour as hang on. Lots of
questions about this battery plan. I'm gonna put the story
on the stack today at Justin Barclay dot com so
you can check it out. But it's we were just
(20:56):
talking about this off here. It's not this whole thing
is it's it's nothing new here. These types of things
are happening over and over again. And if they weren't
pushing wind solar and unicorn farts this whole time, you
would there would be no need for for any of this.
I know it's the same with the Green Charter township
situation and gosh and whatnot. Yet they still continue to
(21:20):
push these these ideas, this agenda and uh, this is
just another battle. Look the you see how successful they've
been with Goshen. These things are possible, but they are
They're going to be long drawn out and uh and protracted,
and unfortunately in situations or rural areas. They seem to
have a real target right now. So Blended Township is
(21:42):
in for it. But they do have some folks that
are in the fight with them. That sounds good, and
we'll make sure that we continue to connect people.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Hey, we got lots to time.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
In fact, we'll talk a little bit more about that
battery situation and a few other major announcements on a
tech Talk segment this.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Morning, sack into the latest in tech and how it
affects you and your world. This is tech Talk Tuesday
on Wood Radios West Michigan Live.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Our good friend Trent.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Can it be a football lize store like Michigan Drive.
It's Dandelle is standing by Brand River Tech as well.
You got questions, He'll answer them all for you. Good morning,
my friend. Appreciate you taking the time to be here
with us today. How are you doing good?
Speaker 9 (22:23):
Justin good morning?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Hey, you have some big announcements coming today.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Apple has a big day. They got a new phone coming.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It looks like, at least anyway, we may see a
couple other things on that list too. I want to
talk about a few of those big announcements. But first
there's something that we were just talking about which I
thought was kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Obviously, this battery plan.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
I just dropped the story in sort of Oh, by
the way, as we were discussing that it's in Ohio.
They have a bill now that's actually Republicans pushing it,
which is kind of that would allow these utility companies
to throttle people's energy. Now, this is in Ohio, that's
(23:08):
not far from us. We can imagine that, you know
that if they can do it, the probably might be
an effort to get that done here. All that might
i'd say, most likely come from the Democrat side here
in Michigan when they look at this. But to me,
will you watch these stories, it really is it's it's
(23:28):
concerning because again, all of this is about control. It's
about turning power off for us probably when we need
it most. And the truth is that they've had the
ability to do this for a long time now, we
we just didn't know about it. This bill would make
it completely lawful, according to what it looks like they're
(23:49):
trying to push.
Speaker 9 (23:52):
Yeah, justin These programs have been out for ages for
I don't know fifteen years now, as far as back
as I've known about locally here where you could volunteer
to have a little device but on your air conditioner
with consumers you know, energy locally And my first house
is when I heard about this, probably fifteen years ago,
and it was a volunteery program. It was not required,
it was not forced by the government. There was some
(24:14):
education about it. I almost signed up for it at
the time. I thought Hey, that's that's not a bad idea.
Save some money right there. But on the other hand,
if it's ninety five degrees and you need air conditioning
and you don't have the ability to have that unless
you call in you get a certain number exceptions a year.
It was just like this is messy. And then obviously
(24:36):
we get here today where it's like, hey, the power
grids are really struggling. They're struggling because of renewable energies
are not hitting the demands and the marks that they
should be hitting because the math has been how do
you want to say this inaccurate conveniently, not used accurately,
And so they really have a problem where if they
don't curb peak demand, they're going to have to either
(25:00):
go nuclear or some other methods natural gas to increase
those peak demand hours. They actually had emergency alerts issued
in Ohio during the summer, and that really scared them
to realize that, Hey, if we don't put something together,
we're going to have to add more capacity or push
these programs on people in a more forcible way. And
I don't like that. If they want to have a
(25:22):
voluntary program, fine, but when the government forces us, what
we can do just and there's tons of ways that
we can help smooth the peak demand in our energy grid.
There's buy back from people that can generate their own stuff.
Back in twenty eighteen, when they Consumers Energy and other
utilities revamp the buyback program, they give so little money
(25:46):
for people to pay back solar, wind, natural gas, other
forms of generating electricity to put that back into the
grid during peak times that it's not even worth doing.
If they were serious about this, they would incentivize buyback
of electricity from customers who do have the means to
generate that during peak time. So it's it's very political
(26:07):
justin there's a lot more going on this than just
turning your thermostat back a few degrees when it's really hot.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Do you remember and you you made this point and
I kind of laughed chuckled thinking about that because you said, yeah,
this was a volunteer thing. I remember making the point.
There were a lot of us who said, look, it's
going to start with hey, if you want a better rate,
you can do this, but eventually they're just going to
tell you this is what you're going to do. And
there are a lot of people that actually fought, and
(26:36):
you know they're looked at kind of crazy. They're probably
having the last laugh now for what they smart meters
taking off of their homes or or fighting that, because
that's one of the ways that they can they can
use and control down to the very house, what what
your energy flow looks like and how that works. You
know what's interesting to watch this now is it's kind
(26:58):
of it's all coming into uh, into the big picture.
People are starting to really see what it what it
all means. Uh and uh, this is not going anywhere, folks.
Your bill is going up. In fact, there's a story
out of Ottawa County yesterday. I think it's George. I
(27:18):
don't remember which, which which township it was, but they've
got their water bill just went up like fifty percent,
Like their water bill went through the roof.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
And people aren't going nuts over a water bill.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Same thing's going to happen with your power bill, with
your light bill, gas as well, and how much you're
going to be able to get because all the data center,
the AI, all of that, it's coming. They can't turn
it down. I don't think they're going to have the
wavos Rancherro's to do that anyway, and they may they
may actually be forced because of the competition that we're in,
(27:53):
uh seemingly anyway with with countries like China. It's it's
a new it's Georgetown township.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Tammy said. By the way, water the water.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I saw people lined up to talk about the water
on Facebook the other day. Gosh, there's so many people
on line to talk about that there because they're just
ticked off.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
And I don't blame them.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
But this is something that I think has taken a
lot of people by surprise and really shouldn't trend.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
Yeah, justin this summer, these last couple of summer bills
July and August, our home electricity bill was twenty five
percent higher than any of the past summers, you know, ever,
And that's because of the increased rates a slightly warmer summer,
for sure, But a big part of it's that peak
rate that we've only had the last couple of years,
during the middle of the day when you need it most.
(28:41):
So And I don't know all the financials of the
electricity companies and all that works, but it seems like
they're never short on money. Why that gets passed on
to us with all their programs and incentives, and justin
it's even getting in the commercial world too. New electrical
services for commercial have crazy rules within have to separate
power supplies for lighting from heating and cooling and other things,
(29:05):
which costs a ton of extra infrastructure costs for electrical
panels and wiring, all because they're planning on more and
more control for businesses, not just homes but as well
as businesses in the future, to control the power. That's
really what it comes down to. And right now, like
you said before, it's under the guise of you know,
helping with with peak rates, but once that equipment's all
(29:26):
in there, if there's an emergency and the grid is
short on power, you know as well as I do,
they're going to issue an emergency order and cut people
to quote unquote save the grid.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I think it's been one of the biggest issues, and
I think you'll continue to see this and to the
the election here next year and beyond. But the electric
bills particularly and how much people are paced, not just here,
in fact, they're having the same issues down in Indiana, Ohio,
some of these other places where we're gonna it's going
to continue to be front and center so we're going
(29:57):
to follow that for you. Make sure we stay on
top of it all. Okay, I got a couple of stories,
just trying to figure out where we go next. There's
not a lot of time to get through all the
stuff we want to get today, so let me do this.
Your average attention span is now just eight seconds and dropping,
so we'll have eight seconds to spend on this conversation, Trent,
(30:21):
make it brief, but it's social media and everything else.
And boy, I think people are really starting, especially kids,
starting to fill this in school and other places. Your
focus just doesn't last like it used two doesn't.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
Yeah, justin our brains are amazing, amazing creations. Really in
all the swiping, all of the quick, the short videos,
everything is a quick attention span right on the internet,
the ads to swiping, the video shorts, everything is just
for a few seconds, and that makes our brain less
receptive to anything longer. And it's really people that do
(30:58):
studies on this show that it's destroying our brain. It's
destroying our ability to think, focus and actually retain core
pieces of information to make critical decisions. People are doing
it in a moment instead of waiting more than eight
seconds to say, hey, should I response to this message?
Should I cut this guy off when I'm driving down
the road. It literally has its tentacles into everything, and
(31:20):
it's literally to blame on social media and modern tech
is programming our brains and it's bad.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, Trent, can it be a footal Lize store limas
you can drive and stand down. Another big day today
for Apple and a big announcement's coming out today. A
new iPhone we may be getting, is this right? An
iPhone Air, new watches, heart rate tracking air pods. I
don't know if you want or I think you might
even need any of those, but Trent, apparently those announcements
(31:47):
are expected to meet made a little bit later today.
What can we look forward to?
Speaker 9 (31:54):
Yeah, we'll have this information all by late afternoon. But yes,
brand new iPhone seventeen Air, a slim down version of
the iPhone, same screen size as the normal phones, but
a slimmer, lighter version. That's going to be The rumors
are saying it might be a little bit more expensive
than the average phone, which I was surprised to see.
I wish they would have a little bit more affordable
(32:16):
new basic phone. They have new watches, to new watches.
They have an Ultra three, which is their premium watch.
There's a lot of things that are being released, but
the key here is just incremental upgrades. This is about
a twenty five percent upgrade at the very most from
any one feature. So if you're looking for a crazy
(32:36):
powerful camera or twice the battery life, you're not going
to get it this update round. If you want something
more major in the future, they're saying this air phone,
this iPhone seventeen air may pave the way for an
Apple foldable phone, which Apple hasn't touched, but they're saying
this might be the test model for half of the
foldable phone that they're going to release next year. Is
(32:58):
the rumors.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I don't need a vulnerable phone. I don't know about you,
but it just doesn't seem to be on my radar. Hey,
if you're like me and you're thinking I don't need
that new phone either, I just need something that works
and gets the job done for me. Trent can help
you out affordable eyestore like Misch can drive in Standell
is a great place to check out what they can
do for you.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
There.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
That's our Lizzie and I get our phones and devices
as well. They to take care of you, such good
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putting the things together, they've got all kinds of it
solutions for you as well at grant Overtech. Always a pleasure,
my friend. Thank you so much for taking the time
(33:40):
to be here with us today.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
Thanks justin, have a great day.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
You got a Trent. Can it be.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
At a tech talk segment that you may want to
go back and listen to over again. There's some really
good stuff locked inside.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
All right back in moments.
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Speaker 3 (34:22):
That's understandable.
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Speaker 6 (35:29):
Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner. This Tuesday, September ninth,
I'm Robin Poffman. It's a Midwesterner. Dot News original story
here in Michigan, an EVY battery company bails on Governor
Whitmer despite taxpayer funding. The company a global mining giant
called Sportskewe will continue to explore opportunities elsewhere. Last year,
(35:49):
Whitmer promising the two hundred million dollar ev battery plant
in Detroit would create up to six hundred jobs and
build on our economic momentum. More woke lunacy here in Michigan,
Democrat State Senator Jeremy Moss says we're keeping boys in
girls bathrooms and showers. This after the Michigan House passing
a bathroom bill along party lines. It would ban transgender
(36:11):
students from using school bathrooms as the gender they identify with,
and Michigan House Democrats claiming Republicans want to defund the police,
but the facts tell a very different story. House Republicans
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President Trump making some remarks yesterday, this is I thought,
probably a good way to round out things today. We
got a lot to talk about in the after show.
Trust me, man, it's like a never a dull moment.
Drink it to a fire host trying to get to
it all on the after show, the show after the show,
(37:40):
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(38:01):
being you know, the attention spans not lasting as long anymore.
We even cut some of our best segments up for you.
So this segment with Trent with a segment with Bevue
just started today. We'll cut those up. Yes, certainly talked
to a Congressman, John James is running for governor. It
cut that up and then it'll become its own segment,
and you can even listen to those peace by peace
(38:23):
when you'd like to there and get everything sort of
bite sized, bite sized ways of doing it. President Trump
yesterday saying, and we'll talk about this on the after
show at the Bible Museum, it's tyrants who are denying
our rights and the rights that come from God. That's right,
(38:44):
Tim Kain, the rights that come from God. He made
that point talking to leaders in the faith because.
Speaker 10 (38:50):
Things happened for our country. It's amazing the way it
seems to work that way. And under the Trump administration,
we're defending our rights and restoring our identity as a
nation under God. We are one nation under God and
we always will.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
That has a fantastic moment.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
We talked about that yesterday if you missed it, a
great conversation on the after show yesterday as well. Never
miss a minute in the lives or archive both ways,
and all the stories we mentioned throughout the day we
put up on the stack at Justin Barclay dot com.
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