12-17-25 - 9am - The Wind Today

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Michael. I would love to have your opinion
on these Excel power outages in Colorado today. Yes, it
makes sense in terms of trying to prevent wildfires, but
do you think it's also another training exercise, activity, whatever
you want to call it, and us getting used to
having brownouts and power outages in Colorado due to lack

(00:23):
of energy. Just curious? Good morning Dragon.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh on, good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well, now that you mention it, I really kind of
wanted to wait until Ross and Gina and all the
newspeople were all gone before I launched into my tirade
about the wind. Oh my god, the wind's going to
blow today. We've got all we have sheltering places, we've

(00:55):
got places you can go with everything. The wind's going
to blow today. Oh my god, what are we gonna do?
Really carefully, you got a little red there. You need
to take your blood pressure pill. Already, Girly on the
air for about three minutes. That's time to take your pills. Well,
actually it started last night, when you know, I tuned
in to you know, as I usually do, KDVR, Colorado's

(01:19):
most accurate weather. You know, they've got a little cairn
thing that says you know rated Colorado's most accurate weather
for the past, you know, nine hundred and sixty seven
years or something. So I want to hear what Dave
Frasier and his team have to say about the weather.
And oh, my goodness, I mean, OMG, all capitals, OEMG
exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
There's gonna be win today.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
I was kind of first, Can we just calm down,
It's weather, and it happens all the time. Color E'll
sees wins in excesses. And here's the key. It's got
to be seventy five miles an hour or more, because

(02:06):
then you can add the phrase to we're going to
experience winds of seventy five to eighty miles an hour, which.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Are go ahead, hurricanes win?

Speaker 3 (02:17):
God it, congratulations, mister Redbeard. You're not near these times
of why people tell me they are you are?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Huh what'd you say? Nothing? Nothing?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Nothing, never mind hurricane force winds. Oh my god? Is
that on the Richter scale? Which scale is that or
is that the Sampson Siffer Fifferiffer scale?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Whatever?

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Oh my gosh, uh chinook wins, Bora wins. Over the
past decade, Colorado has had multiple episodes of every single
year where the wind guests reached or see seventy five
or eighty miles an hour, sometimes much higher than that.
And if me, if ever like you've actually lived in

(03:02):
the mountains south of Boulder, I alwould like to point
out that I used to live in Boulder County.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
I did not live in the city of Boulder.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yes, there were knives when we were like, okay, well,
let's just hope that the house, you know, stays together
and we don't end up in left.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Can Canyon somewhere.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
In the front Range foothills, let's just say Boulder, Golden Netherland, Lions,
all that kind of area. Winds in excess to seventy
five to eighty miles there. Hurricane force winds typically occur
anywhere between three and six times a year, normally during
down slope Chinook or the Boro wind events in the
winter and in the spring checks calendar, Oh yeah, it's December.

(03:42):
It's the winter time now in the mountains, and obviously
in the higher passages you get up to Birth of Loveland, Monarch,
et cetera. Hurricanes, hurricane force winds are obviously much more common,
especially in winter storms and when you have strong cold fronts.
You know, those events occur every single year all the time.
Now across the eastern plains, in the lower elevation cities,

(04:03):
think Denver for Collins, Colorado Springs, hurricane force winds are rare,
but sometimes in springtime, severe thunderstorms can occasionally produce isolated
gusts in that range. In fact, those of you that
are new to this program, but you made those of
you listened to me over on listening to me over
on khow know that it's been a few years ago now.

(04:25):
I mean I grew up in freaking tornado alley and
I've done tornado chasing, and we in my entire life
never suffered any damage from a tornado. But moving to
Highlands Ranch, Colorado, about two or three years ago, our
house gets hit by a tornado. Yes, bung out the

(04:46):
entire side of the garage, lifted the skylights out of
the roof. It was just and I just had back
surgery and I was upstairs taken on that and I
was laying there, you know, kind of half doped up,
taking moxie and whatever whatever I was taking, and thinking
to myself, that sounds like the sound that I used

(05:07):
to hear in Oklahoma. You know, you always hear about
the sound of the you know, the locomotive's coming right,
sounds like sounds like a freight train. Well, I thought
that sounds kind of like a freight train. So stupid
me got up and opened up the sliding glass door
on the upper deck where the master bedroom is look outside,
and got whacked in the face by some hail. And
the minute I opened that door, just shot the air

(05:29):
just sucked almost as sucked me right out on.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
The deck and I quickly closed it.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
The skylights are blowing out, and I'm the dogs are
look going to be like oh, And we go down
the stairs in the basement waits everything calms down. And
then once once it calms down, I go up and
I think, oh, crap, I had I did park the
car in the garage by left the garage door open.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
So I went outside to check, and it was sunshine.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
The garage was just filled with sunshine, not because the
doors were open, but because the wall was completely gone
and the walls were the you know, the garage doors
were open at least those beams. Oh, and then I
discovered and we had to have an engineer come ount
and check it. But we had a support beam that
was that was askew. I didn't realize that. Let's go

(06:20):
back to December twenty one, the Marshall fire up in
the Boulder County foothills. GUS reached ninety tw one hundred
and fifteen miles an hour, seventy five to eighty plus
miles an hour all up and down the urban corridor.
And of course that you know that sparked the Marshall fire.
XLS paid a bunch of money out for that. So
if some other people paid out money for that fire.

(06:40):
And so now we do what we typically do as Americans.
We now realize we knew all we knew all along
that the failure to bury underground utilities, particularly electric utilities, all.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
We had to do.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
You know, every time I give an example of hey,
look to Europe and see what's going on, or look
to Venezuela, or look to Taiwan, or look to China,
or to look to Canada or Mexico, or look anywhere
and look, there's an example of something's going to happen. Well,
we should not be surprised at all by the Marshall

(07:14):
fire in two thousand and three, the Cedar Fire in
southern California, which was one of the at that time,
was the largest wildfire ever in Southern California, oh sparked
by power lines during high winds, and of course failure
to maintain the forest because the environmental wackos don't want
to do that, cause horrific damage all up and down

(07:37):
southern California.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
I spent a lot of time out there dealing with that.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
So we had the Marshall Fire in twenty twenty one,
and excuse me, and then just a year later, April
twenty twenty two, there was a strong storm system that
produced gusts over one hundred miles from now in the mountains,
and again hurricane force winds along the front Range. And
then just in the past two years, twenty twenty three
twenty twenty four, there were several high wind events in

(08:04):
the foothills that brought gusts of eighty ninety miles an hour,
when again hurricane force winds recorded multiple times in the Boulder,
Denver corridor. This is not unusual. The most frequent hurricane
force winds occur in the foothills in the canyons west
of the twenty five corridor, Boulder, Golden Netherlands lines all
that area peak frequencies in the late fall winter, early spring,

(08:28):
roughly November to April. Oh, we're right in the middle
of bench shazam. Can't believe it. And it's usually you know,
you've got down slope schnook Boro winds that's common in
the winter. Those almost always produce sustained winds of at
least fifty seventy miles an hour, and the hurricane force
winds are pretty pretty normal too. And then if you
have a strong cold front, if you if you again,

(08:48):
if you watch day's Dave Fraser in the weather, you
would have noticed that, oh there is some sort of
I forget what name they've got it, but there's like
some oh they it's not a cyclone or something, but
it's a.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
You know, some sort of rain trains, you know, coming
through the weather.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
You put all this together, I would say here's a
reasonable estimate for the past decade.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Along the foothills.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Hurricane force winds occur anywhere roughly average on average, let's say,
three to six times per year, and there are sometimes
where it exceeds ninety two hundred miles an hour.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
In the higher mountain passes.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Hurricane force winds yes or more frequent, often five to
ten times or more per year in the most exposed areas.
For the Denver metro area in the eastern Plains, hurricanes
hurricane force winds are rare but isolated gusts and that
range occur about once every one to three years in
the metro area, usually during a major stormer know, severe thunderstorm.
So they're not an everyday occurrence. I get that across

(09:51):
the entire state. But they're a regular feature of Colorado's
weather in the foothills, in the mountains. It happens multiple
times every year in these zones. So why are we
making a big ethan deal out of it? Why is
it a BFD Because it's the news. We need something
to hype everybody up about. Because if we're not all

(10:13):
hyped up about something, then we're not doing the news
right right.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
So we got to hype up the news. Hype up
the news. Oh, it drives me freaking crazy. The weather.
The weather becomes the news story.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Now to Kathleen's point, you know, I live in an
area now in Douglas County where probably I don't know,
I'm just guessing now ninety percent of the utilities are
all underground.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
So when the Highlands.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Ranch community was developed, somebody made, oh, well, you know,
what we ought to do is just to save on
maintenance and repairs and the weather and everything else, let's
bury all the power lines. So I can look all
around my neighborhood and I don't see, you know, a
bunch of transmission lines. The I don't even know whether
I honestly, come to think about it, now, I'm even

(11:00):
sure I can say you where the closest substation is,
and wherever it is, it's probably, you know, pretty well
guarded and hidden. This all, you know, fenced in, got
barbed wire and in it. Find a little concentration camp
somewhere with substation, which it should be, because if you
want to weak havoc, if you're a you know, you're
a lone wolf and you want to wreak some domestic terrorism,
go blow up substation.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
We've had that happen out in California too, so I'm
surprised it hasn't happened here. They don't do it for
a couple of reasons now, First and foremost, to be objective,
they don't vary the power lines because well, it's expensive.
And to go back into older developments subdivisions where they're

(11:42):
already above ground, to now bury those is incredibly expensive.
So you start with the cost. But and what's important
about the word but here's what you pay attention to.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Why do we not even try to do it? Now?

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Well, was it this week or last week we talked
about how Excel is, you know, trying to electrify everything,
and so you know we're gonna shut down coal plants,
We're gonna shut down natural gas plants. You know we're
gonna shut down nukeerpower plants. We're gonna shut down everything
so we can just rely on wind and energy. Yet
when you have what I love best of all is

(12:21):
if you got seventy five eighty miles hurricane force winds,
what are you gonna do. You're gonna lock down the
wind turbines because you don't want them spinning too fast
because they're burning themselves up. So it's not reliable.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
It is.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
It is the absolute insanity what we do all in
the name of I was sitting outside the studio at
my little cubicle, and I heard the governor on and
I just heard him talk about the greens, the green
scam or something. Well at least you know the word.
At least you know the phrase governor. But you know what,

(12:54):
you and your ilk at the POLP Bureau are the
ones that because of the wind today. Yeah, because when
you think about I think about the thirty plus years
that I've lived in Colorado, you take the Boulder Turnpike,
you get up to Davidson Hill and you and if
ever stopped, say back in the in the early late eighties,

(13:18):
and you looked around, it was all planes. Yeah, it
was just all you know, rolling hills and plains. And
then they built the golf course and then what was
the oh they built the hard drives. I have a
not Max store whatever whatever it was that you know,
first started building up out there. And then they started
building and building and building, and then all the subdivisions
came in, and nobody ever thought, you know, hey, what

(13:39):
we ought to do since we're building up against the foothills,
maybe we ought to bury the power lines. And then
the Marshall fire happens, and now everybody is on edge
about it because we got high winds. Well Excel energy,
Maybe what you ought to do is quit focusing on electrification.
What you ought to do is take all the stupid
rate increases you do and start at least start the

(14:01):
effort to bury some power lines in different places so
that we don't have to have all of you. There
were even warnings last night about you better know how
to open your garage because you might come home from
work and the power will be out and you won't
be able to open your garage door. Wow, there's a
really good public service announcement. Figure out how to open

(14:23):
your garage door without your little clicker.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh you know what you do?

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Dragon, When your clicker in your car won't work, You
go to the keypad on the wall outside the garage
door and you punch it in and hit enter, and
then nothing happens. And then you go, oh, Sam, my
garage door does open because there's no power to it.
Then you think to yourself, well, how do I get in?

(14:48):
How many people have a key? Do you have a
key to your house? Do you have a key to
your house? He's checked right there, right there, you have
the mailbox key, I got the house key, garage door,
click in.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
The car, yep, yep, yep. You you must be a proper.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
I'm even fancy because this one key does the screen
door and the main door. So so I'm good. Oh
oh you have a screen door and whatever. You have
a storm door and a regular door. Wow, you're living
the high life. Well, the girls that live there are like, hey,
we need the way to open the door and not

(15:28):
be exposed to bad guys. Well they want no. Actually,
in your case, they wanted to have this is a
glass storm door or screen glass? Oh, because I was
thinking maybe they wanted screens so they get some fresh
air to get the mister Redbeard think out of the house.

(15:48):
So that's there. There, that's the top news story today.
So Kathleen, uh, And I know your question is rhetorical because.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
You know the answer.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
You know the or you just wanted me to say it,
and that is because we have our priorities all screwed
up in this state and what's about to happen today.
You would be absolutely fantastic if, like many things with
the weather, it takes a slight curve to the north

(16:19):
or to the south, or it kind of dies out
and we only get winds of and then Dave Frasier
will have to come on katiev R tonight and go, well,
we expected winds of you know, eighty ninety miles an hour,
but we only got forty five miles. You know, the
largest gust we saw was in Superior. At forty five
miles an hour or something. It'd be such a letdown,
but you know, then everybody will be like, oh, we

(16:40):
dodged the ball. We dodged a bullet, and now it's
safe to move about and we can move on. So
when we get back, we'll do the story I really,
I really wanted to do start out, until we got
derailed by Kathleen about the weather, California and fraud.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Imagine that those two words going together. Hey, let's go
to the.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Josh over at the retirement planning so of the Rockies. Josh,
simple question today, how can you help How can the
retirement planning start of the Rockies help somebody save other taxes?

Speaker 4 (17:13):
Yeah, Michael, that's a great question. It really starts with
understanding that retirement is not just about the investments in
what you make, it's about what you keep. Most people
think taxes are going to go down in retirement, but
that's obviously not always the case. So require minimum distributions,
factor in social security capital gains. They can all push

(17:33):
folks into a higher tax bracket than they originally expected.
So that's why we help focus on those proactive tax
strategies that are built into our proprietary Summit Retirement Guide process.
So we'll help clients look ahead sometimes ten twenty thirty
years ahead, so they can really structure their income in
a way that reduces that tax drag over time. And

(17:56):
it's really michael about coordinating their income, their investments as
well as their withdrawals to help keep more dollars in
their pocket year after year. And we've often been able
to project that folks will save hundreds of thousands of
dollars in taxes over the course of their whole retirement.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
That's pretty significant.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
I love the way you guys take a holistic approach
to retirement, looking at everything. So if you if you
have a retirement plan, still wants you to call the
retirement Planning some of the rockies. If you don't have one,
I certainly want you to call them. And this is
the great kind of advice and help that you're going
to get. And they'll always make a decision and recommendation
that's based on your on your best financial interest. So

(18:36):
give the retirement planning some of the Rockies a call today,
you tell the Michael Brown sent you nine seven zero
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right now rpcenter dot com. I was actually going to
move on to California and fraud, which was the story
I came in today prepared to do, and then I

(18:57):
made the mistake during the break of looking through the
text messages, which I would remind you is three three
one zero three three three one oh three three three
one zero three. Someday he'll learn, but I don't have
any hopes for it. Three three one zero three keyword
micro Michael, uh goober number thirty six oh two Michael, Well,

(19:18):
really dragon. The power may or may not be shut off,
So why are we closing schools. We are teaching people
to fear and not to be resilient. So on if
it goes off, use this as a great opportunity to
teach self reliance and leadership. Instead, we're trying to mitigate
all problems.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
The fact.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
First of all, you're right well, Aswitt, what you really
expect these people with all of their computers and phones
turned off to get out a piece of paper and
a pencil. No, in the dark. No, but you know
what I do expect. I honestly expect this. First, unless
your classroom is in an interior hallway and there's no windows,

(20:00):
it might be a little bit dark. Correct, that's way
if you want to if you really want to teach
resiliency mitigation, then you might have some candles.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Oh, but that's fire. That okay.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
So you might have like a climate of battery powered
lantern or something in there. And if you're on an
outer window, you open the blinds and you got a
little sunshine, you have a little light coming in, and
then I would expect I know this is way over
the heads of most government teachers, but I would expect
you to deliver a lesson extemporaneously without the use of

(20:34):
a computer. You know, like like you're actually prepared to
teach your kids something. Or maybe you could talk about
the weather, you could talk about the wind. You can
talk about why did the power go well, why did
they turn the power off? Why do we do I mean,
there's so many things you could talk about, but instead
they're gonna shut down apparently. Jeffco schools. According to this,
they're gonna shut down.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Schools it real quick.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
I normally wouldn't do this in the middle of a segment,
but I got a good talk back here.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
OK, go for it. Oh, Michael, you silly rabbit.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
If the grass door doesn't open, that just means you
get the day off from work and the day off
from school.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
Tee.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Well, you're you're right. But and then well, but if
you come home and.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
You can't get into your house because you don't have
a house key and you don't have to open your garage,
you know, manually, then I was gonna say, well, then
that being excushould go out to dinner. But then if
the power's turned off everywhere, well, then you can't go
out to dinner because you know, there's nothing to cook.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
They can't cook.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Because they you know, well unless they you know, get
the place where they're cooking with natural gas. But oh
my god, you don't look at some place where they're
cooking with natural gas because there might be methane in
the restaurant, which means you're probably gonna, you know, die
of cancer, you know, five hundred years from now, because
there might be an little tiny mething in the in
the kitchen somewhere. Well, you're absolutely crazy. And then I
heard in Chad's report news report he quoted the CEO

(21:53):
of Excel and said, we're you know, we're good out
of an abundance of caution something I'm paraphrasing here. I
don't I didn't ask for the sound bite. Out of
an abundance of caution, We're going to turn off the
power to mitigate against the possibility of a wildfire. So
that tells me a couple of things. Number One, they

(22:16):
learned their well, no, you would have thought they would
have learned their lesson from the Marshall fire and the
Martial fire.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Was what what did I say with it? Was it
twenty twenty one?

Speaker 3 (22:25):
I think it was twenty twenty one, So they've had,
you know, four or five years now in which to
mitigate against that.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Ever happening again.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Because I thought that everybody on the left always wanted
to say that, you know, we're gonna, you know, we're
gonna do X y Z so that it never happens again,
you know, and if it'll save just one life, it's
worth it well happened. If it just saves one, you know, wildfire,
it might be worth it. So you could have with
the past three or four years been doing some mitigation
work on your power lines and starting to bury some,

(22:55):
starting to strengthen them, starting to you know, win prove
them a little bit. They're all sorts of things that
you could be doing, but you didn't do it because
you're too busy trying to force everybody onto electrification and
then using wind and.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Solar to do so. Huh.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
But then the wind turbines are going to work today
and you don't have the storage for that, so it
doesn't make any difference.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Oh my gosh, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Ou seventy nine to ninety, Mike, it's a big deal
today because of lawsuits.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
That's exactly my point.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
You would have thought that if you've paid out hundreds
of millions of dollars in lawsuits because you caused a fire,
you were the proximate cause of a fire, that you
would have learned and you would have thought, hmmm, let
me think Marshall Fire, Superior, Louisville, Louisville, all of that area.
Maybe what we ought to do is invest some of

(23:47):
our reserves and our capital into that area. Because that
dumbass Michael Brown over on Koa pointed out, how.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh, these are frequent occurrences.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
We get anywhere between three to six days every single
year where we have schnetzer Boro wins that exceed hurricane
force winds. So maybe we ought to do something to uh,
you know, take care of that instead of just shutting
down everybody's power. You know, we we truly are an
insane society, and we become so dependent, so solely dependent

(24:20):
upon And I'm don't get me wrong. I love electricity.
I love electricity. It does so many wonderful things. If
it drives my car, no it does not. It does
not drive my car, but I electricity. Yes, it's one
of the modern modern wonders of American society. But yeah,

(24:45):
you can't do that, uh twenty two ninety three. Rites,
This is freaking hilarious, Mike. You know funny. Oh it
always refreshes, just wanting and read read one, uh Mike
funny yesterday.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Here in Boulder.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
To your point, you can spot the California by the
freak out factor. Most homes in Shanahan Ridge have hurricane shutters. Now,
I'm not gonna make fun of anybody puts hurricane shutters
on their windows. If they live in an area where
maybe they've learned, Oh, sometimes we have hurricane force winds,

(25:18):
so we're gonna put shutters on.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Or you could have put extra strength windows because we
don't actually have hurricanes. Do you know why hurricane shutters
are predominantly used in places along the coast. It's not
because of the wind itself, because you can buy windows
that will sustain hurricane force winds.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Do you have to know what it might be? Dragon?

Speaker 3 (25:45):
Let's see if you can get bat at a full
thousand yesterday. What do you think really causes the damage
in a hurricane. It's not that the wind is blowing,
it's what the wind is blowing.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Man.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
You know what, all this time I just thought you
were just some dumb ass, just didn't you know, But wow,
you're really pretty dang good.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
Good morning gentlemen. Mister brown Dragon has informed me that
there is circling debris in your studio, So please calm down,
get off the meanies or whatever you're on, and take

(26:28):
it easy. It's just the wind blowing. You grew up
in Oklahoma. There's no dirt involved, no tree.

Speaker 6 (26:38):
You did get a little red in that last secually,
sad about that talk back is he's so calm, cool
and collected, which tells me he's woefully ignorant of the
incredible armageddon that we're about to face.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
How do I save that soul? My job is to
say souls here, and I can't. I can't. I can't
save him. He's he's he's he's willfully blind to the
dangers that we face. How dare he not panic?

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Right now? Exactly?

Speaker 3 (27:14):
That's what every That's what the cabal wants us to do,
is to panic. And you know, I guess I have
to now include public utilities into the cabal too. The
cabal is just getting bigger and bigger, and all of
us are getting smaller and smaller. You remember, Look, I
didn't I didn't intend to spend in a full hour
on this, But you guys, in your talkbacks and your
text messages, which, by the way, the text line is

(27:36):
three three one zero three three three one oh three
Mike Michael three three one zero three keyword Michael Michael
uh ninety four to twenty three writes, all this power
shut off does is make us fire up our diesel
and gas generators. But don't tell Governor p or the
PUC and the legislators or they'll ban them too. Oh,

(27:59):
you don't know, they're already working on that. They're already
working on it. Guba number forty nine h six, Michael Is,
you're number one super goober from Florida. After thirty two
years in Colorado, I can confidently say that I have
learned to handle blizzards, hurricanes, floods, and power adages. What
I still cannot handle is political dumb assery. Power companies

(28:22):
down here are just as greedy as Excel. Political dumb assery. Yes,
you come here to get that, you come here to
get inoculated against it.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
And I'm sorry. Farmer's daughter.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
I you know, first I guess I need to start
wearing cans, but I just I don't want to mess
up my beautiful hair, you know, my no longer existing
receiving hairline. But I didn't recognize the farmer's body. I
wasn't certain when she first started talking either. Then you
said it was Kathleen. I was like, oh, that could
be Kathleen. And then we found out that it was
not Kathleen, the farmer's daughter, and that you know, you

(28:57):
don't want trust, you don't want to piss off the
daughter because you never know, you know, yeah, I'm pretty
sure she's castrated a thing or she probably you know,
she's ready to do a little snip snip, and I'm
not ready to be snip snipped. So just keep her,
you know, can't. We need to put a mirror here
so I can kind of see back here behind this glass.
See if anybody shows up with some shears or some

(29:19):
you know, some little snippets, some some nail clippers for you.
That was good, That was good, Thank you. Let's see Google.
Ember zero two two five, Michael. Welcome to socialized energy.
Robert Kennedy. That Robert Kenny The energies are Hungarian word
for feces. Colorado spent money on unreliable green energy so

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businesses could be shut down during the most important time
of the year. Oh, Colorade would never do anything stupid
like that. Uh four oh one, Michael. Wouldn't be better
if all those schools actually had in place emergency generators
with ninety six hours of fuel.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
That way, they cannot only continue to.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Do school work, but they can also be utilized as
a shelter because they would have heater air conditioning. Depending
on the time of year and all the other requirements
that are necessary for people to be taken care of
these diary emergencies. You see, it's that kind of logical thinking. Arguably,
that's a lot of generators.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
It's a lot of generators. There's a lot of schools.
There's a lot of schools.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
It might mean that you might have to cut back
on some administrative staff.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Who can never do that.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
That's because the administrative staff is so important to the
education of the little rug rats. Forget the teachers. They're
just there to, you know, kind of control the chaos.
The administrators do all the teaching. Holy crap.