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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Energy Secretary Chris Right explained that Biden drained the strategic
petroleum reserves that's free dragon sprs so quickly before the
election to try to drop prices that it actually damaged
the facilities. And guess what, Yeah, we get to pay
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for those damages as taxpayers. All right, sabulous, thank you
Bidenn't you care?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'm not quite sure why you had send me this
and then leave it as a talkback, because you've now
ruined unless he wasn't listening, which he probably wasn't ruined.
My surprise for mister Redbeard, because the first two stories
I want to do today are just to irritate mister Redbeard,
and the first one has to do with one of
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his pet peeves, which is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. And
Secretary Chris Right yesterday was talking to CNBC and he
had this to say.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Is the price right enough? Unintended?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I suppose, mister Secretary to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
right now?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Absolutely, we are refilling the reserve now and we will
continue to refill the reserve the whole.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Time I'm in office.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
You know, that was just such an irresponsible action to
drain that reserve so quickly for electoral reasons, and in
fact it was drained so fast it did some damaging
to the facilities. And so right now we only can
fill two of the four major salt caverns we have,
so we're.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Doing repair work on the other two.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
We're slowly filling the other two, and I'm trying to
get some funds through Congress that'll give us a longer
term runway to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at the
fastest rate we can.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Is the price.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
I want to argue with him, Okay, I don't understand
his statement that it was drained to help the election.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Well, he was trying to lower prices.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
But I don't see lowering of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Around election time.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
From the EIA dot gov website that lists out month
to month levels for the Strategy Petroleum Reserve, so if
we go back to let's just say June to September,
it's hovering around the three hundred and seventy three thousand
barrel mark each consistently for those as well as earlier
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in the year twenty twenty four January it was three hundred.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
And fifty go back to the midterms, so it actually
went up.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
So back to the midterms, go back to twenty twenty two.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Twenty twenty two, yes, that is yeah, that's where there
went from well over six hundred to in the three hundred.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Yeah, that's.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
The way Chris presented it made it feel like the
most recent most election.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Right. Oh no, I don't support that.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Okay, well, but it does support it for the midterm elections. Yeah,
which he was doing for political reasons, but drained it
so rapidly that he damaged the salt cavern. So now
we have to go in and a taxpairer expense repair
those before we can refill them.
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Now, I would kind of argue the fact on that
aspect is that was it already damaged and we were
just covering it up with all the barrels that we're
in there, and now that barrels are gone, that we go,
oh wait, there's a crack there.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
There's a crack there. We need to do some more
drywall over here.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Now are we seeing that it is damaged because it
is more empty and it always was damaged?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well who knows, I don't know, but it's just the
strategic patrolum reserve.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
It was.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It was depleted rapidly for electrical purposes, and it either
caused or revealed damage that we now have to repair.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Yeah, yeah, so I just wanted to make happy about that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I appreciate.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
The next thing I want to know is have you
seen the all hands email about the gift card that
you found that. Let's just go ahead and tell everybody
that it was a gift card that originally had five
hundred dollars on it, and I want to disclose that because.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
The story I want to tell you have you?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Have you seen that all hands email asking if aybody's
lost a gift card?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I personally have not.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I have not either, and I think you are on
the same Microsoft Exchange system. I think we have the
same domain name for our email, and I think we
and in fact, I think you and I have both
received the same emails about other things over the past
several days, and neither one of us have seen that email.
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So where's your gift card?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
I just want to make it very clear here that
Michael is the one that cares about this and not me.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Now, I did the right thing. I turned it in.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's not my money, and I'm not arguing that you
did not do the right thing. I'm just arguing that
there is. And the reason I wanted to disclose the
level of the gift card was to give some perspective on.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
The story I'm about to tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh boy, so the gift card was had five hundred
dollars on it, and you said it had been used
three or four times to pay for like two dollars
parking here and there. Correct, Yeah, so that was probably
meter parking somewhere at two dollars. That sounds like a
downtown parking meter, you know, two dollars for you know,
fifteen seconds or something.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, I believe so.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So my theory was it's battered, its meat up, no
one has claimed it. It's like cash. There was no
pen required, so it's like finding cash in the gutter.
And if you find cash in the gutter, or I
would even argue that if you find a twenty dollars bill,
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or even a hunter you find a Benjamin in the
back in a back parking lot and it's just crumpled up,
it's been driven over. Whatever I'm telling you, I would
personally pick up the one hundred dollars bill and stick in
my pocket and just not think a thing. About it
that that's just me. I'm not going to go because
how do you get somebody idea? Did you I guess
you get asked, did you lose some cash? How much?
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You know, what's the serial number? I don't know, you know,
just being in.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
A truck drop one hundred dollar bill in the parking lot.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yes, I did, Yes, I did. So it becomes a
question of what not just what is the right thing
to do, but does the amount influence the right thing
to do? The back doors of an armored truck fly open,
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Bags of cash fallow the street. The truck drives on
uh oh, anywhere from fifty to one hundred people start
scooping up the loot.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Whose money is it? Now?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Brings Home Security reported that it lost about three hundred
thousand dollars in a debacle like this last week. The
Popo and Oak Park, Illinois say anyone caught with this
cash could face jail time.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
How are they gonna.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
How did the doors fly open? No, the FBI is
trying to find out. Most likely, you know, some Brinks
employee just failed to properly lack something and they take
off because they're on a time schedule and they're running
behind or they're they're busy, you know, bitching about wives
or girlfriends or boyfriends or whatever they're doing, and they're
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just not paying much attention.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Brinks won't comment on the story.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
It's possible that they might be able to track the
bills if they are new bills, because then they would
know what sering them.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
They started with, what it is gonna be very difficult.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
It's just you know, ronny from bank to bank. Then
you're ycrewed or.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You've picked up you know, a cash deposit at a
you know the COSTU or whatever, and it's just you know,
bags of random you know, denominations and dollar sign on it.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Now, back in twenty eighteen, something similar happened when along
I seventeen, Indianapolis, a Brinks truck spilled an estimated six
hundred thousand dollars uh. There was a CBS news station
at the time that reported, quote bags of money were
falling out of the back onto the interstate, sort of
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something out of a movie scene where you have bills,
loose bills flying all over the interstate, vehicles stopping people
getting out of their cars. Now, if it's happened before that, now,
if you're Brinks, you probably want to suppress that story.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
A little bit.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You really don't want to getting out that, hey, we've
got a bunch of dfaces that don't know how to
latch the back of the truck or to secure the door.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
And then it happens again.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Just seven years later, uh, in February, Brinks became history's
first armored car company to admit to criminal wrongdoing. That's when,
according to this story, which is published by one of
Denver's former business editors, one of the subsidiaries agreed to
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pay forty two million dollars to settle criminal allegations from
the DOJ and the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
The settlement agreement and enumerted millions and suspicious shipments between
San Diego, Miami, and Tijuana, and Brinks basically admitted to
serving as a money mule. Former FBI agent Mike Driscoll
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coached Chicago CBS News that the contestants in the game
of Finders Keepers won't be easy to track to your point, Dragon,
and incidents like this, when you're talking about loose cash,
that's very, very difficult. Law enforcement is going to have
to rely on old fashioned investigating techniques, looking at surveillance cameras,
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interviewing witnesses. So the question is, mister Redbeard, what.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Would you do? Finders keepers?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Just let it lay out there, Call the authorities, call
nine to one to one or something, you know. And
I can imagine this people pulling out, you know, people
pulling to the side because there are people now jumping
out of their cars and running around picking up bags
and jumping back in their cars. So I would probably
get out of my car and not grab a bag,
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but I would grab my phone and I would have
a viral video of everybody grabbing the bags or just
basically screw Brinks. What what would you do?
Speaker 7 (10:46):
The sad thing is that that money is insured by Brinks.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Oh so now insurance is coming into the crush.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
So they don't They're not really having to worry about anything.
They're just going to be reimbursed by the insurance company.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Although they have a reputational concern.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
That is true. Yeah, but it's not my money. I
didn't earn it or win it or so well.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And if it was like in Indianapolis on the interstate,
I would be very low to pull over and get
out out on an interstate and try to grab a
bag of money. Now, when I read this story, I
must have well, I read this story last night, I
got the email from about the story, and I thought, oh,
I need to break that up. And I'm and I'm
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laughing about it because I'm thinking about Dragon on I
twenty five stopping during rush hour or rush hour, you know,
because it was also a story yesterday about I noticed
at one point yesterday when I was on the twenty
five that one side was just probably backed up. Well,
it turns out there was somebody killed or something in
an accident. But I and I'm thinking, well, I wonder
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So now I'm all these things are going through my
head and I'm spending way too much time last night
about all the different aspects of this story and what
would Dragon Redbeard do, because I had thought to myself,
I just would not risk my life getting out on
the interstate. Yeah, you know, because I can see, you know,
one of our truck drivers. Oh look there's Brown and
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Dragon trying to grab about a bag of money.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
You know, just.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Put it in for it and just ram just watch
us fly over, and you know, and laughing about it
and thinking, finally, now we'll get some new talent on
the program. But here's the really sad part. I must
have really overthought this last night because I had a
dream about you in the interstate. Oh that's just sick
trying to pick up not bags of money, but you
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know like those game shows where you get in the
glass box and there's money flying around somehow, the money
was all flying around on the Interstate and you were
out there trying to grab the money.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
That's what I woke up this morning thinking about.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You had a dream about that. I had a dream
about the shooting range.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Yes, did you want to tell about the shooting range?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Yeah, sure, did you have fun? I did? Why is
she not like the glocks?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
I can only assume that it was her nephew as
a glock, and I'm sure it was much heavier than
what her dainty little arms couldn't.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That's why that's why I recommended the one that I carry,
because that is much much smaller, lighter, and would easily
as much.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Her nephews are in their mid twenties, and you know
big ego boys that are like, all right, bigger the gun,
the more scary it is, the more.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
You know.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
So, which isn't it interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Before you told me what she was shooting, your question
to me was, Missus Redbeard wants to know what your
favorite gun is.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
To back up a little bit, Missus red Beard and I,
my brother in law, and my sister went to the
shooting range on Saturday Sunday, and I did exceptionally well
for the limited time that I've ever actually gone shooting
at a shooting range.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
And then I am I'm out walking the dogs, so
I'm not staring at my phone, but I finally get this.
Let's see, we had another story going on in our
text exchange. You see, mister Redbeard and I actually have
a relationship outside work, which I find very very scary.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
But weight it's necessary.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Also anyway, I'll keep you posting. But also Missus Redbeard
would like to know your favorite handgun. Well, I didn't
see that for a while, and then i'm walking, so
I'm walking the dogs when I finally see it because
I'm checking my I'm checking my mileages or something, and
and I see all text message from Dragon and it
says also, Missus Redbeard would like to know your favorite handgun.
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So I think about it for a moment and I realized, well,
I can't. I don't have I have different favorites for different.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Things, right, Yeah, I'm sure, so.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
I said, and I did.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I never told you my favorite long gun, because you
asked specifically for handguns, the Glock forty two in nine
milimeter for carrying purposes and the Smith and Western forty
four magnum just for fun shooting. And I find that
hilarious because she didn't like the glock. But I bet
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it wasn't the forty two. I bet it was a
larger one.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I honestly, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, And then you responded that, oh, yeah, she.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Loves well, was it the Smith and Wesson's that my
sister and my sister and brother in law had, And
she's like, those were do.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
You know if it was a forty four magnum or
you don't?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
You know it's nine.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
But she would love shooting him forty if.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
She just, oh, we've shot.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
We were out in New York with my uncle many
many years ago and he's got some property up there
and he's he had desert eagle that he brought out
and she absolutely loved it.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Yeah, but it was just.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Too damn big and too damn cumber some and too
damn heavy, right, But it is fun just for funsies, yeah,
of course, But you know, for something for her carrying
around purposes.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, that's not gonna.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Work, right, But would she do it for home defense?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah probably, yeah, yeah, just get you a big cz
shotgun for home defense. So what would you do going
back to the brinks, You're driving along the twenty five
to two two five or the seventy. Let's say traffic's
not too bad, it's not rush hour, traffic's fairly of course.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Maybe rush hour would be a better time because traffic's
driving slower, and it's probably easier to get the traffic
to slow down and stop because there's a hazard in
the road versus you know, sometimes when there's hazard in
the road and it's not rush hour, people are still driving,
you know, seventy five to eighty five miles an hour
in a fifty five zone, and that's a little more
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dangerous to stop your car in front of a bag,
to walk around and pick up the bag and throw
in the back seat and then keep on driving. I
just I picture it in both scenarios, and I just
don't want to do it. But what would you do?
Would you do it or not do it? Texcell, let
me know, all right, let's get started while I start now.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Uh oh, I got clear of this except as so two,
there were two narratives at play in the Canadian elections yesterday.
Either they were going to continue going on its liberal trajectory,
rejecting all the right wing popular serge that is erupted
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elsewhere in Western civilization. Or it was going to take
exactly the same plunge into the unknown that their American
and British cousins had taken them with Trump and Bregsit.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Instead, what the Canadians did, what the Canucks did, is.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
They delivered this kind of muddled, mixed result that either
fully confirms nor denies either one of those projections, either
one of those trajectories. So the count, at least I
haven't checked this morning. At least last night when I
finally went to bed, the count had not yet been completed.
But it looks like the parliament's going to be divided
between the returned but humbled Liberal government under Mark Carney
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holding on to minority status, rising but still not triumphant
opposition Conservative Party under Polavar. They made sizable games both
parties did. So what are the consequences?
Speaker 8 (18:35):
Good morning, Michael Dragon. This is your favorite jew Guber,
I do it. I'm Jewish, of course I would do
it the day.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
That's funny.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
That's funny.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
That is great.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, you're right, the forty two is it? It is
in three eighty. I misspoke three It is in three eighty,
and I confirmed that it was only six days ago.
As I told you yesterday that the media was celebrating
this huge milestone, and that was that Spain's national grid
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operated entirely on renewable energy for the first time during
a weekday. Well, at twelve thirty five pm local time yesterday,
the lights went out across Spain and Portugal and parts
of France. As I mentioned now, the power was quickly
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restored in France and some power. I listened to the
news last night, and some power they had, the spent
Spanish Prime Minister on and he was talking about in
half of their territories or states that power had been
either fully or partially restored, and in the other remaining
half or more, whatever the number was use it was
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going to take perhaps, he said, up to a couple
of days, but everybody else was saying a week to
fully restore power in both Spain and Portugal. But think
about this, and just in a single instant, and only
six days after celebrating that.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
We're now entirely, you know, all of your power.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That you're using to operate everything is coming solely from renewables.
And then God looked down on that and said, you dummies,
and boom.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
The electric home of modern life.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Trains, hospitals, airports, telephones, traffic lights, cash registers ATMs, grocery stores,
I mean, everything you can possibly manage, imagine, just went silent,
as if an electromagnetic pulse had just exploded over the
entire country of Spain and portrait Spa countries of Spain
and Portugal, and then tens of millions of people were instantly.
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It was fascinating last night to watch the news reports.
I deliberately watched a couple of stories on Fox, and
then I went to the networks. Uh, and and interest,
this is so hilarious ABC World News tonight. I thought
I thought I would start with them because I thought,
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anybody that's you know, ABC World News tonight, right, so.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
It's the world news. It's not just you know National News.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I thought that would be the lead story in the
a block that David Muir would come out with. David
Muir started out last night's news stories with severe weather
affecting one hundred I forget about the number was one
hundred eighty million Americans and and and then that that
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was the TS and they go to their commercial break,
and then they start their intro and he comes out.
We start tonight with you know, breaking news about you know,
these storms across and they had the graphic of the
map showing up you know, it's springtime, and they showed
a dry line you know, up through Dallas and Oklahoma
City and up through Saint Louis, you know, so and there,
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you know, all these people are gonna be affected by
floods and you know, tornadoes and high winds and damaging
winds and oh my gosh. And that was I mean
for five minutes, that's what they talked about. And then
there was something about Trump, and then I think they
finally got to Spain. But when they finally most of
the stories, when they finally got to Spain and Portugal,
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it showed that I mean, tens of millions of people
were instantly plunged into chaos, confusion, darkness, and they really
didn't know what to do. And the thing that struck
me the most was how that could so easily be us,
not necessarily because of our reliance on renewable energy, because
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we're not there yet. But that's the goal that Jared
Polus and former President Biden and Democrats and general progressives
and Marxists really want us to do.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
That.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
This is where they want us to go. But you know,
people were stuck in elevators, The subways weren't working between stations,
the gas stations couldn't pump fuel. Grocery stores couldn't process
the payments. Air traffic controls scrambled because their systems are failing.
They're trying to get the generators back up. Planes were
being diverted in hospitals. Backup generators, you know, sputtered on,
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but in a lot of cases they couldn't.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Meet the full demand.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
South towers collapsed under the surges and the alogies and
people were lined up at it.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
It was selected.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
People were lined up at ATMs, and it was like,
wait a minute, don't you know that the person in
front of you who keeps, you know, punching in numbers
and nothing's happening was walking away without cash, but people would.
It was fascinating to me to watch people that were
so accustomed to everything always working. We always expect when
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we hit the light switch that the lights are going
to come on, and people just fully expect that when
they walk up to the ATM and put their card in,
they're going to get the cash out. And when it
doesn't work, they stand there and just they just keep
punching and punching and punching. They finally give them walk away,
But does the line dispurse. No, people have to keep trying.
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And then they interviewed a guy that was somewhere in
Spain through a translator, and he was talking about, of course,
the first thing we did is we went to the
grocery store. But what they never said, at least on
the networks, was that they went to the grocery stores.
But they'll makeun process payments. Now, if you happen to
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have cash, they would take your cash, but they couldn't
give you any change. They couldn't even get the registers
to open. It was the exact failure. This was breaking
news yesterday's Well You're on air and the more I
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thought about it. It's the exact failure that I had
been repeatedly warning people about for decades.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
You mind if I back up here really quickly, Michael.
I'm just trying to follow along with the story. I'm
trying to post things to Michael says go here dot
com as as we move along.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
And you had stated the beginning that they had switched
to renewables. Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Well, they had over time, they had been switching more
and more to renewables, okay. And six days ago they
had reached the first day where all power was coming
from renewables. There was no natural gas generation whatsoever, which
is their baseline generation. Okay, So everything on that day
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was all renewables, and they were celebrat and six days
later boom.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
So we're talking almost a week ago. They're touting the
fact that, hey, we've done this, we are one hundred
percent renewable here yep.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
So I just want to make sure that we're very
clear on that. I have not found that story. I've
not looked for that story. But as I'm trying to
find stories about the outage, as opposed to Michael says
go here dot com, I'm going through headline after headline
after headline. I'm actually reading a little bit of the
articles this time around. I know, I just wanted to
make sure I get things right for the website, Michael says,
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go here dot com. So I'm just trying to find
different sources. I've got CNN the power outage in Spain
and Portugal grapple with fallout, and I dive into it
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
They don't know the cause.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Okay, all right, back out of that website, go down, Oh,
New York Times, that's that's a pretty big one. Widespread
power outage hit Spain in Portugal. Let me dive into
that again about a paragraph and a half in unknown cause.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
But yesterday you were reporting the the cause was this
atmospheric oscillation.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Never the hell that means.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
I'm just baffled the fact that you moron on the
radio here in Denver, Colorado can put this together and
go wait a minute. Six days ago they said they
did this, and even Reuters says the same thing, an
unknown cause, but we can rule out a terrorist attack
or a cyber attack.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
They route out terrorism, they've ruled out cyber attack, but
they don't go back to wait a minute, what was
the weather.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
But it just it boggles my mind.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
Again, I cannot verify with the fact that they've been
celebrating the fact that they're one hundred percent renewables a
week ago and now their power is out. But all
these big organizations, CNN, New York Times writers are going,
we don't.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Know what Okay, well, well, let me get to the
next line of my notes. Yesterday I pointed out and
it was in fact, let me click on my hyperlink
see where it takes me. This comes from the London Telegraph,
which you probably can't get behind the paywall, but the
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London Telegraph reports that read Electrica, that's their national grid operator,
revealed that the immediate cause of the blackout was a
quote very strong oscillation in the electrical network that forced
the national grid to disconnect from the broader European system
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and that led to the collapse of the Iberian Peninsula's
power supply at twelve thirty eight pm. But a strong
oscillation in the elect Now, yesterday it was atmospheric oscillation.
Today they say a network oscillation. And I'm just speculating here,
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I'm totally speculating. Let's say it's a network, a grid
oscillation is that like a surge. I have a difficult
time believing that there was a positive surge in from
wind and solar. I can't imagine a negative surge like
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a sudden like just blip drop off, like the wind
and solar blipped. Suddenly the clouds were there and they
didn't have one hundred percent, and suddenly it dropped to
say eighty percent, and then sixty percent and then below
fifty percent. And so it was like what I would
describe in Layman's terms as a negative oscillation. It's going
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one direction and then boom, it suddenly drops off, and
that breaks it off.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
From the European grid.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Well, there's one energy analyst over on X that said this,
No one has ever attempted to black start on a
grid that relies so heavily on renewables as Iberia. The
limited number of thermal generators will make it more challenging
to re establish momentum and frequency control. So why Well,
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in a traditional grid where it's dominated by these heavy
spinning machines, turbines like coal plants, gas turbines, nuclear reactors,
small disturbances even from severe weather are easily absorbed and
then they're smoothed out because of the sheer physical inertia
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of the system. I mean once once a once the turbine,
you know, kind of gets spinning, and that turbine is
being powered by you know steam or heat whatever generated
by coal or gas or or or you know, radiation. Uh,
it will just continue and so glip, you know, little blips,
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small disturbances are not going to affect that. The heavy
rotating of the rotating mass of those generators kind of
acts like a shock absorb absorber. It resists these rapid
changes in frequency, and that stabilizes the grid. Solar and
wind simply can't do that. When the systems dominate by
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solar panels, wind turbines, inverters, there's almost no physical inertia.
Think about this, what does the solar panel produce. There's
no mechanical rotation in a solar panel. And if you
think about a wind turbine, think about those wind turbines
that you see along eye twenty five round in the
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eastern planes. They are electronically decoupled from the grid and
they provide little stabilizing force. Inverter based systems, which is
the dominant method in modern renewable energy grids.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
They're very precise, but they're very delicate.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
They follow the frequency of the grid rather than resisting
sudden changes. If there's a frequency drop off, if the
grid just follows that drop off. Now this is pure
speculation on my part, but that's what I think happened.
That was the oscillation. The weather changed, the wind turbines
weren't spinning, and the solar panels didn't have any access
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to sunlight, and so there was a oscillation, and that
was enough of an oscillation that it disconnected from the
European grid and boom, everything goes down.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Mike.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
These countries that occasionally will announce that they've made their
demand with renewables, they always do that on a spring
day when there's no demand for heating and cooling, and
it's a Saturday or Sunday, when all the office buildings
are closed and the load is only thirty percent of peak.
They can't even come close to handling fifty percent of
peak demand with renewables.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Which is a great point, which I hate to admit
that the engineer made a great point. But let's go
back to Dragons before I continue. Let's go back to
Dragon's point for a moment. Because I think there's a
specific reason why looking at domestic news sources. I mean
some of our international like CNN obviously is international, writers
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is international. But Dragon's looking at their their domestic websites,
and he's flustered because nobody's pointing out, we can't find
the cause.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
And nobody's making the connection to a story that we
did a week ago where hey, look, Spain did a
good thing and did one hundred percent renewables one week later,
and I.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Think, and I think that's deliberate because well, let's go
to Agent jed A's point. Uh, the claim that hey,
look today we're one hundred percent renewables, Well, it's easy
to make that claim because to his point, nobody says, oh, yeah,
that was a you know, Sunday afternoon and it was
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you know, really mild out and nobody's at work, and
you know, the sun's out, and you know, all elements
are all aligned, you know, the stars are all aligned,
and everything's working just perfectly.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
And then you come along and you have a change
in the weather.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
You've got you know, higher demand, peak demand, and maybe
exceeds peak. You know, you're a historic peak that gets
succeeded whatever might whatever. Nobody wants to report in this
country because that is unreliability. When earlier when I said,
we go to the light switch and we flip it
and we expect it to come on, or we go
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to the ATM, or we go to the gas pump,
we get we are so accustomed to these things working
that when they don't, do you think that the cabal
is going to want to report that, Oh, maybe reliance
on these renewables is not as reliable as we think
that it is. They don't want to report it, and
that's what Dragon's finding out right now. They don't they
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don't want to dive into it, they don't want to
give the particulars, and I don't think Americans want to
hear it
Energy Secretary Chris Right explained that Biden drained the strategic
petroleum reserves that's free dragon sprs so quickly before the
election to try to drop prices that it actually damaged
the facilities. And guess what, Yeah, we get to pay
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for those damages as taxpayers. All right, sabulous, thank you
Bidenn't you care?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'm not quite sure why you had send me this
and then leave it as a talkback, because you've now
ruined unless he wasn't listening, which he probably wasn't ruined.
My surprise for mister Redbeard, because the first two stories
I want to do today are just to irritate mister Redbeard,
and the first one has to do with one of
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his pet peeves, which is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. And
Secretary Chris Right yesterday was talking to CNBC and he
had this to say.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Is the price right enough? Unintended?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I suppose, mister Secretary to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
right now?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Absolutely, we are refilling the reserve now and we will
continue to refill the reserve the whole.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Time I'm in office.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
You know, that was just such an irresponsible action to
drain that reserve so quickly for electoral reasons, and in
fact it was drained so fast it did some damaging
to the facilities. And so right now we only can
fill two of the four major salt caverns we have,
so we're.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Doing repair work on the other two.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
We're slowly filling the other two, and I'm trying to
get some funds through Congress that'll give us a longer
term runway to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at the
fastest rate we can.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Is the price.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
I want to argue with him, Okay, I don't understand
his statement that it was drained to help the election.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Well, he was trying to lower prices.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
But I don't see lowering of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Around election time.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
From the EIA dot gov website that lists out month
to month levels for the Strategy Petroleum Reserve, so if
we go back to let's just say June to September,
it's hovering around the three hundred and seventy three thousand
barrel mark each consistently for those as well as earlier
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in the year twenty twenty four January it was three hundred.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
And fifty go back to the midterms, so it actually
went up.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
So back to the midterms, go back to twenty twenty two.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Twenty twenty two, yes, that is yeah, that's where there
went from well over six hundred to in the three hundred.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Yeah, that's.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
The way Chris presented it made it feel like the
most recent most election.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Right. Oh no, I don't support that.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Okay, well, but it does support it for the midterm elections. Yeah,
which he was doing for political reasons, but drained it
so rapidly that he damaged the salt cavern. So now
we have to go in and a taxpairer expense repair
those before we can refill them.
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Now, I would kind of argue the fact on that
aspect is that was it already damaged and we were
just covering it up with all the barrels that we're
in there, and now that barrels are gone, that we go,
oh wait, there's a crack there.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
There's a crack there. We need to do some more
drywall over here.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Now are we seeing that it is damaged because it
is more empty and it always was damaged?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well who knows, I don't know, but it's just the
strategic patrolum reserve.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
It was.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It was depleted rapidly for electrical purposes, and it either
caused or revealed damage that we now have to repair.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Yeah, yeah, so I just wanted to make happy about that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I appreciate.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Now.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
The next thing I want to know is have you
seen the all hands email about the gift card that
you found that. Let's just go ahead and tell everybody
that it was a gift card that originally had five
hundred dollars on it, and I want to disclose that because.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
The story I want to tell you have you?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Have you seen that all hands email asking if aybody's
lost a gift card?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I personally have not.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I have not either, and I think you are on
the same Microsoft Exchange system. I think we have the
same domain name for our email, and I think we
and in fact, I think you and I have both
received the same emails about other things over the past
several days, and neither one of us have seen that email.
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So where's your gift card?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
I just want to make it very clear here that
Michael is the one that cares about this and not me.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Now, I did the right thing. I turned it in.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's not my money, and I'm not arguing that you
did not do the right thing. I'm just arguing that
there is. And the reason I wanted to disclose the
level of the gift card was to give some perspective on.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
The story I'm about to tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh boy, so the gift card was had five hundred
dollars on it, and you said it had been used
three or four times to pay for like two dollars
parking here and there. Correct, Yeah, so that was probably
meter parking somewhere at two dollars. That sounds like a
downtown parking meter, you know, two dollars for you know,
fifteen seconds or something.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yeah, I believe so.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
So my theory was it's battered, its meat up, no
one has claimed it. It's like cash. There was no
pen required, so it's like finding cash in the gutter.
And if you find cash in the gutter, or I
would even argue that if you find a twenty dollars bill,
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or even a hunter you find a Benjamin in the
back in a back parking lot and it's just crumpled up,
it's been driven over. Whatever I'm telling you, I would
personally pick up the one hundred dollars bill and stick in
my pocket and just not think a thing. About it
that that's just me. I'm not going to go because
how do you get somebody idea? Did you I guess
you get asked, did you lose some cash? How much?
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You know, what's the serial number? I don't know, you know,
just being in.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
A truck drop one hundred dollar bill in the parking lot.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yes, I did, Yes, I did. So it becomes a
question of what not just what is the right thing
to do, but does the amount influence the right thing
to do? The back doors of an armored truck fly open,
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Bags of cash fallow the street. The truck drives on
uh oh, anywhere from fifty to one hundred people start
scooping up the loot.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Whose money is it? Now?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Brings Home Security reported that it lost about three hundred
thousand dollars in a debacle like this last week. The
Popo and Oak Park, Illinois say anyone caught with this
cash could face jail time.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
How are they gonna.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
How did the doors fly open? No, the FBI is
trying to find out. Most likely, you know, some Brinks
employee just failed to properly lack something and they take
off because they're on a time schedule and they're running
behind or they're they're busy, you know, bitching about wives
or girlfriends or boyfriends or whatever they're doing, and they're
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just not paying much attention.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Brinks won't comment on the story.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
It's possible that they might be able to track the
bills if they are new bills, because then they would
know what sering them.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
They started with, what it is gonna be very difficult.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
It's just you know, ronny from bank to bank. Then
you're ycrewed or.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You've picked up you know, a cash deposit at a
you know the COSTU or whatever, and it's just you know,
bags of random you know, denominations and dollar sign on it.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Now, back in twenty eighteen, something similar happened when along
I seventeen, Indianapolis, a Brinks truck spilled an estimated six
hundred thousand dollars uh. There was a CBS news station
at the time that reported, quote bags of money were
falling out of the back onto the interstate, sort of
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something out of a movie scene where you have bills,
loose bills flying all over the interstate, vehicles stopping people
getting out of their cars. Now, if it's happened before that, now,
if you're Brinks, you probably want to suppress that story.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
A little bit.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You really don't want to getting out that, hey, we've
got a bunch of dfaces that don't know how to
latch the back of the truck or to secure the door.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
And then it happens again.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Just seven years later, uh, in February, Brinks became history's
first armored car company to admit to criminal wrongdoing. That's when,
according to this story, which is published by one of
Denver's former business editors, one of the subsidiaries agreed to
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pay forty two million dollars to settle criminal allegations from
the DOJ and the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
The settlement agreement and enumerted millions and suspicious shipments between
San Diego, Miami, and Tijuana, and Brinks basically admitted to
serving as a money mule. Former FBI agent Mike Driscoll
(09:45):
coached Chicago CBS News that the contestants in the game
of Finders Keepers won't be easy to track to your point, Dragon,
and incidents like this, when you're talking about loose cash,
that's very, very difficult. Law enforcement is going to have
to rely on old fashioned investigating techniques, looking at surveillance cameras,
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interviewing witnesses. So the question is, mister Redbeard, what.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Would you do? Finders keepers?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Just let it lay out there, Call the authorities, call
nine to one to one or something, you know. And
I can imagine this people pulling out, you know, people
pulling to the side because there are people now jumping
out of their cars and running around picking up bags
and jumping back in their cars. So I would probably
get out of my car and not grab a bag,
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but I would grab my phone and I would have
a viral video of everybody grabbing the bags or just
basically screw Brinks. What what would you do?
Speaker 7 (10:46):
The sad thing is that that money is insured by Brinks.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Oh so now insurance is coming into the crush.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
So they don't They're not really having to worry about anything.
They're just going to be reimbursed by the insurance company.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Although they have a reputational concern.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
That is true. Yeah, but it's not my money. I
didn't earn it or win it or so well.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
And if it was like in Indianapolis on the interstate,
I would be very low to pull over and get
out out on an interstate and try to grab a
bag of money. Now, when I read this story, I
must have well, I read this story last night, I
got the email from about the story, and I thought, oh,
I need to break that up. And I'm and I'm
(11:33):
laughing about it because I'm thinking about Dragon on I
twenty five stopping during rush hour or rush hour, you know,
because it was also a story yesterday about I noticed
at one point yesterday when I was on the twenty
five that one side was just probably backed up. Well,
it turns out there was somebody killed or something in
an accident. But I and I'm thinking, well, I wonder
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So now I'm all these things are going through my
head and I'm spending way too much time last night
about all the different aspects of this story and what
would Dragon Redbeard do, because I had thought to myself,
I just would not risk my life getting out on
the interstate. Yeah, you know, because I can see, you know,
one of our truck drivers. Oh look there's Brown and
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Dragon trying to grab about a bag of money.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
You know, just.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Put it in for it and just ram just watch
us fly over, and you know, and laughing about it
and thinking, finally, now we'll get some new talent on
the program. But here's the really sad part. I must
have really overthought this last night because I had a
dream about you in the interstate. Oh that's just sick
trying to pick up not bags of money, but you
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know like those game shows where you get in the
glass box and there's money flying around somehow, the money
was all flying around on the Interstate and you were
out there trying to grab the money.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
That's what I woke up this morning thinking about.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You had a dream about that. I had a dream
about the shooting range.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Yes, did you want to tell about the shooting range?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
That's right?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Yeah, sure, did you have fun? I did? Why is
she not like the glocks?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
I can only assume that it was her nephew as
a glock, and I'm sure it was much heavier than
what her dainty little arms couldn't.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That's why that's why I recommended the one that I carry,
because that is much much smaller, lighter, and would easily
as much.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Her nephews are in their mid twenties, and you know
big ego boys that are like, all right, bigger the gun,
the more scary it is, the more.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
You know.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
So, which isn't it interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Before you told me what she was shooting, your question
to me was, Missus Redbeard wants to know what your
favorite gun is.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
To back up a little bit, Missus red Beard and I,
my brother in law, and my sister went to the
shooting range on Saturday Sunday, and I did exceptionally well
for the limited time that I've ever actually gone shooting
at a shooting range.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
And then I am I'm out walking the dogs, so
I'm not staring at my phone, but I finally get this.
Let's see, we had another story going on in our
text exchange. You see, mister Redbeard and I actually have
a relationship outside work, which I find very very scary.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
But weight it's necessary.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Also anyway, I'll keep you posting. But also Missus Redbeard
would like to know your favorite handgun. Well, I didn't
see that for a while, and then i'm walking, so
I'm walking the dogs when I finally see it because
I'm checking my I'm checking my mileages or something, and
and I see all text message from Dragon and it
says also, Missus Redbeard would like to know your favorite handgun.
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So I think about it for a moment and I realized, well,
I can't. I don't have I have different favorites for different.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Things, right, Yeah, I'm sure, so.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
I said, and I did.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I never told you my favorite long gun, because you
asked specifically for handguns, the Glock forty two in nine
milimeter for carrying purposes and the Smith and Western forty
four magnum just for fun shooting. And I find that
hilarious because she didn't like the glock. But I bet
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it wasn't the forty two. I bet it was a
larger one.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
I honestly, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, And then you responded that, oh, yeah, she.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Loves well, was it the Smith and Wesson's that my
sister and my sister and brother in law had, And
she's like, those were do.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
You know if it was a forty four magnum or
you don't?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
You know it's nine.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
But she would love shooting him forty if.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
She just, oh, we've shot.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
We were out in New York with my uncle many
many years ago and he's got some property up there
and he's he had desert eagle that he brought out
and she absolutely loved it.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Yeah, but it was just.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Too damn big and too damn cumber some and too
damn heavy, right, But it is fun just for funsies, yeah,
of course, But you know, for something for her carrying
around purposes.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, that's not gonna.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Work, right, But would she do it for home defense?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah probably, yeah, yeah, just get you a big cz
shotgun for home defense. So what would you do going
back to the brinks, You're driving along the twenty five
to two two five or the seventy. Let's say traffic's
not too bad, it's not rush hour, traffic's fairly of course.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Maybe rush hour would be a better time because traffic's
driving slower, and it's probably easier to get the traffic
to slow down and stop because there's a hazard in
the road versus you know, sometimes when there's hazard in
the road and it's not rush hour, people are still driving,
you know, seventy five to eighty five miles an hour
in a fifty five zone, and that's a little more
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dangerous to stop your car in front of a bag,
to walk around and pick up the bag and throw
in the back seat and then keep on driving. I
just I picture it in both scenarios, and I just
don't want to do it. But what would you do?
Would you do it or not do it? Texcell, let
me know, all right, let's get started while I start now.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Uh oh, I got clear of this except as so two,
there were two narratives at play in the Canadian elections yesterday.
Either they were going to continue going on its liberal trajectory,
rejecting all the right wing popular serge that is erupted
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elsewhere in Western civilization. Or it was going to take
exactly the same plunge into the unknown that their American
and British cousins had taken them with Trump and Bregsit.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Instead, what the Canadians did, what the Canucks did, is.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
They delivered this kind of muddled, mixed result that either
fully confirms nor denies either one of those projections, either
one of those trajectories. So the count, at least I
haven't checked this morning. At least last night when I
finally went to bed, the count had not yet been completed.
But it looks like the parliament's going to be divided
between the returned but humbled Liberal government under Mark Carney
(18:22):
holding on to minority status, rising but still not triumphant
opposition Conservative Party under Polavar. They made sizable games both
parties did. So what are the consequences?
Speaker 8 (18:35):
Good morning, Michael Dragon. This is your favorite jew Guber,
I do it. I'm Jewish, of course I would do
it the day.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
That's funny.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
That's funny.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
That is great.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, you're right, the forty two is it? It is
in three eighty. I misspoke three It is in three eighty,
and I confirmed that it was only six days ago.
As I told you yesterday that the media was celebrating
this huge milestone, and that was that Spain's national grid
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operated entirely on renewable energy for the first time during
a weekday. Well, at twelve thirty five pm local time yesterday,
the lights went out across Spain and Portugal and parts
of France. As I mentioned now, the power was quickly
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restored in France and some power. I listened to the
news last night, and some power they had, the spent
Spanish Prime Minister on and he was talking about in
half of their territories or states that power had been
either fully or partially restored, and in the other remaining
half or more, whatever the number was use it was
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going to take perhaps, he said, up to a couple
of days, but everybody else was saying a week to
fully restore power in both Spain and Portugal. But think
about this, and just in a single instant, and only
six days after celebrating that.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
We're now entirely, you know, all of your power.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That you're using to operate everything is coming solely from renewables.
And then God looked down on that and said, you dummies,
and boom.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
The electric home of modern life.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Trains, hospitals, airports, telephones, traffic lights, cash registers ATMs, grocery stores,
I mean, everything you can possibly manage, imagine, just went silent,
as if an electromagnetic pulse had just exploded over the
entire country of Spain and portrait Spa countries of Spain
and Portugal, and then tens of millions of people were instantly.
(20:57):
It was fascinating last night to watch the news reports.
I deliberately watched a couple of stories on Fox, and
then I went to the networks. Uh, and and interest,
this is so hilarious ABC World News tonight. I thought
I thought I would start with them because I thought,
(21:19):
anybody that's you know, ABC World News tonight, right, so.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
It's the world news. It's not just you know National News.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I thought that would be the lead story in the
a block that David Muir would come out with. David
Muir started out last night's news stories with severe weather
affecting one hundred I forget about the number was one
hundred eighty million Americans and and and then that that
(21:48):
was the TS and they go to their commercial break,
and then they start their intro and he comes out.
We start tonight with you know, breaking news about you know,
these storms across and they had the graphic of the
map showing up you know, it's springtime, and they showed
a dry line you know, up through Dallas and Oklahoma
City and up through Saint Louis, you know, so and there,
(22:09):
you know, all these people are gonna be affected by
floods and you know, tornadoes and high winds and damaging
winds and oh my gosh. And that was I mean
for five minutes, that's what they talked about. And then
there was something about Trump, and then I think they
finally got to Spain. But when they finally most of
the stories, when they finally got to Spain and Portugal,
(22:29):
it showed that I mean, tens of millions of people
were instantly plunged into chaos, confusion, darkness, and they really
didn't know what to do. And the thing that struck
me the most was how that could so easily be us,
not necessarily because of our reliance on renewable energy, because
(22:51):
we're not there yet. But that's the goal that Jared
Polus and former President Biden and Democrats and general progressives
and Marxists really want us to do.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
That.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
This is where they want us to go. But you know,
people were stuck in elevators, The subways weren't working between stations,
the gas stations couldn't pump fuel. Grocery stores couldn't process
the payments. Air traffic controls scrambled because their systems are failing.
They're trying to get the generators back up. Planes were
being diverted in hospitals. Backup generators, you know, sputtered on,
(23:23):
but in a lot of cases they couldn't.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Meet the full demand.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
South towers collapsed under the surges and the alogies and
people were lined up at it.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
It was selected.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
People were lined up at ATMs, and it was like,
wait a minute, don't you know that the person in
front of you who keeps, you know, punching in numbers
and nothing's happening was walking away without cash, but people would.
It was fascinating to me to watch people that were
so accustomed to everything always working. We always expect when
(23:58):
we hit the light switch that the lights are going
to come on, and people just fully expect that when
they walk up to the ATM and put their card in,
they're going to get the cash out. And when it
doesn't work, they stand there and just they just keep
punching and punching and punching. They finally give them walk away,
But does the line dispurse. No, people have to keep trying.
(24:23):
And then they interviewed a guy that was somewhere in
Spain through a translator, and he was talking about, of course,
the first thing we did is we went to the
grocery store. But what they never said, at least on
the networks, was that they went to the grocery stores.
But they'll makeun process payments. Now, if you happen to
(24:47):
have cash, they would take your cash, but they couldn't
give you any change. They couldn't even get the registers
to open. It was the exact failure. This was breaking
news yesterday's Well You're on air and the more I
(25:10):
thought about it. It's the exact failure that I had
been repeatedly warning people about for decades.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
You mind if I back up here really quickly, Michael.
I'm just trying to follow along with the story. I'm
trying to post things to Michael says go here dot
com as as we move along.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
And you had stated the beginning that they had switched
to renewables. Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Well, they had over time, they had been switching more
and more to renewables, okay. And six days ago they
had reached the first day where all power was coming
from renewables. There was no natural gas generation whatsoever, which
is their baseline generation. Okay, So everything on that day
(25:57):
was all renewables, and they were celebrat and six days
later boom.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
So we're talking almost a week ago. They're touting the
fact that, hey, we've done this, we are one hundred
percent renewable here yep.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
So I just want to make sure that we're very
clear on that. I have not found that story. I've
not looked for that story. But as I'm trying to
find stories about the outage, as opposed to Michael says
go here dot com, I'm going through headline after headline
after headline. I'm actually reading a little bit of the
articles this time around. I know, I just wanted to
make sure I get things right for the website, Michael says,
(26:32):
go here dot com. So I'm just trying to find
different sources. I've got CNN the power outage in Spain
and Portugal grapple with fallout, and I dive into it
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
They don't know the cause.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Okay, all right, back out of that website, go down, Oh,
New York Times, that's that's a pretty big one. Widespread
power outage hit Spain in Portugal. Let me dive into
that again about a paragraph and a half in unknown cause.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
But yesterday you were reporting the the cause was this
atmospheric oscillation.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Never the hell that means.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
I'm just baffled the fact that you moron on the
radio here in Denver, Colorado can put this together and
go wait a minute. Six days ago they said they
did this, and even Reuters says the same thing, an
unknown cause, but we can rule out a terrorist attack
or a cyber attack.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
They route out terrorism, they've ruled out cyber attack, but
they don't go back to wait a minute, what was
the weather.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
But it just it boggles my mind.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
Again, I cannot verify with the fact that they've been
celebrating the fact that they're one hundred percent renewables a
week ago and now their power is out. But all
these big organizations, CNN, New York Times writers are going,
we don't.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Know what Okay, well, well, let me get to the
next line of my notes. Yesterday I pointed out and
it was in fact, let me click on my hyperlink
see where it takes me. This comes from the London Telegraph,
which you probably can't get behind the paywall, but the
(28:10):
London Telegraph reports that read Electrica, that's their national grid operator,
revealed that the immediate cause of the blackout was a
quote very strong oscillation in the electrical network that forced
the national grid to disconnect from the broader European system
(28:33):
and that led to the collapse of the Iberian Peninsula's
power supply at twelve thirty eight pm. But a strong
oscillation in the elect Now, yesterday it was atmospheric oscillation.
Today they say a network oscillation. And I'm just speculating here,
(28:54):
I'm totally speculating. Let's say it's a network, a grid
oscillation is that like a surge. I have a difficult
time believing that there was a positive surge in from
wind and solar. I can't imagine a negative surge like
(29:17):
a sudden like just blip drop off, like the wind
and solar blipped. Suddenly the clouds were there and they
didn't have one hundred percent, and suddenly it dropped to
say eighty percent, and then sixty percent and then below
fifty percent. And so it was like what I would
describe in Layman's terms as a negative oscillation. It's going
(29:39):
one direction and then boom, it suddenly drops off, and
that breaks it off.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
From the European grid.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Well, there's one energy analyst over on X that said this,
No one has ever attempted to black start on a
grid that relies so heavily on renewables as Iberia. The
limited number of thermal generators will make it more challenging
to re establish momentum and frequency control. So why Well,
(30:08):
in a traditional grid where it's dominated by these heavy
spinning machines, turbines like coal plants, gas turbines, nuclear reactors,
small disturbances even from severe weather are easily absorbed and
then they're smoothed out because of the sheer physical inertia
(30:28):
of the system. I mean once once a once the turbine,
you know, kind of gets spinning, and that turbine is
being powered by you know steam or heat whatever generated
by coal or gas or or or you know, radiation. Uh,
it will just continue and so glip, you know, little blips,
(30:52):
small disturbances are not going to affect that. The heavy
rotating of the rotating mass of those generators kind of
acts like a shock absorb absorber. It resists these rapid
changes in frequency, and that stabilizes the grid. Solar and
wind simply can't do that. When the systems dominate by
(31:15):
solar panels, wind turbines, inverters, there's almost no physical inertia.
Think about this, what does the solar panel produce. There's
no mechanical rotation in a solar panel. And if you
think about a wind turbine, think about those wind turbines
that you see along eye twenty five round in the
(31:35):
eastern planes. They are electronically decoupled from the grid and
they provide little stabilizing force. Inverter based systems, which is
the dominant method in modern renewable energy grids.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
They're very precise, but they're very delicate.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
They follow the frequency of the grid rather than resisting
sudden changes. If there's a frequency drop off, if the
grid just follows that drop off. Now this is pure
speculation on my part, but that's what I think happened.
That was the oscillation. The weather changed, the wind turbines
weren't spinning, and the solar panels didn't have any access
(32:17):
to sunlight, and so there was a oscillation, and that
was enough of an oscillation that it disconnected from the
European grid and boom, everything goes down.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Mike.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
These countries that occasionally will announce that they've made their
demand with renewables, they always do that on a spring
day when there's no demand for heating and cooling, and
it's a Saturday or Sunday, when all the office buildings
are closed and the load is only thirty percent of peak.
They can't even come close to handling fifty percent of
peak demand with renewables.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Which is a great point, which I hate to admit
that the engineer made a great point. But let's go
back to Dragons before I continue. Let's go back to
Dragon's point for a moment. Because I think there's a
specific reason why looking at domestic news sources. I mean
some of our international like CNN obviously is international, writers
(33:10):
is international. But Dragon's looking at their their domestic websites,
and he's flustered because nobody's pointing out, we can't find
the cause.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
And nobody's making the connection to a story that we
did a week ago where hey, look, Spain did a
good thing and did one hundred percent renewables one week later,
and I.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Think, and I think that's deliberate because well, let's go
to Agent jed A's point. Uh, the claim that hey,
look today we're one hundred percent renewables, Well, it's easy
to make that claim because to his point, nobody says, oh, yeah,
that was a you know, Sunday afternoon and it was
(33:53):
you know, really mild out and nobody's at work, and
you know, the sun's out, and you know, all elements
are all aligned, you know, the stars are all aligned,
and everything's working just perfectly.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
And then you come along and you have a change
in the weather.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
You've got you know, higher demand, peak demand, and maybe
exceeds peak. You know, you're a historic peak that gets
succeeded whatever might whatever. Nobody wants to report in this
country because that is unreliability. When earlier when I said,
we go to the light switch and we flip it
and we expect it to come on, or we go
(34:31):
to the ATM, or we go to the gas pump,
we get we are so accustomed to these things working
that when they don't, do you think that the cabal
is going to want to report that, Oh, maybe reliance
on these renewables is not as reliable as we think
that it is. They don't want to report it, and
that's what Dragon's finding out right now. They don't they
(34:53):
don't want to dive into it, they don't want to
give the particulars, and I don't think Americans want to
hear it
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