1-28-25 - 9am - Energy Race and RTD

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If Crump really was to save some money, get us
out of the United Nations as soon as possible. That
place is a rep sesspool full of our enemies that
are trying to control the world.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
All right, you told us that yesterday, and I agree,
and I would be happy to get us out of
the United Nations or at least quit paying as much
as we pay. But it's probably not going to happen.
But here's what is happening. Last night, I'm listening to
this podcast and.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Well, not this podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, obviously I wasn't listening to this podcast because this
podcast was not posted because somebody was more excited about
their grandson being born than he was about actually you know,
you know hitting published, which is like one mouse click. Well, well,
in your case, three.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Mouse clicks for the three hours that you know we're published.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, so you're right. I wasn't listening to this podcast.
But I was listening to an energy podcast and they
were talking about the demand for electricity and how the
demand for electricity is the grid is so inadequate for
everything that we're trying to do, both good and bad.

(01:23):
I mean, for for example, let's do EVS. I don't
I don't hate evs, but I hate the whole marketing
of evs that somehow you know you're gonna save the
planet by by buying an EV which is just total,
utter bull crap. So you got EV's, you got solar
you know, you got solar panels, You've got chargers, and
you've got a I and you've got all of these things.

(01:45):
The demand for electricity is just skyrocketing, and Germany, for example,
pays some of the highest rates in the world for
you know, a kilowater of electricity because Germany decided to
go all in with green energy, and so they started
shutting down all their nuclear power plants. And now they're

(02:06):
realizing that and there's a huge backlash. In fact, just
a little footnote here, Germany's really in the toilet right now.
The whole immigration problem that we have is even worse proportionately,
at least worse in Germany. And on top of that,
they have exorbitant electric rates that is causing a consumer backlash.

(02:29):
And of course everything's controlled by the government in Germany,
so there's a backlash. There's there's a double backlash against
the government, and that's one reason why the ADF, the
Alternative for deutsch Land, the FD a FD not eight
F the a f D alternaty for deutsch Land, which
is a pretty right wing, almost clu They say some

(02:53):
things that really bother me, but then nonetheless is a
populist government party is about to control and electric prices
are one of the things that's driving it. There just
is no way without having a baseline, solid source of
electrical power, which is coal. You know, we've been shutting

(03:15):
down like thousands of coal plants, and now we're starting
to shut down natural gas plants. At the same time
that the big tech companies are beginning to look at,
for example, and I forget whether it's Google or Meta,
doesn't make any difference. One of them is actually looking
at licensing and reopening Three Mile Island because nuclear power

(03:35):
is will provide a baseline of electricity for what we
need in the future, as will not shutting down natural
gas plants and reopening coal plants. Why do you think
China is doing this well. In a sign that Trump
recognizes that the Church of the climate activists are really

(04:00):
kind of putting us on a path to economic destruction,
He's beginning this second term by signing a series of
executive orders aimed squarely at destroying the Church of the
Climate activists, or what some people refer to as the
climate industrial complex, much like in the military industrial complex. Now,

(04:23):
this flory of actions reminiscent reminiscent of his first term,
marked by bold and often polarizing decisions, But this time
the focus really is laser sharp, and it's not just
about immigration, but it's about unshackling American energy and American science,
about energy from the grip of this bureaucratic overreach and

(04:50):
the ideological orthodoxy of the Church of the climate activists. Now,
compared to his predecessors Trumps, including Biden, Trump's use of
executive orders has always been unapology unapologetically direct. Biden would
use executive actions executive orders to accelerate climate regulations and

(05:15):
then imbed climate priorities into every federal agency. Trump's latest
orders aim to absolutely undo those efforts, exposing what he describes,
I think accurately so as the weaponization of science and policy.
So I thought it'd be worth our time to stop,

(05:36):
because I know the whole focus right now in terms
of the cabal, is on immigration. But do you know
how I feel about green energy? I'm not I'm not
Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed renewables, but let's
just be realistic about it. Renewables I don't think absent
some truly uh parent shift or some unbelievable breakthrough, renewable

(06:06):
energy will never be able to provide us the kind
of baseline power that we're going to need going forward.
It's you think about everything that we do, somehow electricity
is involved. So I thought it would be worthwhile to

(06:26):
go through some of these executive orders and just think
about the impact it's going to have, not just on
the economy, but on our ability to grow and innovate
and continue to expand, you know, just things like AI. So,
by the way, just as a footnote, I'm still making
notes about all this deep seek stuff. And I notice,

(06:48):
although I haven't read the Wall Street Journal yet this morning,
I didn't notice that the Wall Street Journal has an
editorial about deep Seak and how we might be just
a little overreacting to it.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
But what you mean, it's not the best thing ever, Well.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's not. It's it's not that it's well, I don't like,
I'm not going to chasee that squirrel, So why don't
you show up tomorrow, and maybe I'll do it tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
I'll think about showing up.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
Okay, all right, I mean I'll show up, but i'll
I may not pay attention.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well that's well, I would be shocked if you did.
That would be a paradigm shift for you to come
in here and actually pay attention to what I'm talking about,
and then to actually post the podcast at the end
of the program.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
What did you say?

Speaker 2 (07:29):
I don't know. So the first round I want to
talk about is his initial recisions of these harmful executive
orders and actions. That order lays the groundwork by rescinding
a wide range of by their executive actions that prioritized

(07:51):
climate change over economic and energy concerns, and that included
rollbacks on regulations for fossil fuel projects, emission standards, and
the federal government's expansive climate related spending. Federal energy subsidies

(08:11):
and incentives for fiscal year twenty twenty two, the most
recent one I could find for data on for these
In these subsidies, coal got about uh, it's hard to
read this. This is in millions of dollars, so about

(08:33):
eight hundred and seventy three million dollars natural gas petroleum
liquids got about two point three billion. Nuclear got I
can't even tell the number. It's so the graph is
so small. Uh, Smart grid and transmission doesn't even appear.
It's on the graph, but you can't even see the bar.

(08:54):
Conservation got about one point four billion. End use users
got about eight point six billion. But listen, now, all
of those have been nominal amounts, even though they are
billions of dollars. Renewables fifteen point five billion dollars, So

(09:15):
just getting rid of those is hey, doge look at that.
You say fifteen billion dollars right there. But what's the
impact on the economy By rescinding those very policies this
administration Trump is eliminating all the unnecessary red tape that
actually stifles domestic energy project projects because over regulation increases what, well,

(09:41):
it increases the cost for those industries, It discourages innovation,
and it forces reliance on imported energy. Now, why in
the hell would we be importing energy? For example, the
oil and gas industry lost and estimated eighty seven billion
dollars annually because of regulatory delays. The environmental reality is this,

(10:07):
despite all the lofty goals, many of the rescinded policies
had minimal environmental impacts, minimal environmental benefits, take strict emission standards.
Strict emission standards disproportionately targeted industries that are already working
toward cleaner technologies. At the same time, that allows countries

(10:29):
with lacks of environmental laws to dominate the markets. So
that rollback aligns environmental progress with economic pragmatism, so that
we're actually focused on real results rather than just you know,
this sort of gesturing, symbolic gestures. It's it's not something

(10:51):
that you're going to see immediately, but it's the entire
shift in how we approach energy. And the second one,
obviously is ending the weaponization of the federal government. And
you think, well, what does that have to do with energy, Well,
Trump targeted the bureaucracies that have turned climate change into

(11:12):
that church, into the church of the climate activists, a
quasi religious mandate, if you will, By redirecting federal agencies
away from this mission creep toward all this environmental wackadodal
stuff and all the partisan agendas that.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Go with it.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
This executive order aims to restore accountability and neutrality in
their operations. Just do what your job is. It's similar
to the DEI Executive Order. Rather than focusing on oh
my gosh, let's sitting and worry about quotas, let's sitting
and worry about do we had the right composition of
people that we're hiring. Why don't you focus on your

(11:49):
mission and get the best mission the best people to
go fulfill that mission. It's the same thing with ending
the weaponization, and it's the same thing in getting rid
of this focus on everything you do. It's I'll give
you a real world example that I had to deal
with post creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Suddenly

(12:09):
states would try to if they were coming at a grant,
trying to get a grant from the federal government, how
could they best get that grant, even though it was
for the same thing we'd done before. They had to
tie it to homeland security. They had to show that
it was somehow going to protect us from terrorism, protect

(12:31):
us from some sort of domestic terror event. And it
had nothing to do with an all hazards approach of hey,
we're still going to have earthquakes and hurricanes and tornadoes
and ice storms, wildfires and everything else, but no let's
focus our energy on homeland security, which meant that ultimately,
while were stateing local government's doing focusing on the wrong

(12:53):
thing because the likelihood of a terrorist event, while the
consequences might be high, the likelihood was low. But instead
they take away the focus on the things that we
know are going to happen, which can be as devastating.
Do you not think that the wildfires in California are

(13:13):
as devastating as if And quite frankly, let me ask
you this, does it really make a difference. I know
legally it does, But in terms of a homeowner or
a business whose home has been burned down and completely
destroyed by those wildfires, do you think they care today
whether or not that was a terrorist event, an arson event,

(13:35):
or a natural fire. They don't. They just know that
a fire has destroyed their businesses. Well, when you take
the grant programs and you focus on environmental impacts and
have renewable energy and everything else, pretty soon you wake
up one day and you don't have all the energy
that you need to do your business because the grants

(13:56):
and all of the subsidies have gone to, Oh, we're
going to we're going to project that we're focused on
all these other things as opposed to focusing on your
core mission. So that means that the federal agencies wielded
these climate mandates as tools so they could impose their

(14:17):
costly regulations on business without any regard of the economic impact,
as long as you could show that somehow is environmental
friendly or was meeting some environmental objective stupid. Well, the
order now ensures that agencies actually focus on their core

(14:37):
missions instead of engaging in some sort of ideological battle.
Was that do in the long run, that creates a
more stable and predictable business environment. And that's one of
the things that sets us apart from all the other
countries in the world. The rule of law, the rule
of contracts, and you can predict that the regulations are

(14:59):
focused on on Look, here's the regulation. I'm gonna have
to deal with this going forward, as opposed to Oh,
now here's the regulation regulation. But now it's changed, and
I have to figure out some way to meet that
regulation by dealing with some sort of environmental whack whack
a doodle thing over here they want me to do. Instead,
it stifles innovation, It costs businesses hundreds of billions of

(15:22):
dollars and what does that do stifles the economy? Think
about this just to begin with unlocking our full liquid
natural gas potential and industry that Biden was trying to
stifle the final days, and remember Speaker Johnson says, I
wanted to talk to him about it. So we got
the room cleared and I asked, mister President, why did

(15:44):
you sign this embargo, this this executive order that shut
down all the LNG projects. And Biden's like, oh, I
didn't do that, I just I just signed an executive
order to you know, study it. They were deliberately and
I think in that one in particular, just shoving things
under his nose, telling him that it did things other

(16:06):
than what it really did, and he just signed it
because he was totally out of it. When you think
about LNG, we open that up that brings tangible benefits
both to American households and to global communities that are
reliant on like Germany that's suffering right now but can't

(16:29):
get enough LNG from US. Well, Trump's turning that around,
absolutely turning it around. Much of the climate focused funding
and research that's produced by all these different agencies has
really been I think legitimately criticized because it prioritizes alarmism

(16:49):
fear over actual actionable solutions. Now, when you end that politicization,
they're paving a way for a true science driven, practical
environmental policy. I don't want clean water. I don't want
I mean, I don't want dirty water. I don't want
dirty air. I want it to be clean. But it
was to be practical about it too. And when you

(17:11):
have these when you have this virtue signaling about other
things and you focus on fear and changing the regulations,
you're not doing anything to help innovation or to help business.
And then of course there was taking us out of
well things like the Paris primate degree. Those things will

(17:31):
have actual tangible effects on the economy, not tomorrow, but
in the long run.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
Yeah, it is entering a golden egg. Michael Dragon, It's
good to know.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
That the audience is more mature than we are, because
we never leave that kind of wimpy, kind of fart noise.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
It's true. I don't leave the talkbacks. I just play them.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
You just play them. Dragon left a story on the
desk this morning. Is from the Denver Post RTV RTD
riders in twenty twenty five face more delays, disruptions, and
ten mile an hour trains. What he did leave on
my desk was a concurrent story that appears over in

(18:32):
Westward about a woman and she lives up in I
think Adams County somewhere, and she has to be at
work at and she's been doing this for ten years
now or longer. She has to be working I think
at six thirty in the morning. She leaves her house
at four am because she only has access to public transportation,

(18:53):
and what would normally be a one hour bus train
bus trip to her work has to leave, you know,
two or three hours earlier because RTD has become so unreliable.
And it's it's the same. You know. It's a story
that when you read it, you first think to yourself, well,

(19:14):
I mean, with could you not save enough money to
buy at least just a reliable, old junk car so
that you wouldn't have to waste so much time on
I don't know what she does on the bus, and
I don't know what she does on the train. So
you know, maybe she's learning that's like in her third language.
Maybe she's reading some of the great books. Maybe she's

(19:37):
knitting Afghans. I don't know what she's doing, but I
just know that I would just I would probably just
jump in front of the train if I had to
do that to get to work every morning. And here's
the Denver Post pointing out that RTD writers face more delays, disruptions,
and ten mile an hour trains and just skimming through it.

(19:59):
It says, for example, a h A one hundred and
fifty two million dollar reconstruction of RTD's thirty year old
downtown rails will resume this summer, forcing diversions of trains
and vehicle detours. So downtown Denver suffering already through the
sixteenth Street Mall reconstruction project, which is like five years

(20:21):
you know, past due and way over budget. Now RTD
is gonna go downtown and they're going to start tearing
that up. Colorado lawmakers who created RTD in nineteen sixty
nine are again pressing for a turnaround. They're finalizing reform
legislation to increase their control by requiring RTD directors to

(20:46):
set goals and report on progress. Now, when I read
that sentence, I thought, wait, wait a minute, you don't
have a strategic plan, and you don't have metrics by
which you measure the tactics by which you're going to
meet the objectives of your strategic plan. Last year, that
Denver Post says lawmakers proposed an RTD governance overhaul that

(21:10):
would have placed state appointed directors on the board. Full
details of that latest bill have not been disclosed. RTD's
Chief executive in General Manager Deborah Johnston, defended the agency's
performance and said in an interview that RTD has the potential,
the potential, through services such as the A line to
different International Airport, to be valued as an economic engine

(21:34):
for the region. Now, wait a minute, the A line
to the airport, isn't that the one that was always
breaking down? And then they had to place guards at
the crossings because the crossings weren't working. And then people
would use it because they were being late for their
flights or missing their flights because the train would just
break down or have to slow down to ten miles
an hour. And that's the potential to be an economic engine.

(21:56):
Are you freaking kidding me? Why do I spend any
art any time on this at all? Because I don't
use it. I think it's a waste of tax payer
money and I quite flank and think it I'll just
be shut down. You know, every time I look at
light rail, I think of the rail systems in Russia.
For example, if you've never been to Russia, they have

(22:19):
so called light rail also, except now that you'll see.
If you can see what Russia's looks like, you will
see what ours will look like in thirty years. It's dilapidated,
it's run down, it barely works, it looks nasty, it's
graffiti ridden everywhere. It's just awful and it sucks. So

(22:44):
while RTD struggles to even provide deminimous service, I get
this email, and where I got it is none of
your business. It's from thy ty Shrey, perish. When I

(23:07):
get down to the signature line. Ty Shrey is the
board the RTD board operations manager in the board office.
Her pronouns are she, her and hers, and she has
got a really nice You know, we make lives better
through connections. Tell that to the woman who has to

(23:28):
get up at four four thirty in the morning to
get to a six thirty job using your system. But
just to show you how this DEI and this whole
equity thing is out of control, this is an email
dated Monday, January twenty seventh. That would be yesterday at

(23:49):
twelve fifteen in the afternoon, and the subject is polling
Transit Equity Day. The importance is high. Hello exclamation point.
Transit Equity Equity Day is an annual holiday that honor
civil rights leader Rosa Parks on her birthday, Tuesday February four,

(24:14):
and was first federally celebrated in twenty twenty one. Dragon,
would you check work day? I think you and I
are off on Tuesday February four for Rosa Parks since
his a annual holiday. It's a federally celebrated holiday, and
I think we should be.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Of course, just like tu and teenth me exactly.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
OURTD will celebrate the day by offering zero fare services
across the entire system. Now you may recall that you
just passed and I didn't vote for it, but you
may have to give more money to RTD and to

(24:55):
celebrate Rosa Parks Day. Now, Rosa Parks got on a bus.
Rose Park didn't get on a light rail. And I
don't think that we adopted light rail or an RTD
system in nineteen sixty nine because we were just racist
and just someone to make sure that black people had
access to buses. This is so stupid. So to kick off,

(25:17):
she writes, to kick off Transit Equity Day and announce
RTD's fair free services. The agency will host a media
event on Monday, February third at eleven am. Dragon. Guess
what I'm not going to be doing next Monday at eleven.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Am riding the RTD.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Not only will I not be riding the RTD, but
it will not be going to the media event. You're
going to go. I'm going to talk to Tepper and
I'm going to get him to assign you to go
cover the event.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Sobody from the newsroom might be better to do that.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
No, I think you should do it.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Get some Rob Dawson. He likes going out and doing things.
Where's Jerry Bell? Bring Jerry Bell back back?

Speaker 2 (25:57):
That's right, we'll send Jerry Bell back. Kell it California
now or something. He's long gone. He got the l
out of Dodge. The event will take place at the
I Have a Dream Martin Luther King Junior's Statue in
Denver's City Park, which also features a statue of Rosa Parks.
The media event will include brief remarks from Deborah Johnson

(26:18):
RTD General Manager and CEO chair, Julian Bouquet RTD Board
of Director's, Sondra Young, immediate past President of denver naac
Immediate Cissandra Young, immediate past president of denver NAACP and
Chief Vision Officer of Colorado Council for Urban Development, and

(26:40):
Jacob Smith, the executive director of National Organizations for Youth Safety.
Those all seemed to me to be mngos that are
race based. What's what's artie? Why then, why don't you
invite me to represent you know, the anti RTD group.

(27:04):
The program will also include a special musical number And
now I know you're gonna go dragon and poetry reading.
See I knew, I knew you'd change your mind. You
just need to hear the whole story. Please let me
know if you plan to attend. Thank you, Ty, Shrey Ty,
thanks for sending this out to all the media. But no,

(27:25):
I don't. I don't think i'll go. I don't want
to celebrate a transit equity day. I'd rather be celebrating
RTV gets its act together day or at D or
RTD goes out of business day. How about that free
fares you can't pay for? What you're doing now, you
want more tax money and you're going to do a

(27:47):
free fair day dragon, I'm out of here.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
We could rename Dallas Trump Dallas Station.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Then they could abbreviate it TDS.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, TDS. I saw a oh you know before I
let me see if I can find this real quickly.
So Pfizer has come out and Pfiser announces that where's
my tab with that in it? Because this is pretty fascinating.
Pfizer has announced that apparently that vaccine, so called vaccine

(28:29):
we're supposed to get, uh, they never tested it for
preventing transmission. Now, how many times were we told, like
by Jared Polas, that we were bastards if we didn't
take the selfish bastard. Oh, I'm sorry, selfish bastardy, selfish
bastards if we didn't take the vaccine, because we were
just going to spread it to you know, to spread

(28:50):
spread the stars CoV two to other people.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Also, I'm on a clarification.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
I think he was talking about the masks if we
weren't wearing the mask masks.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Well, but I thought there was the episodic the pandemic
of the unvaccinated, that the unvaccinated were causing it all
to be transmitted, and that if we got the vaccine
that would prevent the transmission. Wouldn't that the story? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (29:13):
But I think both. I think both are true.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
He definitely wanted us to get vaccinated, but I'm pretty
sure the selfish bastard's comment.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Was about masks. Now, I do remember that there was
the pandemic of the unvaccinated and that those who did
not get vaccinated were transmitting the disease the virus, and
only if he got vaccinated would that stop the transmission. Well,
I don't know. Why do I have to go to
Fox to Detroit to find this story? Pfiser tells European

(29:43):
Union company didn't test COVID nineteen vaccine for preventing transmissions.

Speaker 6 (29:49):
Yesterday, folks, and thought it was important to pass it
along to you as the FDA plans to roll out
the fall booster shots for COVID. Pfiser is trending this
morning after Pfiser executive Janine Small admitted to the European
Union Union parliament that her company did not test the
vaccine for preventing transmission of COVID, even as many in

(30:10):
the public health sector, including doctor Anthony Fauci said a
number of times that quote, you become a dead end
to the virus. Here's the exchange at the EU Parliament.

Speaker 7 (30:21):
Plus the provisor COVID vaccine tested on stopping the transmission
of the virus before it entered the market. If not,
please say it's clearly If yes, are you willing to
share the data Business Committee and I really want a

(30:41):
straight answer yes or no, and I'm looking forward to it,
Thank you very much.

Speaker 8 (30:47):
Regarding the question around did we know about stopping humanization
before it's entering the market? Now these you know, we
had to really move at the speed of science to
really understand what is taking place in the market, and
from that point of view, we have to do everything
at risk.

Speaker 6 (31:08):
So obviously we know now that regardless whether or not
you are vaccinated or not, you can still get and
transmit the virus. Here's the thing for me, ladies, Just
tell us then, right, just tell us be honest, not
only Phizer but our public officials.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Be honest with us to.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
Say that you know this shot will stop transmission, you
will be a dead end to the virus, when you
know it's not true because it hasn't been tested for that.
It just leads to me to a mistrust of our institutions.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
And I think that's bad, it's awful.

Speaker 9 (31:49):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, I can go right to I mean,
I am eager to down this family situation. It's coming.

Speaker 8 (32:03):
Not yet.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
I had a hamburger.

Speaker 9 (32:06):
Perhaps, don't ask me, but in all seriousness, I wanted
to add to this large study finds menstrual changes after
COVID vaccine, which is a question that I was asking
doctors here that we even had on this program, and
my experience was Nope, there's no there's no proof that

(32:28):
this is happening. So I was in the process last year,
just being very open and honest, as I always am
with you. I was in the process of freezing my eggs,
and right when it was time for the retrieval, they
told me there was no point in doing it for
at that time because there would not be enough. Six

(32:52):
thousand dollars I lost, and it was because I mean
I stopped having periods.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
I'm not wow.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
So it didn't stop transmission, but it did stop menstrual cycles. Yes,
and they wonder why we don't trust science anymore. They
politicize the science and so the next time you're watching
the TV, and you know it is, uh, this this,
this news is brought to you by Pfizer. It's all

(33:23):
over Fox, all over MSNBC, all over CNN, it's all
over the networks. Everything's brought to you by Pfeiser. Well,
just stop and think about, uh, what are you bringing
to us? The truth lies, And don't give us the
excuse that you had to work so fast that you
cut corners. We're talking about people's lives in medicine here. Yes,

(33:44):
by the way, this particular segment not brought to you
by Pheiser.