4-28-25 - 9am - Genetic Engineering

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael, grab your pearls. There's just the fifth report of
measles case in Colorado.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh my god, the sky is falling.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Well, clearly I won't be here tomorrow. Then I'll just
be at home, under the covers, under the covers. Yeah,
double masked, yes, absolutely, double the double mask on the
dogs too. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, Well, let's have to
ship Tammer's dog down to her because I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna take care of that dog. So you

(00:30):
know that dog's good.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Clearly, anything the size of a football is not a dog, right.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
That's that's gonna get FedEx down to Arizona. So so
earlier this morning as I was on the way in,
and I've had a chance during the brakes to kind
of dig into it a little bit. But Spain and Portugal,
both of which generate a majority of the electricity with renewables,
was simultaneously hit with a widespread power outage this morning. Now,

(01:01):
originally there was no explanation that, at least on the
early reports, and some reports also said that it hit
even parts of France. Simon Watker tweeted out earlier this morning,
massive blackout in Spain and Portugal, affecting the entire Iberian Peninsula,
and apparently also France to some extent, from twenty five

(01:23):
gigawatts to fourteen gigawats in just five minutes and then
dropping further to ten and a half gigawatts after that.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Sell your service was down, the Internet was down.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Throughout throughout throughout the entire both countries, airports lost power
all according to sky News. Sky News reported What's going
on with major airports? Airports across Spain and Portugal have
been heavily affected by today's alleys. Sky News has reached
out to all three airports for comment because I'm kind
of curious, how did you send a courier pigeon? Did

(01:58):
you send a reporter? Were there evs charged up before
before they left Lisbon? We've received several reports from Lisbon
airports saying that the power was lost, but that it
appears to have come back. We've had no official update
from the airport itself, however, Traveler Charlotte told us that
it's horrendous. The airport has done nothing to help anyone

(02:20):
and has now just put out an announcement to all
passengers must leave the airport and contact their airline provider,
and of course I'm thinking down. Wait a minute, the
earlier report said that all the Cellier surface was bound too,
So you got to go find a landline. You gotta payphone.
Where's the magic white you know, courtesy phone. Remember an

(02:41):
airline was an airplane.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Paging mister black, paging mister black.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Please, And at one point they were paging the pilot. Yeah,
and he went to the to the white He picked
up the black phone and no, no, no, and they just
he pick it up and me again and they say, no,
stupid the white phone.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
He moves over to the white phone, and I forget
what the message.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
I don't remember the exact bit or iying, but yes,
it's pretty.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Much yea, the white courtesy phone.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Apparently the rail service, extensive rail service in both countries
was impacted. The metros in major cities like Barcelona, Madrid,
they had to be evacuated. Then they have pictures peak
pictures of people standing around.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
I'm just going through the story.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Here. Here's an excerpt from reported Sky News. Large parts
of Spain and Portugal, including Madrid and Lisbon, have been
hit by power outage. Spanish power grid operator red Electric
Electrica says it is working with energy companies to restore power.
The Spanish government has contained a crisis meeting at the
offices of Red Electrica due to the allage. According to

(03:51):
the Alpalla newspaper in the country. It comes as France
briefly lost power following the allages in Spain and Portugal.
Grid operator rt SET. Parts of Madrid underground have been evacuated.
Traffic lights in the city are not working.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
I'm just laughing because I can just picture all of this.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
So you're in the tube, you're in the underground, and
the power goes out. Well, trains come to a halt
and assuming they got some backup, you got to wait
for the backup to kick in. So you're on your
way to work whatever the power goes out. I mean,
this is just a great example of how dependent we
are on electricity. And when you're dependent upon electricity that

(04:35):
is produced primarily from wind and solar, well sometimes feezs
is the fan. And so you're you're on the underground,
you're on the tube, and the power goes out. You
have no clue where you are. You probably know what
station you've left and what the next station is, but
you don't have any clue where between those two stations

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you are, because you've been you know, we looking at
your phone, which is now not working, and now the
lights they've gone out, so you can't see over on
the wall of the tube where you actually are, or
any indication whatsoever. You got to wait for the generators
to kick in and then the power comes back on.
So the power may come back on, but you're not

(05:17):
going anywhere. And of course what does everybody do, Well,
let me call and find out what's going on. So you, oh,
wait a minute, I don't have any bars, there's no boat,
and there's no sale service. Play has been suspended at
the Madrid Open tennis tournament. Oh it's well, it's the
end of civilization at that point against guy news, the

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house of power, effective scoreboards and the camera above the court.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Oh how do they ever go on? See?

Speaker 3 (05:48):
One person says I was stuck on the train for
twenty minutes until a staff member opened the doors manually.
Mss Stepton says she was on her way to the
airport at the time, had to exit the station by
hiking up fifteen flights of stairs with their luggage. No
lifts are operating those elevators, making it difficult for the
old farts with limited mobility, she added. Above ground, she said,

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everybody's just standing around and waiting. But here's the crisis.
Here's the crisis. In one paragraph, the bars are unable
to take credit card payments, the cash machines are down,
and the traffic lights. Traffic lights aren't working either. She says,

(06:37):
I currently don't have any internet service. I only have
fifteen euros in my wallet. I can't withdraw any money
from the atm. May I just add for all of you,
including that producer butt head back there, who's always bitching
about the fact that I carry.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Cash, thousands of dollars in your wallet, a thousand dollars
my hand, I've seen it. You open your wallet and
that's just like Scrooge McDuck.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
They just he just flies out out and you're like
the guy that's in the contest where you can keep
all the money you can grab.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Machines exactly exactly, So for all.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Of you that bitch and moan or make fun of
the fact that I carry cash all the time, this
is exactly why I've been in these areas where the
ATMs don't work, there's nothing but cash. Suddenly becomes king.
But oh no, I think we should go to a
digital system. I think we should just have all just
have you know, digital cards, digital wallets, all of that.

(07:37):
Let's see, a couple of offered to let us get
a ride in their taxi to the airport. There flights
at four thirty pm, so they're kind of relaxed. But
my flight back to London is at three pm, and
I'm nervous. Let's see, Oh, flight radar has a photo.
Air traffic in Spain and Portugal is being impacted by
widespread electrical outlet outlets, outages, widespread cancelations. But we're monitoring

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the situation as it develops, and it just well, it
just continued now. Over at Bloomberg, a reportable name of
Javier Bloss reports that prior to the blockout blackout hitting,
Spain's grid was generating power mainly with wind and solar,

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and they had very little spinning base load generation, which.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
In Spain is provided by natural gas.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Don't you think they just do the opposite, Like your
base load generation would be natural gas and any extra
when you hit peak demand, you might then start looking
at solar and wind. At the moment the blackout occurred.
Are you ready to listen to these stats? At the
moment the blackout occurred, wind and solar accounted for seventy

(08:57):
eight percent, more than three fourths of all active generation.
Nuclear was at eleven point seven natural gas just at
three point three seven. So the two most reliable we're
generating less than twenty percent, less than a fifth of
the power needed. Everything else is winding solar. So all

(09:19):
you congregants in the Church of the Climate activists, you know,
right here, right here in Little Ow, Colorado, where Governor
Jared Poulos wants to go, you know, wants to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions CO two once, you know, and Mike
Johnson's out there towning who wants to Denver to go
all electric?

Speaker 4 (09:38):
How's that going to work out? Just how's that going
to work out?

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Let's see snap This was a snapshot at twelve thirty
pm local time. Solar power was at sixty point sixty
four percent, Wind was at twelve point two percent. Power
was at eleven point sixty three percent, solar, thermal was

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at five point one four percent. Cold generation and waste
generation you know, burning crap, was at four point sixty
six percent. The combined cycles at three point three seven percent.
So now, well not now because it's now past this time,
but around three forty pm in Spain, grid operators were
in a race against the sun, trying to spin up

(10:26):
as much gas generation as they could before the setting sun,
which also brings what how many times have you heard
the local media always talking about today's higher fire, high
fire danger, because well, the sun is going to be
out and it's gonna be generating an awful lot of wind.
But come sundown, the winds will be calming around six
thirty seven o'clock tonight, and so those wind guts are

(10:48):
going to go. Well, the same thing here, let's see,
uh what a cluster, what a total cluster. Spanish power
distributor red Electrica says, restoring power after that size of
a massive allege that also hit Portugal parts of France

(11:09):
could take anywhere from six to ten hours because they've
got to spin up the generators, they got to get
the natural gas flowing, they've got to I don't know
whether that nuclear power was at capacity or not, but
certainly the natural gas wasn't at capacity because it was
barely being used. So Sky News is now reporting that

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officials are now blaming the adages on a quote rare
atmospheric phenomenon. Here's what they're writing. Let's see, we've just
heard from WREN, Portugal's grid operator. This is against sky News.

(11:56):
It claims the outage that affected Portugal was called by
a fault in this Spanish grid related to a rare
atmospheric phenomenon. Rin says that due to extreme temperature variations
in Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in very high voltage lines.
It says this is known as induced atmospheric variation, which

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in turn led to oscillations which caused synchronization failures between
the systems that then led to successive disturbances across the
interconnected European network. It also says, given the complexity of
the issue, it could take up to a week for
the network to fully normalize again. Now do I have

(12:42):
to state the obvious? Yeah, yeah, I probably do. Some
of you are probably just now rolling out of bed.
The most disturbing aspect of this is that the speculation
is ongoing right now that restoring power to take as
long as a week.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Now.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
No hurricanes, no tornadoes, no ice storms. We don't hear
any evidence any whatsoever of any domestic or foreign terrorism.
We don't hear any reports so far of any man
made disaster, you know, like somebody you know, actionally blew
up the grid. It's all natural, some sort of phenomena,

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atmospheric phenomena which caused these oscillations, and the Prime Minister
is denying any indications of a cyber attack. I guess
there were rumors that the Russians, of course, the Russians,
because of course the Russians are always the left favorite boogeyman, right,
that they were behind such an attack.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
Anyway, That's all I.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Got for now, But I just find it freaking hilarious
that that's where you know, you want, you want to
rely on all all of that stupid so called WHEND
and energy. I'm just trying to figure ot where i
want to go next. So this is this is probably

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a good transition because, as we know, the future is technological,
whether it's artificial intelligence, whether it is developing new sources
of energy or going back to old sources of energy
like coal, nuclear, and natural gas. Well, not only is

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technology overtaking everything, it's also taking over human reproduction. There
is a sort of technological pro natalism that's emerging in
Silicon Valley. It's not a movement to try to persuade
ordinary people to have families so much as a push

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to create genetically superior children. This is so dystoping, in
my opinion, But I find it freakishly interesting the way
these technologists see it. The future of human reproduction is
and should be increasingly technological. Then that take kind of

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fun out of it. I mean, you know, so you know,
I had a niece that did in vitro fertilization, and
I always joked with them like, well, that's not any fun.
I mean, you know, you extract the sperm, and you
get the sperm, you extract the egg, and you take
these little needles and you put them in a petri
dish and you kind of push them into each other.

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That didn't seem very fun. If anybody's gonna, don't you
guys want to do the pushing now, I don't see.
I find it absolutely believable that Silicon Valley billionaires would
be interested in reproductive technology. The Heritage Foundation has already
reported how the will the elites who invest heavily in

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technologies that create that enable the creation of superior kids.
The embryos chosen chosen for health, you choose an embryo
for creativity or other traits. So Emma Waters, who wrote
this story in Heritage, notes that three years ago, almost

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eight hundred million dollars was poured into fertility tech startups.
They weren't trying to address the decline in our birth rate.
But you know we heard last week, Oh, we want
to pay five thousand dollars, and I told you about
all the unintended consequences of that. Instead, they're focusing eight
hundred million dollars on curating, which I think is a

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great word to use, the best possible offspring.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
So here the usual.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Players, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Binnioff are all interested
in reproductive technolo.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
For example, Musk must.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Believe that the humanities evolution is going to increase the
involve cyborgs in AI, and he's investing millions in fertility
initiatives focused on calvin declining birth rates.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
But what I think people fail to grasp is that the.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Groundworks be laid for getting people to accept something that should.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
Freak you out.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Michael, So, sundown is now a rare atmospheric phenomenon. Huh,
I agree, it only happens once a day, it is.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
It is pretty rare, just rare, just once a day.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Would I just realize before I get back to the
to the cyborg and the whole technatalists going on in
Silicon Valley between the Pope's funeral the Blue Suit, which
we have not gotten to yet, the White House Correspondence
Dinner was this week, kid, And I didn't even realize

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that until I looked up and said, I saw a
story they were running on Fox News that apparently one
of the presenters, or maybe it was the comedian, somebody
actually called out the media sitting there for covering up
Joe Biden.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
I've got to go find that. Nice. Yeah, I gotta
go find that.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
But that shows how little of importance the White House court,
because otherwise it had been a quiet weekend. That had
been the main headline today, that had been the whole
story was about the White House Correspondence Association. But no,
there's there's there's a wait. Plus Trump didn't go. I
think Trump gave a commencement speech, or did he went?

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He went somewhere else, so they didn't have the President
there to attract the attention. And that means nobody cared.
Nobody cared. So back to the story about because I
want to talk about transgenderism for a moment, because this
is what I think is going on. This whole idea

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that we're going to do this genetic engineering is or
has already started, and it's I think of gender ideology,
people who think of gender ideology just in terms of
sexuality and identity, but it really is. No, it's now

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it's not just as a social movement. But what if
it's actually a marketing campaign, and what if that marketing
campaign is targeting young people. The more I read about
what Silicon Valley is doing, it reminded me I've not
brought this up, and I've got to be very careful

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about what I say here, only because I want to
respect the privacy of a friend I have. And this
is hearsay. Well it's not hearsay because I heard from
my friend what he's heard. So this friend of mine
has a friend who is a male transitioning to a woman,

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and I, you know, so one degree of separation. So
I had lots of questions, So what is And I said,
do we refer to your friend as him or her?
And he said, well, I'm referring to him as a

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her because he has already adopted a female name. Okay,
so what's happened so far? The friend is twenty one
years old, he has started or did start two years ago,
the hormone treatment and just recently had breast implants, but

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nothing's been done down below yet. And so then I
naturally I'm curious, So what's she going to do down there?
And well, yeah, it's going to be major reconstructive surgery. Well,
so if we're going to refer to her to him
as a he, she let me do that.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
So is she? How is she doing?

Speaker 3 (21:25):
And that's where it got really a real difficult conversation
because this is a good friend of his. Very difficult.
You mean, so now I'm having to pull information out,
regrets in decisiveness, what yes. The answer is yes, everything,

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but still fully committed to going through with it, which
leads me to led me to ask, well, isn't he
or she had a spot where they could stop. I mean,
the breast endplans obviously can be removed, and that, I mean,
that would be the simplest of things to do before

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you start working down there. Now, now she's doubtful, but
determined to go through with it. And I didn't say this,
but I'm thinking, where's that pressure coming from? Is that psychological?
Is it a psychological problem phenomenon. I'm not quite sure

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how to describe it, but people think of gender ideology
in terms of sexuality and identity, but gender ideology really
functions not just as a social movement. But maybe he
or she has been a part of this marketing campaign

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that's been going on, particularly targeting young minds because of
twenty one. I consider that individual to be quite young.
I've often joked, half serious that perhaps we shouldn't have
people voting until they're twenty five, when their brains are
a little maybe more mature. This idea of a marketing

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campaign starts to make sense to me. It forces a
shift in perception. It totally just think about marketing. Remember,
I want you to think of everything I'm about to
say in terms of a marketing campaign shift perceptions. Right,

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you start undermining the male female sex binary, and you
do that not only you do it very broadly across
all sorts of societal structures. This individual that I was
talking about, the friend of this friend, comes from a
fairly would say, traditional American family, and he the one

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who's doing the transition, wasn't gay, was a heterosexual wants
to be female? I asked, you know, what do you
think the origins of that were? He doesn't know. He's
tried to find out to try to help understand what's
going on. Well, maybe it's the marketing campaign. And the

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marketing campaign obviously, you know when.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
When you do.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Commercials, for example, you have a target audience, but you
also have branding commercials where you're trying to promote a brand,
not or you're trying to promote a service. Different people
may provide the service. So gender ideology insists that sex

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is fluid, right, and that we can transcend our biological reality.
So what's the core message of that branding marketing plan?
That human beings are not sexually dimorphic, that sex is
on a spectrum like an autism spectrum. We're being told

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that men can breast feed. All of that's of campaign
to get us to accept radical shifts in reproduction, which
is a shift in our idea about motherhood. Is motherhood
female or male pregnancy? I forget where I saw it,

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but there was a one of these stories I was
reading about this whole Silicon Valley thing. They were showing
two men who had adopted two babies. Now the babies
were from surrogate mothers. But what I found really interesting

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was as they were celebrating the first birthdays, they were
having a big celebration, and it was over the top celebration,
and obviously the babies overwhelmed, But there were females in
the room, and the babies weren't looking at the fathers.

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The babies were only looking at the females. Now, I
don't know whether the females where the mothers or not,
the surrogate mothers or not, but that's where the baby's
eyes kept going. And I kept coming back to this,
this idea about oh, gender dysph you and transgenderism is

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all part of this greater scheme to get us to
accept maybe motherhood's not female, Maybe motherhood is male, maybe
pregnancy is not female. Just like we're being told that
breast men can breastfeed, right, and we're putting menstrual products
in boys' restrooms.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
All of that kind.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Of fits in with the tech natalists and Silicon Valley,
their idea that moms don't matter, we can create superior
human beings that will be just stated in labs outside
the female body. And we know that sciences have already
made progress with developing artificial wounds. And go back to

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the Heritage Foundation study. Many in the valley would like
to see the development of complete ectogenesis.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
What's that? I addition, read further to.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Find out outsourcing the entirety of pregnant see to artificial wounds.
Can you imagine a dystopian future in which, I mean
all I could think about was a meat market? They
ever been to a meat market? Fish market? Except what
you have instead? Or imagine some science fiction thing where

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you've got test tubes, artificial wounds, whatever they would look like.
I don't know, just roll upon roll upon row of them,
all of which have been artificially inseminated, and they've all
been genetically chosen based on particular traits. That if if

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there are parents involved, a couple that whether it's a
gay couple or a heterosexual complt couple that are looking
for a child, but they want particular traits and they've
shopped the traits and they've mixed and matched and got
whatever they wanted, and that it's put into an artificial womb.

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What people have been led to believe is that gender
ideology is simply a culture bound syndrome, that it's no
different than anorexia or a medical scandal like the opioid crisis.
I don't think that works, because technological advancements are challenging
our societal norms in ways that I don't think we

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understand what I said earlier about how I'm getting to
the point where I question everything that I do in
terms of show prep because of artificial intelligence and everything else.
This is one of those stories that I had to
really dig and dig and dig to finally come to

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the realization that this is a real thing, and maybe
no one's doing it on purpose, although I think they are.
But it's developing the idea that as as long as
we can out here accept transgenderism, the next step is
simply to accept bioengineered babies.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
And Michael, I totally understand the cyborg thing with making kids.

Speaker 4 (30:15):
It has to be done sometimes.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
I recently encountered the problem where I had it an
anomalous an anomalous oscillation that rendered my tune useless and
the lift wasn't there. To put it in English words,
it was very frustrating.

Speaker 4 (30:38):
Okay, thanks for sharing.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, we're going shares details like that every day.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
We'll get the translator on that.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Immediately he needed to go to Recomountain men's clinic apparently
so real quickly before you run out of time.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
So I've been digging around trying to find out more
about what's going on in Spain. Well, guess what go
back to April sixteen, which is just what twelve days ago.
On April sixteen, Spain for the first time achieve one
hundred percent renewable generation on this power grid, wind and solar.

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And then five days later, April twenty, first solar set
a new record, providing almost eighty percent of all generation
on the grid. Seven days after that, Spain's grid collapses
as it was generating almost eighty percent front combined wind
and solar and just a little over three percent was

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spinning baselink. How much you want to bet we find
out in the coming days that that rare phenomenon boils
down to some combination of oh, I don't know, the
wind stop blowing and it got cloudy outside. Yeah, and
they want to do that to us in Colorado