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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The goober from the Home of the Kentucky Derby must
be an impostor. It is not Lewisville. It's Louisville. Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I used to work as a custodian back in the day,
and I have to agree with the mister Dragon Redbeard.
You know, sometimes the men's were bad, but usually that
was after like a football game or something like that.
The women's yeah, pretty consistent.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You just don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I mean, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I told you. I did not realize that. If I'm wrong,
some of you ladies, stand up for yourself. Tell me
how clean the women's rooms out in public, huh? In
the restaurant you go to, in the Starbucks, the you know,
the mall, tell me, tell me how clean they are.
Go ahead, bring it, bring it. I await your response.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And the other thing that Dragon did during the break
was he ran to the basement.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I did. Who knew for twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Freaking years you've been here and you didn't know that
was down there? True, Now you know that's mine. You
can't use it.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't want to start sharing it with you.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And they do. I did close the door on the
on the outside of the door, it does say women, okay.
And the same with the other one around the main
one right there in the open, it does say men.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah okay. Well, so call me a pervert. But if
that one's busy, I just go to the one that
nobody knows is there and uses it.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And I will say I did look relatively quickly to
the women one was cleaner.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
But but you know why, because I think nobody right, right,
And I don't think there are any female employees that
i've because you know, I sometimes come through the basement.
I come through the garage, not the garage, but you
know the right, yeah, the dock, the dock, And I
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don't think i've ever you know, Bruce Coney Elsie. Occasionally, uh,
if an engine happens to be passing through town, I
might see an engine here in the basement, but not usually.
Otherwise I never see anybody down there at all. I
you know, I haven't checked that training room. I wonder,
I wonder if the training room was now turned into
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a junk room.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I did make a pass through the garage too, Yeah,
I hadn't been down there in quite a while. It
was pretty bad, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
If you next time you go to the garage, go
to the toward the back. Yeah, we had the A
M F M cages. Yes, yeah, I just strolled through
that too. Wow. I remember when he used to be
locked and we had to have the combos and everything
to do get into the cages. Nothing, nothing, nothing. There's
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some palettes.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
That have ifs marked for electronic recycling and it's just
piled high with crap.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You can't put anything else in there.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I did, oh boy, because I had a printer at
home that was just uh, you know, you don't pair
of printers anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Correct, Yeah, And so I was like, you don't even
buy new ink for printers anymore. You just buy a
new printer that comes with a cart in the air.
It's the same price. It's just buying ink.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
We like, why couldn't be able to do this printer
that went wait a minute in that garage? So, you know,
one Saturday, I just pulled up and you know, I
opened the garage door and just carry the printer and
put it down there. I'd bet you a thousand bucks
dragon that it's still sitting down.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I bet you. Yeah, I would not take that, but
I completely agree it's still there. It's our junk drawer,
the junk drawer of my art down there, a palette
like they would actually take it out to recycle it,
but you'd have to get a forklift in there, and
you can't get a forklift to where the palette is.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Oh it's even worse than because I think the last
time I was down there, I thought, I thought to myself,
at least they've left enough space that if you wanted
to drive, like maybe it's not something, you know, as
wide as a golf cart or something.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Now I think so got anymore because they've got that.
You saw the palette of like carpet tiles right, Oh yes, yeah,
that's like right in the middle of absolutely everything, along
with some of what could be considered new or broken
ceiling lights you know that who knows. And then other
duct work is just strewn around. It's it's pathetic.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And do you remember when we griped about I mean,
there are two things about the building that drive me crazy.
One is, well, what drives me crazy about the building
is you know, I don't know how much iHeart paid
or there, what the new lease agreement is or what.
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But when we gave up the second floor, they leased
that out and while they were remodeling that, they remodeled
the third and fourth floors. Uh left the basement intact.
They remodeled the well. They started the remodeling not finished.
And one of the things that bugs me about it
not being finished is, you know, we live and die
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by the clock, So there are clocks everywhere except right
outside this studio. Between the wall between me and Koa
is a place for like a TV monitor. They got
the box there, there's no TV monitor, and below it,
which is strategically misplaced, is a box for a clock.
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We have electronic clocks everywhere, so we know it's exactly
seven thirteen twenty three, you know, twenty two seconds. Well,
we finally got fed up, what a week or two ago, Yeah,
and we made a joke about it, and Alexis sent
us some clocks. We printed out eight clock, it's marked
at eight point fifty, and we.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Had what was the times of Tokyokyo. We had Tokyo
in there.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Well, somebody took it down, I guess because we were
embarrassing somebody that they hadn't finished the job, so they
took it down last week sometime. Well, I'm fed up
with it, so I printed another one and this time
it's it's still eight fifty, but it's cutter time, cutter time.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The other thing they haven't fixed. I've actually brought this
to the attention because I think this, I think this
is a security and a safety issue. My key card
will not allow me to go from the third floor
to the fourth floor on this end of the building
for the stairwell through the stairwell, which sometimes is important
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because it's faster than the elevator, and if we've got
to screw up on the access to Los Angeles, I
need to be able to get to the KOA studio
to release it. Anyway, long story short, I was just told, yeah,
that's you know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It's told you use the elevator. The answer was not
over going to get it fixed.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I was told, use the elevator, and you suggest we'll
go to the other end of the building use the
stairwell there. Have you checked to see if you can
get through there?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yes, I have used that one on the The card
reader does work over The.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Card readers do work over there, but that means I
have to walk to that end.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
They walk back to this end right sometimes could still
be faster than the elevators around here.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, that's true, that's true. Seventy four hundred Mike. The
building I currently work in only has shared bathrooms. Men
are disgusting in bathrooms. I will literally walk to another
building to use a women's only bathroom. There's the exception.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Now, how do you know that that was a man
that left that mess? Just throwing that out there, because
you all women hover, so you can't always sit there
and go he's sprinkled on the feet, Well, well quit
hovering and you won't sprinkle on the seat.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I have hovered before in really nasty places, which is
difficult to do when you're trying to number two and
over it. To say that's it takes a little you know,
that takes some core strength to kind of do that.
I didn't realize that was a regular thing with women.
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Didn't realize it at all. For those of you that
are just tuning in we're talking about, you'd never know
what we're talking about. But we're talking about what the
Green New Deal and clean green energy, whatever the crap
you want to call it is, there is causing the
cost of energy in California to be so high. And
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I'm using California as the example because that's the easiest
place for me to get some good statistics. But it's
applicable to Colorado too.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Well.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
In as part of that story, let me reset it
this way. Let's go to Chucky Schumer, who happens to
say some really stupid things.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Right, oil and gas barons hate clean energy even though
it's the cheapest way to reduce car energy needs.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
The evil oil and gas barons. We have barons, so
the CEO of Chevron or Exxon Mobile or Phillips Petroleum
or Valero or I mean or people.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Oh, they're oil barons.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Right wing oil and gas barons.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Hate and they're all right wing.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Dude, you know that they're all right wing oil and
gas barns.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Hate clean energy even though it's the cheapest way to
reduce car energy needs.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
The cheapest way, seriously, the cheapest way to reduce our
energy needs. He's out of his freaking mind if he
believes that.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
But he does. But it's the only stupid thing he believes.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Donald Trump hates offshore wind. He hates off your wind
because supposedly, years ago they built a wind farm off
the coast of his Scotland golf course.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
He fought to kill it. He lost, so.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Now he's taking it out on all offshore wind to
the detriment of the American energy needs with in a
way that is like it's like a dictatorship.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
He was struggling trying to figure out, I've got to
get the word dictator in here. How do I get
the word dictator into this story? Wow, that's all they've got.
I know this comes as a shock to you, but
I really do despise these people, and I despise many
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of them on our side too. They're just as vacuous,
they're just as empty headed as Chuck Schumer is. So
let's go back to California for a moment. The notory,
and it is notoriously high gas. You know, whenever you
hear about gas prices or when there's a spike in
gas prices, we always hear the old gases approaching six
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dollars or seven dollars a gallon in California, and the
rest of the country goeso and it scares us.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
In California, those high prices are the results of a
lot of factors, many of which are similar to other states.
They tax gas to pay for road infrastructure, and then
they require a less polluting fuel mix in the summer months. Well,
the same thing is true in Colorado. Last year, Sacramento
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decided to move harder. They wanted to move faster toward
their goal, just like in Colorado, of a harbonless future.
So California added all these distance and these for refineries.
We already already have a refinery shortage in this country.
I told you I represented a family one time that
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owned a refinery and they finally just gave up because
trying to get all the permitting everything became I mean
they honestly, they just ran out of money. They just
ran out of money. I did everything I could expect
that permitting process.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And just you can't do it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
They don't want refineries built in this country. So California
puts in distincives for refineries, but they add incentives for
electric vehicles. Now, the California Air Resources Board itself has
predicted that those two things, the distance and these for
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refineries and the incentives for evs, will add forty seven
cents a gallon to the cost of gas at the pump.
So even their own you know, and the carb the
California Air Resources Board is like the Holy Grail of
bureaucracies in California. So their zero carbon climate policies, pushing
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evs as your next car, pushing heat pumps to cool
and heat your house, all rely on what electricity. And
electricity depends on expensive and intermittent, unreliable energy sources like
wind and solar. So come hell or high water, California's
leaders are trying to regulate, tax and incentivize their way
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to electricity that they think is going to be one
hundred percent carbon free. They want to do it not
by twenty fifty, not by twenty they want to do
it by twenty forty five. So wherever governments have tried
to base their energy supply on this artificially mandated and
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this hurry up, you can't wait longer shift to renewables,
the United Kingdom, Germany, of fact, most of Europe, and
California and now in Colorado, the result is going to
be spikes and energy prices. Germany is a great example.
Germany's vaunted industrial economy has slowed. Their industrial output is
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just cratery and why because of the high cost of
renewable energy. Well, the same thing that's happening in Germany
is going to happen in this country. Those costs when
you think about any sort of industry, I don't care
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whether it's I mean, it just doesn't make any difference
to me. Energy is the backbone of everything, and without cheap,
reliable energy, and this shift to green energy, it is inherent,
naturally and without without any doubt in my mind, going
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to increase the cost of everything. So when you have
a project all this trying to achieve carbon neutrality, does
anybody ever just ask the question, what's the advantage of
being carbon neutral?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
What? What does it accomplish?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Because we know that CO two levels have been you know,
I wanted to say, off the top of my head,
a thousand times higher, but whatever it is, they've been
significantly higher pre industrialization than they are now. So what
does it accomplish? I think? I don't think. I know.
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The climate is going to change, and it has changed,
and it naturally comes and goes at ebbs and flows,
and carbon has very little of anything to do with it.
And so while our carbon in the atmosphere increases, it's
still way below what it was pre industrial levels. Yet
we have this stupid windmill that we're chasing of carbon neutrality. Well,
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when you do that, the projects to get you to
that shift to renewable energy, and that will shift or
result in income declines for individuals who do anything.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
By that, I mean who live.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
The carbon economy jobs manufacturing, logistics, oil and gas. Those
are all well paid union jobs. By the way, those
jobs are going to disappear. I take good by I
can disappear.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
They're going to dwindle. So what does that mean? If
they dwindle, that's.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Nice, but Chucky Schumer is not telling you. As sixty
Minutes did a story about that little town in Scotland
and all the citizens there hate that project because it
tripled their energy cost. Us again the Democrats being dumb.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Good morning, Michael and Dragon. On my way down to
freeze my tootsies off at Evergreen High School graduation at
Red Rocks this morning. But yeah, I clean bathrooms all
winter long. Women's restrooms they both get destroyed. But women's
restrooms have toilet paper all over the floor. Uh, if
they stand on the seats, they pee on the seats. YadA, YadA, YadA.
It's just gross. But if I'm going to go to
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a fast food place or somewhere with separate restrooms, if
the women's is used, I will go on the men's
because I know it's going to be clean.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So I'm not the only one that cross bath. You know,
you don't change genders or you do? Yeah, right, yes,
I'm gender fluid when it comes to the Soon's your Kennedy.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Well, I think most Americas understand what's going on with
the UH with the Democratic Party. They're they're they're on
their back foot and they're trying to get to Their
leader is congress Woman o Cashio Cortesh and she years
ago she took a left, a sharp left, and kept driving,
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and she's moving their party.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Left, and she's she's losing.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
The American people when the President keeps hitting them with
one below after another.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And they just keep going to the left.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And I love and I love to talk back about
I've got to go look that up now about in
Scotland their prices being driven so high, that doesn't surprise me.
I'd just like to see the figures because all of
those I mean, assuming that's true, and I don't doubt you,
but assuming that that is true, then what do you
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what do you think is going to happen here? The
laws of physics are the same in Scotland or.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Off Martha's vineyard.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
You know, the law of politics is the thing too,
you know, nim me not in my back yard. So
they don't want illegal aliens on Martha's vineyard, nor do
they want windmills off Martha's vineyard. G I'm shocked. You
mean the rich white people don't want you know, Mexicans there. Oh,
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so what sit them to Chicago. When you start adding
costs to energy, you create energy poverty. And when you
have energy poverty, you're going to increase in already what
many people to cry as a large divide between the
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haves and the have nots in this country, and not
just because of how hard it is for say a
low income Colorado or California to pay for their gas
and utility bills, because those energy costs affect everything. So
go back to the California Air Resources Board. They put
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out what's called Scoping Plan, the framework for achieving this
idea of carbon neutrality. Their own plan projects that their
shift renewable energy is going to result in significant income
declines if you earn less than one hundred thousand dollars
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a year, and that it will actually boost incomes if
you earn more than one hundred thousand dollars a year. Now,
sit around and think about that for a while. Carbon
economy jobs will dwindle. So manufacturing, logistics, oil and gas,
you know which I said, you know, obviously those well
paying union jobs, well those will disappear. In fact, a
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studied by the Los Angeles Economic Development Commission found that
one hundred and forty eight thousand direct and more than
three hundred and fifty thousand jobs indirectly are going to
be threatened by these stupid policies aimed at eliminating in
eliminating carbon. So the green technologies, which you know, when
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you think about it, really did start in California. Has
you know, crossed the Rocky Mountains, has crossed the Continental
divide into Colorado with all the ivy about evs and batteries,
Well now they're mostly creating jobs in red states.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
One reason expanding Michael Chip firms like Nvidia or TSMC,
well they locate their facilities where not in California because
they need strong, reliable energy. So those jobs go to
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red states where they say, you know what, maybe we're
you know, maybe we won't necessarily disincentivize green energy but
we're not going to incentivize it. We're gonna let the market. Meanwhile,
we're going to make sure that we have cheap, reliable energy.
And that is that's attracting Nvidia, that's attracting the Taiwan
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Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, that's attracting Samsung. So all of these
big giant companies with chip manufacturers THEAI. Do you think
an AI company an artificial intelligence company? I don't care
which one, just pick any of them. Do you think
they're going to go build a gigantic, big ass data
center in California when they don't have reliable energy, Because
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without the reliable energy, those data centers are worthless. And
when you think about it, the cost of electricity, I
don't care how it's generated, but the end use cost
of electricity is probably a major, if not the major
factor in AI or in chip manufacturing. So when California
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refuses to tap even their own oil and gas resources,
they're not going to attract any massive investment they new
liquid natural gas facilities. Why would you do that in California?
The Air resources, the California Air Resources Board, I guess
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I'm using them so much because while their job is
to what you know, promulgate all these regulations to keep
California air as clean and pristine as possible. At the
same time, they're putting out these reports that calculate that
for California to keep all the evs running in a
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carbon neutral future, which require doubling electrical generation just for California.
Now add other states like Colorado that do the same
kind of mandates, where's that electricity going to come from?
So that the need for more power is going to
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be exacerbated by obviously the growth of AI, the chip industry,
all of which is you know, critical for us to
maintain the tech dominance that we currently have. And overall,
the demand for energy just for data centers is expected
to grow by more than one hundred and fifty percent
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just five years from now. That's according to Goldman Sachs.
So what's going to happen, Well, we're going to find
out when we actually start you know, plugging these things
in so to speak, they're going to be electric shortages.
And I keep going back to Spain and Portugal because
I want to pound that into your head.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
So there is if.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
You want, if you want to be able to prove
the theory that going all electric and relying on wind
and solar to do Oh, you'll have a little backup
here or there from nuclear or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's not going to work.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
It's simply not going to work. But we keep pursuing
these goals. Do you think, Jared Do you think Jared
Polus if if he sat down here and we explained
to him in depth, which may take a while to
do to get it through this thick skull, that hey,
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pursuing these goals are going to result because Germany's done it,
look at their industrial base, Spain and Portugal did it,
and look at the blackouts. We're pursuing the same thing.
So what happened there is going to happen here. Here's
what would be his I know it's speculation, but here's
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what I truly, sincerely believe it would be. Yeah, that's okay,
because this is about achieving that carbon less society. Because
they don't care about the results. All they care about
is the religion. It's all about the religion, and the
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religion is the climate and the earth, which tells you that,
oh it's a false idol.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, good morning, Brownie and dragon.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah, close to fifty years ago, I was a maintenance
custodian somewhere in the middle of Missouri at a JC
Penny store, and I can tell you that the women's
restrooms were always terrible, not just for cleanliness, but they
would actually destroy the toilet fixtures. I don't remember how
many times we had to replace commodes in a woman's
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restroom and never had to do it in the men's.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Have agreed, what the hell is going on in women's restaurants?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
All women are nasty, but we love you you. All
women are disgusting, but we love you. But what do
they I mean, what's going on? What it's like?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
What happens with like okay, whether it's a single like downstairs,
a single bathroom, or it's a public restroom that Scott
you know four or five stalls and you know maybe
three or four sinks in it.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
What do you do when you go in there? You
go in there, you stand over, you squat, you put
your feet on the toilet seat and you squat down,
and you just you think you're country. I don't know,
you think it's a hole in the ground. Yes, that's
that's the Middle East. Other than just you know, sit comfortably.
And why do.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
They do that because they're afraid to put their little
fannies on on the toilet seat. Yeah, well, what about
those things like here, you know, little tissue paper things.
Tissue paper it says provided to you as a courtesy
by management or something.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Have I ever used one of those? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
No, have you? Okay, I thought you're gonna call me
weird for now, you know. I now I've checked, I've
checked before, I've sat down right.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, you just don't back into it without looking right. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
So I'm just fascinated about what what what you women
are doing in there. So if somebody wants to call
and explain, like you know, leave us a talk back,
tell us exactly how it is that what you do.
If you'll confess to being messy, we want to know
how you make it messy. We get Otherwise we're going
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to speculate, and when we speculate, we're almost always right.
So California is going to just like Colorado. I'm just
trying to prep you for what's going to happen here.
You know, there's a there's an opinion piece I think
it was one day earlier this week in the La
Times about I think it may be Diablo Kenyon. But
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I'm not sure, but one of the nuclear power plants
has gotten a reprieve from Governor Newsom that they that
they can start the process to repermit it and restart it.
And I don't have in front of me, but the
opinion piece was and let's say it's Diablo Canyon. I
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don't remember, but let's just say Diablo Canyon. And the
headline was something about Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant to reopen.
Should we be grateful or scared? Why wouldn't you be grateful?
And why would you be scared? Because you're facing electricity shortages?
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You think about if you go fully wind and solar. Now,
I know that on the eastern plains some farmers and
ranchers may welcome this, but you're going to have to
find appropriate locations for all the wind turbines, for all
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the solar farms. And I would bet that a lot
of locals, in fact, I bet a lot of people locally,
even out of the eastern plains of Colorado, not even
to say, not even to mention the greeny Weenies in California,
but I bet you can go to some of the
smaller towns on the eastern plains, and you'd find what
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some people would consider to be an environmentalist wacko. And oh,
you're going to put wind turbines on ten twelve sections
of land, ten twelve square miles of land. No, we
don't want that. You're going to kill the birds. You
you know, some farmers might, some farmers, rangers might do
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it to get the money. And I totally understand that.
But what about a place like Moss Landing. Have you
heard of it. That's where a toxic fire in a
battery plant, coupled with plans for offshore wind turbines turned
all of the locals against the green policies. I guess
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I'm just trying to shout from the rooftop that it's
not just those kinds of hazards, it's that you're not
gonna get what you think you're paying for. So everywhere
we got to stop gin reflecting to this stupid notion
that wind and solar are going to produce all these
gobs and gobs of cheap, clean energy. Now, the Trump administration,
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as I said yesterday, is withdrawing federal support for renewables
in favor of drill, baby drill. But the reality is
The Republicans in the Congress are not really cutting off
those subsidies. They're not really cutting off those incentives. They're
just kind of phasing them out to start four years
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from now, when maybe there won't be a Republican that's a.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Whackadoodle like Trump who doesn't.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Believe in this garbage, and they can go on spending
their money. We're being fed a bunch of bull crap.
The goober from the Home of the Kentucky Derby must
be an impostor. It is not Lewisville. It's Louisville. Michael.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I used to work as a custodian back in the day,
and I have to agree with the mister Dragon Redbeard.
You know, sometimes the men's were bad, but usually that
was after like a football game or something like that.
The women's yeah, pretty consistent.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You just don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I mean, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I told you. I did not realize that. If I'm wrong,
some of you ladies, stand up for yourself. Tell me
how clean the women's rooms out in public, huh? In
the restaurant you go to, in the Starbucks, the you know,
the mall, tell me, tell me how clean they are.
Go ahead, bring it, bring it. I await your response.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And the other thing that Dragon did during the break
was he ran to the basement.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I did. Who knew for twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Freaking years you've been here and you didn't know that
was down there? True, Now you know that's mine. You
can't use it.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't want to start sharing it with you.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And they do. I did close the door on the
on the outside of the door, it does say women, okay.
And the same with the other one around the main
one right there in the open, it does say men.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah okay. Well, so call me a pervert. But if
that one's busy, I just go to the one that
nobody knows is there and uses it.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And I will say I did look relatively quickly to
the women one was cleaner.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
But but you know why, because I think nobody right, right,
And I don't think there are any female employees that
i've because you know, I sometimes come through the basement.
I come through the garage, not the garage, but you
know the right, yeah, the dock, the dock, And I
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don't think i've ever you know, Bruce Coney Elsie. Occasionally, uh,
if an engine happens to be passing through town, I
might see an engine here in the basement, but not usually.
Otherwise I never see anybody down there at all. I
you know, I haven't checked that training room. I wonder,
I wonder if the training room was now turned into
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a junk room.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I did make a pass through the garage too, Yeah,
I hadn't been down there in quite a while. It
was pretty bad, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
If you next time you go to the garage, go
to the toward the back. Yeah, we had the A
M F M cages. Yes, yeah, I just strolled through
that too. Wow. I remember when he used to be
locked and we had to have the combos and everything
to do get into the cages. Nothing, nothing, nothing. There's
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some palettes.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
That have ifs marked for electronic recycling and it's just
piled high with crap.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You can't put anything else in there.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I did, oh boy, because I had a printer at
home that was just uh, you know, you don't pair
of printers anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Correct, Yeah, And so I was like, you don't even
buy new ink for printers anymore. You just buy a
new printer that comes with a cart in the air.
It's the same price. It's just buying ink.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
We like, why couldn't be able to do this printer
that went wait a minute in that garage? So, you know,
one Saturday, I just pulled up and you know, I
opened the garage door and just carry the printer and
put it down there. I'd bet you a thousand bucks
dragon that it's still sitting down.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I bet you. Yeah, I would not take that, but
I completely agree it's still there. It's our junk drawer,
the junk drawer of my art down there, a palette
like they would actually take it out to recycle it,
but you'd have to get a forklift in there, and
you can't get a forklift to where the palette is.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Oh it's even worse than because I think the last
time I was down there, I thought, I thought to myself,
at least they've left enough space that if you wanted
to drive, like maybe it's not something, you know, as
wide as a golf cart or something.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Now I think so got anymore because they've got that.
You saw the palette of like carpet tiles right, Oh yes, yeah,
that's like right in the middle of absolutely everything, along
with some of what could be considered new or broken
ceiling lights you know that who knows. And then other
duct work is just strewn around. It's it's pathetic.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And do you remember when we griped about I mean,
there are two things about the building that drive me crazy.
One is, well, what drives me crazy about the building
is you know, I don't know how much iHeart paid
or there, what the new lease agreement is or what.
(04:44):
But when we gave up the second floor, they leased
that out and while they were remodeling that, they remodeled
the third and fourth floors. Uh left the basement intact.
They remodeled the well. They started the remodeling not finished.
And one of the things that bugs me about it
not being finished is, you know, we live and die
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by the clock, So there are clocks everywhere except right
outside this studio. Between the wall between me and Koa
is a place for like a TV monitor. They got
the box there, there's no TV monitor, and below it,
which is strategically misplaced, is a box for a clock.
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We have electronic clocks everywhere, so we know it's exactly
seven thirteen twenty three, you know, twenty two seconds. Well,
we finally got fed up, what a week or two ago, Yeah,
and we made a joke about it, and Alexis sent
us some clocks. We printed out eight clock, it's marked
at eight point fifty, and we.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Had what was the times of Tokyokyo. We had Tokyo
in there.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Well, somebody took it down, I guess because we were
embarrassing somebody that they hadn't finished the job, so they
took it down last week sometime. Well, I'm fed up
with it, so I printed another one and this time
it's it's still eight fifty, but it's cutter time, cutter time.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The other thing they haven't fixed. I've actually brought this
to the attention because I think this, I think this
is a security and a safety issue. My key card
will not allow me to go from the third floor
to the fourth floor on this end of the building
for the stairwell through the stairwell, which sometimes is important
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because it's faster than the elevator, and if we've got
to screw up on the access to Los Angeles, I
need to be able to get to the KOA studio
to release it. Anyway, long story short, I was just told, yeah,
that's you know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It's told you use the elevator. The answer was not
over going to get it fixed.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I was told, use the elevator, and you suggest we'll
go to the other end of the building use the
stairwell there. Have you checked to see if you can
get through there?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yes, I have used that one on the The card
reader does work over The.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Card readers do work over there, but that means I
have to walk to that end.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
They walk back to this end right sometimes could still
be faster than the elevators around here.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, that's true, that's true. Seventy four hundred Mike. The
building I currently work in only has shared bathrooms. Men
are disgusting in bathrooms. I will literally walk to another
building to use a women's only bathroom. There's the exception.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Now, how do you know that that was a man
that left that mess? Just throwing that out there, because
you all women hover, so you can't always sit there
and go he's sprinkled on the feet, Well, well quit
hovering and you won't sprinkle on the seat.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I have hovered before in really nasty places, which is
difficult to do when you're trying to number two and
over it. To say that's it takes a little you know,
that takes some core strength to kind of do that.
I didn't realize that was a regular thing with women.
(08:11):
Didn't realize it at all. For those of you that
are just tuning in we're talking about, you'd never know
what we're talking about. But we're talking about what the
Green New Deal and clean green energy, whatever the crap
you want to call it is, there is causing the
cost of energy in California to be so high. And
(08:34):
I'm using California as the example because that's the easiest
place for me to get some good statistics. But it's
applicable to Colorado too.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Well.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
In as part of that story, let me reset it
this way. Let's go to Chucky Schumer, who happens to
say some really stupid things.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Right, oil and gas barons hate clean energy even though
it's the cheapest way to reduce car energy needs.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
The evil oil and gas barons. We have barons, so
the CEO of Chevron or Exxon Mobile or Phillips Petroleum
or Valero or I mean or people.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Oh, they're oil barons.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Right wing oil and gas barons.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Hate and they're all right wing.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Dude, you know that they're all right wing oil and
gas barns.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Hate clean energy even though it's the cheapest way to
reduce car energy needs.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
The cheapest way, seriously, the cheapest way to reduce our
energy needs. He's out of his freaking mind if he
believes that.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
But he does. But it's the only stupid thing he believes.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Donald Trump hates offshore wind. He hates off your wind
because supposedly, years ago they built a wind farm off
the coast of his Scotland golf course.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
He fought to kill it. He lost, so.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Now he's taking it out on all offshore wind to
the detriment of the American energy needs with in a
way that is like it's like a dictatorship.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
He was struggling trying to figure out, I've got to
get the word dictator in here. How do I get
the word dictator into this story? Wow, that's all they've got.
I know this comes as a shock to you, but
I really do despise these people, and I despise many
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of them on our side too. They're just as vacuous,
they're just as empty headed as Chuck Schumer is. So
let's go back to California for a moment. The notory,
and it is notoriously high gas. You know, whenever you
hear about gas prices or when there's a spike in
gas prices, we always hear the old gases approaching six
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dollars or seven dollars a gallon in California, and the
rest of the country goeso and it scares us.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
In California, those high prices are the results of a
lot of factors, many of which are similar to other states.
They tax gas to pay for road infrastructure, and then
they require a less polluting fuel mix in the summer months. Well,
the same thing is true in Colorado. Last year, Sacramento
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decided to move harder. They wanted to move faster toward
their goal, just like in Colorado, of a harbonless future.
So California added all these distance and these for refineries.
We already already have a refinery shortage in this country.
I told you I represented a family one time that
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owned a refinery and they finally just gave up because
trying to get all the permitting everything became I mean
they honestly, they just ran out of money. They just
ran out of money. I did everything I could expect
that permitting process.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And just you can't do it.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
They don't want refineries built in this country. So California
puts in distincives for refineries, but they add incentives for
electric vehicles. Now, the California Air Resources Board itself has
predicted that those two things, the distance and these for
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refineries and the incentives for evs, will add forty seven
cents a gallon to the cost of gas at the pump.
So even their own you know, and the carb the
California Air Resources Board is like the Holy Grail of
bureaucracies in California. So their zero carbon climate policies, pushing
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evs as your next car, pushing heat pumps to cool
and heat your house, all rely on what electricity. And
electricity depends on expensive and intermittent, unreliable energy sources like
wind and solar. So come hell or high water, California's
leaders are trying to regulate, tax and incentivize their way
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to electricity that they think is going to be one
hundred percent carbon free. They want to do it not
by twenty fifty, not by twenty they want to do
it by twenty forty five. So wherever governments have tried
to base their energy supply on this artificially mandated and
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this hurry up, you can't wait longer shift to renewables,
the United Kingdom, Germany, of fact, most of Europe, and
California and now in Colorado, the result is going to
be spikes and energy prices. Germany is a great example.
Germany's vaunted industrial economy has slowed. Their industrial output is
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just cratery and why because of the high cost of
renewable energy. Well, the same thing that's happening in Germany
is going to happen in this country. Those costs when
you think about any sort of industry, I don't care
(14:44):
whether it's I mean, it just doesn't make any difference
to me. Energy is the backbone of everything, and without cheap,
reliable energy, and this shift to green energy, it is inherent,
naturally and without without any doubt in my mind, going
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to increase the cost of everything. So when you have
a project all this trying to achieve carbon neutrality, does
anybody ever just ask the question, what's the advantage of
being carbon neutral?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
What? What does it accomplish?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Because we know that CO two levels have been you know,
I wanted to say, off the top of my head,
a thousand times higher, but whatever it is, they've been
significantly higher pre industrialization than they are now. So what
does it accomplish? I think? I don't think. I know.
(15:44):
The climate is going to change, and it has changed,
and it naturally comes and goes at ebbs and flows,
and carbon has very little of anything to do with it.
And so while our carbon in the atmosphere increases, it's
still way below what it was pre industrial levels. Yet
we have this stupid windmill that we're chasing of carbon neutrality. Well,
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when you do that, the projects to get you to
that shift to renewable energy, and that will shift or
result in income declines for individuals who do anything.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
By that, I mean who live.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
The carbon economy jobs manufacturing, logistics, oil and gas. Those
are all well paid union jobs. By the way, those
jobs are going to disappear. I take good by I
can disappear.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
They're going to dwindle. So what does that mean? If
they dwindle, that's.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Nice, but Chucky Schumer is not telling you. As sixty
Minutes did a story about that little town in Scotland
and all the citizens there hate that project because it
tripled their energy cost. Us again the Democrats being dumb.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Good morning, Michael and Dragon. On my way down to
freeze my tootsies off at Evergreen High School graduation at
Red Rocks this morning. But yeah, I clean bathrooms all
winter long. Women's restrooms they both get destroyed. But women's
restrooms have toilet paper all over the floor. Uh, if
they stand on the seats, they pee on the seats. YadA, YadA, YadA.
It's just gross. But if I'm going to go to
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a fast food place or somewhere with separate restrooms, if
the women's is used, I will go on the men's
because I know it's going to be clean.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So I'm not the only one that cross bath. You know,
you don't change genders or you do? Yeah, right, yes,
I'm gender fluid when it comes to the Soon's your Kennedy.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Well, I think most Americas understand what's going on with
the UH with the Democratic Party. They're they're they're on
their back foot and they're trying to get to Their
leader is congress Woman o Cashio Cortesh and she years
ago she took a left, a sharp left, and kept driving,
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and she's moving their party.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Left, and she's she's losing.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
The American people when the President keeps hitting them with
one below after another.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And they just keep going to the left.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And I love and I love to talk back about
I've got to go look that up now about in
Scotland their prices being driven so high, that doesn't surprise me.
I'd just like to see the figures because all of
those I mean, assuming that's true, and I don't doubt you,
but assuming that that is true, then what do you
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what do you think is going to happen here? The
laws of physics are the same in Scotland or.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Off Martha's vineyard.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
You know, the law of politics is the thing too,
you know, nim me not in my back yard. So
they don't want illegal aliens on Martha's vineyard, nor do
they want windmills off Martha's vineyard. G I'm shocked. You
mean the rich white people don't want you know, Mexicans there. Oh,
(19:16):
so what sit them to Chicago. When you start adding
costs to energy, you create energy poverty. And when you
have energy poverty, you're going to increase in already what
many people to cry as a large divide between the
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haves and the have nots in this country, and not
just because of how hard it is for say a
low income Colorado or California to pay for their gas
and utility bills, because those energy costs affect everything. So
go back to the California Air Resources Board. They put
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out what's called Scoping Plan, the framework for achieving this
idea of carbon neutrality. Their own plan projects that their
shift renewable energy is going to result in significant income
declines if you earn less than one hundred thousand dollars
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a year, and that it will actually boost incomes if
you earn more than one hundred thousand dollars a year. Now,
sit around and think about that for a while. Carbon
economy jobs will dwindle. So manufacturing, logistics, oil and gas,
you know which I said, you know, obviously those well
paying union jobs, well those will disappear. In fact, a
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studied by the Los Angeles Economic Development Commission found that
one hundred and forty eight thousand direct and more than
three hundred and fifty thousand jobs indirectly are going to
be threatened by these stupid policies aimed at eliminating in
eliminating carbon. So the green technologies, which you know, when
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you think about it, really did start in California. Has
you know, crossed the Rocky Mountains, has crossed the Continental
divide into Colorado with all the ivy about evs and batteries,
Well now they're mostly creating jobs in red states.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Now.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
One reason expanding Michael Chip firms like Nvidia or TSMC,
well they locate their facilities where not in California because
they need strong, reliable energy. So those jobs go to
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red states where they say, you know what, maybe we're
you know, maybe we won't necessarily disincentivize green energy but
we're not going to incentivize it. We're gonna let the market. Meanwhile,
we're going to make sure that we have cheap, reliable energy.
And that is that's attracting Nvidia, that's attracting the Taiwan
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Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, that's attracting Samsung. So all of these
big giant companies with chip manufacturers THEAI. Do you think
an AI company an artificial intelligence company? I don't care
which one, just pick any of them. Do you think
they're going to go build a gigantic, big ass data
center in California when they don't have reliable energy, Because
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without the reliable energy, those data centers are worthless. And
when you think about it, the cost of electricity, I
don't care how it's generated, but the end use cost
of electricity is probably a major, if not the major
factor in AI or in chip manufacturing. So when California
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refuses to tap even their own oil and gas resources,
they're not going to attract any massive investment they new
liquid natural gas facilities. Why would you do that in California?
The Air resources, the California Air Resources Board, I guess
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I'm using them so much because while their job is
to what you know, promulgate all these regulations to keep
California air as clean and pristine as possible. At the
same time, they're putting out these reports that calculate that
for California to keep all the evs running in a
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carbon neutral future, which require doubling electrical generation just for California.
Now add other states like Colorado that do the same
kind of mandates, where's that electricity going to come from?
So that the need for more power is going to
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be exacerbated by obviously the growth of AI, the chip industry,
all of which is you know, critical for us to
maintain the tech dominance that we currently have. And overall,
the demand for energy just for data centers is expected
to grow by more than one hundred and fifty percent
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just five years from now. That's according to Goldman Sachs.
So what's going to happen, Well, we're going to find
out when we actually start you know, plugging these things
in so to speak, they're going to be electric shortages.
And I keep going back to Spain and Portugal because
I want to pound that into your head.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
So there is if.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
You want, if you want to be able to prove
the theory that going all electric and relying on wind
and solar to do Oh, you'll have a little backup
here or there from nuclear or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's not going to work.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
It's simply not going to work. But we keep pursuing
these goals. Do you think, Jared Do you think Jared
Polus if if he sat down here and we explained
to him in depth, which may take a while to
do to get it through this thick skull, that hey,
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pursuing these goals are going to result because Germany's done it,
look at their industrial base, Spain and Portugal did it,
and look at the blackouts. We're pursuing the same thing.
So what happened there is going to happen here. Here's
what would be his I know it's speculation, but here's
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what I truly, sincerely believe it would be. Yeah, that's okay,
because this is about achieving that carbon less society. Because
they don't care about the results. All they care about
is the religion. It's all about the religion, and the
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religion is the climate and the earth, which tells you that,
oh it's a false idol.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yeah, good morning, Brownie and dragon.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah, close to fifty years ago, I was a maintenance
custodian somewhere in the middle of Missouri at a JC
Penny store, and I can tell you that the women's
restrooms were always terrible, not just for cleanliness, but they
would actually destroy the toilet fixtures. I don't remember how
many times we had to replace commodes in a woman's
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restroom and never had to do it in the men's.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Have agreed, what the hell is going on in women's restaurants?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
All women are nasty, but we love you you. All
women are disgusting, but we love you. But what do
they I mean, what's going on? What it's like?
Speaker 3 (27:02):
What happens with like okay, whether it's a single like downstairs,
a single bathroom, or it's a public restroom that Scott
you know four or five stalls and you know maybe
three or four sinks in it.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
What do you do when you go in there? You
go in there, you stand over, you squat, you put
your feet on the toilet seat and you squat down,
and you just you think you're country. I don't know,
you think it's a hole in the ground. Yes, that's
that's the Middle East. Other than just you know, sit comfortably.
And why do.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
They do that because they're afraid to put their little
fannies on on the toilet seat. Yeah, well, what about
those things like here, you know, little tissue paper things.
Tissue paper it says provided to you as a courtesy
by management or something.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Have I ever used one of those? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
No, have you? Okay, I thought you're gonna call me
weird for now, you know. I now I've checked, I've
checked before, I've sat down right.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, you just don't back into it without looking right. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
So I'm just fascinated about what what what you women
are doing in there. So if somebody wants to call
and explain, like you know, leave us a talk back,
tell us exactly how it is that what you do.
If you'll confess to being messy, we want to know
how you make it messy. We get Otherwise we're going
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to speculate, and when we speculate, we're almost always right.
So California is going to just like Colorado. I'm just
trying to prep you for what's going to happen here.
You know, there's a there's an opinion piece I think
it was one day earlier this week in the La
Times about I think it may be Diablo Kenyon. But
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I'm not sure, but one of the nuclear power plants
has gotten a reprieve from Governor Newsom that they that
they can start the process to repermit it and restart it.
And I don't have in front of me, but the
opinion piece was and let's say it's Diablo Canyon. I
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don't remember, but let's just say Diablo Canyon. And the
headline was something about Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant to reopen.
Should we be grateful or scared? Why wouldn't you be grateful?
And why would you be scared? Because you're facing electricity shortages?
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You think about if you go fully wind and solar. Now,
I know that on the eastern plains some farmers and
ranchers may welcome this, but you're going to have to
find appropriate locations for all the wind turbines, for all
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the solar farms. And I would bet that a lot
of locals, in fact, I bet a lot of people locally,
even out of the eastern plains of Colorado, not even
to say, not even to mention the greeny Weenies in California,
but I bet you can go to some of the
smaller towns on the eastern plains, and you'd find what
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some people would consider to be an environmentalist wacko. And oh,
you're going to put wind turbines on ten twelve sections
of land, ten twelve square miles of land. No, we
don't want that. You're going to kill the birds. You
you know, some farmers might, some farmers, rangers might do
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it to get the money. And I totally understand that.
But what about a place like Moss Landing. Have you
heard of it. That's where a toxic fire in a
battery plant, coupled with plans for offshore wind turbines turned
all of the locals against the green policies. I guess
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I'm just trying to shout from the rooftop that it's
not just those kinds of hazards, it's that you're not
gonna get what you think you're paying for. So everywhere
we got to stop gin reflecting to this stupid notion
that wind and solar are going to produce all these
gobs and gobs of cheap, clean energy. Now, the Trump administration,
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as I said yesterday, is withdrawing federal support for renewables
in favor of drill, baby drill. But the reality is
The Republicans in the Congress are not really cutting off
those subsidies. They're not really cutting off those incentives. They're
just kind of phasing them out to start four years
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from now, when maybe there won't be a Republican that's a.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Whackadoodle like Trump who doesn't.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Believe in this garbage, and they can go on spending
their money. We're being fed a bunch of bull crap.
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