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Speaker 2: Here. It is a Monday morning, November eighteenth. Next week
Speaker 2: being Thanksgiving, which is always great, fun, fun holiday, eat
Speaker 2: myself silly and then get sick.
Speaker 1: I eat so much.
Speaker 2: And we're going to be covering the of course, the
Speaker 2: Trump picks and what's going on, because that's I love
Speaker 2: that stuff. It's so much in my wheelhouse that will
Speaker 2: be happening over the next few days, few weeks.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: You probably have heard and I have heard and talked
Speaker 2: about this for years and years, and that is recognizing
Speaker 2: the fact that California really is two states.
Speaker 1: We have different states.
Speaker 2: Obviously in the United States, you have the South being
Speaker 2: very different than what California is being very different, what
Speaker 2: the seaboard states are about. We're almost different countries, but
Speaker 2: we are separate states because we are the United States
Speaker 2: of America.
Speaker 1: I don't know how united we are, but we certainly
Speaker 1: are a fifty state union.
Speaker 2: And there was talk and has been for decades saying,
Speaker 2: let's recognize the fact that we in southern California are
Speaker 2: very different than northern California.
Speaker 1: That's red we're blue.
Speaker 2: There is a breakup movement that actually is growing across states, Illinois, California,
Speaker 2: other states, and I'm going to talk about Illinois. This
Speaker 2: is out of the Wall Street Journal that looked at
Speaker 2: this where you have these large swaths of red rural
Speaker 2: counties dominated by just a few blue cities, and residents
Speaker 2: in those red parts of the state are trying to
Speaker 2: split it apart.
Speaker 1: There's a group called New Illinois State.
Speaker 2: New Illinois State declared itself independent from Illinois last weekend
Speaker 2: and passed the first draft of a new constitution and
Speaker 2: the introduction of the constitution as it was introduced, it
Speaker 2: was called leave Illinois without moving. That was the marketing message.
Speaker 2: Seventy three of voters in predominantly rural Iroquois County on
Speaker 2: election date back the idea of forming a new state
Speaker 2: with every Illinois county except Cook County, which is forty
Speaker 2: percent of the entire population of the state. But Cook
Speaker 2: County is blue and the rest of the state is not.
Speaker 2: And that's where Chicago is now. This resolution, of course,
Speaker 2: is non binding. It takes a lot more than just
Speaker 2: have a certain number of voter say yeah, let's have
Speaker 2: a different state. But this non binding resolution actually passed
Speaker 2: in six counties, bringing the total to thirty three of
Speaker 2: the one hundred and two Illinois counties. A third of
Speaker 2: the counties want out. That's a lot of people that
Speaker 2: want out, and this urban rural divide. And one of
Speaker 2: the things that Donald Trump brilliantly did play this up
Speaker 2: on the campaign trail, running against the large Democratic run
Speaker 2: metropolists and making big electoral games. And later on I'm
Speaker 2: going to talk about Generation Z what happened and how
Speaker 2: so many zeers voted for Trump. Interesting Paul Preston, the
Speaker 2: founder of the new California State. He says, I'm so
Speaker 2: flipping excited because he wants all the counties outside of
Speaker 2: LA outside of the Bay Area, outside of Sacramento independent
Speaker 2: new state, which, of course naming him as governor. Go
Speaker 2: figure now attempts to redraw the map of US. Has
Speaker 2: happened a whole lot before. And then the issue of
Speaker 2: Puerto Rico in the District of Columbia. Some people seeking
Speaker 2: to become the fifty first date some states floating in
Speaker 2: the idea of becoming independent countries. Now, how does that work? Well,
Speaker 2: first of all, new states, you can actually form new states.
Speaker 2: I don't think you can form new countries, but a
Speaker 2: state can form a group people. Can't actually form a
Speaker 2: new state. It's happened before. It requires the consent of
Speaker 2: the existing legislators and not very likely, certainly not in
Speaker 2: most blue states because they're blue, and you need the
Speaker 2: existing legislature. You need the okay of Congress. And that's
Speaker 2: according to the US Constitution. Now, it has happened before.
Speaker 2: Kentucky became a state onto itself, and that was the
Speaker 2: founding of Maine, by the way, was once part of Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: You know that Maine was once part of Massachusetts. I didn't,
Speaker 2: and it split off and became Maine. West Virginia wanted
Speaker 2: statehood during the Civil War, and Congress said, okay, West Virginia,
Speaker 2: you can have your own state without even Virginia's legislature
Speaker 2: because West Virginia or Virginia had voted to secede or
Speaker 2: that part of.
Speaker 1: Virginia said fine, you can be West Virginia.
Speaker 2: So preston this guy who is trying to split across
Speaker 2: split up California and become the new governor of Northern California,
Speaker 2: said he plans to petition Congress for statehood based on
Speaker 2: the argument and now we go into crazy making.
Speaker 1: Now I love this.
Speaker 2: While there's probably a legitimate argument for saying we are
Speaker 2: separate states completely, and we are even sort of de
Speaker 2: facto separate countries. I mean, you go to southern California,
Speaker 2: you go to northern California.
Speaker 1: Man, you think you're on another planet.
Speaker 2: His argument, this is Preston, is to petition Congress for
Speaker 2: statehood based on the argument that California's government now is
Speaker 2: a one party communist state.
Speaker 1: Okay, whoa, Oh, we've now gone into crazy land. And technically.
Speaker 2: Northern California has already seceded from the Union.
Speaker 1: No, it hasn't. It hasn't at all.
Speaker 2: So you know, while there's some reason for you to
Speaker 2: say what you do, it's not gonna happen. But at
Speaker 2: least there's an argument. You've now gone off into crazy land.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Okay, you're helping them.
Speaker 2: You are helping the movement a lot, aren't you. Now
Speaker 2: looking back on the.
Speaker 1: Election and thinking, okay, what happened.
Speaker 2: As I've said earlier, that the pundits really missed it,
Speaker 2: and that as crazy as Trump seemed to be with
Speaker 2: his insanity, he read it perfectly, even against his very advisors.
Speaker 2: And this is a story out of the Atlantic about
Speaker 2: gen Z gen Z, woke snowflakes, slacktivism, climate warriors, gun
Speaker 2: control activists, right, all the negative stuff for or positive stuff,
Speaker 2: depending which side of the political spectrum you ran.
Speaker 1: So here's what happened last week.
Speaker 2: How is it the gen Z Many members of the
Speaker 2: gen Z generation moved over to Trump And these are
Speaker 2: voters eighteen to twenty seven. Exit polls and analysis county
Speaker 2: by county show that young voters have shifted right since
Speaker 2: twenty twenty and that was sort of missed. Well, certainly
Speaker 2: we knew about young men, young white men who came,
Speaker 2: not came, not only came out in favor of Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: but were his army. Basically, among evangelists, this was the
Speaker 2: army of God, and among whites, white men, this is
Speaker 2: the man who is going to change America for the better,
Speaker 2: much more so than a presidential run. I mean, this
Speaker 2: is on a level above this almost deification.
Speaker 1: So Democrats lost ground with young women.
Speaker 2: And you would think that young women, especially based on
Speaker 2: reproductive rights. That's why hair supporters were cautiously optimistic. Nope,
Speaker 2: I mean there were plenty. I mean there are plenty
Speaker 2: of people obviously who are in favor of reproductive rights,
Speaker 2: I being one of them, where it's a very big
Speaker 2: deal for me. You know what, some gen Zers have
Speaker 2: just moved away from that.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Gen Zers do care about the environment, firearm safety, diversity, inclusivity.
Speaker 1: If you look at a twenty twenty three pole.
Speaker 2: Compared with baby boomers and exers, gen z is more
Speaker 2: concerned about criminal.
Speaker 1: Justice reform, racial equity.
Speaker 2: Gen Zers are likely to say the government should do
Speaker 2: more to solve problems rather than leaving things to business
Speaker 2: and individuals, which is basically what gen zer is are about.
Speaker 1: But there's a portion that.
Speaker 2: Have moved away from that, and they're frightened and what
Speaker 2: the world's going to be like and prices are out
Speaker 2: or we're out of control and the economy and immigration
Speaker 2: and are looking at it.
Speaker 1: What Donald Trump did.
Speaker 2: Is paint the world as a very destructive, frightening place,
Speaker 2: and it was blot That message was bought. I don't
Speaker 2: know how many people have actually lost their jobs to
Speaker 2: illegal immigration, to illegal migrants. Most jobs that migrants do
Speaker 2: take are not taken by white people. You just won't
Speaker 2: even if you're unemployed, are you going to go out
Speaker 2: and pick strawberries.
Speaker 1: Probably not.
Speaker 2: And so this fear inflation out of control, it's not.
Speaker 2: Inflation is under control. But it doesn't matter because what
Speaker 2: is the message. The message is it has become out
Speaker 2: of control, which it did, and prices did explode during
Speaker 2: the Biden years, and so that extra polace. You know
Speaker 2: what it's gonna be very interesting is President elect Trump's
Speaker 2: view and his move to raise the tariffs, and he's
Speaker 2: gonna get whatever he wants. I'll tell you right now,
Speaker 2: this president is going to basically get what he wants.
Speaker 2: Tariffs are going to go sky high, and that may
Speaker 2: kick in inflation. We don't know yet, but most economists
Speaker 2: say that we'll start jacking up prices like crazy.
Speaker 1: And if it does, what happens, well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: Because of those who believe Donald Trump to such an extent.
Speaker 2: He will tell you that the price of a toy,
Speaker 2: which used to be five ninety nine, which is now
Speaker 2: eight ninety nine, is still five ninety nine, even though
Speaker 2: you're paying eight ninety nine. I believe that's absolutely true.
Speaker 2: I do because he said, you don't have a job.
Speaker 2: The migrants have taken your job, and you have thousands
Speaker 2: of people roaring yes they have, and of course then
Speaker 2: they go to work on Monday morning. I've never seen
Speaker 2: anything like it, and I can see it just works.
Speaker 1: He is a populist.
Speaker 2: He was able to plug into this fear we have
Speaker 2: and crime, for example, it's out of control. It's actually
Speaker 2: down nationally in Los Angeles, it is down across the country.
Speaker 2: It is down if you look at it statistically, and
Speaker 2: how else are you going to look at it? If
Speaker 2: you look at Sandy Hook, their crime is one hundred
Speaker 2: percent and half the school of those poor kids were killed,
Speaker 2: their crime is one hundred percent. If you look at
Speaker 2: crime across the country, it is down. Yet when told
Speaker 2: crime is up, crime is up, and a lot of
Speaker 2: people bought into that. I have no problem or not.
Speaker 1: I don't have an issue in terms of understanding.
Speaker 2: How a lot of people believe that because the world
Speaker 2: it can be and is a frightening place.
Speaker 1: Now, the issue is what are we going to do
Speaker 1: about it? And one of the.
Speaker 2: Things that I think is a legitimate is and I
Speaker 2: heard this over the weekend, and that is I look
Speaker 2: at these crazy picks, for example, that President elect Trump
Speaker 2: has made. You know, between Pete Hegseth and you've got
Speaker 2: Robert Kennedy Junior.
Speaker 1: I mean, just insanity.
Speaker 2: I heard one of the senators who basically said, whatever Trump,
Speaker 2: whoever Trump wants, we're going to go for it. We
Speaker 2: don't care who he nominates. Our job is to put
Speaker 2: that person in the cabinet position. But what he did
Speaker 2: say was kind of interesting, which actually resonated we have.
Speaker 1: To shake things.
Speaker 2: We have to go in and look at government with
Speaker 2: a fresh approach. Fdr did it and he's considered a
Speaker 2: total hero. Ronald Reagan did it, and now we're gonna
Speaker 2: look at Donald Trump. Is he gonna shake things up? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Does it need shaken up?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I think it does. Now Is it gonna
Speaker 1: be shaken up in the right way?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think Matt Gates as Secretary
Speaker 2: of or the Attorney General, I think is a little tough.
Speaker 2: As he has said, basically his first job is to
Speaker 2: root out the enemies of America read Donald Trump. Does
Speaker 2: the Attorney General's office need shaking up? Maybe to that extent,
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Okay, nuclear power, the nukes, Now,
Speaker 2: if you look at nuclear power historically, they actually the
Speaker 2: scientists were actually able to crack the atom in the
Speaker 2: nineteen thirties, and it was not thought of as a
Speaker 2: weapon in those days. It was going to be used
Speaker 2: for peaceful purposes. And then up and running comes World
Speaker 2: War Two. Einstein writes a letter to FDR saying that
Speaker 2: this technology can be used to create a weapon of
Speaker 2: just incredible magnitude. And so the Manhattan Project starts. And
Speaker 2: by the way, the Manhattan Project was not to bomb
Speaker 2: Japan at all. It was to stop the Nazis because
Speaker 2: the fear was that the Nazis and the German scientists
Speaker 2: were on their way, by the way, they were going
Speaker 2: balls to the wall to also develop a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2: They knew what a nuclear weapon could do. And so
Speaker 2: that was why the Manhattan Project was.
Speaker 1: Put into place. Just a little bit of handle history.
Speaker 2: So now in the fifties, now comes the peaceful use
Speaker 2: of the atom, the splitting of the atom, and I'm
Speaker 2: talking power plants. And in the fifties, boy, this was
Speaker 2: going to be the future of the world. And when
Speaker 2: you think of a nuclear power plant, a single nuclear
Speaker 2: power plant can power hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of homes.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is insanity.
Speaker 2: When you look at a footprint of a nuclear plant
Speaker 2: and what it can do in terms of its power.
Speaker 2: So this was the future, and then one that ended
Speaker 2: up happening. Well, you had a couple of instances like
Speaker 2: Three Mile Island, which killed all the advances in nuclear
Speaker 2: energy or at least power plant design and construction.
Speaker 1: Chernobyl, which of course was the worst.
Speaker 2: Nuclear accident in the history of the world, and still
Speaker 2: within I don't know, hundreds of miles around the Chernobyl
Speaker 2: power plant and it's still a dead zone. No one
Speaker 2: can live there. You can go visit, but for a
Speaker 2: very limited.
Speaker 1: Amount of time.
Speaker 2: Did you know that they are tourists there. You can
Speaker 2: take tours into Chernobyl, into that area. They're not particularly legal,
Speaker 2: but there are tour guides. They go through the fence
Speaker 2: and you walk around. Everybody has a Geiger counter and
Speaker 2: you can only stay half an hour, an hour whatever,
Speaker 2: depending on how close you are to the power plant.
Speaker 2: And that was I mean, that shut down a lot
Speaker 2: of interest in power plants. And then Fukushima, which was
Speaker 2: amongst the most modern safe nuclear reactors in the world.
Speaker 2: They weren't quite accepting they expecting the tsunami that went
Speaker 2: up to ninety feet with those waves and overran everything,
Speaker 2: and Fukushima blew up and they have the same dead
Speaker 2: zone area up there too. So, man, we were on
Speaker 2: our way, by the way, prior to those those massive
Speaker 2: meltdowns and explosions, we were on our way to creating
Speaker 2: more and more nuclear power plants. We still have I
Speaker 2: think about sixteen percent of the energy of the United States,
Speaker 2: if memory serves that's correct, still is derived from nuclear energy.
Speaker 2: Here's a fun fact. Do you know that in France
Speaker 2: seventy five percent of their energy is derived from nuclear power.
Speaker 2: France uses nuclear power more than any other country in
Speaker 2: the world. That's why their baguettes glow green in the dark.
Speaker 2: You can always find baguettes in France even when the
Speaker 2: bakeries are closed.
Speaker 1: You got that green neon.
Speaker 2: Look, today's support for nuclear powers is the highest and
Speaker 2: it's been in a decade for.
Speaker 1: One very simple reason.
Speaker 2: Two, we need energy, more of it because for example, AI.
Speaker 1: It needs massive amounts of energy.
Speaker 2: And you have various nuclear power plants that are ending
Speaker 2: their lifespan. So a couple of groups that are really
Speaker 2: pro nuke, and it's really interesting. Young people have become
Speaker 2: pro nuclear energy because they didn't live through Chernobyl and
Speaker 2: three Mile Island. I mean, if you look at the
Speaker 2: dates of Chernobyl and three Mile Island, I mean we're
Speaker 2: going back to what nineteen seventy six or nineteen eighty
Speaker 2: six was Chernobyl, Three Mile Island was nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1: Who the hell remembers that?
Speaker 2: Well, older people remember that, So older folks are are
Speaker 2: still scared.
Speaker 1: Younger people don't care.
Speaker 2: Man, we're way past that or not we they you
Speaker 2: are way past that. So the nuclear industry is going up.
Speaker 2: They're great paying jobs. The technology is exciting as hell.
Speaker 2: It's actually much safer. For example, one of the things
Speaker 2: the designs of new nuclear plants.
Speaker 1: Instead of pressurized water to cool.
Speaker 2: The to cool down the or to make the steam,
Speaker 2: they're using molten sand.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works, but it's far, far safer.
Speaker 2: And the other group of people that have become pro nuke,
Speaker 2: and this one is interesting, are a good portion of
Speaker 2: the environmentalists. Environmentalists used to be one hundred percent against
Speaker 2: nuclear power.
Speaker 1: Why well, because how danger dangerous it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, you have a meltdown and you've got some
Speaker 2: big problems.
Speaker 1: Three Mile Island, you.
Speaker 2: Have an explosion. Man, do you have problems Chernobyl. But
Speaker 2: this is a Chernobyl was old style nuclear energy devised,
Speaker 2: built and engineered by the Russians. If you look at Chernobyl,
Speaker 2: there is no containment building at Chernobyl. The old Russian
Speaker 2: nuke plants do not have containment buildings. If you look
Speaker 2: at a US or a French nuclear reactor, it's containment buildings.
Speaker 1: For example, Diablou down on the coast, it.
Speaker 2: Looks like two giant breasts that or a pair of
Speaker 2: breasts along the coast. Those structures are I don't know,
Speaker 2: yards thick of concrete.
Speaker 1: That's what you're looking at a containment building.
Speaker 2: And so what you have is here the technology not
Speaker 2: only is it safer with its containment buildings, but the
Speaker 2: new technology is infinitely safer, and.
Speaker 1: So whire environmentalists sorry about that.
Speaker 2: Why are a good portion of environmentalists because nuclear power?
Speaker 2: Nuclear power plants don't emit. There's no fossil fuels, there's
Speaker 2: no carbon dioxide, there's no methane.
Speaker 1: It's about the leanest kind of power.
Speaker 2: Now, granted you've got spent nuclear fuel, what the hell
Speaker 2: do you do with that?
Speaker 1: That lasts forever?
Speaker 2: So what they do is put them in these barrels
Speaker 2: or in case them in concrete and put them deep
Speaker 2: underground or at the bottom of the ocean where they're leaking.
Speaker 2: And all the fish now have four eyes and fifteen tails.
Speaker 1: But that's besides the point.
Speaker 2: And the thinking is that technology will be there one
Speaker 2: hundred two hundred years from now that we'll deal with
Speaker 2: and you can get rid of the spent fuel.
Speaker 1: Nuclear fission instead of nuclear fusion.
Speaker 2: And I'm not going to explain what the difference is
Speaker 2: because I don't understand it, but it's the technology that
Speaker 2: is going to be able to be used to make
Speaker 2: these nuclear reactors completely safe. So you've got a generation
Speaker 2: now that is excited about nuclear your energy. You've got
Speaker 2: much safer nuclear power plants, and you've got different ways,
Speaker 2: for example, small nuclear power plants that can power a neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Even there's technology out there or on the books a
Speaker 2: nuclear a tiny little nuclear power plant that can power
Speaker 2: your home. Little tiny guys. Those are on the books,
Speaker 2: so you're going to see and I'm a big fan
Speaker 2: of nuclear power, always have been small footprint, huge amounts
Speaker 2: of energy. Technology will be there in the future, and
Speaker 2: I believe in the technology, scientific technology, technology that is
Speaker 2: going to make them smaller, safer, and.
Speaker 1: I'm just I am just a huge fan. Are we
Speaker 1: going to go there? Yeah? Probably because the fear of.
Speaker 2: The emissions, fossil fuel emissions is real, climate change is real.
Speaker 2: We know where that comes from and the amount of
Speaker 2: power that's needed to the point where, for example, Microsoft
Speaker 2: that's just cut a deal with three Mile Island to
Speaker 2: revamp its existing shut down tower or one of the plants.
Speaker 2: Those are usually several buildings that are power plants. Well,
Speaker 2: the one that did not melt down was shut down
Speaker 2: and they're going to bring it back up to speed.
Speaker 1: No one would have thought that was even possible. Amazon
Speaker 1: is cutting deals.
Speaker 2: Microsoft, You've got major maje and AI sucks.
Speaker 1: Up power like no one can believe.
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