WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:02.240 Michael, I don't know. 2 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:08.080 I'm a Colorado Native, and we've always called them things gilapanos, 3 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:09.400 and we put. 4 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:14.119 Them in our burritas, our tacos, and our into lay days. 5 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:21.600 They have a good day, fellas, do do do do 6 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:30.839 do do? Excuse me? Gouble number seventy five ninety two 7 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:39.320 writes Michael, Americans have elevated the obsession of insignificant things 8 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:47.840 to a national pastime. God like this entire program. They 9 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:48.759 just stupid. 10 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:51.719 And you know why, Well, we specialize in. 11 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:59.719 We specialize in insignificant things because I I don't I 12 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:01.960 don't know how you guys do it, but I'll tell 13 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:09.079 you how I do it. When you I know, there 14 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:13.000 are people, and I hope you're in this audience. I 15 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:18.040 really hope you're in this audience. That you're on Fox 16 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:21.159 News or what you know, O A N or Newsmax 17 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:25.599 or whatever you're on talk radio, and hopefully it better 18 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:29.719 be the situation with Michael Brown during the weekday and 19 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:32.640 then the weekend with Michael Brown on Saturday. Maybe you 20 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:36.519 do take the Sabbath off. I hope you do. But 21 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:42.599 it is all politics all the time. Now, what you 22 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:50.239 think about just sitting here where I'm sitting and six 23 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:57.319 days a week. I'm expected the audience's expectation is now, 24 00:01:57.359 --> 00:01:59.359 some of you get, some of you get the joke, 25 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:03.920 some of you do not get the joke. But when 26 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:08.759 I leave here now today, I've got I've got a 27 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:11.240 medical appointment to follow up on something I had done 28 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:15.280 earlier on bellam Monday. So that's that's I'm gonna leave 29 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:17.400 here and go see the doctor and hav him check 30 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:19.879 this thing out and make sure everything's going the way 31 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:22.319 it's supposed to be going. And and then I'll probably 32 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:27.159 go home, grab the dogs, go for a walk, uh, 33 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:30.759 and then come back to the house and this whole 34 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:34.560 process starts all over again. And once again, I'll be 35 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:38.240 sitting in my home studio, home office, and I'll have 36 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:41.960 a couple of TV monitors on and I'll i and 37 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:45.639 I work like I do here. I have two monitors 38 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:49.680 connected to a to a Mac and then I have 39 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.240 my MacBook Pro and I've got the iPad over here 40 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:57.639 and everything will be on. And then and because the 41 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:01.439 the mac book, we'll have a word document up on 42 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:05.439 it and I will be making my notes, putting in 43 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:10.599 my U r L links, writing paragraphs about certain things 44 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:13.360 I want to say a particular way, and I'll do 45 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:19.919 that until usually about four or five o'clock, and then 46 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:24.560 I'll go upstairs. Tim and I will have dinner. Uh 47 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.759 usually you know, during the week, she usually cooks, or 48 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:30.639 we might go out to eat. Then we come back. Now, 49 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:34.840 even when she turns on whatever movie we're going to watch, 50 00:03:35.520 --> 00:03:38.840 I'm still sitting with the iPad and the lap stop 51 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.719 in front of me because the show prep show prep 52 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:46.680 never stops. So when we when you when you hear 53 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:50.599 Dragon and I or me, Dragon doesn't always participate because 54 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:58.199 sometimes he's asleep pretending to be doing other things. I 55 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:03.400 don't mind jumping off in some tangent like to cut 56 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:07.840 are cut r job, and I don't mind doing that 57 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:13.080 because you know what for me to mental break And 58 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:17.759 may I just lecture you for a moment. You need 59 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:24.120 it too, We all need it. I think politics is 60 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:30.000 so infused our society, and part of the reason for 61 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.600 that is too I think it's twofold. There may be 62 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:35.959 other reasons, but I think the two major reasons are 63 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:41.519 twenty four hours seven news coverage. You you can you 64 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:47.199 can literally I'm using the word literally literally here. You 65 00:04:47.240 --> 00:04:53.240 can turn on a cable channel Fox, MSNBC, CNN, Newsmaccinia 66 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:56.040 and you can't. You can for twenty four hours just 67 00:04:56.079 --> 00:05:00.399 do nothing but consume news and most of that percent 68 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:05.240 of that is going to be political. Now why is that? 69 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:10.720 Because when you think about all of the government entities 70 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:17.240 that influence and or control our lives, politics infuses everything. 71 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:27.560 That's why I really taking the Lienburger's on walks. I 72 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:32.439 don't put airbut my AirPods in. I've got my iPhone 73 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:35.360 with me and my watch will notify me, if you know, 74 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:39.040 if Dragon or Tamer or somebody sends me a text message, 75 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:41.839 and I will stop and respond to the text message 76 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:44.560 most of the time, depending on what it is. I'm 77 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:46.600 also one of those guys that if you send me 78 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:51.920 a text message just to tell me something and all 79 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:55.720 you're doing is just in informing me of something, I 80 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:59.560 may or may not respond to it. And it's fascinating 81 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:03.439 to me the number of times that somebody will, you know, 82 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:10.759 text me and say like, I can't think of an example, 83 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:15.519 I don't think I don't I usually respond to your 84 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:16.399 text messages. 85 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:19.480 Hey, you'll do at least an acknowledgment onto that text 86 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:21.680 bubble with the thumbs up or yeah. 87 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:23.519 Thumbs up or something like that. But there are some 88 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:28.519 that are just purely factual. And if you put me 89 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:32.959 in a group text all almost immediately, even family, I'll 90 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:36.439 remove myself from the group text. I despise group texts, 91 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:41.240 but I get in trouble sometimes because from friends and 92 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:45.360 co workers because I don't respond to text messages. Well, 93 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:48.920 why you didn't ask me to do anything. You didn't 94 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:52.800 ask me to acknowledge it. You just said, hey, sky's 95 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:56.040 blue today. I looked up, Yeah, you're right, sky's blue today. 96 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:59.879 So I just I go on. I'm more interested in 97 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:03.560 watching the dogs. I'm more interesting in listening to the 98 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:07.399 sounds around me. I'm more interesting in smelling the smells 99 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:11.560 of the of the creek, or of the lake, or 100 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:14.879 of the listening to the wind rustle through the aspen trees. 101 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:18.800 I'm more interested in that because that's my refreshed time, 102 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:25.720 and all of us need that in one form or another, 103 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:28.519 whatever it might be. Some people might actually be gaming, 104 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:31.519 although I consider that just to be more screen time. 105 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:36.480 So I joked one time somebody sent me a text 106 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:40.879 message about grounding, about how they literally go out in 107 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:45.600 their backyard barefoot and there's a spot and they stand 108 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:47.519 there and they say they're scientific evidence for it. I've 109 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:51.000 never dug into it to see that it helps ground you. 110 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:54.319 That it has a physical impact on you. Well, I 111 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:57.639 believe that's just being outside has a physical impact on 112 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:01.319 one thing. You get natural vitamin DED. We have a 113 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:04.319 horrible lack of vitamin D in this country. People are 114 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:09.199 vitamin D deficient. Might account for some of the COVID problems. 115 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.839 But I say all of that to point out that, 116 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:18.040 you know, when you do catch on to some of 117 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:20.959 the stupid stuff we do, and then you mock us 118 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:24.720 or you actually engage in it. Either way, we don't 119 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:28.439 care because we think that helps balance out the program 120 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:32.120 so that the program is not just. And I you know, 121 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:34.600 you think about, you know a good example of this, 122 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:41.960 how many of you would get pissed off when Rush 123 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:47.720 was on air, and Rush, I'm just thinking, I'm not 124 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:52.559 I can't prove this, but I would say usually it 125 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.480 was a Monday, and he had had a great weekend golfing, 126 00:08:57.039 --> 00:09:02.039 and he had talked about golfing, and he would sometimes 127 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:06.840 relay messages or emails that he had gotten about people 128 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:09.200 bitching about you're talking about golfing, and I don't care 129 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:19.879 about golfing, but you still listened. You still listened. So Michael, 130 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:22.600 you said dragon before your wife and the list of 131 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:28.919 people who might text you. That's adorable. The other day, 132 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:34.039 not last night, before last, because I go to bed 133 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:38.240 so early, Tammer sent me a text message while I 134 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:41.919 was upstairs in bed, and rather than get up, I 135 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:44.519 just laid in bed and texted her back. Is that? 136 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:47.039 Isn't it? Pathetic? Dragon? Now? 137 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:47.960 That sounds about right. 138 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:51.759 Have you guys ever done that? Oh? Yeah, I just 139 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:54.360 found it, Like, that's so stupid. 140 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:56.600 I ain't getting up and going to the balcony and 141 00:09:56.840 --> 00:09:57.600 yelling back at you. 142 00:09:57.720 --> 00:09:59.759 And that's what I would have had to have gotten up, right, 143 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:02.840 I had to take my seapap off, gotten up, walked 144 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:05.360 over to the stairway to the balcony and yelled, and 145 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:07.759 she would have had the TV on, So I had 146 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:11.600 had yelled even louder because Tamera, because she wouldn't be 147 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:13.159 able to hear me, and she'd be like, didn't she 148 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:14.320 be mad because I was yelling? 149 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:16.000 And since the mother in laws there, I'd have to 150 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:17.879 put on some boxers while I went to the balcony. 151 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:27.639 And that ain't happening, so anyway, that's that's all I 152 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:28.519 got to say about that. 153 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:30.440 And I don't know why I wanted to do that. 154 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:33.960 I just felt like I just felt like I wanted 155 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:40.399 to do it. Let's talk for a minute about now 156 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:45.080 where did it go on that? Dirade, I've lost my 157 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:49.960 spot here. I think we're in a real pivotal moment 158 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:54.639 with our energy and the economic future of the country. 159 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:59.840 And the Inflation Reduction Act that Biden in the Democrats 160 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:04.960 shoved down our throat had all these energy subsidies, but 161 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:09.080 it wasn't just about the dollars and cents. It wasn't 162 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.840 just about the money of the Inflation Reduction Act was spending. 163 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.039 It was also about the kind of energy system that 164 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:19.919 we want. It's about the reliability. I'm not saying that 165 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:23.120 that's what the Inflation Reduction Act was about. I'm saying 166 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:26.399 that this is the inflection point that we're at that 167 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:29.159 it is about the kind of energy system that we want. 168 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:32.720 It's about the reliability of the grid. It's about the 169 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:36.440 cost of living for every single one of us. But 170 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:39.919 it's also about the integrity of the process by which 171 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:44.039 that Act was passed and what we are led to 172 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:51.240 believe that Republicans are doing about it, So what's really 173 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:54.720 happening This, again, is one of those things that I 174 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:57.279 go down the rabbit hole about when I'm sitting down 175 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:00.320 there at that desk thinking about the next day's program. 176 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:04.919 About okay, because I casually mentioned yesterday about how they 177 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:07.960 were unwinding some of this stuff, and I made a 178 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.840 note when I said that because I thought, I really 179 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:14.559 want to see the details of what they're doing. Well, 180 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:21.960 the current proposal is to phase out some of these subsidies. 181 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:26.879 It's not determinate them immediately. And I think that what 182 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:31.919 they're doing, what Republicans are doing, is dangerous because knowing 183 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:36.759 how DC works, unless you just cut off that limb, 184 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:42.879 it's turning, you got gangreen. You need to amputate it. 185 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:46.600 And the Inflation Reduction Act in those subsidies are a 186 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:50.120 gang green on the economy and they need to be excised. 187 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:52.399 They need to be sought off and thrown in the 188 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:56.759 medical wastebind somewhere. But that's not what Republicans are doing. 189 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:03.320 It turns out they're actually creating an illusion. So the 190 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:06.279 the IRA passed into this stupid idea that they were 191 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:08.759 going to fight inflation and promote green energy at the 192 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:12.000 same time. In the course of doing that, they created 193 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:16.879 all these subsidies solar, wind, evse, biofuels, anything you can 194 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:21.639 possibly manage imagine other than oil and natural gas or 195 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:26.720 for that matter, nuclear And they promised, they told us 196 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:31.919 that those subsidies would deliver cheap, clean energy and would 197 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:35.000 help us, you know, be the world's leader in climate action. 198 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:40.320 What about your bull crap. First, let's understand what the 199 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:43.519 subsidies really were. They were not tax credits in the 200 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:48.360 traditional sense. They were not rewarding you for being profitable 201 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:53.919 or engaging any sort of product product productive activity. You know, 202 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:57.960 a tax credit means that you have done work, you've 203 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:02.480 manufactured something, you've provided a service of some sort which 204 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:04.799 has resulted in a profit to you that's going to 205 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:08.440 be tax and the tax credit is against those taxes 206 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:13.200 that you're going to owe. Well wait a minute, if 207 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:19.120 solar wind or evs are not producing profits, then the 208 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:23.559 tax credit isn't going to do you any good. So 209 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:29.399 they're not rewards for productive activity. What were they? They 210 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:35.480 were actual cash handouts to businesses that otherwise in a 211 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:40.679 free market, would never survive. Their products were more expensive, 212 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:44.639 they were less reliable, they were less efficient than the alternatives, 213 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:50.600 and those so called subsidies they called tax credits in 214 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:55.320 the bill distort the energy market. It drives up costs, 215 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:59.799 it makes the grid less reliable, and the cost was 216 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.120 trillion dollars estimated to be a trillion dollars over the 217 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:12.679 next decade. So the Republicans run in twenty four, including Trump, 218 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:20.679 they're going to terminate those subsidies. We were promised decisive action. 219 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:26.120 We were going to eliminate all the market distorting handouts. 220 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:30.840 So that leads me to dig into what the House 221 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.200 Ways and Means Committee is doing. And it is not 222 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:37.759 a true repeal. It's not an immediate end to the subsidies. 223 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:43.440 It's their phase outs. And the phase outs don't even 224 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:47.679 begin for four years, so they could easily be reversed 225 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:52.600 by future congresses. Now, why do you think Republicans might 226 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:55.519 want to do that? Now, I'm not going to sit 227 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:58.960 here and tell you that they all have evil intentions, 228 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:02.600 But it seems to me that if you're going to 229 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:04.679 start a phase out and it doesn't start for another 230 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:09.840 four years, you are betting or assuming or hoping whatever 231 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:12.720 verb you want to use, that in four years, the 232 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:17.679 Democrats will control the Congress and they'll undo what you did, 233 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:23.879 trying to pacify you and me. That's how cynical I've 234 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:29.759 gotten about how this Congress is operating. They're not doing 235 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:33.039 what they said they would do. I know, shocking news, right, 236 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:38.159 But the problem is the process of the phase out approach. 237 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:43.759 That means you're never really going to have savings because 238 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:50.559 lobbyists will get involved and they'll phase out the phase out. 239 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:54.720 They'll start, you know, trying to carve out exceptions to 240 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:58.279 the phase outs. They'll try to eliminate the phase outs. 241 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:00.679 And by eliminating the phase out, I don't mean that 242 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:04.440 they're going to eliminate the so called subsidy. They're just like, hey, 243 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:06.319 don't do the phase out, just trying to get rid 244 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:08.359 of it, just you know, just kind of let it 245 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:12.079 either get rid of it or let it expire, do something. 246 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:16.519 So the bottom line is these phases out don't even 247 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:22.920 start until after the next presidential term, which means Duck 248 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:27.599 spell this out the next four years, next three half 249 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:32.720 plus years will continue to give out that money, which 250 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:35.599 is why Congress needs to enact the recision and actually 251 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:36.759 pull that money back. 252 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:40.279 Yeah, bro, I mean, if you go to Kansas. It's 253 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:47.160 Elderada are Kansas River and the car River. I guess 254 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:49.079 it all depends on your perspective. 255 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.480 No, it all depends on your dialect and your you know, 256 00:17:54.640 --> 00:18:02.319 the region you come from. Beauty This to brain a Vista. 257 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:07.200 Don't you dare say a brain of Thista around Buna Vista. 258 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.559 The locals will rip you a new one. So I 259 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:15.759 find it funny, Uh funny, I find it interesting. I 260 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:22.559 find it fascinating that one. You know, soda, pop or coke? 261 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:26.359 You know what do you like? You know you always 262 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:27.200 use the term soda. 263 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:28.359 Yeah, so what's it to you? 264 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:32.079 A coke? An coke? Yeah, I'm gonna get a coke. 265 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:36.480 And always I always have a hard time. Like some 266 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:39.960 people will say, ask me, hey, do you have time 267 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:43.359 to have lunch? And I'll say not, I don't have 268 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:45.640 time for lunch this week. But I've got time. If 269 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.960 you want to go get a drink, well, I really 270 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:51.200 don't mean I want to go at two or three 271 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:55.039 in the afternoon and go have you know a Martinzeah, 272 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:58.680 I'll meet you somewhere and I don't care where it is. 273 00:18:58.680 --> 00:19:01.559 It's Starbucks. I can get some iced tea at Starbucks, 274 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.079 or I'll go to the met you to McDonald's. 275 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:05.279 I don't care, So it would be more of a 276 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:06.400 want to go for coffee? 277 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:08.640 Yeah, but I don't drink coffee. 278 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:11.240 Right, But see that's the same thing, right, don't drink? 279 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:15.440 Right? So what do I What do I say to them? 280 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:19.160 If the depending on what the intention is, Yeah, for sure. 281 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:21.519 If the intention is to actually slam a few back, 282 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:23.200 then no. 283 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:24.599 Do you want to go drink? See? 284 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:27.559 Is what I go for a drink? For a drink 285 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:32.400 is a social let's go hang out? Where go drink is? 286 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:38.000 Well, that's social, but with a specific purpose of drinking, gotcha. 287 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:41.079 Whereas this is the social purpose of oh, we're going 288 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:42.880 to have something in our hands that we can sip 289 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:45.319 on while you tell me whatever woe you want to 290 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:48.480 tell me about, which, by the way, I charge one 291 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:50.279 thousand dollars an hour for that in case any of 292 00:19:50.279 --> 00:19:53.559 you want to do that, and it's cash up front, 293 00:19:54.119 --> 00:19:56.119 it's going to be in my Venmo account. Before I 294 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:04.240 show up at the McDonald's. I can't decide what I 295 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:07.079 want to go on with. There's not much else to 296 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:15.839 tell you about the rewriting of this bill. The while 297 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:18.039 they while they while they claim that they want to 298 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:20.599 get rid of the special interest, they call them special 299 00:20:20.599 --> 00:20:26.400 interest giveaways. That's what they keep telling, you know, conservative media. 300 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:31.000 Two of the largest ones stay completely intact. They don't 301 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:34.960 even try to phase those out, the subsidies or the giveaways, 302 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:37.200 whatever you want to call them. For clean fuels that 303 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:43.240 includes biofuels, those are actually extended. And then for carbon capture, 304 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:48.200 and the one for carbon capture really fascinates me because 305 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:53.640 carbon capture is the idea that CO two in the 306 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:57.920 atmosphere is somehow cause of climate change and it's going 307 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:00.920 to destroy the planet. There was some thing on television 308 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:03.359 last night where they actually used the phrase that if 309 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:05.680 we don't do if we don't change our ways, were 310 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:08.920 maybe it's Bernie talking about something that I think it 311 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:11.200 was Bernie that we are really but that we are 312 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:14.240 truly going to destroy the planet. And I thought to myself, 313 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:17.759 how can you possibly think that. I mean, even if 314 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:23.279 we had nuclear annihilation of humankind, the planet would still survive. 315 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:25.200 I think I had given you a story last week 316 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:29.839 that you completely ignored about the allergy season is so 317 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:35.200 much longer now because of oh oh. He holds up 318 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:37.160 his finger like he actually kept the story. Now he's 319 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:38.960 looking through his little filing cabinet to see if he's 320 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:42.079 even got it. I don't have that, but nothing because 321 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:45.839 you didn't keep that story. But yes, the allergy season 322 00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:51.119 is longer now because of global warming, and because of 323 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:57.200 global warming, plants are blooming sooner and lasting longer. 324 00:21:57.079 --> 00:21:59.960 And that's bad because it causes allergy. 325 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.920 Our allergies are going to be affected longer in the season. 326 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:07.000 Okay, So which is more important to have more plant 327 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:11.000 growth and productivity from plants, which, by the way, you 328 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:13.000 know put more oxygen in the air, by the way, 329 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:17.759 but which caused some people to have allergies. So we 330 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:20.880 should just what we should do is just eliminate plants. 331 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:23.559 I just find it fascinating. The way the story was 332 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:26.880 presented is that allergy is bad, you know, and you 333 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:30.960 know we're suffering more because global warming because the plant 334 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:33.960 are growing more, because the plants are growing more. 335 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:37.200 Yeah. Oh well, the same with carbon capture. So the 336 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:39.960 whole presumption on carbon capture is that if we don't 337 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:43.240 eliminate whatever the process is, that you know, whatever your 338 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:47.079 manufacturing are doing is putting CO two in the air. 339 00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:48.559 And so we have to figure out a way to 340 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:52.359 capture that carbon and then do something with it. I 341 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:55.960 don't know, but do something with it. So that's a 342 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:00.000 really dumb idea. Yeah, I told we did the story 343 00:23:00.119 --> 00:23:02.640 a few weeks ago about or I did a Michael 344 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:05.200 Brown minute about it, about a company up in Boulder 345 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:09.519 that did a funding round raise some one hundred and 346 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:13.200 eighty some million dollars because they have a prototype that 347 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:16.720 does carbon capture that lowers the amount of heat needed 348 00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:20.400 to forge iron or steel, and so by lowering the heat, 349 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:24.160 you lower the carbon output or something. And I thought, 350 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:27.960 what captured my eye about that story was they raised 351 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:30.680 one hundred and eighty some million dollars. You had to 352 00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:33.759 stay that. Colorado gave them an eight million dollar subsidy 353 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:36.839 or tax credit or whatever it was. But taxpayers gave 354 00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:40.440 them eight million dollars. And I'm thinking, wait a minute, 355 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:42.400 you raised one hundred and eighty six You couldn't raise 356 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:45.720 one hundred and ninety four million. And we're pushing that 357 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:48.640 because oh Pols was out there. Oh look, we we're 358 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:51.160 so happy about this because we're going to reduce the 359 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:53.880 you know the amount of carbon. We're going to meet 360 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:56.599 our you know, carbon zero by twenty thirty, twenty fifty 361 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:00.759 or whatever it is. I don't care. I want carbon 362 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:05.759 in the atmosphere. So here we are Republicans telling us 363 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:08.759 that they're going to get rid of the Inflation Reduction Act, 364 00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:13.160 and they actually keep the subsidies for bio fuels and 365 00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:20.279 carbon capture expensive unproven technologies. And when I say unproven technologies, 366 00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:24.000 I mean that because a place in Boulder is a prototype. Now, 367 00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:28.160 there must have been enough either institutional investors or angel 368 00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:33.559 investors or I don't know. I never saw. I never 369 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:39.920 saw once their prospectives, So I don't know how likely 370 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:43.759 it is that they'll succeed or not. I you know, 371 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:46.720 if that's what they want to do, investors want to 372 00:24:46.759 --> 00:24:49.519 put the money in that, and they can succeed at it, well, 373 00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:54.039 then hallelujah. But the next question is can you commercialize it? 374 00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:58.680 You might be able to create the apparatus for the 375 00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:02.519 carbon capture, is it scalable and can it be commercialized? 376 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:06.160 Any savvy investor would ask that question that that so 377 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:10.960 let's say they do, Okay, Well, now you've got to 378 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:13.400 go sell it. You've got to commercialize it and sell it, 379 00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:16.599 and it will it be sellable at a certain price? Point, 380 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:18.440 I don't know because how much is it going to 381 00:25:18.519 --> 00:25:21.240 cost to do it? And what's what's the cost benefit ratio? 382 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:24.400 There is nothing in the story about what they're trying 383 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:29.440 to accomplish even has a cost benefit ratio. So these 384 00:25:30.039 --> 00:25:34.400 giveaways that we're doing, nobody can point to me that 385 00:25:34.599 --> 00:25:38.200 it's going to benefit us in any way except it is. 386 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:43.160 By the very nature of just calling a carbon capture. 387 00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:49.359 People then assume that it must be good, that oh, 388 00:25:50.200 --> 00:25:52.799 it's it is what it is, and because it is 389 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:59.359 what it is, it's therefore good. No, not really. So 390 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:03.720 if we can tinue down the path of them lying 391 00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:05.480 to us, which I know is a shocker to you, 392 00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:08.880 and not really doing what they tell us that they're doing, 393 00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:13.079 when do you think Trump will realize this? Because you 394 00:26:13.079 --> 00:26:16.759 know how many times does Trump talk about the you know, 395 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:21.119 the pseudonym Inflation Reduction Act and how stupid that was 396 00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:24.200 and it didn't really actually cause the inflation. I think 397 00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:27.599 in Trump's mind, some staffer needs to pull them aside 398 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:30.759 and say, you know what, the big beautiful bill that 399 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:34.319 you're talking about doesn't really do I mean it right 400 00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:39.279 now has I haven't studied this yet, but I'm going 401 00:26:39.319 --> 00:26:41.839