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importantly, you are you knew or hear that makes this stuff. They don't want you to know it's the top of the week, which means it is time for some strange news, cadaver and music. The mystery of the Texas GRID, the Texas Electric GRID, and then a choice. I thought this might be a hashtag new saw, gentlemen without this may be a fund game to play if you're down, for it ok, I love that level of trust. You'll. Let me tell you what they get. What became is it's? It's not right only to know now carry out our russian roulette, but so I know we all red stuff extensively. Lately I've been having a tougher and tougher time just go to one story. So I'd like to give you three headlines in May, Matt, nor your pick, the wine that you wanna hear from

for me in today's segments. I've already made my choice, sorry, but go ahead and freedom are ok, this is like always. The joy out of the three button is like voting in the Senate. Again, there's monetary nature, ok, so number one as the Pentagon, just admitted to retaining and testing UFO wreckage number two. What about the matter if unprecedented protest in India as farmers rally against the increasingly tyrannical government and number three. What's with the United kingdom saying they will not resuscitate covert nineteen patients with learning disabilities? Those are the three What do you mean that you said you ve got your minds made up, there's some really important stuff in there stuff: that's gonna, really impact people's lives,

especially the farmers in India and no man, it's just horrible. The report it's coming from the garden right now about that. Last story you mentioned will deny resuscitate, but you said the phrase the Pentagon admitted to testing UFO wreckage and there's no way we can not cover that story. You feel that way does a unanimous vote. Our rights there are at present- That's a like a unanimous vote, so I, let's efficacy, it will kick off without when and we will seriousness. We are returning to the story about the protest, the mass of protest on going because it's there still going to be happy. for while we want to get all the information we can, I only in that way desire to get all the information we can. We

You are similar to an author named ethnic regalia, who claims that he does have new, fully legitimate proof that the Pentagon did collect UFO record and he did retain it once more. They know a lot about it and they ve been experimenting with applications of this stuff. That's that's the headline Let's see, let's see how it holds out, so here's a backup sought me when there are any questions I M going to show you. Some should be some question so regalia said that the? U S: defence intelligence agency or d: they they accept, F, Hawaii. Request freedom of Information ACT request. He said that three years ago he sent into request the man got a shot and he said tell me everything tell me everything you know under the rights of

food aid and in three years later they came back to him with a series of a hug, in fifty four page test results regarding in a metal called knit all you can look it up now in I t I, in o l this this metal to regale use thinking was mind boggling, because, knit, nor can it is famous for remembering Cornel, remembering it shape when you distorted were folded. So if you had simple example. If you had knit nor fork- and you bent it which earn any number of directions crumpled up. Even then it would have usually spring and being a fork and there would be no This is no lines, no proof of previous affirmation. It could happen to

something like a paperclip right. So this would be really cool material to work with you read the full story over on his blog UFO explorations. You can also see some reports by place is that we have done that, is not being the best sources in the past like the daily mail and the sign which No, we were right about this, so win this guy. ass. The dossier about this stuff he's asking physical descriptions, properties and composition of these things. This is where we get into some weird territory, because according regalia and again just weakens Our sources, both the name of this guy's is you have explorations so his blog you'll, see that he believes the info Asian provided to him by,

de. I also proves that some of these, what he calls futuristic materials, have the potential to make things Invisible shouts earlier episode on the Philadelphia experiments I in in he saying he's, leaning this because I for anybody who hasn't red ah document, that's released by Ethel, I ate. There is like a legal requirement release it with a few exceptions. Why there's? No? a legal requirement, not added so it so would acted like, like big old, highlighting black blocks red right right, exactly like the old onion line that was so wonderful where it said, FBI, FBI and seem accidently been using black high lighters Bedeck out here. opposite violated. Isn't true, though, been that there have been cases where people been able to see through those a when you hold it up to the lighter some gap. Yet absolutely I think there was a case a number of years back where

someone had rejected a form electronically. Would meant that if you wanted to read the Unread acted for she has changed the view. Man, the smallest things, folks, the smallest things bring down the giants. So here is the issue now. The first issue will stop here before you go further with a story. First issue, need, nor for anybody who is an engineer or a chemist or anyone who look. This as they were hearing about this- need no is not some magic. Actually, terrestrial material that just got its name from the first who discovered it in the wrong. Did you ever UFO knowledge around. We know

it is it's less sexy name. Is nickel titanium? It's like a real known thing. Ah, the history of dates back to nineteen. Fifty nine now were, of course, this is the part where a lot of people You might say, hang on: when did the Roswell crash occur, while they did happen in eighteen, forty, seven. So if if this is if this came somehow from that Roswell crash, which we we made a good case, it is a good. It might have been a weather blue nuclear monitoring device. But if, if this knit nor was obtained from that crap Then that would mean that somebody else knew about it before the official story. It's fine when they refer.

in the context of the rose with a crash. They call it memory metal which immediately, I know about you guys, makes me think thirty, one thousand stuff. You know it does yes, determinator I'm I'm a little bit confused and looking at the Euro. Explorations dot com website- and he saying The author here saying that, memory, metal debris word at the: U, a foe crash in Roswell Ernie, you know alleged. You have a crash, so they are described. I guess what I'm confused about. Is the f o? I a response describing this memory metal as being present at that crash specifically, are just that. That's a material that it states exists within the rejected parts. I guess so. This is an interesting point met cause, if you go to the blog you'll, see the authors. Interpretation of what is contained

and I d a response, but you care also on the blog, you can see the full text of both his request and the government's response It definitely seems to confirm that they're looking there that are working with applications of things a Morpheus metals. Should I would be your tea. One thousand stuff were met, a material which would be materials their kite. It purpose we engineered to have a couple of extra properties or inanimate superpowers that naturally occurring materials would not possess. also ties back into Bigelow Aerospace. Of course it's cool because with this kind of use your way. I was previously pretty skeptical because there was no evil with women

Bigelow, saying for years that they had access to some kind of materials that were recovered, but they never shared, though they were talked really about them, other than to say that I have them. I won't show them to you, that's what it lisa Robert Big allowing the hairy read in time. The long all seem to be saying, but this is a little bit different. You can read the actual documents from uncle so I'm a little less, I'm a little bit less skeptical or I think, there's more likely to be something here, but the question is: is this somehow material science that a delay purse

and might not understand or might mistake for magic or something extra terrestrial, or is this simply cutting edge experimentation for the time in which it occur? You'll notes, if you read in full the response from us, and you'll see. That needs a hundred. Fifty four pages around five documents some of these document suddenly information. Any here has been at a has been rejected. not necessarily because of the science involved, but because there the exemption that allows them to prevent the onward it invasion of individual privacy, so they ve crossed out names where it's like. You know Johnny Blue Jeans is the one who is spare minting with titanium. That remembers who it is despite the way bent it.

Well, I want to read something from one of these reported in a It is therefore I request will be says. The met. Her mirror approached infrared energy harvesting is one of the very promising applications of meadow materials, a number of ASP. of matter mirrors, must be investigated. In several important questions- must be answered before practical applications can be pursued. Mehta mirrors. This is, if the first I've ever heard of this Who, in absorber met her mirror structure? My goodness, I just want to dig and all of these air right I mean it's legit. They did respond is something there. I do have to point out that everybody's, immediate thought, When you hear the headline the Pentagon emitted, detesting UFO wreckage. Your media response needs to be I've known does not automatically equal extra terrestrial a thousand

stuff. No, otherwise they kept it later on some level episode of hoarders, and they did all. The weird stuff to it. That's that's what's happening now. Is that it does that mean that there is technology possessed by the government that the public not possess, or maybe even is unaware of totally even before this does yes totally. Of course, there are things that have not been released publicly course there press technology- I just thought it was interesting. I thought this is. Story guys would enjoy. everybody. Listening all the conspiracy. Realist was route to us about disclosure. This should another feather in your cat, I dont know Whether things are accelerating in a certain direction that has been proven yet, but the frequency of things being disclosed in this regard has certainly

priest, it's something you keep an eye on organ, dig into the full die response and will will update. If there is any things Schubert super strange. If they reference euro extraterrestrials or anything like that. I'm sure the author would have led without if that was the case yeah when listen non linear non research Calloway, Madame materials for developing novel optical, isolated and one way microwave mirrors oscillate either way. I thought you were, but do spoken, word, poetry, vague. It's what it sounds like what is here for british sound science fiction and its gates document created by the government about a thing tat. I know nothing about

yeah. Well you weren't alive during that time, but I hear your parents were they were they were paying people to write these things if you think about it right that taxpayers, money boy. But yes, this happy we're gonna report back we're going to pause for word from our sponsor. Hopefully we don't get beamed upper black. and then will we'll be back with more strangeness this sort of stuff they don't want. You to know is brought to you by file. Hey, do you love a tv, but you hate paying a giant cable bill, as weren't file low is the thing for you follow for just one dollars a month is live and on demand all your favorite channels. All your favorite content in one place you don't need a hassle, would like twenty different apps. I don't know about you guys, but as it as a cord cut her myself, all these different apps can drive you crazy. We're a golden age of television

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man of Florida, man, no less purportedly with the very metal name, yes to very metal names yeah. annex a k, a prince midnight. Who is Thirdly, taken the bones the upper body, torso bones: minus the arms minus the skull of his deceased Uncle Philip spelled EF, I L Ip is a kind of metal. and converted into a guitar because supposedly Uncle Philip, at least this is what the Prince midnight told, metal, sucks, dot com does actually counter the name of a about for people who, like metal ironic, I guess he told them that Uncle Philip was the biggest idle head in the world. did he wanted honor his you know remains and in his legacy by converting it in to a functional guitar. Does he want

to be able to shred into it, unity or be shredded upon. I suppose right the story be no, understandably got picked up all over, these I saw line in an indian newspaper of note. The Tampa beta Obviously the original reporting, but places like guitar World magazine, obviously We see radio one complex, Huffington Post, the vehicle I and many more have picked this story up and Prince midnight did several posts on Instagram. Were he talked about how he was planning on doing this are actually started off. You know where he was like. I am going to get. My uncle's remains from this medical lab than they were donated to apparently donated his remains to science by the customary that they no longer able to use actual skeletons to make skeletal kind of situations like our agent Scully

it's a real skeleton rang. I know come at a time. Ok, no common, no comment got in any case apparently used to be that medical remains remains of this kind. could be used in that a fashion, and this is really not the case any so you somehow able to get it back, which I think, little Fishy How do you go about that nine outside? was doing it up from a grave which it I was high. Illegal by this ability claims that he was able to get it back from this lab school. Rather, because they didn't need anymore, and so they were able to. He was able to get it, get it back. I guess name because he showed some identification should he was next of kin. What have you aim in a giant wooden box. I- and this is a greek orthodox family again. According to ports and then he shows the process of making the guitar. He literally installs pick ups by drilling into the bones

and then you know a bridge and he has to install like a metal, was steel rod to reinforce it, Cacena sure spine of strong, but a spine, also bends ass, though something you want your guitar neck to do so he had to run a steel right up through the center of the spine and then put a neck on it, and it's kind of fun to see him. You can see this online actually mean in several places has thought I read it. I think fixed pretty cool but It's also kind of limiting you're a truly shredder Your movements are a little limited because the actual part where you strum is inside the rib cage yeah I saw to it if you like, it would be a little tough to reach. Doesn't it now- and I do want to say I just I never get the opportunity to work. This conversation, naturally, Philip spelled with two elles, is at our care were for the following that little Bah put a year.

Finger against your thumb and inflicted at someone under yeah. That's a fillip! Ah, that's fascinating, see, there's cyclist, few details quite a few details, news story that make me think there's more we're gonna get there. Then there maybe uses in the whole story. First of all, the name, ago, annex it's almost like a nod and a wink to the famous metal guitarist invade mom esteem in At least it's just a very nordic sounding name. It's a very metal sounding name. Obviously, now and I'm nordic, but like a greek candidate, has that vibe with two areas of maize measuring of Vigo, the carpet me and from my ghostbusters to skirt and Moldova, the scourge of Moldova, and also now that you mention that Philip. What is that Would you do if you are going to do that? You would be barking. Someone on the nose almost as a little I gotcha kind of

thing right through the story, goes on the public, Sean of origin here, which should be the Tampa Bay Times. If you guys don't know this, many of you probably do Tampa Bay and floor. general assembly in particular, has always been known for having a bit of a theatrical kind of metal. Seen like Japan, there is a band called like hell on earth back in the that had some kind of scheme to have the first like onstage side, and it was somebody who is terminally ill and they were went to allow this person to off themselves. In before view of above the public Well, I didn't go over well in terms of pr. They d abandon this idea, but that's the kind of stuff, the metal seen in them Tampa Bay, as is known for, got very theatrical, very black metal. It's almost like Norway or something you know but like in Florida. And obviously the floor in a man trope which we ve been through a million times on the show. But,

I have a bay times as raising some doubts about the veracity of the story, because they believe Prince midnight K. A Jago annex looks a whole heck of a lot like this gentlemen, who made some news in past years, a guy so very interesting name by the name of Oda. Lawn owes air, who has an instagram by the way who has in a single reading it an excellent follow for for anyone. That's interesting and owes air made. The new in twenty eight see him, for Getting the Guinness record were like having the world's tallest hat talent, Serafine had risk in his eye yeah, it's almost like a stove pipe hat, Abe Lincoln time situation, but it goes up like tat tree heights. Like I mean it's, it's massive his pictures of wearing a really cute out, there's a gray suit jacket and pants the match, the color of the fabric of the hat and the

is extending up into the Heavens and he's wearing this kind of baby Blue Vest and he's gotta very Croft, moustache and law. kind of main. Like hair, he really looks like the kind of guy. You see be tending bar at some gotta hipster speak easy type, joint only with a really really tall hat. That's one thing he did It also deal another bit warehouse he got another will wreck for having the longest acrylic fingernails and so there's images of him with these crazy long, acrylic fingernails that are extending disease posing with them and there again match is outfit. He also another moment of fame, relatively speaking, where he submitted a Taxidermy crocodile That has two heads: that's now and displayed a coffee shop in seminal heights, the neighbourhood seminal heights in top up. So

the Tampa Bay Times felt, like Prince midnight, had a very striking resemblance I was and Prince midnight is, is admittedly wearing a wig, and you know really sees face Superman so the jury is still out on this when it hasn't been quoted got solved. Yet I think it's a funny story there are things to be said, though, about the level can allow. The groundwork for a hoax like this, that our guy prince midnight mate definitely has a band if we, as a record prince midnight, is an institution, this guy is very leaning into this persona he being out ten to figure out how to make a guitar?

this skeleton whether if real- and I don't know I mean definite, put in the effort- one other thing I'm going back to- I don't know if you would, if you could call it a hoax, you can definitely call it a performance, but Anthea performance is automatically hoax, only a hoax skeletons, not real right well, a year, the bends providers. People have sliding definitions of hopes, but I wanted to point of going out clever a hoax especially if they are meant to be discovered, their meant to have a nod, and we have clues- and they are so maybe fill up with two with Philip with one l- is this guy- the alleged skeleton guitar name it carried in life. What if it short for Philip Pendulous, which is at other useless word. I know it means to be so. Ended by or strong upon a threat.

which goes very well with guitars, I'm just say. Finally, cod. I have like a list of words and never to use those reports. Also describes the all of the reporting and outfits they're just can around with a story as sensational piece of news, it's in it Turning to the Tampa Bay Time, who did really you're, like you said that there is one of the really did any true digging on this at all everyone else, just ordered at sight, unseen, light gray, story to tell Lord a man, Michel used Magneto metal thing Leah makes a guitar out of uncles remains two lines of text, Ashley looking into any any, confirming anything so you're. Pretty interesting comment on the state of reporting right now, but the tamper Bay Times actually contacted the Guinness world Records office, which, admittedly, has become a bit of it's. It's not a thing

as much as it may be. Once was and used to record important record things like in the world's fastest manner. What have you, but now it's things like longest acrylic nails and tallest stove bypass. So really is more like a publicity stunt and it's easy to outdo somebody just so we can make the thing anyway, but they reached out. Gonna said they do. Ask thereof: kids, to provide a full name by will accept a stage name and that also points to how it's kind of a bit of a colony. Ask me now silly thing these days Guinness Records, if they call me out if I'm wrong and that the how it feels the will- against world records. The Guinness book of World records was never super credible, nor act. I mean it is. It is mainly made to be a conversation starter. to resolve arguments. The people had of bars at the origin story, Santa sell the right actual get exe

right, they ran, they were and they ran the Scholastic Book fair. I was always very excited about those books, along with other things we mention in past. Episodes do want to point out, lest I seem to pretentious for knowing many unnecessary words for long time was a kid I thought stage. Name was just the name of a local stage, so I thought peoples These amendments were like the stages they went to to do. Whatever their show was it's like. You know when you go to a festival and they have like the big stage, the main stays in the to smaller stages and now have kind of clever names, more names of like LE companies that sponsor them. That's what and now you're gonna like I'm our own revokes Lee. I thought I thought TAT name was what people than their parents was. That's done very well again, members you learn something new everyday, lasting So then the two headed alligator picture I mentioned

or that was actually perpetrated by a guy, but any more just and Arnold who the Tampa Bay Times also believes owes air resembles. Oh there has said he doesn't know about this. Prince midnight thing early, see, you know, denied Are any association services not me, and I don't know if I have nothing to do with that, and you want to save it other guy. Just an Arnold who the Tampa Bay Times believed bizarre could also possibly be he's the one who tricked the paper into publishing there's two headed crocodile picture on its cover. So maybe they're all peeved about that in two dozen fourteen, maybe they're kind after a little because really does seem like they're trying to do almost like some kind of light. character assassination here, but I love this just an Arnold is currently we front man of a pump banned in Temper Bay called feral babies, which I think is a fabulous name for a pump band. No,

It then did you mentioned the response and when this outfit from things from a group called or as it happens, they reached out to that point and in the response was go after so so punk. so there are larger and totally. Said the re Royer, who has been following a lot of stuff. And then he seems to believe these are all kind of one and the same here, on the side of whom over this person may be he's. The editor in chief of creative loafing, which we also have here Lana I used to southern thing. I didn't realize that it was just there wasn't just in Atlanta. He says quote calling him a price. There seems cheap because he's a performance artist, a genius in a way. so I genius it away in a way which complement its normal. You know me and deleted column. Ingenious you're good at where in the bed in a way

oh, come on their little, not as it is, is urgent as students at its edge. I go you I get at the end. There is, there is something to be said with the US. The idea of this version, which I am quite affair of the idea of awe hoisting someone bringing them for not doing their due diligence like the sun in the daily mail to match earlier point earlier point. They didn't investigate as much as they should, but it also makes me think so. These kind of performance the meat they need an audience right, so it makes me think, there's more in the future to come. by the way the guitar is, he is dubbed it, these Scala, CASTOR, which is clever and if, in fact, it is made of human remains, which he obtained. Legally, he cannot

golly ever sell this because it is illegal to traffic. Human remains too soon human remains yeah, two to civilians, direct yeah, yeah. I know guinea, medical labs would be in the market for a scholar, castor, maybe museum, as you say you could. Probably donated by many, can gain a regime of death. That means I well, but then now I don't know what does it take to have credentials to buy things like this, the heart of darkness as in technically illegal, to buy things from Sir for serial killers to sell em off it off of their memorabilia. earlier I pursued allowing delved into the world of serial killer merchandise. We found a pretty disturbing industry. I those Laws. I would argue, the legal constraints are a little bit different like, for instance, I. Yes, there are laws against

cereal murderers sure convicted, making money off selling their own story or something like that life rights in stature, rice right by after someone dies after say a TED Bundy passes, or something like that. Then, not really anything to stop some one else. from saying hey, I have this parking ticket. The guy signed, or you know I have I warn against is ah childhood grammar book for some reason, that that sticky, with a museum unfortunate, There are a lot of grey areas here, like eight in the past, it made Starkey comments about the british museum. it gives the lie to the idea that the government is done with the days of empire. They didn't give a lot of that stuff back so, they went together The museums in museums have first off these been allotted we're getting codes of ethics. So the first question is for Asean is ethical for us to pay for this state

You know what I mean on any in another museums addressed that differently, depending on the country and depending on the museums you could maybe, if your listening, what what's the aiming at midnight His name is Prince midnight and, above all, a big shot. To internet today, which is a u to observe channel by really been digging lasted, maybe six months or so during covert they do a segment call weekly, we're news, and I sometimes crib stories from them, and they they reported on this as well They pointed out that the You can try his music as prince midnight on Spotify, and it's it's metal issue, but it has a lot of marimba vibrio phone on it. So I little like odd. suitable, weird metal, jazz, hybrid. Having listened to your leg, just those guys, marimba has like a rat,

You know I have made a human bombs arousing metals so your mother, the pedal Mazurka O Phoenicians data and as a machine that leaving this suspicion musical instruments. I just bought a electric. Some piano its. the Colombian got the little times on it, but you can play with your thumbs and it has a lick. It's a wooden box, Chile, Colson and then it's gotta Jack on it, and I am going to do it into a rat paddle and a bunch of other stuff to deny lighted? sir, I don't have any remain out of human bonds them. I know a criminal, story, I really do think the stuff in what you know. The heart of this is the fact that if you can get out their story bet you come up with in you get one rapporteur mad one, even smaller, legitimate outfit detour to publish a story you. get the entire internet to just respond.

And and say things like well according to this day as yeah yeah address, imagine Research, do your research guys watch the red? The son of the video like people, people can be too credulous, you know, I've been nobody ever talked about this. It so easy Did you make up a word? image earlier, make up a word, get it mentioned five times in five different publications and boom. You have a shot of being in the Oxford English dictionary flake, that's a flipper tacit right wing, make that a thing so living language. It reminds me, too, If you want to see this happening in real time and see like the mechanics behind making a toll, horse story, you know: go via and be picked up? I seemingly legitimate news organization I highly recommend you watch the Nathan for you episode about deep headings you

where he essentially frames a story where a goat rest, a pig's, gives me rescues a baby goat from drowning and indeed does always behind the scenes that would scuba divers and like they build like a plastic track for the vote to go through and they have a guy say, go in the water and they do all this thing to make a phone, video and upload, and it gets blasted out on red. It organically picked up crazy and before you know it. George definite was talking about a japanese new stages to talk about it. You see this in real time. It is genius it can be done, ending. On that inspirational note, we will pause

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a lot of people out there right now listening who were in Texas, I'm sure. Hopefully your hearing this recent. After Rio, recording it and your non just sitting. There are trying to find a place to charge your phone still because I know that's probably been something you'd been dealing with as well. As you know, during the high on installing warm enough in frigid temperatures. No. As of this weekend and over last week there was a in income. All winter storm that went through taxes and just blanketed, almost the entire state, and the surrounding areas. In freezing rain in snow in all kinds of things that are real bad for electrical grids. things that are, you know, bring trees down and you probably with that? Wherever you live, you probably seen freezing rain or something bring a tree down, knock over some lines there

we cross the street or something and gallop power in a small area. Well imagine if you are in this giant state of Texas and pretty much everywhere, the power goes out. and not only that after some, the major parts of of the interest your repaired. You have to an end user as just a person with a house or an office, or something you have to deal with rolling blackouts wherever they ve or is turned off just to sustain, all of the other. Well, let's say a critical pieces of infrastructure within the state because you can't just send a power everywhere all the time, because there's not enough to go around. It's a pretty terrible sitting, to be in in Texas, probably right now. I know at least over the weekend. It's been pretty awful sure the winner this worry comes from W F a it's, a local abc affiliate there in Texas, and

headline- is Texas Power outages how the largest Gee producing state in the? U S failed in freezing temperatures and we'll go over the entire thing with you here, but The bottom line is that we No, what happened at this point We know that it's happened before at least twice in the fairly recent past and we know how to fix it and prevent it from happening again, but them sure thing this in the way, is cost and money. So it's not This is a situation in Atlanta when there was the uno, snow populists or snow began when that occurred, where the major issues were traffic related, where there were power, outages buddy was mostly, you know, trees that fell down and took out small parts of the grid and in other parts of the great got a little overloaded in this case with these four

using temperatures. There are a lot of energy producing nodes. Essentially, places where energy is actively being produced where power is being produced as being sent back onto the grid and in these freeze temperatures, many of these in Texas literally froze the mechanisms whereby a proxy mechanical pump there being used or something that is turning literally froze to the point. they could no longer function and when happening. Is that just do it? part alone in this, is only one factor within all of the loss of power. The system just through this one little thing the system has lost or did lose the tens of thousands of megawatts. Because of this a single megawatt by the way can power five hundred homes, which is a nice. to know how many now, as it takes make a gigawatt of all of them.

all the megawatts gonna gigawatt- and I want to go back to this concept that this has happened before shirt, so in two thousand and eleven there was another storm of winter storm that came through an did pretty much. The same thing took out a lot of the infrastructure due to freezing mechanical stuff that was used to generate power. And you can go to if you look at that article. That I cited from dummy Ass, a daily two in August, two thousand eleven report from north american Electric Reliability corporation as well as the rural Energy regulatory Commission can. It has recommendations about this twenty eleven event, where the massive power outage occurred because of freezing temperatures in in here they cite pretty obvious things.

all too whether eyes, certain equipment that was rendered ineffective in these cold temperatures, they they lay out exactly what needs to be done. The problem is a cost, a lot of money to do that, and there lot of independent operators. Here they would have to take those son or they'd have to get grant. Sir. You know essentially loans from the Texas government to do this because, unlike a lot of other states Texas right its own energy for the most part for the most part at least there's this thing called you got, I think, that's the one where you when the enemy, the Grammy, the Oscar in the tone up since it is our caught you got or the EP caught the earth caught. It's the electric Reliability Council of Texas and they manage. This is a quote here from their website. They manage the flow of Electra

power to more than twenty six million Texas customers who- and it represents thereof- about ninety percent of the state's electrical load- yeah, they're, they're, a couple and other outfits. These other outfits exist entirely due to the gargantuan size who state of Texas, I believe El Paso was one. there's. An interesting is an interesting aspect. Here, Texas, kind of had a sweet deal with like the? U S has three three electric grits ray we ve got the eastern interconnection, that's exactly what it sounds like you're, the western interconnection, exactly what it sounds like an it. We ve got taxes which is mostly what it sounds like. Ninety percent of it is what it sounds like and then these other places are interrelated. The two thousand Levin case man is really interesting to me in shadow to our friend James. I think we should say were starting with a slow, but about this, but is really interesting to me

because in many ways Mexico was a better neighbour than some of the adjacent. U S states and they help taxes out winging its grid was down in twenty eleven part of it goes deep into the town soon history of wanting to be as independent from a federal government as possible and the jolted that now things good argument be made here. I then I do think this could be a full up. Is similar to that Enron, conspiracy with blackouts in California, which they totally did on purpose. I e the thing here is that taxes is kind of having his case can eating it to the critics say like we're independent, we don't need we, we don't need no stinking feds until something goes wrong and at its like. Oh, we are part of this. Please help us

and this is not at all a dean upon the millions of people living in Texas who were, of course not alive this conversation started. The thing is that the reliability council ass, an enormous powers here, they were formed a nineteen seventy, not after a black out in Texas but out of after a black out in the northeast, and they said, let's not let this happen, and we're beyond the jurisdiction of the Fettes, except when we need this assistance and you're right do just like just like the court. Also apocalypse in Atlanta? Why did everything go sideways? It wouldn't sideways, because, just like that case, in old, more Florida people didn't care about them, boring infrastructure that I don't care about. The turbine salt right Ray. I care about this new plows woods gonna snow in Atlanta. I don't care who If he's gonna hack a waste water treatment plants

thing is those eventualities exists, so I think this is an infrastructure problem, but we're all talk it over and you say, there's an I agree: you that there's something curiouser about this, if not the cause of the outrage which, to my mom so far, it does seem to be whether doesn't seem like Enron, play purposely killing the lights, but as far as people are a people, an institution navigating this. Are you guys? I heard some weird rumours about zip codes. Yeah, there's if we start going around on social media, when you look at the power outages maps, if you like it, which areas to have a cost the flow of energy and in the other areas that are either dealing with those blackouts the rolling blackouts we're just power outage in general, it looks on the surface like there's a bit of

What would you say, income gap in those where power and those who don't? It seems I way who knows? There's no for us to prove it currently that something like that is happening. I would just say those maps do seem. They do seem to paint a picture. I just to be clear its when they say there is a discrepancy between the zip codes, It is not saying that the very poor and disadvantaged zip codes got power back on first, because there are there are already more challenging. In fact, it's quite the opposite. Is this is a little unrelated, but in there's something I just found out about the necessary from December of twenty twenty apparent. California water is now a future to be treated as a commodity. Yes, because of potential scarcity.

that seems wrong Israel wrong. There there's a whole if that were not even getting into today, that I do not understand frankly, and that is the trading of power, training of electricity within the grid, and we know how much it costs when you sell words coming from where it's going, who need now where's the demand- and this is one of things that that or caught group there, Christianity, that's what they handle as one of the things that they do for ninety percent of Texas and you always wonder if that could Come into play in some way stuff, but in the end It really does feel like at least to me that this is a problem of infrastructure, that was shown to be an issue in eight nineteen. Eighty, nine. was then shown to be an issue again in two thousand eleven, but since it was were made by the public Utility Commission of Texas it had it wasn't mandatory. So

you know of the individual operators, the companies that run generators that run power plants. They didn't have to do anything Like you said Ben, this is a a winter storm scenario that comes along once in a while Blue Moon as they say, or you know, twelve years once than twelve later again roughly ten years later. Is it worth all? that you know the millions of dollars that it would take well now why price you put on a human life has less remember. We are also. I can make hundreds of thousands of people who depend on technology to live in a very literal, on poetic way, they will die without continual help us Devices and so on, and yes, of course, hospitals do secondary backup systems. Just for this, I think person

oh well, Rhine, state level independent electric grid I get it like that seems like it could be workable, you know there is a great threat going on over it or Facebook page here's where it gets crazy, got a lot of our of native Texans or corrections in the crowd. Talk about this and bringing up bringing up some great points and people are there are people who have no power water for thirty six hours there there People are saying you know we need to abolish or caught and get on a grid with the rest of the country or or is it some users of pointed out, maybe invest more in our courts structure boring, though, that investment may be Maybe maybe a serious internal look at the organisation to see how the people in place kin

make sure the sort of stuff doesn't happen like if you were not in the? U S. First off, just give you a sense of scale here. First up, if you not in the United States. It is very good. Go to understand just how cartoonish really big taxes is. You can DR and write a because ever driven all the way through taxes known how the waiter air, when I was on top I met a man we drove through taxes than he had done for different chosen, and then one in New Mexico. So we like drove over the course of a couple of days. We drove back toward the Texas, had snatch yeah. Ok, we're talking a hundred and seventy miles to go from bordered a border. I think, fourteen to sixteen hours on a good day, that's not like there are countries that are smaller than tat

it is, it is huge, so I gave her has a grid, but late I don't? I don't know, I don't know man, you think, there's some shenanigans in the way this has been handled oh no, it's shenanigans. I think it's a scramble, because if you look at her cots website, they have videos of their control. It purports to be this. You know the highly technical control room with all kinds of information way too much information for four the group to know what's going on at all times with the grid and to forecast what going to occur and they ve I'm sure that they are very very good at that they say there are nine people at all times within that room, monitoring the grid across all of Texas, or at least the ninety percent that they use outside of El Paso and a few other places in you look at this stuff. Anything, ok, the

or forecasting how bad it's going to be and unless the day you know as less data in the knob all the way to s h, T F, which would be, I guess, stuff, hitting the fan. They're, not gonna, they're, not gonna plan. For this to happen. For it to be this bad I don't really know em go this other than it does. It feels like a scramble like oh crap, things are going wrong. Let's see what we can do and then he got a company like encore which is encore. Electric delivery company l L see it reminds me a lot of Georgia power here. In any lantern in Greater Georgia, where you will see Georgia Power employees out, you know, fixing getting a tree, off the road fixing sub nation getting a transformer back up and running? That's what that company at least to my understanding and from their reporting here. That's what they do.

I am also seeing a lot of people aiding on encore form stuff, but I honestly don't think it's their purview to go out and fix. You know I don't think it's would be their job to fix a natural gas play. I think that will be on the planet itself. I just I don't know that for sure. That's just my understanding from one I'm reading through all these websites, and they could be. You know the we're talking about an energy each state, which is one of the reasons Texas was able to build this grid in the first place right. I will That means is that there are a lot of organizations involved with specific aspects of of hope this overall organism, if one appall at that and then because there are multiple players That also means that people are necessarily or institutions. Excuse. Me are necessarily going to be somewhat territorial, so it may be the case that some organisations

really do want to help and get stuff solved and probably have the competency in the skill set to do it, but they can't cause it's not their turf lay debts that that happens. That happens. so wafted? It's interesting like a mean in Georgia, we have option As for you now, you can go with Georgia power. He can go as scanner whatever you do. I mean by We have a public service commission that regulates rates and sort of keeps that under control, and there are the only ones that can raise rates, but there's also like a lot of former Georgia power executives that end up appointed to tear up the public service. Commission, those others kind of like a little bit of conflict of interest in that situation and Texas has what's com, public utility commission, but I'm wondering how does that figure into all of this? What we're talking about, if it's sort of like its own thing, while the

we are caught elect the Electric Reliability Council of Texas there. They are. A nonprofit corporations are like a five or one C4, day. Just according to their information there govern a board of directors, their subjects oversight by the public utility. Mission of data and the Texas legislature: XO You know better but again, like the members of of this thing of earth caught are consumers collapse generators, power, marketers, retail, electric providers, investor owned, electric utilities, transmission and distribution providers like these are a lot of words by the way that I swear. are meant to be a little difficult. I get in all situations, and there I mean that these are stakeholders would be the the other.

Ah umbrella. True for this, but but you know, the average person is probably I can understand what a power marketer is it and where there, where their vague, is right, Lester still they provide. What right do they see this there's a lot of money, because this is something that the species is. A cost doomed to having now and is very difficult to take things from people when they are used. the two having them? So it follows that people will accept any kind of system so long is it normalized and provides the things that they believe make their life normal shot up by the way I co, Dave, Doc holiday was was telling us that she actually of across Texas, winches on tour with a metal banned. You did not necessary I have guitars made from human remains right.

Just adds another point to our proof that our super producers have these incredibly interesting, rich back stories, but so Matt all mission controls that here right now, I just want to ask you they re just cards on the table, since you me nor dark and millions of other people. Why do you think pulled it? What do you think he crushed grid? something Ah Appleby is, I don't know what it is. I think he resented Applebee's switching to Ipad only ordering because I haven't even pre pandemic, Paul, really appreciated that personal touch of the apple. His weight staff really felt he was built just a tiny update, a story that was published today

from seeing a meeting of the public Utility commission of taxes that we talked about, which does have oversight over this. This collectively you're talkin about that, but is also staff by lot of bigwigs in the energy world. They an emergency meeting yesterday, where in order to sustain The p c does here in Georgia. They talk about setting rates and there's a rake. Heightened people genome commiserate about that. This, specifically, they draft in order that said quote, energy prices should reflects city of the supply if customer load is being shed, scarcity is at its maximum and the market price for the energy needed to serve that load should also be at its highest so. Since my Marianna Moulding pay us nowhere supplying man guys it's messed up in it,

Capitalism is a larger conversation, but for now we just if you're, if you're in Texas, we hope you're, ok, yet if your hearing this, when your hearing this and please stay Warm. However, you can't member case of monopolies flying man doesn't always apply the same way, because you can control the supply for something that will all These have this level of demand: electricity, water, air, I'm telling you There is a lot of money changing its right here, the stories like this to you, a cat need. You can't tell me that monopolies don't exist because my leg is more like supply and the man right now that there is good and that I very true oh yeah, you can say, monopolies don't exist, but you will be either. fully line to people or you will be wilfully naive again,

There's a thread going on Facebook group. I gears where it gets crazy if you wanted that out whether you are in Texas yourself or you just want to learn more first hand off from people. We ve got the thread re dollars is really act: they're, going into some things that I think a lot of the larger media outlets or not. Considering maybe things occur to you if you didn't live in the Greek State of Texas which which I miss it's it's just amazing that there's some in that big, crazy yeah. It's also so diverse sooner because you have like your Dallas is in your Austin me Austin, sort of its own little weird liberal, hippy bastion, but even the time We spent there Austin in there. there's a lot of their some kind of norms asked Austin too, but yeah. It's very interesting landscape for sure, physically and

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