Space chicks, child sacrifice, and going nuclear (04-14-2025--Hour2)

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[00:00:29] All right. Hour number two. I'm running at like, I don't know, 70%. I feel like maybe even 60. It's, uh, all right, 62%. Stayed up too late watching a show, Special Forces. Didn't even get through the first season. Then I was just talking with Bernie and Nick during the break there. And, uh, that's not the only show that we watched because we were, so my sister and her family were coming into town.

[00:00:58] So we were prepped for them to come into town, but then my nephew got sick and so they didn't come. So we ended up with a free Friday night and Saturday. And so it was like, oh, what do you, let's watch a bunch of like junk food TV. Cause you know, we don't watch enough of that. But we started by watching, there's a, have you seen this show Extracted? Oh my gosh. It's such a train wreck.

[00:01:24] It is a psychological and emotional train wreck. So they took a model. You've seen these shows like Alone, where they, they drop you into the wilderness with nothing and you're alone or Outlast, where they drop you out in the middle of the wilderness with nothing and you have to outlast some competitors, right?

[00:01:49] And it's a survivalist kind of thing. And we've seen, we, we like watching those shows, not all of them, but some of them get kind of repetitive, but, um, these people are out there for like three months, like eating sticks. It's ridiculous. Anyway, they, they took this concept and they're like, Hey, I know let's throw like a completely emotionally and psychologically broken element into this.

[00:02:18] So when you go, so you go out into the woods. Okay. Or I'll use me. I go out into the woods. So I'm the survivor and, or survivalist. I go out yet. Cause you can't call them survivor. Cause that's a whole different show. So you go out into the wilderness and they got cameras set up everywhere around your little camps and everything.

[00:02:38] And you can get supply drops. How do you get the supply drops? Two members of my family are back in a, you know, climate controlled headquarters and they have access to all the feeds and they're in one big room with all the family members of your other competitors.

[00:02:59] So you're all in this room together and you're sleeping in these little, uh, I don't know, like converted shipping container, little pods. You got to look, you know, two beds. So you're all, everybody's like there. And so now you're, you're trying to pick out supplies to send to your loved one, but then they always throw these sick and warped challenges and stuff.

[00:03:23] And though you can take a item from this other person's supply drop. And so then they make the survivalist hike like two miles. They find the crate and there's nothing in it. That's super demoralizing. And then you get the dynamics going on back in HQ between the family members. You know, one of them, I don't, I don't want to say, well, all right. Spoiler alert.

[00:03:46] One of them, the daughter. So the mom is out in the woods and the daughter and the husband are back at HQ. And she's like, I don't want mom to be there anymore. She wouldn't want me to suffer like this. So like that's you, that's not her. And then she's using that as leverage against dad and saying all of the woke words. Oh my gosh, it's such a train wreck. Yeah. So we watched that. That was Friday and Saturday night.

[00:04:11] I have no regrets. It was, and yeah, so the, it's still going on. The season's still going on in that one. I think it's tonight. I think the, it may be the season finale tonight. Yeah. It's, and it's, it is a, it is an interesting dynamic. And the people are starting to get all cutthroaty back at HQ. Oh, brutal.

[00:04:39] Anyway, speaking of surviving North Carolina lawmakers want to loosen certain building rules to make it easier for people to reconstruct buildings that were damaged by hurricane Helene. A piece at WRAL by Paul Specht reports on state Senator Tim Moffitt's Senate bill 266. Tim Moffitt is a Republican Senator from Henderson County.

[00:05:08] He used to be a state representative in the house representing parts of Buncombe County, Asheville area. Um, but then he moved to Henderson County and now he's a state Senator and, um, his bill would allow victims of a historic flood to rebuild their buildings to their original specifications, exempting the property owners from construction regulations that were enacted into law after the structure was first built,

[00:05:39] which sounds like a pretty good idea, except this seems kind of like an administrative nightmare. How like you're going to have to then know every single building code when it was adopted. Right. And then say, okay, well you, your house was built in, you know, 1994. And so what's the building code for 1994? Pull that manual, pull that code.

[00:06:07] And that's what you can build to instead of the, the new standards, which are very expensive. And in some cases don't even allow you to build the structure again. Critics of the proposal worried that the bill, if immediately enacted into law could also make it more difficult for some North Carolinians to receive federal disaster relief funding. Tim Moffitt told the Senate regulatory reform committee that he will not seek

[00:06:35] votes on his bill until he receives assurances from federal officials that his proposals are not going to jeopardize that funding. Moffitt said he has been communicating with the federal government and officials about loosening regulations that are imposed by FEMA and the national flood insurance program. His bill would allow victims of once in a lifetime floods to rebuild in a floodplain.

[00:07:01] Because that's also been part of the problem up there is you had a house that you, that was built maybe a hundred years ago. And then somewhere in that last hundred years, they adjusted the flood maps and now you're in the floodplain and now you're not allowed to rebuild stuff like that. Regulatory obstacles. Regulatory obstacles. He also said, quote, elevating structures. So you want to put a house, you know, higher up. And that's one of the things, oh, we need to build the houses, you know, like down at the beach,

[00:07:31] all of the first floor is concrete, you know, and the garages or carports will be underneath. You park underneath. And then the, the living space is, you know, 20 feet up or 15 feet up from there. But it's not as easy to do in the mountains. Because they're mountains. They're, I don't know if you're aware of this. It's pretty difficult to like drill down into, into mountain.

[00:08:00] It's pretty tough. It's hard. And so he said, we don't have a lot of buildable land in the mountains that's available. Like you see in the rolling plains of our state or the coastal plains of our state. And he's exactly right about that. You know, there's just not as much land to build on. One of the things that was very eyeopening for Christie. I mean, when we were driving around looking to buy or build a house up in the mountains,

[00:08:28] we were trying to find lots for sale. And you would, you would go, you know, pull up your realtor.com or whatever. And you would go find some lots and you'd go take a look and you pull up on the side of the road. And it's just like this sheer drop off the side of the road. And like, yeah, that's the lot. Like, how are you going to build on that? Really tall stilts that go down 40, 50, 60 feet down the ravine. Like I'm not, yeah, I'm not doing that. Where do you put a driveway? It's nuts. So yeah,

[00:08:57] you got limited land. So that's one way they're, they're looking to, to help rebuild. And then there's a Senate bill 602, which exempts businesses affected by Helene from having to reinstall windows under current regulations. State Senator Ralph Hise. He said he filed the bill after he heard about a coffee shop in Spruce Pine.

[00:09:18] And the owners were told that they would have to install windows that cost about $400,000 in order to comply with current regulations. Spruce Pine has like 2000 people in it. Like, even if they're doing brisk business at the coffee shop, a $400,000 bill for some windows, that might be a bit out of reach. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in Western North Carolina, just a quick drive up the mountain.

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[00:11:12] But yes, there was historical history that was made. He says, I feel this should really have been your top story because there is a historic history being made that just happened. It's historic. Like it's never happened in history before. It's so important. An all-women crew has flown into space. I know. Who would have thought we would have ever lived to see such historic history being made?

[00:11:41] You know how many years of training it took for them to become astronauts? They should be role models for young girls all around the world, showing that if you study hard enough, you could become a rocket scientist. Except they didn't actually fly the rocket. Yeah. They... I got to tell you, I object to them being called astronauts. I've heard the term. They're using it to describe these famous women that were taken up...

[00:12:11] Well, and Jeff Bezos' fiancé. Like they... They're... Okay. You could call them astronauts. Like, that's fine. Astronaut. I'm okay saying that, but it sounds too close to astronauts. So let's just call them what they are. They're space tourists. That's what they are. They are tourists. They took a ride. Right? They got in a pod and... You know, we burned up a bunch of fossil fuel

[00:12:41] to launch them up into the atmosphere and then they came back down. And Jeff Bezos apparently face-planted in the Texas desert. He did. Like, he literally fell down on his face while he was walking around the module and it was... It had landed in the desert and it was just sitting there and he walked up to it and as he was walking around it, he tripped and fell and face-planted. I don't know what that means. I'm just saying. Also,

[00:13:11] it appears that the... the module returned with a scrape on the passenger side rear quarter panel for some reason. That's... And all of the participants were asked how would they rate their delivery. They were... They did... Yes, they did provide the driver feedback. You should always do that with your Amazon deliveries.

[00:13:39] This was the Blue Origin launch. Like, Gayle King was on it. Jeff Bezos' fiance was on it. Katy Perry was on it. And... Like this... Matt Vespa, who's a senior editor at Town Hall Media, he says, why is everybody acting like women have never been in space before? I mean, Biden just left one trapped up in the space station, right? Like, they've been there, guys. Like,

[00:14:09] oh, but it's all female. That's the... It's an all-female crew. Yeah, but they're not the crew. They weren't flying it. They just rode up in it. Somebody else was driving, right? Probably a dude. But no, I'm kidding. I don't know. Um... I mean, good for them, I guess, but like, I'm not calling William Shatner an astronaut because he rode up in the Blue Origin thing before, right? I call him an astronaut from his time on the Enterprise. Right? But this didn't...

[00:14:39] That doesn't make him an astronaut, the origin. His Star Trek days make him the astronaut. How come they're not called astronauts? Right? They're never called... Are they called astronauts? I don't... I'm not a Trekkie, so I don't know. But nobody ever calls the Star Trek crew astronauts, but they would be astronauts, right? I think. I don't know. I got a lot of questions about the nomenclature here. Also, um... This is quite the story. CBS News

[00:15:09] reporting that they have found an ancient altar in Guatemala in the jungle and apparently it was used for human sacrifices. Especially of children, say the archaeologists. So, child sacrifice in the Guatemalan jungle in this very large pyramid-looking-like temple. Um... And they have a quote

[00:15:37] in this CBS article from Maria Belen Mendes, an archaeologist who was not involved with the project, but she said the discovery confirms, quote, that there has been an interconnection between multiple cultures and what their relationships with their gods and celestial bodies was like. Okay? So,

[00:16:07] they're sacrificing all of the children, murdering the children, all willy-nilly, for their gods, for their sky gods. Or... Or... Or ground gods, I guess, or water gods, whatever. Tree gods. I mean, you could have a lot of gods, really. So, okay, I guess, and so this... This, uh, children-murdering thing occurs across multiple cultures in these ancient times.

[00:16:37] that's the interconnected relationship between the cultures she's talking about. And then she says, we see how the issue of sacrificing exists in both cultures. It was a practice. It's not that they were violent. It was their way of connecting with the celestial bodies. See, this is a... This is a non-violent murder, people. This is non-violent murdering. Obviously, Matt Walsh points out, you've heard of the mostly peaceful riots. Well,

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[00:18:35] on Twitter, it's a Pete tweet, that these, the all-female space flight, they were passengers. They were not a crew. By the way, how do we know they're all, it's an all-female? Why is this historical? Yeah, no, I'm just kind of thinking this through. Is it because they identified as female before they got on board? What if they had a change of mind while they were?

[00:19:05] Oh man, that would have been, that would have been a story. You get into space or like right before you enter space and you're like, guys, I just want to say I identify as a man and now your historical history is for naught. Like an astronaut. Maybe that's what we should call them. Astronauts. Yeah, it's just, it's too close to astronaut. I don't even want to give them that.

[00:19:34] And then I mentioned the story about the Guatemalan ancient civilization that committed the non-violent child sacrifice and that was just discovered by some archaeologists, but it was not violent. It wasn't about violence. This is about worship. See, it's about getting into a commune kind of relationship with the celestial body by murdering your children.

[00:20:04] More than 60 research scientists signed an open, so speaking of sacrificing your children, more than 60 research scientists signed an open letter urging North Carolina Governor Josh Stein to halt Duke Energy's fossil fuel expansion and what they call the suppression of renewable energy solutions. They want him to exercise his executive authority. Four public health and climate scientists along with the

[00:20:34] Center for Biological Diversity and a solar nonprofit advocacy group called NC WARN. That's with an N. W-A-R-N. They organized the letter, these four public health and climate scientists along with the two organizations. It's signed by a total of 61 scientists from universities and agencies across the country who say it has all of the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation. Oh wait, sorry. Wrong letter.

[00:21:04] My bad. No, sorry. This is, they want Josh Stein to get all executive authority and the letter asks Stein to prevent Duke Energy from delaying the transitions from fossil fuels to renewable energy. This is a story by Christine Zhu over at NC Newsline which is one of the member outlets of an organization called States Newsroom.

[00:21:33] They are based in North Carolina and Washington, D.C. And it's a progressive front group basically. It's funded by left-wing non-profits. It was founded by Chris Fitzsimmons from North Carolina who's a big lefty guy and they put out these stories under sort of the color of a legitimate

[00:22:02] and objective news organization when in fact it's just a comms arm of the progressive non-profit organizations. So the story goes on to say that the company possesses one of the biggest planned gas build-outs of any utility for the decade. Duke Energy recently announced its intent to consider delaying the retirement of its coal fleet as a result of the Trump administration's climate protection rollbacks.

[00:22:33] Then they quote Gabby Saritobar a senior energy justice campaigner I don't know which part of that title to start attacking first. Senior does that mean she's old? I don't know. Senior energy justice campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity and she says Duke Energy's reckless expansion of fossil

[00:23:03] gas is costing lives and saddling North Carolinians with skyrocketing utility bills and deadly or extreme weather I mean just everything it's like every problem is to blame on the expansion of fossil gas which hasn't actually happened yet. See the emissions go way up when you just simply consider doing it. Little known fact about the gas industry it's already skyrocketing utility bills right?

[00:23:33] I mean it's not the decommissioning of all of the cheap energy producing facilities that's not why no it's talking about expansion of the gas facility in the entire article you know what is not mentioned if you said nuclear you are correct nuclear not mentioned anywhere in the climate change energy production article which is weird because if you are

[00:24:02] actually interested in not impoverishing future generations because energy is the lifeblood of the civilization if you want to end up sacrificing your children like the ancient Guatemalan culture that they just identified well this would be the way to do it make energy production so costly that nobody can enjoy air conditioning you know

[00:24:33] and here's the thing the wind and solar power myth is just that it can't scale at least not yet they can't fit they haven't figured this out it can't scale to the size necessary to fund or to to power all of the all of the demand but nuclear can many governments in the western world have committed to net zero emissions of carbon in the near future the

[00:25:03] US and UK both say they will deliver by 2050 and it's widely believed that wind and solar can achieve this Brian Leland writing at on the pipe dream that there is some affordable way to store surplus electricity at scale

[00:25:35] that's the core problem all right if you're listening to this show you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events and

[00:26:26] one subscribe through that link and you'll get 15% off any subscription I use the vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature your subscription then not only helps my podcast but it also supports ground news as they make the media landscape more transparent all right so Brian Leyland he is a power systems engineer with more than 60 years experience on projects around the world

[00:26:55] he says the conventional power station or something very like it existing fossil fired stations as backup for periods of low wind and sun this brings with it a new operating regime where stations that were designed to operate continuously now have to follow unpredictable

[00:27:25] fluctuations in wind and solar as a result operating and maintenance costs have increased and many stations have had to be shut down he talks about open cycle which can be throttled up and down easily but open cycle gas turbines burn about twice as much gas as a combined cycle gas turbine so you're actually creating more emissions

[00:27:54] power prices will soar making more or less everything more expensive and there will be frequent blackouts only one thing can save the day for the renewables plan reasonable cost large scale energy storage sufficient to keep the lights on for several days at a minimum that

[00:28:25] takes a time water water water in a water a major additional constraint would be that such quantities of batteries are simply not available there's not enough lithium and cobalt and other rare minerals that are being mined at the moment

[00:28:52] so that's off the table he breaks down hydro uh pumped storage that's one of the options but like that's not going to be a feasible option it cannot solve the problem on a national scale um hydrogen is another technology that's often suggested for the storage but it's got a ton of

[00:29:14] problems as well um and he says the conclusion to all of this analysis is that barring some sort of a miracle there's no possibility that a suitable storage technology is going to be developed in the needed time frame right if you're looking to be you know net zero by 2050 the present policies of just forcing wind and solar into the market and hoping for a miracle have been memorably and correctly

[00:29:42] likened to jumping out of an airplane without a parachute and hoping that the parachute will be invented delivered and strapped on in midair in time to save you before you hit the ground he says wind and solar need to be backed up close to 100 percent by some other means of power generation if that backup is provided by open cycle gas or worse coal the net zero will never be achieved

[00:30:12] nor anything very close to it because the open cycle as i said burns more gas because you're having to turn on and off the power plants right in order to adjust to the ebb and flow of the wind and the solar generation there is one technology that can provide a cheap and reliable supply of low emissions

[00:30:36] electricity and that would be nuclear i'm kidding it's nuclear interest in nuclear power is increasing as more and more people realize that it is safe and reliable if regulators and the public could be persuaded that modern stations are inherently safe and that low levels of nuclear ready radiation are not actually dangerous nuclear power could provide all of the low cost low emissions electricity the world needs

[00:31:04] for hundreds of thousands of years but if we had 100 percent nuclear backup for solar and wind we wouldn't need the wind and solar plants at all and that my friends is why it's opposed they are pointless if you have nuclear then wind and south uh wind and solar are irrelevant because you're creating

[00:31:34] way more electricity for cheaper way more reliable and that's why they won't they won't talk about it they won't use it as part of their strategy they don't want nuclear at all it's a left it's a remnant of the the 60s era like that that the the left wing 60s movement there's a study that was put out by the

[00:32:01] radiant energy group public attitudes towards clean energy support for nuclear energy outweighs opposition by one and a half times across 23 surveyed states 40 support nuclear energy 27 oppose it nuclear may act as a safeguard for climate action providing insurance against potential backlash to the net zero goals among climate

[00:32:25] action skeptics nuclear energy has the highest level of net support at plus 32 percent of any clean energy tech also preference for nuclear energy is larger than for onshore wind biomass from trees or gas with carbon capture and storage it's it's the preferred technology and regarding government policy the public wants to keep using nuclear energy

[00:32:51] and wants to build new plants support for nuclear is less politically divided than for onshore wind farms or large-scale solar farms again nuclear has more support and it takes up less space by the way republican and democrat voters share similar views on key

[00:33:14] energy attributes and environmental issues but concerns for climate change remain the most significant dividing factor between them like this is the win guys take the win all right that'll do it for this episode thank you so much for listening i could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast so if you'd like please support them too

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