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Speaker 1: So while you were traveling back Nige, we had the

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Speaker 1: story about how as they're trying to make it look

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Speaker 1: like they're doing some sort of victory lap here because

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Speaker 1: instead of having people pay a minimum of twenty dollars

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Speaker 1: extra per month, they've agreed to only make it ten.

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Speaker 1: And this is supposed to be some sort of big win.

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Speaker 1: It's like when Joe hawk Set Ryan Meers talking about

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Speaker 1: the murder rate in the city. Well, we didn't set

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Speaker 1: a record, so I bet you bastards are pretty happy,

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Speaker 1: aren't you. Well not really, We're still paying more and

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Speaker 1: people are still getting killed. Well, now, it seems like

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Speaker 1: a lot of the city County council members, Republicans and

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Speaker 1: Democrats are ganging up on hog Set because hogg Set

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Speaker 1: was part of the group that came up with this

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Speaker 1: little deal. He was part of the negotiating group, and

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Speaker 1: a bipartisan coalition of sixteen councilors signed earlier today a

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Speaker 1: statement saying that aes the big power provider for most

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Speaker 1: of Marion County. Yeah, we're not going to accept this.

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Speaker 1: We're pushing back on this good and the iu RC

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Speaker 1: they still have to approve, deny, or modify this new agreement,

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Speaker 1: and that's not expected to happen until spring of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six, so there's a lot of time here between

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Speaker 1: now and the spring of next year. But you've got

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Speaker 1: dudes like Michael Paul Hart teaming up with dudes like

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Speaker 1: Jesse Brown on the council. Even Ali Brown signed her

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Speaker 1: name to it. Now, some of the great butts niffers

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Speaker 1: have not. Bob Ossley did not put his name on this,

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Speaker 1: Maggie Lewis did not put her name on this. They

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Speaker 1: want you to keep paying more and they think it's fine.

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Speaker 1: But most of the other counselors, man, they're gaining up

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Speaker 1: and saying the stinks. Now. Jesse Brown went on with

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Speaker 1: Rob I think on his show yesterday Socialist Sweetheart on

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Speaker 1: the City County Council. It's true. Now again I will

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Speaker 1: say this, well, we are on total opposite ends of

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Speaker 1: the spectrum politically. I do have more in common with

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Speaker 1: Jesse Brown though, than I do vop Osley, than I

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Speaker 1: do Frank Mascari, because at least Jesse is willing to

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Speaker 1: call out boss hog set. All these other butts sniffers

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Speaker 1: are afraid to do it and the other thing. And

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Speaker 1: I reached out to Jesse and I said, hey, what's

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Speaker 1: going on with this and with black Rock coming in?

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Speaker 1: Is that going to change anything? He told me, no,

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Speaker 1: black Rock shouldn't change too much because Jesse's on the

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Speaker 1: council subcuncil that deals with this black Rock purchasing. Right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: but he says, keep in mind about this. Number one,

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Speaker 1: rate cases are not the only way to raise prices.

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Speaker 1: In Indiana, utilities can use trackers to charge consumers for

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Speaker 1: their costs without asking for a formal rate case. Rate

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Speaker 1: cases require them to open the books to the regulators,

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Speaker 1: so they prefer not to use that tool to get

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Speaker 1: the costs if they can afford it. And number two,

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Speaker 1: they justify their rates based on guaranteed rate of profit.

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Speaker 1: So if a gigantic data center gets built in an

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Speaker 1: area like they're trying to get in Monrovia, that would

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Speaker 1: be a more efficient way for them to sell power.

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Speaker 1: Think of it as a beer truck. Yes, a beer

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Speaker 1: truck could go around and provide beers to all these

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Speaker 1: different bars, but they could also just open up the

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Speaker 1: truck and sell it that way. And it's a heck

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Speaker 1: of a lot easier one place compared to others. So

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Speaker 1: don't get it twisted. AEES has multiple ways that they're

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Speaker 1: going to try to screw you for their money. That

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Speaker 1: they just jacked up the rates last year and now

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Speaker 1: they're wanting to do it again. And Boss hawk Set

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Speaker 1: is the wheel behind all of this. He's the one

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Speaker 1: negotiating this deal because he's got financial skin in the game.

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Speaker 2: Like on a base level, I wonder what AEES could

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Speaker 2: do to cut costs over there so they wouldn't have

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Speaker 2: to raise their rates.

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Speaker 1: You lost the EES when you said cut costs. It's

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Speaker 1: just like AES just turned off the radio.

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Speaker 2: You know. It's like property taxes, referendums here in the city,

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Speaker 2: in the state, the government shut down. So what maybe

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Speaker 2: could you cut back on your end so you wouldn't

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Speaker 2: have to screw the consumer.

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Speaker 1: Well, we don't accept any of that, nige On behalf

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Speaker 1: of AES and black Rock. We're here to screw you.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: If we screw you a little less than originally pitched,

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Speaker 1: then you should be thankful for it. AES out. That's

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Speaker 1: a little role playing there, U