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Speaker 2: This is the Daily Tooth with your host Michael Costa.
Speaker 1: Yes, welcome into the other show. I'm Michael Costa. We've
Speaker 1: got so much to talk about tonight. The election enters
Speaker 1: its bribery phase. Elon Musk could use a friend, and
Speaker 1: I get school at the electoral College. So let's get
Speaker 1: into the headline, shall we. All right, we are exactly
Speaker 1: two weeks from election day, in two weeks and one
Speaker 1: day from Donald Trump complaining about voter fraud. But tonight
Speaker 1: there's breaking news about one Trump henchman who probably won't
Speaker 1: be joining in this time. Breaking news.
Speaker 3: In that civil case against former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani,
Speaker 3: a federal judge ordered Giuliani to turn over all of
Speaker 3: his valuable possessions, including his Manhattan apartment, to former Fulton
Speaker 3: County elections workers Chay Monts and Ruby Freeman. Giuliani owes
Speaker 3: them one hundred and fifty million dollars after they want
Speaker 3: a defamation suit against him. He claimed they were involved
Speaker 3: in election fraud. After the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 4: The judge wants Giuliani to hand over more than just
Speaker 4: his Madison Avenue apartment. He's ordered to surrender watches, signed Yankees, paraphernalia, furniture,
Speaker 4: and even his TV. The only valuable he's allowed to
Speaker 4: keep is his grandfather's watch.
Speaker 1: Oh, poor Rudy, Poor poor Rudy. And I'm not expressing empathy,
Speaker 1: by the way. I'm saying, Rudy is literally poor. Now
Speaker 1: he's broke. Okay, he's got to give them his apartment,
Speaker 1: his car, his furniture, even his TV. You know how
Speaker 1: badly you have to lose a court case, that nine
Speaker 1: to eleven is the second worst thing that's ever happened
Speaker 1: to you. It really makes you realize how random justice
Speaker 1: is in this country. This man lost his entire fortune
Speaker 1: for trying to steal the election, while the man who
Speaker 1: he was trying to steal the election four has faced
Speaker 1: no repercussions at all. It's like when I get yelled
Speaker 1: at for going to the strip club, even though there
Speaker 1: were forty five other men also at the strip club,
Speaker 1: And why doesn't my wife yell at them. Let's move
Speaker 1: on to the current election. Okay, In the home stretch
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty four campaign, Donald Trump has gained
Speaker 1: a critical new supporter, Elon Musk, a man, a man
Speaker 1: of gravitas, a man of dignity, a man with roughly
Speaker 1: a four inch vertical leap, and president of the Funny
Speaker 1: Tummy Club. But he's also the richest man in the world.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's so rich he bought Twitter just to
Speaker 1: drive it into the ground for his own personal pleasure.
Speaker 1: And now he's thinking, well, what if I did the
Speaker 1: same with America Tech Mobil.
Speaker 5: Elon Musk making a surprize pledge while stumping for Trump,
Speaker 5: launching a million dollar giveaway for voters who signed his
Speaker 5: petition in favor of free speech and the right to
Speaker 5: bear arms.
Speaker 1: Wow, Elon's giving a million dollars to his fans. Now
Speaker 1: they can afford the best anime girlfriend pillow money can buy.
Speaker 1: So how exactly does this bribe, sorry gift work?
Speaker 6: So every day between now and the election, we'll be
Speaker 6: awarding a million dollars starting tonight. Tonight's person is Jan Dreyer.
Speaker 1: Wow, how exciting for John Dreyer. But maybe less exciting
Speaker 1: once you realize that they filled in the money section
Speaker 1: with John Dreyer. Although yeah, I'm not sure it matters
Speaker 1: since Elon put his signature dead center in the check, which,
Speaker 1: as everyone knows, is exactly not where you're supposed to
Speaker 1: put it. But hey, he's a disruptor. Also just a
Speaker 1: missed opportunity put something funny in the memo section, right,
Speaker 1: I mean I suggest butt medicine. I mean, my landlord
Speaker 1: loves when I do that. But forget all that. What
Speaker 1: exactly do you have to do for that million dollars?
Speaker 6: The only thing we ask for the million dollars is
Speaker 6: that you be a spokesperson for the petition.
Speaker 1: And that's it. Really, that's the whole that's it. And
Speaker 1: uh yeah, that's it. Bye. That's how uncharismatic Elon Musk is.
Speaker 1: He can hand some of a million dollars and they're
Speaker 1: just like, so, I can just go now, because I've
Speaker 1: seen people more excited to win a dishwasher on the prices, right,
Speaker 1: And I know what you're thinking right now, how can
Speaker 1: Republicans sink so low? And also can I sink low
Speaker 1: enough to register for this? Well? Yes, but you better
Speaker 1: hurry up because it's not quite clear if this whole
Speaker 1: thing is cool with Johnny Law. Pennsylvania's Governor Josh Shapiro
Speaker 1: questioned the legality of this giveaway and said it's something
Speaker 1: law enforcement should be taking a look at. When you
Speaker 1: start flowing this kind of money into politics, I think
Speaker 1: it raises serious questions that folks may want to take
Speaker 1: a look at. Yeah, yeah, okay, this whole thing may
Speaker 1: violate election law. But good luck to the Democrats trying
Speaker 1: to stop it. Now, that'll win over voters. We're taking
Speaker 1: a million dollars from you vote, Harris Walls. But of course,
Speaker 1: billionaires and politics isn't anything new. Democrats have George Soros
Speaker 1: and Mark Cuban, Republicans have Steve Wynn, Dan Snyder and
Speaker 1: I think the monopoly Man. But Elon is also getting
Speaker 1: personally involved in a way that we've never seen before.
Speaker 1: That only has he donated seventy five million dollars to
Speaker 1: Trump's reelection effort, not only has he spoken at Trump's rallies,
Speaker 1: but his super Packed America pack is essentially running trump
Speaker 1: entire get out the vote campaign. And fun fact, he
Speaker 1: wanted to call his Pact at America on Twitter, but
Speaker 1: someone else already had that handle, so he just took
Speaker 1: it from them. He literally stole America but don't worry.
Speaker 1: In exchange, he gave them the handle at America one, two, three,
Speaker 1: Underscore twelve really rolls off the tongue, doesn't it. You
Speaker 1: couldn't have given him a cooler handle than that you
Speaker 1: give him at Henry Kissinger. He's not using that anymore,
Speaker 1: but look, any of us can funnel millions of dollars
Speaker 1: into an election. Musk's real influence is turning Twitter into
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's personal propaganda machine.
Speaker 7: Musk also uses X formerly Twitter, which he owns, to
Speaker 7: promote Trump to his two hundred million plus followers. According
Speaker 7: to a CBS News investigation, Musk has used X to
Speaker 7: amass three point three billion views on posts about election
Speaker 7: security so far this year. Fifty five percent of the
Speaker 7: post contained or amplified false or misleading information, including unsubstantiated conspiracies.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, three point three billion views for conspiracies and misinformation.
Speaker 1: And yes, a billion or two of those views come
Speaker 1: from sex spots that only tweet things like click here
Speaker 1: to see crypto in my past, But that's still a
Speaker 1: huge amount of propaganda. Fifty five percent of the post
Speaker 1: had misinformation, so he's wrong half the time. Well, thank
Speaker 1: god he only controls Twitter and not some sort of
Speaker 1: rocket company, you know, and if you're if you're on
Speaker 1: Twitter like me, you know that he doesn't just tweet
Speaker 1: the stuff out to his followers. He puts it in
Speaker 1: your feed, whether you follow him or not. It's gotten
Speaker 1: so bad it the other day I almost close Twitter
Speaker 1: and talk to my family. Can you imagine that? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I should just get off Twitter entirely, except I've been
Speaker 1: talking to this smoking hot Russian ship who's who's made
Speaker 1: of crypto? So Elon has formed a very close alliance
Speaker 1: with Donald Trump, so close in fact, the Trump says
Speaker 1: if he wins, he'll give Elon a job in his
Speaker 1: administration cutting government waste, and Elon already has some really
Speaker 1: dumb ideas for how to do that.
Speaker 6: So we've talked about kind of a Government Efficiency Commission
Speaker 6: or the Development of Government Efficiency, where we just take
Speaker 6: a look at all the federal agencies and say, do
Speaker 6: we really need whatever it is four hundred and twenty
Speaker 6: eight federal agencies, Like there's so many that people have
Speaker 6: never heard of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that tracks you know, if you've never
Speaker 1: heard of something, that means we don't need it, right, Seriously,
Speaker 1: the parietal Lobe. I've never heard of it. All right,
Speaker 1: don't need it? For more on Elon must cash giveaway.
Speaker 1: We go live to Tesla headquarters with Ronnie Chang running.
Speaker 1: Get into Elon's mindset. What's Elon's goal here?
Speaker 8: Don't overthink this, Michael. All Elon's trying to do is
Speaker 8: make a friend.
Speaker 1: That's it. Back to you, Nnie, Ronnie, Ronnie. Right. Ye,
Speaker 1: he's not giving people millions of dollars just to make
Speaker 1: a friend. Yes he is.
Speaker 8: That's why he makes the winner come up on stage
Speaker 8: to get the check, because that's the only way he
Speaker 8: can get anyone close enough to try to be friends
Speaker 8: with them. And then he's like, here's a million dollars,
Speaker 8: and then people run away as fast as they can
Speaker 8: because he's a loser with no friends.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, come on, come on, Ronnie, how could
Speaker 1: how could he have no friends? He's a man with
Speaker 1: billions of dollars.
Speaker 8: No, no, no, he's a loser with billions of dollars.
Speaker 8: Making a billion dollars is not the same skill set
Speaker 8: as making friends. Okay, I mean just look at how
Speaker 8: he jumps up and down when people clap for him.
Speaker 1: Yo.
Speaker 8: Does this look like a man you want to be
Speaker 8: friends with that looks like a kid at school with
Speaker 8: no friends, like you know how, that's like a giraffe
Speaker 8: at the zoo that was raised in isolation, so it
Speaker 8: doesn't know how to be a giraffe.
Speaker 1: That's him. Okay, okay, but there's easier way to make
Speaker 1: friends than to pay them a million dollars.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and he's tried them all. He bought Twitter to
Speaker 8: make friends, and what happened? We all left Twitter. He
Speaker 8: built self driving cars so the cars would be his friend,
Speaker 8: and what happened. The cars blew themselves up. He tried
Speaker 8: to make friends by having a thousand kids, and what happened?
Speaker 1: They were all like a Nick Cannon adopt us instead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess that makes sense. Yeah no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not done.
Speaker 8: This man is a loser, causing his chat is yo,
Speaker 8: his group chat is him and a burner phone he
Speaker 8: bought so you wouldn't be alone in the group chat.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 8: The only reason he wants to go to Mars is
Speaker 8: so that he can be the first human to meet aliens,
Speaker 8: because once he knows that once the aliens meet other humans,
Speaker 8: they'll be like, oh wait, this one sucks, Ronnie.
Speaker 1: This man is fifty three years old. He's got to
Speaker 1: have at least one friend.
Speaker 8: And you know how I know he has no friends
Speaker 8: because he made a cyber truck.
Speaker 1: Okay, a real friend would have.
Speaker 8: Told him, Hey, bro, that's the stupidest shit I've ever
Speaker 8: seen in my life.
Speaker 1: You should have punch yourself in the debt.
Speaker 8: Okay, because friends don't let friends make cars that look
Speaker 8: like a batmobile.
Speaker 1: They have to repeat the first grade. So so our
Speaker 1: democracy is going to collapse unless this guy gets a friend. Exactly.
Speaker 8: We just need one sad, pathetic, pasty loser to be
Speaker 8: his friend, which is why I'm awarding you, Michael.
Speaker 1: Cost though one million dollars. All you need to do
Speaker 1: is be Elon Mott's friend.
Speaker 8: That's it, That's all you have to do. Congratulations, Michael,
Speaker 8: you won so proud of you.
Speaker 1: Is that check made out to you from me? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't don't overthink it. Man, just signed here. Okay, man,
Speaker 1: Ronnie showing.
Speaker 9: Everybody you know right here.
Speaker 1: We'll find out why your vote does a cow.
Speaker 9: So don't go away. I welcome back to the Other show.
Speaker 1: November fifth is election night, and we all know how
Speaker 1: we'll be spending election night watching John King's smugly point
Speaker 1: to battleground states on the election map. We get a John,
Speaker 1: you know where Pennsylvania is. All right, some of us
Speaker 1: didn't go to grad school. But a new initiative might
Speaker 1: change election night forever. Take a look with.
Speaker 10: The race for the White House at a virtual dat
Speaker 10: race in every battleground state.
Speaker 11: If there's one thing I know as an American, it's
Speaker 11: that our elections are perfect. So when I heard there
Speaker 11: was an organization trying to change our system with something
Speaker 11: called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, I had to
Speaker 11: find out.
Speaker 1: What it was.
Speaker 12: National Popular Vote is an agreement amongst the states that
Speaker 12: when enough states join, it will move this country to
Speaker 12: a national popular vote for president. It makes every voter
Speaker 12: in every state relevant in every presidential election.
Speaker 1: But voters do elect the president.
Speaker 12: Yeah, No, battleground state voters have all of the power
Speaker 12: with the American president. And that's one out of five states.
Speaker 12: So four out of five states are totally ignored in
Speaker 12: presidential election.
Speaker 5: It's a way to deliver to this country a president
Speaker 5: every time who wins the most amount of votes across
Speaker 5: the country.
Speaker 12: And so it doesn't take every state to participate. And
Speaker 12: I will tell you that interstate compacts are not controversial things.
Speaker 12: Every states and dozens of them.
Speaker 5: And I think you've probably participated in an interstate compact before.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'm going to have it.
Speaker 12: Power Ball, that's an interstate competent.
Speaker 1: So are you telling me the president of the United
Speaker 1: States is going to be determined by the Powerball winner? Misunderstood? Y?
Speaker 1: I may have misunderstood the question, but I definitely know
Speaker 1: what the electoral college is, and I certainly underst stand
Speaker 1: the national popular vote interstate compact.
Speaker 10: This creaking news just in the Daily Shows Michael Costa
Speaker 10: doesn't understand the national popular Vote interstate compact. He may
Speaker 10: not even understand how the electoral college works.
Speaker 1: But the hell you doing here? King?
Speaker 10: Well, Michael, if anyone says electoral college three times, it's
Speaker 10: like a genie. I'm cursed to appear to break it down.
Speaker 10: So let's do it. Each state has their own system
Speaker 10: of appointing electors to vote in the electoral college. Now
Speaker 10: currently almost all states have a winner take all system,
Speaker 10: where the candidate who wins the most votes in that
Speaker 10: state then wins all of that state's electors. Made in Nebraska,
Speaker 10: do it a little bit differently, but once a candidate
Speaker 10: gets two hundred and seventy electoral College votes, they win.
Speaker 10: Now with the national popular Vote Interstate Compact, States in
Speaker 10: that compact have agreed to reward all of their electoral
Speaker 10: votes to the winner of the national popular vote, regardless
Speaker 10: who who wins that statewide vote. That means every single
Speaker 10: vote across the country counts, and battleground states would essentially
Speaker 10: become irrelevant.
Speaker 1: Wow, as you through the year of diper election. Right,
Speaker 1: let's go back to the interview. How often has the
Speaker 1: president become president and not won the national vote?
Speaker 12: It's happened five times five the most recent President Trump
Speaker 12: and President Bush.
Speaker 1: Republicans overwhelmingly benefit from the electoral college. So why would
Speaker 1: a Republican ever be on board with a national vote initiative?
Speaker 1: How dumb would they have to be?
Speaker 12: Well, I happen to be a Republican Republican, Oh, yeah
Speaker 12: for sire, Yeah, pretty conservative one too.
Speaker 1: Sure you're a Republican.
Speaker 12: There's lots of Republicans who support a national popular vote
Speaker 12: for president.
Speaker 1: And what about you? What are you a Democrat? Are
Speaker 1: we getting this Republican and a Democrat?
Speaker 12: A nonpartisan reform with bipartisan support.
Speaker 1: Everybody's by these days.
Speaker 12: I got nothing on that.
Speaker 1: But this is just idealistic tom foolery. I mean, is
Speaker 1: anybody going to get on board with this? This isn't fairness.
Speaker 5: It's not an academic fever dream. It's a law that's
Speaker 5: been passed by seventeen states plus the District of Columbia.
Speaker 1: I have to admit, you know, when you guys sat
Speaker 1: down here, I thought there's no way these imbeciles know anything.
Speaker 1: But you've convinced to me it's pretty legit. What's next?
Speaker 1: What are we missing?
Speaker 5: All eyes on Michigan and as a battleground state, it'd
Speaker 5: be a critical domino to fall to create the momentum
Speaker 5: to get us over the finish line.
Speaker 1: Michigan, that's my home state. They're great legislatively, I bet,
Speaker 1: I bet they're working on this right now as we speak.
Speaker 1: You should weigh in with the speaker. You need to
Speaker 1: discoedule a vote.
Speaker 12: On the National Popular Vote bill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look at me, I'll handle it.
Speaker 13: Thank you.
Speaker 1: We Costa says, it happens, it happens. Board breaking news.
Speaker 10: Now the cocky clown Michael Costa headed to the battleground
Speaker 10: state of Michigan going there to see if they will
Speaker 10: pass the national popular vote.
Speaker 1: Currently, let's pop.
Speaker 10: It up and show you on the map here, you
Speaker 10: currently have a right now, these states right here on
Speaker 10: the map, you see them calling it in blue. They
Speaker 10: have officially passed the compact. That means they're in their
Speaker 10: bills have passed into law. Now, if you add them up,
Speaker 10: that would be two hundred and nine electoral votes right there.
Speaker 10: These states like Michigan currently have bills introduced in one
Speaker 10: or more legislative chambers.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 10: Passing it in Michigan is a long shot, especially for
Speaker 10: someone as aft as Michael Costa.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I get it. You know, you're just worried
Speaker 1: the ones I do. Get this thing passed, you and
Speaker 1: your precious magic wall will be out of a job
Speaker 1: for good.
Speaker 10: Hey hey, hey, you can insult me, but you leave
Speaker 10: the magic Wall out of this. Besides, even if it
Speaker 10: did reach the two hundred and seventy thresholds, there's always
Speaker 10: the potential for litigation for the lawyers to get involved,
Speaker 10: lawyers from any of these states or from the candidates themselves. Plus,
Speaker 10: you still need forty six more electoral votes.
Speaker 1: Jesus, are you always as much of a bummer king. Yes,
Speaker 1: watch job, Michigan. You're about to be constant. I'll wait.
Speaker 1: Come back, Jennifer Grand, how have you join it on
Speaker 1: the show. He'll go away. Welcome back to the Burner Show.
Speaker 1: My guest tonight runs the Department of Energy under President Biden.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Secretary Jennifer Grand. Home. Here, here's Department of
Speaker 1: Energy fans here, I'm here right. What is the Department
Speaker 1: of Energy.
Speaker 13: We have seventeen national laboratories, forty thousand scientists, all trying
Speaker 13: to solve the biggest problems of our time. It is
Speaker 13: the solutions Department, and now we are deploying, deploying the
Speaker 13: playing clean energy.
Speaker 14: I'll tell you what you have. You've got a nice energy. Hey,
Speaker 14: whoa saving it?
Speaker 1: You know? Doing this piece that was on in the
Speaker 1: second act. I went to the state Capitol in Michigan
Speaker 1: and I noticed your portrait. And I'm a Michigander. I
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily living in Michigan when you were the governor,
Speaker 1: but I love your portrait and it's here, and there's
Speaker 1: so many cool things here. There's a wind turbine, your
Speaker 1: hand is on a globe. Many Michiganers didn't even know
Speaker 1: that there's other countries in the globe, in the world,
Speaker 1: I think there's an electrical car.
Speaker 13: Yeah, there's electric vehicles. Yeah, it was the Chevy Vault,
Speaker 13: the first electric.
Speaker 1: I was struck. I was struck that that might have
Speaker 1: been a little bit ahead of its time.
Speaker 13: Oh, you know, you are so smart.
Speaker 1: You see why they put me at this obvious But
Speaker 1: this is Michigan. This is gas guzzling Michigan. Did that
Speaker 1: ruffle some feathers, Well.
Speaker 13: Let me just say that when the you know, you
Speaker 13: remember when the auto industry went bankrupt, and that was
Speaker 13: in a two thousand and eight great recession, right, So
Speaker 13: it was the same time.
Speaker 1: That Obama and Biden were elected.
Speaker 13: They said, we're going to help to save the American
Speaker 13: auto industry, but we also want it to move into
Speaker 13: vehicle two point zero, which is the electric vehicle. And
Speaker 13: so they provided a bunch of incentives for battery companies
Speaker 13: to come to Michigan. And it's true, we were a
Speaker 13: little bit ahead of our time. We put the cart
Speaker 13: of supply before the horse of.
Speaker 1: Demand, if you will.
Speaker 13: And but it's all smoothed out now and electric vehicles
Speaker 13: are now.
Speaker 1: Ten percent of the vehicle market. Is it perfect? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like electric. Sorry to be the bomber. It
Speaker 1: feels like EV has slowed down a little bit, well
Speaker 1: a little bit. What are some of the challenges.
Speaker 13: We've sold four million evs since the start of this administration,
Speaker 13: because more than all EV's.
Speaker 1: Ever sold before, and the hiccup.
Speaker 13: Well, first of all, I think there's been a lot
Speaker 13: of talking down of electric vehicles.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately.
Speaker 13: I think once we get pasted November, we'll see I
Speaker 13: think more positivity because.
Speaker 1: JD Powers they do.
Speaker 13: A survey of like who wants to buy I mean,
Speaker 13: people who have electric vehicles, they will never go back.
Speaker 13: And people who don't have electric vehicles, if they're thinking
Speaker 13: about switching and they want to save money on gasoline,
Speaker 13: they are looking at it. And because of the Inflation
Speaker 13: Reduction Act, you know, one of the laws that was
Speaker 13: passed that provides incentives for consumers to buy electric vehicles,
Speaker 13: so you can get seventy five hundred dollars off the
Speaker 13: dealer to purchase ones. So there's so we're seeing you know,
Speaker 13: year over year, quarter over quarter increases, you know, and
Speaker 13: that's good. And we you know, we've got electric vehicle
Speaker 13: charging stations as of today, here's news two hundred thousand
Speaker 13: public charging.
Speaker 10: Stations across the country saved different the Valley Show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's you know, that's one thing that fascinates
Speaker 1: about EV. I mean, as an American who drives a car,
Speaker 1: we just are so used to I'll drive till it's
Speaker 1: empty and then I'll fill up somewhere. That's not what
Speaker 1: it's like necessarily with EV. Do we have to rethink
Speaker 1: our mindset a little bit? Well, I think first of all,
Speaker 1: that is that something that Department of Energy focuses on.
Speaker 1: Where's that transportation? Well, we actually departments mixed up.
Speaker 13: And it's this is so smart because we have a
Speaker 13: joint office with the Department of Transportation on yeah, on this.
Speaker 13: So but the bottom line is the batteries for electric
Speaker 13: vehicles are making the vehicles go a lot longer. So
Speaker 13: you can get you can go three hundred three hundred
Speaker 13: plus miles on a charge, and to fill up your
Speaker 13: average sedan it costs about forty eight bucks is average,
Speaker 13: right to dollars, you know, three seventeen per gallon. If
Speaker 13: you charge, you may charge at home, if you have
Speaker 13: if you have grig garage, it costs you about sixteen bucks.
Speaker 13: So the difference between forty and sixteen, and if you're
Speaker 13: filling up every week, that's a good amount of money
Speaker 13: that you're saving. And yet you have to plan to
Speaker 13: find an electric charging station. But now that there's two
Speaker 13: hundred thousand of them with a goal of gifting to
Speaker 13: five hundred thousand by twenty thirty, okay, And you know
Speaker 13: it's that most people charge at home.
Speaker 1: I hate to bring this up because it's petty, but
Speaker 1: I have this desk and it's a responsibility. My electric
Speaker 1: toothbrush needs to be charged more frequently, more often. But
Speaker 1: let's get into batteries. You know, are we Americans love
Speaker 1: cheap shit? So all these batteries are being made in China. No, no,
Speaker 1: well let's talk about it.
Speaker 13: Not we are bringing this is the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Oh guys, this is such a well, this stupid audience
Speaker 1: has no clue what we're talking about. I know, explain
Speaker 1: to that.
Speaker 13: So, yes, batteries for electric vehicles and the stuff that
Speaker 13: goes into the batteries all has been.
Speaker 15: Like battery juice, the battery juice, the catho, the separator material,
Speaker 15: all of that has been built in China, much of
Speaker 15: it right, they cornered the market on a data strategic plan.
Speaker 1: To do it. We just we'd allowed it to happen.
Speaker 13: We just watched until this isministration came in and they said, no,
Speaker 13: we're going to bring manufacturing back to this country. We're
Speaker 13: going to make it irresistible to invest in America. As
Speaker 13: a result, since the start of this administration, four hundred
Speaker 13: and fifty EV assembly and battery companies have announced they're
Speaker 13: opening up in America.
Speaker 1: Okay, four that's amaz. Yeah, I love that you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be There're supposed to be like wow, No, I
Speaker 1: mean I drive gas and you know what, I'm a
Speaker 1: bad person. No, you're not. But I do want to
Speaker 1: ask you when I am ordering a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: from Amazon and then it says, hey do you want
Speaker 1: to get this a day later and just use one box?
Speaker 1: I click? Yes? Am I a hero? You are clearly
Speaker 1: a hero renewable energy? I mean some of the pushback is, hey,
Speaker 1: a wind turbine is cool when it's windy. Hey, solar
Speaker 1: panels are great when it's sunny out, but that's not
Speaker 1: always the case. Are those that is that a dumb
Speaker 1: pushback onble Let's just.
Speaker 13: Say they may not be aware that you can combine
Speaker 13: that kind of energy with these big utility scale batteries
Speaker 13: that have ten hours sometimes much longer storage, so that
Speaker 13: it basically makes renewable energy like baseload power, clean power,
Speaker 13: and these batteries give the opportunity for everybody to use
Speaker 13: energy all the time. And that's why we're seeing so
Speaker 13: much deployment of clean energy across the country. Can I
Speaker 13: just give you a quick stat on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Please, I love selts So and you should feel really
Speaker 13: great about this America. Because of the incentives in these
Speaker 13: laws that the President passed, developers of clean energy have
Speaker 13: been going gangbusters this year. Just in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 13: we will add thirty Hoover Damsworth of clean power to
Speaker 13: our electric grid.
Speaker 1: Thirty Hoover Damp. That's a record or not? That's I want.
Speaker 1: She came with numbers. She came. Can I plug my
Speaker 1: electronic toothbrush into one of those huge in dustin? No,
Speaker 1: Winter's coming. You are a Michigander, I'm a Michigander. We
Speaker 1: both know winter's coming to kill us. Heating a home,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe, and it's not always the first thing
Speaker 1: everyone talks about on television. But it's something to be
Speaker 1: taken very seriously. I'm hearing heat pumps. I'm hearing heat
Speaker 1: pumps don't work when it's actually freezing. What is a
Speaker 1: heat pump? I don't get to talk with the Secretary
Speaker 1: of Energy you very often. What is a heat pump?
Speaker 1: Should more Americans be doing heat pumps? Is there a
Speaker 1: tax credit for heat pumps? Yes? Tell me everything about
Speaker 1: heat pumps. God, damn it finished with some numbers. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll just kidding. You don't have to do numbers.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 13: The first of all, the heat pump basically transfers warm
Speaker 13: or cold energy to where you want it to be, right,
Speaker 13: and so it not just heats your home in the winter,
Speaker 13: It cools your home in the summer. So it's both
Speaker 13: a heater and a cooler name I know, right, And
Speaker 13: yes it is so true.
Speaker 1: We can let on that.
Speaker 13: But they are out selling your basic HVAC system in
Speaker 13: America now for a couple of years going because people
Speaker 13: are understanding how great heat pumps are. And yes they
Speaker 13: do work in the cold, and yes there are tax rebates.
Speaker 13: Right now, we're talking in New York. Many states like
Speaker 13: New York have developed a rebate system. You can get
Speaker 13: a rebate for the heat pump that you purchase, or
Speaker 13: if you're not in one of those states, you can
Speaker 13: get a thirty percent tax credit for a heat pump.
Speaker 1: This would be the time to do it.
Speaker 13: These incentives are for not just heat pumps, but honestly,
Speaker 13: for insulation, for solar panels, for stuff that makes your
Speaker 13: house buttoned down and running on clean energy.
Speaker 1: Well, this is something that I'm afraid to ask. But
Speaker 1: if administrations change, and when they do change, does everything
Speaker 1: you've been working on go bye bye too? Is it
Speaker 1: like the energy in my electronic toothbrush? It just doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to make it to do things stick around.
Speaker 13: The administration will change, and so it will depend on
Speaker 13: who's elective. Right, But let me just say this that
Speaker 13: the incentives that were embedded in Biden Harris industrial strategy,
Speaker 13: I'll just say those incentives are working all across America,
Speaker 13: in every pocket, in red communities, in blue communities. Honestly,
Speaker 13: sixty percent of the funding all those factories I talked about,
Speaker 13: just in the clean energy space, there's been nine hundred
Speaker 13: factories that includes wind and solar as well as batteries,
Speaker 13: et cetera. Nine hundred factories. About sixty or even more
Speaker 13: percent of the investments have gone to red states and
Speaker 13: red districts. It would be, you know, political malpractice really
Speaker 13: to undo that when your community, especially a community that
Speaker 13: previously had had a factory and the factory was gone
Speaker 13: and now you're getting a whole new opportunity, that would
Speaker 13: be a bad move.
Speaker 1: I'm undo it. I'm sure Trump would take care of
Speaker 1: the liberal cities and states at this country. AI. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not sure where I stand with Actually
Speaker 1: I know where I stand. I don't think we or
Speaker 1: want it. I think it's here to stay. A lot
Speaker 1: of people I work with love making Mount Rushmore have
Speaker 1: boobs on it through AI. But it uses a shitload
Speaker 1: of energy. What is our energy strategy with AI? Is
Speaker 1: this where nuclear is coming in? Yeah? Yeah it is.
Speaker 13: I mean, first of all, many of the companies that
Speaker 13: are building these data centers, like Google and Metal, it's.
Speaker 1: A data center that that's what it's called, that's the
Speaker 1: AI data set.
Speaker 13: Well, there's data centers that are specifically directed toward AI training,
Speaker 13: the AI models. Those companies are largely have promised to
Speaker 13: their shareholders that they want to operate on one clean
Speaker 13: electricity So our message to them is, if you get
Speaker 13: a data center coming in which uses a lot of power,
Speaker 13: don't make everyday citizens pay for that power. Bring your
Speaker 13: power with you biop is what we're calling. And so,
Speaker 13: but make it clean and so.
Speaker 1: One like bringing your own charge over to a friend's house.
Speaker 1: There you go. So we think we can do.
Speaker 13: Continued Sorry, no, no, we think we can. They it's
Speaker 13: anticipated that it will. You'll see an uptick obviously in demand.
Speaker 1: They want, We want them.
Speaker 13: Actually, we want these data centers built in the United
Speaker 13: States for economic reasons, but also because of national security reasons.
Speaker 13: So we would like them to be built in the
Speaker 13: United States. We can provide the powers I mentioned. We're
Speaker 13: putting so much power on the grid right now. If
Speaker 13: they are willing to do these small modular nuclear reactors
Speaker 13: or create additional nuclear power provides clean baseload power.
Speaker 1: Why you give me that? Look, nuclear is only you know,
Speaker 1: there's a phrase going nuclear. It's not a positive phrase.
Speaker 1: Is this really? Are we moving towards nuclear?
Speaker 13: Well, we have nuclear now. We have ninety four reactors
Speaker 13: in the United States. Nuclear provides twenty percent of our
Speaker 13: clean power of our you know, I mean we we
Speaker 13: it's a clean baseload power. So nuclear is good if
Speaker 13: we can figure out the waste issue, because it does
Speaker 13: provide waste, right, and so we have a whole process
Speaker 13: going on in this administration called consent based sighting. There
Speaker 13: are some communities who are willing to raise their hand
Speaker 13: and say we will take on that waste for you know,
Speaker 13: for some sort of compensation, right, be able to do that.
Speaker 13: So but once but that that issue, which is an
Speaker 13: important issue, is solvable, and nuclear helps to solve the
Speaker 13: bigger issue, which is energy creation as just as.
Speaker 1: A regular Joe can we can. I just encourage everyone
Speaker 1: to take the nuclear stuff very carefully. Yeah, well that's
Speaker 1: a good thing.
Speaker 13: And just to give you some comfort, in the United States,
Speaker 13: our Nuclear Regulatory Commission, we have we are the gold
Speaker 13: standard of nuclear safety in this country. And it takes
Speaker 13: a while to get something licensed as a result, and
Speaker 13: it should so we are doing it very.
Speaker 1: Care Double check check again. Hey did we check that.
Speaker 1: Let's check it again. Last thing. You've been very generous
Speaker 1: with your time with us. I know you're very busy.
Speaker 1: What can the average American do to improve their carbon
Speaker 1: footprint use less energy? Is there something that you would
Speaker 1: advise us.
Speaker 13: We take advantage of all of these rebates and tax credits.
Speaker 1: Put solar panels on your roof.
Speaker 13: If you've got get a heat pump, if you have
Speaker 13: a you know, if you have a home. If you
Speaker 13: are thinking about switching out your car, think about trying
Speaker 13: out an electric vehicle.
Speaker 1: There's so many.
Speaker 13: Technologies that are available now at a discount to be
Speaker 13: able to you know, become more energy efficient and improve
Speaker 13: your carbon footprint.
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming here today. We appreciate it very much.
Speaker 1: Energy Secretary Jennifer going home? Where take a click back?
Speaker 1: We're right back after this. Let me so that's our
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