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That's what some people think, Jay, but you always have to remember that.
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Don't use my name, it makes me uncomfortable.
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This is Hard Parking, brought to you by RightHunter and RightToyota out of Scottsdale, Arizona.
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I'm your host, Jay Finning, recording from my home studio here in Gilbert, Arizona.
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Coming up on today's show, car news. We also have the conspiracy corner session, too.
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That'll be at the end of the podcast, so make sure you stick around for entertainment purposes only.
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A very popular segment. The only rule is of the guest, do not get me canceled.
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Football season is around the corner as well. The NFL just wrapped up their pre-season
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this weekend and college football starts this upcoming Saturday. So you know what that means.
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Talk2Q will be back on the show because I love football. College football is my number one thing.
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Even more so than cars, believe it or not. Speaking of cars, we do have car news,
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some big news with the Chevrolet Corvette C8s, a ZR1 and Z06 recall, potentially in trouble,
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and Acura has announced they are ditching EVs for now. But is it a new development?
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And I would argue we couldn't sustain EVs anyway, and I'll give you some facts and
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figures as to why it wouldn't matter if everything was EV tomorrow, we would fail to provide the power.
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I have that information, you will not want to miss that. Before we get to this word from
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Sparkforge and Arcus Foundry, we just attended, we is and my wife and I went to
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a friend's 50th anniversary party. It was kind of like almost like a wedding reception.
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Upon the initial invite, I kind of didn't want to go. Their friends of ours are pretty
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good friends of ours, but it's their parents anniversary and I think we may have met them at
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some point, but my friends like to do it big, always do it big. There was hundreds of people,
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my thought was if we don't show up, it's not like they're going to know we're not there,
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because it's kind of semi-formal. So I was looking nice and napper, my wife looked freaking
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stunning. And I'm glad we went because 50 years is a major thing. It's a major thing
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to celebrate. 50 years, just knowing somebody for 50 years and being together with 50 years,
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but being married for 50 years is amazing. Pretty rare, I'm sure. Obviously people break up and
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stuff, but we're talking health. My father, when he passed, he passed two months shy of my parents
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50th anniversary. So that's a big deal. But we went, it was a beautiful thing to witness,
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puts a lot of things to perspective. The food was great. Everyone there looked great.
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The drinks were good. And I saw a few friends I hadn't seen in a while. I usually only see them
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when I hang out with this, with a couple that invited us. Saw some car friends there too.
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Saw Eric Pasha, a good friend of mine from Blast Air brand. He was there. And unfortunately,
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we both had to miss that on the warehouse's big event. They had a huge event as well this
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weekend. The Ferrari experience or the Italian experience, something like that. I don't want
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to butcher it, but it was open to the public. And if you had a nice Italian car, you could
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display it inside, but it was open to the public. So that's something I would have liked to
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have gone to. But obviously the wedding anniversary takes precedence over that because of the significance.
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Also just got back from Albuquerque. So come on up in another episode or two.
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You'll see an interview that I did with a good friend of mine, Randy Arnold, also known as Randy
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Alameda, 75 years old. And he is a firecracker, smokes weed, plays golf, retired life. That's
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about it. So that's coming up in the next few episodes. So after this word from our sponsor,
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All right, we're going to jump right into the car news. Little car news for me
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is I actually installed an exhaust on my car on my little Honda Z
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and I would argue that this thing would take, it should have taken me 30 minutes or less.
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I fell flat on my face with that. You can find out why if you go to the podcast page
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on YouTube and watch the video of me installing the exhaust on my Z. Sounds great,
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but I mean the car is 64, 65 horsepower. Always forget exactly which one it is.
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Installing an exhaust isn't going to really make any difference, but it looks cooler
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and it sounds a little better, but not a lot better. But you need to check that out,
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go to the YouTube page at hard parking and look for the exhaust install video.
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Should not be hard to find, very easy to find. So Corvette is in a little bit of
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heat or Chevrolet is in a little bit of heat. They've had to recall
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some of the ZR1s or I guess all the ZR1s and the Z06s looking here at GMAuthority.com.
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And this has also shown a bit of a lot of different places. Corvette
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recalling for fire risk during refueling. And on social media, you can see a picture of this Corvette
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clearly after it's caught on fire at a gas station, which is twice as dangerous.
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You obviously don't want your car catching on fire. And if it's going to catch on fire,
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you sure as hell don't want it to be at the pump at a gas station.
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I think God reality is not like the movies because that would end in a huge explosion 100%
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of the time. It looks like in this photo at least no explosions. Thank God.
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It says here that GM has released a voluntary recall for the 23 to 26 model your Corvettes
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over a fire risk while owners fuel up their vehicle. It does not seem to affect the regular
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sting race. Just the Z06s and the ZR1s. Once you bring your vehicle in for recall,
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it says here to solve the issue, dealers will install an insert or shield to divert fuel so it may have
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spilled divert fuel that may have spilled into the fuel filler pocket. So what's happening is
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when you fill it in there, the fuel drips down because there wasn't a shield and it could possibly
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catch on fire on hot components on the motor, which is literally right there being made engine.
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Intersex never had that problem. But I will say that the intersex did have a major fuel
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recall as well. But fortunately, the cars weren't catching on fire. And that was just for the 2017,
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2018. So this happens. This always happens with new body style newer body styles high performance
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models vehicles. The article also goes on to say at this time it's unclear of how many Z06s and
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ZR1 units are impacted. But as usual, for safety reasons, they stop sale orders effective
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for all the vehicles, meaning they cannot be sold to customers. I think we all know what
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stop sale means or use the trade to other dealers or even use this demonstration vehicles
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until the issue is resolved. Also, this last week, it seemed to be breaking news that Acura
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has confirmed that the EVs are not the future. They're going to put those on the back shelf
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and focus more on hybrids. I think we've been saying this on this podcast for a long time,
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not specific to Acura, but just specific to EVs. But what I did is I looked it up online and
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it looks like car and driver back in February, Acura puts EV only future on hold and considers
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return to hybrids. So that was in February, they were considering it. As of two weeks ago,
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they have confirmed it and it makes all the sense in the world. And let me tell you why it's not
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because nobody wants an EV. I think we've said on this podcast many times, we like EVs. I would
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totally have an EV as a daily driver. But the problem is, the big problem is when you
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take a look at Stellantis and all these vehicles are just sitting there when you
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take a look at some of the tariffs. I'm not blaming the tariffs, I'm just saying.
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When you take a look at the impact that the terrorists are having and combine that
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with the fact that these vehicles are not selling, Acura and Honda have had issues and
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though they're not the same, don't say they're the same, they are, but they aren't. Trust me,
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I know these things. But I know Acura's have issues moving some of their ZDXs and I
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forgot what the other one is. It looks kind of like an RDX, but it's not. Just came out.
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Z, Z, something. And Honda has had some issues moving the Prologue,
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which I think both of those, all of those are awesome vehicles. But our grid
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can't handle that anyway. We don't produce enough electricity. We don't produce enough
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energy in the United States right now to sustain a full EV future. And we're way
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behind China. When China is kicking out all these EV everything, but they can sustain it,
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they can support it. We can't do that. If we put 10,000 charging units in every city,
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it's not that we don't have enough charging units, we don't have the electric grid to
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sustain the charging. That's why I always tell people, I go, look, if we were to put
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10,000 chargers in every major U.S. city, it just makes the problem worse. It doesn't make it
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better. The availability of charging units isn't the problem. It's the availability of the energy.
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So what I did is I went and asked my good friend at GROC to sum that up. And I'm going to play
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for you what the answer is. And I know this because I kind of watch nerdy things. I listen
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to nerdy things and there's listening to nerdy statistics about power and energy consumption.
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And there's a thing called a Gen 4 nuclear reactor. We don't have any in the United
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States. China has many of them and they're also building many of them. And according to some
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of the research, the earliest we could even have one is after the year 2030, I think 2031.
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If all regulations get worked out, the soonest that we could have a Gen 4 nuclear reactor is in
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2031. That's why that 2035 mandate never made sense. When it's gone now, it's vapor.
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But you can't finally build a nuclear reactor in 2031
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and expect for four years to be available to compete with all this extra power. We need dozens of
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these things, probably hundreds of these things. But let's check in with GROC really quick.
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Hey GROC, can you repeat what I asked you earlier about Gen 4 nuclear reactors and the
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United States ability to boost energy and sustain an EV future, especially when it comes to
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the electrification of vehicles? Sure. Let's revisit that. You asked about installing 10,000
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EV charge ports in every major U.S. city and whether we could sustain that without fourth generation
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nuclear reactors given our current energy production. Here's what I said. Adding 10,000
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ports per major city, roughly 300,000 more, would boost demand by about 45 gigabytes.
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Our grids at 1.2 terawatts, total capacity, but without fourth gen nuclear, we'd lean heavily
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on natural gas to fill gaps, potentially increasing CO2 emissions by 20%. Current
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chargers are only 78% reliable, so mass expansion risks grid instability or blackouts,
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especially during peak use in cities like LA or NYC. Without fourth gen nuclear's clean, stable power,
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30 to 50 gigabytes worth, we'd need massive investments in transmission lines, battery
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storage or more renewables, which could take decades. Short term, we might scrape by with gas,
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but long term, it's not sustainable for a clean EV future. China's ahead with fourth gen
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reactors like their Shidoan 1 and plans for 40 gigabytes by 2034, while the U.S. has none operational
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and only one planned by 2031. Does that cover what you were looking for or want me to dive deeper
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somewhere? No, I think you got it. I'll tell you what, this is like the second or third,
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I guess the second episode in a row where I've kind of leaned into some AI for some
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deep research, but you heard it there, we can't sustain it. So it's not just looking at the sales,
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it's looking at the reality is we just don't produce enough energy here in the United States
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and we're not going to be able to do that for decades. I'd believe that we're going to have a
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full EV future, but we're nowhere near that now. It's time for the conspiracy corner.
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It is time for the shadow corner. We're going to call it the conspiracy corner. This is the second
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one in the series. We're calling it the conspiracy corner slash shadow corner because social media,
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YouTube, those things do not like me using the word conspiracy, but we all know what it really is.
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As usual, the guest has 10 minutes to talk about whatever conspiracies are out there,
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whatever they want to talk about. The only rule is don't not get me canceled.
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Guest, this guest, you have 10 minutes. My timer keeps residing. That should be a conspiracy within
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itself. You have 10 minutes. What conspiracies are we talking about? What eye-opening things
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are we talking about today? So I just wanted to ask you, Jay, if you knew about Miracle
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Grow and Marvel partnering up to use their fertilization and all their tools and equipment
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to help produce marijuana fields that they already have ruined. So when the administration
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announces federal legalization, they'll already be ready to go. No idea. Why don't you tell us
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about it? Listen, for decades, Scott, I'm sure you're familiar with that name, household name in
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the care for lawn and gardening. Oh, yeah, Scott's. The lawn and gardening brand. Quality
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back cannabis focus is iterated called Hawthorne Gardening Company. So this allows them to supply
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nutrition, nutrients, and equipment to marijuana growers and benefits from the green rush. Now,
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on top of this, what's happening is that all the big major companies like Philip Morrison,
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RJ Reynolds, Marlboro, they have massive, massive secret fields of marijuana already
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growing, waiting for full legitimization so they can swoop in. Where are these fields? Are
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they in the United States? Are they somewhere offshore? So are they underground? That's a
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good question. So the ones that are in the United States are definitely under wrap.
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They're very, very much hidden. But you have to understand, too, that these companies have
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invested in companies that are already in the marijuana growing industry, also into the
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legalization and for medical marijuana. So they've not necessarily have to have their
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own ones that we know about, but they're out there. What's going to happen with this stuff?
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What's going to happen with it? They're going to be forefront. So what's going to happen is
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people aren't going to be able to grow their own marijuana anymore. You're going to just
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go into the store and you're going to see marble green. Won't be any marble reds.
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It'll be marble greens. They'll have blunt sizes. You know, and this is the
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Oh, I see what you're saying. They're ready to take over.
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Like a complete overhaul. So we're swapping out, not necessarily swapping out, but what your
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suggestion is right next to your pack of derals or your or your camels, you know, you might find
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like a literally Camel Green and Camel Marijuana cigarettes. So let me tell you what happened.
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People have already pointed out that in the 70s through the 90s,
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marble has already trademarked the name marble greens. Some even claim warehouses full of corporate
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weed are already roll out the second the government says go. So couldn't marble greens just be
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menthols? That's what some people think, Jay. Okay, but you always have to remember. Don't use
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my name. It makes me uncomfortable. Okay. Well, you know what? That's what some people think.
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But the real reason will surprise you. Shoot. Or is this a real reason?
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This is the real reason. So what are the ramifications to
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everything that this could possibly because this seems like it would cost a paradigm shift. It would
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be it would be a very disruptive thing across a few different industries, not just, you know,
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I think the tobacco industry might be fine because it's still tobacco. People aren't going
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to put down their cigarettes, start smoking weed. But what about all the states? I live
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in a state. I don't know about you, but I live in a state where recreational weed is legal.
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It's not the case everywhere. Like for Texas, it's not legal at all on the federal level.
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Like, which is going to disrupt for the places that are already legal?
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Well, they'll just have to pay more money to the federal government. I mean, that's what
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it's all about. The federal government is trying to get their hands involved into
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something that they made a mistake for, you know, years by making this something
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that wasn't illegal, a legal ban. They obviously legalize alcohol back during prohibition.
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So now they're trying to do the exact same thing and get their hands into it with wealth.
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But the major point about the tobacco companies is that they control all the lobbyists,
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you know, they work hand in hand. They do things they're always going to take over
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and suppress that middleman, you know, by the legalization in certain states,
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it's made small companies and small businesses be able to do things that's taken away.
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It's also giving people back some of their rights for substances, for legal ramifications.
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Now the federal government and these lobbyists, they've got these large companies that are
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ready to swoop in and take over and again, take it back to a corporate level versus a private
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level. So what should people do to prepare for this? So we just sit back and wait.
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Is there a specific date that we're targeting here? You know, right now they say that,
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and I see these all the time, I don't know how true they are. It just sounds really weird to me
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that I guess there's an asteroid or an alien ship that's going to hit us
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sometime in November of 2025. Is this kind of one of those deals?
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So I can't give you a specific date, but what I can tell you to do
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is start looking at investing in tobacco companies. And that's all I can tell you from there.
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All right, that sounds good. What other conspiracies do you have for us or are you done?
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You know, just some other things I want to talk about, but unfortunately I think this line is not
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secure. So we'll have to reach back out later on.
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All right, sounds good. Thank you for your shadow conspiracy corner this time.
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All right, everyone. So that is the shadow conspiracy for this episode.
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Tell us what you thought about it in the comments. If you're listening to this on the radio,
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radio, I wish it was on the radio. If you're listening to this at home
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drop your comment below. Do you think that tobacco companies are fully invested with
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the United States government as it pertains to legalization of weed on a federal level?
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I have heard some grumblings of this. So it could be true, but do you think that
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you're going to walk in and go to your local quick trip or you're come and go? Yes,
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it's a note. That's a real name of a gas station that come and go. You're going to go on there and
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be able to buy basically weed cigarettes from, from main, main manufacturing. And that'll be it
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