Democrats post a very strong election night; the great left hope wins in New York and will now have to govern; Heritage faces 'groyper' turmoil; Josh and Ben get wheeled through airports.
The Delta terminal at the San Diego airport does not always cockblock people out of the TSA-Pre line and people constantly have to do the walk of shame. I don't have any problem chuckling at this. What are these people thinking?! "Hey one line is a quarter of the length of the other, so probably everyone in the long line is a moron. But definitely not me." Also, I think if you try to go through the TSA-Pre metal detector with a full fanny pack, phone, and metal water bottle, and you look surprised when they tell you it's not allowed (as witnessed within the last week), you should be demoted to the normie line and have to pass a test to get pre-check back. Like a proctored driving test but it's a TSA gate mockup.
Enjoying the pod & have already re-told the Ben's & Josh's airport stories a couple times.
This is far from scinitllating material for future episodes, but I was excited to hear the discussion re the GA public service commissions. Megan made a great point about commissioners being afraid of voter anger over price hikes . Many moons ago, I actually wrote a paper about elected vs appointed commissioners. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11149-007-9050-z . Appointed commissioners (hopefully) will have longer term perspectives & be more willing to allow for higher immediate prices. Stay cool!
One point that was missing from your “cost of energy” discussion is the significant impact that NIMBY-ism has had (and continues to have) on the development of renewable energy (and we’ll see it with nuclear too as companies look to permit new reactors). In an uncertain regulatory and federal funding environment, neighbor opposition is sometimes the kiss of death for a worthwhile project.
Genuine question for Josh: why are you a Democrat and not an Independent or Republican? I know you used to be a Republican, and I'm sure you must have talked about your shift before. But your comment about "Leftie tears" made me wonder why you're affiliated with America's major left-leaning party (whatever that's worth; I don't think the democrats are particularly leftie by my European standards), and whether you hold any kind of leftwing or liberal beliefs at all. And, if so, what they actually are.
Genuinely don't mean this as a criticism or anything, obviously you can identify however you wish. I'm just curious as to exactly where it is you're coming from.
The Delta terminal at the San Diego airport does not always cockblock people out of the TSA-Pre line and people constantly have to do the walk of shame. I don't have any problem chuckling at this. What are these people thinking?! "Hey one line is a quarter of the length of the other, so probably everyone in the long line is a moron. But definitely not me." Also, I think if you try to go through the TSA-Pre metal detector with a full fanny pack, phone, and metal water bottle, and you look surprised when they tell you it's not allowed (as witnessed within the last week), you should be demoted to the normie line and have to pass a test to get pre-check back. Like a proctored driving test but it's a TSA gate mockup.
Enjoying the pod & have already re-told the Ben's & Josh's airport stories a couple times.
This is far from scinitllating material for future episodes, but I was excited to hear the discussion re the GA public service commissions. Megan made a great point about commissioners being afraid of voter anger over price hikes . Many moons ago, I actually wrote a paper about elected vs appointed commissioners. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11149-007-9050-z . Appointed commissioners (hopefully) will have longer term perspectives & be more willing to allow for higher immediate prices. Stay cool!
One point that was missing from your “cost of energy” discussion is the significant impact that NIMBY-ism has had (and continues to have) on the development of renewable energy (and we’ll see it with nuclear too as companies look to permit new reactors). In an uncertain regulatory and federal funding environment, neighbor opposition is sometimes the kiss of death for a worthwhile project.
Congrats to Ben on the nomination of “…but he’s so nice” for dumbest podcast comment of the year.
Genuine question for Josh: why are you a Democrat and not an Independent or Republican? I know you used to be a Republican, and I'm sure you must have talked about your shift before. But your comment about "Leftie tears" made me wonder why you're affiliated with America's major left-leaning party (whatever that's worth; I don't think the democrats are particularly leftie by my European standards), and whether you hold any kind of leftwing or liberal beliefs at all. And, if so, what they actually are.
Genuinely don't mean this as a criticism or anything, obviously you can identify however you wish. I'm just curious as to exactly where it is you're coming from.