Hello. Hello. Good morning. Good morning, sir. Good morning.

Today. God.

So, hmm. World stars at night. Shuns all big and bright. Deep in the heart of Texas.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. God. What? What? A week. This has been a week. A big week. Yeah. Yeah.

It's week. It was really horrible for everyone. Everyone. I'm speaking on behalf of everybody in Texas. It was fun. It's like it's not. It was so not. Yeah.

Yeah. But it's, you know, it's been a week. Why don't you, why don't you, I mean, if you want, this is your show. And I'm going to just go wherever you want to go this week. I'll walk with you.

Hold your hand. Yeah. Till we're just sweaty hands. Tell me. So we. God. Damn it. Last last Tuesday, which should be, I believe, the 16th of February. You were a few days into the result of some weather events and municipal malpractice in the state of Texas.

Yeah. And it sounds like it didn't get super better. No, I mean, it actually got worse. I was really lucky because in the beginning, okay, it's for for taking tickets. This is going to be an epic episode. Take us back as far as you want to go. I'm going to hit me and drink this ice coffee and listen to you. Okay.

And then you're going to be reminded, remind us what the heck is going on in Texas these days. What happened is last weekend about we got a or last last week, we got a.

I think it was Sunday, wasn't it? We got a freak kind of Arctic vortex. I think they called it where across the whole country, there was extraordinarily cold weather. But for whatever reason in Texas, it wound up doing something that it does very, very occasionally.

Maybe once a year, maybe once every few years and that it snowed. And that's unusual to happen for sure in Austin, it happens a little more frequently in the northern parts of Texas. But we've had that before. And that wasn't the big issue.

The big issue was not only did it snow, but that the temperatures got really, really, really low down into the single digits across most of the state. And because of a lack of planning and some people would say, you know, a desire to just not spend money where it needs to be spent.

Most of Texas, the power infrastructure here was not winterized. So in Texas, we have pretty much all of the kinds of energy sources that are anywhere we've got coal, we've got gas, we've got nuclear or nuclear, as you say.

And we also have renewable energy, such as solar and wind turbines.

Wind is a minority contributor, but that's what Fox Blombed on to as white white, the green New Deal is terrible and renewable power will never work.

But in fact, Tucker Carlson was real mad about what you bet you guys complaining.

My understanding is that one of the few places, one of the few sources that did continue to work was the wind. And of course, we didn't know that a week ago. We didn't really understand anything, especially those of us who were living through it.

But it turned out that they all failed basically for a variety of different reasons, the nuclear plant failed because my understanding is there was a couple reasons. One is the water pipes that were bringing the water that it uses to cool. Maybe they froze or something, but then also there were some sensors that shut down that caused it to shut down for safety.

And many of the wind turbines froze because they weren't winterized. Of course, they have wind turbines in very, very cold climates and they work just fine because those climates know that it's going to get cold. So they build in the things that the frost them we didn't have that.

And so it's just go a lot of the windows don't have screens, because we hadn't had screens in our house for 20 years. And the only time we would use ad hoc, like the kind of screens that you can just kind of like stick into the window.

And the reason I say that is because we don't need screens mostly. You need screens. If you live in Gainesville, Florida, buddy, the worst mosquito attack I ever had was at a campground outside Gainesville.

But we don't get those kinds of things. We get sugar ants, but we don't get mosquitoes. We don't so, but don't try to say is if it did happen that for whatever reason somebody dropped a mosquito bomb on our city title, then we'd all sure as heck, we figured out how to get screens.

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