Patrick K. ODonnell, the best combat historian of his generation, is at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remind us what this is all about and what we are fighting for. Steve and ODonnell talk about the Gettysburg Gettysburg Battlefield and the heroic actions of the 15th Alabama, and how they were able to hold the left flank of General George Meade s army.
00:01:41.000And so people should know this was day two at Gettysburg, right?
00:01:45.000And you're at the far left flank of Meade's army.
00:01:48.000This, the slaughter that went down below you and then the fight on the hill later in the afternoon was what determined, basically, held the Confederacy from rolling up the left flank of General Meade, correct?
00:02:04.000This is one of the greatest inflection points in history right here on Little Round Top.
00:02:08.000Had they been able to seize Little Round Top, they would have gotten behind Lee's army and potentially flanked it and forced to retreat.
00:02:18.000This is what made Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a young colonel at the time from Bowdoin College, a classics professor that was the head of the 20th Maine.
00:02:29.000He was absolutely, and the great thing about it, when you talk about the tip of the spear or the front, he was the anchor.
00:02:36.000They were the absolute last guys on the far left flank of the Union army, correct?
00:02:41.000They were told to hold at all costs, Steve, and their position was tenuous.
00:02:45.000They were the far left, and they had to hold at all costs, and they, you know, they were assaulted four times by the 15th Alabama under William C. Oates, and they are nearly overrun.
00:02:58.000They're taking ammunition from the dead, and it's here that the great counterattack, which is a bayonet charge, it's kind of a swinging door, takes place.
00:03:09.000And they capture portions of the 15th Alabama and force them to retreat.
00:03:13.000One of the great inflection points, one of the great small unit actions in military history, in American history.
00:03:22.000And the 15th Alabama under, I think it was Colonel Oates.
00:03:28.000I mean, people, you have to go to Gettysburg.
00:03:33.000Their charge was uphill four separate times and refused, refused to quit, and really against horrible terrain and just going straight uphill.
00:03:45.000So the bravery of the 15th Alabama was extraordinary, sir.
00:03:50.000The 15th Alabama and the other elements of John Bell Hood's, you know, brigade were extraordinary to this day, as well as those in the Union Army.
00:04:00.000This was a hold at all costs and a take at all costs.
00:04:04.000This is one of the great inflection points in history.
00:04:07.000I touch upon this a little bit in The Unvanquished, which is out in trade paperback this week.
00:04:13.000It's there that Mosby plays a role indirectly of leading Jeff Stewart's cavalry corps on a long raid where they're exactly in the wrong place at the wrong time, where they could have been Lee's eyes and ears at Gettysburg.
00:04:51.000Everybody should go to Gettysburg if you get a chance.
00:04:53.000Any time of year is fantastic, but the fall is very special.
00:04:58.000It's really – it's almost like a painting of an American landscape.
00:05:01.000I don't want to give up any details, but I think our audience is praying that you're there for research, so I don't want to give up too many details.
00:05:08.000But as you know, we're all waiting your next books.
00:05:11.000And you guys can follow me at Combat Historian where I'm covering a lot of different topics, and the war room is my favorite place to be.
00:05:23.000Hopefully I see you on – I hopefully get you back and have you – some of your film on the 30th, we're doing the last 600 meters, and some of that footage comes from Patrick Caudotto who was embedded over in Fallujah.
00:05:37.000I was with 3-1 and the assault force at Fallujah, and I wrote We Were One, which is on the Commandant's reading list.
00:05:45.000And, yeah, I was – I participated in – in a sense of giving some of – Michael Peck some of that footage for the last 600 meters, which is a great, great film, a tremendous film.
00:05:56.000I remember watching it for the first time, you know, more – it was about a year after the battle, and I started to tear up.
00:06:31.000And at Combat Historian if you want to see all the reviews on the books and, you know, those that have commented on them and everything else.
00:07:05.000Dave Walsh, we talked about people turning out to vote today, the importance of people turning out to vote today, particularly in New Jersey.
00:07:15.000The pressure, particularly coming from AI, is going to – these electric bills.
00:07:21.000I mean give me a couple of minutes on this because this is getting to be – this is going to be such an important topic.
00:07:26.000It is in the New Jersey race right now, but I got to tell you, in the midterms, this – and this whole affordability thing, the whole issue of energy, how we get industrial energy and how we get energy to consumers at a reasonable price.
00:07:40.000And to pay for the sins of people that have screwed this up in the past.
00:07:46.000Well, Steve, the electricity shortages in Maryland and New Jersey specifically, Northern Virginia, now Pennsylvania, were caused by the tear down and shutdown of coal plants, the cessation of building nuclear plants, the shuttering of nuclear plants.
00:08:02.000And the attempt to replace them with wind and solar power and battery storage has not worked, has created a huge shortage.
00:08:10.000That's been step one of electricity costs going through the roof, and FERC needs to address that.
00:08:15.000Now, here, this week, Thursday, Chris Wright came out with a decree or a statement to FERC, charging FERC, to go ahead and come up with rulemakings by mid-April 26th, April 30th, 26th, to allow access to large, large users to the grid for fair, timely, orderly, and non-discriminatory access to the grid.
00:08:38.000Meaning, of course, data centers and large industrials who are reshoring, which is great.
00:08:43.000But we've got some things to think about in this thing, which complicates things.
00:08:48.000Industrials already benefit from massive discounting across the country.
00:08:52.000Great payers who are residential pay about 17 cents a kilowatt hour.
00:08:56.000Industrials pay nine and a half percent across the U.S.
00:08:59.000So they already enjoy massive discounts, and they enjoy, to the extent they're able to build their own power plants, AI, data centers, makers, tax benefits, to write them all off in year one, basically.
00:09:10.000So they have some key advantages over residential rate payers to begin with.
00:09:15.000What we hope this turns into, that FERC pushes very hard on its regions and NERC and the state utilities and the public service commissions, to let AI and data center clients build their own capacity.
00:09:29.000Build their own capacity, take advantage of the maker's depreciation, remove restrictions that cause local builders and power plants to not be able to sell power into regulated grids, but for the utility being the buyer of it, remove those restrictions.
00:09:45.000Remove restrictions, remove restrictions that cause the interconnect to be massively costly in a lot of states that are regulated and really prohibit independent power production in that way.
00:09:55.000Chris Wright did mention the Enron case from 20 years ago, 25 years ago, promoting the good cause for independent power plant investment to occur in this country, which has been in some states blocked by high, high tariffs
00:10:13.000tariffs for integrating independent power capacity that does compete with utilities to dismantle that to hopefully allow the AI and data center builders of power plants to take advantage of a deregulated situation where they can build them on an unrestricted basis, not face high tariffs for integrating into the grid, nor restrictions to sell their power.
00:10:39.100Or say their business drops, they need to sell their power across their border of their facility into the grid, we want to let them do that.
00:10:47.420That's good for more capacity in the system being created.
00:10:52.420So hopefully those kinds of things occur.
00:10:54.240What we really don't want as much of is them just plugging into the grid, taking advantage of the fact that then ratepayers wind up paying the $2.5 billion cost, 90% of it, for a new power plant,
00:11:06.520so they can simply plug into the grid just like you and I do if we move from home A to home B.
00:11:13.620If they're causing 1,000 megawatt at a time in advanced capacity to be needed, they should pay their fair share for that, not just a small 7.5% because, well, they're that small percentage of load,
00:11:26.940plus they get this very large discount already as a major, major bulk user that, again, across the country tends to be about a 70% discount compared to residential ratepayers.
00:11:39.100So this has to be carefully done, but good to be charging FERC to begin to take action on some rulemakings to free up more independent power production in this country by AI and data center,
00:11:53.060hopefully building their own generating capacity.
00:11:56.080We hope this is going to be huge in New Jersey.
00:12:01.580It's going to be a huge issue in the midterms.
00:12:04.380Dave, you're putting up great content all the time on social media.
00:12:07.620I want to make sure people get it, absorb it, and share it.
00:12:10.600Be a force multiplier on this because particularly about AI and the data centers and what's going to happen is going to be central to the 26th midterm.
00:12:32.180Your speaking engagements are tremendous.
00:12:34.900Yeah, I've got two more in Florida, one in South Florida, one in Pensacola in November on the topic of the utility rate increases in Florida,
00:12:44.760which get right at this topic of, you know, we can't have a situation where the utilities are feeding.
00:12:53.080Utilities are feeding the rate payers, the residential rate payers, expensive solar power, but yet turning around and giving data center and AI clients very cost-effective gas-fired power.
00:14:41.160You guys get someone that actually gets on the phone and speaks English right here in the USA.
00:14:45.900And, Steve, you know, we, you know, Steve, we're in, we're in, uh, MyPillow was one of the few companies attacked in Operation Arctic Cross.
00:14:54.400Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on one second.
00:22:47.640He's looking at some of the most horrifying data that we've ever seen.
00:22:51.200The ultimate conclusion of the study is you are 2.5 times more likely to have a chronic disease if you've been vaccinated compared to if you have not.
00:23:01.420Meaning you're going to be sick your whole life.
00:23:03.840250% increased risk of that happening.
00:23:06.760Other huge stats, six times the rate of neurodevelopmental disorders amongst the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated.
00:23:18.580Nearly six times the rate of autoimmune disease.
00:23:22.340Steve, like the rest of us, Henry Ford sent me a cease and desist letter.
00:23:28.900They're threatening to bring a defamation suit because they're saying that my point and what we show you in the film is we believe this study was only not published because of these horrifying results.
00:23:41.800They're saying that's defamation, that the only reason that it's not being published is because it's not a good study and it doesn't meet the scientific rigors that they demand.
00:23:50.980And that's exactly why I took hidden cameras.
00:23:53.160I had a feeling they would do that and their head of infectious disease, their top scientist, world-renowned scientist is saying, as you just saw, this is a good study.
00:24:30.100And so, you know, that's what this film is about.
00:24:32.760I think it's the biggest thing I've done since I made Vaxxed, which obviously, you know, sort of threw me into the Maha movement, which is originally, you know, the vaccine risk awareness movement.
00:24:44.540There's, and I want to make it clear, there's been about four or five other vaccinated versus unvaccinated studies that have been done.
00:24:51.260They've all shown the exact same thing, that the vaccinated are just far sicker.
00:24:56.560But those studies have been torn apart by mainstream science saying, well, that's not a major institution, or that was a homeschool study, or the scientist that did it had a bias.
00:25:05.840He was, you know, he was an anti-vaxxer.
00:25:07.920That's why this study was so important.
00:25:09.920This was done by a major research institution, done by a pro-vaccine scientist, done to prove us wrong.
00:25:15.920It's one of the biggest we've seen, nearly 20,000 kids, like almost 18,500 kids are in the study, 2,000 of them unvaccinated, tracked for up to five years.
00:25:33.640It's one of the most damning studies you will ever see of the vaccine program.
00:25:37.300And so if pro-vaxxers at major institutions are coming up with the same results as the anti-vaxxers, Houston, we have a problem.
00:25:48.220Dale, I want everybody to see, where do people go right now to see this over the weekend?
00:25:51.540I want to have you back on, I want to break this thing down like a football film, because if it was not for Dale Bigtree and his courage, we wouldn't have any of the Pfizer information.
00:26:00.120We wouldn't know anything about the COVID thing.
00:26:02.600That was Bigtree and his team going out.
00:26:05.420I'm telling you, this guy has got so much courage.
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