Plus the Max Miller “permission structure” play and a caller on the coming generational wealth transfer. The power crisis: Scott Lincicum (Cato Institute), the 1886 Hall-Heroult smelting cell, why aluminum smelters can never power down, and Erick’s call for nuclear, coal, and natural gas base load plus small modular reactors. The natural gas pipeline in Erick’s own backyard, Sierra Club opposition, and degrowth activists using blue-state regulators to sabotage pipelines and power plants. Ross Douthat interviews Yale Law’s Samuel Moyn on stripping parents of proxy votes for their children, answered with the Phil Gramm “what are my kids’ names” story. The college monologue: Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project, self-loathing white progressives, and the four schools a prominent theologian recommends (Samford, Auburn, Texas A&M, Clemson) versus Erick’s alma mater, Mercer.