{"podcast":{"title":"Freedom Unaffiliated","slug":"freedom-unaffiliated-6377441","podcast_index_feed_id":6377441,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/independence-institute-fu/","website_url":"https://thinkfreedom.org","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/560ed20e-bd0d-4345-a03d-e5dbbf2a1bd7/xXlFVqlrZPsYyna95eX6pwIf.png","author":"Independence Institute","episode_count":194,"summary":"Did you know 46% of the voters in Colorado are unaffiliated? Have you ever wondered why? Hear from the experts at Independence Institute talk about the issues important to Colorado and how to bring some sanity to this increasingly leftist state.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T06:20:14.080106+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/freedom-unaffiliated-6377441"},"episode":{"title":"Are our overlords normalizing power outages?","slug":"are-our-overlords-normalizing-power-outages","published_at":"2026-03-19T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/freedom-unaffiliated-6377441/are-our-overlords-normalizing-power-outages","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/freedom-unaffiliated-6377441","url":"https://thinkfreedom.org","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3684b0cc-6f98-4ac6-a4ca-5ca9abe2c8ec.mp3","summary":"I’ve lived in Colorado since 1970. And you know what Colorado had back in 1970? High winds blowing down the Front Range. I moved to Boulder in 1984 and have been there ever since. And you know what Boulder has had all that time? A freakin’ lot of high winds. I remember as a college kid walking around the CU campus after windstorms, stepping around uprooted trees and massive broken branches that made the sidewalks impassable. I’ve seen rooftop shingles go flying off Boulder buildings, signs ripped down, and semi-trucks overturned. All of which is to say that for the last 55 years I have personally witnessed a crap-ton of high winds in our mountain state. But only in the last few months have I witnessed our power utilities preemptively turning off electricity during high winds to “prevent fires.” Behavior modification Apparently the windstorms of the last few months must be the worst in Colorado history. Because this is the first time anyone has decided the solution is to turn off grandma’s lights. Is Colorado suddenly windier than it has been during my entire life? Unless our eyes have been lying to us, the answer is comfortably: no. Yet, I type this under an official warning that my power might be turned off because of another rather normal day of high winds. Is it too tinfoil-hat to wonder if this is really about preventing fires? Is it too “QAnon” to think they might be conditioning us for Colorado’s future of intermittent electricity? Are these power shutoffs more about behavior modification than fire prevention? I mean, why now? For half a century windstorms were something you complained about while chasing your patio furniture down the street. Now they apparently require turning off the state. Bureaucracy understands that behavior modification must be incremental.…","meta_description":"I’ve lived in Colorado since 1970. And you know what Colorado had back in 1970? High winds blowing down the Front Range. I moved to Boulder in 1984 and ha…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":358,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/freedom-unaffiliated-6377441/episodes/are-our-overlords-normalizing-power-outages/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/freedom-unaffiliated-6377441/are-our-overlords-normalizing-power-outages.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}