$SO Southern Company Tape Reports
Per Ticker.id: $SO Southern Company Tape Reports — 7 podcast mentions across 1 podcast (30 days), latest 2026-07-28 15:10 UTC.
So you go to Alpha Centauri, 4 light years away, you come back, you do it at nearly the speed of light. Everything is 8 years advanced by the time you get back home. Nobody wants to do that. And that's just the first star. My claim is, is that we have been too long in Einstein's prison. General relativity really begins in 1913. It's really due to Grossman and Einstein, not just Einstein alone. I don't know why we say that. Uh, it's not really Einstein-Hilbert, it's really Einstein-Grossman. But more or less since 1915, 1917, the equations haven't moved. They're going to break because of what's happening in Southern Arizona. Kitt Peak has this object called DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, and I believe that it is going to show that the cosmological constant times the metric, which is how we encode dark energy into the equation, is going to break because it's not constant. The only reason that you have lambda times the metric, which is this term, is the product rule, if you take a derivative, called divergence. You have to take the derivative of lambda times the metric left alone plus lambda times the derivative of the metric. Derivative of the metric has to vanish. That term is the only possible term that can go there because of something called Lovelock's theorem. If you're within general relativity, you're trying to do this geometrically. My claim is, is that that's going to break. We're going to get to 5 sigma if we aren't there already. I haven't kept up with the news. And then we're going to realize that the dark energy, the most important, generally—
Eric Weinstein — All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Eric Weinstein: The Scientific Precariat, China's Brain Drain, Physics Stagnation, String Theory's Collapse & UAPs · 2026-08-26Wow, that's crazy. So the same signs in Europe, North America, Central Africa, South America, Southern Africa, Australia, Malaysia, East Africa, New Guinea. Wow. Borneo, Myanmar.
Joe Rogan — The Joe Rogan Experience · #2546 - Michael Button · 2026-08-26I'd like to get to a story that we sort of have been following, but not really talking that much about. We've got news on this morning. No, it involves the financial empire of Mark Walter. Of course, a lot of this came to the fore a couple of weeks ago when we were talking about the sale of the Los Angeles Lakers, a team that Mr. Walter controlled. We've gotten this morning, hour, hour and a half ago, a couple of— the first real statement we've gotten from TWG Global. TWG Global is the entity that controls Group 1001, under which are two key insurers that are the subject and continued subject of an investigation and grand jury subpoenas from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. They're Delaware Life, otherwise also known as DLIC, and its affiliate Clearspring Life. They both offer annuities, right? So $50,000 and you're going to get money back over time and then they take the money and they invest it. The question, of course, has been how are they investing it? And the restatement that we got recently from the companies has shined a real spotlight on this question of affiliated party transactions.
David Faber — Squawk on the Street · 9AM HOUR: Meta-State AGs Settlement, Nvidia Earnings Countdown, Fed's Preferred Inflation Gauge Rises 8/26/26 · 2026-08-26And in both cases, both at Delaware Life and at Clear Spring, the numbers were restated dramatically from TWG Global and its insurance affiliates as well. In June, Delaware Life disclosed that it corrected its 2024 related party investment disclosures after an internal review. It initially reported roughly 3% of its invested assets were tied to related parties. After the correction, the figure rose to 40%. So it wasn't a minor disclosure change, of course. And a key question for a lot of the people who are investigating and a lot of the reporters, of course, who are spending time on this is whether those connections were properly disclosed, whether policyholder money was invested in private credit deals, whose returns depended substantially on affiliated businesses. A lot of this goes back even to the purchase of the Dodgers somewhat 14, almost 14 years ago, and what money was used there by Mr. Walter. But let's get to what he had to say or what TWG Global had to say on his behalf this morning. A number of different things. I'm not sure where we want to start. Let's start there. Guggenheim, of course, is also a key holding of Mr. Walter's. Separately. But Guggenheim Partners manages, runs the money at all these insurers as well and is a broker-dealer that our viewers may know. They say the investigations originated with a whistleblower. We've demonstrated there's no wrongdoing. Our auditors issued unqualified audit opinions. You know, Guggenheim, some of its assets and the like have also been seeing significant diminution in value in terms of the value of that debt. Guys, it's very complicated. As you know, they go on to say Group 1001. And again, this is where the insurers are held. It's a regulatory matter. They have a straightforward plan. They've submitted it to regulators. They're going to promptly eliminate all of the affiliated exposure. There's no victim, they say. No one's been harmed. No one has claimed they've been harmed. That may very well be true. Now, Jim, yeah, if you were to go rob a bank and return all the money, it doesn't mean you didn't rob the bank. Now, I'm not saying— I mean, that is, you know, one of the things that people have said here in terms of, well, will there be charges brought by the, by the Southern District of New York?
David Faber — Squawk on the Street · 9AM HOUR: Meta-State AGs Settlement, Nvidia Earnings Countdown, Fed's Preferred Inflation Gauge Rises 8/26/26 · 2026-08-26David is our senior correspondent for Future Effects. All this week, we'll be looking at solutions to the AI tax problem on this program and the Marketplace Morning Report. And you can watch our videos at Marketplace APM on YouTube and Instagram. We talked yesterday on the show about how the city of Denver is coping with less water in the midst of extreme drought throughout the West. The states and tribal nations that rely on the Colorado River are absorbing a new federal plan for sharing that depleted resource after years of negotiations between the states failed to produce an agreement. Under the final rules announced last Friday, California, Nevada, and Arizona, the states in what's called the Lower Basin, will have to reduce the water they take from the river by 20% over the next 2 years, and possibly much more after Nevada, while the Upper Basin states—Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming—face no mandatory cuts. On Monday, the state of Nevada sued the Trump administration over what it calls an unfair burden. In order to get some perspective on this plan, we gave Pat Mulroy a call. She was the first-ever general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, and she continues to consult on water-related issues today. I spoke with her yesterday before news of the lawsuit. Good to talk with you again, Pat. Glad to be here, Amy. So at long last, we have a plan, at least for the next 2 years, governing the Colorado River. What's your take on the official guidelines that were announced on Friday?
Amy Scott — Marketplace · Preparing for an AI tax crisis · 2026-08-25It's not gonna work. All right. Pat Mulroy was the longtime general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority. Thank you so much for your time.
Amy Scott — Marketplace · Preparing for an AI tax crisis · 2026-08-25It's entirely possible if— and there's this wonderful quote from The New Yorker a few months ago where it was about the gullibility of management at these companies. If they think, right, that these tools can, you know, replace everyone because they've been overhyped, right? Because these folks have showed up in front of Congress and be like, please regulate me, which is like the greatest PR boon ever, right? And scared the crap out of everyone and managed to scare all of us during the strike. I mean, this is why, you know, this is part of the reason that strike went on so long. If they make bad decisions, it will absolutely, you know, it'll be the consequences will be catastrophic for what we do. But assuming that the folks who are running things, assuming that people still want a certain number of big movies every year and a certain number of big shows every year, you know, there've been a lot of conversations in my town and God bless them, the technology companies will come down to sort of make nice. I mean, it's literally like the delegation from Northern California comes to visit with the Southern California delegation and we'll sit, right?
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Shankar Vedantam — Hidden Brain · What Art Does For Your Brain · 2026-08-24