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Sep 9, 2026
Ep 29 - From Nuclear Submarines to CEO: Buddy Hasten on Grid Reliability & the AI Energy Race
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Buddy HastenGUEST
"I said it again." Well, at some point early on as a leader back in military days, I noticed that people who had grievances, people who had problems, and, uh, uh, and people who didn't feel empowered to take action to fix the problem, that when they would start describing things to you, they.
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Tom WilliamsonHOST
So it- if there's one thing in the industry today that you could fix, change tomorrow, wave a magic wand, what would that be?
Buzzing About Beekeeping and Electric Co-ops with Buddy Hasten
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Buddy HastenGUEST
Imagine a tick on you, you know, you come in from the woods and you got a tick on you.

Buddy HastenGUEST
Well, these varroa mites, if you look under a microscope, if you put a bee under there, it looks like a little tick on the bee.

Buddy HastenGUEST
And these varroa mites, I don't know exactly where they came from, but they got introduced into sort of the North American bee population years ago.

Buddy HastenGUEST
And they just are parasites, and they feed on the bees, and they just weaken them.
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16:58Joy MatlockHOST
So does the swarm start because the queen has decided to move or what starts the swarm?
Morning Mayhem Monday 07/27 Hour 2
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Buddy HastenGUEST
And, uh, one of the co-op principles, you know, sort of these founding principles of even being a co-op, is education and training.

Buddy HastenGUEST
And so twice a year, all of the board members, we call them directors, from all of the co-ops all across the state come together in, in, in, you know, here at this conference.

Buddy HastenGUEST
So as you start trying to bring some of those factories back to America, manufacturing back, all of them take power.