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Sep 17, 2026

Bruce SheltonGUEST
39:45
Well, you can dilute it with diluted energy.
Bruce SheltonGUEST
39:48
I mean, you can treat those people by actually giving them homeopathics of the energy coming out of the smart meters.
Justin StellmanHOST
39:55
Wow.
Bruce SheltonGUEST
39:55
Some people would say, that's a little wacko.
Kate LawlerHOST
15:52
There is no slowing me down, ever.
Martin BojtosHOST
15:54
It w- it would be funny if we plugged her into a smart meter to see how much energy she used.
Martin BojtosHOST
15:58
[laughs] We should put you back into the national grid.
Martin BojtosHOST
16:01
Yeah, she'd be giving back to the grid.
Clinton MaynardHOST
24:35
131873, how long can you survive without your mobile phone? It's 17 to 4.
Clinton MaynardHOST
24:41
This week on the program, we've been examining the issue of smart meters.
Clinton MaynardHOST
24:44
One of our listeners is alerting to the problem, but when the smart meter was going to be installed at his home, it was on an existing electricity box where it used an asbestos backing board.
Clinton MaynardHOST
24:55
And he was told he would have to cover the cost of that removal of the asbestos backing board.
Clinton MaynardHOST
25:00
So we've checked with Origin Energy about exactly what are the rules when it comes to asbestos and smart readers.
Clinton MaynardHOST
25:05
They have told us under rules introduced by AEMC, which is one of the regulators in 2024, all electricity retailers must replate outdated smart, outdated meters in homes and businesses with smart meters by 2030.
Clinton MaynardHOST
25:20
Right, so if you've got an old meter, we do at our place, it's got to go within the next four years.
Clinton MaynardHOST
25:25
Origin says there is no upfront cost for a standard installation.
Char MichelleHOST
8:55
When this person was putting up the smart meter at my house, my humanness knew what it was about.
Char MichelleHOST
9:04
And I wanted to be upset, but I said, look, man, I know you're just doing a job, but you got to think about this is edging you out.
Char MichelleHOST
9:10
You up here, he said, I said, why do you put these smart meters? Well, it's easier because then we don't have to come out and check it.
Char MichelleHOST
9:15
I said, so you want the computer checking it so you don't have to come out and you don't get paid to go do this work.
Char MichelleHOST
9:20
Does that make sense? Like, how does that feel that you're edging yourself out of a job? We had this conversation.
Josh SigurdsonHOST
21:05
And they will find the right crisis because they're creating the right crisis.
Josh SigurdsonHOST
21:09
The Guardian says British Gas Boss says all UK households should be forced to fit smart meters.
Josh SigurdsonHOST
21:15
I reported on this a couple of years ago.
Josh SigurdsonHOST
21:16
Chris O'Shea, CEO of Centrica, says mandatory installation programming program would cut costs of creating a smart grid.
Josh SigurdsonHOST
21:22
And we should also think about forest fires and all that kind of stuff and the relation to smart meters.
Josh SigurdsonHOST
21:26
Also, the fact that they're surveilling everything you do in your home and they give off horrible, unhealthy frequencies and signals.
Josh SigurdsonHOST
21:37
This is the system of the future where everyone's equipped and everyone's watching and you can't escape it unless you are in the middle of the woods by yourself and even then you can't have any electronics on you and you're still probably surveilled from the sky with the big hive mind they're creating on Earth, turning Earth itself into a machine.
Max PerraultGUEST
20:49
Why don't you reach out to me? I'm going to connect you with the people who can audit your utility statements and we can see if there was a mistake in this.
Max PerraultGUEST
20:55
Part of that goes in because we have an antiquated system and we're trying to move towards AMI meters, smart meters, and that can help a lot more with seeing if there's leakage in water or if somebody else is tapping into your electric, which you would think that doesn't happen, but it does.
Max PerraultGUEST
21:10
But, yeah, you're right.
Max PerraultGUEST
21:11
I mean people need to trust the elected bodies to give them the truth and good information.

6 MINS LATER

Max PerraultGUEST
26:54
lot.
Max PerraultGUEST
26:54
But it's important to understand, though, and I'm going to say this, and when people watch this from Washington, they're going to say that I'm going back on stuff.
Max PerraultGUEST
27:04
The debt that was started was for things like the smart meters.
Max PerraultGUEST
27:09
What is
Sarah GordonHOST
0:55
And what I really like about this conversation is how practical it is.
Sarah GordonHOST
1:01
We start with a smart meter.
Sarah GordonHOST
1:03
Essentially, as Helen describes it, it's a board in a box.
Sarah GordonHOST
1:08
The box is a plastic box.
Sarah GordonHOST
1:29
They could trace the supply chain back through manufacturers and sub-manufacturers, but once you got down to the metals themselves, transparency became much harder.
Sarah GordonHOST
1:39
Was that copper mined? And if so, which mine did it come from? Or perhaps it had been recycled, but then could you tell where it came from originally? And how confident can you really be when you're several tiers removed from the original source? Then we follow the same product in the opposite direction.
Sarah GordonHOST
1:59
When a smart meter reaches the end of its useful life, can we recover those materials within it? In Helen's experience, almost all of the meter could be separated and recycled.
Sarah GordonHOST
2:09
But that raises another question.
BilkoHOST
75:13
No.
BilkoHOST
75:13
Probably just, uh, the sponsor, Smart Meters, who sponsored us for- I think it's two seasons.
BilkoHOST
75:19
I couldn't tell you.
BilkoHOST
75:20
I, I mean, obviously they do with electric smart meters, but [laughs] I don't know anyone who has one.
BilkoHOST
75:26
No.
BilkoHOST
75:30
So Wigan still keep the duck egg next to the Robins' name.

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