Have you heard much or seen much reaction from, like, Metro people about what they think about it?

Yeah, well, the Metro legal director, Tyler Yarbrough, gave us a quote that was basically like, we're pleased, but we're still, you know, working on this.

So not really like a victory lap.

Courtney Johnston, a Metro council member who represents the zoo, and she's the one who first sponsored the moratorium legislation.

Mm-hmm.

She posted about it and was sort of celebratory, but also with some of the context of, you know, this is a final sort of thing.

Roland Horton, who is a council member who sponsored the regulations, he also posted and sort of said, like, we need to look at the bigger picture.

some the people opposing it are saying well this is going to slow down traffic the people for it are saying yes that's the point so like that is the argument like some people are saying yes we should slow down traffic and not prioritize cars moving as fast as they can and other people are saying that's a problem and whatever your view of it is like that is the argument

So why were Roy Dale and Mac McClung, two real estate guys, involved in trash?

Now that I don't know.

I do understand that VastLand over the years has, you know, they're developing these big projects and so heavy equipment is part of that.

So I think that there was some experience in that world from doing just real estate projects that require dump trucks and things like that, not specifically trash trucks, but I think it's a lot of the same suppliers.

But other than that, I mean, there wasn't a whole lot of history of these guys working in solid waste.

That's interesting that those three are the three involved, because as we've talked about, those are the three we reported the feds are interested in.

That process starting in late 2021 took six months at least to play out.

Can you tell us about the reporting process? It was thousands of pages and emails and documents that you went through, right?

Okay, you've got to give us the goss.

So this was my biggest learning curve.

I went, I got called to a quite, it was a very hot day in the UK, which anything over about 12 degrees centigrade.

Okay.

Very hot day.

I was just called to a fire, a large fire.

I attended on blue lights.

But is there anything that in terms of pressure that any sort of public citizens can do? Sorry, anything that citizens can actually do to help support or even are there any existing charities or stuff like that that support the public guys over there in the UK?

Uh, Stephen, tell us about the, the background to this and, and your first start with City.

Yeah.

Um, I'll go as far as back when, when I was at, in the academy at Man City.

Uh, we'd been training.

We would've training up in Platt Lane where the, and the first-team trained in an actual different complex in Carrington at the time.

Um, I'd been training there for, for, for three, three and a half years, and I hadn't been in and around the first team much.

And obviously Kevin Keegan had come into the club at this stage.

Is that true?

Is this kind of a political calculation for a mayor who, of course, is is up for reelection?

Well, I'm sure that's part of the thinking.

I mean, I'm not inside his head and they would never say that out loud.

But yes, of course, you know, seeing the amount of attention that's being paid to this right now, everyone is looking at it.

Everyone on council is all of a sudden talking about it.

And there were people talking about it before, but not nearly as many.

I mean, he mentioned this sort of in those comments, but I was looking into some of the other data centers that exist around town.

How is this all coming together and being essentially the top issue the Metro Council is dealing with?