Topic: Alcoa

The Chinese company Bitmain plans to build the world's largest Bitcoin mine in Rockdale, Texas, utilizing a shuttered Alcoa aluminum smelter. The mine will reportedly be powered by burning lignite, a low-quality and highly polluting form of coal. The hosts note that the environmental fallout will likely affect the nearby community of College Station.

The history of water fluoridation is traced back to Alcoa's need to dispose of aluminum manufacturing byproducts. A new trend involves proposals to add lithium to public water supplies to reduce suicide rates and mental illness, which the hosts view as a government effort to keep the population docile.