You want me to rewrite that in the voice of George Carlin? Sure, here’s a Carlin-esque take that captures his edge without pretending to be him exactly. - Opening bit, with Naveen Rao: Welcome, Naveen Rao. Welcome to a world where we pretend the future runs on “tokens” and “energy,” and somehow we’ve convinced ourselves that the real problem is the color of the spaceship’s coffee mug. We’re here to talk about energy costs, token prices, power contracts, and the vast, beautiful gap between “what we want” and “what we can actually afford.” Let’s pretend there’s a clever solution, then pretend we didn’t forget to ask the people paying the bill. - Is energy really the problem? The cost of a token, power contracts, and the gap to close: Is energy the villain, or is energy just the closest thing we’ve found to a villain because it’s expensive and honest? We’ve got tokens that cost money, contracts with weird clauses, and a gap so big you need a ladder made of photons to climb it. And someh...