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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Welcome in, folks.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Another wildline yesterday, and of course they're still sort of
sifting through the details of another senseless attack, this one
in New York City, happening last night, and of course
that's coming on the heels of the one that happened
here closer to home at Traverse City. Lots of questions,
many of them surrounding mental health. The latest news. Of course,
(00:49):
it really aimed at addressing all of that. You probably
haven't heard out of the Trump administration. That bat knows,
it's too busy covering other things. We're trying to get
to that.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
More on the wet news, weather and traffic. I'm big
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matters most in West Michigan and beyond. This is the
Big Three now see Speak three.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Yeah, details not only from last night's attack, but also
yesterday the arraignment that suspect in the Traverse City attack.
In the news stories that are coming out absolutely shocking
the details around this this individual's past. But even more
so shocking is what happened in the courtroom is actually
(01:33):
coming from the judge.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Let me get that at on the way first.
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your circumstances, you help. You saved thousands like they did
for us. So this man storming into the Park Avenue,
Midtown Manhattan building there in the office building just before
six thirty last night, armed with a rifle, wearing body armor,
he opened fire and the lobby killed four people, three
civilians in an off duty in MYPD officer who was
(02:21):
on security duty there, then barricaded himself on the thirty
third floor before.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Taking his own life.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Doesn't sheltering in place, first responders and the FBI securing
that skyscraper housing major firms like Blackstone, and the NFL.
Now we know a little bit more about the motive
and it does involve the NFL. That twenty seven year
old dead to day, Shane Devin Timura is his name
of Las Vegas. He drove across the country to carry
(02:49):
this out. Oh and while it all happened, the fake
news was flowing. I can't wait to fill you in
on the latest details. And there's more last night in Reno,
Nevada as well. Chaos erupting overnight at Silver Legacy Casino Resorts,
where a man opened fire on guests in the hotel lobby.
(03:12):
They're injury at least seven before being shot and killed
by police there. Authority say the shooter, thirty six year
old California man Firo weapons charged checked in earlier that day,
began firing indiscriminately with a handgun one fifteen in the morning.
Surveillance video shows guests scrambling. His officers rushed in with
(03:33):
the Normans, fatally shooting that suspect. Investigators not yet determine
his motive, but again evil mental health crisis abound numb
recording year. More on this details of the story of
the Walmart attack in Traverse City over the weekend. New
(03:54):
evidence reveals the man responsible for that attack, James Randon
James Gilly was his name, or is under a court
ordered productive custody hold less than twenty four hours before
he went on that spree stabbing folks inside the store.
He had authorities couldn't locate him in time. Can you imagine. Thankfully,
(04:19):
no one dad in that scenario. But the details that
are coming out are just incredible. Now, I told you
some of these earlier, and this is probably some of
the wildest stuff you're gonna hear. And you may have
heard this already this morning, but he had a past,
including a story of desecrating graves in twenty sixteen, trying
(04:39):
to dig up bodies. The story there was gently schizophrenic,
out of his mind, thought somebody was buried alive.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That's some of what we're hearing.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
He was described as homeless, loitered inside that Walmart for
nearly thirty five minutes before launching a completely random attack
there on eleven shoppers with that three and a half
inch blade. And again, all of this the prior violence
and drug offenses. All of it makes you wonder why
he was ever out in the first place. You know,
(05:09):
he had an insanity defense apparently, which is what got
him off in the twenty sixteen grave desecration story.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
But you know what's.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Interesting to me is that if it was insane, shouldn't
he have been locked up? Shouldn't he been on somebody's
under somebody's care. When you think that, that makes more sense. Now,
apparently that's not what happened. Many of these folks, unfortunately,
in these camps and other places, are free to rome
and I guess free to come after you, me and
(05:43):
the rest of us. Now, we've got three incidents here
in just the last several days, and nobody's really talking about.
I don't think the mental health side of this. We
had to see it in rush to put in some
sort of a race narrative, racial narrative yesterday, I want
to get it that coming up here in a second
with the New York City issue, and had running to
get into gun control arguments. It's always what they wanted.
(06:05):
They want to politicize it. But that doesn't really solve
the problem, doesn't look some of this I understand, Look,
we live in a fallen world. These are types of
things that are gonna evil.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Is about that. We understand that.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Good guys with guns, in fact, stepping in the gun
not the problem, the intent the individual operating that tool is.
And we found out that good guys with a gun,
in fact, several concerned citizens, several retired marines in fact
at Traverse City stepping in and stopping this from becoming
(06:39):
worse than it would have been, could have been. Investigators
still searching for a motive. They charged him with terrorism,
eleven counts of assault with intent to murder. But to me,
this is the craziest part. You're ready for the this
is the worst part. To me, I can't imagine this.
(07:01):
They've got a bond for him. So the judge there
in the Grand Traverse was a Grand Trevis County? Is
that where it was? The judge says, yeah, he can
get out one hundred thousand dollars, so all he'd need
was like ten thousand dollars. You imagine having this guy
running around free ten thousand dollars cash. Are surety strict
(07:27):
conditions though, no alcohol or drugs, no weapons. And here's
the kicker, folks, no entry into Walmart.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That's that's it. Okay, no entry into Walmart. You got it,
pinky promise. I swear.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
This is why these things continue to happen. And the
judge in this kiss is to go let him out again. Now,
I don't know that he's going to be able to
come up with that money, But can you.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Imagine inter just didn't Sane. I don't know which one
is crazier the matter of the judge. Give me a break.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
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Speaker 4 (08:23):
A Fakeness busted again last night. I want to give
you the latest on that because they tried to twist
the New York City tragedy into another racial it's it's
it's sickening.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
What these folks are doing on a daily basis. I
want to expose that.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Coming up Tech Talk a little bit later on today,
we got more on AI out there. The littest scams
you're gonna need to know about. An app wiping out
entire bank accounts. So please don't miss this report with
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Speaker 3 (08:53):
We get to that.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
And so much more all throughout the morning right here
on West Michigan LA.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
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it's Western Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on News Radio
Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six nine a FM.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Tuesday, July
twenty ninth. I'm Robin Poffman. It's a Midwesterner dot News
original story. Michigan Attorney General Dana Neessel isn't giving up.
She's trying to shut down a Michigan coal plant in
West Olive despite the need to minimize the risk of
blackouts here in Michigan and address critical grid security issues.
(09:35):
Michigan's Ottawa County is no longer where freedom rings. The
Ottawa County Commissioners, voting seven to four to ax the
motto adopted two years ago, omitted a series of changes
that also included an end to the county's DEI office.
The changes instituted by the Republican board majority elected on
a platform that's centered in large part in opposition to
(09:58):
Governor Whitmer's extreme pandemic policies. And President Trump in Scotland
talking about the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas terrorists
Israeli hostages still being held.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, I think nobody's done.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Anything great over.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
The whole place is a mess.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
It'll get straightened out, but it's a mess.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
They have to get.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Food and meant food and safety right now.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
And the President saying Hamas allowing its own citizens to
starve in Gaza as the terrorists hold on to the
hostages some believe to still be alive.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Hamas has become very difficult to deal with in the
last couple of days because they don't want to give
up these last twenty because they think as long as
we have them, they have them, they have protection.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
For these stories and more. Visit the Midwesterner at the
Midwesterner dot.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah, people were just asking about what do you do
with people that have these mental health issues and crises.
You can prescribe them meds, but if they don't take them, well,
in this guy, I don't know this in Trevor's City.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
What worked or not?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
The guy in New York City looks like he was
hallucinating in some way, upset at the NFL. This building
that he went into, that's where the NFL was, so
some of it reportedly that he was may have had
some sort of injury. He played football and there was.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
A problem there.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
What do you do with him? Well, it's a good question,
and I think you start with us. Somebody digs up
a grave, you probably lock him up. You probably don't
let him off because they were they were mentally oh,
you probably say, well, that's why we're going to lock
you up. Everybody's going just absolutely nuts here, So I
don't really know. So maybe it's hard for some of
these nutty judges and attorneys and the rest of them
(11:47):
that really figure out what you should do, especially in
these really left linging.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Areas.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
So CNN out yesterday with a report, by the way
that the the man in New York City was a
white male wearing sunglasses, that he was not. Of course,
the photos that we were able to take a look
at proved that, and they got those shuttles out pretty quickly.
(12:15):
I kind of watched as some of this came down.
It was in the middle of ailet's doing some other
things too, But yeah, just another example of how they
always racialize everything. They can't even tell the truth about.
What's something so obvious?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Who he is?
Speaker 8 (12:34):
They do not know who he is. They know he
is a male, possibly white. He's wearing sunglasses, he appears
to have a mustache, and.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
That possibly white, possibly not. If you see the picture,
it's obvious.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Picture has been distributed to every police officer in New
York City.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I was walking down the street with a rifle, just
hanging it aside.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Julie has been sent to the phone owns of the
search teams inside that building, because whenever they encounter a
group of people, the first thing they have to figure
out is is that individual among these people hiding among
victims or pretending to be an office worker, Because one
thing you don't want to have happen is to have
this kind of cordon where you're trying to evacuate people
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in groups as you can get them to a safe
carritor and have this person slip out with them. So, yes,
they have the picture, and they have distributed to everybody
on the scene.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
All right, all right, John, stay with me. I know
you're obviously getting information here in real time as we're talking.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Sh Sharon Vernett.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Their fake news CNN blessed again and they're being ridiculed
like they ought to be, like they ought to be
online today, being ridiculed like they ought to be. It's
high time folks hold them out on the Shenanigan.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Don't waste a moment. They know a never a lot
of good crisis go to waste. That was rawm and
manuals joy.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Not only were they pushing the racialized portion of this
whole thing, which there's no race involved in it, just
a guy gone nuts dravel across the country from the
VATA to get this done. And they were also pushing
gun control on Tom. And I just can't help but
think that this happened in a gun free zone. We
saw what happened when a man with a knife was
taken out by responsible gun owners with cpls there in
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Traverse City. That's that was a completely different story. But
CNN don't stop, you know, facts from getting in the
way of a good narrative.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
And I find it to be absolute insanity that we
allow weapons of war to just flow freely on the
streets of America. And even though New York State and
New York City have the strictest gun was.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
In, sir, don't they don't. They don't know the di
you're not ready to hear. They don't let them just
flow freely on the streets. In New York City, they
got signs everywhere, they get laws, they get laws. Just
make another law and maybe that'll work next time.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Those gun laws can only take you so far if
guns can easily cross.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
State boundaries, So what do you do?
Speaker 7 (14:58):
And this is exactly what happened here and in New York.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
It's good this guy he wants, he wants him not
be able to buy guns at all, period ever, anywhere
you can't manufacture.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Or understanding that, it would have been easy for him
to obtain this air fifteen weapon if he purchased it here.
I think it would have been easier for him to
obtain it in Nevada. We have much stricter gun laws
here in New York. Yeah, but again, what we desperately
need is a national band on military style weapons because
we have far too many guns.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
And a rifle.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
By the way, military style not military, but military styles.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Anything that looks like it is a problem.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
There's a fake news again, call him out again, ready
to kill him again.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
They have no idea.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
By the way, this is which where they're treading water
because they're just on the air for hours.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
They have no idea.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
So this is where the truth, you know, the heart
always revealed, the mouth will do that. This is this
is where it all comes out. John, good morning, welcome in.
Appreciate you taking the time joining us this morning on
West Miskin Life.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yes, sure you're on there.
Speaker 9 (16:05):
Yeah. Yeah. With the homelessness component, when I first saw that,
I know that Traverse City has a large component of
homelessness around that and everything in that community. You have
a large substance abuse and mental health crisis. We're putting
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this the police to have to deal with this, and
they don't have the training and such. We're staying using
the social workers and stuff like that. But we see
in the last five years, homelessness across the whole state
has gone way up. Lansing was talking about it just
last night. I read an article early this morning about this.
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We've had all this money going towards these immigrants and stuff,
and having to deal with the aftermath of this invasion
of our country and stuff. If we would have actually
been addressing money in the first place and not spending
it on having all this other problems going on, we
might be a whole lot farther ahead. And also with
(17:10):
the gun violence, a gun is a now and now
in a sentence without a bird, the violence doesn't do anything.
So we got to start getting with the people early
on because we know with fotherlessness there's a higher mental
health problem, and we're not dealing with that at all.
We're actually paying the state incentives to make children fatherless.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Fantastic Carl, Thank you, sir, very very good points. You
know you're right about that. As far as what's happened
over the last not just the last several years, but decades,
and what's getting swept under the rug and not getting
talked about today is the fact that President Trump last
week issued that executive order that will override the laws
(17:50):
that close mental health asylums in the nineteen sixties. And
it's a big step. People didn't really to we talked
about it last week, but it's a big step and
one that needs to be taken again to really getting
these folks to help that they need. And then the
ones that are criminally insane to protect society really really
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shouldn't be able to get out unsupervised in these situations
that we're saying, there just running around and what does
that do? How does that help society? And again the
judge and Traversy just wanted to let this guy run wild.
Make that make sense.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
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Speaker 4 (18:42):
Well, well, well this ought to be interesting coming to
a grocery store near you. The prices, the technology to
allow them to change the prices one hundred times a day.
We'll tell you why they're doing it and what you
need to know. Plus a big news that if you
if you're not aware, could wipe out your entire bank account.
(19:05):
And it's a Tech Talk subject in the next segment
you're not gonna want to miss. It's all coming up
in just moments with our good friend Trey Kenebby.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Tack into the latest in tech and how it affects
you and your world. This is Tech Talk Tuesday on
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Speaker 4 (19:26):
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Speaker 3 (19:44):
Trent, welcome in, appreciate you being here with us today.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
Yea good morning, Justin.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Absolutely, let's get into it. Probably.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I think one of the most interesting stories is how
the Wall Street Journal writing about this brand new tech
that could be. It's by the way it changes like
instantaneously whenever they want it to pricing at the grocery store.
And what's wild about this is it could say one
thing on the shelf when you pick the item up,
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and by the time you get to the register, the
prices changed. Walk us through this latest price is changing
up to one hundred times a day at this grocery store.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Yeah, Justin, this is a crazy story.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
This is the first time I've heard of this, and
I know the technology is there. It's actually fairly easy
to do to have a digital display, right, these are
very inexpensive to constantly change the pricing. And if they're
doing this basic on supplying demand, inventory levels, market prices
at the end of the day. Justin, grocery stores typically
produce things well in advance, sometimes that even have very
(20:49):
long contracted pricing on these things.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
So the fact that they need to.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
Change these daily, potentially even by the minute, really feels
like just some kind of a scam or some kind
of a way to gain advantage of people based on
their stocking levels, to gain an advantage on people versus
the actual cost to purchase these items, you know, kind
of live That's typically not how it works. Every time
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we see a gas station, you know, sign blinking, justin,
it typically doesn't end well. Usually what happens is you
pay more than the advertised price at the point of sale.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, that's I mean to me, it's just it's it's
kind of like, I don't know, it's like in your face,
it's kind of blatant. I understand why they might want
to do this at certain points, but this to me
is technology that it just feels like consumers might push
back against.
Speaker 10 (21:45):
Yeah, I think you're right, justin.
Speaker 11 (21:46):
I think it just kind of turns off people, right
and one hand, you know, as far as pricing goods
and stuff, there's a huge amount of time and resources
spent pricing goods. So I get it like this could
be a time saver and a convenient thing for larger
stores to roll out price changes and keep things up
to date, but to actually have them changed on the
daily when, like I said, the business model typically doesn't
(22:08):
revolve around minute price changes, you know, by the minute,
when these things are often purchased months in advance, so
they know their.
Speaker 10 (22:16):
Cost on these items. Is why this is, this is
very over the top. If they're going to do live changes.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Well, and you know, look, I mean I think what
the fear is here, and the way I've heard that
they're going to put this out there is is that
you know that they would have during slower times of
the day, they would maybe lower their prices, but in
times that you know, most folks need to get out
and I would say, like after work or you know,
when they have more traffic, that they would then raise
(22:43):
their prices. And to me, that's that's just sort of
taking advantage of the consumer.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
And I don't I don't.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Know, I just I know they're free to do what
they want to do, but we're also free to shop for.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Ever we want.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
Yeah, just I think that's crazy to use that as
a tool to, like I said, affect the supply and demand,
the times of day stuff like that.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
I mean, some people can't help it. They work all day.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
They got to go get their groceries at five o'clock,
five three and the way home from work when everybody
else is they going to get penalized because they work
all day and they have to get their groceries when
it's busier. They're ready getting punished with the parking lot
walk in and the long lines and the business. You're
going to punish more to try to incentivize the come
at a different time if they just can't help it already.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Next story is wild as well. She's paralyzed, this woman,
but Neurallink is giving her an at lease on life.
She's able to do some things she wasn't able to
do for years. Audrey Cruz has been paralyzed since she
was in a car accident at the age of sixteen.
Now she's able to sort of write her name here
(23:52):
using a purple colored pin on the computer screen. Audrey
wrote her first name for the first time in two
thousand and five.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
It's a little better.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Than what maybe my four year old could do right now.
But this is technology that I think is for a
lot of people sort of scary when you think about
the neuralink stuff, but also has tremendous upside to it.
Speaker 11 (24:15):
Yeah, Jess, So there's two sides of this story. I mean,
we all use a computer every day. We use our
hands to move a mouse, a keyboard, and some voice
control this. This person cannot do that, and so this
neuralink chip literally just gives them an extension of their arm,
so to speak, in this case, is the extension of
their brain to physically control a computer through mental brain waves,
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brain signals, motor skills like you would move your hands.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
So there's nothing.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Creepy, hokey crazy about that aspect of it. And it's
a game changer because if you can control a computer
with your brain, you could drive a car because the
cars are more electrified with their control systems.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
You could do amazing things.
Speaker 11 (24:53):
This is a huge game changer for people that have
these type of paralyzed or other motor scale issues. On
the other hand, this also allows a further heavier.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
Integration to computers.
Speaker 11 (25:07):
You know, if we think of a mouse and a keyboard,
we feel that, hey, we can turn it off, we
can unplug it, we cannot touch it, right. But the
more integrated we get with neurallink type technology, where the
computer is starting to read signals from our brains and
(25:27):
start to suggest things to communicate with our brains in
a way that's not easy for us just to say no,
I'm not touching the keyboard.
Speaker 10 (25:34):
I'm walking away from my desk. That's where it gets challenging.
Speaker 11 (25:37):
And we're not in that territory yet, but we can
all see that in the future with improvements, that could
be the case.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Yeah, I don't just think about being plugged in twenty
four to seven, and it's a lot of people talking
about they'd want to do it.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
It'd be an advantage.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
You know, if you were plugged in twenty four to seven,
you always plugged into HEYI or whatever, you'd have like
a superhuman advantage over people, folks that have real issues
that need help.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
But I wonder what the cost of that is too.
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
We got a story out today Americans spend nearly half
their day online. The New York Post said, there's a
shocking story. I don't know if I'm shocked by that.
Or not, but it's a lot of time. And I
just recently have found myself sort of trying to decrease
my screen time every Sunday night or morning.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Rather, I think I get some sort of you.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Know, notification that says, this is how much time you
spend online this week or whatever, and I'm trying to
decrease it, and they're trying to put the phone down
even more as.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
I reach over and look at it today and I got.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Another notification over there. What's going on anyway, Trent? Are
you surprised by this? And should we be worried? I
think this is having a big effect on things like
our attention and other things.
Speaker 11 (26:55):
Yeah, justin it's actually hard to study this topic like
this report prize is not much higher because people don't
realize that the amount of time we spend and internet
connected things.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
Let's just say.
Speaker 11 (27:06):
We're not on our phone, but we're still listening for
that alert. We're still thinking about the next message or
the next thing that comes in that we want to
respond to, or want to do, or want to post.
Speaker 10 (27:17):
So it's very difficult to study this.
Speaker 11 (27:19):
We spend an enormous amount of time online and we
are not built.
Speaker 10 (27:24):
We are not designed. We are not meant for that
as human beings.
Speaker 11 (27:27):
You could say that about anything, whether it's food, whether
it's exercise, whatever, Moderation is key. We will ruin ourselves
in some specific way if we don't exercise the common
sense moderation. And that's something with this online stuff. There's
going to be studies and all sorts of stuff saying
this common sense. If you're going to spend half of
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your life online, it's going to mess up your brain.
It's going to change how you're wired, and that's not
going to be a good thing for your health, your relationships,
for all those things, And somehow there needs to be
a balance. A lot of times it means turn it off.
And the Internet, with all its greatness, and AI doesn't
like to tell us those things. It says more and
more and more.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Sometimes I just think less is more, and I think
in this scenario that's probably the case as well. FBI
warning now by the way that an app could wipe
out your entire bank account. This story probably the most important,
and I think the most immediate importance of the day,
(28:31):
because this is something you're facing right now, and these
are always issues I know you're staying on top of trap,
but the latest on this story is kind of wild.
Speaker 10 (28:40):
Yeah, justin.
Speaker 11 (28:41):
The FBI has been warning about this for years, and
what's happening is scammers are getting more sophisticated, and that
doesn't mean more high tech. Sometimes it means low tech
preying on us as normal people. So what they'll do
is they'll actually have a conversation with you for a
text message, and it won't be AI. It'll often be
an actual person and they'll tell you something like, hey,
(29:03):
you got an actual virus. Here's how we know. Here's
a plausible story that's human and handwritten, often a real person.
You download an app, you put your credentials in there
for your you know, to have them scan stuff, and
pretty soon, over the course of a couple hours, they
gain your trust. They check your financial institutions, they have
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your credentials for that, and they transfer all of the
money out of your bank account once they have the
numbers and things like that, and you think they're legit people,
even the government you know here trying to help you
through a problem, and when reality, it's just bad guys
that are preying on us and they're doing it as humans.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
They're they're they're.
Speaker 11 (29:44):
Trying to be trustworthy, gaining our trust to take advantage
of us.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Yeah, it's it's a really sad not on one of
these sad scenarios that unfortunately, look, technology can be used
for good or for bad in both cases.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
What is the app?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
By the way, he says, FBI want to do not
install this app on your phone. And by the way,
if you do get into any trouble with this or
anything else you have questions with, Trent's always willing to
help you when it comes to questions. I know people
walk into your store all the time asking about what
about this and what about that. It's always very it's
(30:24):
very good to have a friend who knows. Anyway, there's
specifically in situations like this.
Speaker 10 (30:32):
Yeah, justin. This is not one specific app.
Speaker 11 (30:35):
There's probably twenty or forty apps that all have the
same purpose remote control.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Just beware.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
How do we know it's probably a good question. How
do we know you know something like this? How do
we know if it's again app is good to download
or not?
Speaker 11 (30:53):
Yeah, so justin it's some of these apps are actually
legitimate apps. You know, Google you can do remote access
microsof you can do remote access their Teams. So it's
not necessarily like there's a handful of bad apps to
not download, per se. It's that the remote access part.
So whether it is Teams or Google or something like, Oh,
I trust this, This is actual Microsoft Teams app. Enter
(31:16):
this code to get into a meeting. I do this
all the time for work. This must be legitimate. It's
not a hacker app that looks sketchy. Anything with remote access.
If they want you to download any kind of an
app to give them access to scan or control your
computer or quote unquote help you with anything, run Nobody
does that for free. Nobody calls you or messages messages
(31:39):
you to do that. No bank is going to call
you and give you remote support like that.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
That's just not how it works.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
It's even bigger than we thought.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
That's what scientists are saying, that mysterious interstellar object racing
through the Solar System bigger than Mount Everest. Now this
isn't a spaceship, right, I mean, we can all rest
easy there.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
It's like some asteroid or meteorite that type of.
Speaker 11 (32:03):
Thing, right, Yeah, justin I think the news needs something
to write about other than the norm, so they just
recycle stories because it feels like every month or two
there's a mysterious space signal, mysterious rock, uh, something that's
going to hit the earth and wipe us out. And
then when you read into the story, it's one and
four hundred millionth chance that it could happen.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
So you're saying, there's a chance.
Speaker 11 (32:28):
Maybe it's just a distraction from everything else that's going on,
and maybe that's okay.
Speaker 10 (32:31):
In the news, we.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
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Speaker 10 (32:53):
Thanks justin having a great day.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Stay cool, you got it man, you too. Yeah, it's
gotta be a hot one. Holy smokes, another hot one.
But the good news is temps are headed down in
the coming days. I like that heat advisory in effect
today ninety four or so for the highs. Muggy skies
(33:15):
gonna make it feel even hotter. The heat index up
in the triple digits, but like I said, look dipping down.
I think eighty for the high Tomorrow. Things are going
to retreat and head the right way by the end
of the week. Here so hanging there with us. Latest
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Speaker 3 (00:22):
Welcome in, folks.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Another wildline yesterday, and of course they're still sort of
sifting through the details of another senseless attack, this one
in New York City, happening last night, and of course
that's coming on the heels of the one that happened
here closer to home at Traverse City. Lots of questions,
many of them surrounding mental health. The latest news. Of course,
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haven't heard out of the Trump administration. That bat knows,
it's too busy covering other things. We're trying to get
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Speaker 4 (01:13):
Yeah, details not only from last night's attack, but also
yesterday the arraignment that suspect in the Traverse City attack.
In the news stories that are coming out absolutely shocking
the details around this this individual's past. But even more
so shocking is what happened in the courtroom is actually
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coming from the judge.
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for us. So this man storming into the Park Avenue,
Midtown Manhattan building there in the office building just before
six thirty last night, armed with a rifle, wearing body armor,
he opened fire and the lobby killed four people, three
civilians in an off duty in MYPD officer who was
(02:21):
on security duty there, then barricaded himself on the thirty
third floor before.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Taking his own life.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Doesn't sheltering in place, first responders and the FBI securing
that skyscraper housing major firms like Blackstone, and the NFL.
Now we know a little bit more about the motive
and it does involve the NFL. That twenty seven year
old dead to day, Shane Devin Timura is his name
of Las Vegas. He drove across the country to carry
(02:49):
this out. Oh and while it all happened, the fake
news was flowing. I can't wait to fill you in
on the latest details. And there's more last night in Reno,
Nevada as well. Chaos erupting overnight at Silver Legacy Casino Resorts,
where a man opened fire on guests in the hotel lobby.
(03:12):
They're injury at least seven before being shot and killed
by police there. Authority say the shooter, thirty six year
old California man Firo weapons charged checked in earlier that day,
began firing indiscriminately with a handgun one fifteen in the morning.
Surveillance video shows guests scrambling. His officers rushed in with
(03:33):
the Normans, fatally shooting that suspect. Investigators not yet determine
his motive, but again evil mental health crisis abound numb
recording year. More on this details of the story of
the Walmart attack in Traverse City over the weekend. New
(03:54):
evidence reveals the man responsible for that attack, James Randon
James Gilly was his name, or is under a court
ordered productive custody hold less than twenty four hours before
he went on that spree stabbing folks inside the store.
He had authorities couldn't locate him in time. Can you imagine. Thankfully,
(04:19):
no one dad in that scenario. But the details that
are coming out are just incredible. Now, I told you
some of these earlier, and this is probably some of
the wildest stuff you're gonna hear. And you may have
heard this already this morning, but he had a past,
including a story of desecrating graves in twenty sixteen, trying
(04:39):
to dig up bodies. The story there was gently schizophrenic,
out of his mind, thought somebody was buried alive.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That's some of what we're hearing.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
He was described as homeless, loitered inside that Walmart for
nearly thirty five minutes before launching a completely random attack
there on eleven shoppers with that three and a half
inch blade. And again, all of this the prior violence
and drug offenses. All of it makes you wonder why
he was ever out in the first place. You know,
(05:09):
he had an insanity defense apparently, which is what got
him off in the twenty sixteen grave desecration story.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
But you know what's.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Interesting to me is that if it was insane, shouldn't
he have been locked up? Shouldn't he been on somebody's
under somebody's care. When you think that, that makes more sense. Now,
apparently that's not what happened. Many of these folks, unfortunately,
in these camps and other places, are free to rome
and I guess free to come after you, me and
(05:43):
the rest of us. Now, we've got three incidents here
in just the last several days, and nobody's really talking about.
I don't think the mental health side of this. We
had to see it in rush to put in some
sort of a race narrative, racial narrative yesterday, I want
to get it that coming up here in a second
with the New York City issue, and had running to
get into gun control arguments. It's always what they wanted.
(06:05):
They want to politicize it. But that doesn't really solve
the problem, doesn't look some of this I understand, Look,
we live in a fallen world. These are types of
things that are gonna evil.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Is about that. We understand that.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Good guys with guns, in fact, stepping in the gun
not the problem, the intent the individual operating that tool is.
And we found out that good guys with a gun,
in fact, several concerned citizens, several retired marines in fact
at Traverse City stepping in and stopping this from becoming
(06:39):
worse than it would have been, could have been. Investigators
still searching for a motive. They charged him with terrorism,
eleven counts of assault with intent to murder. But to me,
this is the craziest part. You're ready for the this
is the worst part. To me, I can't imagine this.
(07:01):
They've got a bond for him. So the judge there
in the Grand Traverse was a Grand Trevis County? Is
that where it was? The judge says, yeah, he can
get out one hundred thousand dollars, so all he'd need
was like ten thousand dollars. You imagine having this guy
running around free ten thousand dollars cash. Are surety strict
(07:27):
conditions though, no alcohol or drugs, no weapons. And here's
the kicker, folks, no entry into Walmart.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That's that's it. Okay, no entry into Walmart. You got it,
pinky promise. I swear.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
This is why these things continue to happen. And the
judge in this kiss is to go let him out again. Now,
I don't know that he's going to be able to
come up with that money, But can you.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Imagine inter just didn't Sane. I don't know which one
is crazier the matter of the judge. Give me a break.
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Speaker 4 (08:23):
A Fakeness busted again last night. I want to give
you the latest on that because they tried to twist
the New York City tragedy into another racial it's it's
it's sickening.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
What these folks are doing on a daily basis. I
want to expose that.
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Ottawa County Commissioners, voting seven to four to ax the
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that also included an end to the county's DEI office.
The changes instituted by the Republican board majority elected on
a platform that's centered in large part in opposition to
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Governor Whitmer's extreme pandemic policies. And President Trump in Scotland
talking about the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas terrorists
Israeli hostages still being held.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, I think nobody's done.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Anything great over.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
The whole place is a mess.
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It'll get straightened out, but it's a mess.
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They have to get.
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Food and meant food and safety right now.
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And the President saying Hamas allowing its own citizens to
starve in Gaza as the terrorists hold on to the
hostages some believe to still be alive.
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Hamas has become very difficult to deal with in the
last couple of days because they don't want to give
up these last twenty because they think as long as
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Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah, people were just asking about what do you do
with people that have these mental health issues and crises.
You can prescribe them meds, but if they don't take them, well,
in this guy, I don't know this in Trevor's City.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
What worked or not?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
The guy in New York City looks like he was
hallucinating in some way, upset at the NFL. This building
that he went into, that's where the NFL was, so
some of it reportedly that he was may have had
some sort of injury. He played football and there was.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
A problem there.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
What do you do with him? Well, it's a good question,
and I think you start with us. Somebody digs up
a grave, you probably lock him up. You probably don't
let him off because they were they were mentally oh,
you probably say, well, that's why we're going to lock
you up. Everybody's going just absolutely nuts here, So I
don't really know. So maybe it's hard for some of
these nutty judges and attorneys and the rest of them
(11:47):
that really figure out what you should do, especially in
these really left linging.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Areas.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
So CNN out yesterday with a report, by the way
that the the man in New York City was a
white male wearing sunglasses, that he was not. Of course,
the photos that we were able to take a look
at proved that, and they got those shuttles out pretty quickly.
(12:15):
I kind of watched as some of this came down.
It was in the middle of ailet's doing some other
things too, But yeah, just another example of how they
always racialize everything. They can't even tell the truth about.
What's something so obvious?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Who he is?
Speaker 8 (12:34):
They do not know who he is. They know he
is a male, possibly white. He's wearing sunglasses, he appears
to have a mustache, and.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
That possibly white, possibly not. If you see the picture,
it's obvious.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Picture has been distributed to every police officer in New
York City.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I was walking down the street with a rifle, just
hanging it aside.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Julie has been sent to the phone owns of the
search teams inside that building, because whenever they encounter a
group of people, the first thing they have to figure
out is is that individual among these people hiding among
victims or pretending to be an office worker, Because one
thing you don't want to have happen is to have
this kind of cordon where you're trying to evacuate people
(13:19):
in groups as you can get them to a safe
carritor and have this person slip out with them. So, yes,
they have the picture, and they have distributed to everybody
on the scene.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
All right, all right, John, stay with me. I know
you're obviously getting information here in real time as we're talking.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Sh Sharon Vernett.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Their fake news CNN blessed again and they're being ridiculed
like they ought to be, like they ought to be
online today, being ridiculed like they ought to be. It's
high time folks hold them out on the Shenanigan.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Don't waste a moment. They know a never a lot
of good crisis go to waste. That was rawm and
manuals joy.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Not only were they pushing the racialized portion of this
whole thing, which there's no race involved in it, just
a guy gone nuts dravel across the country from the
VATA to get this done. And they were also pushing
gun control on Tom. And I just can't help but
think that this happened in a gun free zone. We
saw what happened when a man with a knife was
taken out by responsible gun owners with cpls there in
(14:21):
Traverse City. That's that was a completely different story. But
CNN don't stop, you know, facts from getting in the
way of a good narrative.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
And I find it to be absolute insanity that we
allow weapons of war to just flow freely on the
streets of America. And even though New York State and
New York City have the strictest gun was.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
In, sir, don't they don't. They don't know the di
you're not ready to hear. They don't let them just
flow freely on the streets. In New York City, they
got signs everywhere, they get laws, they get laws. Just
make another law and maybe that'll work next time.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Those gun laws can only take you so far if
guns can easily cross.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
State boundaries, So what do you do?
Speaker 7 (14:58):
And this is exactly what happened here and in New York.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
It's good this guy he wants, he wants him not
be able to buy guns at all, period ever, anywhere
you can't manufacture.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Or understanding that, it would have been easy for him
to obtain this air fifteen weapon if he purchased it here.
I think it would have been easier for him to
obtain it in Nevada. We have much stricter gun laws
here in New York. Yeah, but again, what we desperately
need is a national band on military style weapons because
we have far too many guns.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
And a rifle.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
By the way, military style not military, but military styles.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Anything that looks like it is a problem.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
There's a fake news again, call him out again, ready
to kill him again.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
They have no idea.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
By the way, this is which where they're treading water
because they're just on the air for hours.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
They have no idea.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
So this is where the truth, you know, the heart
always revealed, the mouth will do that. This is this
is where it all comes out. John, good morning, welcome in.
Appreciate you taking the time joining us this morning on
West Miskin Life.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yes, sure you're on there.
Speaker 9 (16:05):
Yeah. Yeah. With the homelessness component, when I first saw that,
I know that Traverse City has a large component of
homelessness around that and everything in that community. You have
a large substance abuse and mental health crisis. We're putting
(16:26):
this the police to have to deal with this, and
they don't have the training and such. We're staying using
the social workers and stuff like that. But we see
in the last five years, homelessness across the whole state
has gone way up. Lansing was talking about it just
last night. I read an article early this morning about this.
(16:49):
We've had all this money going towards these immigrants and stuff,
and having to deal with the aftermath of this invasion
of our country and stuff. If we would have actually
been addressing money in the first place and not spending
it on having all this other problems going on, we
might be a whole lot farther ahead. And also with
(17:10):
the gun violence, a gun is a now and now
in a sentence without a bird, the violence doesn't do anything.
So we got to start getting with the people early
on because we know with fotherlessness there's a higher mental
health problem, and we're not dealing with that at all.
We're actually paying the state incentives to make children fatherless.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Fantastic Carl, Thank you, sir, very very good points. You
know you're right about that. As far as what's happened
over the last not just the last several years, but decades,
and what's getting swept under the rug and not getting
talked about today is the fact that President Trump last
week issued that executive order that will override the laws
(17:50):
that close mental health asylums in the nineteen sixties. And
it's a big step. People didn't really to we talked
about it last week, but it's a big step and
one that needs to be taken again to really getting
these folks to help that they need. And then the
ones that are criminally insane to protect society really really
(18:14):
shouldn't be able to get out unsupervised in these situations
that we're saying, there just running around and what does
that do? How does that help society? And again the
judge and Traversy just wanted to let this guy run wild.
Make that make sense.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Wherever you are stream us on your smart folks, West
Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on News Radio Wood thirteen
hundred and one six nine as well.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Well, well, well this ought to be interesting coming to
a grocery store near you. The prices, the technology to
allow them to change the prices one hundred times a day.
We'll tell you why they're doing it and what you
need to know. Plus a big news that if you
if you're not aware, could wipe out your entire bank account.
(19:05):
And it's a Tech Talk subject in the next segment
you're not gonna want to miss. It's all coming up
in just moments with our good friend Trey Kenebby.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Tack into the latest in tech and how it affects
you and your world. This is Tech Talk Tuesday on
Wood Radios, West Michigan Live.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Trent the latest affordable lifestore like Michigan Drive and stand
down a good friends there at Grand River Tech as well.
They can help you with all of your techniques personal
or maybe you got to some organizational needs as well.
They're standing by ready to help and to walk you
through some of these big stories today.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Trent, welcome in, appreciate you being here with us today.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
Yea good morning, Justin.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Absolutely, let's get into it. Probably.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
I think one of the most interesting stories is how
the Wall Street Journal writing about this brand new tech
that could be. It's by the way it changes like
instantaneously whenever they want it to pricing at the grocery store.
And what's wild about this is it could say one
thing on the shelf when you pick the item up,
(20:13):
and by the time you get to the register, the
prices changed. Walk us through this latest price is changing
up to one hundred times a day at this grocery store.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
Yeah, Justin, this is a crazy story.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
This is the first time I've heard of this, and
I know the technology is there. It's actually fairly easy
to do to have a digital display, right, these are
very inexpensive to constantly change the pricing. And if they're
doing this basic on supplying demand, inventory levels, market prices
at the end of the day. Justin, grocery stores typically
produce things well in advance, sometimes that even have very
(20:49):
long contracted pricing on these things.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
So the fact that they need to.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
Change these daily, potentially even by the minute, really feels
like just some kind of a scam or some kind
of a way to gain advantage of people based on
their stocking levels, to gain an advantage on people versus
the actual cost to purchase these items, you know, kind
of live That's typically not how it works. Every time
(21:14):
we see a gas station, you know, sign blinking, justin,
it typically doesn't end well. Usually what happens is you
pay more than the advertised price at the point of sale.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, that's I mean to me, it's just it's it's
kind of like, I don't know, it's like in your face,
it's kind of blatant. I understand why they might want
to do this at certain points, but this to me
is technology that it just feels like consumers might push
back against.
Speaker 10 (21:45):
Yeah, I think you're right, justin.
Speaker 11 (21:46):
I think it just kind of turns off people, right
and one hand, you know, as far as pricing goods
and stuff, there's a huge amount of time and resources
spent pricing goods. So I get it like this could
be a time saver and a convenient thing for larger
stores to roll out price changes and keep things up
to date, but to actually have them changed on the
daily when, like I said, the business model typically doesn't
(22:08):
revolve around minute price changes, you know, by the minute,
when these things are often purchased months in advance, so
they know their.
Speaker 10 (22:16):
Cost on these items. Is why this is, this is
very over the top. If they're going to do live changes.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Well, and you know, look, I mean I think what
the fear is here, and the way I've heard that
they're going to put this out there is is that
you know that they would have during slower times of
the day, they would maybe lower their prices, but in
times that you know, most folks need to get out
and I would say, like after work or you know,
when they have more traffic, that they would then raise
(22:43):
their prices. And to me, that's that's just sort of
taking advantage of the consumer.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
And I don't I don't.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Know, I just I know they're free to do what
they want to do, but we're also free to shop for.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Ever we want.
Speaker 11 (22:57):
Yeah, just I think that's crazy to use that as
a tool to, like I said, affect the supply and demand,
the times of day stuff like that.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
I mean, some people can't help it. They work all day.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
They got to go get their groceries at five o'clock,
five three and the way home from work when everybody
else is they going to get penalized because they work
all day and they have to get their groceries when
it's busier. They're ready getting punished with the parking lot
walk in and the long lines and the business. You're
going to punish more to try to incentivize the come
at a different time if they just can't help it already.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Next story is wild as well. She's paralyzed, this woman,
but Neurallink is giving her an at lease on life.
She's able to do some things she wasn't able to
do for years. Audrey Cruz has been paralyzed since she
was in a car accident at the age of sixteen.
Now she's able to sort of write her name here
(23:52):
using a purple colored pin on the computer screen. Audrey
wrote her first name for the first time in two
thousand and five.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
It's a little better.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Than what maybe my four year old could do right now.
But this is technology that I think is for a
lot of people sort of scary when you think about
the neuralink stuff, but also has tremendous upside to it.
Speaker 11 (24:15):
Yeah, Jess, So there's two sides of this story. I mean,
we all use a computer every day. We use our
hands to move a mouse, a keyboard, and some voice
control this. This person cannot do that, and so this
neuralink chip literally just gives them an extension of their arm,
so to speak, in this case, is the extension of
their brain to physically control a computer through mental brain waves,
(24:37):
brain signals, motor skills like you would move your hands.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
So there's nothing.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Creepy, hokey crazy about that aspect of it. And it's
a game changer because if you can control a computer
with your brain, you could drive a car because the
cars are more electrified with their control systems.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
You could do amazing things.
Speaker 11 (24:53):
This is a huge game changer for people that have
these type of paralyzed or other motor scale issues. On
the other hand, this also allows a further heavier.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
Integration to computers.
Speaker 11 (25:07):
You know, if we think of a mouse and a keyboard,
we feel that, hey, we can turn it off, we
can unplug it, we cannot touch it, right. But the
more integrated we get with neurallink type technology, where the
computer is starting to read signals from our brains and
(25:27):
start to suggest things to communicate with our brains in
a way that's not easy for us just to say no,
I'm not touching the keyboard.
Speaker 10 (25:34):
I'm walking away from my desk. That's where it gets challenging.
Speaker 11 (25:37):
And we're not in that territory yet, but we can
all see that in the future with improvements, that could
be the case.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Yeah, I don't just think about being plugged in twenty
four to seven, and it's a lot of people talking
about they'd want to do it.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
It'd be an advantage.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
You know, if you were plugged in twenty four to seven,
you always plugged into HEYI or whatever, you'd have like
a superhuman advantage over people, folks that have real issues
that need help.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
But I wonder what the cost of that is too.
You know.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
We got a story out today Americans spend nearly half
their day online. The New York Post said, there's a
shocking story. I don't know if I'm shocked by that.
Or not, but it's a lot of time. And I
just recently have found myself sort of trying to decrease
my screen time every Sunday night or morning.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Rather, I think I get some sort of you.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Know, notification that says, this is how much time you
spend online this week or whatever, and I'm trying to
decrease it, and they're trying to put the phone down
even more as.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
I reach over and look at it today and I got.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Another notification over there. What's going on anyway, Trent? Are
you surprised by this? And should we be worried? I
think this is having a big effect on things like
our attention and other things.
Speaker 11 (26:55):
Yeah, justin it's actually hard to study this topic like
this report prize is not much higher because people don't
realize that the amount of time we spend and internet
connected things.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
Let's just say.
Speaker 11 (27:06):
We're not on our phone, but we're still listening for
that alert. We're still thinking about the next message or
the next thing that comes in that we want to
respond to, or want to do, or want to post.
Speaker 10 (27:17):
So it's very difficult to study this.
Speaker 11 (27:19):
We spend an enormous amount of time online and we
are not built.
Speaker 10 (27:24):
We are not designed. We are not meant for that
as human beings.
Speaker 11 (27:27):
You could say that about anything, whether it's food, whether
it's exercise, whatever, Moderation is key. We will ruin ourselves
in some specific way if we don't exercise the common
sense moderation. And that's something with this online stuff. There's
going to be studies and all sorts of stuff saying
this common sense. If you're going to spend half of
(27:48):
your life online, it's going to mess up your brain.
It's going to change how you're wired, and that's not
going to be a good thing for your health, your relationships,
for all those things, And somehow there needs to be
a balance. A lot of times it means turn it off.
And the Internet, with all its greatness, and AI doesn't
like to tell us those things. It says more and
more and more.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Sometimes I just think less is more, and I think
in this scenario that's probably the case as well. FBI
warning now by the way that an app could wipe
out your entire bank account. This story probably the most important,
and I think the most immediate importance of the day,
(28:31):
because this is something you're facing right now, and these
are always issues I know you're staying on top of trap,
but the latest on this story is kind of wild.
Speaker 10 (28:40):
Yeah, justin.
Speaker 11 (28:41):
The FBI has been warning about this for years, and
what's happening is scammers are getting more sophisticated, and that
doesn't mean more high tech. Sometimes it means low tech
preying on us as normal people. So what they'll do
is they'll actually have a conversation with you for a
text message, and it won't be AI. It'll often be
an actual person and they'll tell you something like, hey,
(29:03):
you got an actual virus. Here's how we know. Here's
a plausible story that's human and handwritten, often a real person.
You download an app, you put your credentials in there
for your you know, to have them scan stuff, and
pretty soon, over the course of a couple hours, they
gain your trust. They check your financial institutions, they have
(29:24):
your credentials for that, and they transfer all of the
money out of your bank account once they have the
numbers and things like that, and you think they're legit people,
even the government you know here trying to help you
through a problem, and when reality, it's just bad guys
that are preying on us and they're doing it as humans.
Speaker 10 (29:43):
They're they're they're.
Speaker 11 (29:44):
Trying to be trustworthy, gaining our trust to take advantage
of us.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Yeah, it's it's a really sad not on one of
these sad scenarios that unfortunately, look, technology can be used
for good or for bad in both cases.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
What is the app?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
By the way, he says, FBI want to do not
install this app on your phone. And by the way,
if you do get into any trouble with this or
anything else you have questions with, Trent's always willing to
help you when it comes to questions. I know people
walk into your store all the time asking about what
about this and what about that. It's always very it's
(30:24):
very good to have a friend who knows. Anyway, there's
specifically in situations like this.
Speaker 10 (30:32):
Yeah, justin. This is not one specific app.
Speaker 11 (30:35):
There's probably twenty or forty apps that all have the
same purpose remote control.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Just beware.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
How do we know it's probably a good question. How
do we know you know something like this? How do
we know if it's again app is good to download
or not?
Speaker 11 (30:53):
Yeah, so justin it's some of these apps are actually
legitimate apps. You know, Google you can do remote access
microsof you can do remote access their Teams. So it's
not necessarily like there's a handful of bad apps to
not download, per se. It's that the remote access part.
So whether it is Teams or Google or something like, Oh,
I trust this, This is actual Microsoft Teams app. Enter
(31:16):
this code to get into a meeting. I do this
all the time for work. This must be legitimate. It's
not a hacker app that looks sketchy. Anything with remote access.
If they want you to download any kind of an
app to give them access to scan or control your
computer or quote unquote help you with anything, run Nobody
does that for free. Nobody calls you or messages messages
(31:39):
you to do that. No bank is going to call
you and give you remote support like that.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
That's just not how it works.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
It's even bigger than we thought.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
That's what scientists are saying, that mysterious interstellar object racing
through the Solar System bigger than Mount Everest. Now this
isn't a spaceship, right, I mean, we can all rest
easy there.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
It's like some asteroid or meteorite that type of.
Speaker 11 (32:03):
Thing, right, Yeah, justin I think the news needs something
to write about other than the norm, so they just
recycle stories because it feels like every month or two
there's a mysterious space signal, mysterious rock, uh, something that's
going to hit the earth and wipe us out. And
then when you read into the story, it's one and
four hundred millionth chance that it could happen.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
So you're saying, there's a chance.
Speaker 11 (32:28):
Maybe it's just a distraction from everything else that's going on,
and maybe that's okay.
Speaker 10 (32:31):
In the news, we.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Need more distractions. Is that it? Oh Trey, can it
be affordable?
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Eye store like mis can drive in Standale always can
help you with your personal if you need a real help,
not just distractions. He can walk you through a granted
VerTech for your organization, your church, your business. Always on
the step out and help out. Appreciate you trying. Thank
you so much for being here with us today.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
Thanks justin having a great day.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Stay cool, you got it man, you too. Yeah, it's
gotta be a hot one. Holy smokes, another hot one.
But the good news is temps are headed down in
the coming days. I like that heat advisory in effect
today ninety four or so for the highs. Muggy skies
(33:15):
gonna make it feel even hotter. The heat index up
in the triple digits, but like I said, look dipping down.
I think eighty for the high Tomorrow. Things are going
to retreat and head the right way by the end
of the week. Here so hanging there with us. Latest
on these stories and more are on the way. In fact,
(33:36):
we got a couple of good ones, some good news.
I need to make sure that I get to coming
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had a great weekend this weekend. My brother was in town.
(34:00):
I got a chance to visit and see my niece
and nephew in there growing like weeds and every single day,
and you like run around and get it take. Of course,
you know what, people come into town to visit, you
got to run them around and show them and give
them the pure Michigan tour, right even though they've been
here over and over and over again, particularly West Michigan.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Got to give them the tour, show them around, and
we did all the things that you like to do.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Went to the cottage, went to the beach, all the
fun stuff that you gotta make sure.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
You didn't going out to eating all of that. But
kNN just.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
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Store tackling the hot button issues with style. It's West
Michigan Live with Justin Barkling on news Radio Wood thirteen
hundred and one oh six nine a f m.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Tuesday, July
twenty ninth. I I'm Robin Poffman. It's a Midwesterner Dot
News original story. Michigan House speaker Republican Matt Hall applauds
a Trump administration led investigation into scholarships for illegal aliens.
Hall says a federal investigation into Western Michigan University's scholarship
(35:44):
practices is long overdue. He calls the investigation the result
of two decades of work. It's been twenty years in
the making. Hall says it's great to see President Trump
taking action on it. President Trump in Scotland, reiterating his
frustration with Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine. Trump says he's
not pleased with Russian President Putin.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
Listen, Russia could be such so rich right now. Instead
they spend all their money on war. They spend everything
on war and killing people, and it doesn't make sense
to me. I thought he would want to end this
thing quickly. I really felt it was going to end.
But every time I think it's going to end, he
kills people.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
For these stories and more, visit The Midwesterner at the
Midwesterner Dot News.
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It was our in radios flown by by the way,
we've got big news. I put this in the stack
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Details buried and recently declassified docs further implicate Obama Obama
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front end center in the Russia, Russia, Russia hoaks. More
on that, folks, and the good news, it's all coming out.
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To great when I enjoy the weathers, try to stake
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