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a sunshiny definitely cloud or two here or there, but
it's gonna be still chilling today. All to get up
to what they say forty I think is what I
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you and also some things that well involve our good
friend Trent Kenneby in a tech talk segment. It's sure
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Speaker 2 (01:14):
The National Security leak or fake news altogether. The story
that I'm sure you're gonna be hearing about everywhere today.
We're gonna set the record straight. Make sure that you're
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it did for us and many others who are listening
to this very program that I could number one massive meeting,
and I just can't imagine. This would be probably top
top tippy top news. Everything else that we're hearing today
(02:21):
didn't didn't come out yesterday. This would be a big one.
We're going to shine a spotlight on it. Elon Musk
wearing his Trump was right about everything had in the
third Cabinet meeting yesterday, revealing that well the Small Business
Association gave out lots of loans to little people. They
weren't little loans, they were little people children.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
That is with this Small Business administration where they were
hanging out loans at three U or thirty million dollars
worth of loans to people on the age of eleven.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Three hundred and thirty million dollars worth of loans to
children under the age of eleven, Now that's a lot
of lemonade stance. I don't know about you. It's a
massive By the way, the youngest was a nine month
old who got a loan for one hundred thousand dollars.
This is all during COVID. You talk about waste, draw
and abuse. This is why they're burning teslas and dealerships.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Two.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, that's it. Been to other big news yesterday, Hyundai
announcing plans with a twenty billion dollar investment in the US.
Part of that to build a still plant in Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Giundai will announce a twenty billion dollar investment in the
United States when its chairman visits the White House today.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That happened.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Sources say that that pledge includes five billion dollars set
for a steel plant in Louisiana, with plans to hire
fifteen hundred employees and produce next generation steel for Hyundai
and Kia cars.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
This is big news, and the President talked a little
bit about it yesterday too. But again, these are the
terriffs in motion, actually working, bringing jobs and business back
to American manufacturing.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
That Hyundai is announcing a major five point eight billion
dollar investment in American manufacturing. In particular, Hunday, we'll be
building a brand new steel plant in Louisiana which will
produce more than two point seven million metric tons of
steal a year, creating more than fourteen hundred jobs for
American steelworkers.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
And then there'll be major expansion after that.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
This will be Hyundai's first ever steel mill in the
United States, one of the largest companies in the world.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
By the way, it's a big, big win, big investment.
You know, there's been over two trillion some odd dollars
pledged to invested into the United States since President Trump
came by. Any Way, they always said this couldn't happen,
this would never happen. Obama said the same thing back
when he came into office first time. Remember they said,
now you can't do it. It's impossible. Now, well look at it.
(04:51):
Look a look at this. Here, cows are flying, the
pigs are full, everything's in popb it's happening. This maybe
should have What ever happened? Is it a National Security
League war? Was it fake news? Lots we're learning Pete
hagg set the Secretary of the Fence yesterday helping set
the record straight on part of this story that one
(05:14):
of the editors from The Atlantic magazine was added on
a shade. Now they're going to call it text messaging,
probably not the best way to describe it. Trent will
get into this a little bit later on today, But
this story isn't as big as it seems as it is,
(05:36):
and there's a reason for that. We'll talk about that
first SEC deatht people were.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Doing, as we speak, from the beginning, overwhelmingly.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Why most details shared on signal? And how did you
learn that a journalists was privy to the targets, the
types of weapons used.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I've heard it was characterized nobody was texting war plans,
and that's all I have to say about that.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Nobody texting war places. By the way, the full clip here,
I'm gonna play for you so you can hear it all.
I want to break this down piece by piece so
you have the information to that because they're gonna hear
headlines and that are gonna be misleading this morning, and
I want to make sure that you actually are in
the know.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
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Speaker 2 (06:34):
So what you just heard from the Secretary of the
Fence is probably the meat of it, right, that was
probably the biggest piece that it was the sauciest anyway, Right,
No war plans were sent on a text message? So
what what did happen? Let's break that down first. More
from that conversation out on the tarmac yesterday. I believe
(06:56):
this is in Hawaii with the Secretary of Can.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
You share how your information about war plans against the
Houthis and Yemen was shared with a journalist in the
Atlantic and where those details classified?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
So you're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so
called journalists who's made a profession of pedaling hoaxes time
and time again, to include the I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
The hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
The fine people on both sides hoax or suckers and
losers hopes. So this is the guy that pedals in garbage.
This is what he does. I would love to comment
on the Hoothie campaign because of the skill and courage
of our troops. I've monitored very closely from the beginning,
and you see, we've been managing four years of deferred
(07:47):
maintenance under the Trump administration. Our troops, our seilers were
getting shot at as targets, our ships couldn't sail through,
and when they did shoot back, it was purely defensively
or at shacks and Yemen. President Trump said no more.
We will re establish de terrence, we will open freedom
of navigation, and we will ultimately decimate the Hohothies, which
(08:10):
is exactly what we're doing as we speak. From the beginning, overwhelmingly.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Those details shared on signal And how did you learn
that a journalists was privy to the targets, the types
of weapons used.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
I've heard it was characterized nobody was texting war plans
and that's all I have to say about that.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
There's seg Seth there again with the rap at the end. Okay,
so here's what you got to know. Set on the table.
Who is Jeffrey Goldberg. He is the editor in chief
of The Atlantic. Okay, he has a history, and so
does the magazine of fretting fake news. Let's just put
(08:54):
it that way. Here's just a couple of the headlines collecting.
Let's just tell you what's set the table here in
defense of naked Joe Biden. The political press is tittering
over the idea of the vice president's skinny dipping and
missing the real news in a forthcoming book on his
secret service detail, Joe Biden the most influential vice president
(09:16):
in history. Question mark, It's totally normal that Joe Biden's
son works for a Ukrainian energy company. These are real headlines, people,
These are real headlines. By the way, this is when
he ran back in twenty tine. This is these are old.
The inauguration of Petro Poroshenko as Ukraine's new president was
(09:38):
Europe's biggest story today, but it wasn't the most interesting one. Okay, Uh,
stay alive, Joe Biden. Democrats need little from the front
runner beyond his corp I remember this headline his corporeal presence,
meaning his body, just to be alive that these these
are actual headlines people that The Atlantic has posted. Now,
(10:03):
I'm gonna parstoy to get in through all of the
details of this, but I just want to set the
table so that you understand who we're dealing with and what.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
All.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Right, run Joe run, Why Democrats need a Biden candidacy.
WTF leave Biden alone? Joe Biden's dating advice for girls?
Biden gets China? Can the times baar chested Biden be explained?
Biden tells third graders Obama is really cool. Joe Biden
crazy like a fox. Just some of the stories in
(10:38):
the details that he covered. Now, I want to also
at end you've just heard from Secretary of Defense Pete Hagsheth.
The President said yesterday he didn't know anything about this
when somebody asked him in a piece. Obviously, since learned
of all of this and the story has broken in
(10:58):
and whatnot speaking to broke.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
This magazine owned by and this might be one. Just
just just wanted to consider this magazine owned by I
believe it's Lorraine pale Jobs. Is that her name Steve
Jobs ex wife, And you'll see this if your watch again.
You need to know who so you can understand the
what and the why. Here she is lounging at the
(11:27):
pool in a picture of the owner of the Atlantic
with her best friend. You'll recognize maybe the both of
them lounging in their bathing suits at the pool one day,
or maybe maybe it's on an infamous island as Jobs
sits next to both of them smiling. A now locked
(11:49):
up Geelane Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend and arranger. Is that
the best way to put it? So so you know
who and what we're dealing with, you've gotta you've got
you've got to understand it. And then you have that
(12:10):
the other headline from the Atlantic, the Great fake child
sex Trafficking Epidemic. So just so you understand who and
what it is important who and what we're dealing with.
White House Press Secretary Carolyn Lovett has been all over
(12:34):
this as well this morning at a message that just
came out on Twitter. X these are the details, Press
secretary writes forty four minutes ago. Jeffrey Goldberg is well
known for his sensationalist spin. Here are the facts about
(12:56):
his latest story. One, no war plans were to discussed. Two,
no classified material was sent to the thread. Three. The
White House Council's Office has provided guidance on a number
of different platforms for President Trump's top officials to communicate
as safely and efficiently as possible. As the National Security
(13:20):
Council stated, the White House is looking into how Goldberg's
number was inadvertently added to the thread. Thanks to the
strong and decisive leadership of President Trump and every one
of the group, the hoothy strikes were successful and effective.
Terrish were killed and that's what matters most to President Trump. Now,
so that brings us really into the question of what
(13:40):
is because they you're going to see the headlines that
are very misleading. Ah Now, one of the things that
you need to understand is and by the way, there's
few other avenues that we need to take on this,
but the app that they're talking about is a secure app.
(14:03):
The servers are even hosted or used by the CIA
and other folks and intel agencies and groups. Now I
do have I have used this app with a group.
We'll go into any further or depth on who it
was and what was it about. But people do use it,
(14:24):
but they're one of the reasons why they do use
the app. They use the app because they want secrecy, safety, security,
I guess is probably the best way to put it.
So it is not just like a random text message
sent over the over the phone over the world wide web.
(14:46):
Now we're going to get into that. We'll talk about
a little more in depth with Trent coming up. But
these are the pieces. Now there's other pieces to this
which I think are interesting and we've got to explore.
But the question is, how did the guy get at
it in? And once he was in, why did he
stay in? What was he realized what was happening on
(15:10):
that thread? Why did he stay inside the thread? If
he's not careful here and I you know, I don't
I don't really know all the details, well other than
what he's told us and what they've said on the
other side of this. But if he's not careful, it's
possible that he could end up in some sort of
(15:33):
legal trouble. Is Now, again I'm not an attorney, so
I can't make that point. But uh, this is something
that I think is going to get a lot of
hoopla today and probably gonna hear a lot of it
from people who understand it very little. I mean, even
the first stories that I saw come out about this
(15:53):
yesterday from so called Trump friendly sources. I looked at
him and said, well, there's a lot that's off on summons.
Now they've kind of balanced it out today. And that's
the thing you have to be careful about. Especially if
people want to react to something right away, they want
to write something right away, they want to get a
click or something like that out right away. You've got
(16:14):
to be very careful about that because the information nine
times out of ten isn't accurate. So that's just download.
There's another piece, there's another possibility with all of us.
We'll explain some of that coming up here in just
a little bit as well, and give you a chance
(16:34):
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Back after it. Coming up after this, Trey Kenneby joins
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us through what that so you can understand exactly what
we're doing with this top story of the day's national
security leak or fake news. He'll tell you what that
(18:25):
signal app exactly is and what all of this means.
They break it all down. It's our coverage continues after
this Westmiscan Live justin Barkley back next on ONOD radio.
I just got this out of the wire. He's just
the news reporting and the latest is are just telling
(18:46):
people off the air behind the scenes. President Trumps standing
by National Security Advisor Mike Walts after disclosing military plans
on messaging app. That's probably one of the best best
headlines that describes it. This whole idea that you're seeing
texting done with national ticket that's just not accurate. We're
(19:09):
going to talk about that and break that down with
with our good friend Trent Can I be coming up
in just a second, but first this is that headline.
Trump stands by National Security Advisor Waltz after disclosing military
plans on messaging at Mike Wallas learned a lesson. He's
a good man, Trump said during call with NBC News.
So I believe that's probably what you' because you're not
going to see any I don't think anyway. You're not
(19:31):
going to see anybody stepping down or anything like that
over this. And at the end of the day, chances
are the information that came out or was out in
this wasn't classified. That's what we're being told. You just
heard Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt. We discussed that previously before
the break make that point that there wasn't in classified
information and that was put out and Hegsath said nobody
(19:55):
was texting war plans. So you got you got a
couple of these that I think really they give you
a little more context in perspective. Now again, national Security
League or fake news, Well, it sounds like I'm going
a little bit towards fake news more than anything. And
what do I mean by that, not that this thing
didn't happen, but more so that what actually happened is
(20:16):
being twisted. And that's nine times out of ten what
happens when you have to sift through the garbage that
is printed by folks like The Atlantic and so many
others joining us to give you a little context on
the tech side of things. Here what this app is,
how it's used, and what it all means. By the way,
what is Signal is our good friend trand Canadian.
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Speaker 2 (20:46):
Trent. Interesting story. I don't know if you've ever used
it before. I have. It is a secure app. Signal
is one of these apps that you would use that
if you wanted to make sure that you were you know, secure,
And I don't know the best way to describe. You
can walk us through the tech stuff for this, but
like encoded and whatnot. You know, it's a privacy app.
(21:10):
That's really what they they sell mostly on this thing,
and it seems to me, Man, I don't think it's
it's not for profit. I think it's owned by a foundation.
There are a lot of people in the intelligence community
that actually use this app, which I think is kind
of interesting because the way the headline is being reported
(21:30):
today is of course that it's all text messages and
things that aren't secure and whatnot. So break it down
for us. What are we looking at here, Trin? Can
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a folks at Grand River Tech welcome in this morning.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Yeah, good, good morning, justin a what an interesting story there. Yeah,
I mean the buzz is all about texting versus a
secure private messaging app. So I'll break that down a bit.
So Signal is a name of an app on your phone,
whether it's Android or Apple. You can go to the
App store, you can download it yourself. It's a free app.
It is a secure messaging app. Now, when you say secure,
(22:11):
that is caveat. So let's first run down the security.
So the highest level secure messaging apps have end to
end encryption. What that means is when you type in
a message into the little message box and you send
it to somebody, it's not sending those characters over the Internet.
It's encrypting them and pretty much bank level encryption. So
when they go from your phone to another person's phone,
(22:32):
they're encrypted. Second of all, those messages are not being
saved on a centralized server somewhere. Those messages start from
your phone. They're saved on your phone, they go to
the other end user, they're saved on their phone physically locally,
there's no local server in the US or China or
anywhere where those messages reside that you can hack into
(22:54):
and gain access. And then they have other things like
your contact lists are hashed a of encryption so that
those can't be easily accessed by other parties. So it
is very secure in the world of messaging, and it's
very very different from text messaging. When you text message somebody,
it's through the sell Your network, the sell your system.
(23:16):
It is not secure. It is very easily readable by
all sorts of bad guys. That's been known for years.
But Signal and there's some other apps like it are
in the consumer world as secure as you're going to get.
If you're going to intercept those messages, you either have
to have full read access of a person's phone, like
you steal their device, or if you have remote access
(23:39):
where you can open the app and read the messages,
or you would have to somehow get those messages and
transmission the second you send it to somebody else and
be able to decrypt that, which takes specialized equipment, and
it's very difficult to do. So nothing is perfectly secure.
We have to be very careful. We say, oh, this
is a quote unquote secure messaging app. Nothing's perfickly secure.
(24:01):
Almost anything is hackable. But if it's extremely difficult to hack,
hackers will usually go for something that's a little easier,
a different system. So that is kind of the the
in depth dive on what the secure messaging app is.
I've used it for years. I don't have any secrets
I'm hiding. It's mainly just a good source for a
(24:21):
family group chat. You can upload pictures and videos. I
recommend you use it. There's versus text. Do not use text.
It's just it's it's not secure. I mean that's the
biggest thing. And you say, well, I don't have anything
I'm hiding. I'm just messaging somebody, you know what what
time is dinner or or what time you be home
from work. That's true, But those messages have a digital
(24:45):
fingerprint of who you are, what you're doing, where you are.
That they're you're being profiled online and in the future.
If those messages do have somebody who's who's out to
get you, or if they're trying to piece information together
to profile tell you that's just very easily readily available.
So even if you don't have any secrets to hide,
(25:05):
definitely use something that's more secured like signal. And there's
other ones out there as well that are similar.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, this is an interesting story and I think one
that as we start to look at a signal. Like
I said, I'm in a group chat on on one
and I won't explain you know what it is or
what it's because it's really it's not even worth telling you.
It's very much so along lines of what Trent explained,
(25:33):
it's just a group of friends talking about things. Nothing big.
But what's interesting is and I rarely rarely even write
in there, I just read this stuff. But this type
of app, and I think this type of communication is
more and more. I think you go see more and
more people using it now, Trent, I've read you know
(25:54):
various different places that there are people in the Intel
community that use this app for for a lot of communication.
Can you talk about that? Is that something that you have.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
And that wouldn't surprise me justin because the government rules.
I'm not an expert on the government rules and regulations.
What's not allowed not allowed, but the things that we
touch on our business, or like HIPPO compliance for example,
or PCI compliance with credit card processing on a network.
The government's writings of those laws, those rules are very vague.
(26:26):
So for example, in PCI compliance, it's very vague. It
says do you have a firewall and you have to
check a box yes or no? Or with hip ho
are you having your communications secured? So it's very vague.
So I wouldn't be surprised at all if many in
the Intel community are using this to talk together, because
it is readily available, it is a fairly high level
(26:48):
trusted and to be honest, justin maybe this is a
sad factor. They probably don't have a better, better solution
that the government offers to them to use, and if
they do, maybe they don't trust it. So I think
that's the huge missing part of the story is if
Intel people, if government officials aren't supposed to be using
a consumer level app, and maybe it's illegal, you know whatever,
(27:08):
I don't know all those things, then why don't they
have a trusted alternative Because if they did, nobody would
be having a need to use it. And I think
that's the key to the story that we're not hearing
about right now.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Trey, can there be affordable lize store, Lignis can drive
and stand out. You have questions about this, but particularly
if you're in the in the app it's or in
the in the chat today and you're watching, feel free
to drop that in. Hey what about Facebook Messenger? We've
heard a lot about your text messages. In fact, Google
just recently this is another interesting piece, but Google just
(27:42):
recently put out some massive piece. You know that they're
going to start really digging into some of your communications. Facebook, Apple,
you got AI. Now you're gonna have to turn on
or turn off the ability that AI is going to
be able to read everything that you have to make,
(28:03):
you know, make things better for you, essentially make things
more convenient for you so that they can understand. By
the way, this is having massive immediate impact as we speak,
Google's seeing a shift in search in fact, searches where
people would go online to say, hey Google, how do
I do this or what about that? People are now
(28:25):
searching with AI versus searching on Google and having to
wade through all these different posts about you know, ads
and everything else to get to the best answer, the
best message. So there's a number of shifts happening right now,
and I'm just I'm curious, you know, when it comes
to you know, the like as you said text messages earlier,
(28:49):
how much of those things as as we know you
said last week, I think it was that we talked
about Amazon's going to start storing all of your requests
and questions in their cloud and their server now instead
of locally. When it comes to what you're asking Alexa,
that's a big deal.
Speaker 9 (29:12):
So justin let's talk about where information is stored, because
that's kind of the key short term where information is stored.
So like Facebook Messenger, they're saying, like if you use
the what's that version that's also a Facebook product, they
say that it is end and encrypted, But if the
information is still stored on their server, then there is
(29:32):
central access for a hacker, for AI system, for a
cord order to search that data and to reveal that data.
So be very careful when you see end to end encryption,
it's a generic term. There's much more to security than
just end to end encryption. So the next thing I'll
explain or talk about here real quick is the AI
(29:52):
side of things. So if you don't have your data
stored on a central server and it's stored on your
phone only, like signal is, you're pretty safe from a
lot of prying eyes on the Internet. But if AI
on your phone natively has the ability to go through
all your phone's apps and look at all of that
data and then report that data into its database, it
(30:15):
essentially circumvents the purpose of local only, encrypted only data.
So that is something that we need to watch for.
Does AI have access to your local apps and your
local data on your phone? And I think the short
answer is yes. I think if you have AI turned
on on your iPhone or your Android, I think it
has access to most of your data. And I would
(30:38):
say it's probably guaranteed as access to it while you're
reading or looking at it. And we'll have to see
how that plays out if permissions can stop that. But
that's a scary thing where AI is constantly scanning, recording, monitoring,
profiling you on local data that should be secure and
that should be your own data.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I've been thinking about for a while that just getting
a dumb phone. I want to go back to a
dumb phone. It's something that doesn't have all this stuff
because it is it's becoming it really is becoming really interesting.
At one other piece of warning for today, because this
is our big story, so this is what we spend
most of our time on. But there's a couple of stories.
I just want to just lightning round run through five minutes.
(31:21):
Five minutes is all it takes for Chinese electric vehicle
giant BYD and its ultra fast charging system to charge
its latest models. They can go up to two hundred
and fifty miles according to BYD and China. Now if
that I'm going to have to put the caveat out there.
But again, if that is true China, that revolutionizes electric vehicles,
(31:47):
that revolutionizes charging totally altogether. In comparison, it takes Tesla's
supercharger fifteen minutes to charge its range of two hundred miles.
But this is a it's a big story, and it's
one that'll probably get a little more light shone on
it in the days ahead. But it doesn't mean that
(32:07):
Tesla or someone else couldn't pick up this technology and
run with it as well. In fact, they might even
have it somewhere that they're working on. We don't know.
But this is a big story, isn't it.
Speaker 9 (32:17):
Yeah, justin lithium batteries can handle charging very fast. It's
not hard. You have to put voltage into them. And
yes they have the proper sized wiring and charging systems
and everything. What's really holding back faster charging in the
US isn't that we don't have the technology or the
ability to do it. It's all there. It's the infrastructure.
(32:38):
So all of the charging cables, all the charging transformers,
all of the wiring that feeds that, and our power
grid has to be able to support now significantly higher
quick throughputs, and our power grids already struggling with surge
and loads, and so the fast charging has not really
been pushed by US evs because of the rest of
(33:01):
the logistical issues with fast charging. So if they can
work out the grid issues, the charging infrastructure issues, we
can certainly fast charge just as fast as China. We
have the same technology. It's kind of a nothing story
in the sense that China's claiming this is a big
cutting edge advantage and it's not. It's something that we
(33:22):
have access to as well.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Twenty three and Me is the latest company with a
major issue. They're going into bankruptcy now. This is one
of these DNA test companies where you find out your
family tree, that sort of thing, and anybody that connected you. Now,
this brings a lot of questions about what's going to
happen to all that data. That along with another interesting story.
(33:47):
This is a while back, but Nate Johnson and a
US Treasury Department policy advisor, exposed that twenty three and
Me had been secretly sharing customer data with nearly every country.
He claims a hidden clause in their contract allows them
to hand over user information to shareholders, all of whom
are pharmaceutical companies owned by Russia and China. California's Attorney
(34:10):
general has urged customers to delete their data as twenty
three and meter found for Chapter eleven bankruptcy. And that
is the question what happens with all of that data
in the background. If you did this at one point
use twenty three toe me, you may want to take
a second look.
Speaker 9 (34:28):
And justin this is a sad story because many people
just thought, Hey, this is cool, I'm going to buy
this for a family member. Remember, so many ads for
this were buying this as a gift for a family member.
That's how much of their ads were targeted towards. So
people thought this was cool. I'm going to buy one
for myself and my mother and my grandmother, and we're
going to look into our history and see where we
(34:48):
came from. And there's really cool information you can learn
from this. But you're sending your DNA the key to
your existence as a human being, what makes you meet
and special, and you're giving that to a company that
has very little control over where we're going with this,
and as you can see, it's going to third party
pharmaceutic companies that are going to use this for who
(35:08):
knows what into the future, as there's much creepy medicine
based around DNA. This is just a wake up call.
Don't be sharing personal information with anybody. Even if the
company is quote unquote good. What happens like this when
they go out of business? Who's going to buy it up?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Great questions and lots of this still yet to come. Again,
we could probably do a whole show today on Tech Talk.
Our good friend Frank Kennedy, Affordable I Store, Lagmas Can
Drive and stand Out, and of course grand Over Tech.
Always a pleasure, my friend. Thank you so much for
taking the time to be here with us and to
walk us through these stories. Some of the biggest of
the day as well.
Speaker 9 (35:44):
Thank you, Thanks Asin, I have a great day.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
You got it, you two folks. We continue our conversations
right after this. By the way, I just got a
new update about the bid administration news on the Signal app.
You're probably gonna want to hear back after the y
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Whitmer issued executive orders involving coronavirus lockdowns, she was all
about it. House Majority Leader Mike Johnson focused on delivering
President Trump's legislative agenda and is ready to get a
bill passed that includes money for homeland security and other
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to this very program that I could number one massive meeting,
and I just can't imagine. This would be probably top
top tippy top news. Everything else that we're hearing today
(02:21):
didn't didn't come out yesterday. This would be a big one.
We're going to shine a spotlight on it. Elon Musk
wearing his Trump was right about everything had in the
third Cabinet meeting yesterday, revealing that well the Small Business
Association gave out lots of loans to little people. They
weren't little loans, they were little people children.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
That is with this Small Business administration where they were
hanging out loans at three U or thirty million dollars
worth of loans to people on the age of eleven.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Three hundred and thirty million dollars worth of loans to
children under the age of eleven, Now that's a lot
of lemonade stance. I don't know about you. It's a
massive By the way, the youngest was a nine month
old who got a loan for one hundred thousand dollars.
This is all during COVID. You talk about waste, draw
and abuse. This is why they're burning teslas and dealerships.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Two.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, that's it. Been to other big news yesterday, Hyundai
announcing plans with a twenty billion dollar investment in the US.
Part of that to build a still plant in Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Giundai will announce a twenty billion dollar investment in the
United States when its chairman visits the White House today.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
That happened.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Sources say that that pledge includes five billion dollars set
for a steel plant in Louisiana, with plans to hire
fifteen hundred employees and produce next generation steel for Hyundai
and Kia cars.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
This is big news, and the President talked a little
bit about it yesterday too. But again, these are the
terriffs in motion, actually working, bringing jobs and business back
to American manufacturing.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
That Hyundai is announcing a major five point eight billion
dollar investment in American manufacturing. In particular, Hunday, we'll be
building a brand new steel plant in Louisiana which will
produce more than two point seven million metric tons of
steal a year, creating more than fourteen hundred jobs for
American steelworkers.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
And then there'll be major expansion after that.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
This will be Hyundai's first ever steel mill in the
United States, one of the largest companies in the world.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
By the way, it's a big, big win, big investment.
You know, there's been over two trillion some odd dollars
pledged to invested into the United States since President Trump
came by. Any Way, they always said this couldn't happen,
this would never happen. Obama said the same thing back
when he came into office first time. Remember they said,
now you can't do it. It's impossible. Now, well look at it.
(04:51):
Look a look at this. Here, cows are flying, the
pigs are full, everything's in popb it's happening. This maybe
should have What ever happened? Is it a National Security
League war? Was it fake news? Lots we're learning Pete
hagg set the Secretary of the Fence yesterday helping set
the record straight on part of this story that one
(05:14):
of the editors from The Atlantic magazine was added on
a shade. Now they're going to call it text messaging,
probably not the best way to describe it. Trent will
get into this a little bit later on today, But
this story isn't as big as it seems as it is,
(05:36):
and there's a reason for that. We'll talk about that
first SEC deatht people were.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Doing, as we speak, from the beginning, overwhelmingly.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Why most details shared on signal? And how did you
learn that a journalists was privy to the targets, the
types of weapons used.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I've heard it was characterized nobody was texting war plans,
and that's all I have to say about that.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Nobody texting war places. By the way, the full clip here,
I'm gonna play for you so you can hear it all.
I want to break this down piece by piece so
you have the information to that because they're gonna hear
headlines and that are gonna be misleading this morning, and
I want to make sure that you actually are in
the know.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
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Speaker 2 (06:34):
So what you just heard from the Secretary of the
Fence is probably the meat of it, right, that was
probably the biggest piece that it was the sauciest anyway, Right,
No war plans were sent on a text message? So
what what did happen? Let's break that down first. More
from that conversation out on the tarmac yesterday. I believe
(06:56):
this is in Hawaii with the Secretary of Can.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
You share how your information about war plans against the
Houthis and Yemen was shared with a journalist in the
Atlantic and where those details classified?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
So you're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so
called journalists who's made a profession of pedaling hoaxes time
and time again, to include the I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
The hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
The fine people on both sides hoax or suckers and
losers hopes. So this is the guy that pedals in garbage.
This is what he does. I would love to comment
on the Hoothie campaign because of the skill and courage
of our troops. I've monitored very closely from the beginning,
and you see, we've been managing four years of deferred
(07:47):
maintenance under the Trump administration. Our troops, our seilers were
getting shot at as targets, our ships couldn't sail through,
and when they did shoot back, it was purely defensively
or at shacks and Yemen. President Trump said no more.
We will re establish de terrence, we will open freedom
of navigation, and we will ultimately decimate the Hohothies, which
(08:10):
is exactly what we're doing as we speak. From the beginning, overwhelmingly.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Those details shared on signal And how did you learn
that a journalists was privy to the targets, the types
of weapons used.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
I've heard it was characterized nobody was texting war plans
and that's all I have to say about that.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
There's seg Seth there again with the rap at the end. Okay,
so here's what you got to know. Set on the table.
Who is Jeffrey Goldberg. He is the editor in chief
of The Atlantic. Okay, he has a history, and so
does the magazine of fretting fake news. Let's just put
(08:54):
it that way. Here's just a couple of the headlines collecting.
Let's just tell you what's set the table here in
defense of naked Joe Biden. The political press is tittering
over the idea of the vice president's skinny dipping and
missing the real news in a forthcoming book on his
secret service detail, Joe Biden the most influential vice president
(09:16):
in history. Question mark, It's totally normal that Joe Biden's
son works for a Ukrainian energy company. These are real headlines, people,
These are real headlines. By the way, this is when
he ran back in twenty tine. This is these are old.
The inauguration of Petro Poroshenko as Ukraine's new president was
(09:38):
Europe's biggest story today, but it wasn't the most interesting one. Okay, Uh,
stay alive, Joe Biden. Democrats need little from the front
runner beyond his corp I remember this headline his corporeal presence,
meaning his body, just to be alive that these these
are actual headlines people that The Atlantic has posted. Now,
(10:03):
I'm gonna parstoy to get in through all of the
details of this, but I just want to set the
table so that you understand who we're dealing with and what.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
All.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Right, run Joe run, Why Democrats need a Biden candidacy.
WTF leave Biden alone? Joe Biden's dating advice for girls?
Biden gets China? Can the times baar chested Biden be explained?
Biden tells third graders Obama is really cool. Joe Biden
crazy like a fox. Just some of the stories in
(10:38):
the details that he covered. Now, I want to also
at end you've just heard from Secretary of Defense Pete Hagsheth.
The President said yesterday he didn't know anything about this
when somebody asked him in a piece. Obviously, since learned
of all of this and the story has broken in
(10:58):
and whatnot speaking to broke.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
This magazine owned by and this might be one. Just
just just wanted to consider this magazine owned by I
believe it's Lorraine pale Jobs. Is that her name Steve
Jobs ex wife, And you'll see this if your watch again.
You need to know who so you can understand the
what and the why. Here she is lounging at the
(11:27):
pool in a picture of the owner of the Atlantic
with her best friend. You'll recognize maybe the both of
them lounging in their bathing suits at the pool one day,
or maybe maybe it's on an infamous island as Jobs
sits next to both of them smiling. A now locked
(11:49):
up Geelane Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend and arranger. Is that
the best way to put it? So so you know
who and what we're dealing with, you've gotta you've got
you've got to understand it. And then you have that
(12:10):
the other headline from the Atlantic, the Great fake child
sex Trafficking Epidemic. So just so you understand who and
what it is important who and what we're dealing with.
White House Press Secretary Carolyn Lovett has been all over
(12:34):
this as well this morning at a message that just
came out on Twitter. X these are the details, Press
secretary writes forty four minutes ago. Jeffrey Goldberg is well
known for his sensationalist spin. Here are the facts about
(12:56):
his latest story. One, no war plans were to discussed. Two,
no classified material was sent to the thread. Three. The
White House Council's Office has provided guidance on a number
of different platforms for President Trump's top officials to communicate
as safely and efficiently as possible. As the National Security
(13:20):
Council stated, the White House is looking into how Goldberg's
number was inadvertently added to the thread. Thanks to the
strong and decisive leadership of President Trump and every one
of the group, the hoothy strikes were successful and effective.
Terrish were killed and that's what matters most to President Trump. Now,
so that brings us really into the question of what
(13:40):
is because they you're going to see the headlines that
are very misleading. Ah Now, one of the things that
you need to understand is and by the way, there's
few other avenues that we need to take on this,
but the app that they're talking about is a secure app.
(14:03):
The servers are even hosted or used by the CIA
and other folks and intel agencies and groups. Now I
do have I have used this app with a group.
We'll go into any further or depth on who it
was and what was it about. But people do use it,
(14:24):
but they're one of the reasons why they do use
the app. They use the app because they want secrecy, safety, security,
I guess is probably the best way to put it.
So it is not just like a random text message
sent over the over the phone over the world wide web.
(14:46):
Now we're going to get into that. We'll talk about
a little more in depth with Trent coming up. But
these are the pieces. Now there's other pieces to this
which I think are interesting and we've got to explore.
But the question is, how did the guy get at
it in? And once he was in, why did he
stay in? What was he realized what was happening on
(15:10):
that thread? Why did he stay inside the thread? If
he's not careful here and I you know, I don't
I don't really know all the details, well other than
what he's told us and what they've said on the
other side of this. But if he's not careful, it's
possible that he could end up in some sort of
(15:33):
legal trouble. Is Now, again I'm not an attorney, so
I can't make that point. But uh, this is something
that I think is going to get a lot of
hoopla today and probably gonna hear a lot of it
from people who understand it very little. I mean, even
the first stories that I saw come out about this
(15:53):
yesterday from so called Trump friendly sources. I looked at
him and said, well, there's a lot that's off on summons.
Now they've kind of balanced it out today. And that's
the thing you have to be careful about. Especially if
people want to react to something right away, they want
to write something right away, they want to get a
click or something like that out right away. You've got
(16:14):
to be very careful about that because the information nine
times out of ten isn't accurate. So that's just download.
There's another piece, there's another possibility with all of us.
We'll explain some of that coming up here in just
a little bit as well, and give you a chance
(16:34):
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Speaker 10 (16:57):
Here are your headlines from the midwestern Or this Tuesday,
March twenty fifth. I'm Robin Hoffman. It's a Midwesterner News
original story. Michigan Attorney General Democrat Dana Nessel topping the news.
Back in twenty twenty, she was all about Governor Whitmer's
executive orders about COVID lockdowns here in our state. Five
years later, right now, in twenty twenty five, she's being
(17:19):
very vocal against President Trump's executive orders. Nessel taking her
message on the road and was in Grand Rapids over
the weekend. Democrat Governor Whitmer also on the road, but
her trip out of the country to the UK and
Ireland for what her administration is calling a springtime investment mission.
Last year, Whitmer spending twenty five percent of her time
(17:41):
out of the office, and the FBI warning Tesla dealerships
to be on guard for violence after explosive devices founded
in Austin, Texas Tesla dealership. It's believed radicals on the
left targeting owner Elon Musk because of his relationship with
President Trump. For these stories and more, visit The Midwesterner
at the Midwesterner Dot News.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Back after it. Coming up after this, Trey Kenneby joins
US Tech Talk Affordable ice store, Lake Michigan Drive and
stand down at a four Brandrivertech dot Com Chinel walk
us through what that so you can understand exactly what
we're doing with this top story of the day's national
security leak or fake news. He'll tell you what that
(18:25):
signal app exactly is and what all of this means.
They break it all down. It's our coverage continues after
this Westmiscan Live justin Barkley back next on ONOD radio.
I just got this out of the wire. He's just
the news reporting and the latest is are just telling
(18:46):
people off the air behind the scenes. President Trumps standing
by National Security Advisor Mike Walts after disclosing military plans
on messaging app. That's probably one of the best best
headlines that describes it. This whole idea that you're seeing
texting done with national ticket that's just not accurate. We're
(19:09):
going to talk about that and break that down with
with our good friend Trent Can I be coming up
in just a second, but first this is that headline.
Trump stands by National Security Advisor Waltz after disclosing military
plans on messaging at Mike Wallas learned a lesson. He's
a good man, Trump said during call with NBC News.
So I believe that's probably what you' because you're not
going to see any I don't think anyway. You're not
(19:31):
going to see anybody stepping down or anything like that
over this. And at the end of the day, chances
are the information that came out or was out in
this wasn't classified. That's what we're being told. You just
heard Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt. We discussed that previously before
the break make that point that there wasn't in classified
information and that was put out and Hegsath said nobody
(19:55):
was texting war plans. So you got you got a
couple of these that I think really they give you
a little more context in perspective. Now again, national Security
League or fake news, Well, it sounds like I'm going
a little bit towards fake news more than anything. And
what do I mean by that, not that this thing
didn't happen, but more so that what actually happened is
(20:16):
being twisted. And that's nine times out of ten what
happens when you have to sift through the garbage that
is printed by folks like The Atlantic and so many
others joining us to give you a little context on
the tech side of things. Here what this app is,
how it's used, and what it all means. By the way,
what is Signal is our good friend trand Canadian.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Back into the latest in tech and how it affects
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Speaker 2 (20:46):
Trent. Interesting story. I don't know if you've ever used
it before. I have. It is a secure app. Signal
is one of these apps that you would use that
if you wanted to make sure that you were you know, secure,
And I don't know the best way to describe. You
can walk us through the tech stuff for this, but
like encoded and whatnot. You know, it's a privacy app.
(21:10):
That's really what they they sell mostly on this thing,
and it seems to me, Man, I don't think it's
it's not for profit. I think it's owned by a foundation.
There are a lot of people in the intelligence community
that actually use this app, which I think is kind
of interesting because the way the headline is being reported
(21:30):
today is of course that it's all text messages and
things that aren't secure and whatnot. So break it down
for us. What are we looking at here, Trin? Can
it be affordable? Livestore Lake Michigan Drive and Standale and
a folks at Grand River Tech welcome in this morning.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Yeah, good, good morning, justin a what an interesting story there. Yeah,
I mean the buzz is all about texting versus a
secure private messaging app. So I'll break that down a bit.
So Signal is a name of an app on your phone,
whether it's Android or Apple. You can go to the
App store, you can download it yourself. It's a free app.
It is a secure messaging app. Now, when you say secure,
(22:11):
that is caveat. So let's first run down the security.
So the highest level secure messaging apps have end to
end encryption. What that means is when you type in
a message into the little message box and you send
it to somebody, it's not sending those characters over the Internet.
It's encrypting them and pretty much bank level encryption. So
when they go from your phone to another person's phone,
(22:32):
they're encrypted. Second of all, those messages are not being
saved on a centralized server somewhere. Those messages start from
your phone. They're saved on your phone, they go to
the other end user, they're saved on their phone physically locally,
there's no local server in the US or China or
anywhere where those messages reside that you can hack into
(22:54):
and gain access. And then they have other things like
your contact lists are hashed a of encryption so that
those can't be easily accessed by other parties. So it
is very secure in the world of messaging, and it's
very very different from text messaging. When you text message somebody,
it's through the sell Your network, the sell your system.
(23:16):
It is not secure. It is very easily readable by
all sorts of bad guys. That's been known for years.
But Signal and there's some other apps like it are
in the consumer world as secure as you're going to get.
If you're going to intercept those messages, you either have
to have full read access of a person's phone, like
you steal their device, or if you have remote access
(23:39):
where you can open the app and read the messages,
or you would have to somehow get those messages and
transmission the second you send it to somebody else and
be able to decrypt that, which takes specialized equipment, and
it's very difficult to do. So nothing is perfectly secure.
We have to be very careful. We say, oh, this
is a quote unquote secure messaging app. Nothing's perfickly secure.
(24:01):
Almost anything is hackable. But if it's extremely difficult to hack,
hackers will usually go for something that's a little easier,
a different system. So that is kind of the the
in depth dive on what the secure messaging app is.
I've used it for years. I don't have any secrets
I'm hiding. It's mainly just a good source for a
(24:21):
family group chat. You can upload pictures and videos. I
recommend you use it. There's versus text. Do not use text.
It's just it's it's not secure. I mean that's the
biggest thing. And you say, well, I don't have anything
I'm hiding. I'm just messaging somebody, you know what what
time is dinner or or what time you be home
from work. That's true, But those messages have a digital
(24:45):
fingerprint of who you are, what you're doing, where you are.
That they're you're being profiled online and in the future.
If those messages do have somebody who's who's out to
get you, or if they're trying to piece information together
to profile tell you that's just very easily readily available.
So even if you don't have any secrets to hide,
(25:05):
definitely use something that's more secured like signal. And there's
other ones out there as well that are similar.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, this is an interesting story and I think one
that as we start to look at a signal. Like
I said, I'm in a group chat on on one
and I won't explain you know what it is or
what it's because it's really it's not even worth telling you.
It's very much so along lines of what Trent explained,
(25:33):
it's just a group of friends talking about things. Nothing big.
But what's interesting is and I rarely rarely even write
in there, I just read this stuff. But this type
of app, and I think this type of communication is
more and more. I think you go see more and
more people using it now, Trent, I've read you know
(25:54):
various different places that there are people in the Intel
community that use this app for for a lot of communication.
Can you talk about that? Is that something that you have.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
And that wouldn't surprise me justin because the government rules.
I'm not an expert on the government rules and regulations.
What's not allowed not allowed, but the things that we
touch on our business, or like HIPPO compliance for example,
or PCI compliance with credit card processing on a network.
The government's writings of those laws, those rules are very vague.
(26:26):
So for example, in PCI compliance, it's very vague. It
says do you have a firewall and you have to
check a box yes or no? Or with hip ho
are you having your communications secured? So it's very vague.
So I wouldn't be surprised at all if many in
the Intel community are using this to talk together, because
it is readily available, it is a fairly high level
(26:48):
trusted and to be honest, justin maybe this is a
sad factor. They probably don't have a better, better solution
that the government offers to them to use, and if
they do, maybe they don't trust it. So I think
that's the huge missing part of the story is if
Intel people, if government officials aren't supposed to be using
a consumer level app, and maybe it's illegal, you know whatever,
(27:08):
I don't know all those things, then why don't they
have a trusted alternative Because if they did, nobody would
be having a need to use it. And I think
that's the key to the story that we're not hearing
about right now.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Trey, can there be affordable lize store, Lignis can drive
and stand out. You have questions about this, but particularly
if you're in the in the app it's or in
the in the chat today and you're watching, feel free
to drop that in. Hey what about Facebook Messenger? We've
heard a lot about your text messages. In fact, Google
just recently this is another interesting piece, but Google just
(27:42):
recently put out some massive piece. You know that they're
going to start really digging into some of your communications. Facebook, Apple,
you got AI. Now you're gonna have to turn on
or turn off the ability that AI is going to
be able to read everything that you have to make,
(28:03):
you know, make things better for you, essentially make things
more convenient for you so that they can understand. By
the way, this is having massive immediate impact as we speak,
Google's seeing a shift in search in fact, searches where
people would go online to say, hey Google, how do
I do this or what about that? People are now
(28:25):
searching with AI versus searching on Google and having to
wade through all these different posts about you know, ads
and everything else to get to the best answer, the
best message. So there's a number of shifts happening right now,
and I'm just I'm curious, you know, when it comes
to you know, the like as you said text messages earlier,
(28:49):
how much of those things as as we know you
said last week, I think it was that we talked
about Amazon's going to start storing all of your requests
and questions in their cloud and their server now instead
of locally. When it comes to what you're asking Alexa,
that's a big deal.
Speaker 9 (29:12):
So justin let's talk about where information is stored, because
that's kind of the key short term where information is stored.
So like Facebook Messenger, they're saying, like if you use
the what's that version that's also a Facebook product, they
say that it is end and encrypted, But if the
information is still stored on their server, then there is
(29:32):
central access for a hacker, for AI system, for a
cord order to search that data and to reveal that data.
So be very careful when you see end to end encryption,
it's a generic term. There's much more to security than
just end to end encryption. So the next thing I'll
explain or talk about here real quick is the AI
(29:52):
side of things. So if you don't have your data
stored on a central server and it's stored on your
phone only, like signal is, you're pretty safe from a
lot of prying eyes on the Internet. But if AI
on your phone natively has the ability to go through
all your phone's apps and look at all of that
data and then report that data into its database, it
(30:15):
essentially circumvents the purpose of local only, encrypted only data.
So that is something that we need to watch for.
Does AI have access to your local apps and your
local data on your phone? And I think the short
answer is yes. I think if you have AI turned
on on your iPhone or your Android, I think it
has access to most of your data. And I would
(30:38):
say it's probably guaranteed as access to it while you're
reading or looking at it. And we'll have to see
how that plays out if permissions can stop that. But
that's a scary thing where AI is constantly scanning, recording, monitoring,
profiling you on local data that should be secure and
that should be your own data.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I've been thinking about for a while that just getting
a dumb phone. I want to go back to a
dumb phone. It's something that doesn't have all this stuff
because it is it's becoming it really is becoming really interesting.
At one other piece of warning for today, because this
is our big story, so this is what we spend
most of our time on. But there's a couple of stories.
I just want to just lightning round run through five minutes.
(31:21):
Five minutes is all it takes for Chinese electric vehicle
giant BYD and its ultra fast charging system to charge
its latest models. They can go up to two hundred
and fifty miles according to BYD and China. Now if
that I'm going to have to put the caveat out there.
But again, if that is true China, that revolutionizes electric vehicles,
(31:47):
that revolutionizes charging totally altogether. In comparison, it takes Tesla's
supercharger fifteen minutes to charge its range of two hundred miles.
But this is a it's a big story, and it's
one that'll probably get a little more light shone on
it in the days ahead. But it doesn't mean that
(32:07):
Tesla or someone else couldn't pick up this technology and
run with it as well. In fact, they might even
have it somewhere that they're working on. We don't know.
But this is a big story, isn't it.
Speaker 9 (32:17):
Yeah, justin lithium batteries can handle charging very fast. It's
not hard. You have to put voltage into them. And
yes they have the proper sized wiring and charging systems
and everything. What's really holding back faster charging in the
US isn't that we don't have the technology or the
ability to do it. It's all there. It's the infrastructure.
(32:38):
So all of the charging cables, all the charging transformers,
all of the wiring that feeds that, and our power
grid has to be able to support now significantly higher
quick throughputs, and our power grids already struggling with surge
and loads, and so the fast charging has not really
been pushed by US evs because of the rest of
(33:01):
the logistical issues with fast charging. So if they can
work out the grid issues, the charging infrastructure issues, we
can certainly fast charge just as fast as China. We
have the same technology. It's kind of a nothing story
in the sense that China's claiming this is a big
cutting edge advantage and it's not. It's something that we
(33:22):
have access to as well.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Twenty three and Me is the latest company with a
major issue. They're going into bankruptcy now. This is one
of these DNA test companies where you find out your
family tree, that sort of thing, and anybody that connected you. Now,
this brings a lot of questions about what's going to
happen to all that data. That along with another interesting story.
(33:47):
This is a while back, but Nate Johnson and a
US Treasury Department policy advisor, exposed that twenty three and
Me had been secretly sharing customer data with nearly every country.
He claims a hidden clause in their contract allows them
to hand over user information to shareholders, all of whom
are pharmaceutical companies owned by Russia and China. California's Attorney
(34:10):
general has urged customers to delete their data as twenty
three and meter found for Chapter eleven bankruptcy. And that
is the question what happens with all of that data
in the background. If you did this at one point
use twenty three toe me, you may want to take
a second look.
Speaker 9 (34:28):
And justin this is a sad story because many people
just thought, Hey, this is cool, I'm going to buy
this for a family member. Remember, so many ads for
this were buying this as a gift for a family member.
That's how much of their ads were targeted towards. So
people thought this was cool. I'm going to buy one
for myself and my mother and my grandmother, and we're
going to look into our history and see where we
(34:48):
came from. And there's really cool information you can learn
from this. But you're sending your DNA the key to
your existence as a human being, what makes you meet
and special, and you're giving that to a company that
has very little control over where we're going with this,
and as you can see, it's going to third party
pharmaceutic companies that are going to use this for who
(35:08):
knows what into the future, as there's much creepy medicine
based around DNA. This is just a wake up call.
Don't be sharing personal information with anybody. Even if the
company is quote unquote good. What happens like this when
they go out of business? Who's going to buy it up?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Great questions and lots of this still yet to come. Again,
we could probably do a whole show today on Tech Talk.
Our good friend Frank Kennedy, Affordable I Store, Lagmas Can
Drive and stand Out, and of course grand Over Tech.
Always a pleasure, my friend. Thank you so much for
taking the time to be here with us and to
walk us through these stories. Some of the biggest of
the day as well.
Speaker 9 (35:44):
Thank you, Thanks Asin, I have a great day.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
You got it, you two folks. We continue our conversations
right after this. By the way, I just got a
new update about the bid administration news on the Signal app.
You're probably gonna want to hear back after the y
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original story. She sure sounds like a hypocrite, Michigan Attorney
General Dana Nessel taking her attacks against President Trump on
tour launching the first of what's expected to be many
town halls. She was in grand rapids over the weekend,
(36:26):
Nessel saying she's against Trump's executive orders. Yet when Governor
Whitmer issued executive orders involving coronavirus lockdowns, she was all
about it. House Majority Leader Mike Johnson focused on delivering
President Trump's legislative agenda and is ready to get a
bill passed that includes money for homeland security and other
(36:46):
critical agencies.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I have said originally I would like to get the
bill of the president's desk before Easter. If that doesn't happen,
it is not the end of the world. We are
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