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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's Trump Tuesday, one hundred days and he brings the
Trump Trained to Michigan. Get fat. It'll make a couple
of stops. He's got a special guest who may bring
along her blue folder. We're gonna tell you all about
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Let's go.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, here we go, folks. President Trump heading the Michigan
for the first hundred days and that rally schedule to
take place a little later this evening. But before he
stops there, guess where he's headed. You'll be going to
Tufford Air Force Base. And while he's there, apparently, according
(02:04):
to the AP reports here just weeks after that awkward
Oval Office appearance, Gretchen Whitner will once again be by
his side today at that Air National Guard base, where
she may or may not, just depending upon now things
go today may or may not have that blue folder,
(02:26):
the infamous blue folder with her in tow. The rally
will take place a little later on tonight, Bell McCom
Community College and of course, folks still I think trying
to get in again tickets. It may be tough, but
we'll keep you up to speed on that. We'll be
doing a little bit of a broadcast ourself this evening
when it comes to that conversation and the rally covering
(02:48):
it all. Well, we finally have the news female black
Hawk pilot rejected the male co pilot's life saving directed
fifteen seconds before the fireball erupted over DC too far back.
We remember that horrific story, and we've got some West
Michigan connections to it all. In fact, I been praying
(03:09):
for folks involved with it as we've been hearing the
stories coming back and gush, it is absolutely heartbreaking. The
New York Times waiting until the very end of its
lengthy story there to report January the collision there between
the Army helicopter and that passenger jet in Washington, d C.
(03:31):
Killing I think it was sixty seventy people. Army Captain
Rebecca M. Lowback remember she had an interesting checkered pack
working in the White House at one part part of
her annual flight evaluation on that night. That night, her
assignment was to navigate conditions of a scenario on which
members of Congress or other senior government officials might need
to be carried out of the nation's capital during an attack.
(03:56):
All Back there was the highest ranking soldier on the helicopter,
but Chief warn Officer Andrew Lloyd Eves, acting as her instructor,
had flown more than twice as many hours over the time,
the outlets said. Army said the news release. Lowback became
an aviation officer in twenty nineteen, and her family said
(04:16):
in a statement including her release, she had four hundred
and fifty flight hours, but she did not do what
as she was instructed to do and avoid that CRJA airplane.
There'll be a lot of talk over this in the
days ahead, but it is it is, in fact an
absolute tragedy, horrific what happened there. Praying for those families
(04:38):
as well. But people will be taking this apart from
here on out, and I think it's safe to say
there ought to be questions as to her fitness, her ability,
and how she got to where she was specifically avoiding
those instructions numbering well. We got day two officer sure
(05:01):
trial wrapping the first day. They resume this morning. Highlights
from the day focusing mostly on talk of the taser.
It is going to be front and center in this
trial because Patrick Leia had his hand on that taser
(05:21):
when Officer sure A shot him. That story one that
I think an inconvenient fact. And you know, there's a
lot of talking question over well, the Taylor Staser's not
a deadly weapon, no, but sure not necessarily, but it
can be sure also had a deadly weapon on him
had he been incapacitated, that weapon could have been used
(05:43):
to turn on Heck, a rot next to the man
could have been used and turned on him. And these
are issues that it's easy for armshare quarterbacks to try
and decipher and the code throughout the days passed and prior.
But this is part from the trial. Everything he could
to avoid using deadly force. A reasonable officer in that
(06:05):
situation would not think definitelys would even happen, would not
think the use of deadly force was necessarily.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
This was survival, This was self defense.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, when you put all this together, taken look at
all the evidence, you have to say it was not
just fine.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It was unreasonable opening statements. And that was the last
time I saw you did. Didn't know what happened after
questions from witnesses, cause.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I know, I see my roommate community house crying, shake
in and dim that force going on.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh, I see something was was going on.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
That's when I step out their car and then I
just started.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Recording immediately that that's where my mind went.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
This tussle was gonna end up in someone dying, and
the it did at a very unfortunate situation. Again, we
prayed for other folks involved in.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Yeah, it is will show that officer of Christopher Serve
did everything he could to avoid.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Now we'll have more again as the as the day
rolls on and they're on a thirty minute delay the
video that's coming out of the television pool, they're on
a thirty minute delay from the courthouse, So what is
actually happening in the room there we get to see
thirty minutes later, which is wow. I've never seen anything
(07:23):
like it before, but it is. It is a story
that we're going to continue to stay on top of him. Again,
we're praying not only for the officer, pray for the
family of Patrick Leia in the entire area and city
as we go through this. This is something that never
should have happened easily avoidable, and there'll be plenty of
conversation about that in the days ahead as well. We'll
(07:45):
get into all of it more. You can join the
program as well right here.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Call Justin now at six one six seven seven twenty
four twenty four. That's six one six seven seven twenty
four to twenty four West Michigan Live with Justin Barclay
on News rati A Wood thirteen hundred and one oh
six nine a f M.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well, they are having a or just wrapped a press
conference inside the briefing room there on the first one
hundred days and ask some really good questions. In fact,
I don't know, there's this new thing that we'll have
to discuss with Trey coming up. We got Tech Tuesday
today and we got lots, there's never a shortage, lots
(08:26):
to talk about. But they were asked about one point.
Amazon just made some big announcement that they are going
to put some number on their website that indicates how
much product you may have to pay and chay, So
you buy a lot of cheap, you know, Chinese junk
on Amazon, then you may you may not be you
(08:49):
may not be happy about the terraces but look, I
get it. Jeff Bezas isn't either. I mean, this is
a big part of his his business plan selling you
cheap junk from China. But they absolutely smoked this question
in Amazon. Basis probably so happy he could send another
(09:11):
rocket up in this space. Maybe he'll leave his wife
and Katy Perry up there. This I don't know, I
don't know. This is how it all went down, Carolyn
Lovitt handing it to.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Him, a perfect crystal clear demonstration that it's the American
consumer and not China who is going to have to
pay for these policies.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
I will take this since I just got off the
phone with the President about Amazon's announcement. This is a
hostile and political act by Amazon. Why did Amazon do
this when the Biden administration heightd inflation to the highest
level in forty years. Good point, And I would also
add that it's not a surprise because, as Reuters recently wrote, Amazon,
(09:52):
Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm. So this
is another reason why Americans should buy American. It's another
reason why we are on shoring critical supply chains here
at home to shore up our own critical supply chain
and boost our own manufacturing.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Here, here's still a Trump supporter.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Look, I will not speak to the President's relationships with
Jeff Bezos, but I will tell you that this is
certainly a hostile and political action by Amazon and Secretary.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Of Yeah, you're vague, interesting stuff wild And by the way,
the fact that they just call it out now and
say it like it is, that's the whole You got
a new new sheriff of town, new team, new regime,
as they say. Now it's time to well, this is
the find out portion of the program. You've already seen
(10:41):
the full round. Now we're in the fine find out
portion of the program. Hey, we'll talk about in that
question coming up in a Tech Talk segment which is
on the way this morning. If you want to weigh in,
you can. There's other big news. A bill just passed
in a House that has big implications. It was first
Lady's bill on tech and particularly AI. We all we'll
(11:02):
get into that as well and give you a chance
to hit the phones. All coming up after this and
a little bit more from that. Prescott inside the first
one hundred days, looking back on and of course what
do you expect to come in the days ahead. It's
(11:23):
on the way right here West Michigan Live.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Tackling the hot button issues with style. It's West Michigan
Live with Justin Barklay on News Radio Wood thirteen hundred
and one oh six nine a f m.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Tuesday, April
twenty ninth. I'm Robin Kaffman. It's a Midwesterner. Dot News
original story. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says I Ain't going
anywhere while at a book festival in Los Angeles, two
thousand miles from here in Michigan. She's referring to her
political career, as she will be out of office soon
(11:57):
thanks to term limits. Democrats have fueled her for visiting
with President Trump at the White House. In other news,
President Trump is heading here to Michigan today to celebrate
his one hundred days in office. To mark the accomplishment
of sealing the border and deporting criminal illegal aliens, the
Trump administration putting up posters on the White House lawn
(12:17):
near the media tents with pictures of many who have
committed horrendous crimes and have been sent back to their
country of origin. And it turns out the illegal alien
who snatched Christy Nomes purse in Washington, d C. Was
let go after committing a similar crime in New York City.
The man under arrest for stealing the Homeland Security Secretary's
purse while she was out to dinner with her family
(12:39):
on Easter. For these stories and more, visit the Midwesterner
at the Midwesterner dot New Yea.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
The phone lines are all but at six one, six, seven,
seventy four, twenty four to twenty four. Jump in, join
a conversation. Love to have you first one hundred days.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
I think there's no other way to look at this
first one hundred days other than a huge success. I mean,
I know what you're talking talking about in terms of
the polling and the approval rating. But look at the
president's two top issues, immigration and inflation. Border crossings are
down ninety nine percent. I spoke with President Trump on Sunday.
(13:15):
He told me three people were apprehended at the border
in the month of April compared with two hundred and
forty eight thousand and the month last year one year ago.
That's the you know, migration and immigration story. Now, let's
take a look at inflation. You and I talked about
eggs a long time ago. The price of eggs are
down fifty percent. Look at where mortgage rates are down,
(13:38):
Look at oil prices are down. So when you take
a look at what President Trump said that he was
going to do, it is a huge success. In terms
of these first one hundred days, I think there's.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
No yeah, but there's just part of it. One hundred
day press conference taking place inside the briefing room earlier
this morning. Lots of it focused on economic financial issues.
Secretary was sent for the Treasury in there. You heard
to talk about Amazon earlier. We'll talk more about that
with Trent on the way, as that's a breaking straight
tech Tuesday line. It up at about nine to thirty five.
(14:13):
But first this.
Speaker 10 (14:14):
Continue to say that the US and Chines are not
engaged in any consultation or negotiation on tariffs. You recently
said you've talked to your counterpart, but more about traditional
things like financial stability. So can you clarify is the
administration talking to Beijing specifically about tariffs or not.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Well, we're not going to talk about who's talking to whom,
but I think that you know, over time, we will
see that the Chinese terriffs are unsustainable for China. I've
seen some very large numbers over the past few days
to show if these numbers stay on, Chinese could lose
ten million jobs very quickly. And even if there is
(14:56):
a drop in the tariffs that they could lose five
million jobs. So remember that we are the deficit country.
They sell almost five times more goods to us than
we sell to them, So the onus will be on
them to the take off these tariffs. They're unsustainable for them.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's a fact. So people in the the press doesn't
necessarily seem to get wrapped their heads around this either.
And that's another thing. But you'll see that I think
days ahead. But it's it's it's a real situation that
I think China's in a worse office now. They can't
really say they're negotiating because they want to save face
(15:38):
and it's all about China, their pride and everything else.
It's all about how they look to the rest of
the world right now. They don't want to get into that,
but they are. President Trump said he's head call. I
think he had a call with g the other day.
So there's there's a lot happening behind us. See now,
somebody asked a good question about this. What about these tariffs?
He said that you wanted to bring manufacturing back, you
want to get trade deals, But you also say, Trump say,
(16:01):
maybe there'll be some relief for folks with income taxes.
Which one is it?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
On tariffs?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
The President said over the weekend that we are hoping
that maybe tariff revenues could replace income tax But we
also keep hearing about.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
The deals that the administration is pursuing.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
So my question is, what is the White House's ultimate
objection objective here?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Do you want to have long term tariff revenue or
deals that might reduce those tariffs.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I think it's a combination of both. So we're going
to take in long term tariff revenue. We put a
process in place. We have eighteen important trading relationships. We
will be speaking to all of those partners. Are at
least seventeen of them. They over the next few weeks.
Many of them have already come to Washington. What President
(16:53):
Trump is referring to is the ability for tariff revenue
to give income tax relief. And I think there's a
very good chance that we will see this in the
upcoming tax bill. The President campaigned on no tax on tips,
the no tax on solid security, no tax on overtime,
and the restoring interest deductibility for autos for American made autos,
(17:17):
so terrific income could be used for tax relief on
all those.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Wow, all right, it's not of either or it's a
both situation. Secretary of Miscent talking in the White House
first hundred days press briefing, and then the President makes
his trip here. He'll be both at the National International
Guard Base there and Macomb Community College later this afternoon.
(17:44):
The wheels up around to this afternoon and stuff like
that from the Air Force base out east. We'll have
details follow us for all the info texts day they
come at your way. Our good friend Trick could have
affordable eye store, leg Michigan drive and stand there. We'll
talk about that new bill passed by the House, Malania
(18:06):
push tied to deep fake AI and more. All after that.
More from inside day two of the trial for officers.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Plus, there's a Michigan Democrat, a wacky leftist Democrat only
on the other side of the state, named Shri Tanator.
We probably remember Shri failed to Gibedatorial candidate Tree is
in such a pickle that he has decided to file
articles of impeachment against President Trump. Now what do I mean? Well,
(18:43):
we found out not only is any a bad spot
there in the very liberal area that he's done because
they don't think he's doing enough, but financially old Shree
and his interesting history of abusing innocent little animals. Uh,
he's in a lot quite quite a bit of debt
(19:04):
as well. That story that you'll want to hear the
full scoop on is coming up in just moments.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
But first this 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 2 (19:20):
Well, come on our good friend Trent kenneby Affordile Live
Store like you could drive and stand down, and of
course the folks at Grand River Tech standing by to
help you. If you've got a device issue on your side,
personal issue, well you might have a personal issue altogether.
I can't help you in that. Trent probably can't either.
Maybe he can tell you put you in the right direction.
But you got a personal device issue, they'll help you
(19:40):
to help you at Affordable Ey Store. If you've got
an issue with your business or your church, your organization, whatever,
it might be they can help you at Grand River Tech. Trent, Well,
come in appreciate you being here with us today morning.
Justin big day today, we just heard some big news.
In fact, out of out of out of Amazon, Jeff
Bezos put a little sticker on things online. Gonna gonna
(20:04):
gonna put that tariff cost, they say, onto the onto
the website. So when you go online, you'll have to
you'll have to click that stick You'll see it and
you'll say, Okay, this is how much I'm paying for
now because of uh, you know, for whatever Chinese junk
that you want to buy on Amazon. Now, I'm not
you know, look, I'm not completely innocent. I buy Chinese
(20:24):
junk every now and then too. Unfortunately, that's just the
way of the world that we're in right now, where
you know, a lot of the stuff we buy is
made in places that unfortunately, uh they've kind of got
a little bit over a barrel. But also in some
ways it's made slave labor. And there's Trump says, you know, look,
we gotta we gotta stop doing not only is this
(20:47):
a bad idea for economics, but also it's a bad
idea for you know, for the country. National security, and
don't forget the slave labor part of it. They were
asked about this sticker in the press conference this morning.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
A perfect crystal demonstration that it's the American consumer and
not China who is going to have to pay for
these policies.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
I will take this since I just got off the
phone with the President about Amazon's announcement. This is a
hostile and political act by Amazon. Why did Amazon do
this when the Biden administration height inflation to the highest
level in forty years? Fair question, And I would also
add that it's not a surprise because, as Reuters recently wrote,
(21:28):
Amazon Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm. So
this is another reason why Americans should buy American. It's
another reason why we are on shoring critical supply chains
here at home to shore up our own critical supply
chain and boost our own manufacturing here.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
It's not just Amazon, by the way, it's the Amazon
equivalent overrun China in China. China, timu Is, you know
they're going to be in a pickle as well with
these tariffs. Obviously, anything coming from China, specifically any of
the junk coming from China. China, you're gonna have you're
(22:05):
gonna have issues with Trent and you know we've already
seen prices and some of these sites come out to
be pretty hefty. But this is something that can easily
be wiped out if China negotiates, they come to the table.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Justin there's very interesting. There's two sides to this. Obviously,
they're doing this because they want to show people the
cost increase so they don't get upset with Amazon. And
remember Amazon makes billions of dollars in profits on this stuff,
so they're trying to use this as a campaign to say, hey,
the cost are rising, and this is all to blame
(22:40):
on the tariffs and obviously to stick that on Trump.
There's another way to look at it. If they weren't
so scared of the tariffs, they wouldn't be doing this.
So obviously these tariffs may work and may put people
push people to buy elsewhere, such as local places, American
made places. Now, granted, like you said, is difficult to
(23:01):
wean ourselves off the China supply chain there. But if
this was a non issue, they wouldn't be doing this.
So there is some positivity there that we can read
into this. They're truly scared of tariffs because their business
model is based on massive amounts of cheap goods coming
from China that they're reselling at very high profit margins.
(23:22):
They might not have that same business model if majority
of their stuff was sold from US, maybe from other vendors,
maybe direct sales from a local company's website, as opposed
to dealing with the Amazon model. So that's some interesting
take on that.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah, and we're going to see more of this manufacturing
over time. Look like they want to bring it back
in and see more of it over time in some
ways move back here. So that is the effort. That
is what's underway, whether or not how fast. In fact,
we'll hear more about auto tariffs probably a little bit
later on this afternoon as President Trump makes his way
(23:59):
here to Michigan in that one first one hundred days
rally that's expected happen later this afternoon. That'll be a
big one, particularly, I think, because he is going to
talk a little bit about that and what he's trying
to do. How they described it this morning as they
asked about tariffs and secretary was sent to Treasury there
they said, well, we've heard some rumors that you might
(24:21):
be easing some of the Auto Atistitution said, well, listen,
the idea is President Trump is on the phone. He's
talking to the auto the Big three, some of the
auto manufacturers, and he's hearing what they have to say.
And the idea isn't to wipe these people out. The
idea is to give them a path forward that makes
it easy, that makes it efficient for them to start
(24:45):
making things here in America and hopefully Michigan again.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
It justin there's been announcements every day. It feels like
on the news there's major announcements that just saw IBM
one hundred and fifty billion dollar investment in manufacturing here.
As long as those things continually pour in, manufacturing can
and will be done here. And the differences in the
(25:13):
past is the past. We needed tons of manual labor.
Now with machinery, with robots, that manual labor situation it
is not gone entirely, but we can do mass manufacturing
with the assistance of robotics and AI machinery that just
simply couldn't be done twenty years ago, where China totally
(25:33):
had the market cornered because they had that cheap, often
slave labor. Sadly, so we can do this. We just
need to have the incentive, the push that the unity
to do that. And I hope through this tariff confusion
and difficulties we can unify together and see that we
have to work together locally to make the stuff. We
can't be relying on another country to make the medicine
(25:55):
that keeps us alive, the insulin that keeps my daughter alive.
I can't come on a container ship from China. If
that ever gets shut off, humanly speaking, she's gone. That's
a problem. We have to fix that massive.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
And I had great conversations last week in DC talking
with people, not only to go to the White House,
but I got a chance to talk with other people.
RFK met RFK out on the street as we were
walking to dinner in Georgetown, and I had a great
conversation with somebody who's very key to expert. He was
given to talk at Georgetown about tariffs and what the
(26:29):
goals are, what they're trying to do in one of
these big issues. Pharmaceuticals very very important. A lot of
the not just the actual pharmaceuticals themselves, but the key
ingredients aren't here in America. We've got to turn that
around for various different reasons. Number one, I think it'd
make it here, would help us quite a bit in
(26:51):
a number of ways with supply chain and some of
those other issues that you just mentioned. But for national
security reasons alone, as you just mentioned your daughter. And
by the way, we've had plenty of time, folks. We
saw what happened in twenty twenty. We know where we're
at here. There really should be no excuse at this point.
(27:12):
A big bill just passed the House. Not it's a
big beautiful bill, that one big beautiful bill that they've
been talking about, well one of them quietly in the background.
Milania has been pushing for. It's a bill to ban
this fake deep fake AI revenge pornography. Everything, unfortunately is
this way AI. You can make some great things, you
(27:33):
can do some real good with it. It sounds like
you can also do some real evil with it. But
this is a bill that she's been championing behind the scenes.
It looks like they just got it passed in the
House last night.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Explain what this Yeah, this is long long overdue. Many
other countries have this. US is of major countries, one
of the last to sign on to this. But this
is basically saying if somebody has inappropriate content that was
not consensual, that you did not consent to posting online
intimate images, you know, things of that category, they're saying
(28:08):
that the platforms have to remove it that content and
can get into big trouble if they don't. The reason
why this is so important because this is not just
for revenge pornography. This this is the stepping stone for
pretty much putting the systems into place to hold Internet companies,
internet people that host this kind of content accountable, where
(28:31):
if there's inappropriate content, there's a system and process to
help remove that. It's be very difficult to implement. It's
going to be very hard to implement this, but it
is the beginning. It is very necessary as anybody can
post just about anything right now online and there's almost
zero way to pull that back. So very good that
they're doing this. It's going to be very difficult to implement.
(28:53):
I hope they can fully implement and hold these Internet
companies accountable and that this is a huge help, hopefully
to start this inappropriate content revenge. It's not just people
physically doing this to harass a spouse or an x
or something. There's there's ai systems that do this all
on their own just to extort people for money.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
So this is not just a people on people kind
of situation. Uh. This is also going to help stop
those AI platforms from doing that. So hopefully this works
and helps the Internet of things.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I got a whole list of things that unfortunately we're
just not going to have time to get to today.
But we have this story. H It would quietly happen
behind the scenes and not on the international front. It
was a much bigger story. But but we we have
it here and I know you wanted to talk about
it today. Gold This is wild Spain, Portugal. They've been offline.
(29:46):
They had a big power outage just just I guess
it was this weekend.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Anyway, we found out what caused it, and it's almost
as ridiculous as a squirrel and the transformer kind of thing.
I mean, this is massive blackout that that caused lines
at grocery stores and they just had no clue for
the longest time. Turns out it was all because they
went just days ago. They had this massive announcement. By
(30:14):
the way, Trent, this is this is incredible. You can't
make this up. What I'm about to show you. Just
days ago April twenty second, here you go, Spain brags
about hitting one hundred percent renewable power, and then days later,
April twenty eight, Spain has the nation's largest blackout in history.
(30:34):
You can't make this stuff up. It's incredible.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Justin they said that their solar system solar generation systems failed,
so that the interesting part is that spent twenty four hours.
They lost sixty percent of their power supply, which essentially
chain reaction took down their entire grid into several countries
actions that feed off them, France, Portugal and some others,
(31:00):
and that took that entire system down. The issue here
is simple. They restored the power, okay, but they're not
telling us exactly what went wrong in the solar grid.
Was it bad hardware? Was it bad equipment? Was a
computer hack? What was the problem? To restore power, you
have to fix what's broke. If a line is down,
you fix it. It's not hard to report in what
(31:22):
you fixed. I think the key here is what's not
being reported. That's what I'd love to know what really
took the grid down here. It'd be good to learn
from that, so we don't make the same mistakes here.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Uh yeah, well, let's just back out altogether. I don't
know that we get a lot of sun here in Michigan.
Days like today maybe, but most of the year it's
it's pretty well gloomy and doomy and snowy, and there's
just no way that you can power when solar and
unicorn farts here in at least Aaron Michigan as they'd
like to do. Oh damn you, I know, Greta. I apologize,
(31:54):
but that that just well, we're just scratching the surface
with some of these stories, but we're bringing you up
to speed the best we can do with our Tech
Tuesday segment. Always a pleasure, my friend. Thank you so
much for being here with us.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Thanks Justin. Have a great day, Trey.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
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Speaker 1 (34:10):
It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on News Radio
Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six nine a f m.
Speaker 8 (34:17):
Here are your headlines from the Midwestern or this Tuesday,
April twenty nine Thi'm Robin Poffman. President Trump will be
making his way here today to Michigan to mark his
first visit of his second term in office as he
heads to Macomb County for a rally. Trump expected to
make the stop at Metro Detroit as he puts the
American auto worker first and is imposing tariffs on foreign imports.
(34:39):
She's been mocked by Democrats for meeting with President Trump
at the White House. Now Governor Whitmer making headlines again
for saying I Ain't going anywhere while at a book
festival in Los Angeles, some two thousand miles away from here.
She's referring to her political career, as she will be
out of office soon thanks to term limits.
Speaker 7 (34:58):
Are you considering running in twenty twenty for president?
Speaker 8 (35:01):
Whitmer recently telling the ladies on ABC's The View.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Three letters and f W, I am not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I've got two more years on my term. I got
a lot of things I want to get done as governor.
What comes after that, I don't know yet, I really don't.
I am telling me.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
There's a hip for these stories and more. Visit the
Midwestern or at the.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Midwe President Trump, not even days in wacky Democrat Shri
Tannadar from the other side of the state.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
This is Congressman Shree Tanadar. Donald Trump has already done
real damage to our democracy. Fine a unanimous nine oh
Supreme Court ruling that has to be the final straw.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
This is not even this is just completely laughable.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Time be impeached j Trump.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
So he's got seven articles and peachment. But the truth
about Shri and the story about why he's really going
it by the way, you imagine that guy want to
be the he wanted to be the governor Point Tree, Canada. Damage. Okay, okay, okay,
(36:12):
Now you want the truth on Shree and why he's
doing this. The truth is he's in debt, big big debt.
FEC records show him in debt with a deficit of
almost a million dollars. Lord Lumer did the story on this.
We're going to talk about it more in the after
show today dig it and the story about Tree and
(36:35):
how he made his money. By the way, it has
to do with abusing animals. You're not gonna want to
miss this. We'll get into it and so much more.
You won't want to miss the after show, show after
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's Trump Tuesday, one hundred days and he brings the
Trump Trained to Michigan. Get fat. It'll make a couple
of stops. He's got a special guest who may bring
along her blue folder. We're gonna tell you all about
this coming up. It's a story you walt one of this.
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either attack of today is it feels like it anyway.
We'll get to all of that, but let us the
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Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, here we go, folks. President Trump heading the Michigan
for the first hundred days and that rally schedule to
take place a little later this evening. But before he
stops there, guess where he's headed. You'll be going to
Tufford Air Force Base. And while he's there, apparently, according
(02:04):
to the AP reports here just weeks after that awkward
Oval Office appearance, Gretchen Whitner will once again be by
his side today at that Air National Guard base, where
she may or may not, just depending upon now things
go today may or may not have that blue folder,
(02:26):
the infamous blue folder with her in tow. The rally
will take place a little later on tonight, Bell McCom
Community College and of course, folks still I think trying
to get in again tickets. It may be tough, but
we'll keep you up to speed on that. We'll be
doing a little bit of a broadcast ourself this evening
when it comes to that conversation and the rally covering
(02:48):
it all. Well, we finally have the news female black
Hawk pilot rejected the male co pilot's life saving directed
fifteen seconds before the fireball erupted over DC too far back.
We remember that horrific story, and we've got some West
Michigan connections to it all. In fact, I been praying
(03:09):
for folks involved with it as we've been hearing the
stories coming back and gush, it is absolutely heartbreaking. The
New York Times waiting until the very end of its
lengthy story there to report January the collision there between
the Army helicopter and that passenger jet in Washington, d C.
(03:31):
Killing I think it was sixty seventy people. Army Captain
Rebecca M. Lowback remember she had an interesting checkered pack
working in the White House at one part part of
her annual flight evaluation on that night. That night, her
assignment was to navigate conditions of a scenario on which
members of Congress or other senior government officials might need
to be carried out of the nation's capital during an attack.
(03:56):
All Back there was the highest ranking soldier on the helicopter,
but Chief warn Officer Andrew Lloyd Eves, acting as her instructor,
had flown more than twice as many hours over the time,
the outlets said. Army said the news release. Lowback became
an aviation officer in twenty nineteen, and her family said
(04:16):
in a statement including her release, she had four hundred
and fifty flight hours, but she did not do what
as she was instructed to do and avoid that CRJA airplane.
There'll be a lot of talk over this in the
days ahead, but it is it is, in fact an
absolute tragedy, horrific what happened there. Praying for those families
(04:38):
as well. But people will be taking this apart from
here on out, and I think it's safe to say
there ought to be questions as to her fitness, her ability,
and how she got to where she was specifically avoiding
those instructions numbering well. We got day two officer sure
(05:01):
trial wrapping the first day. They resume this morning. Highlights
from the day focusing mostly on talk of the taser.
It is going to be front and center in this
trial because Patrick Leia had his hand on that taser
(05:21):
when Officer sure A shot him. That story one that
I think an inconvenient fact. And you know, there's a
lot of talking question over well, the Taylor Staser's not
a deadly weapon, no, but sure not necessarily, but it
can be sure also had a deadly weapon on him
had he been incapacitated, that weapon could have been used
(05:43):
to turn on Heck, a rot next to the man
could have been used and turned on him. And these
are issues that it's easy for armshare quarterbacks to try
and decipher and the code throughout the days passed and prior.
But this is part from the trial. Everything he could
to avoid using deadly force. A reasonable officer in that
(06:05):
situation would not think definitelys would even happen, would not
think the use of deadly force was necessarily.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
This was survival, This was self defense.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, when you put all this together, taken look at
all the evidence, you have to say it was not
just fine.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It was unreasonable opening statements. And that was the last
time I saw you did. Didn't know what happened after
questions from witnesses, cause.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I know, I see my roommate community house crying, shake
in and dim that force going on.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh, I see something was was going on.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
That's when I step out their car and then I
just started.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Recording immediately that that's where my mind went.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
This tussle was gonna end up in someone dying, and
the it did at a very unfortunate situation. Again, we
prayed for other folks involved in.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Yeah, it is will show that officer of Christopher Serve
did everything he could to avoid.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Now we'll have more again as the as the day
rolls on and they're on a thirty minute delay the
video that's coming out of the television pool, they're on
a thirty minute delay from the courthouse, So what is
actually happening in the room there we get to see
thirty minutes later, which is wow. I've never seen anything
(07:23):
like it before, but it is. It is a story
that we're going to continue to stay on top of him. Again,
we're praying not only for the officer, pray for the
family of Patrick Leia in the entire area and city
as we go through this. This is something that never
should have happened easily avoidable, and there'll be plenty of
conversation about that in the days ahead as well. We'll
(07:45):
get into all of it more. You can join the
program as well right here.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Call Justin now at six one six seven seven twenty
four twenty four. That's six one six seven seven twenty
four to twenty four West Michigan Live with Justin Barclay
on News rati A Wood thirteen hundred and one oh
six nine a f M.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well, they are having a or just wrapped a press
conference inside the briefing room there on the first one
hundred days and ask some really good questions. In fact,
I don't know, there's this new thing that we'll have
to discuss with Trey coming up. We got Tech Tuesday
today and we got lots, there's never a shortage, lots
(08:26):
to talk about. But they were asked about one point.
Amazon just made some big announcement that they are going
to put some number on their website that indicates how
much product you may have to pay and chay, So
you buy a lot of cheap, you know, Chinese junk
on Amazon, then you may you may not be you
(08:49):
may not be happy about the terraces but look, I
get it. Jeff Bezas isn't either. I mean, this is
a big part of his his business plan selling you
cheap junk from China. But they absolutely smoked this question
in Amazon. Basis probably so happy he could send another
(09:11):
rocket up in this space. Maybe he'll leave his wife
and Katy Perry up there. This I don't know, I
don't know. This is how it all went down, Carolyn
Lovitt handing it to.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Him, a perfect crystal clear demonstration that it's the American
consumer and not China who is going to have to
pay for these policies.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
I will take this since I just got off the
phone with the President about Amazon's announcement. This is a
hostile and political act by Amazon. Why did Amazon do
this when the Biden administration heightd inflation to the highest
level in forty years. Good point, And I would also
add that it's not a surprise because, as Reuters recently wrote, Amazon,
(09:52):
Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm. So this
is another reason why Americans should buy American. It's another
reason why we are on shoring critical supply chains here
at home to shore up our own critical supply chain
and boost our own manufacturing.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Here, here's still a Trump supporter.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Look, I will not speak to the President's relationships with
Jeff Bezos, but I will tell you that this is
certainly a hostile and political action by Amazon and Secretary.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Of Yeah, you're vague, interesting stuff wild And by the way,
the fact that they just call it out now and
say it like it is, that's the whole You got
a new new sheriff of town, new team, new regime,
as they say. Now it's time to well, this is
the find out portion of the program. You've already seen
(10:41):
the full round. Now we're in the fine find out
portion of the program. Hey, we'll talk about in that
question coming up in a Tech Talk segment which is
on the way this morning. If you want to weigh in,
you can. There's other big news. A bill just passed
in a House that has big implications. It was first
Lady's bill on tech and particularly AI. We all we'll
(11:02):
get into that as well and give you a chance
to hit the phones. All coming up after this and
a little bit more from that. Prescott inside the first
one hundred days, looking back on and of course what
do you expect to come in the days ahead. It's
(11:23):
on the way right here West Michigan Live.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Tackling the hot button issues with style. It's West Michigan
Live with Justin Barklay on News Radio Wood thirteen hundred
and one oh six nine a f m.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Tuesday, April
twenty ninth. I'm Robin Kaffman. It's a Midwesterner. Dot News
original story. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says I Ain't going
anywhere while at a book festival in Los Angeles, two
thousand miles from here in Michigan. She's referring to her
political career, as she will be out of office soon
(11:57):
thanks to term limits. Democrats have fueled her for visiting
with President Trump at the White House. In other news,
President Trump is heading here to Michigan today to celebrate
his one hundred days in office. To mark the accomplishment
of sealing the border and deporting criminal illegal aliens, the
Trump administration putting up posters on the White House lawn
(12:17):
near the media tents with pictures of many who have
committed horrendous crimes and have been sent back to their
country of origin. And it turns out the illegal alien
who snatched Christy Nomes purse in Washington, d C. Was
let go after committing a similar crime in New York City.
The man under arrest for stealing the Homeland Security Secretary's
purse while she was out to dinner with her family
(12:39):
on Easter. For these stories and more, visit the Midwesterner
at the Midwesterner dot New Yea.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
The phone lines are all but at six one, six, seven,
seventy four, twenty four to twenty four. Jump in, join
a conversation. Love to have you first one hundred days.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
I think there's no other way to look at this
first one hundred days other than a huge success. I mean,
I know what you're talking talking about in terms of
the polling and the approval rating. But look at the
president's two top issues, immigration and inflation. Border crossings are
down ninety nine percent. I spoke with President Trump on Sunday.
(13:15):
He told me three people were apprehended at the border
in the month of April compared with two hundred and
forty eight thousand and the month last year one year ago.
That's the you know, migration and immigration story. Now, let's
take a look at inflation. You and I talked about
eggs a long time ago. The price of eggs are
down fifty percent. Look at where mortgage rates are down,
(13:38):
Look at oil prices are down. So when you take
a look at what President Trump said that he was
going to do, it is a huge success. In terms
of these first one hundred days, I think there's.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
No yeah, but there's just part of it. One hundred
day press conference taking place inside the briefing room earlier
this morning. Lots of it focused on economic financial issues.
Secretary was sent for the Treasury in there. You heard
to talk about Amazon earlier. We'll talk more about that
with Trent on the way, as that's a breaking straight
tech Tuesday line. It up at about nine to thirty five.
(14:13):
But first this.
Speaker 10 (14:14):
Continue to say that the US and Chines are not
engaged in any consultation or negotiation on tariffs. You recently
said you've talked to your counterpart, but more about traditional
things like financial stability. So can you clarify is the
administration talking to Beijing specifically about tariffs or not.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Well, we're not going to talk about who's talking to whom,
but I think that you know, over time, we will
see that the Chinese terriffs are unsustainable for China. I've
seen some very large numbers over the past few days
to show if these numbers stay on, Chinese could lose
ten million jobs very quickly. And even if there is
(14:56):
a drop in the tariffs that they could lose five
million jobs. So remember that we are the deficit country.
They sell almost five times more goods to us than
we sell to them, So the onus will be on
them to the take off these tariffs. They're unsustainable for them.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's a fact. So people in the the press doesn't
necessarily seem to get wrapped their heads around this either.
And that's another thing. But you'll see that I think
days ahead. But it's it's it's a real situation that
I think China's in a worse office now. They can't
really say they're negotiating because they want to save face
(15:38):
and it's all about China, their pride and everything else.
It's all about how they look to the rest of
the world right now. They don't want to get into that,
but they are. President Trump said he's head call. I
think he had a call with g the other day.
So there's there's a lot happening behind us. See now,
somebody asked a good question about this. What about these tariffs?
He said that you wanted to bring manufacturing back, you
want to get trade deals, But you also say, Trump say,
(16:01):
maybe there'll be some relief for folks with income taxes.
Which one is it?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
On tariffs?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
The President said over the weekend that we are hoping
that maybe tariff revenues could replace income tax But we
also keep hearing about.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
The deals that the administration is pursuing.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
So my question is, what is the White House's ultimate
objection objective here?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Do you want to have long term tariff revenue or
deals that might reduce those tariffs.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I think it's a combination of both. So we're going
to take in long term tariff revenue. We put a
process in place. We have eighteen important trading relationships. We
will be speaking to all of those partners. Are at
least seventeen of them. They over the next few weeks.
Many of them have already come to Washington. What President
(16:53):
Trump is referring to is the ability for tariff revenue
to give income tax relief. And I think there's a
very good chance that we will see this in the
upcoming tax bill. The President campaigned on no tax on tips,
the no tax on solid security, no tax on overtime,
and the restoring interest deductibility for autos for American made autos,
(17:17):
so terrific income could be used for tax relief on
all those.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Wow, all right, it's not of either or it's a
both situation. Secretary of Miscent talking in the White House
first hundred days press briefing, and then the President makes
his trip here. He'll be both at the National International
Guard Base there and Macomb Community College later this afternoon.
(17:44):
The wheels up around to this afternoon and stuff like
that from the Air Force base out east. We'll have
details follow us for all the info texts day they
come at your way. Our good friend Trick could have
affordable eye store, leg Michigan drive and stand there. We'll
talk about that new bill passed by the House, Malania
(18:06):
push tied to deep fake AI and more. All after that.
More from inside day two of the trial for officers.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Plus, there's a Michigan Democrat, a wacky leftist Democrat only
on the other side of the state, named Shri Tanator.
We probably remember Shri failed to Gibedatorial candidate Tree is
in such a pickle that he has decided to file
articles of impeachment against President Trump. Now what do I mean? Well,
(18:43):
we found out not only is any a bad spot
there in the very liberal area that he's done because
they don't think he's doing enough, but financially old Shree
and his interesting history of abusing innocent little animals. Uh,
he's in a lot quite quite a bit of debt
(19:04):
as well. That story that you'll want to hear the
full scoop on is coming up in just moments.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
But first this 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 2 (19:20):
Well, come on our good friend Trent kenneby Affordile Live
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come in appreciate you being here with us today morning.
Justin big day today, we just heard some big news.
In fact, out of out of out of Amazon, Jeff
Bezos put a little sticker on things online. Gonna gonna
(20:04):
gonna put that tariff cost, they say, onto the onto
the website. So when you go online, you'll have to
you'll have to click that stick You'll see it and
you'll say, Okay, this is how much I'm paying for
now because of uh, you know, for whatever Chinese junk
that you want to buy on Amazon. Now, I'm not
you know, look, I'm not completely innocent. I buy Chinese
(20:24):
junk every now and then too. Unfortunately, that's just the
way of the world that we're in right now, where
you know, a lot of the stuff we buy is
made in places that unfortunately, uh they've kind of got
a little bit over a barrel. But also in some
ways it's made slave labor. And there's Trump says, you know, look,
we gotta we gotta stop doing not only is this
(20:47):
a bad idea for economics, but also it's a bad
idea for you know, for the country. National security, and
don't forget the slave labor part of it. They were
asked about this sticker in the press conference this morning.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
A perfect crystal demonstration that it's the American consumer and
not China who is going to have to pay for
these policies.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
I will take this since I just got off the
phone with the President about Amazon's announcement. This is a
hostile and political act by Amazon. Why did Amazon do
this when the Biden administration height inflation to the highest
level in forty years? Fair question, And I would also
add that it's not a surprise because, as Reuters recently wrote,
(21:28):
Amazon Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm. So
this is another reason why Americans should buy American. It's
another reason why we are on shoring critical supply chains
here at home to shore up our own critical supply
chain and boost our own manufacturing here.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
It's not just Amazon, by the way, it's the Amazon
equivalent overrun China in China. China, timu Is, you know
they're going to be in a pickle as well with
these tariffs. Obviously, anything coming from China, specifically any of
the junk coming from China. China, you're gonna have you're
(22:05):
gonna have issues with Trent and you know we've already
seen prices and some of these sites come out to
be pretty hefty. But this is something that can easily
be wiped out if China negotiates, they come to the table.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Justin there's very interesting. There's two sides to this. Obviously,
they're doing this because they want to show people the
cost increase so they don't get upset with Amazon. And
remember Amazon makes billions of dollars in profits on this stuff,
so they're trying to use this as a campaign to say, hey,
the cost are rising, and this is all to blame
(22:40):
on the tariffs and obviously to stick that on Trump.
There's another way to look at it. If they weren't
so scared of the tariffs, they wouldn't be doing this.
So obviously these tariffs may work and may put people
push people to buy elsewhere, such as local places, American
made places. Now, granted, like you said, is difficult to
(23:01):
wean ourselves off the China supply chain there. But if
this was a non issue, they wouldn't be doing this.
So there is some positivity there that we can read
into this. They're truly scared of tariffs because their business
model is based on massive amounts of cheap goods coming
from China that they're reselling at very high profit margins.
(23:22):
They might not have that same business model if majority
of their stuff was sold from US, maybe from other vendors,
maybe direct sales from a local company's website, as opposed
to dealing with the Amazon model. So that's some interesting
take on that.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah, and we're going to see more of this manufacturing
over time. Look like they want to bring it back
in and see more of it over time in some
ways move back here. So that is the effort. That
is what's underway, whether or not how fast. In fact,
we'll hear more about auto tariffs probably a little bit
later on this afternoon as President Trump makes his way
(23:59):
here to Michigan in that one first one hundred days
rally that's expected happen later this afternoon. That'll be a
big one, particularly, I think, because he is going to
talk a little bit about that and what he's trying
to do. How they described it this morning as they
asked about tariffs and secretary was sent to Treasury there
they said, well, we've heard some rumors that you might
(24:21):
be easing some of the Auto Atistitution said, well, listen,
the idea is President Trump is on the phone. He's
talking to the auto the Big three, some of the
auto manufacturers, and he's hearing what they have to say.
And the idea isn't to wipe these people out. The
idea is to give them a path forward that makes
it easy, that makes it efficient for them to start
(24:45):
making things here in America and hopefully Michigan again.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
It justin there's been announcements every day. It feels like
on the news there's major announcements that just saw IBM
one hundred and fifty billion dollar investment in manufacturing here.
As long as those things continually pour in, manufacturing can
and will be done here. And the differences in the
(25:13):
past is the past. We needed tons of manual labor.
Now with machinery, with robots, that manual labor situation it
is not gone entirely, but we can do mass manufacturing
with the assistance of robotics and AI machinery that just
simply couldn't be done twenty years ago, where China totally
(25:33):
had the market cornered because they had that cheap, often
slave labor. Sadly, so we can do this. We just
need to have the incentive, the push that the unity
to do that. And I hope through this tariff confusion
and difficulties we can unify together and see that we
have to work together locally to make the stuff. We
can't be relying on another country to make the medicine
(25:55):
that keeps us alive, the insulin that keeps my daughter alive.
I can't come on a container ship from China. If
that ever gets shut off, humanly speaking, she's gone. That's
a problem. We have to fix that massive.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
And I had great conversations last week in DC talking
with people, not only to go to the White House,
but I got a chance to talk with other people.
RFK met RFK out on the street as we were
walking to dinner in Georgetown, and I had a great
conversation with somebody who's very key to expert. He was
given to talk at Georgetown about tariffs and what the
(26:29):
goals are, what they're trying to do in one of
these big issues. Pharmaceuticals very very important. A lot of
the not just the actual pharmaceuticals themselves, but the key
ingredients aren't here in America. We've got to turn that
around for various different reasons. Number one, I think it'd
make it here, would help us quite a bit in
(26:51):
a number of ways with supply chain and some of
those other issues that you just mentioned. But for national
security reasons alone, as you just mentioned your daughter. And
by the way, we've had plenty of time, folks. We
saw what happened in twenty twenty. We know where we're
at here. There really should be no excuse at this point.
(27:12):
A big bill just passed the House. Not it's a
big beautiful bill, that one big beautiful bill that they've
been talking about, well one of them quietly in the background.
Milania has been pushing for. It's a bill to ban
this fake deep fake AI revenge pornography. Everything, unfortunately is
this way AI. You can make some great things, you
(27:33):
can do some real good with it. It sounds like
you can also do some real evil with it. But
this is a bill that she's been championing behind the scenes.
It looks like they just got it passed in the
House last night.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Explain what this Yeah, this is long long overdue. Many
other countries have this. US is of major countries, one
of the last to sign on to this. But this
is basically saying if somebody has inappropriate content that was
not consensual, that you did not consent to posting online
intimate images, you know, things of that category, they're saying
(28:08):
that the platforms have to remove it that content and
can get into big trouble if they don't. The reason
why this is so important because this is not just
for revenge pornography. This this is the stepping stone for
pretty much putting the systems into place to hold Internet companies,
internet people that host this kind of content accountable, where
(28:31):
if there's inappropriate content, there's a system and process to
help remove that. It's be very difficult to implement. It's
going to be very hard to implement this, but it
is the beginning. It is very necessary as anybody can
post just about anything right now online and there's almost
zero way to pull that back. So very good that
they're doing this. It's going to be very difficult to implement.
(28:53):
I hope they can fully implement and hold these Internet
companies accountable and that this is a huge help, hopefully
to start this inappropriate content revenge. It's not just people
physically doing this to harass a spouse or an x
or something. There's there's ai systems that do this all
on their own just to extort people for money.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
So this is not just a people on people kind
of situation. Uh. This is also going to help stop
those AI platforms from doing that. So hopefully this works
and helps the Internet of things.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
I got a whole list of things that unfortunately we're
just not going to have time to get to today.
But we have this story. H It would quietly happen
behind the scenes and not on the international front. It
was a much bigger story. But but we we have
it here and I know you wanted to talk about
it today. Gold This is wild Spain, Portugal. They've been offline.
(29:46):
They had a big power outage just just I guess
it was this weekend.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Anyway, we found out what caused it, and it's almost
as ridiculous as a squirrel and the transformer kind of thing.
I mean, this is massive blackout that that caused lines
at grocery stores and they just had no clue for
the longest time. Turns out it was all because they
went just days ago. They had this massive announcement. By
(30:14):
the way, Trent, this is this is incredible. You can't
make this up. What I'm about to show you. Just
days ago April twenty second, here you go, Spain brags
about hitting one hundred percent renewable power, and then days later,
April twenty eight, Spain has the nation's largest blackout in history.
(30:34):
You can't make this stuff up. It's incredible.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Justin they said that their solar system solar generation systems failed,
so that the interesting part is that spent twenty four hours.
They lost sixty percent of their power supply, which essentially
chain reaction took down their entire grid into several countries
actions that feed off them, France, Portugal and some others,
(31:00):
and that took that entire system down. The issue here
is simple. They restored the power, okay, but they're not
telling us exactly what went wrong in the solar grid.
Was it bad hardware? Was it bad equipment? Was a
computer hack? What was the problem? To restore power, you
have to fix what's broke. If a line is down,
you fix it. It's not hard to report in what
(31:22):
you fixed. I think the key here is what's not
being reported. That's what I'd love to know what really
took the grid down here. It'd be good to learn
from that, so we don't make the same mistakes here.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Uh yeah, well, let's just back out altogether. I don't
know that we get a lot of sun here in Michigan.
Days like today maybe, but most of the year it's
it's pretty well gloomy and doomy and snowy, and there's
just no way that you can power when solar and
unicorn farts here in at least Aaron Michigan as they'd
like to do. Oh damn you, I know, Greta. I apologize,
(31:54):
but that that just well, we're just scratching the surface
with some of these stories, but we're bringing you up
to speed the best we can do with our Tech
Tuesday segment. Always a pleasure, my friend. Thank you so
much for being here with us.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Thanks Justin. Have a great day, Trey.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
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(32:30):
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Speaker 1 (34:10):
It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on News Radio
Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six nine a f m.
Speaker 8 (34:17):
Here are your headlines from the Midwestern or this Tuesday,
April twenty nine Thi'm Robin Poffman. President Trump will be
making his way here today to Michigan to mark his
first visit of his second term in office as he
heads to Macomb County for a rally. Trump expected to
make the stop at Metro Detroit as he puts the
American auto worker first and is imposing tariffs on foreign imports.
(34:39):
She's been mocked by Democrats for meeting with President Trump
at the White House. Now Governor Whitmer making headlines again
for saying I Ain't going anywhere while at a book
festival in Los Angeles, some two thousand miles away from here.
She's referring to her political career, as she will be
out of office soon thanks to term limits.
Speaker 7 (34:58):
Are you considering running in twenty twenty for president?
Speaker 8 (35:01):
Whitmer recently telling the ladies on ABC's The View.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Three letters and f W, I am not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I've got two more years on my term. I got
a lot of things I want to get done as governor.
What comes after that, I don't know yet, I really don't.
I am telling me.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
There's a hip for these stories and more. Visit the
Midwestern or at the.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Midwe President Trump, not even days in wacky Democrat Shri
Tannadar from the other side of the state.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
This is Congressman Shree Tanadar. Donald Trump has already done
real damage to our democracy. Fine a unanimous nine oh
Supreme Court ruling that has to be the final straw.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
This is not even this is just completely laughable.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Time be impeached j Trump.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
So he's got seven articles and peachment. But the truth
about Shri and the story about why he's really going
it by the way, you imagine that guy want to
be the he wanted to be the governor Point Tree, Canada. Damage. Okay, okay, okay,
(36:12):
Now you want the truth on Shree and why he's
doing this. The truth is he's in debt, big big debt.
FEC records show him in debt with a deficit of
almost a million dollars. Lord Lumer did the story on this.
We're going to talk about it more in the after
show today dig it and the story about Tree and
(36:35):
how he made his money. By the way, it has
to do with abusing animals. You're not gonna want to
miss this. We'll get into it and so much more.
You won't want to miss the after show, show after
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