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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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gas prices are down. But wait, wait a minute before
you comment, I understand what you're gonna say. Uh, nationwide, nationwide,
(00:26):
that's probably the best way to put it. And uh,
there's one other thing that folks are just losing their
ever loving minds about the left. That is, we'll talk
about it all plus get into it when we.
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National Guard, it's another big Trump when this would be
the thing you may think the left would be losing
their ever loving minds about. But it's not necessarily it. It's
just one. The organ National Guard can now be deployed
in Portland. Federal Appeals Court giving giving Trump the green
(02:21):
light to deploy the Guard to Portland, overruling the previous
comments from the folks work those judicial activists.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Probably the best way to put it on those folks
from on the left.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals finding that deployment and
appropriate response to pass protests major ologists still continue to
be a problem for some. They said they got most
of us cleaned up, but we're going to talk to
Trent a little bit later on what is Amazon Web
Services and what's the issue? Because this continues to be
(03:03):
a major problem for some folks.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
We had problems yesterday here, but if you're one of.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
The people that use anything from Fortnite to Snapchat, to
venmo Zoom or many many other things, even the military
using Amazon Web services, you could have been affected. How
we're going here, It's day twenty one and the government shutdown,
still no deal in sight, but Trump's.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Approval rating is up. How's that even possible?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I wonder if it has anything to do with the
fact gas prices are down well some places, I'd say
most places, most places other than Michigan. There's a reason
why our gas just went up, or it's about to
in some places. The national average gas prices just fall
into three dollars a gallon lowest sense I think twenty
(03:55):
twenty one is what I write. That's a big one.
Ah yeah, tell me how about it? So let me
break it all down for you. Coming up in just moments,
we will do just that. It's West Michigan Live. I
(04:20):
can't see anything out of this screen here, and I
don't know how we can do a radio show without it,
so something needs to happen to day. I don't know
what to say, but send somebody an email. Adam, it's crazy.
We got two screens in here and they're both from
the nineteen eighties and you literally can't You can't see
the things that you got to play. Now, this is
(04:41):
not an Amazon thing. Maybe I get Trent in here
to fix this.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I don't know how I to tell you, folks, is
a mystery. This is a This is an absolute mystery.
I don't know how to get it fixed for you.
I'll do my Can you see if you can move
sweepers over into here. I don't know if you even
know where those are, but look on the wall. We're
gonna need some of those coming up here in a second.
(05:09):
All right, folks, let me give you this because there's
a couple of things that are pieces and bits that
you're gonna hear of the next. First of all, it's
a big story. Twenty one days in they voted well,
I think the twelfth time last night the Senate. Now
they're going to take a look at putting stuff through
(05:29):
piece by piece, but this might be the best route
to go. They're gonna look at putting stuff through piece
by piece. And the first thing they're going to start
with is the basically the pay for military and folks
who are serving law enforcement, federal governments, etc. The people
(05:51):
that are protecting us. So that's number one, which I think,
how do you as a demic turn that down? Wellicularly
quotes funding for I said, you know, we just can't.
This is just you know, we can't do this. That's
a genocide. Whatever they will say, they'll come up with,
(06:12):
who knows the excuse. But this is not the position
you want to be in politically. You don't want to
be in the position where you look completely unreasonable. There's
nothing that can be done about it, and these people
aren't getting paid. They own it. It's the Schumer shutdown.
(06:34):
I call it the Schumer shakedown for a reason.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
It is.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That yet, No, it's it's just it's disgusting. But there's
there's news here that I don't think they like, which
is Trump's not He's not looking bad through it all.
The approval ratings actually have him up.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It's not like a huge massive uptick, but I will
tell you this, it is noticeable.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It is.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I the last time they did this, I think I
think he was underwater. I think we was down what
three points? Last last shutdown again that was twenty was
that seventeen? That that was a while back. So you
(07:32):
compare that to where he is now. I understand people
on the left, you're gonna leave anything that comes out
of my mouth. I get it. I unders done this
long enough. So that's why we're gonna give you ce
an end.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
About Donald Trump shutdowns and not approval rating. We're talking
twenty days into it. In twenty eighteen slast twenty nineteen,
Donald Trump's not approparating was already falling. The shutdown was
eating and it was popular sport. It was down three
points already at this particular point and would fall considerably more.
It was very much on the decline. You come over
to this side of the screen, This shutdown hasn't eaten
(08:06):
in the Donald Trump support at all. Isn't That approval
rating is actually up a point in terms of in
terms of his popular support. So the bottom line is this,
the first shutdown during Trump's first term twenty eighteen twenty
nineteen was hurting Donald Trump. This one is not hurting
him at all. There's no real reason Donald Trump might say,
at least when it comes to popular support.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I want to get out of the shutdown. What about
the question of blame? Yeah, okay, what.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
About the question of blame?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
You see here, you see Donald Trump's an approv rating
was down twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen. You talk about
twenty twenty five, is net approve rating is up. It
comes down to the blame game, a game I love
to play when I was younger. Blame Trump for the
shutdown A great deal. In twenty eighteen slash twenty nineteen,
sixty one percent, more than three to five Americans blame
Trump a great deal for that particular shutdown. You come
(08:51):
over to this side of the screen. Look at this.
It's a different world. It's a different world. Forty eight
percent of Americans blame Trump a great deal for this
particular shutdown.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So it's more than three and five.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Back in twenty eighteen slash twenty nineteen, it's less than
half a drop of thirteen points. Again, it's no real
wonder that Donald Trump, at this point, looking at the shutdown, says,
you know what, it's not actually harming me politically, in
large part because he's getting lesson than the blame.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Okay, so that's CNN.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
So don't shoot the messenger, and folks on the left,
don't shoot anybody.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I hate to say it, but that's CNN.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
The approval rating is up despite the shutdown dragging on
twenty one days. There's a couple of reasons I think
for this. Number one, the old playbook is out the window.
They can't use it anymore. There's so many things happening,
and there's so many good things happening the Trump administration
that people are more they're paying more attention to that,
and also they're flooded with that. The old days, the
(09:55):
way they used to work, what they would have to
do is the media would be covering this walled wall
because there'd be nothing else to color it other than
like some sort of scandal. But you you heard them
say what it was twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. That was
the That was the original. It was the first shutdown,
first Trump.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
That about Donald Trump shutdowns and not approval rating. We're
talking twenty days into it. In twenty eighteen slash twenty nineteen,
Donald Trump's not approprating was already falling. The shutdown was
eating and it was popular or support. It was down
three points already at this particular point and would fall
considerably more. It was very much on the decline. You
come over to this side of the screen. This shutdown
(10:36):
hasn't eaten. And the Donald Trump support at all, isn't
that he's up That approval rating is actually up a point.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
They don't know what to think about this on CNN,
they have no idea what to think about this. So
I made a little sense of all of this for
you as as much as I can. I've made as
much since it's like, but what about.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
What about? And this is? This is? This is the
beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
This Uh I got it because I have to point
this out because it happens, this has happened in the
last two times, which is it's getting frustrating.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
But I also have to laugh.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Gas prices are down nationwide now I'm gonna tell you that,
and people listening in Mischigre gonna say what because you're
gonna go to the gas station today and you are
going to say filler up and you're gonna see sticker
shock because this last weekend you saw prices down. In
(11:58):
the two sixties, I filled up for two forty six
somewhere and today you're going to see it at three
twenty nine. Now, I told folks yesterday on social media,
on Facebook and acts in a couple of places the
gas was going up, and the reason for it isn't Trump.
But the reason I'm frustrated by is again I think
the last time it was it was Labor Day, and
(12:20):
there's a reason for it. And I've I've got to
explain this to you, and it's frustrating me to all.
I just can't because we get a good story like
this and it's the truth, but then it doesn't really
hold it a place like Michigan, really any of the
Great Lake States right now, they're all going to be affected.
(12:40):
Once I tell you why, you'll understand. But it's just
frustrating because I'd like to be able to just sit
and bask in the glory of this, the fact that
gas prices.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Are down and numberlds will argue with you. People on
the level will argue with you, even if they are
like if they're paying a dollar a gown, they'd still
five to raise it to be not happy about it,
which is.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Which is incredible, but it is uh, it's just a
fact in nature.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Who they are.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's all I could say. All right, so let me
try and make some sense out of this for you.
Coming up in just a moment, I will tell you
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I'm Robin Poffman. It's a Midwesterner Dot news original story.
It's not a good look for Mayor Duggin's Detroit. The
city now ranked the fourth most dangerous place in America.
Detroit also ranking dead last for unemployment, with a rate
five times higher than cities in South Dakota, Vermont, and Florida.
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the Michigan League for Public Policy, finds close to seventy
five percent of students here in our state are totally
unprepared for college or career. This steep decline attributed to
Governor Whitmer's extreme COVID lockdowns. The Schumer shutdown continues, President
Trump telling reporters Democrats will eventually have to go along
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Thank you so much for being here with us today.
And Amazon would have made it impossible for us to
even connect. We want to add to as the old
fashioned phone, which is funny, but it wasn't just us.
In the streaming software we use, there's a whole list
of things that were affected. First, let's talk about what
(17:42):
was affected. Then what is Amazon Web Services? What does
it do? And beyond all this stuff you're hearing like Snapchat,
Venmo or whatever, your favorite app. They do some serious
business for the military as well. Let's talk about all that.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Welcome in for yeah, good morning, justin.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Yeah, let's start with what AWS is. For some people
that don't understand, Amazon ADAWS is one of the largest
or the largest.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Cloud computing platforms.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
So in the olden days, we had servers everywhere that
ran everything, right, physical servers at a business or a
government facility. Now you can rent space at Amazon, and
it's very efficient, it's very easily backed up, there's many options,
it's very cost effective. You can start small with an
app and then make it as big as the McDonald's app,
(18:36):
which was one of those guys affected and down. So
it's a powerful tool that many businesses use for phone systems,
for military services, for apps like Starbucks or McDonald's app,
and it was down, you know, So all these services
just just simply stopped working and nobody could order their
(18:56):
their McDonald's stuff on their app or snapchats wouldn't go through.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
And those are just the things we hear about justin.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
We don't hear about the military type of outages. We
don't hear exactly what vulnerabilities, you know, we're.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Not seeing this is caused by a hack.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
If you go to the Amazon website and you want
to read into the deep dive, you can do that,
but in reality it was a DNS issue.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
So we're not exactly sure yet if they'll ever even
tell us.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
I don't know if the illegally have to or not,
if this was hacking related or not. But it is
a scary thing because so much hinges on these services.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, and it is.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
You just mentioned military as I was talking about that
earlier too, but that's a whole nother piece of this.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
We're going to see more threats.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
This is the battlefield I think in a lot of ways.
Isn't it moving into the next season here?
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Yeah, justin and some of the funnier ones, more lighthearted ones,
but I mean people's pets almost died because there's cat
food dispensers that are ran off. You know, these virtual
machines for programming and feeding them smart thermostats and you
can laugh at it, but think about it. If you
can't get into your home because your a ring doorbell,
(20:13):
you're relying to unlock your door, they.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
Got you by the neck.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Justin on a consumer level, never mind, if this is
deeper in military systems or water filtration systems. So really
these kind of things can be scary because this is
kind of the new nuclear weapon. If a foreign person,
bad actor, a bad guy can freeze our cars, freeze
(20:38):
our water supply, or poison it or whatever, you can
effectively have a far greater impact than a nuclear weapon
on a country. If you take the water supply for
a handful of major cities and then the trickle down effect,
right that's there was only twenty five percent of Amazon
services were down, and that trickle down effect.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Was massive to all different platforms.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, it's interesting. I think there's a couple of things
coming out of this. But number one, you know, last
week we shared the story from sixty Minutes. They talked
about China hacking into the inn the water there in
I guess it's a little town in New England is
where that was. China hacking into the water there. That's
(21:25):
a that was sort of a big problem in this case.
We're talking about who knows China rushes some other North Korea,
who knows some other bad actor.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
We're just not sure who it was in this case.
But what else could they do?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
And it wouldn't take much This day and age the
way everything is connected. So the question is what should
we do. Should we reconsider how we do some of
the stuff. Yeah, that's that's the question.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Yeah, justin there is ways to mitigate this, right, So
everything in theory, everything that went down with Amazon Aws
could have been backed up in another service them with
a different service provider like Microsoft Azure.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Or other ones out.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
There that do similar services and could be costly, it
could be a pain, or they might have to set
up an old traditional server somewhere physically, but they are
backed up. So any critical infrastructure should be backed up.
We shouldn't have one cloud service go down because of
an accidental glitch or a foreign bad act or a hack,
and then it starts this chain reaction. So this is
(22:27):
a wake up call and those people that have apps
that were down are going through board meetings right now
and saying, hey, why didn't we have a backup? Is
it okay that we don't have a backup service that
will spool up or are we just going to say, hey,
if Amazon's down, we're just down for the count.
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do that. Let's look at some of the other big
(23:04):
tech stories, because hackers are big on the same. In fact,
I had this story the other day hackers jams San
fran Street with fifty self driving cars. Again, this is
kind of on the on the surface, it's it sounds like.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I don't it to me.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It sounds like kind of like a it's almost like
a funny like you would see this on a I
don't know, a comedy or something. But this is this
actually happened. And again this just shows you the problems
that could come as we are more connected into the future.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Trent, Yeah, just we need to take these things more seriously.
Right where we all get myself included a little bit
hard into hacking.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
We see it everywhere. But if these hackers can jam
up a street with these cars.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
What's they say they can't off somebody by making it
hit a bridge or or something else.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
And it was quote unquote.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
An accident, right, what's to say they can't take a
couple of thousand of these cars and trigger an overheat
in the battery to start a fire. How does the
Los Angeles Fire Department or any other major city respond
to one hundred simultaneous car fires?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Right?
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Like, this is where we're vulnerable, and there are ways
with technology. It's not all fear and doom and gloom
with technology that it's all bad. There are ways with
technology to harden them, to put fail safe in there.
Sometimes physical sales safs. It just simply costs a little
extra money to do that. Usually when there's technology issues,
(24:36):
it's usually when they're cutting corners on costs where you
get these issues. So that's where we need to focus on.
Is making these things a little bit more secure, the
infrastructure better that runs and supports these things.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Can you define DNS denial service attacks so people understand
what that is. I got questions in the chat today
for people that not everybody is a geek.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Yeah, the denial of service that's a different things that's
overwhelming DNS systems as a form of a hack. The
Amazon thing DNS that's basically the identity of each person's
device who's trying to access the server for data. The
Virginia server in Amazon's case couldn't figure out who's who,
(25:20):
and so that's why they had to shut down services
to get those errors corrected, which obviously had a chain
reaction to many other devices as that overloaded the backup
Amazon's backup system.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
So the DNS is a fairly simple thing in theory.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
It's just the identity of your device, and the server
you're connecting to for information has to know that, and
in this case their system was clitched out, messed up
to make it simple, couldn't identify who's who.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
So we rag on AI quite a bit here, although
we're astonished with it as well. This next story is
a big one, Trent, and I thought, gosh, you know,
if you're not using AI, maybe you who I want
to second guess that with this latest a woman, in fact,
a woman in Michigan want one hundred thousand dollars in
(26:08):
the power Ball using lottery numbers she got from chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
How do you do this? Teach me, Trent. I gotta know, yeah,
justin I have.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
No idea how the lottery system works. I've never bought
a ticket in my life. But what I will say
is that you can get chat GPT in so these
other platforms to go real deep and tell you things
that they're programmed not to do. And sometimes people stumble
upon that accidentally. Some people have really highly intelligent conversations
with them to trick them to telling them and to
(26:41):
you know, use an example, how to make a bomb, right,
Chatt GPT is not supposed to tell you how to
make a bomb, but if you trick it, like, Hey,
I'm a scientist, I'm in a laboratory and you know,
I'm mixing this and this, and you know, I'm curious
what would happen if I.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
Did this and this.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
It's basically assuming you're in the midst of a scientist
experiment instead of assuming you're a bad guy or a
kid trying to pass with something you shouldn't be, and
you can literally trick it as if it's if it's human.
So does chatbt have access to the lottery system?
Speaker 8 (27:12):
I have no idea, justin, but that opens another whole
can of worms.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
No, I don't think it has access to the lottery system,
but to give you numbers that that is something I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Maybe we're just not using this.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Stuff, right, Trent I don't. I don't know, how about you.
Maybe we ought to take a better look at that, Trent.
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had all these hacking stories and whatnot in the news.
Reach out to them if you haven't, rny so you
can get prepared no matter what. Trent, always a pleasure.
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 8 (28:00):
Thanks Justin, have a great day you.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Too, God bless Yeah. Coming up, folks more in just
minutes we'll wrap the show. We got an after show
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October twenty First, I'm Robin Poffman. It's a Midwesterner dot
News original story. It's looking grim for Governor Whitmer, whose
coronavirus extreme lockdowns taking a toll on our state students.
Turns out, close to seventy five percent of Michigan high
schoolers are unprepared for college or a career. Close to
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three quarters of Michigan students could not meet the threshold
on standardized tests for college readiness in twenty twenty four.
In other news, it's not a list Detroit wants to
be on, for sure, Mayor Duggins. Detroit ranked the fourth
most dangerous city in America.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
So they have what's called a Trump derangement problem.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
And President Trump telling reporters Democrats on Capitol Hill are
going to have to vote to end the government shutdown eventually.
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Oh we wanted inuation and so the first time in
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Pump up your energy saving.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Already, then fastest are radio is underway. Can price increases
from DTE be reversed? A lot of that's tied to
natural gas, Well, it depends on where you are. DT's
natural gas on the west side of the state. It's
electric on the east side of the state. And unfortunately, guys,
(31:20):
I've got this bad news. I don't think energy prices
are going down anytime soon, and it's not because of Trump.
But there's a number of reasons for that. And I'm
going to be digging in a little bit deeper to
share this with you because it's it's it's a very
big concern of mine, and I just don't think it's
(31:44):
getting enough. Well, if they weren't mad enough after the
note kings rallying they had to revise the numbers down,
If they weren't mad enough that Trump's approval rating is
(32:06):
going up and gas prices are going down, It's it's
crazy to find that people are actually not happy that
gas price are going Now, well, they will come and
argue with you that shows you the power of the
trunk arrangement syndrome. They will argue with you about anything
and everything on social media, and a lot of times
I just try not to well, I try.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I try for the most part, I try not.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
To entertain a lot of that. Uh sometimes I do
it gage trying to have a good conversation with people,
and then you can get a really good understanding up
close quickly whether or not somebody is going to be
talking to you in good faith or not. And most
(32:52):
parties you see where people are immediately and and it's
there's not a lot of good faith comforts. I think
people just go, I'm on the internet to blow off steam.
But that's not why we're there. We're giving the truth,
logic and common sense. That's the goal. So when you
get stories like this out of Detroit, Chunna.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
Told Local four, Michigan drivers are now paying an average
of two seventy nine per gallon for regular unludden, which
is a new twenty twenty five low. This price is
forty one cents less than this time at last month,
and forty nine cents less than this time last year.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Not today unless you get out there and fill up.
So you can imagine if they're going to be unhappy
about gas prices going down, you can imagine what people
are going to be unhappy when they start to see
scenes from the White House. All they are just flipping
out today because they think Trump is destroying the White
(33:44):
House to build the ballroom, which really needs to be done.
And there's a list out there in case you run
into this over the next two years. Well, I don't
think it's going to take them that long to get
the thing done. But Trump very happy that the construction
has begun on the ballroom.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Because I didn't want to crack one thousand. I didn't
want people to get concerned because that's getting big. But
we're gonna have We'll have the most beautiful ballroom in
the country. It's going on and if for those that
are interested, we got to get back to baseball.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
But you see the gold drapes, that's a knockout panel.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
We knock it in, you go with that comes out,
and then you have essentially glass and exactly in the
decores of the White House. I didn't know i'd be
standing here right now because right on the other side
you have a lot of construction going on, which you
might hear periodically, but that's a knockout panel and that
goes right into the ballroom, and the ballroom is going
to be beautiful.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
She's so thrilled about this. By the way, here here's
the history in case you don't know. Geiger capital over
on acts and this is what I would share with folks.
We're gonna put this up on the stack today too,
so that you can share this story with others. And
people on the left are losing their minds showing the construction.
And I think essentially they had to tear part of that.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Area down where the ballroom is going to be built.
There's just part of it.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
They had to tear down a little demo to actually
start the build process. And there are people foaming at
the mouth about this.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
On the left. Geiger capitalists well.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Teddy Roosevelt built the west wing, taff made the executive
office Oval, FDR added the entire east wing and included
it in a pool, an indoor pool for himself. Truman
got the entire White House. Nixon added a bowling alley,
Obama added a basketball court. Trump is building a ballroom.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
So when you.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Hear some of this back and forth on this, you
just know that's Paul Harvey used to say, the rest
of the story, the truth, logic and common sense you
won't get anywhere else. And now you know, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Because.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
They're just going to be foaming at the mouth over
this and they don't know their history is anything Trump does.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
They're just unhappy with it all.
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the thing you may think the left would be losing
their ever loving minds about. But it's not necessarily it. It's
just one. The organ National Guard can now be deployed
in Portland. Federal Appeals Court giving giving Trump the green
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light to deploy the Guard to Portland, overruling the previous
comments from the folks work those judicial activists.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Probably the best way to put it on those folks
from on the left.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals finding that deployment and
appropriate response to pass protests major ologists still continue to
be a problem for some. They said they got most
of us cleaned up, but we're going to talk to
Trent a little bit later on what is Amazon Web
Services and what's the issue? Because this continues to be
(03:03):
a major problem for some folks.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
We had problems yesterday here, but if you're one of.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
The people that use anything from Fortnite to Snapchat, to
venmo Zoom or many many other things, even the military
using Amazon Web services, you could have been affected. How
we're going here, It's day twenty one and the government shutdown,
still no deal in sight, but Trump's.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Approval rating is up. How's that even possible?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I wonder if it has anything to do with the
fact gas prices are down well some places, I'd say
most places, most places other than Michigan. There's a reason
why our gas just went up, or it's about to
in some places. The national average gas prices just fall
into three dollars a gallon lowest sense I think twenty
(03:55):
twenty one is what I write. That's a big one.
Ah yeah, tell me how about it? So let me
break it all down for you. Coming up in just moments,
we will do just that. It's West Michigan Live. I
(04:20):
can't see anything out of this screen here, and I
don't know how we can do a radio show without it,
so something needs to happen to day. I don't know
what to say, but send somebody an email. Adam, it's crazy.
We got two screens in here and they're both from
the nineteen eighties and you literally can't You can't see
the things that you got to play. Now, this is
(04:41):
not an Amazon thing. Maybe I get Trent in here
to fix this.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I don't know how I to tell you, folks, is
a mystery. This is a This is an absolute mystery.
I don't know how to get it fixed for you.
I'll do my Can you see if you can move
sweepers over into here. I don't know if you even
know where those are, but look on the wall. We're
gonna need some of those coming up here in a second.
(05:09):
All right, folks, let me give you this because there's
a couple of things that are pieces and bits that
you're gonna hear of the next. First of all, it's
a big story. Twenty one days in they voted well,
I think the twelfth time last night the Senate. Now
they're going to take a look at putting stuff through
(05:29):
piece by piece, but this might be the best route
to go. They're gonna look at putting stuff through piece
by piece. And the first thing they're going to start
with is the basically the pay for military and folks
who are serving law enforcement, federal governments, etc. The people
(05:51):
that are protecting us. So that's number one, which I think,
how do you as a demic turn that down? Wellicularly
quotes funding for I said, you know, we just can't.
This is just you know, we can't do this. That's
a genocide. Whatever they will say, they'll come up with,
(06:12):
who knows the excuse. But this is not the position
you want to be in politically. You don't want to
be in the position where you look completely unreasonable. There's
nothing that can be done about it, and these people
aren't getting paid. They own it. It's the Schumer shutdown.
(06:34):
I call it the Schumer shakedown for a reason.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
It is.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
That yet, No, it's it's just it's disgusting. But there's
there's news here that I don't think they like, which
is Trump's not He's not looking bad through it all.
The approval ratings actually have him up.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It's not like a huge massive uptick, but I will
tell you this, it is noticeable.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It is.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I the last time they did this, I think I
think he was underwater. I think we was down what
three points? Last last shutdown again that was twenty was
that seventeen? That that was a while back. So you
(07:32):
compare that to where he is now. I understand people
on the left, you're gonna leave anything that comes out
of my mouth. I get it. I unders done this
long enough. So that's why we're gonna give you ce
an end.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
About Donald Trump shutdowns and not approval rating. We're talking
twenty days into it. In twenty eighteen slast twenty nineteen,
Donald Trump's not approparating was already falling. The shutdown was
eating and it was popular sport. It was down three
points already at this particular point and would fall considerably more.
It was very much on the decline. You come over
to this side of the screen, This shutdown hasn't eaten
(08:06):
in the Donald Trump support at all. Isn't That approval
rating is actually up a point in terms of in
terms of his popular support. So the bottom line is this,
the first shutdown during Trump's first term twenty eighteen twenty
nineteen was hurting Donald Trump. This one is not hurting
him at all. There's no real reason Donald Trump might say,
at least when it comes to popular support.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I want to get out of the shutdown. What about
the question of blame? Yeah, okay, what.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
About the question of blame?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
You see here, you see Donald Trump's an approv rating
was down twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen. You talk about
twenty twenty five, is net approve rating is up. It
comes down to the blame game, a game I love
to play when I was younger. Blame Trump for the
shutdown A great deal. In twenty eighteen slash twenty nineteen,
sixty one percent, more than three to five Americans blame
Trump a great deal for that particular shutdown. You come
(08:51):
over to this side of the screen. Look at this.
It's a different world. It's a different world. Forty eight
percent of Americans blame Trump a great deal for this
particular shutdown.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So it's more than three and five.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Back in twenty eighteen slash twenty nineteen, it's less than
half a drop of thirteen points. Again, it's no real
wonder that Donald Trump, at this point, looking at the shutdown, says,
you know what, it's not actually harming me politically, in
large part because he's getting lesson than the blame.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Okay, so that's CNN.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
So don't shoot the messenger, and folks on the left,
don't shoot anybody.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I hate to say it, but that's CNN.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
The approval rating is up despite the shutdown dragging on
twenty one days. There's a couple of reasons I think
for this. Number one, the old playbook is out the window.
They can't use it anymore. There's so many things happening,
and there's so many good things happening the Trump administration
that people are more they're paying more attention to that,
and also they're flooded with that. The old days, the
(09:55):
way they used to work, what they would have to
do is the media would be covering this walled wall
because there'd be nothing else to color it other than
like some sort of scandal. But you you heard them
say what it was twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. That was
the That was the original. It was the first shutdown,
first Trump.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
That about Donald Trump shutdowns and not approval rating. We're
talking twenty days into it. In twenty eighteen slash twenty nineteen,
Donald Trump's not approprating was already falling. The shutdown was
eating and it was popular or support. It was down
three points already at this particular point and would fall
considerably more. It was very much on the decline. You
come over to this side of the screen. This shutdown
(10:36):
hasn't eaten. And the Donald Trump support at all, isn't
that he's up That approval rating is actually up a point.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
They don't know what to think about this on CNN,
they have no idea what to think about this. So
I made a little sense of all of this for
you as as much as I can. I've made as
much since it's like, but what about.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
What about? And this is? This is? This is the
beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
This Uh I got it because I have to point
this out because it happens, this has happened in the
last two times, which is it's getting frustrating.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
But I also have to laugh.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Gas prices are down nationwide now I'm gonna tell you that,
and people listening in Mischigre gonna say what because you're
gonna go to the gas station today and you are
going to say filler up and you're gonna see sticker
shock because this last weekend you saw prices down. In
(11:58):
the two sixties, I filled up for two forty six
somewhere and today you're going to see it at three
twenty nine. Now, I told folks yesterday on social media,
on Facebook and acts in a couple of places the
gas was going up, and the reason for it isn't Trump.
But the reason I'm frustrated by is again I think
the last time it was it was Labor Day, and
(12:20):
there's a reason for it. And I've I've got to
explain this to you, and it's frustrating me to all.
I just can't because we get a good story like
this and it's the truth, but then it doesn't really
hold it a place like Michigan, really any of the
Great Lake States right now, they're all going to be affected.
(12:40):
Once I tell you why, you'll understand. But it's just
frustrating because I'd like to be able to just sit
and bask in the glory of this, the fact that
gas prices.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Are down and numberlds will argue with you. People on
the level will argue with you, even if they are
like if they're paying a dollar a gown, they'd still
five to raise it to be not happy about it,
which is.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Which is incredible, but it is uh, it's just a
fact in nature.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Who they are.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's all I could say. All right, so let me
try and make some sense out of this for you.
Coming up in just a moment, I will tell you
there's some places it hasn't gone up yet, so this
might be the warning if you haven't done it already,
get out there and fill up now.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Call Justin now at six one six seven seven four
twenty four twenty four at six one six seven seven
four twenty four to twenty four, West Michigan Live with
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oh six nine f M.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
It's Tech Talk today.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Our good friend Trick can i be will join us
nine thirty five The latest on an Amazon outage and
what it means for everyone. Actually meant that packages and
deliveries were disrupted too, but boy, it was so much
more than that, and why we all out of the
bit concerned. Coming up on the way, But first, in
the meantime, if you're able, please join us for the
(14:07):
National anthem It Rise.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Informative Engage It. It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barkley
on News Radio Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six
nine A.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
F Acurior headlines from the Midwesterner this Tuesday, October twenty First,
I'm Robin Poffman. It's a Midwesterner Dot news original story.
It's not a good look for Mayor Duggin's Detroit. The
city now ranked the fourth most dangerous place in America.
Detroit also ranking dead last for unemployment, with a rate
five times higher than cities in South Dakota, Vermont, and Florida.
(15:49):
The twenty twenty five Kids Count Data book, produced by
the Michigan League for Public Policy, finds close to seventy
five percent of students here in our state are totally
unprepared for college or career. This steep decline attributed to
Governor Whitmer's extreme COVID lockdowns. The Schumer shutdown continues, President
Trump telling reporters Democrats will eventually have to go along
(16:11):
and vote to reopen the government.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
All we want to do is have a vote of continuation.
And so the first time in history that a group
has not voted for continuation. So they have what's called
a Trump derangement problem.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
For these stories and more, visit The Midwesterner at the
Midwesterner dot News.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Folks welcome man.
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You, so definitely do that and get right Hello. Coming
up in just a moment, our good friend Trent Canibby
here joining us with the latest on this Amazon issue
and more.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Check into the latest in tech and how it affects
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Speaker 2 (17:19):
Ah right, Trent, can it be a footable lifestore Lake
Michigan Drive and stand down Grand River Tech. Always the pleasure.
Thank you so much for being here with us today.
And Amazon would have made it impossible for us to
even connect. We want to add to as the old
fashioned phone, which is funny, but it wasn't just us.
In the streaming software we use, there's a whole list
of things that were affected. First, let's talk about what
(17:42):
was affected. Then what is Amazon Web Services? What does
it do? And beyond all this stuff you're hearing like Snapchat,
Venmo or whatever, your favorite app. They do some serious
business for the military as well. Let's talk about all that.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Welcome in for yeah, good morning, justin.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Yeah, let's start with what AWS is. For some people
that don't understand, Amazon ADAWS is one of the largest
or the largest.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Cloud computing platforms.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
So in the olden days, we had servers everywhere that
ran everything, right, physical servers at a business or a
government facility. Now you can rent space at Amazon, and
it's very efficient, it's very easily backed up, there's many options,
it's very cost effective. You can start small with an
app and then make it as big as the McDonald's app,
(18:36):
which was one of those guys affected and down. So
it's a powerful tool that many businesses use for phone systems,
for military services, for apps like Starbucks or McDonald's app,
and it was down, you know, So all these services
just just simply stopped working and nobody could order their
(18:56):
their McDonald's stuff on their app or snapchats wouldn't go through.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
And those are just the things we hear about justin.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
We don't hear about the military type of outages. We
don't hear exactly what vulnerabilities, you know, we're.
Speaker 8 (19:09):
Not seeing this is caused by a hack.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
If you go to the Amazon website and you want
to read into the deep dive, you can do that,
but in reality it was a DNS issue.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
So we're not exactly sure yet if they'll ever even
tell us.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
I don't know if the illegally have to or not,
if this was hacking related or not. But it is
a scary thing because so much hinges on these services.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, and it is.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
You just mentioned military as I was talking about that
earlier too, but that's a whole nother piece of this.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
We're going to see more threats.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
This is the battlefield I think in a lot of ways.
Isn't it moving into the next season here?
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Yeah, justin and some of the funnier ones, more lighthearted ones,
but I mean people's pets almost died because there's cat
food dispensers that are ran off. You know, these virtual
machines for programming and feeding them smart thermostats and you
can laugh at it, but think about it. If you
can't get into your home because your a ring doorbell,
(20:13):
you're relying to unlock your door, they.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
Got you by the neck.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Justin on a consumer level, never mind, if this is
deeper in military systems or water filtration systems. So really
these kind of things can be scary because this is
kind of the new nuclear weapon. If a foreign person,
bad actor, a bad guy can freeze our cars, freeze
(20:38):
our water supply, or poison it or whatever, you can
effectively have a far greater impact than a nuclear weapon
on a country. If you take the water supply for
a handful of major cities and then the trickle down effect,
right that's there was only twenty five percent of Amazon
services were down, and that trickle down effect.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Was massive to all different platforms.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, it's interesting. I think there's a couple of things
coming out of this. But number one, you know, last
week we shared the story from sixty Minutes. They talked
about China hacking into the inn the water there in
I guess it's a little town in New England is
where that was. China hacking into the water there. That's
(21:25):
a that was sort of a big problem in this case.
We're talking about who knows China rushes some other North Korea,
who knows some other bad actor.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
We're just not sure who it was in this case.
But what else could they do?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
And it wouldn't take much This day and age the
way everything is connected. So the question is what should
we do. Should we reconsider how we do some of
the stuff. Yeah, that's that's the question.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Yeah, justin there is ways to mitigate this, right, So
everything in theory, everything that went down with Amazon Aws
could have been backed up in another service them with
a different service provider like Microsoft Azure.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Or other ones out.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
There that do similar services and could be costly, it
could be a pain, or they might have to set
up an old traditional server somewhere physically, but they are
backed up. So any critical infrastructure should be backed up.
We shouldn't have one cloud service go down because of
an accidental glitch or a foreign bad act or a hack,
and then it starts this chain reaction. So this is
(22:27):
a wake up call and those people that have apps
that were down are going through board meetings right now
and saying, hey, why didn't we have a backup? Is
it okay that we don't have a backup service that
will spool up or are we just going to say, hey,
if Amazon's down, we're just down for the count.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
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do that. Let's look at some of the other big
(23:04):
tech stories, because hackers are big on the same. In fact,
I had this story the other day hackers jams San
fran Street with fifty self driving cars. Again, this is
kind of on the on the surface, it's it sounds like.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I don't it to me.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
It sounds like kind of like a it's almost like
a funny like you would see this on a I
don't know, a comedy or something. But this is this
actually happened. And again this just shows you the problems
that could come as we are more connected into the future.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
Trent, Yeah, just we need to take these things more seriously.
Right where we all get myself included a little bit
hard into hacking.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
We see it everywhere. But if these hackers can jam
up a street with these cars.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
What's they say they can't off somebody by making it
hit a bridge or or something else.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
And it was quote unquote.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
An accident, right, what's to say they can't take a
couple of thousand of these cars and trigger an overheat
in the battery to start a fire. How does the
Los Angeles Fire Department or any other major city respond
to one hundred simultaneous car fires?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Right?
Speaker 7 (24:16):
Like, this is where we're vulnerable, and there are ways
with technology. It's not all fear and doom and gloom
with technology that it's all bad. There are ways with
technology to harden them, to put fail safe in there.
Sometimes physical sales safs. It just simply costs a little
extra money to do that. Usually when there's technology issues,
(24:36):
it's usually when they're cutting corners on costs where you
get these issues. So that's where we need to focus on.
Is making these things a little bit more secure, the
infrastructure better that runs and supports these things.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Can you define DNS denial service attacks so people understand
what that is. I got questions in the chat today
for people that not everybody is a geek.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Yeah, the denial of service that's a different things that's
overwhelming DNS systems as a form of a hack. The
Amazon thing DNS that's basically the identity of each person's
device who's trying to access the server for data. The
Virginia server in Amazon's case couldn't figure out who's who,
(25:20):
and so that's why they had to shut down services
to get those errors corrected, which obviously had a chain
reaction to many other devices as that overloaded the backup
Amazon's backup system.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
So the DNS is a fairly simple thing in theory.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
It's just the identity of your device, and the server
you're connecting to for information has to know that, and
in this case their system was clitched out, messed up
to make it simple, couldn't identify who's who.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
So we rag on AI quite a bit here, although
we're astonished with it as well. This next story is
a big one, Trent, and I thought, gosh, you know,
if you're not using AI, maybe you who I want
to second guess that with this latest a woman, in fact,
a woman in Michigan want one hundred thousand dollars in
(26:08):
the power Ball using lottery numbers she got from chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
How do you do this? Teach me, Trent. I gotta know, yeah,
justin I have.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
No idea how the lottery system works. I've never bought
a ticket in my life. But what I will say
is that you can get chat GPT in so these
other platforms to go real deep and tell you things
that they're programmed not to do. And sometimes people stumble
upon that accidentally. Some people have really highly intelligent conversations
with them to trick them to telling them and to
(26:41):
you know, use an example, how to make a bomb, right,
Chatt GPT is not supposed to tell you how to
make a bomb, but if you trick it, like, Hey,
I'm a scientist, I'm in a laboratory and you know,
I'm mixing this and this, and you know, I'm curious
what would happen if I.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
Did this and this.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
It's basically assuming you're in the midst of a scientist
experiment instead of assuming you're a bad guy or a
kid trying to pass with something you shouldn't be, and
you can literally trick it as if it's if it's human.
So does chatbt have access to the lottery system?
Speaker 8 (27:12):
I have no idea, justin, but that opens another whole
can of worms.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
No, I don't think it has access to the lottery system,
but to give you numbers that that is something I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Maybe we're just not using this.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Stuff, right, Trent I don't. I don't know, how about you.
Maybe we ought to take a better look at that, Trent.
Can it be affordableized store Lake Michigan, Drive in Standale
and of course Grand River Tech where they can help
you with all your needs, whether it be your personal
devices or getting you connected for your organization. Boy, I'll
(27:47):
tell you, now's the time, especially with the latest we've
had all these hacking stories and whatnot in the news.
Reach out to them if you haven't, rny so you
can get prepared no matter what. Trent, always a pleasure.
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 8 (28:00):
Thanks Justin, have a great day you.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Too, God bless Yeah. Coming up, folks more in just
minutes we'll wrap the show. We got an after show
fired up too, coming up. You will not want to
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October twenty First, I'm Robin Poffman. It's a Midwesterner dot
News original story. It's looking grim for Governor Whitmer, whose
coronavirus extreme lockdowns taking a toll on our state students.
Turns out, close to seventy five percent of Michigan high
schoolers are unprepared for college or a career. Close to
(30:16):
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In other news, it's not a list Detroit wants to
be on, for sure, Mayor Duggins. Detroit ranked the fourth
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Speaker 6 (30:31):
So they have what's called a Trump derangement problem.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
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Pump up your energy saving.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Already, then fastest are radio is underway. Can price increases
from DTE be reversed? A lot of that's tied to
natural gas, Well, it depends on where you are. DT's
natural gas on the west side of the state. It's
electric on the east side of the state. And unfortunately, guys,
(31:20):
I've got this bad news. I don't think energy prices
are going down anytime soon, and it's not because of Trump.
But there's a number of reasons for that. And I'm
going to be digging in a little bit deeper to
share this with you because it's it's it's a very
big concern of mine, and I just don't think it's
(31:44):
getting enough. Well, if they weren't mad enough after the
note kings rallying they had to revise the numbers down,
If they weren't mad enough that Trump's approval rating is
(32:06):
going up and gas prices are going down, It's it's
crazy to find that people are actually not happy that
gas price are going Now, well, they will come and
argue with you that shows you the power of the
trunk arrangement syndrome. They will argue with you about anything
and everything on social media, and a lot of times
I just try not to well, I try.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I try for the most part, I try not.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
To entertain a lot of that. Uh sometimes I do
it gage trying to have a good conversation with people,
and then you can get a really good understanding up
close quickly whether or not somebody is going to be
talking to you in good faith or not. And most
(32:52):
parties you see where people are immediately and and it's
there's not a lot of good faith comforts. I think
people just go, I'm on the internet to blow off steam.
But that's not why we're there. We're giving the truth,
logic and common sense. That's the goal. So when you
get stories like this out of Detroit, Chunna.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
Told Local four, Michigan drivers are now paying an average
of two seventy nine per gallon for regular unludden, which
is a new twenty twenty five low. This price is
forty one cents less than this time at last month,
and forty nine cents less than this time last year.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Not today unless you get out there and fill up.
So you can imagine if they're going to be unhappy
about gas prices going down, you can imagine what people
are going to be unhappy when they start to see
scenes from the White House. All they are just flipping
out today because they think Trump is destroying the White
(33:44):
House to build the ballroom, which really needs to be done.
And there's a list out there in case you run
into this over the next two years. Well, I don't
think it's going to take them that long to get
the thing done. But Trump very happy that the construction
has begun on the ballroom.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Because I didn't want to crack one thousand. I didn't
want people to get concerned because that's getting big. But
we're gonna have We'll have the most beautiful ballroom in
the country. It's going on and if for those that
are interested, we got to get back to baseball.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
But you see the gold drapes, that's a knockout panel.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
We knock it in, you go with that comes out,
and then you have essentially glass and exactly in the
decores of the White House. I didn't know i'd be
standing here right now because right on the other side
you have a lot of construction going on, which you
might hear periodically, but that's a knockout panel and that
goes right into the ballroom, and the ballroom is going
to be beautiful.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
She's so thrilled about this. By the way, here here's
the history in case you don't know. Geiger capital over
on acts and this is what I would share with folks.
We're gonna put this up on the stack today too,
so that you can share this story with others. And
people on the left are losing their minds showing the construction.
And I think essentially they had to tear part of that.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Area down where the ballroom is going to be built.
There's just part of it.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
They had to tear down a little demo to actually
start the build process. And there are people foaming at
the mouth about this.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
On the left. Geiger capitalists well.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Teddy Roosevelt built the west wing, taff made the executive
office Oval, FDR added the entire east wing and included
it in a pool, an indoor pool for himself. Truman
got the entire White House. Nixon added a bowling alley,
Obama added a basketball court. Trump is building a ballroom.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
So when you.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Hear some of this back and forth on this, you
just know that's Paul Harvey used to say, the rest
of the story, the truth, logic and common sense you
won't get anywhere else. And now you know, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Because.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
They're just going to be foaming at the mouth over
this and they don't know their history is anything Trump does.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
They're just unhappy with it all.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Fastest Sound Radio is absolutely each and every day jam
packed with as much as we get into it, but
we just never have time to get it all. That's
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