Trump to give Oval Address after Chicago Bloodbath - 54 Shot, 7 Dead on Labor Day Weekend (WML) 9-2-25

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Justin Barklay on Wood Radio.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
I'm back after it. Holy moly, what a week out
for some personal reasons. I'll tell you a little bit
more about that in a little bit. And there's a
lot to catch up on. I mean, it's it's always
every every day, I think, like drinking from a firehouse,
but particularly trying to catch up with a week like
last week, it's gonna be tough. We'll bring up the

(00:42):
speed today over the last weekend, and of course some
of the stories that we didn't get a chance to
talk about, we'll do just that on the way this morning.
And President Trump set for a big oval address coming
up this afternoon. Why don't we gonna have anything to
do with what happened in Chicago?

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They're at the bus stop to get your kids off
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folks there is over three thousand were injured as well.
On top of it, entire villages and Kunar and Nengar
provinces flattened, rescuers racing there to resurvivors trapped in the rubble,
and of course, as I mentioned, the Taliban urgently appealing
for international aid. That's the official ruling, you know, since

(02:38):
since Biden. Yeah, this way there. But the pictures that
are coming out today are in fact pretty incredible and
some of that video that we're watching too, so again
grand for those folks there. A little more death and
destruction over the weekend, this time stateside in Chicago, a
bloody Labor Day weekend, leaving more than forty people shot

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at at least seven killed. Gang violence attributed to this
as it is out of control inside the city of Chicago,
and that makes one thick. The mayor and the governor.
They're trying to make this a political issue and both
trying to, I guess, buck up against President Trump. Over

(03:23):
sixteen hundred arrest by the way in DC since Trump's
clean up there. They are sort of resisting the federal
forces or help and aid it all coming in to Chicago,
arguing that local control was the key. I'd argue that
they don't have control locally. Speaking of DC, Congress is
going to step in and take on that matter. They're

(03:45):
in DC can be making a permanent deal. Speaker of
the House Mike Johnson mentioning that over the weekend, and
President Trump sat with that national address from the Oval
Office about two pm this afternoon. Who knows he may
be speaking about Chicago specifically, will we'll have the latest.
No confirmation on.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
That anyway yet.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
But how about this back to school another piece of
chaos in Whitmer's Michigan. Fewer, according to the stats, than
forty percent of Michigan third graders are at reading level.
I mean, this is absolutely unthinkable. But I'll tell you
I've heard a lot about this, and in fact, I'm

(04:27):
hearing from inside sources that are working with schools that
the kids that are coming to school now, like you
know that were I guess in there in kindergarten or
first grade, the kids that went through COVID, they went
through the not especially the ones that were just sort
of born and coming up at that time because of
the masks and everything else, that they're having a really
hard time and in some of these other areas they're

(04:48):
hearing that it's even worse because they went through at
that at that moment in time, the in those very
very crucial and critical stages, just thirty eight point nine
percent of third graders per efficient in reading. According to
that state. It's one of the lowest rates in decades.
Steep declines on Governor Whitmer's COVID lockdowns extended school closures,

(05:12):
which critics say left kids further behind compared to states
that that reopened, So that that's something to keep in
mind again. Will you talk about some of the effects
and the unfortunate, uh really disastrous effects of these last
almost eight years under her watch. That's that's exactly where

(05:34):
we are. Uh. Hey, I I showed up today. That's
why you know I didn't win. Well, I had a
week off anyway, I don't know. You know, even if
I won that power ball, I probably would have still showed.
I'd really like what I do. I might do it
from a nicer place, though, no offense to you. Adam

(05:55):
staring at him to the glass right now. I think
he's no But like with some to waterview or something,
you know what I mean, Maybe we'll we upgrade studios
or something for one point three billion dollars. That's what
the new jackpot's gonna be. By the way, for power Ball,
and uh, what do they draw next? Is it Wednesday?

(06:20):
I think it'll be the fourth largest in game history
if you take the cash option. At six hundred and
twelve million before taxes, Uncle Sam's gonna get his his cut,
still enough to live on.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
I think.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Called 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
Justin Barclay on news radio Wood thirteen hundred and one
oh six nine f M.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
What was that? What did you say? You love me?
But you quit immediately? That shows your loyalties. I don't
think he loves it here as much. You know, it
was like sea love it, you gotta love it one
point three. They probably take a little more vacation. Yeah,
you'll probably take a little bit of Yeah, exactly one
point three billion. It's it's hard to even think, uh

(07:10):
in those terms. So while I left, uh the left
crashed out yet again. Uh, well I was going and
I will. I'll give you the full details a little
bit later on towards the end of the show. But
I had a family funeral, and to talk about that experience,
it's a really interesting experience. And I just the way
it all worked out because it was out of town.
I just this, you know, I'll just take the whole

(07:31):
week s late. It's the day before labor. They win
a lot of people off anyway, so we're back at it.
But you know what I missed as they get a
chance to sort of I still stay plugged into everything.
It's hard not to. I have, you know, try to
like force myself to turn things off. And I don't
know if you're like me, but you know, I kind
of have to every now and then. You have to
unplug to unplug, and you got to force yourself to

(07:53):
do that, and and I did. But it was really
interesting because I still got to see the news in
the headline, had to talk to real people and have
a really good conversation. But it was it just taught
a different different level. And they are the left again.
They're on speaking of a whole different level. They are

(08:14):
on a whole different level. The left is crashing out again.
Have you seen the latest conspiracy theory crash out. Well,
I guess he took a couple of days and he
wasn't necessarily doing press conference after, but although he did
a big one, I think just before all of this nonsense,
and then he was out, he was out golf and

(08:37):
I think I think he took his granddaughter golfing. And
I will tell you, I'm kind of I perplexed by this.
There's a couple I call it Blue Anon, because there's
a couple of these folks. I think their brains have
been completely broken out of all of this. Their brains
have been completely broken from it all. At first, there

(09:01):
was a group of people that believe that President Trump's
assassed of the assassination. It's actually a couple of them,
but the first one particularly, they believe he wasn't actually shot.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
There are and.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
It's becoming a more and more mainstream thing, and they'll say, thing,
look at his ear, there's nothing wrong with his it
was grazed, he's still got an ear. There doesn't look
like anything wrong with his ear there, and he's totally fine.
Look at him. He never got shot. They set it up. Now,
can you just imagine the insanity because somebody did actually

(09:35):
get shot and die like somebody did die in this
whole ordeal Butler, Pennsylvania. These folks are ramping this whole
idea of this whole story up right now, which is
really wild to watch that as I think it's it's well,
it's unfortunate because the other brains are But their brains

(09:56):
are broken already anyway, if you see some of the
things that they belie even think about anyway, But they're
still pushing this insane theory. And again, you know, we
were told we were conspiracy theorists for asking I think
legit and obvious questions about things like elections or experimental
drugs that we were told we had to take otherwise

(10:18):
we'd lose everything. Don't Oh, don't think I'm ever gonna
forget any of this. Don't think I'm ever gonna So
many people died, lost their livelihoods. Uh, well, good. Why
they died because they couldn't get medical care. They couldn't
get the treatment that they were supposed to get, because
they forced you to get certain things done, and of
course if you didn't, then you couldn't go in and
get you know, a lot of people died from taking

(10:40):
the experimental as well. I'm not even all that. But
I will just say that we weren't allowed to ask
any simple questions. But these folks, So you watched it
live stream. It was on CNN, it was a couple
of these places carried it. The channel's news channels carried
it live. It was one of the first that they did.
A lot of questions about that too. But this is

(11:01):
this is just wild to watch because not only are
they dead set on this now, but they are they're
also very, very concerned about the time off that he took.
And of course he was out coughing with his with
his granddaughter who's quite a golfer herself, and uh, and

(11:22):
doing a couple of other things because it's it's it's
Labor Day weekend. The man can't have a break now,
Joe Biden. This vice versa similarly, Joe Biden couldn't even
put a sentence together. I mean, the guy was incoherent
for the last four years, and there were no questions
about anything that he had to say at all. So

(11:45):
you have that story and uh, and and he is alive,
so am I. We are both alive and well. Contrary
to any of the rumors or of our device, both
both I think greatly exaggerated. So, uh, we're back. He's
back today. Yeah, And and what's really will I heard,

(12:06):
I heard this and this are just absolutely horrific watching
the story play out of the Catholic church in school
where the little kids were at mass last week, and
it just it was just horrifying watching that story and
what came out of it. We could touch on that
too when I come back. But even this morning, I

(12:26):
heard a Fox News reporter call the suspect a man
the Fox News Are that or not a man?

Speaker 2 (12:37):
A woman?

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Excuse me? So a woman like I was getting it
mixed up. I'm not the one confused here, No, I know, uh,
but I heard it this morning. I thought to myself,
you have got to be kidding me. We we you
got it. We've got to be able to talk about
all this stuff and in playing straight language. By the way,

(12:59):
I think it's getting people killed, the fact that we're
not able to talk about or told we're not able
to talk about the things that really matter, the things
that I think would make a difference. And from a
compassionate angle as well, We're back with more and by
the way, we'll do all of that coming up and
more of the stories that you want here. Plus it's
a Tech Tuesday. Our good friend Trick and Ibi will

(13:20):
join us. Apparently there's a new iPhone that's coming out
next week. I was just told by Adam. I had
no idea. I think Trent's gonna talk a little bit
about that. But they're using AI now to unmask ice officers,
so we'll talk about that story as well. It's a
big one. You're locked in West Michigan Live. We appreciate
you being here with us to day back the second

(13:44):
day of September, I did. I spent a lot of
time on my weekend, by the way, or the last week,
having a great time playing with the kids. Of course,
we went to parks and playgrounds and the cottage and
all kinds of places. Yesterday we were running around and walked
actually went walking around the Rockford got to go check

(14:06):
out the day and the kids love nature and all
kinds of stuff. They went looking for turtles, and uh,
it was like a nightmare. We weren't We couldn't find
any turtles, and my oldest was getting so upset about it.
Finally we found one sunning on a rock down there
by the By the day of course we had some
Rockies ice cream at all. But this is my point,
is I guess to tell you that we got to
enjoy and I think a lot of things that you

(14:29):
maybe miss out on. If you they're dealing with constant
foot pain, leg pain, back pain, and you maybe have
have decided to slow things down, a little bit of
slowing you down. I think down's the time to get
back to you, especially since summer is over unofficially and
the kids are back in school. And I will say
this as far as summer's because you know, we still

(14:50):
got like twenty more days of actual official summer meteorological
summer anyway, so there's still plenty of great weather to
enjoy too. What do you want to get out and
do some yard worker maybe spend some time with the
kids or grandkids. Now is the time to do it.
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Speaker 2 (15:43):
Setting the record straight.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on News Radio
Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six nine, half air
and on demand anytime on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 6 (15:55):
Cure your headlines from the Midwestern or this Tuesday, September second,
I'm Robin Poffman and it's a Midwesterner. Dot News original story.
A Republican lawmaker here in Michigan escalating his push to
root out waste and fraud in the state's public assistance programs,
Representative Jason Wolford warning that systematic failures have already cost

(16:16):
taxpayers billions of dollars. A miserable record to run on
here in Michigan. Under Democrat Governor Whitmer, less than forty
percent of third graders can read. There's been a steady
decline since Whitmer's extreme coronavirus lockdowns and no one wins
the massive powerball jackpot Monday night, so the pot grows

(16:36):
to one point three billion dollars for Wednesday nights drawing.
So what would you do with all that money?

Speaker 4 (16:41):
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For these stories and more, visit the Midwesterner at the
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Speaker 3 (16:54):
Damn it, Democrats have done it. They've officially lost the
Morning Shell.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Joarn Is, you have leaders in Chicago that see this.
As you say, we've been reading about this for years
now every weekend, and maybe crime has gone down, but
you know, we had the mayor of Chicago on last
week saying, oh, we don't need any more police officers.
Police officers aren't the answer. No police officers. And you know,
I think you said no five times. You look what's
happening this weekend. He look, you know, I actually think

(17:20):
that JB. Prinsker should do something radical. I think you
should pick up the phone, call the president and say,
you know, and I know you don't have the constitutional
authority to deploy the National Guard here and the police.
You can do that in DC, you can't do that
in Chicago. But let's partner up. These are the most
dangerous parts of my state. We would love to figure

(17:44):
out how to have a partnership that's constitutional, that respects
the sort of balance of federalism between the federal government
and the state government, and let's work together to save lives.
Because right now, hey, hey, nothing to see here, moving along,
no problem here, Hey Donald Trump, we don't need you.

(18:06):
And you know the mayor talking about we're going to
protect people's dignity in our city.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
We'll protect their lives. That's protecting their dignity.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
You know, it's interesting to make it sense thereon And
Gavin Newsom was on that track too before he you know,
he's doing all the podcasts. But then he got some
I don't millennial of somebody that said, I'll run your
Twitter feed for you and we'll come out hard against Trump.
And that's what people want to see. Now he's got
a few extra foaming at the mouth folks at that
Trump arrangement syndrome and permanent and maybe real terminal cases.

(18:38):
But at the same time, you're losing everybody who's reasonable,
and as a Democrats, you find yourself in this position.
I don't know how you do this could probably somebody
try to explain this to me a Democrats trekes mind
how you find yourself defending crime, I mean murder and
just horrific things happening in these very blue cities. By

(19:01):
the way, make it make sense. I think we're gonna
see this play a big role in the mid terms.
I'm more on that tack Tuesday. On the Way, we'll
rip through some of the latest headlines, give you the latest,
and give you the updates and the stories over the
weekend that you may have missed. Headlines Spawn the Hour.
James Kimmel has the latest for you there and uh

(19:24):
oh yeah, I almost forgot. We've got an after show today.
And I'm telling you you think I've got a little
I'm I'm sort of penta. I got all of this
that I've got to get out to you. We're not
gonna be able to barely scratch the surface on some
of these stories. The latest big celeb to flee the country.
More on the way after this, hang on, don't go

(19:45):
to air. It's a good day beautiful. In fact, another
couple of them. Looks like for the forecast this week,
we'll have some rain. Maybe in the next few weeks
or a few days rather, but we kind of I
need some of that cooler temps ahead over the weekend
as well at High's in the sixties over the uh well, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

(20:09):
It looks like in the coming days you's still going
to be a nice day. Seventy nine for a High today,
so we'll take it. Yes, absolutely, well, we got we
got some big stories. Like I said, there's a few
still still a cover that we didn't get a chance
to get to while I was out, and then a
few from the weekend as well, and I'll try and

(20:29):
slam as many of them I can into the show
and then the after show. Obviously today will be jam
packed too, but I got it because it's Tuesday, so
we got to make sure we're doing our best to
cover it. And there is a big upbate coming for
folks who are fans of the Apple Tech our good
friend Trent, can it be affordable, Ice Store, Lake Michigan
Drive and Standale. We'll talk about the brand new Wi

(20:50):
phone and Ai and away it's been used recently against
some members of Ice. Will make your draw hit the flour.
We'll talk about those stories and more coming up.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
They pack 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 3 (21:09):
My good friend Trent Kenneby is here with us, and
like I mentioned, it's big the iPhone, brand new iPhone
coming out next week. I know a lot of people
are excited about that I just mentioned. And this is
sort of an unintentional commercial, but I just mentioned that Trent.
I have the thirteen now. I bought it. I believe
the thirteen pro. I bought this from Trent. Full disclosure,

(21:30):
my wife has one too, and we haven't felt the
need to upgrade since. And they're just really good phones.
So it's gonna be a question again here as iPhone
launches what maybe the seventeen I guess is whether or
not people are gonna splurge and spring for that new phone,
or whether or not they can just upgrade to another
Maybe there's another phone that's gonna get you a little

(21:53):
bit better experience than the one you're using. By the way,
they have great refurbished models and like I said, like
new there at affordable eye storre. But welcome in Trent.
This is going to be a big one for I
think a lot of folks over the next week.

Speaker 7 (22:06):
Yeah, good morning, justin Yeah, iPhone seventeen September nine is
Apple's keynote to announce that and all the features. There's
lots of rumors out there pretty much a week out.
A lot of the rumors are true. Actually, most of
the rumors that people have from leaked models, leaked information,
most of it is true.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
Sometimes Apple can sneak through a surprise.

Speaker 7 (22:24):
But yeah, the big things are is a smaller, lighter
phone called the Air, the iPhone seventeen Air model. It's
supposed to be a lighter, smaller phone, a little bit
more practical phone for the average Joe. Because to your point, justin,
a phone that's a couple of years old is still
doing everything that we needed to. And the reason is
is technology has plateaued for the average show. Right, we text, well,
we check our email, we have a few apps on

(22:46):
our phones. And unless you're like a hardcore gamer or
somebody who needs just a really incredible camera, even the
iPhone thirteen sells a great camera for just basic cell
phone type video. So there's not really any crazy up
grades and that's not a bad thing. Apple's really kind
of banked on the thought that if we have a
really stable platform, a really good phone that's stable, that's reliable,

(23:09):
that doesn't have huge changes from your to ear, it's
going to make the end user experience consistent and good,
and it's going to make them very profitable. They are
not pushing the envelope on this phone with any special
cameras or special features. There's going to be some more
AI features released, not that the phone inherently has more aability,
they're just releasing it more with the iOS software to

(23:31):
do more AI type tasks.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
So just to be clear, there's already AI really at
work and a lot of things Siri and autocorrect, and
I'm noticed like when I'm talking to because I like
to do the talk to text a lot, there's a
lot of AI in because that's every now and then
that's kind of buggy or glitchy.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
Yet AI is going to get better, justin in time.

Speaker 7 (23:51):
It's not going to be like a generational thing like
you can't get the iPhone seventeen and all of a
sudden the speech to text is perfect. The difference is
slowly in time, as they improve the software, the AI
will get better. It actually doesn't matter a ton on
the phone you use anything. iPhone fifteen the newer is
like fully supported with i AI, the more advanced eye
tasks the older phones than iPhone fifteen. So fourteen and

(24:14):
older have only basic AI through through Serie and other
third party apps.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah, I got to be honest, I don't they're really
going to have to have a big, like a big announcement.
For me, that's something big to move the needle, because
we're talking a lot, a lot of money, you know
when it comes to these things, and if I don't
need to spend anymore, I'm happy with that. I'm more
than happy. And if I could spend just a couple
hundred bucks, you know, Yeah, it's a little, it's a

(24:42):
little you know, it's a little easier and I think
a little a little easier to swallow that type of
hit at least. Anyway, we'll keep an eye on it. Again.
The announcement is it next tuesday? Isn't right?

Speaker 5 (24:53):
Yes, September ninth.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
So we'll have it, well, we may not even know
the full details of it next tuesday, but we'll have
I have a little bit more maybe leaks coming out
that type of thing. Speaking of AI the good, the bad,
and the ugly, and this one is just plain ugly.
It's being used right now to unmask ICE officers. Political
has a story about this, and I gotta tell you,

(25:17):
I just hate to see that because I know that
there's all kinds of this type of tech is being
used in military and government already. But it's a new
twist in the debate over surveillance tech. It's raising tough
questions for policymakers. An activist has started using artificial intelligence
to identify ICE agents beneath their masks, a use of

(25:41):
the technology sparking new political concerns over AI powered I
would say safety and security concerns more and so even
than politics. Dominic Skinner, a Netherlands based immigration activist, estimates
he and a group of volunteers have publicly identified at
least twenty ICE officials recorded wearing masks during arrest. Now,

(26:03):
what the heck is a guy in the Netherlands doing
getting into our business here in the United States when
it comes to migrations. It makes it It makes you
wonder what the real purpose behind all of this is.

Speaker 7 (26:16):
Justin The interesting part about this is it seems very partisan.
ICE politically but really this should be a bipartisan issue.
When you have the technology for someone across the globe
or someone in our own country to identify just about
anybody and then put them up on the Internet or
do whatever they want with to say that they're a
bad person or.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
Somebody we should target, it's usually neferis right.

Speaker 7 (26:35):
If you think about in the past, if we would
take someone's name and phone number and blast it up
on the Internet and say anything about them, that's just
been scummy, sleazy. It's just something that's that's just not
a good thing to do. And there's really not much
rules or regulations on this on the US. To my knowledge,
I don't think there's anything illegal in taking pictures of somebody,

(26:57):
whether it's a personal person or news whatever.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
That takes a picture of somebody, regardless of who.

Speaker 7 (27:03):
They are or what they're part of, and then online
identify that with AI technology is very easy to do
now and then post an information and say you're a
bad person, you know whatever. That's dangerous and that's something
that's in the hands of the average joe. No, not
just high level government agencies.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
All right, let's stick with AI, because I got some
funny stories and then some not so funny because some
of this stuff is kind of scary. It's well, maybe
the best way to put it is is spooky anyway,
Will AI speak to the dead via an AI app?
In five years, they predict this, nobody will visit asymmetery.

(27:41):
You'll just be able to talk to your dead relatives
on some sort of AI app. I think they're getting
close to doing this now, if they haven't already done it,
and you could already. I know Meta had a thing.
I think that it was out, yes, well maybe this
weekend where you could talk to and they had to
shut it down because they got caught doing it where
you could talk to like celebrities, So Taylor Swift and

(28:09):
a few others, they had an app setup where you
could just have these conversations. It would sound like you
were talking to these people, but in fact you weren't
very similar with this. But I'm really concerned about this
particular use. I think people are going to use AI
or chatbots to replace faith in a lot of ways.

(28:31):
Instead of you know, having a conversation with your maker,
prayer right is talking and listening, right, there's a little
bit of that both that goes both ways, and I
think people are going to learn and lean on this
in a way that is to me is really concerning true.

Speaker 7 (28:49):
Justin AI can do things that were never realistic in
the past. Right just for it, little is ten minutes
of somebody's personal voice, they can have a really really good,
realistic voice copy. And so if AI is allowed to
take someone's history of years of public social media post
or private camera you know, video and audio personals, personal

(29:10):
family videos and stuff, AI can recreate somebody's character, how
they talk, how they would answer question, and justin that's
just going back and giving it some piece of information.
If AI was set up to intentionally map someone's character
like they do for AI assistance, for example, they could
easily map out somebody to have Like you said, after
someone passes away, then they have a live version of them.

(29:33):
And death is something that's final, that's something that yeah,
it's it's we have pictures and memories of our loved
ones after they pass away that are special, but it's
uncharted territory. How does that affect our psyche? It blends,
it kind of blends the what's real and what's fake.
And that's that's actually hard on people. That's hard on
on society. We are people that need definitives and we

(29:56):
still struggle with that. So definitely very strange territory that
we're And what's the long term consequence of this.

Speaker 5 (30:02):
I don't know if anybody exactly knows.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
All right, So let me give you the good now,
because we just heard the good, the bad, or the
spooky anyway, and ugly, here's the good. So this is
just like AI when I tell you, it's just like
any other tool, although it's like it's unlike any other
tool we've ever had before. But it's like firearms or
fire when there's this jump in technology, we get this.

(30:26):
It's really all in the way the tool is being used.
So here's a story about an AI stethoscope that can
detect heart conditions in just fifteen seconds. In fact, it
may able to be able to tell whether you've got
heart disease, you're gonna have a heart attack, all kinds
of things, Trent, This is where the rubber meets the road,
and particularly in medicine, where I mean you might be

(30:47):
able to help save lives in ways that you never
could before.

Speaker 7 (30:51):
Yeah, justin there's many things of AI where I love
how it works.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
I love how it's used.

Speaker 7 (30:56):
Right for AI to take audio vibrations in different sensor
input and to analyze that data. It can do that
ten times faster and more sensitive and better than a
human human person can. And it's not trying to predict
or be you know, artificial intelligence. It's literally taking sensor
data and saying, hey, we're listening and hearing things that

(31:18):
the human ear can't process.

Speaker 5 (31:20):
That is amazing. That is awesome.

Speaker 7 (31:22):
That is just simply scanning a data set that doesn't
have any creepy or scary thing, And it really truly
is amazing to find heart disease within seconds without any
you know, expensive or difficult testing. That's where we need
more AI to be used instead of trying to tell
us and operate us as humans of how we have.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
To live our lives.

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Speaker 5 (32:14):
Thanks justin have a great day.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Hey, can you hang on the line just for a second.
I got a question for Trent off the air that
folks and the chatter asking to see if we can
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Speaker 3 (34:47):
Found out last week I was off because of a
family funeral. We took a little bit more time just
to be with family. But I found out that my
biological father I was adopted in five six years yars ago,
actually twenty nineteen. I was able to reconnect with my family,
my birth mom, who she and I have great relationship

(35:09):
and we talk every day. My biological father, which that
story is a little bit more complicated, but I'm really
grateful for the time that we did get to spend together,
and I found out that he had passed and there
was a chance to go and be at the funeral.
But do you know what I had to deal with,
which is something that I had to kind of walk through,

(35:31):
is that I had siblings that didn't know that I
existed and he hadn't had a conversation with.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Him, and.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Talk more about this during the after show, maybe a
little bit. I get a little bit more in depth
for some folks. I've shared a little bit for the
folks in the Freedom Fan the VIP. But you know,
I did not want to show up to this funeral
if it was going to make a hard day harder.
We've had a lot of loss in our family over
the last year or so. I didn't want to make
it tougher. My wife lost her father about a year ago,

(36:05):
and it's just it's a really hard thing to go through.
As anybody lost a parent, you know, you know how
hard that can be and what that's like.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
So I.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
Was able to work it out. We had a great
conversation the mother of my siblings, who is obviously not
my mother, but she encouraged me to come and I did.
So that's why I was gone last week. I'll talk
a little bit more about that in the after show
for folks. But like I said, there's just too much
to try and catch you up on in a full hour,

(36:39):
and that's why we created the after show. The show
after the show. We'll do more of that coming up,
and folks, just a reminder you just never know how
much time you get and get what the ones you love,
so make sure you spend as much time as you
can a little bit of I think a good reminder
of flection on that. Wishing you the best and yours

(37:00):
Meg on a great day. God bless