Compute This 2-9-2025

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Shrock Innovations presents the midwest number one independent computer repair
company with service centers and Lincoln pall Maha, Papillion, des Moines,
and across the country via the Shrock Desk. This is
compute this.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
You gonna need that. I'm gonna need that microphone.

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You know.

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I did my audio level check though before I started
the show. I'm like, yeah, let me see me. Well,
everything looks great on the Facebook feed. Everything is beautiful.
You can blame that one on me. I'm supposed to
remind you of these things. It's the button let's go,
And all of a sudden, I'm like, uh, I got
to talk and there's nothing in front of my face. Well, folks,
welcome in to compute this. It is early, I know,

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believe me, I know, but we appreciate you being here
with us today. For zero two, five, five, eight eleven
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All right, So, if you missed the program last week,

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you can find all of our back shows at Shrockannovations
dot com. Just click on Radio show up there, all
the old shows, the app Shocks, it's all there for you.
But last week it was a really busy show. Last
week we did a bit of a deep dive on
modern computer protection, specifically anti virus. We talked about products
like Norton and McAfee, how they're just not what they

(02:15):
used to be. We also talked about how artificial intelligence
are AI factors into the threats that you're faced against.
We talked about the new threat actors using AI to
make their attacks more efficient. We also talked about why
you need to have AI defenses that counter those increasingly
accurate threats. So we also talked about Google's new Ask

(02:37):
for Me feature, which was a pretty interesting little segment
where you can actually use AI for yourself against businesses. Right, so,
you want to find the best oil change price or
the best costs are a set of gel nails in town?
You can tell Google to ask for me, and Google
will call local businesses and ask them their prices and
their service questions and then report back to you with
a summary. So, yeah, business owners out there, if you

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get robo calls, you can't just ignore those more on
your business line. You've got to make sure they're not
from customers. Now, so that's pretty cool. We dished all
the dirt on how China's deep Seek managed to come
literally out of nowhere, like poof, it's here. We also
told you about a new patch from Microsoft that fixes
the last patch from Microsoft, which ironically is going to
require additional patches from Microsoft because while they fixed some

(03:21):
previous errors, they introduced new ones with the patch. So
fun times. That's what happens when you rush out patches,
guys and software. It's not not fun. So on the
show today, I understand that today is Super Bowl Sunday.
Can I say Super Bowl? Or do I have to
say the Big Game Sunday? It's the Big Game Sunday.

(03:41):
You can say the Big Game. But well, I can
say the Big Game? But will I get sued if
I say super Bowl? I don't think so. Everyone's that's
why all the commercials here. People running commercials like when
you're coming in for the Big Game, you know. The
lovely Kimberly was at Nebraska Furniture Mark yesterday and she said,
you can't believe the number of people picking up like
easy boys and TVs in advertise. You're not allowed to
use the Super Bowl. Ah, just an advertising. So is

(04:04):
this an ad or is this a radio program that
is in the eye of the beholder? Yeah? Sponsored by
the Shock Innovations computer company. Guys, this is a radio program,
not an advertising, not a paid ad, not an infomercial.
This is real content that happens to be sponsored by
an amazing local computer repair company, Shock Innovations. Thank you

(04:26):
they sent me this shirt. Isn't this amazing? I name
myself after them? It's crazy. They're such a great company
at any rate, the uh, I know it's it's it's
the big game today, right. So everyone's talking and thinking
about all that. What you're not thinking about is your
Apple iCloud and how the government of the UK wants
the right to get into your US citizen U US citizen,

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you not a UK citizen, get into your iCloud account
and look at all of your stuff anytime they want.
And Apple can't tell you. That's a real story and
that's a real law in the U. Okay, what is
happening with the world. Don't be so fast to try
China's Deep Seek. We talked about how Deep Seek came

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out of nowhere last week. This week we're gonna tell
you now we've had some time to digest how it works.
We're gonna tell you what the appeal is, why people
are trying it, and why you should not. So, yeah,
we're gonna go through that for you. It's not you're
gonna die or anything if you tried. It's just you know,
anything you type into deep Seek, and I mean anything
not only as available to the Chinese Communist Party, but

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is also not protected on the Internet. It's in literally
an open databasis. Anybody can access it. So if you
use it to do anything that is that is sensitive,
if you give it any passwords to access things for
API keys for example, and stuff like that, it's all
wide open out there. You you really don't want to
use deep seek if you can help them. How in

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the world is this Doge team finding all this frauds
so fast? You couldn't You couldn't go through the news
cycle this week without hearing something about Doge uncovering you know,
fifty millillion dollars for condoms for Gaza, literally that was
the thing, and what they're using him to make IEDs. Guys,
I had no idea that you could make a bomb
out of an exploding condom, Like, I mean, I don't

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make a lot of bombs, you know, so how would
I know that? But yeah, but we're buying the condoms
for them to make the IEDs that blow people up
what you know? So, how is Elon's team finding this
so fast? And we have a follow on to this
story because part of this story is very very logical,
very straightforward. This is how they're doing it, this is
the technology they are using. That's what we're going to

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cover and compute this today during the aftershock after the show,
you see the mainstream media has decided to target one
of these nineteen year old AI savants that Elon is
using to uncover all this fraud. They've chosen to target one.
He had an online name. He's nineteen years old. Okay,

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he just graduate Weighted high school. So think back to
when you were in high school. You know, many of
you listening didn't have the opportunity to create social media
accounts and things like that back in high school to
permanently record every mistake you've ever made in your life.
But if you decided you wanted to go by the
euphemism big ba dell double ls, right, that was your euphemism,

(07:23):
like you were big and yeah, literally the mainstream media
is exposing big ba double ls. Say that out loud
if there's no kids around. Yeah, they literally said that,
we're exposing it, and we're like, why would you do that?

(07:43):
Keep it to yourself. But yeah, so we're gonna talk
about that during the after shock there. There's definitely a
humorous part of this, but I have to be a
little bit careful on the terrestrial airwaves with the kind
of words I use. As a family program, you know,
the aftershock. You can say children, children can't watch this
over eighteen only, but you know, the main program. We
got to keep it family front, you know. Otherwise Shraw
Innovations doesn't sign the paychecks, you know what I mean?

(08:06):
For this clearly not an advertisement show. Also, speaking of
the big Game, people are using I say people media
organizations are using Madden twenty five, the video game Madden
twenty five to simulate what will happen between the Chiefs
and the Eagles, What's gonna happen in the big game,
Who's gonna win, who is gonna be the world champion?

(08:29):
A big game ball? You know. Well, as you might imagine,
depending on who is running the simulation, we're getting different results.
So we're gonna cover that on the program today too,
because it's kind of fun to see what people are
using technology to try to simulate what's gonna happen. So
if we throw our markers down with all the simulations were,
then we could watch the game later and see if
somebody's simulation was actually right. It's kind of like you know,

(08:52):
Thoristra damas football editions. It's pretty pretty fun stuff. So
for zero two, five to five, eight eleven tens number
to join us on the program today, I want to
cut a quick reminder out there. We are in February
right now. If you didn't know, and March is next month,
will you with the facts today? You have maintenance checkup
certificates expiring in March if you bought them last year.

(09:14):
So if you do have to have maintenance checkups certificate,
in other words, you paid for a certificate while it
was on sale so that you could use it later
on when it's not on sale. It's not on sale
right now, and your certificates expire in a few weeks
to get into the service before March. Certificates to get
that maintenance done to your computer so that you can
make sure that everything is running well with your computer.

(09:34):
So preventive maintenance checkups are recommended every six months on
your technology devices. And a lot of people are like,
you know, I don't you know you have maintenance done
every six months on your heater or your air conditioner,
you know, depending on the season, of course, or at
least you're supposed to. You know, you're supposed to have
maintenance done on your car every you know, now it's
getting to be longer and longer because of the way
cars work now. But it used to be every three

(09:56):
thousand miles or you know, every three months, every ninety days,
or three thousand miles. Now it's more like every five
months or you know, nine thousand miles, depending on the
type of oil you buy and everything else. But when
you have a complex piece of equipment, maintenance is a
fact of life. And we have gotten used to in
our disposable society where if you have a phone and
you keep that phone for a couple of years and

(10:17):
then you toss it, there's never a thought about what
you need to do to take care of the electronic device.
There's never a thought about what can I do to
optimize this literally. There was a guy on zd net
last week, the big story on zd net this week,
which is getting less and less newsy every time I
read it more and more ad addy. I'm not sure
if if there's more ads and sponsored post content or

(10:39):
if it's actual news, but he decided to reboot his
phone every day for a month to see if his
iPhone actually performed faster throughout the day. Shocker, it did.
Maintenance matters. Now, sometimes maintenance is simple things like rebooting
it something, or turning it off and on again, or
you know, cleaning up the cookies, cleaning out the cash.

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That will make a huge difference on any device that
you run. That's one of the things we do during
the maintenance checkup. That's one of the big reasons why
if you come in for a maintenance check and it's
the first one you've ever had on your device, you
can expect a performance improvement up to twenty five percent
on the device because you've never cleaned that sucker out.
And when we clean it out, all of a sudden,
who look at that? I mean, it just flies. The

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other thing that people don't realize is that, whilst you're
used to you, most of us grew up in a
world of mechanical technology. Right. We had record players that
then became audio cassettes that then became CDs, right, and
now it's digital music. Well, we grew up with things

(11:41):
that spin and things that read. You have reading heads,
Remember cleaning the heads on your VCR. Remember that you
had to get a cleaner tape. I don't know what
was special about. There was a fluid. I don't know
what you were doing, but it was would clean the heads.
Why were they getting so dirty, I don't understand, But
they cleaned the heads and all of a sudd and
you would have those weird lines in the picture anymore

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when you watch a movie. So maintenance has always been
a part of our electronic existence. It's something you need
to do to your devices. But for some reason, when
it comes to computers, people just think they're going to
work forever until the day they hit the power button
and it doesn't work. Most likely, what's been going on, though,
is every time you've used the computer, going back a year,
it's been just a hair slower, just a touch slower,

(12:23):
and not so much that you would notice. But when
you add up all those drips in the bucket, you
end up with a big, heavy bucket full of water
slow in your computer down. So get a preventive maintenance checkup.
Let us clean that out, Let us get you restored
back to the way you were in. More importantly, let
us find problems when they're small, because when problems are small,
they're cheap. To fix. They're quick to fix, especially if

(12:45):
you have an extended warranty on a shock modular unit.
They're free to fix, and it prevents massive, expensive problems.
If we can catch a hard drive failure on your
solid state hard drive when the drive is in the
phase of it's starting to run slow, it's still one
hundred percent health, but it's starting to run slow. If
we can catch it there before it starts to fail,

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we could save you sixteen hundred bucks in a data
recovery like that. So it's maintenance is super important. If
you have already paid us for pre purchased maintenance, I'm
asking you to come in and do it. Okay, I'm
not asking you to spend any money. I'm just saying,
please use the certificates that you have already paid for
over at Schrock Innovations. So one of the stories that

(13:28):
we're going to talk about on the program today is
this law coming out of the United Kingdom. This thing
blew my mind when I read it. I found this
on zero Hedge, I have not seen this was not
on zd net, it was not on PC mag It
didn't make the rounds of the mainstream media. You had
to go to the alt media to find this one,
and that's zero hedge, which means you're never going to
find it in a search engine. It's never going to

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pop up on your screen automatically, which is why we
are bringing you the story here. People always ask me,
or how do you hear about all this stuff? I
read a lot of places. Okay, sometimes you read stories
and you're kind of like, come on, you know, really
the NFL is rigging it for the Chiefs. Really really
turns out if you look at the data, the Chiefs
have more penalty yards than any other team. They're totally

(14:12):
not getting favorable calls from the referees. Statistically speaking, it
doesn't happen, but you know, people still want to believe
it because how else could they be so good? Right? Well,
the UK has demanded that Apple give it access to
everything on the iCloud. They want a backdoor built by
Apple to allow them to remote into Apple's iCloud and

(14:35):
look at anyone's stuff they want, any time they want.
I don't know what has happened to the United Kingdom.
They don't have a constitution like we do that has
you know, guaranteed rights like we have. That's why we
have the constitution that we have because England was abusing
all these things for people, so the framers and the
founders of the United States wrote a constitution to prevent

(14:55):
those violations from happening in the future. Well, here we
are today, in the future, and look at what's happening.
So the UK doesn't want just access to their citizens
iicclou accounts, they want access to yours. They're requiring Apple
to do it. Of course, the penalty here is Apple
can't do business in the UK if you don't do this.
So I'm not sure you know that's a huge loss Apples.
By the way, the law also makes it illegal for

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Apple to tell anybody that anything is happening. So Apple
can't even say your iCloud was accessed by the United Kingdom.
Like they can't even tell you you you just have
to let it happen. They have to have a backdoor
that lets them have twenty four to seven access to
any iCloud account they want access to any time they want.

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You may recall a few weeks ago we had a
story about telecom companies getting hacked. The I Grabber headline
on this was JD Vance and Donald Trump's cell phones
get hacked by the Chinese. You might remember that story.
It was also Joe Biden's phone and Kamala's phone. It
was everybody's phone, every single person's phone. Why. Well, because
the United States government require hired telecom companies to build

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a back door into the telecom network that would allow
the United States government to spy on any citizen it
wanted to, any time it wanted to, without having to
involve the telecom companies entirely, no, no potential for abuse
there at all. Well, guess who found the back door. China.
Now they had the ability to access every single person's

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fun If you might remember, the continuing resolution to keep
the government open and a government shutdown included billions of
dollars for telecom gear replacement. Why because this is not
a software problem, it's a hardware problem. They have to
move the back door because China found it, and now
the UK wants the same kind of backdoor into iCloud.

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Could you imagine what could happen if an adversarial government
had access to every person's iCloud account. Would be a disaster.
So when you see stories like this, guys, it's important
to know, you know, the cloud is great. I use
the cloud. My wife uses iCloud a lot. She relies
on it. She also knows she needs to hook up

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her device to her computer once in a while and
synchronize it. Because if you don't have a local backup
of your data, is it really your data? If your
iCloud account gets compromised and somebody deletes your data, it's
just gone. There is no restoring it. So take a
moment today while you're watching the Big Game and just
hook your phone up to your computer and let it synchronize.

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Don't be so quick to try China's Deep Seek. We're

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going to tell you why people are so interested in
trying it and why it's not a great idea coming
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All righty folks, welcome back in to compute this the
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Don't be so quick to try China's Deep Seek artificial
intelligence system. Now, what is deep Seek? Deep Seak could
best be called another chat GPT. Okay, so if you're
trying to figure out what it is and what it does,
it's like chat GPT. It can code, it can create content,
it can answer questions, it can seemingly think a little bit.

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It's come to light that wecovered this last week. It
kind of came out of nowhere because and it's so
much cheaper, right, it's so much cheaper than using open Ai.
Let me give you an No one's really paid. People
don't pay for open Ai. But if you were an
AI developer and you were paying for open Ai, you
buy these things called tokens, and you use the tokens
to have interactions and by computing time in the artificial

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intelligence cloud. Essentially, So if you want to buy a
million tokens, which is kind of like the price of entry,
they sell them by the million. A million tokens on
deep seek costs fourteen cents, so fourteen copper pennies or
pennies that used to be made of copper. Fourteen pennies
buys you one thousand queries on the deep seek search engine,

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or one million. Excuse me, if you want to buy
it on open Ai, you'll pay seven dollars in change
for the same number of interactions. That's how much cheaper
deep seek is. So it's not just a little cheaper, guys,
it is redunculously cheaper. Why well, they trained their AI
by having it talked to open Ai. They bought a

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bunch of tokens from open ai and then had their
AI talk to open ai and learn how to reason
and do logic and everything else from open Ai. So
open Ai spent all the money to train the initial AI,
and then they used an AI to train another AI,
which is the cheaper than having a bunch of people
do it with graphics cards the first time. So yes,

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it's going to be cheaper. But here's the thing. Now
that we've had a week to digest this and kind
of dig into it, it's all open source, so we
can dive into it, we can dig through it. And
you know, I was sitting there with my red marker.
I know that No, I wasn't, but people were, and
they found hidden code that sends the data that you
put into deep Seek back to China Telecom. Who is

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China Telecom. China Telecom is a state owned telecommunications agency
that is banned in most western countries because it is
widely known that they monitor everything that goes through the
telecom network. So when you ask deep Seek a question,
the Chinese Communist Party knows that you individually asked deep

(24:35):
Seek that question. The Chinese Communist Party knows that you
gave it an API key to access your dropbox folder.
It knows that you did this, and that you did that.
And because you're thinking, well, I'm not anybody important, no
one's gonna notice me. Hello, you're interacting with an AI machine. Yes,
it's like saying, no one's gonna notice me. But you

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know it's an AI machine. It's gonna notice everything. That's
what it's built to do. So yes, it's going to
notice you. Now. There's also a mobile app, the deep
Seek Mobile app. This app reportedly is riddled with security issues.
Now I'm not talking about, oh, you're gonna get spied
on by the Chinese here, I'm talking about this app
is a security Swiss cheese disaster. Don't install it on

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your phone. Even if China didn't want to take advantage
of you, some hacking group will take advantage of the
fact that this is on your phone and hack it.
So it's that bad. It's storing deep Seek's users data
are being turned up on the Internet in open databases,
in other words, not encrypted, which means what you're asking,
the queries and the information you're sending to deep Seek.
Even if China is not interested in it. Some hacker

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somewhere else will be and they can access it on
an open database. Now, in other unreally completely unrelated news, sure, sure,
it's fine. Google has made some adjustments to their AI platform.
And interestingly, no one's talking about what they added. Everybody's
talking about what they took away and what did Google

(26:03):
take away? Google is all about new features. Last week
they did we talked about the new feature they had
to ask for me feature. We said, this is great,
this is a great use of AI. Can I say
people a lot of time? But what did they take away?
They took away a pledge? Remember when Google had a
pledge on the wall that said don't be evil? And
then they took it down. Why do you take that
off the wall? Like, you know, if it's like, you know,

(26:26):
the NFL had that end racism thing in the end
of the end zone. You know they're taking that out
for the Super Bowl. Why would you take that out
of the end zone? Right? M M M Roger, Why
are you taking those out of the end zone? Roger?
Are you racist?

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Now?

Speaker 2 (26:44):
I don't know. Why would Google take don't be Evil
off the wall? Right? Why would Google remove from its
AI documentation a pledge that their AI will never be
used to spy on citizens or to make weapons. I'm

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sure it's just coincidence. I'm sure it's fine. For zero
two five five eight eleven ten eight eight eight two
five zero two zero nine to one. We're gonna take
our second break of the program here, guys. When we
come back, speaking of all this AI stuff, how is
the DOGE team? Now? Elon, you know, famously has this
team of nineteen year olds around him. These kids are
high school graduates, kind of like Colin right, and I'm

(27:25):
sure they get great act source as well, you know,
but how are these kids literally like you hear? You
get a headline Elon's team is going into the Treasury
Department and then two days later we get a report
back that they found one hundred billion. This morning it broke.
They had one hundred billion dollars of waste that they
found in the Treasury department. And then Elon came out

(27:48):
and said, but hey, these Treasury guys a lot of
the employees, and they were actually doing really good work.
The management was literally telling them to pay everything to
avoid complaints. They didn't want complaints. So if you I'm
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complain and they're like, oh, we don't want to complain,
so then they just pay it. Wow. So uh yeah,
how are they finding all this frauds? So quickly? We're
going to tell you how coming up next on compute this.

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this radio programs that is going to be post process
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back shows right to see, like on the older show.
So we ran a test on last week's show, and
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(32:21):
and everything that was going on. It was really amazing
that this AI agent you know, quote unquote, watched the
video of the program and then was able to regurgitate
all the key points that we're discussed during the program
in a summary fashion and even gave me the section
called notable quotes, and in the notable quote the quote
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(32:44):
monetizing an audience unquote, And I thought, oh my gosh,
what an awful from a marketing perspective, Like that's an
awful quote, Like there's nothing wrong with making a little
money off people. Come on now, you know, Oh my gosh.
We were talking about Kim Commando's program, and it's like,
you know, I was saying, you know, there's a lot
of paid content on her program. There's nothing wrong with that,
is what I was saying. There's nothing wrong with monetizing

(33:06):
your audience. If that's your business model, that's what you
do to stay on the air and provide your content.
That's what I It just made me aware that I'm
totally not ever going to be a politician because literally,
if I say things like that, they get taken out
of context. That just pull that quote sticking up on
the TV somewhere Robert Baron, son of a biscuit, Betty Hires,
nineteen year old AI savants to find fraud and abuse

(33:28):
in the government fires people that do it? What a
facehole four zero two five five eight eleven ten eighty
eight two five zero two zero nine. I mean, isn't
it ridiculous? Though? Like people are complaining about finding fraud
and abuse, Now everybody in politics are We're going to
find the fraud abuse and we're going to eliminate it

(33:48):
and save a bunch of money and lower your taxes.
Isn't that great? And you know we all know, well,
at least we know now there isn't enough fraud and
abuse this side of Egypt to eliminate the national dat
or to bring us back. We have a huge spending
problem in the federal government. But the Doge Department isn't
trying to tackle that stuff. They're they're taking the low
hanging fruit first. They're asking, you know, the tough questions

(34:12):
like do we need to spend fifty million dollars to
buy condoms for people in Gaza. Now, isn't Gaza evacuated
right now? Who is using the condoms? Like there's no
people in God, we just had a news story at
the top of the hour. If you're listening to the news,
people can return to parts of Gaza. Now there isn't
anybody in Kaza, but we're sending them fifty million dollars

(34:34):
for condoms. Thank you USAID. And you know, Bill Gates
has millions of people are gonna die if his genetically
modified mosquitoes don't get USAID money for development. And we
find out after the fact that yes, the coronavirus, the
COVID nineteen virus was leaked from a Wuhan biological lab

(34:55):
that was funded by USAID through Health through Fauci's thing.
So whah, these people have been finding all these all
this stuff. But then when that fraud is like pulled
out and said and shown in the light of day,
you would think people would say, that's amazing, let's get
rid of that, but no, instead they get they freaked out,

(35:17):
who is this elon and who are these nineteen year
old kids he's got doing this? That was one of
the things somebody actually pointed out to one of these
people that were saying this. You know, you keep saying
nineteen year old kids like whenever you describe them, they're
just these nineteen year olds, these nineteen year olds, And
it's kind of like when you have an old person
who's like, is wipper snappers? You know, why do you

(35:40):
keep saying nineteen year olds? Are you agist? Like? They
literally hit him with that, and then I am not joking. Well,
in the same quote that politician says, we're not talking
about their age here, We're talking about what they're doing
period space space. These nineteen year olds that think that
they and you're like, you just said, you just said

(36:04):
that the age wasn't important, and in the next sentence
you just name their age again because there's something about
their age that's really bothering you. Like you put up
an application, he goes only nineteen year olds need apply,
you know, So what is going on? How is doge
finding all this waste so incredibly quickly? Well, these these
high school kids, they're not just your average high school kids.

(36:27):
These kids are the nerdiest of the nerdy kids. These
are the kids that have tried all the tech things
have made, all the online mistakes, have done, all the things,
try to find new things to screw up on all
the time, because they learn every time they make a mistake.
They learn when they post something stupid on the internet
when they're fourteen, like I was racist before it was cool. Well,

(36:50):
obviously this nineteen year old kid is a racist, and
we just we should just euthanize the kid. He's worthless.
He was like fourteen and said something stupid. Who didn't
say something stupid when they were fourteen or fifteen or
sixteen or in my case, forty three, you know, three,
forty seven, forty eight, okay, forty eight, fine, I said

(37:10):
something stupid this morning already. But you see what I'm saying, right,
I mean, it's like, this is ridiculous. So payment systems
are essentially just a set of rules. Right, invoice comes in,
it's for a particular thing, Invoice gets paid, check gets cut,
acch happens, payment made. What. In all the shows that

(37:32):
we have done, we have said, literally, if you are
in a rule based environment like accounting, your job is
at risk from AI because AI can literally do your
job because it's completely rules based. The thing that makes
your job hard is there's a lot of rules you
have to know and follow accurately every time. You can't

(37:54):
make a mistake. You can't be right ninety percent of
the time and be a good accountant. You got to
be right all the time. Things got balance. Well, guess
what computers are really good at doing, following rules all
the time and making things balance. So his team is
using artificial intelligence to analyze the payments that are going
in and out of these agencies. That's why they want

(38:14):
access to the payment data. That's why they don't need
access to the people. They don't go into Bob's office
and say, Bob, you you signed this check for fifty
million dollars for condoms for Gaza. What was your rationale
behind that? What did you think that maybe, you know,
you were helping somebody here, you know, maybe there was
a reason. What's the explanation. No one's doing that. Everyone's

(38:37):
just saying it's fifty million dollars for condoms in Gaza.
Is it the United States government job to buy condoms
for Gaza? Does that further the interests of the United
States of America? And dubious at best? Okay, So yeah,
the AI is like, think that, what are the defined
priorities of the United States of America. Think Think, think,
Think Think. I don't see condoms on the list. Okay,

(38:59):
I don't see birth control on the list. I don't
see prevention of disease on the list. So yeah, I
don't think it's gonna it's gonna be hard to justify that.
So we're gonna mark that into fraud category. Well would
They went through the USAID budget, they found out that
pretty much everything didn't fit interest anymore. Maybe they did

(39:20):
at one point, like, for example, there was a great egeat.
You know, whenever you have an organization like this that
is exposed for what it's become, they always point back
to the good things they've done in the past and say,
but without US, you wouldn't have this without USAID. The
George Bush Senior Administration, or maybe it was w I

(39:40):
don't know which one it was, one of the one
of the George Bushes was a big anti AIDS activist
used USAID to pump tons of money into HIV awareness research,
you know, training, teaching, prevention, things like that, and literally
it's estimated that's seventeen or something million people are alive

(40:01):
today because USA had spent that money. So you could
make an argument there that that is in the interest
of the United States. Keeping one of our allies citizens
alive through education and training, you know, allowed them to
have more people, allowed them to have a growing vibrant economy,
allowed them to do this, that or the other, And
that was in the strong allies are good for the

(40:22):
United States. That is in the interest of the United States.
So they always point back to things like that, but
they don't. They don't say, like, we paid, you know,
fifty or twenty five or whatever millions of dollars for
subscriptions to political pro accounts for different people in the
government at ten grand a pop. I don't know. I've
read a couple of stories on Politico. I have never

(40:45):
paid political one dime in my life. What do you
get as a political pro subscriber? Do you get like
early access? Do they give you the news before it's news.
Do they tell you who's getting smeared before they smear them? Like?
What do you get a heads up if you're getting smeared?
I don't understand. What what do you get that the
US government would say it's in the United States taxpayer's
best interest to spend millions of dollars on subscriptions to

(41:05):
a magazine. The same thing with the Associated Press and
the BBC. That's not even American media, but we're paying
taxpayer dollars for subscriptions to the BBC. Did they even
get to watch Masterpiece? Was it? Doubton Abbey? Is that
what this was? Is that what this is about? You

(41:26):
know why? Well, the AI goes through ding ding ding
ding ding ding ding and finds all these things that
don't seem to make sense and pulls them aside and
gives a punch list in order of denominated funds that
were spent of what to look at. An Elon's team
out for two days in there is able to say, wow,
check this out. And the big thing that came out

(41:48):
of Treasury was we got lists of people that we
are not authorized to make payments to, you know, the Taliban,
you know we hummah, you know, we're not supposed to
send them money and the people and we have names
of people, but that list gets updated in the Treasury
payment system like once a year, and Elon's like, that

(42:11):
should be updated daily, if not daily, maybe weekly, but daily.
So we're sending out payments to known terrorists and supporters
of known terrorists from the Treasury Department that we should
not be sending that we're legally not supposed to send
at all. He found a hundred million dollars in that

(42:34):
just that one category, or was it one hundred No,
I apologize, I misspoke. He did not find a hundred
million dollars in that category alone. He found one hundred
billion dollars in that category alone. And again Elon came
out and said, the people working in the Treasury Department
are actually good people. They're trying to do their job well.

(42:57):
They have been prevented from doing their job well by management.
Sound familiar. So that's how they're doing it, guys. They're
using AI to find it and they're going to keep
doing that, although there's been some court decisions that have
kind of slowed their role a little bit. But the
funny thing is is they just move on to a
different department. They're like, Okay, well that court case is pending,
We'll go onto this department over here, and appears the
Pentagon is next on the list. I don't see how

(43:20):
democrats can be upset with that. They're going to find
fraud and abuse in the Pentagon, reduce the Pentagon budget.
Isn't that what Bernie always wanted? Four zero two five
five eight eleven tens a number to join us on
the program today. More on this than the aftershock, by
the way. Eight eight eight two five zero two zero
nine to one. Steve, Welcome to the program. How can
I help you on compute this today?

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I have a couple questions about one drive. A year
and a half or so ago, when Microsoft bellowed you
to make an image backup into a cloud. I did
that and it appeared to take all my stuff off
the seed drive, and it's all out there one drive
in the cloud right now? Do you suppose microswopped would
be smart enough so that if there was a ransomware

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attack and all of a sudden all those things started
to get encrypted, they'd have some kind of watchmen who
do that? You know, clue in on that? That's my
first question. My second question is if the British government
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why wouldn't you just ditch that and go to one

(44:23):
drive may or may not be safe from the British
peep and had it and yeah, I think that's all okay, well.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Great question, Steve. So to answer your second question. First, regardless,
the reason they're going after the iCloud is because it's
it's the default upload from everybody's iPhone. If you have
an iPhone, you have an iCloud account, so you're getting
even if you're not paying for it, you're getting your
stuff backed up to the iCloud till it gets full.
So if you want to spy on people's mold devices,

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that's the easiest way to do it. The second thing is,
as far as one Drive, we've had corporate cloud ciens
that we have taken over their accounts after attacks that
have moved ransomware attacks that have literally used the one
drive folder to spread from device to device. So there
is not a protection in your free one drive account
to stop ransomware attacks or to roll back to a

(45:16):
previous iteration. For example, Dropbox does have that feature if
you're a paid subscriber. If you're the free version, you
don't get that capability. So it's very possible that one
Drive might have that capability in a more advanced paid option,
but let's be honest, most people aren't paying for one drive,
you know, you're just kind of got it thrown at
you and you thought, oh well, I don't like my
stuff being in the cloud, but hey, at least it's

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backed up now, right. But then, unfortunately people don't realize
that They give you a very small amount of space
on one drive and most people fill it up very quickly,
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there you go. So thank you for the call, Steve,
great questions. We got you in the drawing here as
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Got to take a quick break when we come back.

(45:57):
Media organizations, let's put it that way. I was gonna
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mostly unless your Sports Illustrated AI action, they're going on,
who's that reporter again? They don't exist, that's right. They're
using Madden twenty five, like the video game to simulate
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so we don't say, don't say super Bowl. You know,
but you know who's going to win the Super Bowl well,
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I don't know how you'd say that prediction for you
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Oh boy, guys, there's a good thing. The microphones are
off here. You've ever seen me clap on the camera.
It's me checking to see my audio levels if my
mic in the studio is on, or if it's this
microphone here. Because during the break, there's some things that
happen in here that are just you know, that are
literally crazy. Now somebody on Facebook is like saying, could
you say literally any more often? You thor and I'm

(49:01):
not sure what it is, and I'm gonna make an
effort to stop saying literally, okay, because I need to
stop saying these these phrases. For a very long time,
it was at any rate, and I had people like
calling me out about saying at any rate? Would you
you were saying it at the end of everything you
say at any rate? You know it. It was like
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like a I am making an emphasize point here literally, this, this, this, this,
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and this, So I will make an effort to stop
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can you say literally anymore often? And I replied, I

(49:45):
literally need to stop saying that. Oh yeah, Later he's like,
I can't listen anymore. Why don't you hear it? You
can't unhear it literally, just say figuratively instead, Yeah, figuratively,
that's so much harder to say, like phonetically, like it
doesn't roll off the figuratively, there's like a there's like
a lot of consonants and v's and stuff. I don't know,

(50:06):
all righty guys. So the big game is coming up,
The super Bowl is today, and people are using video
games to simulate what they think is going to happen
during the Super Bowl. Who's gonna win, What's gonna happen? Right?
And so I saw an article that or it was
a video or something. It was something on YouTube, I think,

(50:27):
and it said that the simulation is complete the Eagles
win the super Bowl, And I thought, oh, that'd be
an interesting thing to cover on the on the show.
It's kind of technology related, it's current events kind of thing,
so let'st's talk about that. So I go and I
do a search for you know, NFL Madden super Bowl
simulation Eagles Chiefs, and I get the results and I

(50:50):
noticed there's a lot of different results, like from different
media sources, And I'm like, was there one official simulation?
Was there? Like did the NFL players associate get together
and like have a simulation and say this is the
simulation or whose simulation is the simulation? Right? So I
go and I find one, because you know, I was

(51:12):
we're talking about the UK passing stupid laws and stuff,
so I thought, this one is from the Mirror dot Us.
So it's the UK Mirror, right, it's their news. So
you're gonna bash the UK a little bit, let's give
them a little little fluff coverage here with the super
Bowl prediction. So the Mirror dot Us ran a simulation
and this is what I saw my video about because

(51:34):
in fact, in the simulation, the Eagles did win the
Super Bowl twenty five to twenty one. So that was
that's a close game. That's a good game, right, I
You know, honestly, I'm kind of rooting for the Chiefs
a little bit just because I want the three peat thing.
You know, just when you have the opportunity to make history,
you just want to see I just want to see
people be successful and accomplish things, you know. And I'm

(51:56):
sure people are like, well, that's why I want the
Eagles to win thor you know, I want them tocomplished that.
But you know it's I don't I don't root against
people unless they're like, unless it's Nebraska, then I'm always
rooting against whoever's playing Nebraska. But you know, I'm not
rooting against the Eagles. I'm rooting for the Chiefs, and
people don't. My son doesn't like it. My wife was joking,
we're gonna get a bunch of shirts made called Mahomies

(52:18):
and we're just gonna wear our Mahomee's shirt and uh
and you know we're a bunch of ma Mahomies, get it,
and we're just gonna sit around and watch the Super Bowl.
But he's gonna come down in the morning and we'll
all just be wearing our Mahomee shirt, eating our Mahomee's
flakes from high ve. You know he's gonna be like,
have I stepped into the twilight zone. He literally found
a Mahome's rookie card in his old football cards and

(52:39):
he immediately took it to the football card store, a
baseball card store and sold it for whatever he could
get for it because he hates the guy. And I'm like,
you should have waited until he repeated, and then you
know what you'd win now, that said Arrowheadpride dot Com,
which is completely not affiliated with the Chiefs and has
no bias whatsoever, one hundred percent not guaranteed. They say

(53:03):
the Chiefs are gonna win in double overtime thirty four
to thirty one. I want to see that game instead,
even if the Eagles were gonna win, I don't care
who wins the game. I want to see a double
overtime Super Bowl. Has that ever happened before? I don't
think it has that see right there, I mean it
would be an achievement, right all right, Steve, Congratulations, you've

(53:25):
got yourself a twenty five dollars Shock Innovations gift certificate. Amy.
We'll get that out to you here on Monday. Stay
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