55KRC Friday Show - Tech Friday, Dave Williams, Marc Beckman, John Gordon, Empower U

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As always Tech Friday at Dave Hatter every Friday at
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embrace that idea and also thoughts on the presidential address
to Congress. So there you have it, Dave Williams and

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follow by Mark Beckman, who's got an interesting new book
out some future day, how AI artificial intelligence is going
to change everything. It shows how artificial intelligence is transforming
our careers, lives, businesses, and more. Also provides easy actionable
steps to make AI work for us, calling it a
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of society. I don't think it's going to be all
good personally. John Gordon joins the program, John political analyst
and host of the Truth with John Gordon. He'll be
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Youuamerica dot org. Well you heard the top of the
Our name is Chucky Schumer apparently caved depending on your perspective,
says he is going to vote to keep the government open.
He complained that if the you know, this is something
I guess they were screaming at each other in a
closed door room the other day, the realities of a
government shutdown. It does give Donald Trump a tremendous amount

(04:21):
of leeway to decide what is critical and what is
not critical in terms of keeping the government going. And
I was thinking as I was driving in when I
first heard this, that this this idea that they're going
to go ahead and vote to keep the government open.
First off, you know clearly, the Democrats would own the shutdown.
I know there's always this back and forth on who's
responsible in prior government shutdowns, during which nobody ever died,

(04:45):
and I'm sure your lives were not impacted. And of
course all the federal employees who were not working during
that period of time got all their pay, so it's
only a delay in payment. But moving beyond that, they
would clearly own this. You know, the Republicans in the Senate,
we're going to vote for it, meaning if the Democrats
stopped it didn't give them the sixty votes they needed.
The Democrats would have been responsib before the government shutdown,

(05:06):
clear convincing, objectively obvious. So for all those years they
screamed and welled and asked their teeth about the horrors
of a government shutdown, and always the Republicans fault, this
would have been owned by them. But moving away from that,
because Trump would decide what parts of government are open
or not, that gives them admodus amount of power, doesn't it.

(05:27):
And they were worried that maybe some of these areas
of government wouldn't be reopened. Now find that little lacking
in credibility. But that was some of the concerns that
were expressed. But I thought one of the areas of
government that would probably be kept open'd be the Department
of Governmental Efficiency. And if none of the other employees
are in these shutdown agencies, wouldn't that give them the freedom,

(05:49):
like the keys to the door, to go on in
and start ferreting through stuff and things while everybody else
was home, and not preventing them from doing that. Just
the thought. But apparently the concern about this shutdown overwhelmed
the naysayers, and Trump or A Shimer has capitulated. I
believe my job to make the best choice for the
country to minimize the harms of the American people. Therefore,

(06:11):
I will vote to keep the government open and not
shut it down. That in a statement from the Senate
floor yesterday, I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even
much more power via government shutdown is a far worse option.
So there's going to be a vote to limit the
debate on the spending bill, the continuing Resolution scheduled today

(06:33):
around one point fifteen. Jimmer, speaking with reporters last night,
we want the attention of the American people not focused
on different bills that they would bring to the floor
during the shutdown. We'd rather focus on our message, which
is beginning to work. And I wrote after that, well

(06:53):
what message? What's beginning to work? And then he answered
the question in the next sentence. During the this is
the reporting for Fox News, but it's quotes from Schumer.
The Democrats message is that quote they're hurting the middle
class to give tax breaks for the billionaire's close quote. Yeah,

(07:14):
how many years we've been hearing that. There's no new message,
there's no message, just the same old, tired trope. It's
all this class warfare company the Democrat Party. And if
he's referring to the Trump tax cuts, which I don't
think are addressed in the continuing Resolution, those benefit of
the middle class tremendously. Wait, you see what your tax
bill is going to be if those things disappear. And

(07:37):
I'm always like to point out that, you know, if
you are taking less money from those, for whatever reason,
evil billionaires, then you're taking less job opportunities. You're you're
providing less job opportunities for the rest of us. They
do employ a lot of people. And to what end
is government using those evil billionaires tax dollars? Well, that's

(07:57):
what Doge is pointing out to everybody, and maybe the
concept of this taxation they're all being overly taxed, might
take a hold and take a grip among the vast
majority of American people when we find out where our
tax dollars are going out, and how inefficient government is,
and how they don't do a damn thing to protect
the interest of the American people. Social Security is a
great illustration of it. They keep screaming about, how you

(08:17):
know the Musk and Trump are going to take Social
Security away from us time and time again. Every time
that comes out, I say, no, we're not. We're trying
to save it. If we can get rid of billions,
if not trillions, of inefficiency and waste and fraud from
the program, maybe we can keep it around a couple
more years. It won't save it from a death spiral

(08:38):
because it is a Ponzi scheme. They hate hearing that.
But there's reality, and then there's the Democrats spin on
reality in an effort to get you all ginned up
and worry that somehow Trump's going to turn this pigot off.
He campaigns said he wouldn't touch it. He's had to
come out multiple times staying I'm not going to touch
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. I wish you wouldn't say that.

(09:00):
I wish he was frank with the American people and
say we need to do something or it's not going
to be there anymore. Well, when Shimmer was asked what
changed between Wednesday and Thursday to change his mind on this,
here's what he had to say. As of yesterday. This again,
this is yesterday after late yesterday afternoon. As of yesterday Wednesday,

(09:20):
there were not enough votes to pass it. Well, I
guess now there are since he changed his mind. Shimmer said,
I thought I would let people know that, but there
were a bunch of undecided votes and members and as
members studied it and look at it, each is making

(09:41):
their own decision. On Wednesday, however, he claims that his
caucus was unified and that they would vote know for
the continuing Resolution. So what at what point would they
become undecided? There were a bunch of undecided votes. That
means they were not you fight in their position. Undecided

(10:02):
means I haven't made my mind up. I am not
on board with voting no on this. So he's talking
out of both sides of his mouth or out of
his mouth and his sphincter simultaneously. I love this quote
by Fetterman, because you know, Fetterman says some goofy things sometimes,
but he at least was rational in his perception of
this Continuing Resolution. Fetterman, I've seen the videos that they're

(10:26):
going to shut it down. I'm like, that's spicy, spicy.
I don't know, I don't know if they'll do it
or not. Spicy is it also extra crispy? So if
the spending bill isn't passed by eleven fifty nine tonight,

(10:49):
the government officially enters a shutdown twelve oh one tomorrow morning.
So I going back to Congressman Thomas Massey. It's benefited
tremendously by Donald Trump going after him about voting no
on the CR. He was on the program earlier this week.
I strongly encourage you to listen to what he had

(11:10):
and his explanation for why he voted no. It makes
crystal clear sense. But he did predict this would happen.
He said, it's a foregone conclusion the Senate will vote
for the Continuing Resolution in spite of what Chuckie Schimmer
was saying like five minutes ago, which obviously he's changed
his tune. Thomas Massey predicted it and it coming true.

(11:34):
Yet again, his predictions are regularly accurate. Five sixteen. You
feel free to get you a call. We'll move into
other areas, like, for example, how much funny Massy's taken
in since the Donald Trump criticisms of him. We've got
a few words to speak about coming up next, and
I'll be right.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
Back fifty five KRC cow rightheard radio musical I have
twenty on a Friday in a very happy one to you.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Trump's message about congressoon Massey sure helped out Thomas Massey.

Speaker 6 (12:05):
Let me.

Speaker 7 (12:13):
Night.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
We all talk about it here in the morning show.
You probably read it for yourself. Donald Trump taking the
swing at Massy in the truth social media post because
Massey said he was going to vote knowing the continuing resolution,
he followed through with that, which unleashed some more Trump
tie raids against Congressome Massey. He asked, he called for
my friends in the Commonwealth to primary Congressom Massey, which
has happened before. It didn't work, but anyway, thanks to

(12:36):
Donald Trump targeting Congressome Massy, Thomas Massey has been the
beneficiary of a rather large infusion of campaign donations. I
think it was yesterday, he announced, in less than three days,
I've received two hundred and sixty one thousand dollars through
three thousand, two hundred and three individual donations without sending
an email, a text, or a phone call. It's a
fundraising record for me, and it's boosted my current cash

(12:58):
on hand north of one point one million dollars. He
tweeted on Wednesday that he had already received two hundred
and five thousand dollars, and then sent out a tweet,
I've received an amazing outpouring of support since I was
attacked for voting no on the Biden money level CR.
In fact, we just set two hundred five thousand from

(13:20):
twenty five hundred grassroots donors. Can you help me send
a huge huges in quote huge message by reaching two
undred and fifty thousand dollars before forty eight hour mark.
That worked. That worked, So I'm sure he'll take more
if you want to donate more now. Trump had attacked

(13:40):
Massy ahead of the lawmaker ahead of the Massy's GOP
primary back in twenty twenty. Decisive victory for Congressman Massy
in Kentucky's fourth eighty one percent of the vote. My
friends in Kentucky loved Congressman Massy, and then Trump actually

(14:01):
endorsed Massey before the twenty twenty two primary. Trumps all
over the board on this one. And Massey got a
bit over seventy five percent of the vote in the
twenty twenty two Republican primary with three other candidates dividing
the balance of the vote, and Massey earned es shy
of seventy six percent in the twenty twenty four primary.

(14:23):
Blessed the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Oh. In the Power You
Summoner last night on property taxes, I thought this was
rather interesting the timing on it. Fox News reporting there
are several states that are pushing to abolish property tax.
Representative Russ diamond of he's a Republican out of Lebanon, Pennsylvania,

(14:44):
and he makes a great point we shouldn't have to
pay rent to the government once we own our homes.
He's putting forth a resolution House Built nine hundred, a
draft constitutional amendment that he hopes we'll go to the
voters on election day this fall out. A typical piece
of legislation require and gubernatorial approval. This means the people
of the citizens of the state of Pennsylvania may decide

(15:05):
to well eradicate property tax. He said. Property taxes are
an issue that is not exactly partisan because in some
areas it's more of a big deal than others. He said,
for me, the big deal is that I want people
to own their own homes and not have to rent
from the government all across Pennsylvania.

Speaker 8 (15:20):
Hmm.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
And that's a point That's been made to me many
times over the years. I'll get you know emails and
tweets when I mentioned property taxes. You know, you never
own your home and I've mentioned you know. Oh, usually
predicated by the fact I'll say that, you know, we
paid off our home, and it always makes me feel
like uplifted. I don't have a debt over my head,
and I hate debt, always have. I just it's like
a sort of damicle is over my head. At least

(15:45):
that's my personal psychological reaction to owing someone money, and
a mortgage is owing someone money. So we took extra
steps and did some belt tightening over the years and
made some extra payments on our mortgage to get rid
of it. And I felt relieved and it's usually the
follow up, well, you're not relieved the property taxes. You
got to keep paying and paying and paying and paying.
And I know property taxes are a huge burden for

(16:06):
the senior folks out there, which was the subject matter
of my conversation with Bill Blessing and his efforts to
try to bring some relief to the Ohio taxpayers along
all the lines that he talked about yesterday and at
the Empower You summinar last night, not real thrilled to
this idea of giving every school to a child a
free lunch. A couple of emails Rhino was mentioned, So

(16:30):
you draw your own conclusions on that. But he's not
the only state there, Pennsylvania. We got Florida. Governor of
sant has proposed a similar question in the state last
week asked is the property yours or are you just
renting from the government. He said, you buy a home,
payoff a mortgage, and yet you still have to write
a check to the government every year just to live

(16:50):
on your property. Taxpayers need relief, and he's adding that
penning legislation seeking protections from homeowners will have his support.
So New Jersey also taking some steps to offer some
property tax relief. So it's a growing phenomenon and it
really makes sense, doesn't it. Five twenty five ifty five
KRC detalk station, local stories or phone calls. I'll go

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either way. It's all always up to you. Five three
seven four nine fifty five hundred eight hundred eight two
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Speaker 5 (17:18):
Back, fifty five KRC.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
It's the marketers report.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Keep johnn Weather quolcas. It's going to be a mostly
sunny day today, could hit eighty degrees, but they say
there's probably gonna be a high in the upper seventies
overnight down to forty nine. Storms show up tomorrow morning
around six, they're predicting, and there'll be morning rain with
scattered storms, maybe a dry stretch in the middle there.
For the Saint Patrick's Day parade, seventy one to high
rain shows up late afternoon, severe weather one two inches

(17:47):
of rain, gusty wins up the forty miles per hour,
overnight low up fifty four and rain heads out in
the morning. On Sunday, clear sky. These skies will clear
up and it'll be a high of fifty eight, so
a little bit cool with right now fifty degrees fifty
five per CD talks day it's five twenty nine, couple
to a five thirty and yes, Eric, I know in
spite of the fact that I loved my friends in
the Commonwealth, and they brought us Congressman Thomas Massey and

(18:08):
Senator Ran Paul. They did elect Mitch McConnell for four
decades and stopped screaming at me. It's in all caps
and filled with expletives too. Eric's passionate about that one.
You cracked me up, Eric, he really do anyhow? Five
on three seven fifty five hundred, eight hundred two three
talk Otherwise, diving into a local story. His man's been

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arrested after court documents claim he tried to carry out
a murder for higher plot. His name Dominic Grubb charged
with conspiracy to commit murder corner of the Butler County
Court records FOX nineteen for reporting and thank you. Crime
started Deceummer twenty fourth and twenty twenty four continued through
January third. Grub, according to the records, approached and solicited

(18:52):
what is described as a confidential informant to murder a
woman offered. The offered the informant an initial one hundredment
that was to be placed in the informant's jail commissary account,
gave the informants the intended victims address, vehicle information, and
details about her family, which included her child's bus stop location.

(19:12):
Told the informant he didn't care if the child was
also killed.

Speaker 5 (19:17):
Do what the heppen is.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Apparently he also involved his mom, telling her on the
phone that she needed to deposit the one hundred dollars
through the informants jail commissary account, which she did. Later,
Grub met with the informant and offered him an additional
twenty five hundred dollars for the murder. If the informant
would not carry out the murder, Grubs said he would
find somebody else to do it. I'm asking you to

(19:42):
kill a expletive for me. Can you ease your own
imagine on which explet have we use? In the sentence,
Grub offered a second one hundred dollars payment to show
the informant he was serious about giving the intended Having
the intented victim killed. Doesn't say whether the informant or
whether the the alleged assassin turned him in or not.

(20:03):
I presume so if someone offered you twenty five hundred
dollars to kill someone? Would you be willing to risk
perhaps the electric chair or the death penalty or at
least life imprisonment for premeditated murder for twenty five hundred dollars? No,
thank you, Dad, God bless you.

Speaker 9 (20:24):
Dad.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Think about you every day. Before I move on, let's
see what Pete's got this morning. Pete, welcome to the
Morning Show and a happy Friday.

Speaker 6 (20:32):
Thanks, Brian. A couple things about the tax on.

Speaker 7 (20:36):
Doing away with the property tax in these states sounds good.
I mean, I'm all for not having to pay property tax,
but all the disnees services that are currently provided by that,
I wonder where they're gonna get the money. And then
the other thing, Trump is talking about doing away with
the irs and doing the external with all tariffs and

(21:01):
if which that sounds good too, but if he manages
to get that implemented, basically we'd be paying tariffs on
every single thing imported from.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
That point one.

Speaker 6 (21:15):
And well, sax.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
It's exactly. It's like a national sales tax the goods
and services you buy and up paying for it. So
and that's the honest reaction, you know, Like it's like
getting rid of income tax. We got rid of income
tax wherever the money come from, well maybe a national
sales tax. So literally everyone then would participate in funding
the government, and they could express outrage when they go
to the store and buy something that now costs extra

(21:39):
because of the national sales tax as opposed to income tax,
which only hits a smaller percentage of the American population.
You know, those that work and those that make over
a certain amount of money, they're the ones that fund
most of the government. These evil billionaires pay the giant,
giant chunk of the income tax in this country. It's
much bigger, and they fund the govern to a much

(22:00):
greater extent than most of the people in the United States.
And there's a certain segment, the bottom one third of
the roung doesn't really pay anything at all because they're
not subject to income tax because of their lower wages.
You may say that be unfair to them, but they
probably consume a lot less because they have fewer dollars
to spend. It's very complicated, and I'm not saying I
got any as solutions to it, but you know, it

(22:22):
is one answer to the complicated mess. Independence man facing
charges after alleged assault during a road rage incident happened
on Tuesday this week. Nineteen year old William stuff have
been charged with criminal mischief, assault and wanton endangerment to
the victim. He was driving a car into the intersection

(22:43):
of Tailormill Road and Handspike when he passed the black
BMW because it was going too slow. He said, they
jerked over real fast and pushed me off the road
and I got back on the road and saw the
driver laughing as he sped off. Said it was unable
to get the license plate because his tire was shredded
and the part of the wheel came off him. He
was hitting the neck cheek. I'm sorry, then, he said,
as I pulled over to change the tire, the BMW

(23:06):
came back and I asked for them for their insurance information,
and they just started swinging. He said he was hitting
the neck, chest and back and shoulder by this Stover
kid and his passenger. He was bruised and cut under
his right eye. Fox News interviewed him and thank you
for the reporting. Fox News. Thank you, Joe. Unclear if

(23:27):
the passenger William Stover's car was going to be charged.
Stofer back in court March nineteenth, just walk away five
thirty five Sound Advice fifty five cares to the detox
station stack a stupid coming up. Hope you can stick.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Around fifty five KRC.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Of course we can. Five thirty nine On a Friday,
my friend Jeffrey always chiming in in advance, sitting in
anticipation with the bass riff, just like Joe Jucker. Whatever
happened to Chuck Ingram kidnapped by Heather and Detroit John

(24:15):
the Fisherman Stack, Oh stupid channeling Joe's just walk away
sound by. We've got a woman who allegedly hit her
boyfriend with a glass salsage jar because she saw him
at a bar with another woman. Please, said Jessica Holly
Lou John. Charged with an aggravated assault with a deadly

(24:36):
weapon a salsagejar. It must have been full Joe. According
to the restaurant victims at a restaurant with another woman Monday,
when someone took a picture of them and sent it
to Jessica Holly Lou John. A short time later, she
showed up at the bar and started swiping food and
drinks off the table. She then picked up a glass

(24:56):
salsagejar and threw it at her boyfriend hitting behind the ear.
Witness said the disturbance continued outside the restaurant. Well, of
course it did, manager. Another witness told police that the
couple argued outside and Halli lu John attempted to run
over the victim with her vehicle. Okay, that's where the
aggravated thissul comes from. Manager said. It appears she deliberately
swerved her vehicle in the direction of the victim. Police

(25:19):
got there, they met with a victim who said, quote
she hit the hell out of me close. Quote. While
officers were speaking with the victim of the scene, Holly
Lujanan called the victim multiple times and reportedly said, quote,
so you're really upset to put You're really you're really
upset to put me in jail. I didn't mean to

(25:40):
I was just angry close quote whatever, thank you. It
was kind of waiting for that, Joe. She eventually surrendered
to the police court. To the police, she repeatedly stated
she was upset and did not mean to cause harm.
Raw residents of Allentown, Pennsylvania, described as having a bit

(26:08):
of excitement as a series of explosions shook the small city.
Police advised them not to be concerned. As they were
just disposing of a dead man's pipe bombs Joe. Lieutenant
Chad Eggy said the loud boon was from the Allentown
Bob Squak, Kentucky in emergency disposal operations on an improvised

(26:28):
explosive devices. After one of the city's residents passed away,
his friend was gathering items from his home when he
stumbled across the homemade ordinance. He called a friend in
the police department, who then contacted the FBI. According to
the lieutenant, there was no criminal intent. They didn't build them.
They just found these devices and they reached out to
somebody that they knew that worked with on these types

(26:49):
of issues, and they contacted the FBI, which got us
involved to take care of the devices. No one has
any idea why the dead guy had them in the
first place. H Oh must be Friday naked man as tradition.

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New Hampshire man facing multiple charges after he allegedly crashed
his car, fled the scene and then discarded all of
his clothing before then running across all lanes of a
busy highway. New Hampshire State Police said they received several
reports about quarter to quarter after three in the afternoon
Sunday of a man disrupting traffic on the Spaulding Turnpike

(27:37):
in Dover. Multiple passing drivers told police the man was
naked and running and or walking within the travel lanes
of the highway. State police showed up quickly located the
naked guy. With the help from Dover Police, they were
able to take him into custody. Preliminary investigation a term
of the man had been involved in a crash on

(27:57):
Varney Road in Dover and then fled on foot. The
vehicle involved of the crash had been reported stolen sometime
earlier in the day in a nearby town. While fleeing
the scene of the crash, for whatever reason, the man
took off his clothes on the shoulder of the highway
before crossing all lanes of travel. Man later identified by
police as his thirty five year old Shawn Wiener Senior. Yeah,

(28:26):
I'm sure dad is proud or junior is proud. Yes, anyway,
Shawn Weener Senior of Somersworth taking an area hospital for
treatment a minor injury suffered in the crash. He is
now facing charges of indecent exposure and lewdnous reckless conduct
to count to disorderly conduct in littering. I guess that's

(28:46):
because he threw his clothes down. Issued a summons to
appear in Dover District Court May thirteenth. That was, isn't that?
That was yesterday? In thisition the charges followed by the
state police. Dover Police took you into custody on separate
charges in connected with initial crash. They left. The theft
of the motor vehicle also remains under investigation. They say,

(29:10):
wonder what the hell prompts people?

Speaker 10 (29:13):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (29:14):
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Dave Hatter, will let us see you here to the
stack of stupid with more naked people for a Friday

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Cumberland County, penn Indeed, Cumerlin County, Pennsylvania. He got a
guy facing multiple charges after he stripped naked and refused
to pay his bill at the Primani Brothers in Cumberland County.
I love Permeddi Brothers sandwiches. This thing, Why are you
doing that?

Speaker 6 (31:22):
This?

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Accorded to lower Allen Township Police, James Gladwin fifty two,
charged with disarming a police, disarming a police, resisting arrest,
public drunkenness, disorderly conduct, and theft of services. According to police,
galland strip naked after refusing refusing to pay his fifty
two cent bill at the Primani Brothers in Capital City

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or in the Capitol City Mall. Officers located Gladwyn on
the scene, where he continued his refusal and began yelling
obscenities at the restaurant staff. Why are you doing that?
Offices on the scene offered to place an uber for Gladwin,
but he again refused and attempted to grab an officer's taser,
so he was taken to the ground and arrested right

(32:06):
awaiting a preliminary hearing. Now they're offering him an uber.
He stripped naked and refused to pay his bill. I
was awfully nice of the police officers there. Clearly the
guy's an idiot, had no explanation for getting naked. That's
the only troubling thing about these stories is sometimes they
just really don't provide any explanation whatsoever, except the fact

(32:27):
that he was drunk. But you know, I'll be the
first person to admit there have been times when I
have over indulged on alcohol and I've never thought once
it'd be a good idea to strip naked. What Morgantown,
West Virginia man arrested after police said he was following
women around a Mongolia County apartment complex naked. Why are

(32:48):
you doing that? Tap Adsoi Tafa d z Wa first
name to Fadsoa Cheppoto, twenty five years old. Yeah, he's Irish, right, Joe.
It's clearly irish to Fadzwa, Mick Chippoto how's that, oh,

(33:13):
Chipot Hotel? Anyway, he's twenty five, reportedly walking around the
Mountain Valley apartment complex completely nude on multiple occasions, according
to West Virginia State Police. One woman told police that
when she walked around this guy, he followed her to
her apartment, and after going into an apartment, she looked
outside and saw him standing by her front door. That's creepy.

(33:35):
The same woman saw him again on Wednesday, approximately two
thirty in the afternoon, near her vehicle, completely naked with
something in his left hand. What do you think it was?
Just then at eight thirty am, another woman saw him
walking down a set of steps toward her vehicle, again
completely naked. All this time he had a phone in

(33:56):
his hand. Joe chartered two counts of indissent exposure currently
in the North Central Regional Jail. Bond sat at ten
thousand dollars. I don't know what planet I'm on and

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it was our courtroom appearance during the trial of former
Columbian President of Arro Ribe, prosecutor allegedly accidentally rather played
a video of a naked woman unrelated to the case,
resulting in laughter in the room. It was all captured
on camera, a prosecutor, Marlene or Julia, initially played the
video of a dwarf person dancing to music while carrying

(34:40):
a liquor can. I'm having a hard time processing that one.
Shortly after an AI enhanced photo. Shortly after an artificial
intelligence enhanced video of a nude woman was shown on
the screen. Realizing a mistake, the prosecutor promptly stopped the
video at apology guys for accidentally selecting a different clip rather

(35:02):
than playing from a series of recorded phone calls related
to the case. You're honor, my apologies. We wanted to
show everything that Diego Cadena had sent, but we didn't
foresee that this would happen. We have fifty seven files
consisting of videos and audio recordings. According to the colleague
of mister mss Or o' julia, she struggled to remain

(35:24):
calm as the court and the victim's attorneys started laughing.
She said, my apologies, your honor, but well it's just that,
and then remain stoneface. Although the the defendant remained stone face.
I guess he's the one that had the dwarf video
in the nude video on his phone. Anyway, he remained

(35:45):
stone face to the entire thing, the entire incident. He's
been charged with witness tampering and bribery. Seventy one year
old leader also been accused of offering cash or other benefits
to witnesses to undermine a police of political rival, digging
into former president's family ties to paramilitary groups. He's denied
all charges for the record. Five fifty five coming up

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with five fifty six. Stick around more to talk about
between six five and six thirty when we kick it
in with Dave Hatter and Tech Friday. I'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
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for Friday biting to stick around all morning. Quite a
few guests lined up, thanks for Just Tractor Executive producer
Tech Friday with Dave Hatter coming up, FBI advisory on
dangerous ransomware. Artificial intelligence is now scanning your photos what
is described as sensitive content and a hack via Bluetooth.

(36:45):
Dave Williams Taxpayer Protection Line. Fast forward one hour seven
oh five with Dave, we'll get his thoughts on Trump's
address to Congress and a shout out to Doge. Check
out the post Office. There's apparently seven billion dollars annually
that could be saved seven billion with a bee every year. Uh,
some future day. How artificial intelligence is going to change everything?

(37:06):
The book by Mark Beckman, who's our guests at seven
point thirty eight oh five with John Gordon, who's a
political analyst and hosts of the Truth with John Gordon,
a variety of topics talk about with John first time
on the program, and then an empower use seminar with
Lunn Horobin who joined the program at eight thirty to
March eighteenth seminar, How to Transform our prospective Attitude and

(37:26):
Behavior five three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight
hundred eight two three Talk Time five fifty on AT
and T phones. No need to break it down too much,
but big news this morning is yesterday evening's Chuck Schumer
capitulation saying he's now going to vote to keep the
government open. They had no They back into a corner
quite literally. And I know, based upon the explanation provided

(37:48):
by Congress from MASSI, this continuing Resolution is not really
a good thing because it just keeps funding at the
same level it was funded under the Biden administration. So
we need to have cuts in government. We're in that
de spiral. And again our national interest payments are now
up to like one trillion dollars, and the more we
have to pay an interest, the less goes to any
other program you can think of. But it looks like

(38:10):
they're going to vote and to pass the continuing resolutions
of massive infighting. I understood that they were actually screaming
at each other in a behind the door, closed door
meeting among the senators the other day. But their problem
they were concerned, I guess, struggling to fight back a
sneeze here. I guess they were worried that if you

(38:32):
close the doors of government and leave only essential services open,
which Donald Trump gets to decide what's essential and what's not,
they might run amok in the absence of all the
federal employees would be shut out of their offices. Anyhow,
big development on that, So kind of continuing the stack

(38:53):
is stupid. But I appreciate the work that Doge is
doing personally because they are it's very revealing, and they
this is where the Democrats have find themselves in a
big problem because they are forced to defend the indefensible.
As I've regularly characterized it. I mean, they scream at
Elon Musk and they call them the devil and three
forms of evil. They're attacking Tesla dealerships and what has

(39:17):
been a well organized campaign. But why are they attacking him?
All the illustrations of fraud, waste, and abuse that he's uncovered,
they're defending that, and out there, someone right now is going, yeah,
they are defending that. It's because it's been a main
source of income funding left winging organizations. Now and unknown

(39:38):
to the American taxpayer, their funding sources are drying up,
which good anyway. Over a two day period, According to
Department of Government Efficiency in a release yesterday, over two
day period, two hundred and thirty nine were described as
wasteful contracts with the ceiling value of one point seven

(40:01):
billion dollars have been terminated, including a grant intended to
teach transgender and queer urban farmers about quote food justice
close quote As you sit there and hear that, you
have any concept of what that might mean. First off,

(40:27):
I don't know how big specifically that monetary grant is,
but how many transgender and queer urban farmers do you
think exist in this country? Three is I'm making this
stuff up. Apparently, the elimination of these contracts represents the

(40:48):
savings of four hundred million dollars to the American taxpayer.
Corn of the Doge tweet. Among them included eight point
five million dollars consulting contract for quote, fiscal stewarts. Listen,
listen to this psychobabble again. If you have any idea
what this means, please let me know. Fiscal stewardship to
improve management and program operations in order to drive innovation

(41:09):
and improve efficiency and effectiveness of business services, rethink, realign
and reskill the workforce, and enhance program delivery through a
number of transform transformational initiatives. Close quote. They threw eight
point five million dollars at that psychobabble. Nonsense, And I'm

(41:30):
sure someone's probably just sitting at home through all this
period of time where all these grants are flowing out,
just making stuff up.

Speaker 9 (41:37):
I got it. I got it.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
A grant for transgender and queer urban farmers for food justice.
Oh what does food justice mean?

Speaker 12 (41:45):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (41:45):
Shut up? It sounds good, doesn't it. It sounds woke.
We'll get a grant don't stand in my Way. Early
in the week, dough announced National Institutes for Health canceled
multiple federal grants relating to trans and sexual identity, including
almost seven hundred thous dollars for studying quote cannabis use
among sexual minority gender diverse individuals, six hundred and twenty

(42:11):
thousand dollars for quote an LGB plus What happened to
q an LGB plus Inclusive team pregnancy prevention program for
transgender boys. I mentioned that one earlier in the week,
And how is it that you need a pregnancy program?
A pregnancy program is a pregnancy program if you're gonna
have sex h and you're gonna get pregnant, meaning you,

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of course are a double X chromosome and a woman
that has the appropriate equipment to get pregnant and just
date the baby. You're in the same group of people.
You're if you're a transgender boy. It's the same thing.
It's the same learning and education materials. One other contract
included tw hundred and twenty five thousand dollars in federal

(42:52):
funds for the University of Colorado to study quote the
effects of hormones on headaches in transmasculine adolescens. Close quote.
That's one of those mangalaike experiments. We got young people
and they're developing, and we're going to interfere with their
hormone production because somebody told them they were actually a

(43:15):
girl and not a boy. This past Wednesday, Agricultural Secretary
Brook Rollins pointed out that three hundred and seventy nine
thousand US Department of Agriculture grant in the San Francisco
Bay Area to educate queer, trans and bipoc urban farmers.
I think this goes back to the one I just

(43:35):
mentioned earlier and consumers about food justice and values aligned markets. Again,
I don't even know what this stuff means, but you're
working for it. According to Brook Rollins, the Agriculture Secretary,
by stopping this wasteful spending here at USDA, we are

(43:55):
ending identity politics and we are refocusing our agency on
its core mission of supporting American farming, ranching, and forestry.
Thank you very much, all five urban farmers that they
found that are transgender. Whatever their bubblegut burst, let's se
what Steve's got this morning. Steve, thanks for calling the
Morning Show. Happy Friday to you.

Speaker 11 (44:17):
Oh you're always in a bad mood on Friday.

Speaker 6 (44:20):
I'll try not to. I'll try not.

Speaker 11 (44:21):
To get you any more angry. Here a couple of comments,
none of them related, of course, but you mentioned the
government spending, and it's really sad that nobody cared about
this for decades, that so much of this could have
been just somebody, you know. It's like, this is this

(44:44):
is what we are elected to take care of the
people's money. Let's be real careful with it. And I can't.
I just when you mentioned the you know, the cost
of the grant for whatever transgender urban or whatever it was,
what would one of their scarecrows look like? I mean,

(45:06):
how would they dress it, by the way, but forget
about that. I mean, would it be a man scarecrow
dressed as a woman. But it doesn't matter. But remember
that the Chinese spy balloon that the Biden administration leent
just for days across the United States. And then after
that they started launching these, you know, from fighter jets.

(45:29):
They were shooting these sidewinder missiles at like little kids
party balloons that got away from a birthday party. And
these were multi million dollar missiles they were using to
and they did like three of these after the fact.
So don't don't shoot down the spy balloon, but shoot
down the little you know, weather balloons and all the

(45:51):
you know, the little ba in your backyard scientists sending
up whatever. It's just amazing how they throw money away.
That that's my one comment. My second comment. And I
live in Independence, Kentucky, so Thomas Massey is my representative.
I have voted for him many times. I'm in and
I'll continue and I'm very happy with them. But sometimes

(46:15):
you got to play the game. In other words, I'm
gonna lump together people that don't seem to be related.
But you got Ran Paul, you got Thomas Massey, you
got Donald Trump, you got AOC. What are they all? Well,
they're all outsiders, but they're really not. They were outsiders.

(46:37):
But once you've held that office and you keep getting
elected and re elected, you're really not an outsider anymore.
And Massey, you got to play the game a little bit.
And I know things worked out and he said they would,
and things always worked out. But sometimes it's like you
are now like Donald Trump, you're a politician. Now I

(46:57):
don't care, you know, I don't care that you are
a business and massy too. You know, you're a politician too.
You know, you're you're you know whatever their dart is
rubbing off on you, so you're you're Even though you're
not one hundred percent born of them, you kind of
are one of them.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
I don't know that I can agree with you on
that necessarily because Mancy is a man of principle. He
has constitutionally based principles and he follows them and he
doesn't waver from them, unlike other politicians who do waiver
from those policies and do capitulate and do overspend and
do protect their pet turf. That will be more along
the political realm that you're talking about, But there are

(47:36):
standouts that fly in the face of that, and they're
consistent with it. They're few and far between, but at
least they're people of principle. AOC is a woman of principle.
I guess I just think her principles are batcrap insane,
but she stands by them, you know, And I guess
maybe you've got to give her credit for it on
some level. But I don't think this cr You make
it sound like a good thing. I don't think it's
a good idea for what Massy explained. It keeps us

(47:58):
at these outrageous spending levels. It increases our defense spending.
We've already got eight and fifty billion dollars annually going
to it. It just perpetuates the industrial machine complex and
protects a lot of unnecessary military projects that we could
cut out and wouldn't have to fund and therefore wouldn't
have to increase the military's budget. And we're broke.

Speaker 11 (48:18):
Well, you know, yeah, but occasionally you have to say
I agree with ninety five percent of what this person's doing.
Donald Trump, well, Elon Musk. They both want this, They
want things. You know, they're going in a certain direction.
This is something they.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
Vast and that direction is to maintain funding levels and
spending levels from the Biden days, which are sinking us
or which are furthering our problem. That's the point here.

Speaker 11 (48:47):
I understand that that's the.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Politician is that's the politician part. It's like ignoring the
broader problem and continuing it and perpetuating it. Someone's got
to say no and point out why they're saying no,
which is what yes, he did, and I can't fault
him for that.

Speaker 11 (49:02):
Well, you know, you and I can agree to disagree
on that.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Yeah, maybe you're right and I'm wrong.

Speaker 11 (49:07):
That's okay. One other thing, real quick, is you got
this the person with the mental health organization from the
other day. I guess it's the community or something, and
they're they're like on some advisory board and they identify
as a turtle. Now can you know what the heck?

Speaker 9 (49:23):
Can?

Speaker 12 (49:23):
I mean?

Speaker 9 (49:25):
What?

Speaker 11 (49:25):
And I think you had that in the stack of
stupid yesterday.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
I believe it was.

Speaker 11 (49:29):
It's I guess if you can be a different gender,
you know, can I identify as a ten year old?

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Knock yourself out to according to the according to the
AOC world gain around me.

Speaker 11 (49:40):
Have to treat me like a ten year old?

Speaker 2 (49:42):
Well?

Speaker 11 (49:42):
Do I get taken care of again? Do I find
out what's for dinner when I get home?

Speaker 2 (49:46):
There are people on Social Security disability who are adults
who are pretend to be babies. They are full grown adults.

Speaker 11 (49:52):
I remember the guy that built a baby crib. I
remember that.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
There you go, And yes, you can identify as a
turtle if you want. Just don't expect Brian Thomas to
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Happy Friday. We got some great plans this weekend. Uh,
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dayve had he coming up? Next, Republicans launch a legislation

(52:02):
introduced by Senator Tom Cotton, the Guarding American Technology from
Exploitation Act the Gate Act, which will prohibit foreign scientists
from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Cuba from visiting
or working at the Department of Energy national laboratories. There
are seventeen labs that are overseen by that department, and
according to Cotton's office, in twenty twenty three alone, around

(52:23):
forty thousand foreign scientists access these labs, with nearly eight
thousand of them from China and Russia. That means one
in five every five foreign scientists entering America's top labs
comes from the most dangerous foreign adversaries whose are not
American citizens. They are well potentially Chinese Communist Party members.
And you can make book if there's a Chinese from China,

(52:45):
not a Chinese born citizen here in America who might
hold American values, but if they're from China, they are
wed and married to the Chinese Communist Party. They also
are stealing our talent too. There's an actual plan from this.
China has the thousand talents plan to take our best
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One company one report from twenty twenty one Strider Technologies
report found at least one hundred and sixty two scientists
who had work at Los Alamos National Laboratory, home to
the development of the world's first atomic bomb, were poached
by Beijing to work in its military programs over the
past several decades. Just scratching the service of the information
in the article. But that's frightening that we do allow that,
And you kind of wonder whether there's any security clearances

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You know what that time means on a Friday, It's
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Get in touch with them, find thement online and interust
it dot com. Welcome back. There's always a pleasure to
have you on my program sir.

Speaker 9 (54:33):
Always good to be here, Brian. I look forward to
it every Friday, and I hope we're doing some good
out there.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
A man, get your ten foil hot on. Yeah, the
FBI has another warning. Now what is this one all about?

Speaker 9 (54:46):
Well, sadly, Brian, they never end, No, they don't. And
you know, I for small businesses, you know, really any business,
but for small businesses and government agencies and so forth,
I strongly encourage people to sign up for the f
bi's newsletter Slash Advisory Alerts. And same thing FORCIS the
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. You know, they both agencies

(55:09):
and in some cases will put out joint advisories and
so forth, put out lots of useful information that will
help you, as a as a business owner, business executive,
elected official, etc. Understand what's really happening on there. So
you don't have to take my word for it. You
can see what your own government that you're paying for
is seeing and telling you is happening. So, with that said,

(55:31):
there's an advisory about ransomware. Apparently there's a ransomware group
and they come up with these names. Sometimes the name
refers to the ransomware itself, Sometimes it refers to the
ransomware groups. Sometimes they're kind of lumped together. But there's
this this ghost ransomware I'm just gonna call it ransomware

(55:52):
roaming around out there. It's really nasty. It has and
we've talked about this before, this double extortion effect, and
so just so everyone understands, ransomware is software that is
designed to get installed on as many of your devices
as possible and then primarily encrypt the data, scramble the
data up so that you can't access the data, which

(56:13):
crashes the systems, makes them unusable. And then you know,
if you don't have a good backup and a good
restore process, some kind of business continuity. Ideally, you've got
a big problem on your hands because the only way
you can get your data back and thus your systems
operational and your organization functional, is to pay the ransom.
So that's extortion angle number one. They got smart over

(56:36):
time and realized that because more and more people are
listening to folks like me and the FBI and so forth,
people are installing systems and technologies and tools not only
to defend themselves against the ransomware, but to be positioned
to recover quickly in the event that they get ransomware.
So it's harder to get people to pay the ransoms.
So they steal your data. So it's a two step attack.

(56:57):
I get the ransomware in your environment somehow, lots of
different ways that can happen. I encrypt your data, I
steal your data while I'm encrypting it. And then when
you say, well, yeah, I'm not going to pay the
ransom because I have a backup, that's nice. Then they
threaten to, you know, to release extort you by releasing
your data.

Speaker 12 (57:15):
On the internet.

Speaker 9 (57:16):
And this has happened many times, and people think this
sounds far fetched. I mean it's well documented and in fact,
Brian in one case, this shows you the creativity. You know,
the SEC for public companies change their rules around when
you have to report. It's a K eight you have
to report a cyber attack. In one instance, a company
got hacked, they didn't pay the ransom. The ransomware hackers

(57:37):
actually reported them to the SEC for not finding the
appropriate forms. How about that. That's a true story, as
crazy as that may sound. So it just goes to
show you it's almost always about money. You know, they'll
take your data too because it has value, but they
want to get your money. In most cases, unless it's
a nation state actor that's either looking to a steal
your trade secrets and military secrets or b create chaos,

(58:00):
it's mostly about money. It will steal your money if
you make it easy. The FBI is warned about it again.
In this case, they're saying that this particular group, rather
than try to use phishing attacks and so forth, are
looking for vulnerabilities in your software. It speaks to why
it's so incredibly important to make sure that you a
have an asset inventory of everything in your network, all

(58:21):
the hardware, all the software, all the users, etc. You
can't protect things if you don't know you have them,
and then b you have to update the software. And
if you have software and devices that can't be updated,
you're asking for this kind of attack. The advisory points
out several and what we nerds like to call common
vulnerability enumerations. These are specific known vulnerabilities, and in most

(58:43):
cases they have a fix for them. But you know,
businesses don't know it might be difficult to patch the
system because it breaks things. So again, I'm not suggesting
it's trivial or easy to deal with this, but here's
the thing, Brian. In many of these cases, if you're
working with a company like Intrust, you can find that
where your vulnerabilities are, understand the risk associated with those vulnerabilities,

(59:04):
and then either ignore it because it's not a risk,
or fix it and avoid these kinds of problems. Because
when you get a ransomware attack like this, A, depending
on what type of ransomware it is and how much
ransom they want, you know, even if you pay the ransom,
you may not get your data back. B they may
have stolen your data. And see in some cases, depending
on where this organization that's stealing your corrupting your data

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and stealing your money. Is it might be illegal to
pay them, right, you may have a new problem with
the US federal government because there are certain places you
can't send money to. Right. So ideally, yeah, ideally you
want to defend against this. It's not possible to block
every conceivable way this can happen. So you also then
need a good strategy and plan.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
To recover, which is what interest it does.

Speaker 9 (59:49):
Yeah, and sign up for these sign up for these advisories. People.
Get the information, whether you know, even if you don't
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with it you like, Hey, great, Get the information so
you can understand your risk and make risk informed decisions
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seriously and not defending against them.

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Dave Hatter, interest it dot com to prevent problems with
your business computer systems, moving over a new Android feature
scanning our photos. What's this all about, Dave Hatter?

Speaker 9 (01:01:42):
Yeah, well, Brian, now you know, for full transparency, I
always like to point out to people that I am
not a fan of Alphabet, which is the parent company
of Google, right, And this is just another example of
why many remember, if they're old people like me who've
been doing this for a long time, when Google first
hit the scene, they had a motto that was something

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along the lines of don't be evil, and you may
notice they got rid of that a long time, and
you never hear them say that. And uh, you know,
they're often accused of privacy washing, which is this idea
of saying that you're for privacy when you really are
doing things against it. And to me, this is just
yet another example of that. And I also want to

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be really clear to folks, all of these big tech companies,
in their own way have their own issues they're collecting
your data. They're doing a variety of different things with it,
because your data has value. It has value to them
for a variety of reasons, not the least of which
is to better understand you and sell you more stuff
on behalf of themselves and others, and to sell that data.

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So I'm not saying that no one else out there
is doing anything like.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
This, but your favorite pet peeve, because they're the biggest offender.

Speaker 9 (01:02:52):
If they're not the biggest defender, they're certainly tied at
the top.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
They're working on it.

Speaker 9 (01:02:56):
They're good at dark patterns and privacy washing. And yet
here's another So Android is the operating system they make
for mobile phones. You know, they make their own phones,
and then you know other folks make phones that run Android.
It's the main competitor to iOS, which is Apple's you know,
mobile operating system. So they rolled out a new update

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and it's really interesting the way it's went, and I
just I want to work back into this. So and
I'll post all this in my notes from the show
so people can go see this for themselves, because there's
a step by step guide. If you have an Android phone, again,
I would tell you while Apple is not flawless. They
have their problems. You'd be much better off on an
Apple device at this point. They're step by step instructions

(01:03:38):
in the ZD in that article how to remove this
Android system safety Core, which is what it's called. It's
called and it rolled out an Android nine. So here
is a direct quote from the article. As one Google
play Store customer said, quote, no consent given, install could
not be paused or stopped. I watched it install itself
on my phone on January twenty second, twenty twenty five,

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couldn't pause, canceling, and it did all of that over
the mobile network. My setting's never downloaded or installed anything
unless some are set to never download anything unless I'm
on Wi Fi. Description tells you nothing. Permissions are for
virtually everything. And then the article goes on to say
Safety Court doesn't have an icon, doesn't show up on
the usual list of running applications. You only find the
service by digging deep into the settings. Apps show system processes.

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So those two things alone, Now again you're taking the
word of someone that posted something online. I'm going to
assume the editors and whoever wrote this article researched this
sum You know, they did say in their own words,
this thing doesn't show up. So you get this installed
and the idea. Now, I will admit if you if
you understand what they claim it's doing, that it pass

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potentially some value. But my problem with so many of
these things, Brian, is you never have a fully informed
consent of the user. If you, on your own device,
as an adult, decide that you want to do X,
Y or z, and you under what that means, what
it's doing and how that could impact you, and you say,
I'm okay with that, Well, I'm okay with that. That's

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on you. But my issue with so many of these
things is, you know, you get this and the premise
is that it's going to scan content on your local device.
It claims it's not sending it to Google.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
We'll see.

Speaker 9 (01:05:21):
Looking for let's just say, unsavory content. And for example,
if you were going to send a nude photo to someone,
it could scan that photo and then warn you through
a quote sensitive content warning.

Speaker 6 (01:05:35):
They say here.

Speaker 9 (01:05:36):
Sensitive content Warning Optional feature blurs images that may contain
nudity before viewing them and prompts with a speed bump
that helps you understand why you might not want to
send that I'm paraphrasing a bit. Okay, I could see
where that is at least potentially reasonable, and especially for
kids who might be getting sucked into a sex stortion
thing or being manipulated by a predator. Okay, but when

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you don't even know this is on your phone and
it's scanning your content. Now they claim it's not sending
that to their servers, and maybe it's not today, but
it could be tomorrow. And at some future point, could
you get a knock on your door because of this
feature from law enforcement because of some photo that you have,
Well maybe, and I know that may sound far fetched

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to people, but the idea that they would plug this
in not really explain what it is, I would argue
from what I'm reading here, because you know, I don't
have an Android phone to test this, Brian, you know
that they're doing it in a surreptitious way where you
don't understand what you're getting, and it's scanning content on
your device. You know, at least if it's doing what

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they truly claim and it's only scanning this stuff locally
and not sending it to their servers, that's that's a
huge step in the right direction. But the idea that
they would do this without telling you, and that you
as a user wouldn't understand this. It's just a bridge
too far from me.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
Another example, and they could updreak the software and then
make it just send it out.

Speaker 9 (01:07:00):
Yeah, yes, they could step by step instructions out there
to get rid of it. If you have an Android phone,
you know again, I'll post that later in my notes.
I encourage people, if you have an Android phone, look
into this and then decide for yourself whether a you
at least want to disable or be maybe it's time
to switch.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
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But moving over, we've got bluetooth hack.

Speaker 9 (01:08:13):
Now, yeah, let me. I'm going to bounce around on
this a little bit, Brian, because I want to want
to show a pattern here that you and I have
tried to point out many times over the years, but
it just gets clear every day. So Ubiquitous ESP thirty
two microchip, made by Chinese manufacturer Expressive and used by
over one billion units as of twenty twenty three, contains

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undocumented commands that could be leveraged for attack. So that's
a direct quote from an article and Bleeping Computer. You
read the headline, now, keyword Chinese manufacturer, key phrase. Now,
let me hit a couple other headlines and then come
back to this and maybe we can get to some
of these next week, China's old typhoon hackers dwelled in
US electric grid for three hundred days. Chinese cyber espionage

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jumps one hundred and fifty percent, CrowdStrike fines. US congressional
panel urges Americans to ditch China made routers, especially TP link,
which is the most popular brand of route. I think
think Wi Fi router or home networking device. You see
a pattern here yet, Brian, Yes, I do. I thought

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you might. So if we get back to the article
at hand, thow and this backdoor and Bluetooth. So Bluetooth
most people probably at least have a basic conception of
what it is. It's been around for a long time.
It's a wireless technology that allows relatively short term connections
between devices. It's super handy because it makes it really

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easy to connect devices. So whether it's you know, your
phone to an external speaker, or your phone to some
kind of ear pods, or your phone to a car,
you know, your computer to a speaker, right, anything that
supports Bluetooth, usually within a relatively short range of fifty
feet or less, that's a you know, it varies widely,

(01:09:59):
but idea is without needing any cables, I can just
connect to devices and they can share information. I use
it every days. Most of your listeners probably do too,
maybe they don't even realize it. So Bluetooth is almost
ubiquitous at this point. It's baked into just about any
kind of modern device that might need to connect to
something else, which is just about everything at this point.

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And you know, they point out further in this article
that this particular chip, this ESP thirty two Tar Logic Security.
This is a research firm that discover this detected a
backdoor in THEESP thirty two microcontroller that enables Wi Fi
and Bluetooth connections and is present in millions of mass
market Internet of things devices. Internet of things my favorite

(01:10:43):
thing to dump on because this is now again this
is just recently discovered. But the vast majority of your
so called smart devices, your smart coffee maker, TV refrigerator,
whatever is, are privacy and security dumpster fires. They're designed
for speed to market, of use, and market share. They're
not designed for your privacy or security. And people are

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buying these things, they're plugging them in without understanding how
they work, how to configure them correctly, how to update
the software. We just talked a minute ago about how
critical it is to update the software in your devices
and how critical that is. They don't know how to
do that, and now you find you have a chip.
These researchers found twenty nine undocumented commands, which basically mean

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that these commands could be exploited and it gets into
some real nerdy stuff when you dig down into it,
but could be exploited to do things like potentially takeover
a device, send data to places that you don't understand. Again,
they point out in there, it's not necessarily malicious. It's
possible this is code that was left over for some
sort of testing or something. But in my mind it

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points out two things. We've got to get really serious
about these Internet of things devices and what they're capable of,
and the fact that they're exploding rapidly and people are
creating these possible holes in their personal and their organizational
networks that could be exploited to possibly catastrophic consequences. And
then b we need to stop buying these sorts of

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devices that we're coming from adversarial nations like China, because
you know, again, this might not be nefarious, but it
could be exploited in the various ways and As we
add more and more of these things, Brian, the risk
just keeps going up. And I'm constantly telling people and
people laugh at me all the time. You know, you're

(01:12:32):
a smart coffee maker. Do you think mister coffee, first off,
why do you need that? Secondarily, do you think mister
coffee is putting out updates for the vulnerabilities that will
eventually be found in that software two or three years
from now? Of course they're not.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
It's a vehicle to hack into something else on your
WiFi as it is. Yeah, I mean you've pointed that
out so many times, and it's.

Speaker 9 (01:12:52):
Documented, Brian. You don't have to take my word for it.
There are hackers that have documented this and have videos
showing you how they've hacked various so called smart devices
like your coffee maker. So I'm not saying there's never
a case where you should buy any of this stuff,
although I can tell you I have none of it,
and you know, over time it will mature and hopefully
the shift will focus more on privacy and security. But

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until that happens, you are asking to get hacked. I mean,
it's just that simple, especially if the device is older,
because I can guarantee you they're not updating it, and
even if they are, do you know how to do it?
Are you sure it's getting done? We need to stop
buying this stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
The risk is very high versus whatever perceived benefit you're
going to get from it. Yeah, Dave hat or interest
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Speaker 9 (01:13:47):
My friend, always my pleasure, Brian, Thanks to you and
Joe and all your listeners, and I'll look forward to
chatting with you next week.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
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Speaker 13 (01:14:48):
Good morning, Brian, and don't look at the sock market. Yeah,
that's my first word of advice for today is you know,
listen to a lot of people panic right when they
see the market going down, and it's always a good
bet to invest in the market. And yes, people are
kind of struggling right now, but you know, always play
the long game here and don't panic.

Speaker 8 (01:15:09):
Don't panic.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
I've been through these ups and downs. I'm going to
be sixty in September, so I've been through it a lot.
You know, I've been investing in four to one case
since I had my first full time job as a lawyer,
and you know, I just don't pay attention to it, honestly,
because it's not worth the indigestion. And over the long haul,
it's all worked out quite well in spite of the
always temporary downturns. Always I say that with a bit

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of hesitation, because you know, someday they if people aren't
interested in purchasing our debt anymore, we're going to have
a real problem on our hands. And I just sort
of see that day coming closer and closer, which is
a real concern. So the addressed to Congress, Trum's addressed
to Congress. Let's start there, because there was a lot
of good there was some mixed reaction stuff, and of course,

(01:15:54):
as you point out in your analysis of it at
tax Payer Protection Lines, some bad stuff, at least from
the perception of your group, and I understand why. So
let's start with some of the good things. And I
want to fast forward, moving away from the World Health
Organization though the green news scam, which I agree it
is a scam. Trump's all the above energy policy and
just released this week the EPA really making some significant

(01:16:16):
changes in terms of like greenhouse gas emissions that really aren't.

Speaker 13 (01:16:22):
Yeah, there's a lot to unpack here when you talk
about the green news scam, and really it's you know,
electric vehicles, it's I mean the trillions of dollars and
I'm not overstating this that has been really cordoned off
for green energy. We're talking about EV subsidies, we're talking
about loans, we're talking about really just giveaways to green energy.
And if green energy is going to be a part

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of the energy portfolio, it needs to survive on its
own age. We're not saying not get we're not saying
get rid of wind and solar, but if it's part
of it, no government subsidies, no taxpayer subsidies. And I think,
you know, that's where there's a little bit of disconnect
I think with people is that they really hate these
new energy things.

Speaker 8 (01:17:04):
Well, don't hate them, just don't subsidize them.

Speaker 13 (01:17:07):
But I like what Trump is doing and saying no
more EV subsidies, and we have to claw back all
these green energy subsidies.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
And no more mandates. The mandates of the reason the
subsidies are in place. If you mean, if the product
could survive on it, so own it to be something
the public demands and they would want it. In other words,
I want a car with massive off the line torque.
Then you want an AFTERC vehicle. Fine, you've got a
zero to sixteen less than two seconds by yourself, a
Tesla plaid. But if that's not important to you and
you really don't mind your internal combustion engine. I'd stick

(01:17:36):
with that because that's what I do, and that's what
I like. I want them to be available and I
want to be able to have the choice myself.

Speaker 8 (01:17:42):
Exactly.

Speaker 13 (01:17:43):
And it really dovetails into what we talk about the
EPA and really having less of a footprint. You know,
it's funny because they talk about a carbon footprint. What
I want is less of is a government footprint on business,
on individuals. I mean, that's my goal for amenaking the
government footprint. And you know, when you talk about regulations,

(01:18:03):
you talk about permitting, the permitting process. It's not just
about the bureaucracy. It's about allowing companies to do what
they want to do and to be able to prosper
and to build and to grow because the government is
preventing businesses from flourishing, from expanding, and that's what the
EPA does is stopping this.

Speaker 8 (01:18:23):
We have a many energy revolution happening in this country.

Speaker 13 (01:18:27):
You have companies that are building nuclear power plants and
going with nuclear power to power their data centers like Microsoft, Google, Amazon,
all of them right because they see this as the
future of energy and nuclear energy is renewable, and the
left hates to hear that. They hate to hear that
nuclear energy is renewable, but it absolutely is and really

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could solve a.

Speaker 8 (01:18:49):
Lot of our energy problems.

Speaker 13 (01:18:50):
And the product sector again is taking the lead on
this and saying, yes, we need to embrace nuclear.

Speaker 8 (01:18:56):
Energy to help reduce energy costs.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
Yeah. Amazon just these past fall announced that they have
signed contracts in multiple states for these small modular reactors,
which were a revolution in nuclear technology. It produces a
massive amount of small of power and a very small
footprint and they're just just amazing. I think this is
the revolution and thanks to these giant tech companies embracing

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it conceptually and actually moving forward with investments in and
I think that's going to allow us, the unwashed masses
they have access to it too, and it'd be less
resistance than nuclear power generally speaking.

Speaker 13 (01:19:31):
Well, and I think that a lot of people's mindset,
they're stuck in the nineteen seven Oh yeah, when it
comes to nuclear power, they think of three mile I
only think of these things. We are way beyond that.
And again, like you said, these tech companies are leaving
the way in this. So it's really fascinating to say,
if we see more of this deployment in the coming years.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
Yeah. A couple other highlights the extension of the Tax
Cuts and Jobs Act from twenty seventeen. They're gonna have
to get their work done on that one because it's
going to expire at least when I'm looking looking at
Protecting Taxpayers dot org. You've got a countdown clock to that.
We have two hundred and ninety two days to get
that done. So and then DOGE. All the work DOJ
is doing just revealing to the American public how wasteful

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they are with our money, just across the board, whether
it's fraud, waste abuse, just stupid programs like transgender urban
farmer programs. I mean, give me a break. It's just
mind boggling, and that left is being forced to defend
the indefensible.

Speaker 13 (01:20:27):
This is the crazy part, Brian, is that you have
people like Chuck Schumer who are complaining about dog and
it's like, well, you know, we want to cut spending.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
No you don't know, you don't.

Speaker 8 (01:20:37):
You have never offered an amendment, you have never offered any.

Speaker 13 (01:20:40):
Piece of legislation to cut spending, to look at wastefle spending.
So what Doge is doing is I want to say
it's revolutionary, but it's not because Rand Paul has been
doing this for years, that's been putting that reports on
wastefle spending. Now it's institutionalized and we're hearing a lot
more about it.

Speaker 8 (01:20:58):
And I love this discussion.

Speaker 6 (01:21:00):
Now.

Speaker 13 (01:21:00):
Hasn't been perfect, has execution been perfect, Absolutely not, But
it's a discussion that we haven't had in this country,
a sustained discussion. I mean, we've been talking about this
for months now. We haven't had that for a very
long time. And it's so healthy to talk about getting
rid of these programs and you know us AID that
you know the crazy things that are being funded through

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us AI. D Yes, let's get rid of them. And
let's do it now. You know, Speaker of Mike Johnson,
you know when you pass a continuing resolution, offer some
of these spendings.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
Exactly, let's get the ball rolling.

Speaker 6 (01:21:32):
Man.

Speaker 8 (01:21:32):
T is time is, the clock is ticking.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
Indeed, he did mention about balancing the federal budget. But
then Trump always comes out and says, I Am not
going to touch so security, Medicare, Medicaid, which are the
biggest problems we have on our hands. Someone is going
to have to deal with that mess. They're unsustainable and
they're on a trajectory to collapse on themselves, and everyone
keeps saying no, no, no, we're not going to touch
I'm not going to touch them. So I believe in
ferreting out the fraud, waste, and abuse is a great
first step, but the programs themselves are going to have

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to be reorganized.

Speaker 8 (01:21:59):
They will, Brian.

Speaker 13 (01:22:00):
I think Trump has a unique opportunity here because he's
probably not running again. I mean, he talks about a
third term, but you know he's not going to run again.
So why not have this difficult discussion now because it's
not going to hurt him politically, Because I mean, this
is it right, So this is the time to do
it if you are president, is to have these difficult

(01:22:21):
but necessary discussions because like you said, this is trillions
of dollars in taxpayers spending that we need to bring
under control, and there's ways to do it. And I
know people don't like to hear the p word privatization,
but if I am allowed to invest my own.

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
Money, I know not I know, give me the option.

Speaker 13 (01:22:38):
We're not saying this mandatory, Bryan, We're saying give me
the option if I want part of my social security
to go into a private fund, I should be able.

Speaker 6 (01:22:46):
To do that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
Amen. And the tariff, you and I can agree the
terrorists aren't necessarily a good thing, and I know that's
one of the things you labeled under the bad Trump
loves them. Yeah, I understand reciprocal tarifts that they're taxing
our stuff or tariffing our things, and why wouldn't we
go to tariff on theirs? Obviously it's has an inflationary reality.
But when you're using terriffs to get another country to
do something that you wanted to do that it doesn't

(01:23:07):
want to do, then we run into some real problems
because then they do reciprocal tariffs and it becomes a
downward spiral.

Speaker 13 (01:23:14):
Right, and companies don't pay taxes. Consumers do it, right,
higher prices. So that's the problem is that this is
going to get passed on to the consumer and that's
the last thing that we want. So you understand what
he's trying to do, but it's not working because we've
seen prices skyrocket and when you talk about he's going

(01:23:35):
to delay them for a month, Well, you can't build
a manufacturing base in a month.

Speaker 8 (01:23:40):
If you say we're going to delay auto tariffs or
whatever tariffs, you can't.

Speaker 13 (01:23:44):
Build that whole manufacturing base in a month to make
sure it's produced in the US.

Speaker 8 (01:23:49):
So it's just it's not feasible.

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
Well, let's pausitive seven to fifteen. We'll bring back Dave
Williams from the tax payer protection lines. We'll talk about Hey, Doge,
why don't you take a look at the post office?
Maybe the other couple of points from the Trump address.

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Uh.

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Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
It's seven twenty and a happy Friday to year. Brian
time us here with Dave Williams from the Taxpayer Protection
Alliance online at Protecting Taxpayers dot org. I could line
up a list of your big favorite pet thieves day
after all the years we've talked and in the street
cars is number one? You and I always have a
go about. That is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.
And I can't figure out whether number two is taxpayer

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funded stadiums or the post office.

Speaker 8 (01:26:25):
Oh man, that's that's tough, Brian. Let's put them at
its high at number two.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
Tie at number two, right next to taxpayer funded stadiums,
the United States Postal System, which literally loses billions and billions,
and every single year for as long as you and
I have been talking, they lose billions of dollars. I mean,
a business model that should work, a business model that
should be flexible, like any other business. If nobody's mailing

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letters like they used to, then you're gonna have to
cut back the size of your business or come up
with an alternative business model that will help you continue
to be proper cofittable. But they never are profitable.

Speaker 8 (01:27:03):
No, they're not, And they're a monopoly. You have a
you have a mailbox.

Speaker 13 (01:27:07):
Nobody can put anything in that mailbox except the Postal Service.
It is against the law for any other company to
put anything into your mailbox. You know, it's funny the
Federal Trade Commissioned Department of Justice, they talk about these
monopolies and anti trust and breaking up these big companies,
break up the post Office. I mean, they they're not
looking at the most obvious monopoly that's out there, and

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that's the post Office. And again they're losing billions.

Speaker 8 (01:27:33):
Of dollars a year. I would love to have a
monopoly business, wouldn't you.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
I mean, it's like printing money. You would think, well,
and I guess, I guess it's mentioned in the in
the Constitution, if I recall correctly, I guess they're not
required to break even. At least they know they're going
to get some sort of federal bailout. I mean, is
that what this comes down to.

Speaker 8 (01:27:54):
Exactly?

Speaker 13 (01:27:55):
And you know it really over the past few years
since COVID that they've gotten tens and tens of billions
of taxpayer dollars. Now, they've always gotten taxpayer dollars in
the fact that they don't have to pay taxes, they
don't pay tax on gasoline for their trucks, so they've
always gotten a really good deal from the taxpayers. But
it's really the checks have been written over the last

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five or six years, specifically for the post office.

Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
Well, what seems to be the problem here is it
just the fact that well, again I think this problems
existed since before the Internet showed up and people were
still mailing letters. But that obviously has compounded their problems
because fewer and fewer people are mailing things. I think
on a daily basis, if I get something substantive, maybe
an actual bill or something that requires my attention, it's

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ninety percent just junk mails what I call it.

Speaker 13 (01:28:45):
Yeah, it's poor management, it really is, from top to bottom.
And Congress has just punted every time when they've looked
at postal reform, look at Saturday delivery. If we got
rid of Saturday delivery, that would save two billion dollars
a year. And I really don't believe people would notice
if Saturday delivery went away, if you had to wait

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till Monday to get your mail.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
Yeah, we don't get mail on Sundays.

Speaker 13 (01:29:11):
Yeah, well, we get packages on Sundays from the Post
Office because they have a deal with Amazon to make
sure that packages are delivered on Sunday, and that increases
the cost. So it's estimated that each package that is
delivered by the post Office, whether it's Amazon or any
other seller, they lose about a dollar fifty per package
they lose.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
They don't make you.

Speaker 8 (01:29:30):
Make it up dollar fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
You make it up in volume, Dave.

Speaker 8 (01:29:34):
Yes, volume, volume volume.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
Well, as you report. I know you didn't make the
statistic up. US Postal Service lost nine point five billion
dollars in twenty twenty four alone.

Speaker 13 (01:29:50):
Yes, yes, So part of the problem is when they
hire temporary seasonal employees because of the unions, they have
to offer them full time jobs after you know, after Christmas,
after the season, so no longer company does that. NOx
UPS they hire seasonal.

Speaker 8 (01:30:08):
You know what seasonal is seasonal?

Speaker 13 (01:30:11):
So in January they don't have a job at UPS
or FedEx, at the postal service, you get the option
of joining the postal service full time. Again, these are
poor management decisions and a lot of it's driven by unions,
and a lot of us is driven by stupidity truly.

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
And the electric vehicle mandate, I can see this is
the most likely one to eliminate because I think the
contract they had with the electric vehicle manufacturer hasn't They
haven't delivered on it.

Speaker 13 (01:30:38):
They haven't delivered on it. They're about ten thousand to
twenty thousand dollars each vehicle more expensive than a regular
combustible engine. And you know, if we see gas prices
go down, obviously you save money there. Yeah, and gas
prices haven't gotten down with more energy explorations, so listen,
I think that again, this is a business model that

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isn't working. And do we absolutely need to privatize it.
I think we should move towards it, but that's not
the ultimate answer. We just need better decision making and
listen more attention by Congress. Congress passed the Postal Reform
Act a couple of years ago, and what they did
was they took all of the postal obligations, the healthcare
obligations and moved them over to medicare.

Speaker 8 (01:31:21):
Well that didn't save any money.

Speaker 13 (01:31:23):
No, it just means that taxpayers are still paying for
in this and they didn't reform this in any way.

Speaker 2 (01:31:30):
Oh By, don't look over there, you're still on the hook.
Dave William bookmark the page protecting protecting taxpayers butt Or
appreciate the work that you're doing and bringing this to
everybody's attention each and every day, Dave, and look forward
to having you back on the program really soon. Keep
up the great work.

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Have a great Friday, Brian.

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Seven thirty. Happy Friday, Brian Thomas, Please to welcome my
next guest, Mark Beckman. Check out his resume. I can't
read it all. We wouldn't have any time to talk
about his new books Some Future Day, how Ai Is
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in the country. Embraces and emerging technology and effort to
augment campaigns, including We're going to be talking about it
artificial intelligence, and he's used that a variety of wastes
for his advertising campaigns. He show Some Future Day examines technology,
culture in the law, all kinds of really notable guests.
He's also of the best selling comprehensive guide NFTs Digital

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Artwork Blockchain Technology, a highly a claimed book that is
Welcome to the show, Mark Beckman, Let's talk about your
book Some Future Day, How Ai Is Going to Change Everything.
It's good to have you on the Morning show.

Speaker 12 (01:34:47):
Good morning, Thank you so much for having me, and
thank you for that very very nice introduction.

Speaker 2 (01:34:54):
I appreciate it well, and you know, based on your
resume it was quite abbreviated. I tried to get the key,
but it is impressive what you've been able to do.
Let's talk about AI. I'm old enough to remember when
it was a big thing that IBM invented Big Blue,
which actually beat a human being in the game of chess.
That's peanuts compared to what this stuff can do today.
And I think, and I know your book presents I

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think in an optimistic way, how this is going to benefit,
you know, the masses, But I think most people are
afraid of it, like I'm going to be out of
a job, kind of afraid.

Speaker 12 (01:35:26):
Well, you know, it's for sure. People are concerned as
they are with every technology and what my book does,
and I think your audience would appreciate it. I'm sure
there are tons of people in your audience who are
smart and curious and beginners. And for those beginners who
are interested in learning how they can enhance their career,

(01:35:49):
make more money, improve their family life, improve their communities,
my book brings those beginners into the world of artificial intelligence,
and after chapter I actually provide the reader with tools
that they can use today to start implementing. Whether that
means they want to learn how to create new artwork

(01:36:10):
or write a song, or how to you know, create
more efficiencies at work with emails and writing even business.
You know, so many of us struggle. We have a
new business idea, but we don't want to write the
business plan. I mean now, literally, with these new tools,
we can write a business plan in a matter of minutes.
It's incredible. So I lay that all out in my

(01:36:32):
new book some future day, how AI is going to
change everything? And you know, obviously it's on Amazon, Barnes
and Noble, target all the big booksellers. But it's pretty straightforward,
and that's why I'm very optimistic about it. I think
that this will have very very positive implications to everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:36:52):
Hey, and your book also is available on blog page
if if you five Caresey dot com always put the book,
author's books and a link to buy them on my
blog page. So that's one more mechanism so my listeners
can always remember that. Now, I guess my concern on
this and I practiced law for a long time, sixteen years.
I've been on the radio for nineteen but prior to that,
sixteen years of practicing law, and I know they're using
AI to create legal briefs. Part of the thing about

(01:37:15):
being a lawyer was it required critical thinking analysis. You
had to do the work yourself, which helped you improve
the case, manage the direction of the arguments and articulating them.
It helped the juices in the brain flow, and I
think that benefit of the client. And when you talk
about like having it write a business plan, if you
got a great idea for a business, isn't part of

(01:37:37):
developing the business itself sitting down and contemplating as you
write a business plan to help you steer the direction
of the business model. I mean it forces you to think,
I just worry about AI maybe dumbing us down. It
doesn't require It takes away the logic and the creative
component that your brain works on, and I think that

(01:37:58):
part benefits you and helps you develop as a person.

Speaker 12 (01:38:03):
So it's a great question, particularly for me because my
background is law as well. And yeah, so I'll tell
you something cool on one of my episodes. I'd love
to send it to you somehow. But on one of
my episodes on my show Some Future Day on youtubet,
I introduced to my audience the first political figure who

(01:38:27):
uses artificial intelligence to draft a bill. And you can imagine.

Speaker 2 (01:38:31):
His name is Clyde Vanelle.

Speaker 12 (01:38:32):
He's here in New York City and you can imagine
Assemblyman Clyde got into a lot of trouble. His constituency
went ballistic on him. But what he admitted was that
he had to go and apply that personal touch that
you were talking about, your concern his creativity. At the
end of the day, and I write about this in

(01:38:53):
my book too. If you look at machine versus man,
man still wins that creative element. You're right, we could
be creative with artificial intelligence, but it's not going to
get that emotional connection. You can't break through the way
Bob Dylan does. You can't break through the way Pablo
Picasso does. So for sure humans will beat the machines

(01:39:14):
every single time. And I get into like some fun stories.
The book isn't just technical with regards to say, use
this tool if you want to create a painting, use
this tool if you want to create a photograph. But
I get into like these types of stories and issues too,
and I get and I go deep into the idea
of like the human spirit, our ability as creators to
touch emotion is far superior than algebra. And at the

(01:39:37):
end of the day, AI is literally algebra. It's predicting.
So I'm with you on that humans are going to
beat machines all day long.

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
Well, and you know, in terms of drafting a bill,
I you know, understand how legislative drafting is done. You
take the codea FEDER regulations for example, you need to
see a bill out of Congress. You have to refer
back to the original coda of FEDER Regulations to see
what you're reg stated. They never incorporate that language into
a new builder work and on, They just change things
within it. So artificial intelligence can go a long way

(01:40:07):
because it can easily digest thousands and thousands of pages
of rags and make sure what you're writing now you
know it goes, you know, falls in line with what's
already on the book. So that is a great advance.
It takes out the human error component of that and
a lot of man hours or hours of work. But
you know, I, I guess I wonder in terms of

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other things like, well, maybe human error we have to
worry about that, and it takes out that element of
human error. But these artificial intelligence platforms are programmed by humans.
So you got that whole garbage in, garbage out kind
of concern, and we've seen some of that pop up
with artificial intelligence being rolled out, Like, how come there's

(01:40:50):
so much bias in one direction with everything this system
turns out like chat GPT for example.

Speaker 6 (01:40:57):
That's a great question.

Speaker 12 (01:40:58):
So my book gets into this issue. It's a real issue,
the idea of racism, sexism, and bias. And what you're
talking about is the way that these lms, these large
language models are trained, and when they're trained effectively, what's
happening is for your audience, the tech companies like open

(01:41:19):
Ai and Microsoft that are building the llms, they're taking
a corpus of information and data from humanity and feeding
them into the computer to give the effectively the intelligence,
the artificial intelligence life.

Speaker 9 (01:41:34):
But let's face it, a.

Speaker 12 (01:41:35):
Lot of that information is not just faulty in the
way that you spoke about garbage in garbage out, but
it's also missing huge blocks of data. So think in
terms of like the mid century, nineteen fifties, when certain
parts of our population weren't included, weren't even able to
draft certain research papers and research studies. So if you

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look at, for example, the Nobel Prize winners going through
the forties and the fifties, they're typically just representative of
one gender, of one skin color, and we're missing out
a ton of points of view. There are no women
winners in the Noble Award arena in the nineteen fifties
because they weren't allowed to participate. So the other issue

(01:42:21):
that's never going to be fixable, it will always be biased.
To your point, is the fact that those points of
view are not included from that time period when these
llms were trained. So it really is an issue, but
it is getting better. So there's the issue of let's say,
explicit bias, which I think is what you were focused on,

(01:42:41):
But then there's this implicit bias which is going to
stay forever.

Speaker 2 (01:42:47):
I'm talking with Mark Beckman offered the book some future
day how AI is going to change everything? And any
book you suggest that artificial intelligence might have the ability
to strengthen family bonds and improve the quality of our
home wives along. How so, how might that work out?
And still what are you referring to?

Speaker 12 (01:43:04):
Okay, I love that you bring it up, and I'm
going to give you an example of something that came
my way. As you can imagine, because of the book,
all I'm doing is meeting people who are coming at
me and talking about artificial intelligence all day, every day
and this is a crazy story, but it's true, and
you know, maybe it's good. So there's a couple, a
young couple probably in their thirties living in Texas that

(01:43:26):
came to me and they were like, we want to
tell you the story. We've been fighting like crazy, and
I guess the husband has a lack of desire to
be cooperative with his wife and go to a marriage counselor.
So they negotiated and the deal is, believe it or not,
it's nuts, is that chat Ept is the marriage counselor

(01:43:47):
and every time they have an argument, they enter their
argument into Chatchypt to find a resolution. And as weird
as this sounds, it's true and it's been helping them marriage.
So this is like one of the most bizarre, Like
I definitely didn't write about this in the book, Like
this wasn't something I expected. But people are becoming creative

(01:44:09):
and now they're using chatch Ept to have a better
married life.

Speaker 2 (01:44:15):
That's unusual, you know, taking the place of a therapist.
And I can hear people in therapy community going, oh
my god, AI is going to put me out of business.
But that takes out that human element, you know, if
I meet you in person, we sit down and we talk.
I can gauge the type of person you are. I
can see how you react to different situations. I can
understand your emotions and how you know maybe maybe you're
you fly off the handle quickly or you react differently

(01:44:36):
different based on different subject matters. And I don't understand
how artificial intelligence can can can grasp that human element.
You type of question in my wife and I are
fighting about this, that doesn't really fully appreciate the whole
situation that's going on.

Speaker 12 (01:44:50):
I want to take you a little further down this path. Sure,
so I think in terms of a well, first of all,
I want to tell you there will inevitably be a
whole You keep referring to job loss, and there will
definitely be a huge elimination of jobs, white collar jobs, professionals.

Speaker 2 (01:45:10):
Lawyers, and the like.

Speaker 12 (01:45:12):
And there have already been great advances, and I talk
about this in the book. I break out different business
sectors in the book, finance, medicine, the creative industries fashion, art, music, Hollywood,
and there have been tremendous advances in the medical industry,
for example, think in terms of discovering diagnosing illnesses, Google

(01:45:35):
created a vertical called amy. It's a type of artificial
intelligence that they've trained and almost with one hundred percent accuracy.
Now they could discover and diagnose rare diseases and old
diseases that have even been eliminated from society. So they're
doing great with that. But think about this. Imagine if
you have a child who is ten years old and

(01:45:56):
she's starting to struggle with some issues. Use artificial intelligence
to diagnose what your child's mental illness might be, and
then from there you can go to a doctor and
start working with a doctor. Well, the child will also
have at you know, I think eventually really soon, actually,
like it's on us now, an AI agent which could

(01:46:19):
work with them in so many different ways. And that
AI agent that could serve almost as like a technological
like robotic type of therapists, will also remember all of
your child's issues. The child might feel freer speaking to
something that is just a robot, let's say, versus any human,
and that that artificial intelligence will remember all of your

(01:46:42):
child's fears and frailties and issues and problems to take
that along with her for her entire life. They're going
to see the same thing change as it relates to
education tutors, where you know forever the artificial intelligence will
build and work with your child in different ways. From
an academic perspective, they'll build on it through years and
years and years of fostering a relationship and training itself

(01:47:05):
in a specialized way. I can see that specifate to
your child's needs. So again these are like foreign concepts,
but there could be benefits. And again my perspective is
AI is simply a tool. It's only math, and it
should be not It should not be replacing the professionals
and the humans. But if the if the professionals could
use them as a tool, it could provide our society

(01:47:28):
with tremendous benefits.

Speaker 2 (01:47:30):
Lots of take in here, get a copy of it
some future day. How AI is going to change everything.
It's been a pleasure talking with you, Mark Beckman. Really
appreciate the time you spit my listeners to me, and
I'm sure they're going to grab up a copy of
that book fifty five cares dot com to do. So,
thanks for your time. Have a wonderful day, my friend,
you too.

Speaker 12 (01:47:45):
Thank you so much.

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His thoughts on Trump's adressed to Congress, and of course
a message to the postal system. There are ways to
reform the postal SYSM, which is no one seems to
really want to do it. There's a sending your contemplating

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artificial intelligence, and it just makes me I remember the
days when you have to have to dictate a letter
and you do it in your little cassette recorder and
send it over to your administrative assystem and that will
be typed of and then you would do addits to
it and send it back into the old days. Things
move so much slower, I know, a lot faster in
my lifetime than the generation prior to mine. But I

(01:50:35):
kind of missed those days, and I kind of look
look at look at artificial intelligence with a bit of
skepticism and concern. And just as I was talking to
Mark Beckman and again you can get his book on
my blog page, I wrote down trades see's the one
thing that artificial intelligence is not going to take away

(01:50:55):
is the need for people who actually can fix things.
As a South Park episode of that, the plumbers and
the repair people ended up being the multi millionaires of
the world because people didn't know how to fix things anymore.
So just the thought, although I would agree that artificial
intelligence can help the trades because if you run into
a problem, if you're a plumber and you run into

(01:51:16):
a problem, maybe you can enter it into AI and
it can offer you a solution on the fly that
won't require you to think about it very much. But
the other thing I was thinking about is DEI doctors.
Now everybody's concerned about you. You pass somebody through high
school and they don't even know how to read, and
because of DEI initiatives or whatever, they make it all
the way into med school and you have to keep
them there because of course DEI requires you to have

(01:51:38):
certain you know, quotas or whatever, even though they may
not have a mastery of the difficult realities of what
it is to be a doctor. But if you're relying
on artificial intelligence, it can, like he said, as far
as you know, keeping records of what your anxieties and
concerns and fears are it's going to have a perfect
record of all that, well, all that's out there in
the ether. You know, your diagnostician only has so much

(01:52:00):
in his or her head. And of course, if you've
got people who are not as smart actually practicing medicine,
that puts you at a little lever of concern. But
if they have access artificial intelligence, maybe that equals the
playing field to a certain degree and you don't have
to worry as much. No, I plugged it into AI,
and here's what I figured out the problem is, or
what it figured out your problem is. I have dear

(01:52:21):
friends and relatives who have struggled with certain medical issues,
and they've been through every test known to man mankind,
and they haven't had their problem solved yet. Maybe there's
an answer out there in that ether, that giant, massive
information that the ones and zeros have accumulated in this
artificial intelligence that may ultimately provide the answer. I don't know,

(01:52:43):
just random thoughts and musings, but I still miss the
days where we had to put a stamp on a
letter and communicate that way back and forth. So fifty
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welcome back to the morning show. It's great to have
you on today.

Speaker 6 (01:53:51):
Thank you very much. It's great to be with you.

Speaker 2 (01:53:53):
Yeah, we dive into the news of late I Congress.
A mess who was on my program earlier this week
and he called it and he's like pressing his predictions.
You know, he wasn't in favor of the CR because
it continues funding levels on the Biden levels and didn't
cut much at all. So that was why he was
a no vote. He was very explicit and did a
good job of explaining himself in spite of the fact
that drew the ira of Donald Trump. But it done

(01:54:13):
the last passed over in the sentence hands and according
to Chucky Schumer, at least before yesterday evening, it was
going to be a no over there, which is going
to result in a government shutdown. But Chucky, she changed
his tune and they're going to capitulate, which is exactly
what Massey predicted. I don't know why they were against
it anyway, since the funding levels didn't change your take
on that one, John.

Speaker 6 (01:54:33):
They are the party of opposition. If Trump's for it,
they're against it, even if it's what they want to
your point, and it's just lunacy, and frankly I think
they are. I think they're stark, raving mad. And I
like Massey and what he stands for. I like Ran
Paul and what he stands for. This country is at

(01:54:56):
a tipping point if we don't get control of underal spending,
the interest statements on the deficit, the loan are now
our single largest line item. That is pure economic waste
in my view. So I understand the cinema. Here's the counter.
Trump is walking a high wire act and this economy

(01:55:19):
is fragile. And you take two trillion dollars out of
the economy overnight and it implodes. We would go into
a depression of magnitude that we've never witnessed before. So
Trump wants to balance a budget.

Speaker 9 (01:55:33):
He's all for it.

Speaker 6 (01:55:34):
It's going to take some time, it's going to take
a little for mess.

Speaker 2 (01:55:37):
Yeah, And you know, I guess the two trillion you're
talking about taking out of the economy is that the
market losses or is that the what is coming out
of government by way of you know, propping up various
areas like the green energy projects. If we pull the
plug on that's the EPA effectively did the other day
as they were promising to do. Does that ruin the
economy because there's no longer these artificial government dollar propped

(01:55:59):
up jobs out there.

Speaker 6 (01:56:02):
You illustrate the point perfectly. That's it. And you know
when the economy gets in trouble. What's the first thing
the Federal Reserve starts to do. They print money like
drunken sailors. They start issuing bonds, they start buying their
own bonds, and they prop up the economy through what
they call stimulus. Well if that's if that works, then

(01:56:22):
the reverse is going to have an adverse attack. So
you take that money out of the economy, you plunge
us into a recession. So it is going like Trump says,
it's going to take some time, but he's committed to
the cause. We'll get there. I think we just attributation.

Speaker 2 (01:56:38):
Yeah, it's going to be an interesting world if we
get the government out of our lives and allow the
free markets to prosper and thrive. Will that make up
this government infused fake economy? Like DEI alone is its
own fake economy. You got a lot of people out
there with college degrees and in diversity, equity inclusion, they
need jobs.

Speaker 6 (01:56:56):
So what do you do.

Speaker 2 (01:56:56):
You mandate these programs across the entire landscape, which creates
new departments and new divisions within business. But those do
not provide any value in terms of revenue, in terms
of creating goods and services. It's just busy work, and
it's fake work.

Speaker 6 (01:57:12):
I think you took the same economics courses I did.

Speaker 9 (01:57:17):
Well.

Speaker 6 (01:57:17):
The government produces nothing. They don't add to G and T.
All they do is spend, and so there's no value
in that except when they when they're the job creators,
there's value. But it's fake, it's it'sponing. It's short term.
But so if you take two trillion out of the

(01:57:41):
budget and it's not that and you put that money
back in the economy, then muel the economy. But right now,
the only alternative is take the deficit out, and that's
what would have the unintended consequence of some bad economic repercussions.

Speaker 12 (01:58:01):
I believe.

Speaker 6 (01:58:02):
But if Musk can reduce the spending through DOGE and
those are real dollars, yea, and they go back into
the private sector, watch out, baby, let the good times roll.

Speaker 8 (01:58:12):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:58:12):
I'm glad you pivoted over to DOGE because they are
revealing that we fund the indefensible I mean one program,
I mean little here, little there. It all tends to
add up even you know, multi hundreds of thousands of dollars,
you know, seven hundred thousand dollars for studying cannabis use
among sexual, minority, gender diverse individuals. I mean, what the

(01:58:32):
hell is that all about.

Speaker 6 (01:58:34):
We've got transgender studies on mice, yeah, yeah, yeah, And
then I can't believe we're even talking about this. I know,
I feel like a lunatic that we're even talking about it. Yeah,
but these are our federal tax dollars at work, and
it's just absurd. That's why I say, I think these

(01:58:55):
people have lost their minds. I think they're absolutely I
know no better descriptor for it.

Speaker 2 (01:59:03):
Well, John, I'm convinced more and more every single day
that they are outraged over this, and because it's cutting
off his revelations and he's canceling all these grants again,
there's a AGRI Department of Agriculture grant in the San
Francisco Bay area to educate queer trands and BIPOC urban
farmers about food justice. I don't even know what the

(01:59:23):
hell that is. And it's probably if.

Speaker 6 (01:59:25):
You're a straight guy and you're a farmer, you can't
get the subsidy.

Speaker 2 (01:59:28):
Yeah, but it's urban farmers. I mean, first off, how
many BIPOC queer trans urban farmers are there collectively in
the United States, but then they could get a grant
to study what they're doing. I don't even know what
food justice is. But the big concern here all these
USA programs that allegedly go out into the world, you know,
circumcisions in Jakarta or whatever. I'm convinced that that money

(01:59:52):
never got there, and that didn't accomplish the goal that
it purported to accomplish, even if the goal itself was ludicrous.
But that money remained in Washington for hobbying dollars that
ended up in the pockets and Democrats to get themselves
re elected or otherwise directly in their pockets.

Speaker 6 (02:00:05):
Joe Biden said, we just sent one hundred and fifty
billion to the Ukraine. What did Zelenski say, where's the
rest of it? I only saw a hundred billion.

Speaker 4 (02:00:15):
M h.

Speaker 6 (02:00:18):
I'm telling you this federal government is rotten to its core.
And I think before it's all said and done, we're
going to trace the money and we're going to find
that it went right back into the pockets of these
lunatic left wing Democrats who have been voting for all
of this irrational spending. And I've said for the last

(02:00:38):
four years on my radio show. I don't know who
they're governing corps, but its sure as hell.

Speaker 9 (02:00:43):
Is not us.

Speaker 2 (02:00:44):
It is not and it's going to stop, and it's
freaking them out. The Doge is actually bringing this to
the American public attention. This is low hanging fruit stuff.

Speaker 12 (02:00:51):
Again.

Speaker 2 (02:00:52):
You add it all up, and we're not getting to
that trillion dollar mark but a little by little. But
you let any Republican or Democrat, any working human being
in the country, and even those that aren't working, they
look at this and they think, just like you and me,
what we're paying for that? How is that even possible?
So this is going to bring the House of cards

(02:01:12):
down at some point. They're not going to go to
justify it.

Speaker 6 (02:01:16):
Well, I think that they're on it, and I think
that's why they're launching this campaign against Elon Musk. Well,
where are the prosecutions, by the way, for the people
that have burned tesla's and that are used rifles and
shot bullets into dealerships. Yeah, I mean, come on, that
is absolute anarchy. Yeah, some people.

Speaker 2 (02:01:41):
Locked up and he was the darling of the green
energy folks there for a long long time. He was
the leader of the pack everybody wanted an Elon Musk tesla,
and now it's demonized because he's shown the world how
bad things are. I mean, pivoting over to Social Security, John,
all those social Security numbers for people who are one
hundred and fifty plus years old, they're still active and

(02:02:01):
therefore probably being used by some perhaps illegal person in
this country with no work permit to actually go work
at a job. I mean, even if a check isn't
going out to that number, it certainly can be used
for nefarious purposes. You know, PPP grants to eleven year olds.
They don't care about normal business like practices in government.

(02:02:23):
They're not required to do anything. But then again they're
also not required to be responsible stewards of the American
taxpayer dollar.

Speaker 6 (02:02:30):
Well, we sensed it for a long time. Now we've
got plain proof of it. And can you imagine people
railing against Elon Musk because it's eliminating fraud, waste and abuse.
Is James Carvel said, is that the who you want
to die on as a Democrat, we're going to oppose that. Yes, Well,

(02:02:53):
I want them to keep doing what they're doing because
their approval ratings continue to plummet. Let them just put
the new around their necks and let them tighten it themselves,
which is what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (02:03:05):
Indeed, and I got a kick out of Schumer yesterday Democrats.
He said, we want the attention to the American people,
not focus on different bills that they will bring to
the floor during the shutdown. They were talking about thirty
day extensions, this and maybe alternatives that to the Republican
c are We'd rather focus on our message, which is
beginning to work. And I was scratching my head over that.
That's a quote from him. I was like, what message?

(02:03:27):
And apparently it's in his words, they meaning the Republicans
are hurting the middle class to give tax breaks to
the billionaires. That tired old trope is that all they've got.
They have no message.

Speaker 6 (02:03:38):
John Well, if you listen to them, their focus is
on the message. They are trying one message. When that
doesn't work, they skip to the next lunatic statement to make.
And it's all about the message. I don't care about
the message, I care about the substance. I want to
curtail government spending. I want to curtain fraud and get

(02:04:02):
the one hundred and fifty year olds off the social
security roles. If we have to really stand up and
talk about that in the public marketplace for ideas, we
are in serious trouble. I mean, it is self evident.
Just stop the lunacy and start governing to the American
people and then all the problems are solved. Will welcome

(02:04:25):
and embrace the Democrats into a free exchange for ideas
and stop the gainsmanship because it's killing us.

Speaker 2 (02:04:32):
It is and one of the big problems with our
country the way it set up is the intitoment program
social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. That's the true existential thread.
Those are set to collapse on themselves and the deficit,
as you point out, we're paying a trillion dollars a
year in interest on this. You know, if we don't
write the ship, there's not going to be a United
States around the Fiat. Currency's going to collapse. No one's

(02:04:53):
going to I want to buy our bonds. We aren't
going to be able to keep this this house of cards.
Even standing to the world's demise.

Speaker 6 (02:05:03):
I think the adults are in the room now. I
am very optimistic that we're going to get things turned around.
You've seen John Fetterman abandoned the Democratic ship, the sinking ship.
He doesn't want to be on the Titanic, and others
are going to slowly, one by one listen to reason
and do the right thing. It'll take some process and

(02:05:27):
some time, but I do think we'll get there eventually.
What every Republican in America needs to be focused on
right here and right now is the midterm election. Since
Ronald Reagan, Republicans, well any sitting president has lost control
of the Congress in the midterm elections. If we're not
focused on that, we're going to wake up in two

(02:05:47):
years really disappointed that we allowed complacency to slip back
into US national psyching.

Speaker 2 (02:05:54):
Hey man, John Gordon, check it out. Host of the
Truth with John Gordon. Great having you back on the program.
John will be listening to what you have to say,
and I'll look forward to having you back on the
morning show sometime.

Speaker 6 (02:06:04):
Thank you so much, And if your listeners would like
to check us out, go to www dot John Gordon
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I'm sure they'll do it. Take care of John of
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Speaker 2 (02:08:41):
It is eight twenty two. It is Friday's Dating the obvious.
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(02:09:02):
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my friend.

Speaker 6 (02:09:06):
Good morning, Brian. As always, you and Joe are true
patrious buddy.

Speaker 2 (02:09:10):
Appreciate hearing that every time you say it. Jeff, thank
you very much.

Speaker 16 (02:09:15):
Yeah, I love that author that was on about AI.
My friend Thomas who passed away last month. It was
pretty pretty.

Speaker 10 (02:09:24):
Rough on me.

Speaker 16 (02:09:25):
But he was a huge advocate to AI since he
was a marketing guy, and he said, you know, Jeff, AI,
no one should be really afraid of because it's just
another tool. You can always use something for bad things,
but hopefully more people use it for good things. Now,
when I look at AI, I see a thing that's

(02:09:47):
going to slap common sense across my head. You know, like, oh,
by the way, is a streetcar a good idea?

Speaker 12 (02:09:54):
It'll probably say no.

Speaker 2 (02:09:57):
If it's honest. Ye's right, because presumably you'll have all
the access to all the studies would show that those
do not bring value to any city. They merely consume capital, right.

Speaker 16 (02:10:11):
I mean, I think I might have told you years ago.

Speaker 6 (02:10:14):
I went to.

Speaker 16 (02:10:16):
San Francisco for a couple of weeks. You can say,
I'm sorry, Jeff, but that's okay, that's right. Anyway, and
every streetcar that they used there had little plaques inside
of them that said, oh, by the way, this streetcar
was donated by this city when its streetcar went out
of business. Okay, we were just like, okay, So you

(02:10:40):
have dozens of street cars that came from all over
the United States that went out of business.

Speaker 11 (02:10:46):
It's okay, so anyway, but also a I.

Speaker 16 (02:10:50):
Would tell you and me, yeah, I know someone let
me see.

Speaker 6 (02:10:54):
Who was in our lives?

Speaker 16 (02:10:55):
Oh right, our mom told us that if you make
twenty dollars, guess how much you can spend twenty dollars.

Speaker 6 (02:11:03):
You can't spend.

Speaker 16 (02:11:03):
Twenty one, can't been twenty two, can't spend a billion,
you spend twenty dollars. I mean, AI is really just
common sense, people, and it's going to do it very
fast and very efficiently like those you're showing us. But
it's gonna be a swift kicking the head to anyone
that does understand what common sense is.

Speaker 2 (02:11:25):
Well, Jeff, I do appreciate your optimistic take on artificial intelligence.
And as long as it is in programmed to lie
to us, which some have concerns about, then you're right
it would do. That's that throw in artificial intelligence the
mathematics behind how we got to the massive hole we've
dug ourselves in what it means to pay one trillion
dollars and growing annually on debt service, and maybe it'll

(02:11:48):
churn out something how long our country has to go
if we continue on this trajectory, I would imagine it
will be a short short term. Thanks Jeff, have a
great weekend, appreciate the call. Next up, got empower. Are
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Science of psychological change would deal with that. Next, don't

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The Talk Station, a twenty nine fifty five KRCD talk
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on the morning.

Speaker 4 (02:14:00):
Show, going thank you, it's a pleasure to be here
this morning.

Speaker 2 (02:14:05):
Well, let's start off with what is an ICF Master
Coach if.

Speaker 4 (02:14:09):
I may ask, Oh, okay, it's the International Coach Federation.
It's a global organization that certifies coaches and a master
coaches a designation that is achieved through the number of
hours of experience as well as the training exams, those
kinds of things.

Speaker 2 (02:14:29):
All right, fair enough, now you talk about in this
class is going to obviously delve into a much deeper
but our perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors impact ourselves and how
we deal with life. And I guess we're really not
meant to go through life feeling anxious, disconnected, insecure, cluttered, chronically,
stressed and worried and said most of the time that
obviously interferes with our enjoyment of life, but also our

(02:14:49):
ability to accomplish our task at our job and work
and elsewhere, our relationships with our families. What is it about?
What you're teaching this science of psychological change that can
help us address these issues.

Speaker 4 (02:15:03):
So from understanding the science of psychological change, we can
actually understand how we are being triggered, because quite often
when we're triggered into those states of anxiety that interfere
with what we're going on, it's because we have a
belief that is affecting how we see the situation. It's

(02:15:23):
our awareness. We're perceiving it a certain way, but there's
actually other ways of perceiving it. And if we were
to get to the actual root of it, the way
we perceive it actually stems from and triggers are brain chemistry.
So there's a certain brain chemistry that allows us to
see challenge as an opportunity as you know, Okay, I

(02:15:46):
just have to level up here, or it can also
have the impression of oh no, this is like daunting
to me, This is overwhelming to me. It's like the
situation is bigger than me. That's actually comes from just
how we perceive it, which triggers those two different brain chemistries.
So what I work with is actually helping people, first

(02:16:07):
of all, understand this is a perspective, how can we
see this differently and how can we work with it
differently and which can lead to a different experience, which
leads to a different outcome.

Speaker 2 (02:16:19):
All right, fair enough? Can you give like a real
life illustration of this concept. I know in the notes
agism is mentioned, but you know something you've dealt with,
perhaps regularly throughout your career, dealing with this, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:16:33):
That's true. Agis Agism actually is one of the ways
that it is dealt with in that we can have
a limiting belief that there are factors of our age
that have us, let's say, not be able to do
certain things, but actually so and sometimes there's a perception
that agism might be affecting us what's safe, for example,

(02:16:55):
in the workplace, And actually it's true that people have
different strengths, and sometimes what we want to look for is,
really where are our strengths. So if we were to
perceive a situation as well, if I applied for this
particular position, I'm going to be maybe maybe rejected because

(02:17:18):
of my age. But actually what we can look at is, so,
really where are my strengths? And really is this the
best for me?

Speaker 6 (02:17:26):
And where can I go?

Speaker 4 (02:17:27):
I always say, there's a question who needs to know?
I've already learned. So basically, if I had a different
perspective on that, rather than seeing that as a rejection
type of thing, I can see it as a redirection
into where where's the better fit for me? And whatever?
I won't likely to succeed. Who's looking for what I
got rather than trying to And I've worked with that

(02:17:51):
anxiety about well I'm not going to get a job.
It's actually just recognizing more of like what really is
my change? So that actually comes from how we how
we perceive that situation.

Speaker 2 (02:18:03):
Okay, yeah, on a certain level, I mean I think
one has to step outside of one's selves and be
very objective about where one is. I mean age, for example,
I view is of value because life experience in and
of itself is a tremendous value. You've seen a lot
of things that a younger person hasn't seen. You had
to deal with a lot of circumstances they have not
yet dealt with, so it provides you with greater level

(02:18:23):
of confidence. So that's the way I would approach that.
I would immediately say, well, I'm better qualified because simply
because of my age. But this requires being objective about
the circumstances. But also requires a tremendous amount of introspection,
does it not?

Speaker 4 (02:18:36):
I would agree it requires a tremendous amount of introspection.
And that's exactly you've actually articulated that very well. Because sometimes,
for example, if we were to look at the job search,
sometimes people are encouraged to, let's say, take years of
experience off of their resume. Like, so let's say only
show let's say fifteen years of experience when really we
have over twenty. Well, there's a reason that we can

(02:18:58):
apply for positions when we have twenty years of experience
versus when we have ten or fifteen years of experience.
And so it's like really recognizing, like seeing this perspective,
is how am I using my strengths versus how am I?
Kind of it's almost a little bit like putting the
square peg into the round hole a bit.

Speaker 2 (02:19:16):
Okay, you have to have a greater sense of self worth.
I mean it sounds like you're speaking to people that
have sort of perhaps a negative view of themselves, self
deprecating people for example.

Speaker 4 (02:19:29):
Well, I think that comes from a belief because we
hear so much in society about agism, we don't really
hear a lot of we don't really hear a lot
of encouraging things, and so it's easy to it's actually
easy to absorb that and think, you know, my chances
are limited. Basically that's where beliefs comes in. Beliefs come in.

(02:19:50):
I'm thinking my chances are limited before I've even kind
of stepped into the water type of thing. Whereas what
and that's where the chemistry comes in. Of when we're
in that chemistry, we're not actually able to see solutions
because it actually shuts down the solution part of the brain,
oh to a certain extent, like it limits it. It's

(02:20:13):
not firing the solution part of the brain, which is
why when we're in that perspective, everything feels much more anxious,
much more like a struggle. And so so basically there
are ways of just converting that and kind of saying, okay,
you can actually do simple body posture that can help
to change that level of anxiety.

Speaker 2 (02:20:34):
So this is a brain this is a brain chemistry
type of thing you're talking about, Well, well, yes.

Speaker 4 (02:20:41):
It is brain chemistry, yes, but and it stems from
our beliefs because our beliefs, so our beliefs trigger there's
certain things. So when we hear this in society. We
are triggered by it, either maybe by an earlier experience
that we've had in life, or maybe we were rejected
for something that we really felt was a good fit

(02:21:02):
for us, or that we just didn't understand why why
it didn't work out. But when we change that sort
of chemistry, we can kind of see, you know, we
see it differently. We don't see it as a rejection
as a loss. We see rejection as like a redirection.
It's like, Okay, if this one doesn't work, that that

(02:21:22):
means that's giving me feedback. But there's something else that
actually will work better. And there are ways that say,
for example, instead of taking you know, the twenty years
of experience or twenty five years of experience off my resume,
there's people who are looking for you know, they don't
want to they don't sort of want to do the
learning curve. They actually want someone who's gone through that

(02:21:44):
learning curve. So it's looking for, you know, who needs
to know what I've already learned type of things. Right,
So recognizing my value and using my value versus thinking, oh,
I have to take my value off because I'm not
going to be chosen such a like the ladder one.
That's the lemon taking brief right, all right.

Speaker 2 (02:22:02):
Empower you similar taking place March eighteenth at seven pm
Empoweroamerica dot org. Leuyenn. I know you're going to talk
about these concepts throughout the process, but you're also going
to offer the attendees some daily practices to help them
maintain this empowering perspective. Can you just offer perhaps one
of those by way of illustration for my listeners to
get a handle on that.

Speaker 4 (02:22:24):
Okay, so well, one of them that I will be
talking about a fair bit is the use of questions,
because the subconscious mind actually has to way the subconscious
mind is programmed, it actually has to answer a question.
So I'm going to talk about how to ask questions
that will help us change how we see and experience things.

(02:22:45):
And so that's one. Another one is there's some simple
body postures that actually change the way the brain is
kind of firing. And one of them is simply crossing
our feet over and crossing our arms over and clasping
our hands. The crossover actually changes how things are interacting

(02:23:07):
in our brain. Go talk a little bit more about that. Wow,
that's a really simple bosses. A person could do it like,
let's say, if they were even in a stressful meeting
or something, they could just cross their feet under the table.
They could cross their hands under the table, and if
they just allow that to happen, it will actually change
some of that interaction.

Speaker 2 (02:23:26):
No kidding, how about that? Well, I'll tell you what.
It's going to be fascinating seminar and I'm sure my
listeners will be interested. Again. Go to empower you America
dot or get registered Tuesday, March eighteenth, beginning get seven pm. Luen,
It's been a great conversation and I hope you have
a successful seminar and hope you have a wonderful weekend
on top of it.

Speaker 4 (02:23:44):
Oh well, thank you. I'm really looking forward to it.
I love this. This is so much fun and actually
to share. So I'm looking forward to seeing everyone great.

Speaker 2 (02:23:52):
I'm sure looking forward to see you. It'll be next Tuesday.
Take care, it's been fun having you on the show
eight thirty nine. Right now, folks, that's about Kecity Talxation
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Speaker 2 (02:25:13):
Hey, forty three, fifty five KRCD talk station. I'm gonna
go straight to the phonks I promised. I told Jay
I'd take his call right of the gate. Jay, thanks
for holding over the break there. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (02:25:22):
Hey, good morning, Brian.

Speaker 6 (02:25:23):
Hey.

Speaker 10 (02:25:24):
I wanted to comment on the Bill Blessing interview yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:25:27):
Did you hear me? Sauty out?

Speaker 10 (02:25:29):
Oh man, Good for you guys. You guys do the
work no one else will do. And I understand now
why he was hesitant to go on the radio. That
was an f in my ottendione day.

Speaker 2 (02:25:45):
Real quick here, so my listeners aren't quite sure what
we're talking about. Blessing was on the other day to
talk about property tax relief and some of the things
are proposing. And then the next segment we talked about
his proposal for a state funded free school lunch program
for all students in both you know, parochial and public schools.
A free lunch for everybody on the taxpayer dollar. I

(02:26:08):
think it was a three hundred plus million dollar program
he was proposing. So with that in mind, go ahead, Jay,
off of your comments.

Speaker 10 (02:26:14):
Well yeah, and I was really you know, he almost
pulled me over to his side of the debate whenever
he explained that it's free. You're not going to see
it when you're you're not going to see a three
hundred million dollar increase because it's not going to go
into your property tax. So when you reach into your
personal checking account to pay your property tax, it won't
be in there but on your pay stub where it

(02:26:35):
says Ohio State tax, because this.

Speaker 6 (02:26:37):
State's going to pay for it.

Speaker 10 (02:26:39):
So it's free, Brian, I did, And so don't worry
about it, Yeah, because we're I'll wait a second. We're
paying for everything, aren't we.

Speaker 2 (02:26:47):
And I remember the old saying there ain't no free lunch, Jay,
and I guess that means there ain't no free breakfast
and lunch.

Speaker 10 (02:26:53):
Well I started to tear up a little bit when
he talked about what a what a hassle it is
for him to feed his kids breakfast and lunch, and
the economies of scale a paint for all the kids
breakfast and lunch at a tone of three hundred million
is actually going to be cost out for everybody in
the state of Ohio, which I think, if that's true,

(02:27:14):
why don't we make the schools just a public food
pantry and cafeteria. Why stop with breakfast and lunch? Why
not go for dinner? If this is a cost out
and any huge savings for the people of Ohio, shouldn't
we just all be, you know, funneling into the schools
anytime we want a snack or a meal or something
like that. But my favorite part was whenever he decided

(02:27:35):
to go down the road of legality with you as
a lawyer, and I don't remember the exact thing he
was bringing up, but he was talking about the law
and the law requires and you very tactfully pointed out
that the Supreme Court twenty years ago said we can't
fund property tax or fund school tax off the property tax,

(02:27:55):
at which point his response was nervous laughter and absolutely
no response. Want she changed the uh, change the topic
and took the took took it in a different direction.
So so, people of Cole Rain, would you please do
better and not inflect the rest of Ohio with with
this jackass is bad ideas and Republican Party Alex Trantafela,

(02:28:16):
would you listen to that and would would you sign
up and to support that person with a nickel if
they were running for public office, let alone a senator
for crying out loud. Quit spending money. If we want
to stop spending money, don't spend money, Republican Party money.
And behind Bill Blessing and Cole rain Township, wake up.
We don't need any more rhinos.

Speaker 6 (02:28:35):
For God's sakes.

Speaker 10 (02:28:36):
The one thing we produced more of than corn and
Ohio is rhinos. And that was one on parade yesterday.
But well done, brother.

Speaker 2 (02:28:42):
I appreciate your kind words, and I'm glad you listened.
And the one thing I did take some comfort and
I asked if this enjoyed widespread approval as a concept,
and I got the impression it does not.

Speaker 1 (02:28:53):
So, oh, you're right, You're right.

Speaker 10 (02:28:55):
And I meant to tell people, now let's change your
attactics instead of calling Bill Blessings on us. For the
first time in my life, I may call Mike the
Wine and give them praise and say stand I approve
your your stance against SB one oh nine. And the
Speaker of the House was it.

Speaker 2 (02:29:10):
Uh yeh, I know, I think Puffman, Yeah, Huffman.

Speaker 10 (02:29:15):
So cal Hoffman called the wine. Tell them you appreciate
their firm stance against SB one oh nine and get
this thing shot down, and then call Ran get somebody
else in there. You guys can do better. I promote
Joe Strecker. Can I get a second?

Speaker 2 (02:29:30):
I'll second that thanks to the calleg Day, I have
a fantastic weekend, Brother Todd. I will promise to take
your call as soon as we return after these pre fords,
you want to hang on fifty five the talk station
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Never get tired of hearing that song, most notably on
a Friday afternoon one. I love that version. Let us
go to the phone. See what Todd's got. Todd's thanks
for holding over the break and welcome to the show.

Speaker 17 (02:30:19):
Yes, I have some comments on AI, but first I
just want to say that I was at the empower
Youth seminar last night with the Senator Blessing, and I
recommend that everyone who can listen to that last night,
because I found myself rather reassured that he's in the Senate,
so fair enough, I probably suggest listening to him.

Speaker 2 (02:30:41):
Yeah, at least in so far as his concepts on
tax reform or property tax reform. I mean, I don't
know if you're in favor of free school lunches for
every school kid in public and private school. But okay, good,
So we're talking about completely different topics, and I thought
he did articulate some good ideas that might bring some
relief to the taxpayers here in Ohio, most notably the
senior I feel for man, you know, you're on a

(02:31:02):
fixed income and as really fixed incoming you've got a
property tax build that blows through the roof. You're not
prepared to deal with that. So great, But as far.

Speaker 17 (02:31:10):
As AI is, that just there might be some debate
as to what constitutes intelligence and maybe some debate as
to what constitutes wisdom. But even though there might be
artificial intelligence is I don't think there's going to be
any artificial wisdom. And so yeah, going on that is
that we still have to based things on I think

(02:31:32):
original content. Because it's more than a certain percentage of
what goes back into the AI is AI generated. You
suffer a kind of an amplification or a feedback effect. Yeah,
you get even more and more of what you maybe
don't want.

Speaker 2 (02:31:49):
Yeah, that's an astute observation. See, but this transcends my
ability to understand it because I don't have any knowledge
about programming and therefore or how artificial intelligence really works
or grows. It's not colledge background, so it's impossible for
me to really truly understand whether that's possible. But Todd,
it certainly sounds plausible. That's the whole garbage in, garbage
out kind of thing that I was referring to when

(02:32:10):
I talked to him. Anyhow, I appreciate the call, Todd
and your observations about Senator Blessing, and I tend to
agree with you along those lines and along some of
the lines that Jay pointed out. Anyhow, if you can
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about the empower use Seminar Empower You America dot org.
You can learn more about what leu Ann Horbin's going
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and the smith Event along with Money Monday. Joe Strecker.
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