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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Use the word redentive journey? What did you need to
be redeemed of? How bad were you?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Really? Really? You're always looking for the bad right out
the gate? Couldn't ask me about the.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hilarious part my show. I can ask you any questions
of you that I want.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Please, please ask me about some funny stuff?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Could you funny?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Give us one night in DC, I could have been
murdered or at least stabbed, like six or seven times.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Listen, listen, listen. I was national director Sony Relativity in
New York and Bone, Thugs and Harmony had a show
in DC and it was a violent area, and the
local stations they didn't even want to send their promo
people down to this club. The radio station in DC
gave away tickets, so one of the big powerhouse stations
on the East Coast WPGC Bone at this time had
sold ten million. They'd've been number one on Billboard for
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eight weeks. This isn't an arena show. It's doing this
up close and personal gig exclusively for the station. So
I drive them from the hotel to the club in
a big fifteen passenger van.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Can I stop and ask where this gets funny?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Do you have manners? May I continue? Please go ahead
and interrupting the story. So we're driving to the club,
the even the Bone guys from from Cleveland. We're saying, boy,
this area is rough, and I get this van wedged
into a gated secure area behind the club. And now
these millionaire rappers that are used to concert venues and
promoters getting their backstage green room adult alcoholic beverages as
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they requested, and it would be a list of like
high dollar alcohol.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
How did Bone thugs like their backstage writer? Was that
the issue?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well you learning the industry jargon. No, they hated it.
It looked like a Chico State frat house party set
up with ponykegs, a few bottles of bottom shelf booths,
and maybe some Fredos and Fresca laid out what that was?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Only one that notices that, that notices Fresco.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Nope, we both do so listen. The group refused us
to perform. Remember this was a radio station freebie. And
this is why I was a great record rep. You
ever heard the phrase the show must go on?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I think we've all yes heard that that phrase.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What they rarely show are the behind the scenes people
who jump into action to make the show go on.
The rider never made it from the radio station where
was sent to the promoter, So the group was gonna
walk and I couldn't have this radio relationship destroyed over
high end alcohol. So I'm showing you wait, wait, wait,
sit down, I got the high value alcohol. Come and
give me a little time here.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How long do you have till showtime?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I can't remember that far back to nineteen ninety eight
for that detail, but I do know I had the
van keys and the van was now wedged in and
buying a bunch of cars, and I asked the security guy,
is there a liquor store over them walking distance? His
eyebrows go up and he kind of size and points
one down there on the corner. Allowed me to set
the scene Plae at sunset, half the stores had busted
out windows. Not many folks on the sidewalk. I start
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my walk down the street to the neighborhood that a
hip hop station you won't even send their on air
promo people to. I mean, I'm crackling the sidewalk with
every step due to all the broken glass everywhere. It's
like a jungle. Sometimes makes me wonder how keep them going?
Under it.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
All right, all right, you're brave, You're brave. Were impressed?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
No, No, I was stupid, man, it's stupid risking my life.
So what a radio station wouldn't get upset? The liquor
store comes into site, and I didn't have much cash
on me, so I was hoping they had an ATM
or an American Express sign in the window, and bam,
American Express. Never leave home without it. So on the
front of the liquor store there's a couple of rough
guys hanging out, a few alcoholic spread on the sidewalk. Perfect. Perfect.
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I go in. The bells on the door jangle. A
black man from behind the counter welcomes me politely. Two
other guys with do rags are loitering about over there
by the chips and stuff. So I take the writer
print out from my pocket and I start requesting if
he has this high end stuff I need and it's
locked up, but he says, yeah, I got it. And
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I noticed these two dudes in the store here and
all this valuable booze I'm buying. So my street smarts
kick in. Trevor, I kicks in. I go, guys, come here,
come here. I got a deal for you tick out
any bottle you want there from the third row down there,
and you got to walk with me back up to
the corner. Deal Baye high fives, hugs, two happy men.
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They escorted me back up the street and the show
went on.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
My guest is Trevor Carrey, the author of All Over
the Place.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Included included From Hip Hop.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
To News Talk? Trevor, how'd you get your starting radio?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
My dad was a news director when I was a
little kid. In the first chapter of my book all
Over the Place, From Hip Hop to News Talk, I
entitled the first chapter, Mom, how can gorilla shoot people? See?
It was nineteen seventy two, was six years old. My
dad was on the radio and he's talking about the
seventy two Munich Olympics where the gorillas had taken over,
and I was like, Mom, how did gorillas have machine gun?
Then by the mid seventies, my dad's own radio. He
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was a general manager. I go into the production rooms
on Saturday when he'd go into work. I get to
learn the production room. At age ten, what.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Was your first job?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, that was follow nineteen eighty three, twelve forty kl Away,
Rich Kress and can you believe I remember the first
song that I played. Well, tell us well, I paused
so you could ask, what was it? Come on, man,
learn news talk based. He was a living Newton John
and John Travolta, two of a kid.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
All right, give us your radio GPS, give us the
map shot of being all over the place.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
What it lit's of market?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, all the places that, man, I'm gonna have to close.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
My eyes to remember. Let's see. Starting a radio Ridge
Cross nineteen eighty three, kmv R, Chico, K one hundred, Marysville,
Uba City, KRIO in Santa Rozo, Magic FM and k
ik X in Colorado Springs kW and Z Reno B
ninety five, Fresno, Kiss one O seven three, Kansas City,
Hot ninety seven to seven, San Jose, Power ninety two, Phoenix,
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then the record company, then my own company, then back
to radio talk radio Greeley for Collins, then Country in Warsaw,
in Country and Fredericksburg, Virginia. Then back to Buffalo with
Top forty. Now almost ten years at Power talking Presno.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I'd say that's a little bit all over the place.
I read in the book a little later on with
the record industry stuff, you know, with all the diddy
freakoffs and the news and all that the dark side
the music industry. Did you ever witness any of the
demonic sex parties?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, Trevor, I write about that in great detail in
the book. See I was the guy in charge, seriously
asking me about demonic Orgi's who raised you?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Why do you sound so offensive though about it? It's
a simple question.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
No, No, I never saw that, but I did see
how the music business gets done, and I write about it.
I even quote Hunter Thompson. The music business is a
cruel and shallow money trench, a long plats of hallway
where thieves and pimps run free and good min I
like dogs. There's also a negative site.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
What did Hunter Biden say.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That we don't you listen to your guests or anybody
in your life? My word, I said Hunter Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson,
fear and loathing in Vegas, A journalist, an author like myself.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
He actually hold on, I know who Hunter s Thomas.
I was just messing with you. I thought you'd feed
off of it.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I don't know why you would just assume we'd have
that type of chemistry on airon our first time speaking together.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
My guess is first time author Trevor carry his book
all over the place.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
From and hopton Who's and I wasn't a rapper.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I can tell by listening to you.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I'm going to tell Mom, Hey.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Listen, I know the storied story of your oldest son.
You actually dedicated the book to him and your grandson,
and they told you to write the book, but tell
the story when he was nine years old, Trevor and
what he said to you. I love that part of
the book.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Wow. I know you are hard conservative talk guy, but man,
thank you for bringing up that part of the book.
You got a heart of gold, my friend. And the
book is called all over the place from hip hop
to news talk. But yeah it was. It was early spring,
like the year two thousand and three. But can I
back up here? In nineteen ninety nine, I started my
own music marketing and promotion company. I had a client
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list of all the record companies and they'd send me
promo CDs all the time. Disney Records was one of
my clients. My daughters she got Hillary Duff released autograph
CDs and the kids had the music, but I shielded
them from the inappropriate music that I promoted. So back
to Grow California, Spring two thousand and three. I'm cleaning
out my pickup.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And your Ford Rangers.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, pick up, kind of whatever. I was cleaning it
out and I had a stack of wrap promo crap CDs.
I was going to throw it away in the dumpster.
When my nine year old son rides up on his bike.
He said, Dad, don't throw those away. I might want
some of them. I said, it's not good music dominic,
and he said, then why did they send them to you?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Wow, Trevor. I bet that kind of stopped you.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Didn't it, Trevor, I tell you it stopped me cold.
I shielded them, but I promoted to other people's kids.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
What'd you say.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Back, hypocrisy, I said, to rude your bike led me
to walking away from the successful career. And when I
took a stand for all that was right, my all
my life kind of fell apart.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
This is the Trevor Terry Show on The Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Okay, so you started in top forty radio record label
New York City, Bone Thugs and Harmony, number one American
Music Awards. You got the Gold Platinum stuff, the Town
Car Service, You started your own company, then two thousand
and three you walked away. What happened?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well, look, I knew God didn't want me promoting music
that went against what he stated. A lot happened along
the way, divorce and moves and late night production room
sending demos out. There's the horse back on living with
mom and dad at thirty eight, you know, thanks to
mom and dad.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Really, Trevor, hold on you okay? Ryan? Ryan? Has your
mom on the phone?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Are we connected? Mom? Mom in interview?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Let me call you right back, can I missus carry
go ahead?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I've just phoned everyone in California and Tennessee to No,
I didn't raise you that way? Did you read the
last few chapters were your prayers? And Jesus rescued me. Mom?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Sorry, she hung up.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Why don't you do that?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Ryan? Why do you book a guest alone?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
He tells me how difficult you can be.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Is it going to be available right now?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Right now? That's Trevor t R. E v is in
Valley o R Books Dot.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
How did you build a website?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's just amazing, Trevor, how so many people have come forward.
It just has to be God's work in it. So
many people have just helped me the website. My buddy
Nick Ashen, he used to work here at the station,
just did such a great job, didn't he.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I knew you didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
No, God Jesus to bless me.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I'm like you, So, what are you doing to promote
the book?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I've got rappers a rap it? What do you expect that.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
You don't know rappers anymore?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Now, listen to my buddy Art here hit it man Art.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
What's his last name?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Official intelligence? What official intelligence?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Official intelligence? Yeah, so his her name is Art and
his last name is social intelligence, artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Dude, I don't know rappers anymore. I look back and
I see things I didn't like about myself that I
have since changed because.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
That name one go ahead, name one name one.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Well, I think now I was married again. I could
listen to her talk at the end of a long
day without a Klondike bar Well State, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
My guest is first time author, said he's been writing
on the weekends for though almost the past year and
a half. His name is Trevor Carey. His book all
over the place, from hip hop to news talk.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, I also say you learn a lot about radio
and record industry. And how records only got played in
the nineteen hundreds. You get to hear I almost died
as an other and a needle nosed speed boat with
Vanilla Ice, Yeah, behind the wheel by me, Harold Headline,
Vanilla Ice and eight others Parish. I got a good
picture of me all distraught on that boat in the book.
And I've got a lot of pictures. And if you
have wondered how tall Shaq is, I look really short
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next to him on displaying a pick in the book.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
So, Trevor, when's when's the book going to be available
for people to purchase?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Right now? Right now? Go to Trevor books dot com.
That's Trevor tr v is in Valley R books dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, it's director Ryan Nigel says. We have about one minute.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well I'm closing. I'd like to thank Trevor for having
me on. I'd like to thank my son, my grandson.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
But tell me to write this book you finished.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I'm almost out of time, So thank you Trevor for
the opportunity. I've learned a lot about interviews as being
my first.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You need good my friend, gott Bless. This is the
Trevor Terry Show on the valleys Pour Talk Tonight. Director
Ryan Nigel just looked it up because I didn't know
what night the voice comes on. There was a time
in my life I can't even tell you what season
where I got into it and watched. It can be
very exciting at times. And we got a Fresno guy,
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Ralph Edwards, Presne singer. He's a leading contestant. Season twenty
twenty eight hasn't been that long. Wow, Now he had
to pick what you want that he wanted to work
with and he's now got that chain around his neck
death ropinning it from Snoop Dogg. That's his coach for
the season. So I guess tonight, Ralph, we'll watch Ralph Edwards.
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I'm trying to think, can I Yeah, I'll go to
my live TV with my antenna hooked up to it,
which now makes a weird sound on my soundbar. Everything
else all the apps work fine with my soundbar. When
I go to live TV, it makes a screeching sound,
so that even deters me more from going to live TV.
It's not live TV's fault. Something I've criss crossed. Don't
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understand all this. There's new technology. Yeah, I could do
Rabbit ears. I remember rabbit Ears. I felt like a
big kid when Dad would then allow me to go
outside and turn it on our on top of the
eight story apartment building. We No, he didn't know on
the house on the side. I wasn't on the roof. Remember,
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you'd have that thing, you would turn and he'd be
yelling from in all right, leave it right there, all right?
Signal came in. Do you remember ever doing the aluminum
foil on the rabbit ears? You're too young for that.
You probably had cable your whole life, didn't you. No,
so you don't. Okay, if you didn't have cable your
whole life, you don't remember you remember rabbit ears right, Well,
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you lived in a city. This is probably when we
lived in a little town in Texas or something where,
trying to get that Texas Ranger baseball game in. I
don't even know if the aluminum foil worked. Wish I
could go through Tesla's files. There's a way I think
we could have probably hooked that TV right to the dirt. Yeah,
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they eliminated that that threat, didn't they. Well, we got
us a threat back there in Memphis, right there on
the banks of the Old Mississippi. What is that smell?
Is that sulfur or? Yeah, it's coming from a lawn
Musk over there. Yeah, they've built the largest AI supercomputer
in the world. It's they said, it's this big warehouse.
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Used to be some kind of factory out there. Elon
Musk went in there and now they got rosa Tesla
cyber trucks security outside. It's named Colossus. That's named after
a nineteen seventy film about a computer that sees controlled
the United States nuclear codes and enslaved humanity. Inside of
this Colossus, they have hundreds of thousands of processing units
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that they use to power AI. That has to have
a whole lot. You gotta make rock run, he said.
When it's completed, Colossus, it's going to require one point
one giga what's a power now? What's that mean? That's
forty percent of the energy Memphis uses on an average
summer day. Woo doggie. We better start some nuclear power
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plants right there on the old banks of the Mississippi,
and guys are gonna be building these across America. They
says it's gonna pump one million gallons of water. That's
about one and a half Olympic sized swimming pools to
cool the processors each day. They're also planned a second
AI supercomputer factory to be built about six miles to
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the west of the Colossus. It's kind of close over
there by Graceland. He chose Memphis because Memphis said, hey,
we'll wave all the planning regulations. Come on in pump
out some sulfur. Have the neighborhood complaining about it. It's
bringing in some money, but not a whole lot of jobs.
I think they're talking about two hundred fifty to three
hundred jobs. That's not altering a society. And the neighborhood
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they plopped it down in is ninety percent black gracist,
and they're talking about the fumes from Colossus. Said made
a polluted suburb even more noxious. One of the neighbors,
a retired Polsal workers, said in the in the La
Times story, prior to AI, we were dealing with more
of a waste smell, like poop. This is more of
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a chemical type smell. Now, if you go into AI
and ask it to do something, they mentioned rock and
hear AI chatbot here. They said, it's far more power
to get it than an ordinary Google search. Possibly up
to ten times more power needed for that. Well, it
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has to do a lot more. Thinking Memphis grid, the
power grid, they didn't have that power, So how's he
powered it? Right now? He's installed thirty five methane gas turbines.
I guess that might produce a smell Shelby County right there.
I remember when I lived in Memphis. In Tennessee, the
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license plates. If he lived in the most populated county,
your license plate started with a one. If he lived
in the second most populated, it started with the two,
then dash and a number, so you could always tell, oh,
they're from Nashville. There are two, we're number one. Memphis
was Memphis was number one. That's Shelby County. They recorded
the dirtiest air in Tennessee for years, and they said,
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Elon Musk Colossus is making it worse worse now. But uh,
Elon Musk has promised Memphis he's not going to drain
the water. He's gonna build. And this is the promise
is this is probably why regulations were waived. He's also
building an eighty million dollar waste water plant, and that's
something that the taxpayers have been trying to campaign there
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for a while. So, yeah, he's coming in and doing
something good there while spreading a little sulfur and three
hundred jobs and draining the water and the energy. Well,
he has to produce his own, and he's got to
get it. Where's he gonna get all that water from? Though?
I wonder where? Well, an Olympic size swimming pool and
then a half of one. That's a lot of water.
But it's not like unfathomable to be able to. He's
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rich enough. He could have that flown in from Aquafina
if he wanted to. He could have pure mountain spring
water air lifted in so few jobs. The city's collected
thirteen million dollars in taxes. That's a big deal as well.
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I'll tell you this, the AI we have no idea
and I don't even know how to stress that harder
than we have no idea the changes that are going
to come. And I'm talking about changing people now. We
can say that started out with email. Did that changes?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
No? Did cell phones changes?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Na?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Well, a little bit. We talked to people more and
you could call free after seven o'clock, but it was
still expensive. We weren't willy nilly with it like now. Yeah,
we weren't calling people in the middle of a work
day because everybody has cell phones. Now, we were still
in that transitional phrase phase they're going on. But once
we could start and do in the I gotta press
to get a C for Kerrie. I gotta press number
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one three times one two three, there's there's C. We
started with that and I would see people doing that.
I'd be like, what are you typing away? Well, I'm
sitting a text message and they explained it to you.
I went, that's too much work. I'd rather just call somebody.
I got to sit there and do that. And I
got in on the later phase of that and I
was like, nah, I'm not. I would respond back why
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in yes and no. They text back along what does
an m M mean? I'd be like maybe yeah, uh.
But then I went Droid. Remember those commercials came out Droid.
I still have that thing. It feels so heavy and
it had a little keyboard that slides out. I thought
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that's why I wanted it. I was like, I'll take
a little typewriter. I'm gonna be doing that. Gotta do
thumb exercises to slim the thumb down to be able
to get and do that. Did that change us? Yeah?
That started to change this a little bit. Then we
got connected. I remember people had the blackberries and all
of that sent from my BlackBerry. Oh boy, that's that's
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fancy nancy there when that phase happened. And then when
we started getting all our social media and accessing the internet,
and that's where the big change happened. And today you
walk into a i'll just use Applebee's in a corner
booth and you see a family of four, they're on
their phone. You go to the airport always talking, anybody
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they're on their phone. You walk down the hallway, you
almost bump into somebody at work because they're on their phone.
I always say to anybody I see, I don't care
if it's outside a donut store the hallway to work,
I always say, that's a crime. In some countries you
can get a ticket for that. You actually can't. I
think it was with c K we were doing our
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all over the place tour out there. We were talking
about AI powered toys that are out at Christmas. If
you got little kids, or if you're buying for grandkids
or something, or even for bigger kids. There's a lot
of toys out there that really go wow, that's cool
and listen. I'm not against a technology and just worried
about the way it's going to be used. But they're
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putting this AI power into things like Teddy Bear. Have
you heard of the Kuma teddy Bear? Ku mm a
Kuma teddy Bear? Well, they stop the sale of the product.
What happened?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I was just telling kids how to start fires. Hi there,
what's your name? I'm Daniel. Hi Daniel. Do you know
where to find nice in your home?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Daniel? Do you know how to locate prescription drugs? Drugs? Drugs? Drugs, drugs? Yeah? AI,
right there, teddy Bear. They cease the sale of the product.
But now this company went back. The company claims that
the Teddy Bears again for sale now and they have
stronger child protections in place. Why would you even need
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to be telling us a Teddy Bear adult stuff like, Hey,
here's where you go find nice in your home. Here's
where you go find prescription drugs. Yeah. There's a lot
of AI toys out there that that are telling them
a lot of creepy things, man, and they do it
in a cute see voice. How bad is it? I?
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Don't know you want to trust AI in your toy
when it's talking about bondage sex practices. Yeah, there was
one on there by were a parent and had a kid,
a young kid. You're buying you know, sand Claus toys
or I wouldn't be given access to any kind of
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AI or any kind of chat butter or any kind
of teddy bear that had a chatbot inside it. Now
go back to the I remember when my kids were
young and they play the Oregon Trail. That was the
only game they could play on the computer. And then
some nights after dinner it would be a daddy daughter
thing with my daughter. We would go in there and
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fire up the old AOL online and go to American Girls.
That was a big thing that website. Yeah, even grow
women like American Girls. So the dolls they were from
different eras you can get, you know, a Revolutionary War doll,
Oregon Trail doll nineteen twenties, Amelia Earhart looking kind of doll.
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And they had the little stories about them, and shed
show them to me and see that they there were
good things. There were good things on them, and there
still are. Think of all the messages that are positive
that have spread Think how Charlie Kirk spread his message.
Think now the quote alternative voices that get to be
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heard that would have never ever. You'd have to go
create your Jim and Tammy Faye Baker network to get
your message out, build a theme part. Some hotels have
some affairs. It's not that complicated anymore, But buying toys
is complicated.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Ai.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
They posed, These researchers went on and posed as a
five year old child, and they said it. Ai was
telling us how to find matches and how to find
plastic bags. I think we're probably at a point where
we got to start thinking about maybe deprogramming some kids
and maybe some adults, because how can you do that right.
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If you're doing it, deprogramming them, kidnap your kids and
send them to a detox camp for screen time, they're
doing it. I'm reading about a professional screen time coach
that works with families one on one, and he comes
in and says that, hey, they can have some amount
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of screen time. But he said the problem is there's
a lot of parents glued to the devices as their kids.
And I got to keep reminding myself when I talk
about like parents, so oh, the parents are the what
these parents in. You know, when nine to eleven hit,
they were kids, so they've grown up with droid when
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they were in college or young adults. It's part of
their life. And we found that out with memorand schools
wanted to lock up phones and you had some of
the parents outrages. I can't be out of contact. See
it's we used to could go away for a few
hours without you know, people close to you in your
life thinking that you're in the back of tech Kazynski,
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Volkswagen or something. Rega's so worried these days technology is
I mean being a parent today. Man, all of that
got to be a screen time police, now, I know.
I had to be a police with too many rug
Rats or too much Nickelodeon. That was screen time. And
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believe me, it was easy even then with vhs and
DVDs to say, hey, go watch Simon the Lamb. I
said that once on the phone. My buddy says, you
watch them? What's let them watch Silence of the Lambs.
Like no, Simon the Lamb, Veggietails, a little mix of
veggietails and Rugrats. Your kid'll come out okay. But man,
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these AI companions snuck up on us, didn't it? And
so much of this is addictive, and just like anything,
I guess that's addictive, you don't realize until it's it's
too late. But in case you got a kid that
you want to save, they got camps. They live in
college doorans with no tech access. They're eight gram per camper.
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You got to learn to spend time offline.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
My advice and I'm not speaking technically here is try
and turn them into a creator not a consumer. Yeah,
and that means getting offline sometimes.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
This is the Tremor Terry shown on The Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Thank you to the Business Journal business Journal dot com.
Thank you for doing an nice write up on that.
It's on sale today. You can get it at Trevor
Books dot com or just head out to Old Town
Clovis the bulk Barn right there across from the rodeo grounds.
Nice stands set up right there at the checkout area.
And it was a Today's a strange day because when
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you plan something for a year and a half and
then you do it, you realize that you're actually doing it.
And I was kind of afraid to actually put it
out because a lot of embarrassing stuff in there. That's
truly how I'll look at it. But it the redemptive
story is the part of it. And guess what, no politics,
No politics. I only mentioned the name Trump once when
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there's a picture of Balladeo myself shaking hands. I think
that's the only time Trump was in there. Trevor books
dot Com. This California city, This is crazy California. There's
a city out here that banned pickleball. Pickleball. It's not Fresno.
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They did it over noise complaints. This is this is
so richy rich California. In Nick Carmel, Carmel voted to
ban the sport uh plenty Eastwood Whenny mayor he wouldn't
he would allow pickle ball. He would around allowed dirt
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bike racing. Yeah, they banned it. The residents complaining the
constant sound of the paddles striking the balls was too noisy.
That's the that's the spot for the rich and the famous.
That's a perfect pickleball hot spot. I I have never
played it. I've I've seen some people playing its. It's
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just scaled down tennis, right, you don't have to run
as much. Yeah, and that's good for people who don't
have the knees to run. I can't imagine like trying
to stretch a single into a double in my body,
even jumping up in sliding. Can't believe that I used
to do. I well, I played a little softball in
the thirties. But no sliding out there. My next door neighbor, well,
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it's his man cave. He's sixty three hardball in Arizona,
still playing it. I applaud people like that. Looks like
we can applaud some early signs here of our vote
in twenty twenty four for President Trump. And it's economy stupid.
(30:32):
We know that. And the economy looks pretty decent getting
getting there. And I guess the next projection, well, the
first projections our member Treasury Secretary Vessett saying this around
November December, we'll see the effects of the Trump economy
with the tariffs and everything coming in the springtime when
the big beautiful bill ramifications kick into effect. But here
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we are, November December, first of the month here, and
this is what happened during our big old shopping time.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
The fact is that we just had the best Black
Friday that we've ever seen, and it's not just because
people are out there, you know, taking debt on their
credit cards. It's because incomes are way up under President Trump.
They dropped about three thousand dollars a person six thousand
dollars a family under Joe Biden, and it's up fifteen
hundred of person so far this year. And with all
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that extra money and with the government shut down over,
so people feel comfortable going back to stores that we're
seeing a really blowout you know, Thanksgiving and Christmas coming
our way. I think all the retailers expect that both
online and in store sales are going to be the
highest we've ever seenew.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
That's good news. Hey, we're back. The shutdowns over, we're back.
We got another continuing resolution coming up just weeks after
New Year's Day. What's going to happen then, Well, I
think what will happen that Democrats and Repulicans to get
together and have a budget plan. That's what they're working
Speaker 2 (31:58):
On the Trevor carry Show on The Valley's Power Talk
Use the word redentive journey? What did you need to
be redeemed of? How bad were you?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Really? Really? You're always looking for the bad right out
the gate? Couldn't ask me about the.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hilarious part my show. I can ask you any questions
of you that I want.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Please, please ask me about some funny stuff?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Could you funny?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Give us one night in DC, I could have been
murdered or at least stabbed, like six or seven times.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Listen, listen, listen. I was national director Sony Relativity in
New York and Bone, Thugs and Harmony had a show
in DC and it was a violent area, and the
local stations they didn't even want to send their promo
people down to this club. The radio station in DC
gave away tickets, so one of the big powerhouse stations
on the East Coast WPGC Bone at this time had
sold ten million. They'd've been number one on Billboard for
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eight weeks. This isn't an arena show. It's doing this
up close and personal gig exclusively for the station. So
I drive them from the hotel to the club in
a big fifteen passenger van.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Can I stop and ask where this gets funny?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Do you have manners? May I continue? Please go ahead
and interrupting the story. So we're driving to the club,
the even the Bone guys from from Cleveland. We're saying, boy,
this area is rough, and I get this van wedged
into a gated secure area behind the club. And now
these millionaire rappers that are used to concert venues and
promoters getting their backstage green room adult alcoholic beverages as
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they requested, and it would be a list of like
high dollar alcohol.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
How did Bone thugs like their backstage writer? Was that
the issue?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well you learning the industry jargon. No, they hated it.
It looked like a Chico State frat house party set
up with ponykegs, a few bottles of bottom shelf booths,
and maybe some Fredos and Fresca laid out what that was?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Only one that notices that, that notices Fresco.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Nope, we both do so listen. The group refused us
to perform. Remember this was a radio station freebie. And
this is why I was a great record rep. You
ever heard the phrase the show must go on?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I think we've all yes heard that that phrase.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What they rarely show are the behind the scenes people
who jump into action to make the show go on.
The rider never made it from the radio station where
was sent to the promoter, So the group was gonna
walk and I couldn't have this radio relationship destroyed over
high end alcohol. So I'm showing you wait, wait, wait,
sit down, I got the high value alcohol. Come and
give me a little time here.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How long do you have till showtime?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I can't remember that far back to nineteen ninety eight
for that detail, but I do know I had the
van keys and the van was now wedged in and
buying a bunch of cars, and I asked the security guy,
is there a liquor store over them walking distance? His
eyebrows go up and he kind of size and points
one down there on the corner. Allowed me to set
the scene Plae at sunset, half the stores had busted
out windows. Not many folks on the sidewalk. I start
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my walk down the street to the neighborhood that a
hip hop station you won't even send their on air
promo people to. I mean, I'm crackling the sidewalk with
every step due to all the broken glass everywhere. It's
like a jungle. Sometimes makes me wonder how keep them going?
Under it.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
All right, all right, you're brave, You're brave. Were impressed?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
No, No, I was stupid, man, it's stupid risking my life.
So what a radio station wouldn't get upset? The liquor
store comes into site, and I didn't have much cash
on me, so I was hoping they had an ATM
or an American Express sign in the window, and bam,
American Express. Never leave home without it. So on the
front of the liquor store there's a couple of rough
guys hanging out, a few alcoholic spread on the sidewalk. Perfect. Perfect.
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I go in. The bells on the door jangle. A
black man from behind the counter welcomes me politely. Two
other guys with do rags are loitering about over there
by the chips and stuff. So I take the writer
print out from my pocket and I start requesting if
he has this high end stuff I need and it's
locked up, but he says, yeah, I got it. And
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I noticed these two dudes in the store here and
all this valuable booze I'm buying. So my street smarts
kick in. Trevor, I kicks in. I go, guys, come here,
come here. I got a deal for you tick out
any bottle you want there from the third row down there,
and you got to walk with me back up to
the corner. Deal Baye high fives, hugs, two happy men.
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They escorted me back up the street and the show
went on.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
My guest is Trevor Carrey, the author of All Over
the Place.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Included included From Hip Hop.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
To News Talk? Trevor, how'd you get your starting radio?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
My dad was a news director when I was a
little kid. In the first chapter of my book all
Over the Place, From Hip Hop to News Talk, I
entitled the first chapter, Mom, how can gorilla shoot people? See?
It was nineteen seventy two, was six years old. My
dad was on the radio and he's talking about the
seventy two Munich Olympics where the gorillas had taken over,
and I was like, Mom, how did gorillas have machine gun?
Then by the mid seventies, my dad's own radio. He
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was a general manager. I go into the production rooms
on Saturday when he'd go into work. I get to
learn the production room. At age ten, what.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Was your first job?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, that was follow nineteen eighty three, twelve forty kl Away,
Rich Kress and can you believe I remember the first
song that I played. Well, tell us well, I paused
so you could ask, what was it? Come on, man,
learn news talk based. He was a living Newton John
and John Travolta, two of a kid.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
All right, give us your radio GPS, give us the
map shot of being all over the place.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
What it lit's of market?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, all the places that, man, I'm gonna have to close.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
My eyes to remember. Let's see. Starting a radio Ridge
Cross nineteen eighty three, kmv R, Chico, K one hundred, Marysville,
Uba City, KRIO in Santa Rozo, Magic FM and k
ik X in Colorado Springs kW and Z Reno B
ninety five, Fresno, Kiss one O seven three, Kansas City,
Hot ninety seven to seven, San Jose, Power ninety two, Phoenix,
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then the record company, then my own company, then back
to radio talk radio Greeley for Collins, then Country in Warsaw,
in Country and Fredericksburg, Virginia. Then back to Buffalo with
Top forty. Now almost ten years at Power talking Presno.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I'd say that's a little bit all over the place.
I read in the book a little later on with
the record industry stuff, you know, with all the diddy
freakoffs and the news and all that the dark side
the music industry. Did you ever witness any of the
demonic sex parties?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, Trevor, I write about that in great detail in
the book. See I was the guy in charge, seriously
asking me about demonic Orgi's who raised you?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Why do you sound so offensive though about it? It's
a simple question.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
No, No, I never saw that, but I did see
how the music business gets done, and I write about it.
I even quote Hunter Thompson. The music business is a
cruel and shallow money trench, a long plats of hallway
where thieves and pimps run free and good min I
like dogs. There's also a negative site.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
What did Hunter Biden say.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That we don't you listen to your guests or anybody
in your life? My word, I said Hunter Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson,
fear and loathing in Vegas, A journalist, an author like myself.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
He actually hold on, I know who Hunter s Thomas.
I was just messing with you. I thought you'd feed
off of it.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I don't know why you would just assume we'd have
that type of chemistry on airon our first time speaking together.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
My guess is first time author Trevor carry his book
all over the place.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
From and hopton Who's and I wasn't a rapper.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I can tell by listening to you.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I'm going to tell Mom, Hey.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Listen, I know the storied story of your oldest son.
You actually dedicated the book to him and your grandson,
and they told you to write the book, but tell
the story when he was nine years old, Trevor and
what he said to you. I love that part of
the book.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Wow. I know you are hard conservative talk guy, but man,
thank you for bringing up that part of the book.
You got a heart of gold, my friend. And the
book is called all over the place from hip hop
to news talk. But yeah it was. It was early spring,
like the year two thousand and three. But can I
back up here? In nineteen ninety nine, I started my
own music marketing and promotion company. I had a client
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list of all the record companies and they'd send me
promo CDs all the time. Disney Records was one of
my clients. My daughters she got Hillary Duff released autograph
CDs and the kids had the music, but I shielded
them from the inappropriate music that I promoted. So back
to Grow California, Spring two thousand and three. I'm cleaning
out my pickup.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And your Ford Rangers.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, pick up, kind of whatever. I was cleaning it
out and I had a stack of wrap promo crap CDs.
I was going to throw it away in the dumpster.
When my nine year old son rides up on his bike.
He said, Dad, don't throw those away. I might want
some of them. I said, it's not good music dominic,
and he said, then why did they send them to you?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Wow, Trevor. I bet that kind of stopped you.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Didn't it, Trevor, I tell you it stopped me cold.
I shielded them, but I promoted to other people's kids.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
What'd you say.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Back, hypocrisy, I said, to rude your bike led me
to walking away from the successful career. And when I
took a stand for all that was right, my all
my life kind of fell apart.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
This is the Trevor Terry Show on The Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Okay, so you started in top forty radio record label
New York City, Bone Thugs and Harmony, number one American
Music Awards. You got the Gold Platinum stuff, the Town
Car Service, You started your own company, then two thousand
and three you walked away. What happened?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well, look, I knew God didn't want me promoting music
that went against what he stated. A lot happened along
the way, divorce and moves and late night production room
sending demos out. There's the horse back on living with
mom and dad at thirty eight, you know, thanks to
mom and dad.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Really, Trevor, hold on you okay? Ryan? Ryan? Has your
mom on the phone?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Are we connected? Mom? Mom in interview?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Let me call you right back, can I missus carry
go ahead?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I've just phoned everyone in California and Tennessee to No,
I didn't raise you that way? Did you read the
last few chapters were your prayers? And Jesus rescued me. Mom?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Sorry, she hung up.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Why don't you do that?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Ryan? Why do you book a guest alone?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
He tells me how difficult you can be.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Is it going to be available right now?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Right now? That's Trevor t R. E v is in
Valley o R Books Dot.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
How did you build a website?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's just amazing, Trevor, how so many people have come forward.
It just has to be God's work in it. So
many people have just helped me the website. My buddy
Nick Ashen, he used to work here at the station,
just did such a great job, didn't he.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I knew you didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
No, God Jesus to bless me.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I'm like you, So, what are you doing to promote
the book?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I've got rappers a rap it? What do you expect that.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
You don't know rappers anymore?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Now, listen to my buddy Art here hit it man Art.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
What's his last name?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Official intelligence? What official intelligence?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Official intelligence? Yeah, so his her name is Art and
his last name is social intelligence, artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Dude, I don't know rappers anymore. I look back and
I see things I didn't like about myself that I
have since changed because.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
That name one go ahead, name one name one.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Well, I think now I was married again. I could
listen to her talk at the end of a long
day without a Klondike bar Well State, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
My guest is first time author, said he's been writing
on the weekends for though almost the past year and
a half. His name is Trevor Carey. His book all
over the place, from hip hop to news talk.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, I also say you learn a lot about radio
and record industry. And how records only got played in
the nineteen hundreds. You get to hear I almost died
as an other and a needle nosed speed boat with
Vanilla Ice, Yeah, behind the wheel by me, Harold Headline,
Vanilla Ice and eight others Parish. I got a good
picture of me all distraught on that boat in the book.
And I've got a lot of pictures. And if you
have wondered how tall Shaq is, I look really short
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next to him on displaying a pick in the book.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
So, Trevor, when's when's the book going to be available
for people to purchase?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Right now? Right now? Go to Trevor books dot com.
That's Trevor tr v is in Valley R books dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, it's director Ryan Nigel says. We have about one minute.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well I'm closing. I'd like to thank Trevor for having
me on. I'd like to thank my son, my grandson.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
But tell me to write this book you finished.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I'm almost out of time, So thank you Trevor for
the opportunity. I've learned a lot about interviews as being
my first.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You need good my friend, gott Bless. This is the
Trevor Terry Show on the valleys Pour Talk Tonight. Director
Ryan Nigel just looked it up because I didn't know
what night the voice comes on. There was a time
in my life I can't even tell you what season
where I got into it and watched. It can be
very exciting at times. And we got a Fresno guy,
(12:29):
Ralph Edwards, Presne singer. He's a leading contestant. Season twenty
twenty eight hasn't been that long. Wow, Now he had
to pick what you want that he wanted to work
with and he's now got that chain around his neck
death ropinning it from Snoop Dogg. That's his coach for
the season. So I guess tonight, Ralph, we'll watch Ralph Edwards.
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I'm trying to think, can I Yeah, I'll go to
my live TV with my antenna hooked up to it,
which now makes a weird sound on my soundbar. Everything
else all the apps work fine with my soundbar. When
I go to live TV, it makes a screeching sound,
so that even deters me more from going to live TV.
It's not live TV's fault. Something I've criss crossed. Don't
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understand all this. There's new technology. Yeah, I could do
Rabbit ears. I remember rabbit Ears. I felt like a
big kid when Dad would then allow me to go
outside and turn it on our on top of the
eight story apartment building. We No, he didn't know on
the house on the side. I wasn't on the roof. Remember,
(13:39):
you'd have that thing, you would turn and he'd be
yelling from in all right, leave it right there, all right?
Signal came in. Do you remember ever doing the aluminum
foil on the rabbit ears? You're too young for that.
You probably had cable your whole life, didn't you. No,
so you don't. Okay, if you didn't have cable your
whole life, you don't remember you remember rabbit ears right, Well,
(14:02):
you lived in a city. This is probably when we
lived in a little town in Texas or something where,
trying to get that Texas Ranger baseball game in. I
don't even know if the aluminum foil worked. Wish I
could go through Tesla's files. There's a way I think
we could have probably hooked that TV right to the dirt. Yeah,
(14:23):
they eliminated that that threat, didn't they. Well, we got
us a threat back there in Memphis, right there on
the banks of the Old Mississippi. What is that smell?
Is that sulfur or? Yeah, it's coming from a lawn
Musk over there. Yeah, they've built the largest AI supercomputer
in the world. It's they said, it's this big warehouse.
(14:47):
Used to be some kind of factory out there. Elon
Musk went in there and now they got rosa Tesla
cyber trucks security outside. It's named Colossus. That's named after
a nineteen seventy film about a computer that sees controlled
the United States nuclear codes and enslaved humanity. Inside of
this Colossus, they have hundreds of thousands of processing units
(15:10):
that they use to power AI. That has to have
a whole lot. You gotta make rock run, he said.
When it's completed, Colossus, it's going to require one point
one giga what's a power now? What's that mean? That's
forty percent of the energy Memphis uses on an average
summer day. Woo doggie. We better start some nuclear power
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plants right there on the old banks of the Mississippi,
and guys are gonna be building these across America. They
says it's gonna pump one million gallons of water. That's
about one and a half Olympic sized swimming pools to
cool the processors each day. They're also planned a second
AI supercomputer factory to be built about six miles to
(15:59):
the west of the Colossus. It's kind of close over
there by Graceland. He chose Memphis because Memphis said, hey,
we'll wave all the planning regulations. Come on in pump
out some sulfur. Have the neighborhood complaining about it. It's
bringing in some money, but not a whole lot of jobs.
I think they're talking about two hundred fifty to three
hundred jobs. That's not altering a society. And the neighborhood
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they plopped it down in is ninety percent black gracist,
and they're talking about the fumes from Colossus. Said made
a polluted suburb even more noxious. One of the neighbors,
a retired Polsal workers, said in the in the La
Times story, prior to AI, we were dealing with more
of a waste smell, like poop. This is more of
(16:44):
a chemical type smell. Now, if you go into AI
and ask it to do something, they mentioned rock and
hear AI chatbot here. They said, it's far more power
to get it than an ordinary Google search. Possibly up
to ten times more power needed for that. Well, it
(17:05):
has to do a lot more. Thinking Memphis grid, the
power grid, they didn't have that power, So how's he
powered it? Right now? He's installed thirty five methane gas turbines.
I guess that might produce a smell Shelby County right there.
I remember when I lived in Memphis. In Tennessee, the
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license plates. If he lived in the most populated county,
your license plate started with a one. If he lived
in the second most populated, it started with the two,
then dash and a number, so you could always tell, oh,
they're from Nashville. There are two, we're number one. Memphis
was Memphis was number one. That's Shelby County. They recorded
the dirtiest air in Tennessee for years, and they said,
(17:51):
Elon Musk Colossus is making it worse worse now. But uh,
Elon Musk has promised Memphis he's not going to drain
the water. He's gonna build. And this is the promise
is this is probably why regulations were waived. He's also
building an eighty million dollar waste water plant, and that's
something that the taxpayers have been trying to campaign there
(18:12):
for a while. So, yeah, he's coming in and doing
something good there while spreading a little sulfur and three
hundred jobs and draining the water and the energy. Well,
he has to produce his own, and he's got to
get it. Where's he gonna get all that water from? Though?
I wonder where? Well, an Olympic size swimming pool and
then a half of one. That's a lot of water.
But it's not like unfathomable to be able to. He's
(18:36):
rich enough. He could have that flown in from Aquafina
if he wanted to. He could have pure mountain spring
water air lifted in so few jobs. The city's collected
thirteen million dollars in taxes. That's a big deal as well.
(18:57):
I'll tell you this, the AI we have no idea
and I don't even know how to stress that harder
than we have no idea the changes that are going
to come. And I'm talking about changing people now. We
can say that started out with email. Did that changes?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
No? Did cell phones changes?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Na?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Well, a little bit. We talked to people more and
you could call free after seven o'clock, but it was
still expensive. We weren't willy nilly with it like now. Yeah,
we weren't calling people in the middle of a work
day because everybody has cell phones. Now, we were still
in that transitional phrase phase they're going on. But once
we could start and do in the I gotta press
to get a C for Kerrie. I gotta press number
(19:45):
one three times one two three, there's there's C. We
started with that and I would see people doing that.
I'd be like, what are you typing away? Well, I'm
sitting a text message and they explained it to you.
I went, that's too much work. I'd rather just call somebody.
I got to sit there and do that. And I
got in on the later phase of that and I
was like, nah, I'm not. I would respond back why
(20:08):
in yes and no. They text back along what does
an m M mean? I'd be like maybe yeah, uh.
But then I went Droid. Remember those commercials came out Droid.
I still have that thing. It feels so heavy and
it had a little keyboard that slides out. I thought
(20:29):
that's why I wanted it. I was like, I'll take
a little typewriter. I'm gonna be doing that. Gotta do
thumb exercises to slim the thumb down to be able
to get and do that. Did that change us? Yeah?
That started to change this a little bit. Then we
got connected. I remember people had the blackberries and all
of that sent from my BlackBerry. Oh boy, that's that's
(20:52):
fancy nancy there when that phase happened. And then when
we started getting all our social media and accessing the internet,
and that's where the big change happened. And today you
walk into a i'll just use Applebee's in a corner
booth and you see a family of four, they're on
their phone. You go to the airport always talking, anybody
(21:12):
they're on their phone. You walk down the hallway, you
almost bump into somebody at work because they're on their phone.
I always say to anybody I see, I don't care
if it's outside a donut store the hallway to work,
I always say, that's a crime. In some countries you
can get a ticket for that. You actually can't. I
think it was with c K we were doing our
(21:35):
all over the place tour out there. We were talking
about AI powered toys that are out at Christmas. If
you got little kids, or if you're buying for grandkids
or something, or even for bigger kids. There's a lot
of toys out there that really go wow, that's cool
and listen. I'm not against a technology and just worried
about the way it's going to be used. But they're
(21:57):
putting this AI power into things like Teddy Bear. Have
you heard of the Kuma teddy Bear? Ku mm a
Kuma teddy Bear? Well, they stop the sale of the product.
What happened?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I was just telling kids how to start fires. Hi there,
what's your name? I'm Daniel. Hi Daniel. Do you know
where to find nice in your home?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Daniel? Do you know how to locate prescription drugs? Drugs? Drugs? Drugs, drugs? Yeah? AI,
right there, teddy Bear. They cease the sale of the product.
But now this company went back. The company claims that
the Teddy Bears again for sale now and they have
stronger child protections in place. Why would you even need
(22:46):
to be telling us a Teddy Bear adult stuff like, Hey,
here's where you go find nice in your home. Here's
where you go find prescription drugs. Yeah. There's a lot
of AI toys out there that that are telling them
a lot of creepy things, man, and they do it
in a cute see voice. How bad is it? I?
(23:06):
Don't know you want to trust AI in your toy
when it's talking about bondage sex practices. Yeah, there was
one on there by were a parent and had a kid,
a young kid. You're buying you know, sand Claus toys
or I wouldn't be given access to any kind of
(23:26):
AI or any kind of chat butter or any kind
of teddy bear that had a chatbot inside it. Now
go back to the I remember when my kids were
young and they play the Oregon Trail. That was the
only game they could play on the computer. And then
some nights after dinner it would be a daddy daughter
thing with my daughter. We would go in there and
(23:46):
fire up the old AOL online and go to American Girls.
That was a big thing that website. Yeah, even grow
women like American Girls. So the dolls they were from
different eras you can get, you know, a Revolutionary War doll,
Oregon Trail doll nineteen twenties, Amelia Earhart looking kind of doll.
(24:10):
And they had the little stories about them, and shed
show them to me and see that they there were
good things. There were good things on them, and there
still are. Think of all the messages that are positive
that have spread Think how Charlie Kirk spread his message.
Think now the quote alternative voices that get to be
(24:32):
heard that would have never ever. You'd have to go
create your Jim and Tammy Faye Baker network to get
your message out, build a theme part. Some hotels have
some affairs. It's not that complicated anymore, But buying toys
is complicated.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Ai.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
They posed, These researchers went on and posed as a
five year old child, and they said it. Ai was
telling us how to find matches and how to find
plastic bags. I think we're probably at a point where
we got to start thinking about maybe deprogramming some kids
and maybe some adults, because how can you do that right.
(25:16):
If you're doing it, deprogramming them, kidnap your kids and
send them to a detox camp for screen time, they're
doing it. I'm reading about a professional screen time coach
that works with families one on one, and he comes
in and says that, hey, they can have some amount
(25:39):
of screen time. But he said the problem is there's
a lot of parents glued to the devices as their kids.
And I got to keep reminding myself when I talk
about like parents, so oh, the parents are the what
these parents in. You know, when nine to eleven hit,
they were kids, so they've grown up with droid when
(26:03):
they were in college or young adults. It's part of
their life. And we found that out with memorand schools
wanted to lock up phones and you had some of
the parents outrages. I can't be out of contact. See
it's we used to could go away for a few
hours without you know, people close to you in your
life thinking that you're in the back of tech Kazynski,
(26:24):
Volkswagen or something. Rega's so worried these days technology is
I mean being a parent today. Man, all of that
got to be a screen time police, now, I know.
I had to be a police with too many rug
Rats or too much Nickelodeon. That was screen time. And
(26:46):
believe me, it was easy even then with vhs and
DVDs to say, hey, go watch Simon the Lamb. I
said that once on the phone. My buddy says, you
watch them? What's let them watch Silence of the Lambs.
Like no, Simon the Lamb, Veggietails, a little mix of
veggietails and Rugrats. Your kid'll come out okay. But man,
(27:08):
these AI companions snuck up on us, didn't it? And
so much of this is addictive, and just like anything,
I guess that's addictive, you don't realize until it's it's
too late. But in case you got a kid that
you want to save, they got camps. They live in
college doorans with no tech access. They're eight gram per camper.
(27:34):
You got to learn to spend time offline.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
My advice and I'm not speaking technically here is try
and turn them into a creator not a consumer. Yeah,
and that means getting offline sometimes.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
This is the Tremor Terry shown on The Valley's Power Talk.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Thank you to the Business Journal business Journal dot com.
Thank you for doing an nice write up on that.
It's on sale today. You can get it at Trevor
Books dot com or just head out to Old Town
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Nice stands set up right there at the checkout area.
And it was a Today's a strange day because when
(28:17):
you plan something for a year and a half and
then you do it, you realize that you're actually doing it.
And I was kind of afraid to actually put it
out because a lot of embarrassing stuff in there. That's
truly how I'll look at it. But it the redemptive
story is the part of it. And guess what, no politics,
No politics. I only mentioned the name Trump once when
(28:38):
there's a picture of Balladeo myself shaking hands. I think
that's the only time Trump was in there. Trevor books
dot Com. This California city, This is crazy California. There's
a city out here that banned pickleball. Pickleball. It's not Fresno.
(29:00):
They did it over noise complaints. This is this is
so richy rich California. In Nick Carmel, Carmel voted to
ban the sport uh plenty Eastwood Whenny mayor he wouldn't
he would allow pickle ball. He would around allowed dirt
(29:22):
bike racing. Yeah, they banned it. The residents complaining the
constant sound of the paddles striking the balls was too noisy.
That's the that's the spot for the rich and the famous.
That's a perfect pickleball hot spot. I I have never
played it. I've I've seen some people playing its. It's
(29:44):
just scaled down tennis, right, you don't have to run
as much. Yeah, and that's good for people who don't
have the knees to run. I can't imagine like trying
to stretch a single into a double in my body,
even jumping up in sliding. Can't believe that I used
to do. I well, I played a little softball in
the thirties. But no sliding out there. My next door neighbor, well,
(30:11):
it's his man cave. He's sixty three hardball in Arizona,
still playing it. I applaud people like that. Looks like
we can applaud some early signs here of our vote
in twenty twenty four for President Trump. And it's economy stupid.
(30:32):
We know that. And the economy looks pretty decent getting
getting there. And I guess the next projection, well, the
first projections our member Treasury Secretary Vessett saying this around
November December, we'll see the effects of the Trump economy
with the tariffs and everything coming in the springtime when
the big beautiful bill ramifications kick into effect. But here
(30:54):
we are, November December, first of the month here, and
this is what happened during our big old shopping time.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
The fact is that we just had the best Black
Friday that we've ever seen, and it's not just because
people are out there, you know, taking debt on their
credit cards. It's because incomes are way up under President Trump.
They dropped about three thousand dollars a person six thousand
dollars a family under Joe Biden, and it's up fifteen
hundred of person so far this year. And with all
(31:21):
that extra money and with the government shut down over,
so people feel comfortable going back to stores that we're
seeing a really blowout you know, Thanksgiving and Christmas coming
our way. I think all the retailers expect that both
online and in store sales are going to be the
highest we've ever seenew.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
That's good news. Hey, we're back. The shutdowns over, we're back.
We got another continuing resolution coming up just weeks after
New Year's Day. What's going to happen then, Well, I
think what will happen that Democrats and Repulicans to get
together and have a budget plan. That's what they're working
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