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Speaker 1: Still raining. Doom! So I agreed to do an acoustic

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guitar show with the lead guitar player of my rock band,

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Big Tim. Big Tim! Wonderful guy. So I’m learning like 20,

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maybe 25 songs between now and the 13th of November.

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I’m an adequate guitar player. I’m a bass player, but

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I’m an adequate guitar player. I don’t do too bad. However,

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learning 25 songs in this short amount of time that

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are show worthy, ready to go, is going to be

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something else. We’re going to see what happens. Good evening, everybody.

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I’m Alan Ray. This is… Sunday night with Alan Ray.

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The show where we take a look around the giant,

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obscene blue ball that we’re hurtling through space and at

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unimaginable speeds. And we ask the eternal question. What in

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the wide, wide world of sports is going on here? Oh,

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I have no idea. I don’t really know. We got

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some people in the chat. We got Miss Aggie. Thanks, Aggie,

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for jumping in. We got, we got Miss BZ. BZ Saloon.

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He’s a great guy. And of course we got Jeff.

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You just heard Jeff, man. That was a great show. Absolutely.

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Excellent show. You killed it, man. Um, I love suspense

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stuff like that. I was trying to focus more in

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and do show up because of our show prep today. Oh,

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heck no. There’s a lot going on. Not going to

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lie to you. There’s a ton of stuff going. Oh, Hey,

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I got to echo. Uh, there’s a ton of stuff

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going on. I, I’ve been out of touch. I really have. Um,

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I didn’t even know that there was a manned crew

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coming back and landing in the ocean from SpaceX this week.

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I was like, oh, really? It was kind of scary.

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I do know that, you know, the weather stuff that

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we had some hurricanes and we had and it was

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a really weird hurricane and some other things have happened.

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So we’re just going to kind of scroll through things,

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figure out what’s going on. The first thing that caught

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my eye, and my wife shoved this under my face,

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was up by Flint, Michigan. You remember Flint with the

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wonderful drinking water? An airplane landed on the freeway shoulder

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in Flint Township after mechanical failure Saturday afternoon. The single-engine

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plane landed on I-69 near I-75. Police say the pilot

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was making a descent towards Bishop International Airport. when it’s

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installed after mechanical failure, no injuries were reported and no

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vehicles were damaged. There was a crazy dash cam video

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of this thing coming in. And of course, you know,

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my wife who, you know, next year, I’ve already told

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you this next year, we’re going to be getting on

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an airplane and flying like probably a total of around

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16 hours with layovers and everything to Athens, Greece. And, um,

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She’s already terrified to fly. We’re going to have to

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find her some really nice nets. Yes, Aggie, I-69. And

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just remember on I-75, the exit 69 is Big Beaver Road.

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That’s a joke in Michigan. It’s been a joke since

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I was a kid. It will always be a joke.

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The exit 69 on I-75 is the Big Beaver Road exit.

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And I love it. Somebody, you know that was planned.

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There’s no way that was not planned. Probably when they

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designed that road, they said, okay, we’re going to put

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it right here. But anyways, so there’s a video of

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this airplane coming in for this landing. And it looks

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pretty crutched up. But hey, like my uncle used to say,

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my uncle’s a pilot, Vietnam. Any landing you walk away

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from is a good landing. Stuff like this happens in

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Michigan all the time. Weird things happen in this state. Unusual,

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abnormal things. Things that shouldn’t be. And that’s just another

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one to add to the list. So, we had a

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hurricane hit these here United States. And it was kind

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of a… It wasn’t a massive hurricane. It wasn’t the

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worst we’ve ever had, but that baby started ramping up.

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It got up to a category three while it was

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out in the Gulf. They said it was going to

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die down to a cat too. And it did. It did.

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And I was watching this thing. It made landfall in

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the Northern Gulf coast near Destin, Florida on Friday night.

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the difference was, is the eye of the hurricane didn’t

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linger out in the water. It came ashore too. And

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when it does that, the hurricane just kind of poof,

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dispersed out. Now, does that mean it was, you know,

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no big deal? No, no. It had some pretty big implications.

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What is this? Hurricane Isaias. Isaias. Ryan Hall would scold

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me if he said that. Isaias.

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Speaker 2: Isaias.

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Speaker 1: Made landfall. It is a cat too at 105 miles

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per hour and dispersed. It was lowered to a tropical storm,

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but still today even was causing tornadoes, but also a

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lot of much needed rain to some areas. Still a

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lot of power outages and dangerous situations still. Now, according

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to the New York Times, the feel good story of today. Now,

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the flamingos at Zoo World in Panama City Beach were smart.

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They were smart flamingos. They rode out the entire storm

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in a nice concrete bathroom, away from windows and falling debris.

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Smart flamingos. PJ’s in the house. Oh, PJ, glad you

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got in there tonight, man. The last I checked, four

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people are dead. Two in Florida, two in Alabama. Our

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thoughts and prayers go out to these people. Guys, in

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all seriousness, and I sound like a resounding gong out here,

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but you need to be prepared. You know, people on

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the coast, they know how to prepare for these things,

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but don’t be big and brave. If something is heading

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your way, you really need to get out of there

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when you’re told to get out of there. Or even

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if not, find a public place that’s, you know, a

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concrete building or something inland a little farther and, and

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hole up, hole up. Now, I want to talk to

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you about something kind of awful. Okay. If you’ve listened

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to this show long enough, you probably have a pretty

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good idea how I feel about artificial intelligence. It can

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and is a really good tool if used correctly. It

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can also be a bad tool. crutch, an attempt at

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not using your brain and just allowing, you know, GPT,

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you know, what am I going to do about my

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personal life? Or what am I going to do about

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getting smarter? How am I going to make more money? Now,

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you know, it’s a tool. It doesn’t replace your brain.

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Use it like a tool. And I know a lot

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of you don’t care for AI, but in this particular case,

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artificial intelligence models are outperformed the physics models and a

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couple other models in the landfall predictions and other things. Um,

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when it came to hurricane Isaias or however you say

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that crap. Um, and this is from WDSU six channel six.

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And where is this? It looks like possibly New Orleans, Louisiana. Um,

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The National Hurricane Center began issuing advisories on Tropical Depression

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9 on Tuesday, October 6, 2026. The initial advisory included

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a forecast cone showing 9 strengthening in the Category 2 hurricane,

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whatever you call it, by Saturday morning. However, during the

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next advisory at 10 p.m. Tuesday, the NHC forecast advisory

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noted there remains significant along and cross-track spread of track

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guidance regarding the northward turn with the AI-based models on

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the right side of the envelope and generally faster than

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physics-based guidance. So they went back and forth between the

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two models. And this is what I want to see

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in reporting, okay, guys? This Jordan West guy, a meteorologist,

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this is what I want to see when it comes

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to news. I want to see comparisons. I want to

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see facts. I don’t care about the reporter’s opinion. I

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want to see hard facts. And this is what this

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guy did. He said, for this case study, we compared

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Google DeepMind’s AI forecast, Weatherneck Cyclones, which is what he used,

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with the Euromodels physics-based ensemble. Both forecasts were initialized at

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18Z on October 6th prior to the NHC discussion number

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two at 10 p.m. Central Time. Here is how their

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predicted landfall location timings and peak intensity compared to actual observations.

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And he just lists them. So I’m going to tell

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you about them. Okay, first off, landfall location. Google DeepMind,

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the artificial intelligence, said between Petit Boys Island, Mississippi, and Seaside, Florida,

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and the average being Perdido Pass, wherever that is. The

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physics European ensemble between Marsh Island, Louisiana, and Venice, Louisiana.

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The actual landfall was Destin, Florida. So point goes to

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Google DeepMind. Peak strength, Google DeepMind said 91.2 miles per

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hour peak strength. The European Ensemble said 61.7 miles per hour.

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The actual strength was 120 miles an hour. There again,

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point goes to Google DeepMind for the closest. Landfall time,

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Google DeepMind said 12 a.m. Saturday, October 10th, 2026. The

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Physics European Ensemble, 6 p.m. Saturday, October 10th, 2026. The

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actual time was 8.30 Friday, October 9th, 2026. Point, Google DeepMind.

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Once again, they said 12 a.m. They said midnight on Saturday,

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and it hit at 8.30 p.m. on Friday. Landfall intensity.

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Google DeepMind said 55 knots. 63 miles an hour to

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those landlubbers like me. The European ensemble said 45 knots.

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The actual intensity was 95 knots or 110 miles per hour.

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Google AI, DeepMind was closest. So in the end, in

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the October 6th forecast comparison, this was all the way

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back in October 6th when these comparisons were done. Google

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DeepMind came closer across all four key metrics, landfall, location,

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peak strength, landfall timing, and intensity at landfall. The Euro

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forecast placed the storm further west and delayed while underestimating

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wind speeds. That makes Google DeepMind the winner of this

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specific matchup. Okay, now here’s the caveat. However… This result

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applies to a single storm and forecast cycle and does

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not mean AI models will always outperform physics-based models. Does it, though?

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Does it, though? I know we’re just getting used to this,

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but here’s the thing. Like I said, artificial intelligence is

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a tool. If it becomes common for artificial intelligence to

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predict things like what we just studied, the wind speed,

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the landfall, the time, location, then we have found another

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valid use for this tool. A life-saving use. Why not

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use it? Does that mean that we should give up

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on the European model? On the physics model? No! No!

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Always do both. Compare them. Always compare them. Because if

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you just give up on one, well, after a while,

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that one could start being wrong and you wouldn’t have

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anything to compare it to. But, If we can track

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these storms accurately, this accurately, days out, the 6th, this

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thing started predicting this thing on the 6th of October,

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and it just hit Friday. If we could use this

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kind of tool to, I don’t know, improve our predictions,

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when it comes to things like hurricanes, every hour counts.

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Every mile of location of where it’s going to hit counts.

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We can start, if it becomes a dependable thing and

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this becomes standard practice, we can start telling people, hey,

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artificial intelligence is putting everything together along with our other predictions.

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And if you live in this area, you may want

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to start thinking about getting out of there. Why not

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use it? And here’s a thing that nobody seems to

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be talking about. I am. In the Pacific, another hurricane,

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Hurricane Simon. It’s pounding Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Cat

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3 storm today on Sunday. Its eye is remaining just

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offshore as its most powerful winds and rains slam people

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living between Sierra Madre and the ocean. So that’s a

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Cat 3 because that eye is kind of sitting out

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there in the water absorbing power. Now, that’s going to

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cause some issues. That’s already causing some ocean swell and

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stuff like that in California. But there again, you may

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see some much needed rain going through parts of Southern California, Arizona,

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New Mexico, places like that. But right now it’s pounding that.

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So we’re actually getting a one-two punch on both sides

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of the jaws here. I know Mexico’s taking the brunt

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of that other, but it is going to go on up.

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The track goes on up into California. California, New Mexico

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area and stuff like that. So people in those areas,

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keep your eyes open. Listen to what’s going on. Be prepared.

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I know I sound like a parrot here saying be

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prepared all the time, but these are your emergencies. These

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are the things that you have to worry about. I

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don’t have to worry about hurricanes, okay? I will take

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10 serious blizzards over a hurricane any day. I know

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how to survive a blizzard. I’ve survived many. Even with

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the power out, I can survive a blizzard. Hurricanes, that

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hurts things, man. Yeah, I mean, it’s hard to get

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away from those. Once they start hitting, you can be screwed.

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You can have them. You can have them. I love

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the beach. I love going to California. Well, California is

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not too bad. I don’t love going there, but I

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love going down to Florida, hanging out on the beach.

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I want to go to Texas, to Galveston and places

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like that. See their beaches. Even in Michigan, we have

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killer beaches here. The thing about it is you can

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hang out on our beach and you don’t get attacked

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by sharks. There’s no sharks. You might have your toes

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sucked down by a giant carp or something like that.

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Other than that, you’re okay. But y’all can just have

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them hurricanes down there. At least tornadoes, it’s like the lottery.

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Most of the time, you’re not going to get hit.

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Maybe you’ll lose and win the lottery on that one. So, yeah. Exactly.

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You usually get paid double for that kind of action.

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The carp toe sucking, yes. There’s places that charge for that,

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I’m sure. I don’t know where they are. I don’t

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want to know where they are, but Carp are unusual animals.

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They’re very ugly fish. I used to bow hunt them.

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And no. No, you can have them. In Korea. You

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can get anything in Korea. Anything. Oh, it’s 20 after.

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You know, this story is going to take forever. Do

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I want to do that? I don’t want to do that.

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Let’s talk about Michigan again. Another, another thing in my

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fine state of Michigan before we go to break, um,

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our two party system that usually the Michigan GOP is non-existent.

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And even when they are in power, all they do

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is whine. They can’t do anything because of the Democrats

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actually did something worthwhile this week. I I’m going to

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give credit where credit is due. All right. This is

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according to M live. Um, Governor Grouch Whitmer this week

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signed legislation she said would protect Michiganders from harm and fraud.

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That includes a bipartisan package to designate gift card fraud

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as a type of organized crime. State leaders say that

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makes it easier to prosecute. Representative Mike Harris, Republican of

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Waterford Township, described gift card fraud as a growing problem

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that has cost consumers and retailers millions of dollars. As

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a retired police sergeant, he worked on the legislation with

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State Representative Samantha Steckboff, Democrat of Farmington Hills, after hearing

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increased concerns about gift card scams affecting Michiganders. Harris described

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the fraud as when criminals tamper with gift cards displayed

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in stores. They copy card numbers in pens and then

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use the stolen information to make purchases or obtain cash

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after a customer buys and activates the card. Many victims

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don’t even realize they’ve been robbed until they get to

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the checkout counter and find out the money is already gone,

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Harris said. This law strengthens our ability to hold these

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criminals accountable and protect people from being exploited. Yada, yada, yada.

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Maximum fine, $ 5, 000 felony in addition to restitution paid to

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the victims. And how many years? Five years? If you’re caught? Okay, anyways.

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bipartisan Gretsch, big Gretsch, signed it into law. I applaud

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the entire city of Lansing for doing this. Oh, looks

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like Z-Bot’s in the chat. Hi, Zelda. Glad you could

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join us. Anyways, I do have some questions, though. Number one,

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when it comes to this whole thing, gift card fraud.

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I can guess with quite a bit of confidence where

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a lot of this retail gift card fraud is coming from, okay?

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Certain demographic, certain group of people in the state of Michigan. Thus,

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I am surprised that Gretsch has signed this into law.

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I’m likewise surprised that there isn’t backlash from the certain

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suspected group targeted by this law. We’re all pretty sure

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we know where this is coming from, for the most part,

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for the most part. I’m sure there’s also a group

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of meth heads out there or some techies or something

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like that that are doing it. But I also know

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where a lot of this is probably coming from. Number one,

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I would be… leery about getting a gift card from

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a place like a gas station that sells them all

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the time, or a 7-Eleven, or as we call them, stop-and-rops.

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I have reservations about getting gift cards even at Walmart

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or Meyers or any place. I just, I have a problem.

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I have a problem with gift cards anywhere because they

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are right out there in the middle of nowhere. They’re

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exposed to anybody doing anything. They could make the packages

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a little more, I don’t know, put them in vacuum

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wrap where you can’t see any of the numbers on them.

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Maybe that would help. And then maybe, you know, put

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right on there. If this is compromised anyway, you know,

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don’t buy it. turn it into the counter and say, Hey,

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this is a compromise card. You’d probably be doing a

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private doing the world a bit of good, but like

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I said, I’m pretty sure I know who this is

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actually aimed at. And I’m quite amazed that there’s not

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a lot of backlash off of this guys. We’re going

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to take a bit of a break. And when we

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come back, Well, we got a few things, unsavory things

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to talk about. Unfortunately, I really don’t have a lot

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of great news today. We’ve got a lot of things

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I’m raising an eyebrow over, but as per usual in

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this show, 99% of it is DOOM! I’m Alan Ray.

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I’ll be back in just a few.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Randi. What you doing?

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Speaker 4: I’m just making a list of things that make me

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feel really.

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Speaker 4: Today, this breakfast isn’t just breakfast. It might be the

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first McDonald’s breakfast you’re having at McDonald’s again. This lunch

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might be a weekly tradition you hadn’t had in weeks.

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And this dinner might be the first one you bought

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for not just you in a while. Whatever this order

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is for you, McDonald’s will be here to take it.

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Speaker 3: Get more of the chicken you love with a delicious

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Speaker 4: Pepper.

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Speaker 1: Dining rooms are starting to reopen in certain communities. Participating

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Speaker 3: Not to be a backseat driver, but can you say

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Speaker 1: It is the most fun you can have with your

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pants on. Oh, my God. The suspense is so thick

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you could cut it with a spork. I mean, all right.

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It’s Sunday night. All right. Mango only pong and game

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of life. Yes, that is me. Well fed. Aggie is

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well fed tonight. You know, I am too. I went,

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there’s a place in my hometown, Bits and Brews. And

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we stopped by there today because it’s right by the

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Myers store that we grocery shop in. I gave up

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on Walmart when they changed everything around. It just, it

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was the nail in the coffin. I don’t like going

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to Walmart anyways, because it just, yeah, it just makes

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me cringe. The people, the things, all that. And Myers

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is just a little bit more, but thank God their

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produce is a lot better. The people, the quality of

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people there is a little bit better. You don’t have

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class reunions of giantly well-endowed women in the middle of

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a bread aisle that you can’t get around and don’t

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care that you can’t get around them. You just don’t

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have any of that at Myers. But anyways, Bits and

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Brews is right in front of it. And we stopped

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there and I got a grilled meatloaf melt sandwich. Basically

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what they do is they make a meatloaf and they

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cut you about a half inch thick slab of it. Right.

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And then they grill it for a couple of minutes

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on each side. And then they, they put it in

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like a couple of different cheeses on either side and

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then make like a grilled cheese and meatloaf sandwich out

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of it in this big Texas bread. I, Sure, I’m

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sure it’s going to basically cause my heart to stop

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pretty soon if I keep eating those. But, you know,

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there’s a lot of ways to die. And that’s a

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good one. That’s a good one. It’s acceptable. Also, also,

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they serve tater tots with it. Yeah, they cost a

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little bit more than the fries. But folks, life is short.

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If they offer tots, get the tots. And I had

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a little bit to eat before I came on here.

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I am well fed. I’ve been well fed all day.

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But oh my God, that was so good. And also,

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it’s got just a little hit ketchup. They must just

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put just a tad in the meatloaf as they’re cooking it.

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It’s just got that little tinge to it. Makes my

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mouth water. I could go back there right now and

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plow through another one of those. I’d be miserable. But yeah. Anyway,

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speaking of ways to die. I guess we’re going to

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have to talk about this Krista Pike woman. What a

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weird turn of events this has been. All right. I

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have thoughts. I have thoughts. And in case you live

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under a rock, you didn’t know. Krista Pike, who murdered

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her friend, Colleen Slimmer, has been in prison for Way

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too long. Way too long. But anyways, she’s 50 now,

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and I think she murdered her. She was sentenced to

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death in 1995. Here it is, 2026, and they’re just

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getting around to it. Anyways, the execution was botched after

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two injections. The state of Tennessee botched the execution. And

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of course, this has become something kind of political. I

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can see why, but I also have a lot of

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thoughts on this. My, my thoughts on the death penalty

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have changed over the years, folks. I’m not going to

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lie to you and you don’t have to agree with me.

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It’s fine. You know, I’m not going to, I’m not

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going to go after anybody that disagrees with me because

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my thoughts used to be, you know, tell them all again,

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sort them out which kind of still that way not

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a lot but anyways uh this has all become political

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and here’s my take just on this whole thing right

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there if they really wanted this krista pike to be

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dead she’d be dead That’s just, it’s as simple as that. Yes,

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the shots failed, but there’s other ways. One of the

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armed guards could have just walked in there and put

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a bullet in her head. That sounds grotesque. That sounds inhumane,

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but it’s also quick and painless to the person it’s

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happening to. They could have put a pillar over her face, something.

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And I know this is offensive to some of you,

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but newsflash, death is ugly. Death is messy. Now, the

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same people screeching about the inhumaneness of what happened to her,

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these exact same people have no problems slaughtering babies.

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Speaker 4: In the womb.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they should have used that method. Maybe they should

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have just went in there with a giant suction cup

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and just pulled her apart at the lips, pulled her

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head off, pulled her skull open. Maybe they should have

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done that, called it an abortion. No? Maybe they should

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have just grabbed a giant rock. And let the punishment

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fit the crime. Bash her skull in like she did

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to Colleen Slimmer so many years ago. You see, no,

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we don’t do any of that. And I know you

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find this grotesque. I know you find this offensive.

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Speaker 4: Good.

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Speaker 1: I hope you do, because I want you to think

446
00:31:13,569 –> 00:31:18,789
about this. Criminals in 2026 receive more compassion than their

447
00:31:18,890 –> 00:31:26,329
victims and the victims in this day and age. We

448
00:31:26,369 –> 00:31:29,200
have gotten to the point where we cater so much

449
00:31:29,240 –> 00:31:35,660
to these criminals. Back in the day, it would have been,

450
00:31:35,900 –> 00:31:38,500
I don’t know, 10, 12, 15 days after the trial,

451
00:31:38,539 –> 00:31:40,640
they would have taken her out and hanged her. Put

452
00:31:40,660 –> 00:31:42,779
her in front of a firing squad. It would have

453
00:31:42,799 –> 00:31:44,619
been quick. It would have been over. It would have

454
00:31:44,640 –> 00:31:47,670
been the end of it. Moving on. They probably would

455
00:31:47,690 –> 00:31:49,250
have left her out there for a little while so

456
00:31:49,269 –> 00:31:51,390
that people could look at and go, look, don’t murder

457
00:31:51,410 –> 00:31:55,900
your friends. Don’t be bad. And this won’t happen to you.

458
00:32:00,869 –> 00:32:04,589
Here’s the controversial part. Here’s the part that you’re not

459
00:32:04,630 –> 00:32:06,890
going to like, and I don’t like either. I’m going

460
00:32:06,910 –> 00:32:09,950
to put this right up front. This is the bad part.

461
00:32:11,309 –> 00:32:16,160
If Krista Pike has a lawyer or a team of

462
00:32:16,180 –> 00:32:21,240
lawyers worth anything, anything, and I’m sure there’s lawyers that

463
00:32:21,599 –> 00:32:24,240
are beating the doors down trying to get to her

464
00:32:24,279 –> 00:32:27,359
to say, hey, I’m going to represent you. This lawyer

465
00:32:27,440 –> 00:32:32,940
or these lawyers have a really good argument to keep

466
00:32:33,079 –> 00:32:38,269
the state of Tennessee from moving forward and trying to

467
00:32:38,369 –> 00:32:46,210
execute Pike again. Hear me out. The state carried out

468
00:32:46,359 –> 00:32:49,900
the execution that they were told they had to carry out, right?

469
00:32:50,559 –> 00:32:56,980
They tried to execute her. The execution failed. Not once,

470
00:32:57,400 –> 00:33:03,170
but twice. Now, This creates a legal argument, like it

471
00:33:03,230 –> 00:33:06,470
or not, like it or not, this creates a legal

472
00:33:06,589 –> 00:33:12,130
argument of possibly cruel and unusual punishment or, to a

473
00:33:12,150 –> 00:33:19,660
much further extent, double jeopardy. I’ve heard arguments raised for both. Look,

474
00:33:19,779 –> 00:33:25,160
I don’t like it either, okay? But it was the

475
00:33:25,220 –> 00:33:32,009
state of Tennessee’s incompetence that caused this. My tinfoil hat,

476
00:33:32,190 –> 00:33:38,130
of course, being as big as it is, is screeching

477
00:33:38,190 –> 00:33:41,930
right now that this may have been intentional. I’m just

478
00:33:42,019 –> 00:33:44,880
throwing that out there. Do with that news what you will.

479
00:33:46,740 –> 00:33:49,339
Things just don’t add up. And like I said, if

480
00:33:49,380 –> 00:33:52,049
they really, really, really, really, really wanted her dead, she’d

481
00:33:52,069 –> 00:33:55,769
be dead. Or as I put in Twitter, call Canada.

482
00:33:55,789 –> 00:33:57,750
They know how to kill their own citizens. They’ve been, what,

483
00:33:57,849 –> 00:34:00,710
they’re up to 200,000 of their own citizens they’ve murdered now?

484
00:34:03,759 –> 00:34:06,099
Maybe they should just call them. They got some good ideas.

485
00:34:09,920 –> 00:34:11,800
And Jeff, you’re right. It does border on cruel and

486
00:34:11,820 –> 00:34:14,699
unusual punishment. I mean, a good lawyer will get her

487
00:34:14,760 –> 00:34:19,480
basically dismissed. That that death penalty was carried out in

488
00:34:19,519 –> 00:34:26,570
accordance with the law. And as far as I’m concerned,

489
00:34:27,280 –> 00:34:29,550
the state did what it was supposed to do. A

490
00:34:29,590 –> 00:34:32,949
decent lawyer would say, okay, you did it. You carried

491
00:34:32,989 –> 00:34:37,190
out the execution. You failed. Game over. She goes home.

492
00:34:39,650 –> 00:34:42,150
Maybe next time you’ll learn. Maybe next time you’ll do

493
00:34:42,170 –> 00:34:44,420
a better job of it. I doubt it. I doubt it.

494
00:34:46,369 –> 00:34:49,010
And yep, you’re right. The second failed execution in a

495
00:34:49,050 –> 00:34:52,119
year from the same guy. Maybe that guy ought to

496
00:34:52,179 –> 00:34:56,820
be replaced. Maybe that guy ought to be investigated. Does

497
00:34:56,860 –> 00:34:58,579
any of this make sense? Well, I do know, I

498
00:34:58,900 –> 00:35:00,880
do know from the deep dive I did on this,

499
00:35:01,599 –> 00:35:06,800
that a state judge is demanding that all of the

500
00:35:06,860 –> 00:35:10,989
evidence of what just happened with this execution, every bit

501
00:35:11,030 –> 00:35:15,190
of evidence be saved. He’s demanded that it all be saved.

502
00:35:16,730 –> 00:35:19,190
So there’s going to be an investigation into this. But

503
00:35:19,230 –> 00:35:22,909
like I said, You know, if I was in her shoes,

504
00:35:22,969 –> 00:35:24,630
I’d be going to a lawyer and going, look, you

505
00:35:24,650 –> 00:35:26,710
got to get me out of here because these people

506
00:35:26,769 –> 00:35:30,510
executed me. It’s not my fault. I didn’t die. It’s

507
00:35:30,550 –> 00:35:34,730
their fault. I’m done with them. They carried out their

508
00:35:35,070 –> 00:35:37,539
public service and they failed like a bunch of idiots.

509
00:35:42,179 –> 00:35:44,719
And I don’t like it. Number one, why has it

510
00:35:44,760 –> 00:35:51,190
taken since 1995 to even bring her to execution? It

511
00:35:51,210 –> 00:35:53,829
should have happened a week after, 10 days after. In

512
00:35:53,989 –> 00:35:55,699
our world, and now I’m going to go on a

513
00:35:55,719 –> 00:35:58,500
rant here, an old man rant. Are you ready for

514
00:35:58,519 –> 00:36:00,420
an old man rant? Now I’m going to go on

515
00:36:00,460 –> 00:36:03,159
my rant about the whole death penalty thing, okay? I

516
00:36:03,179 –> 00:36:05,800
have thoughts. I have thoughts. I used to think that,

517
00:36:05,980 –> 00:36:08,400
you know, if you were found guilty, death penalty, all over.

518
00:36:10,360 –> 00:36:16,139
I no longer have the confidence in our justice system.

519
00:36:19,489 –> 00:36:24,840
for most death penalty sentences. And let me tell you

520
00:36:24,880 –> 00:36:27,139
what I mean, okay? Because we’ve got another one coming up,

521
00:36:27,780 –> 00:36:37,820
one that I believe needs to happen. Unless you have verifiable, multi-witnessed,

522
00:36:39,139 –> 00:36:41,639
and now in the day and age of video camera,

523
00:36:41,659 –> 00:36:46,760
video evidence, or multiple high-profile, you know, a lot of

524
00:36:46,820 –> 00:36:51,079
witnesses like a school shooting, or like a mall shooting,

525
00:36:51,440 –> 00:36:54,260
or some kind of a thing where a bunch of

526
00:36:54,300 –> 00:37:00,119
people in the city watch a guy stab somebody to death. Verifiable.

527
00:37:00,719 –> 00:37:06,820
Everybody saw the same thing. There’s no doubt in anybody’s

528
00:37:06,860 –> 00:37:09,699
mind this person did it. All right? You give them

529
00:37:09,719 –> 00:37:17,250
the death penalty, I support it 100%. But just having evidence…

530
00:37:18,590 –> 00:37:22,030
And no witnesses, evidence and witnesses that are kind of sketchy,

531
00:37:22,150 –> 00:37:27,429
evidence and a lot of questions about what’s going on.

532
00:37:27,840 –> 00:37:32,679
Life sentence, no death penalty. I’m sorry. I don’t trust

533
00:37:32,840 –> 00:37:37,219
our system enough for them to have the death penalty

534
00:37:37,280 –> 00:37:41,960
without multiple witnesses seeing the exact same things whose stories

535
00:37:42,139 –> 00:37:48,380
line up. I don’t trust the system enough. The system

536
00:37:48,500 –> 00:37:51,880
lies too much. The system coerces too much. The system

537
00:37:51,940 –> 00:37:55,539
tries to get you to say things and confess to

538
00:37:55,599 –> 00:38:00,840
things that you didn’t really do. It’s brought this on itself.

539
00:38:03,079 –> 00:38:05,039
But as far as I’m concerned, if it’s a school

540
00:38:05,079 –> 00:38:08,360
shooting or something where everybody watched the same thing happen,

541
00:38:08,400 –> 00:38:11,099
everybody’s seen the same thing go down, line them up.

542
00:38:11,530 –> 00:38:14,110
In fact, put in an express lane. When you find

543
00:38:14,139 –> 00:38:17,889
them guilty, they have 48 hours to protest it. It

544
00:38:17,929 –> 00:38:19,929
goes for a panel. And if they look over all

545
00:38:19,949 –> 00:38:22,170
the case and the evidence and don’t find anything after

546
00:38:22,170 –> 00:38:27,690
48 hours, you’re done. And trust me, trust me, if

547
00:38:27,730 –> 00:38:31,670
they really want you dead, you’ll be dead. This person

548
00:38:31,690 –> 00:38:37,940
who administered these two shots, something doesn’t add up there. Yeah, Aggie,

549
00:38:37,980 –> 00:38:40,360
I’m 100%. I don’t understand why they tried to save

550
00:38:40,380 –> 00:38:43,440
her either. And now you got a bunch of these

551
00:38:43,519 –> 00:38:48,110
bleeding heart liberals, these bleeding heart leftist communists out there

552
00:38:48,210 –> 00:38:51,250
screeching and saying that she should just be let go. Okay,

553
00:38:51,289 –> 00:38:53,250
don’t kill her because you already tried to and you failed,

554
00:38:53,289 –> 00:38:56,159
but leave her in prison. Let her rot. Let her rot.

555
00:38:57,969 –> 00:39:00,170
In fact, I’m sure she had a lot of thoughts

556
00:39:00,190 –> 00:39:01,570
when it was her time to die, even though it

557
00:39:01,590 –> 00:39:03,949
didn’t happen. I’m sure she’s traumatized right now because she

558
00:39:03,969 –> 00:39:06,760
thought it was it. Let her live with that trauma.

559
00:39:08,219 –> 00:39:11,460
Just keep her in an isolated room. But you already

560
00:39:11,500 –> 00:39:16,000
tried and you failed. And if she’s got a good lawyer,

561
00:39:16,539 –> 00:39:19,340
she’ll get off the hook. I don’t know. I don’t know.

562
00:39:19,659 –> 00:39:24,070
I don’t know the legal process of what has to happen,

563
00:39:24,110 –> 00:39:29,280
but it just seems like that’s it. All right. You’ve

564
00:39:29,300 –> 00:39:31,440
heard my old man rant. Whether you agree with it

565
00:39:31,480 –> 00:39:33,679
or not, that’s fine. You don’t have to. I’m not

566
00:39:33,760 –> 00:39:35,059
asking you to agree with it. I’m just telling you

567
00:39:35,099 –> 00:39:37,699
how I feel. I just don’t trust the justice system

568
00:39:37,739 –> 00:39:41,019
these days enough to put a decision like a death

569
00:39:41,039 –> 00:39:46,510
penalty into their hands. Unless it’s something that was seen,

570
00:39:46,570 –> 00:39:51,349
witnessed by Thousands, you know, hundreds, tens of people that

571
00:39:51,369 –> 00:39:53,349
they just can’t get away from, that the evidence is

572
00:39:53,429 –> 00:39:57,409
just right there that people actually saw. And, you know,

573
00:39:57,429 –> 00:39:59,780
there’s things going on right here around me right now

574
00:40:00,400 –> 00:40:01,500
that I.

575
00:40:03,119 –> 00:40:03,599
Speaker 2: Don’t know, man.

576
00:40:05,099 –> 00:40:10,199
Speaker 1: They got this skeleton guy who basically disappeared his three

577
00:40:10,239 –> 00:40:14,949
sons a long time ago, 15 years ago. There’s no bodies.

578
00:40:17,349 –> 00:40:24,989
He’s not talking. They have some computer evidence. But they’re

579
00:40:25,010 –> 00:40:30,599
trying to try him for murder. With very little to

580
00:40:30,679 –> 00:40:33,340
no evidence. Now, he’s already spent 15 years in prison

581
00:40:34,280 –> 00:40:38,090
for illegal entrapment or something, you know, or, you know,

582
00:40:38,110 –> 00:40:42,750
basically they say he he hit them. He had them

583
00:40:42,849 –> 00:40:45,429
stored somewhere and they somehow found him guilty on that.

584
00:40:45,449 –> 00:40:48,789
But now they’re trying to try him for murder. Now,

585
00:40:50,030 –> 00:40:52,070
I don’t know if he murdered them or not. Like

586
00:40:52,090 –> 00:40:53,809
I said, I knew those three young men. I knew

587
00:40:53,869 –> 00:40:56,230
those three boys. I’ve met them personally. I’ve looked them

588
00:40:56,269 –> 00:40:58,989
in the eye. I’ve scruffed their hair up as little

589
00:40:59,030 –> 00:41:01,969
boys and messed with them a little bit. And it

590
00:41:02,010 –> 00:41:03,780
just tore us all apart that that happened to them.

591
00:41:03,840 –> 00:41:07,480
But are they dead? He’s not talking. There’s rumors. Some

592
00:41:07,519 –> 00:41:12,460
rumors go around that he actually sold them. He had

593
00:41:12,500 –> 00:41:16,119
somebody take them. They could be victims of human trafficking.

594
00:41:16,139 –> 00:41:23,289
You don’t know. It’s going to be interesting to see

595
00:41:23,329 –> 00:41:25,309
if that case actually goes through with the murder case.

596
00:41:26,630 –> 00:41:28,630
And I’ll keep you informed of it. It’s happening right here.

597
00:41:28,650 –> 00:41:30,650
In fact, I know some of the people involved. I

598
00:41:30,690 –> 00:41:33,949
know some of the relatives of this family. In fact,

599
00:41:33,989 –> 00:41:38,630
I just spoke to the sister of basically the boy’s aunt.

600
00:41:39,840 –> 00:41:42,900
They just spoke to their aunt just a few weeks ago.

601
00:41:44,679 –> 00:41:45,699
So that hits close to home.

602
00:41:48,429 –> 00:41:48,690
Speaker 4: All right.

603
00:41:49,869 –> 00:41:56,610
Speaker 1: As you know, on this here show, we talk a

604
00:41:56,630 –> 00:41:59,559
lot about the flock cameras. Now, this is another thing

605
00:41:59,579 –> 00:42:03,179
that hits really close to home. Then Toledo, Tule Do.

606
00:42:03,619 –> 00:42:07,500
Toledo’s about really 20 minutes from here, 25 minutes from here.

607
00:42:09,849 –> 00:42:13,510
It’s really close. In fact, growing up, I used to

608
00:42:13,570 –> 00:42:17,289
party in Toledo all the time. So this story actually

609
00:42:17,309 –> 00:42:22,289
hits kind of close to home. Toledo City Council members,

610
00:42:22,750 –> 00:42:26,030
some of them, are introducing a resolution to terminate the

611
00:42:26,070 –> 00:42:30,949
city’s agreement with FLOC over its surveillance systems, citing privacy concerns.

612
00:42:31,010 –> 00:42:34,519
It’s another one. There’s another one coming. A group of

613
00:42:34,579 –> 00:42:42,099
five Toledo Council members, this is according to WTVG, Channel 13. WTVG.

614
00:42:42,940 –> 00:42:45,099
I get Channel 13 out of Toledo. Probably one of

615
00:42:45,119 –> 00:42:48,760
the best channels I get in on regular TV. But anyways,

616
00:42:49,320 –> 00:42:51,119
a group of five Toledo Council members are looking to

617
00:42:51,300 –> 00:42:53,739
end agreements the city has with the company over its

618
00:42:53,840 –> 00:42:57,550
automatic license plate readers, which would include the removal or

619
00:42:57,610 –> 00:43:00,969
deactivation of flock equipment in the city. The resolution also

620
00:43:01,010 –> 00:43:04,989
calls for the flock-generated data to be deleted. They want

621
00:43:05,010 –> 00:43:07,769
to ensure the city does not renew contracts with FLOC

622
00:43:07,849 –> 00:43:11,650
moving forward. The resolution said that public resources being directed

623
00:43:11,670 –> 00:43:14,150
to FLOC are not in the best interest of the city.

624
00:43:15,570 –> 00:43:19,730
A quote, The continuation of FLOC technology within the city

625
00:43:19,750 –> 00:43:24,909
of Toledo raises significant questions concerning privacy, civil liberties, data security,

626
00:43:24,969 –> 00:43:30,329
data retention, accountability, and the appropriate limits of surveillance. The

627
00:43:30,369 –> 00:43:33,070
language of the resolution reads in part, and then I

628
00:43:33,110 –> 00:43:36,789
carry on with this quote, Block technology is expanded beyond

629
00:43:36,829 –> 00:43:41,949
traditional license plate recognition to create an interconnected surveillance camera

630
00:43:41,989 –> 00:43:45,389
collecting information about vehicles traveling on public roads across municipal

631
00:43:45,849 –> 00:43:53,710
and jurisdictional boundaries. Council member Nick Comebs said traditional and

632
00:43:53,730 –> 00:43:56,130
community policing are more effective tools in the camera system.

633
00:43:56,170 –> 00:44:00,110
We believe that the more officers do the additional policing,

634
00:44:00,190 –> 00:44:03,860
community policing is what works. And we hear that every

635
00:44:03,900 –> 00:44:08,920
time we have a hearing on flock cameras. City Council

636
00:44:08,940 –> 00:44:17,940
documentation said it’s on the agenda for October 20th. Now, Toledo,

637
00:44:18,639 –> 00:44:20,840
if you have never been there, if you don’t know

638
00:44:20,889 –> 00:44:27,469
about it, up until 2020 had a system of automatic

639
00:44:28,809 –> 00:44:33,590
red light running cameras, speeding cameras on a Lexus and

640
00:44:33,610 –> 00:44:37,190
a couple other main through fares that would automatically generate

641
00:44:37,230 –> 00:44:39,090
a ticket. If you went to a red light or

642
00:44:39,130 –> 00:44:40,849
if you got caught doing a certain amount over the

643
00:44:40,869 –> 00:44:43,570
speed limit, I know this for a fact, I worked

644
00:44:43,670 –> 00:44:46,090
down in the Toledo area for a couple of years,

645
00:44:46,579 –> 00:44:49,559
even though my office was still in Ann Arbor, uh,

646
00:44:49,619 –> 00:44:52,840
setting up and getting a warehouse going on, you know,

647
00:44:53,039 –> 00:44:55,500
the right direction. And a couple of my drivers came

648
00:44:55,519 –> 00:44:57,489
back with those tickets. They said, Hey, this just came

649
00:44:57,530 –> 00:44:59,269
in the mail. This happens all the time right here.

650
00:45:00,840 –> 00:45:06,360
They stopped using those in 2020. Aggie says her town

651
00:45:06,420 –> 00:45:08,900
decided not to renew the contract with Flock. Turns out

652
00:45:08,960 –> 00:45:11,320
people were pissed off to find out that Flock owns

653
00:45:11,340 –> 00:45:12,920
the cameras and the recordings. Yes.

654
00:45:13,739 –> 00:45:14,010
Speaker 3: Yes.

655
00:45:14,489 –> 00:45:17,989
Speaker 1: Those are not the cities. Those are Flock’s. And nobody

656
00:45:18,309 –> 00:45:21,269
really knows for sure who gets access to them and

657
00:45:21,329 –> 00:45:23,929
who does not. And even though Flock is telling you

658
00:45:24,070 –> 00:45:32,650
one thing, they haven’t found time. Time again. Lying. Again,

659
00:45:32,670 –> 00:45:40,070
a tool is a tool. Flock neither has feelings. It

660
00:45:40,090 –> 00:45:42,949
can be used for good. The problem is the people

661
00:45:43,110 –> 00:45:48,019
using it. The problem is the future of people using

662
00:45:48,300 –> 00:45:52,820
the data. And all I have to do when somebody’s

663
00:45:52,880 –> 00:45:54,940
in doubt, when somebody looks at me and goes, I

664
00:45:55,000 –> 00:45:58,079
don’t know, is I look them in the eye and

665
00:45:58,219 –> 00:46:03,199
ask them, what do you think would have happened? A

666
00:46:03,360 –> 00:46:07,940
flock would have been as prevalent in our society in

667
00:46:07,940 –> 00:46:14,599
2020 as they are today. And your governor, with everything

668
00:46:14,639 –> 00:46:19,599
shut down, could just bring up the data and say, oh, hi,

669
00:46:19,860 –> 00:46:22,340
Alan Ray, you were driving all over the place. You

670
00:46:22,380 –> 00:46:24,389
went to Toledo. We tracked you to Toledo to a

671
00:46:24,429 –> 00:46:26,590
place to get your haircut. We also tracked you here.

672
00:46:26,679 –> 00:46:29,230
We tracked you there. We’re going to, well, we’re going

673
00:46:29,250 –> 00:46:30,730
to lock you in your house and give you a $ 5, 000 fine.

674
00:46:32,519 –> 00:46:36,179
Because you’re a grandma killer because COVID, you know, you’re

675
00:46:36,239 –> 00:46:42,369
spreading COVID. Do you want that? I don’t. It’s none

676
00:46:42,389 –> 00:46:44,989
of their business. Because I don’t agree with a lot

677
00:46:45,010 –> 00:46:47,389
of the decisions that are made at a government level.

678
00:46:47,449 –> 00:46:50,630
These are stupid people. A lot of these people are stupid.

679
00:46:52,250 –> 00:46:54,630
This greasy thing we’ve got running our state right now

680
00:46:55,349 –> 00:46:57,070
is not the most intelligent person in the world. She

681
00:46:57,110 –> 00:46:59,099
has her moments. Guys, I’m not going to lie. She

682
00:46:59,119 –> 00:47:02,719
has her moments. And she can be diabolical. But one

683
00:47:02,739 –> 00:47:05,239
of the smartest things she does, one of the smartest

684
00:47:05,300 –> 00:47:09,389
things that Big Gretch does, is when she screws up

685
00:47:09,489 –> 00:47:15,090
really bad, she shuts up and disappears for about two weeks. Somebody,

686
00:47:15,210 –> 00:47:21,010
somebody is advising her. Because when she does that, public

687
00:47:21,050 –> 00:47:25,090
opinion moves on. She doesn’t feel it. She doesn’t say anything.

688
00:47:25,150 –> 00:47:27,530
She just steps out of the spotlight for a while.

689
00:47:27,750 –> 00:47:30,590
She’s like that Homer Simpson gif where he steps back

690
00:47:30,650 –> 00:47:33,590
into the bushes. And in a couple of weeks, you’re

691
00:47:33,650 –> 00:47:35,369
on to a different rant. She comes out and picks

692
00:47:35,429 –> 00:47:41,050
up where she left off. That’s smart. That’s smart. I

693
00:47:41,070 –> 00:47:45,800
still don’t like her, but that’s smart. Right. What if

694
00:47:45,820 –> 00:47:48,599
the flock was around when the Patriot Act passed the

695
00:47:48,639 –> 00:47:55,679
first time? And that’s all interconnected. That’s all interconnected. My

696
00:47:55,780 –> 00:48:00,199
personal feelings, guys, I have no evidence of this, but

697
00:48:00,219 –> 00:48:04,289
my personal feeling is Flock is a CIA shell company

698
00:48:07,230 –> 00:48:13,119
or an FBI shell company. That’s just my personal feeling

699
00:48:13,139 –> 00:48:15,579
that if you dig deep enough, you’ll find out that

700
00:48:15,639 –> 00:48:18,280
that’s being run by some rogue branch of the government

701
00:48:18,679 –> 00:48:20,699
that doesn’t want you to know that that’s all government

702
00:48:20,800 –> 00:48:25,780
run and the government’s getting all of that data. Yeah,

703
00:48:25,800 –> 00:48:28,869
it just, it quacks like a duck and it has

704
00:48:28,989 –> 00:48:34,659
webbed feet. Okay. That’s been my gut feeling about this

705
00:48:34,699 –> 00:48:37,300
for quite some time. And I know that this show

706
00:48:37,340 –> 00:48:39,949
gets listened to around the D.C. area. I’ve got some

707
00:48:40,489 –> 00:48:44,269
pings from that area. I’m assuming it’s still there. And guys,

708
00:48:44,289 –> 00:48:47,809
I’m going to tell you, NSA, FBI, CIA, whichever one

709
00:48:47,849 –> 00:48:51,230
of you is using FLAC as a shell company, I

710
00:48:51,329 –> 00:48:57,460
see you. I see you. Don’t think I don’t. All right. Oh,

711
00:48:57,559 –> 00:49:02,469
what else we got? How about this idiot? jumped into

712
00:49:02,510 –> 00:49:11,059
a tiger pen. British. He was British. This is USA Today.

713
00:49:11,780 –> 00:49:14,320
Man who entered a tiger enclosure, a tiger enclosure at

714
00:49:14,409 –> 00:49:17,170
a zoo in England on October 10th has died, local

715
00:49:17,190 –> 00:49:21,489
authorities announced. South York police said in a statement that

716
00:49:21,530 –> 00:49:25,099
the unmanned or unnamed man entered the enclosure at Yorkshire

717
00:49:25,139 –> 00:49:29,599
Wildlife Park around 1.35 p.m. local time. He was attacked

718
00:49:29,639 –> 00:49:34,059
and pronounced dead at the scene. Escape enclosure and it’s

719
00:49:34,099 –> 00:49:34,500
not a.

720
00:49:39,449 –> 00:49:42,570
Named Altai will not be euthanized and the park is

721
00:49:42,630 –> 00:49:46,289
closed following the incident. Many, many people have contacted us

722
00:49:46,349 –> 00:49:48,929
about the tiger. The statement reads, we can assure everyone

723
00:49:48,949 –> 00:49:51,010
that he is safe and well and will not be

724
00:49:51,090 –> 00:49:56,780
euthanized as a result of this incident. Authorities said the

725
00:49:56,820 –> 00:49:59,059
man’s family is aware of the attack and are being

726
00:49:59,199 –> 00:50:07,099
supported by special officers. Yes, Aggie, you’re right. Why would

727
00:50:07,139 –> 00:50:09,780
anyone do that and then you know, the enclosure couldn’t

728
00:50:09,800 –> 00:50:14,829
have been easy to get into. Okay. This had to

729
00:50:14,869 –> 00:50:21,210
have been a suicide or somebody was on dope or

730
00:50:21,250 –> 00:50:29,440
they’re just really, really stupid. Okay. Now, one of the

731
00:50:29,480 –> 00:50:32,610
problems we’ve had for quite some time now, I call

732
00:50:32,639 –> 00:50:38,369
this the Disney effect. Disney and their cartoons would have

733
00:50:38,409 –> 00:50:43,989
you believe that your Cinderella, that you could walk out

734
00:50:44,110 –> 00:50:50,550
amongst the deer and the bear and make friends and

735
00:50:50,570 –> 00:50:52,769
you’ll sing a little song and the birdies will sing

736
00:50:52,829 –> 00:50:57,610
along with you and everything is just beautiful and in

737
00:50:57,730 –> 00:51:01,010
sync with each other and it’s completely wrong and now

738
00:51:01,030 –> 00:51:03,590
you’ve got AI videos out there that are showing things

739
00:51:03,610 –> 00:51:10,340
that aren’t accurate and It’s putting people in danger. Now, granted, granted,

740
00:51:10,619 –> 00:51:13,570
most of the people it’s putting in danger are stupid people.

741
00:51:13,610 –> 00:51:18,110
And if you believe in Darwinism and evolution, this is

742
00:51:18,309 –> 00:51:21,989
weeding out. This is calling the herd. Because let’s face it, folks,

743
00:51:22,530 –> 00:51:24,630
we are right in the middle of living in idiocracy.

744
00:51:25,210 –> 00:51:28,269
And maybe some of these stupid people need to just go.

745
00:51:29,090 –> 00:51:31,210
I know that’s a horrible thing to say, terrible thing

746
00:51:31,230 –> 00:51:34,679
to say. But this is how I feel. It’s my show. Yeah.

747
00:51:37,139 –> 00:51:42,440
And you’re right, already usually they’re killed by trains. But anyways,

748
00:51:42,539 –> 00:51:45,030
the Cinderella effect is putting a lot of people in danger.

749
00:51:46,110 –> 00:51:50,349
And you see these videos on Twitter and Facebook, and

750
00:51:50,369 –> 00:51:55,730
everybody comments, where somebody is like feeding a coyote or

751
00:51:55,769 –> 00:52:03,710
a wolf or, you know, something like that. And the

752
00:52:03,730 –> 00:52:07,389
problem is, is most of them are AI. Life doesn’t

753
00:52:07,429 –> 00:52:09,849
work that way. And I’m sure somebody out there somewhere

754
00:52:09,869 –> 00:52:13,550
has made a pet out of some wild animal, but

755
00:52:13,590 –> 00:52:18,010
this is not the norm. This is the exception to

756
00:52:18,030 –> 00:52:22,010
the rule. Yes. Take the warning labels off things and

757
00:52:22,030 –> 00:52:24,940
then have better pandemics. I agree already. I don’t know.

758
00:52:24,960 –> 00:52:30,550
Let things work itself out. I’m, This is for all

759
00:52:30,610 –> 00:52:33,610
of the people out here who have watched too much Disney,

760
00:52:33,630 –> 00:52:37,650
who have watched too many of these videos, artificial intelligence

761
00:52:38,829 –> 00:52:41,530
in videos and things like that, who really actually believe

762
00:52:41,550 –> 00:52:45,030
you can do this. Here is a cheap and easy

763
00:52:45,340 –> 00:52:49,659
life survival hack, okay? We talk about survival on this show,

764
00:52:49,719 –> 00:52:51,980
and this is going to be an easy one, okay?

765
00:52:52,739 –> 00:53:01,429
Here is the summary. Folks, wildlife is not easy. your friend, okay?

766
00:53:02,519 –> 00:53:07,340
The giant horned cows out in Montana, otherwise known as buffalo,

767
00:53:08,780 –> 00:53:13,340
are not your friend. They don’t want you to pet them.

768
00:53:14,090 –> 00:53:21,409
Zoo animals are not your friend. Bears, deer, elk, fox, coyotes, wolves,

769
00:53:22,289 –> 00:53:30,929
even birds, mice, rabbits, platypus are not your friends. Wild

770
00:53:31,070 –> 00:53:34,869
animals don’t care about your feelings of love for them.

771
00:53:35,869 –> 00:53:41,099
To them, life is eat or be eaten, live or die,

772
00:53:41,639 –> 00:53:46,699
fight or flight. For the most part, they see your

773
00:53:46,840 –> 00:53:53,260
bipedal stupidity as a threat. Okay, maybe capybaras are the

774
00:53:53,380 –> 00:53:58,230
exception though. They’re kind of friendly. And really, possums for

775
00:53:58,269 –> 00:54:00,510
the most part, even though that kind of bad i

776
00:54:00,550 –> 00:54:02,730
mean you can kind of i’ve tamed possums and i’ve

777
00:54:02,750 –> 00:54:06,170
tamed raccoons i don’t recommend it raccoons especially because they

778
00:54:06,190 –> 00:54:08,070
get you know i was young and stupid they do

779
00:54:08,110 –> 00:54:10,469
get rabies they can they can really screw you up

780
00:54:11,199 –> 00:54:18,420
but anyways wild animals are beautiful to look at do

781
00:54:18,500 –> 00:54:26,199
it from far away okay they’re not your friends The

782
00:54:26,320 –> 00:54:29,380
giant kitty in a zoo, even though he’s been caged

783
00:54:29,420 –> 00:54:35,260
since birth, you are beef to the giant kitty. Your

784
00:54:35,389 –> 00:54:38,469
house cat will eat you if it was given half

785
00:54:38,510 –> 00:54:42,469
a chance, okay? Even though they act like they love you,

786
00:54:42,590 –> 00:54:45,050
if you were to pass out on the floor, they

787
00:54:45,070 –> 00:54:49,489
would probably start eating you. This public service announcement is

788
00:54:49,550 –> 00:54:52,429
brought to you by myself and all of the friends

789
00:54:52,489 –> 00:54:59,010
at KLRN Radio. Don’t be stupid. It’s really easy. I’ve

790
00:54:59,150 –> 00:55:05,610
grown up in wooded areas, fields, ponds. And I can

791
00:55:05,650 –> 00:55:08,369
tell you through experience, I’ve been attacked by a buck

792
00:55:08,489 –> 00:55:12,789
during the rut. Okay. I’ve been attacked by wild boar.

793
00:55:12,829 –> 00:55:15,179
I’ve had to climb a tree to get away from it.

794
00:55:15,659 –> 00:55:19,420
While my cousins and friends all laughed because I got

795
00:55:19,519 –> 00:55:23,980
treated by a boar. And as I know, a lot

796
00:55:24,019 –> 00:55:26,780
of them are friend shaped, but they’re not friends. They

797
00:55:26,820 –> 00:55:32,710
are wild beasts. They don’t like you. They don’t. Trust me.

798
00:55:35,570 –> 00:55:38,710
I’m Alan Ray. This has been Sunday Night with Alan Ray.

799
00:55:38,730 –> 00:55:40,780
I’m surprised we, you know, I’d never have a problem

800
00:55:40,820 –> 00:55:43,119
getting through an hour. I really don’t because I can,

801
00:55:43,460 –> 00:55:48,340
one thing I can do is talk. I think I’ll

802
00:55:48,360 –> 00:55:50,679
be back next week. I got a busy weekend ahead

803
00:55:50,699 –> 00:55:55,829
of me next week. The daughter and her, my son-in-law

804
00:55:55,889 –> 00:55:58,889
are coming down. There’s going to be a wedding in

805
00:55:58,909 –> 00:56:00,989
the backyard. In fact, they’re putting up the giant tent

806
00:56:01,010 –> 00:56:05,750
for the wedding Wednesday. But there’s going to be a wedding.

807
00:56:05,769 –> 00:56:07,769
The next door neighbor kids are getting married in my backyard.

808
00:56:08,010 –> 00:56:13,590
God bless. You know what? The future groom grew up

809
00:56:13,800 –> 00:56:17,739
back there playing with my youngest child. They basically dominated

810
00:56:17,760 –> 00:56:20,480
that whole back three acres, the barns, everything like that.

811
00:56:21,219 –> 00:56:23,800
Go ahead. Get married back there. That’s your safe space, man.

812
00:56:23,840 –> 00:56:26,159
That’s where you feel at home. Do it. That’s what

813
00:56:26,179 –> 00:56:29,030
I told you. So, you know, I’m going to help

814
00:56:29,070 –> 00:56:32,869
with that a little bit. I don’t know how much

815
00:56:33,030 –> 00:56:34,980
fight I’ll have left in me come Sunday night, but

816
00:56:35,000 –> 00:56:36,480
I’m going to try to be back next Sunday night.

817
00:56:37,260 –> 00:56:42,639
So until then, as I always say, whether you pray, meditate,

818
00:56:42,659 –> 00:56:47,769
whatever you do, pray for discernment, pray for wisdom, because

819
00:56:47,949 –> 00:56:50,409
God knows we need more and more of that in

820
00:56:50,449 –> 00:56:52,949
this society. I’m Alan Ray. Peace.

821
00:57:03,139 –> 00:57:03,559
Speaker 4: Thank you.