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A Third Aircraft Carrier Is Headed to the Middle East. What's Coming? | A Navy SEAL Reacts
MIKE DROP NEWSROOM | 02 OCTOBER 2026
A busy front page to close out the week. The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal split today, so Mike covers both.
The headlines: the Pentagon is sending a third aircraft carrier strike group and more Marine Corps ships to the Middle East, adding roughly 10,000 troops to the region. OpenAI and Anthropic are spending to influence the midterm races and shape AI rules. Teachers and students warn that Google's AI push in schools is hurting learning. The FlyDubai captain who was stabbed by his co-pilot is being hailed for saving Flight 1073. Also covered: the Cornell case dominating social media, Tennessee halting executions after an inmate survived two doses of lethal injection, OpenAI firing researchers who shared information with an AI safety group, a global bond selloff, and high rates freezing the housing market.
Mike's take: a third carrier group on top of an already heavy presence isn't just a show of force; he thinks it signals something may be about to happen, and he wants the administration to define what winning looks like. He calls lobbying a legal term for bribery and says he's baffled it's still allowed. On AI in schools, he compares it to map and compass versus GPS: AI is a great tool if you already know the subject, but kids who lean on it may never learn to think for themselves. He also tips his cap to the FlyDubai captain, the crew and the passengers who fought back, and asks for more civility, online and off.
Your turn. Is the military buildup a signal? Can anyone make the case for lobbying? Is AI helping or hurting our kids? Tell us in the comments, and as Mike asks, keep it civil. He reads them.
Timestamps
0:00 Happy Friday
0:25 The Times and the Journal split today
0:50 The Cornell case
2:55 Faith, family and how we treat each other online
5:50 Tennessee halts executions
7:30 AI giants spend on the midterms
7:55 Is lobbying just legal bribery?
9:10 Questions about the FlyDubai co-pilot's motive
10:00 The captain who saved Flight 1073
12:05 OpenAI fires researchers over AI safety leak
13:45 The global bond selloff
15:00 Why interest rates aren't fixing inflation
16:15 Texas home prices and a frozen housing market
18:20 AI in schools: can kids still think?
21:15 Map and compass vs. GPS
22:05 A third carrier group heads to the Middle East
23:20 What does winning look like?
24:10 Weather and wrap-up
Former Navy SEAL Mike Ritland reads the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times so you don't have to. No cable news spin, no recycled talking points, just the actual front pages and a straight take on what they mean for you.
On Mike Drop Newsroom, Mike picks the day's biggest headlines, compares how two of the country's largest papers cover them, and says what he thinks. That covers everything from AI and national security to the economy, foreign policy and the stories cable TV skips. He's not here to push a party line. As Mike puts it, if you want to put a label on him, he's an American who wants to see America succeed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: mic drop newsroom where the front page gets a second opinion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll have to be Friday, everyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for tuning in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's raining here, still, or again in Texas, and I swear the
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[SPEAKER_00]: it won't rain for three months and then try to catch up in two days as it gets into the fall here but pretty soggy here is it rain and where you're at it seems like it's rain in quite a few places but kind of a lot of headlines to get into and go over to the disparity between the New York Times and Wall Street Journal this morning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to hit the times first because there's just a couple of different stories than I see in the journal, but the first one is, and I want to talk about it because it's been in the news a lot, it's been all over social media with a lot of people going back and forth, and this is one of those.
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[SPEAKER_00]: issues that tends to separate the sexes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You probably know what I'm talking about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Former Cornell students, Shane, turned into anguish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've had a number of people ask me what I think about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's been all over social media where women are bashing men, men are saying we need to do better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, for me, this kind of falls into the same camp.
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[SPEAKER_00]: as the Lindsey Connancy case for me and by that I mean, both of them are just terrible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't dig into the weeds on either of them super hard because I wasn't there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's an ongoing investigation slash case and, you know, to me it's just there's so many things about it that I'm just not aware of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now having said that, I think both of them are
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[SPEAKER_00]: demonstrably horrible, and for me the bigger thing that it makes me think of when I see both of these instances is just how far we need to go as a society to prevent raising people who turn into these types of monsters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now granted, I know that there are facts that both sides are both cases that
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know are unknown and you know other people contributed to that you can talk about people being raised wrong you can talk about you know people who are on medication in bad marriages you know kids that come from broken homes I mean there's a lot of things that you can point to and say this is the cause and effect or this is the root cause
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, the biggest thing that it makes me think of is just as a society, I think we need more Jesus in our lives, frankly, you know, as I've gotten older and come back to my faith and, you know, really
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[SPEAKER_00]: really focused on that hard lately.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just kind of see that as the perspective different in a lot of the things that I look at and you know ultimately the nuclear family I think has broken down and is not the way that it used to be and I think that's a contributing factor not the only one but I just think as
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of that, I think, can start even online and social media of people being more kind to one another.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, when I think about even when I was growing up, anybody that had an opinion had a hard time getting it out there, there wasn't the ability for every single individual in the country to publicly post their thoughts, their views on everything, there wasn't the ability
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and to me, that's kind of the big thing that I see that tends to degrade how we treat each other is like if you look at the comment section on any social media on YouTube, the way people treat each other is, uh, of hornet, you know, there's no real consequence for talking to people in a way that, you know, generally speaking, nobody would talk to each other in person that way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, 20 years ago, they're just was not that ability to be so mean and vile to one another constantly, you know, and people do it all day long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I know some of them are bots, some of them are people that are trolling that are, you know, anonymous accounts that are just trying to push people's buttons.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But again, 20 years ago, that they're just wasn't the ability to do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now I feel like most people are indicted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if you look at comment sections on any platform, it's just incessant, you know, and I think that over time that just changes the way people think, it changes the way people feel about and treat each other, you know, when you combine all those things, the broken down family, you know, social media having the impact that it has as good as it is in some ways.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, in short, the Cornell thing seems terrible, everything that I've seen, it seems like there's so many failures from the college, the police response, or lack there of, but again, I wasn't there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know all of the intricacies of it, and for me to sit here and have some huge opinion, again, like whether it's that or the Clancy case, I don't other than
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's terrible to see things like that happen, and I hate to see it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Moving on, Tennessee, you guys, I'm sure you've probably seen, there's a hold as placed on executions, inmates still alive after two doses of the lethal injection drug, and there was a,
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a clip on their headline on the Wall Street Journal that I'll cover since it's relevant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tennessee Governor Billy halted executions in the state after a woman convicted of murder survived two doses of lethal injection before she was rushed to the hospital for medical care.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That seems odd to me now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While I'm not for cruel and unusual punishment, I do think it's
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there needs to be a line, what I don't understand is how that happens.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, rushing somebody to the hospital that you're trying to execute seems a little counter-intuitive to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't there, I don't know the details, so maybe I should take my own advice and or be consistent and stop there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that does seem like a both unfortunate and strange thing to do that way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know what's going on in Tennessee, but Sean, maybe you can tell us, maybe you can get to the bottom of that, since it's close to home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, also in the New York Times, two titans of AI opening wallets for midterm bids in an effort to sway races, open AI and anthropic are working quietly to try to shape the rules.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My opinion on this, if you want to call it lobbying, which to me is a fancy and legal term for bribes, I'm baffled that in our country that that is legal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is something I would call on Congress and the Senate to figure out a way to end that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think most people could agree that whether it's, you know, Titans of AI trying to shape policies or lack thereof, you know, trying to get rid of guardrails or influencing our government to shape policy that benefits them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How is that anything other than a bribe?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The fact that that's legal in today's day and age to me is, again, it's baffling, I don't get it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to hear your guys' opinion, is there anyone listening right now or watching that thinks that lobbying is a good idea and should be legal?
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[SPEAKER_00]: If it is, or if you do feel that way, I'd love to hear why.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't see how it's good or beneficial.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I always try to keep an open mind, so if somebody has an opinion that can change my mind on it, I'm happy to change it, I just don't see it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The bottom part of the New York Times, talking about questions on co-pilot's motive after mid-air attack in cockpit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is the fly-do-by case that we've been talking about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Case hijacking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to imagine that there wasn't some sort of terror plot involved, but, again, weren't there?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't know what the motives were.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm curious to see, you know, what comes out of, you know, what the motives are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would be shocked if it's anything other than some sort of terror plot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I will see, see what happens there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty much everything on the New York Times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I will switch over to the Wall Street Journal now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Their main story is cool-headed fly-do-by-capped and saved everything in attack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this guy apparently was an Indian pilot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's hailed for his quick actions after he was stabbed in a cockpit full of blood.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about this yesterday, it's a pretty terrifying prospect, but hats off to the Indian pilot that managed to not only keep the plane from crashing, but help subdue and get the door open and try to imagine being in a cockpit where an entire fuselage of civilian passengers lives are in your hands and the guy who's supposed to have your back starts stabbing you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know that the guys obviously it's a tip of the cap to the training in the aviation world.
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[SPEAKER_00]: across the board, it reminds me of the Sully case, I think, and that, you know, their ability to condition and train pilots to be able to mitigate risk and manage emergencies, especially in an unexpected one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I can't imagine that there's any part of the training course in any aviation curriculum that covers being stabbed by the copilot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: yet he managed to keep a cool, cool enough head to mitigate all that risk and keep the plane from crashing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, a huge compliment to the flight attendants and at least one passenger sounds like several passengers that manage to subdue the guy and keep it all from crashing down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what a miraculous story, terrifying but miraculous and I think
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[SPEAKER_00]: is the human condition that values life, in a world where we tend to focus on all the negative.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of great examples.
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[SPEAKER_00]: in that hijacking of amazing human beings doing heroic courageous and miraculous things to save themselves and one another.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So try to focus on the good part there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the what's news bullet points is open AI fired three researchers for alleged misconduct including sharing confidential company information.
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[SPEAKER_00]: with a third-party AI safety organization.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of a dicey one on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, obviously there are company policies for a reason and employees, sharing confidential information in any regard can't be tolerated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The dicey or tough part for me on this one is, you know, it's a third-party AI safety organization.
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[SPEAKER_00]: judging or based on the fact that open AI is one of the two giants that's trying to bribe and shape policy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's probably not a huge surprise that they're going about it the way that they did firing people for helping AI safety organizations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't have all the details, but I think everybody can probably read between the lines a little bit on that one and understand
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's probably a case of employees that are kind of in the whistleblower category that are trying to help these safety organizations get to the bottom of instituting some sort of guideline or policy or regulation that helps kind of maintain some sense of balance in order within the AI space.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Be curious to see what comes out of that, though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot of talk about global bond cell-offs, which, you know, I think is probably boring for most people, but if one thing I've learned in being
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[SPEAKER_00]: more interested in business over the last 15 years or so of being an entrepreneur is you know the bond markets and especially the global bond markets are usually a pretty good indicator of global economies and and because the US bond market is so woven into an integral into the global market and global economy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's pretty telling and not in a good way, so I do encourage people to pay attention to some of the big key kind of litmus or pulse, you know, finger on the pulse factors of global economy and not so much, you know, doom and gloom, but just being able to understand, you know, kind of what's going on and where
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[SPEAKER_00]: The United States sits in the global market, and the bond market is typically a good measure of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A couple other things that I tend to pay attention to, and again, I would ask your guys as a opinion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think it's important, and is there anything that you pay attention to that I'm not mentioning that you also think is a good indicator of kind of where we're at and maybe more importantly, where we're headed, but inflation and interest rates, that whole
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[SPEAKER_00]: At this point, kind of a debacle, I mean traditionally, it seems like raising interest rates was the response to inflation to try to decrease inflation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But at this point with printing and debt, it seems as though that traditional or historical approach to decreasing inflation isn't really working.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's kind of a double-annoy where
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not really helping inflation and it's just crushing home buyers, you know, and people that are borrowing money for businesses or what have you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know what what the solution is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Any economist out there that see something that I am not saying or that most people aren't saying or that's not being talked about that one is either an indicator of kind of what's going on and where we're headed or two and or two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, something that would help fix that whole problem, I don't know what that is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In that same vein, another bullet point is high rates, prices, stymie, house hunters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's another question for the audience.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here in Texas, home prices of skyrocketed over the last five or so years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I remember,
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[SPEAKER_00]: going into the COVID shutdown period.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Housing prices here were manageable, relatively reasonable, and, you know, generally affordable by kind of national standards.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It also seems like during that COVID shutdown, about half of America moved to Texas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The population boom here has been
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[SPEAKER_00]: hard to wrap your mind around.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's been astronomical and it's basically doubled and then some most home prices, which I think, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: as much as any homeowner here as like man my house is worth twice what it was five six years ago, you know that kind of growth in that short amount of time I don't think is necessarily positive and it kind of traps you and that you know now with rates especially being as high as they are to sell you know your house and move.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you're essentially kind of cutting yourself off the knees a little bit because one, you know, you're not going to get a rate anywhere near what you got it for five, six years ago and two, that you're going to be buying into an inflated market.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it doesn't really make sense to sell your house even though it's worth way more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so there's not a ton of inventory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of houses being built, but it's a kind of a weird
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[SPEAKER_00]: home prices and values are high, it's definitely a buyer's market because so few people are actually buying houses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm curious for the listener slash viewer is that the same or you're at is there anybody out there that lives in an area where that's not taking place or hasn't taken place over the last half dozen years or so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I think that's also a pretty key indicator
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[SPEAKER_00]: This one's an interesting one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Google's AI push in schools fuels alarm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Teachers and students say learning is suffering and quote, it was hard to think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Face with quadratic equation, Bob, I won't get into any more than that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can definitely feel that, like the more I use chat, GPT, or rock, or cloth, or any of those things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: there does seem to be a little bit more brain fog when you don't have that assistance and you know I can see especially in junior high and high school if students are leaning so much on on AI and you know chat GPT style assistance that it gets you to the point where you kind of lose the ability to think you know it's no secret that
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[SPEAKER_00]: The public education system over the last, you know, several decades has stifled most students ability to critically think and think logically, especially things like using the secretic method as an example.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is almost non-existent if not non-existent in public education.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the standardizing of tests and Department of Education have talked about this a lot on the show in the correlation of, you know, nationalizing our Department of Education instead of kicking it to the states to run it as they see fit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's been a direct correlation of, you know, test scores and where we rank internationally public education
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[SPEAKER_00]: has gone down, down, down consistently ever since we did that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now you couple AI, and it's like the thing that worries me is that you're going to have a crop of, or a generation of kids entering the adult world and workforce that really don't have the ability to actually think without getting assistance from either AI or Google, or the internet generally speaking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The ability to use chatGPT or any of these other platforms is great help and assistance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you already kind of know what you're doing, it's not a substitute for knowledge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's an augmentation for knowledge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It helps you be more efficient.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you have to already understand the subject matter, generally speaking, unless you're taking a picture of a broken light fixture and asking how to fix it or whatever, but when it comes to thinking and just short-cutting that ability to critically think, it's hamstringing young kids and their ability to learn how to problem solve on their own, it kind of reminds me of,
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[SPEAKER_00]: map and compass versus GPS and the military, you know GPS is our great and we use them all the time same thing even in the civilian world in your car whether it's Google maps or Apple maps or whatever I mean I use it all the time But you still need to understand how to navigate on your own by just looking at a map and not being led down the Primrose path
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[SPEAKER_00]: you still need to be able to use your kind of intuition and map reading skills and understand navigation at least at a base level.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, it's kind of the same thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: GPS is a great help, but you need to know how to do it without it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's my biggest concern with this big push for AI into schooling is you're going to have this crap of kids that just don't even know how to think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you guys think?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is it as big of a problem as I'm making it out to be, or do you see it ultimately as a huge benefit and a technology that's only going to help the human race?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You tell me your thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Pentagon is sending a third aircraft carrier strike group and additional marine core ships to the Middle East adding nine to 10,000 more troops to the region.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's significant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it also probably shows our hand a little bit on what we're planning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't typically do that just as a show of force.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's already a pretty significant show of force there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If there was no show of force and we wanted to send kind of a proverbial shot across the bow by putting a heavy presence there, that's one thing, but there's already obviously a significant presence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're sending a third aircraft carrier strike group and an additional 10,000 troops.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's probably an indicator that there may be something about to happen over there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've talked about my mixed feelings on Iran and our involvement and how if we were going to do something we should have done something in the mid-2000s when they were killing our troops in Iraq.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've talked about this, I think the last few days
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to get your guys as taken and I encourage everybody in the comments to try to be
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[SPEAKER_00]: at least civil with one another.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Can we at least do that, you know, not saying blow smoke, you know, and sugarcoat, everything, but at least just be polite and civil to one another.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That would be fantastic, but I'd love to get, you know, the overall take from you guys on whether or not it makes sense to go the full, full push boots on the ground, see everything to its final kind of winning or what success looks like, would be nice to have a definition from the administration on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you guys think?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's kind of all the headlines today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of a bit all over the place, but I think that's good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just one or two big stories.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so curious to see what you guys think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll hit the weather last since the New York Times gives us that blip.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Rain is expected to shift into the Ohio Valley in northern New England today, cooler and drier across the Upper Midwest, very warm in the west.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Go figure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's raining here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How is it where you guys are at?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's Friday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you guys had a great week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you have a safe and fun weekend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I appreciate you guys watching and, um, yeah, just, uh, I enjoy doing these.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It seems like the feedback is positive and I appreciate you guys tuning in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I do love hearing your guys' thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, uh, please chime in in the comments if you're watching on YouTube.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For listening to the audio, feel free to jump on YouTube and give me your opinion on something, but, um, at any rate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Happy Friday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for tuning in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: God bless everyone of you guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope that the peace of Christ is woven into your day every single day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I thank you guys for tuning in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for the support.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See you guys tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: mic drop newsroom where the front page gets a second opinion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll have to be Friday, everyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for tuning in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's raining here, still, or again in Texas, and I swear the
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[SPEAKER_00]: it won't rain for three months and then try to catch up in two days as it gets into the fall here but pretty soggy here is it rain and where you're at it seems like it's rain in quite a few places but kind of a lot of headlines to get into and go over to the disparity between the New York Times and Wall Street Journal this morning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to hit the times first because there's just a couple of different stories than I see in the journal, but the first one is, and I want to talk about it because it's been in the news a lot, it's been all over social media with a lot of people going back and forth, and this is one of those.
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[SPEAKER_00]: issues that tends to separate the sexes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You probably know what I'm talking about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Former Cornell students, Shane, turned into anguish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've had a number of people ask me what I think about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's been all over social media where women are bashing men, men are saying we need to do better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, for me, this kind of falls into the same camp.
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[SPEAKER_00]: as the Lindsey Connancy case for me and by that I mean, both of them are just terrible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't dig into the weeds on either of them super hard because I wasn't there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's an ongoing investigation slash case and, you know, to me it's just there's so many things about it that I'm just not aware of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now having said that, I think both of them are
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[SPEAKER_00]: demonstrably horrible, and for me the bigger thing that it makes me think of when I see both of these instances is just how far we need to go as a society to prevent raising people who turn into these types of monsters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now granted, I know that there are facts that both sides are both cases that
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know are unknown and you know other people contributed to that you can talk about people being raised wrong you can talk about you know people who are on medication in bad marriages you know kids that come from broken homes I mean there's a lot of things that you can point to and say this is the cause and effect or this is the root cause
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, the biggest thing that it makes me think of is just as a society, I think we need more Jesus in our lives, frankly, you know, as I've gotten older and come back to my faith and, you know, really
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[SPEAKER_00]: really focused on that hard lately.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just kind of see that as the perspective different in a lot of the things that I look at and you know ultimately the nuclear family I think has broken down and is not the way that it used to be and I think that's a contributing factor not the only one but I just think as
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of that, I think, can start even online and social media of people being more kind to one another.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, when I think about even when I was growing up, anybody that had an opinion had a hard time getting it out there, there wasn't the ability for every single individual in the country to publicly post their thoughts, their views on everything, there wasn't the ability
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and to me, that's kind of the big thing that I see that tends to degrade how we treat each other is like if you look at the comment section on any social media on YouTube, the way people treat each other is, uh, of hornet, you know, there's no real consequence for talking to people in a way that, you know, generally speaking, nobody would talk to each other in person that way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, 20 years ago, they're just was not that ability to be so mean and vile to one another constantly, you know, and people do it all day long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I know some of them are bots, some of them are people that are trolling that are, you know, anonymous accounts that are just trying to push people's buttons.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But again, 20 years ago, that they're just wasn't the ability to do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now I feel like most people are indicted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if you look at comment sections on any platform, it's just incessant, you know, and I think that over time that just changes the way people think, it changes the way people feel about and treat each other, you know, when you combine all those things, the broken down family, you know, social media having the impact that it has as good as it is in some ways.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, in short, the Cornell thing seems terrible, everything that I've seen, it seems like there's so many failures from the college, the police response, or lack there of, but again, I wasn't there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know all of the intricacies of it, and for me to sit here and have some huge opinion, again, like whether it's that or the Clancy case, I don't other than
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's terrible to see things like that happen, and I hate to see it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Moving on, Tennessee, you guys, I'm sure you've probably seen, there's a hold as placed on executions, inmates still alive after two doses of the lethal injection drug, and there was a,
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a clip on their headline on the Wall Street Journal that I'll cover since it's relevant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tennessee Governor Billy halted executions in the state after a woman convicted of murder survived two doses of lethal injection before she was rushed to the hospital for medical care.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That seems odd to me now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While I'm not for cruel and unusual punishment, I do think it's
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there needs to be a line, what I don't understand is how that happens.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, rushing somebody to the hospital that you're trying to execute seems a little counter-intuitive to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't there, I don't know the details, so maybe I should take my own advice and or be consistent and stop there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that does seem like a both unfortunate and strange thing to do that way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know what's going on in Tennessee, but Sean, maybe you can tell us, maybe you can get to the bottom of that, since it's close to home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, also in the New York Times, two titans of AI opening wallets for midterm bids in an effort to sway races, open AI and anthropic are working quietly to try to shape the rules.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My opinion on this, if you want to call it lobbying, which to me is a fancy and legal term for bribes, I'm baffled that in our country that that is legal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is something I would call on Congress and the Senate to figure out a way to end that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think most people could agree that whether it's, you know, Titans of AI trying to shape policies or lack thereof, you know, trying to get rid of guardrails or influencing our government to shape policy that benefits them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How is that anything other than a bribe?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The fact that that's legal in today's day and age to me is, again, it's baffling, I don't get it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to hear your guys' opinion, is there anyone listening right now or watching that thinks that lobbying is a good idea and should be legal?
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[SPEAKER_00]: If it is, or if you do feel that way, I'd love to hear why.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't see how it's good or beneficial.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I always try to keep an open mind, so if somebody has an opinion that can change my mind on it, I'm happy to change it, I just don't see it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The bottom part of the New York Times, talking about questions on co-pilot's motive after mid-air attack in cockpit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is the fly-do-by case that we've been talking about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Case hijacking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to imagine that there wasn't some sort of terror plot involved, but, again, weren't there?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't know what the motives were.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm curious to see, you know, what comes out of, you know, what the motives are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would be shocked if it's anything other than some sort of terror plot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I will see, see what happens there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty much everything on the New York Times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I will switch over to the Wall Street Journal now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Their main story is cool-headed fly-do-by-capped and saved everything in attack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this guy apparently was an Indian pilot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's hailed for his quick actions after he was stabbed in a cockpit full of blood.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about this yesterday, it's a pretty terrifying prospect, but hats off to the Indian pilot that managed to not only keep the plane from crashing, but help subdue and get the door open and try to imagine being in a cockpit where an entire fuselage of civilian passengers lives are in your hands and the guy who's supposed to have your back starts stabbing you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know that the guys obviously it's a tip of the cap to the training in the aviation world.
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[SPEAKER_00]: across the board, it reminds me of the Sully case, I think, and that, you know, their ability to condition and train pilots to be able to mitigate risk and manage emergencies, especially in an unexpected one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I can't imagine that there's any part of the training course in any aviation curriculum that covers being stabbed by the copilot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: yet he managed to keep a cool, cool enough head to mitigate all that risk and keep the plane from crashing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, a huge compliment to the flight attendants and at least one passenger sounds like several passengers that manage to subdue the guy and keep it all from crashing down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what a miraculous story, terrifying but miraculous and I think
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[SPEAKER_00]: is the human condition that values life, in a world where we tend to focus on all the negative.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of great examples.
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[SPEAKER_00]: in that hijacking of amazing human beings doing heroic courageous and miraculous things to save themselves and one another.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So try to focus on the good part there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the what's news bullet points is open AI fired three researchers for alleged misconduct including sharing confidential company information.
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[SPEAKER_00]: with a third-party AI safety organization.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of a dicey one on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, obviously there are company policies for a reason and employees, sharing confidential information in any regard can't be tolerated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The dicey or tough part for me on this one is, you know, it's a third-party AI safety organization.
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[SPEAKER_00]: judging or based on the fact that open AI is one of the two giants that's trying to bribe and shape policy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's probably not a huge surprise that they're going about it the way that they did firing people for helping AI safety organizations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't have all the details, but I think everybody can probably read between the lines a little bit on that one and understand
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's probably a case of employees that are kind of in the whistleblower category that are trying to help these safety organizations get to the bottom of instituting some sort of guideline or policy or regulation that helps kind of maintain some sense of balance in order within the AI space.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Be curious to see what comes out of that, though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot of talk about global bond cell-offs, which, you know, I think is probably boring for most people, but if one thing I've learned in being
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[SPEAKER_00]: more interested in business over the last 15 years or so of being an entrepreneur is you know the bond markets and especially the global bond markets are usually a pretty good indicator of global economies and and because the US bond market is so woven into an integral into the global market and global economy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's pretty telling and not in a good way, so I do encourage people to pay attention to some of the big key kind of litmus or pulse, you know, finger on the pulse factors of global economy and not so much, you know, doom and gloom, but just being able to understand, you know, kind of what's going on and where
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[SPEAKER_00]: The United States sits in the global market, and the bond market is typically a good measure of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A couple other things that I tend to pay attention to, and again, I would ask your guys as a opinion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think it's important, and is there anything that you pay attention to that I'm not mentioning that you also think is a good indicator of kind of where we're at and maybe more importantly, where we're headed, but inflation and interest rates, that whole
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[SPEAKER_00]: At this point, kind of a debacle, I mean traditionally, it seems like raising interest rates was the response to inflation to try to decrease inflation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But at this point with printing and debt, it seems as though that traditional or historical approach to decreasing inflation isn't really working.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's kind of a double-annoy where
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not really helping inflation and it's just crushing home buyers, you know, and people that are borrowing money for businesses or what have you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know what what the solution is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Any economist out there that see something that I am not saying or that most people aren't saying or that's not being talked about that one is either an indicator of kind of what's going on and where we're headed or two and or two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, something that would help fix that whole problem, I don't know what that is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In that same vein, another bullet point is high rates, prices, stymie, house hunters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's another question for the audience.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here in Texas, home prices of skyrocketed over the last five or so years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I remember,
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[SPEAKER_00]: going into the COVID shutdown period.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Housing prices here were manageable, relatively reasonable, and, you know, generally affordable by kind of national standards.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It also seems like during that COVID shutdown, about half of America moved to Texas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The population boom here has been
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[SPEAKER_00]: hard to wrap your mind around.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's been astronomical and it's basically doubled and then some most home prices, which I think, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: as much as any homeowner here as like man my house is worth twice what it was five six years ago, you know that kind of growth in that short amount of time I don't think is necessarily positive and it kind of traps you and that you know now with rates especially being as high as they are to sell you know your house and move.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you're essentially kind of cutting yourself off the knees a little bit because one, you know, you're not going to get a rate anywhere near what you got it for five, six years ago and two, that you're going to be buying into an inflated market.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it doesn't really make sense to sell your house even though it's worth way more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so there's not a ton of inventory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of houses being built, but it's a kind of a weird
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[SPEAKER_00]: home prices and values are high, it's definitely a buyer's market because so few people are actually buying houses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm curious for the listener slash viewer is that the same or you're at is there anybody out there that lives in an area where that's not taking place or hasn't taken place over the last half dozen years or so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I think that's also a pretty key indicator
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[SPEAKER_00]: This one's an interesting one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Google's AI push in schools fuels alarm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Teachers and students say learning is suffering and quote, it was hard to think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Face with quadratic equation, Bob, I won't get into any more than that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can definitely feel that, like the more I use chat, GPT, or rock, or cloth, or any of those things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: there does seem to be a little bit more brain fog when you don't have that assistance and you know I can see especially in junior high and high school if students are leaning so much on on AI and you know chat GPT style assistance that it gets you to the point where you kind of lose the ability to think you know it's no secret that
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[SPEAKER_00]: The public education system over the last, you know, several decades has stifled most students ability to critically think and think logically, especially things like using the secretic method as an example.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is almost non-existent if not non-existent in public education.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think the standardizing of tests and Department of Education have talked about this a lot on the show in the correlation of, you know, nationalizing our Department of Education instead of kicking it to the states to run it as they see fit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's been a direct correlation of, you know, test scores and where we rank internationally public education
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[SPEAKER_00]: has gone down, down, down consistently ever since we did that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now you couple AI, and it's like the thing that worries me is that you're going to have a crop of, or a generation of kids entering the adult world and workforce that really don't have the ability to actually think without getting assistance from either AI or Google, or the internet generally speaking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The ability to use chatGPT or any of these other platforms is great help and assistance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you already kind of know what you're doing, it's not a substitute for knowledge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's an augmentation for knowledge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It helps you be more efficient.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you have to already understand the subject matter, generally speaking, unless you're taking a picture of a broken light fixture and asking how to fix it or whatever, but when it comes to thinking and just short-cutting that ability to critically think, it's hamstringing young kids and their ability to learn how to problem solve on their own, it kind of reminds me of,
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[SPEAKER_00]: map and compass versus GPS and the military, you know GPS is our great and we use them all the time same thing even in the civilian world in your car whether it's Google maps or Apple maps or whatever I mean I use it all the time But you still need to understand how to navigate on your own by just looking at a map and not being led down the Primrose path
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[SPEAKER_00]: you still need to be able to use your kind of intuition and map reading skills and understand navigation at least at a base level.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, it's kind of the same thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: GPS is a great help, but you need to know how to do it without it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's my biggest concern with this big push for AI into schooling is you're going to have this crap of kids that just don't even know how to think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you guys think?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is it as big of a problem as I'm making it out to be, or do you see it ultimately as a huge benefit and a technology that's only going to help the human race?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You tell me your thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Pentagon is sending a third aircraft carrier strike group and additional marine core ships to the Middle East adding nine to 10,000 more troops to the region.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's significant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it also probably shows our hand a little bit on what we're planning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't typically do that just as a show of force.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's already a pretty significant show of force there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If there was no show of force and we wanted to send kind of a proverbial shot across the bow by putting a heavy presence there, that's one thing, but there's already obviously a significant presence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're sending a third aircraft carrier strike group and an additional 10,000 troops.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's probably an indicator that there may be something about to happen over there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've talked about my mixed feelings on Iran and our involvement and how if we were going to do something we should have done something in the mid-2000s when they were killing our troops in Iraq.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've talked about this, I think the last few days
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to get your guys as taken and I encourage everybody in the comments to try to be
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[SPEAKER_00]: at least civil with one another.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Can we at least do that, you know, not saying blow smoke, you know, and sugarcoat, everything, but at least just be polite and civil to one another.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That would be fantastic, but I'd love to get, you know, the overall take from you guys on whether or not it makes sense to go the full, full push boots on the ground, see everything to its final kind of winning or what success looks like, would be nice to have a definition from the administration on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you guys think?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's kind of all the headlines today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of a bit all over the place, but I think that's good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just one or two big stories.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so curious to see what you guys think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll hit the weather last since the New York Times gives us that blip.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Rain is expected to shift into the Ohio Valley in northern New England today, cooler and drier across the Upper Midwest, very warm in the west.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Go figure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's raining here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How is it where you guys are at?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's Friday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you guys had a great week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you have a safe and fun weekend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I appreciate you guys watching and, um, yeah, just, uh, I enjoy doing these.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It seems like the feedback is positive and I appreciate you guys tuning in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I do love hearing your guys' thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, uh, please chime in in the comments if you're watching on YouTube.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For listening to the audio, feel free to jump on YouTube and give me your opinion on something, but, um, at any rate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Happy Friday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for tuning in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: God bless everyone of you guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope that the peace of Christ is woven into your day every single day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I thank you guys for tuning in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for the support.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See you guys tomorrow.