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The U.S. Just Pulled B-1 Bombers Out of the UK. Why? | A Navy SEAL Reacts
MIKE DROP NEWSROOM | 05 OCTOBER 2026
The Journal and the Times split again today, and Mike gives the edge to the Times.
The headlines: the U.S. is moving its B-1 bombers out of the UK over security concerns. Investigators say authorities in three countries missed chances to keep the FlyDubai attacker out of the cockpit. President Trump repeated a promise of $5,000 to every adult American if Republicans win the midterms. A new White House task force has 120 days to report on the risks and opportunities of AI. Russian oil assets are now part of the Ukraine peace talks, with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at the table. Phoenix teenagers are running an illegal weapons pipeline into Mexico. AI is getting better at predicting breast cancer risk. And China is worried its citizens are relying on AI too much.
Mike's take: if the U.S. is pulling bombers out of the UK, one of our closest allies, then Iran's reach is a bigger problem than anyone's admitting. He wants Republicans to win the midterms, but he still calls the $5,000 promise a bribe paid with taxpayers' own money. On the AI task force and the Ukraine talks, his question is the same: who picks the people in charge, and what do they stand to gain? On the cartel gun pipeline, he argues that supply will always find a way, so the real fix is cutting demand, starting with strong families and better-raised kids. And he finds two positive AI stories: earlier cancer detection, and China possibly recognizing the risks.
Your turn. How is Iran still able to threaten us in the UK? Would $5,000 change your vote? What's the single most effective way to cut demand for drugs, weapons and trafficking? Tell us in the comments. Mike reads them.
Timestamps
0:00 Happy Monday and a quick housekeeping note
1:35 The Journal vs. the Times
1:55 Brazil's presidential election
2:10 B-1 bombers leave the UK
3:00 How can Iran still reach our allies?
4:10 How the FlyDubai attacker reached the cockpit
5:30 Incompetence or something more?
5:55 $5,000 for every adult if Republicans win
7:05 Paying voters with their own money
7:45 The White House AI task force
8:10 Who picks the people watching the people?
9:45 Russian oil in the Ukraine peace talks
10:45 Conflicts of interest at the negotiating table
12:20 Phoenix teens running guns to Mexico
13:15 Supply vs. demand
15:20 Fixing the root cause
16:35 AI that predicts breast cancer risk
17:45 China worries its citizens love AI too much
20:20 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]: Well, good morning and happy Monday, everyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yesterday, I shared a longer video.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I don't know what was going on with the internet and upload and want it took all day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The video quality was super poor like 480 poor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure what happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, apologize for the late video and the crappy video quality.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I did manage to get the audio feed figured out, which you know, when I do these solo videos, it's a one-man band, so to speak.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This isn't my best skill set in terms of trying to do all this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of on my own, so bear with me as I figure the, uh,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Her work the bugs are kinks out what have you, but yeah, I don't know, maybe I can re upload or try to re upload plugged into any Ethernet and maybe it'll work better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But at any rate, I shared it yesterday and didn't get out until last night, so feel free to check that out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also had a number of comments asking if I've lost a bunch of weight or if I'm okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it's the angle to straight on view and it's a little higher closer up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I weigh the same 200 pounds I have for 10 years plus health is fantastic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not lost anyway, I don't feel, I'm not sick, I don't feel sick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess maybe that's a heads up that I looked like crap, but in any rate I'm fine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for the concern.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and driving on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so the morning headlines got another fairly big disparity between the journal and the times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got to give it to the times today in terms of the quality and caliber of stories.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll knock the Wall Street Journal out first, due to that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A big part of it is that
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[SPEAKER_00]: the top story for the journal is Brazilians vote in closely thought presidential race.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't fathom why that's the top story on the Wall Street Journal on this Monday, but it is right below that is the U.S. brings B1 bombers back from the UK on security concerns.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about this a few times in the last week where
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's this royal air force base and a threat of attack from Iranian proxies, et cetera.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it looks like they're bringing the B1 bombers back from the UK due to that security concern, which, again, is alarming.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you think about the implications from a financial standpoint of what it costs, kind of risk versus reward for the United States to
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[SPEAKER_00]: decide and pull the trigger on executing, moving all of those airframes back to the United States that they're not going to do that unless it's a legitimate security threat and worth doing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Which begs the question is that how does Iran still have the capability of reaching our interests in a place like the UK?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's one thing if it's Bahrain or
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, somewhere that's close, or in the region, in this case, it's, you know, northern Europe, it's arguably our closest or one of our closest allies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's a concern, a huge concern.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've pitched this question to you guys a couple of times, I would ask again, you know, what is going to prevent that in terms of our dealings with Iran and how do we prevent that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's a huge deal, so doesn't give me a lot of confidence or us a lot of confidence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In our ability to, you know, continue to stifle and fork these attacks, you could argue that it's emboldened them and made them more motivated, for sure, more motivated to attack any interest that we have in the region or really globally.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a story worth checking out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Another one is a series of missteps put the pilot on the flight to Israel, you know, this air Dubai flight that went haywire with the pilot attacking the other pilot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Authorities in three countries missed chances to keep the attacker from the cockpit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it says that there were ample opportunity for authorities in three separate countries to keep him from getting in that cockpit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that there was a ton of online content that should have been caught, essentially.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, when you see, especially here in the United States, the kind of scrubbing and getting into the weeds that so many employers have with their employees at a much lower level where people's lives aren't on the line, to me, that's such a misstep, also makes you wonder if there's more behind it, you know, the three countries that miss that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they're okay with it, maybe they didn't realize that that was going to be the outcome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't imagine they would be okay with that, but it does raise eyebrows and concerns on why three separate countries missed all of that kind of red flag warning type material that allowed something like that to happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll throw that question to you guys, do you think it was
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[SPEAKER_00]: intentionally missed or glossed over and that they didn't care that there's a bigger kind of conspiracy behind it, or do you think it's pure and competency?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to know these days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A couple of other stories, Trump expanded his plan to provide benefits to voters saying he would hand seniors 90 bucks and reiterating a promise to give $5,000 to all adult Americans if Republicans win the midterms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, that's a tough one to swallow, frankly, I don't know how that's even legal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I'd love to get your guys to take.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is there anybody out there that thinks that that is a good idea or a just cause in kicking five grand every adult American to incentivize Republicans winning the midterms?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would prefer to see the Republicans win the midterms frankly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't seem or sound or look like they're probably going
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[SPEAKER_00]: But essentially, bribing the public to vote a certain way in paying, which is going to be taxpayer dollars.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of my favorite adages in terms of taxing, it's like standing in a bucket in trying to lift the bucket up by the handle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's essentially what it's doing, saying we're going to give five grand to all the taxpayers in this country and it's your money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just such a backwards way of looking at things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And to me, if you're policies and decision-making process, can't land you a reelection, you know, bribing it, it's just, it's baffling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I will ask you guys, anyone in here in favor of that, if they are, please explain why and help me understand it better, because I really don't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not all bad news coming out of the White House, a new White House task force will have 120 days to report on the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence and decide what responsibility the federal government has for technology.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is good to see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I tend to always ask who are these people that are being put in charge, you know, is it executives from these AI companies that are brought on as consultants or, you know, I know it says a task force, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So where is that task force being pulled from?
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[SPEAKER_00]: those are always the questions I think we should ask is anytime a watchdog group a task force an oversight committee etc.
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[SPEAKER_00]: when they're being selected and pulled from wherever they're being pulled from you know who who is selecting them what are they basing the criteria off of and you know what kind of guardrails do the people watching the people have I think I think
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, whether it's mainstream media or or even the government would put out some sort of kind of, I don't know, context or backdrop on who the people are and what the selection process looks like because to me that's everything, you know, whether it's
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[SPEAKER_00]: law enforcement anything in the government in any group that is in charge of regulating watching, you know, giving guidelines, etc., you know, you got to know who these people are because if you run into this other story which I'm going to get into in a minute.
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[SPEAKER_00]: on the times it's talking about a Russian oil Ukraine war stoppage you know the people making those negotiations are part of the thing but you know you got to know who those people are and and what angle they might have to kind of pre-determine what what that supposed solution is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Since I just mentioned that story, I'll cover that one first on the New York Times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Deal, meshes, Russian oil, Ukraine, and Trump allies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whitkoff, Kushner, and Putin discussed sale of luke oil assets during peace talks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So essentially what is taking place here is, you know, they're trying to negotiate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They being the United States and Russia and components of Ukraine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To end the war.
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[SPEAKER_00]: woven into that process that includes one of Russia's biggest oil companies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The problem is, you know, the deal is contingent on approval from the U.S. government and the Cremlin, its oil fields, but the leading group seeking the deal includes American investor, Todd Bowley, who's donated 2 million to President Trump's political causes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and Middle Eastern groups that have done business with Kushner and Whitka who are part of the negotiation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So here's kind of another classic example of
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[SPEAKER_00]: Our government officials and representatives, you know, those, those two aren't even elected officials.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're appointed by the current administration to negotiate peace talks, including a huge economic package that has enormously positive implications on companies that are tied to the people or individuals that are making or doing the negotiations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, again, we talked about this yesterday and several times since I've been doing these these headlines, you know, that can't be okay, you know, and it's stuff like that, it's, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: stories like this that give, I think, most people pause and, you know, a lack of confidence in our government, you know, and that just spills all the way down, you know, from the very top all the way through the House of Representatives, because there's a ton of instances within the House that there are also, you know, occurrences like that that happen where
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're making policy decisions that directly benefit them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I will ask you guys, are there any instances where any of you out there think that that's OK?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if so, please drop it in the comments and tell me why you think that's OK.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The main story on the times in terms of the headline that accompanies the big picture, which put that up real quick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to two teenagers with Balaklavas or Maskson and weapons out in the Sonoran Desert.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Phoenix, too young to buy a beer and barely old enough to drive yet these 14-age boys have already found their way into a criminal underworld.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These Phoenix boys manage a pipeline of illegal weapons to Mexico.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am curious how kids who aren't even old enough to buy beer, etc., are getting their hands on all these weapons.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they're 18 and can buy long guns, I'm not sure, but one of the pictures has a suppressor on it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's an interesting thing, and I think most people would see that story and just think
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to do something about guns or, you know, let's stop this thing in particular, but it reminds me a lot of the supply and demand argument that so many of the guests that I've had on that are that were either in the DEA or, you know, had a heavy involvement in counter-narcotic operations and kind of the main takeaway from all of them is,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You have to cut off the demand that the supply is always going to be there and I think prison is a great example of even in the most controlled environment that we can provide.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can still get everything in prison.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's not realistic to think that we're ever going to stifle the supply of anything, whether it's narcotics, human trafficking, weapons, etc.
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[SPEAKER_00]: when the demand is high, you know, that this is an interesting kind of reversal and that it's, you know, the United States supplying Mexican cartel members with weapons.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, the principle is the exact same as it's a demand issue, you know, and so a story like this, I think, again, at face value, people maybe don't,
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[SPEAKER_00]: see the further implications but here's a question for you guys is that from a demand standpoint and this is not just specific to this story, you know, obviously trying to cut off the demand or stifle the demand for weapons from Mexican cartels is going to be problematic at best impossible at worst for us to try to have any significant impact on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But from a broader spectrum of human trafficking narcotics weapons, you know, what have you is that, you know, taking a look at how you how you decrease the demand
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, from my perspective, you know, when it comes to narcotics and the child trafficking peace, you know, which is primarily what runs into our country as you have, you know, an infrastructure in the United States, going back to the nuclear family, public education, you know, raising children properly, correctly, in a manner with which
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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't kind of get into this hamster wheel of demand, I think, is really what the focus needs to be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the medical industry, we talk about root causes, to me, these are symptoms of the root cause, which is a breakdown of our society, and to me, the focus really needs to be there, but I want to ask you guys,
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think the most, or the single most effective measure would be to decrease demand for all three of those things?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Weapons and narcotics human trafficking here in the United States.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I think that's the thing we need to look at, but that's what that story makes me think of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, a couple other things, and uh, the next two are both AI-related.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, we talk a lot about AI both on the show and, and in these headlines.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's a positive story that I wanted to share because I don't want to tall be negative.
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[SPEAKER_00]: AI appraises risk of getting breast cancer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, essentially it's using AI and I've seen this in a host of other,
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[SPEAKER_00]: kind of medical capacities, which is AI's ability to detect through screenings and other means finding cancer early, you know, diagnosing things that were misdiagnosed by human doctors.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's one super positive thing I see coming out of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The AI industry is
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is there ability to, you know, out-doctor human doctors and, you know, to me that's a huge positive step and I think that's one of the things that we can applaud AI for bringing to our society from a technology standpoint.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The other one, and I think this is actually positive too, is loving AI too much China has encouraged its citizens to embrace artificial intelligence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But now the government worries over growing signs of over reliance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a positive step in my opinion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We talk all the time, again, on the show with a lot of guests in the AI space and the defense space where those merge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you have a concern that China has no guardrails.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have no foresight into maintaining some sort
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[SPEAKER_00]: efficacy when it comes to utilizing AI and how to go about it in a way where there's essentially a wide open approach to it and of course that's alarming when it comes to
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[SPEAKER_00]: the defense space and the military industrial complex on their end if there's absolutely no regulations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They get to a point where they're so far ahead of us to where we've been trying to boy scout ourselves and regulate ourselves in a way that is relatively morally correct and kind of going about it the right way, but it ends up
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, putting us in a position where we're going to be defeated because we're so far behind.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, this is a positive step forward, I think, if China is starting to realize that their citizens are overreliant on it, maybe, you know, they will start to look at putting some sort of restriction regulation guardrails, et cetera, on the military space.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe that's wishful thinking and a pipe dream to think that that will happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if there's a story that is showing signs of the government seeing an over-reliance on it, that does give me at least some level of encouragement for maybe going about it the right way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what I ask is, is anybody out there encouraged, again, we've talked a lot about
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[SPEAKER_00]: the disparity between where the U.S. is at and China as far as the A.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: race, especially with the drone technology, but that's a whole nother story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You guys tell me, do you see China coming about it in a way that mirrors any of the concerns that we have, probably not, but it's always good to keep it positive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, yesterday's video, let me know if you want me to repost it in a higher video quality format, but I appreciate the flooding of positive comments and it's really really heartwarming for me to see such a positive response to the content of the video and it's been a great journey for me and I appreciate everybody's support and
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so, God bless everyone out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hope you have a great Monday and a good start to your week and we will 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]: Well, good morning and happy Monday, everyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yesterday, I shared a longer video.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I don't know what was going on with the internet and upload and want it took all day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The video quality was super poor like 480 poor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure what happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, apologize for the late video and the crappy video quality.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I did manage to get the audio feed figured out, which you know, when I do these solo videos, it's a one-man band, so to speak.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This isn't my best skill set in terms of trying to do all this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of on my own, so bear with me as I figure the, uh,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Her work the bugs are kinks out what have you, but yeah, I don't know, maybe I can re upload or try to re upload plugged into any Ethernet and maybe it'll work better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But at any rate, I shared it yesterday and didn't get out until last night, so feel free to check that out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also had a number of comments asking if I've lost a bunch of weight or if I'm okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it's the angle to straight on view and it's a little higher closer up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I weigh the same 200 pounds I have for 10 years plus health is fantastic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not lost anyway, I don't feel, I'm not sick, I don't feel sick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess maybe that's a heads up that I looked like crap, but in any rate I'm fine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for the concern.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and driving on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so the morning headlines got another fairly big disparity between the journal and the times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got to give it to the times today in terms of the quality and caliber of stories.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll knock the Wall Street Journal out first, due to that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A big part of it is that
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[SPEAKER_00]: the top story for the journal is Brazilians vote in closely thought presidential race.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't fathom why that's the top story on the Wall Street Journal on this Monday, but it is right below that is the U.S. brings B1 bombers back from the UK on security concerns.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about this a few times in the last week where
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's this royal air force base and a threat of attack from Iranian proxies, et cetera.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it looks like they're bringing the B1 bombers back from the UK due to that security concern, which, again, is alarming.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you think about the implications from a financial standpoint of what it costs, kind of risk versus reward for the United States to
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[SPEAKER_00]: decide and pull the trigger on executing, moving all of those airframes back to the United States that they're not going to do that unless it's a legitimate security threat and worth doing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Which begs the question is that how does Iran still have the capability of reaching our interests in a place like the UK?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's one thing if it's Bahrain or
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, somewhere that's close, or in the region, in this case, it's, you know, northern Europe, it's arguably our closest or one of our closest allies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's a concern, a huge concern.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've pitched this question to you guys a couple of times, I would ask again, you know, what is going to prevent that in terms of our dealings with Iran and how do we prevent that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's a huge deal, so doesn't give me a lot of confidence or us a lot of confidence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In our ability to, you know, continue to stifle and fork these attacks, you could argue that it's emboldened them and made them more motivated, for sure, more motivated to attack any interest that we have in the region or really globally.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a story worth checking out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Another one is a series of missteps put the pilot on the flight to Israel, you know, this air Dubai flight that went haywire with the pilot attacking the other pilot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Authorities in three countries missed chances to keep the attacker from the cockpit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it says that there were ample opportunity for authorities in three separate countries to keep him from getting in that cockpit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that there was a ton of online content that should have been caught, essentially.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, when you see, especially here in the United States, the kind of scrubbing and getting into the weeds that so many employers have with their employees at a much lower level where people's lives aren't on the line, to me, that's such a misstep, also makes you wonder if there's more behind it, you know, the three countries that miss that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they're okay with it, maybe they didn't realize that that was going to be the outcome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't imagine they would be okay with that, but it does raise eyebrows and concerns on why three separate countries missed all of that kind of red flag warning type material that allowed something like that to happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll throw that question to you guys, do you think it was
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[SPEAKER_00]: intentionally missed or glossed over and that they didn't care that there's a bigger kind of conspiracy behind it, or do you think it's pure and competency?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to know these days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A couple of other stories, Trump expanded his plan to provide benefits to voters saying he would hand seniors 90 bucks and reiterating a promise to give $5,000 to all adult Americans if Republicans win the midterms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, that's a tough one to swallow, frankly, I don't know how that's even legal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I'd love to get your guys to take.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is there anybody out there that thinks that that is a good idea or a just cause in kicking five grand every adult American to incentivize Republicans winning the midterms?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would prefer to see the Republicans win the midterms frankly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't seem or sound or look like they're probably going
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[SPEAKER_00]: But essentially, bribing the public to vote a certain way in paying, which is going to be taxpayer dollars.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of my favorite adages in terms of taxing, it's like standing in a bucket in trying to lift the bucket up by the handle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's essentially what it's doing, saying we're going to give five grand to all the taxpayers in this country and it's your money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just such a backwards way of looking at things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And to me, if you're policies and decision-making process, can't land you a reelection, you know, bribing it, it's just, it's baffling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I will ask you guys, anyone in here in favor of that, if they are, please explain why and help me understand it better, because I really don't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not all bad news coming out of the White House, a new White House task force will have 120 days to report on the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence and decide what responsibility the federal government has for technology.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is good to see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I tend to always ask who are these people that are being put in charge, you know, is it executives from these AI companies that are brought on as consultants or, you know, I know it says a task force, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So where is that task force being pulled from?
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[SPEAKER_00]: those are always the questions I think we should ask is anytime a watchdog group a task force an oversight committee etc.
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[SPEAKER_00]: when they're being selected and pulled from wherever they're being pulled from you know who who is selecting them what are they basing the criteria off of and you know what kind of guardrails do the people watching the people have I think I think
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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, whether it's mainstream media or or even the government would put out some sort of kind of, I don't know, context or backdrop on who the people are and what the selection process looks like because to me that's everything, you know, whether it's
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[SPEAKER_00]: law enforcement anything in the government in any group that is in charge of regulating watching, you know, giving guidelines, etc., you know, you got to know who these people are because if you run into this other story which I'm going to get into in a minute.
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[SPEAKER_00]: on the times it's talking about a Russian oil Ukraine war stoppage you know the people making those negotiations are part of the thing but you know you got to know who those people are and and what angle they might have to kind of pre-determine what what that supposed solution is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Since I just mentioned that story, I'll cover that one first on the New York Times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Deal, meshes, Russian oil, Ukraine, and Trump allies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whitkoff, Kushner, and Putin discussed sale of luke oil assets during peace talks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So essentially what is taking place here is, you know, they're trying to negotiate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They being the United States and Russia and components of Ukraine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To end the war.
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[SPEAKER_00]: woven into that process that includes one of Russia's biggest oil companies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The problem is, you know, the deal is contingent on approval from the U.S. government and the Cremlin, its oil fields, but the leading group seeking the deal includes American investor, Todd Bowley, who's donated 2 million to President Trump's political causes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and Middle Eastern groups that have done business with Kushner and Whitka who are part of the negotiation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So here's kind of another classic example of
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[SPEAKER_00]: Our government officials and representatives, you know, those, those two aren't even elected officials.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're appointed by the current administration to negotiate peace talks, including a huge economic package that has enormously positive implications on companies that are tied to the people or individuals that are making or doing the negotiations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, again, we talked about this yesterday and several times since I've been doing these these headlines, you know, that can't be okay, you know, and it's stuff like that, it's, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: stories like this that give, I think, most people pause and, you know, a lack of confidence in our government, you know, and that just spills all the way down, you know, from the very top all the way through the House of Representatives, because there's a ton of instances within the House that there are also, you know, occurrences like that that happen where
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're making policy decisions that directly benefit them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I will ask you guys, are there any instances where any of you out there think that that's OK?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if so, please drop it in the comments and tell me why you think that's OK.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The main story on the times in terms of the headline that accompanies the big picture, which put that up real quick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to two teenagers with Balaklavas or Maskson and weapons out in the Sonoran Desert.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Phoenix, too young to buy a beer and barely old enough to drive yet these 14-age boys have already found their way into a criminal underworld.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These Phoenix boys manage a pipeline of illegal weapons to Mexico.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am curious how kids who aren't even old enough to buy beer, etc., are getting their hands on all these weapons.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they're 18 and can buy long guns, I'm not sure, but one of the pictures has a suppressor on it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's an interesting thing, and I think most people would see that story and just think
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to do something about guns or, you know, let's stop this thing in particular, but it reminds me a lot of the supply and demand argument that so many of the guests that I've had on that are that were either in the DEA or, you know, had a heavy involvement in counter-narcotic operations and kind of the main takeaway from all of them is,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You have to cut off the demand that the supply is always going to be there and I think prison is a great example of even in the most controlled environment that we can provide.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can still get everything in prison.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's not realistic to think that we're ever going to stifle the supply of anything, whether it's narcotics, human trafficking, weapons, etc.
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[SPEAKER_00]: when the demand is high, you know, that this is an interesting kind of reversal and that it's, you know, the United States supplying Mexican cartel members with weapons.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, the principle is the exact same as it's a demand issue, you know, and so a story like this, I think, again, at face value, people maybe don't,
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[SPEAKER_00]: see the further implications but here's a question for you guys is that from a demand standpoint and this is not just specific to this story, you know, obviously trying to cut off the demand or stifle the demand for weapons from Mexican cartels is going to be problematic at best impossible at worst for us to try to have any significant impact on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But from a broader spectrum of human trafficking narcotics weapons, you know, what have you is that, you know, taking a look at how you how you decrease the demand
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, from my perspective, you know, when it comes to narcotics and the child trafficking peace, you know, which is primarily what runs into our country as you have, you know, an infrastructure in the United States, going back to the nuclear family, public education, you know, raising children properly, correctly, in a manner with which
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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't kind of get into this hamster wheel of demand, I think, is really what the focus needs to be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the medical industry, we talk about root causes, to me, these are symptoms of the root cause, which is a breakdown of our society, and to me, the focus really needs to be there, but I want to ask you guys,
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think the most, or the single most effective measure would be to decrease demand for all three of those things?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Weapons and narcotics human trafficking here in the United States.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I think that's the thing we need to look at, but that's what that story makes me think of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, a couple other things, and uh, the next two are both AI-related.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, we talk a lot about AI both on the show and, and in these headlines.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's a positive story that I wanted to share because I don't want to tall be negative.
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[SPEAKER_00]: AI appraises risk of getting breast cancer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, essentially it's using AI and I've seen this in a host of other,
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[SPEAKER_00]: kind of medical capacities, which is AI's ability to detect through screenings and other means finding cancer early, you know, diagnosing things that were misdiagnosed by human doctors.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's one super positive thing I see coming out of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The AI industry is
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is there ability to, you know, out-doctor human doctors and, you know, to me that's a huge positive step and I think that's one of the things that we can applaud AI for bringing to our society from a technology standpoint.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The other one, and I think this is actually positive too, is loving AI too much China has encouraged its citizens to embrace artificial intelligence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But now the government worries over growing signs of over reliance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a positive step in my opinion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We talk all the time, again, on the show with a lot of guests in the AI space and the defense space where those merge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you have a concern that China has no guardrails.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have no foresight into maintaining some sort
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[SPEAKER_00]: efficacy when it comes to utilizing AI and how to go about it in a way where there's essentially a wide open approach to it and of course that's alarming when it comes to
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[SPEAKER_00]: the defense space and the military industrial complex on their end if there's absolutely no regulations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They get to a point where they're so far ahead of us to where we've been trying to boy scout ourselves and regulate ourselves in a way that is relatively morally correct and kind of going about it the right way, but it ends up
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, putting us in a position where we're going to be defeated because we're so far behind.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To me, this is a positive step forward, I think, if China is starting to realize that their citizens are overreliant on it, maybe, you know, they will start to look at putting some sort of restriction regulation guardrails, et cetera, on the military space.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe that's wishful thinking and a pipe dream to think that that will happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if there's a story that is showing signs of the government seeing an over-reliance on it, that does give me at least some level of encouragement for maybe going about it the right way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what I ask is, is anybody out there encouraged, again, we've talked a lot about
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[SPEAKER_00]: the disparity between where the U.S. is at and China as far as the A.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: race, especially with the drone technology, but that's a whole nother story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You guys tell me, do you see China coming about it in a way that mirrors any of the concerns that we have, probably not, but it's always good to keep it positive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, yesterday's video, let me know if you want me to repost it in a higher video quality format, but I appreciate the flooding of positive comments and it's really really heartwarming for me to see such a positive response to the content of the video and it's been a great journey for me and I appreciate everybody's support and
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so, God bless everyone out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hope you have a great Monday and a good start to your week and we will see you guys tomorrow.