55KRC Friday Show - Tech Friday, Mission Out Of Control

meaning tech Friday with Dave hatter As. The Biden administration says it won't enforce the TikTok man Republicans and Democrats are scrambling to figure out a way to keep TikTok around. Why, Well, it's like the comment of me the other day about menthol six when the FDA was talking about banning menthol. The Democrats found out that there are a lot of people who usually vote for Democrats, namely black folks. They like mental cigarettes in a large majority of the black

smokers lean menthol. So you don't do that because you really piss people off and you might lose votes. Well, there's a lot of people on TikTok, and a whole lot of people of both political stripes are on TikTok and are elected officials. In spite of the fact that they passed the law banning TikTok and Joe Biden cided it into law, they're now trying to figure out in spite of the fact that there is no current buyer out there, they're trying to figure out a way to

keep TikTok alive and not anger their constituents. Well tech fridays they've had it will tell you every week, don't get on TikTok, stay off it. It's just soaking up all of your data. That's the point, helping out the Chinese Communist Party and its nefarious goals. Anyway, today Apple to pay a settlement over claims Siri was eavesdropping on you. Understanding the way those things work, I don't know how

that could be a shock to anybody that there was eavesdropping. Anyway, Brad Pitt accused of scamming a woman out of money. Apparently someone pretending to be using I suppose artificial intelligence or something. Brad Pitt actually did scam some woman out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. A heartbreaking story. So we'll find out how that happened and how you can avoid it from happening, which is the ultimate point of

talking about something like that. And meet your new one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars artificial intelligence girlfriend whatever, Jared not. Jared is an author. He'll join the program at seven forty with a book Tiny Blunders, Big Disasters. This is book two, kind of. I think it's a lighthearted look at it's thirty nine tiny mistakes that changed

the world forever. We've talked with Jared in the past and it's usually a pretty funny conversation about how the tiniest little thing can result in the most tremendous influences on history, like wars being lost because someone dropped a helmet, the things of that nature. So we had them on for book one. We've got to get this new book. That'll happen at seven point forty. Doctor Charles Camarada with the book Mission out of Control. He'll be on at

eighth five to talk about that book. Astronaut doctor Charles Camarata uncovered a recurring cause of accidents that no one has articulated yet. Lots of research. Culture that places a premium on learning and the quest for knowledge and what that means shows how to develop high performing teams and networks, such as research teams to solve anomalies rapidly, which can help prevent catastrophes in complex, high risk, high reliability organizations

mission out of control astronaut research Engineer inventor. He'll be on at eight oh five to talk about the details in that book, a popy of which you'd be able to get at fifty five KRC dot com. Speaking of catastrophes and concerns and dangers. Lots of police officers are going to be in Washington, d C. For the inauguration. Kind of frightening stuff. I think it was Epoch Times

where I found this information. But US national security agencies are warning that the inauguration will be, in their words, an attractive potential target for violent extremists. They don't have any specific credible threats threats, but they're really geared up for this because of all the chatter online and all the prior threats that have manifested themselves, like the attempted assassination A couple of attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, said

potential perpetrators, particularly those with election related grievances. Hmm, I wonder what that means. I might see this swearing in as their last opportunity to influence election results through violence. That's in the statement. Group of Intelligence and Law Enforcement Agencies wrote in a threat assessment. That threat assessment hasn't been made public, but Politico got a copy of it. Sorry, that's where I got this. Francis chung at Politico was

able to look at that. They leaked it. I suppose they say the concerns reflect a heightened potential, potentially violent environment in which Trump will assume power. Law enforcement beefing up security efforts. Get a load of this. Police from all over the country going to be in DC City Police Department reinforced with four thousand officers, Police Chief Pamela Smith said apt press conference earlier this week, in addition

to one thousand officers supporting Capitol Police. In total, there will be approximately twenty five thousand law enforcement and military personnel site on site to secure the inauguration. According to Special Agent in charge for the Secret Service Washington Field Office, Matt McCool, He said that on Monday to press conference, so they've been on heightened alert since the assassination attempts.

The threat Assessment, compiled by the FBI, Secret Capital Police, Washington DC Government and Supreme Courts Police Department, laid out a whole bunch of scenarios of the types of people who could make it to the rally. Foreign terrorists, domestic extremists,

loan wolves can initiate bomb hoaxes. Previously alerted to us by FBI Director Ray Outgoing, he is about lone wolves, individuals with no online presence, and even if they were monitoring online presence real time, which they can't considering the amount of data they gather up. Listen to my conversation with Judge and Poltana from earlier this week. Anyway they can initiate bob hoaxes, swatting calls, drone flights, vehicle ranning attacks.

Just you could just use your imagination and probably come up with a book of potential potential threats or potential options that these crazy people would have to inflict some sort of damage or pain or maybe murder. They talked about Iran, which has already out loud, said they want to kill Trump because of well the killing of General I'm solo money. The threat assessment said that seven hundred thousand users on the social media app Telegram threatened to

assassinate Trump the day after the election day. Jeez, that was a responsible video posted by media media entity aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Group. Now, obviously you have to take that with a grain of salt. Did seven hundred thousand users really get influenced by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Group? Of course that figure could have been blown up by artificial intelligence and bock farms. But there it

is right there for all to read. Who are well looking out for the safety and security the president, for the inauguration and elsewhere, they say. Law enforcement officials also worried that protests surrounding the inauguration could turn tumultuous. A bunch of groups have applied for demonstration permits, including some groups that previously arrange protests that ended in arrest. Threat assessments said pass protests by some of these individuals have

involved traffic blockades, trespassing, property destruction, and resisting arrest. ANTIPA much document elson other protests related to the conflict in gods. They have disrupted Capitol Hill with little warning hmm, and that that situation might inspire extremists here in our country, many of whom may have come over the southern border without any vetting process. AH former counter terrorism official who helped with security planning for Joe Biden's inauguration, a guy

named John Cohen, so that these events face. This year's event faces more threats than Biden's in spite of the fact that the swear again came right after the riots in Capitol Hill. Even know of that as someone who was involved in the planning for the last inauguration, the

threat environment was dangerous. As I sit here today, based on the work I've been doing with law enforcement for the past four years, the threat environment today is even more volatile and more dangerous than it was in twenty twenty one, pointing to the assassination attempts, recent threats of the Capitol broadening social attitudes that violence and destruction are acceptable ways to express political views. Yep, no doubt about that. So fingers crossed. I personally, you know, it's like me

Or's eve on Times Square. That's like the last place I'd want to be. I mean, first off, have you ever see an overhead shot in the yars on Times Square? Where do people go to the bathroom? Just a practical question. That's just the idea that there's a million people standing around. How many law enforcement officers are standing around, not enough ratio wise to adequately protect each and every individual that's milling around on Times Square. Same thing at the inauguration.

Have no figures, and I haven't seen any estimates on the number of people that are planning on going to Washington, DC for the inauguration. But that's another one of those events. I just don't think i'd like to be there. Keep my head down anyhow. It's okay, though. The FBI closed its DEI office in December, so they no longer have an office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion getting ahead of

the Trump administration. They didn't say why they closed the office, but earlier this month, Senator Marshall Blackburn sent a letter to the FBI director Christopher Ray, claiming that the radical DEI practices had endangered Americas following the year's day a terrorist attack in New Orleans, claiming deconcerned that the bureau has prioritized diversity equity inclusion over its core mission of

protecting the American people YEP. One former Special Agent Nicole Parker, speaking with Fox News pointed out that Director Ray made it clear that threats acrossing against the nation are at all time high. Yes, I even read the notice from Director Ray flashing red lights. He said in his congressional testimony. There's no time for clubs, groups, or social agendas that divert time, attention, and resources away from the mission of the FBI to protect the American people. Nicole Parker said,

pointing out DEI is a dangerous distraction. I have no issue in celebrating whatever you would like regarding your heritage or gender or religion, but that should be done on your own time and not with the US taxpayer dollars. While on official bureau times. Somebody put exclamation points after that. I wonder who did point it out. Also, the FPI needs to folks on hiring the best and brightest solely

on meritocracy. Ah, I welcome change of pace from the last four years and then the whole entire term of the Obama administration. Let's focus on merit and then this is something I thought was bizarre talk about what the FBI is focusing on.

the Women's Advisory Committee. Huh note the breaking down of people by individual and sometimes minor classifications. What the hell anyway, Chelsea said. The Bureau is numerous resource groups, including Blacks and Government, FBI, African American Millennials, FBI Family, FBI Jewish Americans, FBI Latinas for Empowerment, Advancement and Development, FBI PRIDE, Federal Asian Pacific American Council, Federal the Employed Women and From Boots to Suits, and the Toastmasters Club. The DEI office

was created in twenty twelve during the Obama administration. Parenthetically speaking, so, I don't know if the closing of the DEI office the FBI was timed well given all the resources and time and effort and training classes and everything else they've been focusing on within the FBI, rather than, as the former agent noted, focusing on fighting crimes stick arounds five eighteen right now fifty five kirs to detalk station five one three seven four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred

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grocery store. My first job was at IgA as a stock boy, and the first time I ever saw it used to be food stamps, physical food stamps was our worked at Findlay Market. But I watched is people would buy, you know, really really crappy, crappy food, you know, and you're paying for that as a taxpayer. And I thought, you know, this is a simple way of sort of bringing a more nutritional reality of folks that are on life's margins in the SNAP program, but why should you

be paying for candy bars and soft drinks. President Trump is given a mandate by the majority of Americans to make America healthy again, and those in his administration like RFK Junior and Senator Marco Rubia have directly advocated for eliminating junk food purchases with SNAP, says Josh reaching from Oklahoma.

Someone wants to buy junk food on their own dime, that is up to them, he said, But what we're saying is, don't ask the taxpayer to pay for it and then also expect the taxpayer to pick up the tab for the resulting health consequences. So it would bar the use of food stamps to buy soft drinks, candy, ice cream, prepared desserts like cakes, pies, cookies, and similar products. According to the legislation that's been circulated. I find no

problem with that, he said. His bill. In addition to the obvious health improvements, this bill will also result in significant savings and taxpayer funds for such programs. Programs is Medicaid, where approximately one in four Americans are currently enrolled. You said, federally funded healthcare for obesity and obesia related diseases has reached four hundred billion dollars annually. That's according to the

Senate Joint Economic Committee report from twenty twenty three. We can't afford to go down this road any longer as a nation. Yes, obesity is one element of problem, and it also is linked to cancer. And I saw this terrible statistics. You know me, cancer sucks, and it's wonderful. Mortality rates for cancer have dropped thirty four percent since

nineteen ninety one. However, it's reported cancer rates in women younger than fifty are now eighty two percent higher than men in that age category, which is a fifty one percent increase since two thousand and two. That's frightening. Now, that's just diagnosed. It's not mortality which has declined because the treatments are better and people are being better about, you know, getting ahead of things and looking out for cancer and trying to detect it and paying attention to

issues with their own bodies. And the gain accord of the reporting increase in cancer rates among women in certain ethnic groups maybe due to obesity, genetics, and environmental factors. Going back to my point on obesity. There is a direct corollary between likelihood of getting cancer and obesity. So maybe the SNAP nutrition improvements, just by way of denying people the ability to buy well soft drinks with food with SNAP may go a step in the right direction.

It's for your own good. Well, you can't take that away from me. Why not you accept federal dollars with strings attached? And if the public general public at large is expected to pay everybody else's medical claims, medical claims that derive from bad behavior that could be avoided, then this is a step in the right direction. That's my take. Go it yway five twenty six, fifty five Krcity Talk station.

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mandatory meeting. You fit one of the one of the the checkpoints, so you must be there. Anyhow, three people shot Colrane Township and two have died. According to the spokesperson for the township, there are two There were two active scenes. Police are investigating outside the Walgreens and Popeyes, which are on either sides of Coleraine Avenue. Third shooting victim, the one that didn't die, taking a UC medical center

in critical condition. Spokesperson said the two people died were near the Popeyes, while the person taken to the hospital was the one at the Walgreens across the street. Police flock some of the parking lots and businesses near Coleraine Avenue in Springdale Road during the initial investigation. Scene since

been cleared. Coring Police said although officers are no longer investigating the scenes, the Popeyes, Duncan Donuts, and Shell gas station locations will remain closed for the rest Well remained closed for yesterday afternoon, so the rest of the evening, so I guess they were shut down all day yesterday. Please haven't provided any information on a possible suspect of the township. Spokesperson said. Investigators believe the shooting was targeted.

Is that near you, Joe, Yes, jeez. Have you noticed a deterioration in the neighborhood over the last decade or so? A little bit?

pervall gonna treat that? Sharon Kolech from The enquire reporting he is an Asian, noted by Sharon like if this is important, speaking of checking the boxes, first Asian American mayor of Cincinnati, also first person of a person of Tibetan heritage to be elected to a prominent political office in the United States. Parents came to America nineteen eighty from New Delhi, India. So he's legal immigrant, but he understands immigration.

And there's no mayor in the country, particularly a mayor of a blue city in a row that state that's going to be able to do anything about it. Close. Quote, well, I think it's kind of refreshing. At least acknowledges his hands are tied legally, that these can't do anything about immigration policy. The cooperation should be as close as it was with the Biden administration. He said, Look, I'm a Democrat.

I disagree with a lot of what President Trump's administration has said, but that they will I said that they will prioritize and how they will govern. But it isn't about me as a person. This is about me as a mayor and how to strike relationships and partnerships with everybody. Just skeptical and partnerships with everybody in order to put the city in the best possible position moving forward. And that includes not picking political fights that we know we're

going to lose. What's more important to me is to have strong, productive relationship with the Trump administration whatever. Well, it sounds like Aftab got the memo. One of the reasons Trump won was because of his tough stance on immigration bah and he knows the voters of this within the city of Cincinnati, those over whom he lords also feel that way. He said. As mayor, I was sworn into the Constitution and the Charter, and it's my job to also uphold the law and to effectuate laws that

have been passed. So it's a tough position for sure. I know mayors don't pass laws job, but they do have to follow them. Hey, at least he's paying lip service to the notion that he's not going to try to buck the system. There are other mayors in other cities who have said, hell, no, over my dead body,

we're not going to help Trump do anything. We're not going to lift the finger, and in fact engage in measures to prevent the Trump administration from carrying out its objectives with regard to deportation California, notably five point thirty five right now, if you have Kseu Steckstu coming up, and it is Friday, so you know what that means.

I'll be right back fifty five the talk station. The new year means new health goals, not just for your body, but well it is five forty on a Friday, so yeah, of course, five one, three, eight hundred and eighty two to three. Takos Town five fifty. If you have an AT and T phone, love to talk to you. If you got something to talk about meanwhile, Wow, Friday stacking stupid naked people, you can always count on that, Thank you,

Joe Strecker. We have a woman arrested for after doing a nude photo shoot on a popular seaside sculpture in Mexico, Olga Lorera. There's videos video of this. Of course, there is seen video footage stepping on the base of the La Perila sculpture in the city of La Pause Saturday and then taking off her clothes as a photographer started

taking pictures. The thirty year old then hurled her dress at the photographer and climbed on top of the monument, which is described as resembling a pearl sitting in an open clam. I can't believe you didn't use phrasing on that one. She posed in the sculptures. Traffic along the two lane avenue next to the boardwalk slowed and bystanders stared on the scene in shock. Then signaled to the

photographer to hand her the dress and climb down. She was approached by a police and she was placed under arrest taking a local prosecutor's office, released after paying a fine of three and sixty five pesos, which apparently the current exchange rate translates to one and sixty three dollars. She then posted the photoshoot pictures on Facebook before then deleting them the nudest model Critical authorities, Why is the human body censored but not violence? Okay, you go ahead

and run with that one. Critical authorities for not for not granting her the right to express herself. Guess who is arrested for simply existing? She wrote, why is the human body's censor but not violence? Nudity is not offensive, It's natural. Let's stop the shaming, reclaim our freedom and normalize what is human.

After determining that the man, identified as sixty year old Patrick Petaway was the aggressor in the incident, they tried to detain him, but he resisted and tussled with them, according to police, ultimately arrested on charge of a third degree domestic violence, resisting arrest, and failure to obey law enforcement. Nothing about as a tradition charges relating to his public nunity.

How hard is it? Michigan, Berlin Township. Jeremy Johndre watching Monday night football at his home when all of a sudden he had an unwanted and completely naked visitor. What speak good news? Crazy weird, like never in a million years, what I think that would happen to my little dead end street here. I was enjoying the football game and I heard I heard the back door open in the dog bark, and a naked man came around the corner

and sat in the chair. He called for his wife to call dial nine one one, but they'd already been called. Please said the man took off, But apparently this is the backstory. Please said. The man took off his clothes at the nearby Mier distribution center, then crossed Swan Creek Road, ran through a field barefoot into Jendre's backyard. Why are you doing that? Jondra said, in fact, we have to mop up all of our floors because there was blood from his feet bleeding on our floors. When we got done,

do what the hell? An answer to my own question there, Joe, thank you for the sound bite. He said. The suspect was relatively calm and did give a reason why he went inside the home. Quote he was looking for the twelve women of color he was promised close quotes.

but at the same time, it's hard to phrasing. That was a stretch five forty five fifty five K see talk station. You got a few more stupid stories to dive into. Alternatively, you can call regardless. I'll be back in a minute.

we'll endeavor to get him back on the program. I was really interested in talking with him about that book. Return of the Stack of Stuke Stupid. What is described as a shocking incident. You draw your own conclusions on that subjective conclusion. A homeless man shot himself in the head. Rather, it says hopeless man shot himself in the hat after he was caught naked from the waist down in his car as he approached the coffee shop in Arizona.

who was in fact pleasuring himself in the car. That video then posted on social media, gaining a lot of views when it went viral. Many in the Internet commented on the inappropriate behavior of touching him himself in front of the manager. According to the Maricopa County Medical Examiner, Malone drove himself to the city of Goodyear, Arizona, and then committed suicide, shooting himself in the head on January eleventh.

the safety of our employees is our top priority. In this case that we became chose to commit a crime at one of our locations. We take incidents like this very seriously and remain committed to protecting our team and maintaining a safe and respectful environment. I guess she was that embarrassed. Don't do that and the staka don't do that. Philadelphia, where a New Jersey fifth grade teachers accused of sexually

assaulting a student over a four year span. In investigators alleged she had the boy's child do what the hell? Thirty four year old Laura Corone of Cape May Courthouse, New Jersey, charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assaultant, engaging in the well, and endangering the welfare of a child. She was the fifth grade teacher of Middle Township Elementary School accused of engaging in sexual relationship with one of

her students, again fifth grade teacher. Investigators said the sexual abuse began in twenty sixteen, when the student was around eleven years old. Student was living at Crone's home with his siblings at the time, and at times would wake up in her bed. She continued to sexually assault the student until twenty twenty, when the victim was fourteen or fifteen. Investigators into the sexual abuse began in December after the alleged victim's father posted on Facebook that Corone's five year

old child looked similar to him and his son. In a text message called the victim admitted to family members that he is the child's father. Criminal complaint said I'm sorry, I thought this was a female Laura Corone anyway. January fifth, twenty twenty five, Kate May County Prosecutor's Office, Mobile Township Police and the Special Victims Unit took Coron into custody without incident. They again, it is a woman, executed a search horn on her home. I guess they had a

wrong pronoun there, at least it didn't say gee. Middle Township School District notified the investigation and currently cooperating with law enforcement.

obscene material to a minor. Complaints said that the Buke Sheriff's Office started investigating Dunlap for sexual exploitation by a school employee November of twenty four after Hempstead High School students reported she was involved in a sexual relationship with his student. That's gonna said, done Lap and the student communicated between the September of twenty twenty four November of

twenty four. During that time, she sent multiple nude photos to the student using Snapchat, and the student sent nude photos back to Dunlap. That's going to say. Dunlop would pick up the student from his home, drive to another location where they would hang out in the back of her mini van. Student admitted to investigators he had sex

with Dunlap on November fourteenth. Wow, and let me assure you, unlike so many of these these teachers that get caught engage in these twisted and perverted actions, you look at them and you're like, what is a really pretty young lady? Not the case with miss Dunlap, and I know subjectivities. Yeah, uh huh, that would have been easy and easy decision. Don't go away. Coming up off top of the our

news gut lot's talk about. But it is Tech Friday, So at six point thirty, Dave had a return to the program to give us some sound advice.

wasn't Brad Pitt. Artificial intelligence Brad Pitt. I guess I read the facts of that one, and we're going to talk about it in detail with Dave but if you've got an out of the blue text message from someone purporting to be Brad Pitt, or in this particular case, it started out with someone purporting to be Brad Pitt's mom, would you take it seriously? I would like to think the answer anybody in my listening audiences is absolutely no.

Who would fall for that anyway? Plus, meet your new one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars artificial intelligence girlfriend robot girlfriend. I guess desperate times call for desperate measures. Jared now with the book Tiny Blunders, Big Disasters. This is book too. We've had Jared on the program before, just wild, true stories about little things that happened that cause you know, epic well changes in the world forever

into the Roman Empire. The fall of Constantinople in fourteen fifty three came about because someone forgot to close and lock a major gate. You remember that one from the first one. I believe anyhow, he'll be on at seven forty to talk about that new book. They're fun and I do believe, and I always use this term, you know, in a positive light. You're like a bathroom book where you can just sort of pick it up and read one and then put it back down again. So that's

the type of book it is. I believe Jaredill come on talk about seven forty doctor Charles Camarda with a book mission out of control. Doctor Charles Camarda is an astronaut, or was anyway, so he's uncovered. I guess the system to deal with well accidents, loss of a research culture that places a premium on learning and the quest for

knowledge and what that means. So rather interesting. It's kind of a cryptic description of the book on Amazon as well, so we'll all find out together at eight oh five with doctor Charles Kamara. You can feel free to call five one, three, seven four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three taco with pound five fifty on AT and T funds. And why wasn't this done sooner?

Since it is Tech Friday. Joe Biden just got done signing an executive or to strengthen the United States cybersecurity capabilities. This after a long series of reported incidents of the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign actors hacking into our system.

So why wouldn't this done earlier? The January sixteenth ordered, Wow, just a moment in time ago at the very end of his presidency, now mandates new security requirements for software used by government entities and contractors, establishes a national certification program for secure technology, and lowers the threshold required for imposing tariffs on malicious cyber actors. Oh tariffs, huh, I

thought the Democrats didn't like those. White House fact sheet that was shared said the order will serve to counter malicious countries and criminals while also propelling the United States to adopt the type of security first practices that are already required by many other nations. Behind the eight ball on security, folks, the United States stands alone among other major economies and lacking secure privacy preserving digital identity infrastructure,

leaving Americans exposed to a wave of cybercrime. That's the court to the fact sheet. They have new requirements for software providers who work with government in this well executive order. Executive Order identifies minimum industry cybersecurity standards and practices required for all companies doing business with the federal government and requires the government software vendors to provide evidence that their products were developed using secure practices. Yeah, Dave talks about

all the time. You know, most software was developed with the idea of fulfilling some sort of task or purpose. Security last thing on the list when the software is being developed, so maybe this will help prioritize security and put it at the forefront. Also orders the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency SISA to receive analyzed track and that evidence to ensure that companies are actually using the secure development practices.

So there's the government trying to keep an eye on and see that people are following the edicts and mandates from government. That doesn't happen very often. It sounds so much fraud, waste, and abuse in government. There's no SISA version of oversight and accounting to make sure that fraudulent claims aren't processed and money isn't going to evil actors like PPP loans anyway. So hopefully that will bear fruit

and provide us with greater security. I mean, at least I have no opposition to the idea that we're cracking down on and insisting on greater security protocols given everything we know about well again going back to the Chinese Communist Party, and here's the ultimate I guess downside of all things tech and US not teaching our children common sense skills. New data shows that many Gen Z generation kids folks generally speaking, struggle with basic do it yourself tasks.

According to report from the New York Post, a lot of them don't even know how to change a light bulb. Joe, did you have to tell your children? Explain to your children how to how to change a light bulb?

lives are automated. Convenient outsource, which is today's generation of young people have been identified from way more than past generation. So it makes complete sense that Gen Z simply doesn't know how to do as much with regard to non tech or independent tasks. Court of the report, they surveyed two thousand adults determine that nearly twenty five percent of gen Zers don't know how to change a ceiling light bulb. Why. They cited safety concerns like hot bulbs or latter risks.

Man up of sexist would say, instead of attempting the task, many prefer the phrase got geotes or in other words, get others to do it. No, that is Dad changed the light bulb exactly, Joe, That's exactly what it is. Harpin's analysis found that gen Z spends over fifteen hundred dollars annually hiring professionals for basic household tasks, compared to four hundred and seventy dollars for gen X and three

hundred for baby boomers. And it is noted in the article Joe that many gen Zers rely on their parents for chores like car cleaning, with less than half knowing how to whole ad to add air to a tire or replace a windshield wiper blade. Well, it comes with blanket instructions. Man Joe agrees with that. He says, that is true, but car cleaning, dude, would you go and clean my car for me?

This just bothered me for some reason. The garbage would get picked up and it was at the street and it's an empty garbage can. The entire family would walk by it, and this guy would come home seven o'clock in the evening and drag the garbage can to the house. And it bothered me to no end. And I don't know how it didn't bother him. But they kind of grow up not having to do anything, I guess. And he would mow the grass himself, and I'm like, where are your kids, Why aren't they mowing? I was bone

grass at twelve years old. Yeah, I can or whatever with a push moower. It's no big deal, but I mean whatever. So I was going to talk about a couple of things, but I know we're going to be short on time. And I know he died a few weeks ago, and he's probably a real nice guy. And you know, I'm sure if I met Jimmy Carter, I would have enjoyed talking to him. He had no business being president. I was. I was born in Miami, Florida, in nineteen sixty two and graduated high school in nineteen eighty.

My memory, my biggest memory of Jimmy Carter the Maryelle boat lift, which dumped one hundred thousand Cuban immigrants, most of them emptied out of prisons and mental institutions on Miami, Florida. And we lived with that for years, and we had people living under the bridges downtown. I was in the southwest part of Miami. I was in the suburbs. But it was the crime exploded. The TV show Miami Wece came out of that and everything because of all the crime,

and it was a lot of different things. He was hopelessly naive. In other words, he did what a nice guy would do. Yeah, we'll welcome them all. But he didn't have the vision to say, wait a minute, what what might this dictator do bring about?

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is something called the Congressional Progressive Staff Association. They have proposed establishing a rotating thirty two hour work week for folks working in Washington, d C. Saying reduced hours could improve workers' satisfaction, increase staff retention in Congress, and model a more sustainable approach to work on a national level. See it starts here with federal offices, and then it'll spread out to the general public. And that's kind of

what they suggested in their statement. Group said in the letter, we do not want a thirty two hour work week just to be another special benefit for congressional staff. Oh no, we hope that by adopting this policy, members of Congress can help to advance the discussion around a more sustainable work week. What in the hell does that mean? Yeah?

Thank you, Joe more sustainable work week as a national priority and a model for how it can work for private and public employers across the country in the world. So they start with the federal employees and then it'll spin out to your business, and you might be saying great. Bernie Sanders is behind this. He had legislation implementing a thirty two hour work week previously. However, even some Democrats realize this is a stupid idea, given the Trump's getting

ready to be inaugurated. Tim hugg and Democratic Communications consulting former Hill staffer quote ll read the room, guys, Democrat Richie Torres, why not be bold and asked for a zero hour work week? I wonder how blue collar Americans would feel about white collar workers demanding a thirty two hour work week. Good. At least Democrats themselves are analyzing

this for what it is. Others suggested, like a representative Chip Roy, progressive shit opt in easy Place to cut twenty percent so they can scale back their salaries to match the reduced hours. Six twenty six fifty five KRC. The tok welscription perfectly timed. Dave had her up.

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Siri not going to be exactly the same. So, in general, if you want your device to be used, you're going to have to make the window that it will activate on as wide as possible. Otherwise people are going to get frustrated and they're not going to use the thing. And there was a study done it's probably been maybe three years now, where someone took a whole bunch of different.

thing be very loose in its requirements. Otherwise people are going to get frustrated if you have to ask your device to activate eight or nine times every time, because you're not saying something exactly the way it wants it.

They're not monetizing your data as their primary business model. They're selling you hardware and software products. So this story, to me is a little disturbing when you dig down into it, and CNN did a real nice summary of it. Apple to pay ninety five million in cash to settle a proposed class action lawsuit. Of course, they claim no wrongdoing. The class period runs from September seventeenth to twenty fourteen to December thirty first, twenty twenty four That's a long

time to have your phone listening to your conversation. And you know, the thing, I guess the most frustrating to me is if you were in the class, so you had this feature enabled, which I don't. I do not have Syrian enabled on my phone and have never had Syrian enabled on my phone, so I guess I won't get my twenty dollars. That's what your privacy is worth to Apple, twenty dollars. And then one reason the CNN article is great is because they point out ninety five

million is about nine hours of profit for Apple. So the twenty dollars you're going to get if you're in this class. And I would encourage people who if you have an Apple phone and you've used Siri in that time, when I would, I would sign myself up and get my twenty dollars and remind yourself just how little these companies actually care about your privacy exactly.

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I guess. First off, I don't know how you would think that suddenly Brad Pitt's mom and then Brad Pitt is going to contact you over social media. Yes, yeah, you're You're just some person out there minding your own.

you know this cuts both ways. You know, if you want to know who the mayor of Del High is, I guarantee you can find that either on LinkedIn or on their website. So my point is there are people out there who know how to use these tools, and they're available to anyone to learn information that can.

is contacted right and starts chatting her up. And then the next thing you know, and you're looking deep into this bit and you'll see all these photos of Rad Pitt in the hospital. He needs money, I mean it's his account.

So if the person gets that far down the road with you and they're not willing to have a conversation with you, then you're not dealing with a real person. Come on.

It could very well be like you know, you and I are talking, and if every time I answer you there's a two second delay or you know yet an unusual delay, it could very well be because someone is typing in what that person is going to say and then have it generated. So that's a real strong red flag which are somehow being scammed with a voice cloning attack because it takes a second for them to type in what they want to say, and it takes a second for the AI to generate that voice.

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this is so ridiculous. It is ridiculous. The company is called Rerobotis and their CEO Andrew Kigwell, I guess that is how you say it. His company was hoping to make robots indistinguishable from humans, which could also tackle the male loneliness epidemic, and also, I guess serve to feed the childlessness epidemic. We've got nobody's getting in relationships and having children anymore. So is this just some sort of docile sex robot that just actually interacts with you?

I mean maybe at a distance you might think there's a real person sitting, you know, over on a chair and across the room.

adapts to the owner's preferences over time. That makes it feel more personal and tailored.

girlfriend that never argues with you. It enables whatever decision you want, because would you spend one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars on a piece of technology that never argues with you, or disagrees with you, or says something about your bad habits or whatever the case may be.

this goes. But at one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars, especially for the current capabilities, it's just it's crazy to me so for these But to show you, though, Brian, the advancements that are being made in this technology, and I mean, will we get to a place where you will not be able to distinguish an android from an actual human being?

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folks that the podcast page is right there. So if you didn't get a chance to hear my conversation with Jay Ratleff or Senator Ran Paul or Americans for Prosperity about saving the Trump tax cuts, why don't you try to do that good stuff there? And on tax cuts, all these hearings going on for Donald Trump's various positions. Treasury Secretary nominee Man that Donald Trump has tapped around.

The Treasury Department issued warning the other day Scott Descent said, of Congress does not extend the tax cuts that are due to expire at the end of the year, the US economy be thrown into chaos. Quote if we do not renew extend, we'll be facing an economic calamity. And always with economic instability that falls on the middle and working class people, we will see a gigantic middle class

tax increase. Jennet Yellen, for her part, obviously taking an opposite position, warning that extending the tax cuts would lead to this is a laughable statement, unsustainable deficits. I guess she hasn't gotten the memo that we're already there. It's a spending problem. Consequences of inaction and action are that

exacerbates projected deficits could be dire. She said, Yeah, it's she should be full well aware of the CBO report that came out that said we'd be spending an additional two plus trillion every single year for the next decade under the current circumstances.

this one. I just kind of you know, when I read something like this, I kind of wonder do they even think about how they're going to appear and look and and and be received in the general public when they ask inane questions. Senator Mazie Herono of Hawaii mock getting mocked widely on social media her opening questions to Interior Secretary nominee Doug Bergham. Opening questions, Senator Rono, you

have the floor. It's your time. Your turn. As part of my responsibility to ensure the fitness of nominees before any of the committees on which I said, I asked the following two initial questions. First is, since you became a legal adult. Well, it's a grammatically incorrect question, but anyway, First is I'll never mind. First is, since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or

assault of a sexual nature. That's question number one for the proposed Interior Secretary. No, I have not simple response from Bergham. Follow up, have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement related to this kind of conduct? Entered into a settlement? I think that refers perhaps to some of the many settled out of court things like, for example, taxpayer dollars settlements of sexual harassment claims made

against elected officials up there in Congress. Huh, how about that, Senator Herono, I guess you know all about that kind of stuff, And if it was in a settlement, maybe it was a confidential settlement agreement, And he said, no, I have not, So there's a definitive no. I am not involved in any of that. I haven't faced discipline, and I haven't settled anything related to the conduct. But if he had, and he was a confidentiality agreement in connected with it, he wouldn't be able to reveal the

details of it. So that these people are in charge of our lives. I keep going back to that. Just crazy, crazy stuff. And Pam Bondi, president Elect Trump's pick to lead the Department of Justice, head it out with Senator Adam Schiff pencil next shift. You remember him, don't you. Schiff asked Bondi whether she would investigate the former special

counsel Jack Smith and former Representative Liz Cheni. Now pause for a moment and consider why he might be curious to know about that, Why would he choose Jack Smith, List Cheney, or any other human being, because he is worried that he will be investigated for his well lies and deceit on the American people, the whole Russian collusion thing that we just took us through a couple of years of pain and well and then another investigation following that.

That's shiff talk about someone who lied boldly to your face and mind on a regular basis. So I think he himself is worried, and so he's dancing around, And he didn't ask the question, are you planning on investigating me if you secure the position? He said, I'm asking you, sitting here today, whether you are aware of a factual predicate to investigate Liz Cheney. Senator no, one asked me

to investigate Liz Cheney. That is a hypothetical, She calmly responded, and then she said, you know what we should be worried about. The crime rate in California's through the roof. Your robberies are eighty seven percent higher than the national averages. That's what I want to focus on. Senator Shift suggested that she does not have the independence to say no to the president, and he then asked her if she would tell Trumps if she would tell Trump he lost

the twenty twenty election, I'll pastor. I want to think about how dumb that question is. Why would she interject that into the conversation. That's a done issue, it's over. We're in twenty twenty five now, Why would she have the obligation, the need, or even think it's within her, you know, business, if she's heading up the DOJ to tell that Trump that he lost the twenty twenty election. Trump may be walking around still convince that he won.

He's entitled to that belief. There's been all kinds of stories sort of supporting some of the shenanigans and the irregularities that I may be loose with the term that we're involved in the twenty twenty election. I mean, some people firmly believe that Trump won. He's entitled to that. If you think he's delusional, that's okay. Joe Biden's delusional. He has been for the last four years, if not longer.

But what job is it as head of the Department of Justice to just interject that and say, Donald, you know you lost twenty twenty. Her response, what I can tell you is I will never play politics you're trying to engage me in a gotcha schif asker if she would advise against blanket pardons by President elect Trump, saying to her, you'll be able to review hundreds of cases on day one. Of course you won't. Oh, that is

an absolute true statement. But then again, does the head of the Department of Justice have any say in who the president pardons? The president doesn't necessarily need a review of a file at the Department of Justice to decide whether or not one guy or a woman should be pardoned or not. Joe Biden gave a blanket pardon to his son. Unprecedented entered into new ground on that one. Joe Biden did. He also released all kinds of commuted the senses of all kinds of just really horrifically nasty

people where their files reviewed in advance. It really makes you when you see some of the details of the folks that are on Biden's pardon list, it really makes it hard to believe that actually someone reviewed the file and recommended that Joe go ahead and issue the pardon. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse asked about the weaponization of the Department of Justice, may sort of a statement question. It would not be appropriate for a prosecutor to start with a

name and look for a crime. It's a prosecutor's job to start with a crime and look for a name, correct, and then she's Martley responded, well, Senator, I think that's the whole problem with the weaponization that we've seen the last four years and what's been happening to Donald Trump. Amen. They love accusing Republicans for doing the very thing that they have been doing. And why do you think all these questions are being asked is because well, they did it.

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not paying for fish on treadmill study, among others. But generally speaking, I don't believe in taxation heavily at all, and I think it's you know, I believe in freedom and liberty, and part of freedom and liberty is being able to use your labor transferred to the paycheck as you want to see it. But the idea that we have a problem here only exists because the federal government

spends too damn much. Will the deficits go up if we don't, If they don't raise the taxes and they continue to spending on this track we're on, absolutely, but they're not cutting spending. It's like Janet Yellen, she got we're going to have unsustainable deficits. Well, we already do, and we had before the tax cuts went into place. You people just spend too much damn money. Maybe we need to choke off the flow of cash to the government and they'll tighten the belt on behalf of every

American and we won't have unsustainable deficits. But in the final analysis, if they take more away from us, it slows down the wheels of business. It provides less hiring opportunities. There have been studies out saying that maybe six million jobs will be lost because of the additional taxation, which I have no reason or to argue with that. I'm not a number cruncher guy. That's just been widely reported. So raise the taxes, reduce economic activity. Lower the taxes,

increase economic activity and also deficits. But I don't think anybody listening right now believes that if the taxes go up that the government will apply the additional revenue to the extent there even is, because as I pointed out, sometimes the lower taxes is up more revenue for government. But they even theoretically if all this additional money they'd be taken out of our pockets went to the deficits,

which isn't going to happen. That if they don't close down or slow down or reduce the engine of government, generally speaking, we're going to continue to dig ourselves into a hole. So that's my take on it. James, I hope you have a happy Friday and a wonderful weekend. Give your wife my best, would you please, Jay, Welcome to the program. Happy Friday to you, Hey, Good morning, Brian.

with their corruption. In the case of Joe Biden, is there we have to understand the biggest threat to our national security are those states and the voters who continue to put these lousy, corrupt politicians sold out to China, supports the transgender movement, everything else that's ungodly, unholy and Unamerican.

Is there a place in the Constitution that says that this voluntary union of States can throw out members of states before they because of the damage that they're in inflicting on the entire nation of three hundred and sixty million people.

think that's actually what has happened. They're so dumb that they think it's right, and they've sold a bill of goods about what these people claim they're going to give them from government. Government's going to give you this and give you that. I mean, you have to be completely ignorant of all things political and economic to believe that that's actually going to happen, or that it's actually a good thing for the for America.

their voters. But if they're inflicting that kind of damage on the rest of us, that they are the national biggest security threat, then I say move to action. And

it's not civil war. I think that would be dumb to pick up arm But there ought to be a way that we could say, if we are a voluntary union of states, that there will be a threshold, because right now it seems like there is no threshold whatsoever that some state and their voters can cross, and there is no threshold of how long the damage can continue until we can stop it.

after the Biden administration, hence the Trump election. We could go on the border isn't secure, impacting people of all political stripes. Dumb idea open borders were all feeling it. Voters woke up to that. Voters who lived in these left wing states have moved out in massive quantities New York, California, Illinois to states that are read because of the economic

freedom that they can enjoy. They see the difference. It's in full display, and if the mainstream media would report more about it and point out the colossal differences between the way blue states are run. See the Los Angeles fires among others as an illustrate versus say how Texas or Florida are run. You know, then they can make more educated choices. Most people choose to stay away from politics. They don't pay attention to the ramifications and repercussions of

what they've done. You think that the average Joe is out there watching any of these hearings or listening to the inane comments and questions by Mazie Herono, their own representative out in Hawaii. Probably not they're in Hawaii. They're probably sitting on the beach somewhere having a cocktail or something. I don't know, but maybe there has been an awakening. It's happening all over the world, and that's another thing I can take some comfort in. Jay. You look at Europe,

they're moving away from these left wing policies. They too have an immigration problem that's just sort of been unleashed on them by the left wingers in the European Union. So maybe we are waking up. And of course the deficit and of itself, I think objectively, no one can say we're not in a huge, huge problem because we've spent too much. Pick a program. I'll even say the Defense Department. They can't even pass an audit, and you want to give a nine hundred billion dollars seven twenty

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in over in Joe's neighborhood. Kind of feel sorry for this one. Three people have been shot over a col Ringe township, two her dad, according to township spokesperson, two active scenes. Yesterday, Police were investigating outside the Walgreens and the pop pop Eyes, which is on the opposite side of the street of the Walgreens on Colerain Avenue. The victim the third victim that didn't die, was taken a

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So you can call five one, three, seven four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to three talk found five fifty on AT and T phones. You know, and going back to the comments that I made in response to the last caller about you know, we're going to learn anything? Why do we keept he people having keep electing people like Mazie Herono, who ask any questions and don't seem to be helping the country at all. Reckless overspending. Are we ever going to learn our lesson?

Can we break away from those crazy states to save ourselves? Complicated question of the complicated answers in a country that will this republic we live in, We're going to get

some eggs. But as I was saying, I was trying to be optimistic, you know, Trump being elected, the border being a key issue on that, people of all political stripes suffering their neighborhoods dealing with the problem created by this influx that they were not prepared for, school districts having being overwhelmed by immigrant children that don't speak English, resources being drained that otherwise should have gone to the

people who pay the taxes. I mean, if you're a Democrat and you're in Chicago and you see that you know, a billion or however many dollars has been thrown out the immigrant crisis, and you're living in a terrible neighborhood, you've got to get You're going to get angry. And they are same thing in New York. They got problems of plenty in New York budget reason whyse because well,

illegal immigrant problem. And so with that background, I mean, you can learn lessons and you can change your practices and your tactics. The Governor of Massachusetts requested on Wednesday of this week that nearly all family members living in any of these states emergencies shallters be here in the United States illegally and not offering many exceptions. This is sanctuary state time, sanctuary city time. They have a decade's old right to shelter law, and Democratic Governor Marra Healey

obviously standing behind that up until now. Oh, we have an obligation, we have a right to shelter law, which means we need to put illegal immigrants in shelters. Well, that obviously uses up resources, and it well there's only a finite number of shelters that people can go into. So she's proposing a whole bunch of new restrictions for the shelter rights, tougher criminal background checks, establishing residency requirements, and prohibiting nearly any applicant who is not a US

citizen or lawfully present in the country. How about that, don't come here, don't come to Massachusetts. You're not gonna have a place to sleep. Of course, that doesn't solve the homelessness problem that may result as a consequence of that, because presumably illegal immigrants will still come to Massachusetts. But

certainly this is a step in the right direction. After learning the lessons of you know, guaranteed housing and guaranteed food and guaranteed everything for every single person who comes across the border, they're now dealing with reality. They've had a bunch of criminal busts and shelters. There was a rape of a disabled girl by one of the sheltered residents, and was also a one million dollar drug bus coupled with an AR fifteen that was found in one of

these homeless shelters illegal immigrants. So positivity in there are positive movement in the right direction on that is, for his part, one of the local stories this morning, Joe and I were kind of laughing about whether this was actually going to happen or not, but have tab Provoll was asked about the illegal immigration system and this and situation under Donald Trump, which we all know is going to engage in some measure of deportation, had this to

say to Sharon Coolidge over the enquire for President of the United States, backed by the Senate and House of representatives wants to do something as it relates to immigration, then they're going to do it. And there's no mayor in the country, particularly the mayor of a blue city in a red state, that's going to be able to do anything about it. He said, the cooperation should be

as close as it is with the Biden administration. Look, I'm a Democratic, disagree with a lot of what President Trump's administration has said that they will prioritize on how they were governed. But this isn't about me as a person. This is about me as a mayor and how to strike a relationship and partnerships with everybody in order to put the city in the best possible position moving forward. And that includes not picking political fights that we know

we are going to lose. What's most important to me is to have a strong, productive relationship with the Trump administration. As mayor, I was sworn in on the Constitution and the Charter, and it's my job to also uphold the law and to effectuate laws that have been passed. So it's a tough political position for me. Well, that sounds to me like he's not going to try to buck the system. I've read a bunch of different stories in

different states. I think California allocated some odd fifty million dollars to help have organizations that will try to defend and stand in the way of the Trump administration's efforts

to deport people. That's a polar opposite reaction and it's not something I would have expected out of pro Volt to make a statement like this, keep your popcorn out when Trump and the Ice agents come a calling for folks locally here living in the city of Cincinnati as to whether that position will actually be changed or he'll stick with this and at least not stand in the way. Mike hang on, I promise to take your call as

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and moving over toward the concept of merit. Merit after doing this test experiment for the past ten years or so since the Obama administration, everybody's finding out all these these organizations DEI doesn't help anybody. It brings down the efficiency of our business. Let's start hiring people based on the content of their character, not the color of their skin, for example. Mike, thanks for calling. Welcome to the fifty five KRC Morning Show.

you shouldn't be making decisions for that generation. And I think it's going to take more than a four year term for a good president.

and you don't make that much. I mean, we've got to work in Washington, d C. And you make one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars a year. Yeah, good luck on that. But they get a lot of perks. They don't have to pay for meals a lot and things like that. But you know, how can you go in to office and make that level of salary and leave a multi multi millionaire. You know, it's just beyond my comprehension. How is brock Obacha owner of a Barack

Obama owner of multiple mansions? How is it that Joe Biden is retiring a multi millionaire? He's got a bunch of different houses reju Ho Beach, and we can go on up and down the line. They use the office, and these have quite often for corrupt purposes, to serve their own best interest. So a term limit, I think would reduce the opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

I don't think it would eliminate it. But and in terms of age, you know, I don't know that age is this positive because of course the older you get, the smarter you become. I think, the wiser you become. You've got so many life examples, things that you've seen, mistakes that people have made, the consequences, and you can factor all those in and make a more informed decision. What really worries me is not someone who's older, unless

of course you're demonstrably impaired, like Joe Biden. Someone who's older has that wisdom. But someone who is younger. And you got a guy like what is that David Hogg, that anti gun advocate who's running for office. I mean, I don't know how old that kid is. And you look at a guy like, you know, PG Sittenfeld, who was a really really young guy when he went into office. They don't have any life experience. They don't know about

the inner workings of government. I know you got to start somewhere, But you know, I've told this story a bunch of times. A twenty two year old or twenty year old somebody emailed me at one time told me how old he was and what he wanted to do. He said, I want to do what you're doing for a living. He wanted to be talking about politics on the air. He's probably got a podcast by this time. We're going back. She's like twelve years or more. And I said, I could not do this job absent the

sixteen years I practiced law fresh out of college. Put me behind a microphone. I mean, I was politically aware, and I was big into politics before I went to college. My political you know, I got engaged in politics when I was in high school, Thank you, Chuck Burkholtz. But did I have enough knowledge and wisdom to be a representative or a senator? Hell no. So I have a profound appreciation for that kind of life experience. If you're healthy and you're cognitively you know sound, and you've got

great ideas, you can apply that life experience. So term limits maybe, but age limits I don't know. Sometimes seems kind of arbitrary to me. Seven fifty six five KRC the Talk Station. Well, we'll keep our fingers crossed. I'm supposed to have doctor Charles Kamarta. He's a retired astronaut and he's got a book, Mission out of Control. He wants to talk to you about. We'll talk with him, hopefully off top of the hour news. Other than that, we'll take phone calls to stick around from.

cool thing to say. You are research engineer and venor author, educator, internationally recognized expert and invited speaker on subjects regarding engineering, engineering, design, innovation, safety, organizational behavior and education. He's got more than sixty technical publications, hold nine patents, and over twenty national and international awards.

That could go on for hours on his background. He retired from NASA and May twenty nineteen after forty five years of continuous research as our continuous service as a research engineer and technical manager at Langley Research Center. Who's Director of Engineering at Johnson Space Center and Senior Advisor for Innovation and Engineering at Development at Langley. Welcome to the Morning Show, doctor Kimarta. It is a pleasure to have you on today.

applied reach church. We started becoming a production organization, especially on the human space flight side, and we started just looking at operating vehicles and flying them in space, and we lost our touch with our research routs and we lost our capability to actually understand when we had critical problems.

led to the loss of life. Is that sort of an illustration of the of the like a company to whom you would focus this book or directed their attention to this book.

the key primary focus of the organization. It got bobbed down with the bottom line, market share, profit and that's a very similar but different reasons came very focused on production schedule and budget and keeping the programs alive, and

it's become a bladed bureaucracy. And what I realized, what I learned in the research writing the book, is that what other people missed was there's a difference between technical excellence, technical people, good engineers, and what I call research engineers. And so I described the elements that make up a good research a good learning organization like what Boeing used to be, just like NASA was, and how that could

lead to a very toxiculture which becomes psychologically unsafe. People are afraid to speak up, and then bad things happen and the accidents recur, just like Challenger and Columbia.

Is that another form of sort of a lack of focus or improper direction that we could point to.

teaching children logic and reason anymore. Is there a shortage of that? Is that part of the cultural problem here?

They look at all different sides of an argument. And you have this free environment where you could have this discourse. You can have these disagreements, but you relied on the facts and the knowledge, and the knowledge that was verified by tests and analysis.

wide open. But people were coming up to me and saying, you know what, Charlie, the culture is worth at Boeing. And I didn't believe them. But that was six months before the first of the first Yon, that crash of seven thirty seven, and then six months later you had the ETHOPI and Allins crash and the body cell out of Boeing. And so what I was trying to tell the Bowie senior executives after the seven thirty seven crash

was that you need to listen to your people. People are telling you there are major problems, but their voices of being needed and they're being canceled.

sort of a protection element in government jobs. It seems to not exist in the private sector. Is there a distinction between them and along the lines of what you're talking about, it's.

People will not treat you the same because you're no longer you're a piranha, You're a pariah, your persona non grata.

So I highlight several ideas for how do you build a psychologically safe environment, a knowledge based hierrocky where you encourage people to fail and learn by failure, and how you're transparent, how you share information openly and you encourage competing ideas.

get a copy of this, and I'm sure they will. Well, thank you for spending time with my listeners and I today and identifying this problem so we can work on solutions, sir, That's what.

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were some bumps in the road. Yesterday looked like they had assigned deal and then Hamas was accused of renigging on parts of the original agreement. Will apparently they got details ham burned out. So the full cabinet in Israel will take up the deal today, likely to go in effect on Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. So I just see the fighting end. I suppose give it a loss of life, but Juststrekker and I remain jaded and cynical that that deal is going to stick anyhow.

Was going through a different a couple of different things, you know, looking for optimism at all the craziness going on in the world, And I talked about obviously Trump getting elected in and of itself is a sign of optimism considering most of these running on, you know, immigration for example, and lowering regulations, you know, a variety of different things that seem to be more and more appealing

every single day. It's as if, you know, after talking to the doctor there, people woke up to the reality we've got a problem on our hands, like the California wildfire. Problem after problem after problem, the defunding of the fire departments, the not doing and following through projects that would have cleaned up some of the brush and reduced the you know, likelihood of this massive conflagration they've got going on, just one thing after another. See you step back from that.

If it happens to you enough times and over and over again, then you might start looking for the source of the problem. And I think people caught on and the source of the problem of these fatcrap insane ideas like DEI for example, I talked about it earlier in the morning with the Federal of the FBI shut down its DEEI department in December, just close it down because it didn't have anything to do with fulfilling their mission. Going back again to the doctor, what is your mission

with fighting crime and catching bad guys? Okay? Does that have anything to do with teaching people who are responsible for fighting crime and catching bad guys? Teaching them about cultural issues, spending many valuable hours that could be used to search for bad guys and fighting crime or solving crime, Spending many valuable hours like sort of trying to meld people into particular mindset, no one for all, all for one fight crime. It's like peek Hegzath leading the military

what does he want. He wants a strong fighting force. Doesn't matter where you're gay, or you're a lesbian or whatever. We're going to be looking for the best and brightest people who are capable of fulfilling the mission. Killing people and breaking things is the way I like to sum it up. That's what we do, that's what we should be focused on. And it's not that he has anything

against women generally. He just wants to make sure that if you're going to put a woman out in combat, that she's capable of well being able to do the job. Going back to the LA fires, what was the LA fire chiefs? Since that you're in the wrong place and it's your fault for being there if I can't pick you up and haul you out, Is that what you want a firefighter?

and train them to do that. And if they want to hang out and go to a club on the weekend or participate in some sort of protest on the weekend when they're not at work where they're supposed to be doing their job either killing people or breaking things or fighting crime, just as an illustration of a couple of things, then let them. Yeah, go ahead, just don't incorporate it into the business model. A twenty six fifty five KRCD talk station local stories or phone calls that's

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dot com certainly worth listening to. My conversation with Senator Rand Paul yesterday went over a variety of different things. Also on the podcast page plus help Americans for Prosperity. Save the Trump tax cuts so critically important that we keep those in place. They would ruin the economy tremendously if they are taken away. And again we have a spending problem, not a tax revenue problem. That's fifty five

care sea dot com. Y Also year iHeart Media app stream all of the audio from the entire iHeart library there and again podcast There's a fire this morning. In terms of local stories, firefighters responded to a fire this morning at a building occupied by a construction business on Sutton Place, right off Princeton Glendale Road. Westchester. Fire chief said the crews arrived at the scene about three o'clock this morning. Firefighters said part of the building's roof had

already collapsed. No injuries, though, thankfully the chief in spite of the severity of the fire, portion of Princeville Glennen Glendell was shut down for a while. Cause of the fire is under investigation and they're investigating how the flame started and to access the extent of the damage. Looks like a pretty sizable fire and what else is going on? Shootout Jess Drekker's neighborhood, cole Ringe Township. We have two dad and one in critical condition at UC Medical Center.

According to the spokesperson for Coleraine Township, police were actively investigating yesterday. Had to shut down some of the businesses there outside the Walgreens and the Popeyes on either side of Coleraine Avenue, I guess opposite each other. A spokesperson said that two people who died were near the Popeyes. The person that was taken to the hospital was found at the Walgreens across the street, so the officers are

no longer investigating at the scenes. The Popeyes, Dunkin Donuts, and Shell gas station had to remain close throughout the balance of the day yesterday, and they haven't yet provided any information on a possible suspect. Spokesman said the investigators are currently believed the shooting was targeted. I trust that they would love to hear from you. If you have any information relating to the shooting, get in touch with the col Ring Township Police Department. I mentioned this earlier

in different contexts. But after Purval was asked about Joe Biden or about Donald Trump's immigration policy, speaking with Sharon Coolidge from The Inquirer, because we all know Donald Trump is going to do something about the outrageous situation we have because of the open borders policy under the Biden administration. He's going to start with, as I understand it, the criminal element. Seems to me, if you've been convicted of a crime, you know that should result in immediately being

kicked out of our country. But you learn time after time, and I got a couple other different stories about it, time after time that you know, someone is caught convict committing some heinous crime, illegal immigrant, and you find out they got a rap sheet as long as your arm since entering our country, and yet they remain get let free out on the streets time after time after time. So anyway, since Cincinnati has declared itself a sanctuary city,

Parvall was asked about this. Parwal pledges the city of Cincinnati will nonetheless follow Trump Administration's directives. I thought this was rather interesting. I wouldn't expect this that I have to have, Parvall. He said, if the President of the United States back by the Senate and the House Representatives wants to do something as it relates to immigration, then

they're going to do it. And there's no mayor in the country, particularly a mayor of a blue city in a red state, that's going to be able to do anything about it. The cooperation should be as close as it is with the Biden administration. Look, I'm a Democrat, he said. I disagree a lot with a lot of what President Trump's administration has said that they will prioritize on how they will govern, But this isn't about me

as a person. This is about me as a mayor and how to strike a relationship and partnership with everybody in order to put the city in the best position moving forward. And that includes not picking political fights that we know we're going to lose. What's most important to me is having a strong, productive relationship with the Trump administration, said, I was sworn in on the Constitution in the Charter, and it's my job to also uphold the law and

to effectuate laws that have been passed. Calling it a tough position for sure, given their political differences. So I think I got my popcorn out on that. It will remain to be seen. But we do have a sizable illegal immigrant population in the greater Cincinnati area. I know it's not widely reported, but many folks that may be subject to deportation at least at some point under the

Trump administration. So I will see if he keeps to his word and allows Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to do its job and the Trump administration to follow through with the policies that it has promised the American people. Eight thirty five Right now, feel free to call. We've got time five point three, seven four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three talk. I'll be right back after these brief words. Fifty five KRC, the

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doing all these hearings. You may recall, during his farewell speech to the nation, Biden talked about an oligarchy taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights, freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. Bernie Sanders, for hip part, came out saying I agree with Biden on that, calling out specifically Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, who have well, at least Elon Musk we've

known has been on the right side for a little while. Anyway, Bezos and Zuckerberg obviously working with the Biden administration, these evil oligarchs to suppress information from you and me. Zuckerberg came out and came out swinging about that how the people over the DJ would yell at them and scream at them. You cannot allow this to be posted, most

notably in connection with COVID. But the sent said, the three billionaires you listed, you, Bernie Sanders, all made their money themselves, and you've also put it out mister Musk came to the country as an immigrant. Sanders cut him off, reiterated his question. Sent for his part, said, well, I would note that President Biden gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two people who I think would qualify for his oligarchs, notably George Soros and David Rubinstein. This is

not a combination of any one individual. Sanader said, I'm just asking you, so, with so few people having so much wealth and power, do you think this is an oligarch form of society, Senator, I think it depends on the the ability to move up and down the income, in other words, swing and to fight a couple of shots there in favor of capitalism. You have the freedom. You can educate yourself. You can go out into the world. You can provide the world with some benefit that it

doesn't have. You can build a business, you can hire people, or you can be someone else and do something else. Thankfully, we have people that are as smart as Elon Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg who build big businesses and provide us with employment opportunities. Then he was asked us as Sanders asked him if he would raise the federal minimum

wage to what he calls a living wage. Which is kind of a joke too, because when you start seeing the numbers out of California, most notably Los Angeles during the fire, and how much money it takes to live out there is anybody out there even making the federal minimum wage, which has been seven dollars and twenty five

cents since two thousand and nine. No, the economic conditions are out there are dramatically different about the lowest paying job in California in that area is probably like twenty bucks or more. The market sets that, and that's what Descent was pointing to when he responded to him, Senator, I believe the minimum wage is more of a state and regional issue. In response, Center says, so, you don't think we should change the federal minimum wage. We have

seven to twenty five an hour. His response a flat out no, sir. Good for him. It is a regional issue in spite of the fact there's a seven to twenty five minimum wage. You know, in order to get any young person these days to get up off their button away from the PlayStation, you're gonna have to pay them a little bit more money. Whether they stick around and onto their commitment to their jobs is a different thing. But speaking of George Soros, George Soros's Open Society Foundation leftists.

It is and it always funds these left leaning organizations which seek to undermine American interest across the board, which makes it a joke that he got the Freedom Award. I mean, of all the people in the world, Joe Biden could say that would be an embarrassment. The Presidential Medal of Freedom. What has George Sours done for America? Well, I know what he's done for Jewish Voice for Peace.

He's given him more than six hundred thousand dollars six hundred fifty thousand dollars since twenty seventeen to fund human rights works in work in the Middle East. Jewish Voice for a prominent anti Israel group that is responsible for organizing illegal protests attacking the Jewish state, Well, they got busted. Committed federal loan fraud to obtain a six figure COVID relief check. According to an announcement by our own Department

of Justice. They claim that JVP falsely persuaded for portrayed itself as a non political group to obtain over three hundred thousand dollars in a federal paycheck protection funding, and they were forced to pay back double the amounts six hundred and seventy seven thousand and change to the federal go meant to settle the allegations that were made under the False Claims Act. Now they've also been suspended from

college campuses for organizing pro hamas rallies. Lawmakers have called on the IRS also revoked JVP's tax exempt status because the group has supported illegal encampments at universities and in their words as a history of sharing anti Semitic tropes, suppressing support for expressing support for violence and terrorism, and

vil vilifying Zionism and Zionists. According to federal prosecutors, this Soros funded organization applied for and received a second drawdown loan and forgiveness of the paycheck Protection Program, which was not open to groups primarily engaged in political activity. So as part of the application process, they claimed they were quote not a business concern or entity primarily engaged in

political or law being activities close quote. However, accurt to the Department of Justice, their investigation reveal the JVP was actually primarily engaged in political activities. Now the comical response from this again George Soro's funded organization, which is anti Semitic the group. The group told authorities that its false claims were in their word, inadvertent. You got to fill out the forms to get the loan. Under the VPP. You have to declare that you're not politically involved and

not primarily engaged in politics. They can't even look at themselves and give themselves an honest assessment. That's really all that they do inadvertent. What is that I slipped or something? Anyway, at least they've been brought to justice. Sate forty six, fifty five KC detalk station one more segment. I hope you can spend it with me.

Let's see here over the weekend. I guess the TikTok ban' is supposed to go in effect, and they're all backpedaling now. They're all both Republicans and Democrats, and there's been some wild speculation that Joe Biden would try to extend the right for TikTok to continue operations even though they haven't been sold to an American buyer. He may recall last year Biden signed into law a bill that required TikTok's China based parent, Byte Edance, to divest the

company by January nineteenth. That's Sunday a question mark on whether or not that was going to move through. There is a provision in the agreement which allows for an extension as long as a viable deal is on the table, but there isn't one right now. So if you had an active American buyer, you know, negotiating and still haggling over the details of some acquisition, then that would be of valid grounds for an extension, But right now, no one is in sight. I know it was realm arked.

He rumored Elon Musk was going to buy it, but I doubt that, given his current position and activity with the Trump administration, the optics on that would would fly with anybody. But I find this rather comical because both Democrats and Republican in spite of this being a bipartisan thing and passed into law, they're both scrambled to try to get this thing this block from kicking in. Not everybody,

but a lot of them. So Democrats had tried to pass the legislation on Wednesday that would have extended the deadline, but Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican blocked it, pointing out the obvious TikTok is a Chinese Communist Party, communist spy app that addicts our kids, harvests their data, targets them with harmful and manipulative content, and spreads communist propaganda, summing it

up quite nicely. Now, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the legal challenge that TikTok filed trying to stay in business and prevent this from happening, this legislation from going through, and we haven't seen a decision yet, although it's likely. The analyst for the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments suggest that it seems likely that Supreme Court will

allow the law to be upheld. But it just is remarkable to me that right now lommakers are both parties who overwhelmingly voted for this bill are now trying to wiggle out of it. Why because there are one hundred and seventy million TikTok users in the United States, all of many of whom I would argue our voters. I think they're obviously a large percentage of people young people on there, but a lot of adults use TikTok as well. And when you do something like this, it's, you know,

it's like getting punished. And some people make a lot of money off of TikTok. That's the other thing. These so called social media influencers, they generate revenue, and they're screaming and yelling that you're taking away our revenue source.

But what's more important protecting someone's social media platform revenue source and allowing the Chinese Communist Party to continue collecting all of this data to their own benefit, or forcing that those social medias move gravitate over to some other social media site and enforce the law and thus protect America's society generally speaking. And I found it really kind of pathetic that someone would whine about having the rug

pulled out from on TikTok. You know, just turn over to someone, say the East work in the coal mines or owned a coal company. You know, our environmental policies require us to shut you down or regulate you out of existence. What about their jobs? That happens all the time with government regulations. They regulate you right out of business, and if you don't have a strong enough lobby, well sucks to be you. And speaking of energy policy, I

got a big kick out of this. I don't know if it's because the Trump administration coming in or they just realized it was not feasible, but California's Air Resources Board sent a letter on January fourteenth to the US Environmental Protection Agency withdrawing its prior waiver requests that would have forced a transition from diesel to zero emission semi tractor trailers in the state. The dumbest thing they could

have ever passed. The tractor trailers are three four times more expensive than regular diesel trucks, they go a fraction of the distance. It would increase transportation costs dramatically, and more fundamentally, they don't have the infrastructure to have to provide the charging stations to keep these trucks moving down the road. But isn't it interesting that California has pulled

the plug on its own proposal. California's withdrawing it's pending waiver and authorization request that USCPA has not acted on yet. But we're disappointed that they were unable to act on the request and in time. Withdrawal is an important step given the uncertainty presented by the incoming administration that previously attack California's programs to protect public health and the climate

and has said we'll continue to oppose these programs. Well, I think it's more the California Trucking Association and the reality that this is an absolute impossibility. Eric Sower, CEO of California Trucking Association, said, The California Drug Association has consistently stated the Advanced Clean Fleet's rule was unachievable. Unachievable.

It's like the politician who was told, well, the laws of physics don't allow don't stand in the way of your cafe standards or whatever they were specifically talking about, and the idiot responded by saying, well, why don't why don't we repeal the law of physics? Yeah, forcing everybody into an electric truck that they can't afford isn't gonna work, because, well, where do I plug it in? A fifty six fifty five car se detalk station tune in Monday for Smitheman

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