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- 0:01Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start
- 0:06Speaker 1: your day and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Thursday morning, nineteenth day of March. I'm West thanks for
- 0:15Speaker 2: joining me. We are, I guess, a step closer to
- 0:20Speaker 2: this data center coming to the Columbus, Georgia area. It
- 0:28Speaker 2: is something that has been debated and discussed now for
- 0:31Speaker 2: a while, largely almost exclusively on social media. There have
- 0:35Speaker 2: been some meetings with our you know, information gathering kind
- 0:40Speaker 2: of meetings and public forums and things to go with it.
- 0:45Speaker 2: One thing that I will say about this city of Columbus,
- 0:49Speaker 2: my hometown, this Chattahoochee Valley area, but specifically Columbus, is
- 0:56Speaker 2: we tend to have these sort of you know meetings
- 1:00Speaker 2: where public forums over issues. It's sort of widely known
- 1:08Speaker 2: what the decision is going to be, and then the
- 1:11Speaker 2: public forum comes along and it's supposed to give people
- 1:14Speaker 2: a chance to sit down and express their thoughts or
- 1:18Speaker 2: concerns about it, and then everything ends up happening anyway,
- 1:25Speaker 2: no matter how outspoken the public is. And I listen,
- 1:29Speaker 2: I'm going to be completely honest with you on this
- 1:31Speaker 2: data center thing. I can see both sides of this discussion.
- 1:35Speaker 2: There are some that have concerns environmental concerns, there are
- 1:38Speaker 2: some that have some financial concerns. Some obviously the economic
- 1:47Speaker 2: impact would be on the other side. I mean, I
- 1:50Speaker 2: can see where there are some things that people would
- 1:55Speaker 2: be concerned about water usage and the fact that we
- 1:59Speaker 2: will have potentially less water available. That's been one of
- 2:03Speaker 2: the things that's come up. And I can't tell you
- 2:08Speaker 2: that I have enough information to tell you definitively what
- 2:13Speaker 2: I think, or that my opinion should hold much credence.
- 2:22Speaker 2: I understand the concerns that people have. I do, but
- 2:26Speaker 2: I also know that there are other communities where it's
- 2:29Speaker 2: just as divided. Some people wanted it, some people didn't
- 2:31Speaker 2: want it, They went ahead with it, they moved forward,
- 2:35Speaker 2: and you know, everything's okay. I don't know that we
- 2:40Speaker 2: have a long term study to say that an area
- 2:46Speaker 2: has been greatly impacted yet, but over time, you know,
- 2:54Speaker 2: this is one of those things that you're going to
- 2:55Speaker 2: be able to do some research and have studies on.
- 3:00Speaker 2: I do know this, and I can give this as
- 3:02Speaker 2: an example because this is probably just for example. If
- 3:06Speaker 2: you're concerned about the amount of water available to the area,
- 3:10Speaker 2: if you're on that side of it. I know that
- 3:14Speaker 2: in California there was you know, almond farmers who needed
- 3:23Speaker 2: more water for their almond farms or is it a
- 3:29Speaker 2: farm or an orchard. They needed the almonds needed a
- 3:34Speaker 2: certain amount of water, and they needed to get them.
- 3:38Speaker 2: And we've heard stories about how the governor of California,
- 3:41Speaker 2: you know, apparently made some friends, donors and things out
- 3:45Speaker 2: of these almond farmers or whatever they're called farmers. I mean,
- 3:50Speaker 2: that's what they are. Either way, you're a farmer, right,
- 3:53Speaker 2: And the stories were the reason there wasn't enough water
- 3:56Speaker 2: in places during fires, including what happened in Los Angeles,
- 4:03Speaker 2: is that the water wasn't there because the water was
- 4:07Speaker 2: you know, helping out with almonds. I heard that from
- 4:12Speaker 2: a number of people. I can tell you this, even
- 4:17Speaker 2: though there were some, I mean, you probably haven't heard
- 4:20Speaker 2: that from many places, even though there were some screaming
- 4:22Speaker 2: that from the rooftops, Hey, we don't have the water
- 4:24Speaker 2: that we should have had to put out these fires
- 4:29Speaker 2: because it went to political donors, or it went wherever
- 4:32Speaker 2: it went to the almonds. You didn't hear a lot
- 4:35Speaker 2: about that. There wasn't a lot of like, hey, wait,
- 4:40Speaker 2: a minute. Why was that water there? So I think
- 4:46Speaker 2: that it's a fair concern, but we have to be
- 4:50Speaker 2: equal with our you know, concerns about water. How can
- 4:56Speaker 2: you think it's okay for so many people to lose
- 4:59Speaker 2: their homes or you know, damn it, not just their homes,
- 5:04Speaker 2: like uprooted livelihoods, all sorts of things. So if we're
- 5:11Speaker 2: going to be sincere about this across the board, you know,
- 5:15Speaker 2: we should have outrage there. If we're gonna have outrage
- 5:18Speaker 2: about possible economic problems, sorry about possible environmental problems here
- 5:25Speaker 2: on the economic side, is the potential there for this
- 5:30Speaker 2: to be a positive, a net gain for the area jobs. Yes, again,
- 5:39Speaker 2: I can see both sides of it. I can see.
- 5:43Speaker 2: And I don't know how people think they've become experts
- 5:46Speaker 2: in this topic in just a very short amount of time.
- 5:49Speaker 2: I don't know how anyone does this. They seem to
- 5:54Speaker 2: think that you just instantly get a degree on the
- 5:56Speaker 2: internet by doing a little research. What I would like
- 6:03Speaker 2: to point out though, is these data centers are necessary
- 6:11Speaker 2: for a few things, data being at the top of
- 6:16Speaker 2: the list. But yes, there is an AI component to it.
- 6:20Speaker 2: You have to have, you know, So there's a lot
- 6:23Speaker 2: to keeping AI running. If your concern is with AI
- 6:29Speaker 2: in general, all right, well that's a different concern. If
- 6:36Speaker 2: your concern is, well, I want to have all this
- 6:40Speaker 2: data readily available, I just don't want it in my backyard.
- 6:43Speaker 2: It's got to go somewhere. I guess what I can't
- 6:50Speaker 2: help but point out is these people who became instant
- 6:56Speaker 2: experts on everything to do with data centers, where do
- 6:59Speaker 2: they get there information from? I mean, did they open
- 7:03Speaker 2: an old like encyclopedia and blow the dust off of
- 7:06Speaker 2: it and do some research. Did they go to their
- 7:09Speaker 2: public library pull out the microfilms what are those things
- 7:15Speaker 2: called microfiche? They pull those out? Did they come out
- 7:19Speaker 2: with the newspapers on the sticks from all around the world,
- 7:22Speaker 2: you know, those big chopsticks. Did they do that? Is
- 7:26Speaker 2: that how they did their research? Or did they get
- 7:28Speaker 2: on a computer and google whatever the popular opinion was.
- 7:33Speaker 2: Did they take their phones out and get the popular
- 7:37Speaker 2: opinions of other people off of their phones and use
- 7:40Speaker 2: it to figure out Do they look and see which
- 7:43Speaker 2: political party do these people support? Well, then that's the
- 7:46Speaker 2: opinion that I want. That tends to be how we
- 7:49Speaker 2: make decisions. And I'm gonna be honest with you. This
- 7:53Speaker 2: is one of those things that if this is like,
- 7:55Speaker 2: if this came to a citizen vote, I would certainly
- 8:00Speaker 2: want to be more informed on it. I would, I mean,
- 8:02Speaker 2: I'd like to be more informed on it now. But
- 8:05Speaker 2: I know people on both sides that absolutely are staunch
- 8:12Speaker 2: supporters or Antie Data Center, and they make good points.
- 8:22Speaker 2: And unless someone's going to actually ask me to cast
- 8:25Speaker 2: a vote, I don't know that it's important that I know.
- 8:28Speaker 2: It's either going to happen or it's not. That's where
- 8:31Speaker 2: I'm at. We're moving forward with it as a city,
- 8:35Speaker 2: as a community. Don't be shocked when it happens. The
- 8:37Speaker 2: people that are saying I don't understand why why are
- 8:39Speaker 2: we just doing this? It's what we do when we
- 8:44Speaker 2: get a chance to raise our taxes by a penny.
- 8:48Speaker 2: You know, when we go to the store, we vote. Yes,
- 8:52Speaker 2: that's what we do. Nobody ever stops and takes a
- 8:55Speaker 2: minute and goes maybe, right now, this isn't the best
- 8:58Speaker 2: time to have an extra penny in sales tax. Let's
- 9:01Speaker 2: let one run out, give ourselves just a chance, that's
- 9:05Speaker 2: a little bit, just a little bit, instead of being
- 9:09Speaker 2: at nine cents for every dollar. Maybe we drop it
- 9:11Speaker 2: down to eight for a little while, and then when
- 9:13Speaker 2: we're at the store, we're not quite suffering as much.
- 9:18Speaker 2: That's not what we do. That's not what we do.
- 9:21Speaker 2: We just go a penny. It's just a penny. They
- 9:24Speaker 2: don't even make those anyway, It's just a penny. Just
- 9:28Speaker 2: keep ready, let's get it up twelve cents on the dollar.
- 9:32Speaker 2: Why not just three pennies. Might as well make it
- 9:34Speaker 2: up five more. Let's get it up fifteen. Let's get
- 9:37Speaker 2: it by five cent increments, since they're rounding it up now. Anyway,
- 9:42Speaker 2: that's what we do. That's how we do it. And
- 9:45Speaker 2: then one giant voting block decides who the mayor is.
- 9:49Speaker 2: It's just the way Columbus works. It's just the way
- 9:52Speaker 2: our town works. I love my hometown for so many reasons.
- 9:57Speaker 2: The way that things like this get handled not so much. Hey,
- 10:03Speaker 2: speaking of it's not our hometown, but it's one of
- 10:06Speaker 2: our senators for our hometown in Georgia. Senator Jack ass
- 10:11Speaker 2: Off is uh, he's trying to make it well, John
- 10:15Speaker 2: awes Off, but you know what I mean. He's uh,
- 10:18Speaker 2: he's been to be part of the Senate Intelligence Committee
- 10:21Speaker 2: Intelligence Committee's grilling of Tulsi Gabbard. He's got a reelection
- 10:27Speaker 2: to win, you know, that's what he's got to do.
- 10:32Speaker 2: So he's yet, I get in there and really try
- 10:35Speaker 2: to grill Tulsi Gabbard because she's the kind of person.
- 10:38Speaker 2: She's the kind of she's the kind of politician, she's
- 10:42Speaker 2: the kind of veteran that's gonna crack under the pressure
- 10:46Speaker 2: of like a nerdy guy, Hey, yes or no, tell
- 10:50Speaker 2: me the truth. Some politicians can pull that hole like
- 10:55Speaker 2: I'm a tough guy. Off. He's not one. It's just
- 11:00Speaker 2: not that's not him. So he got in there and
- 11:06Speaker 2: he's like, uh, was there the assessment of the intelligence
- 11:10Speaker 2: community there was an imminent nuclear threat posed by the
- 11:13Speaker 2: Iranian regime? Yes or no? I like when they do
- 11:16Speaker 2: the yes or no when people when people in the
- 11:20Speaker 2: committee say yes or no, it's never the answer that
- 11:23Speaker 2: they get, and they're trying to make you answer it
- 11:27Speaker 2: in a way that is somehow, you know, helping them
- 11:29Speaker 2: out in some way. So he's I didn't do the voice.
- 11:32Speaker 2: I should have done the voice?
- 11:33Speaker 1: Is it?
- 11:33Speaker 2: The assessment of the intelligence community? Not a tough guy,
- 11:38Speaker 2: but he wants to be a tough guy right now,
- 11:39Speaker 2: because he's trying to win a reelection here in Georgia.
- 11:43Speaker 2: He's trying, he's trying hard, he's trying hard to make
- 11:47Speaker 2: sure he Oh my gosh, look at this guy. What
- 11:49Speaker 2: a tough guy. He really worked over Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi
- 11:55Speaker 2: Gabbard her response, The only person who can determine what
- 11:59Speaker 2: is and is not an imminent threat is the president. Yes,
- 12:04Speaker 2: that is true in this scenario. It is absolutely the truth. Hey,
- 12:13Speaker 2: why is it yes or no? That's all I want
- 12:15Speaker 2: to hear, yes or no. So Gabbard went on to
- 12:23Speaker 2: I guess after another yesterday, another chance for him to ask.
- 12:27Speaker 2: She says, it's not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine
- 12:31Speaker 2: what is and is not an eminent threat. Yes, that
- 12:36Speaker 2: is true, she said. The IC assesses that Operation Epic
- 12:40Speaker 2: Fury is advancing fundamental change in the region. Iran's conventional
- 12:47Speaker 2: military power projection capabilities have been have largely been destroyed,
- 12:51Speaker 2: leaving limited options. Iran's strategic position has been significantly degraded. So,
- 13:00Speaker 2: of course folks on the left have gone after this
- 13:03Speaker 2: that she wouldn't basically answer the question. She wouldn't answer
- 13:05Speaker 2: the question, jack ass Off said yes or no, and
- 13:09Speaker 2: she didn't say yes or no. She did not answer
- 13:15Speaker 2: the question. Because that's what happens in these committees, right.
- 13:20Speaker 2: They always they always answer the questions, always, and they
- 13:28Speaker 2: always ask good questions too. They don't get in there
- 13:31Speaker 2: and flex and show off and try to go like,
- 13:33Speaker 2: look at me, I'm up for reelection. They don't do
- 13:35Speaker 2: that either. They don't do that at all. Boy, we
- 13:40Speaker 2: asked a couple of a couple of senators in Georgia,
- 13:43Speaker 2: don't we Reverend Rkele jack ass Off classy guys, classy,
- 13:50Speaker 2: but he's up for reelection. So he's gonna get in
- 13:52Speaker 2: there and flex. He's going to do his thing. This
- 13:54Speaker 2: is the way the process works, this is what he does.
- 14:00Speaker 2: Hope I can run into him at Disney. It's always
- 14:04Speaker 2: fun when you talk to one of your senators in
- 14:08Speaker 2: a theme park and they find out, they find out
- 14:11Speaker 2: who you are, and they run away. That's fun. Maybe
- 14:14Speaker 2: it can happen twice. I'm hoping for, hoping for the
- 14:18Speaker 2: for the set that infinitely Infinity gold on only has
- 14:21Speaker 2: two stones in it. I'm hoping to get that second
- 14:24Speaker 2: stone soon. We're thinking about a Disney's trip soon. I
- 14:28Speaker 2: hope that'd be great. Probably not while he's running them.
- 14:31Speaker 2: He's out, but he doesn't. He can't look tough riding.
- 14:34Speaker 2: It's a small world, you know, Hey, is it really? Yes?
- 14:39Speaker 1: Or no?
- 14:40Speaker 2: Is it really? He doesn't really sound like that, but
- 14:43Speaker 2: that's kind of what I hear when I see him.
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- 18:14Speaker 2: after the break. Well, March Madness officially begins today, and
- 18:29Speaker 2: it's a lot of a lot of college basketball, a
- 18:31Speaker 2: lot of You're gonna hear the word bracket more than
- 18:33Speaker 2: you ever heard the word bracket in a year. This
- 18:37Speaker 2: is this is the day of brackets, lots of bracket talk. Well,
- 18:44Speaker 2: you'll hear that word a lot. And people will be
- 18:45Speaker 2: talking a lot about call and your your your state,
- 18:48Speaker 2: Your regular shows will be uprooted. If you're still watching
- 18:52Speaker 2: regular TV, if you watch you know, TBS or t
- 18:56Speaker 2: N T, all those channels, I'll get all your shows
- 19:00Speaker 2: get blown out. For the purpose. It would always mess
- 19:03Speaker 2: up my Impractical Jokers fix because you couldn't watch it
- 19:07Speaker 2: then or it would call it you get pushed too late.
- 19:09Speaker 2: All these things just renewed for a thirteenth season. By
- 19:12Speaker 2: the way, congrats to the guys from a practical jokers.
- 19:16Speaker 2: So the folks at wallet hub have crunched the numbers
- 19:20Speaker 2: about the best cities in America for college basketball. Nine
- 19:24Speaker 2: key metrics including total number of teams in the city,
- 19:28Speaker 2: how much they win, stadium capacity, and a few other things.
- 19:32Speaker 2: Ten best cities for college basketball. La at the top.
- 19:36Speaker 2: I'm sure volume of schools makes a big difference there. Durham,
- 19:39Speaker 2: North Carolina, not a shock, Lexington, Kentucky again not a shock.
- 19:43Speaker 2: Philadelphia again, it's about number of schools, Lawrence, Kansas. There
- 19:48Speaker 2: you go East Lansing, Michigan, Stores Connecticut, Chapel Hill, North
- 19:53Speaker 2: Carolina again not a shock. New York and Boston rounding
- 19:57Speaker 2: out for the top ten. You get the big cities
- 19:59Speaker 2: and then you get smaller towns, but they're basketball towns, right,
- 20:05Speaker 2: makes sense. It is an annual tradition. It is people
- 20:13Speaker 2: having their vasectomes vast madness. They call it vasectomes. During
- 20:18Speaker 2: March madness, you get snipped and then you got three
- 20:21Speaker 2: or four days to just kind of ice things up,
- 20:24Speaker 2: have a seat in front of the TV or on
- 20:26Speaker 2: the couch and watch basketball. The other time of year
- 20:31Speaker 2: that these kind of procedures have a tendency to go
- 20:34Speaker 2: up is at the end of the year, and that's
- 20:37Speaker 2: when guys have reached their annual insurance deductible and it
- 20:41Speaker 2: lowers the out of pocket cost for the snipping. But
- 20:45Speaker 2: you're just looking for a reason to be on the couch,
- 20:48Speaker 2: you know, this is it. This is basically the time
- 20:55Speaker 2: to do it if you just want to be on
- 20:56Speaker 2: the couch. According to a new study, drinking sparkling water
- 20:59Speaker 2: might be the seaqut to staying sharp during marathon gaming.
- 21:02Speaker 2: I'm talking about video gaming sessions. Researchers found that gamers
- 21:07Speaker 2: who sipped sparkling water maintained higher levels of concentration, reported
- 21:12Speaker 2: less fatigue, even committed fewer in game mistakes compared to
- 21:15Speaker 2: those drinking just regular water. Are't the ones drinking mountain
- 21:19Speaker 2: dew because I hear that's the beverage of choice or
- 21:22Speaker 2: monster or one of those. The theories that the bubble
- 21:25Speaker 2: stimulate sensory perceptor are receptors in the mouth tell the
- 21:29Speaker 2: brain to wake up, providing a healthy alternative to jitterary
- 21:32Speaker 2: energy drink. So that's what Instead of mountain dew, instead
- 21:37Speaker 2: of monster, you just have sparkling water. But I'm guessing
- 21:41Speaker 2: that you don't want to tell people that you're drinking
- 21:43Speaker 2: sparkling water. It's kind of the you know, salad as
- 21:47Speaker 2: a main course. I'm guessing of beverages while playing video games.
- 21:53Speaker 2: That's just my hunch. Like, if you, you know, you
- 21:57Speaker 2: don't want to be the one order in the salad.
- 22:00Speaker 2: If you're doing all your friends that play video games
- 22:03Speaker 2: are going out to eat, you don't want to be
- 22:05Speaker 2: the guy ordering a salad. You just don't or gal,
- 22:08Speaker 2: I don't want to just assume your gender just because
- 22:12Speaker 2: you're playing video games. I know gals that professionally play
- 22:14Speaker 2: video games, all right. So here's here's the thing that's
- 22:20Speaker 2: just kind of happened. And I don't know how the
- 22:23Speaker 2: company feels about it, but I guess this is a
- 22:27Speaker 2: thing that's gone viral. Moms with young kids looking for
- 22:31Speaker 2: ways to keep them occupied. They don't want them staring
- 22:33Speaker 2: at tablets and things at home. And I think we're
- 22:36Speaker 2: talking about toddlers or really small kids, but basically they
- 22:41Speaker 2: take them to home depot. There's a viral video from
- 22:45Speaker 2: San Diego where the mom shows her toddler just excited
- 22:49Speaker 2: about exploring the aisles of home Depot, and I guess
- 22:53Speaker 2: this thing has caught on millions of years later, parents
- 22:57Speaker 2: everywhere saying, yes, take your time, oddlers to Home Depot.
- 23:01Speaker 2: It's a free, climate controlled playground. Are they climate I
- 23:05Speaker 2: guess they're a little climate controlled. It's not like it's
- 23:07Speaker 2: cool in there. It's pretty warm. I don't know about
- 23:10Speaker 2: San Diego, but I know here, so uh yeah. The
- 23:14Speaker 2: reasons that this makes sense for some is parental burnout.
- 23:18Speaker 2: They say it's affecting more than half of us parents,
- 23:20Speaker 2: Moms turning to the stores, lights, rugs, plants, appliance displays
- 23:26Speaker 2: those kinds of uh sensory things. It's like a gem.
- 23:30Speaker 2: One mom even joked it's the world's biggest busy board.
- 23:35Speaker 2: Makes sense. Though they got the fuzzy carpets, they got
- 23:38Speaker 2: doors that open and close. Kids get some hands on learning.
- 23:42Speaker 2: Parents get a break from the heat and screens and chaos.
- 23:48Speaker 2: Some calling it a like a children's museum with free admission,
- 23:52Speaker 2: and they open at six am. I wonder how Home
- 23:56Speaker 2: Depot feels about this, But yeah, the videos of the
- 23:59Speaker 2: little kids, they're just going around. They're opening dishwashers and
- 24:02Speaker 2: cabinets and refrigerators and you know, sitting in the swings
- 24:07Speaker 2: checking out the plants. Probably not spending a lot of money,
- 24:12Speaker 2: though the kids aren't. I just wonder how much the
- 24:14Speaker 2: parents are spending. That'll do it for this Thursday edition
- 24:17Speaker 2: of the show. Thanks to our sponsors and patrons. Thanks
- 24:20Speaker 2: for listening. I'll catch you back here tomorrow morning.
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