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So Which One Is It? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start
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Speaker 1: your day. You're listening to the Wes Carroll Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Thursday morning, 24th day of September. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. It's a virtual school day for my kids.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how many school districts... Or having the
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Speaker 2: same thing going on going into this weekend. But they
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Speaker 2: have the day off tomorrow for their school district. So
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Speaker 2: they get today as a virtual day leading into that.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure there's some sort of teacher planning or something
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Speaker 2: going on. I don't know exactly what it is. But
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Speaker 2: it means the kids are here. They're not up yet,
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Speaker 2: but they'll be dragging around the house probably as late
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Speaker 2: as possible. I don't mind not having to get them up. earlier.
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Speaker 2: Let them sleep in a bit. They really like to
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Speaker 2: push the bedtimes with both of them in high school now.
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Speaker 2: Jake was always, you know, like they were in school
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Speaker 2: together in elementary school and then Jake was in middle
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Speaker 2: school and Luke was in elementary. Luke had to get
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Speaker 2: up earlier. Then Jake was in high school. Luke was
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Speaker 2: in middle. Luke still had to get up earlier. Now
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Speaker 2: they're both at school together, but Luke takes longer to
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Speaker 2: get ready. And by golly, he's not getting up earlier
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Speaker 2: than Jake. He's just determined to stay in bed as
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Speaker 2: long as possible. So I'm enjoying not having to fight
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Speaker 2: that today or tomorrow going into this extended weekend for them.
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Speaker 2: I'm a little excited about that. So we got that
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Speaker 2: going on in the Carroll household and many in this area.
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Speaker 2: So this morning, I want to talk about A.I., And
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Speaker 2: I kind of touched on some of this and I
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Speaker 2: thought I would add a little bit more maybe to
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Speaker 2: the conversation that this idea of AI becoming such a
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Speaker 2: topic of discussion on the large political scale. The president
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Speaker 2: was speaking before the UN. He's been talking about artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 2: He's now renaming it superintelligence. He is basically saying that
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Speaker 2: in all White House documentation and all references to it,
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Speaker 2: he would like everybody to refer to it as superintelligence.
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Speaker 2: It shouldn't be looked at as just artificial. It should
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Speaker 2: be looked at for what it is, this ability to
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Speaker 2: do things. He says we can't get behind with China.
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Speaker 2: I agree with that. It's a very difficult place to be.
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Speaker 2: I sort of liken this whole situation to the whole
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Speaker 2: attempts at doing certain things for the purposes of climate change,
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Speaker 2: no matter where you land on the climate change spectrum.
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Speaker 2: But we have this idea that in America, we should
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Speaker 2: be doing all of these things to help the climate.
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Speaker 2: other parts of the world do the same thing. Parts
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Speaker 2: of Europe, you got places all around the world, but
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Speaker 2: then there's parts of the world that aren't doing anything
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Speaker 2: for it. In fact, they're, they're realized like in China
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Speaker 2: and a few other India, there's a few places where
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Speaker 2: they can kind of go, well, we're going to burn
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Speaker 2: whatever we got to burn to get ahead of America
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Speaker 2: and anyone else in the world. So they're, you know,
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Speaker 2: carbon emissions go sky high and they get worse. And
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Speaker 2: then we sit back and we try to hurt ourselves.
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Speaker 2: This has been the story for decades where you say, well,
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Speaker 2: we're going to do what we can to hurt ourselves
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Speaker 2: because we're just going to trust everybody's going to do
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Speaker 2: what we're doing. And that's going to make things better.
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Speaker 2: But in reality, if everyone isn't doing it, you're not
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Speaker 2: really making any progress.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: And don't get me wrong. I don't know that the
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Speaker 2: deck is loaded for the climate people because, you know,
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Speaker 2: if it gets hotter, they can say, oh, well, that's
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Speaker 2: because of climate change. If it gets colder, they can say, oh,
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Speaker 2: it's because of climate change. If we have some hurricanes,
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Speaker 2: they can say, oh, hurricanes, we're getting all these hurricanes
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Speaker 2: because of climate change. And then if we haven't had
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Speaker 2: a single hurricane in the Atlantic yet, the latest ever,
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Speaker 2: that's because of climate change. If no matter what, you
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Speaker 2: can win... then you can always have your argument and
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Speaker 2: run with it. And that's what's going on. But if
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Speaker 2: you can sit back and you can say, well, we're
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Speaker 2: making a difference by doing these things. Or imagine how
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Speaker 2: much further behind we'd be if we weren't, in fact,
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Speaker 2: doing the things that we do and then China doing
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Speaker 2: all of their bad things or India doing their bad
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Speaker 2: things or whatever. So similarly to that, we look at A.I.,
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Speaker 2: And we say, well, we have to be responsible with
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Speaker 2: our AI. And we do. But it's not just being responsible.
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Speaker 2: It's also saying we have to make sure that everyone
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Speaker 2: else is responsible with it. And then they say, well,
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Speaker 2: we have to slow down. Here in America, we should
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Speaker 2: slow down what we're doing with AI. I'm sorry, SI.
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Speaker 2: Is that what it is? Is it going to be
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Speaker 2: SI or can we keep calling it AI? I appreciate
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Speaker 2: what the president was trying to do there with the
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Speaker 2: whole super intelligence, but AI, that's the brand. It's not
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Speaker 2: really the brand, but with branding, that's what happens. Band-Aids
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Speaker 2: are all plastic medical strips. It's just what you call them.
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Speaker 2: I don't care what type of soft drink you're drinking,
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Speaker 2: it's Coke. At least in the South.
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Speaker 1: So, but.
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Speaker 2: Back to SI or AI or whatever we're calling it.
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Speaker 2: SI is Sports Illustrated. I don't know that SI would
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Speaker 2: be smarter than the average person. But AI, as far
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Speaker 2: as its uses and as far as what we're trying
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Speaker 2: to do with it, we do need to slow down
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Speaker 2: with it because everyone has to do that, though. And
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Speaker 2: if everyone doesn't slow down with it, then we all
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Speaker 2: have to go as fast as each other. It's the
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Speaker 2: hard reality of it. You can't say we're going to
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Speaker 2: slow down and then let China get way ahead of
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Speaker 2: us because there's not really a way to catch up.
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Speaker 2: And all of the AI experts say that. There's no
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Speaker 2: way that you catch up. If you get behind, you're
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Speaker 2: just behind. You'll always be behind. And that's just the
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Speaker 2: way things will play out with it. So when you
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Speaker 2: hear the president talk about, you know, we can't get
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Speaker 2: behind and people say, oh, yeah. got to slow it down.
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Speaker 2: We got to make sure we don't have data centers everywhere.
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Speaker 2: And we got to make sure that we're doing everything
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Speaker 2: we can to grind it to a halt so we
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Speaker 2: don't kill all of humanity. Well, listen, if we decide
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Speaker 2: that we're going to do everything we can to not
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Speaker 2: kill all of humanity, but China decides that they're going
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Speaker 2: to proceed and put all of humanity at risk, guess what?
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Speaker 2: All of humanity will be at risk. That's just the
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Speaker 2: way AI works. That's just the way the internet works.
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Speaker 2: That's just the way all of it works. So you
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Speaker 2: have to move forward carefully and hope that other people
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Speaker 2: will cooperate. I know that the president and the president
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Speaker 2: of China just were meeting and they're talking about all
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Speaker 2: this stuff, I guess. I don't know. But the point is,
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Speaker 2: it's interesting that there's been so much conversation, so much
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Speaker 2: discussion about AI in politics. And it just kind of
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Speaker 2: came out of nowhere. You start getting people that are
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Speaker 2: heads of these AI companies, and they say, well, we
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Speaker 2: need legislation from the government to step in. We need
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Speaker 2: the government to step in and handle things. And then
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Speaker 2: you start hearing politicians saying, oh, it's so bad. I'm AOC,
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Speaker 2: and boy, that's bad. And then you start getting a
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Speaker 2: number of people just in the political realm, both sides
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Speaker 2: of the aisle, mostly on the left, that are talking
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Speaker 2: about how bad it is. And how we have to
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Speaker 2: slow things down. And you start going, what is the
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Speaker 2: motivation here? What is happening exactly that we're trying to
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Speaker 2: encourage slowing down? And are we just going to basically say, oh,
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Speaker 2: we're going to let China win this one? Because you can't.
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Speaker 2: Not this one. This is akin to the arms race.
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Speaker 2: You have to be ready and you have to keep
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Speaker 2: up with each other. Otherwise... It could be bad. It
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Speaker 2: could be really bad. And like I said, you get behind,
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Speaker 2: then you're just behind. So it's made me ask the question,
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Speaker 2: and I've talked to some people that I know and
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Speaker 2: I respect and their opinions, and I've gotten a couple
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Speaker 2: of opinions on it. Because I think there's a few
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Speaker 2: things that could be at play here, and I just
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Speaker 2: feel like we should talk about those things. First of all,
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Speaker 2: you know, One person that I talk to, my brother,
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Speaker 2: seems to think that this is just that opportunity for
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Speaker 2: the people who know that if things keep moving forward,
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Speaker 2: legislation is coming, and they're just trying to get their
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Speaker 2: foot on the ground somewhere in it so that they'll
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Speaker 2: have some say in all of it. And I think
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Speaker 2: that that's certainly a big part of it. I do
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Speaker 2: think think that that's very accurate as far as where
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Speaker 2: things are. I've got another friend who works in banking,
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Speaker 2: and I asked him the same question. And he said, well,
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Speaker 2: similar to that, he feels like from a banking standpoint,
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Speaker 2: he looks at things and he says, well, maybe there's
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Speaker 2: this opportunity in there for the people that are involved.
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Speaker 2: They see that there's something coming down the line that
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Speaker 2: is going to be incredibly profitable for them. Therefore, they
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Speaker 2: want to get people involved so that they can kind
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Speaker 2: of take their hands off the wheel and just say,
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Speaker 2: you guys jump in here while still being involved, I guess,
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Speaker 2: in the process. But they're basically kind of saying, if
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Speaker 2: it just so happens that even with your involvement, I
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Speaker 2: still get filthy stinking rich off of this. Well, you know,
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Speaker 2: I'd asked you for help and you jumped in here
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Speaker 2: and that's where things are. And I think that's an
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Speaker 2: interesting take on all of it. I think both of
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Speaker 2: those things could simultaneously be true. The thing that I'm
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Speaker 2: starting to wonder and the thing that I'm starting to
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Speaker 2: really question about all of it, and from the very beginning,
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Speaker 2: you know, we started hearing from some of the people that, uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, run these companies and they start saying things
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Speaker 2: and you think this seems odd. And then the politicians
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Speaker 2: jumped in. And the fact that a lot of them,
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Speaker 2: most of them seem to be on the left sort
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Speaker 2: of started making me wonder if there's something else that's
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Speaker 2: going on here. And I don't know if, you know,
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Speaker 2: where this all could end up. But I've just kind
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Speaker 2: of been wondering, are we looking at a situation where
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Speaker 2: the left is concerned or are they starting to see
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Speaker 2: something that might indicate that the blue wave isn't happening
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Speaker 2: or that the takeover isn't happening? And I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I'm not making a prediction on that one way or
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Speaker 2: the other. I have never been someone who's been overly
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Speaker 2: good at predicting outcomes of elections. And I think that
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Speaker 2: it's– although– this past presidential election called the entire electoral college,
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Speaker 2: which felt really good. All those battleground States. But that's it.
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Speaker 2: That's the one time that I've done that. And I
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Speaker 2: was like, well, maybe I should stop predicting them at
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Speaker 2: all because you know, you get there once you'd go
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Speaker 2: out on top. But anyway, I know I'll never do
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Speaker 2: that again, but I've been very wrong about predicting them.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know where this midterm is going. I
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Speaker 2: do think that as history tends to say, it should
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Speaker 2: be a big win for the left. You get a,
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Speaker 2: you know, a president comes in and there's this opportunity
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Speaker 2: for a swing in power. That's normally what happens, but
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Speaker 2: it does seem Democrats have been doing everything they can
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Speaker 2: to get into their own way, welcoming Hassan Piker to
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Speaker 2: the table and, Welcoming candidates that are friends with a
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Speaker 2: Sondpiker to the table and creating this dynamic where things
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Speaker 2: could get really bad, really fast for them when it
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Speaker 2: comes to the election. If they're bringing in candidates that
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Speaker 2: are towing the line of communism, not just, I mean,
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Speaker 2: they're well into the socialism waters. We're not talking about like, hey,
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Speaker 2: they kind of have a toe in the water to socialism.
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Speaker 2: They now have a toe or a foot or maybe
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Speaker 2: even waist deep in communism for some of the candidates.
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Speaker 2: They're not using the term yet, although they're really, you know,
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Speaker 2: they seem to at the very least have a few
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Speaker 2: feet in the water with communism, but they don't want
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Speaker 2: to use that term yet. They know that that's not
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Speaker 2: quite there. I do think that if the left does win, uh,
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Speaker 2: control in Congress, either house, both houses, whatever, uh, you
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Speaker 2: take the Senate, you take the house. Um, then I
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Speaker 2: definitely think we'll start hearing the word communism. Like it's
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Speaker 2: going to be thrown around. That's where we're going to go. Uh,
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Speaker 2: we're going to hear it a lot more because I
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Speaker 2: think this will be the sign it's time to embrace
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Speaker 2: it and kick out everybody who doesn't. And I do
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Speaker 2: think it could be a disaster for that party, for
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Speaker 2: anyone who is left of center, uh, As if everything
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Speaker 2: gets pushed further to the left, you're going to start
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Speaker 2: seeing some candidates that are going to be now on
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Speaker 2: the right side of center. And you're going to say, well,
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Speaker 2: wait a minute. Is this where they should be now? Or,
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Speaker 2: you know, where does all of this go? But it
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Speaker 2: makes me wonder, do they know something? Do they have
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Speaker 2: a hunch on something? Do they feel like Republicans are
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Speaker 2: going to hold? Is this becoming like a preemptive preparation
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Speaker 2: for an excuse to say, if we don't win, we're
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Speaker 2: going to blame AI and Republicans and they figured out
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Speaker 2: a way to cheat?
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Speaker 1: Just a hunt. Like, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know where all this is going. I think
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Speaker 2: that could be part of the story. But I do
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Speaker 2: think it's worth mentioning the fact that this idea that
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Speaker 2: there's something profitable in there and they want to kind
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Speaker 2: of take their hands off And they want to kind
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Speaker 2: of just sit back a little bit and let somebody
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Speaker 2: else kind of steer the, grab the wheel and steer things,
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Speaker 2: control the rudder, if you will. Or it's just as
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Speaker 2: simple as we know legislation's coming. We want to help
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Speaker 2: with the legislation so that we have some say in
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Speaker 2: what's coming. I don't know. But it's interesting that we
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Speaker 2: are at this divide now where the left seems to
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Speaker 2: be saying, slow down on the AI. And then the
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Speaker 2: right's kind of going, hey, We have to keep up
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Speaker 2: full speed ahead. We have to do that. Because we
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Speaker 2: can't let China get ahead because, again, once you're behind,
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Speaker 2: quarter of a million dollars for one Michigan treasure hunter.
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Speaker 2: The buyer bought a $ 30 painting and noticed the signature
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Speaker 2: Abercrombie 51 in the corner. Experts later confirmed it was
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Speaker 2: in fact the long lost work by famed Chicago surrealist
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Speaker 2: Gertrude Abercrombie. The painting titled Alderman Miriam's Shells had been
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Speaker 2: in the same family for about 75 years after reportedly
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Speaker 2: being given to a doctor in exchange for a medical
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Speaker 2: procedure in 1952. It will head now to auction where
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Speaker 2: it's expected to sell for between $ 150, 000 and $ 250, 000. Nice eye,
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Speaker 2: I guess, or just nice eye for art. If you
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Speaker 2: spend $ 30 and you go, hey, this seems like a
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Speaker 2: nice painting, I'd like to own this. And then you
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Speaker 2: really check it out, and then you go, oh, it's
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Speaker 2: worth a lot more. You know, it's a nice painting.
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Speaker 2: It's a painting of shells. Looks great. It's a surrealist piece.
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Speaker 2: That's what it is. But it looks great. Good for them.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that I would have paid $ 30 for it.
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Speaker 2: I would have missed out. So maybe that's the reason
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Speaker 2: this kind of thing doesn't happen to me. You know,
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Speaker 2: just saying. A new study found alcohol consumption dropped for
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Speaker 2: the first time since COVID, with the biggest declines coming
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Speaker 2: from Gen Z and millennials. In fact, Gen Z cut
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Speaker 2: back on drinking by more than 5%, while millennials showed
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Speaker 2: the biggest drop in heavy drinking, 17%. Not everyone, though,
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Speaker 2: is cutting back. Adults aged 50 to 64 are heading
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Speaker 2: in the opposite direction. Researchers found heavy drinking in that
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Speaker 2: age group has climbed more than 36% since 2018. So
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Speaker 2: while younger generations are swapping cocktails for mocktails, older Americans
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Speaker 2: may be keeping happy hour alive all by themselves. With
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Speaker 2: it now officially being fall, that means time to do
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Speaker 2: something that's called candlescaping. You've got landscaping outside. Inside, maybe
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Speaker 2: you do candlescaping. It's the art of using candles to
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Speaker 2: create a warm atmosphere inside. through a combination of fragrance, lighting,
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Speaker 2: visual style, and fire hazards. No, that part's not in there.
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Speaker 2: I added that. The idea is to layer complementary scents
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Speaker 2: throughout your home and mix different candle shapes, sizes, and
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Speaker 2: placements to create warm, inviting feels and fire hazards.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 2: Experts recommend starting with fragrances in the same scent family,
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Speaker 2: such as something woody, maybe food-inspired, seasonal scents, and then
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Speaker 2: building around one anchor fragrance that ties everything together. The
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Speaker 2: goal isn't to overwhelm a room with competing aromas, but
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Speaker 2: to create a subtle cohesive experience and a fire hazard.
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Speaker 2: Candle pros also say that restraint is key. Rather than
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Speaker 2: lighting a dozen scented candles at once, try pairing one
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Speaker 2: scented candle with an unscented one, to add ambiance and
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Speaker 2: create a fragrance overload that doesn't happen with that extra.
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Speaker 2: So it's not creating a fragrance overload. Another popular tip
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Speaker 2: is giving your home a signature scent, similar to what
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Speaker 2: luxury hotels do. So guests immediately associate a certain fragrance
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Speaker 2: with your space. I kid about the fire hazard, but
25:49
Speaker 2: it can be a fire hazard. Just a reminder, make
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Speaker 2: sure to put out all those candles when you're finished,
25:54
Speaker 2: or else it could be a fire hazard. Researchers in
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Speaker 2: Hong Kong have found a way to eavesdrop on headphones, phones,
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Speaker 2: and other gadgets from up to 100 feet away, even
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Speaker 2: through walls. Scientists blast invisible radio signals at the devices,
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Speaker 2: and the signals bounce off internal wiring and amplifiers and
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Speaker 2: cause the hack targets physical wires instead of software or
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Speaker 2: digital data. And usual security stuff like password protection encryption
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Speaker 2: don't defend against the spying. Interesting. Kind of reminds me
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Speaker 2: of that scene in The Dark Knight, you know, using
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Speaker 2: bat-like technology. It's interesting that this hasn't been a thing sooner,
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Speaker 2: I think. I mean, other than the fact that the
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Speaker 2: devices are probably listening to you anyway. And then you
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Speaker 2: throw in the fact that they can bounce this stuff through,
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Speaker 2: you know, walls. That's interesting. All right, that'll do it
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