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Opening Segment 8/25/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now Curtis Sliwa and Larry Minty in the morning on
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  Speaker 1: sevent ten.
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  Speaker 2: Wr Well, what you brought to everybody's attention to Larry
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago, all the town hall meetings taking place in
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey in opposition to the data filing centers, the
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  Speaker 2: artificial intelligence STATI filing centers that were being built without
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  Speaker 2: any knowledge of the local community. It has skyrocketed now
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  Speaker 2: to become maybe the October surprise in these midterm elections.
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  Speaker 2: Whereas it was not considered an issue that might affect
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  Speaker 2: congressional race outcomes or even US Senate race outcomes. Oh boy,
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  Speaker 2: has that changed, And it really changed dramatically when the
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  Speaker 2: number one cheer leader and supporter of the effort nobody
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  Speaker 2: was bigger in rallying up the companies building the artificial
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  Speaker 2: intelligence data filing sentence sing Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas,
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  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, boy, did he do a
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  Speaker 2: pivot and shift that has caused this to become a
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  Speaker 2: huge issue.
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  Speaker 3: Larry, Yeah, he said that he was promised certain things
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  Speaker 3: and those promises were weren't kept and because of that
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  Speaker 3: he's issuing not a moratorium like the Kathy Hokeel did
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  Speaker 3: where she's going to study it, but a moratorium until
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  Speaker 3: they get in line. So if a data center is
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  Speaker 3: already in line and living up to the standards that
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  Speaker 3: Texas has said, then that's fine. Other than that, you
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  Speaker 3: have to shut down until you get up to those standards.
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  Speaker 4: I am now coming in as governor saying listen, if
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  Speaker 4: you're a data center and you want to operate on Texas,
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  Speaker 4: you have to first get the approval of those in
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  Speaker 4: local communities. And that's why I set that standard. No
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  Speaker 4: data centers disturbing local communities in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Right, and they have to come up with their own
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  Speaker 3: power supply. There's many of the standards he's talking about.
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  Speaker 4: They had not been working in collaboration with the state.
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  Speaker 4: They've not been working in collaboration with local governments, and
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  Speaker 4: so they basically dug their own grave for the problem
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  Speaker 4: that's been calls for them, and that's why they got
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  Speaker 4: the backlash they deserve. And that's why these new standards
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  Speaker 4: are in place to make sure they're not going to
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  Speaker 4: be able to operate until they come at a compliance
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  Speaker 4: with the standards that I have set.
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  Speaker 3: Just like in New Jersey, except Mikey Cheryl didn't do
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  Speaker 3: this just like in New Jersey, what Governor Abbott is
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  Speaker 3: saying right now, I hear you, I hear the problems.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what I was told. So we're going to
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  Speaker 3: move in and if there is a problem with any
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  Speaker 3: of these data centers, we're going to shut them down.
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  Speaker 3: If they aren't paying for their own electricity, if they
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  Speaker 3: aren't supplying their own water and then giving the excess
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  Speaker 3: water back to the community, if they are in the
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  Speaker 3: middle of a community and too loud in the community
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  Speaker 3: doesn't want them any there there anymore, then we're going
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  Speaker 3: to move them out. So it's a pretty bold thing
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  Speaker 3: that he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it affects races in Maine, Michigan, Ohio, around
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  Speaker 2: the country where the state of filing centers are growing
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  Speaker 2: fast and furiously for artificial intelligence. And Republicans I think
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  Speaker 2: kind of understood that the far left of the Democratic Party,
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  Speaker 2: the Progressive seized the issue. Initially, Bernie Sanders and AOC
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  Speaker 2: they were campaigning around the country against it, and then
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  Speaker 2: they saw that a lot of people were attending these
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  Speaker 2: town hall meetings who were not necessarily politically affiliated, not
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  Speaker 2: at all hardcore ideologues, not at all.
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  Speaker 3: They just where they want their community to be affordable,
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  Speaker 3: number one. They wanted to be affordable and that they
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  Speaker 3: were able to sleep at night without the humming.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, And that was probably the store that broke
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  Speaker 2: the camel's back when the spokespeople for the industry, starting
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  Speaker 2: with Kevin O'Leary, you know who was going to build
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  Speaker 2: at that time the biggest artificial intelligence that filing center
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  Speaker 2: in the world, that would have been in Utah. That's
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  Speaker 2: been scaled back enormously. When he started saying, oh no,
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  Speaker 2: this was red Chinese propaganda against it. What are you
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  Speaker 2: talking about? Noise? No, no, no, no, there's no noise.
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  Speaker 2: And all of some people were posting on their own
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  Speaker 2: like they're sitting on their porch, said hey, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a hardcore ideologue, but what do you make
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  Speaker 2: of this noise that's coming from that data filing center
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  Speaker 2: that's just a few blocks away. And what the untold story, Larry,
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  Speaker 2: is that a lot of these companies that have billions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars to invest now in the race to be
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  Speaker 2: number one and two in artificial intelligence in the United States,
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  Speaker 2: or to provide the artificial intelligence from the data filing centers,
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  Speaker 2: is that residential property is cheaper than industrial property, so
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  Speaker 2: they started gobbling up all the residential property under LLC's
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  Speaker 2: people had no idea what was happening until all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, construction crews coming in, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: concrete being laid. What's this is a school? Is it
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  Speaker 2: a supermarket? Now?
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  Speaker 3: All these data centers aren't going to exist, They're not
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  Speaker 3: going to there's going to be a bubble and many
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  Speaker 3: of the data centers aren't going to be needed right now.
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  Speaker 3: There is a race to be first, and there's a
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  Speaker 3: race to get everything built before the bubble. So they
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  Speaker 3: don't have time for construction. They don't have time to
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  Speaker 3: change something in an industrial park or to put a
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  Speaker 3: new building in an industrial park, which are usually jammed
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  Speaker 3: with other companies. So they look for buildings and they
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  Speaker 3: look for areas like Mirkover and Kenilworth. They look for
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  Speaker 3: buildings that they can move into immediately because in a
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  Speaker 3: year they're going to be weeding out some of these
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  Speaker 3: data centers because they're not going to need them anymore.
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  Speaker 3: We've been talking about this now for a while, and
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  Speaker 3: now it seems like everybody else is catching up on it,
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  Speaker 3: and it's something that you really wanted to talk about yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: and so we're going to play many We have so
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  Speaker 3: many talkbacks on AI, but let's go through them.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Larry and Curtis, the whole AI data center thing, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's Chinese propaganda. I think people on the inside truly
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  Speaker 1: know that. However, the media is driving the message. It's
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  Speaker 1: the same stupid messaging that drove the Nimby crowd back
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  Speaker 1: in the day and put us so far behind on
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  Speaker 1: nuclear technology. Look, industrial centers run factories.
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  Speaker 2: That we don't hear.
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  Speaker 1: The same can be done with AI.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to disagree that there isn't Chinese propaganda
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  Speaker 3: in everything. They affect our elections, they get on social media.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you. Yeah that's possible. That ain't what
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  Speaker 3: it's happening right now. This is a ground swell.
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  Speaker 2: The messengers who promoted this couldn't have been more arrogant,
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  Speaker 2: couldn't have been more full of themselves. Kevin O'Leary of
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  Speaker 2: Shark Tank, Steve Moore on the radio, and most recently Zuckerberg,
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  Speaker 2: who's on trial for promoting perversion to meta. You couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have war spokespersons, and that's really hurt their effort.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And if you listen to these town hall meetings,
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  Speaker 3: if you listen to the reports that reporters are doing,
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  Speaker 3: local reporters are going out in Little Rock and in
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  Speaker 3: Albuquerque and in San Antonio, and they're interviewing people. This
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  Speaker 3: is people in the communities that are upset.
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  Speaker 2: This.
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  Speaker 3: This is a groundswell. It's not coming from some mothership
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  Speaker 3: source and going down to people. It's coming from the
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  Speaker 3: ground up. And the Republicans are starting to realize that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you guys are trying to get this ground
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  Speaker 5: swell against data centers. But nobody's willing to give up
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  Speaker 5: all the things that we require from data centers our iPhones,
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  Speaker 5: our Internet, our Google, our AI, our GPS. You know,
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  Speaker 5: nobody wants to give that up. But you're trying to
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  Speaker 5: get this ground swell against data centers.
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  Speaker 3: Where the heck are we going to put the We're
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  Speaker 3: not trying to start a ground swell. We're reacting to
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  Speaker 3: the ground swell. The ground swell was already happening if
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  Speaker 3: you were paying attention. It happened in city council meetings
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  Speaker 3: and town hall meetings all across the country. And listen,
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  Speaker 3: are you having any problems right now with any of
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  Speaker 3: the data you're getting. No, we're talking about AI. We're
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  Speaker 3: talking about an advancement. And Curtis and I think are
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  Speaker 3: on the same page.
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  Speaker 2: We're we're all four of that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're all for AI. Why put all of these
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  Speaker 3: data centers right smack in the right smack dab in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of the community in next to houses.
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  Speaker 2: That's all. In fact, fifty percent of US adults use
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  Speaker 2: AI chatbots. Forty eight percent have conversations with AI chatbots
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  Speaker 2: not about work when they're at work.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because they need a friend, I know.
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  Speaker 2: And it's that's not all like Chris, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: quiet storm on loan from Mark Simone, who's really come
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  Speaker 2: into his own here out of his shell. Is you
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  Speaker 2: probably you'll hold generate would.
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  Speaker 3: Much prefer to be dealing with a chat bot, the
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  Speaker 3: alleged girlfriend is that AI's goodness. Stop, guys are terrible.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot of gen z is much prefer having
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  Speaker 2: a relationship with their chat bots in the dorm room
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  Speaker 2: or wherever they're sharing you know, space with And they
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  Speaker 2: would with another human being. Uh, that is not me
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  Speaker 2: or the people I know, but I do believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Datchey is she Oh no, I list, we got him.
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  Speaker 2: There's been empirical information right now from the.
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  Speaker 3: Quiet Chris, here's another AI talked back.
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  Speaker 2: I love listening to you, listening to your commentary in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, but AI is going to turn you into
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  Speaker 2: fake news. Give it up.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand how I'm supportive of AI. I don't
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  Speaker 3: get it. I don't understand, and and I don't know
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  Speaker 3: why this message isn't getting through because I've said it
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  Speaker 3: almost every morning. I'm not against AI at all, but
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  Speaker 3: this idea that if you're against data centers being built
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  Speaker 3: next to a home being built right in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of a community, is being against AI. That's a losing proposition. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: seventy five percent of the people are against these data
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  Speaker 3: centers being built in communities. If the Republicans don't wise up,
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna end up losing the midterms and losing them badly.
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  Speaker 3: This is becoming a huge issue. If anything, I'm just
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  Speaker 3: shooting off a warning gun. I'm raising a red flag. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: you better get on board with this or you're going
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  Speaker 3: to lose power.
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  Speaker 2: You're Paul Revere here. You've alerted everyone for an advance.
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  Speaker 2: This was organic. People don't seem to under sense this
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  Speaker 2: was not political. These are people having a town hall
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  Speaker 2: meeting saying what what's that noise?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 2: Who's gonna pay for these electricity rates? They're already too high.
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  Speaker 2: And where they gonna get the water from? We're like
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  Speaker 2: in drought conditions now we barely have enough water. Where
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  Speaker 2: they going to find a worl from? Simple questions that
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  Speaker 2: never got answered because the people promoting aidentifiing senates you'll
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  Speaker 2: have a need to know. We'll let you know when
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  Speaker 2: you need to know.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, we need to know. Now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, and now the people are rising up. So
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  Speaker 3: that's where it's coming from. It's not coming from the
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  Speaker 3: down up, It's not coming from China, it's not coming
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  Speaker 3: from us. So I'm not going to feel silly. This
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  Speaker 3: is us paying attention to town halls and council meetings
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  Speaker 3: across the country and then reacting to it, and by
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  Speaker 3: the way, investigating it before we talked, which I would
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  Speaker 3: think that some of the people on talkback should do.
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  Speaker 3: Just go ahead, it's right there on YouTube. You can
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  Speaker 3: see it for yourself. Local news all across the country.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, are you guys gonna be jealous? Guess where
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  Speaker 3: I was at.
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  Speaker 2: What you in North Carolina?
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  Speaker 3: A waffle house? You're kidding?
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  Speaker 2: You could have also gone to a red lobster while
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  Speaker 2: you were Edit once again has all the shrimp you
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  Speaker 2: can eat?
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  Speaker 3: It said price waffle house doesn't hold a candle. Oh no,
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  Speaker 3: the other way around. Red lobster doesn't hold a candle.
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  Speaker 3: To waffle Curt, we'll talk about the experience when I
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  Speaker 3: come back.