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"Mousetraps Into Batteries" from #CES2026 (Tuesday, January 6, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: So what do you think about the dog problem?
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Speaker 2: The first thing today by Joe Thomas on the Tunk
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Speaker 3: I said, definitely, I feel we have too many dopes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Jewort said, steal me stem.
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Speaker 5: You have a day at least for work.
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Speaker 6: When the sun comes up, drops a pet into scood
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Speaker 6: the way Joe has.
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Speaker 7: Everything a dream do all the treasure set needs no
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Speaker 7: one that Joe's as smile, he only eggs.
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Speaker 8: Let it be, Joe, thank you for letting us be
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Speaker 8: of service to you this morning. Four three four eight
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Speaker 8: Four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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Speaker 8: But this program, our business model is will tell you
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Speaker 8: what went on last night. We'll tell you what we
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Speaker 8: see in the evidence collected at the debris field. But
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Speaker 8: I also want to hear how it's impacting you where
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Speaker 8: you are. One of my favorite quotes of the day
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Speaker 8: Marjorie Taylor Green. The Marjorie Taylor Green era in Georgia
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Speaker 8: politics is over just in time for her to get
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Speaker 8: her pension, and was on with a boy. And I
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Speaker 8: finally figured out what it is about Caitlin Collins. You know,
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Speaker 8: it's it's not just the resting smug face. I used
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Speaker 8: to think it was the resting smug face that she had.
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Speaker 8: She her face when it's at rest, just looks like
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Speaker 8: she has dripping disdain for you the viewer. And I
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Speaker 8: go back to what I believe about broadcasting. You're sitting
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Speaker 8: by yourself. I'm talking to you. That's it, you know.
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Speaker 8: I know that we're on in Portland and Dallas and
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Speaker 8: Chicago and of course Stanton and Norfolk and all these
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Speaker 8: places where you're Adulton, Georgia, but you're sitting by yourself.
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Speaker 8: I'm only here to talk to you. And Caitlin Collins
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Speaker 8: should have been taught in TV anchor school that you know,
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Speaker 8: when she's looking at the camera, she's looking at a person,
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Speaker 8: and she just looks like she's got such grave disdain
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Speaker 8: for whoever has put CNN on at the time. I
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Speaker 8: know there are people that think she's pretty. I can
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Speaker 8: see why somebody would say that. If I don't agree
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Speaker 8: with it, that's fine. I just find that and I
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Speaker 8: used to call it her resting smug face, but now
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Speaker 8: I realize I think it really is disdain for anyone
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Speaker 8: other than her in the world, whether it's their guest
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Speaker 8: or the viewer.
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Speaker 5: It's just she's better than you, and what are you
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Speaker 5: bothering her for? Don't you see?
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Speaker 8: She's got important people like Marjorie Taylor Green to talk to,
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Speaker 8: and she asked her, are you going to run for
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Speaker 8: any other offices?
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Speaker 2: Marge?
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Speaker 9: You know politics has not been a safe place for me.
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Speaker 10: Today, on my last day in office, we received another
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Speaker 10: death threat on my life.
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Speaker 8: Are there other kinds? Lieutenant Kaffi asks Colonel Jessup. Are
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Speaker 8: there any other grave danger? Is there any other kind?
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Speaker 8: I mean, I'm sorry, I'm not making light of the
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Speaker 8: fact that somebody might have threatened Barjerie Taylor Green's life.
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Speaker 8: And we've reported to you frequently on the Times that
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Speaker 8: her home was swatted by the leftists, which makes me
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Speaker 8: wonder why would she join the left.
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Speaker 5: It's another one of those things.
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Speaker 8: There are just too many unanswered questions in this, just
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Speaker 8: like the Meduro and maybe very similar to the Meduro case.
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Speaker 8: There but our first things. Nicholas Meduro appeared before one
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Speaker 8: of the oldest jurist and most unconventional ones, according to
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Speaker 8: those who followed the law. Ninety two year old US
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Speaker 8: District Judge Alvin Hellerstein was presiding over the arraignment of
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Speaker 8: President Nicholas Maduro his cases moving forward. He pleaded not
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Speaker 8: guilty to charges of narco terrorism and cocaine trafficking conspiracy,
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Speaker 8: but according to legal analyst, Hellerstein is known for running
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Speaker 8: a tight ship and not allowing lawyers a lot of leeway.
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Speaker 8: Venezuelan authorities, meanwhile, say they've been trying to round up
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Speaker 8: was issued Saturday, but only published to the citizens of
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Speaker 5: Like, hold it, where's my Chrome? What was he talking about?
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Speaker 8: Something that was masquerading since twenty seventeen as Chrome Extensions.
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Speaker 8: making headway and noise here or at Consumer Electronics show called
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Speaker 8: Phantom Shuttle. There were Chrome extensions just discovered that have
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Speaker 8: been in your Google browser since twenty seventeen.
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Speaker 5: Researchers at Socket.
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Speaker 8: Say the extensions published by the same developer and market
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Speaker 8: haven't fallen into the view, but if somebody says, hey,
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Speaker 8: I want to find out what this computer is doing,
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Speaker 8: let's see if it's got the Google Chrome extensions, it's
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Speaker 8: like the back door in It's the plug that you
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Speaker 8: didn't realize was there, or like the jewelry stores that
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Speaker 8: then drill through the safe wall while nobody was looking.
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Speaker 8: This phantom shuttle takes all of your web traffic once
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Speaker 8: you're touched by the attackers that want your information, and
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Speaker 8: then they look for hard coded credentials embedded directly into
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Speaker 8: the extensions code. The attackers then in code your personal information,
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Speaker 8: your personal information. Take it away, run it through their decoder,
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Speaker 8: Fargo North decoder, and now they have your information, especially
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Speaker 8: browsing histories that include credentials for logins. It just reminds
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Speaker 8: you that, you know, we are all on the point
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Speaker 8: of almost being ludites when it comes to technology and
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Speaker 8: the cookies that you know, well, this site uses cookies.
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Speaker 8: Everything every website uses cookies. Do you accept? Do not accept?
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Speaker 5: And what are you doing?
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Speaker 15: Wow?
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Speaker 8: I don't do anything that's you know anyone would be
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Speaker 8: interested in stealing? No, yes you are, Yes you are,
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Speaker 8: Yes you are. There's always something worth stealing, if nothing else,
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Speaker 8: your information that can be sent and set up on
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Speaker 8: a database somewhere, and that can be sold even if
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Speaker 8: it's as mundane as that. And this is in and
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Speaker 8: amongst people saying, hey, we we want to start doing
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Speaker 8: more voting through technology, and the Nicholas Madoro connection to
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Speaker 8: the Dominion voting machines and the smart track voting systems
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Speaker 8: coming out of Venezuelan developers.
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Speaker 5: And I remember at the time, Oh, Joe, that's just
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Speaker 5: a coincident.
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Speaker 8: Really, it's just a coincidence that a brutal communist dictator
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Speaker 8: has one place where the free market is supposed to
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Speaker 8: we're told lived because oh, they're able to develop all
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Speaker 8: this cool voting software. Oh really, really a dictator who
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Speaker 8: wins every election he faces by wide margins. Remember it's
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Speaker 8: not who votes, it's who writes the software to count
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Speaker 8: the votes. And so while Nicholas Maduro is hopefully not
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Speaker 8: in the Epstein memorial cell at Rikers Island, he you know,
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Speaker 8: the question remains, what was his connection with this technology.
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Speaker 8: Remember the dominion machines were the ones that weren't supposed
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Speaker 8: to go online. Next thing you'd know, you're going to
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Speaker 8: tell us, oh, well, they had Google Chrome on them.
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Speaker 8: And that was actually one of the things they discovered
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Speaker 8: is some of these dominion voting machines had browsers already
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Speaker 8: loaded on them. Well, if they're not going on the internet,
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Speaker 8: don't have the capability of going onto the internet, why
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Speaker 8: do you have a browser? And that was a conspiracy
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Speaker 8: theory until an election official admitted, well, yeah, this is
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Speaker 8: for our internal audits. It's not a publicly available domain.
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Speaker 8: Well you told us for three months that we were
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Speaker 8: conspiracy theorists for telling you that there was a web
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Speaker 8: browser on these computer software packets that were running these
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Speaker 8: voting machines. Why would you have a web browser on
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Speaker 8: something that quote not supposed to go online? And it's
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Speaker 8: the same people who said that there's no sign of
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Speaker 8: voter fraud and there's insufficient sign of voter fraud that could
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Speaker 8: have caused a change. And then the next step was,
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Speaker 8: well there may have been, but the elections have already
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Speaker 8: been certified, so we can't go back once an election certified.
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Speaker 8: It's like, oh, it's always another thing. It's always another Oh, well,
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Speaker 8: you know, you shouldn't have seen that here, what were
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Speaker 8: you doing looking in there? I like this one quote
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Speaker 8: from the UN the arrest of Maduro A murderous socialist
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Speaker 8: dictator erodes international order, Well.
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Speaker 5: You don't want to.
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Speaker 8: You don't want to erode international order. It's better to
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Speaker 8: have brutal, inhumane dictators that defecate on human rights as
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Speaker 8: long as it helps maintain international order and.
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Speaker 5: For the un just. Real quick take a look.
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Speaker 8: Around the world. Tell me how much order you're seeing now.
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Speaker 8: I'm not one against the campaign against the little chaos
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Speaker 8: every now and then, but these anarchists who, oh, are
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Speaker 8: too much order in the world. Oh no, there's not
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Speaker 8: too much order. It's the wrong people are placing the order.
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Speaker 8: But if they're in your chrome, and they've been in
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Speaker 5: But I need a nuclear reaction to to generate the
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Speaker 5: How am I going to generate that kind of power?
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Speaker 8: Here at the Consumer Electronics Show, one of the interesting
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Speaker 8: And it's been the issue for twenty years in all
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Speaker 8: of our electrical operations, whether it's an automobile. I'm sorry, vehicle,
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Speaker 5: I don't have a problem with it, per se, But
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Speaker 5: Or uno, you could still call it a vehicle.
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Speaker 8: And on that same subject, Tom writes in he said,
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Speaker 8: These conglomerates that aren't necessarily in the car business, they're
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Speaker 8: do you do with the time that the car is driving.
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Speaker 8: But all of this comes back to a battery and
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Speaker 8: a Strayer is a company based you know, out of Georgia, Alpharetta,
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Speaker 23: Ago when the renewable energy business was really just in
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Speaker 23: It sounds like some of your technology has been taking
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Speaker 16: Right is to get that efficiency and know that you
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Speaker 14: It comes to a couple of different pieces.
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Speaker 25: Most people don't realize these large inner destrictions as a
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Speaker 10: That's the chemical that's helping the energy.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, data centers is I think to some great of
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Speaker 8: So you can't or we're getting better at it, and
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Speaker 8: The new version of Total Recall, but in the original one,
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Speaker 8: when Arnold Schwarzenegger gets to Mars and Johnny Cab gives
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Speaker 8: him a ride down into the Earth colony on Mars.
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Speaker 5: Oh, thanks for writing, Johnny Cab.
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Speaker 8: That's all I can think of when I see these
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Speaker 8: autonomous taxis driving around lost wages. But you know what, alternatively,
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Speaker 8: Gene writes in So Joe, would you prefer they're still
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Speaker 8: referred to as horseless carriages? Because technically they're still that too,
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Speaker 8: And point well taken, I said at the time, I
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Speaker 8: didn't want to come across sounding like the get off
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Speaker 8: my lawn guy. But I don't understand why that you
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Speaker 8: can't call it a vehicle. I mean, a mobility platform
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Speaker 8: could be a scooter. Heck, there's a Bugatti a series
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Speaker 8: of Bugatti electric scooters here, and I'm sure they don't
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Speaker 8: cost the same amount the electric scooter costs at Walmart.
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Speaker 5: And that would be a mobility platform too, wouldn't it.
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Speaker 8: And I guess if you're a company when you're looking
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Speaker 8: for investors, calling yourself a mobility platform, is you know
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Speaker 8: we can do anything.
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Speaker 5: We can make motorcycles. I don't know.
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Speaker 8: BMW made motorcycles for a long time, so did Honda,
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Speaker 8: So I don't know if you felt pigeonholed. Then call
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Speaker 8: it a vehicle, I mean, call it a sitting room
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Speaker 8: with an engine.
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Speaker 5: I don't care.
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Speaker 8: It was just what really made it stick out to me, Cara,
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Speaker 8: was the fact that they kept referring to the driver's
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Speaker 8: experience and there was no driver. It was an autonomous vehicle.
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Speaker 8: It's one of these driving self driving cars, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 8: mobility platforms. And yet they kept saying, well, but the
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Speaker 8: driver experienced the driver experience. And I said to you
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Speaker 8: that this year's iteration of the Consumer Electronics Show blessed
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Speaker 8: their heart. Somebody sat down with them. Maybe it's the
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Speaker 8: same company that helped rebrand Hamas, I don't know as
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Speaker 8: a marginalized community. But somebody sat down with the folks
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Speaker 8: of the Consumer Technology Association and said, the whole AI
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Speaker 8: robotics thing getting creepy. Humans human are feeling a little
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Speaker 8: left out. Well is I mean, do you hear some
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Speaker 8: folks talk about the technology and you're like, hey, we're
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Speaker 8: still in the room here, We're still using the planet,
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Speaker 8: and so you know, consider us as a useful part
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Speaker 8: of the equation.
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Speaker 5: That would be nice.
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Speaker 8: So everything at this Consumer Electronic Show goes through the.
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Speaker 5: Filter of what's it going to do for you?
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Speaker 8: All of it, you know, all of the technological advances
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Speaker 8: seem to be pressing the Look at how much it's
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Speaker 8: making your life better, longer, faster, stronger, taller, you know,
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Speaker 8: more thoroughly engorged. Whatever, whatever it is your life needs
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Speaker 8: more of, there's technology here that will do it for you.
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Speaker 5: They have technology in.
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Speaker 8: Pharmaceutical now, and we're going to talk to some of
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Speaker 8: the folks do with that as well. Pharmaceuticals with technology
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Speaker 8: in it to time to release. I didn't complain when
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Speaker 8: they invented gel caps, so James writes in Good Morning.
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Speaker 8: When my wife and I moved here with the Department
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Speaker 8: of Defense sixteen years ago, one of my first tasks
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Speaker 8: was to find the local talk radio station. I quickly
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Speaker 8: found it and had my first introduction to Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 8: When I would drive to work, you would play the
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Speaker 8: be or Joe's song at times, and whether I heard
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Speaker 8: it while driving to work or at sixteen years ago,
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Speaker 8: when I was with you on the radio many times
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Speaker 8: running for County Supervisor, when I listened online in the
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Speaker 8: middle of the night in Korea or now at the
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Speaker 8: beginning of each hour of your show, it just makes
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Speaker 8: me smile. Thank you for being an integral part. Technically,
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Speaker 8: my old pair of roller blades qualifies as a mobility platform.
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Speaker 5: Two.
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Speaker 8: That's this one from Andy on the subject of Nicholas
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Speaker 8: Maduro and the dominion voting systems. He's got a video
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Speaker 8: he helped suborn Project Veritas team member looking at the
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Speaker 8: dominion voting system shreddings as part of the Fulton County
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Speaker 8: steel which now, of course we know they're three hundred
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Speaker 8: and fifteen thousand unsigned ballots. Oh no, no, that's it,
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Speaker 8: just we never got all around to verifying those three
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Speaker 8: hundred and fifteen thousand ballots. Okay, well again, you certified them.
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Speaker 8: Well yeah, because we had to certify them because time
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Speaker 8: was running out. I know, I've checked the Constitution on
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Speaker 8: voting and I don't see anything on a time limit.
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Speaker 8: But at the end of the day, all of this
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Speaker 8: technology is just a tool, and they can be tools
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Speaker 8: for good, tools for bad. It's how they're being used.
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Speaker 8: Just like we were playing the clip yesterday of the
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Speaker 8: Three Laws of Robotics from Isaac Asimov. The punchline of
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Speaker 8: that story is it's a poorly written law. The law
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Speaker 8: says you can't harm humans any harm to come to
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Speaker 8: human by your inaction. Well, humans, we're harming other humans.
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Speaker 8: So the robots decided, well, the biggest threat to humans
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Speaker 8: are other humans. Let's start eliminating them badly written laws.
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Speaker 8: Laws written by people like Marjorie Taylor Green who feel
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Speaker 8: like they have to be sent there to do something.
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Speaker 8: So man's inhumanity to man continues to march. More from
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Speaker 8: the Consumer Electronics Show at AL tomorrow.
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Speaker 5: I'm Joe so Long and thanks for all the fish.
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Speaker 9: Hi.
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