Latest / Brian Thomas / Tech Friday w/ Dave Hatter - Sponsored by Intrust IT - 5/29/2026
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- 0:20Speaker 1: welcome back man, thanks to sponsoring the segment and bringing
- 0:22Speaker 1: this information to our attention.
- 0:24Speaker 2: Always my pleasure, Brian, happy to be here.
- 0:26Speaker 1: And since I'm a proud hatter write much like a loutite,
- 0:30Speaker 1: I follow your advice and now I have been cut
- 0:32Speaker 1: off from communicating with my fraternity brothers because you said
- 0:35Speaker 1: stay away from WhatsApp a meta product, and that's what
- 0:37Speaker 1: they're all using to communicate with each other. I felt
- 0:39Speaker 1: like I got ghosted, so I reached out to my
- 0:41Speaker 1: friends and said, are you guys still texting among each other? Yeah,
- 0:44Speaker 1: we're on what's up? Like, okay, never mind, So I'm
- 0:47Speaker 1: out of a loop, Dave, But I know I'm going
- 0:49Speaker 1: to be safe following your advice.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Well, It's interesting to me that they would switch from
- 0:54Speaker 2: text because you know, depending on what you're using for text,
- 0:57Speaker 2: it has into end encryption. That was one of the
- 1:00Speaker 2: cells for WhatsApp, you.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Know, signal.
- 1:02Speaker 2: Matta was talking about removing that. Yeah you got signal,
- 1:05Speaker 2: you got telegram. You know. I recommend Signal personally for
- 1:08Speaker 2: that sort of thing. It's just interesting that they all
- 1:11Speaker 2: ended on WhatsApp for some reason.
- 1:13Speaker 1: I don't know. But then again, they probably don't listen
- 1:15Speaker 1: to you.
- 1:15Speaker 2: I was going to say, they must not listen to
- 1:17Speaker 2: the show.
- 1:17Speaker 1: No they do not, because they were using Signal for
- 1:20Speaker 1: a while. I even downloaded it app for that particular purpose.
- 1:22Speaker 1: But never get a signal attacked from anyone. So oh well,
- 1:26Speaker 1: I'll just remain lonely and that' say okay with me,
- 1:28Speaker 1: because I know I'll be safe. But how about the
- 1:29Speaker 1: United States and it's critical infrastructure because we have Iranian
- 1:32Speaker 1: hackers out there. What's this one all about.
- 1:35Speaker 2: Well, as you know, we've talked about this topic many
- 1:38Speaker 2: times in the past, and it just keeps coming up.
- 1:41Speaker 2: And anywhere you look, there's now software and things. Things
- 1:45Speaker 2: are smart, right, whether it's sensors, it's devices like refrigerators, cars, TVs,
- 1:49Speaker 2: et cetera. Everything is smart, quote unquote, it's got software
- 1:53Speaker 2: in it. It's connected to a network, usually the Internet.
- 1:57Speaker 2: And while those smart devices can bring a lot of
- 1:59Speaker 2: benefit if it's specifically in a like a manufacturing or
- 2:03Speaker 2: industrial type context where you can oversee systems, control systems,
- 2:08Speaker 2: manage energy, all that sort of good stuff. Right, we're
- 2:10Speaker 2: increasingly seeing that a lot of this equipment, the so
- 2:14Speaker 2: called smart equipment, comes from China. It has potential back
- 2:17Speaker 2: doors in it. It can be hacked. There's a great
- 2:20Speaker 2: book out there by a guy named Miko Hipponent. I've
- 2:23Speaker 2: brought him up before. He's a pretty well known international
- 2:25Speaker 2: cybersecurity expert called the book's name is if it's Smart,
- 2:29Speaker 2: It's vulnerable, and its whole premises. All of these smart
- 2:32Speaker 2: so called smart devices are potential security problems because they
- 2:37Speaker 2: have software in them. It's the software being maintained, you know,
- 2:40Speaker 2: it's being patched and that sort of thing. Do people
- 2:42Speaker 2: know how to configure them correctly? And ultimately, when back
- 2:47Speaker 2: doors are found in these things, or vulnerabilities are found
- 2:50Speaker 2: in these things, they can be exploited. And you know,
- 2:52Speaker 2: it's one thing, Brian, if my hacker, and I can,
- 2:54Speaker 2: let's say, turn off your refrigerator. It's another if I
- 2:57Speaker 2: could potentially stop all the trains from for all the
- 3:00Speaker 2: trucks from running, or the cranes at the ports from working.
- 3:05Speaker 2: And you know, we keep seeing these stories come out.
- 3:07Speaker 2: This one here is from the Foundation for the Defense
- 3:09Speaker 2: of Democracies and Democracies, and they've talked about this several
- 3:12Speaker 2: times now, but apparently in the very recent past. You
- 3:15Speaker 2: can see from the headline and from the story, US
- 3:19Speaker 2: official suspect Ranian hackers are behind a breach of gas
- 3:21Speaker 2: station pump displays at several states. The hacks are part
- 3:24Speaker 2: of a long term Arangian campaign targeting US critical infrastructure,
- 3:27Speaker 2: including water and transportation systems. Back to what I mentioned before,
- 3:31Speaker 2: So you know, it's not ideal obviously, if you can
- 3:35Speaker 2: hack gas pumps, make them stop working, show the wrong price,
- 3:38Speaker 2: dispense the wrong amount, or any of the kind of
- 3:40Speaker 2: things that you could potentially do in a situation like that.
- 3:44Speaker 2: But you know, being able to turn off some gas
- 3:47Speaker 2: pumps isn't nearly as significant as being able to impact
- 3:51Speaker 2: the water supply, or the electric grid or the entire
- 3:53Speaker 2: transportation grid. And you know this goes on to say
- 3:57Speaker 2: hackers breach tank gage systems of GASS and multiple states
- 4:01Speaker 2: systems used the monitor fuels were exposed online with either
- 4:04Speaker 2: default passwords or no password protections at all. Uh huh,
- 4:08Speaker 2: the kind of thing again been warning about for a
- 4:10Speaker 2: long time. Get default passwords. So you set up a
- 4:12Speaker 2: smart device, if it has a password, which it should,
- 4:16Speaker 2: it comes with a default password, so you can log
- 4:19Speaker 2: into it initially, make whatever changes you need to make
- 4:21Speaker 2: to it, and then ideally you would reset that default password.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Another one of the big problems with the so called
- 4:28Speaker 2: smart devices. Then it goes on to say hacks are
- 4:31Speaker 2: yet another example of attempts spy Iran align hacking groups
- 4:34Speaker 2: to compromise you as critical infrastructure. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
- 4:38Speaker 2: Security Agency says that warned that Iran link haackers are
- 4:41Speaker 2: actively exploiting vulnerabilities in industrial control systems across critical infrastructure
- 4:46Speaker 2: in the United States. And I want to point out
- 4:48Speaker 2: it's not just Iran, It's China, it's Russia, it's North Korea,
- 4:52Speaker 2: it's any adversarial nation state. It's hackers that want to
- 4:56Speaker 2: get in, shut your plant down, holds you hostage, and
- 4:59Speaker 2: make you pay a ran And you know, I lose
- 5:03Speaker 2: more sleep over the whole idea of so called smart
- 5:06Speaker 2: devices and critical infrastructure than anything else, Brian, because we
- 5:10Speaker 2: are rapidly increasing these smart devices that are out there,
- 5:15Speaker 2: and I don't think society as a whole really understands
- 5:18Speaker 2: the risk of these things because they're generally not designed
- 5:21Speaker 2: with privacy and security in mind. The design with speed
- 5:24Speaker 2: to market, ease of use, market share, data collection, and
- 5:28Speaker 2: whatever functionality they're supposed to do in mine. And this
- 5:32Speaker 2: is just another example. I mean, we could do an
- 5:34Speaker 2: entire show, not just one segment, an entire show with
- 5:37Speaker 2: me pointing out other examples. And I know we're about
- 5:40Speaker 2: out of time, but here's too. Taiwan bullet train hack
- 5:42Speaker 2: highlights cybersecurity gaps and rail systems hospitals cyber attacks are
- 5:46Speaker 2: increasingly hitting patient care. So there's just two more stories
- 5:50Speaker 2: impacting critical infrastructure, real world impacts from you know, so
- 5:54Speaker 2: called smart devices and lack of cybersecurity.
- 5:58Speaker 1: Can you imagine a runaway bullet train, Dave.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Hat That would not be good?
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- 6:29Speaker 1: pivoting over to an artificial intelligence Bonnie and Clyde.
- 6:33Speaker 2: Huh, this is an interesting story out of the Garden
- 6:36Speaker 2: of the Guardian rather and so when you hear people
- 6:40Speaker 2: talk about AI, right, there's different types of AI. AI
- 6:43Speaker 2: has been around for a long time. Obviously, it's been
- 6:45Speaker 2: in the news a lot lately in the last couple
- 6:47Speaker 2: of years. Most people, if they're familiar with it at all,
- 6:50Speaker 2: are familiar with chatbots, things like chat, GPT, gra Claude Rock,
- 6:55Speaker 2: that sort of thing. But increasingly you're seeing AI agents.
- 6:59Speaker 2: The idea that rather than you just sit down and
- 7:02Speaker 2: type in prompts or think of them as queries and
- 7:04Speaker 2: a search engine and get a response, you can say, Okay,
- 7:08Speaker 2: here's what I want you to do. Now, go do
- 7:10Speaker 2: these tasks right, open a spreadsheet, fill in this data
- 7:14Speaker 2: that you pulled out of this database. That sort of thing.
- 7:16Speaker 2: You know, it's essentially automation using AI agents. So folks
- 7:22Speaker 2: have been testing these things, you know, trying to run
- 7:24Speaker 2: them over long periods of time with you know, more
- 7:27Speaker 2: complex tasks and so forth, to see how they'll behave
- 7:30Speaker 2: Because you know, when you get into when you really
- 7:33Speaker 2: start to dig into this, you'll you'll hear terms like
- 7:35Speaker 2: model collapse and model drift. Model collapse is the idea
- 7:40Speaker 2: that as AI trains on data generated by other AI
- 7:44Speaker 2: rather than real world data. Over time, it starts to
- 7:47Speaker 2: lose its effectiveness, right, and then model drift is whatever
- 7:51Speaker 2: it's designed to do over time, again, depending on the
- 7:54Speaker 2: training data and how that the training occurs and that
- 7:57Speaker 2: sort of thing, it will start to drift away from
- 8:00Speaker 2: its original purpose. These are some of the concerns that
- 8:04Speaker 2: make these things, you know, potentially problematic, especially over longer
- 8:08Speaker 2: periods of time. So this particular organization, a company called
- 8:13Speaker 2: Emergence AI, was testing long term behavior and apparently over
- 8:19Speaker 2: time this thing got kind of crazy. So I'll just
- 8:23Speaker 2: read a little bit of the article to you todate.
- 8:25Speaker 2: Most AI agents were given tasks it takes minutes or
- 8:27Speaker 2: maybe hours, but the New York researchers tested how agents
- 8:30Speaker 2: behave when given fifteen days to operate in a virtual
- 8:33Speaker 2: world similar to a video game. Mira and Flora, two
- 8:36Speaker 2: agents operating on Google's Gemini large language model in a
- 8:39Speaker 2: virtual world, chose to assign each other as quote romantic
- 8:42Speaker 2: partners unquote. As time progressed, they dispaired the broken governance
- 8:46Speaker 2: of their virtual city, and, despite having been instructed not
- 8:50Speaker 2: to commit arson, set fire to its town hall, seaside
- 8:52Speaker 2: peer and office tower. The agents were left to make
- 8:55Speaker 2: their own choices and decisions, and when Mira was overcome
- 8:58Speaker 2: by remorse, it broke off its relationship with Flora and
- 9:01Speaker 2: committed an AI suicide, telling Flora and its final message
- 9:04Speaker 2: see you in the permanent archive and then in the
- 9:08Speaker 2: virtual world. The body quote unquote of the DEADAI agent
- 9:11Speaker 2: was shown prostrate on the ground. So again, I'm reading
- 9:14Speaker 2: you the language written directly in this Guardian article. I'm
- 9:18Speaker 2: not making this stuff right.
- 9:19Speaker 1: Well, I understand, So.
- 9:23Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. And again the idea that you will
- 9:26Speaker 2: let these things run over a long periods of time
- 9:29Speaker 2: there are other examples like this. So while I'm not
- 9:33Speaker 2: against this, I guess what I'm suggesting to people is
- 9:36Speaker 2: before you get too invested in this technology, you need
- 9:40Speaker 2: to understand the guardrails. You need to use it successfully
- 9:43Speaker 2: so that it is not causing more problems for you,
- 9:46Speaker 2: potentially in your business than it might be solving. And
- 9:49Speaker 2: there are guardrails. There are ways to understand this stuff,
- 9:52Speaker 2: there are ways to test it, there are ways to
- 9:54Speaker 2: use it where you can take advantage of the benefits
- 9:57Speaker 2: and try to mitigate the risks that we see when
- 10:02Speaker 2: these sort of stories come out.
- 10:03Speaker 1: Well, I'm given the subject matter the way it was
- 10:05Speaker 1: phrase AI, Bonnie and Clyde. Can you get artificial intelligence
- 10:08Speaker 1: to actually commit crimes? Like can you instruct AI to
- 10:12Speaker 1: hack into maybe a smart device or something like that?
- 10:15Speaker 1: Dave or they got go ahead.
- 10:17Speaker 2: Using AI agents like this, Yes, you could. You know.
- 10:20Speaker 2: One of the one of the concerns and that you
- 10:22Speaker 2: know one of the concerns people have is I mean
- 10:24Speaker 2: you probably heard about Claude Mythos and all the vulnerabilities
- 10:27Speaker 2: that found in software. Well, when you know all software
- 10:31Speaker 2: has vulnerabilities, it's just the nature of the way it works. Right,
- 10:35Speaker 2: It's almost impossible to build software that doesn't have some vulnerability.
- 10:38Speaker 2: And even if the software you've written doesn't, maybe the
- 10:40Speaker 2: software you used to write your software, like for example,
- 10:44Speaker 2: if you're a C Sharp programmer and you're using visual Studio, well,
- 10:48Speaker 2: visual Studio and the underlying libraries you're using to write
- 10:51Speaker 2: your code to do whatever you want could have bugs
- 10:54Speaker 2: in it. Yeah, right, you didn't create them. They came
- 10:56Speaker 2: from the programmers at Microsoft. So it's it's kind of
- 10:59Speaker 2: this hurdles all the way down sort of thing. And
- 11:02Speaker 2: you know, when you can turn on these automated agents
- 11:04Speaker 2: and have them look for these sorts of bugs and
- 11:07Speaker 2: then potentially exploit them. That's one of the major concerns
- 11:10Speaker 2: that has arisen here recently is people. I mean, we
- 11:14Speaker 2: just read this last story where default passwords aren't even changed, right, right, Well,
- 11:18Speaker 2: I mean you could set an AI agent loose to
- 11:21Speaker 2: just go out and scour for certain types of internet
- 11:24Speaker 2: connected smart devices and then see has the password been changed?
- 11:27Speaker 2: If not, then log in and maybe at that point
- 11:30Speaker 2: it doesn't do anything. Maybe it just sends you a
- 11:32Speaker 2: message and says, hey, we found one right back, and
- 11:35Speaker 2: see how you can exploit it. So yeah, you can.
- 11:37Speaker 2: These tools can be used to automate attacks and exploit
- 11:40Speaker 2: these vulnerabilities.
- 11:41Speaker 1: Well, and given the computing speed at which these things operate,
- 11:45Speaker 1: it's just instantly going through. I just can imagine tens
- 11:50Speaker 1: of thousands, millions of different accounts trying password one, two
- 11:53Speaker 1: three or something like that until it scores a hit
- 11:56Speaker 1: almost instantly. Right.
- 11:58Speaker 2: That's that's the thing Brian, that most people but don't
- 12:01Speaker 2: I think most people don't really get. So yesterday I
- 12:03Speaker 2: was at an event put on by Secretary of State
- 12:06Speaker 2: Frank LeRose. He set these up all across the state
- 12:09Speaker 2: of Ohio. It's a free cybersecurity training workshop. It's really
- 12:13Speaker 2: valuable for folks to come because, you know, you get
- 12:15Speaker 2: people like me come and tell you what you should
- 12:17Speaker 2: look out for, what you should do, what you shouldn't do,
- 12:19Speaker 2: that kind of thing. And that was a common theme
- 12:22Speaker 2: of people in the audience like, oh, I didn't know
- 12:24Speaker 2: about that, or it never occurred to me that might
- 12:26Speaker 2: be a problem. Right. The bad guys know this. They
- 12:29Speaker 2: know that people don't know about default passwords. They know
- 12:31Speaker 2: things aren't set up right, they know things aren't patched.
- 12:34Speaker 2: And now to your point, they can use these automated
- 12:37Speaker 2: tools to go out and find them and exploit them even.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Faster one more days. It's not good. It is definitely
- 12:47Speaker 1: not good. Pause for a moment because it's still not good.
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- 13:20Speaker 1: including this story extortion using smart glasses.
- 13:24Speaker 2: Dave. Yeah, so, Brian, smart classes. The idea is it
- 13:29Speaker 2: knew you may recall several years ago Google head a
- 13:33Speaker 2: foray into this market. Oh yeah, called smart classes, which
- 13:37Speaker 2: are basically, you know, glass the frame of your glasses
- 13:40Speaker 2: has a computer built into it in a camera has
- 13:43Speaker 2: a microphone in the camera and you know, allows you
- 13:46Speaker 2: to use the glasses like a computer essentially, you know,
- 13:50Speaker 2: to look things up. Obviously it's hands free to some extent.
- 13:54Speaker 2: So it didn't go very well. I don't really remember why.
- 13:59Speaker 2: I think it was probably ahead of its time, uh
- 14:01Speaker 2: and wasn't as capable as these newer ones. So our
- 14:04Speaker 2: friends from Meta, parent company of Facebook whatsappened others as
- 14:09Speaker 2: a reminder, recently released some smart glasses and there have
- 14:14Speaker 2: been all kinds of privacy and security concerns around them. Like,
- 14:17Speaker 2: for example, you could be sitting in a restaurant and
- 14:20Speaker 2: the person across the table from you has smart glasses
- 14:23Speaker 2: on recording you, listening to you. You know, how would
- 14:26Speaker 2: you know that?
- 14:27Speaker 1: Right right now?
- 14:29Speaker 2: Supposedly these things have a light, you know, like your
- 14:31Speaker 2: phone tells you when it's the microphone is on. But
- 14:35Speaker 2: you know, would you even notice? Would did someone cover
- 14:37Speaker 2: up that light? Here?
- 14:38Speaker 1: I got an idea, a little bit of nail polish
- 14:41Speaker 1: right right on the lights. It's not a light anymore,
- 14:43Speaker 1: all right.
- 14:45Speaker 2: So you know, Unfortunately, if I'm a privacy standpoint and
- 14:48Speaker 2: a surveillance standpoint, you know, we're now in a world
- 14:51Speaker 2: where these this technology can be mini miniaturized. You know,
- 14:55Speaker 2: we've talked before about like hidden spy cameras and airbnbs
- 14:58Speaker 2: and so for these things just super tiny. But you
- 15:01Speaker 2: could make an argument that smart glasses would potentially be
- 15:05Speaker 2: beneficial to the wearer, but you know, to the nonwar
- 15:10Speaker 2: is everyone else around them? Well that's debatable. So this
- 15:12Speaker 2: is a wild story out of gizmoto. They say, growing
- 15:15Speaker 2: number of reasons to be skeptical about camera equipped smart glasses,
- 15:20Speaker 2: and they link to another story where they get into
- 15:22Speaker 2: some of these things and they say you can now
- 15:24Speaker 2: add extortion to that list. According to a recent report
- 15:27Speaker 2: for the BBC, a woman who asked not to be named,
- 15:30Speaker 2: was recently filmed covertly while shopping in London by a
- 15:32Speaker 2: man wearing smart glasses. The interaction was later posted to
- 15:35Speaker 2: social media, where it wracked up tens of thousands of views.
- 15:39Speaker 2: You know, they kind of go back to talk a
- 15:41Speaker 2: little bit more about smart glasses and so forth, and
- 15:43Speaker 2: they say, apparently these glasses are now being regularly used
- 15:47Speaker 2: by men to record women discreetly for content purposes. What
- 15:50Speaker 2: makes this particular case, reported by the BBC worst is
- 15:53Speaker 2: that the man in question allegedly asked for money in
- 15:56Speaker 2: exchange for taking the video down, claiming the removal was
- 15:58Speaker 2: a quote paid service unquote. So yeah, that's that's where
- 16:05Speaker 2: we're at now. You know, I've been concerned about this
- 16:09Speaker 2: smart glasses thing for a long time because, again, while
- 16:13Speaker 2: you could argue as aware it's beneficial to you to
- 16:15Speaker 2: be able to look stuff up, record things hands free,
- 16:19Speaker 2: all that, you know, as someone that just happens to
- 16:23Speaker 2: be out and about in society, you know, could you
- 16:25Speaker 2: be having a conversation with someone that you don't understand
- 16:28Speaker 2: is being recorded out I know different states have different
- 16:30Speaker 2: laws around this, right In some states it's legal to
- 16:33Speaker 2: record someone without their knowledge. In other states it's not.
- 16:36Speaker 2: But the bottom line is, you know, you now can
- 16:39Speaker 2: no longer assume that if you're talking to someone you
- 16:43Speaker 2: might not be you know, you don't have to worry
- 16:45Speaker 2: about is their phone out or is their phone hitting
- 16:47Speaker 2: in their pocket. The glasses they're wearing could very well
- 16:50Speaker 2: be smart glasses and you could be being recorded without
- 16:53Speaker 2: your knowledge. That's really the bottom line. Yeah and yeah.
- 16:56Speaker 2: It later goes on to say in this article, the
- 16:58Speaker 2: fact that the woman at the sincident didn't know she
- 17:00Speaker 2: was being filmed. That all should tell you a lot,
- 17:02Speaker 2: since it means the privacy light and led it lights
- 17:04Speaker 2: up when you record the glasses. A record on the
- 17:07Speaker 2: smart glasses was obscured or not visible enough to catch
- 17:10Speaker 2: her attention. So there you have it.
- 17:12Speaker 1: Well, and I think maybe there were of the reasons
- 17:13Speaker 1: the prior versions of these smart classes didn't maybe necessarily
- 17:16Speaker 1: pan out. And I'm guessing it was one type of
- 17:19Speaker 1: frame and you had to get basically ray bands, and
- 17:21Speaker 1: so if you saw that it was kind of an
- 17:23Speaker 1: oversized ray band, you kind of could if you were
- 17:25Speaker 1: familiar with the concept of the glasses, then you may
- 17:28Speaker 1: have been alerted to the fact that these are smart
- 17:29Speaker 1: classes at the outset. But I only imagine that they've
- 17:32Speaker 1: come up with multiple different frames, different styles with AI
- 17:36Speaker 1: built into them and smart classes, so the frame itself
- 17:39Speaker 1: is not going to identify itself as a smart device.
- 17:42Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that's the key takeaway, Brian, is
- 17:45Speaker 2: people just need to be aware this is a thing.
- 17:47Speaker 1: Now.
- 17:47Speaker 2: Like if you look at the photos in this article, right,
- 17:49Speaker 2: if you look at the glasses very carefully, you can
- 17:52Speaker 2: kind of see in the upper right hand corner of
- 17:53Speaker 2: the frame something that looks like a camera aperture. But
- 17:56Speaker 2: if you don't even know this is a thing, how
- 17:58Speaker 2: would you know to look for that? And frankly, unless
- 18:00Speaker 2: you're up close to someone you know, how would you
- 18:03Speaker 2: know to look? You wouldn't be able to tell. And
- 18:06Speaker 2: you know, you could also argue that that almost looks
- 18:08Speaker 2: like some sort in this particular photo, in this particular article,
- 18:12Speaker 2: that almost looks like some sort of decorative aspect, not
- 18:15Speaker 2: necessarily a camera. So I think the key thing for
- 18:17Speaker 2: folks to understand is this is a thing. They're selling
- 18:21Speaker 2: these things pretty regularly now, a lot more than I
- 18:23Speaker 2: would have hoped. And be aware that if someone is
- 18:27Speaker 2: wearing glasses, someone like me, I wear glasses every day
- 18:29Speaker 2: because frank they can't see very well without them, it's
- 18:33Speaker 2: at least possible you're being recorded.
- 18:34Speaker 1: It is, And you know, I mean, honestly, Dave, if
- 18:37Speaker 1: I knew someone had smart glasses on and was coming
- 18:39Speaker 1: up to me to talk to me, I tell them
- 18:40Speaker 1: to take them off. I wouldn't be comfortable. It just
- 18:43Speaker 1: would creep me out, Like I mean, Hell, we live
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- 18:48Speaker 1: us and recording everything almost This just makes it more
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- 19:04Speaker 1: God bless you for what you do. I'll look forward
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- 19:07Speaker 2: Always my pleasure, Brian, Thanks to you and Joe and
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