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Trump’s $5K Check Promise, Teen’s Bering Sea Survival & Is Your Smart TV Listening? · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is promising $ 5, 000 checks to every adult American citizen.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a catch.
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  Speaker 2: Tremendous economic success. Like, in history, we've never had anything
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  Speaker 2: like what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: And a 15-year-old boy survived overnight in the freezing Bering
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  Speaker 1: Sea off the coast of Alaska. We'll tell you his
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  Speaker 1: harrowing story.
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  Speaker 3: We started blasting our horn just to give him some hope.
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  Speaker 1: And could your TV be spying on you even when
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  Speaker 1: you think it's off? There's a new investigation raising serious questions.
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  Speaker 1: It's Monday, September 14th. From the Black Effect Podcast Network,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mimi Brown, and here are the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me. President Trump is promising Americans a $ 5, 000 check.
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  Speaker 1: He's calling it a Trump dividend. He says every adult
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  Speaker 1: American citizen would get one. Let's listen.
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  Speaker 2: And here is my promise. If the Republicans win the
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  Speaker 2: House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them,
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  Speaker 2: because of our economic, tremendous economic success, like in history,
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  Speaker 2: we've never had anything like what's happening. I will issue
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  Speaker 2: a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States
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  Speaker 2: of America for five thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: But here's what you need to know. There is no
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  Speaker 1: $ 5, 000 check right now. Congress has not approved one, and
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  Speaker 1: there is no program in place to send that money out.
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  Speaker 1: Trump says the money would come in part from tariffs.
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  Speaker 1: Vice President J.D. Vance has also pointed to the tariff revenue.
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  Speaker 1: But the numbers are the problem. There are roughly 245
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  Speaker 1: million adults in the U.S. $ 5, 000 for each of them
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  Speaker 1: would cost about $ 1. 2 trillion. And the current tariff revenue
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  Speaker 1: does not come close to covering all that at once.
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  Speaker 1: Trump also cannot send out those checks on his own.
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  Speaker 1: Congress would have to approve the money. Republican Senator Bernie
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  Speaker 1: Moreno of Ohio says he plans to introduce a bill
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  Speaker 1: after the election if the Republicans win. But some Republicans
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  Speaker 1: are already raising concerns about the price tag and whether
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  Speaker 1: adding another trillion dollars in spending. And Trump has floated
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  Speaker 1: the idea before. Last year, he proposed $ 2, 000 tariff dividend checks.
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  Speaker 1: Those never went out. And back in 2025, Trump and
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk both floated $ 5, 000 Doge dividend checks based on
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  Speaker 1: projected government savings. That never happened either. And now to
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  Speaker 1: an incredible story of survival outside of Alaska. A 15-year-old
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  Speaker 1: boy survived overnight in the freezing Bering Sea sitting on
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  Speaker 1: top of an overturned fishing boat. His two crewmates did
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  Speaker 1: not survive. The 18-foot fishing boat left the area on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: It was supposed to be back early Sunday. When it
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  Speaker 1: never returned, the Coast Guard launched a search. But the
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  Speaker 1: weather was so bad, crews couldn't even get an aircraft
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  Speaker 1: into the air until Monday. And when they did, a
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  Speaker 1: Coast Guard pilot spotted something in the water.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't really divulge a whole lot of details except
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  Speaker 3: for where he thought his cousin went, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: he knew his cousin went over and where he thought
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  Speaker 3: his brother was.
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  Speaker 1: He spotted the teenager sitting on top of the overturned
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  Speaker 1: boat about four miles from the island. The Coast Guard
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  Speaker 1: says surviving something like this is extremely rare. The water
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  Speaker 1: was about 40 degrees.
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  Speaker 4: He was alone, and that was when he started just
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  Speaker 4: giving all his attention to God. He was sitting on
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  Speaker 4: his knees, just praying the whole time. He said he
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  Speaker 4: believed he was going to make it.
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  Speaker 1: The Coast Guard dropped flares and life rafts around the
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  Speaker 1: teenager while a nearby fishing vessel raced toward him. Rescue
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  Speaker 1: video shows him kneeling on top of the overturned boat,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for crews to finally pull him to safety. He
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  Speaker 1: was treated for hypothermia. The other two boaters were recovered
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  Speaker 1: from the water. Neither survived. The name of the teenager
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  Speaker 1: and the two people who died have not yet been released.
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  Speaker 1: But after spending a night exposed in the freezing Bering Sea,
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  Speaker 1: that 15-year-old made it home alive. And lastly, you may
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  Speaker 1: want to check the settings on your television. A new
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  Speaker 1: investigation is raising concerns about just how much information some
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  Speaker 1: LG smart TVs may be collecting inside your home, even
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  Speaker 1: when you think the TV is off. The hardware review
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  Speaker 1: group Gamers Nexus spent more than two hours breaking down
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  Speaker 1: what researchers say they found. And part of this involves
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  Speaker 1: something called automated content recognition, or ACR. That technology can
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  Speaker 1: identify what you're watching and use that information for things
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  Speaker 1: like targeted advertising. But researchers say some LG TVs may
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  Speaker 1: be collecting more than that. Researchers say some models can
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  Speaker 1: identify information about other devices around your home, your phone, computer, printer,
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  Speaker 1: and nearby Wi-Fi network. And then there's the microphone. Researchers
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  Speaker 1: say they found evidence that some TVs can capture audio
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  Speaker 1: while they're in standby mode after you hit the power
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  Speaker 1: button on the remote. They also demonstrated how a compromised
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  Speaker 1: television could potentially store some information while it's offline and
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  Speaker 1: send it later once the TV reconnects to the internet. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that does not mean somebody at LG is sitting there
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  Speaker 1: listening to your conversations. The concern is about what information
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  Speaker 1: the television is capable of collecting, how it's stored, and
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  Speaker 1: what could happen if someone gets unauthorized access to the TV.
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  Speaker 1: And this just isn't about LG. Content recognition technology is
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  Speaker 1: common across the smart TV industry. Researchers recommended checking your
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  Speaker 1: television's privacy settings and turning off automated content recognition if
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  Speaker 1: you don't want that viewing data collected. So the next
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  Speaker 1: time you turn off the TV and think nobody's watching,
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  Speaker 1: you may want to make sure the TV isn't still
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  Speaker 1: paying attention. That's your front page. I'm Mimi Brown. This
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