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Reflections and hope for 2026 in uncertain times · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

• 0:12
  I'm Stephanie Coxson.
• 0:14
  I'm Kathy Anderson Martin.
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  And we are two women influencing real life.
• 0:18
  So let's twirl.
• 0:26
  Well, Stephanie, we are uh ending the year and starting a new one.
• 0:31
  And that always gives us some time.
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  I think we do this every year to just reflect on what we've talked about, what's happening in our world and what we see happening and maybe concerned about or you know, in the future and the year ahead.
• 0:44
  Is that what you're thinking?
• 0:45
  Yeah, I'm I'm there with you.
• 0:47
  There's a lot that has happened.
• 0:49
  I feel like this has been probably one of the biggest years in terms of news and in terms of global shifts.
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  Um, and even just kind of awakening to things that we never thought possible within our society or our culture.
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  So there's there's a lot, and I think reflection is good, but also looking forward to what 2026 may bring.
• 1:15
  Well, and I think um we looked at this episode a little differently.
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  You looked at the bigger global pack the macro picture.
• 1:22
  I looked back on the things that we talked about over the past year, so it'll be interesting how we line up with the things we both looked at and prepared for, right?
• 1:29
  That's true because people don't understand we don't prepare with each other ahead of these shows.
• 1:33
  Yes, we prepare individually, and then somehow it comes together.
• 1:37
  Yes.
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  So I'm Stephanie Coxon.
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  And I'm Kathy Anderson Martin.
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  And we are two women inspiring real life.
• 1:45
  So let's twirl.
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  Yes, Kathy, we are completely unprepared to talk today, but we prepared on our own time on things that we thought should be talked about in terms of the past, the future, and the present.
• 1:57
  And so it will it will be interesting to see where we come together on this kind of stuff.
• 2:02
  You know, I think everyone, everyone likes to make new year's plans like resolutions and everything else.
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  And so for the next two weeks, we will all be striving to eat healthier, be in the gyms, everything else, and then in about two weeks it all dies.
• 2:15
  Well, for some, right?
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  I have to say we put our resolutions, my husband and I on the refrigerator, and we went over them.
• 2:21
  We had nine things.
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  We accomplished four or five of them.
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  So, you know, one of his was his club head speed on his golf club, so he didn't accomplish that.
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  I don't even really know what that is, but I was like, Oh, that's too bad.
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  But um, so we did yeah, we did do four or five.
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  So one of mine was a career change, and um you definitely grab that bowl by the horn.
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  Yes, I was gonna say, because I'm fully self-employed as of one one with one of my own LLCs and then a partner in another.
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  So it's incredible.
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  I took that one uh seriously, yeah.
• 2:55
  Yeah, yes.
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  25 2025 is a chapter I look forward to closing, and I think 2026 is gonna be absolutely incredible.
• 3:04
  Yes, you had a challenging year, so it's definitely um all looking forward.
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  I think before we went on the air, you had said, you know, about looking forward and putting things behind, and I'm like, yeah, but I looked back about what we talked about.
• 3:16
  There again, we were becoming from both perspectives, and both are important, you know.
• 3:21
  You look at history because you don't want to repeat itself, but you're exactly right.
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  You can't wallow in what happened or what was, you have to keep moving forward.
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  Yeah, 100%.
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  And one of the things I'm so happy, you know, so happy we're moving forward with in the United States is all the illegal immigration stuff, you know.
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  Even just recently, and it's been all over the news with the Somali daycares and you know, just the funneling of millions and millions of dollars.
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  It's crazy.
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  We've got to clean up the country.
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  We need people to come in legally without the liberal support that we are funding.
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  I mean, it's just getting harder and harder for me to pay my taxes, to be quite frank.
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  Well, I you know, I I think with dismay, I mean, I've been following this um the Somali daycare with no children, yes, learning center.
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  Yes, I think that says a whole lot um of what's wrong with America when your learning center sign is not spelled correctly.
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  Probably not learning much, correct.
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  We're learning.
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  And I think it it's to me, I think this is the astounding thing.
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  I mean, it's laughable.
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  I mean, we you could say the learning center.
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  Yes, you have to laugh.
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  Yes, but the fact that people are still defending them and then just saying, well, you're racist, there are no kids.
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  Your sign's spelled wrong and you're taking millions of dollars and they don't even won't even consider that as maybe a problem.
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  Perhaps, yes.
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  I mean, you know, this is what I say.
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  Look, if you want to support that with your tax dollars or whatnot, you can donate more.
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  It like literally, just give more money, like to your government.
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  Have at it.
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  I don't feel any of them take it if you offer that.
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  I don't feel any of them uh do I feel like they're all taking their deductions even.
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  No, absolutely.
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  So if you're taking your deductions, you're part of the problem.
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  Yep, you could be supporting this.
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  Um, the illegal immigration, you you start started this.
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  It is astounding how in the past year that has gone from ridiculous numbers of people coming in every day overrunning cities, healthcare systems to almost nothing.
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  Yes.
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  It didn't take, you know, uh Biden was yelling, oh, the Congress isn't doing this, Congress isn't.
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  It didn't take that.
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  It just took a president who said no.
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  Right.
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  And administration.
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  I I was gonna say, I like honestly, people talk about, you know, oh my gosh, he's in charge of the red button and whatnot.
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  Thank goodness, because people are a little scared.
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  Agreed.
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  But it seems like they need to be a little scared to get some global attention, and it's it's working.
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  We're seeing more peace happen.
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  You know, we are well, I don't know if we're seeing more peace, but we are not as involved in the wars as we have been in the past.
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  Let me say that.
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  And it seems like there are more peace talks happening, and in some cases, more peace as well.
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  Because I know that, and I I can't remember which country it was, but there was a country who actually set wanted to give him the Nobel Peace Prize because their country calmed down quite a bit.
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  I just cannot remember which one that was.
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  That's terrible.
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  But I know exactly what you mean.
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  I mean, they're willing to come and talk and you know, um, hear what the president and the administration has to say because you're right, they're a little afraid.
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  And they know if he says this is what I'm gonna do, if you don't do what I ask you to do, he'll follow through.
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  Yes.
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  Yes, which we need.
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  But can I tell you my favorite thing of 2025?
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  Oh, okay.
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  Doge.
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  Doge.
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  I loved the department of government efficiency with Elon and Vivek, and I'm I'm kind of sad that Vivek went his own way, but I get it.
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  They're both two very strong personalities, but just getting and slashing the wasteful spending, getting through the bureaucracy.
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  I do think they are a game changer.
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  I think that um very, you know, uh innovative and what they do, and I love that they have started to drain the swamp and it's necessary.
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  I I hear people who work in the government, they're complaining about ways things are being done.
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  I don't care.
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  I don't want to waste my money any longer.
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  I don't want to fund your shrimp studies to see how shrimp react on the treadmill, having sex or whatever they're doing.
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  I don't want to fund your stuff.
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  I don't let private institutions fund this stuff.
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  What do you have against shrimp, Stephanie?
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  I well, first of all, they are bottom feeders, but second of all, they're taking my money out of my pocket.
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  There's some pretty crazy studies that have been happening under our US government and for what.
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  There again, I go back to the thing that dismay oh I totally agree.
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  First of all, I totally agree.
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  I think that was necessary.
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  I would like to have a dojo in my state.
• 8:00
  Yes.
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  I think there's a theme.
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  Can we put in like a request?
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  I don't know how we start that, but maybe we can get a meeting with Shapiro.
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  I bet you there's a suggestion box in the um capital that we can put a little note in to say that in that.
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  I will write it out a hundred times and just stuff the box.
• 8:15
  Yes, like stuffing the ballot box.
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  We can we can use Shapiro's tactics to uh win.
• 8:21
  Well, that's the other thing in Minnesota.
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  They have a vouch for up to eight people all.
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  Have you heard that with voting?
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  No.
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  You can like my husband was trying to explain it to me, and I had read a little bit, you know, with the voting, like you could say, yeah, these eight people are good.
• 8:35
  Wait, what do you mean?
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  That's that's what they have in Minnesota.
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  So, like I can say I'm gonna take Kathy's vote.
• 8:42
  And you can't, I don't think you can take their vote, but you can vouch for their, oh yeah, they're a citizen.
• 8:47
  I vouch for these eight people.
• 8:49
  So you pull up your Volkswagen and you unload like a clown car.
• 8:54
  You dump eight people and say, I can vouch for these again, all these things and the doge, the stuff Doge was uncovering throughout the Oh, it's believable.
• 9:04
  Yeah.
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  And there again, I mean, it just goes to show the liberals do not want to be have any um discourse, logical discourse because they can't even discuss.
• 9:15
  I mean, it's some of it was so ridiculous, and they're you know, you're racist, you're doing this, you know.
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  They just can't, they can't they can't see it.
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  It's sad to me.
• 9:24
  It is sad.
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  Well, and I I think when I talk to what I would call more moderate liberals, they say, well, I like the roads and I like the sidewalks, you know, the things that some of this provide, which okay, I guess.
• 9:36
  Yes, yeah, I love national parks, all of those things are good.
• 9:38
  Yes, but do you know who's building the roads?
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  Usually it's the businesses putting in their businesses.
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  Who's who is like actual actually maintaining the sidewalks?
• 9:47
  Usually it's the business businesses or the homeowners, right?
• 9:50
  The government doesn't need all this money for this stuff because they're actually pushing it off on other people or businesses, and I don't know that most liberals understand that.
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  And when you
• 10:00
  See the volunteer groups going to clean up the side of the highway or to clean up the parks.
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  Again, that's volunteer work.
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  So your money isn't necessarily going to what you think it is.
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  It's called good people doing hard work.
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  Yes, it's volunteers.
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  There are a segment of those.
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  There are prisoners, and I I support that fully.
• 10:18
  I think that should totally be a thing.
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  I'm sad we don't have that in PA.
• 10:22
  Yeah, I, you know, when you see details, it'll say like uh I don't know if it says prisoners, but you know, whatever people from a detention center out doing that.
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  I think one, it gives them a meaningful way to get back, people that truly are paying for their crimes and you know, want to they they want to do that, and it also helps society.
• 10:40
  I do believe this is where we get the term changing from.
• 10:43
  Yes, yes, but this is but in our case, picking up litter, you probably couldn't let them be out there pounding rocks with sledgehammers anymore because it would be too hard.
• 10:52
  That would be too hard for them, yes, because why would we want anyone to actually work in our good old US of A.
• 10:58
  Yes, but I I totally agree.
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  I think Doge was a great thing, and um I only hope that it will continue and that there will be other people picking up that mantle to look into a waste and fraud.
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  I agree, and that's that's probably one of the worry one of the things that worries me.
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  There's I have two worries for 2026.
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  One is I really want Doge to continue, and I feel like the um the information we are getting has really died down.
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  I'm not sure if it's being blocked through social media or what is happening, but I I do feel like we're not getting as many updates as we once were.
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  And for the liberals saying, oh, 150 million is only a very small part of the budget.
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  Well, that times 10 gets you know, it it adds up.
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  So I'm gonna take even the next dollar.
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  I don't care.
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  I don't care if it's a penny.
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  Let's clean this crap up.
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  Doesn't need to go out.
• 11:47
  I think some of the economic indicators, and again, I'm gonna go back on a story we had a couple months ago.
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  The economic indicators had shown uh improvement in the job numbers and economic uh forecasts overall.
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  And the cool thing I liked about that, it wasn't due to government growth.
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  So that is good.
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  I mean, it wasn't that there were jobs because government programs ballooned and added it was the private sector, and that's good for everybody.
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  Right, and that's and that's not normal.
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  Usually it's the government growth that we see that gives you not great data, you know, in terms of economic growth.
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  So yeah, we are we are doing pretty well with economic growth and everything that's going on, and I love that.
• 12:28
  Can I tell you the other thing that worries me?
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  All right, so this is my least favorite of 2025 and my least favorite of 2026, and that's all the AI stuff, the big beautiful bill.
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  We talked about this on one of the shows, and I I get what they're saying, you know.
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  Basically, that with AI, you have to you know be ahead of the game, right?
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  Like that's we're in on competition with China and different things.
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  I totally get that, but to completely de you know, deregulate, take all rights away from the states, which is not outlined in the constitution.
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  I don't, you know, of course, during the constitution they did not have AI, but I just I it really worries me.
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  It worries there's literally no controls over it.
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  And let's be real.
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  AI is it's a learning, uh, a learning tool that has been rumored to now start learning on its own.
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  And we don't necessarily know where it's going.
• 13:30
  It's created a lot of questions, you know, in terms of copyrights and everything else, because now you have AI quote unquote artists who are writing and singing songs, right?
• 13:39
  And where does that play in the music industry?
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  Um, I don't, you know, I I don't know where AI is going.
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  I don't think it's good.
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  And if you've read revelations, you too should be worried.
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  I 100% agree.
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  Yep.
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  I um well, I'm worried, but I'm not because I know which side of revelation I'm on, so that's good.
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  But um, but I I too am very concerned.
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  I'm actually on a board and they're talking about AI all the time, and I'm always like, I think it, yeah, it has I understand um in theory a lot of the uh partially I understand, but it's very, very, very concerning to me.
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  Uh, we had a guest on who talked about and who was very instrumental with that at the National Security Agency, I believe, of where she worked, yeah, and uh had development with that, but it can be it takes away thinking is one.
• 14:30
  You know, I'm concerned, you know.
• 14:31
  When kids got calculators, they stopped being able to add because you just they use their calculator or what the register told them.
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  Yeah, now they're not writing papers, they just go in and they whatever it tells them, that's what they believe.
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  And um, you know, they're not the colleges are having problems like well, the professors are using it, they're not writing their stuff, much less the kids writing stuff, and I just feel it's going to take away basic skills that we need.
• 14:56
  I think it's gonna take away jobs.
• 14:57
  There was something that Elon said recently that was very, very concerning to me from him.
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  He said it'll be so great, we won't even have to work because it'll do everything for us.
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  That that can't that can that can't be.
• 15:10
  Well, it takes away our purpose.
• 15:12
  Well, it takes away our purpose, and there again, I think we were created to work and have purpose.
• 15:16
  And it's oh yeah, 100%.
• 15:18
  We can't just hang out together all day and expect each other, you know, expect you know everything to be hunting gory.
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  We'd kill it.
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  And I do think I do I know of people whose job who have lost their jobs because they were replaced by AI.
• 15:30
  Well, and you're seeing that.
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  I mean, quite honestly, because of the the marketing tools and stuff like that.
• 15:36
  One person can do the job of five, six people now using the AI, depending on the industry, and I think it's only gonna get worse.
• 15:43
  I do I don't see this slowing down, and I don't see it um, you know, uh helping in the long run, helping a lot because you're right.
• 15:52
  I think we will lose part of our brain activity, just like we did with the GPSs.
• 15:58
  Um, and when I and I say that, I guess I'd be in a little facetious there, but you understand what I'm saying.
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  No, I I know I mean I look now, I use my GPS all the time.
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  I'm like, how in the world did I?
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  I was in sales driving around like Philadelphia.
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  I'm like, how did I get to places?
• 16:14
  Right.
• 16:15
  You know, it's interesting.
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  There's a research study, if I remember it correctly, I just kind of breeze through it, but it was talking about by not using your GPS, you'll actually grow your hippocampus a little bit.
• 16:26
  Your what?
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  Hippocampus.
• 16:28
  Oh, part of your brain.
• 16:29
  Yeah, yeah.
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  I mean, I yeah, that's what it I don't know if it's true.
• 16:32
  I and you know, I didn't dive into it, I just came across it.
• 16:36
  I'm like, hmm, that wouldn't surprise me.
• 16:38
  You know, when we were in college, this might be shocking.
• 16:41
  I don't know if anyone younger listens to this show, but I had like everyone's phone numbers memorized, like everyone's right.
• 16:48
  We didn't we didn't have, you know, you when you met someone, you're like, give me your phone number.
• 16:52
  You had it memorized, you could have been drinking and you knew that phone number the next day.
• 16:56
  I'm meanwhile, I'm not even sure what my father's phone number is at this point.
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  I'm I have two kids.
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  The one I know her number because she and my husband have one digit apart because they got their phones at the same time.
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  The other child, if you held a gun to my head and said call her, I'm like, without your phone.
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  I'm like, I don't know.
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  It's something, eight.
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  That's all I would say.
• 17:16
  I got one of the seven numbers.
• 17:18
  Yes.
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  So I I agree.
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  I mean, and that's concerning.
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  It's concerning.
• 17:23
  I know here at where I live a week or two ago, our power went out on a Friday afternoon.
• 17:27
  So it we didn't have power because of high winds for you know several hours.
• 17:32
  And my husband and I handled that by going out for drinks early before meeting friends.
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  So I was walking around the house turning lights on, you know, like, oh, that's right.
• 17:43
  Oh, I'll break, you know, my our internet was down, and I again we just left the house and went to a bar because we're like, we don't know what to do with ourselves.
• 17:52
  So it does concern me if we lose this technology, and I think that's a very possible thing.
• 17:58
  You know, 100%.
• 17:59
  We're gonna be labor skills all over the place.
• 18:01
  Oh, absolutely.
• 18:03
  Yeah, we'll see.
• 18:05
  We'll see.
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  We'll see what happens.
• 18:07
  What about um, you know, can I share one thing with that?
• 18:11
  But I was just happened yesterday.
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  We the other thing is the stealing of our information, the digital ID with we had someone on that talked about that.
• 18:21
  That's very concerning because of all your information being able to be shut down.
• 18:25
  Um, you know, stop what you can buy, how you spend your money.
• 18:29
  Um this week we had high winds again, and the neighbors' trash was all blowing around, you know, because our trash cans were all falling over.
• 18:36
  I went in my backyard to pick up some paper, and I picked up somebody's hospital report.
• 18:41
  And from you know, this is one of those don't throw pay well, a good reason to shred stuff.
• 18:46
  Yeah, you literally, I was reading, and I don't think this woman was in good shape because it was the attending physician, all his report, her alertness, and uh, you know, and I don't even I had her name, her address and everything in this piece of paper in my backyard.
• 18:59
  And I thought, wow, that's really dangerous.
• 19:00
  But imagine how dangerous that is with everything being on the little digital thing that they know everything about you.
• 19:06
  Oh, well, now they can walk by tap your phone and get your information.
• 19:09
  They're just making it worse and worse for us.
• 19:10
  I think the chips in our credit cards is one of the worst mistakes.
• 19:13
  Uh, you know, that we made the tapping.
• 19:15
  Um, like there, there's just no reason for that because now you can literally walk by with a scanner and and someone can read your credit card information before they at least had to pull it out of your pocket.
• 19:25
  You know, they tell us all of this these advances are here for our own security.
• 19:31
  But I can tell you, I would much rather rely on me losing a hundred dollars in cash out of my pocket than someone not taking my credit card.
• 19:38
  It's all been a farce all over.
• 19:40
  I hate I hate to tell you when you and I know this from people I work with.
• 19:44
  You go in stores, your phone, they know the average income of the people that walk in their stores, they know what you're looking at, and it's because it all pulls it from your phone as you walk in that store without you even engaging.
• 19:55
  No, yeah, yeah.
• 19:57
  So are you kidding me?
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  No, a retail store.
• 20:00
  Could tell you we know our average shopper earns you know 100,000 a year.
• 20:04
  They have this and that.
• 20:06
  It's all because of just oh, you walked in the door.
• 20:08
  And they have sensors and different things in place to do that.
• 20:12
  So a lot of that stuff is all checking out.
• 20:15
  You're checking out.
• 20:16
  I'm checking.
• 20:16
  I'm no longer shopping.
• 20:17
  I'm done.
• 20:18
  I'm all right.
• 20:19
  I don't think that you love this shop, so I don't even don't even tell me that.
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  I'm done.
• 20:24
  So but I mean, so that's there.
• 20:26
  It's it's it's already there, but it well, it could be so much worse.
• 20:31
  Oh, Kathy, I don't even want to continue the show.
• 20:36
  I have no idea.
• 20:37
  Talking about how excited you were for the year ahead, and you're already not even.
• 20:41
  I don't know everyone knew my income.
• 20:43
  I didn't even know they didn't know they knew my income walking into the door.
• 20:46
  Now I feel like I can trust no one.
• 20:48
  Stephanie, I've worked in nonprofits.
• 20:50
  This is even before then, um, the past few years.
• 20:53
  We would pull these wealth indicator reports when we were doing campaigns, like, so we're gonna approach a donor.
• 20:58
  We would pull, take your information and find what does Stephanie Coxson give to, what's her income, how much could she give to ask her?
• 21:06
  It's shocking what it would pull up about you.
• 21:10
  Interesting.
• 21:10
  Well, I give cash, so no one knows.
• 21:12
  Ah, I I will I'm gonna pull one on those on you and go show it to you.
• 21:16
  I pulled my own, and I was like, oh, it's kind of I mean, it is and it isn't, but it's just shocking of what it'll, you know, what you own, where you give, your patterns, all those things.
• 21:26
  Yes, I would like to see this.
• 21:27
  I think we all deserve one of those reports in our life so we can clean it up.
• 21:31
  There you go.
• 21:32
  Boy, you started on a high note.
• 21:34
  I started saying, let's talk about shows we've had, and you're like, no, let's move forward, and now you're like, I quit.
• 21:40
  I too.
• 21:41
  I don't want 2026, I'm done.
• 21:43
  I'll keep 22.
• 21:44
  And we're what are we 22 minutes into this?
• 21:47
  Don't judge.
• 21:48
  Okay, just say.
• 21:51
  Well, you know, I I think that we've seen some nice economic booms.
• 21:55
  I think that we have seen some nice work internationally with some of the the fighting and terrorism.
• 22:05
  We've certainly see some stuff happening with the drug cartels.
• 22:09
  You know, we are reducing the drug supply within the U.S.
• 22:12
  I think that's needed.
• 22:13
  They're going after the sex traffickers, which I think is needed.
• 22:17
  Um, so there's some really good things that have happened.
• 22:22
  Yes.
• 22:22
  And I expect those to continue.
• 22:24
  I I do anticipate those continuing, but you know, one of the things that does, again, that does worry me a little bit is we are coming up on the uh the election, our Congress uh, you know, every two years.
• 22:37
  And while we have a really good or you know, we're really good right now.
• 22:42
  The American people typically do a shift at this point in terms of the way they vote.
• 22:47
  And so we may be seeing a blue wave um happening.
• 22:51
  Of course, we may not.
• 22:52
  People may be, you know, pretty excited about some of the progress we made.
• 22:55
  I know I've been very excited about the progress.
• 22:57
  Do I agree with everything?
• 22:58
  Absolutely not.
• 22:59
  But do I agree with the majority of it?
• 23:02
  Yeah, we we have to, I I'm perfectly willing to take some hard times to get to better times.
• 23:08
  No, I agree.
• 23:09
  I agree.
• 23:10
  I mean, it's yeah.
• 23:13
  So go ahead.
• 23:15
  I was gonna say, are we coming up on break because I had some other things to bring that.
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• 27:26
  Okay, Kathy.
• 27:28
  Bring up your new topics.
• 27:30
  No, I well, we were talking about things that um we like that have been happening, and I expect more um better things.
• 27:39
  I mean, here's the thing.
• 27:40
  We don't agree with everything.
• 27:42
  We get upset with Trump on certain things.
• 27:43
  We get upset with Congress on certain things.
• 27:45
  I mean, you should if you agree with everything, you're there's something wrong with you.
• 27:49
  But the thing I have is just like having the confidence that by and large, he and his um cabinet and so forth will try to do the right thing.
• 27:59
  Yeah.
• 28:00
  And you know, that's like uh like like you had said, going after criminals.
• 28:04
  I you know, I don't the past administration, I I don't think even tried to do that or wanted to.
• 28:09
  I try to they reduce the amount of arrest to make it look like we were safer when in fact crime was going up.
• 28:16
  They it's all manipulation for them to, you know, scream and cry what they want the numbers to be um or not be.
• 28:23
  And in that case, you're right, crimes, crimes went up because we are arresting less people for crimes.
• 28:31
  And that's that's not a good way to do statistics and compare them to the 1980s when crime was you know supposedly higher.
• 28:38
  I really don't believe any of the numbers at this point, to be honest with you.
• 28:42
  Right again, I'm out.
• 28:44
  So I I agree with you on being concerned about the midterm elections because I think apathy sets in.
• 28:49
  You know, the party that's in the not in the White House gets more geared up and revved up.
• 28:55
  So that is a concern.
• 28:56
  But that then is up to us individuals.
• 28:59
  If we don't do our part, then we have no one to blame but ourselves.
• 29:03
  Um, and I so you know, but I say I started with saying I do have that confidence in knowing there's somebody in power who thinks like I do and has sometimes doesn't go about saying it the maybe the way I people want him to, but um wants to do the right thing.
• 29:20
  I also like his um Trump's support of the military past a few weeks ago in this in December, he announced that all active duty military was getting a 1,776 and 47 cent bonus.
• 29:36
  Okay, I that's that's that is a move, like a bold move right there.
• 29:41
  I love it.
• 29:43
  And this is what's cool.
• 29:44
  I have a family member, a future son-in-law in the military.
• 29:48
  After that announcement was made, it was I don't even think it was days.
• 29:52
  That showed up in their paycheck.
• 29:55
  And um, I said to him, I said, I bet you were excited when you heard him announce that.
• 30:00
  And he said, Well, I really didn't think anything of it because and this is what's sad.
• 30:03
  He said, We've been promised things before, but it never came to pass.
• 30:07
  So, you know, and I just I love that because I just think our military, there's military members, the enlisted people who eat at food banks because they're not paid or you know, right.
• 30:18
  I just think that's wrong.
• 30:20
  They they get money taken out because they buy have to buy their own mil um uniforms.
• 30:26
  Yes, they get a uniform allowance, but a lot of times doesn't cover it.
• 30:29
  And which does not make any sense.
• 30:31
  No, or they had get money taken out for their meals if they live on base and go to the mess hall.
• 30:36
  I just don't think that's right.
• 30:38
  So I I love that that and I I understand military recruitment is up, um, enlistments are up.
• 30:45
  Um, I also understand that some of that has even happened since the Charlie Kirk assassination.
• 30:51
  Because men and women, a lot more men um wanting to go find meaning and do something of active service.
• 30:59
  Yes.
• 31:00
  And men, I mean, this is kind of a bit of a stretch, but they actually get their oxytocin from you know, kind of wrestling around and getting, you know, kind of geared up and you know, so to speak, where we tend to get it from like snuggling, right?
• 31:15
  So we are just we're very, very different by our nurturing, yes.
• 31:21
  Yes, we are the nurturers, they are the warriors, you know.
• 31:24
  So we're just I mean, as long as they have you know good amounts of testosterone.
• 31:28
  Yes.
• 31:28
  Well, we were just talking about that.
• 31:29
  You and I were at a party with some of our friends to get together.
• 31:33
  We're talking about, you know, you see all this school place violence and so forth, which is awful.
• 31:37
  It's just awful.
• 31:38
  But we I we were saying, you know, when they made kids like zero tolerance, like if you have a fist fight out on the playground because two boys get in it, you know, and um they took all that away.
• 31:48
  You can't touch another kid, and you know, that's I I just don't think that's I just think again, it goes against and then creates other problems.
• 31:57
  Not that I want melees and brawls in the schoolyard, but you know, let's be real.
• 32:02
  I don't feel like bullying has gotten much better.
• 32:05
  Oh no, no.
• 32:06
  You know, the stories that I hear are pretty atrocious.
• 32:09
  Well, some of the things that we're see things that we're seeing, and a lot of those situations could be solved with just a punch across the face, you know.
• 32:16
  Well, that's what we were talking with the girlfriends.
• 32:18
  We all were saying we were all at one point those people who did that.
• 32:22
  I think every one of us, it was a women's thing, and we're all like, I gave them a you know, smack them across the mouth.
• 32:28
  So and it ended.
• 32:30
  We all said when it did it, it ended.
• 32:32
  That's that's right.
• 32:33
  I was the type of person I went and found a bully to be a bully for my bully because I did not want to fight anyone, but you know, but yeah, that's how we took care of things, right?
• 32:42
  You the hired someone or you took care of it yourself.
• 32:44
  Well, another thing you have to be excited.
• 32:47
  Here, you were the one that was gonna lead the discussion of all the things you're excited about.
• 32:50
  Now I'm doing it.
• 32:51
  I know, look at you go.
• 32:52
  Um, the Maha stuff.
• 32:54
  Oh, I'm in love.
• 32:57
  What cracks me up are these people who are just complaining about every change.
• 33:03
  You we have such a sick society.
• 33:06
  Our children are literally I can't find a child without a rash, and yet you want to continue down the same old road with your processed foods with your standard of care medication that does not take you as an individual in account.
• 33:20
  Like it is atrocious what we have done to our children and how sick they are, and yet these people are saying, Can I please get more extra red 40?
• 33:30
  I just said more extra.
• 33:32
  That did not make any sense.
• 33:34
  That's okay.
• 33:35
  That's how worked up you were.
• 33:36
  Yes, yes.
• 33:38
  Uh well, I think we have like uh we have a society that doesn't want to hear um, you know, about nutrition and movement and health.
• 33:48
  They just want a medication.
• 33:50
  They just wanna, you know, that we've seen this.
• 33:53
  I think we had a show on this in the beginning of the year.
• 33:56
  Um, the GLP ones, the you know, the Ozempics and all that stuff, they don't want to try to eat right, they just want to take medication.
• 34:03
  It doesn't matter what it does to your gut, it doesn't matter that it makes you feel nauseous, it doesn't matter that it's eating your muscle.
• 34:09
  I just don't want to have to do the work.
• 34:11
  I was recently at an event and the woman I walked into a conversation and the woman's talk about how what a wonderful thing it's done.
• 34:17
  I thought, wow, she lost a lot of weight and oh she couldn't do it without this.
• 34:20
  And I walked away because it honestly kind of irritated me.
• 34:23
  Well, yeah, because there's no effort being put in.
• 34:26
  You know, it is.
• 34:27
  We are easy.
• 34:29
  Uh we we want we want to hit the easy button in our society, you know, not take responsibility.
• 34:34
  We don't have to want to take the time to go home and cook the steak or hamburger versus going to McDonald's where you're getting your pink, you know, your pink filler meat that is filled with you know, God only knows what that is not providing any value to your body, and then we wonder why we are getting fatter and fatter.
• 34:54
  Well, this goes back to if people want to take a medication to lose weight versus eating well, they don't want to put that effort in.
• 35:01
  We started talking about AI.
• 35:03
  Imagine what it is like I don't have to do anything if the computer or this does it for me.
• 35:07
  And that's what's concerning to me.
• 35:09
  Yes, I don't want to have to have my own bowels and intestines work properly.
• 35:15
  I want to take medication and whatever.
• 35:16
  So how what are they gonna do with effort and thinking and you know, work and and that's very, very, very scary.
• 35:23
  Yeah, I mean, I think there's some things where AI can be absolutely amazing.
• 35:27
  I know that I will put in some information and ask for the AI thing to create a chart, because for me to create a chart can take a long time, but I'm feeding the information that I want it to use, you know, I'm not relying on it as a source of the information.
• 35:42
  And I think that we, you know, there's got to be someone fact-checking this stuff because I know when I have played around with AI and I've asked for information, oftentimes it's wrong.
• 35:52
  Oftentimes it's it's not correct, it's not you know, providing full details or something like that.
• 35:57
  And but that's where we that's where we are.
• 36:00
  But I, you know, some of the things, you know, in terms of like medicine and stuff like that, you know, the tech and the quantum stuff is really starting to get bigger and bigger within the marketplace, that the health marketplace, meaning that you know, some of the old technology from, for example, Dr.
• 36:20
  Royal Rife and the frequencies that he used or Tesla are actually coming to fruition and helping a lot of people within the the health space.
• 36:28
  And so there's some pretty exciting things that are happening as as well.
• 36:33
  Right, and the ability to process information quickly, get answers.
• 36:36
  I mean, absolutely.
• 36:37
  So I don't want to, you know, people are listening like, oh, they're all against that.
• 36:41
  We're not we're not saying that.
• 36:42
  We're just saying that it's going on rapidly and unchecked, and that can lead to a disastrous outcome.
• 36:48
  Right.
• 36:48
  And your states can can't protect you from it because of this big beautiful bill, which uh, you know, that I think that's concerning that there's no there's no check in place for it.
• 36:57
  Oh, I I agree.
• 36:59
  And uh I I personally have I told you this before.
• 37:01
  I think AI is like the antichrist.
• 37:04
  I don't know that you have said that.
• 37:06
  Yeah, that's my theory.
• 37:07
  Because you know, that the whole world will follow this quote unquote person.
• 37:12
  How can you get everyone to follow if you can have something on artificial intelligence that says whatever people want to hear and they accept?
• 37:19
  Um, you know, because you can't do that with one person, but you can program it to say whatever to everybody.
• 37:25
  So there you go.
• 37:26
  Well now I'm gonna need like a pastor or someone to come in and have this discussion about the antichrist because I'm really concerned that the antichrist isn't even a person at this point.
• 37:36
  That's what I was saying.
• 37:37
  I mean, that's what I mean.
• 37:38
  I want to I would like to get into this theologically, because reading reading revelations, the antichrist comes from Turkey.
• 37:45
  Did the AI come from Turkey?
• 37:47
  Well, you don't know.
• 37:48
  I mean, and and John couldn't have um understood, like when he talks about the giant locusts in the sky, he couldn't talk about planes because they weren't it didn't exist.
• 37:58
  So, you know, well, that's true.
• 38:00
  I just I announced this at Thanksgiving with my family, my theory.
• 38:04
  So now I'm sharing it with 10,000 people that hear this and you know can agree or not agree.
• 38:09
  So I'm looking forward to judging this whole concept in a couple of years when we when we you know see what happens.
• 38:16
  That's right.
• 38:17
  There's evidence now.
• 38:18
  You can't take it back.
• 38:19
  You could have told me privately and we could add the discussion, but no, you've got to.
• 38:23
  I know everyone know where you can take it back.
• 38:25
  My theory.
• 38:26
  Yes.
• 38:27
  Um you know, and that was something the show we had with the person who was on from AI or talked about AI developed it with the National Security Agency, and excuse me, regarding health, because she's also has had a health transformation.
• 38:40
  She said that was a concerning, excuse me, to her as well, because of what you could what kind of health information it was spewing out that who was putting that in there, you know, because we become so distrustful for our medical community.
• 38:54
  Yes.
• 38:54
  Because of COVID and everything.
• 38:56
  And it's tracking everything that you say that you do, so it has all of your data, right?
• 39:01
  Like it's just getting, you know, we're just losing all of our privacy, and our young kids just don't seem to care.
• 39:06
  They all track each other, you know, already on the phone.
• 39:08
  Um there again, that can be used for good.
• 39:11
  If you just saw the girl that was abducted in Texas, her dad found her, she was abducted, ready to meet a terrible end or what have you.
• 39:22
  And her dad tracked her because of the app on her phone, and he actually found her and got her out of a band or a truck.
• 39:30
  Wow.
• 39:31
  Yeah.
• 39:31
  Because that so there again, it's good technology, it saved that girl's life or for the people.
• 39:36
  It's only really good that the technology has made the kidnapper so stupid that they wouldn't think to get rid of the phone that would be tracking the girl.
• 39:43
  So I guess there are some positives to losing parts of your brain as you rely on technology.
• 39:48
  Well, there you go.
• 39:49
  I mean, I guess if you know, you're abducting the teenager, you're not thinking like, Well, I'm gonna go get her phone first, you know.
• 39:57
  I mean, if you are a smart kidnapper, you will.
• 40:00
  Well, I I don't know.
• 40:01
  Some of these people, well, I don't know.
• 40:03
  But um, you know, so these things are for good.
• 40:06
  It's just the concern of that they'd be used for something wrong.
• 40:10
  Yes, no, one hundred percent.
• 40:12
  Um there's I I guess there's really good and bad to everything.
• 40:18
  And you know, I I am curious where most people are standing, you know, in terms of market uh market optimism, you know, taking an account of AI doesn't make it easier for people, for example, to start their own business, right?
• 40:32
  Because they they can be less reliant on outside consultants to help get them up and going.
• 40:38
  Could you please?
• 40:39
  I just started a consulting group.
• 40:40
  So please just joking.
• 40:42
  Can you please yeah, just joking?
• 40:44
  I that is not the case.
• 40:45
  You cannot use AI for consulting.
• 40:49
  You need Kathy Anderson Martin, and she's the only person you should consider.
• 40:52
  Happy.
• 40:53
  Okay.
• 40:54
  Okay.
• 40:54
  All right.
• 40:55
  No, but there are a lot of um jobs, I think that's gonna impact consulting, absolutely, but a lot of different things.
• 41:02
  People that you know, it's one thing after another.
• 41:04
  I'm on a board again.
• 41:05
  They talk about we could do this, we could do that.
• 41:08
  Um, they're actually boards that have AI board members.
• 41:12
  I I've seen that and government officials now that are AI.
• 41:16
  Yeah, which is again scary.
• 41:18
  Where does it end?
• 41:19
  Yes, I'll completely agree.
• 41:20
  And I'm also curious where the crypto market's gonna go, you know, is interesting.
• 41:24
  If we look at 2023, um Bitcoin really, I don't remember, I don't know that was the high.
• 41:29
  Maybe then the the high has been like 125 um around there, at least 125,000 uh I think around uh maybe July of this past year, and it hit 100,000 for the first time of December in 2023.
• 41:45
  So it's it's made a big dip.
• 41:47
  Um very curious to see where crypto in general is going because there's a lot of crypto talk.
• 41:52
  And I don't know that we've had anyone on here to talk about crypto, have we?
• 41:57
  We have not.
• 41:58
  I've had sat through presentations with it.
• 42:01
  We that's something we should really address because things are are significantly shifting, and you know, in revelations they have to have complete control over everything that we do.
• 42:10
  My guess is that crypto is going to play a role in that.
• 42:13
  Oh, I believe we'll be going to digital dollars and um, you know, I again I sat on a board where they've talked about your ID with being on your body because of all the um uh crime and hacking and so forth and identity theft.
• 42:29
  Um, you know, that's the identity theft is because of the policies they've already put into place in terms of our safety, it's all their fault.
• 42:36
  They're always the criminals are always several steps ahead of the law enforcement on these issues, which if you know I think we create the issue, honestly.
• 42:46
  I think we should know by when we start tapping the card, like we should know that other people are going to be able to do it.
• 42:53
  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the consequences of having these chips and these tap functions and everything else.
• 42:59
  Just give me a plain old credit card that has to be swiped.
• 43:02
  I'm happy to take the extra second to swipe it.
• 43:05
  I don't think it really matters, Stephanie.
• 43:07
  I really don't whether swipe it.
• 43:09
  I don't know, I don't, but you know, here's the good part in all this stuff because we could keep talking about this, and again, I'm gonna go back to people we had on this past year.
• 43:19
  Okay, go ahead.
• 43:19
  Okay, because here's what I think we get worked up about uh you were talking about crypto.
• 43:24
  We were you and I are in a text group, people were talking about the silver market.
• 43:27
  Yes, silver was supposed to go up, and then in the middle of the text, it goes down, you know, so everyone's buying it, and now it just fell.
• 43:33
  So we don't know all these things are uncertain.
• 43:36
  But the cool thing is we have had you know, we always say at the end of our show, stand up, step forward, speak out.
• 43:43
  Yeah, and we have had so many people, and I looked over this just this past year, and since we started, that made incredible differences that were just regular people doing regular things, and um made incredible differences.
• 43:58
  You know, a lot of them during COVID.
• 44:00
  We've had a nurses who stood up.
• 44:02
  I mean, just recently we had someone on who um stood up about the vaccine mandates at her hospital and protected 1700 people from forced vaccination.
• 44:12
  That was incredible.
• 44:13
  What an incredible story.
• 44:15
  And we had um there was Dr.
• 44:17
  Chaminy Wheeler that we had on, you know, who talked about kids not being healthy and walked away from her medical position.
• 44:24
  She started another practice, but with a different philosophy.
• 44:27
  We talked to Kristen Warball, who um was just a business owner during COVID and stood up with a number of other business owners, just said no, we're not shutting down, and now they have a political growth pack that they're flipping school boards and supporting conservative candidates.
• 44:44
  I think that's really really amazing.
• 44:46
  Um, you know, so just the power of people, school choice people.
• 44:50
  Oh, yes, representatives and parents' groups.
• 44:54
  We talked about transgender issues that are being forced fed on the kids, and someone who started a group with um, you know, trans and they believe these groups, transgender surgery and intervention at any age without you know, your one-year-old seems to identify as a different sex.
• 45:13
  Oh, okay, you know, and but this these uh advocacy groups came about because of concerned parents.
• 45:20
  So that's the thing that I think is really cool that does make me excited.
• 45:24
  That's still happening because one person stands up.
• 45:27
  That's true.
• 45:28
  And COVID really woke up a lot of people where all of this kind of stems from, especially with the parents seeing what was happening in the classroom, but from the dining room tables.
• 45:36
  That just uh, you know, that that opens so many different things up, including finding out that you know, some of the books that are in your child's library at school that you are not necessarily gonna see has pornography in it.
• 45:48
  You know, that's where all this book banning comes from.
• 45:51
  It is from and I I can't remember if we had the lady who brought it to um the attention of the US.
• 45:58
  I think we had her on, I don't know if it's 2025 or 2024, but it's astound like literally you're basically handing kids as young as 12 years old pornography in your school library without parental consent.
• 46:11
  Not that any parent parent should be consenting towards that, but you know, that's that's messed up.
• 46:17
  I think we had uh state representative who's a good friend of ours on uh Barb Glime who talked about being on committees, and I know you've talked about this where they were talking about these issues in the state house here in Pennsylvania, and you weren't allowed to read the stuff because it was pornographic in the state house committee overseeing it.
• 46:36
  Yes, but yet that's the thing that's in the freaking school, but you can't read it with the room full of adults because it's inappropriate.
• 46:42
  Yes, we actually so I've sat in some of those hearings, and when the pictures were presented, we were they had to be covered up because they were not considered to be appropriate.
• 46:52
  And they could not be on TV.
• 46:54
  They caught yes, they are hiding all of it because it is well illegal, but okay for your children.
• 47:01
  You you and I were at, and this is probably a year or two ago, um, at a group that they showed those pictures, the person presenting them had it on poster boards.
• 47:09
  I took pictures with my phone.
• 47:11
  I have showed those to people, even liberal friends who are kind of a ghast and like, well, I don't put them like out because I'm afraid I'll get yes pinged as a you know, yes, pervert or something.
• 47:22
  Yeah, because I have the same fear that I'm posting them.
• 47:27
  But um, when I say, well, here when they're arguing, oh you're book banning, and I'm like, well, do you think this is okay?
• 47:32
  I'm showing you.
• 47:33
  Do you see me, Stephanie?
• 47:34
  I'm holding my home.
• 47:35
  I see your blank hand.
• 47:36
  Yes, go ahead.
• 47:36
  I don't think anyone can see that on the radio here or the but anyway.
• 47:40
  Um everyone I've showed it to can't believe it.
• 47:44
  And they kind of even they stop either defending it or they're like outraged.
• 47:48
  Yes.
• 47:49
  And I I've used that tactic with some of the liberal people.
• 47:53
  And you know, the minute you show them, literally they're they stop.
• 47:56
  And it's because they don't know.
• 47:58
  They simply don't know.
• 47:59
  They are just listening to the parrots tell them that everything's okay, that that is not pornography, that they just want to ban books, but the minute you actually show it to them, I've not had a single person be okay with it.
• 48:11
  Same.
• 48:11
  And that goes to a concern.
• 48:14
  The media.
• 48:15
  Um, we started this talk about the Somalian thing in Minnesota and the fraud.
• 48:19
  Um mainstream media, other than Fox and Fox is not much better.
• 48:26
  But they are at least they're presenting it and showing it, but a lot of them aren't covering in that the local news there is just ignoring it.
• 48:33
  Oh, you know, so that that's a big concern, I think, with our quote unquote investigative journalism in America.
• 48:40
  It doesn't exist in large part.
• 48:41
  We don't have investigative journalism unless they're independent journalists who are not associated with these the you know, I won't even watch a news station.
• 48:48
  I I think it's worth it's not worth my time.
• 48:50
  I'm not turning on the TV to watch CBS, Fox, ABC, CNN, or anything else.
• 48:55
  It's not worth my time.
• 48:59
  I I you know, I also think that with a lot of this stuff that people don't realize, they are they are propagandized into these thought processes well, like they don't know what they don't know.
• 49:14
  And I mean, that's you know, that's definitely um that's definitely a problem because they're not not only they're not not know, they're not willing to go and look.
• 49:24
  That's true.
• 49:26
  So we so we have 50% of us that it's really an uphill battle.
• 49:31
  So what are your goals in this new year now that we've talked about all the things you started out all positive and then you got all I quit and now you're kind of back to neutral.
• 49:40
  You know, what are you hoping for this year?
• 49:43
  Oh, that's like I haven't put much thought into it quite yet.
• 49:45
  That's what I do tonight.
• 49:47
  Oh, okay.
• 49:48
  So you do that like New Year's Eve these days right before.
• 49:53
  Like I I kind of, you know, I I put on I like to be able to visualize, you know, and so just as an example, if I
• 50:00
  You do you do a vision board?
• 50:01
  I do.
• 50:02
  Are you?
• 50:03
  Yeah, I absolutely do.
• 50:04
  You know what's interesting is I once put a car up on my vision board.
• 50:08
  And wouldn't you know, like eight months later, that ex and I didn't want that exact car.
• 50:12
  Like I just, I it was just for me to envision like this is you know, kind of what I want.
• 50:16
  I got the exact car on my vision board on by accident, and I was like, huh, that's interesting.
• 50:21
  So yeah, heck yeah, I do vision boards.
• 50:24
  I well, I put it on a list on my refrigerator.
• 50:27
  My husband had some very personal things, like with this weight and stuff.
• 50:30
  I said, Well, we have people coming over.
• 50:32
  So we probably should put that or what weight we want to be on our refrigerator.
• 50:37
  No shame in the game, Kathy.
• 50:38
  Throw it up there.
• 50:39
  We don't need to show.
• 50:40
  But um I'll be happy to make fun of him.
• 50:43
  You you leave that up there.
• 50:45
  Well, you know, I like I say, I started a business, and this is my first time of just being um self-employed, and that is a whole new mindset.
• 50:53
  But I have a real kind of um optimism because of that, but that's personal, you know, because oh, this is a new thing for me.
• 51:01
  It's something I've always wanted to do.
• 51:03
  I'm at a place in my life I can do it.
• 51:05
  It's a little stressful and scary, as a lot of things are, but on the other hand, there's like incredible freedom.
• 51:10
  I mean, the other day I went to Walmart for something.
• 51:13
  I thought, oh, I'll have to make this up.
• 51:14
  I'm like, I don't have to make this up.
• 51:15
  This is my time, you know.
• 51:21
  Yes, I'm gonna take New Year's Eve off.
• 51:23
  Okay, well, oh, yeah.
• 51:25
  Well, you didn't know what's paying you, you know.
• 51:27
  So um, that's a whole mind shaft, but it's it's very freeing.
• 51:32
  So freedom's a good thing.
• 51:33
  It is.
• 51:34
  I think, you know, for for 2026, uh, my goal is just to have absolute peace in my life, not to let anything disrupt it.
• 51:42
  I mean, for me, that's probably my my number one, my number one thing is just that peace um and calmness.
• 51:50
  But also, I think I would like to see Jesus come back.
• 51:53
  I'm done.
• 51:54
  Um, so that would also be a 2026 goal.
• 51:56
  That's going to my vision board.
• 51:57
  I'm gonna, I'm gonna put Jesus on my vision board of him coming back and just you know.
• 52:01
  Oh, so the the Lord's entire timeline will be like, oh, I think we're gonna change this because Stephanie Cox had put it on her vision board in her office.
• 52:08
  Don't be a hater.
• 52:12
  I'm ready, Cam.
• 52:13
  I am ready.
• 52:14
  You know, uh here's another thing I say as a positive thing.
• 52:17
  I mean, the Charlie Kirk thing was, I think, one of those things at the defining moment in American society of this past year because of what happened there.
• 52:26
  Uh, and I think some of the things that you're seeing of people questioning and being interested in items of faith because of him, because he was very outspoken with his faith.
• 52:37
  And uh, I think that's a good thing.
• 52:39
  And a lot of times, unfortunately, tragedy is what um spurs those conversations.
• 52:45
  Oh, 100%.
• 52:46
  I think there's always lemon um or lemonade when you get a lemon.
• 52:50
  I truly do.
• 52:51
  Everything I think just can shift very quickly, and it may not feel good at the moment, there, but there's always better things at the end.
• 52:59
  It's just getting through those crappy moments.
• 53:02
  Absolutely, and that's whether it's personally or as a country.
• 53:05
  Um, we had Scott Perry on a couple years ago, and he said something on our, and by the way, we very concerned about him and his election in the next year.
• 53:16
  Yes, we are.
• 53:16
  We need yes.
• 53:17
  They actually had a billboard, have a billboard in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania that says Scott Perry has increased our taxes and ate Santas cookies.
• 53:25
  That that's been in a billboard.
• 53:27
  I mean, these people are unhinged and ridiculous.
• 53:29
  They are unhinted ridiculous, and they're paying like $500 a day because they're putting up false information and they don't care that they're paying the fines.
• 53:36
  They'd rather have the bad information up and pay the fines than give anyone truth.
• 53:41
  Right.
• 53:42
  So I veered off there, but he's I know we just love him so much.
• 53:46
  Oh, we do.
• 53:47
  He's the best guy, best family.
• 53:49
  He um said this when he was on with us uh two years ago, I guess.
• 53:54
  And I wrote it on my whiteboard in my office.
• 53:56
  He said, During our darkest moments, our brightest lights will shine.
• 54:00
  Yes.
• 54:01
  That's yes.
• 54:02
  Oh, you know what?
• 54:02
  I need that on my 2026 vision board, yes.
• 54:06
  Yes, well, talk to Scott because I hope he remembers that he said it, but I I've been looking at that every day at work for a year and a half or two years that we've talked to him, and um, you know, I look at it like if he can say that because he's in the middle of a cesspool every day.
• 54:22
  Yeah, I can't even imagine trying to live his life.
• 54:26
  Yeah, and they're kicking him in the head.
• 54:28
  I mean, both sides, as far as that goes, because he's a guy who's willing to stand up for what's right, regardless, not political.
• 54:34
  The conservatives don't like the rhinos don't like him, and the liberals don't like him.
• 54:38
  Yeah, that's because he's doing the right thing.
• 54:40
  Right.
• 54:40
  So um, but you know, that that is that is true.
• 54:44
  And you said about peace, certainly that comes from faith because it's peace that people can't understand.
• 54:50
  It's like when someone of faith passes, you know, you're sad, you're upset, it's tragedy, but there's a weird kind of peace you can't explain.
• 54:59
  Yeah, no, absolutely.
• 55:01
  And you know, I think uh 2026 will be interesting.
• 55:06
  The way it all comes down, I think we're gonna see a lot more uh it we'll we'll we'll have a better feel for what's happening in America when we get to the elections, for example, where people are at, if they're not cheating.
• 55:19
  I mean, that's if they're not cheating.
• 55:20
  I don't know that I buy that they're we're not even getting into that.
• 55:22
  We only have a few minutes left.
• 55:23
  But yeah, we we can't, we can't go all the way back.
• 55:26
  I can't have you go off the edge.
• 55:27
  You you're ending now again positively.
• 55:29
  Okay.
• 55:30
  All right, so positive things, advancements in tech, advancements and natural natural health care.
• 55:38
  I mean, you know, the the red light um devices that are flooding the market and helping people repair their mitochondria, help people build more collagen, different.
• 55:48
  I mean, we have some pretty cool things that are happening that are combining old technology with new technology that are just shifting people's health so immensely, and I hope that it takes down the pharmaceutical companies, and I think we could possibly get there.
• 56:02
  What did you hook my foot up to?
• 56:04
  We were at your house, one of our friends was hooked up to something for her arm.
• 56:08
  You had me hooked up to something with my feet.
• 56:10
  Right frequencies.
• 56:11
  I was putting you on rife frequencies, and did your foot feel better afterwards?
• 56:15
  My foot has felt better, and you know what else I think maybe helping?
• 56:18
  You told me to put that lemon oil in my um was it lemon oil?
• 56:22
  Yeah, lemon.
• 56:25
  Yeah, so you just need to keep showing back up so we can get you all healed up.
• 56:29
  But yeah, it's and this is technology for the 1950s.
• 56:31
  Why have we not been using it on everybody?
• 56:34
  See, this is why it's you have to find good friends.
• 56:37
  I go to a Christmas party at your house.
• 56:39
  One of our friends who's a physician is rubbing my foot to do the lymphatic fluid something, and then you have me hooked up to a machine while another friend is hooked up to the machine.
• 56:49
  I'm there with a glass of red wine, getting my foot healed by two different medical professionals, all because we had a Christmas party.
• 56:57
  That's why we have to pick good friends.
• 56:59
  Yes, Christmas parties at my residence is like no other Christmas party you'll ever go to.
• 57:04
  And on that note, you know, wherever you are, stand up, step forward and speak out.
• 57:11
  Happy New Year.
• 57:12
  Happy New Year.