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"Internet 1.0?" (FTTxJT Wed 091626 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I'm more mega now make America great again than I've
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  Speaker 1: ever been. Making mornings great again. First thing today on
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  Speaker 1: the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us this morning as we gather
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  Speaker 2: in the name of our avatar with the guitar. And
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  Speaker 2: the best way to have an avatar is to have
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  Speaker 2: a guitar in their hands. But really, the program on
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  Speaker 2: Wednesdays is about Understanding who you are and what gifts
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  Speaker 2: for it. And you never have to worry about another
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  Speaker 2: keyboard warrior or hater in the crowd there. So we
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  Speaker 2: were talking about this great phrase. A dear friend of
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  Speaker 2: mine who's spent his adult life debunking the climate alarmism
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  Speaker 2: shared with me some stories ever since Claude, the CEO
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  Speaker 2: of Anthropic, came out over the weekend and said, with
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  Speaker 2: apologies to those who wrote the great Miles Copperthorpe bits
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  Speaker 2: for Saturday Night Live, punish me, no, punish me, punish me,
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  Speaker 2: like some Dan Aykroyd in a badly fitting sailor suit.
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  Speaker 2: Punish me, punish me. You must punish us thoroughly because
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  Speaker 2: we're bad. And by punish, we mean put us in
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  Speaker 2: a position where we can run the AI and no
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  Speaker 2: one else can, which is the same thing Ken Lay
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  Speaker 2: did with Enron and climate change and all of that.
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  Speaker 2: Charles writes in last night, Jimmy Fela, very funny guy,
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  Speaker 2: and I agree. I've met Jimmy a bunch of times.
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  Speaker 2: He's terrific. identify the only reason Barack H. Obama, Barack
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  Speaker 2: Hussein Obama, came out from under his rock is to
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  Speaker 2: catastrophize about AI. I love the phrase catastrophize because that
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  Speaker 2: is what they've done with climate. That's what they're doing
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  Speaker 2: with AI. Everything is chicken littleness. Sky is falling, film
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  Speaker 2: at 11. Let's get into our first things. Ray, another
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  Speaker 2: one of our great consultants, had an awesome point after
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  Speaker 2: last day's show ended. But there were plenty of things
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  Speaker 2: afoot that we must tell you about. For the third time,
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  Speaker 2: the U.S. House, it was like those Alan King comedy specials.
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  Speaker 2: Alan King's third final warning. For the third time, the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: House of Representatives has voted to end the war in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Eventually it might end. Or as the president points out,
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  Speaker 2: we did end it a while ago. Roll call was
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  Speaker 2: 220 to 204. Few more Republicans now joining Democrats. Never
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  Speaker 2: makes it out of the Senate or to President Trump's desk. J.D. Vance,
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  Speaker 2: vice president of the United States, said the conflict with
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  Speaker 2: Iran is going into a different phase over the next
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  Speaker 2: few months as the next program is preventing the Iranian
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  Speaker 2: So I want to go back to Charles's email for
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  Speaker 2: a second because I think I misquoted him. is that
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  Speaker 2: Fahler's point was that his view that Barack Hussein Obama
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  Speaker 2: had come out from under his rock to catastrophize about
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  Speaker 2: AI is, quote, to take the spotlight off of the
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  Speaker 2: socialist threat. And interestingly enough, Charles, you know, the Ken
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  Speaker 2: in green shackles. And there's more going on than this.
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  Speaker 2: This quick text message from Terry, who listens to us
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  Speaker 2: up in Chicago on JOL. She said, Joe, I appreciate
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  Speaker 2: what you mean by it, but after six years of
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump dismissing and diminutizing people by either crass nicknames
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  Speaker 2: or or pretending he doesn't know who they are. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like it cheapens your position if you refer to
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  Speaker 2: the chairman of Anthropic as Claude. Claude is their product.
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  Speaker 2: I giggle when you point out the fact that the
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  Speaker 2: second iteration of Claude renamed itself Claude with a C-L-A-W
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  Speaker 2: apostrophe D and rechanged its emoji to a crab. She said,
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  Speaker 2: but his name is Dario... Emody, and you should call
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  Speaker 2: him that. Is it Emode or Emodi? Emoji? How about
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  Speaker 2: we call him Dario Emoji? Because he looks a little
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  Speaker 2: like that, you know, kind of round. Dario Emodi, the
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  Speaker 2: CEO of Anthropic over the weekend, you know, in his
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  Speaker 2: Dan Aykroyd costume from the Miles Copperthwaite bit on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: Night Live. No, Captain, punish me, punish me. Calling on
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  Speaker 2: the government to enact punishments on the AI industry. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 2: who knows? Gosh, somebody might come along and do it
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  Speaker 2: better than me here at Claude. Or Claude might come
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  Speaker 2: back as the crab and really cause trouble. Ray, I thought,
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  Speaker 2: had a particularly brilliant email. And I want to get
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  Speaker 2: into this Lincoln Center, or not Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center story.
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  Speaker 2: a little bit because there's some fun that's being done
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  Speaker 2: just to bash Donald Trump there, and I want to
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  Speaker 2: expose that. Ray writes a great piece. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to go into the whole thing, but he's talking about AI.
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  Speaker 2: This is based on yesterday's program. He talks about Kim Commando.
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  Speaker 2: Can some of these folks mention me on their radio program?
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting tired of mentioning other radio show hosts. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Kim Commando is just about tech, but Jimmy Fallon. Last
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  Speaker 2: time Jimmy Fallon mentioned me on his show. Exactly. But
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  Speaker 2: my inner Ryan Reynolds notwithstanding, Ray writes about Kim Commando's
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  Speaker 2: point on AI. What she doesn't recognize is that while
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  Speaker 2: AI may be the immediate headline grabber, it can be
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  Speaker 2: a threat only because of the Internet. It is the
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  Speaker 2: Internet which gives AI its teeth, its ability to create mischief.
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  Speaker 2: The Internet is dangerous because we use it not only
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  Speaker 2: to exchange information, but we use it to run things.
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  Speaker 2: AI would not be an existential threat if it could
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  Speaker 2: not only interfere with the distribution of cat videos. It
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  Speaker 2: is an existential threat because we have chosen for convenience
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  Speaker 2: to run our banking, electrical generation, national defense, etc. over
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  Speaker 2: the Internet. and that makes it possible for AI to
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  Speaker 2: interfere with them. It's time for us to understand that
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  Speaker 2: convenience is not the highest good. Ray, it's a brilliant point,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to expand on it because I'm just
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  Speaker 2: going to use this phrase, Internet 1.0. Leave that into
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  Speaker 2: your thought pattern because there is a way to put
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  Speaker 2: the Internet into a proper perspective. that I don't think
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  Speaker 2: would cause anyone any concern. But first, let me go, well,
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  Speaker 2: only with a small bag of irony in my pocket,
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  Speaker 2: to our friends from jcsgold.com. But they have a brick-and-mortar
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  Speaker 2: right there in the middle where Barack Obama would block
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  Speaker 2: at the corner of a couple of little highways known
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  Speaker 2: on the phone with us, jcsgold.com, where he is on
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  Speaker 2: the Information Superhighway. James, how are you, sir? I'm doing well, Joe.
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  Speaker 18: And, you know, a funny thing about JCSGold.com is our
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  Speaker 18: live price board page, you know, has our, it's kind
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  Speaker 18: of like our large menu of bullion items, of gold, silver,
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  Speaker 18: in our showroom. And a lot of people come in
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  Speaker 18: and they kind of just stare at it. And they
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  Speaker 18: see the numbers changing and they're looking at the percentages
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  Speaker 18: and the prices and everything. And I tell them, I say,
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  Speaker 18: you know, you can see this 24-7 on our website
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  Speaker 18: at JCSGold.com, this exact thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, page here.
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  Speaker 18: And they say, well, I just like looking at it
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  Speaker 18: right here on the screen with the gold in front
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  Speaker 18: of me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you feel like you're in the stock exchange, right?
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  Speaker 2: So how are gold and silver doing at this hour?
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  Speaker 2: We checked earlier. I apologize for I'm not sure why
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  Speaker 2: I'm apologizing to you, but I opened up my smartphone
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  Speaker 2: optimized version of JCSgold.com and checked in on the prices.
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  Speaker 2: Looked like they were up earlier this morning. Is that
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  Speaker 2: held on?
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, gold and silver in the green so far, pretty
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  Speaker 18: strong this morning. Gold is up over 1%, up $ 48
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  Speaker 18: to $ 4, 342. Trying to make a little bit of a
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  Speaker 18: comeback here so far midweek.
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  Speaker 2: Silver is up 1.3% to $ 64.
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  Speaker 11: 55.
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  Speaker 2: And as James mentioned, you.
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  Speaker 18: Can check these prices anytime you can purchase through jcsgold.com
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  Speaker 18: securely and safely as well.
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  Speaker 2: But they'd love to talk to you, especially if you've
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  Speaker 2: felt a little over intensified by gold and silver sellers
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  Speaker 2: rather than folks who just want to help you into
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  Speaker 2: the gold and silver investing world. So talk to this
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  Speaker 2: family business. James is the fourth generation of luck family
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  Speaker 2: at JCS gold dot com. Bless you, sir. And you
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  Speaker 2: have a great morning. Thanks, Joe. You, too. So my suggestion,
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  Speaker 2: based on Ray's email, would not in any way, shape,
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  Speaker 2: or form damage jcsgold.com, nor would it damage your ability
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  Speaker 2: to interact on the internet. It would, in a very
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  Speaker 2: important way, make the internet a better place. Because right
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  Speaker 2: now there's an unintentionality to the internet. It's just everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: all the time. every place. If you think back to
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  Speaker 2: internet 1.0, we're talking about the early 2000s, the era
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  Speaker 2: of chat rooms and the era of knowing specific web
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  Speaker 2: addresses and having to type them in directly into a
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  Speaker 2: browser that you had to download yourself, didn't come, you
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  Speaker 2: had to go find a a service that would help
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  Speaker 2: you get onto the hypertext transfer protocol, all of those things.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying that the technology increases, but when
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  Speaker 2: we come back, I'll make my point.
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  Speaker 2: on First Thing Today. So, Ray... In the last segment,
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  Speaker 2: AI catastrophizers. And I love that word. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We get Denzel to star in that movie. Denzel Washington
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  Speaker 2: the psychological impacts of the social media You know, I
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  Speaker 2: stories from the internet. No, true stories from the information superhighway.
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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia. Again, first thing today by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Did he say bat? Oh my gosh. I hope you
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  Speaker 2: don't have comorbidities.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you must have gotten a vaccine then. Further in,
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  Speaker 2: further up, I think we've allowed artificial intelligence to dominate
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  Speaker 2: our organic intelligence for a bit here, but I do
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  Speaker 2: believe it is very important for the very reason that
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  Speaker 2: these folks brought up and they were bringing up that
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  Speaker 2: it is the fear-mongering that we watched during the Michael
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  Speaker 2: Mann era of climate change. Probably, if we could get
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: some folks, they've gone beyond even trying to have some
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  Speaker 2: documentary like An Inconvenient Truth. But let's not forget, ironically,
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  Speaker 2: that Al Gore and his wife Tipper were the ones
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  Speaker 2: who wanted to regulate speech in the first place through
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  Speaker 2: their advisory stickers on all the CDs and all the movies,
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: explicit content and all of that. That was before Al
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  Speaker 2: Gore wanted to regulate the climate. He wanted to regulate
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  Speaker 2: your interactions with one another and the things that you
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: might want to listen to, like music at the Kennedy Center.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: And the Kennedy Center, this story is fascinating to me,
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: mostly because they're lying to you. I know, I know.
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  Speaker 2: That's shocking to you to think that somebody in the
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  Speaker 2: news media, he has a desk, Joe. He has the
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  Speaker 2: graphic of the planet behind him. How could he be
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  Speaker 2: lying to me? This story about the Kennedy Center. Kennedy
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  Speaker 2: Center board yesterday voted to close. Just let that rattle around. No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Not stay closed for a period of renovation. Not suspension.
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  Speaker 2: Just close. Just close. Maybe Harbor Freight can move in there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. And it wouldn't be the first. I
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  Speaker 2: will guarantee you if I search.
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  Speaker 2: Can somebody get Claude or one of the AIs? He
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: says with all acknowledged irony. But do a search. Type
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: in all the names of all of our cities that
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: were carried in and click closed theaters. I will bet
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  Speaker 2: you there are Bijoux's and Paramount's and Main Street theaters
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  Speaker 2: all over the country. I know that there was one
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  Speaker 2: just here in Harrisonburg. teetering on the verge of closure
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: in a Herculean effort of public-private partnership, which means taxpayer
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  Speaker 2: money and then money taxpayers give in exchange for paying
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: taxes on it, to keep the theater going. None of
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: them go to the theater, but they'll keep it going nonetheless.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Because the death knell for these theaters in the first place,
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: including the Kennedy Center, was Tony Fauci. Tony, take the fifth,
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: leave the cannolis. Fauci came in and said, I think
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: everyone should stay home because, you know, social distancing. Which
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: even Tony Fauci said was bovine excrement. But he told
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  Speaker 2: us all to stay home. And the guys with the
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: desks and the globe graphics behind them said, you all
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: better stay home for your safety. Your neighbors are trying
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: to kill you. I mean, if you think back to
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: what we were doing in 21 and 22, it's almost
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: like a Rod Serling script for The Twilight Zone. Your
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: neighbors are trying to kill you. Which ones? We don't know.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: So you better stay away from all of them. Burgess
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  Speaker 2: Meredith is your neighbor on one side and Billy Mummy
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: on the other side. Black and white screen, you sitting
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: there looking terrified on your porch with the woke mask
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: over your face. The camera zooms in on the terrified
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: eyes like Rod Serling was always good at doing. It's
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: a Twilight Zone episode. But we still don't want to
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: go to the theaters. This is why all these movies
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: are coming out on streaming platforms, Disney +, Paramount +,
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Every new movie is available for you to get in
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: your living room. Every show can be distributed. Why, our
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: friends at the Trans-Siberian Orchestra themselves did a wonderful thing.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: They did, and it was 22 or 23, they couldn't
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: go on tour. This is their 30th anniversary. And by
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: the way, go to JoeThomasInTheMorning.com and you can enter to
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  Speaker 2: concerts that are coming to your neighborhood because they realize
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: you can be in an arena to watch a Christmas
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: rock concert. One of those years, they actually performed a
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: pay-per-view concert in online. One night, I forget, it was
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: early December, but you paid, you went to a website,
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: and you virtually sat in an arena watching a Trans-Siberian
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  Speaker 2: Orchestra show. My wife and kids and I did it.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: They weren't going to be coming anywhere near us to
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  Speaker 2: see it, so we figured, well, it's the closest we're
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: going to get. That's why the Kennedy Center is closing.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: And my favorite part of this is how it's depicted
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: in the media. And, you know, Yahoo declining revenue because
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: of Donald Trump assuming the chairmanship. The center has experienced
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: significant turnover in leadership. And I'm still looking for anything
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  Speaker 2: that they can draw a line to why they're not.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: doing well economically, and then finally you get down and
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: you dig and you dig and you dig. Factually.co. Factually.co.
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  Speaker 2: Even before the Trump-era leadership, the Kennedy Center had structural
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: financial weaknesses, including recurring deficits, debt obligations, and a relatively
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: modest endowment. Pandemic-related revenue losses further strained cash reserves, demonstrating
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: long-standing fiscal stress. People weren't going to see the shows
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: they were putting on, which made the shows that they
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: put on cost more because they had to make up
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: for the shows nobody was going to. So, like, when the.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Will Rogers comedy awards and things like that would come.
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  Speaker 2: People would fill the place, but you had to pay
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: through the nose for it, which made you less likely
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  Speaker 2: to do it. It became clearly political. So, you know,
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: half the country decided not to give money to it.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: But the economy went into the tank anyway. So people
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: who were, you know, even the small dollar donors dried up. And,
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: you know, like all these things, because they consider themselves
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: some public benefit, they just keep expecting the government to
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: come in and bail them out. And Trump has said, no,
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: put my name on the place and we'll we'll raise money.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: And they said no. And the judges said no. So
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: there you go.
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