Latest / Brian Thomas / Tom Zawistowski - WeThePeopleConvention.org
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- 0:01Speaker 1: It is seven thirty here at fifty five KRCD Talk station.
- 0:04Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday, and welcome back to the fifty five Carric
- 0:09Speaker 1: Morning Show from We the People Convention dot org. The
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- 0:16Speaker 1: the podcast on a weekly basis. Welcome back to the
- 0:18Speaker 1: Morning Show, Tom Zawastowski, Thank you.
- 0:21Speaker 2: For having me back. Brian. Good to be with you.
- 0:23Speaker 2: As this crazy world just keeps spinning, doesn't it. I mean,
- 0:27Speaker 2: you're talking about things at the local level, you're talking
- 0:29Speaker 2: about the national level that it just seems like we
- 0:33Speaker 2: can't get anything figured out anymore, right, It's just there's
- 0:37Speaker 2: no answers to anything anymore. And that's just odd to
- 0:41Speaker 2: me since I'm seventy one years old, because we used
- 0:44Speaker 2: to have answers, but for some reason now we got
- 0:46Speaker 2: more information and less knowledge.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Well, and there in lies the challenge. I think it's
- 0:50Speaker 1: the more information problem. It's that vast jungle that is
- 0:54Speaker 1: the artificial I'm sorry, the Internet. You know, people connecting instantaneously,
- 0:59Speaker 1: strangers from across the globe, interacting with our young people
- 1:02Speaker 1: and children, and engaging nefarious actions along those lines. Extorting people.
- 1:06Speaker 1: You got artificial intelligence, deep fake videos and software they
- 1:11Speaker 1: can convert a regular picture of a clothed person into
- 1:14Speaker 1: a newty that embarrasses young people and drives them to
- 1:17Speaker 1: suicide and all the attendant. I mean, we could go
- 1:19Speaker 1: on for hours and hours and hours. It's just it's
- 1:22Speaker 1: technology has moved so fast we can't keep up with it.
- 1:26Speaker 1: And then we're left with elected officials who don't know
- 1:29Speaker 1: Jack's squat about it to try to put laws in
- 1:31Speaker 1: place that are going to save us from ourselves. Tom,
- 1:33Speaker 1: you had a story over the other day on your
- 1:35Speaker 1: website about this Sixth Circuit Court upholding Ohio's age verification
- 1:40Speaker 1: on social media, and the reason that had to be
- 1:43Speaker 1: enacted is because parents don't take the time to figure
- 1:45Speaker 1: out that they have it within their own power to
- 1:48Speaker 1: prevent their children from accessing porn online. Yeah, you can
- 1:51Speaker 1: do it on your own parents, but apparently parents aren't
- 1:54Speaker 1: doing that, so we need a law put in place
- 1:56Speaker 1: to require age verification. That's a challenge. But see, this
- 2:01Speaker 1: is something that we could all take care of ourselves,
- 2:03Speaker 1: but it's just gotten too fast for us.
- 2:06Speaker 2: Well, and they haven't told us the truth. I mean,
- 2:09Speaker 2: if you watch them really epic social Dilemma that aired
- 2:13Speaker 2: on Netflix years ago, where the people's at Twitter and
- 2:18Speaker 2: Facebook and you know all these social media companies Instagram
- 2:22Speaker 2: and snapchatnel, they knew what they were doing. None of
- 2:27Speaker 2: the people who made this software that take your kids
- 2:31Speaker 2: attention and controls it, they don't let their kids use
- 2:35Speaker 2: any of this. None of them go watch the movie.
- 2:39Speaker 2: They don't let their kids use any of this. And
- 2:41Speaker 2: we were not told or warned or given any tools
- 2:46Speaker 2: to protect our kids. That's why we are where we
- 2:49Speaker 2: are today. And it's just you know, I urged you.
- 2:52Speaker 2: Thank you for bringing up that story that we people
- 2:55Speaker 2: convention that org. Because if you go to that story
- 2:58Speaker 2: about the big win in our fight to protect children,
- 3:01Speaker 2: there's two links there. One is this doctor Height who
- 3:05Speaker 2: really came out and exposed the science, the scientific studies
- 3:10Speaker 2: that show that what is social media is doing to
- 3:13Speaker 2: our kids. It's not just their mental health, Like every
- 3:17Speaker 2: single day some teenage girl kills themselves because of this,
- 3:22Speaker 2: it's killing kids. And then the second one is a
- 3:25Speaker 2: very in depth podcast with Jordan Peterson and doctor Hyde
- 3:29Speaker 2: talking about how does this happen and it's not just
- 3:33Speaker 2: hurting kids it's hurting adults, Brian. I was an avid
- 3:37Speaker 2: reader my whole life. I would read a book in
- 3:40Speaker 2: a day. I consume books now that I got to
- 3:43Speaker 2: go through social media like you do for our job
- 3:47Speaker 2: to understand what's going on. I can't read anymore, Brian,
- 3:51Speaker 2: my attention. It's changed literally the wiring of my brain,
- 3:56Speaker 2: and I can't read like I used to read.
- 4:00Speaker 1: You know what, Tom, I cannot thank you enough for
- 4:02Speaker 1: saying that out loud because I have been contemplating that myself.
- 4:06Speaker 1: I haven't said it out loud, and I haven't mentioned
- 4:08Speaker 1: on the Morning show, but I feel the same way
- 4:11Speaker 1: you go in I mean, one of my favorite books
- 4:12Speaker 1: of all time, Brothers caram MAT's up by Field or Dost.
- 4:14Speaker 1: I ask you if I sat down with that thing
- 4:16Speaker 1: right now.
- 4:16Speaker 2: You're right.
- 4:17Speaker 1: The way we read and how we consume information for
- 4:21Speaker 1: our jobs, I might underscore, really makes it a massive
- 4:25Speaker 1: challenge to sit still and dive into something that that
- 4:28Speaker 1: is that intellectually well superior at least in terms of
- 4:31Speaker 1: literature from my perspective. But it's just it's not an
- 4:34Speaker 1: easy read by comparison to some you know, boiled down.
- 4:36Speaker 1: AI created article about some news event that's going on.
- 4:40Speaker 2: Yeah, so what's the Career's the connectrum. So the problem
- 4:45Speaker 2: is that yes, we have more access to information, but
- 4:49Speaker 2: we also have more propaganda and lies and you know,
- 4:53Speaker 2: like Dave Hatter, I mean I listened to them one
- 4:56Speaker 2: year show religiously. And the problem is every time we
- 4:59Speaker 2: stig got to way to stop the bad guys, the
- 5:01Speaker 2: bad guys have ten more ways to hack us and
- 5:04Speaker 2: attack us. How do we turn the tide on that,
- 5:07Speaker 2: because it's going to destroy us. And that article about
- 5:11Speaker 2: Ohio's law is critical to saving our kids and literally
- 5:16Speaker 2: saving our nation because Brian we don't have workers because
- 5:21Speaker 2: his brains are literally being changed by this when they
- 5:24Speaker 2: get access to early and they're literally not forming their
- 5:27Speaker 2: brains so they can think as adults. Our nation is
- 5:31Speaker 2: at stake here. These are serious things, but who gets
- 5:33Speaker 2: to talk about them only on this show.
- 5:35Speaker 1: Quite frankly, well, I envision a tobacco style litigation because
- 5:39Speaker 1: for all the years tobacco country companies were had their
- 5:42Speaker 1: hands on and knew about the dangers of cigarettes smoking,
- 5:45Speaker 1: yet they try to negate that in the public. They
- 5:47Speaker 1: did the research, they had the documents. Behind the scenes,
- 5:50Speaker 1: they were aware of the dangerous nature of the product,
- 5:52Speaker 1: and yet we were lied to. So sounds me like
- 5:56Speaker 1: Facebook and the other social media companies are painfully aware
- 5:59Speaker 1: of and perhaps design the technology to addict children, are
- 6:02Speaker 1: aware of the dangers that's done. So I'm not quite
- 6:05Speaker 1: sure if there's a litigation that's already been filed along
- 6:07Speaker 1: those lines, or if that can ultimately work to our advantage.
- 6:11Speaker 2: Listen, there was a big court decision just two months
- 6:14Speaker 2: ago in California. For the first time. Meta was found
- 6:17Speaker 2: guilty of intentionally capturing this girl, and the woman wanted
- 6:22Speaker 2: got six million dollars settlement, and there's thousands of lawsuits
- 6:26Speaker 2: now queued up. So guess what Meta is doing. Oh,
- 6:30Speaker 2: Meta is lobbying Congress to make them exempt from any
- 6:34Speaker 2: state lawsuits that would make them liable for addicting children
- 6:39Speaker 2: to social media. That's what's going on right now.
- 6:42Speaker 1: Well, let's be I'd be very interested in seeing that
- 6:44Speaker 1: come through to fruition, because if they knew that it
- 6:48Speaker 1: was dangerous and it corrupted the minds, they certainly can
- 6:50Speaker 1: be held accountable for what I would argue wild be
- 6:52Speaker 1: an intentional thing if they didn't know, and only the
- 6:55Speaker 1: subsequent research that's come out and the actual reality of
- 6:58Speaker 1: what we see around us impacting our children as a
- 7:01Speaker 1: consequence of social media. Then they have an obligation to
- 7:04Speaker 1: react and change the dynamics of the platform to protect
- 7:07Speaker 1: our children and to make it, I guess less addictive.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Keep the popcorn out on that one. Tom's we got
- 7:12Speaker 1: more to talk about an artificial intelligence. He attended a
- 7:14Speaker 1: meeting the other day, one of these anti AI.
- 7:17Speaker 2: See the talk station.
- 7:21Speaker 1: At seven coming up with some forty two fifty five
- 7:23Speaker 1: KOSB talk station me the people conventioned dot or is
- 7:26Speaker 1: that where you find to Zawastowski and Tom joins the
- 7:29Speaker 1: program every week talk about some issues. One of the
- 7:31Speaker 1: issues artificial intelligence and the genies out of the bottle. Tom,
- 7:34Speaker 1: As you and I pointed out, there's no way you
- 7:36Speaker 1: can stop or unring the bell of AI. The question
- 7:38Speaker 1: is whether you want to get on the bandwagon enjoy
- 7:40Speaker 1: some of the fruits that come with it. But with
- 7:42Speaker 1: AI centers come downside, like power demand, some water usage concerns.
- 7:47Speaker 1: But it seems to me, as you and I have
- 7:48Speaker 1: talked about previously, Tom, all that can be addressed up front.
- 7:52Speaker 1: They just did it in Texas. Microsoft signed a twenty
- 7:55Speaker 1: year agreement with Chevron for a power plant to for
- 8:00Speaker 1: this West Texas Peicos, Texas AI Center. Permian basin gas
- 8:06Speaker 1: is going to run the turbines. The Permian gas basin
- 8:09Speaker 1: gas is right there, and it also apparently is an
- 8:12Speaker 1: abundant Permian natural gas often wasted because pipeline capacity is limited.
- 8:17Speaker 1: So they're using gas that's there that otherwise would have
- 8:20Speaker 1: gone unused and generating enough power for this AI plant
- 8:24Speaker 1: two point six to seven gigawates. They expect the whole
- 8:27Speaker 1: power plant to be online by twenty twenty eight. Look,
- 8:29Speaker 1: they got ahead of the problem. The local grid will
- 8:32Speaker 1: be completely unaffected by this power plants use or by
- 8:35Speaker 1: this AI plants use of power. Problem solved, Tom.
- 8:40Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's really the key. I was talking to
- 8:42Speaker 2: my good friend Glenn Newman, great Patriot leader from Marietta yesterday,
- 8:48Speaker 2: and he was having a meeting last night about this
- 8:50Speaker 2: whole issue. And the problem is and even Mike the
- 8:54Speaker 2: Wine did you remember the video Mike the Wine put
- 8:57Speaker 2: out like last week where he says, hey, you know,
- 8:59Speaker 2: make a good deal. You're in charge. You don't have
- 9:01Speaker 2: to do anything. These developers are coming to your township
- 9:05Speaker 2: or your city to make a deal to build a
- 9:07Speaker 2: data center, hould them accountable, and they're a classic example.
- 9:12Speaker 2: We've got a problem with energy. You got to follow
- 9:14Speaker 2: solve it. The water issue, you know, this whole controversy
- 9:18Speaker 2: about using millions of gallons of water to cool the
- 9:21Speaker 2: data centers. They used to do that, they're getting pushed
- 9:24Speaker 2: back and now they're starting to do these closed loop systems,
- 9:27Speaker 2: which they'll say, there's no such thing as a closed
- 9:29Speaker 2: loop system. Yeah, there is. It's the radiator in your car,
- 9:33Speaker 2: Go look at it. When was the last time you
- 9:35Speaker 2: put water in your car? Never? Okay, that's what they're
- 9:38Speaker 2: building in these data centers. So that's an answer. It's
- 9:42Speaker 2: all about you and the community, you know, holding them
- 9:45Speaker 2: accountable to make it safe and then make it beneficial
- 9:49Speaker 2: to you. What's wrong, Brian, is there are these county
- 9:53Speaker 2: commissioners and people in townships who own the land that
- 9:57Speaker 2: the data centers are going to be on or that
- 9:59Speaker 2: they're doing, where they're not disclosing that their family is
- 10:03Speaker 2: going to make millions of dollars from this data center.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Government has actually made this all worse, not better, because
- 10:10Speaker 2: of their lack of transparency, including the wine giving tax breaks.
- 10:14Speaker 2: You know what, one billion dollars in tax breaks to
- 10:16Speaker 2: data centers. They don't need tax breaks. They're very profitable businesses.
- 10:20Speaker 2: The one in Shudersville's they're not asking for any tax
- 10:23Speaker 2: breaks at all. They're going to pay fifteen million dollars
- 10:26Speaker 2: in property tax a year. That's a good thing.
- 10:29Speaker 1: It is a good thing. And you're going back to this.
- 10:31Speaker 1: This power plant alone that's going to power this data
- 10:34Speaker 1: center in Texas, it is like seven billion dollars. You
- 10:37Speaker 1: don't need tax breaks. They got seven billion dollars. They
- 10:39Speaker 1: can build their own power plant to provide this the
- 10:41Speaker 1: energy supply to run it. I think they're okay from
- 10:43Speaker 1: a capital standpoint, Tom.
- 10:46Speaker 2: Hey, let's go further again. Let's make a good deal.
- 10:50Speaker 2: What you're hearing a lot about is okay, you can
- 10:53Speaker 2: do that, but we want you to We're going to
- 10:56Speaker 2: require you to generate extra capacity the electric and seed
- 11:00Speaker 2: it into the grid to help the citizens right self
- 11:05Speaker 2: solve the problem of our horrible electric grid that our
- 11:09Speaker 2: public utility commissions have done nothing to fix for decades.
- 11:13Speaker 2: And let's get AI and eight and the the tech
- 11:16Speaker 2: companies to help fund that.
- 11:18Speaker 1: What a concept, great concept, And that's one I fully
- 11:22Speaker 1: embrace because that might lead us to small modular reactors.
- 11:24Speaker 1: And everybody in my listening audience who listens knows that
- 11:27Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of that concept. Abundant power, small
- 11:30Speaker 1: footprint and modular so they can pretty much be built
- 11:33Speaker 1: identically wherever they happen to be. Let's get that online pause,
- 11:36Speaker 1: Tom and to bring it back on and find out
- 11:37Speaker 1: what some of the people at the meeting about this
- 11:39Speaker 1: AI issue said.
- 11:41Speaker 2: Don't go west. See the talk station.
- 11:45Speaker 1: If you above KERCD talk station right at the top
- 11:47Speaker 1: of the UR news. It's gonna hit the inside scoop
- 11:49Speaker 1: at bright Barton News today Kurt Zendalka, who is the
- 11:53Speaker 1: bright bart News London Deputy Edit. We're gonna find out
- 11:55Speaker 1: what's going on with England Keir Starmer resigning from his
- 11:57Speaker 1: Labor Party position. We're else gonna get the Daniel Dave
- 12:00Speaker 1: was deep dive and meantime Tom Zawastowski from We the
- 12:02Speaker 1: People Convention dot or talking about artificial intelligence centers. So
- 12:07Speaker 1: are there any other complaints, tom z Before we get
- 12:10Speaker 1: to what happened at the meeting you went to on
- 12:12Speaker 1: AI centers. It sounds me like the three the three
- 12:15Speaker 1: things and I want to make sure that I'm not
- 12:16Speaker 1: omitting anyone complaint or concern. Energy. We talked about that
- 12:20Speaker 1: last one. Water talked about that in the last one.
- 12:23Speaker 1: But the other one is noise, which also seems to
- 12:26Speaker 1: be something you could address upfront with how you build
- 12:29Speaker 1: the building to prevent the noise from seeping out into
- 12:31Speaker 1: the greater environment. But is there are there any other
- 12:33Speaker 1: concerns expressed by the anti AI folks, tom Z?
- 12:38Speaker 2: You know, really those are the topics, right, those are
- 12:41Speaker 2: the things that you know can be addressed and are
- 12:43Speaker 2: being addressed if you're serious. But now I'm going to
- 12:47Speaker 2: blow your mind. I'm going to blow your audience's mind
- 12:50Speaker 2: because I'm sitting at this meeting in Schillersville Township and
- 12:54Speaker 2: the town hall that's sold out. There's people literally outside
- 12:57Speaker 2: the building yelling in the windows. Okay, we're trying to
- 13:00Speaker 2: have a meeting. And I'm sitting in the back of
- 13:02Speaker 2: the room with my literally or figuratively my tea party
- 13:05Speaker 2: hat on. Right. I'm a tea party guy. I care
- 13:08Speaker 2: about the people, and I'm looking at this and I'm
- 13:11Speaker 2: watching this meeting goes are for three hours, and I'm
- 13:14Speaker 2: trying to say what's long with this picture? What's missing?
- 13:19Speaker 2: And I couldn't figure it out because, first of all,
- 13:22Speaker 2: the problem is we start at this ridiculous position of well,
- 13:25Speaker 2: you should be for this data set because we promised
- 13:27Speaker 2: not to kill you. We're not going to poison your water,
- 13:29Speaker 2: we're not going to drive you crazy with sound, and
- 13:32Speaker 2: we're not going to rise your electricity costs, so you
- 13:34Speaker 2: should be for it. Well, I don't have that now,
- 13:36Speaker 2: so why should I be for it? So then you say, well,
- 13:39Speaker 2: the community benefits. As I said, this company is going
- 13:42Speaker 2: to pay fifteen million dollars a year in property taxes.
- 13:45Speaker 2: The township budget would be doubled. These school districts, which
- 13:51Speaker 2: has a ten million dollar budget, would go to fifteen
- 13:53Speaker 2: million dollars a year of fifty percent increase. The fire
- 13:56Speaker 2: depart would get a million dollars more a year. And
- 13:59Speaker 2: you're saying, that's why you should be for that, it's
- 14:02Speaker 2: good for the community. And then I'm sitting there and
- 14:05Speaker 2: I see some of these old codres get up and
- 14:07Speaker 2: they're just frustrated. And I realized, Brian, what's wrong is
- 14:11Speaker 2: what's in it for me? What's in it for the citizen?
- 14:16Speaker 2: And I start to say, you know what does Old
- 14:19Speaker 2: Coudre sitting there? They don't want the school district to
- 14:22Speaker 2: get fifteen million dollars a year. They're probably pissed that
- 14:25Speaker 2: they're spending ten million dollars a year when they should
- 14:28Speaker 2: probably only have eight. Who wants bigger governments? What does
- 14:32Speaker 2: the township do with double the income when there's not
- 14:36Speaker 2: double the roads or double the citizens?
- 14:38Speaker 1: Well, how about lower property how about lower property taxes?
- 14:42Speaker 2: Great minds take alike, Brian. So guess what I do?
- 14:46Speaker 2: I go and I talked to Matt Kelly, the auditor
- 14:50Speaker 2: of Porte County, and I said, Matt, you're on the
- 14:53Speaker 2: County Budget Commission, right, Brian. You know what those are.
- 14:56Speaker 2: It's that you know they're supposed to you know, it's
- 14:59Speaker 2: a county otter, county treasurer, county prosecutor, and they're supposed
- 15:03Speaker 2: to review annual tax budgets and levy requests. Well, in
- 15:07Speaker 2: House Bill three oh nine, which just passed, it explicitly
- 15:12Speaker 2: gives budget commissions power to reduce property tax levies when
- 15:17Speaker 2: the revenue is unnecessary or excessive. Okay, hey, no, I said, Matt,
- 15:23Speaker 2: let me ask you a question. If they're going to
- 15:26Speaker 2: be paying these property taxes. Can the board say, Okay,
- 15:31Speaker 2: this is money you don't need. So guess what the
- 15:35Speaker 2: school district. You're not gonna get five million dollars a
- 15:38Speaker 2: year extra, You're gonna get a million or two million
- 15:41Speaker 2: a year. The rest is going to go as a
- 15:44Speaker 2: tax cut to the homeowners. They are maybe as much
- 15:47Speaker 2: as twenty percent. And I said, could you do that?
- 15:51Speaker 2: He goes, Tom, I think you're right. I think we
- 15:54Speaker 2: could do that. And so they're exploring it right now.
- 15:57Speaker 2: And at the state level, Heidie Workmen, our house members
- 16:00Speaker 2: on the Data center Board, She's taken it to the
- 16:02Speaker 2: state representatives. I think everyone that's in his community that's
- 16:07Speaker 2: going to do data centers needs to say, listen, we
- 16:11Speaker 2: need to get some of the money. We the people
- 16:14Speaker 2: need to have our property taxes reduced, and it's there
- 16:18Speaker 2: right now to do it. That could make a big
- 16:21Speaker 2: change in how we look at data centers.
- 16:22Speaker 1: And to the extent there's some legal impediment to providing
- 16:26Speaker 1: the property taxpayers with some measure of relief, and Columbus
- 16:29Speaker 1: should get its act together and make sure it's allowed.
- 16:34Speaker 2: It's awesome because the school listrics, they're not gonna say, oh,
- 16:37Speaker 2: you know, we don't want the money. No, we're going
- 16:39Speaker 2: to spend it. So what's great is he told me
- 16:42Speaker 2: our ounor said, they don't. They can enforce it. They
- 16:46Speaker 2: can enact. That's the school district at all, and the
- 16:49Speaker 2: data center people have nothing to do with it. They
- 16:51Speaker 2: pay the property taxes, they say, it's this county board
- 16:54Speaker 2: that says, well, now here's how it's distributed, and guess
- 16:57Speaker 2: what it's going to be a cut in your property
- 17:00Speaker 2: taxes for everyone in the community. I love that idea.
- 17:03Speaker 2: I do too.
- 17:04Speaker 1: So you got the energy, noise, water problem resolved up
- 17:07Speaker 1: front and when they build the building, so you know,
- 17:09Speaker 1: you got that covered. And then of course the revenue
- 17:10Speaker 1: that's generated, you've got to cover it. In the sense
- 17:12Speaker 1: it's providing property tax relief for the homeowners in the area.
- 17:16Speaker 1: That's a win across the board's.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Think about this. You got lower property taxes, so your
- 17:21Speaker 2: house value will be better, and the school still gets
- 17:24Speaker 2: some more money, so the schools will be better. So
- 17:26Speaker 2: you're ability to sell your house goes up knocked down
- 17:29Speaker 2: because of the data center. That's a big change.
- 17:32Speaker 1: Now who could argue with that? I had to scream
- 17:35Speaker 1: out loud or one of our favorite sound bites here
- 17:37Speaker 1: in the Morning Show, Tom's Awastowski. We the People Convention
- 17:39Speaker 1: dot org. Follow Tom throughout the week, get his weekly podcast,
- 17:43Speaker 1: and tune into the Morning Show every Tuesday beginning at
- 17:45Speaker 1: seven thirty. Tom will do this again next week. I
- 17:48Speaker 1: hope you have a fantastic week. Between now and then,
- 17:49Speaker 1: my friend.
- 17:51Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I'll be listening to hear some
- 17:52Speaker 2: of your callers. I'm sure they will argue with that,
- 17:55Speaker 2: but it'll be fun to hear.
- 17:56Speaker 1: They may, but it's gonna have to be between the
- 17:58Speaker 1: Inside Scoop and Bright Bart News and the Daniel Davis
- 18:00Speaker 1: Deep Dive. But I do welcome interjections for my listener.