The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in
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keep it off. Here's some good news. After seven years spent in an
Ohio prison for possession of stolen car and some other things like burglary, say
again, Deck, Well, there it is. William Perry started using heroin
at the age of fourteen. Realized he needed a new start in life.
He saw a couple of friends die from drug overdoses. He determined himself to
turn his pain into something positive and he just had to figure out how to
do it. Prison is a miserable place, says mister Perry. He worked
on a college degree there in social services while he was in jail, and
while he got sober. He said, some people get locked up, others
get saved. I was one who saved. So now after you get out
of prison, he has found a wonderful way Jay to help others in preventing
deaths from accidental overdoses. There's an opioideic epidemic going on right now. All
kinds of drugs, frankly fentanyl, you know, heroin, orphine oxy.
He and his wife travel around. They live in Columbus, Ohio. They
go to a bunch of music festivals every year hand out free doses of ma
loox alone. Is that how you pronounced that? Yeah? Yeah, And
they teach people how to use it. They have and it's not like they're
just like buying a ticket and going amongst the crowd and everything. They have
a whole booth set up where they have educational pamphlets and other items. They
teach people how to use the the I don't want to call them like the
drugs, but the stuff to help drugs, to help somebody who's overdosing,
like narcanon, all of that, and also sharing you know, he's sharing
his own story and he's not just somebody who's like, stay off drugs kids.
He is was they just say no rock Bottom? Yeah, He's speaking
from experience, and he knows that anybody who's dealing with an addiction, he
knows what addiction really is and the lure and how it can stop and all
of that, and so using his life experience and his loss and his suffering
to help others not face that same fate, and also helping people who may
they're clean and sober. But they know people who are dealing with this and
battling this, and how showing them how they can better help the people in
their life too. In the last couple of years, they've gone this husband
and wife to Bonn a Roue, to Lollapalooza, Burning Man, some other
festivals. They've goten other volunteers. They've distributed sixty thousand doses of this medication
and that that's good. But holy smokes, think about how bad it is
that there are that many people that are using these drugs. What is there
about drugs that is so attractive to people? I never have been able to
figure. I don't think it is attractive to them. I think that it's
one of those things where maybe they were curious about something, but then one
high led to stronger highs and addiction. It is an illness. It is
an actual illness. And I think a lot of people who use and are
addicted they don't want that lifestyle either. It's just very difficult to get out
of it. Yeah, it's pretty ugly stuff. Man. All right,
Let's see here. Let me pause for a moment. I get a couple
of other sort of sobering things to talk about in this hour of the Good
Day program. I want to focus on something that's global right now around the
world and estimated twenty eight million people subjected to human traffic every year. This
is something that's gotten worse and worse and worse. The crime occurs in every
US state, every US territory. Traffickers take advantage of all the various transportation
mediums to commit some of these heinous acts. So let's get a little more
the story behind the story, if you will. The Federal Motor Carriers Safety
Administrations Your Roads Their Freedom campaign seeks to raise awareness of human trafficking in the
commercial motor vehicle industry. In addition, FMCSA partners with other Department of Transportation
agencies to raise awareness of human trafficking in all transportation sectors. Human traffickers use
America's transportation systems to facilitate unspeakable crimes. The campaign provides the nation's eight point
seven million commercial motor vehicle drivers with the information they need to identify and report
suspected human trafficking. Truck and bus drivers are the eyes and ears of the
nation's roads. FMCSA wants you to remain while it's your roads. It's their
freedom. If you suspect that human trafficking is occurring, trust your instincts and
text the National Human Trafficking Hotline at two three three seven three three or B
free b E fr ee. To learn the signs of human trafficking and how
to report it, go to FMCSA dot dot dot gov slash stop human Trafficking.
All right, let's get to some of the senior side of things here.
Jay, here's the story about a father and son of in Oregon this
week, fortunately to be alive after being seriously injured when a car they were
working on exploded. So this group, there were three people in the family,
j Marcy Garner, her father, Darryl Tucker, and her brother Rhyese
Tucker, who is by the way, a mechanic. We're working on this
car when they discovered a fuel leak and then it exploded and they were caught
in the flames. It ran out of the shop then and his father was
on the ground near the car, so he ran back in. He put
the flames out on himself first, out of himself out and then he went
back in. But they already you know, they had serious real burns.
My god, you haven't seen any of some of the people that you know,
sometimes you see this in movies and stuff. But the flames and what
it does to your flesh. Yeah, my god. Well, and this
is this is exactly like a movie or a drama TV show or something,
because they discovered the fuel leak. They realized there was a fuel leak just
before the explosion. So they couldn't even get out of there fast enough.
And the dad was yelling for the son, you know, just get out,
save yourself. And of course the son wasn't going to do that,
but the dad had already was already recovering from a previous surgery. Yeah.
Now, the father didn't want the son to come in, you know,
you get up, but the son went in to save the father. So
and that's they Yep, they did. All right, here's this story of
two who didn't make it out. A dive team has found the bodies of
two men who were inside a plane that was found upside down in a lake
in Alaska. Wow, this is something there. This is in a community.
I can't ever pronounce the Alaska names. I'm not good at this,
but anyway, they were found, these two found in the aircraft. This
sort of reminds me there have been a lot of things. Has there been
a discovery as to what brought down the president of Iran and that helicopter.
I think there were a lot of people who thought maybe he got shot down,
the Israelis were behind it, you know, you you think about some
of these things. I'm going from the frying pand of the fire, I
know that talking about two people died in a plane in Alaska, going then
to the helicopter crash and Iran. But there are very few of these accidents.
It's so safe, and I wonder sometimes to go back to the Alaska
situation, is it less safe in private, private aviation versus commercial aviation?
One would wonder that. I just it seems like it's the private planes that
tend to go down more often, right exactly. And here's something adding to
that whole scenario. An Air Force instructor pilot died after the ejector seat activated
his plane was still in the ground. Wow. That is one of those
like, oh, what is the movie franchise Final Destination where somebody escapes death
and then they die in this really weird way anyway, because death catches up
to them like that. Is just one of those tragic accidents of what on
earth happened? This fellow Captain John Robertson was you know, yeah, he
was out there in the teaching capacity, ground operations, et cetera, et
cetera, et cetera. And you look at this, it's like meaningless in
a sense. This guy was a highly valued airman. He was an instructor
pilot and so what happens. I'm sure there's an investigation into it, but
it doesn't bring the guy back. That's the thing. He you know,
it's this It's almost un imaginable. I'm trying to put myself into this scenario
and I don't know how to do it. Frankly. He was in charge
of air education and training at this Air Force base. There's technical flying training
there and regular flying training there, and this was just, you know,
one of those weird accidents that happens. Oh you man, the agestions.
He just went off still on the ground. Everything was shut right from the
Did you know and do you care? Fact file? Did you know that
the Mona Lisa once hung in Napoleon's bedroom? Yes, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona
Lisa has been on display in the Louver since eighteen oh four. Before that
it hung in a pretty year. I guess you would say it was less
accessible Emperor Napoleon's bedroom. After da Vinci died in fifteen nineteen, the Mona
Lisa passed into the possession of one of his patrons. There's no artists at
the time. They didn't make any money, They had no idea what the
work was worth. But when there was somebody who appreciated the work of people
like DaVinci, King Francis of France came along and he paid for He paid
Leonardo da Vinci, so he had the property in the the the castle or
wherever the king lived. And then during the French Revolution, Napoleon decided he
was going to take it to his bedroom. So that's the story behind the
story. That's fascinating. That's a really good one from the did you know
in the UK Department? I did not know what I do? Care?
I did? Well, there you go, we have something to continue to
have more. Have you ever been to the Louver in Paris? Louver now
one and two? But the lines were always so incredible. Long walked past
it but never went inside. Ye, So, by the way, did
you know Eami, do you care At the moment, the current value of
the Mona Lisa is eight hundred and sixty million dollars. I don't know how
they come up with that, but I'm sure somebody would like to. Somebody's
got eight hundred and sixty meal, but it's not available. It's the louver.
It's a French thing, you know. Let's see here. I was
interested. I remember when Bill Gates there was an auction of Leonardo da Vinci's
notebooks about I don't know, fifteen twenty years ago, and Bill Gates paid
thirty million for the notebook. How about that? And let's see here.
I guess that's enough of that stuff. Let's go on. I mean,
people collect things. When you have a lot of money, you can collect
like really cool stuff like that. But at the same time, it's just
one of those things, like with the Mona Lisa. It would be such
a shame of some billionaire bought it just to keep for to keep it away
from it own private property. Yeah. As a matter of fact, Pablo
Picasso, I'm looking at the history of the Mona Lisa was once arrested because
he stole it, and the people who were responsible for security at the I
Louvra. Let's see, this was in nineteen eleven, they noticed that the
Mona Lisa was absent from its spot and they found after they looked around the
museum the painting had been taken. Was obviously the police are all over this.
They were, you know, you got to imagine what they were riding
around on horses around the louver. And eventually they found that a young artist
named Pablo Picasso who had a history of stealing art. How many people knew
that about Picasso? I did not know that he was a thief, and
so that was the story of that before becoming a well known sculptor. Yes,
right, exactly. All right, so let's talk about some interesting developments
this week. I it was appalled, and I'm guessing that later on some
the next hour or two, we'll have Erri Geller from Israel to talk about
the arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister net Yahoo and for the leaders of Hamas.
The International Criminal Court has issued these warrants for these people. No,
well, there's two Israelis and three Hamas leaders that if they can get to
them, they're going to arrest them. And you know, you look at
the overview of the prosecutor detailing all the offenses and crimes against humanity and criminal
responsibility and all the other things that they use. When I look at the
October seventh attack and I think about the extermination of Israelis, the murder of
Israelis, the hostages that were taken, the torture of Israelis, the rape
of Israelis, then you know, does it justify what's happened. I don't
believe the numbers. The news media is all too eager to go along with
the numbers that hamas. It's like that's the credible number. Neither situation is
okay. That's the thing, Like I've been pretty vocal about it, that
both things can be true at once. Neither situation is okay. Both situations
are happening, and people are dying, and children are dying or having to
raise their own siblings or so you're still missing. We still know that the
hostages there are hostages. Yeah, why Swim Music festival and are still missing.
They're still being held hostage. So how do you fix this situation?
That's one of the questions that I have to which there is probably no answer
at the moment. The Hamas the first the you know the Okay, so
who's guilty here? Hamas because they orchestrated the attack October seventh, or the
Israeli government because they knew the attack was going to come? Would they what
would they have done to stop it before it happened? It would have involved
bloodshed, no matter what. So the aggressor here at the beginning is clearly
Hamas. So from there you can go down any street that you want to.
Certainly, we have had many people around the world who have been certainly
well known and charged with these kind of crimes and others that weren't well known
from obscure countries, that sort of thing. What I find is a secondary
side to this that is not amusing. It's annoying. Maybe that's not even
strong enough word. So you indict, you indict net and yaho, you
indict the Hamas leaders. Okay, where have you been with Putin? Why
isn't Putin? I was just, yeah, what's the story here? This
is kind of selective justice in a manner of speaking, and it makes him
a last He has a warrant for his arrest, not by you, enter
anything, but by our International Criminal Corps. But by Russia. Yeah,
okay, so then why isn't there an arrest warrant out for putin times against
humanity? That's what you know, that's the that's the umbrella charge for the
systemic attack against the Israelis and then back again. It's just I'm looking at
the info of the arrest warrants that were leaked to the press and the Republicans.
Interestingly enough, and Joe Biden this week has lashed out as the warrants
against the Israeli officials were served. Interesting time, an interesting way to get
the parties together to have something like this take place. But it really is
it's very awkward at best, and that's not even a strong enough word for
it. Pretty disgusting. Frankly, from my perspective. The whole damn thing
is, as you pointed out, the history of our world is one of
conflict, battle, murders, killing things. It's just that seems to be
what the human needs. Well, and it's such a loophole, not a
loophole, but it's such like a roundabout situation because it's like the International Criminal
Court and everything. It's one of those things of just stop invading people,
don't invade other space. But at the same time, war Inc. Is
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This is one that I like you to think about for a minute. Remember,
and I go through this all the time. That's kind of why I
brought it up. When you have a very frustrating feeling when a word is
on the tip of your tongue and you know what it means, but you
just can't pull out all of the letters to make a word out of it,
right, I find it frustrating in a minute or speaking. But there's
a new thing called the reverse dictionary. Have you heard about this? No.
You simply enter the phrase or the definition or the description that you're thinking
of, and the search engine will find the word that best fits it.
So maybe you try this out right, you come up with the words this
is so new artificial Well, I don't know bout yeah, I guess it
is needed. But it also is bad for your brain when you can't think
this stuff through, when you rely on something that isn't your brain. You
know, I do this all the time. And Bob k who's at the
production control center here of the program, would tell you over the years he's
known me since the sixties, that I would come up with something or I'd
be half they, I'd be halfway there. And whether Bob. I've worked
with Bob on four or five radio stations and he's worked with me, so
he's listened for years and years and years, and there is that when you're
on the air like this, you're extremely vulnerable. We're talking about how dem
Moore was vulnerable in this movie that she was in. Well, we're vulnerable
every single day. We're here laying it out for you. People who do
this for a living, People are on the radio who do the sort of
exponential stuff like we do. This is not rehearsed. This is a conversation
between adults about the issues of the day, the things that matter people and
that sort of thing. And so when you have a conversation with somebody and
you come to a point where oh damn, I can't remember that word,
and I do that on the air, not all the time, and I
do. I'm not afraid, not a shame to the fact that I don't
remember. It's something that everybody goes through. Yeah, I have it with
my fibro flares. When I am in a really bad flare with my fibromyalge,
I get fibrofog and I will say the COVID fog was like it wasn't
another level. But with fibro fog, it's like, I can tell I
just can't come up with this word I'm grasping for. But I can you
know, I'm reaching and I can see like the definition of it or maybe
something else, or I can at least pull out a word, like maybe
I'm trying to say the microwave and it said I say a bathtub. At
least I pulled something out. But with the COVID fog, it was like
being in a room and there was nothing around. There were no walls,
no ceiling, and you were just grabbing for air. You were there.
Well, the thing is that you have this this to a point productivity guild.
I want to make sure I'm going all the time, and you get
out of the groove. That's what it is. You just lose it for
a minute or two and I must be getting old. No, it's part
of the human condition, old so much. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
So. Anyway, there's that item again. It's called the reverse dictionary.
If you want to check it out, the Reverse Dictionary. Do you know
what borg drinking is and why it's dangerous. I'm sorry, did you say
morg drinking Borg? B o R drinking Borg? Now drinking borg drinking.
It's something that's being done at parties. Seems to be something that's fairly new.
It's a the borg itself. You don't know what the sentence means.
You know what the word means. This is something that's big at the end.
This is the reason I'm talking about how it is because the college year
is over, students are celebrating. This is something that is pretty much a
Generation Z thing. It's blackout rage gallon, that's what it stands for.
Blackout rage gallon. Is it because you're you're blackout drunken drinking or you're drinking
to get blackout drunk? Well, there's a special concoction that's prepared and a
gallon sized plastic jug that has vodka, O distilled alcohols, water, a
flavor enhancer, electrolyte, powder and mix it all together. You get drunk
fast and you you know, probably going to pass out. That sort of
thing. So there are contests. I don't know how stupid are people drinking.
One of these leads to life threatening alcohol poisoning, and yet it's become
a big thing on college campuses. Well, not only that, but if
you don't trust the people you're around, or even if you do falsely trust
them, if you like pass out, you don't know what they're going to
do going to no, not at all. So this is being studied by
the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University trying to figure out what the motivation is
for people to get large batch bottles of drink. It's sort of they what
theyre I shouldn't laugh at this, but they are comparing it to college jungle
juice. That's basically it's something that is us as a micro generational thing here
between millennials and gen Z as to who can drink the most right, and
so they have parties and they bring in these five gallon drink dispensers. Millennials
are doing this, Millennia early forties. Now millennials are not doing this.
This is gen Z all the way. That's what this lady is, Doctor
Anna Lemke has found. She's professor of psychiatry at Stanford who's doing the investigation,
and that's what she's come up with. So anyway, it's intended to
get you extremely drunk. And so what's the motivation for that. That's what
they're trying to figure out, and it has turned out to be a contest
in some circumstances between professors and students. That's the That's kind of where the
generational thing comes in here, right, generator gen z and millennials many,
Well, if you're in your forties, you're a millennial, right your age
man like current like as of today, millennials are between twenty eight. Those
are the young millennials, and then you have your geriatric millennials that are up
to forty three. Jeriat say that generational generational geriatric millennials, geriatric millennials.
Yeah, so millennials are between the ages of twenty eight and forty three.
Wow. Well, here's a group of people, the college graduates, and
then there's a group in here that are twenty four and twenty five that I'm
seeing. That's Jensey. Still is a lady named Kelly who's twenty one,
explaining, she said, quote, I graduated college in twenty twenty. Safe
to say I haven't been part of this college party scene in five years,
but I was intrigued by this when I heard about it from some younger friends.
What are you nuts. Wait do you say she was twenty one?
As she learned about from younger friends. Yeah, college friends. And there's
a story at the University of Massachusetts and Amherst where students were carrying borgs into
a drink fest and every single one of them was carried out by an ambulance.
The high school senior class pool party. They made their own borgs.
So where are the parents. Here's an eighteen year old senior at a private
high school who got so drunk that she was in the hospital for a week.
What do you lot? Are your minds good? Heavens? So they
it's crazy. A lot of these parents probably, and the parents can be
held responsible if something that happens. A lot of these parents probably don't know
because they're out of town or they just went out to see like a movie
or something. And then you also have those people who the parents know,
and the parents are actually there just keeping to themselves in a different room,
kind of like a you know, what if I just pretend I don't know
what's going on, Oh, you know, no harm, no foul,
or some people actually know some parents supply what kind of parenting is that?
Unga bunga All right? In a moment, I don't want to be their
child's friend. Yeah no, no, you're the parent, you're not the
friend. Okay, So in a moment, what's happened to the ship in
Baltimore Harbor? Update on that. First of all, though, a trip
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let's call it what it is. I'll remember that the next time we
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eighty four. Do yourself a favor right now as you're listening to this,
Hey, take a stab at it. You're not going to lose anything.
You have nothing to lose, everything to gain. It's also World Meditation Week.
What does that involve? What do you know about meditation? Jay?
Are you a meditator? I don't think about that. I am, yes,
and I like all of the different kinds of meditation, where whether it's
guided meditation or if just doing it myself where my brain just shuts off and
I just am, or if I'm meditating on certain thoughts looking for a direction
or an answer to something I'm struggling with. I love all kinds of meditations,
especially like a guided meditation, not a guided meditator, but a sound
journey, a sound bath meditation. Oh, it's my favorite. It's one
of the things that is most delightful about life and the opportunities to expand your
mind and expand your experiences. We all have different ways. You probably meditate
and you don't even know it. That's what happens a lot. I get
on my tractor, especially from now on through the summer in the fall,
when I can go out and spend hours mowing hay or I can be on
a tractor, either seating a field. I love the plant corn, just
looking at the straight rose, funny little things like that. But yet it's
an accomplishment and that makes you feel the best. I think it's an optimal
way to feel and you can get there feeling good. You get there through
different types of meditation. Some people formalize it too much. You did a
great job in explaining it, Jay, There's all different kinds of meditation.
It's getting your mind off of what the daily hum is oftentimes when you need
it most, like when you go to bed and your mind is, oh,
and I didn't get done today. Or tomorrow, but not done list
Tomorrow's to do list right right, So find a way. Maybe that's the
best example or best to help I can be when it comes to meditation,
find a way look around and see what you can focus on your children,
perhaps the beauty of those children as they've grown up, the beauty of what's
growing now. I know that's a constant thought with me, and I mentioned
it frequently, but it is. It's a great way for you to just
kind of zone out what you need to do. And in tandem with that,
it's a mental health month. May is mental health month kind of a
great time for each of us to make sure we are checking in with ourselves.
That's why I couple it with the discussion of meditation, because I think
meditation and mental health go hand in hand, frankly, and if you have
good relations with friends and people that you work with and folks in your family,
that's great neighbors. Community and I think that word is misused, frankly.
Community you know, the Black community or the Jewish community. It's not
I mean, there are those are groups of people, and I think the
definition of community is people just getting together with a common interest. And so
how about we have with communities. Yeah, focused on where you live,
like the community in which we live, or the community and which go to
school down the street. Before you know that, the pavement always stayed between
beneath my feet, before I know, walking after midnight. All right,
I was promising to talk about the Baltimore Bridge ship, the cargo ship that
struck the Franciscott Key Bridge. It spent two months j two months ago.
This thing this week was a move from the crash site, clearing up the
wave for the ships that come in and out of Baltimore Harbor, the Port
of Baltimore to come back in. Imagine how much money all these people that
had to be laid off. I think they were like nineteen hundred long shortmen
that didn't have work for the past two months. I don't know how they
were aware. Yeah, what about the people who are on that ship?
Still there was six or seven that remember I think we talked about this earlier,
the fact that they couldn't get off because they didn't have papers. Yeah,
they wouldn't lint them off because they were just supposed to be passing through,
not stopping or anything, right exactly, they had no reason to get
off the ship in and out. That's these ships kind of like the ships
are the same airplanes. They want to get them in, unload them,
load them up, and get them out. They are not making money if
they're sitting at the port. They got to be moving the same as That's
why they have turnarounds for airplanes about an hour hour and five hour and ten
minutes, because they get the plane in and get the people off, put
the stuff on that you need for the next trip, clean the ship up
a little bit the airplane and let's go. And that's the same with these
ships. They're so expensive, costs so much to maintain and to operate that
they gotta keep them going. So the operational width of the channel is going
to be four hundred feet wide after they get the rest of the records that's
below the surface of the water out. The original width of the channel is
seven hundred and some odd feet. I think the mudline has because of the
way the ship hit the side of the bridge. You know, they've had
no cruise ships in there, and had a cruise ship in and out of
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on the Catholic Church's position regarding surrogacy. We have to explain what surrogacy is.
I don't know that we do right. It's when someone else carries a
baby for somebody else. You have the surrogate because some people they want a
baby and they can't have one on their own, and some simply they can
use like they're the man and the woman. They can use their parts of
them and then just somebody else carries it. Sometimes the surrogate is also an
egg donor. Yeah, you do all all different reasons for this, but
the Catholic Church says that no, they cannot authorize this. They condemn this,
even though the Pope says, yeah, we acknowledge it could be a
woman's only hope. But no. People get upset with me because I am
as strident as I am when it comes to matters of relief. Religion,
in my mind, is something that was created by man to help man,
and this doesn't help. How is this helpful? A bunch of men sitting
around discussing things that are really not even in their wheelhouse because they aren't women.
They don't understand how this stuff works. And you can say, well,
it's the church law, it's in the Bible or whatever it is.
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really anger people. My read on this, and this comes from a lot
of study of religion. When I was in college, I majored. I
majored in political science, but minored in speech and also psychology, psychiatry,
whatever, and so learning what motivates people. Religion is a great tool if
it's used properly and presented properly. But the real story of the Catholic Church
is they came along, they took a being and created a mistee around this
being. And so as a result of that, and when the earliest teachings
came out, it became apparent that if you followed the teachings of the Church,
at the end of your life, you could be resolved. So let's
just say you're in the Catholic Church and you've done a lot of bad things.
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be exonerated, you can be the priest comes in and gives your blessings and
you get to heaven. Anyway, that's a moral human being, right anyway.
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body. If it's deep fixed, they look real. And even though it
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way, right, and obviously she was devastated by this, humiliated and she
said, I felt all alone. All I could think about is that I'd
be better off dead. Can you imagine having this done to you. This
is a story of a woman in Berkeley, California. So she called the
police with the name of the person she suspected had created the video, somebody
that she knew before she graduated from University of California. But she learned authorities
didn't really know what to do about it. They didn't have the tools.
So instead of justice, this lady said, they told me there was nothing
they could do. So she decided to tackle the technology of these deep fake
this deep fake porn. Basically the new AI technology is creating this nightmare.
Is another damnable example. And this with the deep fix, it's not even
that new where it's not even artificial intelligence doing. It's people that have these
computer skills where it's an actual video or a photo of a person and then
the face and body sojitally altered that they appear as somebody else. There have
been a lot of these with celebrities, not even just the point stuff.
But we already know that revenge porn. There are issues, not Issua,
well, there are issues, but There are things when it comes to revenge
porn, where they know what to do legally, but when it comes to
a deep fake where it's not the actual person themselves, it just becomes this
Like you would think that it would follow the same guidelines because it sure does
look like this person. People could believe it's this person, but they're not
there yet. Well, I'm just it's distressing to see this happen. This
woman gets so sick, so scared, so nervous. You lost twelve pounds
and ten days after she learned what was happening, she said this was She
thought it was a guy who had come on to her as she rebuffed his
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their their content, it's their property. And because it doesn't actually use her,
it's a generated version of her. It's like no if it people can
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and all of this, where they own their own likeness. It shouldn't have
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