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One of the big stories last week
was the CES show in Las Vegas.

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I guess they used to call it
a consumer electronics show. You're not

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supposed to use that anymore. It
is like calling the super Bowl the super

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Bowl. Were supposed to pay for
that. One of the things that you

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heard on this program last week,
and we hear frequently because Holland Cook is

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on the program with some very helpful, very servicing, useful ideas, because

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he's a useful idea guy. He's
a radio guy. I know you could

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never tell that by listening to his
voice or his demeanor, but just you

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know, mask your concern, ladies
and gentlemen. If he does this sounding

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like a radio guy, like you
know, all of us I suppose sound

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like radio people to appoint. People
when they meet me say oh, he's

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all like a radio guy. I
don't think I do it all. I

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do think Holland does. That's to
his credit. He's been to the radio

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business pretty much since he could walk. He has a great deal of expertise

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in all formats. But he makes
it his business to serve his clients by

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going to the CES every year.
And so I asked him to come on

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and talk about what was most important. And I don't want to color your

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ideas. That is, I don't
want to give you a lead. I

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want you to tell me what the
lead story is, because you're very good

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at that to begin with. So, ladies, let's have Holland share some

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thoughts from his experiences last week at
CES in Las Vegas. I got to

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big stories for you. But I
figured out yeah, and I figured out

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what to call this. I shouldn't
say I did because somebody said this on

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stage. But CES is the new
and this will be a dated reference.

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CEES is the new World's Fair.
Really remember the words, remember the World's

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Fair. We don't get together and
Flushing Meadows or New Orleans or wherever it

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was, and we see what was
the future. And that's what you see

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at CEES. And I'll give you
the two big stories. They are AI

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and EV Artificial intelligence. A lot
of people are playing around with chat GPT,

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that is AI on training wheels.
It's already in our lives. Every

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time you book a table at a
restaurant or you book a flight, you're

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using artificial intelligence. It's just transfer. So how does that factor into let's

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say, making a reservation on an
airplane. It's the way the software is

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built. But the consumer is now
getting products that have AI in them.

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There was a Korean manufacturer with a
stop snoring pillow that detects when you're making

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too much noise and it will puff
air to inflate certain parts of the pillow

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to change your position. There is
a vacuum cleaner that can sense what type

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of surface it's cleaning and apply suction
based on that surface. So this is

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going to pop up in everyday life. But there is already a concern about

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what we call deep fakes, where
you hear someone's voice sampled, or you

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see someone on the internet but it's
not really them. Their appearance has been

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sampled and they appear to be saying
something that they never actually said. So

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there are concerns about this. At
the moment. The Trump campaign has sampled

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the voice of Paul Harvey and his
famous monologue about God gave us the farmer

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and out in Iowa, they're showing
God gave us Trump in the voice of

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Paul Harvey, who's probably spinning in
his grave. So some research that the

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Consumer Technology Association has done has surfaced
concerns about privacy, disinformation, safety,

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and job loss because a lot of
things are being automated via AI. And

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seventy four percent of those surveyed think
the federal government should regulate artificial intelligence,

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which I think is conspicuous because the
general societal bent these days is to get

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the federal government to regulate less.
But this is that much of a concern,

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and as I say, what we've
seen so far as a tip of

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the iceberg. So that's the thumbnail
sketch on AI. In terms of EV

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electric vehicles are no longer just cars. We saw a new Mercury thirty outboard

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motor. There, there were e
bikes and e boats and construction equipment.

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And the issues that we're focused on
are the obvious ones battery range, how

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far can my cargo on a charge? And faster charging. And in the

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research that the Consumer Technology Association has
done, there's a values message there.

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A lot of people embrace the EV
car because they just don't want to use

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gasoline that much for obvious reasons.
We've had our chain yanked by gas prices

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going up and down, and there
is genuine concern about the environment. So

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that's what's driving that one minor story
that caught my eye. Every year at

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this convention is fascinating how innovation surfaces. Everything this year that is shining and

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new is meant to obsolete everything that
we were ooing and eyeing over last year.

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You know, how can we make
something even better than last year?

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And yet a trend we've seen this
year is refurbished smartphones that the major manufacturers,

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due to cost reasons, are offering
phones that are all cleared up and

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wiped off and have new software on
them. Apple and Samsung are into this

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business now because every time they roll
out a new iPhone, it's so expensive

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that that big line at the store
is not quite as long as the last

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version. And they are recycling phones, which has an environmental wrinkle to it.

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So who knew that in a show
where everything has to be new,

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that the guys who are making the
new stuff are figuring how to recycle the

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old. You know, you've said
some things in there. This is not

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about a debate. I'm thankful that
you have brought this, all of these

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items, these too, especially to
our attention. The thing that kind of

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galls me actually, and wonder who's
following around to ask the questions that there

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are good questions that you have answered, and then there are questions that haven't

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been answered by any of these people. And they're not going to probably spend

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much time, if any, at
the CEES show because it's contrary to their

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mission. But in the consumer iye, there are questions about gasoline, fossil

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fuels, what it takes to power
these battery operated cars, trucks, buses,

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whatever it is. And at the
end of the day, there aren't

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answers. Aren't you ever Do you
ever feel, because you're a very curious

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guy, that there are to be
some answers to what do we do with

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these batteries in seven years? And
what do we do? Yeah, there's

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in just a few minutes, I
will be unable to give you comfort on

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that. But there were square miles
of stuff about that at CEES. This

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show is now such a big expo
that even the sprawling Las Vegas Convention Center

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can't contain it. It's all up
and down the strip at various hotels.

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I got blisters on my feet.
But there is a lot about sustainability going

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on there, and I thought of
you because in terms of eating ourselves down

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the road, there was a company
showing what is a big inflatable, cube

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shaped smart farm that they can unpack
and blow up and take to the most

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arid desert and grow crops inside.
And there is an awful lot about recycling

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stuff. You know. One of
the knocks on the EV from those who

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are unschooled on it is what do
we do with these batteries? And what

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about China holding us hostage with lithium. Next time you're at the beach,

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look down, it's called silica.
They're going to be making batteries out of

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saying that. Yeah, that's something
that is a trend. You're right,

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Okay. I would like to have
that farm thing info wise, because you,

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as well as all the people listening
hopefully know about the American Family Farmer.

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I know it's one of your favorite
shows. So we'll get that info

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and put that person on the air. Yep, thank you Holland Cook here

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to give us the update on c
Yes, thanks Holland, Yep, you

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