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Speaker 2: Hey, whatever the heck's on your mind, we can talk
about anything, free for all. Whatever whatever you're thinking about
you would like to discuss, please do give us a call. Tracy,
I really appreciate you staying on hold. You had been
on hole for a while and you had some thoughts
about transit. What's on your brain today? And thank you
for calling.
Speaker 3: Well. I was in business for thirty years in Mecklenburg
County and once they started all their taxes that are
not in the other counties and then South Carolina, they've
lost business. When they add another penny, they're going to
double their loss because people go to link Union, Gaston,
York County, all the counties around Kataba if they are
close enough to buy their groceries and things. That makes
a big difference when you take two CIDs times one
hundred or two hundred dollars for groceries. It is nobody's
ever thought of it. And the transportation system. When I
had a business which I so, I had an employee
putation the bus people to move a bus one block
to pick up more passengers. He had two hundred signatures
from fellow workers from the area and some of the
business owners, and they wouldn't even give even an answer.
That's what's wrong with public transfer based They don't want
to accommodate nobody. It's just be like Seattle and Portland.
Speaker 2: There is a lot of that. It's a smart growth
mentality that isn't really smart.
Speaker 3: So yeah, okay, well, thank you forgiving me much answer
to speak my mind.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I appreciate your calling and thank you for that. Hey,
you know an entrepreneur who you know made it through life.
It's amazing to me. I remember when Charlotte was first
going to build the very first line and we held
the forums down there and at the time it was
Mayor McCory, and you know that the facts just weren't
there to really support it. People wanted it more than
they needed it, and and a lot of transit is
more want based than need based. And that's what we're
sitting down another penny on the on the sales sacks
and stuff like that. But again, your calls come first.
You want to get and it's seven and four five
seven zero and I'm sorry, seven of four, five, seven
eleven ten, Mike, welcome to the show. I think you're
going to go down the till Us road a little bit.
What's going on?
Speaker 4: Hey, Chad, how are you, sir?
Speaker 2: I'm fantastic.
Speaker 4: Well two points real quick before I get to time,
tell us one what a really nice job you have
done this week. I have listen going and off, and
I know they've got you stuck at five am doing
a really good job talking about all things Raleigh. But
I'm not sure gonna get five am that Mas song
because you can do a nice job here. Well, yeah,
calls moving and it's it's high.
Speaker 2: So Mike, let me just correct one thing. That's my
good friend Nick Craig that does five to six right,
you're right here. He's a fine young man. I actually
helped bring him to North Carolina for my station A
few years back. Nick's a good guy, but I'm Chad.
I'm doing the peat show this week. But thank you.
I think you're giving us both.
Speaker 4: And when you still and for the various side, I
enjoyed here a good job this week with two those
are tough. Thank you, school Phil. The second thing is
I've got to shout out to Vince Coke because I
was hearing him earlier and he mentioned somebody who passed
away this week that I was not familiar with, the
boy or boy who light up my morning? Do you
know Mama mosey Birth again was he got at ninety
two and he played the music over hers and I've
been it was great. I mean it was just great.
Mama mosey Berg, great gospel singer that in Mississippi. And
if you're needing to lift up this afternoon, just google
her or put on YouTube and she will get your
movie and no question about it.
Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, would time tell us you were talking about at
the top of the hour, you know his departure and uh,
you know now apparently feeling the freedom to dispute more
honestly and and of course not worring for reelection. The
handwriting on on on that on the wall, though in
my mind in many ways was revealed to me at
news and Bruise I went, were you there?
Speaker 5: I think he wasn't use a booze? No, sir, all right, Well,
somehow his name came up during one of the panel discussions,
and in the w BT crowd, which of course is
a very conservative crowd, and he's really a very very
conservative guy, there was this crescendo of booze that arose
in the crowd when his name was mentioned, and there
was this discussion back and forth and that basically he
was looked upon as a necessary evil if you're going
to hold that seat. And I was just wanting to
ask you, what, what do you think the chances are
that the Republicans are going to be of a hole
on the seat next next year.
Speaker 2: Well, let's talk Tillis first, because you brought Tillis's name
up so mentioned the booze. So remember Tillis was censured
by the North Carolina Republican Party for some of his
actions that were against the platform and some of the
things said. This was years ago, This isn't recent, this
is years ago. And Tillis was able to never have
a serious primary in North Carolina when you know his
first time when he d v D k Hagen in
the second time, so Greg, Greg what was that kid?
Greg Bannon was the first opponent that he just never
had one. So once he gets to the general election,
he does quite well because he's kind of a center
right guy more than a flaming conservative. So what do
I think the chances That's a great question. I had
a long discussion early this morning with someone in Raleigh
that whose opinions I trust, and we were talking about
so and this is and you can look this up.
Anything I'm going to mention is a lot of what
you can look up there are from the time till
his first ran to now there are seven hundred thousand
more Republicans registered in North Carolina. That's a monumental shift
that makes it more red than not. Remember the last
time someone was elected as a Democrat in that seat
was kay Hagen and that was in twenty ten. So
it's been well, yeah, I think that's right, twenty ten.
Tom Tillis twelve years is just gonna subtract twelve twenty
six and we're back to fourteen. So it had been
twenty eight, two thousand and eight, so it's an uphill
climb for the Democrats. I think Roy Cooper is a
well known name. He is someone who has one statewide races,
like Josh Dine and like Jeff Jackson have. But I
do think it depends on the candidate the political right picks.
They're gonna it's gonna be one of the most expensive
races in the in the country, and it all depends
on how they can check.
Speaker 3: Out next year.
Speaker 2: I think it it and and Roy Cooper would be
a strong candidate. He typically doesn't like close races, so
I don't know that he'll be the nominee or want
to be the nominee, but it would be his for
the taking. But I think the Republicans are going to
have to get there. They're gonna have to get their
act together, whether it's Harrygan or Lara Trump something of
that nature. But if it is Lara Trump that I
think that that would be even though it's kind of
a Hillary Clinton running in New York race, meaning that
she's been in Florida for a while, but she also
has roots in North Carolina. So I don't know the answer,
but I would say that that it's better. It's a tough,
tougher shot for Democrats and Republicans at this point in time.
How's that fare?
Speaker 3: Not well?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can see that maybe from demographics, although I'm
of the opinion that really is is a much more
purple state that I think most people give it credit for.
You know, looking at the Council of State, looking at
last year.
Speaker 2: And what do you what do you think it was
significant about last year? I mean, I'll tell you what
I think it was. But why do you think that
What you're referring to for our listeners is the Council
of State is split five to five. Democrats actually picked
up one of those Council of the State seats, but
you know, Elaine Marshall's there and Roy Cooper and Jeff Jackson,
you know, heading off the Democrat team. But what do
you think was significant about last year for Democrats? If
you're you know, I'll focus.
Speaker 4: On the Stein and Jackson races, and I think they
give a lesson. Frankly for national Democrats. It's just me talking,
but I think there's there's something to this, and that
is looking at the races they ran. I think it's
candidates they treated voters like adults, meaning that there wasn't
so much demonization of the other folks. And there was
that because you always get that, but it was basically, well,
I think Jeff Jackson had a lot of one of
his commercials, I'm running for Attorney General, basically the normal
person I put forward. You know, they were put the issues.
Say why they thought about them the way they did.
Now the Deever's race, of course, Stein was blessed by
Mark Robinson being Mark Robinson, but here.
Speaker 2: Blessed Mike Mike. He wasn't blessed by the That was
good opponent research. I'm not gonna let you say that
it was just blessed. He was good research. Robinson was
a tremendously flawed candidate. Yeah, they played that perfectly. They
had that information for a while. They played it perfectly.
There was no recovery that was going to happen, and
that's what led to a lot of the Democrats getting
another seat on the council state in my opinion.
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Speaker 2: And thank you for the callers that we're hanging out
with us there in the break and we definitely want
to get to you right now, so welcome to the show.
I guess we have James first. James what's up man?
How are you hello? James? Okay? Is Chris there?
Speaker 3: Brud Jent?
Speaker 2: Okay? So who about to do get James? Or I
have Chris?
Speaker 6: Oh this is Chris, sir.
Speaker 2: Okay, Chris. I guess we'll get James back in the minute. Well,
what's on your brain today? How the heck are you?
Speaker 6: I'm doing well man.
Speaker 2: Happy Friday to you, Thank you, sir, you too.
Speaker 6: I wanted to give an attention alert five alarm alert
to all Cabertra's county citizens that Monday, the twenty first,
at their government center in downtown Concord at the Commissioner's
regular meeting, there's going to be a public forum on
the EDC, the Economic Development Committee, who has the authority
to give away up to eighty five percent of our
property tax dollars to businesses that aren't part of the county,
but they want to lure them in. And they're talking
about going down to eighty percent and only giving away
eighty percent of the property taxes to lure in businesses,
which I am definitely against corporate welfare and am trying
to find others that are. They've been doing this for
a decade plus in Cabert's County and have given away
hundreds of millions of dollars in proper tax and with
hundreds of millions of dollars of promised investment in the community,
and our taxes continue to go up. So the system
is not working and I would like to stop giving
away our property tax dollars to those who aren't even
part of this county.
Speaker 2: Well, let me you know, first, I want to get
into Christa so I can empathize with this. Having been
a county commissioner in a different county and the Economic
Development Corporation, and what it typically did was it would
invite or a company was interested. It would give them
like ten years a tax fore or give them a rebate,
but you can't call it a rebate because that's illegal,
so they would call you know, it would be like
an abatement, but you're not. But we found that they
would bring in companies that were competing with companies that
were in our county that we're paying full taxes. So
you're giving an economic advantage to one and not treating
everyone equally. So I agree with.
Speaker 6: You, and not even that, but you're not treating those
that have been here for decades paying one hundred percent right,
and then you're going to butt into compete with them
and give them a break. It's just a Capitalism is
supposed to be the economic development, not some twisted up
socialism where they give out special breaks to those who
they want to bring in and there's no set parameters.
They can make it up as they go. Whose cousin,
who's brother in law who. It's just disgusting and it's
not gonna it's not gonna last. We're following suit of
every other liberal bastion stadium. We see where this is headed,
and it's like watching a slow train coming to run
us over and we're screaming, hey, here it comes, here
it comes. And we the people keep sending fiscally conservative
representatives into the board and they either leave or they
get replaced, or they get in there and they get
their heads twisted up and they turn on the people
that send them in there and they start making these
backroom deals.
Speaker 2: Well, Chris, it's the lure. It's kind of the as
what did Doug Glenn Fry say in Spugglers Loves. It's
the lure of easy money. It's got a very strong appeal.
So when you look at this. It's fascinting because on
the one hand, you're like, hey, I'm giving a tax
relief to this company, but not all companies. And the
greatest economic development is when you have lower taxes, great infrastructure,
low crime, great schools, because everyone wants to live there,
everyone wants to build their business there. But instead you
get lazy and you start thinking, I don't worry about that,
I'll just worry about what I can give away. So
I agree with a lot of what you're saying. It's
a shell game. It's been played for a long time,
and I appreciate your calling and giving a shout out
there to what's going on. So that meeting's Monday at
five o'clock. What time is the meeting?
Speaker 6: My did at twenty first six pm. There will be
public comments and then the separate time for folks to
speak specifically on the EDC.
Speaker 2: Well, Chris, I appreciate the calling, the heads up. Okay,
thank you, sir.
Speaker 7: That's a great weekend.
Speaker 2: Now I'm going to check you in to see if
James is still there is Joe, So there you are, James,
How the heck are you?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 8: Good? You guys were talking about our beloved transit system
we have, yes, sir, and the fact that it is completely,
really impossible to function without subsidies from the city.
Speaker 2: In the county, yes, sir.
Speaker 8: Well, here's a big question. They want to put millions
and millions and millions of dollars into another extension of
light rail which basically goes from point A to point
B and ninety nine percent of the time it moves air.
Speaker 2: That's true. Okay, keep going. I'm trying to find out
where you're going with this. But you're right.
Speaker 8: They want everybody in the county to pay for it.
Speaker 2: And people that visit the county, yes.
Speaker 8: The people that don't, the people that will never ever,
ever ever use it, they want us to pay for it.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to find out your state in facts, man,
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Well, the thing here is is why why do
quote elected officials other than the fact, of course that
we only have we basically have one party.
Speaker 2: Sit James, James, I want to excuse James, just just
hold on with me because we'd have to take a
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you're making some good points and I want to get
back to you. Don't want to cut off any callers.
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Speaker 2: James was talking to us in the break and he
was making you know, I couldn't believe he could keep
a straight face with it. It was kind of like
an old Tim Conways skit where the person's absolutely deadpan,
giving you fact by fact by fact. So you know,
people in Charlotte are paying for a transit system, they're
largely not using people from out of place. You're going
to visit it, not as many people are riding it,
and they're expanding it. James keep going, man, how are you.
Speaker 8: Part of the problem we have here is we have
have a one party system. The County Commission and the
City Council are the same size they were thirty years ago.
That's three sentence censuses. They haven't increased, they don't intend to.
The powers that be here are not going to give
up power, so consequently they feel that they can tax
of the Jesus out of the locals and spend it
on whatever they damn well please.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean Charlotte, Charlotte isn't known for being overly
fiscally conservative, but you know, whereas Mecklenburg has more of
a conservative vent than most of them do. So having
said all that, you're right, The question is when you
look at transit figures and you look at transit realities
and you look at transit costs, there's no desire to
change it. It's almost like it's this windmill they want
to build. They just build it and people will come,
and they never come. It's kind of like convention centers.
You never I mean you're subsidizing a hotel in downtown Charlotte,
You're never going to get the kind of people that
convention center will always need to be subsidized, unless you're
in Orlando or Las Vegas. Convention centers are subsidies. They're
like incentives, like EDC's we're talking about in Combaris. But
I tell me where you think I'm wrong on that?
Speaker 8: Oh, I don't think you're particularly wrong on anything. I
think what we have here is a group of leftists
that have the pie in the sky idea about build
it and they will come. And the problem is they've
been building it and the people haven't gotten out of
their cars and don't intend to.
Speaker 2: You're right, and James, I appreciate the call and appreciate
you listening, and I appreciate you sharing your perspective today.
All right, thank you, you have a great day. Bob,
welcome to the show. Let's see if we click it
over to Bob there. What's going on? Bob?
Speaker 7: Well, first of all, I want to say thank you
for a great week and for making me think. It hurts,
but I'll continue to to try to do it.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 7: Second thing is, and it's just a comment experience. It
never works when the government keeps trying to give these incentives.
I saw it in New York. It just doesn't work
Long Island Railroad. It just doesn't work. People don't And
the proof of the pudding is in New York City. Now,
if you take your car into Manhattan, you have to
pay a premium. Why aren't people then using the subway?
Why aren't they using the trains? They just don't. So again,
we want to thank you again for a great week.
I'm going to shut up so I can listen to you.
And think more and hurt.
Speaker 2: Goodbye, Bob, thank you for the call. And it is true. People,
there's a novelty to those. If you go to London,
you know, you get in the twos, if you go
to DC, if you're visiting or going to a concert.
They're used in those Scotts, but in generally day to
day life people don't like to use them too much. So,
you know, it's just it's just strange to me that
this way of looking at things. It's very Wizard of Oz. No,
it's worse than that. It's it's kind of this delusion,
delusion of policy because you get people that come in
and they preach this smart growth stuff. There was a
really good example of smart growth stuff at Carolina Beach
down in New New Hanover County. A few years back.
They decided, we're gonna go to smart growth. We're gonna
smart growth is great. We love bikes. We want to
build a bike path. So they took their downtown business corridor,
which straight if you go from Wilmington, you're heading toward
the Fort Fisher area, you go through Carolina Beach. They
took their business corridor and they shrunk it down to
two lanes. And put bike lanes on each side that
what used to be, you know, you could take cars down.
It locked up traffic, It locked up downtown. It made
it an absolute flipping nightmare for everybody involved. That policy
lasted not long after the paint was dry. They had
to unring that bell. It was a disaster. And that's
the that's where the Polyannish believe this this whimsical. If
we build it, it's going to work out. It's going
to be great, it's going to be wonderful. And it doesn't.
And the height of ignorance here, or I guess you know,
you'd say, and I don't want I hate to use
the word stupid. I don't call people stupid, even when
I think they are. I don't tend to use that word.
It sounds very, very aggressive. But the height of stupidity
from a definitive definition standpoint, is doing the same thing
over and over again and expecting a different result. And
what you're seeing is the numbers with transit have not returned,
even though the population has grown, but the number of
people using transit is shrinking. So if you were to
if you were to think about that in any reasonable way,
you'd say, wait, a minute. We're growing, but fewer people
are using it. It's not returned to pre pandemic levels.
It's not returned to twenty thirteen levels. It's not going
to return. So the answer, the genius answer of Charlotte,
is let's throw more money at it. If only, if
only we made it big enough that people we'll do it.
Now here's what makes it even worse. I cannot recall
a time when massive road construction projects were not going
on in this Charlotte Mecklenburg area. I mean, the belt
lines have made it. If you're traveling from the coast
of the mountains, you're going through there, you can really
it's much better at getting through, even though there's whole
roads you get through. But in general, the goal seems
to be make traffic worse. And if we make it worse,
then people will use the transit system, if we just
lock them up. Now here's even more. This is adding
fuel to the fire for those of you who don't
like them. Roads move people. Allow people to move twenty
four hours a day, seven days a week. There's a lane. Now,
the number of people that can move on a given
lane of road, there's a number there. If you look
at it, the number of traffic cars per hour or whatever.
You look at that a transit line can never, in
its wildest best day, move as much people as a
single lane of traffic. That's that's a harsh reality. Bus lines,
which from a transit standpoint, make a lot more sense.
They're not they don't tend to be as pretty, and
people don't like them as much. You think about street
cars in San Francisco, you think about, you know, these
beautiful trains running through beautiful towns. It's it's not that way.
It's very ideal. I always like it. When they present
a new train station, they say this is what it's
going to look like, and it shows all these people
in ties and business suits and perfect kids playing and
you know, families. And when you go to an actual
train I was what it won in Portugal recently, a
very beautiful train station, but it was full of the
same kind of people you see in downtown d C.
It was not you know the trains run on well
they kind of. It's more socialized, so they don't quite
run on time. But the point being, it's not this,
I mean this graffiti everywhere stuff like that. So don't think,
don't have this pollyannish view of transit. Just don't it's
not real. But buses can go to where people work, live,
thrive and survive. Buses can go if there's there trends
and where people move or don't live. You can change
a bus route. Once a train line is built, you can't,
and so when it becomes worse, you can't get You
can't change the train route. So it's foolish. It looks good.
That's what you want is a shiny train. You're going
to pay a premium for it, and like the guy said,
it's gonna move a lot of empty I remember a
story once there was a coyote in one of the
cars because no one was on it, and it felt
it was a safe place to be away from people
in the train in Charlotte.
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It is absolutely a great time out there. Now. I
don't know. This is a story I've wrestled with for
two days. I don't know. I kind of wanted to
run with it. I kind of didn't. I'm I am
agnostic on the entirety of AI because it's one of
those things the same it can it can cut both ways.
It's remarkable. I think that you'll be able to watch
think of any movie you've ever seen, and you'll be
able to say, hey, I want to see this person
play that role and be in that movie, and yeah,
a I'll be able to render that. And then you'll
be able to see you any great classics with newer
old stars in them. They'll be able to render any
of the stars that are even the ones that have
passed so so. And the way it can do research.
I think it's very useful to research. I think right
now it has a lot of limitations on it. The
problem is going to be as not only do machines
get better, but AI gets better. And the blending of
machines in AI is a little alarming. I mean, it's
very terminator in my head. You know. But because at
a certain point, we're imperfect from a machine standpoint, if
it had the ability to look at us in an
objective way, it would say we're kind of a massive
conflicting emotions. You know, it would not it would not
compute in any kind of computer language. And this whole
protocol of saying, well, we'll just make them so they
won't hurt us, well, no, you can't stand by that
one glitch, one bug, one you know, decision, and God forbid.
They become even more aware. And I talked earlier in
the show that what if AI could have a sense
of humor? And you know, you may balk at that.
I mean, if you ever seen computer generated jokes, they're terrible.
They're not funny because because it's it's a lot. Humor
is an illogical thing, you know, it's it just is.
It's sometimes you know, I think rich Jenny said, it's
humor's the art of reminding people of what they already
knew about but forgot to laugh at the first time.
It's situational. There's so many aspects. There's double one tendres,
there's a million things. A good line I heard very
recently with someone with you know, the Pope used to say,
you know, some reporter ask him how many people work
in the Vatican, and the Pope said, oh, about half
of them. Great line. You know what a computer wouldn't
get that? Why is that funny? It's hysterical. It's absolutely hysterical.
So you know. Another one I saw was kind of
a Babylon b headline. Great satire. Also something AI had
trouble with, or does have trouble. You know, Trump resigns
the presidency to become a district court judge so we
can have more power. Come on, that's funny. But that's satire,
and that's the kind of thing that AI is not
there yet. So there's a good piece and I'm not
you know, I've read it. I've read it four or
five times, and I don't know if I'll get it,
you know, and I'll what I'll try to do is
go to the end of it. The end of it
is this, you know. The The essence of truly understanding
a joke lies in the ability to explain it. This
explanation demonstrates a grasp of the underlying assumption's context and
the subtle subversions that make the joke amusing. Notice how
nerdy even the article is. I mean, the article is
written from a nerd perspective about AI. It's well written,
but extremely long, and I've read it a few times.
In this light, a statement that fails to elicit humor
may not fulfill the criteria of a joke. How many
people have seen comedians just they fall? But sometimes it's
the audience. If it is not funny, it might simply
not be a joke in the intended context. The notion
that existential risks are a joke underscores the idea that
even the most serious and profound topics can be approached
with humor. This perspective does not diminish the significance of
such risk, but rather highlights the human tendency to use
humor as a coping mechanism and a tool for critical reflection.
How many comedians you know? If you looked at their
personal rifer. It's absolutely a train wreck. Don't mean that
all comedians' lives are train wrecks, but a lot of times.
I mean, the first three comedians I ever saw perform
live all committed suicide. Later on the fourth one died.
That was Ralphie May. That's all Ralphie May performed. He
died like six months later. Critiquing jokes can be seen
as counterproductive as it may stifle the natural flow of
humor and the benefits it brings to social interaction and
cognitive development. The nerdy humor thrives on spontaneity and the
freedom to explore ideas without excessive scrutiny. Therefore, it might
be considered unethical to harshly critique jokes. Blah blah blah
blah blah. Then they say, when interacting with artificial intelligence,
cautions should be exercised in using humor. Jokes can lead
to misunderstandings, as AI may interpret misinterpret the nuances and
underlying meaning. But you see that caution should be exercised
with AI intended by humans. The phrase I was only
joke in highlights the potential for miscommunication, which could have
unintended consequences for human AI interactions. Ensuring that AI systems
understand human is critical of humor is critical, is crucial
for alignment with human values, debugging and preventing misinterpretation that
could arise from ambiguous language. Now take that a step
further and apply it to a machine with AI trying
to understand you. Not now mind you. My lawnmower is
not going to attack me. You know your your echo
device is not going to attack you. I swear they're listening. Though.
Every time I'm interested in any subject, if I say
it out loud, within an hour, it pops up in
my search engine, and not searching, it just pops up
in ads, it pops up on social media. It's like,
wait a minute, I was Someone would say, well, it's
just the algorithm. The algorithm realizes, and I'm like, I
didn't look at that. I wasn't looking for that. I
mentioned it, I didn't look at it, but it's there,
so you know where it's encroaching. Honest, if you were
to think about where you were technologically in your life
ten years probably let's just go bright before the invention
of the iPhone. Let's look at two thousand and five.
You're out there getting through life. You know, you've kind
of made the transition to maybe some digital media for
music and stuff like that. But think about where you
are now. We're twenty years later, and look at what
we where we are just in the past ten years,
five years the crunch. I mean, it took us forever
to get what from the from the bowl and alley
tech that was in our classrooms to TVs, and from
TVs to now you know, iPads in the classroom took forever.
But the transition now in digital stuff, I mean, big
screen TVs used to be expensive. Now something happens, we
throw them away and buy another one. So I'm just
saying the writing I'm a big Ray Bradbury fan. Eyesig
as them off. I mean two thousand and one A
Space Odyssey, when when Hal is hanging out and the
astronauts are trying to get back in the craft and
How's like, you know, I'm sorry, I can't do that, Dave,
he recognized, And this is funny. It's funny because it's
can be true. Now he said, well, you know, I
really think you getting on board this ship's counterproductive to
my mission. So I'm not letting you back on the ship.
And now think about all the times you interact with
that kind of mentality on voice when you call a
company and you go through a voice trail, and it's
going to get better, and it's going to get more realistic,
and it's going to be you're just like gonna be cattle. Gosh,
that sounds very depressing, very Logan's run, doesn't it. You know,
thirty the caresel, we're all going to go away. So
the point being, it seems like we're going to become
increasingly expendable as the rise of the machines takes place.
Shouldn't be that way. I don't know how we establish
the rules, but it seems to be moving faster than
our ability to integrate it into our lives in a
way that's not a little bit alarming. I mean, how
many of you have ring doorbells and it goes off
incesantly and just drives you bonkers. Now, if ring decides, well,
I don't want to show them this, I don't want
to show you know what, They don't need to see that.
Nothing to see here. The guy's breaking in the house. Now,
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