WEBVTT - 12-30-25 The Nightcap with Gary Jeff Walker 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:37.479 Hey, howdy, Hello, and welcome to the last Nightcap of 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.960 twenty twenty five. Here on seven hundred WLW, Gary Jeff 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.360 Walker reporting for duty. And as you know if you've 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.600 listened to me for a while, I love celebrating birthdays. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.960 I love celebrating my birthday on The Willie Show last 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.480 Monday on the twenty second, but I really love celebrating 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.040 other people's birthdays. And that's why every Saturday morning, when 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.600 I open up my Saturday Morning edition around five point 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.640 thirty five, I start the show with a list of history, 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:10.280 news and notes tied to that particular date, including birthdays 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:14.080 that you know of people you may know. And sometimes 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.760 there were birthdays people that I know, people that listen 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.280 and they request a shout out, and I'm more than 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:25.520 happy to indulge that and to celebrate that special day 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:29.920 with them. Whomever it is, it's celebrating the anniversary of 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.800 their birth, the anniversary of the day that God put 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.479 them on this earth. And tonight I'm opening this show 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:41.679 by saying Happy birthday to Ron and Rick Pisqually. No, 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:46.600 they're not married, except for the fact that they are 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:51.160 identical twins and they are both friends of mine and today, 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:57.280 on December thirtieth, they are celebrating another banner year of existence. 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:02.080 And I tell you what couldn't find two friendlier guys. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.440 Two guys are more fun to be around, and I 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.240 want to thank them for all they've done for me 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:13.240 through the years coming to the bar. And by the way, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.560 this Thursday, on New Year's Day, will be celebrating a 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.720 new year at Huddles, the place where I sling drinks 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:24.000 for Hillbillies and others. And hopefully you at some point 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.000 or another in the coming year. But I encourage you 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.560 to come out on Thursday on New Year's Day to 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:33.760 Watson Football with us, to meet the Pasqually brothers and 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:39.000 belatedly celebrate their birthday with a beer or whatever whatever 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.920 it is you choose to imbibe in. If nothing, the 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:47.760 ice water is delicious and pure at Huddles. Well, that 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.600 kind of brings to mind another thing. This could be 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.959 the last hurrah for bars like Huddles. You know, twenty 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.560 twenty five has been a really tough year for hospitality 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.720 businesses all over the Trice, all over the country. Really, 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:08.000 people's habits have changed. You remember famously, another Newport tavern, 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.400 the Mansion Hill Tavern, nearly closed in twenty twenty five 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.280 because of rising insurance costs and all kinds of other 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:21.000 obstacles that small business owners are facing these days. It 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.960 took a go Fundme page to revive and keep this 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.520 icon open, which is a haven for great blues music 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:34.560 and live music and their fans. Their patrons pushed them 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.800 over the line and kept them afloat. I'm hoping you'd 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:39.920 do the same thing for us at six twenty eight 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.320 Mama Street. But Thursday at noon we will be open 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:47.680 New Year's Day. Come by, say hello at least and 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.880 wish the Pasqually brothers a very happy birthday. On tonight's show, 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:57.040 Chris Horr, who is with SAT one two three, which 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:03.880 is a communications company that Fame Lee helped in floodeds, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:09.280 floods and hurricanes with communication for people. You know, it 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.960 wasn't just Elon Musk. But Chris Horror is going to 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.840 be here to tell you how to prepare your family 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.039 for the emergencies that may lie ahead in the new year. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.680 Hope you'll join us for that. We will do a 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.040 replay of last Saturday's Rock and Roll Archaeology, the last 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.160 of twenty twenty five with Jim Lebarber, the music Professor. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.240 Around nine thirty five or so. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.800 Just after ten o'clock is Eric Weir, who is a 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.679 financial guru that you may not have heard. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.000 Of before, and he is. 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.320 He's something else coming up in ten thirty five day 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.240 Dave Hatter with a little tech talk leading into the 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.240 new year. At eleven oh five, it's an hour of 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.680 sports for the out of sorts, including our friend the 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.920 fur Ball, Andy Furman, who has been with us all 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:04.080 year long, and Dennis the wild Man Walker no relation. 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.800 I swear so a fur Ball and the wild just 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.560 after eleven o'clock, and Chris Horr is next that spelled 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:17.080 hoaar on this last nightcap of the year on seven 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:21.720 hundred WLW. As I mentioned, our first guest on this 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.120 last show of twenty twenty five is a disaster response 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:29.960 Telecom national security spokesperson for SAT one two three, Chris Horn. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:34.120 And as we head into twenty twenty six, the dangers 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:38.600 that are out there in cyberspace and to your privacy 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.760 and everything else, the onset of AI and everything else 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.279 that is going on in our world now, how to 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:51.040 be prepared and how to face those challenges for yourself 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:56.000 personally as a business person, your family, Chris Horror, Welcome 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:56.839 to the Nightcap. 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:57.240 How are you. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:05:59.919 I'm good, So thanks for having me on today. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.360 So tell me a little bit about Set one two three. 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.200 Again we've had a couple of guests, I believe, including you, 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:09.600 on this particular topic. But real quickly Set one two three. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.159 What do they do and how are they helping people 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.120 prepare well? 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.520 Sat one two three dot com. We provide emergency backup 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:22.840 communications for when the disasters strike and when the inevitable happens, 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.320 you lose power and so on. We provide satellite phone, 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.600 satellite internet units, and solar power portable generators to make 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.600 sure that you can stay connected and stay warm during 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:34.920 the next emergency event. 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:40.719 Solar power generators do you guys? Obviously you're you're providing 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:45.120 them or selling them. What does the advantage over say 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.320 a gas powered or natural gas powered generator. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:53.240 Well, when the supply chain gets disrupted by a natural 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.720 disaster or something west like a terrorist event, what you 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.280 see is you see gas sales. Gas supplies brian out 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.600 at your local gas station, your local hubway store. Because 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.760 most businesses these days operated just in time delivery system, 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.720 whereby they only keep free to five days worth of 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.040 goods on hand because they know they'll have another. 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:13.560 Shipment coming in. 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.080 But when those shipments stop, you're not going to be 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:17.880 able to get or you can have to pay more 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.920 for the gas use of that generator, whereas solar power 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.040 generators don't require anything like that. You set them up, 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:29.400 you point the panels upward, and you have basically unending, limitless. 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.080 Energy as long as the sun shining, right. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:33.680 As long as the sun shining, and of course the 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.360 battery backups store power over night for when the sun 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.920 goes out, and so these things can be used to 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.360 the small devices for under hundred bucks. Can be used 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.320 to power your smaller devices, phone staff, phone stuff like 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:50.160 that starlink units. Bigger devices can power your entire house, 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:51.840 including all your lights and all your heating. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.040 Yeah, the thing that I would worry about, one of 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.200 the biggest things I would be concerned with, is like 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:01.280 a refrigerator. You've got your food supply there, you know, 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.800 so you've got electricity to have a you know, a 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.880 light on or powering your phone or communication device, but 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.360 you don't have enough power to keep your food from 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.800 going bad. That would be important, So you need one 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.560 of those larger kind of systems for something like that. 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:23.800 There's a report out that artificial intelligence is the new 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.440 Cold War between the United States and particularly Communists. China 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.760 claims that the new technology is the twenty first centuries 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.319 Cold War, warning that the Chinese Communist Party is on 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.640 the cusp of becoming the world's leader in AI. There 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.880 is a great battle as to who will be the 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.080 leader in artificial intelligence? Do United States still have a 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.079 chance to overcome what China has done? 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:50.960 Chris, Yeah, Look, I mean there's pluses and minuses on 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.719 both sides of this. When it comes to China specifically, 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.240 you know, they've they've seen this coming for a while, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.360 and that they've secured a sixty percent of the mining 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.320 of rare earth elements that are needed to make and 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.000 run AI data centers into power AI chips and so on, 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.000 and they control about ninety percent of the manufacturing of 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.120 that stuff as well. But the United States has maintained 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.320 it's leadership when it comes to the development of AI 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.480 programs and lms, So you know, it's six to one 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.400 help dozen to the other. But I think what we 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:27.240 should be worried about is China's heavy investment in electricity 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.840 production and distribution badly seem to have an edge over 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.960 ourself power grade unfortunately the whole, and not really ready 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.480 to handle the kind of capacity that's going to be 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.800 needed within the next few years to keep our AI 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:40.920 growth going well. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.840 You know, part of the reason that China has maintained 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:48.599 this ability to have great capacity for energy and electricity 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.840 is because while they were insisting that the rest of 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.880 the world rely on wind and solar, they were building 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:01.680 coal fired and they still are building coal fired power 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:06.400 plants many a week in China, while you know, they 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.880 were talking about the West needing to reduce that with 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.360 the Green New Deal stuff that was going on in 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.600 this country, which is no longer going on at the 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.080 rate it was, and the mandates are done thanks to 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:22.360 Donald Trump. Do you feel like the United States has 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:26.160 turned a corner when it comes to providing as much 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.720 power and energy as we need to. One of the 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:35.160 initiatives that President Trump has with the new AI data 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.200 centers is that they become their own power plants, and 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:42.080 they're using nuclear, they're using solar. It's an all in 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:46.160 kind of approach now where the emphasis was just on 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.880 wind and solar with the previous administration. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:50.800 Do you would agree or disagree? 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.800 Well, yeah, I mean certainly some of that is I 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.199 would agree with. I would also point out that, unfortunately, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:01.160 last the US developed next generation clear technology in the 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:05.040 sixties and seventies, we just as quickly abandoned that, and 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:09.320 when that information became declassified, China picked it up and 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.320 ran with it and started making and producing more efficient 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:16.400 nuclear power with less waste. And this is again technology 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:20.200 we created didn't follow through on because of the you know, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:24.080 kind of pushback against nuclear in the seventies. But things 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.120 like fossbree to react as molten salt core reactors are 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.599 far more efficient, produce more power and less input and 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.000 less waste. So yeah, on both sides of this, you know, 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.480 China is you know, is searching ahead. And of course 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.439 the CCP doesn't have to worry about regulations or environmental restrictions. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.559 They will do whatever they see as best for themselves 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.600 and for their country, so they don't have to worry 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:50.120 about what anyone else thinks. So you know, in that regard, 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.760 they certainly have an edge there and are producing more 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.240 power more efficiently and now. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.640 And Europe is certainly behind the eight ball on this 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.480 because they abandon almost everything that wasn't part of the 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:06.520 UNS push and the Paris climate talks and all of 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.800 this other garbage. And now they're starting to realize, hey, 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.160 we need to build some nuclear reactors again, we need 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.480 to open those, We need to have more fossil fuel 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.080 production of energy. But Europe is really behind the eight ball, 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.680 aren't they. And that's why it's a race between United 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.240 States and communist China. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.439 Yeah, no, I think you're correct in that. I would 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.800 say that what we should be doing is putting more 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:34.360 resources and effort into innovation, things like photonic STIPs that 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.520 require less power to run these data centers, you know, 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.960 so we can innovate our way out of some of this. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.240 But either way, we're going to need a modern power 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.400 grid that can handle the kind of high capacity that's 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.360 going to be needed. So it's one thing to generate 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.120 the electricity, but if we can't move it, it's not 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.000 going to really matter. So, you know, the President did 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:58.160 sign the Genesis Initiative, is an executive order that puts 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.679 a lot more focus and effort to this, and the 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.520 Department of Energy is in charge of that effort. So 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.560 you know, we you know, we might be playing catch 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.959 up but you know the game isn't over yet. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:11.040 No, it's going to be. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.640 The report stated that the race for AI dominance will 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.320 be one or lost in the next five years, So 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.520 twenty thirty is really a target date to see who 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.120 wins this race right now? 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:24.680 Correct? 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:25.880 Yeah? 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.600 I mean, look, the CCP runs on these five year 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.120 plans and the latest one just started this year and 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.559 ends to twenty thirty, and their stated goal by twenty 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.120 thirty is to dominate AI worldwide. And that's not just 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.600 the production of the chips and so on, but it's 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.480 also about the setting the standards. They want to set 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.000 the standards for everyone. Here in the US we've longed 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.520 for a long time, we've set the standards and controlled 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.880 them on when it comes to electronics. But China, you know, 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.040 paid attention to that, and now they want to make 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.840 sure that they control the standards, the global standards for AI. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.840 And to go along with that, they're producing millions of 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:04.880 new gadgets and so on that are all run with 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.000 their AI said to those standards, and they're flooding the 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.120 marketplace and the flood in the world with that. So 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.200 you know, we need to be paying attention to an 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.440 opal lot here, but certainly in the next five years, 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:16.560 you know, there's going to be a lot of change 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.560 and the race it may or may not be over, 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.720 but we can't afford to take our eye off the 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:22.680 ball and up for a second. 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.960 So AI is not going away anytime soon. However, it 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.200 is not the end all be all. I have a 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.600 friend who is a tech talker who will be on 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.760 tonight's program a little bit later named Dave Hatter here locally, 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:39.400 and he said, there are still tremendous problems with AI, 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.520 and the fact that it's going to take over everything 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:48.440 is It's kind of not necessarily true because there are 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:53.280 serious problems still with artificial intelligence, but you see it 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:57.960 going unabated and being the dominant force in human life 0:14:58.080 --> 0:14:59.760 in the next ten to fifteen years. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.040 I mean, I'm not sure I'm smart enough to give 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.080 you a full prediction that's worth much, but I will 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.040 say that certainly, you know there are problems. I mean, 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.920 anyone any business owner who tried to implement you know, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.480 AI kind of as far as taking over various departments 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.200 or systems will also have seen the problems that come 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.240 with that. Even fast food drive through restaurants that have 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.600 tried to use AI to take orders of had problems. 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.720 So yeah, there are some very fundamental flaws with AI, 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.440 and I don't I think you know, when the Industrial 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.560 Revolution happened, everyone was like, oh, there's going to be 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.280 no notable need for people, and you know, machines are 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.720 going to run everything. It's like, yeah, there was certainly 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.600 a shift in the workforce and the kind of jobs 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.160 people did, and I think we're going to see that 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.360 with AI. But you know, I think we need to 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.320 be very careful about putting a AI in charge of 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.680 vital systems and UH and weapons and defense. And you 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.320 tell these when we don't fully understand how it works 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.240 and why it makes decisions and why it makes bad decisions. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.400 Even the create you know, the so creator or godfather 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.840 of AI, Jeffrey Hinton, I will tell you that that 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.160 he doesn't believe that we fully understand how these these 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.960 systems operate, how they make decisions, or why. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:12.200 And if we don't. 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.760 Understand that, then putting them in charge of vital infrastructure 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.200 and nuclear power generation and weapons is something we should 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.680 be very careful about. And I also don't believe that 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.280 the people making these decisions, the politicians, know anything more 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.720 than anyone else, maybe even less. So we've got to 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:29.880 be very careful. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:30.400 Here here here. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:36.440 I agree with that last statement, Chris, how heavily invested 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.640 in AIS SAT one two three. 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.520 Well, we, like other businesses, you know, are using it, 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:46.200 but with caution. You know, it certainly can you know, uh, 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:50.040 take over you know, kind of very basic operations or 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.680 even complex ones. It can help with research and so on, 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.680 but you know, we keep the human element very much involved. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:56.240 Uh. 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.600 You know, we don't trust what we don't fully understand. Uh, 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.960 you know, so we use it, but we use it cautiously, trust, 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:04.679 but verify as our motive. 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:05.920 Okay. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.639 Any recommendations for twenty twenty six, so, I know we 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:13.760 talked about having some kind of generator power that's off 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:18.640 the grid, particularly solar. Any other kind of predictions for 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:20.600 the year ahead, Chris. 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.360 Well, unfortunately, I think we're going to see more kind 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:28.679 of attacks, more cyber warfare, more cyber crime. Earlier, you 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.359 said that people are calling us the Cold War. I 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.560 see it's very much a hot war, you know, just 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.160 because we can't necessarily see it like you can see 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:40.119 moments of troops and battleships and so on, the amount 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.159 of attacks against the US government and US companies, the 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:47.520 US individuals increases daily made more efficient unfortunately by AI. 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.000 And we've just got to be very, very careful. You know, 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.320 when you get a message from a company that looks 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.600 like it's from them, and you know it sounds like 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.240 it's from them, you know, be very careful because it's 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.919 so easy to generate full websites that might look like 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.280 a Google or an Apple or you know, utility company. 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.159 But look at the r L. You know, you've just 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.119 got to be more and more capful. And just because 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.480 you might get a phone call from someone that sounds 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:15.240 like your boss, it might be AI generated, you know, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.280 so you've just got to unfortunately beyond God more than ever. 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.680 Well, I'll definitely be on guard for an AI generated 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:22.600 Chris Horr. 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.359 You're already took me to him. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:32.160 Damn I was duped again. Chris Horror from SAT one 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.359 two three dot com. Thank you so much for your 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:35.680 time and happy New Year, sir. 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:37.840 Thanks mate, Happy New Year to you. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:38.320 You got it. 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:42.720 Rock and Roll Archaeology a replay from last Saturday, coming 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:49.280 up afternoons here on seven hundred WLW. Welcome back to 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:54.560 the Nightcap on seven hundred w L W GJ. Dubbs 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:58.440 in for another couple of hours here and in this 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:02.240 hour somebody I probably should have talked to you about 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:08.480 twenty years ago when I had more opportunities, say to 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.760 grow my wealth, what little there is of it. This 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.400 is one of the most successful and sought after financial 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:20.879 advisors anywhere in the country, and he took insights and 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.960 tools he uses and puts him into a book that's 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.520 out now. I love the title of the book too, 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:31.440 Who's Eating Your Pie? Essential financial advice that will transform 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.919 your life without any further ado, Eric Weir, Welcome to 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:36.320 the show. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:36.800 How are you. 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:39.480 I'm doing great, Thanks for having me on. 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:44.960 By the way, I found out in doing my research 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:50.560 for this interview that you had a like a lifelong stutter, 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.000 and yet you still were able to overcome it. 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:58.520 I mean, number one, how did you overcome that? Eric? 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.560 So I went to speech therapy at age five after 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.479 a car wreck and a brain injury, and they said, well, 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.159 that's going to be hard, Eric. Odds are you'll be 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.320 a failure and reclusive and you won't amount to much 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:15.639 because you're not going to want to take You're not 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.040 going to want to engage in conversation, but that was 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:18.800 really a setup. 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:22.000 And then when she said, are you could view every 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:22.919 obstacle as. 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:27.440 An opportunity and learn to navigate those challenges, and you'll 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:29.919 overcome more obstacles than most people do in a lifetime 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:32.800 by the time you're eighteen. So that's how she framed it, 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:36.800 and from age five, I've had that mindset. Every setback 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:40.560 is an opportunity, every obstacle's an opportunity, every economic difficulty 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:41.359 is an opportunity. 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:42.479 How can I solve it? 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:46.639 So that from birth almost has been my mindset, and 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:49.240 that's been a big reframing that I do actually. 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:53.679 Almost on a daily basis. And then ultimately, at age forty, 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:55.320 I got over through gratitude. 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.800 I was hearing a pastor talked about, hey, be grateful 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:02.800 for what challenges you have, and I like it was 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:05.080 a church service, and like I knew that Paul had. 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:05.960 Asked for whatever. 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:09.920 Throwing his flesh to be removed twice and got s 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:11.160 his my grace. 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.160 Is sufficient, So I'm I gotta want that answer. 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:16.199 I'm kind of mad, right, I'll be deal with this 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.159 for thirty five years, and I just thank God for 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:22.080 the stutter And it wasn't overnight, but over maybe three 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.240 years it went away. And I think what happened is 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:25.440 I quit fearing. 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:27.240 Interaction. 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:30.440 I quit anticipating this stutter, waiting for it, and. 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:31.439 I just said, that's just who I am. 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:33.399 I'm just gonna roll with it. If I stutter, I stuttered, 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:35.800 and I'm just gonna keep going. And at that point, 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:39.600 that change of mindset is what really transferred my life. 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:44.720 And that is basically a premise for everything that you 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:48.840 teach now and you instruct people now, because we're all 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:53.080 we're all encountering obstacles no matter what we do or 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.840 what we have to work with. And you know, I've 0:21:56.840 --> 0:22:01.320 got a producer here at the station. I asked him 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:03.879 all the time, and I've learned to stop asking him. 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:04.960 I said, how are you doing today? 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:05.200 Liam? 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:08.320 He goes, best day of my life so far? He said, 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:10.960 I pray for adversity. I said, yeah, I bet. 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:16.240 I can tell you I don't do that. I get 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:17.760 enough without having asked for it. 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:24.320 So you are letting people in on the keys to 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:29.080 what you teach and what you help people with your 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:30.280 in who's eating your. 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:33.720