WEBVTT - ‘Tech Tuesday’ with Rich DeMuro | Beef Prices 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:04.440 You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:08.400 six forty. 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:12.320 KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Tuesday morning, 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.200 October twenty eighth. Some of the stories we're looking at. Unfortunately, 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.959 Hurricane Melissa has hit them. Jamaica with a vengeance. One 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.560 hundred and seventy five mile an hour wins Category five, 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.880 devastating Jamaica. But that was assumed that was going to happen. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:32.599 Here's the fun when Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:37.159 suing the makers of Tilt All, saying that tailand All 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.159 failed to warn consumers about the risks of taking the 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:41.320 drug while pregnant. 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:48.160 What risks really? I think that since. 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:54.160 You have x percentage of women who were pregnant who 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:59.800 in fact unfortunately delivered kids who were were autistic, and 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.720 most of them at some point in their pregnancy eight pizza, 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.880 I believe that Ken Paxson must sue all the local 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.960 pizza makers in the area of which women had autism, 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:17.880 because pizza is equivalent to autism. Thailand all equivalent to autism. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.640 Texas is nuts. I mean, it doesn't stop. None of 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.000 this does all, right, tell you what does stop, unfortunately 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.160 is tech Tuesday with rich Dmurrow. 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:30.720 Wish we could do that forever because I have so 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:31.360 many questions. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.440 Good morning, rich Oh thanks Bill. I thought you said 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.040 it's going to stop. I was like, oh, wow, no, no. 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.760 Yeah, Well unfortunately it's going to stop because we are limited. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:44.240 When we talk about these lawsuits for crazy those are 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.920 not limited. The amount of time we have together is limited. 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.680 That's where I was going. You know that anyone can 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:53.720 sue for anything. I mean, when it's that kind of 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.840 high level thing, that's a whole nother world. Yeah, this 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.760 is the Texas Attorney General doing. It's not just some 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:05.520 crazy ass guy out there. But anyway, let's get into 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:10.320 our stuff because I think this actually is more fun. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:16.919 So let's talk about fake AI receipts. Now, what is 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:17.799 that about? 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.560 Yeah, and this is something that's been kind of going on. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:21.919 For a bit. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.120 And now there's a report from the Financial Times that 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.440 businesses are getting tricked by these AI generator receipts. And 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.600 we know that if you do expense reports, Number one, 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.680 they're annoying. Number two, they require a lot number three, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.760 A lot of it's automated because these companies have seated 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.560 control to these giant concurs of the world and things 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:47.480 like that, and employees are now apparently submitting ultra realistic 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.840 fake expense receipts thanks to AI. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:52.560 And so one of these. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.480 Software companies ramps As they flagged over a million dollars 0:02:55.480 --> 0:03:00.519 in fake receipts in just ninety days. And they look real, 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.800 so the AI can even make them look like they're 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:08.440 wrinkled paper. They can put signatures on them, and people, 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.960 you know these AI companies, they put like a water 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.359 mark in them so that you can't really submit them 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.440 because the software will figure that out. 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:16.800 So what do the employees do. 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.720 They just screenshot it or take a picture of it 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:22.320 with their phone and they get around that. So this 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.200 is a huge issue I think for companies, and it's 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.520 something that I if you're an employee and you're doing this, 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.440 I don't know why you would do this, because you 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.000 don't want to get caught doing this would be yeah. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:37.080 But I have a question, why can't anybody use existing 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.960 technology and just put in a fake expense report or 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.440 are you talking about providers that putting that in there 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.560 and getting money sent to them for products they didn't 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:50.560 send into the company, didn't sell the company. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.360 I don't know who is doing this. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.360 Well, I think it's the employees that are going on 0:03:55.840 --> 0:04:00.480 company travel and so they are they're padding. It's it's 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.080 kind of a new way of what's been going on forever, 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.960 which is patting the expense report right, except this time 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.800 it's ultra realistic. And because I think the idea here 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.200 is because AI is fact checking the expense reports before 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:17.240 they go for payment. Majority of the time, you know, 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.720 I think that AI just looks at the receipt says, oh, 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.919 that looks good, and it passes it through. So but 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.760 even SAP concur which you know, they scan a lot 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.599 of these receipts, one of their executives said, you can't 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.479 even trust your eyes anymore because these receipts look so good. 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.599 And so my question is, if you're an employee doing this, 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:42.440 you're going to get fired. So probably not a good idea. 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.000 Well, I mean, it's just another way of stealing money. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.200 I'm assuming, right, you pitch in a fake report, which 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:52.040 people do all day long and until they don't. What 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.760 you're saying is AI just makes it easier for an 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.760 employee to rip off the employer bottom line. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.200 It makes this It makes it very easy and I 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.920 remember seeing a story about this a couple of months 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.400 ago where this was just starting to happen, and this 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:09.359 was before the AI image generators have gotten so good now, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.000 and I remember trying to generate one of these receipts 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.760 and I could not believe my eyes. I mean, it 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.440 was so good that it's like, oh my gosh. So 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.320 I think for maybe here's what I think happens. Maybe 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:25.200 employees tiptoe into this by saying, oh shoot, I forgot 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.039 to get that receipt or I need that receipt, and 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.040 so maybe they recreate it, and then all of a sudden, 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.000 you know, some other people just realize that you can 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:34.120 just make this very simple. 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:40.600 Okay, Rich anti recognition glasses. I don't even know what 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.440 that means other than I don't recognize you. 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:45.200 Yeah. 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:49.000 So imagine you put these glasses on and you try 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.440 to use face ID on your phone and it does 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.160 not work. That's what we're talking about here. So this 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.480 is a company called Zenny Optical. They've come out with 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.400 over the years a bunch of glass for like blocking 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.240 blue light and things like that. But now they've got 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:08.560 this new technology called zeny id Guard, and it blocks 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:14.120 infrared facial recognition systems from tracking you. So I thought 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.080 this was kind of cool, kind of interesting, kind of 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:17.120 a sign of our times. 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.640 So the coding on these glasses, which is. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.359 A subtle pink so that you know, you kind of 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.120 signal to other people that hey, I'm blocking this stuff, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.800 reflects up to eighty percent of near infrared light, which 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.400 is what a lot of cameras and biometric systems use 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.400 to identify faces. And you can test this out very 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.520 simply by trying face idea on your phone or something 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.839 like Windows Hello on a Windows PC, and they will 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.560 not work. So the idea here is that you wear 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.440 these glasses, you can walk around town and facial recognition 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.039 cameras that are trying to capture your biometrics are just 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:51.960 not going to work, so you can. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:52.840 I don't know if. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.159 You're completely anonymous when you wear these, but it's just 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.640 one step in kind of protecting your identity. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.320 No, there's entire industries that are anti. 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:09.800 Where technology comes up with something and then instantly there 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:14.080 now is a group, a small group or a company 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:15.640 that say, oh no, no, we're going to fight that, 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.760 and it's it seems like it's one industry following another industry. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.360 So if you don't want your face right, if you. 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.960 Don't want facial recognition, you walk around all day with, 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.360 if you don't need glasses with these playing lenses with 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.320 no prescription, and then you're theoretically fine, I have that right. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:37.760 Yes, huh. Isn't it easier just to wear like ninja 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.040 ninja masks and you know what those costs? Six those 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:41.920 cost six bucks. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.480 It's simpler than the ninja mask because this still lets 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.680 people see your eyes. But it's just you know, look, 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.440 I think when it comes to what you said to 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.800 your point of any industry that pops up, there's always 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.280 going to be a reactionary industry. And I think that 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.280 you know, is this a bit of a ploy to 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.160 get people to spend money on these glasses they may 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.120 or may not need. Is this really protecting your you know, 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:05.760 your facial identification? 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:06.679 Like who knows? 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.760 But the reality is that we see this stuff happen 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.040 all the time, and you know, it's one way that 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.720 people can feel more secure if they feel like they're 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:18.560 getting id'd in too many places. 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.080 And I think it is interesting we've heard. 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.360 Over and over bill that they use this facial recognition 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:24.640 in places like concerts. 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:26.600 If you look and this is you know, because I 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:27.600 love technology, So. 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.480 Anywhere I go, if you look at like small print 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.120 on signs at places you go, a majority of them 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.640 are now mentioning that they are using some sort of 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:42.959 automated facial recognition or facial tracking at grocery stores and 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.480 different retailers that you go to. So when you walk 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.920 in there, yeah, they're they're figuring out like, oh, okay, 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.760 this person comes in. They may not have a name 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.000 to you just yet, but they know who you are 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:53.880 based on the fact that you come in there three 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.600 times a week. And eventually they could layer that with 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.800 some sort of third party database and figure out, hey, 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.559 this is Rich he's in here every Wednesday. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.200 Hey, are we reaching the point where you know? 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:11.200 For example, China uses face recognition basically for every single citizen. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.240 They know what every single one of. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.880 Their people looks like with technology, which I don't understand 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.600 because they look all the same to me. But you've 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.560 got an entire country doing this. Are we heading in 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.760 that direction? You think where we're all going to be 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:26.000 somehow surveilled. 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.480 I think it's already happening. I think that it's already happening. 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.959 And I mean, look, when I travel, I go from 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:41.120 my car to the airport, to the security to the 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:45.880 next country without speaking to a human being, or in 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.800 most cases, without even showing any idea. I mean, when 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.680 you go to LAX and you park on the parking 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.959 you know structures there, it reads your license plate. If 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.040 you've already prepaid, it opens the gate. You go into 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:02.280 the LAX, you've got facial recognition, You walk up to 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.880 a camera, it snaps a picture of you. It says, okay, 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.760 you're rich Demiro. The gate opens up, you go in. 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.280 When you enter the other country, you scan your passport 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.920 or your face, and it just says, hey, okay, come 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.280 on in. So we're already living in a society where 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.760 the government already knows who you are. They've got your biometrics, 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.760 they've got your face, and you know, we've all sort 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.240 of agreed to this. And it's I think the private 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.600 companies that are catching up to this, they probably have 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.559 more information than the government. 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:33.600 Because we've handed it to them. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.439 So I think, you know, we're going to see a 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.760 renaissance of people saying I want to reclaim some of 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:39.920 my privacy. 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.199 I'm not sure that's going to be possible in the future. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.439 Now, I mean, how do you do that without legislation, 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.360 without laws that tell these companies and these organizations you 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.640 cannot do that anymore short of that. 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:53.240 And you're right. It just occurred to me. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.680 I just came back from Europe a few weeks ago, 0:10:56.240 --> 0:11:00.440 and as I was getting off the airplane and there's 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.199 a line for American citizens and people who have a 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.640 foreign passports, and literally I have my passport in my pocket, 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:11.320 and as I'm taking my passport out, uh, the TSA 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.120 person or in this case, the customs and the customers 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.679 people say no, no, just walk through here, just look 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:19.200 at the camera. 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.080 And I was kind of floored. And there's my picture ugly. 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.040 I mean, there's is there such thing as a good 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.880 looking picture on driver's licenses or any of this, any 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:30.679 of these programs. 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.320 I mean, I don't mind mine, but they don't let 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.160 you take another one. I mean, I you. 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.520 Can in yours, because yeah, you can for your driver's license. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:42.920 You can say, well, you take another one. I'll let 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.320 you look at it, just in case will. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.840 Because they wouldn't let me look. They just said that's okay, you're. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:51.760 Good, No, no you ask hey, can I take a look. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.079 Do you mind if I take a look, because it's 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:54.960 a digital Tay. 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.880 You're gonna come up the system. 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.440 They got to get people, Yeah, I know, But then 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.040 they have to take the picture because what if someone blinks, 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:03.720 what if someone has their eyes closed? 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:04.680 Well, they looked for that. 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.920 They they all they're looking for is just to make 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.280 sure that the measurements for biometrics are fine. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.120 They're not. They don't care if you have you know, 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:12.160 if you look good. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:13.880 No, what I'm talking about, No, No, I'm talking about I'm 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.000 talking about. Yeah, I think we're on different pages here. 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.600 I'm talking about the driver's licenses photos. That's where I 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.600 was going. Okay, okay, we're going. I'm glad we missed 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.280 each other. And two ships passing in the night. Rich, 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.760 we'll catch you at this Saturday, eleven am to two 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:28.840 pm right here on KFI. 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.600 You have a good win, all right, thank you? You 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.840 got it. A Trump story I want to share with you. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:39.640 When the president ran for president, he said he was 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.880 going to bring down prices. 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:43.160 That was part of his campaign. 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.960 Inflation was too high, prices are way too high, and 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.640 he said, I'm going to cut food prices in half 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.880 by the first year. Now, that is I don't believe that. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.200 Of course, that can't be done. That's hyperbole, There's no 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.280 question about it. That is everybody gets the pass saying 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.880 stuff like that. However, he was serious when he said 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.559 he was going to bring down prices. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:07.520 They have not come down. 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:12.360 Inflation is here and where it's really showing itself is 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.520 the food prices, particularly. 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.360 Beef prices, and Neil and I have talked about that. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:22.200 Meat has gone through the roof, and even the President 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.720 has expressed frustration with the high prices that we're paying 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.760 for in grocery stores, particularly meat. And he's promising quote 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:31.920 a deal to bring the price down. And what does 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.840 that mean, Well, to bring something down, you boost supply. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.640 Right, the more supply, the cheaper it gets. 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:43.360 So since the dairy herds or the beef herds are 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.439 at a minimum right now, they've really shrunk over the 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.000 past several years. He is purchasing eighty thousand tons of 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.800 beef from Argentina. That's quadruple the typical quota. 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:54.600 And man has there. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:59.440 Been backlash from farm state Republicans and agricultural industry groups 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:03.600 who are really on his side and feel very burnt 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:05.160 by this. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:05.800 Policy. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.800 Remember the election was fueled by the concern over high costs, 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:16.680 and guess what we have right now high costs, big costs. 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.720 So this is a lose lose for the president on 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.320 this one. Why because it's the best interest of the 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.240 country to bring down prices. If we're now paying what 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.520 I think, six dollars and thirty cents average price per 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:33.360 pound for hamburger meat, I mean I never remember. 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:33.720 It being that high. 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:38.000 Have you kneel six dollars and thirty cents for hamburger meat? 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.040 No? Not my recollection. 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.680 No, No, it's pretty high. So he is saying, okay, 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.600 we have to increase supply. That's how we get our 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:50.480 prices down. So it's he loses, he loses, no matter what. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.560 He keeps Argentina beef where it is and the price 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:59.560 is here explode. He brings in beef and the prices decrease, 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:06.000 and the the farmers, they heard the beef farmers are 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.240 their prices go down? And there were some of his 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:16.160 biggest supporters. It's a mess. And last week he said 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:21.000 on truth Social you wanted to prod cattle ranchers, that's 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:25.360 very funny to get their prices down. While crediting is 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:29.480 tariffs in Brazil, another top beef exporter, and that's going 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:30.760 to help the US cattle market. 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:31.960 The cattle market's a mess. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.160 However, the ranchers, for the first time in years, have 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:40.760 made some money. It's a very volatile industry. And they 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.920 have been losing their shirts. Oh, they've been losing their 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.480 jackets made out of hides. And he said, the prices 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:52.600 are up so big that we'll have to make a determination. 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.600 But the ranchers are going to be very unhappy because 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:01.960 they have suffered for many years. And when you look 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:06.840 at the economy going south, where our dollars are buying 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.200 less and inflation is here not crazy like it was 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.880 under Biden years because Biden it hit it nine percent 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.520 at its worst. It's still high and it is climbing. 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.960 Wages are not keeping up with inflation. And if it 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.480 keeps on going like this, and there's no reason not 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.320 to think it won't, there's going to be a real 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:27.160 issue in terms of. 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.520 Price in the economy. Now. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:34.360 The higher the cost of meat, the better off it 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.880 is for the ranchers. And the high cost of meat 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:43.480 is one bright spot in the struggling agricultural sector. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.040 Also another bright spot. 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.960 It looks like China and the United States, with of 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:53.640 course President Trump leading negotiations, it looks like a deal 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:57.280 is in the works, so China begins again to buy 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:02.400 soybeans from them, from US farmers. I think that's the 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:06.840 biggest export of grain that we have in this country, 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.920 of soybeans, and China just cut it off, just said 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:15.800 not one soybean, not one will be bought, and it 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.600 hasn't been. So now it looks like a deal is 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:20.120 going to be cut, which we'll talk over the next 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.119 few days, because the President is on his way to 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:30.160 meet the ping Master or the ping meister Jijiping that's 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.720 what they call him. As I said yesterday, the pingster 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:41.160 el I do el Pingo is what they call him. Okay, 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:44.040 very southern California. 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:45.600 What is that. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:51.879 It's called The Fields. It's a dating service, but it's 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.600 almost like one of those five minute dating things where 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.879 you sit down, you go that speed dating. This is 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:58.639 a little bit more complicated. You have a group of 0:17:58.640 --> 0:17:59.920 people in a gathering dark. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:05.720 Okay. Ali Hoffman came up with this. It's called The Fields. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:10.080 She has a master's in psychology with a focus in spirituality. 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:11.400 For Columbia University. 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:16.000 I didn't know you could get a degree in spirituality 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:17.080 from Columbia. 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:18.800 What does that tell you where we've gone? 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.560 Anyways, it's actually a singles mixer, and what it does 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:28.720 is employ various touch based techniques in the dark to 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:33.040 get any participants to learn more about themselves, to chip 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:38.040 away at defenses, and maybe just maybe fall in love. 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:41.720 She says, it feels so hard out there. We're really 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.960 believing that it's our fault. It starts at the beginning 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:46.960 of a mixer saying that I don't believe that's true. 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.920 I think there's some macro level forces that are. 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.360 Affecting us, that are creating what we're in right now, 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:55.040 and I'm here to unwind. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.399 A lot of that. So as difficult as it is 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.840 to date, and it's not easy, I mean, frankly, you 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:04.439 go on these dating sites and everybody lies about who 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:05.560 they are what they do. 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.159 If I ever went on a dating site, which I 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.480 never have, I'd be honest, you know, I'd send a 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.120 picture of who I am right now. I never walk 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:17.320 on beaches. I hate romantic spots. I have no desire 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.119 to be alone with you. No, I don't let I 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:24.760 hate trees, I wouldn't do well, but people end up 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.920 not doing well anyway. So she has come up with 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.600 the fields, and everybody sits in this dark room and 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:36.360 starts sort of groping. And that connection. I mean, it's 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:41.440 so weird. And this thing is growing like wildfire. You're 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:44.920 supposed to reach out and touch someone and somehow connect. 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.000 Now I can think of all kinds of things. Would 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.200 I ever do this? No chance? Because there's the connection. 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:51.480 What's that? I go? 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:53.200 I really don't want to share that. 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.240 Not very impressive, bill, Okay, I don't need that for 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:57.320 my self esteem. 0:19:57.560 --> 0:19:59.680 Didn't you used to do that in a movie theater 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:00.879 with a popcorn bucket? 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.360 I did? Sometimes it was with a hat. The other 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:06.800 thing about the fields, which is so weird. This thing 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:11.359 has exploded across the country. It's even gone international. In 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:15.160 the Philippines, for example, they call it the peels and 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:18.720 it seems to work. I guess it seems to work. 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:23.640 I don't know how. What happens is well, just give 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:24.119 you a cost. 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:24.840 You're ready for this. 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.879 The level two, Level one is well. Level two is 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:33.320 around two hundred dollars per person. Level one, another version 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:37.840 doesn't involve the survey of personalized matching that only costs 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:39.840 ninety to one hundred dollars, although they do give a 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:43.959 huge discount for people who have lost one arm in 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:48.040 a traffic accident. Now Level two, on the other hand, 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.560 is much more connected, and what it's about is guiding 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:55.720 people back into real, authentic connections with each other. 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.800 Do you know why don't I think of this stuff? 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.879 Why don't I come up with some crazy ass philosophy 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:10.840 or exercise. There's that restaurant where it's totally dark and 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:14.040 all the waiters, the waiter persons are blind. 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:16.000 You know about that, don't you? Nil? 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:23.239 It is completely crazy, and it's just how do they 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:24.640 not spill the soup in your lap? 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:28.959 I have no idea. Well, it's set up. They memorize 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:29.479