Speaker 1: Welcome to the Rogue Recap. Hot takes, cold facts, and
Speaker 1: zero respect for the official narrative. Sit back, roll your eyes,
Speaker 1: and let's recap Rogue Style.
Speaker 2: Well, hello everybody. It is Tuesday, August 25th. This is
Speaker 2: the Rogue Recap. I am Linda McLaughlin. Great to be
Speaker 2: with you as always. Wanted to start the show off
Speaker 2: tonight with something I was trying to talk about yesterday
Speaker 2: and I could not find the story. And of course
Speaker 2: I couldn't find it because I wanted to find it.
Speaker 2: You guys know the rule. If you want to find it,
Speaker 2: it will escape you. And the second you stop looking
Speaker 2: for it, you will find it. So it's exactly what
Speaker 2: happened to me. As our kids are getting ready to
Speaker 2: go back to school and do all the things, I
Speaker 2: was looking at some of the requirements of my son
Speaker 2: and even my older kids. And it is so great
Speaker 2: to see that one of the supplies on the supply
Speaker 2: list are pencils and pens and not a stylist just
Speaker 2: to write on a screen. I really feel strongly, as
Speaker 2: I mentioned in yesterday's show, about the brainpower that it
Speaker 2: takes to commit your words to a piece of paper
Speaker 2: using your faculties and saying, hey, I want to write this.
Speaker 2: I want to put something down. And I just, I
Speaker 2: could not, I had to find this story for you guys.
Speaker 2: So this is the post about what happens to your brain.
Speaker 2: I'm citing this neuroscientist, Audrey Vandermeer. And she basically did
Speaker 2: this entire study for 20 years talking about how handwriting
Speaker 2: shapes the human brain. So in 2024, she published her study.
Speaker 2: It's called Frontiers in Psychology. And her team used high
Speaker 2: density EEG caps to monitor brain activity in students while
Speaker 2: they were either writing by hand with a digital pen
Speaker 2: or typing on a keyboard. The difference was dramatic. Handwriting
Speaker 2: produced a powerful, I'm quoting, synchronized burst of neural activity
Speaker 2: across widespread regions of the brain, and it linked activities
Speaker 2: involved in memory formation, sensory processing, and deep learning. Now,
Speaker 2: by contrast, typing the exact same content cause the cognitive
Speaker 2: network to largely shut down because typing uses repetitive uniform keystrokes.
Speaker 2: It demands little spatial or cognitive effort and it leaves
Speaker 2: key learning centers quiet and disengaged. These neurological differences have
Speaker 2: a direct effect on how we process and remember information.
Speaker 2: Earlier research by Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer at Princeton
Speaker 2: University reached similar conclusions. Students who took notes by hand
Speaker 2: consistently outperformed those using laptops on conceptual understanding tests. Handwriting
Speaker 2: forces active listening, critical thinking, and real-time summarization, while typing
Speaker 2: often leads to verbatim transcription with minimal processing. Our brains
Speaker 2: function as part of an embodied biological system, replacing rich
Speaker 2: physical actions with effortless digital keystrokes, that may deliver short-term convenience,
Speaker 2: but at the expense of a deeper cognitive engagement. Final line,
Speaker 2: the solution is simple and timeless. Pick up a pen.
Speaker 3: I was like, man.
Speaker 2: And so last night I kept trying, excuse me, I
Speaker 2: have allergies. You know, last night I kept trying to
Speaker 2: figure out what this woman's name was. Of course, I
Speaker 2: couldn't think of it, this Norwegian, Audrey Vandermeer. And I
Speaker 2: really wanted to convey this story because I'm noticing a
Speaker 2: lot of people talking about this thing called brain fog,
Speaker 2: which I think there's a few sources for that. But
Speaker 2: I also think part of why you can't remember things like,
Speaker 2: you know, we don't do it anymore. We don't remember
Speaker 2: phone numbers. We don't remember addresses, you know. And even
Speaker 2: like if I have a business call, I take a
Speaker 2: pen out. I take my notebook out and I take notes.
Speaker 2: Not because ChatGPT isn't going to get it for me
Speaker 2: on the Google Meets and they have Gemini and it
Speaker 2: records everything and I get all my notes spitted out
Speaker 2: to me. And that's great. Super helpful, right? Because you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: what did he say about blah, blah, blah. And you
Speaker 2: can go back and you can look for it and
Speaker 2: find it. And that's very cool. But one of the
Speaker 2: things that I would like to do is make my
Speaker 2: own notes. Like, you know, so-and-so said this, they seem
Speaker 2: super excited when they said it. Like that's not going
Speaker 2: to be in an AI bot taking notes behind this
Speaker 2: video call. So there are just things that I think
Speaker 2: really do help and You know, I think of when
Speaker 2: I was younger, I used to love to write poetry
Speaker 2: and music and all that kind of stuff. And how
Speaker 2: often I wrote, I mean, I would sit for hours
Speaker 2: writing lyrics and lines and all the things. And then,
Speaker 2: you know, you become an adult and you lose that.
Speaker 2: Even reading, right? Holding an actual book. Like I know
Speaker 2: people love Kindles. I happen to be a big fan
Speaker 2: of books and I'm doing all this reading with my
Speaker 2: son right now for school. And it's so nice to
Speaker 2: hold a paperback book and just go through it and
Speaker 2: read it with him and stop and Even when we're
Speaker 2: like in church on Sundays, you know, and I'll be,
Speaker 2: you know, reading the verse in church and following along,
Speaker 2: you know, with the priest. And I'm like, oh, here
Speaker 2: we are. This is the section we're in. And, you know,
Speaker 2: we read it together. Like there's something to holding a book.
Speaker 2: And I really do think it's not lost on me.
Speaker 2: That's for sure how important it is. And there was
Speaker 2: an article out a couple of days ago in the
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania Capital Star and Education Week. And they also did
Speaker 2: a similar study to this. It says brain scans show
Speaker 2: the improvement teachers see in their students. Researchers put 256
Speaker 2: sensors into a hairnet and had 36 students write words
Speaker 2: by hand and then type the same words they had
Speaker 2: just written by hand on a screen. Writing by hand
Speaker 2: lit up connections across the entire brain and all the
Speaker 2: frequency bands that are tied to memory. produced almost nothing
Speaker 2: in the same regions. So the conclusion was, I mean,
Speaker 2: it was a harsh conclusion, right? Children have to be
Speaker 2: exposed to handwriting in school from an early age so
Speaker 2: that they can build these connections that the brain needs
Speaker 2: for learning and for their memory, you know? And it's like,
Speaker 2: we're not saying no to screens. We're just saying, get
Speaker 2: back to basics. The incorporation of technology is a wonderful thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, truly, like I look at something like Elon
Speaker 2: Musk and Neuralink the ability to have paralyzed people walk again,
Speaker 2: the ability to give blind people the gift of sight,
Speaker 2: you know, whether they never had it or they're getting
Speaker 2: it back. I mean, there are some tremendous progressions and
Speaker 2: advancements in technology. But the idea that we have to
Speaker 2: only use technology, only be on a screen, only go
Speaker 2: to AI, I just think we're losing so much of
Speaker 2: our creative faculties. You know, that's a gift from God.
Speaker 2: I mean, we are these living beings here. We're here
Speaker 2: for such a short time. I looked at my husband
Speaker 2: a couple days ago and I said, none of this matters. Like,
Speaker 2: it just doesn't. I mean, the generation before us knows
Speaker 2: who we are and maybe a couple generations after us,
Speaker 2: like our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren will remember us, maybe. And
Speaker 2: then that's it, guys, you know? So enjoy these things
Speaker 2: that you have at your disposal now because so much
Speaker 2: of what you think matters doesn't. And so much of
Speaker 2: what you spend time on is so unimportant. You know,
Speaker 2: when you're sitting on your phone, I look at, you know,
Speaker 2: this tech neck, this head bob, this bulge on your neck,
Speaker 2: because you don't look up anymore, right? Where people that,
Speaker 2: I mean, had this epidemic a while ago, a little
Speaker 2: bit off the beaten path here, guys, sorry, but it's
Speaker 2: kind of a funny story. Not funny, haha, but oh
Speaker 2: my God, I can't believe this is actually happening. But
Speaker 2: they were doing these stories in China. I guess there's
Speaker 2: a lot of sidewalk work in China. I don't know.
Speaker 2: And they kept having people fall into these manholes and
Speaker 2: these construction zones because everybody was on their phone. And
Speaker 2: I will tell you, as somebody who, you know, spent
Speaker 2: a lot of time in New York and still commutes
Speaker 2: there from time to time for work, people definitely are
Speaker 2: walking with their head down. It doesn't matter how busy
Speaker 2: the street is. They're on subway platforms. Like Guys, you know,
Speaker 2: the third rail, it's electric for real. Like that's not
Speaker 2: just a song. That is a reality when you fall
Speaker 2: on it because you wanted to look at something on Instagram. Like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, just a very sort of strange time
Speaker 2: when you're unable to use your motor functions without looking
Speaker 2: at your phone. I mean, I watch these kids in
Speaker 2: the neighborhood and they go out for a walk and
Speaker 2: instead of just walking and taking in whatever is around you,
Speaker 2: they're on their phone. Now talking on your phone is
Speaker 2: a different thing. I don't use earbuds anymore because I
Speaker 2: think they're doing something screwy with your brain, but I'll
Speaker 2: hold my phone and talk on the phone. I'll talk
Speaker 2: to my mom or my friends or whoever. But this
Speaker 2: idea that we have to constantly be stimulated by a show,
Speaker 2: a podcast, well, unless you're listening to mine, of course,
Speaker 2: but all kidding aside, the idea that you can't, you
Speaker 2: have to look at a screen is the scary thing.
Speaker 2: You want to listen I think the medium of listening
Speaker 2: is a really special skill. I don't think a lot
Speaker 2: of people have it. I think people are always thinking
Speaker 2: about what they're going to say, the next thing they're
Speaker 2: going to say. And I have this thing that I
Speaker 2: say all the time, which is, oh, not to interrupt you,
Speaker 2: but to interrupt you, which is like a joke in
Speaker 2: our family. But sometimes I say it because I want
Speaker 2: to go back to something they said previously. And sometimes
Speaker 2: I say it because they're about to move on to
Speaker 2: something else. And I'm like, wait, I just want to
Speaker 2: comment on one thing. Maybe we'll pivot for a minute.
Speaker 2: You know, there are times where that works, but there
Speaker 2: are other times where you just need to listen. You know,
Speaker 2: there are times when people are talking to you, not
Speaker 2: because they want your opinion, but because they want you
Speaker 2: to hear theirs. And I just think that all of
Speaker 2: these skills, all of these things that you do they
Speaker 2: really are gravely affected by the choices you make every
Speaker 2: day when it comes to screen time and using your
Speaker 2: abilities as a human being, what God gave you when
Speaker 2: you were born. And so anyways, I know I'm down
Speaker 2: a little bit of a rabbit trail here, but I
Speaker 2: really did just want to share that with you guys
Speaker 2: because I was doing the show yesterday. I'm like, I
Speaker 2: have to talk to them about this. So Speaking of
Speaker 2: things that you do in your present life and you
Speaker 2: wonder why other people are so horrible, I don't know
Speaker 2: if you guys have ever seen this, but on social
Speaker 2: media and YouTube, they have these guys that go out
Speaker 2: and they help disabled veterans. They help the elderly. They
Speaker 2: help people who are in some sort of situation that
Speaker 2: they are unable to take care of their properties and
Speaker 2: they go and they clean them up. And they do
Speaker 2: these like time-lapse videos where you see them turn these
Speaker 2: like overgrown, tons of weeds, you know, lawns that you
Speaker 2: could like, literally they're as tall as you. And they
Speaker 2: go in and they chop them all down and they
Speaker 2: get these houses and these properties back to what they
Speaker 2: once were, clean up all the trash and so on
Speaker 2: and so forth so that the person living in the
Speaker 2: house maybe can find their way to, you know, keeping
Speaker 2: it that way now, or at least hiring a service
Speaker 2: that maybe previously didn't want to take on such a
Speaker 2: big project. So I read this story today and it's
Speaker 2: in Atlanta and this lawn care crew finds this disabled
Speaker 2: veteran's home and it's just covered in like weeds and
Speaker 2: everything is overgrown. The HOA is fining the poor bastard
Speaker 2: $ 50 a day because his yard's unkept, right? So the
Speaker 2: team shows up, they offer to like mow the lawn,
Speaker 2: clean the whole property completely for free. They just want
Speaker 2: to help. The HOA president who was fining the guy
Speaker 2: $ 50 a day for not keeping up his yard called
Speaker 2: the police. And he says, well, the volunteers, they don't
Speaker 2: have a vendor permit and they're trespassing. I'm like, explain
Speaker 2: to me how pathetic your life is. That instead of A,
Speaker 2: being glad that what you've wanted all along is finally happening.
Speaker 2: And B, this veteran is getting the service for free.
Speaker 2: You are instead calling 911. I'm pretty sure they got
Speaker 2: better things to do on these people and saying they
Speaker 2: don't have a permit to be on the property. They're
Speaker 2: not building anything. They're not doing anything that could harm
Speaker 2: another property. They're literally cleaning it up. That's all they're doing.
Speaker 2: The officer arrives. He hears the story. He tells the
Speaker 2: HOA to take a hike and lets the crew finish.
Speaker 2: But I just, these are the types of people. It's
Speaker 2: like a show I did a few months ago where
Speaker 2: the woman was like another HOA board and it was
Speaker 2: the community pool. And she was saying, you know, it's
Speaker 2: fine for the kids to swim. But when the splashing
Speaker 2: becomes aggressive, that's not play anymore. And I'm like, ma'am,
Speaker 2: what is happening that you want to regulate the splashing?
Speaker 2: How bad is your life? What is happening in your life?
Speaker 2: Do you, you don't have one friend? You didn't run
Speaker 2: this idea by anybody and they're like, yeah, it's probably
Speaker 2: not a thing. Maybe just sit on that. These are,
Speaker 2: but this is the stuff, right? Every day people do
Speaker 2: really strange shit. And you're like, I don't understand why
Speaker 2: you're getting involved. And it's silly, but it dovetails into
Speaker 2: the deeper issues that we talk about, like the trans stuff,
Speaker 2: where it's like, OK, you're crazy. You want to say
Speaker 2: that you identify as something that you are not. And
Speaker 2: for some reason, you have found a way to make
Speaker 2: money off of this. Either you're an influencer, you're a
Speaker 2: viral sensation, Your doctors are making money off of it.
Speaker 2: So they're willing to give you your treatments for free
Speaker 2: until they're not, but then you're too locked in. So
Speaker 2: then you have to pay for it. Like the systemic
Speaker 2: effect of these people that have mental illness that we
Speaker 2: are now saying, you know, no trans people are people
Speaker 2: and they're humans. I'm not arguing that they're not human.
Speaker 2: I'm not arguing that they're not alive. I'm not arguing
Speaker 2: that they don't have feelings and hearts and minds like
Speaker 2: the rest of us. What I am saying is that
Speaker 2: the people that are profiting off of their crazy, And
Speaker 2: then telling the rest of us that we have to
Speaker 2: sign up to be as crazy. That's all bullshit. Like,
Speaker 2: I'm not doing that. I don't know whose idea this
Speaker 2: was that we all had to sign on, but it's
Speaker 2: not for me. You know, you may want to dress
Speaker 2: up and say that you're Lily, but everybody knows you're Luke.
Speaker 2: And as far as we can tell, you still got
Speaker 2: all the parts that Luke was born with. So this
Speaker 2: idea that you want to come into a bathroom or
Speaker 2: come into a changing room or be on the cheerleading team,
Speaker 2: like I'm just so over it, you know? I saw
Speaker 2: this super sad story today about this woman and she
Speaker 2: was talking about, you know, these, how we have to
Speaker 2: like affirm, right? This is their big word. We need
Speaker 2: gender affirmation. And this woman was like, you know, I
Speaker 2: do believe that we should affirm children's beliefs and stop
Speaker 2: telling them that something is wrong with their God-given healthy
Speaker 2: bodies because you guys want to, you want to twist
Speaker 2: them up. You want to tell them something That's not true.
Speaker 2: And so this woman talks about her daughter who, you know,
Speaker 2: she was telling her she's wonderful and you're beautiful and
Speaker 2: all the things. And then she goes to school and
Speaker 2: they're telling her, no, you're right. You are in the
Speaker 2: wrong body. You do need hormones. You should have transition surgery.
Speaker 2: She's in high school. So then she goes through all
Speaker 2: of this stuff, all of these lunatic teachers and counselors,
Speaker 2: They're all telling her that she's right and she's crazy.
Speaker 2: And the reason that she feels like this is because
Speaker 2: she's in the wrong body. All this bullshit, right? She
Speaker 2: cuts off the parents, gets the drugs, goes on still
Speaker 2: believing there's something wrong with her body. Because the affirming
Speaker 2: that she needed was somebody to say, hey, you're great
Speaker 2: just the way you are. You're doing just fine. You're 15,
Speaker 2: you're 16, you're 17. That is a time in your
Speaker 2: life where your hormones are insane. You are changing, you're
Speaker 2: turning into an adult, and you normally do not have
Speaker 2: all your faculties about you most of the time, which
Speaker 2: is why you make such bad decisions. Any normal parent
Speaker 2: is going to say to you, uh-huh, well, you're not
Speaker 2: chopping anything off. You're not taking anything. Have a nice day.
Speaker 2: Go upstairs. Take a minute. If you want to talk
Speaker 2: about it, I'm here for you all day. Happy to
Speaker 2: discuss it. And by the way, which teacher was it
Speaker 2: that said they wanted to help you do this? Because
Speaker 2: I'm going to go to the school right now and
Speaker 2: make sure they get fired. That's what needs to happen.
Speaker 2: And parents need to be more engaged. They need to
Speaker 2: understand the day-to-day that your kids are having at school
Speaker 2: is not learning math and English. They are indoctrinating your
Speaker 2: kids every day. Now, I'm not saying every teacher because
Speaker 2: there are conservative teachers. There's not a lot of them,
Speaker 2: but they're there. And unfortunately, our kids are being inundated
Speaker 2: with this constant nonsense. I saw a guy today also, oh,
Speaker 2: and by the way, full circle on that story, this
Speaker 2: poor girl does all the things, takes all the drugs,
Speaker 2: cuts her family off and then committed suicide because she
Speaker 2: still didn't feel whole. Whatever was wrong in her mind,
Speaker 2: whatever was making her feel like she wasn't enough had
Speaker 2: nothing to do with her being a boy or a girl.
Speaker 2: It had to do with her having some sort of
Speaker 2: feeling of insecurity and her parents should have had the
Speaker 2: right to walk that walk with her. But instead they
Speaker 2: were like, no, you don't have a right to say that.
Speaker 2: We're going to cut you off now because you're not
Speaker 2: affirming your child. And now her child is dead. You
Speaker 2: think any of those counselors or teachers give a shit?
Speaker 2: You think they called her and said, hey, we're really
Speaker 2: sorry about that. We made a mistake. We shouldn't have
Speaker 2: told your kid to turn into a boy when she
Speaker 2: was a girl. Maybe she had deeper issues. These people
Speaker 2: have no idea what they're doing or what they're saying
Speaker 2: most of the time. They are literally profiting off of
Speaker 2: all of these disgusting, affirmations that they say are necessary.
Speaker 2: It is a lifetime of being on drugs. It is
Speaker 2: a lifetime of being on SSRIs and hormones and all
Speaker 2: these other things. And the mountains of money that the
Speaker 2: education system and the unions and all these pharmaceutical companies
Speaker 2: are making off of our children is criminal. And as parents,
Speaker 2: we have to stand up to it. It may not
Speaker 2: be popular. You might not be invited to every brunch
Speaker 2: and hangout, you might not be the one that when
Speaker 2: you walk into the meeting at school, they're not excited
Speaker 2: to see you. That's all very possible. But aren't your
Speaker 2: kids worth it? Isn't that something that you care about?
Speaker 2: And let's be honest, you know, the medical field is
Speaker 2: not what it once was. You know, there were people,
Speaker 2: I remember my doctor from when I was a kid, Dr. Barrow,
Speaker 2: this guy was a soul to the earth. You know,
Speaker 2: he was one of those guys, he looked at you,
Speaker 2: he knew what was wrong with you and he told
Speaker 2: you what to do, like awesome, right? But that's not
Speaker 2: What we have now, now the system is so impersonal.
Speaker 2: Now the doctors are so condescending and they could care less, right?
Speaker 2: They won't take a phone call. They won't, you know,
Speaker 2: come back to you and say, Hey, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: really interested in, in what you're doing or, you know,
Speaker 2: or what's happening with you. I want to know how
Speaker 2: that medicine is working out. And I will tell you recently,
Speaker 2: my husband and I have had the privilege of of
Speaker 2: working with a doctor who gave us his cell phone
Speaker 2: number and followed up on our daughter on Sundays. I mean,
Speaker 2: he would call, how's everything going? Is that medicine working
Speaker 2: out for her? And I'm like, this guy's like an alien.
Speaker 2: He's just a different kind of doctor. He still cares.
Speaker 2: And so I was Looking today at this woman, Elizabeth Potter,
Speaker 2: I think she's a surgeon, but she is such an
Speaker 2: amazing doctor. She's the one who filmed herself doing the
Speaker 2: call with the insurance company. And she was explaining to
Speaker 2: the insurance company the reason why her patient needed the
Speaker 2: breast surgery because she has breast cancer. And she filmed
Speaker 2: the whole call. I think it's like two hours long.
Speaker 2: And it's her trying to get the insurance company to
Speaker 2: approve the surgery so that they'll pay for it. They
Speaker 2: ultimately denied her patient. That's what happened. And the idea
Speaker 2: that the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies have the
Speaker 2: right to deny your patient what they need as determined by,
Speaker 2: you know, the, the doctors, it's insane. I mean, people
Speaker 2: who work in insurance companies and pharmacies, these are not doctors.
Speaker 2: They're not seeing the patients, but ultimately they get the
Speaker 2: final say on what the patient can receive, how it
Speaker 2: can receive it, and how much it's going to cost.
Speaker 2: So anyways, Elizabeth Potter, MD, if you don't follow her,
Speaker 2: please do because she's fantastic. So today she was explaining
Speaker 2: something called CPT. So these are the current procedural terminology
Speaker 2: codes that physicians use to show like how they care
Speaker 2: for a patient, and then that's how they bill for it.
Speaker 2: And Wall Street Apes, who I love, reposted it. And
Speaker 2: he explains that the medical billing codes required by the
Speaker 2: medical system in the United States of America are technically
Speaker 2: owned by a nonprofit. The nonprofit makes over $ 300 million
Speaker 2: a year in royalties from the codes. Then they take
Speaker 2: that money and they donate them to special interests and
Speaker 2: politicians that they like. So all of this is jacking
Speaker 2: up the price of healthcare. I mean, it's insane. So
Speaker 2: take a listen to her. She's, I just think she's
Speaker 2: hysterical the way she says it. She wants, she's not
Speaker 2: what your take first, but here's what's going on.
Speaker 4: Why is the American Medical Association being sued? And what
Speaker 4: do we need to know about it? The American Medical
Speaker 4: Association is being sued. for making people pay for the
Speaker 4: use of CPT codes. It's something that they copyright and
Speaker 4: it's how we as physicians have to communicate about things
Speaker 4: that we do that we have to bill for. It's
Speaker 4: called current procedural terminology. So CPT codes are something that
Speaker 4: we interact with every day and we have to pay
Speaker 4: for the privilege of using them. Like they're copyrighted. And
Speaker 4: actually AMA made $ 300 million last year licensing these things.
Speaker 4: So I'm curious, if you're a patient, what has been
Speaker 4: your experience with CPT codes? Like, do you know anything
Speaker 4: about them? I expect you probably do, especially if you
Speaker 4: have breast cancer. And then second, if you're a provider,
Speaker 4: I want to know what you have seen with CPT codes.
Speaker 4: Do you think there are problems with them? I have
Speaker 4: some opinions about that and I'm going to share some
Speaker 4: of that with you. But first I want to hear
Speaker 4: from you.
Speaker 2: So how amazing is she? First of all, right here,
Speaker 2: she is a young doctor talking about the fraud in
Speaker 2: her own industry, probably at her own risk. And I'm
Speaker 2: sure she's not real popular at her hospital. But again,
Speaker 2: she's explaining the system is rigged and it's not rigged
Speaker 2: to make you healthier. It's not rigged to help you.
Speaker 2: It is rigged against you. It is rigged to make
Speaker 2: everything more expensive and harder to do. And as we're
Speaker 2: learning now, as more and more people are taking the
Speaker 2: ivermectin and the fembendazole protocols to defeat stage four cancers
Speaker 2: in all different parts of the body and having not
Speaker 2: just some success, but constant success, you start to wonder,
Speaker 2: why did we create chemotherapy? Why is it that we
Speaker 2: were able to push a vaccine through for a virus
Speaker 2: that never existed that we created as a biochemical weapon
Speaker 2: against our own people? but we still don't have a
Speaker 2: cure for cancer after all these years. It's all money, guys.
Speaker 2: And a lot of you already know that, right? We
Speaker 2: already know that it's about the money. We already know
Speaker 2: that it's about the almighty dollar. We already know that
Speaker 2: it's wrong and that they don't care if you die.
Speaker 2: They care if they can make money off of you dying.
Speaker 2: And that's the sad part, right? Another area where the
Speaker 2: government is stepping in and doing the wrong thing is
Speaker 2: with these flock cameras. Now, I'm going to tell you
Speaker 2: truth be told, I had no idea what a flaw
Speaker 2: camera was two months ago. I have not been following
Speaker 2: this story, not at all. And then I started seeing
Speaker 2: all of the people covering them up, taking them down,
Speaker 2: telling you that this is an invasion of your privacy. Now,
Speaker 2: obviously the people that are putting them up are saying,
Speaker 2: but this is your safety. It's just an automatic license
Speaker 2: plate reader. It has nothing to do with anything that
Speaker 2: you're doing. We're not trying to look at you. We're
Speaker 2: not trying to invade your space. This is not an
Speaker 2: invasion of privacy. In fact, just the opposite. This is
Speaker 2: to protect you from people who could be out and
Speaker 2: about doing God knows what, and it's not right. And so,
Speaker 2: you know, we're here to make sure that, you know,
Speaker 2: you're protected and we're getting, you know, the right people
Speaker 2: off the street and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
Speaker 2: So I'm like, huh, I'm like, that's really interesting. I
Speaker 2: don't know too much about this. And so essentially these
Speaker 2: cameras are going up, you know, they were saying in 2023,
Speaker 2: there was like several hundred of them around the country.
Speaker 2: Now there's several hundred thousand of them in a matter
Speaker 2: of three years. And I was trying to figure out like,
Speaker 2: what's the get, why is this happening? And I saw
Speaker 2: this guy, he was at one of these city council
Speaker 2: hearings and he was standing up and explaining to them
Speaker 2: that he was an IT professional and that he had
Speaker 2: for a very long time been someone who was, you know,
Speaker 2: in top C-suite positions, making sure that, you know, certain
Speaker 2: things worked a certain kind of way. And so what
Speaker 2: was interesting about that is he's explaining all of this
Speaker 2: and going through everything. And as he's doing that, you know, he's,
Speaker 2: he's unpacking what's really in the language about what these
Speaker 2: flock cameras do. And this is about two minutes, definitely
Speaker 2: worth a listen. This guy knows his shit. And it's
Speaker 2: very scary what they're trying to do to us as Americans.
Speaker 5: My name is Brett, and I've been a Corona resident
Speaker 5: in District 4 for 15 years. I'm here to introduce
Speaker 5: DeFlock Corona, a community coalition asking this council to cancel
Speaker 5: the city's contract with flock safety and remove the cameras
Speaker 5: that have been deployed throughout our city. Our website is deflock-corona.org.
Speaker 5: I'm here because new flock cameras were recently installed between
Speaker 5: my home and my daughter's school. So now every time
Speaker 5: I make that drive, my family's being photographed. and logged
Speaker 5: into a giant corporate database. I want to be clear
Speaker 5: what these cameras actually are, and I say that with
Speaker 5: somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I've served
Speaker 5: as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies. I've
Speaker 5: designed data centers, and today I work on cloud infrastructure
Speaker 5: for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country.
Speaker 5: I'm not speculating on how this technology works. I've read
Speaker 5: their patents, and I know how it works. Flock advertises
Speaker 5: these cameras as simple license plate readers. Their own patents
Speaker 5: tell a different story. They're AI-powered surveillance machines that capture
Speaker 5: every passing vehicle in person and transmit that data to
Speaker 5: a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude
Speaker 5: of state and federal agencies. The city of Corona does
Speaker 5: not control that database, and Corona residents have no public
Speaker 5: record rights against a private company's servers. Our daily movements
Speaker 5: are being harvested by a $ 7. 5 billion corporation that only
Speaker 5: answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did
Speaker 5: not reach that valuation on their per camera subscription fees.
Speaker 5: That math doesn't add up. The city council should also
Speaker 5: understand who they're doing business with. Flock's CEO was asked
Speaker 5: whether the company had any federal contracts. He said, no,
Speaker 5: that was a lie. Public records revealed that Flock had
Speaker 5: been secretly running a pilot program, giving the U.S. Border
Speaker 5: Patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge
Speaker 5: of the cities that paid for the cameras. Now consider
Speaker 5: who's behind the company and where your data flows. Flock
Speaker 5: integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform with a
Speaker 5: $ 30 million contract with ICE. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir,
Speaker 5: is also one of Flock's primary investors. These are not
Speaker 5: separate companies with separate agendas. They are connected actors that
Speaker 5: are building a connected infrastructure. Palantir's own CEO stated publicly
Speaker 5: just this month that his technology is being used as
Speaker 5: a political instrument designed to reduce the political power of
Speaker 5: certain voters. And that's the ecosystem that our Corona cameras
Speaker 5: are feeding into. We're not anti-police at all. We're against
Speaker 5: mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a
Speaker 5: documented record of deception built by investors with a stated
Speaker 5: political agenda. We're asking the city council to start auditing
Speaker 5: the queries made against Flock's database to disclose any data
Speaker 5: sharing agreements and to take a vote to cancel the
Speaker 5: Flock safety contract.
Speaker 2: So here's what I would say. I don't know. if
Speaker 2: everything he's saying there about political agendas is true or not.
Speaker 2: I don't actually believe a whole lot in political agendas anymore.
Speaker 2: I believe in an elite structure of a superpower government
Speaker 2: and then the working class humans, right? Just the everyday
Speaker 2: people that are living their lives. So we, the voters,
Speaker 2: we think that there's a two party system. We now
Speaker 2: have some people that are saying that there's another part
Speaker 2: of the system, you know, the socialists and all this
Speaker 2: other bullshit, but I personally feel it's an us versus
Speaker 2: them system. So whether Palantir and Peter Thiel and all
Speaker 2: these other people are, are in this for nefarious reasons
Speaker 2: or not, the number one issue that I have with
Speaker 2: the flock cameras is I don't actually know if they
Speaker 2: are going after illegal aliens as their sole purpose, if
Speaker 2: they're looking at license plates because they're trying to track
Speaker 2: illegal aliens that may be doing human trafficking or sex trafficking.
Speaker 2: And if they are, that's fantastic. The problem is that
Speaker 2: that's not all they're doing, right? They're all over the
Speaker 2: place and they're tracking regular people just walking, just with
Speaker 2: their dog, with their baby strollers. They get to see
Speaker 2: your patterns. They get to see your schedule. These are
Speaker 2: the types of things, this type of data, that then
Speaker 2: gets sold to data brokers. I was talking to a
Speaker 2: very well-known tech radio host. Her name's Kim Commando. And
Speaker 2: she told me that every person in the United States
Speaker 2: has 3,000 data points that these people have on them.
Speaker 2: And You can buy a list from a data broker
Speaker 2: for as little as $ 2 to $ 3. And then they
Speaker 2: can go and search you up, find your phone numbers,
Speaker 2: your address, find out your patterns, call you. They do
Speaker 2: all this weird stuff to senior citizens where they tell
Speaker 2: them like, oh, your computer's been hacked. And then they
Speaker 2: take 30 grand out of their bank account because they
Speaker 2: don't know any better because they have so much information
Speaker 2: on them. And the reason that they have so much
Speaker 2: information on them is because of the fact that we
Speaker 2: are the product. We are not being targeted for advertising.
Speaker 2: We are being targeted to be sold. That is something
Speaker 2: that I think is lost on a lot of people.
Speaker 2: You download apps, you look on your social media, they're
Speaker 2: tracking everything you do so that they can sell you products.
Speaker 2: But then they're also selling you to their sponsors, to
Speaker 2: other advertisers through all these synergistic deals that they have
Speaker 2: on the side. And these flock cameras are no different,
Speaker 2: except they take it one step further, which is that
Speaker 2: they are literally invading your every move. They're looking inside
Speaker 2: of your car. They can see how many kids you have.
Speaker 2: Do you have a dog? Do you have a cat?
Speaker 2: Do you drive alone? Then they can look at other things, right?
Speaker 2: If the app is picking up, oh, this person went
Speaker 2: out really late. This person is driving too fast. This
Speaker 2: person drives and breaks erratically. And then suddenly your car
Speaker 2: insurance goes up and you don't know how they know
Speaker 2: about all this stuff. because they're collecting it on you.
Speaker 2: It is a complete invasion of privacy and it is
Speaker 2: a complete and total mistreatment of the fourth amendment in
Speaker 2: our constitution, which obviously goes into the whole Patriot Act
Speaker 2: and everything else. That's another show. But my point in
Speaker 2: all of this is the speed at which the flock
Speaker 2: cameras are going up and they are tracking your everyday
Speaker 2: movements It's a little nerve wracking, I have to be honest.
Speaker 2: And I am learning more and more about it. And
Speaker 2: I might even try and bring an expert on the
Speaker 2: show to talk about it because I feel like I
Speaker 2: need to do that. But that's the type of research.
Speaker 2: That's the type of information. You know, clearly that guy's
Speaker 2: in California and he has his own personal political agendas.
Speaker 2: And he's like, oh, they're doing it because they want
Speaker 2: to marginalize people and they don't want them to vote.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know if that's exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 2: I think that there may have other reasons for wanting
Speaker 2: to do that. And I think that regardless of who
Speaker 2: you're voting for, they want your information because, again, what
Speaker 2: did I say 15 minutes ago? It all comes back
Speaker 2: to money. What can they make off of you? They
Speaker 2: can make a lot off of you if they know
Speaker 2: everything about you. That's for damn sure. And then speaking
Speaker 2: of research and things that are really wild, I have
Speaker 2: this story, which I think is incredible. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you guys know Barry Weiss. She's pretty phenomenal. She's
Speaker 2: an interesting person. She's not a Republican. She's not a Democrat.
Speaker 2: She's taken over CBS News. She got a lot of
Speaker 2: heat for it. She's kind of a middle of the rotor.
Speaker 2: I think she might be a lot like us, hating
Speaker 2: everybody equally. So it kind of works out. But she
Speaker 2: did this interview with this guy, Ronald, excuse me, Roland
Speaker 2: Fryer on the Free Press. And he is a Harvard professor.
Speaker 2: And so I'll give you the background and then I'm
Speaker 2: going to play you the cut because it is so interesting.
Speaker 2: So Roland Fryer, ran the numbers on millions of police
Speaker 2: encounters to show low-level force showed some racial bias, right?
Speaker 2: People really liked that finding, seeing that there was racial
Speaker 2: bias in these encounters with police. Then he did the
Speaker 2: same type of research on police shootings, and it showed none.
Speaker 2: So now, obviously, as a professor and doing this research,
Speaker 2: he thought it was going to show the opposite. So
Speaker 2: then he goes and he hires another team of researchers
Speaker 2: and they got the same results. So in discussing his
Speaker 2: findings with his colleagues, they tell him not to publish it.
Speaker 2: You're going to ruin your career. And they said they
Speaker 2: wanted the convenient half of the paper to be published.
Speaker 2: And then they wanted the inconvenient half to be buried.
Speaker 2: So he published both. And he's talking about how people
Speaker 2: were like, you're risking your career. Like you can't do
Speaker 2: this because he was telling the truth. about race and policing.
Speaker 2: And before I play this cut, I will tell you,
Speaker 2: I remember a really interesting comment from a police officer
Speaker 2: that we had on another show once. And I asked
Speaker 2: him how he felt about the race issues. And he said,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm always surprised when people say, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: you're in these black neighborhoods and you're arresting black people
Speaker 2: and it's racially motivated and blah, blah, blah. And I
Speaker 2: am of the opinion that a lot of things are
Speaker 2: racially motivated. There's a lot of black on Asian crime,
Speaker 2: a lot of black on white crime, a lot of
Speaker 2: black on Hispanic crime. black on black crime, Hispanic on
Speaker 2: Hispanic crime, so on and so forth, right? But the
Speaker 2: data points don't always support the white on black crime.
Speaker 2: Not saying that it doesn't happen, but not in the
Speaker 2: way that the race baiters want it to be, right?
Speaker 2: So it was interesting to see this guy come out
Speaker 2: and put this report out. And there's been a lot
Speaker 2: of studies at the Manhattan Institute, actually, with Heather McDonald.
Speaker 2: She's done a ton of research on this. And she
Speaker 2: gets death threats on a daily basis because They can't
Speaker 2: stand that she puts out these reports that are rooted
Speaker 2: in facts, not feelings, right? Because that gets uncomfortable. But
Speaker 2: this police officer was telling me, he was like, you know,
Speaker 2: we go to the neighborhoods where there's crime. We're not
Speaker 2: going to a neighborhood because there's black people. We're going
Speaker 2: to a neighborhood because there was a murder committed on,
Speaker 2: you know, one, two, three, four ABC street. Oh, okay.
Speaker 2: So ABC street happens to be in a black community.
Speaker 2: Should we not go there? because we're not black, or
Speaker 2: maybe one officer's black and one officer's white, or they're
Speaker 2: not both black. Who knows? That is the misconception about
Speaker 2: policing in troubled neighborhoods. If your neighborhood is troubled, you're
Speaker 2: going to have police there. That's it. It's just that simple.
Speaker 2: And now you have all of these lunatics, like the
Speaker 2: hokals of the world, who say she's going to arrest
Speaker 2: her own police if they work with federal agents and
Speaker 2: try and enforce the law. You have police literally going
Speaker 2: in these neighborhoods with their hands tied. They don't know
Speaker 2: what to do. because they don't have the support of
Speaker 2: their political leadership because the political leadership is playing DEI
Speaker 2: woke politics. So anyways, good tea up here for Roland Fryer.
Speaker 2: Take a listen to this. Pretty interesting.
Speaker 3: I collected a lot of data. We collected millions of
Speaker 3: observations on everyday use of force that wasn't lethal. We
Speaker 3: collected thousands of observations on lethal force. And it was
Speaker 3: in this moment in 2016 that I realized People lose
Speaker 3: their minds when they don't like the result. So what
Speaker 3: my paper showed, you'll see tomorrow, like some of you,
Speaker 3: was that, yes, we saw some bias in the low-level
Speaker 3: uses of force, everyday pushing up against cars and things
Speaker 3: like that. People seemed to like that result. But we
Speaker 3: didn't find any racial bias in police shootings. Now, that
Speaker 3: was really surprising to me because I expected to see it.
Speaker 3: The little known fact is I had eight full-time RAs
Speaker 3: that it took to do this over nearly a year.
Speaker 3: When I found the surprising result, I hired eight fresh
Speaker 3: ones and redid it to make sure. They came up
Speaker 3: with the same exact answer and I thought it was
Speaker 3: robust and then I went to go give it and
Speaker 3: my God, all hell broke loose. It was a 104-page
Speaker 3: dense academic economics paper with a 150 page appendix, okay?
Speaker 3: It was posted for four minutes when I got my
Speaker 3: first email, this is full of shit. Doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: And I wrote back, how'd you read it that fast?
Speaker 2: That's amazing. You are a genius.
Speaker 3: And I had colleagues take me into the side and say,
Speaker 3: don't publish this. You'll ruin your career. I said, what
Speaker 3: are you talking about? I said, what's wrong with it?
Speaker 3: Do you believe the first part? Yes. Do you believe
Speaker 3: the second part? Well, it's the issue is they just
Speaker 3: don't fit together. We like the first one, but you
Speaker 3: should publish the second one another time. I said, let
Speaker 3: me ask this. If the second part about the police shootings,
Speaker 3: this is a literal conversation. I said to them, if
Speaker 3: the second part, um, showed bias, do you think I
Speaker 3: should publish it then? And they say, yeah, then it
Speaker 3: would make sense. And I said, I guarantee you I'll
Speaker 3: publish it. We'll see what happens. So it was, you know,
Speaker 3: I lived under police protection for about 30 or 40 days.
Speaker 3: I had a seven-day-old daughter at the time. I remember
Speaker 3: going and shopping for it because, you know, when you
Speaker 3: have a newborn, you think you have enough diapers. You don't.
Speaker 3: So I was going to the grocery store to get
Speaker 3: diapers with an armed guard.
Speaker 2: It was crazy.
Speaker 3: It was really, truly crazy.
Speaker 2: I absolutely loved this interview. And you can go to
Speaker 2: the fp.com. That's the free press. The whole interview is
Speaker 2: up there. I thought it was absolutely phenomenal. But this
Speaker 2: guy is a professor who, at Harvard I mean this
Speaker 2: is what he does he is a professor of economics
Speaker 2: and here he is at Harvard and they're freaking out
Speaker 2: because of the fact that this you know American economist
Speaker 2: this you know black professor at Harvard is saying uh
Speaker 2: I did a ton of research on this and I
Speaker 2: spent a lot of money and when it didn't come
Speaker 2: out the way I thought it would I actually redid
Speaker 2: it just because I knew there was gonna be so
Speaker 2: much pushback and yeah it's it's just not coming out
Speaker 2: the way we thought guys sorry And everybody freaks out
Speaker 2: because they're not getting the answer that they want. Again,
Speaker 2: don't let facts get in the way of your feelings
Speaker 2: or your desired outcome. Sometimes it just is what it is.
Speaker 2: You know, like if you can't fit in your little
Speaker 2: black dress, that little black dress is telling you that
Speaker 2: it's too little. You may not like that answer, but
Speaker 2: that is the answer. So on that note, I will
Speaker 2: leave you guys for tonight. I want to thank you
Speaker 2: for listening. I am Linda McLaughlin. Please check us out, roguerecap.com,
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Speaker 2: you tomorrow. Be safe out there. Good night, everybody.