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2:20Adviseryservices by Public Advisors LLC, SEC registered adviser. Generated assets is an interactive analysis tool. Output is for informational purposes only and is not an investment recommendation or advice. Complete disclosures available at puplik.com slash disclosures. Nice, you and I are both like beevins and bud headdresses during that day. No, nothing better than a good old fashion baseball fight. And you know the players are just it's an for it. Yeah. And they apparently started the beev started last night, right? last night, and then, uh, still divided today. The F and ball. And then he gets nailed. That was great, by the way, throw the F and ball and just strokes going down the left field line. Right. Yeah. And so, uh, then the reds retaliated, I believe in the eighth inning. It was seventh or eighth inning, I don't remember. But, uh, but yeah. But the bench was cleared, and then they cleared at their very end. Yeah, I guess the game's over. That's when you thought that we're really going to get out. Everybody comes out and just starts hugging and stuff. Come on now. Uh, wouldn't it be great if they

3:20just went out and see guys tackled up? Well, it was kind of screwy that, uh, it was a picture Phillips, uh, hit one of the Giants player and got tossed. No warning, no nothing. No one steer got hit. The guy stays in no problem. Yeah. Let's be asked. Well, that was a thing. He was the, uh, a steer was the one that, uh, called the guy out last night with them. He was going to throw the next pitch, and basically took all of the pitch clock before he threw it. Right. Right. And so that's when he said, throw the oven ball and blah, blah, blah. But, uh, yeah. You just don't see the, the good old fashioned Donnie Brooks. It's total melee. It's like he used to. Yeah. It's good. Yeah. I know MLB doesn't like it, but the fans do. Well, sure. They, it's a, when I was a kid. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When I was a kid, we used to go to the Dayton Gems game, uh, the late grade Dayton Gems, back in the day. And I didn't know

4:20anything about hockey, but I just wanted to see guys just be out of each other. Yeah. I was about 50. What do I care? I guess that's the most disappointing thing for me. I've been a one professional hockey game, went to a Nashville Proditor's game. Back when I lived in, I'm like, oh, my God, they're going to fight. No, we fought the whole time. Yeah. I guess I'm getting screwed here. I'm going to, when McConnell was living in Chicago, he and I took, or my two sons, to a black hockey game, because his station broadcast the games. So I had pretty decent tickets. And where is it? And he leans over to me about right at the beginning of the third period and says, uh, you know, we should probably get out of here, man. The traffic gets kind of crazy and you can't catch a newbie or anything. And I'm, hey, your town, and these guys are getting kind of bored anyway. I can only feed them so much peanuts and cotton candy. Right. And they don't understand anything that's going on in front of them. And so we leave.

5:21I came up the next day. And he, he was at work. And he sends me a test he goes, check the black hockey game last night. They went into a shootout. And oh, man. And we had left about 20 minutes before it happened. Yeah. Well, that's what you always see those, you know, those late game comebacks. And, you know, people are leaving, leaving. And then they're like, it's great TV when they show them trying to come back in and watch it. But, uh, to no avail, though, uh, reds lose, uh, three and nothing. The series finale. Reds got one hit, one stinking hit, as they say. Wow. The movie major league happened in the six inning. So I was looking at the reds of score as of last night. Well, and today they've scored 64 runs. Uh, you know, I was looking at the reds of score as of last night. Well, and today they've scored 64 runs. Um, and so that is fourth lowest in major league baseball. Giants, Royals, white socks, um, have scored fewer. And I didn't see what they've done today. But I mean, we're talking, you know, bottom four, bottom three in terms of runs scored major league

6:21baseball. It's not good. Uh, I gathered with the object of the game as the score more, more runs than the other team. Yes. You ain't going to do that too many times if you've got less hits than everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One hit today. Um, but later in the summer, Devin are going to go out to San Francisco. And the only reason we're going out there while it's her birthday. So I'm taking her out, uh, the napah valley and then uh, we're going to spend a couple of nights in San Francisco, but it's when the reds are out there. Oh, that's how I've got great. Going to go to a game. Yeah. Perfect. That's the reason I'm going that week. Oh, that is. The reds are playing that week. Because I, it's at the end of all August, yeah. So see if I can get to I'm here. Cowboy or somebody did a hook hook hook the boy in the box. Get a little shrimp flambat at this serve up there. Exactly, man. Police. There's Rockefeller, a little crab sandwich. Good to go. Hopefully, there has to be in a mix and I come August too. I would love to go there and see the old, the old

7:25tempers flare, old, there's old beef to be settled. Yes. I'd be great to be there. That'd be great. With that, we check in with traffic and weather. What is going on? Probably going to see a lot more hugging. It's like I said, back in the old days, and you see this guy squaring off and just swinging man, then another guy would come in from the back and hit the guy in the back of the head. These guys are out there patting each other in the back and hugging and like, eh, good to see you again. How's the wife? Yeah. I got a theory on all this by the way, but we'll maybe we'll talk about the next place. Sure. What's the Giants? It's San Francisco. So, you know, just put it together. From the UC Health Traffic Center, UC Cancer Center offers the latest research based and holistic approaches to head and neck cancer. No cancer is too rare. Call 585, UCCC for a second opinion. And we've got 75 South Bon after Sunday. Delays back to Tyler's World Road about an 18 minutes low down 75 South after 275. Right lane blocked here and Ronald

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9:31nine thrift stores to help families stay in their homes, put food on the table and access life saving medicine. St. Vincent DePaul, neighbors helping neighbors all season long. Right. He told the police that he had just left a liquor store and was returning home. According to the arrest report tied to the horse's saddle was a liquor store bag. Damn dead giveaway. The arrest report goes on describes his vehicle's make and model as other. So you can get arrested for a DUI on a horse. I did not know that. I did not know that either. I would have thought that might make it a pass on that. I understand ATVs and lawn mowers and all that. But the vehicle's year was listed as 2024. And it's color is brown. Nice. So I am, but I was with you. That's one of the first things I thought when I read this, because I'm sure our old buddy Jorge there thought the same thing. Like I can't arrest you

10:33for being drunk driving a right no horse. Well, I guess when you start going through people's front yards and stuff and you got a bottle of whiskey tied to your saddle. Not a good one. It could be a little less sticky. It's such a thing. Did you ever go to a George Jones concert? No, I was one or two, but that was very fantastic. Well, when he showed up, right? Right. And it was like, but that was the thing. You almost went to the show hoping he wouldn't show because then you could say, I went to a show, worked George Jones in show show didn't show it in show. But I also heard that when he did show up, he'd be drunk or in a monkey backstage and they'd walk him out on stage. He didn't barely even knew where he's at. He would sing like a fricking bird for an hour. So I've told this story. Stagger off guy I played with for the Titans. My same class, his name was Brad Castle. His, you know, he texts this guy and his dad was, you know, a big country music fan. George, he said exactly what you said. He said his dad went to a concert. He said

11:34literally they two guys aren't either side of Georgia holding him up. Like he can't even walk, can't even stand up. And he sang so unbelievably well. He said, this is like, it would look like, like fake. It was like, what in the hell is this guy came up? It's guy came and probably talk, but he can just, just sing it like no other. And I don't play button, man. And that, and that grade that we would have, what a skill coming up. We're going to be doing our usual Thursday segment with our friend PJ Street. Yes. And the topic disorder is, you know, everyone's on the GOP1 drugs and stuff. And what those do is they curtail your appetite. So you don't eat this. You don't gain the weight with because of calories. He's going to give us some tips on how to control hunger without the GOP ones and the five most filling low cow foods. There are. And that'll be next after the news news radio 700 WLW news traffic and weather news radio 700 WLW Cincinnati Trump optimistic. Iran will want to reach a deal with the four o'clock

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18:58right? The wagoves, the ozempics, all that, a huge hit, a lot of people using them, but there's people out there that don't want to use them, and also they're expensive, so maybe they can't get them that way. So are there ways that you can get the same effect, and these GOP ones work by curbing your appetite. Are there ways you can get the same effect without using the drugs? Yeah, I had a guy reach out to me. I think it was last week and via email and he said, man, half of my friends are on these drugs and they're always so full and they eat a little bit of food and they say they can't eat anymore. He's like, can I get that effect without spending the money on these drugs? And you can, maybe not to the same extent, but you can definitely feel fuller on fewer calories. That's what we're going to talk about here today. So when someone is dieting, and by the way, at any given time in the United States, 50% of U.S. adults are trying to lose weight. But when someone's dieting,

20:04the goal isn't to eat less food. It's to eat fewer calories. And that's probably the biggest mistake that I see people making when they're trying to lose weight, is that they try to eat less overall food. You know, they cut the portions way down. They're ravenous hungry all day. And that, you know, inevitably, they eventually fall off the wagon. A better strategy is to eat more food, but for fewer calories. So I'm going to give you five foods today. That's going to give you the most volume of food for the fewest number of calories. That way you can stay full and make weight loss a lot easier. Okay. So let's start with the biggest one, the best one, potatoes. Potatoes are the most satiating, filling food on the planet. As soon as you don't turn them into french fries, right? So damn. Yeah, it's a bummer. But you know, put it in context, like a large potato, large baked potato. Again, assuming you don't put sour cream and butter and

21:10cheese and bacon bits on it, is only about like 150 to 170 calories. All right. And that's a fairly, you know, volume-ness amount of food there. You know, same thing with people like the mini potatoes, like the Yukon Golds or the red potatoes, diced up or whatever. An entire pound of those is only going to be like 350 calories. And I'll tell you that, yeah, the typical person would have a hard time eating a pound of potatoes. So these are, you know, potatoes are extremely filling. And again, they are ranked the most satiating food on the planet. Let me stop you right there, because it's funny you say that as a number one, because I feel like the ass most people, you know, what are what's something to stay with all potatoes? God, there's all those carbs, right? Yeah, carbs. Yeah, that's interesting. But in reality, again, we're looking for high volume with a low calorie density in potatoes or just a terrific option there. And then second on my

22:13list would be leafy greens. So I'm talking about spinach, lettuce, mixed greens. So guys, you know those like those huge like one pound bags or plastic containers of leafy greens at the supermarket, you know, I'm talking about. And an entire one of those things is only a hundred calories. So this is why I'm a massive proponent of eating what I call the the big ass salad every day, because you can you can literally take an entire container of that, you know, add some some chicken, some some bell pepper, some onion, a low calorie dressing, and you will be full for hours. Yeah, well, that's the problem. In my case, I'm going to take that salad and I'm going to dump a half a bottle of thousand island dressing on it or some such. You know, that's some budget fetishies and a lot of stuff. Good to go. Well, you know, a lot of those like a lot of those like restaurant healthy salads, like if you really look at the calories, like some of those things are like 2000 calories. Yes. But but people think that it's a healthy option. It's all the added on fat

23:16that really drives that, you know, haywire. So potatoes, leafy greens, and then third on my list is fruit. And once again, people are going to freak out the fruit, carb, sugar, now fruit, particularly berries and watermelon, some of the highest volume lowest calories foods on the planet. So for instance, guys, you can eat a pound of watermelon, a pound, and it's only 140 calories. Strawberries, exact same thing. You can eat one of those massive containers of strawberries at the grocery store for 140 calories. Other berries like blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, they're going to be a little higher in calories, maybe like 200 to 250 per pound. But you're still getting a ton of volume for very few calories. Plus to boot, you're getting the fiber, you're getting the water content with both of those things are going to help keep you full. So the nice thing about fruit is you get the sweetness and the volume and the fiber without blowing your calorie budget.

24:16I guess my question would be especially some like watermelon, there's nothing to that. Is that satiating? Certainly not the same as like potatoes, right? Very few calories, I mean, it is carb calories, but it's just the massive water content. Water, yeah, yeah. And fiber, it's just going to sit in your gut, it's going to slow the gastric emptying. There was a whole, like I remember in the 80s, there was a whole, there was the watermelon diet. Yeah, one of my buddy's dads was on it, he was a Cincinnati cop and he would eat just watermelon all day long. So yeah, but but but honestly watermelon berries, you cannot go wrong with that. And then another one I think people are going to like, number four of my list is air pop popcorn. Again, no, not a bunch of butter on it, but extremely high volume food, relatively low calories, like five cups of popcorn, which is a lot, right? Yeah, it's only going to be about

25:19150 calories. So that's like a really good size bowl. If you're having movie nights, you know, Netflix night with the with the spouse or the kids, you know, you can have like this massive popcorn bowl for like 150 calories. Okay, that's one again, I wouldn't have thought of it. You know, again, because you know, obviously most people throw the butter and the salt on there, but if you if you can do without that, yeah, you can just snack away. And let me see as PJ, I mean, as part of eating, I assume is just like, like habit, like people say they smoke, not because they like smoke them, but just because it's kind of a like a ritual and you're kind of doing something, right? Is it the same with food where you just kind of eat for almost like to cure boredom kind of thing? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I mean, people eat for all kinds of reasons, you know, out of emotion, interest, dress, out at, you know, just like I was talking about, people just have literally, if they get on the couch at night, what's the first thing to do? You go check out the pantry, the freezer, get up the ice cream. So a lot of it is just habitual stuff.

26:20That can be changed though, you know, if you start to, you can change your taste buds and foods like what foods like what I'm talking about here. Again, most of them are pretty darn tasty or can be made to be tasty and you're going to get a ton of ton of food for very few calories. And that's really holy grail, you know, is to optimize the volume of your diet. And then I'll finish with this one. We've talked about protein, a ton on here. But again, protein or specific sources of protein anyway, ton of volume, very low calorie examples, egg whites, white, any type of white fish, tilapia cod, whatever shrimp, chicken breast, 96% lean ground beef, all of these, you're going to get a very nice volume of food for lower calories. I will tell you that there are proteins sources that you want to stay away from. Like people love salmon, they always think it's really healthy. And it is. But you get very little salmon for like 400 calories. Whereas if you go

27:24to a tilapia, you know, chicken thighs is another one. People think that they're really healthy. They actually pack a lot of calories. There's other examples, obviously like strip steak, porterhouse, stuff like that. Those are massive calorie bombs. Stuff like lean bison, elk. I had elk for the first time two months ago. A client of mine brought me like a ton of it. It was absolutely delicious, very, very lean. And again, the goal is to get as much protein and as much food as possible for the fewest calories. So those would be kind of my top five that I think that can easily be regularly, including your diet. We're talking to PJ Street and PJ talking about feeling stated after you have to eat something. And I was just thinking about that the other day. So it's funny. We're talking about this. Why is it? And everybody knows what I'm talking about. Chinese food. Man, I give I eat some Chinese. And I'm sitting there or I can eat tacos. I have

28:31two tacos. I, man, I feel like I'm not going to eat again for a day and a half. And three hours later, I'm ready to go at it again, man. It's a great, it's a great question. Why is that stuff make you feel that way? And then you're hungry to get a couple hours later. So this is exactly what I'm talking about. Like all the stuff you just mentioned there, that, that is a, you get a very small volume of food. But with a very high amount of calories that come with it, that's what you want to avoid. So any combination of fat, carb, salt, savory, typically is going to be you're going to get very little food for a lot of calories. And you may, you may feel full like you said for an hour or two. And then all of a sudden, you know, you're ravenous again. Whereas all the stuff I'm talking about, it's going to, it's the complete opposite of high volume low calorie. And it's going to keep you, it's going to stay with you for, for quite some time. Yeah. If we got time, other little dieting hacks, and this is coming from somebody that's done some

29:34insane, insanely long diets, if you drink like six to 12, like sparkling water or flavored sulfur, sulfur is a day, that'll keep you full due to the bubbles, things like pickles, I used to live on pickles. Yeah, stuff like that. Again, you get a little salt, you get a little crunch, very, very few calories, if any, and pickles, cucumbers, I don't like cucumbers, but some people do. So those are just kind of like some some real world in the trenches, kind of secret dieting hacks there. But yeah, that gets kind of how you can get the GLP one effect, maybe 50% of it anyway without the, without the drug. The pickles are mine. So if you live in Cincinnati, XL pickles, that's kind of a, you know, been around a long time and their places right there in like, monfer heights, white oak on North Bend and whatever, the cold rain or wherever that is

30:34there. I know the people that own it. And yeah, anytime my wife's there that way, I like stop in and get a bunch of them because yeah, because they're, they're kind of filling, but they're not a lot of exactly what you describe. There's something that's going to say shit, you fill you up, but not have a lot of calories to it. And yeah, they're huge water, huge water content pickles. I remember when I was a kid, the iconic Bridgetown fighter meets over there by my mom's, I would always go in there and get like those gigantic like 12 inch pickles. Yep. Yeah, that's where you see those in like UDF or any, any convenient story going right. Everything I, when I see a snack like that is like, how many high drunk people do you think are going to come in here? Apparently a lot, a lot, a lot, a giant pickle right there. Exactly what daddy needs right now. Lord PJ, people want to find out more work in the go. Yeah, if you're a busy adult who's tired of guessing and ready for a simple structured

31:36plan that actually works, my online coaching program gives you everything. The workouts, the nutrition guidance, accountability, support, all delivered through my app and it's just a dollar ninety seven a day visit re by fitness systems.com. Awesome. Thank you, buddy. Thanks. Well, I was appreciate it. Bye bye. Uh, PJ Street and talking about these weight loss drugs, I just saw an article today that one of the up and coming trends is osempic divorce. You know, one of, one of the couple uses osempic loses a butt ton of weight. All of a sudden they get hot and decide, all right, I'm better than 100%. I do better than you. The one and you see in Hollywood by Amy Schumer. She used to be a, right? Kind of a thicker. I just saw a picture of me on that. And she got osempic slimmed down and the poor SOB at hung with her when she was heavy and did all that gone. I didn't see that she left her up really. Oh, yeah, that's funny. Divorced. Well,

32:40apparently that's quite that's, that's the thing now. That's, that's awful. Women are awful. So what do you, what do you do? If you're, if your wife wants to, I know, there's a bunch of weight, you say, uh, uh, no, you're good. It's, it's an interesting question. Is it not? Like, you know, you know, wife, you know, loses 30 pounds and lifts and three times a week and all of a sudden looks like a million bucks. Yeah. Listen, I always say if, if Gisele will lead, will leave Tom Brady, okay? Striking the handsome worth, you know, what are half a billion dollars? Sure. Most successful athlete of all time. If she'll leave him, your wife, there's not a stretch of the imagination she'll leave you. Well, she can have a whole lot, a half of a whole lot of nothing. Yeah, that's right. Well, and see, the thing with Gisele is though, she left him for the yoga guy or whatever. Oh, yeah, right. Uh, but she left him for like a

33:42crottian striped beast or something. Right. Yeah. But no, she, an actor, I always heard the same head more money than he does. I think so. She made a button of money, uh, modeling and that. Oh, no, there's no doubt. We got to get into modeling, buddy. Yeah. Well, one of us can. Just pursue your life. You gotta get your only fans going first. And then you can talk about I gotta, I gotta branch out for my only fans page. But right now, let's get to traffic and weather. What is going on? From the UC Health Traffic Center, the UC Cancer Center, offers the latest research based in holistic approaches to head and that cancer. No cancer is too rare. Call 585 UCCC for a second opinion. 75 South Bennett, Cindy. The cleanup continues of an accident off in the right shoulder. Ronald Reagan Highway of Blue Ash. We have the crash here in the left lane about a 10 minute delay back to Planefield and Ronald Reagan Highway East by the 71 that accident on the left shoulder. And a crash on 275 East by the Combs Hill bridge. That's taking up to two left lanes and delays

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38:53and is not an investment recommendation or advice. Complete disclosures available at public.com slash disclosures. All right, back with Eddie Unrocky. I'm going to be talking, this is a weird story we got coming up here with Mike DeBusky from ABC News and I'm a little confused. Mike the ABC News tech reporter joining us from New York. What exactly are we talking about here with this company that's what are these AI shoes? Right. What is this? So we're talking about a shoe company called Allbirds which you might be familiar with. They have a pretty distinctive looking shoe. It's trimmed in marino wool instead of leather. They kind of have this big environmentally conscious sort of branding. They announced this week that they're transitioning away from footwear and into the AI space. They want to be an AI infrastructure company specifically and according to their statement,

39:57they say they want to eventually become a GPU as a service and AI native cloud solutions provider. Now, I know you guys know what that means and of course I know what that means but for people out there who maybe don't, that is effectively a company that builds data centers or computing infrastructure and then rents it out to other AI developers. So the idea here it seems like is that Allbirds wants to run a bunch of the hardware that these AI companies use and then basically be a landlord there. Charge them rent to use their computing infrastructure. So Mike, the question has to be asked. How do you go from making shoes to being an AI consultant? Where's the connection here? I'm not getting it. Well, for one, Allbirds found itself in some pretty dire financial straits. So there was an impetus here to do something to stem the bleeding. Allbirds

40:59at its peak was valued at $4 billion. Well, earlier this year it sold itself to a brand management company for less than 1% of that. So they had been doing some kind of rethinking of what their strategy was going to be and it seems like AI is a glide path to a pretty skyrocketing valuation. That's exactly what we saw yesterday. Nearly 600% is the amount that their stock went up, although it has leveled off since then. That is one strategy. And the other kind of larger point here is that Allbirds is a shoe company, sure, but it's also a shipping company. It needs to have at least some warehouse space and maybe some physical real estate out there to store its shoes before it sends it off to the eventual consumer. Well, you know, warehouses are also good for computers. And that's effectively what a data center is at the end of the day. It's just a big warehouse full of computer infrastructure. So maybe there's a connection there. We'll have to see that kind of a

42:04little bit of reading between the lines, but it seems like that might be kind of what they have their eye on is using some of their real estate and then just filling it with GPUs and servers and air conditioning units and whatnot in order to kind of build a data center out of that. I think there's some really big headwinds that they're facing. Among them, data centers are not very popular at this point in time in the United States. Data centers take up a lot of energy. We know they've been jacking up energy costs in communities across the country just because of the sheer amount of power that these AI programs require. So Allbirds is going to have to navigate that. And especially when they're coming at this from the perspective of a company that is said to be pretty environmentally conscious. They use sort of like renewable materials. They use wool instead of leather, for example, in their shoes. Now going into an industry that really struggles with the environmental component of things, that's going to be a pretty big adjustment. It's also worth mentioning guys that they're not going to be called Allbirds anymore. The new name

43:05of this company is Newbird AI. But all of this does have to be approved by investors in a vote that is scheduled for May 18th. It's such a, I mean, such a, you know, 180, 180 exactly. And we like, if you and I did radio, then tomorrow, we did, we were, we're seamstresses or something. We like, but out our own shoes. Right. Yeah. But you know, to Mike about the, you know, because I hear a lot of talk about how with the future of AI, we need these data centers, right? Because there's all this power, all this energy, all this computing needs to be done. Well, you're right. I mean, there's, I mean, out in, in a county, not far from us here, it's a, it's a big hub, because they want to buy some, you know, huge multi-hundred acre farm and put these things in and folks don't want them. So we need the energy, but it's kind of like anything, right? Like, yeah, we want it, but not in my backyard, put it in your backyard. And I think it's causing a lot of trouble. Yeah. No, absolutely. And I mean, I think there's

44:06an even more existential question there, guys, which is the fundamentals of the AI business, as it stands right now, sure, where we're constantly told by the, the sort of leading lights of the industry that this is going to be the future. But three plus years since the launch of Chatchee PT, so far, none of these companies have found a way to make money off of general department intelligence. We're still spending way more than they're making. So, so that's a piece of this as well. And I think kind of the, the example that a lot of people jumped to when this news broke this week, guys, is the dot-com boom, right? The idea that any business in the late 90s that affixed dot-com to their business saw, you know, huge games on the stock market. Well, you know, to make the comparison, AI is the new dot-com, right? You mentioned AI in a quarterly report, or you had changed your name to be more AI-focused and announced in AI strategy. Well, the same thing happens on Wall Street. That's not to say that like the bubbles

45:08immediately going to burst or anything like that, but there are some pretty striking similarities between this and that. And I think that's an important piece of context as well, especially in light of the fact that, you know, open AI says it's going to need $600 billion before the end of the decade just to break even, right? Like that, that's concerning to a lot of investors, right? So, you know, now we're seeing like shoe companies trying to fix AI to the back of their names and in the hope of, you know, turning around an ailing business. You can imagine that people are a little concerned about that. I'd rather raise it. Yeah, Mike DeBusky's our guest for maybe see. And Mike, the thing is you just brought it up there that none of these guys are making any money, but every day we're reading stories about college kids aren't getting jobs because AI has taken all the entry-level jobs. AI has taken over mid-level jobs from people who are in development and such. And people are, people are resenting it. They're not adapting to it. Why aren't they,

46:09why aren't they making any money if they were taking over the world, apparently? Well, it's important to, there's a bit of nuance there, right? Which is that they're not making any profit. They are taking in a fair amount of revenue, right? Like, OpenAI announces, you know, quarterly that their revenue targets are going up exponentially. But because of these data centers, right? Because of the amount of energy and infrastructure that is required to run this tech. And we lost it. And Mike's tech just went out. Yeah. Mike there. I think we have lost it. We've lost money. So you weren't, it was a week ago tomorrow. You were gone. I was in with Donna. You went down ahead on AI person. Yes, Jennifer Bagling, she was fantastic. And she laid out a scenario of just how people are going to use AI to help themselves in the future. And it was, I mean, it was crazy. I was like, my jaw hit the ground. She

47:12was like, so, say you have a pool and you need your pool cleaned. Normally you would, you know, look around the internet, look at pool companies. Okay, you call them up, you make an appointment, and they come out. And I do think she said the future of it is you, you know, go into an AI set search engine and say, Hey, give me the top three companies within 10 miles of my house that clean pools. Okay. Call one of them, book the appointment, have them come out, pay their fee, and then leave them a nice review done. Wow. Just just by you, you know, just entering all this into into AI, that's the kind of things that that can be done. And you, and it pays, it pays them for you. Yeah. No, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You, you find the company, book the appointment, you know, once they're done, pay them, right? And, and then, you know, then leave them a nice review. Yeah. I just thought that was,

48:18that was crazy. You can literally do all that, just sitting, talking into your phone. Man. Okay. Because it all connects, you know, your bank accounts part of it, it just boom, was your American Express card, boom, boom, boom, boom. I just want my robot overlords to know that I am here to serve you. But do they, do they need you, though, Ed? Is the question? I don't think they do. Well, I'll last longer. You all, you guys are going to fight them. I'll be like, what do we need? I need some WT 40 or something. Squared, squared. With that, we check in with traffic and weather. What is going on? And from the UC Health Traffic Center, the UC Cancer Center offers the latest research based and holistic approaches ahead in that cancer. No cancer is too rare, call 585 UCCC for a second opinion. We have a couple of problems still in Ronald Reagan Highway with the eSpawn Stretcher Blue Ash, an accident that has traffic now, soling a bit less as we're getting reports, the idea is cleared by it. It has cleared

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50:24Baseball is all about precision and performance, just like Pella Windows. This is great. His name is Mike Ciannilly. He's worked for NASA. We're going to talk about Artemis, the significance of that, what went on, what's happened and moving forward, when we're going back to the moon, when we're going to Mars. I mean, this is cool. This guy does it. He's worked for NASA. See that's again, when I was a kid, I always wanted to work for NASA. I don't know. I wanted to be an astronaut, but I figured I don't want to go through all that. It's a lot. Yeah. Scary, man. This is back when you were young, the space shuttle's earth. Ten cans with a rocket strap to it. Well, look at it. You hear about the guys that flew to the moon. Their computer capacity was basically, I have more in my phone. You're working yourself on that right there. That's insane to me.

51:28Until then, so this happens in California. A person, they're cleaning out their house. They rent a dumpster, which you can do. They rent from express rental dumpsters, owned by Martin Perez. It comes time, pay your bill, pay your bill, pay your bill. They won't pay their bill. Right. And now he's got to go get the thing. And then the dumpster is going to cost him even more money. So he does what I'm sure we've all thought about doing. He backs up to the dumpster and kind of latches on his truck, shimmies around a little bit, backs the dumpster back onto the property and dumps it all in the front yard. Wow. Yes. Perez claims that the dumpster's delivery and pickup had already cost him money. He would have had to pay hundreds more in dumping fees if he had taken the trash to a landfill. So when the driver wanted to pick up the dumpster, he just unloaded it right there in the homeowner's driveway. And now, of course, you know,

52:31the neighbors calling police. And this is what's interesting. Like scavengers show up and start like picking through it. Like, oh, here's an old chair. How do you throw this out? Yeah. Kind of thing. I mean, what a bizarre, just a totally bizarre scenario. But again, I think we've actually, we've had stories to about, you know, something dispute and somebody will dump like a like a truckload of horse manure in the front yard and stuff like that. So now, have you ever done anything like that? The revenge move. I'm trying to think if I ever have and nothing comes to mind, you know, nothing like nothing like that. Nothing mate. I mean, I mean, that's that's major league right there. But I'm trying to think if I've ever, you know, screwed intentionally screwed somebody over because they did something to me. And I've ever remembered. I've also seen a lot of videos online. And who knows if that's true or not. But you know, a concrete company comes over and pours a sidewalk. And where's the money? I'll get

53:35it to you. Where's the money where they don't pay. And so then the concrete company goes back with a couple dudes with sledgehammers and bust it all up. I never heard. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, I've seen I've seen it again. Wow. They got to be real. Who else would destroy nicely poured concrete? Well, it sounds like you're getting concrete work done by the mafia. Yeah. Yeah. They're gonna sit guys out with sledgehammers to tear up the poured concrete. Say, hey, you're not gonna pay us. We're not gonna let you have your nice new concrete. Say that's that is gangster right there now. A little frontier. Frontier justice. Frontier justice. But I would call the better visit for your own. Do you want to hear what they did? Oh, it was screwy though. It's California. So you know, the dumpster company guys are gonna get in trouble. But what do you do? So he said, I'm not gonna pay you. Yeah. Like, you know, let's talk to Alan and Springfield right quick. Hey,

54:39Alan, what do you have? What'd you do? Well, I didn't do it. I wish I would have, but a buddy of mine worked for a restaurant supply company and he sold all these supplies to the restaurant food and stuff, cut that customer for whatever reason, quit paying them, switched vendors and stuck them for like 20 grand. And they knew it was going to go to court and everything. But sales rep went in there with his wife, ate about a $200 dinner when the waitress brought of the bill. He handed it right back so she'd get us to your owner and tell him he'll get his money when we get ours and walked out. But hit the waitress. That, and I'll see, that's good. Yeah, yeah. It worked. Yeah. But I would definitely do something like that and stick the guy with the tab. Yeah. Well, yo, it was a 20 grand. I'll go there and eat all the States. Yeah, exactly. Go there multiple times. Give me 10 fillets to go. Yeah, exactly. Give me

55:40a couple, a couple of kitty bags here. Yeah. He bags. Sorry. Some. Yeah. I remember in college, like when, and there was a guy, one of the friend, but a friend, a friend and friend kind of thing, he had, um, he got in trouble for pride because at Notre Dame head, you're not allowed to have a girl in your room or vice or in your dorm, vice versa, after midnight or something right at UD. And, and, you know, you get in trouble and then he got fined. It was like 200 bucks and he went and got a bunch of like pennies and paid the, paid it and that's been done before. Yeah, see, I always, I don't want to go through that much ever to get that many pennies. Let's say, like, you're almost punishing yourself because you're counting all that out. Right. Yeah. And well, now that there are pennies are going to be worth something again. No, they're not. I know. I know. That's everybody thinks. But I love this. Have you seen the signs on, especially Kroger? I've noticed, hey, look, there are no more pennies. So try to make exact change if you can.

56:43Yeah, I've seen that in other places. Yeah. People just, now nobody, everybody just either rounds up or rounds down just, and that's, I think at the long, in the long haul, businesses are going to end up ahead on that deal. Because people are just going to say, how well they, how well they, just, yeah, it's fine. Keep the two cents. It's like the give a penny, be a penny thing you throw in the tray there. Yeah. That's people don't care. That's what they're counting on. With that, we're going to be talking NASA after the news right now news radio 700 WLW. News traffic and weather news radio 700 WLW Cincinnati. We've got the president's take on a peace deal. He's been trying to strike for weeks. This is the five o'clock report. I'm Sandy Collins breaking now President Trump talked to reporters today before he left the White House for Las Vegas. The president told reporters that he believes the US is close to a deal with Iran. And he says once that happens, the price of oil and gas will go down.

57:44Maybe C's Elizabeth Schollsie has more. The reality is that we probably will not see that huge drop in oil in the next at least near term. Part of that is the fact that we don't see evidence of oil flowing at all at the level that it was before the start of the war. And you do have the supply constraints because of what's happened from the actual attack during this war. We've seen several big oil facilities in the Middle East get, you know, damaged. And it is going to take months or even years to get that production ramped up again. So what is it that gives the president some hope he said Iran is quote willing to do things today. They weren't two months ago. He pointed to the US naval blockade. One of the drivers pushing Iran to the bargaining table. He also mentioned a possible peace deal between Israel and Lebanon in the coming weeks. Now the latest traffic and weather together from the UC health traffic center. UC Cancer Center offers the latest research based on holistic approaches to head in that cancer. No cancer is two rare call five eight five UCCC for a second opinion on three 75s. The comb sale bridge got about a

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1:05:04disclosures available at public dot com slash disclosures come from it with Eddie and Rocky and we are excited about this one of the weekend I'm sure you did I know I did and our whole family did watch the landing of Artemis and splash down and all that and we are really pleased to be joined by a great guest here his name is Mike Ciannilly he's a former NASA test director how about that Mike welcome the program how are you thank you so much doing great hope you guys are as well so Mike before we get into some of the topics here I would say other than you know being a rock star or like a professional baseball player every little boys dream is is a work for NASA how did you get into that and just tell us kind of so some of the process of working for NASA and get into that absolutely well it's truly a dream come true for me I've always dreamt of launching rockets I used to launch model rockets my backyard when I was a kid and one day that's how I want to do the real big ones for real and I got that dream come true and I tell you

1:06:09I always tell young kids out there you know do whatever is your passion just pursue your dreams and your passion you can make it happen and when you do there's nothing cooler than life as a as a test director Mike what what describe some of the stuff you might have been involved with the law in the way absolutely so for test director what we do is we get the vehicles ready so I was working primarily in the space shuttle program so basically we would take you know several ones to get each of the space shuttles ready we'd have to get it it takes anything that was broken on it test everything make sure everything was just right for the crew a brief the astronauts make sure they were ready to go and if they had any questions before they flew and then and then get the vehicle out to the launch pad and launch it and then perform the mission get them back home and then do it all over again for another crew so it was it was a really super busy time we launched 135 space shuttles and I'm just honored and thankful to be part of that very cool my talk about some of the technology and things that go into that to launch and rock it into space absolutely

1:07:12well there's a lot you know we work with a lot of interesting fluids and materials and fuels so you know our our our metals are incredible they're very light we use a lot of very interesting alloys even though the space should await four and a half million pounds and and the Artemis rocket was very heavy too it's actually made with very light materials we just have a lot of it and then we have fuels like liquid hydrogen liquid oxygen think of that these fuels are over 400 degrees below zero so there's a lot of interesting dynamics that we take we take the fuel at say 400 degrees below zero put two fuels together put it through an engine and then the other side it comes out at six thousand degrees so a lot of extreme temperatures and pressures and speeds and if you do it all right it's it's pure magic so Mike we rock mentioned earlier about Artemis splashing down the other day was that as picture perfect as it as it looked to us you know

1:08:15civilians I mean it looked perfect absolutely now you know that it was it was spot on perfect I mean we you know we dress rehearse for those things we spend years and preparing the vehicle and the crew and testing and training and getting everything ready but then when you go do it for real it's just you know just like an NFL game right when you when you go out to do it for real whatever happens on the field well what happens in space happens and you deal with it and it's nothing different than the space program you train you do your best but but this mission came off well within the vehicles performed great the crew is fantastic we had a very small little minor issues but nothing to worry about and then you know getting them home and seeing those parachutes open up just makes it so good because we really don't relax for the moment the crew gets on board until they splash down we don't catch more than one breath in a row because we want to make sure our friends are back home safe so once that happened it was spot on perfect and beautiful to see Mike's seeing I see an Ilya is our gas former NASA test director and Mike let's

1:09:17move our attention to just the Artemis mission itself it tell us why why that was significant what was different about this mission compared to others that have gone to and around the moon why was Artemis such a big deal now we haven't done this in a long time so the last time we flew to the moon was back in 1972 so it's been a long time it's been a little over 50 years of course since we've done it so you know in between that we flew the space shuttle for 30 years so it's been a while since we've gone to deep space so it's got brand new rockets that we were testing out brand new capsules and a new mission profile and the real cool part about this is Artemis 2 we tested the capsule out with the crew but our purpose really not just to go by the moon we want to go there and live there so Artemis 2 kind of set it up to test the vehicle because in 2028 our plan is to go to the moon just like Neil Armstrong did for the first time

1:10:20in the history books but we want to go back this time but not just go for one two or three days we actually want to build the moon base and we want to learn how to live and work on the moon so instead of one two three days we're hoping to stay there for weeks months and perhaps even years and the reason we're doing all of that is to get really good because one day we want to go to Mars right um but just just like we were kids camping right you camping your backyard first so Mike let me ask you uh in in your mind when are we going to see an actual base on the moon of course we're going to see footprints on the moon here as you said here in the next three four years um what are we going to actually see people they living there for weeks months at a time yeah our plan right now is within within the next five years really so we're going to go absolutely so we're going to go on Artemis the next flight is Artemis 3 we test things out in earth orbit Artemis 4 in 2028 is the first landing and then really Artemis 5 so late 2020-29

1:11:24that's we're going to start building the infrastructure for a moon base so it's going to come fast so within the next five years hopefully we'll have something of course it won't be big to start with but um those building blocks will be starting just in about uh two and a half to three years wow but are we talking about a a little shed what are what are we talking about here may not be a big merry after start right right now i'm not looking for you no yeah the the high it up there but are we are we looking at a place where people can actually you know inhabit for a while well we're hoping um of course everything is budget dependent right so the the president congress decide how much we can spend and how what we can do but we're hoping so and um you know of course we're going to start small and you know the challenges right just can't go to the grocery store get food you can't just walk outside to get air so we've got to really make sure that our folks that are there have either enough food or way to grow and produce food

1:12:25they've got to make sure that they're productive from the radiation from the sun which is really intense um the temperatures on the moon can be extremely hot or cold depending if the sun's out so we got to make sure they're protected and of course there's no air so the first building blocks got to make sure that we can keep people safe and and and okay on the moon and then once we basic living functions are taken care of then we can start looking about you know adding extra rooms out of the house if you will so as a mic it tells when it when it comes to Mars and obviously that's that as you stated that's the goal other than the distance and and the things that go along with that like you know having enough fuel to supply you know to get you there and get you home what what else makes that so difficult or what what would someone who's not a NASA person you know like all like myself or all of us listening what do we not realize about that how complex of a mission would be to go to Mars? Absolutely absolutely well a couple of things come to mind um of course your trajectory you've got to get there you think of the earth of course the earth and the Mars are moving around the sun

1:13:29different speeds um so you when you launch from the earth you've got to be right on the money with your trajectory to get to Mars because if you miss that you're going to keep on going so trajectories propulsion navigation are really critical and then of course something folks might not think about but it's radiation you know on the surface of the earth we're really lucky you know we got the atmosphere and we have protection from magnetic storms from the sun and all kinds of radiation from the sun we kind of take it for granted we might get a sunburn but we don't get the really bad stuff on earth we're really protected but we're in space you don't have that protection so you've got to be really careful for solar flares and different things that might give the crew the crew of much docer a bigger dose of radiation that could be very dangerous or even deadly so those are things we got to be really careful about. So Mike at your mind when are we going to inhabit Mars are we talking 50 years from now 30 20 years what are we looking at? That's a great question um I'm hoping it's not sooner than 50 the um the hope and plan is somewhere

1:14:34in the 2030s we start taking our first steps out there that's pretty ambitious um you know that the interesting thing now is we're working with a lot of commercial companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin and a lot of folks that really want to go out there so we're building new systems and getting prepared so I would say you know the plan is to once we get comfortable on the moon to move out to Mars again hopefully in the 2030s um and hopefully if not then by the early 2040s that's our absolute goal we're trying to hit. Okay incredible and how did it work Mike you mentioned earlier funding like I assume the more successful missions there are the more apt you know people and the government and Congress are are willing to you know give give NASA money right? Believe me and that's what we think everyone out there everyone listening today and all the other folks out there I just want everyone to know everyone's a part of this page program everybody is is kind enough to you know NASA takes about one third of one penny of every dollar

1:15:37sent in so even though it's a really small amount of money of course you need the funding to do things so when the American people support it when the President and Congress all support the nation um that allows um the folks at NASA and the contractors go out and do some pretty audacious things so you know that support is critical to keep it going so again I really appreciate everyone's interest in space and helping us um explore and discover new things. So Mike talk about the return we've gotten on NASA over the years because people don't realize that so much technology that we take for granted now came out of actual NASA technology. Absolutely the current figures are about three to one so if you figure every dollar you spend in text dollars we get three dollars generated back in the economy and there's not many things in life and these governments spending that I know of they give you a good return on investment so at least for money coming back so we generate that money in technology there's spin-offs like

1:16:38heart pumps and across our cell phones and weather satellites and and everything from you know phone mattresses in your bed to firefighting equipment um types of insulin pumps there's all kinds of things spin-offs um over two thousand identified just the last couple of years alone so and then of course all of the technology we're building up all the advancements and of course all the people that that are working so when you think of that we you know we actually a lot of the money three to one is actually brought back and spent at home as opposed to spending in space uh and Mike obviously you spent 30 years inside the US space program with NASA if you could share with listeners right now Mike a story of that you can recall or you just absolutely blown away by just the the precision the technology the the the team work like any moment stand out where you're just like wow this is absolutely amazing what we do and in the caliber of people that we have here absolutely i i tell you i remember my first day um

1:17:42you know we you see the space shuttle on tv you see things happening and my first day of work going out the launch pad and it was actually Columbia and standing on underneath the rocket that weighs again four and a half million pounds and it's got millions of parts and then you realize in a couple of days you're going to send the sucker from zero to seventeen thousand five hundred miles per hour and it's going to take eight minutes to do that and then you're going to shoot around the earth for a few million miles and bring it home it's so awe and spark and so amazing to think about uh what we've done so it's and there's many more stories like that all right Mike well rock and iron basically freaks about this stuff thank you so much thank you for your trip guys i really appreciate have a great afternoon all right Mike uh CNLE uh CNLE is from former NASA test director now if you can't be an astronaut it'd be cool to be a test director heck yeah you're still involved in it but you know like and that's what's great it's like anything that is that is very successful there's a great team

1:18:48behind it right like a NFL football team yeah there's the players but there's the coaches there's the medical staff there's the trainers there's the video people there's the people working for it's everybody's a part of that and when you have success it's really neat now you've seen a Apollo 13 right the movie i have not i thought you did oh dude you gotta see that that's exactly what you're talking about all these guys they all pulling together and you got the crusty old dude he's like come on come on these people back yeah i don't work hard right that people are dying up there there's like food you know in eureka they find it's very it's cool and it's very inspiring so another uh you know well acclaimed uh space movie aliens and alien it was great similar they there are no aliens in this one oh damn yeah i'm but did you mad Damon what do you grows potatoes in his own poop is there a more famous scene right i finally did get around the

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1:22:00while longer what's going on so Ed we've talked about how you know obviously trading cards baseball cards football cards some go for incredible numbers but also the Pokemon cards right oh dude and the one that does insane to me Logan Paul um he had the was a illustrator 10 out of 10 there's one in existence kind of thing and uh he bought it for like a couple million and it's sold last year for 16.5 million dollars right so see that's insane absolutely insane well they always say there's a reason why the old saying is takes money to make money right you know yeah 100 percent um so those cards are extremely valuable and everybody knows them but according to I guess recent you know incidents all across the country like I mean it's it's also causing a lot of crime right because people are trying to get these things so uh here's one instance according to

1:23:00a preliminary investigation by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department um a this a disagreement over Pokemon cards motivated a shooting so there it was like one of these you know trade show kind of things right now people are arguing outside about a card or this and that boom somebody gets shot gang gang wars over a Pokemon called officers to the program store near the side um responsible shooting when they arrive officer covered in man with good gunshot wounds paramedics took him in a case serious but stable condition um in another instance of just how nuts it's gotten with Pokemon cards vendors recently found that someone had placed get this GPS tracking devices on their vehicles on the first day of an expo wow so you're you're someone sells these high-end cards you're coming in and so they come in and boom put the little air tag on and then when you leave the show and go back home they rob you wow see I've always I've heard of people doing that in casinos yeah they were but they follow you they don't tag you but they

1:24:07they do it old school and just follow you home and then beat the hell out of you in your garage and take your money yeah no I've heard that for sure yeah but yeah now this is this is how you know that guy's a vendor and you know he drives a yeah land cruiser boom tag it and yeah quote some some serious bad news in the TCG community after an amazing first day at the expo a few vendors came outside and discovered GPS tracking devices have been placed on their vehicles they called the police that at a day here's another incident this one reported by CNN um this was this was an early march two thieves smashed through a window at a store in Graham Washington in less than two minutes they made off with nearly $10,000 worth of Pokemon cards another card shop in British Columbia resulted in thieves stealing $25,000 worth of Pokemon cards also this year thieves hit up collectible shops in Las Vegas New York Vancouver Nadine Ham England resulting in over $500,000 in stolen cards damn see I and I guess I mean

1:25:14you know it makes sense because if you're gonna steal something you want to be small and you can you know and you can you can port it around and you can move that easily easily yeah yeah so when the card shows and stuff they're gonna ask any questions yeah you're like oh my god that one's graded this boom let's go right boy if you have the $10 million when people go yeah that one yeah that one yes yeah yeah yeah it's like this one being stolen how do you have it like going to the uh to an art auction and having the Mona Lisa where'd you get this I don't ask questions just uh I give you a good deal hey give me five mil that's all that's all yours you know but rock uh we and we're always talking about relative value of this stuff and and this one I don't know this I'm just sorting through some stuff over here there's a one of these auction houses has the has a first first edition copy of the hop it okay from the three are talking yep from the from the thirties and okay that's uh I think

1:26:21they're asking $93,000 but currently the minimum bid is 75 grand so if you want to buy a first edition hobbit bingo there you go just pull a lot to checkbook and I don't know if that's an automatic cell you just start the bidding at 75 that's one of we though they want nine they eventually want 93 so that means there's gonna be like 200 grand for that oh totally that'll go huge yeah now that would have been one to get before the movies came out I think all for sure you know probably to got that for somewhat reasonable price still would have been pricey but well think about people who probably still have who read the hunger games books back in the day yeah I mean you probably got those whatever Barnes and Noble for 10 bucks or 15 or whatever the hell it was and I'm I bet those first editions might or not worth a million dollars or anything they're worth a couple bucks or the the Pokemon aren't Pokemon the um Harry Potter yeah

1:27:23books I remember when those came I remember my sister was read all of them she bought all them read all them like as they came out kind of thing I mean she was obviously young at the time she's you know 10 years old speaking of the Harry Potter I'd never heard this before but you know the JK rolling that's her name like they wrote the books yeah yeah so somebody ask her what was this you said that you thought that Emma Watson wasn't right for the part of her mindy what didn't you like Dean like the way she acted and she's like no she's too pretty it was like it was though to her mind he was just a plain looking little girl and just kind of you know nobody noticed her like Emma Watson's been beautiful so she was like eight you know I just recently read something similar to that you know the movie in decent proposal right yeah for anymore and um and I don't know if it was I guess it was you know just being the movie it's like in a way it's not really the

1:28:24money because I mean it's Robert Redford he's like one of those two looking guides of all to so it's not it would have been more of a right sure about the money and the proposal and all that if the guy just been kind of some normal looking guy or even worse yeah and it would have been more you know but it's like okay get a million bucks but it's not like he's something you can sleep with one of the best looking men to ever live sure okay honey it was my oh no I don't want to I really don't want to and in other news I was going to save this rock for Dean Regus but and we can bring it up to him next time we've got him near earth is a is an organization that tracks more than 25,000 asteroids large enough to destroy a major city damn okay there's how many 25,000 well okay

1:29:25yeah congress in 2005 is told told NASA it's a near earth is a is a kind of an arm of NASA in 2005 to track these things by 2020 so far scientists that was that we're supposed to find them all by 2025 here in 2026 scientists have only found about 11,500 less than half wow really the rest of these so-called city killers are still floating around out there small stuff is hanging us all the time says dr kelly fast so we're not much worried about that what we're worried about it the large one from the movies because we know where they are fast blah blah blah it's the ones in between now so the ones that are planet killers they know where obviously they know where those are at but she says it's the ones in between about 140 meters and larger they

1:30:27could really do regional rather than global damage and we don't know where they are damn yeah you would think those would be they find those things out and where they are track them I guess there's so many there's so many space a big big big place and one of these scientists one of the smartest scientists have ever heard a Nancy Shabbat is this scientist name says you can't do anything about the asteroids if you don't know where they are in other words ignorance is bliss let's just keep partying on and there's almost one pops out and it's 48 hours away we'll deal with it then I said why asteroid a bomb a scientist made able to spot potentially and an asteroid was discovered with a record high a record high chance of hitting earth in 2032 but they it's like Dean has said before they look like they might possibly maybe be able to hit earth

1:31:32but then it turns out once they really track them for a little while they're going to miss this they're going to be on the other side of the moon or well even I remember talking to Dean about this and even ones that are deemed quote unquote close are like right sure 200 thousand miles away the other side of the moon right yeah they're they're closed but they're not really really close so I guess you can but I mean earthman hit before so well like the the famous one that hit Russia it back and I thought it was longer to go than that 2013 an asteroid the size of a house exploded over I can't even say the name of the Russian city with the force of 440 thousand tons of TNT damaging buildings entering more than 1600 people but but check this out due to the asteroid's approach during the daytime sky it wasn't detected prior to impact so it came during the day and we can't see it

1:32:36damn it yeah you think when it gets inside our atmosphere you'd be like okay wait a minute some when some some alarm bell go off or something oh bridge we're living at some kind of vacuum dude because I would think that yeah if it's hurtling by the moon say somebody's gonna go hey something's coming right at us but no they didn't see it coming because it was daytime see what why don't I not remember the asteroid hidden Russia like you said those 2013 I remember it but I like I said I thought it was 30 40 years ago chelabinsk is the is the city or that's what the meteor's called chelabinsk yeah huh well kids sleep well tonight yes with that we had too traffic and weather what is going on I'm here with spin quest where you can play and win from the comfort of your own home with hundreds of slot games and all of the table games you love with real cash prizes right now 30 dollar coin packs

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