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is the Jimmy Barrett Show, broughtto you by viewind dot Com. Now
here's Jimmy Barrett. Hey, HappyFriday. Welcome. We're gonna have a
little fun to I always try tohave a little fun every day, but
I don't know Friday Friday lends himselfto having some fun. Here's something I
thought we could talk about just alittle bit here because I'm I'm fascinated by

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the world of dating. No,I have no trust me, I have
no interest in dating. In fact, I when was the last time I
dated? I guess Elizabeth and Ikind of dated before we, you know,
got together, but it was kindof informal, you know, because
we were truth be told, wewere co workers at the same place,

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and we just, you know,we just kind of hung out together.
I mean, I had split frommy first wife and she had split from
her boyfriend, and you know,we kind of commiserated with each other and
the next thing, you know,we're having lunches and dinners and going to
movies, and you know, wekind of looked at each other and said,
I guess we're dating. But itwasn't any formal thing. I didn't

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I didn't have to ask her outon a date, per se, and
she didn't have to ask me outa date. So, you know,
dating today is a whole lot differentthan it was in the nineteen nineties,
which is a whole lot different thanit was in the nineteen seventies or nineteen
eighties when when I was in highschool, and you know, you actually
had to ask somebody out. Youhad to do it in person, right,
You had to make eye contact,you had to you kind of had

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to make the first move. SoI guess I really don't understand how online
dating works. I did see thisstory on Bumble, though, and Bumble
is a for those who've never beenon Bumble. Bumble evidently from I've never
been on it either, But Bumble, from what I stand is, it's
an online dating app where, atleast up until now, the woman made

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the first move. It was upto the woman to make the first move.
And evidently, after doing it forten years, you know, they've
run into some trouble. They maybethey found that, at least it's Greg
Gutfields thought that maybe women found outthat it is just as difficult for women
to make the first move as itis for men to make the first move.

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Here's Greg Guttfeld's take on Bumble.The app adds quote. So if
you're done with thinking of what tosay, we get it. Opening moves
means less agonizing over what to sayand more getting to the good chats faster.
See it's not so easy, mylittle chickadees. Having to think on
your feet be charming and witty,and we had to do it to your

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face after shots at Jaegermeister. Butwith Bumble, a woman can now put
a question in her profile like what'syour dream vacation, who's your favorite singer?
Or who will feed all my catswhen I die alone? Then any
fella out there can talk, because, as you know, there's nothing us

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guys enjoy more than small talk forhours on end. But it gives men
a chance who are physically repulsive towomen but can still come up with a
good line or two. So whyis Bumble doing this after ten long years?
Well, their stock price has plummeted, eighty six percent and the company

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just fired one third of their employees. Turns out you can't get laid on
bumble, but you can get laidoff. As it turns out, being
expected to make the first move allthe time isn't much fun, even on
a laptop. Try it face toface in real life, in a bar
with six of your friends watching andready to bust your balls or ovaries the

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rest of the night because he orshe turned you away like you were the
elephant man with halatosis. I know. Suddenly women got a taste of making
that scary first move and the stingof rejection. Making the first move is
the hardest thing you can do,because you face rejection almost nine out of
ten times. It's like when Katapplies for a credit card. But yet

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we're expected to do it. Andthat's good because it builds muscles the ones
you don't see, the muscles ofpersonality, humor, charm, charisma,
what we call the axis of Gutfeld. I worry, however, that dating
apps have caused those muscles to goslack. People online they judge each other
superficially on looks and wealth, Sonow even an average looking guy misses out

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on training those other muscles that makehim better than a dumb but handsome jock.
Hear the act the top ten percentof men who get all the action
on the apps, they're usually oversix feet tall, wealthy, good looking,
No wonder everyone else with a ychromosome says, why bother? Now?
That's now? That has happened towomen On Bumble, men only contact

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a small percentage of women, leavingout others because it's now based on looks,
so only a few women get themost requests. Perhaps there should be
a new dating app called the restof Us. So Bumble was like,
what like the Sadie Hawkins Dance ofapps? Do y'all remember Sadie Hawkins?
Do you when you were in school? They ever have a Sadie Hawkins dance?

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Sadie Hawkins dance was where the girlsasked the boys to dance or in
this case, to go to theto go to the dance. The rest
of the time it was implied,and I realized, in today's agent sounds
kind of sexist. But in thiscase, you know, guys almost always
exclusively were the ones put in thebaziz of asking a girl out. Although

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I've always found it. And here'swhat I think is missing from dating apps.
Can you can you effectively flirt ona dating app? Because women have
a way of letting men know thatthey're interested and men can usually figure that
out. And when you're when you'rewhen you're talking to a woman in person,

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you can you can tell when they'rewhen they're you know, coming on
to you or or interested in you. You can tell by by you know,
their facial expressions, the way theyinteract with you, how close they
stand to you, you know,the hair flip, that kind of stuff.
You get that when you're when you'redoing an in person thing. How

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do you do that? Do thaton a dating app? Though? Does
it work the same way? Dothey do you send like little flirtation emojis?
I don't know. In some ways, it's got to be easier because
you've got a pool of people tochoose from. You're not going to a
bar aimlessly looking for that perfect someonewho just happened to show up on at
the bar the same night you did. Doesn't seem like the odds are very

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good at something like that. Imean, I've never used a dating app.
Dating apps came around long after thetime when I was actively interested in
finding a partner, and I haveno trust me, I had no desire
to ever go through that again.I will just stay with my wife,
Thank you very much. All Right, we're gonna take a quick little break.
Happy Friday. Jimmy Barrett show backin just a moment here on AM

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nine fifteen KPRC. Hey, welcomeback, Jimmy Barrett show here at AM
nine to fifty KPRC. Let's talkabout the economy a little bit. Yeah,
I know it's Friday and you maybedon't want to even think about the
economy that much right now. Right, I saw a lot of interesting economic
data. That's why I thought it'dbe kind of fun to talk about this

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today. We've talked about this beforeto a certain extent, defining what the
middle class is. It's getting moreand more difficult to figure out what the
mid class is because it's a it'sa moving target. If in a lot
of times, we'd like to tryto determine the middle class based on how
much money you make. Now,it used to be a time where if

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you has a six figure salary,you were probably considered upper middle class.
But one hundred thousand dollars year salarydoesn't even qualify you to be middle class
probably anymore. And that that strangeto say that, because I remember,
you know, years ago, Iremember if somebody you know, working in

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this business that was kind of likemy be all end all, that was
my target, right, if Icould make if I could just make well
when I first broke into the business, if I could just make forty thousand
dollars a year, I'd be allsaid. And then forty became sixty,
and sixty became eighty, and eightybecame one hundred, and you get the
idea. It goes on and onand on and on, and inflation has
a little something to do that.It certainly has something to do with,

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you know, the kind of houseyou can afford. I mean, if
you want to achieve American dream,if we can actually define what the American
dream is anymore. I saw asite where they define the American dream as
being married, owning a home,having two children, and a pet.
That is the quote unquote American dream. And by the way, they did
it in that order, which Idon't know that anybody does it in that

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order anymore, married by a house, have two kids and a pet,
that's the way my parents would havedone it, That's the way I would
have done it. I don't thinkthat's the way current generations do it,
certainly not the married part. They'rewaiting longer and longer to get married,

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and usually the married comes after havingthe kids in a lot of cases,
because we've kind of blown up theinstitution of marriage as it used to be
known. But anyway, if ifwe work under that parameter that that's what
the American dream is, then whatdoes it take to achieve the American dream?
Well, it turns out in inTexas is at one hundred and forty
one hundred and forty eight hundred andfifty thousand dollars a year of household income.

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I don't think that's individual income.That would be household income assuming there's
two of you, or if there'sone of view, but the combined total
of somewhere around one hundred and fiftythousand dollars. What's really interesting in the
it deviates from state to state dependingon the cost of living and the cost
of housing in particular in any givenstate. In places like the Midwest,
for example, housing is a littlebit cheaper, so it costs less,

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but in places like California that number. To be a part of the middle
class in California, you need tohave a household income of two hundred and
forty five thousand dollars a year.And I don't know what you think about
making two hundred and forty five thousanddollars a year, but if you would
have told me that, you know, five ten years ago, I would

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have thought I wouldn't call you rich, but I would certainly call you upper
middle class in very well off,you know, certainly part of the one
percent. So I mean, inCalifornia you have to be I guess,
part of the five percent or theten percent in order to be able to
be middle class, which tells methe base on no wonder people are fleeing

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California politics aside. You can't affordto live there, you can't afford to
buy a house, you can't affordto raise a family. Now if you've
got to make two hundred and fortyfive thousand dollars a year in order to
be able to do it. Andyet despite this, the current president of
the United States doesn't doesn't seem tounderstand why we're all so cranky about this

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stuff. Why we all feel likewe're not getting anywhere like that, that
that that we're not being able tokeep up with what's going on. He
gave an interview with CNN and what'sher name, Aaron Burnett un singing it,
who, by the way, doesn'tdidn't call him on any of this
stuff. She although she did keepasking questions regarding the economy and how people

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are feeling about the economy, andJoe Biden is in complete denial about this
stuff. So I'll let you takea little listen to that. There's a
response from Dana Preno at the end, but we have more to come.
Here is Joe Biden with Aaron Brennettbeing asked about the economy, and here
he is guest lighting us as usual. Since you took office, economic growth
last week far short of expectations,Consumer confidence maybe no surprise, is near

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a two year low with less thansix months to go to election day?
Are you worried that you're running outof time to turn that around? We've
already turned around. The pulling datahas been wrong all along. We had
the strongest economy in the world mesay it again, in the world.
Although GDP last week was far shortof expectation. No present that's had.

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The run we've had in terms ofcreating jobs and bringing down in fashion was
nine percent when I came to office. Nine percent. People are spending more
on food and groceries than they haveat any time really in the past thirty
years. I mean, that's areal day to day pain. If you
take a look with them, thenpeople have they have the money to spend.
They're already saying that actually, theinflation is not Joe Biden's actually as

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dromps right so, and also sayingthat our economy is the best of the
world. Well, yeah, andit should be, and it should be
even better. Be kicking butt,but you should not have seventy two percent
of people saying that they give youa failing grade on the economy and then
dig in your heels and say it'sfine. I think this is one of
the byproducts of not doing enough interviewsbecause it's so rare. Every single one

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of them gets sliced and diced,and you can look at it in all
the different ways because it might bethe only time you get to hear from
the president. And the last thingI'll say is that David Axelrod he wants
Joe Biden to win, and hehas similar advice. He says basically on
CNN after that interview and doing theanalysis, he says that if Biden loses,
it could be because of his ownpride and not being able to show

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empathy towards people who are struggling inhis economy. We've been saying this for
six months, and now we're sixmonths out from an election. He still
doesn't have an economic message. That'snot very good for a re election effort.
I love the part when when thepresident says they got the money to
spend, we do. No,don't. I don't have the money to
spend. I didn't get any COVIDhandout money. Is that what he thinks?

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He thinks that that we've got abunch of money to spend. Huh,
don't worry about inflation. You gotplenty of money. No, your
average American does not have plenty ofmoney. And the days where you were
suspending student loan payments, although you'redoing your best to forgive all student loans,
but student loan payments are not suspended. Rent is not suspended. You

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know, the expenses are back andmore expensive than ever, and most of
us are not making that much morethan we were before. So I don't
think he gets the economic reality.Either he is in complete denial or he
thinks that if he tells the lielong enough, somehow we'll believe it.

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Nine percent inflation when when he tookoffice. Nos. One point four percent
inflation when he took office. Right, here's Econdom of Steve More with more
on that. I don't know.It's worse if he was intentionally lying or
he just doesn't know what's going onin the country. I don't know what
scares me more. But the factsout of the facts, and the facts
are that when Donald Trump left office, we had a one and a half

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percent inflation rate, personally, thelowest inflation rate we'd ever had and at
least you're in my lifetime. Andthen eighteen months later it was nine percent
under Biden. Maybe that was thenine percent he was talking about, And
of course it's come down to aboutfour and a half percent, but that's
still way way above the two percenttarget that the Federal Reserve Board says they're

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aiming for. I mean, thebottom line is everything is twenty percent more
expensive today than it was when Trumpcame into office. And the bigger problem,
and I think it's the reason Trumpis likely to win the election,
is real wages simply have not keptpay. So the average worker is about
family is about two thousand dollars fourAnd the only and by the way,
one since that they Biden keeps sayingthey have more money is you know who's

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provided that money, the government?But the government checks are running out.
They've spent all the COVID money.I have to confess as a Trump guy
who is helping advise Trump on theeconomy. You know, good, if
Biden wants to run on this economy, he can have it. You know,
it's his, It's all his.The fact is we didn't have any
inflation when Trump was president. Wehad we were royal and independent. We

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had created a massive amount of jobs. When Biden talks about all the jobs
he created, I think you guysknow two out of every three jobs he's
talking about our jobs that Trump created. That he's that just came back because
COVID ended. I mean, Icould go on and on, but there's
no question we want to talk aboutthe economy. If Biden wants to talk
about it, bring it on,because there's no question that the Trump Look,

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I just looked at sixteen of themajor economic indicators, sixteen of them.
I'm fourteen out of the sixteen Trumpbeats. There you go, Yeah,
I don't know why the president wouldwant to talk about the economy.
I really don't. But then again, what else is he going to talk
about? Does he have any goodnews to share in other areas? What

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other good news would he have toshare? You know, he has good
news, I guess if you wantto call it that with select groups who
have benefited from like, for example, student loan forgiveness or you know,
a factory here or a job therekind of thing. But as far as
the overall picture in your average American, there's no good news to pass along,

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not at all. Of course,when you get right down to the
only thing that matters is the battlegroundstates, right like Michigan. And we
even as a president now who's doingforeign policy based on trying to get enough
votes in one state, in onearea of one state in order to be
able to carry that state. Wellmore than that coming up in our final

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segment, So stand by for morequick little break. We're gonna talk a
little TikTok. You know, doyou know that TikTok is suing the United
States government? They are, they'resuing there's in you know what, they're
suing them under freedom of speech?He said, ironic or what China?
You know, China back? TikToksuing the United States over freedom of speech

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issues? Unbelievable. So we're gonnatalk to Daniel Cochran with the Heritage Foundation
about some of the some of thehigh tech issues coming up in this election,
some of the AI things we're likelyto see. That's the other thing
TikTok claims is that they're going tomake sure that everything is actually artificial intelligence
is labeled as such. Do youreally believe that's going to be the case.
We'll talk to Daniel Cochran from theHeritage Foundation. With all this coming

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up next year on a nine fiftyKPRC. We're back here at am nine
to fifty k PRC. We're talkinga little TikTok here today. We're going
to talk about what TikTok is reallyabout what they're doing, and we've got
the right guy to talk to.His name is Daniel He's a senior resource
associate at the Tech Policy Center forthe Heritage Foundation. He develops an advances

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policy on tech censorship, surveillance,you know, trying to protect kids online,
all those types of things. Daniel, let me let me just start
with this. Let me get ageneral opinion from you on what TikTok is
and what it's all about. Well, look, TikTok, as many of
your listeners probably already know, it'sa Chinese communist spy app. That TikTok

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is controlled by a Chinese company calledByteedance, and the Congress recently passed it
legislation signed by President Biden requiring byDance to divest from TikTok, citing serious
national security concerns. Now, whatwe've known for years is that TikTok Harvest

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collects, harvests and stores an immenseamount of personal data on the one hundred
and fifty million American users on itsplatform. And we know that by law
in China, byte Dance not onlystores that data, but it is required
by law to give that data,give access to that data to the Chinese
Communist Party. In fact, weknow that byte Dance has an internal committee

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that is comprised of CCP officials.So this is really a huge national security
risk. But as I recently raisedwith a colleague of mine here at Heritage
Hanson Spakowski, TikTok is also amajor risk to our elections because it gives
Byte Dance and all of the powerfulinterests that influence that the ability to influence

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public debate and opinion. And that'sespecially dangerous given that we're approaching a banner
election here in November. And youknow, I've seen a lot of surveys.
I don't know you have to asfar as where young people get their
news, TikTok is far and awaythe number one source for young voters and
where they get their news. That'sactually a huge that's actually a critical point

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because it means that it gives TikTokthe ability to shape public opinion around politics
and more and more. What we'reseeing is, believe the latest number,
at least thirty percent of people aregetting their news, thirty percent of Americans
are getting their news on social media, and the percentage of those under the

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age of say twenty five getting theirnews on an Apple like TikTok is even
higher than that. And so whatit means is that whatever TikTok decides it
wants to push in the public narrative. It can, and it can influence
public opinion. It can influence,for instance, what kind of legislation people
support, the political candidates people support. We already know that. In the
lead up to the investment bill passingCongress, TikTok was sending personalized messages to

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its millions of users, scaring them, telling them that the congressional bill was
a TikTok ban, which it's not, and urging them to contact their members
of Congress. And it was interestingwhat what kind of came out in the
last few weeks is that members werereceiving these videos, in many cases from
from kids, uh you know,saying that there you know, their TikTok

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would be banned, you know,in some cases even making violence threats.
If Congress moved forward with this commonsense that that's the measure. I mean,
imagine that kind of political power inthe hands of a Chinese Communist Party
influenced company like like Fyte Dance.I mean, that's a massive risk to
our elections and even America's free speech. And think about how they're influencing our

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kids. It's just a bad dealfor everybody here. By the way,
how rich is it that the thatthe TikTok folks are suing the US government
for freedom of speech? Well,so it is so that that's a that's
a hilarious it's a great point.Uh. They believe free speech for them
means their ability to act unencumbered fromany laws or or limits on their power.

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That's what they mean by free speech. But really, what the founding
fathers meant by free speech, andthe original intent of our First Amendment was
to protect citizen's right to hold poweraccountable. And even founders like Thomas Jefferson
recognized that private interests, especially privateforeign interests, pose an immense danger to

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a democratic society. And that's whyit's critical that we both You know,
TikTok needs to be divested, butwe need to address the underlying power that
this technology has to shape public opinion. It's a massive risk to a free
society when this power is concentrated inthese private entities that are influenced by these

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adverse interests, interests that do nothave the welfare of the United States in
mind. Now, one of theother concerns, especially as it relates to
election interference inference Daniel, is artificialintelligence ai TikTok claims or they've made a
claim I think it was yesterday wherethey said that they are going to label

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anything that is AI as AI.So you know that it is artificial intelligence,
but when it comes to election interference, I don't. I wouldn't count
on them to do that, wouldyou. Well, a lot of what's
What's so when we're talking about labelingAI created content on social media platforms,

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uh, there there are several methodsof doing that, once called water marking,
and the idea is they'll put alabel on and say, oh,
this was a I generated And thereality is, you know a lot of
times and as AI is getting moreand more advanced, that may not be
accurate. Those those methods may notbe accurate. And the reality to your
to your second kind of second partof your point there is that these companies

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are already especially TikTok, they're alreadyusing advanced AI algorithms to keep kids addicted
to their platforms. Right. Sothat's one of the reasons why TikTok has
been so damaging to kids' mental healthis because it's it's algorithms are actually powered
by a form of very very intenseAI and what the AI is doing is

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it's AI is basically finding patterns veryquickly. It's looking at a lot of
data about users, and it's findingpatterns in that data, and then it's
making inferences. So it's able tosay, oh, look, based on
the kinds of content you're engaging inUH or engaging with, here's more content
that that we think you'll you know, you'll continue to engage with. And

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and the point is to keep youglued to their platform, to keep you
your eyes on their on the contentthey serve you up, because that's how
they make their money, but that'salso how they maintain their influence. So
AI is being used I think inmany cases, and when we look at
these massive companies for UH for purposesthat that really are run counter to the

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interests of Americans and especially to theinterests of our children. We're talking to
Daniel Cochran with the Heritage Foundation.He's one of the great tech people over
there. Daniel. You know,we've tried to highlight on our program,
and I know plenty of other programshave tried to highlight the dangers, especially
for children when it relates to platformslike TikTok. Yet I don't think we're

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making a whole There doesn't seem likewe're making a whole lot of progress and
getting parents to get their kids offthe application. Why do you think it's
so hard to get people to takea real hard look at this platform that
they're using. Well, because theplatforms are designed to be addictive, you
know. TikTok is one of themore addictive platforms, and one of the

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reasons is because of how their algorithmsserve up content. So for many of
the US based platforms like Facebook andInstagram, they're showing you content that is
generated or shared by someone typically inyour friend network, right, so your
friend group, someone you're connected withon the platform. TikTok is different in

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that their algorithms often serve you upcontent that is from outside your network,
right, which which means it couldcome from anywhere in the world. And
this makes the platform especially addictive becauseit means that what the algorithm can do
is that it's looking at the datafrom all of the users produced from all

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over collected from all over the world, and it's able to decide instantaneously on
an individual basis what content is goingto be most will most likely keep you
engage in the platform. There areother sort of design features that TikTok and
other platforms are built into their theirproducts to keep people's eyes glued, so

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simple things like the like and engagementfeatures. Something that's big on instagram A
is the you know, the visualfilters right, the notifications right. This
is something even state's attorneys general havenoted when they when they have sued these
platforms recently for harming kids. It'sit's not just the algorithms, it's also
the design features themselves that are designedto that are intended to keep your eyes

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glued to the platform, and alot of it's some of it's small,
some of it's more significant. Butall these factors come together to make a
sort of cocktail of toxic content andaddictive properties that that essentially make it very
very hard for young people that arein the most formative stage of development to

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turn away from these from these services. It's kind of like tobacco of old,
Right. We used to recognize thattobacco is really addictive, and these
platforms take that to a whole newlevel. I think it's probably safe to
say that Chinese do not want anotherPresident Trump or another four years of President
Trump. So do you believe theywill work actively on their platform and to

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try to influence the election in favorof Biden? And if so, how
do you think they'll go about doingit. I think that they will influence.
They're going to tip the platform infavor of whoever, whichever candidate they
feel, you know, advances orinterests. I think you're right to say
that President Biden aligns with CCP interestsin terms of many of the decisions he's

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made over the court term of hispresidency. I think especially on issues where
you know the election is touching on, you know, the Chinese interests.
So for instance, talking about howthe Chinese were behind or sourcing some of
the sentinel that was going across theborder, right, they're likely going to

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censor and have censored content on that. We know they've censored content around you
know, the Hong Kong pro democracyprotests. We've seen that they've censored content
around Tibetan independence. They've long censoredcontent around Tiannam and Square and back in
the EU when they're having their elections. Right now, we saw TikTok essentially

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suppress the speech of one of theleading members of the European Parliament, Maximilian
kraw because of his positions on immigration. So I suspect that that will also
be a flashpoint in this year's election. Is this is one of the issues
that President Biden and former President DonaldTrump are going to clash on. So

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I think they absolutely are. Theyabsolutely are. And one more point to
that is they sort of tip theirhand in partnering with the far left group
Democracy Works, which is basically alignedwith a lot of liberal political interests.
They got folks on their board whoare big left wing donors, and they're

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going to be the organization that TikTokpartners with to decide what election related information
should stay up on their platform orwhat information they're going to promoteor deprioritize.
So I think that kind of showsyou the direction they're headed in terms of
what speech is going to be toleratedin the lead up to November. Daniel,
good stuff, a lot of greatinformation. Thanks for joining us today.
Appreciate it. Thank you you,bet. Daniel Cochran, Senior Research

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associated at the Tech Policy Center forthe Heritage Foundation. Back with Mortemam a
Jimmy Baird Show here an AM ninefifty KPRC. All right, final little
get together here, final segment comingup here on AM nine to fifty KPRC
and The Jimmy Bird Show. Andthen we're gonna call it a weekend,
okay, and we're gonna take abreak, and we're gonna have fun and
we're gonna relax, and we're gonnahope it doesn't rain too hard on Sunday,

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cause I'm sure you've heard about that, right We're expecting some more heavy
rain potentially Sunday and Monday, youknow, just as we're getting things dried
out a little bit, all right, you know, we're I mentioned in
segment number two, I'd talk aboutthis before the end of the show today,
and it has to do with makingforeign policy decisions based on trying to

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gather just a few votes in battlegroundstates. If Biden cannot carry Michigan,
in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, those kindsof states, if Trump wins those states,
then Biden has no shot at beingre elected. So he's actually willing
at this point to try to That'swhy we have the foreign policy we have
right now regarding Israel and the policieswe have as far as how we're handling

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these anti Israeli demonstrations is because Bidenis scared to death of pissing off the
squad. And one of the membersof the squad is a Michigan representative,
Rashida Talib. Here is Rashida Talibtalking about these pro Palestinian demonstrators, and
we also get some follow up onthat as to why it is that these

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people are being treated with a kidlove. It is incredibly disturbing though you
all that my colleagues are so quickto denounce the student protesters, brot are
silent about these young people, aboutwhy they are protesting. I want all
the Democrats and Republicans to know theycannot arrest their way out of this growing

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descent. Every corner of our country. People have different faiths, different colorskin
ethnicity, background of different types arecoming together. Insane Palestinians deserve to live.
I'll tell you everything you need toknow about Rashida to leave. October
seventh was a rallying cry, andshe didn't come out with a statement that
was condemning Hamas and the executions andthe hostage taking and the rapes and the

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beheading. So she told us everythingthat we need to know about Rashida to
leave. She is not defending anyof these students. And when you talk
about protected First Amendment free speech,there is a protection that only goes so
far. When you start committing allthese additional crimes and you're engaging trespassing,
vandalism, and much more, youstart to lose that protection. For Rashida

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to Leib, her role as amember of Congress pushing out Hamas Prohamas propaganda
is amplified. Her efforts are multipliedwhen you have this going on on campuses.
She's not bothered when some jew Wishstudents did not enter into a library.
The moment that you see Rashida Talib'strying to claim moral clarity by saying

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that it is wrong to be targetingJewish students and passionately sticking up for them
as well, maybe someone might startgiving her a second look. But for
now, she's shown us who sheis. Yeah, we know who she
is. That, by the way, is Lee Zelden, former state US
representative from the state of New Yorkand gubernatorial candidate. Yeah. I mean

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it's pretty easy to see what's goingon. I think my favorite response,
though, I mean, what youhave we have potentially another set of articles
of impeachment against President Biden because Congresshas passed AID specifically for Israel, and
Biden is now saying, if yougo into rap up, we will we

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will not give you the weapons youare looking for, even though that's part
of the congressional package that was passed. So Biden is basically telling Congress doesn't
matter the bill that you passed oreven that I signed it, that I'm
not going to send this stuff tothem. That's how worried he is about
Michigan, and that's how worried heis about people like Rashida Talib and Senator

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Ted Cruz was more than happy tocall him on a this is this is
this will get you fired up here, Senator Ted Cruz. Under the Biden
presidency, this administration has flowed morethan one hundred billion dollars into Iran,
six billion dollars in ransom for fiveAmericans, a policy which many of us

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said at the time would only leadto more Americans being taken hostage. And
we saw tragically on October seventh thatproved exactly right. Ten billion dollars in
funds in Iraq that the Biden administrationwanted to flow to the Ayatola and then
over eighty billion dollars in oil.When Joe Biden came into office, the

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Trump administration, with the active supportof all of US, had vigorously imposed
oil sanctions and had cut Iran's oilexports from one million barrels a day down
to about three hundred thousand. TheIranian economy was in shambles. The Iatola
was on his knees. Joe Bidencame in like the cavalry coming to the

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rescue and immediately stopped enforcing oil sanctions. And what happened. Iran's oil sales
went from three hundred thousand barrels aday to now more than two million barrels
a day. Every one of thosebarrels is a gift from Joe Biden and
the Democrats. That is over eightybillion dollars. Mind you, this is

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from the same administration that does everythingthey can to kill oil and gas production
in America while allowing a theocratic iatola. Understand the Iotola chance with mobs chance
death to America and death to Israel. And Joe Biden has said, here's
a hundred million dollars. This seemslike a great idea. And what happened

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with that hundred billion dollars. Well, ninety percent of Hamas's funding comes from
Iran. Ninety percent of hesbel asfunding comes from Iran. October seventh was
in a very real way funded bymoney given by Joe Biden and the Democrats
to Iran and Hamas and Hesbel.And by the way, Biden also sent

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hundreds of millions of dollars into Gaza, even though many of us said,
if you send it to Gaza,it will go to Hamas and be used
for terrorism. They knew that.They agreed with that. The Biden administration
concluded it was quote highly likely themoney would go to Hamas for terrorism.
You know what they did, Theywaived the anti terrorism laws and said send
it anyway. Appeasement is all thisadministration knows. And it's all the Obama

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administration knew. You know, whenTrump, at least with Trump, when
Trump was tough on Iran, theyweren't doing anything. They couldn't fund anything.
You know, when you took awaytheir ability to export oil, they
couldn't do anything. A one last, one last story here, because I
want to end on on a kindof a funny known here. Would you
spend four hundred bucks for pineapple?Del Monte is growing something called the Ruby

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Glow pineapple, and they're going tobring it to the US in limited numbers.
It's scarce. That's that's why Iguess it costs four hundred bucks.
Grown in Costa Rica after fifteen yeardevelopment. It's a registered plant patent in
the US. It's a cross betweena traditional pineapple and a Marauda vardet,
which I have no idea. Youknow, I always thought pineapples were pineapples.

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It's a hybrid fruit, though ittakes two years to grow, has
limited sea supply, which is whyit's so expensive. Only for the rich,
right, I guess. I guessonly the elite get a four hundred
dollars pineapple. No idea where youcan buy it, not that i'd ever
want. By the way, doyou like pineapple on pizza? I don't
think fruit belongs on pizza. Giveme pepper and it has to have pepperoni

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if it's gonna qualify as a pizza. No pepperoni, no pizza. All
right, listen, you all havea great weekend. See you. Monday
morning, bright nearly five am wasShare on news radio seven forty KTRH.
We're back here at four on theA nine fifty ktr C