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Voter ID. And so important, proof of citizenship, etc.
Well, and apparently it's been working. Because the ICE agents that have been deployed I saw a headline, I'm actually. I was actually looking at those right before I came in. Apparently the ICE agents have been getting the airports in order. And that means the wait times have decreased.
Now, it's not every airport. You know, obviously, some airports are different, but. For the most part, it's been super helpful, Kane. Imagine that, huh?
So wait a minute, twice in a week he's right about the missiles. And he's also right about this. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this very first hour on a Tuesday.
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So when you hear BS, you know that it's BS.
So this is one of the top. things that we're look at It's one of those days. It's one of the top things that we're looking at this morning as it pertains to. all of the drama with the Save Act, which, by the way, there's still They're still debating it in the Senate. And I talked about this on Waters last night.
I just need everybody to get on the same page and get this done because this is affecting, I mean, it's affecting everything. They had, listen to this story. I saw this last night. There was an aviation expert. Daily Mail had this story.
where they supposedly had to beg. to get through a three-hour TSA line.
So they could so the lady could make the flight to go and investigate. The air Canada. Wreck that happened at LaGuardia. Did you hear that, Kane? She had to beg.
to get in, to get through the line. That's it's an NTSB invest, and it was more than one. But the one that they interviewed was if was the uh was a lady. But Jennifer Homedy. She's the NSTB, the National Safety Transportation Board Chair.
She explained. That The investigators that were heading to LaGuardia that they were delayed by the long TSA lines. And they were apparently, so one was in Houston for over three hours.
So this is what she said: quote. One investigator got stuck in a TSA line in Houston for three hours and had to beg to see if we can get her through. End quote. Investigating The crash. Yeah, NTSB.
Can I be honest for a second? If I'm investigating a crash, I might take the train. Yeah. If I'm investigating a plane crash. Might take the train on that one.
Just saying. Just saying. So this That's and that was just one investigator. That they had. They had others coming from, I think one went through Atlanta.
Now, she herself. Jennifer Homandy had to drive from DC to New York to get to the site. Because There were so many flight cancellations. and also the wait times on top of it. You don't I was looking at this story, which I'm going to talk about a little bit later.
about how you had DHS, former DHS head Chris Genome, a.k.a. Gravel Pit Cricket. Who You spent What was it, like $8,000 or something on makeup for these ads? I'm just saying maybe charter a jet. Not anything crazy.
Just maybe charter a jet for the people investigating the crash. I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there, right? I'm just saying.
Now POTA says there's not going to be a compromise on this deal. Until the SAVE Act is pushed through. He's warning the GOP. There's going to be no compromise on this DHS deal until, quote, country-destroying Democrats, end quote. Push through the Save America Act.
So he's sticking to his guns. And he should.
Some people were making fun of him because he misspelled mutilation and transgender mutilization. I don't even care. Literally, Joe Biden couldn't find his way around on the Easter egg roll. I don't care. I don't care if he, I don't care.
The point is that He's telling Republicans there's not going to be any kind of compromise with you. Don't even think about it for a hot second. No compromise. None. And it's good.
I'm glad.
So He had posted that on True Social. And I don't know. This is, this is, listen to Corey Booker. This is cut one. Because now that ICE agents have been going into these airports, and by the way, they're used to dealing with the same type of equipment.
We talked about this yesterday: you know, ports of entry, southern border, they have very similar equipment. They know what they're doing, they know how to handle the crowds, et cetera, et cetera.
So this isn't. Beyond the scope of what they are normally used to doing. This is Corey Booker, though, freaking out, panicking on cut one. Yes. And so what's happening today in America that should outrage everybody?
He's taking the very same agency. that has been bursting into our schools. into our churches. into our hospitals. into our courts and even into the homes of Americans.
He's taking that agency that is reckless out of control and bringing them to our airports. Under the lie that somehow this is going to help deal with the long lines that he created in the first place. This is an outrage. We should not have an agency that America doesn't trust. An agency that literally has seen violence against Americans, an agency that is tearing away American families, tearing apart American families, and arresting and detaining Americans and violating due process rights and civil rights.
What is he talking about? What do you mean, due process rights and civil rights? For illegal aliens, you don't have those here. You don't have those here. If you're in the country illegally, your family hasn't paid the toil and treasure and blood.
or contributed towards the securing of those rights, you don't have those rights. I don't give a rat's ass about anybody else in any other country except for our citizens. That's the reality of the world. It's the reality of just this reality, period. All these people that want to afford all of this.
I noticed Corey Booker at no point offered to go down there and help. He sits in his ivory tower and yells under the camera. But This idea that somehow ICE agents and they're tearing families apart. No, they're not. There was an arrest.
I don't know if you saw this. There was this news article that was out yesterday, and the story quickly went away, but they're for a hot. Maybe 30 minutes. It was all over social media. Oh my gosh, ICE agents arrested this woman at the airport.
And Kane, you know, it's like a phishing story. It gets worse and like crazier and crazier. Oh my gosh, ICE arrested this woman at the airport. Oh my gosh, this woman is a mother. Because, you know, mothers, we can never do anything wrong.
I mean, I really wish that were true. She arrested this mother. Oh, in front of her child. Oh, what? And it just gets worse and worse.
And then they acted like she's an American citizen. She was literally birthed. by George Washington himself. at Mount Vernon. He had her literally in the bedroom.
The way that they, I know, but the way that they talk about it, like this person is 250 years old and has lived here all of her life in the United States of America, Kane. God bless America. No, she's from Guatemala. Illegal alien. She had a detainer on her for 12 years.
She was illegally from Guatemala. And this entire time that she was in the United States, even under the Flores Agreement, where you could have actually been shielded because apparently she fell into that age bracket, you could have been shielded from deportation, still didn't do anything.
So I have zero at all sympathy or empathy or courtesy for that. You chose to continue criminality. Bye. That's just the way that's the way a cookie crumbles. If you think you're going to have it better anywhere else, I double-dog dairy.
Go to Ireland and try this. Go to Ireland and try this. They will show, you'll have a bunch of redheads that'll show the hell up on your doorstep. R, it's time to go now. Oh, they don't say R.
That's actually Scott's, isn't it? I'm gonna get murdered in mail. I'm gonna get hate mail so much. But they show up on your door. I know for a fact that that's what happens because they have one of the women that actually here in Dallas, I used to go down to the Fox Bureau.
This is pre-COVID. Amazing, she's a great stylist. Her daughter went to go study like art history or something in Dublin. And Like three months before her visa, her student visa was to expire. She was following everything.
She applied. She wanted to stay longer. She was going to graduate. And then she was just going to take another couple of courses to maintain her student visa. And Ireland was like, no, lassie.
No, you can't. Oh, you're not studying. You're not going for a higher degree. You're not going to pursue higher education than this degree level. Oh, you think you're going to take a couple of classes to maintain the student visa?
No, but get out, bye. And they said, we will literally show up at your door. and help you get to the airport. Help. They don't play around.
That's Ireland. I mean, you know, try to go to Mexico and see what happens. Go to Mexico illegally. Cain, if I were to cross illegally into Mexico. You got some family there, you know, your non-white adjacent half.
Yeah. What happens? Let me guess. They give me money and they put me up in a five-star hotel, right? Ooh, no.
Of course that's what happens in Mexico. That's how it works. Quite opposite. They take all the money, and they give you a one-star hotel with bars. That sounds like prison, my friend.
That's what it is. Oh, yeah, great. Yeah, it is present. Try that anywhere else. These people try to, no, they come to the United States.
Where's my five-star hotel? Where's my spending money? Where is all this? There was a guy, there was a story of a dude who d who self-deported. They pulled this up back to Mexico.
And then he was able to come back. Like you like we give you a flight back and what we give you a little bit of cash and like you self deport and then you can end up, you know, probably coming back. And apparently that's what this guy did. Uh just what, a few weeks ago? Huh?
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So they were really planning this couple, like some mass casualty incidents here.
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Dana Lash with you, bottom of this third hour. And I thought this was interesting. We had this little bit from Lorraine. British Royal Navy is now going to take the lead in forming an alliance. To help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
It's about damn time. Mm-hmm.
So, I mean, they said that they could deploy an underwater mine clearing drones and type. Forty-five destroyers to escort tankers through the Strait of Ormuz. That's What's being reported now? Do I don't know do they have the uh ability to do that? I don't know.
Do they have the ability to? I mean, maybe they do. Ah, but the defence sources confirm. Kane, that Britain is positioning itself at the helm of a multinational maritime mission to restore safe passage for oil tankers through the critical waterway. Once the war de-escalates...
Plans may include hosting a Strait of Hormuz summit in London attended by Gulf states, European nations and the United States. They could deploy anti-mine, maritime, and underwater drones together with the United States and France to clear threats and safeguard the waterway. It's weird the way the story. It's weird the way they write the story. It's like, oh, it looks like Britain's going to be on the front lines, right?
They're going to be heading this whole thing off. Literally, they're just taking the lead in forming the alliance that after the war stuff happens. Yeah. That's what they're gonna do. This isn't this isn't a.
brave story at all. That's how it happened. Yeah, they're uh well And honestly, I think it's because they can't. Right. They just, they physically don't.
The island nation, Great Britannia.
Now has a meagre fleet. Gone are the days when they were all pumped up and still ruled the oceans with Margaret Thatcher. No, now they've but a single destroyer. dispatched to the Med to go and help in Cyprus after they lied prostrate in front of the Mullahs and said, Please don't hurt us. We denied the United States the ability to use this shared UK-US base and then they got droned anyway.
And then the rockets over the weekend. That was a big ordeal. Finding out these regional ballist these regional missiles were not really so regional and they can go 4,000 kilometers and they were only supposed to go two. At least that's what Iran said. But everybody believed Iran.
Yeah. That's not um. Just saying. Just saying. So, I will say, with Britain, I mean, we get less, excuse me, we get.
Less than 2%. And that's latest from the Energy Information Administration. I mean, it's like less than 2% of total US petroleum and liquids through the strait.
Now It's A lot more. For Britain, a lot more for Britain. They get, I think it's like somewhere around 20%.
Now, a lot of their production comes from uh offshore fields Uh Aberdeen, southern in the North Sea. Things like that. But those have actually kind of been declined.
So they get, excuse me, a lot of. crude L N G from Cutter.
So as their ability, not really ability, but as the production in that area declines. they're starting to have to increase their dependence. Upon others. And you would want the United States to step in and fill that gap, right? Because look, it's good for us.
It's good for our economy. But it's also we Become a de facto part of their energy infrastructure if they're relying on us. You got to be allies with us. You want to have people that owe you, right? You want to be able to have that relationship because that's also a form of national security, to be able to have that economic relationship.
That's why it's incredibly important for them to rely on us for this instead of getting the dirty gas and all that from Russia.
So they still have significant shale potential in different parts like Yorkshire, things like that.
So maybe they'll go to a different part and start increasing production there. We'll see. But at least they're doing something though, right, Kane? Yeah. Something sounds so underwhelmed.
You sound so unbelievably underwhelmed.
So here's an interesting story.
So I told you my friend Carrie Pickett with the Washington Times is in the studio today. No. Let me show let me show the story that she's got. ATF is scrutinized. For enforcing the pistol brace rule years after.
It was nixed years after the court killed the regulation.
Now, if you guys remember that pistol brace rule. They've um I I mean, it was entirely idiotic in the first place, but They had already, I mean, they, it was defeated, right? And technically in court.
So, why in the world is the ATF? Still Like enforcing this.
So the story says that, you know, good people, 2A advocates, are questioning why is the DOJ Still treating. Any pistol with a stabilizing brace is an SBR, a short-barrel rifle, that requires registration. For your tax stamp, all up because this is 2023. It carries in the studio with me now. This is 2023.
that this was struck down. And what they're still enforcing it. And they found out because ATF sent an email to a gun owner. Saying that he could not put a pistol brace on his firearm. He had to register it and pay for a tax stamp.
Now Why is this still happening, Carrie? If This was 23 was struck down. Dan, this is absolutely incredible. This is how you have lawyers over at the DOJ. Who say, well, you caught us last time when this particular rule was vacated.
During the Biden administration during twenty twenty three, But the underlying law This is the Gun Control Act. They said, Oh, but that law hasn't gone away.
So as far as they're concerned, Or you're going, it's still a short barrel rifle. as ha as far as how they're interpreting it.
So they're saying, yeah, that rule was stupid, but Essentially, when you take a pistol and you put a brace on it. It's still 16 inches. Yeah, it's not an SBR. That's so dumb. That does not make it a short-barrel rifle just because there's a brace on it.
Well, they're saying you know You may have gotten rid of the rule, but you haven't gotten rid of the law. That's what it comes down to.
So there's a, yeah, you caught us on the rule, but you haven't caught us on the law.
So we're gonna keep interpreting. the law as such. That Is Insane that that doesn't even make any sense. Yeah. So I got, you know, I went to the DOJ and I asked them, hey, why do you guys keep enforcing this rule?
That was vacated in 2023. And they, and so I have a. DOJ spokesman who thinks he's being snarky with me is like, well, gee, Carrie, we're not enforcing the rule. Ha ha, we're not enforcing. Yeah, if the DOJ is not enforcing it, the ATF is not enforcing the rule.
But Yet the guy was told that he still had to get the tax stamp. Which is like what, two hundred bucks? Yeah, yeah, and and of course he has to register it and go through all the rig and roll. And it's the idea that and if you don't do it, you become a big felon. Yeah, I love how you said the Justice Department had said, quote, this is untrue.
The Biden administration's pistol brace rule has been vacated by court. The DOJ is not defending the rule, the ATF is not enforcing it.
So how why then was the guy told he's going to be in violation of the law if he didn't? But yeah, yeah. Exactly. That that's what gun owners of America is asking. That's what a lot of our friends in the uh you know gun community are are asking.
It's just like, well then wait, hold on a second. You said you vacated it. But yet it kind of wasn't vacated. Yeah, if you're still enforcing it, then because adding the brace does not make. it a short barreled rifle that That barrel has not changed.
That is the dumbest thing ever.
Well, it identifies as like a moderately longer barreled firearm. No, that's not. That doesn't, that doesn't really work either. What so does this come down to basically the DO, can the DOJ go knock it off, stop enforcing this? It was vacated.
This is no longer enforceable. Can they do that? Does Pam Bondi have the power to do that? Yeah, I mean they could s I mean, if you think about it, isn't that what the uh D O J uh did during the uh Biden years when you know, well, we don't have to enforce certain laws even though they're there or 'cause they fall under they fall under D O J. Yeah.
So they could yeah, she could ju so Is why isn't Bondi doing that?
Well, good question. Million-dollar question. She's never going to come on. Did you ever try to? We tried to get her on the show, and she was like, nope.
But I think it was because I was moderately critical of her previous support of red flag laws, et cetera, in Florida, because she was a big supporter of that. Her and Rick Scott. Rick Scott passed it when he was governor of Florida. And then Pam Bondi was a big supporter of it. And we were real critical of her being AG.
with that as the background, with that as the record. But yeah, they're not um I don't That doesn't make any sense the way that they're trying to pervert that further and still enforce this. Is there any move from the DOJ? Is this something that they're going to respond to, or are we going to have this confusion? Because it sounds like entrapment.
It sounds like they're setting up innocent people who are following the law and have followed the law, but they're also cognizant of the fact that the court vacated this ruling. And so they know it's not enforceable, but now it seems like this is they're like it's a bait and switch with the ATF. You know, Dana, what particularly concerns me is that you have a lot of people. such as ourselves, like the big nerds geeks and those of us i in the news industry who actually pay attention to what's going on. And then you have those people who simply paid attention to what was going on in 2023.
They heard the big news and they're like, okay, well, looks like it was vacated, so now I can do what I want to do. And they didn't pay attention to this little nugget. And You know, next thing you know, they're gonna get caught and then they're gonna have the feds come down on them. They're like, wait, I thought it was vacated. And then next thing you know, they're gonna have the feds come down on them.
You think the feds are gonna stop enforcing it? I don't think so. It's the whole gotcha moment. And this administration, the only person who I think Could very well maybe be the saving grace here is maybe Harmee Dillon. She's been relatively pretty good when it comes to firearms, at least on the surface.
We've been seeing some good posts on X as far as how she's been. Will she follow through?
Well, let's see. She's going to be on the show later this week with us. Yeah, on Thursday. She'll be on the show with us Thursday.
So this will be one of the questions for sure. That I ask her on this because you got to have the clarity. I mean, nobody's trying to go out there and become a felon, but man, if they're actually. Still enforcing this, and we got, and for those just joining, we got my friend Carrie Pickett with the Washington Times and studio, she's in town. Uh for that event that's happening, you know, down the road.
She's in town and she's got this great piece at the Washington Times talking about how the ATF, even though With the pistol braces, even though you got a court that nicks that regulation, ATF is still enforcing it and sending notices out to people. These are good people that we don't all want to run afoul of the law, but. It is. It's super confusing when you know that it's been vaccinated. You know that the regulation is dead, but yet the ATF is literally actually reaching out to people.
And letting them know, oh, well, if you have this, then you gotta, you have to register and do all, even though they shouldn't be doing that. And we're waiting for the DOJ to step in. I mean, these are good peoples it does sound like it sounds like they're trying to make felons out of them on like they're being shady. That's shady. Absolutely.
It's like when you're told to fill something out in triplicate, but you didn't get that third paper filled out. And, oh, sorry, sucks to be you. Would it help if our last name was Biden? Because that dude can be high as a kite on cocaine and literally discard a pistol in a trash can opposite a school, which actually I think. Technically, I wonder if that actually violated that federal law about that that was passed 30-some odd years ago.
And he can lion is 4473. Nothing happens to that guy, but you're following the law and you're doing everything that you're supposed to. And because of this lack of clarity, the ATF could turn you into a felon. And they would be very eager to do so. Oh.
Absolutely. Hey, uh as long as they can say, hey, we can we ended up catching this many people in our little entrapment scheme, and we can end up fulfilling our budget. Yeah. That's interesting. Like they have to prove that they're worthwhile to keep their budget.
Oh my God. That's how government works. Yay, government. This is a great piece. I'm going to make sure that you guys get it in the links, prep links for Substack.
Carrie Pickett, always a great job. Really great work. You can find her at Washington Times. You can also find, is it just Carrie Pickett on X? Just Carrie Pickett.
I was able to get my name there with no numbers around it or anything. Wow.
Got it first, baby. Wow.
So it's not like Carrie Pickett 97057. No, no, no. I got it before any other Carrie Pickett comes. Excellent. Excellent.
Thank you, Carrie. This is a great piece. Yeah, you guys need to be aware of this because. You know, I like they're still enforcing it and yet Yeah, that's a bad deal. Pre-born, I'm telling you, they saved over 80,000 lives last year, over 80,000 babies, and that's because of faithful supporters of pre-born.
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I recently spoke with IBM's new Director of Research, Jake Empada. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. At IBM Research, what we always do is answer: what is the future of computing? Whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future.
Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes. building actual Physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience.
The culture of building hard things. that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point. When it will mature, right?
My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with content? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer. That is one that can run a very, very large large problem. To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, visit ibm.com slash quantum.
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All right, so in Tampa Troopers were surprised to see Well, it looks like missiles mounted on a man's pickup truck. Florida Highway Patrol, Tampa, said it got multiple calls from drivers on Interstate 4 about this truck on Sunday. They pulled the truck over. And nicknamed the driver Rocket Man. The troops, or the troopers, troopers determined that the missiles were actually just plastic props used for shows and events.
And they said, everything's fine. And they're like, they gave the driver suggestions on how to transport them so they don't scare idiots who think they're real. Because I'm looking at them and I'm, Kane, do they look real? They kind of look real. You think?
Yeah. I just Look a little real. I mean, not my circus, not my monkeys. You know what I mean? I'd be like, oh, some missiles.
All right. I mean, I don't It doesn't bother him bothering me, but no, they're People were calling in about him and troopers checked it out. I love it. Guy gets out in his flannel shirt and he's like, Yeah, you know, it's just basically basic. It's, you know.
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At IBM Research, what we always do is answer: what is the future of computing? Whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes.
Building actual Physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience The culture of building hard things. that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology?
There will come a point. When it will mature, right? My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with content? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer.
That is one that can run a very, very large large problem. To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, Visit ibm.com slash quantum. The Bleacher Report app is your destination for sports. Right now, the NBA is heating up, March Madness is here, and MLB is almost back. Every day there's a new headline, a new highlight, a new moment you've got to see for yourself.
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Menstrual hygiene products means appropriately sized tampons. What are appropriately sized tampons? I've never heard of such a thing. What do you consider appropriate? Uh It it just means that tampons are offered.
There's no specific size.
Well, apparently there's four different sizes, so which one would you like them to use? Just a regular sized tampon in the bathroom.
Okay, maybe it should say that and not appropriately sized tampon.
Now, is this going in all bathrooms, men's and women's? Yes. How about the Ravens Stadium? If it is a State-owned Building. Then yes, it would go in It's a public building.
Oreo Park. And go down.
Well, if it applies to the Raven Stadium, it would also apply to Orioles Park. I guess, Pimlico.
So Wow, this is in Maryland. They're talking about putting tampons in the bathrooms of the men's room at Baltimore Ravens and Orioles Stadiums.
Okay, I'm gonna say this one last time. If you're a dude, and you were bleeding from your like copulatory organ region. You need a doctor and not a tampon, because that ain't right.
Something happened down there if you're, you know, that's not right.
So they're I love how the Republican woman is asking the Democrat man, what does appropriately sized mean? That's probably my favorite part of this. And he was like, he can't answer. Pray tell, sir, what sort of circumference are you thinking of? What is the girth of the said tampon that you're considering?
For Uh you know One of the things that I love the most is they tried this in a high school. They put a tampon box. I can't remember what high school it was. It was like a year ago we had the story. In a boys' bathroom, you know what the boys did?
They totally vandalized it, and then they made guns and like rockets and all kinds of stuff out of the tampons that were in there. And I'm like, God bless America, the kids are all right. It's the adults who aren't, but the kids are okay. But I love this woman's like, can you please, what does that mean when they need to be adequately sized? You can tell, sorry dudes, but you can tell a man wrote that.
Well, we need some. Like, you're, you're, like, you're, we're, like, they would go cheap on you and give you little dinky ones. Like, what are you talking about here? Like, what is this? I can tell all the women out there are dying right now because they're all like, oh my gosh.
God bless America. Have we sold this is how Rome died, by the way. I mean, this is just, you know. We're arguing about the size of a product. For a situation that dudes don't have, a product that dudes don't use, to put in the men's bathroom.
Aren't there other ways to make men feel appreciated? I mean I just feel like Lorraine reminded me that tampon story in the boys' bathroom that was in Minnesota. That wasn't Minnesota, because Tampon, that wasn't, and they vandalized all of it. It was amazing. Where she where does a biological male put said?
Tampon, where does where does that go? I don't want to know. The only reason a man should have tampons is if he's purchasing them for his wife or fiancé. Girlfriends, buy your own. Wife or fiancé.
Yeah. Yeah, or if you're on a ship and you're packing a cannon. Why has home sales hit the slowest pace in four years? Sales of newly built homes dropped 17.6%. Even with building prices coming down, why are young homebuyers so anxious?
Is this another housing market warning sign? Check out the Watchdog on Wall Street podcast on Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. Hello, hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Smart Talks with IBM. I recently sat down with IBM's chairman and CEO, Arvind Krishna. And I asked him, how can companies use AI to its fullest potential to create smarter business?
My one advice to them. Pick areas you can scale. Don't pick the shiny little toys on the side. For example, If anybody has more than Ten percent of what they had for customer service Ten years ago? They're already five years behind.
If anybody is not using AI to make their developers who write software, 30% more productive today. with the goal of being 70% more productive. Yeah. So we are not asking our clients to be the first experiment on it. We say, you can leverage what we did.
We're happy to bring out all our learnings, including what needs to change. in the process because the biggest change is not technology. is getting people to accept. But there's a different way to do things. To listen to the full conversation, visit ibm.com slash smart talks.
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And let's see. First up. I'm gonna have to restart this whole thing again. It's so frustrating. I know, it's so frustrating.
I hate Google Docs so bad. Let's see. First up, I've got testimony for Minnesota's grandparents' happy hour bill.
So it's a group that allow, it's a bill that allows group homes and assisted living to serve alcohol to residents and guests. You've got to pass the law for that? Let him live a little. Let them live. Oh gosh, alcohol prep heads sold nationwide recall due to possible microbial contamination.
But I thought that was supposed to kill the Mike Yeah, yeah, I thought it was. They said web calls large alcohol prep pads. baby contaminated with a bacteria called uh Panabasilicus finiciasus. It sounds it's I mean, it's I sound like I speak Latin pr uh fluently. They said that it could cause systemic infections for at-risk populations.
They were distributed in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Japan between September 25 and February 26th. Just go online and Google it. Let's see, the most powerful drug of all is movement, says this totally dumb survey. I'm not even reading this. That's just a waste.
Wisconsin's dot. Department of Transportation, they're going to start emergency work after. Oh no, sorry, this is Washington.
Sorry, Washington's Department of Transportation. They had a slide, a giant rock slide. That is actually kind of scary. Like when you're driving through some of these canyons and you're looking up and you're like, that's a lot of loose rock. This is a little bit unnerving.
I don't like that. Tax resistance is gaining attention amid ICE protests and others. IRS penalties could follow. Penalize your mom. Yeah.
or penalized Ds. I didn't say it. But I'm just saying.
Some people on the left are just now realizing that taxation is government sanctioned theft.
So the IRS is reminding people failure to file your returns. or under pain can trigger hefty penalties, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Maybe stop being corrupt. Stop incorruption, stop. Auditing conservatives every single time a Democrat is in the White House.
I'm not saying this is me, I'm just saying I've heard this from people. That's all I'm just saying. Also, let's see, an extra 11 minutes sleep each night can reduce your heart attack risk. According to studies, researchers Detail a surprisingly large cardiovascular health benefit, small shifts in behavior.
So if you sleep, 11 minutes more each night. Maybe eat a little more leafy greens. Maybe, you know, do a couple minutes of brisk walking. You could actually increase your chance to avoid a major cardiovascular event. By like 10%.
That's pretty significant.
So just like little, you know, little, you don't have to go out there and, you know, power man it. You don't have to go do that, but just like a little bit, some changes really, you know, that would help. Just saying. Thousands remain under evacuation orders still in Hawaii because now a dam is in danger of failing. Those horrible floods across Oahu, it's the worst Hawaii scene in over 20 years.
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