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Jason Schultz is a personal injury lawyer based in Peachtree City, Georgia, and a long-time client of Foster Consulting. His strong spirit and ability to go it alone as a sole practitioner makes him an inspiration for everyone he meets and works with. We'll dive into the nuances of his work life and the philosophies and mindsets he brings with him into the courtroom. Let's dive in! Here's a Glimpse of What You'll Learn 0:00 Preview - Likeable vs. Unlikeable 1:10 Introduction 3:00 Getting to Know Jason 7:08 What Challenges Jason 11:55 The Value of Marketing 14:04 A Unique Selling Proposition 16:08 Looking Toward the Future 18:24 The Value Jason Provides 22:27 Likeable vs. Unlikeable 24:54 Letting the Client Drive 31:30 What You Should Take Away 36:30 Wrap Up Jason has kept his practice small for the sake of creating personally-made results for his clients. His experience matches that of attorneys in larger firms. He's seen it all but has the overhead and practice structure to ensure you get his undivided attention. You won't be pawned off on an associate attorney. Jason and his paralegal will work directly with you so your case gets the treatment and value it deserves. Contact Jason today to discuss your injury case. Speakers Featured in This Episode - Tom Foster of Foster Web Marketing- Jason Schultz of The Law Office of Jason R. Schultz, P.C. This episode is brought to you by Foster Web Marketing. Foster Web Marketing is dedicated to providing cutting-edge, highly customizable marketing and strategic solutions specifically designed for law firms and medical practices. Our award-winning marketing and systems solutions are what set us apart from everyone else.  

“We haven't invested this much money into an infrastructure like this really until you go back to the pyramids”—Kate CrawfordTranscript with links to audio and external links. Ground Truths podcasts are on Apple and Spotify. The video interviews are on YouTube Eric Topol (00:06):Well, hello, this is Eric Topol with Ground Truths, and I'm really delighted today to welcome Kate Crawford, who we're very lucky to have as an Australian here in the United States. And she's multidimensional, as I've learned, not just a scholar of AI, all the dimensions of AI, but also an artist, a musician. We're going to get into all this today, so welcome Kate.Kate Crawford (00:31):Thank you so much, Eric. It's a pleasure to be here.Eric Topol (00:34):Well, I knew of your work coming out of the University of Southern California (USC) as a professor there and at Microsoft Research, and I'm only now learning about all these other things that you've been up to including being recognized in TIME 2023 as one of 100 most influential people in AI and it's really fascinating to see all the things that you've been doing. But I guess I'd start off with one of your recent publications in Nature. It was a world view, and it was about generative AI is guzzling water and energy. And in that you wrote about how these large AI systems, which are getting larger seemingly every day are needing as much energy as entire nations and the water consumption is rampant. So maybe we can just start off with that. You wrote a really compelling piece expressing concerns, and obviously this is not just the beginning of all the different aspects you've been tackling with AI.Exponential Growth, Exponential Concerns Kate Crawford (01:39):Well, we're in a really interesting moment. What I've done as a researcher in this space for a very long time now is really introduce a material analysis of artificial intelligence. So we are often told that AI is a very immaterial technology. It's algorithms in the cloud, it's objective mathematics, but in actual fact, it comes with an enormous material infrastructure. And this is something that I took five years to research for my last book, Atlas of AI. It meant going to the mines where lithium and cobalt are being extracted. It meant going into the Amazon fulfillment warehouses to see how humans collaborate with robotic and AI systems. And it also meant looking at the large-scale labs where training data is being gathered and then labeled by crowd workers. And for me, this really changed my thinking. It meant that going from being a professor for 15 years focusing on AI from a very traditional perspective where we write papers, we're sitting in our offices behind desks, that I really had to go and do these journeys, these field trips, to understand that full extractive infrastructure that is needed to run AI at a planetary scale.(02:58):So I've been keeping a very close eye on what would change with generative AI and what we've seen particularly in the last two years has been an extraordinary expansion of the three core elements that I really write about in Atlas, so the extraction of data of non-renewable resources, and of course hidden labor. So what we've seen, particularly on the resources side, is a gigantic spike both in terms of energy and water and that's often the story that we don't hear. We're not aware that when we're told about the fact that there gigantic hundred billion computers that are now being developed for the next stage of generative AI that has an enormous energy and water footprint. So I've been researching that along with many others who are now increasingly concerned about how we might think about AI more holistically.Eric Topol (03:52):Well, let's go back to your book, which is an extraordinary book, the AI Atlas and how you dissected not just the well power of politics and planetary costs, but that has won awards and it was a few years back, and I wonder so much has changed since then. I mean ChatGPT in late 2022 caught everybody off guard who wasn't into this knowing that this has been incubating for a number of years, and as you said, these base models are just extraordinary in every parameter you can think about, particularly the computing resource and consumption. So your concerns were of course registered then, have they gone to exponential growth now?Kate Crawford (04:45):I love the way you put that. I think you're right. I think my concerns have grown exponentially with the models. But I was like everybody else, even though I've been doing this for a long time and I had something of a heads up in terms of where we were moving with transformer models, I was also quite taken aback at the extraordinary uptake of ChatGPT back in November 2022 in fact, gosh, it still feels like yesterday it's been such an extraordinary timescale. But looking at that shift to a hundred million users in two months and then the sort of rapid competition that was emerging from the major tech companies that I think really took me by surprise, the degree to which everybody was jumping on the bandwagon, applying some form of large language model to everything and anything suddenly the hammer was being applied to every single nail.(05:42):And in all of that sound and fury and excitement, I think there will be some really useful applications of these tools. But I also think there's a risk that we apply it in spaces where it's really not well suited that we are not looking at the societal and political risks that come along with these approaches, particularly next token prediction as a way of generating knowledge. And then finally this bigger set of questions around what is it really costing the planet to build these infrastructures that are really gargantuan? I mean, as a species, we haven't invested this much money into an infrastructure like this really until you go back to the pyramids, you really got to go very far back to say that type of just gargantuan spending in terms of capital, in terms of labor, in terms of all of the things are required to really build these kinds of systems. So for me, that's the moment that we're in right now and perhaps here together in 2024, we can take a breath from that extraordinary 18 month period and hopefully be a little more reflective on what we're building and why and where will it be best used.Propagation of BiasesEric Topol (06:57):Yeah. Well, there's so many aspects of this that I'd like to get into with you. I mean, one of course, you're as a keen observer and activist in this whole space, you've made I think a very clear point about how our culture is mirrored in our AI that is our biases, and people are of course very quick to blame AI per se, but it seems like it's a bigger problem than just that. Maybe you could comment about, obviously biases are a profound concern about propagation of them, and where do you see where the problem is and how it can be attacked?Kate Crawford (07:43):Well, it is an enormous problem, and it has been for many years. I was first really interested in this question in the era that was known as the big data era. So we can think about the mid-2000s, and I really started studying large scale uses of data in scientific applications, but also in what you call social scientific settings using things like social media to detect and predict opinion, movement, the way that people were assessing key issues. And time and time again, I saw the same problem, which is that we have this tendency to assume that with scale comes greater accuracy without looking at the skews from the data sources. Where is that data coming from? What are the potential skews there? Is there a population that's overrepresented compared to others? And so, I began very early on looking at those questions. And then when we had very large-scale data sets start to emerge, like ImageNet, which was really perhaps the most influential dataset behind computer vision that was released in 2009, it was used widely, it was freely available.(09:00):That version was available for over a decade and no one had really looked inside it. And so, working with Trevor Paglen and others, we analyzed how people were being represented in this data set. And it was really quite extraordinary because initially people are labeled with terms that might seem relatively unsurprising, like this is a picture of a nurse, or this is a picture of a doctor, or this is a picture of a CEO. But then you look to see who is the archetypical CEO, and it's all pictures of white men, or if it's a basketball player, it's all pictures of black men. And then the labeling became more and more extreme, and there are terms like, this is an alcoholic, this is a corrupt politician, this is a kleptomaniac, this is a bad person. And then a whole series of labels that are simply not repeatable on your podcast.(09:54):So in finding this, we were absolutely horrified. And again, to know that so many AI models had trained on this as a way of doing visual recognition was so concerning because of course, very few people had even traced who was using this model. So trying to do the reverse engineering of where these really problematic assumptions were being built in hardcoded into how AI models see and interpret the world, that was a giant unknown and remains to this day quite problematic. We did a recent study that just came out a couple of months ago looking at one of the biggest data sets behind generative AI systems that are doing text to image generation. It's called LAION-5B, which stands for 5 billion. It has 5 billion images and text captions drawn from the internet. And you might think, as you said, this will just mirror societal biases, but it's actually far more weird than you might imagine.(10:55):It's not a representative sample even of the internet because particularly for these data sets that are now trying to use the ALT tags that are used around images, who uses ALT tags the most on the internet? Well, it's e-commerce sites and it's often stock image sites. So what you'll see and what we discovered in our study was that the vast majority of images and labels are coming from sites like Shopify and Pinterest, these kind of shopping aspirational collection sites. And that is a very specific way of seeing the world, so it's by no means even a perfect mirror. It's a skewed mirror in multiple ways. And that's something that we need to think of particularly when we turn to more targeted models that might be working in say healthcare or in education or even in criminal justice, where we see all sorts of problems emerge.Exploiting Humans for RLHFEric Topol (11:51):Well, that's really interesting. I wonder to extend that a bit about the human labor side of this. Base models are tweaked, fine-tuned, and one of the ways to do that, of course is getting people to weigh in. And this has been written about quite a bit about how the people that are doing this can be exploited, getting wages that are ridiculously weak. And I wonder if you could comment about that because in the ethics of AI, this seems to be one of the many things that a lot of people don't realize about reinforcement learning.Kate Crawford (12:39):Oh, I completely agree. It's quite an extraordinary story. And of course now we have a new category of crowd labor that's called reinforcement learning with human feedback or RLHF. And what was discovered by multiple investigations was that these laborers are in many cases paid less than $2 an hour in very exploitative conditions, looking at results that in many cases are really quite horrifying. They could be accounts of murder, suicide, trauma, this can be visual material, it can be text-based material. And again, the workers in these working for these companies, and again, it's often contract labor, it's not directly within a tech company, it's contracted out. It's very hidden, it's very hard to research and find. But these laborers have been experiencing trauma and are really now in many cases bringing lawsuits, but also trying to unionize and say, these are not acceptable conditions for people to be working under.(13:44):So in the case of OpenAI, it was found that it was Kenyan workers who were doing this work for just poverty wages, but it's really across the board. It's so common now that humans are doing the hard work behind the scenes to make these systems appear autonomous. And that's the real trap that we're being told that this is the artificial intelligence. But in actual fact, what Jeff Bezos calls Mechanical Turk is that it's artificial, artificial intelligence otherwise known as human beings. So that is a very significant layer in terms of how these systems work that is often unacknowledged. And clearly these workers in many cases are muzzled from speaking, they're not allowed to talk about what they do, they can't even tell their families. They're certainly prevented from collective action, which is why we've seen this push towards unionization. And finally, of course, they're not sharing in any of the profits that are being generated by these extraordinary new systems that are making a very small number of people, very wealthy indeed.Eric Topol (14:51):And do you know if that's improving or is it still just as bad as it has been reported? It's really deeply concerning to see human exploitation, and we all know well about sweatshops and all that, but here's another version, and it's really quite distressing.Kate Crawford (15:09):It really is. And in fact, there have been several people now working to create really almost like fair work guidelines. So Oxford has the sort of fair work initiative looking specifically at crowd work. They also have a rating system where they rate all of the major technology companies for how well they're treating their crowd laborers. And I have to say the numbers aren't looking good in the last 12 months, so I would love to see much more improvement there. We are also starting to see legislation be tabled specifically on this topic. In fact, Germany was one of the most recent to start to explore how they would create a strong legislative backing to make sure that there's fair labor conditions. Also, Chile was actually one of the first to legislate in this space, but you can imagine it's very difficult to do because it's a system that is operating under the radar through sort of multiple contracted chains. And even some of the people within tech companies will tell me it's really hard to know if they're working with a company that's doing this in the right way and paying people well. But frankly, I'd like to see far greater scrutiny otherwise, as you say, we're building on this system, which looks like AI sweatshops.Eric Topol (16:24):Yeah, no, I think people just have this illusion that these machines are doing everything by themselves, and that couldn't be further from the truth, especially when you're trying to take it to the next level. And there's only so much human content you can scrape from the internet, and obviously it needs additional input to take it to that more refined performance. Now, besides your writing and being much of a conscience for AI, you're also a builder. I mean, I first got to know some of your efforts through when you started the AI Now Institute. Maybe you can tell us a bit about that. Now you're onto the Knowing Machines Project and I don't know how many other projects you're working on, so maybe you can tell us about what it's like not just to be a keen observer, but also one to actually get initiatives going.Kate Crawford (17:22):Well, I think it's incredibly important that we start to build interdisciplinary coalitions of researchers, but sometimes even beyond the academic field, which is where I really initially trained in this space, and really thinking about how do we involve journalists, how do we involve filmmakers, how do we involve people who will look at these issues in really different ways and tell these stories more widely? Because clearly this really powerful shift that we're making as a society towards using AI in all sorts of domains is also a public issue. It's a democratic issue and it's an issue where we should all be able to really see into how these systems are working and have a say in how they'll be impacting our lives. So one of the things that I've done is really create research groups that are interdisciplinary, starting at Microsoft Research as one of the co-founders of FATE, a group that stands for fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics, and then the AI Now Institute, which was originally at NYU, and now with Knowing Machines, which is an international group, which I've been really delighted to build, rather than just purely focusing on those in the US because of course these systems are inherently transnational, they will be affecting global populations.(18:42):So we really need to think about how do you bring people from very different perspectives with different training to ask this question around how are these systems being built, who is benefiting and who might be harmed, and how can we address those issues now in order to actually prevent some of those harms and prevent the greatest risks that I see that are possible with this enormous turn to artificial intelligence everywhere?Eric Topol (19:07):Yeah, and it's interesting how you over the years are a key advisor, whether it's the White House, the UN or the European Parliament. And I'm curious about your experience because I didn't know much about the Paris ENS. Can you tell us about you were Visiting Chair, this is AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), I don't know if I pronounce that right. My French is horrible, but this sounds like something really interesting.Kate Crawford (19:42):Well, it was really fascinating because this was the first time that ENS, which is really one of the top research institutions in Europe, had turned to this focus of how do we contend with artificial intelligence, not just as a technical question, but as a sort of a profound question of justice of society of ethics. And so, I was invited to be the first visiting chair, but tragically this corresponded with the start of the pandemic in 2020. And so, it ended up being a two-year virtual professorship, which is really a tragedy when you're thinking about spending time in Paris to be spending it on Zoom. It's not quite the same thing, but I had the great fortune of using that time to assemble a group of scholars around the world who were looking at these questions from very different disciplines. Some were historians of science, others were sociologists, some were philosophers, some were machine learners.(20:39):And really essentially assembled this group to think through some of the leading challenges in terms the potential social impacts and current social impacts of these systems. And so, we just recently published that through the academies of Science and Engineering, and it's been almost like a template for thinking about here are core domains that need more research. And interestingly, we're at that moment, I think now where we can say we have to look in a much more granular fashion beyond the hype cycles, beyond the sense of potential, the enormous potential upside that we're always hearing about to look at, okay, how do these systems actually work now? What kinds of questions can we bring into the research space so that we're really connecting the ideas that come traditionally from the social sciences and the humanistic disciplines into the world of machine learning and AI design. That's where I see the enormous upside that we can no longer stay in these very rigorously patrolled silos and to really use that interdisciplinary awareness to build systems differently and hopefully more sustainably as well.Is Working At Microsoft A Conflict?Eric Topol (21:55):Yeah, no, that's what I especially like about your work is that you're not a doomsday person or force. You're always just trying to make it better, but now that's what gets me to this really interesting question because you are a senior principal researcher at Microsoft and Microsoft might not like some of these things that you're advocating, how does that potential conflict work out?Kate Crawford (22:23):It's interesting. I mean, people often ask me, am I a technology optimist or a technology pessimist? And I always say I'm a technology realist, and we're looking at these systems being used. I think we are not benefited by discourses of AI doomerism nor by AI boosterism. We have to assess the real politic and the political economies into which these systems flow. So obviously part of the way that I've got to know what I know about how systems are designed and how they work at scale is through being at Microsoft Research where I'm working alongside extraordinary colleagues and all of whom come from, in many cases, professorial backgrounds who are deep experts in their fields. And we have this opportunity to work together and to look at these questions very early on in the kinds of production cycles and enormous shifts in the way that we use technology.(23:20):But it is interesting of course that at the moment Microsoft is absolutely at the leading edge of this change, and I've always thought that it's incredibly important for researchers and academics who are in industrial spaces to be able to speak freely, to be able to share what they see and to use that as a way that the industry can, well hopefully keep itself honest, but also share between what it knows and what everybody else knows because there's a giant risk in having those spaces be heavily demarcated and having researchers really be muzzled. I think that's where we see real problems emerge. Of course, one of the great concerns a couple of years ago was when Timnit Gebru and others were fired from Google for speaking openly about the concerns they had about the first-generation large language models. And my hope is that there's been a lesson through that really unfortunate set of decisions made at Google that we need people speaking from the inside about these questions in order to actually make these systems better, as you say, over the medium and long term.Eric Topol (24:26):Yeah, no, that brings me to thought of Peter Lee, who I'm sure because he wrote a book about GPT-4 and healthcare and was very candid about its potential, real benefits and the liabilities, and he's a very humble kind of guy. He's not one that has any bravado that I know of, so it speaks well to at least another colleague of yours there at Microsoft and their ability to see all the different sides here, not just what we'll talk about in a minute the arms race both across companies and countries. But before I get to that, there's this other part of you and I wonder if there's really two or three of you that is as a composer of music and art, I looked at your Anatomy of an AI System, I guess, which is on exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and that in itself is amazing, but how do you get into all these other parts, are these hobbies or is this part of a main part of your creative work or where does it fit in?Kate Crawford (25:40):Eric, didn't I mention the cloning program that I participated in early and that there are many Kate's and it's fantastic we all work together. Yeah, that explains it. Look, it's interesting. Way back as a teenager, I was fascinated with technology. Of course, it was the early stages of the web at that moment, and I could see clearly that this was, the internet was going to completely change everything from my generation in terms of what we would do in terms of the way that we would experience the world. And as I was also at that time an electronic musician in bands, I was like, this was a really fantastic combination of bringing together creative practice with a set of much larger concerns and interests around at a systems level, how technology and society are co-constituted, how they evolve together and shape each other. And that's really been the map of how I've always worked across my life.(26:48):And it's interesting, I've always collaborated with artists and Vladan Joler who I worked with on anatomy of an AI system. We actually met at a conference on voice enabled AI systems, and it was really looking at the ethics of could it be possible to build an open source, publicly accessible version of say Alexa rather than purely a private model owned by a corporation, and could that be done in a more public open source way? And we asked a different question, we looked at each other and we're like, oh, I haven't met you yet, but I can see that there are some problems here. One of them is it's not just about the data and it's not just about the technical pipelines, it's about where the components come from. It's about the mining structures that needed to make all of these systems. It's about the entire end of life what happens when we throw these devices out from generally between three to four years of use and how they go into these giant e-waste tips.(27:51):And we basically started looking at this as an enormous sort of life and death of a single AI system, which for us started out by drawing these things on large pieces of butcher's paper, which just expanded and expanded until we had this enormous systems level analysis of what it takes just to ask Alexa what the weather is today. And in doing that, it taught me a couple of things. One that people really want to understand all of the things that go into making an AI system work. This piece has had a very long life. It's been in over a hundred museums around the world. It's traveled further than I have, but it's also very much about that broader political economy that AI systems aren't neutral, they don't just exist to serve us. They are often sort of fed into corporate structures that are using them to generate profits, and that means that they're used in very particular ways and that there are these externalities in terms of how they produced that linger in our environments that have really quite detrimental impacts on systems of labor and how people are recompensed and a whole range of relationships to how data is seen and used as though it's a natural resource that doesn't actually come from people's lives, that doesn't come with risks attached to it.(29:13):So that project was really quite profound for me. So we've continued to do these kinds of, I would call them research art projects, and we just released a new one called Calculating Empires, which looks at a 500 year history of technology and power looking specifically at how empires over time have used new technologies to centralize their power and expand and grow, which of course is part of what we're seeing at the moment in the empires of AI.Eric Topol (29:43):And what about the music side?Kate Crawford (29:45):Well, I have to say I've been a little bit slack on the music side. Things have been busy in AI Eric, I have to say it's kept me away from the music studio, but I always intend to get back there. Fortunately, I have a kid who's very musical and he's always luring me away from my desk and my research saying, let's write some music. And so, he'll keep me honest.Geopolitics and the Arms RacesEric Topol (30:06):Well, I think it's striking just because you have this blend of the humanities and you're so deep into trying to understand and improve our approaches in technology. And it seems like a very unusual, I don't know, too many techies that have these different dimensions, so that's impressive. Now let's get back to the arms race. You just were talking about tracing history over hundreds of years and empires, but right now we have a little problem. We have the big tech titans that are going after each other on a daily basis, and of course you know the group very well. And then you have China and the US that are vying to be the dominant force and problems with China accessing NVIDIA chips and Taiwan sitting there in a potentially very dangerous position, not just for Taiwan, but also for the US. And I wonder if you could just give us your sense about the tensions here. They're US based as well of course, because that's some of the major forces in companies, but then they're also globally. So we have a lot of stuff in the background that people don't like to think about, but it's actually happening right now.Kate Crawford (31:35):I think it's one of the most important things that we can focus on, in fact. I mean and again, this is why I think a materialist analysis of artificial intelligence is so important because not only does it force you to look at the raw components, where does the energy come from? Where does the water come from? But it means you're looking at where the chipsets come from. And you can see that in many cases there are these infrastructural choke points where we are highly dependent on specific components that sit within geopolitical flashpoints. And Taiwan is really the exemplar of this sort of choke point at the moment. And again, several companies are trying to address this by spinning up new factories to build these components, but this takes a lot of time and an enormous amount of resources yet again. So what we're seeing is I think a very difficult moment in the geopolitics of artificial intelligence.(32:31):What we've had certainly for the last decade has been almost a geopolitical duopoly. We've had the US and China not only having enormous power and influence in this space, but also goading each other into producing the most extreme forms of both data extractive and surveillance technologies. And unfortunately, this is just as true in the United States that I commonly hear this in rooms in DC where you'll hear advisors say, well, having any type of guardrails or ethical considerations for our AI systems is a problem if it means that China's going to do it anyway. And that creates this race to the bottom dynamic of do as much of whatever you can do regardless of the ethical and in some cases legal problems that will create. And I think that's been the dynamic that we've seen for some time. And of course the last 18 months to two years, we've seen that really extraordinary AI war happening internally in the United States where again, this race dynamic I think does create unfortunately this tendency to just go as fast as possible without thinking about potential downsides.(33:53):And I think we're seeing the legacy of that right now. And of course, a lot of the conversations from people designing these systems are now starting to say, look, being first is great, but we don't want to be in a situation as we saw recently with Google's Gemini where you have to pull an entire model off the shelves and you have to say, this is not ready. We actually have to remove it and start again. So this is the result I think of that high pressure, high speed dynamic that we've been seeing both inside the US but between the US and China. And of course, what that does to the rest of the world is create this kind of client states where we've got the EU trying to say, alright, well we'll export a regulatory model if we're not going to be treated as an equivalent player here. And then of course, so many other countries who are just seen as spaces to extract low paid labor or the mineralogical layer. So that is the big problem that I see is that that dynamic has only intensified in recent years.A.I. and MedicineEric Topol (34:54):Yeah, I know it's really another level of concern and it seems like it could be pretty volatile if for example, if the US China relations takes another dive and the tensions there go to levels that haven't been seen so far. I guess the other thing, there's so much that is I think controversial, unsettled in this space and so much excitement. I mean, just yesterday for example, was the first AI randomized trial to show that you could save lives. When I wrote that up, it was about the four other studies that showed how it wasn't working. Different studies of course, but there's so much excitement at the same time, there's deep concerns. You've been a master at articulating these deep concerns. What have we missed in our discussion today, I mean we've covered a lot of ground, but what do you see are other things that should be mentioned?Kate Crawford (36:04):Well, one of the things that I've loved in terms of following your work, Eric, is that you very carefully walk that line between allowing the excitement when we see really wonderful studies come out that say, look, there's great potential here, but also articulating concerns where you see them. So I think I'd love to hear, I mean take this opportunity to ask you a question and say what's exciting you about the way that this particularly new generation AI is being used in the medical context and what are the biggest concerns you have there?Eric Topol (36:35):Yeah, and it's interesting because the biggest advance so far in research and medicine was the study yesterday using deep learning without any transformer large language model effort. And that's where that multiplicative of opportunity or potential is still very iffy, it's wobbly. I mean, it needs much more refinement than where we are right now. It's exciting because it is multimodal and it brings in the ability to bring all the layers of a human being to understand our uniqueness and then do much better in terms of, I got a piece coming out soon in Science about medical forecasting and how we could really get to prevention of conditions that people are at high risk. I mean like for example today the US preventive task force said that all women age 40 should have mammograms, 40.Kate Crawford (37:30):I saw that.Eric Topol (37:30):Yeah, and this is just crazy Looney Tunes because here we have the potential to know pretty precisely who are those 12%, only 12% of women who would ever get breast cancer in their lifetime, and why should we put the other 88% through all this no less the fact that there are some women even younger than age 40 that have significantly high risk that are not picked up. But I do think eventually when we get these large language models to actualize their potential, we'll do really great forecasting and we'll be able to not just prevent or forestall cancer, Alzheimer's and so many things. It's quite exciting, but it's the earliest, we're not even at first base yet, but I think I can see our way to get there eventually. And it's interesting because the discussion I had previously with Geoffrey Hinton, and I wonder if you think this as well, that he sees the health medical space as the only really safe space. He thinks most everything else has got more concerns about the downsides is the sweet spot as he called it. But I know that's not particularly an area that you are into, but I wonder if you share that the excitement about your health could be improved in the future with AI.Kate Crawford (38:52):Well, I think it's a space of enormous potential, but again, enormous risk for the same reasons that we discussed earlier, which is we have to look at the training data and where it's coming from. Do we have truly representative sources of data? And this of course has been a consistent problem certainly for the last hundred years and longer. When we look at who are the medical patients whose data is being collected, are we seeing skews? And that has created all sorts of problems, particularly in the last 50 years in terms of misdiagnosing women, people of color, missing and not taking seriously the health complaints of people who are already seen as marginalized populations, thus then further skewing the data that is then used to train AI models. So this is something that we have to take very seriously, and I had the great fortune of being invited by Francis Collins to work with the NIH on their AI advisory board.(39:50):They produced a board to look just at these questions around how can this moment in AI be harnessed in such a way that we can think about the data layer, think about the quality of data and how we train models. And it was a really fascinating sort of year long discussion because in the room we had people who were just technologists who just wanted as much data as possible and just give us all that data and then we'll do something, but we'll figure it out later. Then there were people who had been part of the Human Genome Project and had worked with Francis on questions around the legal and ethical and social questions, which he had really centered in that project very early on. And they said, no, we have to learn these lessons. We have to learn that data comes from somewhere. It's not divorced of context, and we have to think about who's being represented there and also who's not being represented there because that will then be intensified in any model that we train on that data.Humans and Automation Bias(40:48):And then also thinking about what would happen in terms of if those models are only held by a few companies who can profit from them and not more publicly and widely shared. These were the sorts of conversations that I think at the absolute forefront in terms of how we're going to navigate this moment. But if we get that right, if we center those questions, then I think we have far greater potential here than we might imagine. But I'm also really cognizant of the fact that even if you have a perfect AI model, you are always going to have imperfect people applying it. And I'm sure you saw that same study that came out in JAMA back in December last year, which was looking at how AI bias, even slightly biased models can worsen human medical diagnosis. I don't know if you saw this study, but I thought it was really extraordinary.(41:38):It was sort of 450 doctors and physician's assistants and they were really being shown a handful of cases of patients with acute respiratory failure and they really needed come up with some sort of diagnosis and they were getting suggestions from an AI model. One model was trained very carefully with highly accurate data, and the other was a fairly shoddy, shall we say, AI model with quite biased data. And what was interesting is that the clinicians when they were working with very well-trained AI model, we're actually producing a better diagnosis across the board in terms of the cases they were looking at. I think their accuracy went up by almost 4.5 percentage points, but when they were working with the less accurate model, their capacity actually dropped well below their usual diagnostic baseline, something like almost 12 percentage points below their usual diagnostic quality. And so, this really makes me think of the kind of core problem that's been really studied for 40 years by social scientists, which is called automation bias, which is when even an expert, a technical system which is giving a recommendation, our tendency is to believe it and to discard our own knowledge, our own predictions, our own sense.(42:58):And it's been tested with fighter pilots, it's been tested with doctors, it's been tested with judges, and it's the same phenomenon across the board. So one of the things that we're going to need to do collectively, but particularly in the space of medicine and healthcare, is retaining that skepticism, retaining that ability to ask questions of where did this recommendation come from with this AI system and should I trust it? What was it trained on? Where did the data come from? What might those gaps be? Because we're going to need that skepticism if we're going to get through particularly this, as you say, this sort of early stage one period where in many cases these models just haven't had a lot of testing yet and people are going to tend to believe them out of the box.The Large Language Model Copyright IssueEric Topol (43:45):No, it's so true. And one of the key points is that almost every study that's been published in large language models in medicine are contrived. They're using patient actors or they're using case studies, but they're not in the real world. And that's where you have to really learn, as you know, that's a much more complex and messy world than the in silico world of course. Now, before wrapping up, one of the things that's controversial we didn't yet hit is the fact that in order for these base models to get trained, they basically ingest all human content. So they've ingested everything you've ever written, your books, your articles, my books, my articles, and you have the likes of the New York Times suing OpenAI, and soon it's going to run out of human content and just use synthetic content, I guess. But what's your sense about this? Do you feel that that's trespassing or is this another example of exploiting content and people, or is this really what has to be done in order to really make all this work?Kate Crawford (44:59):Well, isn't it a fascinating moment to see this mass grabbing of data, everything that is possibly extractable. I actually just recently published an article in Grey Room with the legal scholar, Jason Schultz, looking at how this is producing a crisis in copyright law because in many ways, copyright law just cannot contend with generative AI in particular because all of the ways in which copyright law and intellectual property more broadly has been understood, has been premised around human ideas of providing an incentive and thus a limited time monopoly based on really inspiring people to create more things. Well, this doesn't apply to algorithms, they don't respond to incentives in this way. The fact that, again, it's a longstanding tradition in copyright that we do not give copyright to non-human authors. So you might remember that there was a very famous monkey selfie case where a monkey had actually stepped on a camera and it had triggered a photograph of the monkey, and could this actually be a copyright image that could be given to the monkey?(46:12):Absolutely not, is what the court's decided. And the same has now happened, of course, for all generative AI systems. So right now, everything that you produce be that in GPT or in Midjourney or in Stable Diffusion, you name it, that does not have copyright protections. So we're in the biggest experiment of production after copyright in world history, and I don't think it's going to last very long. To be clear, I think we're going to start to see some real shifts, I think really in the next 6 to 12 months. But it has been this moment of seeing this gigantic gap in what our legal structures can do that they just haven't been able to contend with this moment. The same thing is true, I think, of ingestion, of this capturing of human content without consent. Clearly, many artists, many writers, many publishing houses like the New York Times are very concerned about this, but the difficulty that they're presented with is this idea of fair use, that you can collect large amounts of data if you are doing something with that, which is sufficiently transformative.(47:17):I'm really interested in the question of whether or not this does constitute sufficiently transformative uses. Certainly if you looked at the way that large language models a year ago, you could really prompt them into sharing their training data, spitting out entire New York Times articles or entire book chapters. That is no longer the case. All of the major companies building these systems have really safeguarded against that now but nonetheless, you have this question of should we be moving towards a system that is based on licensing, where we're really asking people if we can use their data and paying them a license fee? You can see how that could absolutely work and would address a lot of these concerns, but ultimately it will rely on this question of fair use. And I think with the current legal structures that we have in the current case law, that is unlikely to be seen as something that's actionable.(48:10):But I expect what we'll look at is what really happened in the early 20th century around the player piano, which was that I'm sure you remember this extraordinary technology of the player piano. That was one of the first systems that automated the playing of music and you'd have a piano that had a wax cylinder that almost like code had imprinted on a song or a piece of music, and it could be played in the public square or in a bar or in a saloon without having to pay a single artist and artists were terrified. They were furious, they were public hearings, there were sort of congressional hearings and even a Supreme Court case that decided that this was not a copyright infringement. This was a sufficiently transformative use of a piece of music that it could stand. And in the end, it was actually Congress that acted.(49:01):And we from that got the 1908 Copyright Act and from that we got this idea of royalties. And that has become the basis of the music industry itself for a very long time. And now we're facing another moment where I think we have a legislative challenge. How would you actually create a different paradigm for AI that would recognize a new licensing system that would reward artists, writers, musicians, all of the people whose work has been ingested into training data for AI so that they are recognized and in some ways, recompensed by this massive at scale extraction?Eric Topol (49:48):Wow, this has been an exhilarating conversation, Kate. I've learned so much from you over the years, but especially even just our chance to talk today. You articulate these problems so well, and I know you're working on solutions to almost everything, and you're so young, you could probably make a difference in the decades ahead. This is great, so I want to thank you not just for the chance to visit today, but all the work that you've been doing, you and your colleagues to make AI better, make it fulfill the great promise that it has. It is so extraordinary, and hopefully it'll deliver on some of the things that we have big unmet needs, so thanks to you. This has really been fun.Kate Crawford (50:35):This has been wonderful. And likewise, Eric, your work has just been a fantastic influence and I've been delighted to get to know you over the years and let's see what happens. It's going to be a wild ride from now to who knows when.Eric Topol (50:48):No question, but you'll keep us straight, I know that. Thank you so much.Kate Crawford (50:52):Thanks so much, Eric.*******************************Your support of subscribing to Ground Truths, and sharing it with your network of friends and colleagues, is much appreciated.The Ground Truths newsletters and podcasts are all free, open-access, without ads.Voluntary paid subscriptions all go to support Scripps Research. 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State Senator Jason Schultz wraps up the recently concluded legislative session during a live interview on KCIM

Jason Schultz is a member of the New Glarus Projects Team and works to find efficiencies within the factory and also has his eye on sustainability. Jason also works with Only in Wisconsin Giving, focusing on non-profits dealing with keeping the elderly in their homes, conserving the Ice Age Trail, and land conservation. Cheers! 

Medusa Edged Weapons Systems and World War II Combatives Instructor Jason Schultz joins Evan to talk about how Combatives training is connected to sports performance.  The two talk about the prison based edged weapons system Medusa as well as some of the unique aspects of Combative systems developed in World War II.    Check out Stakora for Medusa or Christian jewlery at www.Stakora.com Explore Jason's links here: https://linktr.ee/bloodhillcombatclub Use code Strength20 to save 20% from www.yolked.com Order a copy of Ultra-OCR Man here: https://teamstrengthspeed.com/store Order you training supplements from The Feed: https://thefeed.cc/evanperperis    More Useful Links: Train with Tiga Tactics: https://www.tigatactics.training/?ref=6bea29 Tiga Tactics Podcast: https://tigatactics.podbean.com/ or find it on your favorite podcast app Use code ULTRAOCR to save 20% and get free shipping from www.manscaped.com

Indiana has been a hot bed of metal for a long time. There really needs to be a documentary based on Indiana metal. Today in The Metal Forge, Jason Schultz from not one, but two! Awesome Indiana Metal bands, Wraith (see the archives) and Idol Throne! Idol Throne from Hammond, Indiana (suburb of Gtown) the root of all things power metal this week. We are talking the new album and what's coming up with touring and just Indiana metal. Jason Gardner is back this week with some overall general conversation over the monologue talking about a show he attended and one that I performed with Ice Howl (another awesome Indiana Metal band lol). Idol Throne: Bandcamp: https://idolthrone.bandcamp.com/ Metal Archives: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Idol_Throne/3540479921 Stay tuned in the show for some ads from all of our sponsors, links are listed below. The more you help them out, the more it helps Flamekeeper out! Links to our Sponsors & Partners: Ageless Art Tattoo & Piercing - Clarksville/New Albany: http://www.agelessartclarksville.com http://www.agelessartna.com Electric Ladyland: http://Electricladyland420.com Pizza DoNisi/MAG BAR: https://pizzadonisi.com/ http://magbaroldlouisville.com Shadebeast: http://shadebeast.com and use PROMO CODE: "SITHLORD" at check out for a 10% Discount! Creeping Death Designs: http://www.creepingdeathdesigns.com and use PROMO CODE: "METALFORGE10" at check out for a 10% Discount! Record Labels: Unchained Tapes: http://www.unchainedtapes.bigcartel.com and use PROMO CODE: "METALFORGE10" at check out for a 10% Discount! Mercenary Press: http://www.mercenarypress.bigcartel.com and use PROMO CODE: "METALFORGE" at check out for a 10% Discount! Coming soon: fkr! Other shows you can listen to: Night Demon Heavy Metal Podcast: http://www.nightdemon.net https://open.spotify.com/show/2ozLCAGQ4LdqJwMmeBYJ7k?si=OvvfZsNYRPqywwb86SzrVA Zines: Soulgrinder Zine: http://www.facebook.com/soulgrinder.zine OFFICAL LINKS OF THE METAL FORGE®/FLAMEKEEPER http://www.metalforgeradio.com https://www.flamekeeper.vip FB/IG/TW/TikTok/YouTube - @metalforgeradio Flamekeeper Podcast Network: http://www.youtube.com@flamekeeperpn The Metal Forge The Alehorn The Mudhorn Ossont & Battery Metal on a Budget UNSLEEVED Jason Gardner's Heavy Metal Wasteland: https://www.facebook.com/FlamekeeperPodcasts The Metal Forge® Playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0XCBtgJeTpfZ7c60xjIUkF The Metal Forge® Playlist #2 on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7tjWRTGs728xyp6IUHsjtW The Metal Forge Compilation Vol. 1: https://officialoverload.bandcamp.com/album/the-metal-forge-volume-1 The Metal Forge T-Shirt: https://officialoverload.bandcamp.com/merch/the-metal-forge-official-shirt All Rights Reserved. Any unauthorized reproduction/duplication is expressly forbidden without prior written consent and is punishable by law. Metal Forge Intro I copyright 2020 The Metal Forge® Published by UNTIL I GET IT RIGHT MUSIC/ASCAP. Metal Forge Intro II copyright 2023 The Metal Forge® Published by UNTIL I GET IT RIGHT MUSIC/ASCAP. The Metal Forge®, please contact metalforgeradio@gmail.com for any and all other info. All other music is owned by writers/publishers respectively and is used with permission for means of promotion. ©2019-2024 The Metal Forge® --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metalforgeradio/support

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State Senator Jason Schultz previews the upcoming legislative session that begins on Monday.

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Disneyland is nearing the park's 70th anniversary, which will occur on July 17th, 2025. So much has changed during its history, and it's easy to focus on a small fraction of that background. The official company stories typically fall into the same buckets and don't veer beyond regular narratives.… Read more... The post 199. Archivist Jason Schultz on Documenting the History of Disneyland appeared first on Tomorrow Society.

State Senator Jason Schultz talks about the issues and bills that passed the recent legislative session.

This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette Digital News Desk, and I'm here with your update for Tuesday, February 28.The last day of February will be pretty pleasant weather wise. According to the National Weather Service, it will be partly sunny, with a high near 47 degrees. On Tuesday night there will be a 50 percent chance of rain before midnight, with a low of around 35 degrees.Two months after a mother of three was stabbed to death — and after social justice advocates repeatedly called for charges — a Cedar Rapids man was arrested Monday and faces charges of voluntary manslaughter and disorderly conduct in her death.Shane Teslik, 37, was taken into custody in a different county in Iowa in connection with the Jan. 2 killing of Devonna Walker, 29. He will be transferred to Linn County in the coming days, a news release from the Linn County Attorney's Office states.A coalition of activist groups has been protesting regularly since the stabbing. On Feb. 16, the group put out a news release that named Teslik as Walker's killer.If convicted, Teslik could face up to 10 years in prison for the voluntary manslaughter charge.An 18-year-old admitted Monday to stabbing his parents with a knife and then picking up an ax to kill his mother when he realized she hadn't died from the stab injuries Oct. 14, 2021.Ethan Alexander Orton, who was set to go to trial Tuesday, made a surprising last minute plea to both first-degree murder charges. The hearing Monday had been previously set because the medical examiner was going to testify via Zoom and not in person and Orton had to give his consent on the record.But when 6th Judicial District Judge Ian Thornhill started the hearing he said he understood Orton was pleading to the charges.Thornhill, during the hearing, told Orton more than once that jurors were set to come in for jury selection Tuesday, if he wanted to have a jury trial, but Orton said he understood and continued with the guilty plea.One of the proposals to restrict eminent domain powers of utilities --- including proposed carbon dioxide capture pipelines — failed Monday in its first legislative hurdle in the Iowa Senate, facing opposition both from pipelines developers and landowners.The bill was unanimously voted down by a three-member Senate subcommittee. In voting down the bill, Sen. Jason Schultz, a Republican from Schleswig, cast doubt on the likelihood of any bill restricting eminent domain powers for pipelines making it out of the Iowa Legislature this session, despite some movement on this front in the Iowa House..“I don't believe there's a legislative answer to this,” he said in the subcommittee hearing on the bill.Summit Carbon Solutions, Navigator CO2 Ventures and Wolf have all requested a permit to build carbon capture pipelines in the state that would sequester carbon dioxide from ethanol plants underground in other states, taking advantage of federal tax credits and low-carbon fuel markets. Summit and Navigator have indicated an intent to use eminent domain if granted by the utilities board.

A happy new year to all our readers! To kickstart this year's edition of Technopolitik, we have assembled a list of predictions for 2023 across tech sectors, ranging from online regulation, biotech and outer space. Maybe we can take stock of these predictions and see how much of it we got wrong (or right) at the end of this year!Beginning from this edition, we also introduce a new section to our newsletter called Biopolitik, while will cover all the fascinating tidbits about the biotechnology industry and its intersection with policy and politics.Be sure to check out our Reading Menu. This edition lists some of the best books that the authors have read from last year. With that, we wish you a great year ahead!Cyberpolitik #1: Regulatory tech battles in India— Shailesh ChitnisBig tech is vulnerable. For the first time in big-tech history, technology platforms are confronting slowing growth and bottom-line pressures. Aggressive expansion during the pandemic years has given way to cost-cutting during a cooling economy.Amazon recently announced plans to cut 18,000 workers, mostly in the retail, recruiting and devices businesses. Meta, the parent of Facebook and Instagram, has cut more than 11,000 workers, or about 13% of its staff. It's a similar story across other platforms — Salesforce, Snap, Twitter — no one seems immune.Against this backdrop, regulators are getting more active in reigning in what they see as an overreach by these platforms. In the past, Indian regulators had given technology platforms a free hand. But increasingly, the Indian government has signalled its intention to shape the country's technology landscape.In a series of rulings in October, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) fined Google almost Rs. 2,300 crores for abusing dominance with its Android operating system and the Play Store. The government is also getting into specifics of technology implementation with new rules around standardising chargers (USB-C) and upholding consumers' right-to-repair for devices.In 2023, expect more activity. The gatekeeping role of Apple and Google, which they exercise through their app stores, will be challenged. But since commissions from these stores are a significant revenue source for both these companies, any moves to change this structure will be a long legal battle. With the government's active role in market design, expect more public battles between incumbent tech and the government. Adding to the tech vs regulators battle, India will also be gearing up for general elections in 2024. As the elections draw closer, we can expect the conversations and controversies on the role of social media platforms in disseminating information to be pitched even further.Indeed, 2022 was a busy year for technology policy-making with the semiconductor manufacturing policy and a revised draft of the much-awaited digital data protection bill. But this year, the government has promised to introduce a complete overhaul of the IT Act, which governs much of the digital ecosystem. The IT Act was passed in 2000 and needs to be set up for all the complexity of the internet today - from intermediaries and platforms to AI and data privacy. We also expect the bill's first draft to cover a wide range of online platforms, including social media sites, e-commerce entities and ad-tech platforms.This act can have far-reaching consequences for businesses and civil society since all problems are now technology problems in some form.Biopolitik: Pandemics and regulatory politics— Saurabh TodiThe World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2023 is expected to accelerate negotiations on a draft international pandemic treaty governing prevention, preparedness, and response to future pandemics. The World Health Assembly (WHA) in December 2021 launched the process of negotiating a historical global accord. It established an International Negotiating Body (INB) to formulate a 'WHO convention, agreement or another international instrument' to aid a united global response to any infectious disease crises in the future. Countries felt the need for a new treaty due to various challenges made conspicuous by the experience of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. These include equitable distribution of vaccines and health services among and within countries, knowledge and data sharing, and strengthening countries' capabilities to respond to health emergencies. Although there has been a broad consensus on the ways of working and broad policies that will guide this process, there are also significant disagreements between member states.A central sticking point is the legal nature of this treaty. While the majority of the WHO member states favour a legally-binding instrument, there are differences in how to approach this issue. For example, the WHA has agreed to adopt the global instrument under Article 19 of the WHO constitution, which enables the assembly to draw up binding agreements on a wide range of issues under its mandate. But some countries want the treaty to fall under Article 21, which limits the number of topics that can have binding agreements. Furthermore, some prefer "non-legally binding recommendations" in the draft.In December 2022, at the third meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), a Conceptual Zero Draft (CZD) of the instrument was released, which has been developed by the Bureau of the INB following widespread consultation. During the meeting, the task fell on INB to develop a "zero draft" in order to start negotiations at the fourth INB meeting scheduled for February 2023. The WHO has committed itself to a timeline where INB will deliver a progress report to the 76th World Health Assembly in 2023 and; submit an outcome document for consideration by the 77th World Health Assembly in 2024.Interestingly, India has maintained a studied silence over its position on this proposed treaty. As an advocate of the interests of the global south, it must ensure the security of the interests of the developing countries during these negotiations. Given the difference of opinion among countries on these issues, it would be interesting to see how the global community reaches a consensus on this crucial initiative.Antariksh Matters: A Space Policy at Last?— Aditya RamanathanAgainst my better judgement, I am going to make predictions that may be largely wrong. First, the easy part: sometime in 2023, the Indian government will release a Space Policy. While the release of this policy has been long-promised, it is more likely than not to be finally made public this year. Now, the more difficult part: predicting some of the broad contours of the policy. I'll start with some brief background. In 2017, the government released a draft Space Activities Bill for comments. The bill was an important step in laying down a legal framework under which space companies can operate. However, the feedback wasn't good. The bill had vague definitions and granted excessive discretionary authority to government officials. As an example of vagueness, the bill only covered Indians or private entities registered in India, leaving foreign collaborators in a regulatory dead zone.Similarly, it defined ‘space activity' so broadly that even a start-up doing preliminary research and development might find itself coping with a barrage of licensing requirements. The draft bill also offers little clarity on liability. India is a signatory to the 1972 Liability Convention, which makes states liable for damage caused by space activities. The bill simply states that the government will decide the amount of money for which a private entity is liable - the sort of provision that is virtually guaranteed to scare off investors. A lot has changed since 2017. The government has pledged to revise the 2017 draft bill based on comments received. It has also created the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) to act as a nodal agency for private space companies. The next steps are to release a Space Policy followed by the heavily modified Space Activities Bill. So here are my three predictions for the Space Policy:One, the policy will be genuinely oriented towards encouraging private sector space activity and will identify it as a key priority for India. There's enough evidence that the government takes this seriously. The private space economy is (rightly or wrongly) seen as an important component of the “Atmanirbhar Bharat” vision of a self-reliant India. The space economy is also seen as a key catalyst for high-technology industries. The Indian Prime Minister's push for the creation of the industry body Indian Space Association (ISpA) is indication enough that this support extends to the apex of the political leadership. Two, despite this commitment to private industry, the verbiage of the space policy will still place the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) at the centre of India's space aspirations. Indeed, it is quite likely that the policy will consider the primary role of India's private sector to be a supporting ecosystem for ISRO rather than a dynamic entity in its own right. This is a somewhat shakier prediction to make, and it is, more than anything else, a hunch based on statements made by ISRO officials and an awareness of the influence ISRO and the Department of Space wield. Three, the policy will likely offer a potential solution to the issue of liability. I suspect the proposal it will come up with is the creation of a space liability fund that can act as a sort of insurance pool. Typically, such funds will be built by space companies pledging a portion of their profits, but the details would probably only become clear in the Space Activities Bill. So that's my largely optimistic prediction for 2023. Whatever the actual outcomes, we'll dissect them in detail for you in this newsletter.Cyberpolitik #2: In Service of the Digital Public Infrastructure— Bharath ReddyAs we enter 2023, we will see increased deployment of different facets of digital public infrastructure (DPI). As we have seen with UPI, this can lead to financial inclusion and empowerment of citizens, but it comes at the cost of centralising platforms in the hands of the government.Different facets of DPI, such as the Account Aggregator framework, Open Credit Enablement Network, UHI for health, and enhancements to Aadhaar and Digilocker, are expected to be deployed and adopted widely. These improvements will likely lead to the seamless delivery of services and unlock easy access to citizens' data across different silos. In addition to this, as Rahul Matthan writes, DPI will also serve as a techno-legal framework for data governance. Across the world, governing how data is collected and used has proved to be a challenge. Regulations have yet to be successful. Companies have been able to circumvent the law, and the capacity required for enforcement is also relatively high. Moreover, since DPI can be encoded into the public infrastructure, they might offer a better solution for compliance. Requests for data, consent and provision of minimal purpose-specific data can be built into the infrastructure, making compliance easier to enforce.However, these advantages come at the cost of concentrating power over the platforms in the hands of the state. The state has access to large amounts of citizens' personal data and is responsible for safeguarding it. It also has regulatory control and gatekeeping privileges for these critical platforms. Concerns over regulatory access are critical given that we expect the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDPB) and Telecom Bill to be tabled in Parliament this year. The broad exemptions granted to government entities and the lack of independence of the proposed Data Protection Board in the draft DPDPB, 2022, are a cause for concern. The draft Telecom Bill 2022 has expansive definitions and allows for greater state surveillance. Since both bills have received comments already, we can expect them to be passed this year. The checks and balances they will enforce will play a crucial role.Our Reading Menu[Book] Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller.[Book] 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Allana Collen.[Book] Human-Build World: How to Think about Technology and Culture by Thomas P. Hughes.[Book] The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hightechir.substack.com

EPISODE # 32 Would you take a life to save your own, in self-defense? Many people do not know the harsh reality of a violent crime and how there are very few effective choices to protect yourself, if you're attacked. My special guest this week is the writer of the controversial, Medusa Edged Weapons martial arts, self-defense system. Jason Schultz is a life-long martial artist that knows the reality of the streets and fatal crimes, and he authored a lethal system of self-defense. Join us this week (premiering on Wednesday night at 8:00pm ET) for a frank discussion of violence, self-defense, martial arts and how Jason was inspired to write "Medusa." Catch-up on our previous episodes now, wherever you find your podcasts - including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and many more. https://linktr.ee/garetano7 #christopherpaulgaretano #whitephosphoruspictures #offtothewitch #podcast #radio #talkradio #martialarts #violence #medusaedgedweaponssystem #knifefighting #murder #selfdefense #crime #cinema #horror #macabre

EPISODE # 32 Would you take a life to save your own, in self-defense? Many people do not know the harsh reality of a violent crime and how there are very few effective choices to protect yourself, if you're attacked. My special guest this week is the writer of the controversial, Medusa Edged Weapons martial arts, self-defense system. Jason Schultz is a life-long martial artist that knows the reality of the streets and fatal crimes, and he authored a lethal system of self-defense. Join us this week (premiering on Wednesday night at 8:00pm ET) for a frank discussion of violence, self-defense, martial arts and how Jason was inspired to write "Medusa." Catch-up on our previous episodes now, wherever you find your podcasts - including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and many more. #christopherpaulgaretano #whitephosphoruspictures #offtothewitch #podcast #radio #talkradio #martialarts #violence #medusaedgedweaponssystem #knifefighting #murder #selfdefense #crime #cinema #horror #macabre Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason Schultz from the Nut Gallery Podcast stops by to discuss and give his review of the hit movie King B.'s ROOST streaming now for free on Tubi!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/king-b-s-raw-fusion/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Michael and Seth Raymond are the founders of Medusa Edged Weapon System along with Jason Schultz they have created a fascinating approach to using an edged or other hand held tool system! The Medusa Edged Weapon System is quick, efficient, and methodical approach! Michael and Jason discuss the origin and methods of the system and we get in to how they vetted their system through some elder statesman of the combatives world like Kelly McCann! You can find more on Medusa on instagram @medusaedgedweaponsysytem and Jason is @benkei_sohei. Special thanks to Cache Haggard @revenantcorp for his help with this episode!

Pro Stock Power Rankings with Charles Poosch and Jason Schultz --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beer-money-pulling-team/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beer-money-pulling-team/support

Door Bumper Clear survived the Texas Motor Speedway heat to recap the wild first race of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 12. Brett Griffin, T.J. Majors Freddie Kraft discuss how they dealt with the sweltering weather and producer Jason Schultz surviving a weekend in Columbia, SC. To begin Spot On, Spot Off, Goodyear listed aggressive team air pressures, changing conditions and resin as reasons for Texas tire issues after saying there are no excuses. The guys discuss who should take more blame for the issues and Brett shares what changes crew chiefs want to fix this problem. Next, NASCAR didn't penalize William Byron for spinning Denny Hamlin under caution and claims they did not see the collision. The spotters discuss how it would have been hard for NASCAR to miss the incident and if Byron could still be penalized for the move. Martin Truex Jr. commented on the tire failures after blowing one while leading the Cup Series race. The table explains why NASCAR needs to loosen the limitations on the Next Gen car and take responsibility for the part failures. Noah Gragson says he doesn't want to run any of the Cup Series races for the rest of the year. They applaud Gragson for his transparency but mention who is negatively affected by his comments. Plus, the guys call for proactive safety changes. Kyle Larson says he wants Texas Motor Speedway demolished when asked how to fix the track. Freddie argues why they should not have reconfigured it and infers what the track's future may look it. Finally, Joey Logano claims superspeedway racing is not racing because drivers should not be rewarded for riding around in the back. The spotters explain why Logano is being hypocritical and what makes the racing exciting. Plus, hear how drivers around the cutoff line should approach this upcoming weekend. In Reaction Theatre, fans call in about the tire failures, Tyler Reddick's burnout, and William Byron spinning out Denny Hamlin. Later, hear what the guys suggest when it comes to pit wall safety, if and when Hamlin would retaliate, and a reckless move by Ty Gibbs. Thank you to our presenting sponsor Offerpad and partners Xfinity and RacingUSA.com for making this show possible. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Door Bumper Clear survived the Texas Motor Speedway heat to recap the wild first race of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 12. Brett Griffin, T.J. Majors Freddie Kraft discuss how they dealt with the sweltering weather and producer Jason Schultz surviving a weekend in Columbia, SC. To begin Spot On, Spot Off, Goodyear listed aggressive team air pressures, changing conditions and resin as reasons for Texas tire issues after saying there are no excuses. The guys discuss who should take more blame for the issues and Brett shares what changes crew chiefs want to fix this problem.Next, NASCAR didn't penalize William Byron for spinning Denny Hamlin under caution and claims they did not see the collision. The spotters discuss how it would have been hard for NASCAR to miss the incident and if Byron could still be penalized for the move. Martin Truex Jr. commented on the tire failures after blowing one while leading the Cup Series race. The table explains why NASCAR needs to loosen the limitations on the Next Gen car and take responsibility for the part failures. Noah Gragson says he doesn't want to run any of the Cup Series races for the rest of the year. They applaud Gragson for his transparency but mention who is negatively affected by his comments. Plus, the guys call for proactive safety changes.Kyle Larson says he wants Texas Motor Speedway demolished when asked how to fix the track. Freddie argues why they should not have reconfigured it and infers what the track's future may look it.Finally, Joey Logano claims superspeedway racing is not racing because drivers should not be rewarded for riding around in the back. The spotters explain why Logano is being hypocritical and what makes the racing exciting. Plus, hear how drivers around the cutoff line should approach this upcoming weekend. In Reaction Theatre, fans call in about the tire failures, Tyler Reddick's burnout, and William Byron spinning out Denny Hamlin.Later, hear what the guys suggest when it comes to pit wall safety, if and when Hamlin would retaliate, and a reckless move by Ty Gibbs.Thank you to our presenting sponsor Offerpad and partners Xfinity and RacingUSA.com for making this show possible. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A weekend in New England left Brett Griffin, Freddie Kraft and TJ Majors with lots of stories to tell. After two eventful races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and a busy week of silly season news, the crew reacts to everything that went down. First, find out how Brett learned some Boston slang and why payment was required to spot the modifieds. Then the guys dive into Spot On, Spot Off. First, they discuss Martin Truex Jr.'s decision to take two tires during the last pit stop which cost him the win and placed the No. 19 team on the playoff cutoff line. Now given Christopher Bell as the 14th different winner this season, they talk about how many drivers they expect to see win before the playoffs begin. Brad Keselowski and Austin Dillon swerved at each other and made contact under caution on Sunday. T.J. talks about what led Keselowski to retaliate against Dillon and what each of them said in their post-race interviews. Tyler Reddick announced he signed with 23XI Racing for the 2024 season last week. The spotters applaud Reddick for his move but share their displeasure about Richard Childress Racing's actions. While the timing of the announcement seemed strange, find out why 23XI needed to share the news first. Afterwards, they talk about who could race in the No. 8 car next. Ty Dillon will not return to Petty-GMS Racing after this season and the crew doesn't find this surprising. Hear about who is the leading candidate to drive the 42 car next year and why they would be the most interesting Cup driver in the field. Next, NASCAR did not penalize Christopher Bell's team for losing a wheel coming off pit road last week at Atlanta. The guys express their frustration towards NASCAR making a judgment call and why the penalty needs to have stricter guidelines for what is and isn't a penalty. Finally, producer Jason Schultz reads Joey Logano's comments on Next Gen crashes. The spotters talk about NASCAR's confusion between what the drivers say about hits and what their data shows compared to the previous car. In Reaction Theatre, find out why Jesse Iwuji may now see the light, the guys learn about Austin Dillon's TV show, and Jeb is back with a song. #AskDBC returns in the Offerpad question of the week segment and in What an Idiot, learn about the embarrassing incident at Bowman Gray. Thank you to our presenting sponsor Offerpad and partners Xfinity and RacingUSA.com for making this show possible.      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A weekend in New England left Brett Griffin, Freddie Kraft and TJ Majors with lots of stories to tell. After two eventful races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and a busy week of silly season news, the crew reacts to everything that went down. First, find out how Brett learned some Boston slang and why payment was required to spot the modifieds.Then the guys dive into Spot On, Spot Off. First, they discuss Martin Truex Jr.'s decision to take two tires during the last pit stop which cost him the win and placed the No. 19 team on the playoff cutoff line. Now given Christopher Bell as the 14th different winner this season, they talk about how many drivers they expect to see win before the playoffs begin.Brad Keselowski and Austin Dillon swerved at each other and made contact under caution on Sunday. T.J. talks about what led Keselowski to retaliate against Dillon and what each of them said in their post-race interviews.Tyler Reddick announced he signed with 23XI Racing for the 2024 season last week. The spotters applaud Reddick for his move but share their displeasure about Richard Childress Racing's actions. While the timing of the announcement seemed strange, find out why 23XI needed to share the news first. Afterwards, they talk about who could race in the No. 8 car next.Ty Dillon will not return to Petty-GMS Racing after this season and the crew doesn't find this surprising. Hear about who is the leading candidate to drive the 42 car next year and why they would be the most interesting Cup driver in the field.Next, NASCAR did not penalize Christopher Bell's team for losing a wheel coming off pit road last week at Atlanta. The guys express their frustration towards NASCAR making a judgment call and why the penalty needs to have stricter guidelines for what is and isn't a penalty.Finally, producer Jason Schultz reads Joey Logano's comments on Next Gen crashes. The spotters talk about NASCAR's confusion between what the drivers say about hits and what their data shows compared to the previous car.In Reaction Theatre, find out why Jesse Iwuji may now see the light, the guys learn about Austin Dillon's TV show, and Jeb is back with a song. #AskDBC returns in the Offerpad question of the week segment and in What an Idiot, learn about the embarrassing incident at Bowman Gray.Thank you to our presenting sponsor Offerpad and partners Xfinity and RacingUSA.com for making this show possible.    To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brett Griffin, T.J. Majors and Freddie Kraft return from the longest race in history on the greatest day in motorsports with plenty to discuss. First hear about the Dirty Mo Media Ultimate Suite Experience at Charlotte and what story Freddie told. Also learn about producer Jason Schultz's time at the Indy 500. Then Freddie talks about how the No. 23 team mismanaged the damaged vehicle policy clock and ended their race prematurely. Before jumping into spot on, spot off; the gang reacts to the news that Phoenix Raceway will continue to hold the championship race next season and what they want to see happen with the event moving forward. First up in Spot On, Spot Off, Chase Briscoe's attempt to pass Kyle Larson with 2 laps to go ended with him spinning out. The guys talk about Briscoe needing to capitalize on these moments and his progress this season. Austin Dillon's team applauded his attempt to pass for the lead which caused a big pile-up in overtime. The gang discusses how he put himself in the right spot to make the winning move but ultimately couldn't hang on. Next, Chris Buescher said he was okay after flipping in a wreck on the frontstretch but safety crews took over five minutes to flip him back over. The guys debate whether or not they had a problem with how long it took to flip the No. 17 over and if there's a better way to do it. The Indy 500 was red-flagged to set up a two-lap green flag finish and the guys react to fourth-place finisher Felix Rosenqvist's comments regarding the decision. They talk about the fans deserving to have the race finish under green, plus Jimmie Johnson winning the Indy 500 Rooke of the Race. The F1 Monaco Grand Prix's start was delayed and switched to a rolling start after worries of inconsistent track grip levels. The spotters give their takes on how bad the conditions truly were and compare F1's race control decisions to NASCAR. Jeb Burton made comments to Noah Gragson after the Xfinity Series race about how he raced him and if Gragson deserves his ride. The guys share their displeasure about his comments and how he needs to handle his future twitter habits. Finally, the Cup Series heads to WWT Raceway at Gateway for the first time this weekend while the Xfinity Series makes a trip to Portland International Raceway. The gang discusses what to expect for the new tracks and why Portland doesn't make logistical sense for the Xfinity Series. In Reaction Theatre, a fan calls in from the Dirty Mo suite and someone claiming to be Jason calls in from the Snake Pit. Thank you to our presenting sponsor Offerpad and partners Xfinity and RacingUSA.com for making this show possible.

Doug Borth and Jason Schultz recap the festivities at the Nordheim Mayfest Shootout --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beer-money-pulling-team/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beer-money-pulling-team/support

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NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver and social media star Hailie Deegan joins Brett Griffin, T.J. Majors and Freddie Kraft to debrief the weekend racing at Kansas Speedway. Hailie opens up about her transition from off-road to asphalt racing, her rise through the NASCAR ranks, and the eye-opening reason for switching manufacturer development programs. First up in Spot On, Spot Off, the group discusses Joey Logano's comments further fueling the feud between William Byron and himself. They talk about whether he's transitioning into the villain role in the garage area and how they expect him to react if Byron retaliates. Kurt Busch earned 23XI Racing's second career win on Sunday and the crew discusses his late-race battle with Kyle Larson. Then, they get into the effect Busch has had on the team and Bubba Wallace. Multiple drivers faced tire failures at Kansas and the group explains why teams' aggressive setups caused the issues. Hailie talks about teams having to weigh the risk versus reward when considering the number of backup parts available. Six Toyotas finished inside the top-10 for the first time since Watkins Glen in 2017. Hear why Denny Hamlin's crew chief Chris Gabehart says their team is the most dangerous 22nd-place points team in history. Plus, the guys discuss where manufacturer parity currently stands. ARCA team owner Billy Venturini went after Drew Dollar for wrecking one of his cars in an interview. Hailie shares why she's on her former car owner's side based on racing around Drew. Finally, Door Bumper Clear producer Jason Schultz tries to explain the confusing Texas Motor Speedway All-Star Race format to the group. They question who at NASCAR is making the decision on the format and what they would do instead. Plus, Hailie shares her thoughts on the need to get younger fans interested in NASCAR. Thank you to our presenting sponsor Offerpad and partners Xfinity and RacingUSA.com for making this show possible.

Most of the Door Bumper Clear crew made it back from a crazy weekend in Las Vegas. They share all about the first ever Dirty Mo Media Ultimate Las Vegas Experience. Plus, find out what happened when Freddie Kraft took producers Jason Schultz and Alex Timms out during their first trip to Sin City. You won't believe the shenanigans that took place. Even though T.J. Majors left the night early, they explain to fill-in co-host, Hannah Newhouse, how the night unfolded. In Spot On, Spot Off, the trio talks about what friend of the program Kyle Busch had to say about race winner Alex Bowman. And they discuss his comments about where you can buy Next Gen car parts. Bubba Wallace and Freddie's streak of losing front corner panels continued after the No. 23 made contact with the inside wall after narrowly missing a wrecked Erik Jones. Hear Freddie's explanation on what happened and how the timing of the caution played a role. The gang then discusses the larger issue of inconsistent cautions and how it left an injured driver out on track during the Truck Series race. The Cup Series tied the all-time record for the most cautions in the first three races of the season on Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Find out how the guys feel about the abundance of yellows, a possible flat tire situation fix and why they are confused by something Dale Jr. said. A potential rivalry emerged during the Xfinity Series race between Ty Gibbs and Ryan Sieg. Hear exactly what happened between the two and why it's in neither of their best interests to wage a feud so early in the season. Another spotter is put on the hot seat this week after Christian Eckes threw a late block on his former boss, Kyle Busch. TJ explains why Eckes' spotter shouldn't have been eager to clear him and Freddie discusses how inexperience spotting up front contributed to the incident. Thank you to our presenting sponsor Offerpad and partner RacingUSA.com for making this show possible.

Door Bumper Clear is back from an eventful weekend at Auto Club Speedway. Brett Griffin is caught in a feud between T.J. Majors and Freddie Kraft due to their drivers, Bubba Wallace and Brad Keselowski, making contact during the race. Hear what the crew has to say about cars not being able to drive on flat tires and why it's putting spotters in a difficult position. Co-host Casey Boat and producer Jason Schultz chime in to talk about the upcoming Dirty Mo Media Ultimate Las Vegas Experience. In Spot On, Spot Off, the crew talks about Denny Hamlin deleting a tweet criticizing Saturday at Auto Club Speedway and the guys debate whether or not it was a black eye on the sport. They continue their discussion about the Next Gen car's flat tire issues. TJ explains how towing the cars back to the pits damages a team's race in more ways than one. Brett adds that NASCAR knew about this issue for months since it was problematic during off-season testing, yet they still don't have a solution. A flat tire and avoidable contact with William Byron ended Tyler Reddick's dominant day. The crew discusses who deserves the blame and why they have to put it on one of their co-workers. Freddie explains what led Bubba Wallace to make contact with Brad Keselowski, and TJ offers insight into the incident, surprisingly, without the use of data. Then, Brett explains how dirty air did not seem to be a problem on Sunday. Teammate turmoil surfaces at the end of the race between Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson. Another spotter is put on the hot seat by Brett and he explains how his lack of experience played into that. It didn't take long for TJ to bring up data, as he explains why he believes Chase Elliott's late race spin was not intentional. Freddie begs to differ and explains what tells the real story. Will Auto Club's fan turnout and exciting racing be enough to hold off its short-track conversion plans? Brett reminds everyone what it's really about. NASCAR handed out its first penalties under the Next Gen era to Kaulig Racing and the Money Team for wheels falling off at Daytona. Brett explains how Kaulig Racing is going to appeal the penalty and questions how other teams are not penalized for other modifications. Finally, hear DBC's newest song in Reaction Theatre before the gang gets ready to head to Las Vegas and hear what they have in store for Alex and Jason's first trips to Sin City. Thank you to our presenting sponsor Offerpad and partner RacingUSA.com for making this show possible.

Facebook Current Challenges And Opportunities For Entrepreneurs The Symposium may be changing its name! Jeff and Tristan have important updates about Facebook that include the challenges they are facing and why it matters to you and your business. Why is it important to sort your Facebook friends? What are the specific opportunities within Facebook Groups? Make sure you're staying relevant on the platforms; Tune in for the full scoop!   Episode Highlights: Jeff shares how he posted the article from Zuckerberg about how TikTok is hurting Facebook lost a million active daily users and posted big revenue losses. What is going on? Tristan explains where YouTube got it right and how the culture and community shift changes things. Have you heard of The Beer Money Pulling team and Jason Schultz? Jeff shares his Success and also the difference of his experience on Facebook versus other platforms. Facebook Groups is a niche. What is happening there? Is Facebook too big to fail and what does it look like to stay relevant into the future even ten years from now? Should you accept all connection requests on LinkedIn? Tristan and Jeff discuss. Tristan interviewed Jariek Robbins, Tony Robbins son, who is the new Success Magazine president. He shares his interesting story about how he got the opportunities he has. Facebook recently changed something and allowed you to showcase followers versus friends. What does that mean? Jeff explains his reasoning for keeping his FB friends at a certain number and how he sorts them occasionally. Are you intentional about the friend requests you accept on Facebook and your max number? Jeff talks about why it is important and specifically for real estate agents the key factors to consider in monitoring your pool of friends. Jeff asks Tristan, “In regards to Instagram and TikTok, do you and would you ‘follow for follow'? Meta launched improved 3D avatars and expanded over to Instagram. Get used to the avatars and get on it. How should someone execute this? Tristan and Jeff walk the isteners through creating one. Tristan talks about how the avatar will have relevance in the future.  If you have a Facebook Group that you are either a moderator or admin in, there are opportunities that you will want to pay attention to in regards to Reels. What about posting a TikTok to a FB Reel in a group? Why does it matter?  Resources Mentioned: Drunk on Social Website: www.drunkonsocial.com Drunk on Social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/136264191062786/  Drunk on Social Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/groups/136264191062786/  Jeff Pfitzer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffpfitzer/  Jeff Pfizer TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeffpfitzer?lang=en  Tristan Ahumada Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/labcoatagents  Tristan Ahumada YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ6o6B5JPEBP57hu9VdzT4Q Lab Coat Agents Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/labcoatagents Lab Coat Agents Twitter: https://twitter.com/LabCoatAgents Lab Coat Agents Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/labcoatagents/  Should You Accept All Connection Requests on LinkedIn? https://drunkonsocial.com/100-proof-blogs/f/accept-all-linkedin-connection-requests   Meta Launches Improved 3D Avatars, Expands Avatar Use to Instagram https://drunkonsocial.com/100-proof-blogs/f/meta-launches-improved-3d-avatars   Facebook loses users for the first time EVER: Shares plummet 20%, wiping $200BN off value of parent-firm Meta after it revealed 500,000 fewer daily log-ins and declining profits - Zuckerberg's personal wealth takes $29BN hit https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10471227/Facebook-loses-users-time-Zuckerberg-blames-TikTok-boom.html?fbclid=IwAR2OJ6bafXbdg2ZGi0FVHAPkGXabLPCAcf5eyN72jk9CPRLVF9R5YXuXedE

Door Bumper Clear returns from the 2022 Daytona 500 and reacts to a wild weekend of racing. T.J. Majors, Brett Griffin and Freddie Kraft all had an eventful Sunday spotting from the roof. Hear T.J. 's thoughts on Brad Keselowski's involvement in several incidents, Brett's take on his car's tire falling off and Freddie's reaction to coming within feet of a career-defining victory. Along with co-host Casey Boat and producer Jason Schultz, the crew welcomes you into their brand new studio. And you won't believe what it resembles. In Spot On, Spot Off, the crew discusses Keselowski's aggressive antics that ruffled feathers. Brett and Freddie do not shy away from letting T.J. know that he wrecked a large portion of the field. During Stage 1, rookie Harrison Burton flipped in a wreck down the backstretch. The crew raises concerns about how easily the car flipped and what NASCAR needs to do going forward. Austin Cindric earned his first career Cup win in the Great American Race but put his teammate Ryan Blaney in the wall on the last lap to do so. They discuss the move while Brett mentions why he would put his mother in the wall to win the Daytona 500. During the overtime restart, Blaney told Cindric to move down in front of him and said he was making decisions to ensure that a Team Penske car was going to win. Is that the right play in the closing laps? Hear the gang's thoughts. Keselowski and T.J won Duel 1 as Joey Logano wrecked while throwing a block on the final lap of Duel 2. T.J. explains why he was sipping tea as that happened. Brett shares why the qualifying races need an overhaul because starting position in the 500 is insignificant. The crew brainstorms ideas to change the format to make the event less of a snooze-fest. As a new drivers council led by Jeff Burton forms, Brett explains its importance and how they need to address driver salaries. Brett and Freddie aren't alone with giving T.J. a hard time as several fans express their displeasure with Keselowski's aggressiveness in Reaction Theatre, and everyone makes picks for NASCAR's return to Auto Club Speedway. Thank you to our presenting sponsor Offerpad and partner RacingUSA.com for making this show possible.

On the Season 7 premiere of Door Bumper Clear, T.J. Majors, Brett Griffin, and Freddie Kraft are fresh out of Los Angeles after NASCAR went stadium racing with the Clash at the L.A. Coliseum. Along with co-host Casey Boat and producer Jason Schultz, the gang reacts to one of the boldest and most innovative event concepts that NASCAR has ever tried. They share what it was like at the stadium, the event's atmosphere and why it made Brett compare it to a sold-out Talladega back in the day. In Spot On, Spot Off, the crew begins by addressing Kurt Busch missing the main event. Hear what Freddie had to say about the contact that involved his driver Bubba Wallace, who is also Busch's new teammate, and what the mentality in the last chance qualifying race was like. Brad Keselowski's debut race with the team he now co-owns didn't go very well. His spotter T.J. fills us in on their weekend. Hear how Keselowski is approaching this new opportunity and the organization's reaction to missing the main event. The long-anticipated debut of the Next Gen car in a race took place on Sunday. The guys share their overall impressions to the style of racing, durability of the cars to withstand fender banging, and mechanical issues teams faced. Contact between Kyle Larson and Justin Haley ended Haley's promising performance. His spotter, Brett, fills us in on what exactly happened. Hear what choice words he uses to describe the move that Larson made. Joey Logano won the race after facing pressure from Kyle Busch in the closing laps. Find out who was disappointed that Busch didn't attempt to knock the No. 22 car out of the way for the win. Will there now be a more forceful push for additional short track races? What's the future of this stadium racing model? Could it work as a point paying event? The crew analyzes the decisions the sport must address moving forward. Heading to Daytona International Speedway for the Daytona 500 on Feb. 20, learn why a parts shortage is concerning all race teams. The guys discuss whether it will impact the aggressiveness in the season opening race and what it means for heading out west afterwards. Later in the show, Reaction Theatre returns, find out which spotter is having a fondue party for the Super Bowl, who wins the first What an Idiot awards of the season, and a new twist on DBC Picks in 2022. Thank you to our presenting sponsor Offerpad and partner RacingUSA.com for making this show possible

Jason Schultz is the Executive Director of Agua Viva Ministries in Ensenada, Mexico. A second-generation missionary, Jason does not consider himself a missionary, unless maybe when he's visiting churches in the U.S. He tells us about the many aspects of Agua Viva open to short-term mission trips from the U.S., as well as the necessary lifelines AVM provides to so many in Mexico. God stories aren't confined by international boundaries.

Andrew Kurland makes his long-awaited return to join newly self-proclaimed King of Content, Jason Schultz. The two discuss what Andrew has been up to including his trip this past weekend to Martinsville. Then, they talk about the championship battle at Phoenix and who actually deserves to win it regardless of the race results. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/redheadracingradio/message

Jason Schultz is back with producer Ben Walton filling in for Andrew Kurland to discuss F1's big weekend in Austin. The two talk about Jason's word of the weekend: content. Jason explains his enamoredness with F1's shift in marketing towards the American audience and has storytime with Jeff Gluck's Athletic article. Then, hear about their Martinsville predictions heading into NASCAR's penultimate race of the season. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/redheadracingradio/message

Jason Schultz taps RHRR producer/personal PR rep, Ben Walton, to fill in for Andrew Kurland while he sits at home and does homework. The two talk about the drama from Las Vegas this past weekend but not the drama from the track. They give their thoughts on the Peyton/Eli broadcast from the Monday Night Football game and debate which two personalities they would like to see do a similar style broadcast for a NASCAR race. Plus, hear Jason's thoughts on Formula One's "Drive to Survive" series on Netflix. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/redheadracingradio/message

Richmond Raceway hosted Week 2 of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs over the weekend and Brett Griffin, T.J. Majors and Freddie Kraft return to cover all that went down on the short track. The gang starts by discussing the special patriotic tributes performed by the track as Saturday's races fell on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Then they debate the quality of the race, as Brett challenges producer Jason Schultz's tweet from Saturday night. Plus, hear what the spotters thought when Kurt Busch's early race wreck resembled Jerry Nadeau's from the early 2000s at Richmond. Before spot on, spot off begins – the spotters open the liquid courage that presenting sponsor Offerpad delivered for the show. And the ensuing conversations do not disappoint. Dale Earnhardt Jr. returned behind the wheel in the Xfinity Series race at Richmond and T.J. paired up with his former driver once again. Hear what T.J. thought when Dale yelled at him for providing lap times and how he responded to the advice T.J. shared leading into the race. Martin Truex Jr.'s race started rough as he was penalized for beating pole sitter Denny Hamlin to the line. Post-race, Truex questioned what his response should have been to avoid the penalty. The spotters weigh in on what needs to happen in that situation for drivers to not have to give up position. Joe Gibbs Racing has started the playoffs strong with two consecutive victories. The crew analyzes why they were so good on Saturday night and their outlook heading into the remaining post-season races. Will they present a challenge to Hendrick Motorsports moving forward? The crew debates. After this weekend's race at Bristol Motor Speedway, four drivers will be eliminated from championship contention. Who's in trouble? What needs to happen for teams to advance through the first elimination race? Who will make it? The spotters share their opinions. With the 2022 NASCAR schedule expected to be released this week, the guys share rumors they're hearing. Plus, they discuss whether any track on the schedule deserves more than one date. In Reaction Theatre, hear T.J. respond to getting called out by Dale Jr., what fans thought about the quality of Saturday night's race, and more.

Jason Schultz and Andrew Kurland lavish over the first race of the playoffs at Darlington. Though the two discuss the lack of buildup to NASCAR's postseason, the race was not short on drama. Drivers making mistakes, Jason's favorite word, and the importance of passion from the drivers all gets talked about from the "Lady in Black." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/redheadracingradio/message

Jason Schultz and Andrew Kurland discuss new life motos, getting spotted in victory lane, and debating the best Daytona strategy. Also, Andrew recaps his race weekend at Michigan while Jason informs why the track has seen a decline in attendance. Then, the two rank their top five non-playoff drivers that could win their way into the playoffs. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/redheadracingradio/message

A fired-up Jason Schultz and recently relocated Andrew Kurland discuss a petition to save the turtles. While not referring to the type of turtle Jason saw outside his house this morning, the two ponder the curb drama during the inaugural Cup Series race at the Indy Road Course. Of course, not without interruption from Andrew's Australian Siri which sparked a debate about which Siri voice is the best. Next, Jason shares why tracks should not resort to a "bandaid fix" for poor on-track product. This leads them to identify the failures of NASCAR to throw cautions during dangerous track conditions. Then, they break down Chase Briscoe's black flag and Denny Hamlin keeping his cool around the swarm of media. Finally, they get to hear from "the" Chris Rice of Kaulig Racing after AJ's big win. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/redheadracingradio/message

Jason Schultz and Andrew Kurland reunite after a two-week break. Andrew runs down his first solo content trip to Watkins Glen and rates Jason's recommendations for the area. He then talks about his meeting with NASCAR Chief Marketing Officer Pete Jung and their discussions about the state of the sport. Being the unsupportive co-host he is, Jason didn't realize some of Andrew's at-track content was posted to the NASCAR Youtube channel. Then the two discuss why the Xfinity series has a better on-track product versus the Cup series. Finally, the show wrapped up with discussions on how to boil water and getting banned on Tinder. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/redheadracingradio/message

Jason Schultz welcomes his co-host, Andrew Kurland, back and puts him to the test, seeing if he's dedicated to the podcast. Then Jason reveals the most important thing that happened at New Hampshire Motor Speedway that no one is talking about. Andrew attended a concert and met his soulmate, you'll want to hear that story. Then Jason brings an F1 hot take to the table that he was too afraid to tweet. It's typically advised to not let stock cars race on a wet oval surface - hear what the guys thought about NASCAR letting it happen and the aftermath. This brings up another important topic that Jason and Andrew took away from Kyle Busch's interview. Hear the deep things that Brad Keselowski was tweeting. And why Matt DiBenedetto shouldn't be acting like the victim. SRX is great and the guys explain why. Plus, Andrew gets a favorable performance review from Jason. You don't want to miss this. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/redheadracingradio/message

Freddie Kraft, T.J. Majors and Jason Schultz are in studio after a wild and wet Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and a hot week of silly season news. Plus, fresh off the Superstar Racing Experience season finale at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway – legendary racing broadcaster Allen Bestwick joins the show. Freddie and T.J. made it through the rain and darkness in New England to share their reaction to the events that went down in the NASCAR Cup Series race. Hear what they were feeling on the roof and what their drivers were reporting in the cars when NASCAR decided to start the race under a heavy mist condition. Then, when the track became too wet and Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin, and others slid sideways into Turns 1 and 2, find out how they reacted and how they navigated their drivers through the treacherous conditions. What decision making broke down to allow the field to race into the wet corners? What could be done differently to prevent a similar situation in the future? The spotters weigh in. After crashing, Kyle Busch gave the pace car a few bumps to show his displeasure at the officiating. Hear what T.J. and Freddie thought when they saw that happen and they share whether or not they believe Busch will be penalized. A last-minute decision to not apply traction compound to New Hampshire's surface impacted a lot of teams plans on Friday night. Hear why that was and how everyone felt about the racing without the added substance on the track. Contact between Ryan Newman and Quin Houff sent the No. 00 spinning into Turn 3. Hear what harsh words Houff had for Newman afterwards and whether the crew thinks Newman did it intentionally. NASCAR called the race approximately eight laps early due to darkness. The spotters share whether they thought the race could go the distance and how truly dark it was at the time. Plus, they address NASCAR making the call to decide when to display 10 laps to go anytime in the final stage. Harrison Burton was named as Wood Brothers Racing's next driver last week, as he replaces Matt DiBenedetto. Hear how DiBenedetto expressed his frustration with the situation in a video later that day and why the guys are confused that he was surprised to hear this decision. Team Penske named Austin Cindric the driver of the iconic No. 2 car beginning next season, officially placing Brad Keselowski in the free agent market. Find out what Keselowski asked for in contract negations and what news is expected to drop regarding his future this week. Next, Allen Bestwick joins the show after his return to motorsports broadcasting this summer on tour with SRX. Hear about his beginnings behind the microphone, how an early connection in racing ultimately led to the SRX gig and what approach the broadcast crew took in this new venture. He shares about the all-access experience SRX showcased, unique broadcast elements they incorporated and what the future holds for the series. Then, he talks big NASCAR moments he was a part of including the 2001 July Daytona race and memories working closely with Benny Parsons. In Reaction Theatre, a Larry McReynolds impersonator calls in, fans are angry with the No. 22 team, and now callers are leaving song requests. Then the gang shares their plans for NASCAR's summer break.

Want to know how Jason Schultz's podcasting career started? Well, it's a throwback episode to his first-ever podcast with his first-ever co-host and long-time friend Garrett Beisheim. Together in Charlotte, the former "The Road to Miami" co-hosts reminisce on starting a NASCAR podcast back in the early days. They react to news about NASCAR producing a documentary series and why it's missing one key ingredient. And hear what they think about the recent outburst of drivers speaking their minds. Plus, hear some of Jason's food hot takes and opportunities to bash Andrew Kurland while on vacation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/redheadracingradio/message

Andrew Kurland returns from Road America with stories to tell about his experience at the circuit's first Cup Series race since 1956. He tells Jason Schultz and the listeners about playing cornhole with drivers, tasting cheeses with Ross Chastain and exploring the woods around the road course during the race. The redheads then discuss the energy infused into the sport with new Cup venues this season and rank their favorites. Then the resurfacing of a famous Dale Sr. quote leads to a rant about wanting today's drivers to speak their minds. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/redheadracingradio/message

INTRO: Welcome back to Flyover View, a member of the Heartland Pod family of podcasts and a look at heartland news from 30,000 feet, from the gateway arch to the rocky mountains, I'm your host, Kevin Smith. I have two parts to today's show: the Heartland Headlines segment, where I cover the BIGGEST stories of the week, followed by the Lightning Round- where I cover the rest of our favorites in rapid succession.HEARTLAND HEADLINES HEADLINE 1: COVID RATES ARE UP AS DELTA VARIANT SPREADSLink:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/missouri-covid-cases.htmlhttps://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/map-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-st-louis-missouri-illinois/63-551df1ce-a195-48c3-bd44-6fce604d7f38https://account.kansascity.com/paywall/registration?resume=252480233In the heartland states we are seeing a troubling trend emerge as vaccination rates stall out while new COVID cases rise. In Missouri, the 7 day average for new cases has risen to almost 1,000 again, after dipping as low as 375 in March of 2021. Rural counties in the SW of the state have seen the steepest increase, but numbers all around the state continue to climb. Meanwhile in Ohio, new cases are down to rates not seen since early April of 2020. The biggest difference on paper? Vaccination rates. In Ohio, 45% of all residents are fully vaccinated, and 55% of those 18 and up are fully vaccinated. In Missouri, those numbers are 39% for the general population and only 49% for those 18 and up. In Missouri, only 73% of those 65 and up are fully vaccinated, while in Ohio that number is at 80%In Colorado, where the overall rate is 52% and 18 and up is at 63%, numbers remain on the downward trajectory as well. While in Oklahoma, with numbers like Missouri at 38% overall and 49% for 18 and up fully vaccinated, the cases are up with a 37% increase over the last 14 day periodIn a story from early June of 2021, over ⅓ of Missourians in suburban St. Charles county showed hesitancy to get vaccinated at all, and in rural counties that number is higher. All in all it points to a simple reality: A failure to have a vaccinated population could lead to more cases, with the faster spreading and deadlier Delta Varient, as vaccine rates stall out. It is impossible not to point to the leadership in the states where rates of new cases are up and vaccination rates are suppressed and wonder where they are on this issue. In Ohio you may recall the vaccine lottery, which saw a great response. Meanwhile, in Missouri many legislators and Statewide officials seem to ignore the need for vaccinations. Missouri Governor and noted sentient goldfish, Mike Parson, in what is best described as a complete 180 from his prior statements, is now urging folks to get the vaccine and walking back his prior comments comparing COVID to merely the seasonal flu. And now a report comes form the KC star that Gov. Parson has requested federal help for containment efforts. Nothing like some good old fashioned leadership from behind. Time will tell just how much of a difference it all makes, but the early indications show that many heartland states could be headed for a catastrophic second wave of the pandemic. If only we had seen something like this 100 years ago… oh wait, we did, with the spanish flu which had a second wave that eclipsed the first in scale for deaths. At least this time no one is telling us to drink bleach. HEADLINE 2: Iowa Permitless Carry Law Goes Into EffectLink:https://www.desmoinesregister.com/news/politics/Death rates up: https://apnews.com/article/ia-state-wire-iowa-gun-politics-business-laws-656a5ba4382a64f2d93790f56050ce3cIowans can now buy and carry handguns without first getting a permit, after a new law went into effect Thursday. For the first time, the law makes having a permit optional for adults 21 and older to buy a handgun or carry one in most public places. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the Iowa law, which advocates often refer to as "constitutional carry" or "permitless carry," in April. More than a dozen states - including Missouri - have similar laws. The new law won't change the rules for long guns, like rifles and shotguns, which didn't require a permit under the previous law. Customers will still need to pass a background check when buying long guns and handguns from a federally licensed dealer.Meanwhile, in 2020 gun deaths in Iowa are up by 23% from 2019, making back to back record breaking years in Iowa for gun deaths. When Missouri passed a similar law in 2007, gun related crime rates spiked nearly instantly. They must still pass an instant federal background check to buy handguns at retailers, but face no such requirement if buying through private sellers. They will not need any permit to carry guns on themselves or in their cars in most places, including the Iowa Capitol, and they no longer need to take an online training course on gun safety and self-defense.Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the bill in April following pressure from conservative activists. She previously said the permitting system was “reasonable and responsible” and should remain.Supporters say the Iowa law will prevent law-abiding citizens from having to apply to the government and pay a $50 carry permit fee to exercise their gun rights, while allowing them to quickly obtain handguns for self-defense.“The relationship between your state government and the citizen is going to be flipped 180 degrees,” said state GOP Sen. Jason Schultz, who noted that the push to loosen Iowa's firearm rules has taken decades. “You can bear that firearm without permission from the state in the form of a concealed weapon permit or in violation of any open-carry laws.”He said this would not harm public safety, calling it a “blessing on the citizenry and a problem for criminals because there's more good guys armed out there.” But the new law is highly unpopular: two-thirds of those surveyed this month for the Des Moines Register's Iowa Poll said they disapprove.Yes, this law is part of the now traditional GOP response to voters, passing unpopular laws and ignoring the public at large.HEADLINE 3: Missouri's AG loses case to former AG candidatehttps://missouriindependent.com/2021/06/29/missouri-supreme-court-state-cant-charge-attorney-fees-for-sunshine-law-requests/In a 6-0 ruling, the Missouri supreme court has ruled that attorney review time for public records released by public entities cannot be charged for. Missouri attorney and former Democratic AG hopeful Elad Gross made what is often referred to as a “sunshine law” request under Missouri's chapter 610 which requires public entities and governments to provide access to public records. The Parson administration provided the documents after redaction by attorneys but tried to charge $3,618.40 for the access to Mr. Gross. In the unanimous opinion, Judge Patricia Breckenridge wrote that the court concluded the allegations were sufficient to plead that “the Governor's Office had an intent to violate the law.”The case now goes back to the trial court for further proceedings. Said Gross in response to the ruling “Now there's a very clear ruling that those practices have always been illegal, should never have been used to stop the public from accessing public records or members of the media for that point, too,” Gross said. “And hopefully those kinds of abuses will now be put to an end.”Our own attorney, and Heartland POD host Adam Sommer said of the ruling: “This ruling is a clear message to not just the administration that it acted in bad faith, but to any and all Missouri governmental or other public entities that the Sunshine law of Missouri is not optional. People have a right to know what the government is doing and they have a right to have access to that information without it costing exorbitant fees. You shouldn't need an extra $4,000 on hand, and a law degree, to get public records. It's pretty simple. The law allows for some charges, mostly related to the actual costs for physical copies of a staff member to make those copies or search for those records and locate them. It doesn't provide for the cost of a lawyer to review them for redactions. The government, and it's lawyers, have a duty to do that work already, that cost cannot be passed on, we already paid for it with our tax dollars.”The remaining case is part of an investigation into a dark money group best known for its connection to former Governor, and now Senate candidate, Eric Grietens. HEADLINE 4: A Clean FRA Bill Heads to Governor in Missourihttps://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article252476943.htmlhttps://missouriindependent.com/2021/06/29/no-changes-in-committee-as-fra-bill-heads-to-missouri-house-for-debate/On Wednesday Missouri lawmakers finally sent the renewal of the Federal Reimbursement Allowance, or FRA, a critical extension to the major source of funding for Medicaid in the state, to Gov. Mike Parson, just ahead of a deadline he imposed for enacting drastic budget cuts across the state. Missouri has had the tax, called the FRA, in place for about three decades, and its renewal has been routine. This year, hardline conservatives in the Senate sought to add provisions banning Medicaid coverage of certain forms of birth control, which they called akin to abortion, and block the program from making payments to Planned Parenthood. In a win for pragmatism neither provision was included in the renewal sent to the governor.· GOP Supermajority failed to pass the extension during regular session· GOP got what it wanted, hours of pontificating on the evils of Planned Parenthood and birth controlo Only 12 clinics in the entire state, 11 of which are only family planning clinics. Only one can be considered an abortion clinic· In a statement, House Speaker Rob Vescovo, Speaker Pro Tem John Wiemann and Majority Leader Dean Plocher said they had supported both the FRA and anti-abortion efforts.o “We are proud of the work done by the House today to approve the FRA renewal so the vital programs that assist many of Missouri's most vulnerable citizens can continue to be funded,” they said. “We're also proud of our members for taking a strong stand in defense of the lives of the unborn as we approved House Bill 2 to prevent taxpayer dollars from going to abortion providers.”· Minority Leader Crystal Quadeo “All it was was a political move,”· Barring any funny business from Parson I'm happy to just be done talking about this.BREAK: Really quick reminder for folks if you or someone you know has been on or is now on unemployment, the ACA coverage may be available to them free of charge for the rest of 2021, go to marketplace.org to learn more on that. For Monday, the heartland pod has special guest host Jessica Piper and a Mt. Rushmore draft of the best patriotic movies, plus a talkin politics about the Trump org charges and the Missouri special session.Missouri Prison health care contract changes companieshttps://www.thepitchkc.com/missouri-prison-healthcare-contract-won-by-company-accused-of-bid-rigging-in-tennessee/Centurion Health, a Virginia subsidiary of St. Louis-based managed care company Centene, beat out four other bidders – including current provider Corizon Health – for a contract awarded May 28. Under the terms of the contract, Centurion would be paid $174.6 million for the year starting July 1. The initial contract term is three years, with four optional years, and Centurion's bid totals $1.4 billion over the full period.Lawmakers appropriated $152.8 million for prison medical services in the coming year, the third year where the amount has been unchanged. The actual cost in fiscal 2020 was $149.9 million.In the formal protest filed last week, Corizon wrote that it was treated unfairly in the scoring and that Centurion failed to report problems that cost it a Tennessee contract on May 10 — including that key personnel involved in its Missouri bid were fired over their involvement in the Tennessee scandal.https://www.cpr.org/2021/06/30/covid-vaccine-incentive-uchealth-employees/Anti-Vaxxers: FACED! UCHealth pays $500 incentive to employees who get the COVID vaccineUCHealth plans to give $500 dollars to those among its 26,000 employees who are vaccinated. Contractors can also receive the bonus. The system operates 12 hospitals and about 700 individual clinics across Colorado, southern Wyoming and western Nebraska. The bonus applies to thousands of additional contractors, like those working as security guards or valets.Those UCHealth workers who are now vaccinated will get the money in mid-July, and anyone who gets vaccinated between now and August 22 would get it on Sept. 3. “UCHealth will mandate the vaccine for all of our employees and contractors at some point, likely later this year,” said Dan Weaver, Vice President of Communications for UCHealth, via email. He noted the system already requires employees to get the flu vaccine. “We want to provide the safest possible environment for our patients, visitors and employees, and requiring everyone to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the same way we mandate influenza vaccinations will help improve safety for everyone.”https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2021/06/30/st-louis-mayor-tishaura-jones-80-million-relief-proposal-heads-to-board-of-aldermenMayor Jones Gives and ServesMayor Tishaura Jones' $80 million direct relief proposal was approved by the St. Louis Board of Estimate and Apportionment, but faces a challenge for final approval with the board of alderman."The past year and a half has been devastating for St. Louis families and businesses," Comptroller Darlene Green, who is one third of E&A, said in a press release. "The relief package presented by Mayor Jones prioritizes addressing the most urgent needs for our residents, and I encourage everyone to work together so that we can quickly put these relief funds to work for our community."Jones and Green both voted for the package, but E&A's third member, Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed, refused. Reed and Jones are frequent rivals and have quarreled throughout the process. The proposal passed by E&A, which has oversight of a swath of city finances, could clash with a separate proposal in the Board of Aldermen.Reed called out Jones saying she cannot do the job of the Board, to which Mayor Jones replied: “You can't do the job of the Mayor either, honey.”EXXON Mobil in the hot seathttps://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012138741/exxon-lobbyist-caught-on-video-talks-about-undermining-bidens-climate-pushExxon Mobil has been attempting a new face lately, obtaining new board members “focused on climate change” and claiming to finally be sensitive to the issue. However, a recent sting by the group Greenpeace finds one major lobbyist for Exxon sowing some doubt on that new branding. Keith McCoy, the oil giant's senior director for federal relations was caught on camera during what he thought was a job interview blatantly revealing that tactics to sow doubt on the science and protect profits by working with "shadow groups," and influencing senators to weaken climate elements of President Biden's infrastructure plan. Saying "Joe Manchin, I talk to his office every week," calling Manchin a "kingmaker" Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, says he will hold a hearing this fall about "climate disinformation & the coordinated attack on scientific truth among polluters and their lobbyists."It should be an interesting hearing. Among McCoy's comments to the undercover activists, he said Exxon Mobil has a playbook for dealing with hearings like what Khanna plans. He said they usually send trade group representatives to be "the whipping boy."Dark Money Is Just Fine, says the US Supreme Courthttps://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-251_p86b.pdfIn a 6-3 ruling, and bringing the term to an end, the US Supreme Court has ruled that people who donate to political nonprofits have a first amendment right to remain anonymous. The case, stemming from a california rule requiring disclosure of donors, similar to a political candidate, was one of the few this term that lined up exactly on the 6-3 right and left lines of the high court. The reasoning was that while a state may have an interest in preventing fraud in non-profits, these kinds of non-profits really don't represent enough potential fraud to matter and that forcing disclosure of donor information could be chilling to the First Amendment right of free association. So there you have it folks, you have no protection for your information if you give money to a candidate, but as long as it's to a hyper partisan nonprofit, you can give all you want and no one has to know. It will be our little secret. Outro: That's all the time we have, thanks for joining us. If you have a story you feel we should look into and possibly highlight on the show tweet us @theheartlandpod and visit us for links to all our shows and our merchandise shop at heartlandpod.com. The Flyover View is a production of Mid Map Media LLC. This week's episode featured reporting from The Pitch out of kansas city, The Riverfront Times, The Missouri Independent, Colorado Public Radio, Associated Press, New York Times, KSDK St. Louis, The Des Moines Register, & Supreme Court.gov, Remember to Subscribe so you get this show and all our Heartland Pod offerings, with new episodes released Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Thanks for joining us, and see you next week: same time, same place. 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INTRO: Welcome back to Flyover View, a member of the Heartland Pod family of podcasts and a look at heartland news from 30,000 feet, from the gateway arch to the rocky mountains, I'm your host, Kevin Smith. I have two parts to today's show: the Heartland Headlines segment, where I cover the BIGGEST stories of the week, followed by the Lightning Round- where I cover the rest of our favorites in rapid succession.HEARTLAND HEADLINES HEADLINE 1: COVID RATES ARE UP AS DELTA VARIANT SPREADSLink:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/missouri-covid-cases.htmlhttps://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine/map-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-st-louis-missouri-illinois/63-551df1ce-a195-48c3-bd44-6fce604d7f38https://account.kansascity.com/paywall/registration?resume=252480233In the heartland states we are seeing a troubling trend emerge as vaccination rates stall out while new COVID cases rise. In Missouri, the 7 day average for new cases has risen to almost 1,000 again, after dipping as low as 375 in March of 2021. Rural counties in the SW of the state have seen the steepest increase, but numbers all around the state continue to climb. Meanwhile in Ohio, new cases are down to rates not seen since early April of 2020. The biggest difference on paper? Vaccination rates. In Ohio, 45% of all residents are fully vaccinated, and 55% of those 18 and up are fully vaccinated. In Missouri, those numbers are 39% for the general population and only 49% for those 18 and up. In Missouri, only 73% of those 65 and up are fully vaccinated, while in Ohio that number is at 80%In Colorado, where the overall rate is 52% and 18 and up is at 63%, numbers remain on the downward trajectory as well. While in Oklahoma, with numbers like Missouri at 38% overall and 49% for 18 and up fully vaccinated, the cases are up with a 37% increase over the last 14 day periodIn a story from early June of 2021, over ⅓ of Missourians in suburban St. Charles county showed hesitancy to get vaccinated at all, and in rural counties that number is higher. All in all it points to a simple reality: A failure to have a vaccinated population could lead to more cases, with the faster spreading and deadlier Delta Varient, as vaccine rates stall out. It is impossible not to point to the leadership in the states where rates of new cases are up and vaccination rates are suppressed and wonder where they are on this issue. In Ohio you may recall the vaccine lottery, which saw a great response. Meanwhile, in Missouri many legislators and Statewide officials seem to ignore the need for vaccinations. Missouri Governor and noted sentient goldfish, Mike Parson, in what is best described as a complete 180 from his prior statements, is now urging folks to get the vaccine and walking back his prior comments comparing COVID to merely the seasonal flu. And now a report comes form the KC star that Gov. Parson has requested federal help for containment efforts. Nothing like some good old fashioned leadership from behind. Time will tell just how much of a difference it all makes, but the early indications show that many heartland states could be headed for a catastrophic second wave of the pandemic. If only we had seen something like this 100 years ago… oh wait, we did, with the spanish flu which had a second wave that eclipsed the first in scale for deaths. At least this time no one is telling us to drink bleach. HEADLINE 2: Iowa Permitless Carry Law Goes Into EffectLink:https://www.desmoinesregister.com/news/politics/Death rates up: https://apnews.com/article/ia-state-wire-iowa-gun-politics-business-laws-656a5ba4382a64f2d93790f56050ce3cIowans can now buy and carry handguns without first getting a permit, after a new law went into effect Thursday. For the first time, the law makes having a permit optional for adults 21 and older to buy a handgun or carry one in most public places. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the Iowa law, which advocates often refer to as "constitutional carry" or "permitless carry," in April. More than a dozen states - including Missouri - have similar laws. The new law won't change the rules for long guns, like rifles and shotguns, which didn't require a permit under the previous law. Customers will still need to pass a background check when buying long guns and handguns from a federally licensed dealer.Meanwhile, in 2020 gun deaths in Iowa are up by 23% from 2019, making back to back record breaking years in Iowa for gun deaths. When Missouri passed a similar law in 2007, gun related crime rates spiked nearly instantly. They must still pass an instant federal background check to buy handguns at retailers, but face no such requirement if buying through private sellers. They will not need any permit to carry guns on themselves or in their cars in most places, including the Iowa Capitol, and they no longer need to take an online training course on gun safety and self-defense.Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the bill in April following pressure from conservative activists. She previously said the permitting system was “reasonable and responsible” and should remain.Supporters say the Iowa law will prevent law-abiding citizens from having to apply to the government and pay a $50 carry permit fee to exercise their gun rights, while allowing them to quickly obtain handguns for self-defense.“The relationship between your state government and the citizen is going to be flipped 180 degrees,” said state GOP Sen. Jason Schultz, who noted that the push to loosen Iowa's firearm rules has taken decades. “You can bear that firearm without permission from the state in the form of a concealed weapon permit or in violation of any open-carry laws.”He said this would not harm public safety, calling it a “blessing on the citizenry and a problem for criminals because there's more good guys armed out there.” But the new law is highly unpopular: two-thirds of those surveyed this month for the Des Moines Register's Iowa Poll said they disapprove.Yes, this law is part of the now traditional GOP response to voters, passing unpopular laws and ignoring the public at large.HEADLINE 3: Missouri's AG loses case to former AG candidatehttps://missouriindependent.com/2021/06/29/missouri-supreme-court-state-cant-charge-attorney-fees-for-sunshine-law-requests/In a 6-0 ruling, the Missouri supreme court has ruled that attorney review time for public records released by public entities cannot be charged for. Missouri attorney and former Democratic AG hopeful Elad Gross made what is often referred to as a “sunshine law” request under Missouri's chapter 610 which requires public entities and governments to provide access to public records. The Parson administration provided the documents after redaction by attorneys but tried to charge $3,618.40 for the access to Mr. Gross. In the unanimous opinion, Judge Patricia Breckenridge wrote that the court concluded the allegations were sufficient to plead that “the Governor's Office had an intent to violate the law.”The case now goes back to the trial court for further proceedings. Said Gross in response to the ruling “Now there's a very clear ruling that those practices have always been illegal, should never have been used to stop the public from accessing public records or members of the media for that point, too,” Gross said. “And hopefully those kinds of abuses will now be put to an end.”Our own attorney, and Heartland POD host Adam Sommer said of the ruling: “This ruling is a clear message to not just the administration that it acted in bad faith, but to any and all Missouri governmental or other public entities that the Sunshine law of Missouri is not optional. People have a right to know what the government is doing and they have a right to have access to that information without it costing exorbitant fees. You shouldn't need an extra $4,000 on hand, and a law degree, to get public records. It's pretty simple. The law allows for some charges, mostly related to the actual costs for physical copies of a staff member to make those copies or search for those records and locate them. It doesn't provide for the cost of a lawyer to review them for redactions. The government, and it's lawyers, have a duty to do that work already, that cost cannot be passed on, we already paid for it with our tax dollars.”The remaining case is part of an investigation into a dark money group best known for its connection to former Governor, and now Senate candidate, Eric Grietens. HEADLINE 4: A Clean FRA Bill Heads to Governor in Missourihttps://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article252476943.htmlhttps://missouriindependent.com/2021/06/29/no-changes-in-committee-as-fra-bill-heads-to-missouri-house-for-debate/On Wednesday Missouri lawmakers finally sent the renewal of the Federal Reimbursement Allowance, or FRA, a critical extension to the major source of funding for Medicaid in the state, to Gov. Mike Parson, just ahead of a deadline he imposed for enacting drastic budget cuts across the state. Missouri has had the tax, called the FRA, in place for about three decades, and its renewal has been routine. This year, hardline conservatives in the Senate sought to add provisions banning Medicaid coverage of certain forms of birth control, which they called akin to abortion, and block the program from making payments to Planned Parenthood. In a win for pragmatism neither provision was included in the renewal sent to the governor.· GOP Supermajority failed to pass the extension during regular session· GOP got what it wanted, hours of pontificating on the evils of Planned Parenthood and birth controlo Only 12 clinics in the entire state, 11 of which are only family planning clinics. Only one can be considered an abortion clinic· In a statement, House Speaker Rob Vescovo, Speaker Pro Tem John Wiemann and Majority Leader Dean Plocher said they had supported both the FRA and anti-abortion efforts.o “We are proud of the work done by the House today to approve the FRA renewal so the vital programs that assist many of Missouri's most vulnerable citizens can continue to be funded,” they said. “We're also proud of our members for taking a strong stand in defense of the lives of the unborn as we approved House Bill 2 to prevent taxpayer dollars from going to abortion providers.”· Minority Leader Crystal Quadeo “All it was was a political move,”· Barring any funny business from Parson I'm happy to just be done talking about this.BREAK: Really quick reminder for folks if you or someone you know has been on or is now on unemployment, the ACA coverage may be available to them free of charge for the rest of 2021, go to marketplace.org to learn more on that. For Monday, the heartland pod has special guest host Jessica Piper and a Mt. Rushmore draft of the best patriotic movies, plus a talkin politics about the Trump org charges and the Missouri special session.Missouri Prison health care contract changes companieshttps://www.thepitchkc.com/missouri-prison-healthcare-contract-won-by-company-accused-of-bid-rigging-in-tennessee/Centurion Health, a Virginia subsidiary of St. Louis-based managed care company Centene, beat out four other bidders – including current provider Corizon Health – for a contract awarded May 28. Under the terms of the contract, Centurion would be paid $174.6 million for the year starting July 1. The initial contract term is three years, with four optional years, and Centurion's bid totals $1.4 billion over the full period.Lawmakers appropriated $152.8 million for prison medical services in the coming year, the third year where the amount has been unchanged. The actual cost in fiscal 2020 was $149.9 million.In the formal protest filed last week, Corizon wrote that it was treated unfairly in the scoring and that Centurion failed to report problems that cost it a Tennessee contract on May 10 — including that key personnel involved in its Missouri bid were fired over their involvement in the Tennessee scandal.https://www.cpr.org/2021/06/30/covid-vaccine-incentive-uchealth-employees/Anti-Vaxxers: FACED! UCHealth pays $500 incentive to employees who get the COVID vaccineUCHealth plans to give $500 dollars to those among its 26,000 employees who are vaccinated. Contractors can also receive the bonus. The system operates 12 hospitals and about 700 individual clinics across Colorado, southern Wyoming and western Nebraska. The bonus applies to thousands of additional contractors, like those working as security guards or valets.Those UCHealth workers who are now vaccinated will get the money in mid-July, and anyone who gets vaccinated between now and August 22 would get it on Sept. 3. “UCHealth will mandate the vaccine for all of our employees and contractors at some point, likely later this year,” said Dan Weaver, Vice President of Communications for UCHealth, via email. He noted the system already requires employees to get the flu vaccine. “We want to provide the safest possible environment for our patients, visitors and employees, and requiring everyone to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the same way we mandate influenza vaccinations will help improve safety for everyone.”https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2021/06/30/st-louis-mayor-tishaura-jones-80-million-relief-proposal-heads-to-board-of-aldermenMayor Jones Gives and ServesMayor Tishaura Jones' $80 million direct relief proposal was approved by the St. Louis Board of Estimate and Apportionment, but faces a challenge for final approval with the board of alderman."The past year and a half has been devastating for St. Louis families and businesses," Comptroller Darlene Green, who is one third of E&A, said in a press release. "The relief package presented by Mayor Jones prioritizes addressing the most urgent needs for our residents, and I encourage everyone to work together so that we can quickly put these relief funds to work for our community."Jones and Green both voted for the package, but E&A's third member, Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed, refused. Reed and Jones are frequent rivals and have quarreled throughout the process. The proposal passed by E&A, which has oversight of a swath of city finances, could clash with a separate proposal in the Board of Aldermen.Reed called out Jones saying she cannot do the job of the Board, to which Mayor Jones replied: “You can't do the job of the Mayor either, honey.”EXXON Mobil in the hot seathttps://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012138741/exxon-lobbyist-caught-on-video-talks-about-undermining-bidens-climate-pushExxon Mobil has been attempting a new face lately, obtaining new board members “focused on climate change” and claiming to finally be sensitive to the issue. However, a recent sting by the group Greenpeace finds one major lobbyist for Exxon sowing some doubt on that new branding. Keith McCoy, the oil giant's senior director for federal relations was caught on camera during what he thought was a job interview blatantly revealing that tactics to sow doubt on the science and protect profits by working with "shadow groups," and influencing senators to weaken climate elements of President Biden's infrastructure plan. Saying "Joe Manchin, I talk to his office every week," calling Manchin a "kingmaker" Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, says he will hold a hearing this fall about "climate disinformation & the coordinated attack on scientific truth among polluters and their lobbyists."It should be an interesting hearing. Among McCoy's comments to the undercover activists, he said Exxon Mobil has a playbook for dealing with hearings like what Khanna plans. He said they usually send trade group representatives to be "the whipping boy."Dark Money Is Just Fine, says the US Supreme Courthttps://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-251_p86b.pdfIn a 6-3 ruling, and bringing the term to an end, the US Supreme Court has ruled that people who donate to political nonprofits have a first amendment right to remain anonymous. The case, stemming from a california rule requiring disclosure of donors, similar to a political candidate, was one of the few this term that lined up exactly on the 6-3 right and left lines of the high court. The reasoning was that while a state may have an interest in preventing fraud in non-profits, these kinds of non-profits really don't represent enough potential fraud to matter and that forcing disclosure of donor information could be chilling to the First Amendment right of free association. So there you have it folks, you have no protection for your information if you give money to a candidate, but as long as it's to a hyper partisan nonprofit, you can give all you want and no one has to know. It will be our little secret. Outro: That's all the time we have, thanks for joining us. If you have a story you feel we should look into and possibly highlight on the show tweet us @theheartlandpod and visit us for links to all our shows and our merchandise shop at heartlandpod.com. The Flyover View is a production of Mid Map Media LLC. This week's episode featured reporting from The Pitch out of kansas city, The Riverfront Times, The Missouri Independent, Colorado Public Radio, Associated Press, New York Times, KSDK St. Louis, The Des Moines Register, & Supreme Court.gov, Remember to Subscribe so you get this show and all our Heartland Pod offerings, with new episodes released Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Thanks for joining us, and see you next week: same time, same place. 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On this special edition of my show, I put the spotlight on the winner's of my contest of the Top Fan/Supporter of the month who won a guest spot on my show. The winners of the contest are Jason Schultz & musical artist, Never Falling Under.

On this special edition of my show, I put the spotlight on the winner's of my contest of the Top Fan/Supporter of the month who won a guest spot on my show. The winners of the contest are Jason Schultz & musical artist, Never Falling Under.

Andrew Kurland returned to the NASCAR garage for the first time in 475 days and is back from Pocono Raceway to tell us about it. He spent a lot of time in the campground at the track as well and has stories to share. None of which top Jason Schultz's as he recounts his first camping experience at a NASCAR track. Then they debate which version of camping is more real - tent or RV. Plus, their takes on the idea of the Pocono doubleheader, a fuel mileage finish, and what Andrew has to do this upcoming weekend at Road America. A new producer is initiated on this episode and we wish him the best of luck. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/redheadracingradio/message

Dirty Mo Media's Jason Schultz joins Jack Johnson to discuss how NASCAR can return to its late 90s & early 2000s popularity peak and debate the top 5 driver seasons that fell short of a Cup Series Championship. Twitter: @PodTMX