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Okay, ladies and gentlemen, super cool podcast for you today.

We're doing something a little different with the

format because the live radio show today did incorporate two snippets of longer interviews one of which

showed up on my podcast feed with amel michael earlier this week which all of you should check

out would go deep dive into ai in the department of worth what they're doing to make sure that we are

utilizing AI to the best of our ability but also we are not allowing the Department of War's what they're doing to make sure that we are utilizing AI to the

best of our ability, but also we are not allowing the masters of the universe in Silicon Valley

to control our Pentagon. Super fascinating stuff. And also we start getting into a dive on Medicare

and things that people who want to be older in the audience, what you might need to know

to protect yourself and to make sure that you're getting the best benefits that you deserve. And so all of that is, first of all, the Amel Michael interview, a couple of shows back. The rest of that Medicare interview, we're going to play that today. But before I get into that, I got a couple other big things. We're going to use my opening monologue and my longer segment, my third block from today's radio show, where we start

off with a explanation of what's going on in the economy. We get some pretty not good data from

GDP this morning as we're recording. I bring all that down, try to find some silver linings,

and make some warnings in there. But then I do some more variety for you, some dunking on Liz Warren,

some dunking on Bruce Springsteen, some dunking on Greta Thunberg, who resurfaced to go to bat

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