The Mandy Connell Podcast

JON CALDARA LOVES PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE CONTENT As evidenced by the videos being created by the Independence Institute right now about ballot issues. Check these out.

Well now II is having a contest to see if YOU can make better AI videos. Jon Caldara joins me at 2:30 to talk about it. Find out more about the Independence Institute here. Enter your video at this website.

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STEVE YURASH IS TRYING TO UNSEAT A HORRIBLE HOUSE MEMBER He’s running as the Center Party candidate against Yara Zokai, who is an anti-Semitic socialist. He joins me at 1 for a chat. Find out more about him here.

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KATIE TREXLER MADE CHOICES She was a news anchor with a great career when she decided, reluctantly, to step back and take care of her growing family. Easy choice, right? Not so fast. She’s got a new memoir about that choice and so much more. The book is What Do I Tell My Daughter? Hard-won Wisdom for Tomorrow’s Women and you can pre-order it here. I’m not even done with it and it hit me in the feels hard. She joins me at 2:30 to chat about it. Find out more about Katie here.

WEATHER WEDNESDAY AT 12:30 And we’ll be able to ask Fox 31 Chief Meteorologist Dave Fraser about the next couple of days of rain and more.

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AROD SCORES A PATRICK ROY JERSEY and it's so awesome how this went down on air today.

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Dad joke of the day, word of the day, Mandy's trivia question of the day & jeopardy! It's OF THE DAY! Today's opponent: Listener Craig and Katie Trexler.

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KATIE TREXLER MADE CHOICES She was a news anchor with a great career when she decided, reluctantly, to step back and take care of her growing family. Easy choice, right? Not so fast. She’s got a new memoir about that choice and so much more. The book is What Do I Tell My Daughter? Hard-won Wisdom for Tomorrow’s Women and you can pre-order it here. I’m not even done with it and it hit me in the feels hard. She joins me at 2:30 to chat about it. Find out more about Katie here.

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WEATHER WEDNESDAY AT 12:30 And we’ll be able to ask Fox 31 Chief Meteorologist Dave Fraser about the next couple of days of rain and more.

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SHOULD WE REALLY BE WORRIED ABOUT AI? I think AI is a huge boon to society on net. Do we need to figure out guardrails? Sure. Should we be shoring up our security around water and electricity generation in our country? Yes. But we should be doing that anyway. David Strom joins me at 1 to talk about this story about how the very same tech companies, who just HAPPEN to be getting ready to do their IPOs, are yelling about the dangers of their own products. Read this bit:

You may have noticed — I sure hope you have — that nobody in these companies is actually suggesting that AI development stop and the machines be turned off. Quite the opposite: trillions of dollars are being invested in new data centers to enable the rapid growth of AI, and a good chunk of the valuation in the stock market is driven by investments in the “hyperscalers” that will sell the computer power that makes AI run.

And China is going full speed ahead, meaning that AI development will continue, and if it is going to kill us all, it would just be a Chinese AI that did it. And probably quicker, too.

So what do AI companies gain from the doom talk, aside from inflating the sense that AI will be more revolutionary than the internet?

We will answer that question today at 1 with David. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says all the doomerism around AI is just a Chinese Psyop. I don’t think he’s wrong.

JUSTICE NEIL GORSUCH IS RIGHT ABOUT RULING VIA EMERGENCY And I’ve made this point over and over again. Congress sits on its hands as a situation gets exponentially worse, we shut down the government as Congress slams through some garbage bill and then wants congratulations for “fixing” the mess IT created. In recent comments in the Springs, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch asked “why is everything such an emergency” and he’s absolutely right. Jimmy Sengenberger writes about it here. Jimmy joins me at 2:30 to chat about it.

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Dad joke of the day, word of the day, Mandy's trivia question of the day & jeopardy! It's OF THE DAY! Today's opponent: Jimmy Sengenberger.

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JUSTICE NEIL GORSUCH IS RIGHT ABOUT RULING VIA EMERGENCY And I’ve made this point over and over again. Congress sits on its hands as a situation gets exponentially worse, we shut down the government as Congress slams through some garbage bill and then wants congratulations for “fixing” the mess IT created. In recent comments in the Springs, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch asked “why is everything such an emergency” and he’s absolutely right. Jimmy Sengenberger writes about it here. Jimmy joins me at 2:30 to chat about it.

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SHOULD WE REALLY BE WORRIED ABOUT AI? I think AI is a huge boon to society on net. Do we need to figure out guardrails? Sure. Should we be shoring up our security around water and electricity generation in our country? Yes. But we should be doing that anyway. David Strom joins me at 1 to talk about this story about how the very same tech companies, who just HAPPEN to be getting ready to do their IPOs, are yelling about the dangers of their own products. Read this bit:

You may have noticed — I sure hope you have — that nobody in these companies is actually suggesting that AI development stop and the machines be turned off. Quite the opposite: trillions of dollars are being invested in new data centers to enable the rapid growth of AI, and a good chunk of the valuation in the stock market is driven by investments in the “hyperscalers” that will sell the computer power that makes AI run.

And China is going full speed ahead, meaning that AI development will continue, and if it is going to kill us all, it would just be a Chinese AI that did it. And probably quicker, too.

So what do AI companies gain from the doom talk, aside from inflating the sense that AI will be more revolutionary than the internet?

We will answer that question today at 1 with David. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says all the doomerism around AI is just a Chinese Psyop. I don’t think he’s wrong.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.