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Safety Wars Live 9-24-2024 Hurricane Preparedness, AM Radio, EPA News
[BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] [BLANK_AUDIO] >> Hi, this is Jim from Safety Wars. Before we set the program, I want to make sure everyone understands that we often talk about OSHA and EPA citations, along with some other regulatory actions from other agencies. Legal cases and criminal activity. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Proposed fines are exactly that, and they are often litigated, reduced, or vacant. We use available public records and music and some press releases. We cannot warranty or guarantee the details of any of the stories we share, since we are not directly involved with these stories, at least not most of the time. Enjoy the show. [BLANK_AUDIO] >> This, this, this, this show is brought to you by Safety FM. [APPLAUSE] >> And from the border of Liberty and Prosperity in the High Link to North, this is Safety Wars 4, Tuesday, September 24, 2024. [MUSIC] You are getting me four, two days in a row. It's not interesting. So, just to reiterate, now this is a show that we talk about safety. And we talk about things, press releases, news, a new event to the news, whatever pretty much interests me that we're taking today. That we try to stick to safety in our mental issues. And everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Any types of fines or anything, often they are litigated. They are negotiated all, whatever key, whatever key word what it is, right? [MUSIC] Litigated. Vacated, not the other, anyway. [MUSIC] What a, lighten up, lighten up, almost lighten up. Very serious, everyone's so serious nowadays. Now, and one of the reasons why I've laid off the whole politics thing. Is that people, and my damn, my best is not working. Uh, no, everyone's so serious. Why are they so serious? I know it's hard sometimes, like this hard. We're getting a lot of stuff out there with a lot of issues. It's out there with people having, they're all anxious over the election. They're anxious over the top. And as I always remind people, you are being rude, you are being marketed. So, uh, no, you go on the news site, guess what? They have you tagged. And let's say you look up gardening news, right, and you're interested in gardening. What do you see? You see all these ads about gardening for the next two weeks. They're monitoring your phone conversations, and this is not a conspiracy theory. Now, so I have a Samsung monitor here. When you get a, no, and it's basically a TV, well, smart TV. And when you're, and Samsung specifically had a warning, hey, we're listening to you. We're doing this. We're doing that a couple of years ago on that. I haven't heard too much about it recently. And it's along the lines of, right, we're, no, uh, it's along the lines of, uh, they're, uh, for some reason, my wireless mouse went dead. Uh, and so along the lines of, they want to market to you. They want to manipulate you in some way. And you're thinking, well, it's free, the ads are free. If the ads are free, you're the one that is the product. You are the product. So what Samsung was doing allegedly was selling, uh, advertising, selling your information for advertising dollars, right? So now a company in China that, uh, knows that you like silverware, and they sell silverware. They're going to be marketing that to you. The news is the same thing. This is called, uh, what we used to call it was self radicalization. Back in the, uh, early 2000s, I don't think they, they still use it, but in a little bit different context where you go onto a site and it could be a political site and you get confirmation bias for all that you hear is people advocating for your point of view, backing up your point of view. And this has gone on for time and memorial. I had a dear friend when I lived in Hoboken, all that she heard was news from the left. All that she hung out with was people on the left. She was an activist, uh, in a we hawking, uh, New Jersey and any more, uh, friend, my friends when we hawking and Hoboken know who I'm talking about. And that's all that she heard. It never occurred to her that there was a different point of view out there, a different way of looking at things. One of the signs of intelligence is, and you're listening to Jessica, my daughter's right there, one of the signs of intelligence is if you could explain your opponents or the other person's point of view better than that person. And if you could do that, you could do that. So she, uh, my friend worked for a very well-known social club in New York City. I'm not going to mention the name. And who worked there, who along there, captains of industry, uh, Getty was one of them, uh, was a free one there. You know, yes, Getty, the oil people, all right. Energy executives, very high-level politicians, and everything else, all that they ever heard was, uh, saw was these people coming in there, they're so decadent on a Saturday night. They have these big decadent parties, who is an event and meaning planner like my wife. Uh, they're doing this, they're doing that, and it's ridiculous, and all those decadence, uh, well, they're on the other side of the aisle, from her, from politically. So now all of a sudden, that's all that she's seeing, now all of a sudden, guess what? That's all that she knows. Same thing with, uh, if you're, surround yourself with, and this is what got MAGA into trouble in 2020, and it may get them into trouble now, all that we know, or anybody who I talked to, no one's going to vote for this candidate. And this candidate, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then, uh, what, it turns out, you'll lose the election. Why? Because you didn't go out there and see objective data and everything else that was going on, and believe me, there were shenanigans there. All you have to do is be involved in Jersey politics and know all the shenanigans. When I happened to president Trump, when they searched candidates, that was like New Jersey politics 101 there. So you spend all your time, uh, going after the other candidate, and the other candidate drops out. Now what are you going to talk about? After the election, we're going to have, we're going to go into this a little bit more, uh, regardless of how this turns out, because regardless of where you are, politically, 2024 election, basically is over at this point. I'm not saying don't vote. I'm not saying don't campaign. I'm not saying anything like that, but we need to be focused, both parties, what's going on in 2028 here, uh, Kamala Harris wins and obviously she's going to be 2028. Now you've got to start thinking about 2032 and the midterms and 2026, and we get that, but Republican party, you don't have a clear leader here as far as I'm concerned, unless it's someone in the background and someone that they're going to promote is the other thing, uh, promote and build up. But I'm not really seeing that, but what's going on is, well, I, I've seen this all over social media. Oh, well, this is what this is. This is what this is and this candidate sucks and this candidate is wonderful and this candidate blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you go down one side, oh, this candidate is great. You go down the other and it's nuts. And this is why people are stressed out 20, the race for 2028 should is going to be, they're going to start running it regardless of who's wins on January 1st, 2025, even before the inauguration. If we get lucky, it's going to happen, uh, after the inauguration, but that's what's going to happen. Who should be the ones worrying about 2028 here? It should be the people in the leadership positions, jockeying for building things up. Now, this is what you need to do. You need to educate your own voter in these situations, which neither political party wants to do. You hear on one end and it's like puppets. I should have at the puppets today. Oh, this person is wonderful. Oh, this person's horrible, this person's wonderful, that person's horrible, going back and forth. And we get involved with this within the safety field. One of the comments that I was getting this past weekend when, uh, no, I did a presentation for you folks yesterday was, uh, no, I got a comment today was we did not, we never heard of that there was a different definition of safety. Well, when you immerse yourself and your employer is invested in this safety is zero accents, zero, zero incident, zero illnesses, and it's drive to zero and then all of someone there is an accident, your management isn't mature enough. Yeah, they're not mature enough to see, hey, uh, well, why was that accident there? And what do they do? Shame on you, shame on you, shame on you, you're, you can see where people have, and that's for the incentive is on their end, uh, for a whole host of reasons, liability as well as HR reasons and, uh, safety incentives and safety bonus reasons. You could see that where it, why not, that's push versus the other end, the hop where safety is controls, safeguards, uh, resiliency, right? All of that goes into that resiliency, uh, your ability to react, your ability to do stuff, and in the disaster, uh, preparation field, the ability to learn new skills. I'll throw that in there. That's it, you know, that's all, uh, goes in there, you know, there's some, no, and you get, and they've never heard of that, so this is one of the reasons why safety has a bad name, uh, with everything is basically it's very antagonistic, the, uh, old traditional way. We're trying to get away from that. So big story in the Southeastern United States today is Hurricane Helene, uh, let's do a share screen here, uh, I have ready.gov up for everybody here, here we go. And you know what, before we do that, let's go into, uh, I'm getting prompted here. Let us go into a commercial break and here, hold on. In the professional safety community, communication and planning are just a few keys to your program's success. The question many practitioners have is where do I start? Dr. J. Allen, the creator of the safety FM platform and host of the rated R safety show, has built a global foundation to help you along the way. Go to safetyfm.com and listen to some of the industry's best and most involved professionals, including Blaine Hoffman with the safety pro, Sam Goodman with the hop nerd, Sheldon Primus with the safety consultant Jim Pozell with safety wars, Emily Elrod with unapologetically bold and many others. 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So I've got some new music here, hold on. New music meaning about 250 years old. Yes, we're going to be talking about Hurricane preparedness here, because we're going to have Hurricane Helene coming in here in touching rounders, tropical storm now. Anyway, what you're listening to is royalty free, and it's Antonin de Vorac Symphony number 9, royalty free, a satellite draws. I know, a satellite draws, maybe it was inspired by a draws, or draws was inspired by it, but anyway. What they're talking about is within the next 48 hours, it's going to make landfall even in the last tropical storm, and now you're at your critical point, 48 hours. You have to have decisions to make. Are you, one of them is, is your have your preparedness things been, are they complete? Do I have to go running around at the last minute for our ubiquitous red eggs, you know, vanilla extract, and syrup, right, to make your French toast out there, and all your toilet paper and everything sort of thing. Now I imagine that most people will not be evacuating with this one, especially if it's a tropical storm, but you got to be aware of what's going on here. And if you're going to be evac, I tell you what, if, and for me, I'd be evacuating and getting the hell out, making sure everything's all secured and as much as it could be, because after what happened recently, it really sucks what goes on out there. Now, yeah, I mean, it really sucks, I mean, we remember Captiva Island last year, where there and outside of Fort Myers, Florida, on the west coast of Florida, which we're familiar with here on the program, because we went on vacation there one year. My wife was doing an event, and I decided to meet her down there with my son, who was 18 months old, and I said never again, will I go on playing with an 18 month old, he screamed the entire time, but anyway, I digress. So what people are talking about here is, with this, no, yeah, we know the stuff to have, what to be ready for, right, what to be ready for, right, not a coastal problem, it goes in, you have rain, wind, tornadoes, you got to have an emergency plan, and for everywhere you're going, keep your cell phone charged, this is all from ready.gov, check with neighbors and senior adults, right, and everything else, and here it says, stay informed, this is where that AM radio, and that's, there's been developments with AM radio, Bill, and Congress, this week, with that, that's where that comes into, right, where it becomes important with that, dealing with what, determine how to best protect yourself from high winds and flooding, and it might be evacuating, going through a storm shelter or something like that, go to the highest level of the building, I know in during Katrina, in 2005, I think it was, people got trapped in their house, they couldn't get out, and they did not have good results, do not walk swim or drive through flood waters, how many cars got destroyed, especially up here, we have a huge issue, every time that there's a storm, we have people driving through puddles of water that I don't know how deep are, and even if it's not that deep, you can still do damage, even to electric cars, right, it shorts them out, protective clothing, I mean if you got to walk through, this might be a good time where you have latex boots to keep your feet dry, or polypropylene boots, neoprene boots, something like that, do not touch electrical equipment if it is wet or you're standing in water, right, do not wait in flood water, which can contain dangerous pathogens that cause illness, especially if you have a chronic illness like diabetes, not such a good idea to be wading through water, you know, know is clean or dirty, and the big thing is document any property they have with photographs, back in 2012 when we were dealing with superstorm Sandy, we had, and that's basically go to radio.gov hurricanes, we had a neighbor, Lenny, very, very prominent person in the Orthodox Jewish community in Rockland County here, a really great guy, I mean really nice guy, his wife was named Helene, I believe, right, same as the storm, but anyway, they are very nice people, if you wanted a neighbor, you wanted a neighbor like Lenny, I tell you, I get a knock on the door, right, so Katrina comes in around 8 o'clock, 8 p.m., in Rockland County, I was living on the border of New Jersey, thus the moniker, the border of Liberty and Prosperity, right, we were living there and that's, it came in about 8 o'clock and we lost power almost immediately after 8 o'clock, so we're in there and, you know, I got the radio going and it got my son, he was a toddler, I outfitted him, somewhere I got the video of him with a headlamp on, crawling around the floor and everything else, it was pretty cute and I can knock on the door, hey, Jimmy, it's Lenny, I said, oh, hey, Lenny, what's going on? A tree fell on my house, I got my wife out, she had to crawl through all of this debris and everything in the dark, to get out, we're going to be taking her, we're going to be going on over to a hotel before they all load up, can you please handle the, we call the fire department, they're going to be here, can you just handle everything for me? I know, Lenny, for you, no problem, so I went over with my wife and my wife's standing home, I went over there, I had the police scanner going on and knew when the fire department were going to be there, those are the days where you didn't have trunk systems back in 2012, here and we go over and we handle things and it took him about a year and a half to recover from that because they had to rebuild this house and he sold the house, got a great offer, but anyway, that's how that worked out, he went and he stayed in a hotel and then once everything cleared out, he came back a couple of days later and I had already had photographed the house, I got his permission to go in the house, you photographed things, photographed damage, I rode down a list of everything that was there, what went on and over the course of the year and a half we developed a pretty nice friendship on top of what we already had because while he had the means to stay at, he was a snowbird, what they call him was down in Florida and while his house is being rebuilt and he'd come up periodically to check on progress and I would send him photographs every week of the house and things of that nature, and no, great guy, we had a great relationship there, but what were the photographs for, the photographs were for the insurance company, so one of the things is if you have an insurance loss, you want to file a claim, you have to have proof of what it was, so this is where it comes into receipts, photographs, writing down serial numbers, things of that nature, so you are able to document what was going on. The other thing is this, here we have this issue with flooding in the basements, your sump pumps run on electric, so in the event of that you might get flooding, you got to make sure that those sump pumps are hooked into a generator or something else, another important thing, so all of this gets done ahead of time, you have to go out and that's for the whole thing, it's a disaster for fairness, it's planning, you have to plan things out, have written instructions on things, because guess what, people are freaking out, they're not going to be thinking clearly all the time, so just like in the workplace at home, you have written instructions, that's all I have today on hurricanes and our disaster for fairness stuff, as far as that's concerned, now they've already started evacuating parts of Florida and they don't know whether it's going to go northwest or southeast, northwest or New Orleans or New Orleans, if you're from down there, or southeast to Miami, that area, southern Florida, oh we'll see what happens here and you know with that and let's not forget about creature comforts, that was one of the questions here, creature comforts, I said if I was going to the same place, the first thing I would do is make sure all the dishes are clean, make sure that all the clothes are washed and make sure that everyone takes a shower, because you may not have water for me for a couple of days, I got the hiccups now, and let's go right to a commercial break and we will, okay, we want something fun, right, okay. 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From the front lines of the Safety Wars, it's Safety Wars with your host, Jim Possel on Safety FM, get ready to face the harsh reality. Okay, you know, we're going to go into this, I know a little bit off topic, but we're going to still talk about it, it's still about an emergency response, so here we have all new cars should be required to have an AM radio says the US House, this is from the article for off a tech spot. Congress is deliberating whether to require new vehicles to include AM radio, so I wrote and I encourage everybody at the time to write their Congress person on this or Senator. Technology in that many auto manufacturers consider outdated and that consumers are increasingly abandoning in favor of digital streaming, however, there are arguments for its inclusion such as its role as a communication tool during emergencies. If this bill passes will represent a significant shift to both auto regulation and radio broadcasting, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has a free of the bill requiring all new vehicles to include AM radio, now all known as the AM for every vehicle act, the legislation passed for the 45 to two vote in committee is now moving on to the full House. Again, one of the reasons why this was actually occurred in my 1994 Chevy pickup back in the day where there was something wrong with the radio and the entire car would pick up electronic buzzes from the engine, actually had to get a new radio for that, but what's happening is if you let's say I'm an electric car and you get computerized with all the computers and everything else and the smart cars and everything, what happens is the radios can't get reception, so some of the cars are saying rather than dealing with unending problems for AM radio issues and everything else, we're just going to abandon AM radio rather than putting shielding and filters and everything else that goes on that, now some countries, I believe up in Sweden was one of them, one of those countries up there, they got rid of radios, they're just going to streaming network, again, AM radio is critical for everything, now, so as far as the emergency alert system here goes, that's one where we had a public test a couple of years ago, last year, and then in 2021 and every three years by law, they had to do a test, checking everything out on that, that includes the AM radio and everything else, now I'm going to go, I forget how many, so if you look into this, I'm looking on the FEMA.gov website, I just had this up here and I closed it out, shame on me, the, here we go, local radio and TV stations along with cable, direct broadcast satellite and wireless service providers to 70 public safety messages they received from iPause, and iPause is the integrated public alert and warning system, anyway, in many cases radio and TV stations continue to operate, one other means of alerting the public are unavailable, providing a layer of resilience to the suite of available emergency communication tools, and says here click emergency alert participants, alright, so, emergency alert system, let me do a share screen on this for the people watching on video, I know you like looking at me but, you know, I'm sorry we had a, alright, so, emergency AS persons or our nation's radio and TV broadcasters we already said that, in January, right, in the common, in January 2012, the FCC announced its fifth report in order to clarify FCC rules, and let's see, and this just goes on with stuff conformity, some stuff that we don't ever need to know about, and participants, ok, so this is, and let me share this, hold on, so here we have state tutorial, tribal local level, so you have the learning authorities, alright, federal authorities, state agencies, territorial agencies, tribal governments, if you're looking at this on video or listening in on this, you have a whole thing here, diagram of flowchart on how this is open, so authorities originate a message, very, very, internally, right, and then it's posted to an iPause, right, iPause open aggregator, and it verifies everything, and then it goes into the emergency alert system, EAS, which is the computer, so wireless emergency alerts, which is the cell phones, NOAA weather radio on the radio internet, net-based services, and unique future technologies, this is how they're planning this out, so it's pretty important here because there's something like 100 different radio stations that are participating in the emergency alert system, and here, hold on, here, they had a list of here before I got on the show, I canceled that, let's go, I'm going to, hold on, sorry about this, hold on, in a world where danger lurks in every corner, one man stands as a beacon of hope, and the end of the video, I'm sure you've heard the news. 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Alright, and I'm going to do a share screen here, I had this, believe me, I had this, and I closed it out by accident here, very frustrating, more frustrating for you because you're watching this, oovno show here. So, here we have, and this is from FEMA.gov, and this is from the Integrated Public Alert Warning System. This is the list of radio stations here that are in the primary entry points. So, often, this gets re-broadcast on what are called translators or repeaters, there's a difference, I'm not going to get into that, and gets transported out, right, gets broadcast. So, here, let's look up the area, let's say, New York. So, we have Call All Sign, WABC, New York State, New York and New Jersey, right, City, New York, New Jersey, it's this whole area, it actually goes, I've gotten it as far west as Lexington, Kentucky, WABC, when the atmospheric conditions are right, and I've also gotten, as a 50,000-watt station, I've also gotten 50,000-watt stations in northern New Jersey, Sussex County, that is far west as Washington State, so AM does carry, again, the right weather conditions and everything. Let's say Florida, so here we have Florida, we have, out of Miami, Maitland, and Jacksonville, all on the AM band. Are there any FM bands here? Yeah, here we have one, out of the 77 stations, we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten stations on the FM band around the country, again, doesn't go that far. Now, can the other stations go in there and broadcast? Yes, my understanding is yes, but the primary entry point is through the AM radio stations right now. Well, Jim, they can change it, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. AM, much longer range than FM has a tendency, so you can reach potentially more people. Now, during our emergencies here, everything comes over, the AM radio, everyone's glued to it, or what if the TV stations are knocked out? Most people do not have the old-fashioned antennas for the televisions. They have direct TV, they have cable, they have a Starlink in some locations, I know people who in the middle of nowhere, they have Starlink, they have any, and I'm not endorsing anything, they have no, that's what they have, so guess what? Internet goes down, one of the first things to go, no radio, no TV. I have a VHF antenna, portable one that I use, and can I get some stations? Yeah, it works okay, but you talk to people, portable antenna, you mean like rabbit ears? Yeah, well, they're a little bit more advanced now, but essentially it works on the same principle. Again, it's VHF radio, VHF on the TV, it's line of sight, VHF, VHF, what the hell is VHF? I say that to my kid, VHF, what is that dad? Or is that UHF, ultra high frequency, which is above their channel 13 on the TV, and I think they knocked out 13 to 20 now, it's only 20 or above UHF, but whatever. What my point is this is that people don't even have that capacity, and what's safety, adding capacity, and resiliency, right? So TV goes out, we go to the VHF antenna, we go to the radios with that, and again, people go stir crazy, we had that out here recently with an internet outage here, where we were able to get wireless, but not in my neighborhood, forget about it, no cell phones work in my neighborhood. Again, how are you going to plan for this? Let's go on over to our regular news with OSHA.gov. And again, I'm just going to show you a navigation we go over the news. And I'm like the only guy that actually reads these things I feel like, 2024, September, and we have 923-2024, OSHA trade release. U.S. Department of Labor seeks nominations for membership on Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health. What's that about? U.S. Environmental Labor seeks nominations, right? On this. The U.S. Department label is seeking nominations for one agency manner for labor representatives of federal employees on the Federal Advisory Council. The nominations are there. Now, beginning January 1st, 2025 to December 31st, 2027 is the term. Look on the webpage for information on how to submit nominations here. And let's head on over to the EPA, right? And we have EPA announced its 2024 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award winners. Today is September 24th. The U.S. EPA announced a 43 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award winners across 20 states and the District of Columbia, recognizing their achievements in the design, manufacturer, promotion, selection, and use of cleaners, surgeons, and other products. The Safer Choice program and label help, consumers, and purchasers at facilities find cleaning and other products with chemical ingredients that are safer. So this is the old substitution thing on the hierarchy of controls, where you have a dangerous thing and you're substituting it for a less dangerous thing. No, with that. So we have Innovations Safer Chemistry, Safer Ingredients, Products Improving Access, and who is an extensive list of winners. Let's see if we have this American Cleaning Institute, Apple. I imagine that's the computers. Luland, New York, Bona, U.S., Inglewood, Calo, Rado. And I'm seeing anything else that I see here that I recognize. OK. Sozio, a little local company here in Piscataway. That's in New Jersey. So you can always tell how good the economy is doing based on the amount of traffic that goes through Piscataway on Route 287. That's what I've always used. It's a good physical barometer. How the economy is doing. A lot of traffic, good economy, no traffic, bad economy. And you can measure it in miles at that point. EVA issues a national requirement to protect U.S. waterways from pollutants discharged by vessels. Today, September 24th, the EUS EPA announced a finalization of national discharge standards to control the release of pollutants and invasive species from approximately 85,000 vessels operating in the U.S. waters. These standards issued through EPA's vessel Incidental Discharge National Standards of Performance's final rule address dish charges that occur with a normal operation of large vessels. EPA's final rule will help address harmful pollutants including bacteria, pathogens, oil, grease, and metals while reducing the spread of invasive species that can damage ecosystems and infrastructures. I tell you what we have in a community I'm a member of. We're having a huge issue with the invasive species. Specifically, milfoil. I remember in the 80s growing up on that lake in northern New Jersey. The water was unswimmable because we had milfoil in there. They finally got it under control, but it's been a nightmare to contend with. In areas like Lake George, they couldn't contend with it. So what they did was they put a liner like an oil tank or like in a pool or right at the bottom of some little bays there to control the milfoil. Basically, the suffocated and it's like when you jump in the water and you go down and you touch the bottom, it's like a liner. There's like a pool. That was their way of handling it. Unfortunately, knock out in the milfoil but everything else along with it goes, right? Plants and animals and fishies. Clean water and healthy aquatic ecosystems provide multiple benefits to nearby communities. They support commerce and commercial fishing. They serve as sources of drinking water and they connect people to nature going on and on. On that, the Congress passed the incidental discharge act to harmonize the patchwork of U.S. Coast Guard EVA and SAVES lins and the discharge permits and regulations. So this was like a stopgap here. EVA proposed the settlements with paramount builders and continental transport over illegal discharges on the Tula and New Lee Coast. This is in Pego, Pego, American Samoa, right? That's in the Pacific. U.S. EPA has announced proposed settlement agreements with paramount builders incorporated and continental transport corporation, the routine water act violations onto Tula Island, Tula Island, American Samoa. Under proposed agreements, the companies would pay a combined $76,000 for illegal discharges into New Lee and Tula coastal waters and a male stream. Construction companies must comply with environmental laws to protect their streams and coastlines from unwalfled dumping. And it goes on and on and on. Under proposed settlement paramount builders would pay $50,000 fine for these violations going on and on and on. And what's the big thing in these tropical environments? It's coral here. Do we have coral up here in the Northeast? The answer is yes, but it's not these big coral reefs. They're a smaller coral. Here is my understanding. I'm digging way back into college. Okay, hold on. I have another meeting after this. Yes, on the air. All the air till nine. I hate it. All right, EPA announced this partnership with City of Three Rivers, Michigan to accelerate their place from the lead water pipes. I find and there's other things like Muskegon Heights, Michigan. And they're also doing this in several northern New Jersey communities here. Kind of hard to believe they're still dealing with lead pipes. I mean, on my parents' house that we just sold earlier this year, that was sold. I had nothing to do with it. But anyway, lead pipes were all the drainage pipes or lead pipes into the sewer system. And I believe that those were one of our listeners here. Those were all likely replaced when they remodeled the house just now. That was what was in there. But to get lead servicing in here, and in Michigan, this has been a big problem over the last couple of years, because again, they elect people who don't know about the environment, and they put them in charge of regulating the environment and making decisions. And this is where the problem is. I mean, when I was running one of the things, why people voted for me, and was me and Chris Daggett were on the same line, and they didn't know where else to put me. Chris Daggett was running for governor, I was running for assembly, was the reason why we were on that was we were like the environmental candidates. We cross promoted and everything else. With his Chris Daggett was the former head, one of the former heads of the state of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and at that time, his environmental protection and energy. No, we were all with that. And we have huge environmental issues here with this. And I'll say this again, going back. The Republicans could go and co-opt all these issues if they choose to, but they don't. Now, you're consuming lead in drinking water can cause serious health impacts, including a reversal harm to brain development in children, to protect children and families, to buy inherits, administrations, bipartisan infrastructure law, invest a historic 15 billion dollars to play as lead pipes and deliver clean and safe drinking water, filling in nearly 62 million dollars in Michigan alone. I believe the former governor got criminally convicted for not managing this correctly. Going on, where is this? This is a legitimate concern for environmental for environmental dresses, because usually underserved, lesser, historically, lesser privileged communities are the ones where they never replace the lead pipes. Just the way it is, folks, you know, with this. But again, this is one of the good things that the government is doing is replacing these lead pipes. All different announcements here on different cleanups, different cleanups here and everything else throughout the nation. So that's what we have going on here. Let's head on over to us department of labor press releases. Yeah, this is how we do it. It's all here. News release department of labor. All right. Now, this is the whole thing now if you are a consultant and you're getting new and you get pulled in, especially with a situation with, you know, there's a government investigation or anything. My first question is, how are you paying your employees? Are you paying employees, are you paying employees as independent contractors, or are you paying them as salaried employees, because they changed the salaried employees laws recently, or if you're making, not making over a certain amount of money, you're having to be paid hourly. And no, how are they, or are they regular employees? How are you playing them? Because I guess what? OSHA does go and they often investigate this and they suspect that you're not paying your employees properly and they could get wrapped into one of these many press releases we get where they are going through and, you know, catching them, not paying their employees properly, then end up getting, having to pay them the money that they're owed, plus fines, plus double the damages. So you, short your employee by 30 grand, you're paying 60 grand, and probably another 10 on top of that with that for 70 grand. The other widely companies do this to get around OSHA regulations. They're trying to be cute as the same goes. The U.S. Department of Labor today announced publication of AI and inclusive hiring framework. A neutral design is for the inclusive use of artificial intelligence and employers hiring technology, and the increased benefits is able job seekers. Published by the partnership on employment and accessible technology, the framework will help employers reduce the risk of creating unintentional forms of communication -- forms of discrimination, barriers to accessibility as they implement this stuff. Again, hiring. I know with AI, I do use a lot of AI for certain things here, but what happened is this. AI is being used by some companies or some software to find out if they are being discriminatory in their hiring practices with this. So again, that often happens, and it's only going to expand. I see people put -- they receive a letter, they take it, they scan it, they put it into text, they put it into AI, or they write a letter, and they put it into AI. How does this sound? Well, it sounds like you're not nice. It sounds like this. It sounds discriminatory in what you're writing. This is from the White House.gov, the roof room for an AI bill of rights, and it gives you a blueprint here. You should be protected from unsafe and ineffective systems. When you should not face discrimination, my algorithms and systems should be used and designed in an equitable way. You should be protected from abusive data practices via built-in protections, and you should have an agency, meaning control over how data is about you as being used, and you should know that an automated system is being used and understand how and why it contributes to impacts that impact you, and human-old terminus. You should be able to opt out where appropriate and have access to a person who can quickly consider the revenue problems, and applying the blueprint for an AI bill of rights. While many of the concerns addressed in this framework derived from the use of AI, the technical capabilities and specific definitions of systems change with its speed of innovation, and their potential harm. Thus, the framework uses a two-part test to determine what systems are in the scope. This framework applies to automated systems that have the potential to, that have the potential to meaningfully impact the American public's rights and opportunities. So, check it out. I mean, what was this? This was a non-executive order. This is like, you know, starting the conversation kind of this sort of thing, for Congress or for whoever to courts or whoever else to pick up on it, it's a good thing. I mean, in Europe, some of the countries have a right to be forgotten sort of thing, where you say, in other words, you say something stupid on social media, why are you bringing this up 30 years later? I think some of the candidates are a little bit embarrassed with some of the things that they've been doing, shame on them, and look at the candidates that are running today that were involved, that we haven't spoken about, with the Sean Diddy Coans, right, who's in prison there, right, for doing very shameful things with a lot of people, A-lessers. He's like another epsign thing. I'm waiting for him, right, I'm waiting for the new meme, and I hope he lives it out. I'm waiting for a new meme to be about him with this joking around about this, and it's not a no-joking matter here with what he did, allegedly. So that's all I got for tonight. I'm going to kick it on over for our outro and the listener who texted me, "I will be coming on to your dealing with you in a minute." 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