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A quiet schedule change says a lot: one of us left weekend hospital shifts for a school‑day job with four‑day summers and a stack of holidays. That calm rhythm runs against a louder story—data centers going up in small towns, AI threading through classrooms and clinics, robots learning as a fleet, and convenience systems that start helpful and end deciding for you.

We map the past year and set a plan for 26. In the classroom, touch screens and Chromebooks replace chalkboards while the debate shifts from memory to real‑world problem‑solving. In healthcare, tele‑rounds bring specialists to the bedside by screen, saving time and exposing a new trust gap. On the ground, rumors of 300‑acre data centers, worker camps, and massive power and water draws turn local maps into infrastructure plays. We talk numbers, tradeoffs, and the physical cost of the cloud.

Then we stress‑test “Nova,” a voice AI that answers in real time. It’s fun until it isn’t: ad‑supported assistants, shifting guidelines, and guardrails that change mid‑conversation. We look at Walmart’s AI‑tightened self‑checkout and ask whether shrink savings simply replace the lost margin of impulse buys. We also wade into the spiritual side—mega churches beaming sermons across campuses—and the risk of deepfakes steering thousands from a single compromised feed. The theme keeps returning to the same hinge: when does helpful cross into controlling, and how do we keep agency?

Our 26 roadmap is simple and stubbornly human: more interviews, local reporting on data center build‑outs, and a yearlong ledger tracking land use, electricity, and water impact. We’ll test the claims, document the creep, and keep a clear eye on what automation gives and what it quietly takes. Hit play if you want a grounded take on AI, data centers, education tech, remote care, and everyday choices that still belong to you. Subscribe, share with a friend who’s feeling the drift, and tell us: what would you unplug first?

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Press play on a living time capsule: we set out to record our parents before the details slip away, and Jerry shows why it matters. From a slick-tired Plymouth that fishtailed into a power pole and blacked out half a town to a Navy career that made Japan home port as Vietnam heated up, this conversation swings between laugh-out-loud mischief and moments that make the room go still. Jerry’s fear of needles meets the blunt efficiency of shot lines, and his sea stories carry the hum of engines, the order of decks, and the snap of new orders after Kennedy’s assassination.

Then comes the memory that lingers: responding to a jet crash off Hong Kong, laying an American flag on a small boat so a burned, drowned body wouldn’t stick to the deck, circling the seawall while fuel floats on the water and bureaucracy waits on a coroner. It’s raw, unvarnished, and deeply human. The shoreline isn’t softer. We tumble through harvests and flipped combines on a ballfield, a Mercury flying dark between two parked cars at 2 a.m., a shop fire that races down an intake, and a prankster launching a PVC “missile.” Jerry maps the people and places that defined a small Texas town: segregation across the tracks, a water man who knew every hidden valve, and a hospital stitched together from old Air Force barracks.

By the end, the stories stack into a portrait: a .22 Magnum “quick draw” that leaves a scar and 21 days in a hospital bed, beer money made by selling the gun, and a family line that stretches from sons to great-grandkids. It’s memory saved in full color—Navy veteran stories, small-town Texas legends, farm accidents, Hong Kong crash recovery, and the humor that keeps you going. If you’ve ever wished you hit record on your elders, this is your nudge. Listen, share with someone who needs a reason to ask better questions, and leave a review to help more families capture their own stories.

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A wall of water doesn’t just drown a town; it floods your sense of what’s true. We start with the kind of storm that makes familiar roads vanish, cabins blow open, and counselors write kids’ names on their arms in the dark. From there, we widen the lens: cloud seeding claims, emergency warnings that never arrived, and the uncomfortable space where “coincidence” meets “we should’ve known.” Along the way, we share the clips you can’t shake—bridges roaring, strangers pulling off impossible rescues, homes shoved off concrete like they were never anchored at all.

That urgency collides with deeper questions. How many times can institutions say “act of nature” while avoiding the paperwork that might save lives? Who gets dry lakes refilled and who gets told to wait? And when doubt creeps in, what holds—policy, prayer, or people who still show up? We move through grief and faith with no easy answers: stories of prayer that eased pain in minutes, and a mother’s heartbreaking “why” when the water took her girls. This isn’t neat. It’s the human tangle of tragedy, meaning, and the stubborn hope that refuses to die.

Then we confront the modern flood: AI. Not as a gadget, but as a force that centralizes memory, blurs truth, and threatens to erase the things that make us human—original thought, local wisdom, and the sacred. If a model answers everything, it can also deny everything. So we talk about keeping real books, touching real work, and refusing to outsource conscience to a black box. We close with what grounds us: early alarms, simple routines, neighbors who still knock, and faith practiced in the open. Hit play if you’re ready for a gritty, honest ride through storms, suspicion, and the choices that define us—and then share your line between skepticism and hope. Subscribe, rate, and tell a friend what stayed with you.