hello from rhode island where i live as we await the all clear to get back to the r. t. america broadcast center in washington and so many of us are working remotely these days that telecommuting and video conferencing have become 2nd nature how will technology reshape the new normal dave grave line joins us in just a few minutes but 1st we're hearing so much about supply chain disruption lately and this is not just a pickle for manufacturers it's hitting home at the kitchen table in

a recent virtual senate committee meeting kansas republican pat roberts said people are finally realizing that food doesn't come from a store and if you have masked up and browse the one way street aisles at the supermarket lately it is a creepy experience and you have seen some bare shelves is this the new normal let's ask the host of the american family farmer radio show himself a working farmer doug stephan welcome back. and prevent a mass crime just for you and i took it off. whatever you know thank you it was nearly 3 years ago one of the very 1st shows i did when i came to r.t. america you said something that was a mouthful you said in 50 years we will not be able to feed ourselves and lately i'm thinking about that mythical doomsday clock that shows us

how many minutes and seconds we are away from nuclear annihilation has the countdown clock to starvation ad fantz even during this pandemic. well you make it dramatic because you're so good at that but you have also a great memory as needed to you know and i've been saying that to my radio audience and both on the american family farmer and the j.v. program for a long time my background having grown up around town has been on the farm all my life i've seen things that all of us have sort of taken for granted whether we live on the farm oh ever we were benefiting from the products that came from the farm we knew the farm we knew the farmer we knew what we wanted to go by we could watch it grow as we drove by that stuff it's all been doing doing the ability to see the farmer and to get on the farm that experience has been going away what's happened i did say in the next 50 years we were going to have

a problem but you're right it has this whole pandemic if you want to call it that the virus has short circuited the time clock so we are now living in when i futuristically said it was going to happen around the year 20 its number there was some from xavier nevins in the year 24 top. ever tell me i got it right 25 to 25 yet so right now we see going to the supermarket that there isn't beef there isn't pork there isn't chicken there on vegetables it is you go into any even the upscale supermarkets and the islands are empty the shelves are bare and so he was a way to measure what's going on and what is good about this holland is that many people have now started to realize that they need to go to the source so where i was pessimistic about what we knew or didn't know what we could or couldn't do in

a few years when's happening in some regions the country anyways the people who are going direct they're going back to the future if you will they are going to the farm they're joining. c.s. ace the dairy farmers who have had a horrible time the last 3 or 4 years the good the smart ones are brought their buying little processing units and there because the milk you've seen pictures of the milk the video of the milk being poured out down the drain because the government and the dean foods and dairy farmers america all a big. big agents of destruction in the dairy business have had their wish come true they buy lots of cheap milk produced by town isn't 510000. fire a cow farms but now that production has spoiled the ability of the small family farmer to add to what they call a pool so anyway to make

a long story short the smart guys are creating ways in which they can sell direct to the consumer the consumer is finding those farms and you can see pictures upstate new york for example 3 or 4 farms and these little processing unit people are are lining up down up to driving down the street to get the product and in this is so is a whole new appreciation and understanding of where the food comes from and how we can procure it for ourselves we figured out a way at least partially we're not there yet because the government still is in the way with stupid rules and regulations in terms of how we get food how it's distributed so that has to be worked on. yeah i'm glad we're thinking about this more and you hit a nerve a minute ago because 2 of the saddest things i have seen lately are that video of the milk being dumped which has to hit a nerve since you're a dairy farmer and what about these pigs being euthanized rather than brought to

market how in a country that worries about food insecurity can we be throwing away food before it gets to the consumer why does this happen well there are 2 or 3 different answers one of them is that the chinese are the government of the not the people but the chinese government is the culprit all the way all across the board the problem with a virus created in a laboratory spreading around the world but you don't remember i think in my last visit here to you i was talking about the chinese buying up smithfield who are producers the largest poor producing company in the world it's an american company the chinese now own it and they have had nothing but trouble not only with keeping the plants going here in part because of the virus but there are other problems the running the way the chinese run things vs the way americans want to work at their

there or whatever their job is but then there is the fact that they have had so much problem raising pork over there they have swine flu that they've had to deal with they've had to get rid of a lot of pork so they're over here buying out our processes and then they take the port back to china in the plants in iowa and i think 2 or 3 other states that are smith your plans have been shut down because the workers are loaded with coronavirus they can't work god planned i think down under people have the virus so they've shut it down so they can't get the poor through the processing plants is the same with chicken tyson people they can't get the chicken process. just because a there are so few places or process now and b because they're in the not slaughterhouses the government's closed them all down and they've got this this perfect storm of characters and governments and businesses that have colluded because they're greedy and because the chinese want

to control the world this it's all coming together at the same time and it isn't a hit it's a bird. yeah big corporate add here and there you mentioned washington's cluelessness about farming we're speaking with doug stephan host of the american family farm a radio show heard on stations across the usa each week and i'm down to a couple of minutes which for you is a short answer but what can people watching us crab about to their senators and their representative in washington that would help fix the farming situation well one of the things they can do to fix that going to be going to join a local c.s.a. see incentives are sprouting up on farms all over the place this is the perfect time of year to do it lining up your supply of food from now at least until the winter and see where that goes the 2nd thing is i mean and i'm saying this on my

radio programs i'm not voting for anybody who doesn't agree to encourage to somehow incentivize bringing all the american businesses that are in china back to america you've seen some of the the that plant that taiwan plant being built in arizona this week that announcement are you going to bring back all of the things that are there and we need to have congress understand that there are a lot of stupid laws that they've been active our predecessors have enacted they get no way if you will of food security one of the national laws in regional laws is the fact that restaurants in most just cities are not allowed to give away the food at the end of the straw to instead of giving it to people who can used we have that's crazy food. 'd like you wouldn't believe and it's important things like feeding america that sort of thing but also there are a lot of the food banks that are doing wonderful work with the support of farmers

in their area so support your local farmer and encourage the people that are you know we've got and i know i'm running out of time but the ag department is run by a buffoon and it just doesn't you know then they have the emmen address the problem of the issues they get all this money and they give it to the wrong people. yeah don't sugarcoat it tell us how you really feel i am you know the buzzword we're hearing to your point about bringing manufacturing and production back to the usa the buzzword hearing is reassuring and so that we don't lapse into lingo you've said something a couple of times that i want to make sure we explained to the viewer briefly you said c.s.a. what's that c s it is consumer it's the community rather community supported agriculture and most areas now in their farmers' markets they have c.s.a. you buy a share for most farm $6700.00 a year and you get all of the issues that from now on lettuce is growing in most

areas due to the end of the season for squash but you get all the things that are viable and it's something that you know $600.00 for a year a vegetable is a pretty good deal. all you can eat as they say doug stephan the american family farmer radio show thanks for your time tonight and stay safe pal. you too many. during the shutdown more than $36000000.00 americans have applied for unemployment benefits and the states are overwhelmed under the circumstances the federal government requires states to pay claims within a few weeks even if the employer has not confirmed that the applicant is eligible and that is a scam catnap recently here attorney steve wiseman has explained the various ways the wiseguys are using the pandemic to rip you off and on his website scam aside com he explains how to keep them from stealing

your unemployment money like most ripoffs your social security number is the skeleton key that they use to rob you and some states including right here where i live in rhode island are getting hit harder than others so you may want to read up on this at scam aside dot com coming up unless you've been caught literally with your pants down in a zoo meeting technology has been your friend during the shutdown how will ted reshape the new normal radio tech talker dave graves line will take us to tomorrow when we come back this is the big picture on our t.v. america.

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the theatrical release was pushed back to november the title note. time to die while we have spent several months avoiding crowds and with the streaming services offering freebies home video has become the technology driven trend among others that were already in motion like e-commerce and telecommuting how will technology reshape the new normal let's ask dave grave line radio's top tech talker host of into tomorrow on a couple under radio stations across the usa and around the world dave joins us from his broadcast center in miami hello again hello holland how are you sir well we're all coping aren't we and while we have tolerated in the past people talking in the movies i don't think we're ready for people coughing in the

movies and in the meantime while we're cooped up we've had free previews from h.b.o. and epics and stars i've loaded my d.v.r. and inevitable attendance restrictions on the movies are sure to be there is the movie theater dead duck now. well holland some people say they are but i think we have to take a look at how long movie theaters have survived remember when radio was dead because of t.v. well that obviously didn't happen fortunately people were going to the movies since before t.v. was around t.v. came out people said movies are obsolete they remained then color t.v. came out and set off for sure t.v.'s movies dead but they remained again then cable t.v. well movie rentals blu ray on demand the movie industry is one that i think has adapted

so very few films these days are actually shot on film and theater is no longer use film to project the movies it's all digital gone are the days of reels of film being delivered to each theater now of course movies are simply downloaded to a hard drive and that shows how i think the industry has adapted to these newer technologies when we can return to the theaters the movie going experience will probably be a lot different and it may even be more expensive so prepare for that but i think for the most part listeners and theaters will want to go to theaters they'll survive even if studios continue to offer movies on demand at the same time they're shown in the theaters many people still enjoy the experience of going to the movies and even if you can get it at home it's $20.00 a pop that's crazy. you know i think the art house will always be there and i think these brewpub us cinema and drafthouse places where you're already pretty well

socially distance they'll do well and look who's making a comeback drive ins are opening up for the summer and that's kind of cool but in the meantime we've been stay at home mode and you know who else has given us a free sample is sling t.v. and you tube t.v. which is a stake through the heart of your cable company because they live in fear of lockhart what other than internet access do we really need the cable company for anymore other than baseball. well ok dick you got me on that one but we have talked for years on the show long before the pandemic that thousands of people were cutting that cord of people one those are like cart as you mentioned choices that you just don't get with cable of course cord cutting has been a double edged sword people cut the cord because of the high price of cable but nowadays with seemingly every network coming out with their own streaming service

and each charging their own subscription fees it's very easy to approach the same monthly cost for the content you want once you've subscribed to all the sources that you want content from yeah yeah and it gets a little nuts you know i want to watch this where do i find it and it's gotten great. i'm having that experience of my new car dashboard but you're right the dollars can add up to the same but at least it's your menu and until now baseball was holding us hostage here in new england nason new england sports network it's the only place you can see the red sox games but there are no red sox games so dave your caller's questions are stuff you tracked very closely what topics and queries and questions have your callers to your radio show into tomorrow been asking you about more so in the last couple

months. well i think it may be hard to believe holland but with everyone being confined to home fitness wearables whether they be smart watches or fitbit kinds of things have gained even more popularity especially now that some people can at least go to a park or other open areas and exercise go figure even tearing the lock down people are out and about walking and jogging while social distancing of course and everything work or school from home related including new laptops and tablets and headset mikes you have things like the amazon echo show and the google nest they've been selling a lot more of their smart video displays like this and part of the reason is because that's how families are also staying in touch whether it's grandma granddad being able to see the kids whether they're around the corner or around the country those kinds of smart video displays have made a huge difference for

a lot of folks. i love the name of your radio show into tomorrow because you are so ahead of me and people think i'm a techie nerdy what have you seen that we haven't yet that is super cool or super hot what's on the horizon well i that's that is a good question because other than you know the typical stuff that we're always running out of and i hope is finally coming back into fruition we've got lots of stuff that is happening for example this week and on into tomorrow so if you asked all of i chat with the c.e.o. of go son that's just come out with some very cool solar powered items like an oven and even it's kind of an oxymoron to say it a solar cooler being here in miami and with hurricane season starting on june 1st those kinds of items are suddenly getting a lot of attention and of course somewhere bill companies including fitbit that we mentioned are now developing wearables with an algorithm to accurately detect

a covert 19 infection before the onset of symptoms even show up now that kind of health check i think can be very helpful to a lot of us. you know it's a common thread and what you're saying and what doug stephan told us earlier in the show is that we're all thinking almost in survival terms lately aren't we there i think we are thinking in survival and to mention of course the the stove the solar stove the solar cooler because you may have an issue whether it's a hurricane or tornado or earthquake or some other natural disaster where you've got to be in that survival mode and look at what we've learned during this survival pandemic mode so some of that technology not only will make a difference but just some of the things we've learned if nothing else how to properly wash our hands comes in and. the ultimate low tech experience you know we asked about this or plight chain interruption in the. food that we eat it is

usually associated with manufacturing which tech products and categories have been stalled whereas the conveyor belt stopped during this pandemic because of supply chain issues well i think many tailors especially amazon have slowed down shipments of all kinds of where they're considering non-essential items that he say so that they can more quickly ship those essential items like the toilet paper and cleaning products and the like they've also reserve more space in their warehouses now for those items all around the country of course this has had an adverse effect on many 3rd party sellers that rely on things like that warehouse space to quickly get their items into customers hands but i think it's beginning now just like the opening up of our communities in our states all around the country we're beginning to see some difference there you can go on in the last month or so and apply or buy

something for example on amazon that would take overnight maybe 2 days to get to you and now it's like sometime in the next 2 or 3 weeks you might receive this and people are like what that's crazy but now those times are shortening considerably so i think i hate the term the new normal but i think we're getting back to something along those lines with everything that's going on fortunately yeah i real curious to see as this phased reopening unfolds how normal things are did grab line into tomorrow dot com the into tomorrow radio show keep washing your hands stay safe and thank you for your time pal. my pleasure holiday. that's our show for this week if you can't watch us live please set the d.v.r. you're going to want to see that show next week for sure and if you see us somewhere else you can also find us at youtube dot com slash r

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join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. so we have inherited a brain constantly comparing itself to others. for a monkey we benefit with it compares itself to others and if it seems that it's weaker when it doesn't reach for the banana because it's afraid of getting it. sees that it's stronger. and it goes forth and it feels good so we will. of comparing ourselves to others and making decisions about when. anyone would feel down and it's easy to feel one down all the time if you're needed to think that way

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