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The episode discussed various topics related to agriculture, starting with the potential lawsuits against Roundup for being a carcinogen and the increasing role of technology in agriculture, particularly in precision agriculture. They also talked about the use of genetically modified crops and the controversy surrounding non-GMO foods, as well as the emergence of new crops in North Dakota. The development of new technology for agriculture, such as robots that use lasers to kill weeds and pests, was also discussed, along with the potential for the development of autonomous farms in the future. The impact of technology on the family farm and the small-town banking system was mentioned, along with the early adoption of technology by family farmers. The episode concluded with a conversation on autonomous farming and lawn maintenance and the benefits of having autonomous lawnmowers.

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Transcript:

It’s funny, they just mentioned Alexa. Yes. Today is of course Tech Tuesday.

I’m Steve B along with Marlow Anderson, my guru of Geek Co-host national day calendar.com. Don’t forget to celebrate every day. We’re gonna talk about National Day Calendar coming up in just a minute cuz you had a really good idea. And I, I think businesses and everybody should look at National Day Calendar a little closer and follow it.

Really follow it because it makes a difference in your business model. It does, but we’re gonna get to that. So did you catch the promo about. You can follow us on Alexa? Yes. And so did you catch Alexa’s prediction for the Super Bowl? No. For what? World War iii? No. Yeah, like 1223 at 6:05 PM It, it’s video of asking Alexa, when’s the world gonna end?

And World War iii. Wow. 1220. That’s Alexa’s artificial intelligence prediction. Yes. Wow. Then it, you think of Skynet is real and they already have a date. And little bit actually it came out, the video was on TikTok. What does that tell you? Yeah. It, somebody staged it. So the world’s not going to end.

Despite all the reports out there that you might be reading or hearing about, that Alexa has predicted that the world is, world War II is gonna take place. Which you can actually, yeah, you can tell, you can have Alexa repeat whatever you want it to repeat. It is actually a setting for that.

Really. Yes. So you can go in and say whatever, and it’ll come back in Alexa’s voice and repeat what you said. So it would be pretty easy to stage something like that. I was gonna ask you about this cause my wife Wendy, she’s got a fitness watch , she’s got an Apple watch on her wrist and.

over the last week or two. We’ve been having conversation. All of a sudden it’ll start chiming in. Cause no, we’re not talking to you . But it’s listening to you. But it’s listening That’s right to everything you say. Everything you say. I’m like wait a minute. Did they change some settings or, I’m like, it’s not done that before, but maybe so it just listened and kept its mouth shut now that Yeah.

Yeah. Maybe there was a update or is it actually trying to coach you in your conversation? Yeah. Say Steve, say, I love you. It’s keying in. Maybe it’s ahead of Valentine’s Way. All right. Or your watches are talking to each other and Wendy’s watch realizes I don’t have one.

No, I got dumb watch. Oh, okay. No. I thought about it. That would be the thing. Your watches would talk to each other and it would say same. We don’t have to. Your significant other is upset with you right now. And it knows this because Cuz her heartbeat is a little higher. Or it’s like a mood ring.

Yeah, like a mood ring. And then it would actually notify you and say, and it would say something like, bring home flowers. Yeah. You’re in trouble. Maybe I should get one of those wines cause that might help me. Or even better yet, your AI just orders flowers because you, cause you don’t know what her favorite flowers are.

But your AI does do too well. I’m just, I would be in that space. I’m just picking on me. Okay. Yeah. How many husbands don’t know what their wife’s favorite? Many flower. Yeah. Many. Yeah. You might be onto something. It’s I wonder how many marriages it would help if the watches just talked to each other and you didn’t have to talk to your.

Because I, I’m sure there’s a good percentage that, maybe that’s just better cause I could hash it out and then you guys could just be what It’s like cancer or AI and cancer, that when it looks at AI looks Interesting analogy. Okay. I’m just, I know it’s a weird way to go there, be a cancer in society, but I’m just thinking that you’re not going in there, it can detect cancer earlier.

So maybe it can detect moods of your significant others sooner and then you would actually be able to understand what the other person is telling you. I’m not gonna say just what through my head right now, , because there’s a very medical, scientific yeah. But I guarantee you that sooner or later there’s gonna be apps or everything else that’s gonna say, Hey, you wanna know what your spouse is actually saying to.

Yeah. , no, because that’s gonna start another fight. Yeah. That my watch and her watch are gonna hash to half hash out. I don’t care where we go to eat for our anniversary, that means, oh, let’s go to blah, blah, blah. Yeah. But she does care. Yes. Okay. Now I’m a guy and I typically fall into this trap all the time.

It’s I don’t care. Where, wherever you wanna go. I’m the same way. Yeah. It’s oh no, they care. Yeah. , it’s your job to figure out that puzzle. Does this make me look fat? ? And the AI would actually give you a response, gonna tell you what your watch is gonna tell her, whether or not tell her, watch, whether or not you’re lying about that.

Yeah, exactly. Am I

Marlo? This is a dumb watch on my wrist. Cause it’s gonna stay way, stay that way just like me. Not a bad idea. As I’m evaluating all of this right now, Oh, so National Day calendar. Of course. Today one of the things that’s not on our little. Calendar short is it’s National Hot Chocolate day.

Yeah. Yeah. Because we pick two and tell stories on those two and there are many days that there are more than two things. Okay, so I’m assuming you picked the biggest thing or do you go by, what’s the biggest story? Or maybe what’s the more unique or fun story that we can round up?

Yeah. What’s not unique and fun about hot chocolate? I brought you hot chocolate today. Yes, you did. Did. And thank you my wife. Thank you for that. This is my wife in school district. She’s doing hot chocolate day today, so she’s making hot chocolate for all of her kids. And, but this is what got us to this little discussion we’re about ready to have as well.

Yeah, it is because I brought hot chocolate and I listened to the calendar short that we play and I’m like, but National hot chocolate day’s not on there. , there’s that’s the reason. So now you explain there’s always a lot, but okay. There’s only two on that short cuz otherwise it’s not short anymore.

We used to, in the early days, used to say it’s also blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah at the end of the short. But we found that a lot of people, it’s just, a lot of times it’s just too much turned into blah, blah, blah. Exactly. So didn’t pay attention. So we just picked two and stayed with those.

Yeah. Okay. But anyway, it is national hot chocolate. It is the day it, and my wife and I were at Sam’s Club Yes. Over the weekend and picking up our weekly shopping supplies and in bulk. And so I got cursed out a couple weeks ago because they had on sale hot chocolate bombs for $3 and 91 cents, which I thought was a really good deal.

Cause they’re a bargain shopper instead of the 10 51 that they normally wear. Yes. Oh and I got my butt chewed a little bit fo