Transcript 0:00 Talk to me. Information, news, and entertainment on demand. WUSradio.com. 0:11 [upbeat music] Welcome to The Peggy Smedley Show, the voice of IoT in our connected world, with your host, Peggy Smedley. [upbeat music] Hello, listeners, and welcome back to The Peggy Smedley Show. 0:26 We have been talking all month long about infrastructure, and I have to tell you, my last guest, Rick, really fired me up because what it says is, I do not understand, and to hear someone as passionate as Rick talk about we can't get our politicians to really understand the problem, really says maybe it requires all of us as citizens to be telling our politicians, "Get a clue." 0:55 Because seriously, we're the ones... Like in Chicago, we drive over the potholes. If you were looking at my, my parking lot right now outside, you could kinda see it looks like a sinkhole. 1:06 I mean, we go on our streets, there's holes everywhere. I don't get it. 1:10 I don't understand when we think about the delays we have, we- when we think about our service, you know, our fire department, when we think about our police, you know, our emergency ser- services can't make it. 1:25 When we think about the traffic delays, when we think about all of those things that happen to us, and then we sit there and go, "Well, you know, it's okay," I don't really understand why our politicians can't understand the things that we just were listening to and learning these numbers. 1:45 When I think about a gas tax, a federal gas, gas tax, I think if, if I remember Rick's number when he said last segment was, um, eighteen point four percent, I mean, that's, that's frightening to me for the Highway Trust Fund. 2:02 What, what are we thinking about? I mean, I don't know. When we think about something that was done, you know, well over, what, in eighteen ninety-three? 2:11 I'm not quite sure I get it, but, uh, you know, how many years ago? I, I, I don't understand it, you know, or whatever was, was the year. I don't know, maybe I'm got years all messed up. 2:22 But all I know the number was, in my head, was eighteen point four percent. That's crazy. That all I know is those numbers are crazy to me. 2:30 But I think the bigger point here is why aren't we doing things that we, we as citizens say-- I know, nobody wants to pay more money. Nobody wants to pay more gas taxes. Nobody wants, you know, to pay more taxes. 2:45 I get it. But what's the worst that happens out of this? We end up paying more in the end. 2:51 Somebody's going to pay the bill when our services are delayed, when we have no electricity, when we have brown outages, like right now, and it's super hot, and we don't have the energy we want. 3:04 There's always a delay when we're not supporting our infrastructure, when we have these outdated infrastructures. He was just talking about our transportation, our roads, but what about the energy we talked about? 3:16 And we're ta- s- talking about numbers that I was talking about when research and market says the global IoT and global market will grow thirty billion dollars. 3:25 Well, we're saying all this technology's gonna be out there. Technology for what? If you're not going to invest in, in fixing this stuff, but you're gonna invest in technology, for what? 3:36 You have to invest in these things that are the right things. I just don't get it, and I don't understand the politics of this. 3:44 And maybe I've been doing this a really long time, but I've been writing about this problem for longer than most of you have been listening to my podcast. 3:55 But I think we need to all write our politicians and say, "It's time to stop fighting. It's time to do." Our president did run on this. 4:05 Our president did say he wanted to put m- trillion dollars to this problem, and the question is: Why can't he get anything done in Washington? 4:15 I'm not going to get on the political bandwagon here, but I wanna know why can't we get this stuff done when we do have an infrastructure problem. You have to build it first. That's why our event at Tech Day 4:28 is dedicated to that on August twenty-third. 4:31 We have really great construction companies coming to talk about the things they're doing and the problems they're having on finding the personnel to actually be interested to doing the things. 4:43 And the problem is because we have the next generation that doesn't even understand the needs of what we need to do. 4:50 We're-- We have a graying and aging workforce, and we don't even have the next generation thinking construction's important because they don't even understand the needs. 4:59 They don't understand what we're doing there because we're not investing in the roads and bridges. We're not investing in them taking an interest in what we need to do. Well, whose fault is that? 5:10 I mean, who do we put the blame on that to? Because again, if we don't let our next generation of children and their children and theirs understand, you can't have anything if you don't build it. 5:24 And you do need the aesthetics, because if we all drive down and we think everything's graffitied and it doesn't look pretty, well, how cool is that? Is it look nice? Nobody says, "Wow, that looks really nice. 5:36 Wow, that looks great." There is something to be saying for building something and putting some aesthetics around that. We all like when we live in nice homes. 5:46 Well, if we're not thinking about that, we're-- what are we thinking about? Well, who's to blame for that? 5:53 If we as citizens don't elect the politicians who are thinking about it, and we're thinking about one guy or gal who's w- afraid to step up because they're gonna get knocked out of office-We have to think about all of them. 6:05 And maybe it does start with one mayor, one governor, I mean, you know, in a small community. I don't know. I'm not running for office. But I can tell you, we as the citizens are the ones who elect all these people. 6:19 We are the ones that make it happen. We sure use social media a lot to say anything, whatever we feel, whenever we feel it. Why don't we say something about doing something to e-e-encourage change for the good? 6:34 Encourage change that makes our roads better, our bridges better, and so that there's not something. We were all excited when we s-heard and we were watching, we were all glued to the TV to see the soccer team 6:49 get released from the tunnel, and everybody wanted to hear about that. We were all enamored by that because that was something good. 6:56 We could all finally hear about something good in our lives instead of hearing about all the ugliness on TV, all the political infighting. 7:04 How about if we heard something good, that we all put our resources to creating something good about redoing our infrastructure? That the politicians came together and said, "Look, we're going to invest." 7:16 Yeah, I'll bet you if we invested in an increase in taxes, that was going to be that both the Republicans and the Democrats got together because they were going to do something good for all of us. 7:27 And it wasn't some trick statement in the, the bill that somebody's going to fund some off-site something so somebody can go some trip and have some wild party. 7:37 How about if you just fund a bill to improve our roads and bridges to save lives so that there's an ambulance can take somebody and on a clean road. 7:47 Or if our fire department needs to go to a burning building, they're going to a burning building quickly. These are all things... And guess what? Maybe it'll stop distracted driving. 7:58 Oh, wow, we're gonna, we're gonna use this opportunity to solve a couple of things all at once. Well, there's an opportunity. Well, I'm off my soapbox for the moment, but I'm gonna tell you about something good. 8:09 Tech Day is August twenty-third. It's in Arlington Heights. I really want you to go if you wanna learn. Plus, we've got a great training course. You know you heard Martin Lanik be on the show. 8:22 He talked about the learning habit, the leader habit, I think, if I got the name right, and it was important for you to learn how to be a better manager. Well, he's gonna come back. 8:32 He's gonna give a one-hour course there. And what's really good about that is if you get to come to that course, you get some time. He's gonna give that course for an hour. 8:41 You get to learn that, not only just about infrastructure, but you get to learn to be a better manager. 8:45 And in this day and age, where we've got an older workforce and a younger workforce coming together, isn't it nice to learn to be a better manager? All of us could learn to do that. 8:53 So it's not just infrastructure, it's something else we're gonna get to. So that is August twenty-third in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Go up to constructtech.com/tech-day. Register. 9:06 I think you're gonna find it's a great event. You're gonna learn a lot. 9:09 You're gonna mingle with a lot of people in the construction industry and others who are trying to figure out what we're all trying to do here: make a better America, a better environment. 9:19 Plus, we've got a lot of great, amazing people, and we're gonna announce something really cool there that you will never have known that you will wanna be a part of. So again, thanks for listening. 9:29 Check out our website at connectedworld.com, or you can check out thepeggySmedleyShow.com for any of the past archives. Hey, this has been a great segment as always. I'm glad you could join us. 9:39 Remember, we are broadcast live every Tuesday at twelve PM Central. 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