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Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. You are on the morning KOMO Show episode 29. Today I want to welcome January Walker. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. How are you doing today?

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Good morning. I am absolutely amazing. And having an excellent time. So excited for today's show. Thanks for having me. Thank

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you very much for coming up. With we're going to have got lots of information. I got some questions for you. We'll probably go through our community updates and do some of our cryptocurrency updates as well. Get to know you a little bit. The host is FOMO head, my husband, how are you doing this morning? FOMO. Ahead.

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Amazing, amazing. And then also what? A January. It was a pleasure meeting you today. And then I did was doing my research. And I was reading about you. So I'm looking forward to hearing from you about technology, how technology is going to hopefully solve a lot of our American problems in the future. Yeah, that that is a good point. Very good point. heads back. How are you doing this morning.

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I am doing great. Looking forward to kicking off my Tuesday yesterday was one of my days off. So kicking off my Tuesday here. So I hopefully have a good, exciting week ahead of me. Let's welcome January. Again, I really appreciate you popping up here and joining us this morning, I popped into one of the spaces that you were hosting last week and got to listen in a little bit to things that you were talking about. And I noticed that you are kind of bored the digital age and you're jumping into cryptocurrency and understanding a little bit of blockchain. So I was hoping we could kind of have a conversation around that. And I would love for you to kind of tell everybody where you're at and your stance on things and just kind of introduce yourself. And just so you are aware of FOMO head and I are from Arizona, so we're close to you. We're neighbors.

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Oh, that's excellent. And I was just thinking during the introduction that I can see why you like FOMO head since he's quite funny with that. pull a muscle comment. You know, so So, so keep up the humor. I love that. But yeah, so my name is January Walker, and I am a US congressional candidate based out of Utah. I actually am the only candidate that lives in District Four, which I thought was kind of like an interesting little tidbit of information. By way of trade and the private sector. I work for a large financial firm doing their cybersecurity. So specifically, this is going to be KYC AML. Document verification, essentially, proofing that people are who they say they are, and that we are interacting with that person. I have been pioneering self sovereign identity within this space as well. So everybody always wants to know, what's my stake in web three, if I don't huddle. And I don't huddle due to employment. But my stake is the decentralized identity. And I'm very passionate about it, because I, I am a huge champion of personal privacy. And I would love for it in my lifetime, which I've never had, I don't think most of the people here have had what I would love for once in my lifetime to have true personal privacy. And I and I see this as a path forward on that.

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Well, that's, you know, we just had a huge conversation. I think it was just the end of last week over the soul bound token versus SSI. And how the difference between the two and which one might kind of take over a little bit.

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Which one did you pick?

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Well, you know, I think that there's a bunch that has to be developed. But we we kind of had a huge conversation. I think I would rather lean more towards the side of SSI because of the privacy fact because the soul bound token doesn't seem to have much privacy to it at all.

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Yeah, so i i I actually agree with you on that. I think that the soul bound token has a lot of great use cases, overall Oh, and by the way, if I, if I talk a little bit too technical, it's because in the business world, I actually, like build multimillion dollar solutions to multimillion dollar problems. So use cases is at the core of that. But I think self sovereign identity, that it's that personal privacy piece that can be utilized and capitalized on that will benefit us the most. So can I give you an example?

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Absolutely, please do.

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Perfect. So when we look at personal healthcare information, we had our essentially $100 billion. Wow, that must be morning because I'm forgetting this word all of a sudden.

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The organization company, yeah,

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thank you, along those lines. So essentially, sector sector was legislated into existence around HIPAA. But I think the crucial missing part of that is you having full control of your personal health information. Instead, if you go to a provider, they keep your records and then you have to, like ask them to have permission for your records, then if you're like me, where a few months ago, they asked me to send them a fax, to request my records. And I'm like, do we live in 2022? Like, what is the point of the 21st century, if I'm having to fax over a request to obtain my own, you know, you see where this is going. But with this by making some tweaks to the law, and I've gone through, and I've kind of calculated this out, it topples $72 billion of that industry, just by allowing people to fold their own personal health information. And when we look at SSI, because you don't have access outside of the wallet gives you true total privacy. It's a prime place to hold that healthcare information for you. And then you have control over who sees it, who has access to it. If you need to revoke it at any time, you can. And I think that they're, especially, you know, this year, and some of the things that we've seen, there are many use cases, and reasons to have control of your personal health information. Oh,

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I absolutely agree. And you know, and it's funny that you bring up healthcare information, because that was a huge topic during this conversation when we were talking about so but soulbound versus SSI, because my sister has a rare medical condition. And she's constantly fighting with trying to get her medical records to everybody. I mean, she was even a medical case study for when she had to do surgeries because she has such complications and stuff. And she was talking about having an identity and protection around it. So she could, she could care for her own medical records and give them to who she needed. And that was it's a huge thing for her. So she's really looking forward to that kind of transition happening. Now one of the subjects that did come up when we were talking about that is kind of like the security around it as far as when you provide the information to somebody, and then you can take it back, or how do you how do we keep ourselves safe when we're when we're going around to providers, or whatever? And then no, there's a lot of developing technical stuff that's going to have to happen in the background. But even as for me, but I work in law enforcement. So that's kind of one of the things especially when you're dealing with criminal records, and that kind of stuff, too. It's like how do you? Is the normal? Are the norms going to be the same of restricted use for people to be able to see some of the privacy stuff, the HIPAA laws and all that stuff? How does that get into play? When in the digital era?

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Sorry, so um, I do see that many of the laws will probably stay similar in terms of who has access, who has those protections there. I think that we personally, I need to strengthen the laws around this little bit. And this, this really comes back to you know, looking at personal privacy and what we are and are not afforded and what companies can have access to us on which I'm so happy to take you through what that whole experience looks like and how I guess how and why I feel it's it's very concerning at this time. But, but ultimately, it should also limit government access to your healthcare records as well at this point, you know, employers and that kind of thing because we're seeing that there are ways to get around the walls today and we need to shut that off. Oh, I

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agree. 100% FOMO head Do you have anything to add? I liked

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the technique all jewel Lyndoch Great word as a New York Italian cannot even say technology. Explain a little bit when you're talking about the consumption of water. I like your environmentalist, environmental stand on that. Do you think? How does technology and the environment all get together and work in harmony to actually solve any of these issues? How, how could that work? Because you I mean, you nailed your environment comment, you know, with the water shortage, the consumption, the population, the the rise of housing, inheritors, that cannot sustain. I mean, we do things in America. That I mean, and again, this is not, we're not talking about politics, we're just talking about technology, that you still look at things and go, Why are we building so many houses, when we don't have the water to let these people drink. And then we're putting in these landscapes that are not, you know, harmonious, harmonious with the environment. And then I'll even go one further, we talked about the environment, you talked about technology, and wanting to, you know, get to a cleaner energy eventually, but we don't have the infrastructure to support said cleaner energy. So those are just kind of questions. So, you know, like I said, the floor is yours. How do we how do we meld technology and the environment in two areas to actually solve both issues?

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Whoo, I love this. So water is I picked like three priorities that it like, if I can only focus on three things, this is what I would do. So there was inflation. The last one was water. And then there was a people centric government. So when we talk about the water crisis, which affects you and me a whole lot, because you live in Arizona, I live in Utah, there's about 13 states in the West that are affected by the water crisis that we're experiencing right now. And we're finding that there's a lot of water usage that's playing into this, how we, how we lean into farming, the the, the corrosion of the pipes that we have around the state, tracking and tracing that water, specifically not knowing where it's going. And that is, that is very, very, very problematic. There was a whole book written about how the West should actually build out to work with the land on water. And that was all kind of thrown out. And now we have the cities that we have today. But the the problem with this is, as we as we built out, we didn't keep track of all of the pipes and everything that was being built. And there was no collaboration or coordination between different governments. And we really don't know where all the water is going. We just know that it's being used at an outrageous rate, like and I think you can see this is, and I'm guessing, but tell me if this is a safe assumption that you go through and you look at your water around the state, like we have lakes and reservoirs, and then they just become empty, and they're just dipping. Are you guys seeing that out there as well?

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Oh, absolutely. There's, there's nothing. We have these conversations each and every day. There's not too much. We always talk about hopefully, we have a better tomorrow than today. There's not much better today than there was pre COVID if you will. You talk about water levels. You talk about homebuilding, you talk about. I call these plant communities. And you're 100% Correct. There's, there's not one, I'm perfect. I know for a fact, there's not one water supply. In Arizona, that's better today than it was a year ago.

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Right. So here's the solution to this. So I'm really glad that you brought this up. So first, we need to understand where our water is going. And if we tie Internet of Things in with water metering, and then tie that to blockchain technology. What you can do is you can actually trace track and trace where all the water is going. And then if there's ever a leak, you can be notified of the leak before people notify you of a leak. Right. So you know, I was just thinking about the other day where we had a huge pipe burst out here and the water was on the streets for like two hours before it got reported and taking care of at the level that it needed to and that's a lot of water to lose out out in this area. But if in the future if something like that happened, they would be notified immediately and then move forward but the same thing goes goes for this water metering concept. And this isn't saying water metering like on your house or anything because those technologies are already there. This is for the pipes that are tapping into the water supplies. And then by doing that, you can say, Okay, this is how much water usage we're having here, this is what's being wasted. This is, you know, what's necessary. And then that enables these conversations around how much water reduction usage are, are the people going to have and what actually needs to happen here. So there's that piece right there. And then I've also performing activities who proposed utilizing hydrophilic technology. And what that does is it allows essentially, the, the water to go directly to the crop, instead of you know, today, they have I don't actually know what they're called, but they have those large rolling machines that kind of spray water on top of the plant. So this and a lot of times, when that happens, you see a lot of evaporation, especially in our hot weather. So this takes the water directly to the root of the plant where it needs to be. And then there are some other things but but ultimately understanding where the water is going, adjusting our activities to make sure that we are working with the land instead of against it is going to be crucial. And then it's also going to be you know, in this is more the this city county state level. So not a lot that I can do about here. But I do think that we need to change our our landscaping practices like for me, I'm required to keep grass in my front yard. And you can't let it I don't even live in an HOA but the city actually says like you can't let it really go brown. So I've watered my grass five times this year. And it's doing pretty well. Just because I you know, I keep it healthy. But I look at other people that are constantly watering their grass, and I'm like, oh, okay, we probably don't need to be watering our grass like this. But yeah, just a just a few thoughts there.

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I appreciate it. That's awesome. And then as I like, for myself, I want to thank you very much. And I do we do even each and every day we talk about our space. We we dream about a better tomorrow. We work extremely hard today. We learned from yesterday, and we dream about tomorrow. So I cannot own that. That's a personal thing that I've lived my life by. It's called the three day plan. I only live in three days. I do not know what's going to happen after that tomorrow. So I learned from yesterday, I work extremely hard today. And I dream about tomorrow. And I absolutely wish you the absolute best. And in the future and all your endeavors come true. I want to thank everybody for joining our space today. It's one of those times where you just talk about technology. We talk about blockchain. We talk about cryptocurrency we talk about adoption. And then here in Phoenix, we strive for excellence all the time each and every day you get up so here's our thoughts, and for a better tomorrow for solutions to our problems. And it would be amazing. So thank you very much January absolute pleasure. Had Zack, would you like to play us off with a, you know, motivational song to start today?

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Absolutely. And I wanted to say thank you January so much for showing up. You're welcome to join in our space anytime you want. FOMO and FOMO Hannah and I are here Monday through Friday starting at 7am. My sister and I sometimes will do a wildcard Saturday off of the DKR sisters profile. But you're welcome to join in anytime join the conversation. We go over the social peace University which is our NFT community. And we talk about adoption education, current events and cryptocurrency and solution oriented ideas for problems that we have into a new future. So I wanted to say thank you and invite you back anytime you are welcome to join us. So thank you again very much. Thank you. All right, everybody. Let's get our day started and we will see everybody tomorrow morning. Have a great day

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