7-15 Tricia Benn pt.1

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This is Freedom Fest.

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Live Freedom Fest.

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2020.

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Maj, how are ya? Oh, no, this is not I thought Mag was coming in.

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Holy smokes.

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That is so it’s good to have you back with us.

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Trisha, how you been? I literally I looked over and saw Maj.

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I thought Maj was coming.

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I felt his presence behind me.

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How are you? Very well, thank you.

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I’m good.

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What have you got going on this morning? Oh, my goodness.

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I just got out of moderating.

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The panel discussion around the Grid Down Power Up documentary we were telling you about yesterday, it was incredible.

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Certainly I want to talk about that documentary once you get settled in here.

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First of all, it was great having you and Jeff in here with us yesterday.

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What you guys do with C Suite is amazing, really amazing.

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And seeing the passion, you guys, for helping these entrepreneurs and these executives, pretty amazing stuff.

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Now let’s talk about the film.

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So grid down.

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Power up is David Tyson’s Passion project.

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He made his business, his life, and led in the financial sector.

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And when he found out what was happening with America’s energy grid, he took it upon himself to create and produce the full documentary of all of the threats.

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And it’s devastating to see across the spectrum, completely bipartisan scenario where we are completely vulnerable.

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When you think of us as Americans, we don’t think vulnerable, right? Well, we are not protected from energy searches, cybersecurity, natural disasters that would affect our grid.

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But we’ve seen this.

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I mean, we’re seeing rolling blackouts, even in places like Texas where the grid certainly failed a couple of years ago.

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California has been failing for many years.

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Where are we vulnerable as a country to attacks on our grid? Well, what I would suggest is everyone goes to griddownpowerup.com because that’s where you’re going to see all kinds of resources to make sure that we are getting the right kind of policies in place and implementing against them.

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Right.

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But it’s across the board.

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There are certainly things we can do as citizens, but also as business leaders.

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We can’t afford disruption that energy grid power damage are going to cause.

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Let me ask you something, Trisha.

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You probably know this.

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The energy grid here in the country, is the entire thing tied together in some way, shape and form? And are there areas that are in better shape than others? There’s connectivity across the board because so much of everything in our lives now is totally connected.

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Right.

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And my expertise isn’t in that space.

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My expertise is I lead a network of 350,000 executives.

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So for us, what do we do as business leaders, and what does it mean? We talked yesterday about hybrid workplaces, right? So if one grid is down, are we having other employees and other staff in other areas able to operate? What are we doing in terms of securing our energy sources for keeping business going and it’s kind of interesting for the executives that are out there trying to run businesses.

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You’ve got such a confusing group of ownerships within these ridge, too right.

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Some are like public utilities, some are privately held.

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They have to work together.

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And at the end of the day, who’s the gatekeeper of all this? There isn’t one.

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That’s the challenge.

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There isn’t one gatekeeper.

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So China wants to come in and shut us down or mess with us.

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Obviously, from a cyber standpoint, they can shut down our digital or our ability to be on the Internet, but shutting down our grid could be disastrous.

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It’s essentially the end of the world.

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Yes.

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Have we ever been attacked yet in that realm? Have there been attempts at it? Hundreds.

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Really? One hundreds of times we’ve been how does that work, by the way? Church.

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I’m going to have to go to Main Stage.

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I may have to cut you off in just a minute, but I want to make darn sure you come back often.

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All right.

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So how would somebody attack our grid? So between 2010 and 2020, there are over 700 attacks.

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Got it.

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So it is an everyday occurrence.

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In fact, in the film, it says the Russians are already in our system.

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So it is a very real and imminent threat.

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And that’s not including if we had some kind of nuclear explosion above America and all kinds of other issues that are affecting.

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Got it.

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Trisha, I hate to do it.

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I hate to catch you up.

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We got to go back to Mainstays.

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Trisha Ben has been here from C suite.

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I’m Kent Emmons.

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This is Freedom Fest 2022.

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Live from the Floor will be backed in just a little bit.

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Kennedy now back to you on the Main Stage.

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