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Chris Piotta (0:01)
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Chris Piotta (0:29)
Good morning everybody. Welcome back. If you have video, you can tell I have a beanie on because it's beanie season here in Montana. Yeah, it turned for winter about in the last 24 hours. Rain became snow, and hopefully it's game on. Two things to talk about before we get into today's episode. One of them is obviously going to be the Black Rifle Coffee advertisement read. Before that, though, let's talk a little bit about intellectual property. Intellectual property rights are the backbone of American innovation, economic growth and national security. By defending these rights, we secure our place as a global leader in technology, safeguard our economy, and protect American ingenuity from foreign adversaries like China. Now, if you're like me, I don't think a lot about intellectual property because I don't feel like I have any. But China's IP theft cost the U.S. economy about $600 billion annually. And China is now leading the U.S. in 37 of 44 critical technologies that will def the future, including AI, space exploration and advanced manufacturing. There's also an increased dependence on foreign producers. Weak IP protections only make it harder to maintain our technological leadership. So what can be done? What can we do to strengthen our position? Well, there are some pro innovation policies. Congress could pass legislation like the Patent Eligibility Restoration act para or and the Prevail act to strengthen IP protections. We can work to bolster agencies like the Small Business Administration, SBA, and the National Institute for Standards and Technology, the nist. And more than anything, your average person on the street like me and you, we can just think a little bit more about where we are sourcing things from, whether that's product or data, and start protecting our critical intellectual property. Now let's get into who makes this episode possible and the podcast for that matter. That's right. It's Black Rifle Coffee. This shouldn't shock you right now. There is a Black Rifle Friday. I was about to say Black Rifle Coffee. It's Black Rifle Friday. Largest product drop of the year. Okay, shop. Now let's just click on that and go down the rabbit hole here. Trash Panda sticker. Wearing a pair of bin or. Yeah, Bino nods. I like that very much. Ooh, give me coffee or give me death mug. I'm digging that. All right, so. And for those of you with video, hopefully you can just see. I'm just scrolling down here. They have. Oh, what is this? Electric kettles. Damn. New T shirts, new mugs, new stickers, new patches. Ooh, a Little Spirit of 76 Loyal Spirit Coffee blend. Okay. They have a lot of stuff on the website right now that is a new release. And like they say right there, the largest drop of the year, Black Rifle Friday, is probably going to be active right now or at the very least four days after this episode comes out on Monday. So if you want to support the podcast, the best thing you can do is help me support my friends that make this podcast possible over at Black Raffle Coffee. That's it. That's all the business stuff up front. Let's get into my guest for today. He is a repeat guest. His name is Chris Piotta. He served for 25 years in the FBI and under a variety of directors, all the way up to being one of the six. My words, not necessarily his. His department heads of the FBI, they're tranched off into six categories. He was over in the science and technology side of the house. You want to talk about somebody who understands how the FBI operates and has operated. He just wrote a book called Wanted the FBI I once knew, and we had a pretty interesting conversation about the FBI that he started working in and what the FBI has become. I'm going to give you some wave tops of things that we covered. He reached out and I made sure that we covered each of these. But everything from the FBI handling of the Hunter Biden laptop case, Crossfire hurricane investigation and possible Russian collusion. The revision of the FBI's 2020 crime data reports. FBI retaliation against whistleblowers, DOJ, FBI payouts for sexual discrimination. Yeah. Questioned. FBI intelligence and surveillance. Focus. And the FBI use of the Trump questionnaire by its headquarters security division, among other things. Fantastic episode. I love sitting down with people like Chris who can talk about the agency from soup to nuts, from walking in to being almost up at the apex, the upper echelons of the FBI. So let's get into it. Hope you enjoyed the episode with Chris Piotta.