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Hey, what's going on, guys? Welcome back to the Mike Forest Podcast. Hope you had a good Memorial Day weekend. It's a long weekend for many. I spent the weekend with my family, my kids spending an amazing time in southern Utah, invested in making memories with my babies. It's exactly what I think the teammates that I lost in combat would have wanted. I hear a lot of people say, oh, don't you don't celebrate Memorial Day? Well, in my house you do, because I don't think my teammates that gave it all would want anything else. We're gonna sit around and be sad and depressed? No. Now, as a tradition, I do tell war stories. I told my children, really, for the first time, that they could understand it. A war story about Ben Franklin Bittner. My son is named after Ben Bittner and he knows that now. He takes pride in that. And he knows Ben was a warrior, an amazing human being, an amazing father, amazing husband, and an amazing soldier. He has a picture of me and Ben hanging above his bed, as it should be. That's the best way to memorialize and remember these men, by telling their stories and never letting those stories die. They're stories that my son will tell to to his son one day. My sons will tell to their sons one day. And also, I appreciate the follow on preaching the choir. I'm doing episodes every week. Missed last week's Bible study, but every Sunday I'm doing Episode as well. I'll link that down below if you're interested in following my faith journey. Not to be confused with me being a pastor or preacher, because I'm not. But if you're Interested in God and faith or just curious? Faith curious. Check it out in the description down below. Guys, I want to say a big shout out to my sponsors, Carnival and Primal Power. You guys know a lot about these companies because I talk about them every single podcast in the description. There's incentives for you. I would not support companies that aren't the best companies in the country. But also they've changed my health and wellness. I mean, I've trimmed down a little bit, stop taking trt, been doing peptides with Longevity Farms and Rejuvenate and also adding that Primal Power bar with the B12 and carnival clean meat every single day. So support those who support this channel because it's basically been advertisement free forever. Today we're talking about Flock cameras. Not a lot of people know when
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only on Disney plus the dirty that is Flock cameras. FL O C K and I want to talk about flock cameras because what I see happening, manipulating you in the national headlines is often a distraction from what's really going on in your own backyard. The underground episode of this, which will include a little bit about Iran, will be on the underground of my Patreon. That's linked down below as well because some of this I can't really go into detail about because I'll get suppressed. It's just how it works nowadays and that's how we work around it. Patreon.com Mike Glover There are over 80,000 AI powered cameras deployed in the United States Right now in 49 states, 4800 law enforcement agencies are utilizing Flock cameras. Now, the justification is crime, missing people. You know those Amber alerts where they put out the plate, the description of the vehicle so it seems to be a great success because that's how we've allowed it to violate our civil liberties and rights, our freedom as Americans. And you know how that slippery slope works. You give an inch and the government especially is going to take a mile. Here's an interesting one. There was a case of a police officer who was a school resource officer that was using the databases to include Flock cameras and systems to track young girls vehicles and their information that he was interested in that went to the school. Now, I don't know what his interests are, but he was also looking up X's, probably not the best use of the database. That's part of the fear. In another case, which is more recent, an officer shows up on the front door of this lady's house and shows her pictures of her own car, says, is this you? Yeah, that's my car. Were you in the vicinity in this time period? Yes, that I was going to work. Oh, well, then here's your notification to show up to court because we're charging you with like petty theft. Why? Well, her vehicle was in the vicinity of a neighborhood that she frequented on her normal pattern of life routine. And they correlated it with Amazon thefts packages off the door steps of these houses in this neighborhood. And they said, well, obviously this is you. It's a white lady with the same color hair. And she said, that's not me. She said, we'll figure that out in court. And this officer was super rude. There's a video out about it. Turns out it's not her. Did they apologize? No. Did anybody get in trouble? No qualified immunity. She lost her job. She was ridiculed, embarrassed, obviously. Had to pay thousands of dollars in legal fees, and it wasn't even her. Why? Because AI mixed and integrated in this tech got it wrong. So my fear is things like Flock cameras only accelerate all the other technological integration that is going to violate your liberties and your freedoms until there's nothing left. By the way, they're talking about installing cameras that are facing. They already exist, but they're talking about mandating these cameras that face towards the driver so they could see the eyes. Ford just signed off on a patent. The patent is for reading the retinas, biometrics, facial recognition. Why? Because if you work for a company and you get in the vehicle and it's not the person registered to the vehicle, the vehicle won't start. If you're a private citizen and you get in the vehicle and you get a dui, now they can go back and interrogate the camera. Footage that's archived, of course, with the geolocation, the velocity, speed, etcetera, and use it to prosecute you. Utah Highway Patrol in the Beehive State. Those cute little white sedans driving around. The SUV's driving around with Beehive State on it. Utah Highway Patrol. Brave men and women out there every single day doing a really good job. No offense to uhp, but they just integrated a drone. I actually saw the drone driving back from Southern Utah on vacation with my kids. Why? To track speeders. You know, because they'll track you speeding and they don't have to use resources. They'll just send you the ticket in the mail. Better yet, they'll track your address and send it to your address. Or send a patrol officer to arrest you for reckless driving. You know, because you're driving in the open desert in between here and Las Vegas. Nobody's on the road. The speed limit's 80, and you're going 95. That's reckless driving. They'll come to your house with a tow truck and impound your car. They'll arrest you. Reckless driving is an arrestable offense. It's mostly not because they don't want to have to deal with booking, but it's an arrestable offense so they don't show up and then process you. You might even get lucky enough to see a robot showing up at your house to put you in jail. In our lifetime, that could be a potential option. So it's not just cameras that recognize by digitally enhancing the imagery. That's a dumb camera. This is AI integrated cameras. And what possibility could AI integrated cameras do? Well, what they can do is they could track movement trends, they could identify anomalies. The spike in the pattern that I talk about in my book Prepared. They could cross reference databases. You know, they could see if you're a veteran who has PTSD and the red flag is waving for all law enforcement to see, and now they could see it when they pull up your driver's license. And then they could ask you, do you have a pew pew in the trunk of your car? And if you do, you go to jail because you're not allowed to have one. They could associate vehicles together, look at stickers and imagery and dents and pain anomalies and all these things that would be very predictive to detect who you are, where you are, and what you're doing at all times. Oh, we noticed that you went to Home depot. You bought 100 mile art tape and a bottle of Clorox bleach. You bought Some rope. We're interested in what nefarious things you could be doing. Do you have a warrant? We don't need a warrant. We've seen you on the Flock cameras in different parts of town. Because we initiated an investigation. Because you pinged on our radar for purchasing certain things. You might even use cash. But the camera detected you use cash and then pulled all the people who use cash to the top. Just like it pulls you together and subcategorizes you. If you purchase a certain amount of Pew Pews, don't buy more than two little pew pews, because you'll be on a list, a naughty list. And then they'll distill you and do investigations because you. You're likely the person who stole the package off the front door. Or not completely not. But that's what court's for, right? You just figure it out in court. They could build behavioral profiles of you based on your profession. I lost a job in the civilian world because I was a sniper. Yeah, that's right. Sniper was on my resume. And they told me I lost the position. That was a six figure position with a pickup truck driving to all the Department of Energy areas in Colorado. Head of security. That would have been me. But instead, I didn't get the job despite having a bachelor's degree and more experience than the person below me that was applying for the same job. I had twice as much experience in crisis response and what they needed. In fact, it specifically denoted they wanted a degree in homeland security. Yep, I got that. But I lost it because I was designated as a liability because of my job. I was a sniper. What does that have to do with technology? Well, now I don't have to manually search anything. I could actually do a data dump, Find out who all the special operations veterans are, their background, put in some prompts, and navigate the highest risk of her population. Yeah, I could do that. The same exploitable measures they're using to target vehicles are the same tactics we use to build target decks and packages on bad guys in counterterrorism overseas. Yeah, how convenient and awesome is that? So today it's stolen cars, tomorrow it's political targeting. Oh, that's a conspiracy theory. We know that now because of the Twitter files. We know that now because of the DOJ reports. Yeah, if you're a Republican in the gop, Your phone was tapped. There are audio recording devices listening to your conversations. How interesting. We. We think somehow this won't be used against us. So it matters in the realm of preparedness, not in paranoia or fear. Because we live in such a volatile world of just abstract noise, it's hard to distill through the noise what's true, what's manipulation, what's fact. One of the things that I'm doing is I'm breaking out through this outpost concept, a distilled measure of news that matters to you. For the domestic prepper. You guys are my domestic preppers. Don't take offense to that because that is a coin phrase I came up with years ago. That is a term of endearment. Yeah, we need more of that. And so the objective for me, for you, is to keep you prepared by keeping you thinking, but also give you call to action. It's like, I want you to think about this and then I want to come up with some takeaways. I got a list of takeaways, tactics. How much are you exposing yourself overall? You take these same routes, the same patterns of life. Do you understand your digital footprint? Because the acceleration of this tech with AI, you're going to be more exploitable. You're never going to be able to hide. You're always going to be vulnerable. If you don't start critically thinking now, how do you think about your data? See, the other day, I'm with my daughter and she says, hey, dad, can you get rid of this prompt? She doesn't use the word prompt, but she says this thing on the screen. And there was a prompt. There's a consent prompt for allowing the game to access my data on my cell phone. And I'm like, wait a minute. This is a kids game. And the big button is green that says consent. So if you're a child and you see this, you're like, what is this? And you just push the green button and I scroll down to the bottom and what does it say? It says I'm basically consenting to all these blocks checked. And all the blocks checked are access to my personal information for advertisement. Yeah, scary. They're exploiting kids and it is exploiting kids. It should be illegal, but it's not. Guys and gals broadcasting every single thing they do. If I see another person post a picture of what they're eating, I've done it. I do it. But why? And why in real time? You might have seen me on vacation. I actually didn't post any pictures or stories of the vacation, but let's say you do or you did. If you're seeing on my Instagram, Mike A. Glover or Mike Gloveractual, it's not in real time. There's typically a 48 hour delay. When I'm at Lola's in Heber City, Utah, eating a chicken sandwich with my family. 1 There is no desire for me to do that anymore. I don't really do that, but if I did, I would do it the next day. So then you might think I'm at Lola's. I like to share experiences. I shared a Memorial Day experience with this do it yourself deck, which is really cool. Some guys called it the mother in law suite, which I thought was funny. It was like a tent, which is a sweet setup, but I'm using that. But in real time, you're not seeing it because there's a delay. Because I don't want to be exploited. And we take for granted the analog. I want you to build analog capability where possible. It's why I drive an old pickup truck. It's why I've switched over to when I'm on the road. Because I don't want to be exploited and interrogated. I don't want this watch with all the data on it to be interrogated. That's why I'm traveling with a G shock, a dumb watch. I mean, it's a pretty smart watch. It's amazing. And I'm carrying a Faraday bag for my RFIDs, the things that are in your wallet, and my cell phone. Because I don't want to be on the grid, I want to be off of it. I won't be left alone for the most case. I want to be left alone for most cases. But you see how this compounds itself. So it's not paranoia, it's awareness, it's self awareness. We will trade enormous amounts of our privacy for the name of convenience because we want automated tolls, faster apps, smart devices, integrated systems. And slowly, incrementally, society normalizes surveillance in the infrastructure around us. You walk into a venue, they're doing facial recognition, you touch the glass, they're doing biometrics. You hand over the credit card, they're doing RFID exploitation. And everything is automated. I go to the car wash, the local car wash, and they put a sticker with a barcode that now scans it and lifts the arm. So I could just go through the drive thru without talking to anybody and then it automatically bills me. Yeah, sure, it's convenient. Look, I'm not anti technology, I love tech. But you should understand better than the average person because you're a domestic prepper, that AI is accelerating. Everything around you in the civilian surveillance infrastructure with integrated government is getting.
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too close for comfort coming from Flock's own website, the company right now last valued was approximately $7.5 billion, after raising last year 275 million. They have 1500 employees and 300 million in annual recurring revenue as its network performs more than 20 billion vehicle scans per month in the U.S. and that should scare the crap out of you, because it's not just Flock. It's everything. Everything you touch, everything you interact with, every Bluetooth device, every vehicle you drive. It's going to be integrated in your shoes, in your glasses and your in your hat. And that is scary. As a prospect, I just want you to think about it. What say you? Let me know your feedback in the comments down below. Follow me on Spotify by clicking the link down below. If you're watching me on YouTube and vice versa. I appreciate you guys. Until next time. Peace out.
Date: May 27, 2026
Mike Glover delves into the widespread deployment and implications of AI-powered Flock cameras and the broader rise of the surveillance state in America. Using real-world anecdotes, personal stories, and a focus on preparedness, Mike explores how rapid technological advancements in surveillance are encroaching on civil liberties and privacy. He also offers practical takeaways for listeners concerned about digital exposure and exploitation.
Case of a school resource officer misusing Flock and other databases to track students and exes—abuse of access and power (06:20).
A woman wrongly accused of theft, pursued based on AI-camera evidence, losing her job and reputation even when proven innocent.
“Did they apologize? No. Did anybody get in trouble? No. Qualified immunity. She lost her job. She was ridiculed, embarrassed, obviously. Had to pay thousands of dollars in legal fees, and it wasn't even her.” — Mike Glover (07:00)
Fundamental concern: AI can get it wrong, but the repercussions for innocent people are devastating.
“Ford just signed off on a patent. The patent is for reading the retinas, biometrics, facial recognition...If you work for a company and you get in the vehicle and it's not the person registered to the vehicle, the vehicle won't start.” (08:30)
“You might even get lucky enough to see a robot showing up at your house to put you in jail. In our lifetime, that could be a potential option.” (10:30)
“They could build behavioral profiles of you based on your profession…” (12:00)
“The same exploitable measures they're using to target vehicles are the same tactics we use to build target decks and packages on bad guys in counterterrorism overseas.” (13:40)
“If you're seeing [me] on my Instagram...it's not in real time. There's typically a 48 hour delay…” (16:45)
"They're exploiting kids and it is exploiting kids. It should be illegal, but it's not." (17:10)
“We will trade enormous amounts of our privacy for the name of convenience because we want automated tolls, faster apps, smart devices, integrated systems. And slowly, incrementally, society normalizes surveillance in the infrastructure around us.” (18:30)
“Look, I’m not anti technology, I love tech. But you should understand better than the average person because you’re a domestic prepper, that AI is accelerating.” (19:50)
“That should scare the crap out of you, because it's not just Flock. It's everything. Everything you touch, everything you interact with, every Bluetooth device, every vehicle you drive. It's going to be integrated in your shoes, in your glasses and your in your hat. And that is scary. As a prospect, I just want you to think about it.” — Mike Glover
Mike charges listeners to stay vigilant, informed, and to critically assess their own exposure in a world where surveillance technology is expanding at an unprecedented rate.
“What say you? Let me know your feedback in the comments down below... Until next time. Peace out.” — Mike Glover (21:43)