COTC - 22 Dec 2025 - AI in the sewer?

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Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is Cup of

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Traverse City for the 12/22/2025.

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I'm Mike,

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and happy Monday.

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Now let's get to the weather. Rain and

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snow likely before 2PM.

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Chance of rain between two and four and

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a chance of snow after 4PM. Cloudy with

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a high near 37.

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South winds,

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five to 10 miles per hour. Chance of

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precipitation

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is 70%.

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Total daytime snow accumulation less than one half

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of an inch possible.

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They kinda did that yesterday. It was just

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a little dusting here and there.

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Tonight, a chance of snow before 10PM,

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a chance of rain,

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cloudy with low around 31,

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south wind around 25, chance precipitation

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is 40%,

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and tomorrow's partly sunny with a high near

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39.

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So we're melting down again.

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West wind, five to 10 miles per hour.

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And, you know, the prediction for, Christmas day

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is, 40 degrees.

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So we're gonna have a white ish Christmas

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around here.

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Not a huge deal.

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And I read a story over on UpNorth

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live

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that,

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made me scratch my head a little bit.

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It's a the headline is Traverse City launches

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an AI driven sewer evaluation.

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Now I get it. AI is kinda everywhere.

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You know, I use it a little bit

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here and there for things it's good at,

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things some things it's not good at.

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But

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for a sewer evaluation,

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it's crazy. You know? They're conducting a survey

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of all the sewer pipes,

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around Traverse City. You know? We're we're on

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city here,

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even though I'm in the county and not

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in the city, but certain areas close to

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the city

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are also on municipal

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sewer and water

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and whatnot. But, yeah, they're so they ran

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a bunch of, cameras through, you know, a

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lot of the sewer lines. Sounds like a

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fun job.

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But, they're letting AI evaluate

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the piping.

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It's

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you know, again, you know, is AI necessary?

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You know, we have a,

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oh,

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a a a payroll system for work, and

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it's a it's a service that, you know,

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where employees go in and they punch in,

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punch out, and, you know, keep track of

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their time and expenses and whatnot.

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And now on there, there's a pop up

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every time you go in there. Try our

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AI.

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What do you need AI for? For you

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know, you're just straight down times.

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I mean,

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come on.

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You know,

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as I was complaining about Friday, my

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security cameras.

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Now, you know, after I get through the

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gauntlet of ads to get to look at

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my own cameras that I bought,

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I also have, another pop up says try

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our AI. You know, everything is just popping

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up. AI, AI, AI, AI. Well, AI is

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good at certain things,

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but it doesn't need to be everywhere.

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And, you know, I don't know. Maybe it's

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a good thing, for the city to do

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that with their sewer pipes, but it just

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seemed a little funny to me

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that, they needed AI to tell them if

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their sewer pipes are clogging up or

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or cracking or or whatever the the case

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may be. Anyway, it's interesting story. There is

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a video also. I'll have a link in

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the show notes

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over at cupoftrevorcity.com.

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I hope everybody's got all their Christmas shopping

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done and

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all that. I I tell you, Saturday, it

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was a madhouse

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just about everywhere I went, and it wasn't

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even Christmas shopping. I was just doing normal,

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you know, errands and whatnot. And, oh my

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gosh,

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it was,

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it was crazy.

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Although I have to give it to, Costco.

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I went over to Costco. We get certain

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things just at Costco.

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And, you know, you should never go there

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on a Saturday, but, I did.

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And especially this close to Christmas and all

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everybody's Christmas shopping and whatnot.

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And the line was almost to the back

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of the store for the, self checkout,

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but here's a key,

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hack

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at Costco, at least in Traverse City. You

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get in the other line. Get in the,

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the cashier line. The cashier line moves a

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lot faster, and it's usually a lot shorter.

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Everybody wants to do self checkout.

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I I went to the other line and

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but, you know, I have to give it

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to them. They are amazingly fast through both,

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you know, both lines.

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They have people right there to help you

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out,

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and, it's

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it's impressive, how much they can get through.

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Kinda like Chick fil A, you know, if

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you ever go there at a busy time,

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they whip through, that backup

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very well.

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So certain companies do have,

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good,

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good service like that and are used to

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the to the busy.

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Anyway, I'll let you get on with your

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Monday.

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This has been Mike, and we'll see you

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tomorrow.