Topic: Magnetic Strip

The hosts predict that the Federal Reserve will use Y2K concerns to transition the public toward electronic money, including chips and thumb scans. They argue this system grants government agencies like the IRS the power to monitor every purchase and remotely disable a citizen's ability to spend money. Under this proposed framework, individuals would be forced to prove their innocence to the government to regain access to their own funds.

A trivia question reveals that in Chinese tradition, wearing green on one's head signifies that their wife is cheating. Following the trivia, a caller suggests that citizens should use magnets to erase the data strips on the back of their driver's licenses and use markers to black out barcodes as a form of protest against "Big Brother" surveillance.