FBI Anti-Terrorism, Reduced Sentencing, Wandering Minds

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 4, Episode 30

Feb 23, 2015 2:00 pm
2:10:32 mins

PROTECTING AGAINST HACKERS Todd Palmer, an FBI agent, joins Matt to discuss the FBI's role in preventing terrorism. Palmer also talks specifically about cyber terrorism. He expalins what we can do to stay safe in our everyday lives. REDUCED SENTENCES FOR DRUG CRIMES Anna Brower, from the Utah Chapter of the ACLU, gives us insight into a new public poll about reduced sentences for minor drug related crime. The benefit would be getting offenders help and using tax dollars in a more responsible way. WANDERING MINDS Jenni Ogden shares the pros and cons of letting your mind wander. There is a time for focus and a time for mind-wandering. She explains that we can control, to some extent, when our minds wander, and there are even situations where mind wandering is advantageous.

Episode Segments

Episode Segments

PROTECTING AGAINST HACKERS

40m

Todd Palmer, an FBI agent, joins Matt to discuss the FBI's role in preventing terrorism. Palmer also talks specifically about cyber terrorism. He expalins what we can do to stay safe in our everyday lives.

REDUCED SENTENCES FOR DRUG CRIMES

46m

Anna Brower, from the Utah Chapter of the ACLU, gives us insight into a new public poll about reduced sentences for minor drug related crime. The benefit would be getting offenders help and using tax dollars in a more responsible way.

WANDERING MINDS

32m

Jenni Ogden shares the pros and cons of letting your mind wander. There is a time for focus and a time for mind-wandering. She explains that we can control, to some extent, when our minds wander, and there are even situations where mind wandering is advantageous.