Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on
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Speaker 1: focused on alcohol. It's where we kick off swamp Watch.
Speaker 2: I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheap and a liar.
Speaker 3: And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing the lollipops
Speaker 3: we got.
Speaker 4: The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2: The other side never quits.
Speaker 4: So what I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 5: So that now you train the.
Speaker 2: Swat, I can imagine what can be and be unburdened
Speaker 2: by what has been have always been going.
Speaker 1: I hante that you put that in here every day
Speaker 1: in a nice position.
Speaker 2: Actually, people get a reminder swamp watch. They're all canon, well,
Speaker 2: you don't want to be burdened. I don't want to
Speaker 2: be burdened. I do not. Yes.
Speaker 1: President Trump says he will place a two hundred percent
Speaker 1: tariff on European wine and champagne two hundred percent.
Speaker 2: A lot of people are to be pissed off about this.
Speaker 1: In a post on truth Social Trump said it would
Speaker 1: be in response to a fifty percent tariff on whiskey.
Speaker 1: Implemented by the EU. President said the union was created
Speaker 1: for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the US.
Speaker 1: We had heard about the Kentucky whiskey and the whiskey
Speaker 1: and the bourbon makers being hurt by the Canadian situation
Speaker 1: and elsewhere, but not, I mean, and.
Speaker 2: You're dealing with different people here.
Speaker 1: You're going to piss off the wine people to make
Speaker 1: the whiskey people happy.
Speaker 2: That's a dangerous.
Speaker 6: Game, Beautiful, who do you want to piss off more?
Speaker 1: Who you want to piss off more? The whiskey drinkers
Speaker 1: or the wine drinkers. I've seen angry wine drinkers. And
Speaker 1: that is a dangerous road to.
Speaker 6: Ho This volatility that we've seen, as you mentioned, has
Speaker 6: driven Wall Street numbers into the red. The Dow is
Speaker 6: down another five hundred and thirty points right now. S
Speaker 6: and P five hundred is down seventy. The Nasdaq is
Speaker 6: down more than three hundred points. And this again, it's
Speaker 6: not because wine and champagne or whiskey, or even steel
Speaker 6: and aluminum are the things that are driving this.
Speaker 2: It's the uncertainty. It's the volatility.
Speaker 6: And Trump had said obviously, he said in the day
Speaker 6: one prices we're going to go down. That didn't happen,
Speaker 6: And then he said in an interview back on Sunday,
Speaker 6: I believe it was that there will be some short
Speaker 6: term things we have to go through before those prices
Speaker 6: come down. It's that volatility that's driving all of this uncertainty,
Speaker 6: that uncertainty the way that is coming out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's the terrorists that are driving the volatility, right,
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous numbers like two hundred percent.
Speaker 6: Well, and it's it's the well, what's going to happen tomorrow.
Speaker 6: We don't know what's going to happen six months from now.
Speaker 6: We don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. Scott Bessen
Speaker 6: is the new Treasury Secretary. He said, yeah, it is
Speaker 6: a little crazy right now, but he's not worried about
Speaker 6: the volatility.
Speaker 5: What we're focused on is the We're focused on the
Speaker 5: real economy. Can we create an environment where there are
Speaker 5: long term games in the market and long term games
Speaker 5: for the American people. I'm not concerned about a little
Speaker 5: bit of volatility over three weeks.
Speaker 1: Right over three weeks, but like to your point, we
Speaker 1: don't know if this is going to be three.
Speaker 2: Weeks or three years.
Speaker 6: Right now, France is the top wine exporter to the
Speaker 6: US of about two and a half billion dollars worth.
Speaker 6: Italy comes in a very close second at two point
Speaker 6: three billion, and for both of those, wine is among
Speaker 6: the top goods that they send here to the United States.
Speaker 6: The French Trade Minister, Laurent Saint Martine said that Trump
Speaker 6: is escalating the trade war he has chosen to start,
Speaker 6: and that his country would fight back. Olof Gil is
Speaker 6: a spokesperson for the EU Commission and said the US
Speaker 6: needs to immediately revoke the steel and aluminum tariffs that
Speaker 6: were imposed yesterday. He says they bring nothing but lose
Speaker 6: lose outcomes, and we want to focus on win win outcomes.
Speaker 2: This is his plan. This is exactly.
Speaker 6: This, This tariff war, trade war thing is going exactly
Speaker 6: the way Trump wanted it to because he has said
Speaker 6: over and over again that we're the ones getting screwed.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 6: Nobody likes the temporary We hope it's temporary pain that
Speaker 6: will be inflicted. But remember there have been a lot
Speaker 6: of these threats of tariffs that have then been pulled
Speaker 6: off the table because whoever the other country is has
Speaker 6: come forward and said okay, let's work this out. We
Speaker 6: got to figure this out, and that's how he negotiates
Speaker 6: with a giant freaking hammer.
Speaker 1: Russian President Vladimir Putin says he agrees with that ceasefire
Speaker 1: plan they came up with in Saudi Arabia. When it
Speaker 1: came to the US diplomats and their Ukrainian counterparts.
Speaker 2: Of it, he said, they agree with it in principle.
Speaker 1: It was during a press briefing today that Putin said
Speaker 1: the proposal needs to lead to an enduring peace and
Speaker 1: should remove the root causes of this crisis. That's all
Speaker 1: grade a Bologney.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: Was that Putin? No I was going to say, he
Speaker 2: sounds different.
Speaker 1: US officials did travel to Moscow today to discuss a
Speaker 1: possible ceasefire with Russian officials. This after Ukraine said earlier
Speaker 1: that it would agree to the US backed thirty day
Speaker 1: ceasefire if Russia did as well. So it looks like
Speaker 1: Putin's saying, no, I want to talk to my American counterparts. E.
Speaker 2: I want some things here.
Speaker 1: I want to get the good end of this deal,
Speaker 1: and right now it's not there.
Speaker 6: Senate is now the body that has to determine whether
Speaker 6: or not there's going to be a government shutdown starting
Speaker 6: tomorrow night. Senate Democrats led by Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer
Speaker 6: made a speech on the floor of the Senate yesterday
Speaker 6: and said there will be no deal and he doesn't
Speaker 6: think any Democrats will support the plan that was put
Speaker 6: forward by the Republican controlled House, although when you look
Speaker 6: at it, there's a lot of the original Biden Harris
Speaker 6: spending plan for this year that exists in this six
Speaker 6: month continuing resolution. Majority Leader John Thune said, this is
Speaker 6: Chuck Schumer's it's his deal now, and he's the one
Speaker 6: who's going to blow this if they can't pass it.
Speaker 7: Thanks to the Democrat leader's decision to abandon the fiscal
Speaker 7: year twenty twenty five appropriations process, the continuing resolution we
Speaker 7: have before us is the best option we have to
Speaker 7: fund the government for the balance of this year. And so,
Speaker 7: mister President's time for the Democrat leader to acknowledge that
Speaker 7: it's his decisions that put us here and urge his
Speaker 7: colleagues to accept the situation and vote to fund the
Speaker 7: government rather than to let it shut down.
Speaker 2: At midnight on Friday.
Speaker 1: Fallout from the federal agency layoffs continue a federal judge
Speaker 1: today ordered President Trump's administration to reinstate thousands, maybe tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of probationary workers who are let go in
Speaker 1: the firings across multiple agencies last month. The judge directed
Speaker 1: the agencies to report back within seven days with a
Speaker 1: list of probationary employees and an explanation of how the
Speaker 1: department compiled with his order or complied excuse me with
Speaker 1: his order to each person and compiled their lists. I
Speaker 1: should say so this affects the VA, Agriculture, Interior, and
Speaker 1: number of government agencies. There are an estimated two hundred
Speaker 1: thousand probationary workers across federal agencies. So not just entry
Speaker 1: level workers, but people who have been promoted. It's not
Speaker 1: just like fly by the night kind of people that
Speaker 1: are working for these agencies that have been ordered reinstated.
Speaker 6: Up next, a woman in Connecticut accused of brutally torturing
Speaker 6: and holding in captivity her step son since he was
Speaker 6: eleven years old. He's now over thirty twenty years this
Speaker 6: kid kept in these horrific conditions.
Speaker 1: Oh, in a crazy parenting show that's getting crazy amount
Speaker 1: of buzzes out today, tell you about that as well.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Move over Dixon Dallas. Hello, Gary Hoffman.
Speaker 1: How refresh my recollection of Dixon Dallas. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I forgot completely about that. That was that country song
Speaker 1: I was listening to a suggested to me on Spotify,
Speaker 1: and I'm into it, and all of a sudden it
Speaker 1: got real dirty, real quick, back room of the abbey dirty.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then you listened to it, and then I
Speaker 6: made two more times by the time, and then I
Speaker 6: made you fall in love with it before you knew
Speaker 6: what it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's like watching the Victoria Secret Angels Show and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that wasn't a woman got it?
Speaker 2: She was hot, pulled a fast one on me.
Speaker 6: Kimberly Sullivan is, by all descriptions, a very wicked person.
Speaker 6: This woman is accused of imprisoning and starving her step
Speaker 6: son for twenty years now. Her lawyer, of course, maintains
Speaker 6: her innocence. They say these allegations are not true, they're atlandish.
Speaker 6: In fact, Kimberly was blown away when she heard these allegations.
Speaker 6: The discovery of a thirty two year old man happened
Speaker 6: in the middle of February when Waterbury, Connecticut police officers,
Speaker 6: along with personnel from the fire department, responded to report
Speaker 6: of an active fire at a home at about a
Speaker 6: quarter to nine that night. The fire was quickly put
Speaker 6: out by a couple of authorities and two occupants found
Speaker 6: inside at the home. The first person identified was Kimberly Sullivan,
Speaker 6: owner of the property. She's fifty six. The second person
Speaker 6: a thirty two year old man later determined to be
Speaker 6: Sullivan's step son, now the police chief, Fernando Spagnola.
Speaker 8: Fire investigators quickly realized that there was a room in
Speaker 8: the house that appeared to have locks on it from
Speaker 8: the exterior portion of the house. They began to speak
Speaker 8: to the male victim, who disclosed that he was being
Speaker 8: held captive in the house for an extended period of time,
Speaker 8: approximately twenty years. It was worse than the conditions of
Speaker 8: a jail cell. So there's a lot of physical therapy
Speaker 8: that'll have to go through, there's a lot of healing
Speaker 8: that'll have to go through. Mentally, it appears that it
Speaker 8: was a very controlling situation going on regarding the victim's
Speaker 8: conditions whereabouts, his connection with other family members other people
Speaker 8: in the community, other friends.
Speaker 6: He had said to the ambulance crew, I set the
Speaker 6: fire upstairs because I wanted my freedom.
Speaker 1: He was eleven years old when this captivity began.
Speaker 6: They said that there was starvation, severe neglect, inhumane treatment.
Speaker 6: The thirty two year old was found to have been
Speaker 6: in a severely emaciated condition and hadn't received medical or
Speaker 6: dental care over the time of his captivity.
Speaker 1: You know, we mentioned this when the turbine story broke,
Speaker 1: you brought it up.
Speaker 2: I believe a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Of how many homes are there like this when it
Speaker 1: comes to not knowing your neighbors, Like, how many homes
Speaker 1: where there's like a horrific thing going on nobody even
Speaker 1: knows about like this.
Speaker 2: For more than twenty years, she kept this.
Speaker 1: Kid and now man captive, beating him water from the toilet.
Speaker 1: My goodness, I mean, how many homes are like this?
Speaker 1: That's awful and at the hands of a woman. It's
Speaker 1: just always so shocking.
Speaker 6: There's always more, that's the thing. Yeah, there's always, as
Speaker 6: the rule, there's always more.
Speaker 1: Have you heard about this show on Netflix? It's gotten
Speaker 1: a lot of us. It's called adolescence no, okay. Here
Speaker 1: is the premise. It's a couple and they have a
Speaker 1: teenage son and he's accused of murdering a classmate and
Speaker 1: all the things that go along with that is being
Speaker 1: a parent, right, it's your worst one of your worst
Speaker 1: nightmares of that your kid gets into some real trouble,
Speaker 1: you know, and where did we go wrong? And we
Speaker 1: thought we had a good kid, all the things. Each episode,
Speaker 1: it's a four part Netflix drama. Each episode was filmed
Speaker 1: in a single continuous shot. Now you remember when we
Speaker 1: watch I believe it was the finale of the Bear
Speaker 1: one season that was one continuous shot and the intensity
Speaker 1: that that brings alone, and then you add on all
Speaker 1: the intensity that comes on with this, and they say,
Speaker 1: it's freaking insane.
Speaker 2: Each four part.
Speaker 1: Each part of this four part drama filmed in a
Speaker 1: single continuous shot. It launched today. It's a young boy
Speaker 1: accused of stabbing a classmate. It's a new actor, Owen Cooper,
Speaker 1: who plays a teenager. They said while filming, the camera
Speaker 1: was handed between operators like a relay race and carried
Speaker 1: by the fast moving crew as they followed the actors
Speaker 1: in and out of buildings.
Speaker 6: Wow, yeah, how do you rehearse that I have no
Speaker 6: way do the whole scene.
Speaker 2: You have to do the whole thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the actors says, it's like a Zen like
Speaker 1: style of acting that you get the same spontaneity and
Speaker 1: energy that you get from a live performance.
Speaker 2: So maybe there are no hurt. Maybe it's just go
Speaker 2: do it well now you But I mean that's.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I have no idea. You're in the industry. I am not.
Speaker 6: But that would be pretty intense a I don't know
Speaker 6: if that would find man. That almost be too it
Speaker 6: would be almost uh too much of the anxiety watching that.
Speaker 1: I think we'll find out. All the reviews say it
Speaker 1: is a must sy show.
Speaker 6: We have new locks that will open with just the
Speaker 6: wave of your hand, and that old cute little rumba
Speaker 6: that's stuck under the coffee table and has been there
Speaker 6: for nine months. The maker of rumba is suggesting they
Speaker 6: may not have a future.
Speaker 1: What I love the rumba. I call mine Helen because
Speaker 1: she runs into things.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's true. You don't, it's a true story.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six forty A Wave.
Speaker 1: That unlocks a video and the future of Rumba In doubt,
Speaker 1: we turned to Mark Saltzman.
Speaker 3: The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 4: This is tech Talk, brought to you by Skynet.
Speaker 6: Pretty crazy, Mark, but anchor the maker of just about
Speaker 6: everything technology. I think I have a bunch of their
Speaker 6: their rechargeable batteries and yeah, they're power banks.
Speaker 2: Power banks.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They've announced through their u fie. Is that you say it?
Speaker 3: That's how you say it. It's euf y, That's how
Speaker 3: it's pronounced. Here.
Speaker 6: They have a bunch of smart home products and they
Speaker 6: have a lock that uses your palm.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I like this.
Speaker 9: It's meant to be more secure. They sent it to
Speaker 9: me to play around with. It's pretty wild. So it's
Speaker 9: called the UFI Familock S three Max and it's a
Speaker 9: video door lock, so it's also a video door bell camera.
Speaker 3: But we'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 9: But yeah, the unique feature is that it uses palm
Speaker 9: vein scanning technology. So it's an infrared light IR light
Speaker 9: that illuminates the palm when you wave it over the sensor.
Speaker 9: It looks at the blood flow in your palm and
Speaker 9: in the veins. And it is a unique identifier. It's
Speaker 9: what we call biometrics technology. It's not unlike using your
Speaker 9: face to unlock your iPhone or a fingerprint or something.
Speaker 3: It is another way to securely identify you.
Speaker 9: The company claims it's ninety nine point nine nine nine
Speaker 9: nine nine percent accurate and you can program up to
Speaker 9: fifty palm prints. So your family, your friends, whoever you
Speaker 9: want access to your home. So the idea is that
Speaker 9: you don't need a mechanical key. It uses either keypad.
Speaker 9: But even more convenient is holding up your hand.
Speaker 2: It's this is going to sound macab.
Speaker 3: Can I know what you're going to say?
Speaker 9: Cut somebody's hand off, and don't you kill them? So
Speaker 9: if someone killed you to get into your home, yeah,
Speaker 9: I think it's looking for blood in the veins.
Speaker 3: And if I don't.
Speaker 9: Know how, I don't know how fast how fast you
Speaker 9: need to hold the hand up after it's severed for it.
Speaker 3: It's a really it's a macob question.
Speaker 1: Yes, had a low red cell blood count.
Speaker 9: My thinking is if somebody wants to get in your house,
Speaker 9: they're going to get in your house. I feel like
Speaker 9: one way or another, so it does work. It's pretty wild. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I was a latchkey kid when I was younger. I
Speaker 9: had like a mechanical key on a shoe string around
Speaker 9: my neck, Like.
Speaker 3: That's old school.
Speaker 9: So this also works with Alexa or Google. You can
Speaker 9: use your voice to lock or unlock the door when
Speaker 9: you're inside. And it does have an integrated two K camera,
Speaker 9: so that's to see deliveries for example. And on the
Speaker 9: inside of the door is the screen as well. There's
Speaker 9: an app, but there's a screen that will show you
Speaker 9: who's at your door. Yeah, so it's going to be
Speaker 9: coming in April. It's going to be three ninety nine,
Speaker 9: and there's a seventy dollars off code at the website
Speaker 9: at ufi dot com.
Speaker 3: So yeah, kind of neat. I've been kicking the tires
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 2: Everybody. I know a lot of people who have room bus.
Speaker 6: I don't know everybody who uses them on a regular
Speaker 6: basis because there is some upkeep involved.
Speaker 1: Quick question, if you're murdered, does your room bus still work?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 9: If you're Helen is still going to do her job.
Speaker 9: She puts the she puts hell in hell. You can't
Speaker 9: spell hella without hell, yes, So yeah, the roombus and
Speaker 9: other floor vacuuming robots are ill popular, but the company
Speaker 9: I Robot may not be around. It's funny they ironically
Speaker 9: announced a half a dozen new models this week, but
Speaker 9: they in the same breath told investors yesterday that it
Speaker 9: has and I quote, substantial doubt about it or our
Speaker 9: ability to continue. The company is in trouble. What happened
Speaker 9: was a year ago Amazon was going to buy them.
Speaker 9: It was a one point seven billion dollar acquisition that
Speaker 9: was called off by Amazon because of regulatory hurdles, mostly
Speaker 9: out of Europe. That's not unusual. The EU has very
Speaker 9: strict regulatory compliance rules and all that. So I don't
Speaker 9: know what the issues were with privacy and all that,
Speaker 9: or it was maybe deemed monopoly. But what has happened
Speaker 9: since is that there are these brands that have come
Speaker 9: out of nowhere, seemingly that are giving comparable performance in
Speaker 9: a robotic vacuum and mop combo in one as low
Speaker 9: as ninety dollars, Like, how do you compete with that?
Speaker 9: So if you go to on you'll find brands, some
Speaker 9: you'll recognize, some you won't. Dream Robo Rock, Shark Shark
Speaker 9: you probably know, like Shark Ninja.
Speaker 3: UFI is another one.
Speaker 9: The same company as the video door bell lock with
Speaker 9: the palm scanning and you can now get comparable quality.
Speaker 9: So even though the company has a half dozen new
Speaker 9: models that they're they're also just catching up with light
Speaker 9: ar sensing instead of other technologies to navigate around your home.
Speaker 9: Light R is more efficient. It's it can clean your
Speaker 9: home better in a shorter amount of time. By learning
Speaker 9: your home. You probably know that there's an app that
Speaker 9: will show you a map of your floor that you
Speaker 9: can name, like that's my kitchen, that's my family room,
Speaker 9: and then you can tell the smart speaker or the
Speaker 9: app clean in front of my stove. Things like that
Speaker 9: get very specific. So yeah, so eye robots got to
Speaker 9: catch up. But who knows, I'd be worried about buying
Speaker 9: an eye robot just because you don't know if the
Speaker 9: company's going to be around. But they did announce some
Speaker 9: new they're in they're in debt, they're still paying off
Speaker 9: a two.
Speaker 3: Hundred million dollar bridge loan.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not not looking good.
Speaker 6: Well, And if if I robot goes under, then whatever
Speaker 6: Isaac Asimov books are, they're not going to be true anymore.
Speaker 9: Right, Yeah, yeah, right, you know they were the ogs
Speaker 9: Rooumbot back in two thousand and two. Right, it's not
Speaker 9: the same I Robot as asim of the same name
Speaker 9: for sure. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't know if I
Speaker 9: should even acknowledge that. Yes, it was a good movie
Speaker 9: with Will Smith though.
Speaker 2: It was a great mind love.
Speaker 3: I like that movie. I was kind of underrated. But yeah, no, Ruba,
Speaker 3: they're the ogs.
Speaker 9: I Robot came out in two thousand and two, in
Speaker 9: September of twenty two. But so it's a shame if
Speaker 9: they go under because they kickstarted this whole robot fact
Speaker 9: thing that Kats like to sit on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we like to watch Kat. I don't think they
Speaker 6: like it, but we like to watch them sit on it.
Speaker 2: Mark, thank you and to you.
Speaker 3: Talk to you next week.
Speaker 6: You bet Mark Saltzman follow Mark on x m arc
Speaker 6: under marked My dark humor was funny.
Speaker 2: He's just got a higher level of humor acuity.
Speaker 1: Well, we set the bar high, set it real high.
Speaker 6: There is a weird thing going on in social media
Speaker 6: where you think, listen, there's an evil part of the Internet,
Speaker 6: and it looks like the cracks are opening up and
Speaker 6: that evil part of the Internet is now seeping into
Speaker 6: your social media feed.
Speaker 2: Oh God, be careful.
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Speaker 4: A six forty.
Speaker 2: I've got eyes on Jackie who is.
Speaker 1: In the nest at Big Bear and her three little
Speaker 1: babies are underneath her, and I learned about the crop today.
Speaker 2: The crop is the eagles really to go box.
Speaker 1: It's an expandable part of the esophagus where they can
Speaker 1: store up to two pounds of food. So even if
Speaker 1: what's his name Shadow doesn't come back to provide us
Speaker 1: a fish carcass or a bird carcass, apparently Jackie's got
Speaker 1: enough there neuroesophagus to keep those babies fed throughout the day.
Speaker 2: Are you worried about them? I don't think you should
Speaker 2: be worried. No, I was just I wanted to watch
Speaker 2: a meal today.
Speaker 6: I guess, Oh that's weird. Why is that weird? It's nature,
Speaker 6: I know, but you've talked about how gruesome it is.
Speaker 6: It's pretty apart the birds, and I like a little gruesome. Well,
Speaker 6: in this case, let me that leads directly into this
Speaker 6: next story, because it's not You're not gonna like it.
Speaker 6: Kelly Takazu was interviewed by the Washington post mom here
Speaker 6: in La uses Instagram for parenting advice and cooking videos.
Speaker 6: I would I would venture to tell different, Kelly, let's
Speaker 6: move away from the parenting advice from effing Instagram. Maybe
Speaker 6: let's uh crack open a book or talk to friends
Speaker 6: or something.
Speaker 2: Well, Instagram's like a book. It's just a lot.
Speaker 6: Stop every word that comes out of your mouth from
Speaker 6: this point forward. I don't like it when dad gets
Speaker 6: mad Instagram. However, she said she did. She'd did seek
Speaker 6: out breastfeeding content again something you should not necessarily go
Speaker 6: to Instagram for. But okay, okay, she said the app
Speaker 6: got the wrong idea about her. One day, I had
Speaker 6: a reels suggestion an older woman who had a bunch
Speaker 6: of babies around her, And I must have looked at
Speaker 6: it for too long, because that's part of how they
Speaker 6: know what you're doing. Or I should say, that's part
Speaker 6: of what the apps pay attention to, is what you
Speaker 6: stop on.
Speaker 1: Back in the old days, when you would go to
Speaker 1: the card catalog instead of TikTok or YouTube or Instagram,
Speaker 1: nobody knew about the weird stuff you were hunting for.
Speaker 1: Now they know that you're into breastfeeding.
Speaker 6: Instagram moved on to show Kelly a video of an
Speaker 6: older couple on a bed surrounded by about twenty infants,
Speaker 6: then elderly women nursing, and eventually is that a thing?
Speaker 6: And eventually women of various ages nursing and giving birth
Speaker 6: to animal human hybrid babies. Now again you see how
Speaker 6: the iteration goes from one thing to the next to
Speaker 6: the most outlandish.
Speaker 2: It's only a couple of steps away.
Speaker 1: I bet this is the worst Google search that's ever happened.
Speaker 6: As other social media sites have followed TikTok's lead, they
Speaker 6: said they're shifting to opaque, algorithmic based feeds. You're getting
Speaker 6: increasing flashes of disturbing or strange or unwanted context.
Speaker 1: But a woman can breastfeed even if she is postmenopausal
Speaker 1: or elderly interesting.
Speaker 2: I don't think you're going to get the same nutritional
Speaker 2: value that you would out of the dust.
Speaker 6: They said, it's not just the AI oddities like the
Speaker 6: human animal hybrid babies, but real life violence, real sex,
Speaker 6: and rage baiting politics, things that obviously is engaging, but
Speaker 6: that very few people seek out in their original search.
Speaker 6: And they said the increasing breakthroughs have become a jarring
Speaker 6: peak into another side of the social media apps. Violent posts,
Speaker 6: of course, have been around for decades.
Speaker 2: So apparently you can just induce lactation.
Speaker 1: Go on, there are hormone mimicking drugs that can be
Speaker 1: used for several months to induce lactation. Or you can
Speaker 1: do this in that area for ten to fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: eight to ten times a day.
Speaker 2: Okay, and that might get the milk coming out. It
Speaker 2: makes your body think that you're nursing, right, Yeah, that's wild,
Speaker 2: isn't that wild?
Speaker 6: Some Instagram users have reported seeing videos of surgeries, people
Speaker 6: appearing to die in accidents, shootings, nudity.
Speaker 1: In many cultures, grandmothers will do this relactate. I feel
Speaker 1: like we've talked about that halfway. That's fascinating. I mean
Speaker 1: it makes sense.
Speaker 2: I guess it's just wow.
Speaker 6: According to Instagram, the content that people complain about in
Speaker 6: these cases sometimes surgeries or deaths, they occupy a gray
Speaker 6: area that's not really extreme enough to be removed under
Speaker 6: the community standards that meta post.
Speaker 1: But there's people that like come up with stuff that
Speaker 1: will fall under the gray area.
Speaker 2: Oh they know, they absolutely gross. I mean, for example,
Speaker 2: what's the endgame for that?
Speaker 1: Like, what's the benefit clicks that earn you ad dollars clicks.
Speaker 2: That's all I mean. I'm gonna spitball here.
Speaker 6: I don't know if this is true, but if I
Speaker 6: if you asked me to put up something that was
Speaker 6: in a gray area, you can find images of I
Speaker 6: don't know, wartime deaths.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: You could see a.
Speaker 6: Sniper scope view of that sniper shooting and killing somebody
Speaker 6: a couple hundred yards away, and it's graphic and it's gross.
Speaker 6: You could in the and that unedited video would probably
Speaker 6: fall outside of the community standards and be removed. But
Speaker 6: if you led all the way I mean, if you
Speaker 6: watch this ten or fifteen second video and it went
Speaker 6: all the way up to the moment of impact of
Speaker 6: the bullet on the bad guy, and then digitized it
Speaker 6: so you didn't see the actual graphic nature of it.
Speaker 6: You just knew that something bad happened on the on
Speaker 6: the other side of that fuzzy you know image that
Speaker 6: you see that might be one that doesn't technically show
Speaker 6: death and therefore wouldn't be removed. And I think that's
Speaker 6: what people are doing, is they're getting away with some
Speaker 6: of that stuff. And the thing is, like I said, Kelly,
Speaker 6: Takata Takazu only wanted to find images of or not
Speaker 6: even images, she wanted some sort of breastfeeding advice or whatever.
Speaker 6: And it goes to the animal human hybrid babies that
Speaker 6: are then suckling at Grandma enough that.
Speaker 1: I learned also things about breastfeeding. Watching Severance last night
Speaker 1: finished season one, there was a little bit of a
Speaker 1: breastfeeding how to in one of those episodes.
Speaker 2: So would you learn that you?
Speaker 4: Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't want to know.
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