WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:02.960 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.879 AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:08.720 on the iHeartRadio app. A state of emergency has been 4 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:12.039 declared on Greece's island of Santorini. It was rattled by 5 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:15.119 a pretty strong earthquake. This is after they've seen dozens 6 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:17.640 of earthquakes over the last couple of days, much smaller ones. 7 00:00:17.679 --> 00:00:21.079 But this new one about a five point two they said, 8 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:24.120 occurred at a depth of only three miles. We all 9 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:28.920 know because we're earthquake experts. That's pretty shaky, they said. 10 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:31.839 Thousands of people have been fleeing the island of Santorini 11 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:33.399 and its neighbors there in the U, G and C 12 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:36.840 because they are concerned that there is yet even bigger 13 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:41.079 earthquakes on the horizon. There were a couple court things 14 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:43.320 to tell you about when it comes to the Trump administration. 15 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:47.200 A federal judge has temporary blocked the administration and Doge 16 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:50.679 head Elon Musk from implementing the fork in the Road 17 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:55.240 federal employee buyout offer at least until Monday. More than 18 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:58.600 two million federal employees had a deadline of tonight to 19 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:02.520 accept the administration's buyout offer about eight months salary and benefits, 20 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:04.920 but again it's on hold. We do know that about 21 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:08.239 forty thousand of them have already accepted the offer. Federal 22 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:11.799 judge in Seattle also issued a nation wide preliminary injunction 23 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:15.760 against the Executive Order on birthright citizenship, a day after 24 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:19.200 a judge in Maryland also issued a temporary block on 25 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:21.760 the order. Bottom of the hour, By the speaking of Trump, 26 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:27.280 there's some strange science and Trump story that we'll get. 27 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:29.079 To that's coming up at the bottom of the hour. 28 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:35.959 What else is going on? Time for what's happening, Well, our. 29 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:39.280 Second storm is making its way through southern California. You're 30 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:41.760 going to notice the drizzle, obviously some very light rain 31 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:44.680 over the course of the day today. By about six 32 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:47.000 seven o'clock tonight is when we expect to see some 33 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:49.519 of it coming in the form of actual rain, a 34 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:53.159 little bit more steady, a little bit more water, but 35 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:56.480 still less than an inch expected to fall in most areas. 36 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:00.200 Some mountain foo hill locations could see two inches. But 37 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:01.959 for the most part, you're just going to see a 38 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:05.400 lot of localized flooding because that's what happens when it 39 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:09.520 doesn't rain for a while, and it could potentially cause 40 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:12.960 some problems as you're driving home from work tonight. The 41 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:16.840 former interpreter who stole millions from Sho hey Otani is 42 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:19.879 to be sentenced today federal charges that related to him 43 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:25.080 stealing about seventeen million dollars from Shohyotani. 44 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:28.439 Just a note, wouldn't it. 45 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:31.280 Be nice to have so much money that seventeen million 46 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:37.199 missing didn't really cause a blip. This guy, Epei Misuhara, 47 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:40.520 admitted to transferring money from show Heyotani's account for more 48 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.439 than two years to pay off his own gambling debts. 49 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:46.039 He said he impersonated show Hey on a couple of 50 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:49.599 dozen occasions and calls to the bank. Prosecutor said that 51 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:53.159 this thing was deep and it was extensive fraud, and 52 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:58.080 that Shoh was harmed substantially by Ipe Mizuhara's actions. 53 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:01.759 Don't look now, but mortgage are going down. Mortgage. 54 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:05.080 The average US rate on a thirty year mortgage fell 55 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:09.759 to six point eight nine percent, the third straight weekly decline. 56 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:12.759 If you were lucky enough to hit this thing at 57 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:15.719 the bottom, you're still sitting on about a two point 58 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:20.080 nine maybe a three point three percent mortgage rate. I 59 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:23.240 don't know if we ever see that again, and mortgage 60 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:25.879 rates are influenced by a lot of things, obviously how 61 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:29.120 the bond market reacts to the Fed's interest rate policy decisions. 62 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:32.840 But the average rate on a thirty year mortgage did 63 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:35.719 fall to a two year low just above six percent 64 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:39.719 last September. It's mostly been going up since then, and 65 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:41.800 that's the sharp rise that we've seen in the tenure 66 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:45.520 treasury LEELD treasury yield, that is which lenders use as 67 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:47.599 a guide for pricing some of those home loans. So 68 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.199 again it looks like it's down for the third straight 69 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.599 week to six point eight nine percent. We talked about 70 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:56.240 this in the ten o'clock hour today, but it looks 71 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:59.520 like firefighters who reported to show up to assist during 72 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:05.080 the Palace sage and eating fires couldn't go because there 73 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:10.400 were a bunch of fire equipment vehicles that were down 74 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:14.759 for maintenance. KTLA has jumped on this story. The Wall 75 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:17.199 Street Journal had a version of it, but they looked 76 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:19.720 inside the largest LA Fire Department maintenance yard in the 77 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:22.920 Lincoln Heights area and they saw dozens and dozens of 78 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:28.120 unserviced emergency vehicles. The union president said, I don't know 79 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:30.120 exactly why each one of them is there, but I 80 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:32.480 can tell you what has caused them to be there. 81 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:35.399 The LAFD has not had the funding mechanism to supply 82 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:39.079 enough mechanics and enough money for the parts to repair 83 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:42.160 all of the engines and trucks and ambulances that are 84 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:46.839 stuck in there. New video shows somebody detaining a fellow 85 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:52.439 passenger on a Frontier Airlines flight. Why because the guy 86 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:56.800 punched the window on a Frontier Airliness flight from Denver 87 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:57.800 down to Houston. 88 00:04:58.240 --> 00:04:59.240 He punched the window. 89 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:03.319 Now close to the window, the one that's next to you, 90 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:07.120 the one that's immediately in the cabin, that's plexiglass, and 91 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:09.759 you can actually see a little tiny vent hole in 92 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:14.319 the bottom of it to prevent moisture. But he was 93 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:18.759 able to crack the plexiglass window, which is still pretty thick. 94 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:20.680 It's not the kind that you'd buy it at home 95 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:23.319 depot or something like that, but he cracked that window, 96 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:26.040 and that was enough to cause other passengers to determine 97 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:31.519 that he was potentially a threat. So when the flight 98 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:34.040 attendants asked to see if there was any cops on board. 99 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:37.839 Tanner Phillips, a guy served in the army and several 100 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:41.120 others stepped up, said Tanner said, he was very physical. 101 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:42.600 I picked him up and put him on the ground, 102 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:44.279 and it took a couple of guys to get his 103 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:47.439 arms behind him and secured. So at that point, all 104 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:49.439 they have to tie him up with a couple zip 105 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:53.360 ties and a shoelace and that'll do it. That's what 106 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:55.519 they're supposed to do. They were able to keep him 107 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:58.519 restrained during the rest of the flight. That didn't help, 108 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:00.639 of course, because people are looking at this cracked window 109 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:02.360 and they think that that's going to be an issue. 110 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:06.319 It's not, and then it looks like The Boy Scouts 111 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:10.639 of America, a historic rebrand of the Boy Scouts of 112 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:13.680 America has been followed by a little uptick in young 113 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:19.839 people who want to join. They're now calling it Scouting America. 114 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:24.040 They've been leaning into their message of inclusivity. They celebrate 115 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:27.560 their one hundred and fifteenth birthday just a couple of 116 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:31.399 days from now. The CEO and president of Scouting America 117 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:33.720 says there's been some backlash to the rebrand after it 118 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:36.160 was announced last year, but he said overall it's been 119 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:39.519 a positive thing. The gain in membership is small. It's 120 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:42.560 up less than two percent from the year before, but 121 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:45.480 they'll take it. They have over about a million members 122 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:47.839 in the United States right now. A couple stories we're 123 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:50.000 following a second federal judge in a couple of days 124 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.439 as black President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship for 125 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.480 the kids of parents who are in the United States illegally. 126 00:06:56.519 --> 00:06:59.959 This district judge out of Seattle decried what he described 127 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:02.720 does the administration's treatment of the Constitution and said that 128 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:06.360 Trump was trying to change the Constitution by executive order. Now, 129 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:09.879 this decision from today comes just after a day, sorry, 130 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:12.959 just a day after a judge in Maryland issued a 131 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:16.839 nationwide pause in a separate but similar case that involved 132 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:19.920 some immigrant rights groups and some pregnant women who's soon 133 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:23.680 to be born children would be affected by all of this. 134 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:27.199 Israel says it has begun preparations for the departure of 135 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:30.199 large numbers of Palestinians from the Gaza strip that would 136 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:32.439 be in line with President Trump's plan to empty the 137 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:36.079 territory of its population so that it could be rebuilt. 138 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:37.800 And are you a napper? 139 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:41.279 People who make a habit of sleeping on the job 140 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:44.959 comprise a secret society of sorts within the labor force. 141 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:49.879 They said, there's some famous power nappers, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, 142 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:53.399 for example. These committed nap takers will sneak in short 143 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:55.920 rest breaks because they think the practice would improve their 144 00:07:55.959 --> 00:08:00.160 cognitive performance, but still carries a stigma, so they'll go 145 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:02.639 down to their car in the parking garage or turned 146 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:06.360 down a side street before the school run. They can 147 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:08.879 rent nap pods in some areas by the hour. But 148 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:11.560 there's also a story that suggests that a short nap 149 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:15.680 no more than about thirty minutes could rejuvenate you for 150 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:19.759 the afternoon without really disturbing all of your nighttime sleep. 151 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:23.319 All right, we talked about this headline that's been making 152 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:25.399 its way around. A second type of bird flu has 153 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:28.800 been detected in US dairy cow specifically, a herd in 154 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:32.799 Nevada infected with a new type of bird flu different 155 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:35.960 from the version that spread in the US since last year. 156 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:41.080 USDA says this tape type A H five N one 157 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:46.080 spilled over from wild birds into cattle at least twice, 158 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:48.679 and the concern is that it could be more than that. 159 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:53.080 The B three one three was the version that was 160 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:56.639 spreading late all of last year and into this year. 161 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:59.879 This new version, known as D one one, was can 162 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:03.519 firmed in the cattle in Nevada on Friday, was detected 163 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:05.960 in milk that's collected as part of a surveillance program 164 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:09.320 launched in December. We've talked about the impact that bird 165 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:10.080 flu is having. 166 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:12.360 Poultry prices have gone up. 167 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:15.039 Egg prices have been skyrocking, and that's because we've had 168 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:17.919 to kill or cull, if you like the better term, 169 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.000 the more clean term. We've had to call millions and 170 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:25.399 millions of birds so that bird flu doesn't spread. If 171 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:28.320 you get a bird or two birds in a flock 172 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:33.399 of thousands, they kill the entire flock because they know 173 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:36.399 that it is potential, it has the potential to spread wide. 174 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:40.320 So there was also something that happened back in nineteen 175 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:44.080 fifty seven where we just barely dodged a bullet when 176 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:49.840 it came to the bird flu. Maurice Hillerman Hilleman, sorry 177 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:55.720 was an expert in the flu, and in nineteen fifty seven, 178 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.879 this guy was also looking for cheap eggs, not because 179 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:05.480 he wanted to them, because he needed fertilized eggs to 180 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:10.679 make vaccines that would be key to stopping a flu epidemic, 181 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:14.440 or a flu pandemic in that case. This guy was 182 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:17.320 born just after the Spanish flu back in nineteen eighteen 183 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:19.679 or whatever the politically correct term is now for the 184 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:23.440 Spanish fluw and he started worrying about the egg supply 185 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:28.000 in nineteen fifty seven because scientists had a lot more 186 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:33.840 sophisticated understanding about the flu than they had previously, and 187 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:36.159 that knowledge led them to a fear that there would 188 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:40.720 be another pandemic similar to the Spanish flu in nineteen eighteen, 189 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:43.960 and they didn't want to see millions of people die again. 190 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:48.639 So in April nineteen fifty seven, Maurice Hillman opens his 191 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:52.759 newspaper and sees an article about glassy eyed patients that 192 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:56.200 were overwhelming the clinics in Hong Kong. The article very short. 193 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:59.440 It's an American newspaper. It's about a sickness in Hong Kong. 194 00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:02.639 It was an front page news. It was eight sentences long. 195 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:06.080 But all he needed was the four words of the 196 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:09.639 headline that to scare the living but Jesus out of them, 197 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:15.919 which was Hong Kong battling influenza, and he was concerned. 198 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:18.840 Within about a month of this. He had requested, obtained, 199 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:21.399 and tested a sample of the virus from his colleagues 200 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:24.960 in Asia, and by May he and his colleagues knew 201 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:29.039 that Americans did not have immunity against this new version 202 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:32.039 of the flu, and he was worried that there would 203 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:35.919 be a pandemic. So in the spring of fifty seven, 204 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:40.799 the government calls for vaccine manufacturers to accelerate the production 205 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:43.840 of this new flu vaccine for all Americans because of 206 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:49.039 the one that was appearing in Asia. Now, traditionally, farmers 207 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:51.919 have been called on to kill off roosters and any 208 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:55.799 unwonted chickens to keep their costs low, but in this case, 209 00:11:55.840 --> 00:12:01.360 Maurice Hillman asked, farmers, don't kill your roosters. I need 210 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:06.000 a huge supply of fertilized eggs to produce the vaccine 211 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:09.759 before this thing hits the United States. In early June, 212 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:12.279 it did come to the United States. The good news 213 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:16.360 was the new virus was not the killer that the 214 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:21.000 Spanish flu was about forty years before that. The surge 215 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:23.279 in general at the time, he didn't want to alert 216 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:26.240 the public. He wanted to alert them, I should say 217 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.120 he didn't want to alarm them big difference, and they 218 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:32.440 talked about flu and the need for vaccination in a 219 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:35.240 widely distributed television show, and the government also created a 220 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:38.000 bunch of PSAs, and they worked with local health organizations 221 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:42.519 to encourage people to get the flu vaccine. Vaccines were 222 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:46.120 actually not that popular. They said, the vaccine rate was moderate, 223 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:49.519 not because we were concerned about vaccines or that it 224 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:52.240 was problematic in the fifties, but they didn't see the 225 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:57.120 flu as a threat. Forty years after the Spanish flu, 226 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:01.000 people forgot what the pandemic was. People forgot that there 227 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:04.080 was a possibility that this thing was going to kill 228 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:08.200 millions of people. And antibiotics had been produced lessened the 229 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:10.679 threat that pneumonia was going to kill you if you 230 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:14.720 did get the flu. But it was basically luck that 231 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:18.559 stopped that pandemic. It was luck that he saw that article, 232 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:21.600 that very very short article about flu in Hong Kong. 233 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:24.559 It was luck that he made that early call to 234 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.039 increase production of fertilized egg so that they could use 235 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:30.320 him for the vaccine production. And it was luck, sheer 236 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:34.039 luck that that flu in nineteen fifty seven was not 237 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:37.879 the same as the flu back in nineteen eighteen. All Right, 238 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:40.120 we get into some strange science stuff here. In a 239 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:44.960 couple of minutes, we're going to start with science funding, 240 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:49.120 and there's a new order from President Trump and some 241 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:53.360 keywords that are being used to look specifically at what 242 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:58.039 we the United States fund when it comes to science research. 243 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:02.519 So cal Edison says its equipment may have sparked a 244 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:05.759 smaller wildfire in LA that broke out the same day 245 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:10.320 as the Palisades and Eaten fires. This statement today by 246 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:14.279 SoCal Edison says it's possible that it had a role 247 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:17.480 in the Hearst fire came from a required filing with 248 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:20.120 the state utility regulators. In a second filing, they said 249 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:23.200 they're still looking into whether an idle transmission line may 250 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:26.159 have sparked the Eton fire up near Altadena, but it 251 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:31.159 says there is no current evidence evidence that its equipment 252 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:35.679 was responsible for starting that fire. Bunch of stories from 253 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:39.000 DC that we have been following include the federal judge 254 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:44.000 the temporary blocked the DOGE workers from obtaining access to 255 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:47.720 certain Treasury Department payment records. Treasury officials will not provide 256 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:52.080 access to any payment record or payment system of records 257 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:55.639 maintained within the Treasury Bureau of fiscal service that was 258 00:14:55.639 --> 00:15:02.240 from Judge call Colleen Caller Katli. In this temporary restraining order, also, 259 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:06.879 a judge temporarily blocked the implementation of the federal employee 260 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:09.879 buyout offer at least until Monday afternoon. There are a 261 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:13.320 few federal employee unions that are suing because of that. 262 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:16.000 And in terms of doge in Elon Musk, the share 263 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.279 of Republicans who say they want Elon Musk to have 264 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:24.399 significant influence in the administration has fallen pretty substantially since November. 265 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:27.440 The economist Yugov had a poll that was taken in 266 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:30.080 the days just after the election, and they said forty 267 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:34.200 seven percent of Republicans surveyed said they wanted Musk to 268 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:37.639 have a lot of influence in the Trump administration. In 269 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:39.960 a poll that was released yesterday that went down to 270 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:44.000 twenty six percent. From forty seven percent down to twenty 271 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:49.720 six percent. Amazon passed Walmart a long time ago in 272 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:53.399 terms of overall market cap, but now they're saying that 273 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:57.240 Amazon is probably going to leapfrog Walmart by another key 274 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:02.679 metric revenue, just straight revenue. For the last dozen years, 275 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:06.639 Walmart's been the top It in fact, eclipsed Exon mobile 276 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:09.360 back in twenty twelve and has been on top since then. 277 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:12.120 When it comes to revenue, but Amazon is going to 278 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:14.320 release earnings today at the close of trading, it's probably 279 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:16.799 going to be about one hundred and eighty seven billion. 280 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:20.320 Walmart comes out in a couple of weeks and their 281 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:23.559 projected sales would be about one hundred and eighty billion. 282 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:27.399 There is a story also floating around DC about Politico. 283 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:28.320 You may have seen this. 284 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:33.320 White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt said that the federal 285 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:36.600 government's going to cancel eight million dollars worth of subscri 286 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:41.080 of subscriptions to Politico, and there is a theory going 287 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:47.320 around that these very high end Politico pro plus subscriptions, 288 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:50.960 which are thousands of dollars a year, I mean somewhere. 289 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:54.480 It's hard to nail it down. The Political website doesn't 290 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:57.480 advertise it very well what the final cost is, but 291 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:01.600 it's somewhere between seven and fifteen thousand. That was the 292 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:05.720 range that I saw for these different subscriptions to Politico. 293 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:08.839 Because it's beyond just what you get on their website. 294 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:13.240 They do a lot of in depth information about about 295 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:16.279 legislation that is pending, about legislation that's being worked on 296 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:21.880 about legislation that was denied. She Caroline Levitt said that 297 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:25.440 Politico and the Associated Press had been receiving millions of 298 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:30.160 dollars from USAID, which we've talked about. The Agency for 299 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.680 International Developments been targeted as one of the huge wastes 300 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:38.559 of money by DOGE. And the Politico people put out 301 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.559 a press release just a short time ago and it 302 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.839 said that Politico is a privately owned company. We've never 303 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:49.400 received any government funding, no subsidies, no grantsout, no handouts, 304 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:53.440 not one dime ever in eighteen years. And they said 305 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:58.400 Politico Pro is a professional subscription service used by companies, organizations, 306 00:17:58.440 --> 00:18:01.759 and some government agencies, and they subscribe because it makes 307 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:04.519 them better at their jobs. Again, this is what Politico says, 308 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:08.039 helping them track policy, legislation, regulations in real time with 309 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:13.000 news intelligence and a suite of datat products and listen. 310 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:16.720 If that's the case, fine, If these are individual government 311 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:20.599 workers or even government agencies that need to have that information, fine, 312 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:22.880 but use the power of the government to go in 313 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:26.160 and at least negotiate a better deal than eight million 314 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.920 dollars for Politico. National Science Foundation has been combing through 315 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:34.960 thousands of active science research projects alongside a list of 316 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:38.119 keywords to figure out if they include any activities that 317 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:43.160 would violate President Trump's executive orders. Right now, they have 318 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:46.240 a list of keywords, and this doesn't mean that they're 319 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:51.279 canceling active research for those types of projects that are 320 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:54.519 currently being worked on. They just want to double check them. 321 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:57.480 And this is kind of a to me, it's a 322 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:02.079 funny list. So the sample of keywords that are now 323 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:06.359 being looked for in these active science research projects at 324 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:14.680 the National Science Foundation advocacy, anti racist barrier, biases, cultural relevance, disability, 325 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:21.839 diverse backgrounds, diversity, diversified as nity, ethnicity, excluded, exclusion, equity, 326 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:26.920 female gender, hate speech, historically implicit bias, inclusion inclusive, inequity, 327 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:33.319 institutional intersectional, male dominated, marginalized, minority, multicultural. And again, these 328 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:35.880 are not saying that if those words appear in research 329 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:38.640 projects that they're denied. It's just they're going to flag 330 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:42.319 those and go through and see what they're actually studying. Oppression, polarization, 331 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:49.559 racially segregation, socioeconomics, systemic trauma, underrepresented underserved victims, and the 332 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:55.519 keyword women scientists who get funding from the National Science 333 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:58.319 Foundation have already been put on notice that if they 334 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:00.920 are working on something that does not comply with these 335 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:03.440 executive orders that have been coming hot and heavy out 336 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:06.079 of the Oval Office, than they could lose their funding. 337 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:14.960 It's time for strange science, strange sience. It's like weird science, 338 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:16.680 but strange. 339 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:23.599 I referred to bonobos as a monkey. They are an 340 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:26.160 ape and there is a difference. But this is the 341 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:31.920 fun story. So a few captive bonobos seen have faced 342 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:35.599 this task locate this tasty little snack hidden under one 343 00:20:35.599 --> 00:20:36.279 of three cups. 344 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:37.240 It's the shell game. 345 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:44.240 Because they are brainiacs, they should have no problem finding 346 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:47.279 the sweet treat, right. But here's the wrinkle. They were 347 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:51.519 relying on a human being, not a member of their 348 00:20:51.559 --> 00:20:56.200 own species, to flip over the correct cup. And what's 349 00:20:56.240 --> 00:21:00.920 even worse is the human being sometimes did see where 350 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:05.400 the food was, so the bonobos had to somehow communicate 351 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:09.200 to the human being where the correct what cup was 352 00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:12.839 with the little sweet treat underneath it. Christopher Krupenny is 353 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:14.680 an evolutionary cognitive scientist. 354 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:15.039 JOHNS. 355 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:19.480 Hopkins helped run this experiment and said the bonobos knew 356 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:23.000 when their partner was ignorant, and they communicated proactively to 357 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:26.720 make sure that their ignorant partner still made the correct choice. 358 00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:29.880 They described the bonobos behavior in a paper that came 359 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:32.400 out Proceedings of the National Academy of Science as USA, 360 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:36.480 and it says it provides compelling evidence that apes like 361 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:40.920 the bonobos can infer someone's ignorance and then also act 362 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:43.519 to help clear up the confusion. They refer to this 363 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:48.920 the ability to infer someone else's mental state is referred 364 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:53.079 to as theory of mind, and we talk about it. 365 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:58.000 We humans use it to communicate and coordinate with other people, 366 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:03.000 like if if I figure out that you don't have 367 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:06.400 the kind of information that you need, it helps me 368 00:22:06.599 --> 00:22:11.039 determine when and how to share specific information with you 369 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:14.680 to give you that information that you would need. And 370 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:19.480 they have proposed that chimpanzees and bonobos apes may possess 371 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:21.880 theory of mind, but few of them have actually figured 372 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:26.000 out this idea. In a controlled experiment, they took three 373 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:29.799 male bonobos living at Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative, which 374 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:32.240 is in Des Moines, Isle, and during the experiment, one 375 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:36.720 of them would sit across from one of the researchers 376 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:39.160 as a treat like a grape or a peanut or 377 00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:41.559 something like that was put under one of the three cups, 378 00:22:42.079 --> 00:22:44.599 and if he flipped over the correct cup, then the 379 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:48.200 bonobol would be would get the reward get the little treat. 380 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:51.480 In some of the trials, the researcher could see the 381 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:54.920 treat put under the cup. In others, he didn't know 382 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:57.400 which cup it was put under, and then he would 383 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:00.119 wait ten seconds before he flipped over the cup. The 384 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:02.920 bonobos appeared to know when he had his eye on 385 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:04.839 the correct cup, and in the trials where he had 386 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:07.119 observed the placement, they just waited for him to flip 387 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:09.440 over the right cup. But when they knew that his 388 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:13.519 view was blocked, they would try to point towards the 389 00:23:13.559 --> 00:23:17.200 correct cup in an effort to give him that information 390 00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:19.799 that he didn't already have, to fill him in on 391 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:22.640 what he had missed. What he had missed, and the 392 00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:27.079 researcher said that they immediately understood the game that was 393 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:33.000 being played and immediately knew where to point. And somewhat interestingly, 394 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:37.880 they said the oldest of these apes, named Kanzie, was 395 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:44.279 particularly demonstrative in his gestures, would point aggressively at the 396 00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:46.400 cup that had the treat under it. He's forty four 397 00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:48.599 years old now, and he said he's always on the 398 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:52.119 lookout for a tasty treat. Repeatedly would point and tap 399 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:53.720 to get the human's attention. 400 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:55.359 And secure that treat. It's kind of interesting. 401 00:23:55.880 --> 00:23:58.240