WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:08.519 on the iHeartRadio app. We have been awaiting this press 4 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:11.199 conference from Mayor Karen Bass about a major announcement they 5 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:15.279 say regarding the Pacific Palisades recovery efforts after the fires. 6 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:15.960 Here she is. 7 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:21.120 Twenty eight days, the EPA removed three hundred tons of 8 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:26.960 hazardous materials such as lithium batteries, burned pesticides, and propane tanks. 9 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:32.200 More than forty properties have successfully completed both Phase one 10 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:35.799 and Phase two. I want to thank the US Army 11 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:39.359 Corps of Engineers for your urgent work. I also want 12 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:42.600 to thank the administration for making sure that we had 13 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:47.320 the staffing in order to move so quickly, and also our. 14 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:49.359 Governor who has always been with. 15 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:52.759 Us every step of the way, and the collaboration between 16 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:55.520 the city and the county and every level of government. 17 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:59.920 So almost sixty individuals now are entering what I call 18 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:04.760 Phase three, which is the permitting and rebuilding process. Our 19 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:09.120 sweeping emergency executive orders cut through red tape and bureaucratic 20 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:12.159 delays to expedite this recovery operation. 21 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:14.840 We worked to expedite. 22 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:18.239 The reopening of schools and childcare centers. Through executive orders, 23 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:22.920 we delivered tax relief for impacted businesses and weigh twenty 24 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:24.920 twenty five business taxes. 25 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:28.280 I recently signed city ordinances. 26 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:31.000 That were passed by the city Council to temporarily halt 27 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:35.719 evictions for tenants, housing, people or pets displaced by the wildfires, 28 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:41.079 and prohibit price gouging, including by private contractors offering debris 29 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:43.319 removal and rebuilding services. 30 00:01:43.799 --> 00:01:46.799 During a declared state of emergency, we. 31 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:50.879 Opened the Disaster Recovery Center and more than seven thousand 32 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:52.200 Angelinos have. 33 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:54.840 Visited there and received services. 34 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:58.200 Just about every governmental agency you can imagine is there 35 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:02.079 to help people, as well as any nonprofits. We stood 36 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:06.280 up four new impacted Worker and Family centers, and those 37 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:09.639 centers provide services for the individuals who worked in the 38 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:13.400 homes on the property are in the commercial areas to 39 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:17.919 provide them with direct resources, including cash assistance and also 40 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:22.520 the ability to find jobs, and interestingly, jobs are available 41 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:26.960 to help with the debris removal process. Twice a week, 42 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:31.479 we've hosted webinars specifically for the residents of Palisades to 43 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:34.879 make sure that they had all the information that they 44 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:39.560 would need in terms of every aspect of recovery and rebuilding. 45 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:44.000 And then we opened the one Stop Rebuilding Center, where 46 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:47.719 we have twelve city departments, a one stop shop where 47 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:51.319 you can go in and begin the planning and permitting process. 48 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:54.759 Now, we also had to take action to show. 49 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:58.479 Up the burn areas by installing concrete barriers, sandbags, and 50 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:01.520 other equipment to rein force vulnerable areas. 51 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:03.280 Before the rain, I. 52 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:07.919 Worked with Governor Newsom to ensure homeowners can access as 53 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:12.680 built plans and allow the city to automatically reissue permits 54 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:14.639 for homes built in recent years. 55 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:17.479 But our eyes are focused ahead. 56 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:21.680 Last week I reiterated our commitment to the undergrounding of 57 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:27.479 power lines, protecting water supplies, and ensuring that landscaping. 58 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:28.000 Is fire resistant. 59 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:32.319 And next week I'll be using my emergency executive powers 60 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:36.800 to direct city departments to create a new accelerated path 61 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.960 for Angelinos who want to build in a more resilient way, 62 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:44.919 and I'll be taking action to make sure that infrastructure 63 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:49.039 more fireproof and resilient is built in the face of 64 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:52.719 worsening climate threats. The past two months have been a 65 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:56.000 defining time for our city. We will continue to do 66 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:59.479 all that we can to bring this community home. And 67 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:03.520 now I want to introduce our CEO and Chief Engineer 68 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:07.719 of the Los Angeles Water and Power Department, Jennie Kenyoni. 69 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:11.879 Thank you, Mayor Boss. 70 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:14.960 We are very pleased to join you here today and 71 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:18.319 announcing the lifting up that do not drink advisory that 72 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:21.480 has been in effect on polic days since January tenth. 73 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:23.879 We were able to be all right, we are going 74 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:27.759 to pull away here. We will monitor any pertinent information 75 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:31.040 coming out of this news conference. This is essentially about 76 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:34.759 Karen Bess coming out behind the microphone and saying I'm 77 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:35.560 in charge here. 78 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:37.839 That was a fun dog and pony. 79 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:41.000 Show we saw at city Hall this week with Kristin Crowley, 80 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:44.839 the fire chief that I fired. I'm paraphrasing, obviously, trying 81 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:47.480 to show that I was wrong when I had said 82 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:51.360 that she mismanaged this fire in the Palisades at least, 83 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:54.680 and I'm back, I'm here, and I'm ready to make 84 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:57.240 sure that we don't see this kind of destruction again. 85 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:02.040 Talking about how she has a commitment to underground power lines, 86 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:05.279 bolstering water supply, the fact that they have cut out 87 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:07.680 a lot of red tape. If you listen to people 88 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:10.160 in the Palisades, they say that they would like more 89 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:13.439 of that that. You know this, if you've ever gone 90 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:16.680 through a disaster, whether it's wildfire, earthquake, any sort of 91 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:21.360 damage to your home, the paperwork alone is just maddening. 92 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:25.160 It's overwhelming, it's too much, and you're hearing a lot 93 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:27.680 about people in the Palisades saying that is just the 94 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:31.560 case too, a lot of paperwork that means nothing, and 95 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.879 they'd like to have that streamline so they can start rebuilding. 96 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:38.319 So we will stay on top of this monitor all 97 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:42.360 the information coming out of there, but not a major announcement, 98 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:45.560 just Karen Bass basically saying, all right, now that the 99 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:49.160 drama's over, let's get to work and let's put back 100 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:51.879 this community and see what we can do as a city. 101 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:54.240 We may have failed them, she did not say that, 102 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:56.639 but they may have been failed by the city, but 103 00:05:56.680 --> 00:05:59.279 they're going to make sure that they try to do 104 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:01.199 things that they can and take a victory lap for 105 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:05.240 there for the Palisades Committee post fires. All right, the 106 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:09.920 breaking news out of Washington is that Trump, much like 107 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:13.879 we saw yesterday where he grants this month long reprieve 108 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:17.000 to the Big Three to the auto industry, saying that 109 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:20.800 there will be no tariffs. We heard yesterday from experts 110 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:25.040 in the industry that there could be new car prices 111 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:30.680 inflated between six and twelve thousand dollars. So Trump got 112 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:33.759 off the phone with the Big three and said, all right, Essentially, 113 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:36.079 the auto industry is very important to us, and we 114 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:38.279 want to keep them happy. So we'll give you at 115 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:41.680 least a month to figure things out in terms of 116 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:45.160 Mexico and Canada because the supply chains are so convoluted 117 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:49.079 when it comes to the auto industry. Well, today he 118 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:51.560 got off the phone with Mexico's president and says that 119 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:55.160 Mexico will be granted a month long reprieve on tariffs 120 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:58.560 on goods that fall under the existing free trade agreement 121 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:01.920 with the US. So we talked yesterday about how as 122 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:06.160 early as this week, specifically with Mexico, you'd see avocados, strawberries, bananas, 123 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:09.319 all those prices rising because we rely so much on 124 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:12.519 Mexico at this time of year, during the winter for produce, 125 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:15.680 fruits and veggies. When we come back, we'll talk more 126 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:18.600 about what this means. Is it going to be just 127 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:19.120 a month? 128 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:20.279 Again? 129 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:23.399 The tariffs pushed back until April second. That was the 130 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:26.240 date where Trump told us during his address to Congress 131 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:29.560 that We're going to be playing hardball with countries globally 132 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:32.360 when it comes to what we pay, what they pay, 133 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:36.199 and the back and forth with the goods. So we'll 134 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:39.040 get into all what it all means and we come back. 135 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:43.839 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 136 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:46.480 Am six forty man. 137 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:51.720 Sometimes material just writes itself, doesn't it. Don't you wish 138 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:54.040 when you see some of these things play out that 139 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:56.279 you were a writer for one of the late night 140 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:00.480 comedy shows where you could just make fun of things 141 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:05.199 that you hear all the time, like what happened this 142 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:08.759 morning with Mayor Karen Bass and everybody at City Hall 143 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:14.439 putting out this massive advisory, major announcement regarding the Palisades fire, 144 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.800 big to do? What's gonna happen? What is she going 145 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:21.279 to announce? Oh my gosh, where has she been? We 146 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:24.879 had all of that talk about Mayor Karen Bass at 147 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.240 City Hall this week when Kristin Crowley begged for her 148 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:30.879 to her job back at the fire department, and how 149 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.320 Karen Bass lied about what she did or didn't do 150 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:36.159 correctly and haven't heard from Karen Bass. And then all 151 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:38.159 of a sudden, we get this huge announcement from the 152 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:42.919 Mayor's office, big announcement this morning at nine. And then 153 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:45.399 they try to create suspense and say it's going to 154 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:47.960 be at nine thirty, and you're listening to all of 155 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.399 the morning news shows and they're all a flutter. Oh, 156 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:53.159 a big announcement with the fire. Oh my goodness, what's 157 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:54.840 going on with the Palisads? What the hell are they 158 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:56.919 going to announce? Really, they can announce it. All the 159 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:00.799 homes have been rebuilt. No, what possible could be a 160 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:03.279 major announcement. Well, here it is, folks, Here was the 161 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:06.080 big announcement. I kept waiting for a they're there, and 162 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:09.159 we monitored and continue to do so with what's coming out, 163 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:13.039 but not a not a moocho. Okay, And here was 164 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:15.360 the big thing. And this is what I'm talking about 165 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:19.080 when I say the material rights itself. Mayor Karen Bass 166 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:23.279 says all remaining do not drink water orders will be 167 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:28.519 lifted tomorrow for La DWP customers in the Palisades fire 168 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:32.919 burn area. The word is this, customers are being advised 169 00:09:32.919 --> 00:09:35.080 to run the water from all of their faucets for 170 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:38.559 ten minutes to fully clear the lines before drinking the water. 171 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:45.679 Show me one person in the Pacific Palisades that drinks 172 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.679 water out of the tap. I mean, I'm not trying 173 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:51.360 to be funny when I ask that question. I just 174 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:53.480 want to know if there's one of them. I just 175 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:56.840 I just don't see that being the case. And also 176 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:00.720 LA is now saying you can drink the water. Oh, 177 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:03.240 thank you so much, Mayor. So we're not a third 178 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:06.879 world country where it's unsafe to drink the water. What 179 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:10.840 we can drink the water again two months after the fires. 180 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:13.799 Came through our area. Thank you so much for getting 181 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:17.559 it together. That's so great. We can drink the water. 182 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:19.720 We can actually drink our city's water. 183 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:24.080 We paid sixteen million dollars from this home that has 184 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:27.679 been damaged in a fire, and now two months later 185 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:29.399 we can finally run the water. 186 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:30.840 Great job. 187 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:33.799 So glad you came back from your trip and made 188 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.399 things right again. I mean, is it really an accomplishment 189 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:39.559 that you can drink the water out of the faucet 190 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:43.360 in Los Angeles? I mean, this isn't Haiti. This shouldn't 191 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:46.039 be a major accomplishment. This shouldn't be something that we 192 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:48.480 take a victory lap for two months after the fact. 193 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:51.360 And then on top of that, like the people and 194 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:53.159 palisades are drinking out of the tap. 195 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:56.039 Come on, come on, that's very funny, that's very sweet. 196 00:10:57.279 --> 00:10:59.720 They haven't drank out of the tap there for about 197 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:04.320 sixty years since the advent of bottled water and special 198 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:10.799 water and electrolyte water and magical princess sparkle water. Okay, 199 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:13.080 but we will stay on top of that as well. 200 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.519 The big news, of course coming out of Washington today, 201 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:18.879 and we were kind of expecting some movement on the 202 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:23.039 tariffs yesterday when we saw the Commerce Secretary go on 203 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:27.720 all of the news shows and say, well. 204 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:29.600 You know, we're not we're not hard set on this. 205 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:31.039 There's probably gonna be some movement. 206 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:33.320 It's not going to be complete tariffs, but it won't 207 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:36.720 be zero percent tariffs. And then yesterday the President got 208 00:11:36.759 --> 00:11:39.279 on the horn with the Big three, the big three 209 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:41.879 automakers in this country, who said, this is going. 210 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:42.799 To be a huge blow. 211 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:45.440 New car prices are going to go up by twelve 212 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:46.279 thousand dollars. 213 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:47.960 We need this can't be a thing. 214 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:51.480 So the President said, all right, let's pause this for 215 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:55.039 at least a month. Today, he gets off the phone 216 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:59.919 with Mexican President Claudia Shinbaumb and comes up with this 217 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:04.679 same solution temporarily, that Mexico will be granted a month 218 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:07.399 long reprieve on tariffs on goods that fall under the 219 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:15.039 existing trade agreement. Here is the Trump post on social media. 220 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:19.080 He wrote, after speaking with President Claudia Shinbaum of Mexico, 221 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:21.200 I have agreed that Mexico will not be required to 222 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.399 pay tariffs on anything that falls under the trade agreement. 223 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:28.240 This agreement, he writes, is until April second. I did 224 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:31.879 this as an accommodation and out of respect for President Shinbaum. 225 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:34.240 He went on to say, our relationship has been a 226 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:37.039 very good one. We're working hard together on the border, 227 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:40.120 both in terms of stopping illegal aliens from entering the 228 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:44.039 US and likewise stopping fentanyl. Thank you to President Shinebaum 229 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:47.799 for your hard work and cooperation. When you read between 230 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:50.600 the lines of Trump's addressed to Congress, he wants a 231 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:53.120 good deal for America. He wants a good deal for 232 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:55.799 America when it comes to our trade partners in Canada 233 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.799 and Mexico being the closest ones to US, and he 234 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:03.440 also looking ahead to April wants good deals from other countries. 235 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:06.399 The way he put it, it sounds like, in his opinion, 236 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.879 we're getting fleeced by countries globally when it comes to 237 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:12.799 imports and exports and what they charge and what we charge. 238 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.840 So I know everyone's got their hair on fire, and 239 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:19.440 I know the markets have not been kind to this news, 240 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:22.879 although they have course corrected with these repriefs that have 241 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:26.679 been handed out. But dare I say this may end 242 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:29.320 up being a good thing in the long term when 243 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:31.919 it comes to our agreements with trade and other countries. 244 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:34.360 If we are getting fleeced, and again, I don't know. 245 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:36.960 I haven't gotten the weeds on a granular level, line 246 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:39.840 by line and seeing how much each country is charging 247 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:43.639 for what it is we import an export, But it's 248 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:48.519 worth a look, see I think anyway, coming up and next, 249 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:52.720 Ai chatbots. AI is a fun topic to talk about, 250 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:55.639 isn't it, just because we're just at the beginning, we're 251 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:59.600 just at the onset, and now they're talking about AI chatbots. 252 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:01.799 You as counselors. 253 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:05.000 We've talked about it for adults before and about how 254 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:08.519 this is a thing, but now they're talking about using 255 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:13.200 them as counselors for your children about high schools using 256 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.000 AI chatbots as school therapists. 257 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:21.080 Tell you where we're at with that idea. When we return, you're. 258 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:24.679 Listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI AM 259 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:26.840 six forty well chatbots. 260 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:31.360 They are infiltrating all parts of our lives, and that's 261 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:35.799 one conversation. But when they start infiltrating the children's lives, 262 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:39.840 that's another, isn't it. That's the troubling stuff. It's comical 263 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:42.840 when we talk about AI and us using it or 264 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:45.759 us falling victim to it. It's kind of funny. It's 265 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:47.879 kind of like, what is this whole AI thing? And 266 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:50.440 now when you talk about the kids, it's kind of scary, 267 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:53.799 not kind of it is. There was a long time 268 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:58.039 Bay Area college and career counselors names John sip Noo 269 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:02.279 and John De developed a chat bot during the pandemic. 270 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:06.960 This chatbot could answer high schoolers questions about future education 271 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:09.960 options because remember the pandemic, kids weren't going to school, 272 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:13.480 which made sense. Kids were not going to school and 273 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:16.519 so everything was online and this was one way to 274 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:20.679 help kids have kind of a bridge to a counselor 275 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:27.960 like answer in absence of the counselors right at the schools. 276 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:33.600 So John was using IBM's question answering precursor to chat GPT. 277 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.960 You remember it, It was called Watson, but when generative AI 278 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:42.919 became accessible, he knew it was a game changer. An 279 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:46.960 AI powered chatbot that's trained on information about college and 280 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:53.240 careers designed to mimic human speech means that students at 281 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:56.039 Making Waves Academy charter school in the East Bay up 282 00:15:56.039 --> 00:16:00.120 there in Richmond could soon text an AI copilot to 283 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.519 chat about their futures. The idea is they can get 284 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:07.519 basic questions out of the way at any hour before 285 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:12.440 a meeting with counselors for more targeted conversations. But you 286 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:16.679 know how teenagers are, how impressionable they are, especially when 287 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:21.759 it comes to college decisions. Anything can guide a kid's 288 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:26.720 college decision, from where their friends go to what looks 289 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:29.120 cool and the pamphlets that are sent to the home. 290 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:33.200 If they still do that, to a sports team, to 291 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.399 a popular I mean anything, kids will come home. 292 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:39.960 I want to go to Boise State. Why well, I 293 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:42.480 saw this cool TikTok and it was at Boise State. 294 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:44.399 I mean, super impressionable. 295 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:47.120 It's one of the ages that you just your guard's 296 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:49.600 got to be up for that kind of thing. My 297 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:52.559 brother told me when I was deciding on a college 298 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:54.679 and he and my dad wanted me to go to 299 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:56.919 Chico State because it was close. He was up there 300 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:00.360 and it was cheap. That's why my dad wanted me 301 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:04.839 to go there. But my brother telling me Shannon Highway 302 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:08.519 thirty two runs through Chico because thirty two is my 303 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:10.960 favorite number. It was a number I wore in sports, 304 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:14.599 and I thought, oh, like that meant something. 305 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:16.839 So they're very impressionable. 306 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:20.759 Having a chat bought help your child with a college decision, 307 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:24.920 to me, is terrifying. Is it more terrifying than your 308 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:28.279 kid's brothers saying hey, there's a highway called Probably not. 309 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:33.200 Sociologists talk about social capital is connections between people that 310 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:37.559 facilitate their success and what facilitates that, well, your decisions 311 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:41.000 right among those connections. They say, we've got strong ties 312 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:45.000 close friends, family, and coworkers who give us that routine support, 313 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:50.680 but that we have the weak ties in acquaintances we 314 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:53.920 see less regularly. And for a long time people thought 315 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:57.279 that these weak ties were less important, but they're not. 316 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:00.960 They have pretty much as much Pulleteen seventy three, there 317 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:04.519 was a Stanford sociologist who wrote about the strength of 318 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:08.599 weak ties, and a flood of studies since have confirmed 319 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:12.440 how important those distant acquaintances can be for everything, for 320 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:17.279 everything from job searches to emotional support. Sometimes the weak 321 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:20.519 ties are just as strong as the strong ones. So 322 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:24.880 any sort of impression your kid gets on the pathway 323 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:28.799 to deciding which college that could be just as important 324 00:18:28.839 --> 00:18:31.079 as you saying you got to go to Duke. Everyone 325 00:18:31.119 --> 00:18:32.839 in the family goes to Duke or what have you. 326 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:39.440 It's just the way the human brain works. When chat 327 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:43.319 CHPT came out, co founder and executive director Jared Chung 328 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:47.240 saw the potential immediately, and by the summer of twenty 329 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:50.440 twenty three, the team there had a full version of 330 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:56.000 their AI Career Coach Pilot. Now this coach is able 331 00:18:56.599 --> 00:19:02.119 and available for individuals to provide free online support. High 332 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:04.599 schools and colleges are on the country are starting to 333 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:08.920 embed it into their own advising And let's play a 334 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:11.279 game called follow the Money, a game I like to 335 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:14.880 play frequently all the time, really, because that's really the 336 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:19.200 impetus behind why things are done. Why do you think 337 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:22.799 there was so much drive to get ai career coach 338 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:27.400 up and running at chat GPT because there's a hell 339 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:29.960 of a lot of money in that whole decision process 340 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.359 when it comes to what school am I going to 341 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:35.400 go to? A lot of money for the colleges to 342 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:40.480 be made to send specific students to specific colleges. 343 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:43.640 Right, who's to say that these chat. 344 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:49.200 Gpt bots aren't being infiltrated Maybe not now, but down 345 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:53.920 the road. And then when there are advertisers and colleges 346 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:56.839 get involved with their greedy hands, it just seems to 347 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:00.319 me to be a bad road to go down. And 348 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:02.720 just the fact that the fact that a chatbot could 349 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:06.519 have any you know, influence on your kids. And the 350 00:20:06.599 --> 00:20:10.160 thing is about the weak ties strong ties kids because 351 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:12.759 they were raised on these screens, they treat the people 352 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:15.720 that they're talking to, whether it's the chatbot or the 353 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:21.880 college counselor with equal weight. There was research done by 354 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:26.920 the Clayton Christiansen Institute, which is just an institute that 355 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:29.599 looks into education and what kids are getting into and 356 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:31.640 where they're getting their information from and all of that 357 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:37.880 and their interactions, and they found that there were chat 358 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.960 logs where students were saying things to the chat bots. 359 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:46.079 The chatbots, by the way, with names like Ava, Kelly, Allie, Ethan, Coco. 360 00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:50.480 That's what they're calling themselves. So they're very friend like, 361 00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:53.640 shall we say. But anyway, the chat logs this institute 362 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:56.720 pulled up, they found the text read things where students 363 00:20:56.720 --> 00:20:58.640 were saying things like Ivy, thank you so much, you 364 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:03.319 like my best friend. The researcher saying, it's kind of heartwarming, 365 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:08.519 but more so scary. A little bit of both Gary 366 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:10.880 and Shannon will continue. We've got an update on that 367 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:16.240 Kansas City Chiefs fan death story. The guys that went 368 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:18.960 to a friend's house to watch the Chiefs Chargers game. 369 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:21.559 Some of them ended up dead. Now we've got murder charges. 370 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:23.799 It looked like just a football Sunday that got taken 371 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:25.839 too far. Now it's murder. 372 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:30.519 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 373 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:31.640 Am six forty. 374 00:21:31.880 --> 00:21:35.720 We talked earlier t Crime Tuesday about the story of 375 00:21:35.799 --> 00:21:40.799 Ruby Frankie, the mom vlogger. They had the YouTube channel 376 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:43.599 with her six kids, and now she's doing something like 377 00:21:43.720 --> 00:21:46.519 thirty years for child abuse. Because let's just say, the 378 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:49.240 YouTube channel got out of control. It led to some 379 00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:52.319 serious child abuse. And it opened my eyes to the 380 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:56.319 whole world about family vloggers. And it is a wide, 381 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:01.240 very vast world out there of people parents who are 382 00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:04.960 blogging through videos their children's. 383 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:06.359 Lives play by play. 384 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:10.240 There's been a number of these people who have left California, 385 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:12.920 and now we know why they've left California. It isn't 386 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:15.640 just because Nashville's cheaper and fun and you don't have 387 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:19.559 to deal with crazy California. It's because they don't have 388 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:22.119 to pay their kids that they're documenting all the time. 389 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:28.000 We'll get into that coming up at eleven o'clock the 390 00:22:28.039 --> 00:22:32.119 White House this hour, we learned suspending tariffs against Mexico 391 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:36.279 until April second, and a post on truth Social The President, 392 00:22:36.359 --> 00:22:38.759 saying he spoke with Mexico's president today out of the 393 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:41.400 country will not be required to pay tariffs on anything 394 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:46.240 under the Mexico and Canada trade agreement. Trump said Claudia 395 00:22:46.279 --> 00:22:49.279 Shinbaum will work with the US on securing the border. 396 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:53.279 Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik said today that Trump will most 397 00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:56.680 likely announce a one month delay on all Canadian tariffs 398 00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:57.559 as well. 399 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:00.240 Look no further than walls. 400 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:03.559 To find out what's driving this Stocks on Wall Street 401 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:06.599