Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
Speaker 1: AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio appen I rag on the government all
Speaker 1: the time. And look at what I found in my
Speaker 1: mail box. It's a check from the State of California. Hey, now,
Speaker 1: I filled out one of those online things of the
Speaker 1: state owes you money because of like bills or things
Speaker 1: that they didn't need.
Speaker 2: To charge you for. Oh yai, how much to the
Speaker 2: tune of one hundred and twelve dollars and thirty five cents.
Speaker 3: Oh so that's why we're running a deficit in the
Speaker 3: state of California.
Speaker 1: Now, well, I'm just saying I filled this out like
Speaker 1: maybe two weeks ago, and the check was pretty quick.
Speaker 1: Good job, State of California. I never say that lost
Speaker 1: property or whatever property fund it is. Yes, huh, how
Speaker 1: about that. Maybe I'll go check that out and see
Speaker 1: if I got any.
Speaker 2: Use all your addresses, that's the thing.
Speaker 4: I had my address.
Speaker 1: Oh well, if you have, I've had a lot of addresses,
Speaker 1: so I had like three or four addresses to put
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 3: Did they explain what it is? They explained what you Yeah, oh,
Speaker 3: and you didn't care.
Speaker 2: I don't remember it.
Speaker 1: It was just silly stuff like you know, like a
Speaker 1: credit card company or overdraft things like that that didn't
Speaker 1: oh you oh that they kind of monitor I guess
Speaker 1: when the state goes after the companies and there's a
Speaker 1: judgment made, the state kind of keeps track of it.
Speaker 3: I want to say, so, you're gonna cut a little
Speaker 3: check to Rob Bonta as a tip of any kind?
Speaker 4: Are you going to?
Speaker 1: No, that's not the controller anymore. By the way, it's
Speaker 1: m he's the ag Malia Cohen is who wrote this check.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so there you go.
Speaker 3: Well, welcome to Wednesday. It's January twenty second. A lot
Speaker 3: going on today. We'll talk a little bit more about
Speaker 3: the January sixth pardons that came out because Republicans in
Speaker 3: Congress are upset as to exactly how this thing played out.
Speaker 3: And to be honest, there were some last minute decisions
Speaker 3: that were made about that whole thing that took even
Speaker 3: some of the members of the administration by surprise. We'll
Speaker 3: talk about that we got to do. We're gonna have
Speaker 3: to do something about AI.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a great AI story today, and this is
Speaker 1: what they should lead with in my opinion, and it's
Speaker 1: how AI could be used in the medical world in
Speaker 1: terms of diagnoses, in terms of AI being there when
Speaker 1: you talk to your physician or your surgeon or whoever
Speaker 1: is handling your care, and AI kind of takes notes,
Speaker 1: you know how. You know, you always want to bring
Speaker 1: someone with you so that they remember the things because
Speaker 1: you're still kind of in shock at your body.
Speaker 2: What's happening to you? What have you?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 1: So you want somebody else there. And this is just
Speaker 1: another another net to catch all the information and being
Speaker 1: a way for AI to soak in all that information
Speaker 1: and then have a say in like what the roadmap
Speaker 1: looks like in terms of care.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one thing I want to see AI involved
Speaker 3: in my taxes. Okay, I hate I just hate everything
Speaker 3: about taxes.
Speaker 2: I do too, and I did dreading it. I've been
Speaker 2: dreading it.
Speaker 1: I've got to make a freaking tax appointment because my
Speaker 1: tax guy tries to like swindle an extra appointment and
Speaker 1: the end of the year and then I never do it.
Speaker 1: And then that's the pointment where they want to make
Speaker 1: the appointment to do the taxes. And I can't stand
Speaker 1: my tax guy. But I keep going back to him.
Speaker 4: My tax guy closed up shop.
Speaker 3: Really, I got to notice it had to be right
Speaker 3: at the beginning of December. It was like, Hey, we're
Speaker 3: closing December thirty first, so you're on your own.
Speaker 1: Wow, so now what you haven't figured out yet? I
Speaker 1: feel better yet.
Speaker 3: I mean, I do, I do have some time, and
Speaker 3: I'm not opposed to the idea of doing it myself.
Speaker 3: But I just I was explaining this to my daughter
Speaker 3: because she was asking me, like, what do I do
Speaker 3: for taxes? And she's got she's got one employer, so
Speaker 3: she can do turbo tax she can be Yeah, she'd
Speaker 3: be fine with it. I have a little bit more
Speaker 3: involved with it, with donations and write offs and all
Speaker 3: that sort of stuff. So it's it's a little bit
Speaker 3: more complicated than that. And I'm I just I'm terrified
Speaker 3: at the idea that I do something wrong and put
Speaker 3: my family at risk be that way. That's why I
Speaker 3: say I want AI to do it. It should not
Speaker 3: be I should not be fearful like that. Now, that's
Speaker 3: what they do to you. They make you fearful, and
Speaker 3: most people you're just fine. Most people screw up their taxes,
Speaker 3: nothing ever comes of it. Right, They're not going to
Speaker 3: come handcuff you and put you away. I don't know
Speaker 3: that that's one of the scams.
Speaker 1: By the way, they say, the IRS is calling and
Speaker 1: we're going to put you away unless you wire us
Speaker 1: gift cards for crying out loud. Yeah, so we'll tackle that. Also,
Speaker 1: we will be getting rain here this weekend. What does
Speaker 1: that mean already? Emergency declarations for the burn areas will
Speaker 1: get into how much rain. I'm excited for parenting with
Speaker 1: Justin to come back. We're going to be talking about
Speaker 1: playing favorites between children. You know what happens. The hardest
Speaker 1: age to parent your child may surprise.
Speaker 4: You twenty five, twenty two, eight twenty.
Speaker 1: Just because that's where you're at right now. Yeah, trust me, it's.
Speaker 3: It is different than the case for the teenage years.
Speaker 1: Me. I think it depends on your kids, it does.
Speaker 1: I think you're probably right.
Speaker 3: My wife always likes to say that she she had
Speaker 3: our kids were so different. I mean they and they
Speaker 3: continue to be very different. Our son was an absolute
Speaker 3: joy between the ages of zero and eight, not that
Speaker 3: he'd turned into a devil, but I mean he was happy,
Speaker 3: and he was funny, and he was creative. And he
Speaker 3: could keep himself busy. Our daughter was just so clinging
Speaker 3: and wanted every She had fingers in her mouth the
Speaker 3: whole time, and just was a mess physically, I mean healthy,
Speaker 3: but like dirty, and she had bumps on her feet
Speaker 3: that were weird. She looked like the third creature from
Speaker 3: the from the substance.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was a mess.
Speaker 3: And then turns into this absolutely gorgeous and intelligent and hardworking,
Speaker 3: self determined, self motivating.
Speaker 2: Your son is all of those things.
Speaker 3: Also, but very different that's okay, but very different personalities.
Speaker 1: But all of those things that you just said, you're
Speaker 1: he's gorgeous. Okay, you made it weird, I use.
Speaker 3: A different term. Can I go back and erase that
Speaker 3: and say, but he's a handsome.
Speaker 1: Hard working, he's intelligent, he's all of those things. You
Speaker 1: did very well with both of them in different paths,
Speaker 1: and that's how kids go. Like I was a disaster
Speaker 1: of fifteen. I mean I was a real hell raiser.
Speaker 4: Are you doing that?
Speaker 1: And at twenty five I was fine self determined motivated.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So I mean I was always self determined
Speaker 1: and motivated. I just also made really really bad decisions.
Speaker 3: Uh, smoky, Chipotle, Tabasco. That's your thing, that is, if
Speaker 3: you can find it. That is my absolute favorite hot
Speaker 3: sauce to put on whatever I'm going to put hot
Speaker 3: sauce on.
Speaker 1: We are asking you for your favorite hot sauce. I
Speaker 1: I'm partial. It depends on what I'm putting it on.
Speaker 1: I mean, my husband will put serrachia on everything, and
Speaker 1: that's fine, but the consistency for me sometimes needs to
Speaker 1: be a waterrier, you know, like if I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: it on eggs or something. Patio is kind of my
Speaker 1: hot my my like happy medium. Okay, not too thick,
Speaker 1: not too watery, but anyway.
Speaker 3: It's also top of TiO seems to be less vinegarya
Speaker 3: than Tabasco.
Speaker 4: Tabasco.
Speaker 2: I love Tabasco. Tabasco is what I have in my purse.
Speaker 3: Oh you and Hillary Clinton? Yeah okay, but what is
Speaker 3: your favorite hot sauce? Oh and here's the other thing.
Speaker 3: What's the crazy thing that you put hot sauce on
Speaker 3: that no one else does?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: I put a heart. I put it on hard boiled eggs.
Speaker 2: Is that weird?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, eggs, It's a very common. I would say. My
Speaker 3: husband put it on fried rice.
Speaker 2: The other night.
Speaker 1: That was good, Sacha or Serrachia. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: nice little that would be good. Yeah, trying to get
Speaker 1: some hot.
Speaker 2: Sauce anyway, what's your favorite hot sauce?
Speaker 1: Let us know, use that top back feature on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: You just tap tap tap that little microphone bingo.
Speaker 3: And apparently Donald Trump made the decision probably hours before
Speaker 3: inauguration that he was going to just do a blanket
Speaker 3: pardon for everybody involved with James quote it release them all,
Speaker 3: efit release them all.
Speaker 2: You are going to have.
Speaker 1: To you refresh my recollection about who mister Beast is.
Speaker 4: Oh, he's YouTube guy.
Speaker 1: Mister Beast apparently was in the conversation to buy TikTok.
Speaker 2: He is not in the bidding.
Speaker 1: Race just yet, but he has said on x that
Speaker 1: he'd buy TikTok so it doesn't get banned.
Speaker 2: What does mister Beast do on YouTube?
Speaker 3: I will say I'm not the biggest mister Beast guy,
Speaker 3: but among other things, he does contests where you could
Speaker 3: win a million dollars if you can stick your tongue
Speaker 3: on a flagpole for nine hours.
Speaker 2: How does he bankroll this?
Speaker 3: Just advertisement? Me started as a small guy in terms
Speaker 3: of doing goofy stunts and stuff and then may turn
Speaker 3: it into competitions.
Speaker 2: Our faces are doing the same thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or it's just like Dutch.
Speaker 3: I mean. The thing is, I think he's one of,
Speaker 3: if not the most subscribed channels on all of YouTube,
Speaker 3: which I mean ten years ago we would have said that,
Speaker 3: and we would have said, oh, that's so cute.
Speaker 4: He's got a hobby. But I mean, this guy makes
Speaker 4: millions and millions of dollars.
Speaker 3: Now he's got a show I think on Amazon is
Speaker 3: it Amazon, It's got on one of the streaming services
Speaker 3: that's called The Beast Games where it's this competition this
Speaker 3: you know, I almost if it was a Japanese game
Speaker 3: show twelve years ago, you would go, oh, I get it,
Speaker 3: And that's what he's doing now.
Speaker 4: But he's doing it for all kinds of money. Anyway.
Speaker 3: National Weather Service has extended it's red flag warning for
Speaker 3: La and Ventura Counties until tomorrow night.
Speaker 4: You're supposed to expire.
Speaker 3: Last night, they said the winds are going to pick
Speaker 3: up again this afternoon, so to be careful. They are
Speaker 3: going to keep that red flag warning in place until
Speaker 3: tomorrow night. But as you heard Amy mentioned, there is
Speaker 3: rain in the forecast, and in some areas of southern
Speaker 3: California we could see as much as a third of
Speaker 3: an inch of rain on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Did you know that?
Speaker 1: In the vein of our talkback question today, in terms
Speaker 1: of what your favorite hot sauce is, did you know
Speaker 1: Trump has a hot sauce haben Niero hot sauce. One
Speaker 1: of our friends texted, spicy but not too hot, A
Speaker 1: tiny bit sweet, very yummy. It's about is viscous as tapatillo.
Speaker 2: And here's the label.
Speaker 1: It's got Donald Trump on it and his red make
Speaker 1: America Great Again happened over great. They have super imposed
Speaker 1: the word hot, so it's called make America Hot Again
Speaker 1: hot sauce. We also heard from our friend Dave over
Speaker 1: at ABC who likes Trappies Indie pep West Indian style
Speaker 1: pepper sauce.
Speaker 2: Interesting, I've never heard of that before.
Speaker 1: And then our buddy Michael says he likes Tabasco on
Speaker 1: regular wavy lays potato chips. Overall, I like any hot
Speaker 1: salcea that is cilantro heavy. I do like that, Like
Speaker 1: when you go to Mexico and they give you can
Speaker 1: buy potato chips on the Street with the hot sauce
Speaker 1: corn chips.
Speaker 4: They give you potato chips.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, really, oh yeah, delicious, nice and greasy.
Speaker 3: So President Trump's pardon of the January sixth defendants was
Speaker 3: a last minute decision, according to some White House advisors
Speaker 3: who had spoken to Axios. They said this move to
Speaker 3: go big on these pardons sheds light on his unpredictable
Speaker 3: decision making process.
Speaker 4: JD.
Speaker 3: Vance said on Sunday, January sixth, I'm sorry, said on
Speaker 3: Fox News Sunday that January sixth convicts who assaulted police
Speaker 3: probably should not get a pardon or clemency in any
Speaker 3: He said, if you committed violence that day, obviously you
Speaker 3: shouldn't be part of pardoned.
Speaker 1: Trump's team was said to have wrestled with the issue,
Speaker 1: and they were planning this shock and a batch of
Speaker 1: executive orders that we saw yesterday, and apparently when they
Speaker 1: were talking about this, Trump just said, efitt release them all.
Speaker 1: That's according to an advisor familiar with those discussions.
Speaker 4: Now he at the time.
Speaker 3: In an interview in December, he see didn't rule out
Speaker 3: clemency for anybody accused of or convicted of attacking police,
Speaker 3: but said we're going to look at individual cases, which
Speaker 3: clearly he didn't. One of the officers who was there
Speaker 3: that day who has become sort of a media darling
Speaker 3: is Michael Fanone. I don't think he's an officer anymore,
Speaker 3: but he was one of those guys who was attacked
Speaker 3: by other people, and he obviously has said that he
Speaker 3: felt betrayed by this decision and his description of just
Speaker 3: a few of the people who were either accused of
Speaker 3: or convicted of assaulting him that day.
Speaker 5: They are Daniel Rodriguez, an individual who applied a taser
Speaker 5: device to by neck while I was being restrained multiple times.
Speaker 5: Daniel Rodriguez admitted his conduct, pled guilty, and was sentenced
Speaker 5: to twelve and a half years in prison. He is
Speaker 5: now free. Ile Young pled guilty. Admitted that while I
Speaker 5: was being restrained, assaulted and beaten, he attempted to remove
Speaker 5: my gun from its holster, all while individuals were telling
Speaker 5: him to kill me with my gun.
Speaker 2: So this is what happened. Trump has attention span problem.
Speaker 2: It takes one to know one Going through.
Speaker 1: A case by case basis of these people on January
Speaker 1: sixth is onerous at best. It requires a lot of briefings,
Speaker 1: a lot of presentations, a lot of people coming in
Speaker 1: telling you what happened, timelines, just stuff that you really
Speaker 1: have to focus for and have attention span for.
Speaker 2: He does not. And that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: As they began to take this by a case by
Speaker 1: case basis and what that would entail.
Speaker 2: That's when Trump said, effet part of I don't want
Speaker 2: to deal with this.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be a problem with this outside of just
Speaker 3: the people the Faternal Order of Police and m gonna
Speaker 3: screw up the other group name. They come out with
Speaker 3: a statement that was like, what are you doing? How
Speaker 3: would you possibly say your pro cop, your pro police,
Speaker 3: you're pro blue? And then you do this, You allow
Speaker 3: so many of these people who were now not all
Speaker 3: of them were convicted of assaulting police officers, but there
Speaker 3: were enough, and they're easy enough to find that you
Speaker 3: don't need to pardon.
Speaker 1: He needed somebody, a point person to come in and
Speaker 1: just be like, these are the people. Just slap the
Speaker 1: papers on the desk. These are the people that went
Speaker 1: after cops. These are the people we're not going to
Speaker 1: party right these people.
Speaker 3: There's two piles, the people who were trespassing or whatever
Speaker 3: that the charges were, and the ones who were assaulting cops.
Speaker 4: There is a problem with this, though.
Speaker 3: You've got sixteen hundred ish people who were either pardoned
Speaker 3: or had their sentences commuted, who now are going to
Speaker 3: be on the radar of every media outlet in the country.
Speaker 3: And if any one of these people does anything wrong,
Speaker 3: gets arrested at a at a rally for something, gets
Speaker 3: a traffic ticket, they're going to be held up as
Speaker 3: an example of the kind of person, whether they deserve
Speaker 3: it or not, the kind of person that that Donald
Speaker 3: Trump likes. This is a mistake on his part to
Speaker 3: have done this because he also puts his own vice
Speaker 3: president in a bad light, because Jade Vance was going
Speaker 3: around talking about how they're going to do this on
Speaker 3: an individual basis. Pam Bondy the New ag Incoming Age.
Speaker 1: They said that Trump already had his mind made up.
Speaker 1: He did not change his mind that when jd Vance
Speaker 1: went on Fox News that he got in a little
Speaker 1: over his skis, but it's no big deal, they said.
Speaker 1: The bottom line is, according to a Trump transition source,
Speaker 1: never get ahead of the boss because you.
Speaker 2: Just never know.
Speaker 4: And listen.
Speaker 3: The idea that Joe Biden pardoned his family members or
Speaker 3: January sixth, Committee member or other people who might be
Speaker 3: potentially targeted by Trump.
Speaker 4: That's just as bad to me.
Speaker 3: This is an absolute both of those examples of abuse
Speaker 3: of the pardon power that exists in the presidency. La
Speaker 3: Mayor Bass has come out with an emergency executive order
Speaker 3: to try to shore up some of our burn areas
Speaker 3: and stem the flow of debris in the event of
Speaker 3: rain this weekend. The order directs more city resources to
Speaker 3: help clear hillsides clean up existing debris if it's some
Speaker 3: water flow away from affected areas where possible in those fires.
Speaker 3: The expectation is that if we do see some rain,
Speaker 3: it would probably be Saturday. As of right now, they're
Speaker 3: saying on the high end it would be about a
Speaker 3: third of an inch of rain. Any rain would help
Speaker 3: in terms of fire danger, obviously, but too much rain
Speaker 3: would be a bad thing.
Speaker 1: Well, Donald Trump announced a joint project yesterday when it
Speaker 1: comes to AI.
Speaker 2: It's called Stargate.
Speaker 1: Stargate would invest up to fifty excuse me, five hundred
Speaker 1: billion dollars over the next four years to build the
Speaker 1: infrastructure to support AI development. Now, the money is often
Speaker 1: something you just gloss over, but in this case, it's substantial.
Speaker 1: Five hundred billion dollars. Open Ai, Oracle and soft Bank
Speaker 1: are the initial equity investors for the project. But Elon
Speaker 1: Musk is the first to raise his hand and say
Speaker 1: what he says. They actually don't have the money. He says,
Speaker 1: soft Bank has well under ten billion secured. I have
Speaker 1: that on good authority. And Trump was quite optimistic yesterday.
Speaker 1: Musk was more of the realist.
Speaker 4: Musk was the one.
Speaker 3: He is saying, obviously as a head of Department of
Speaker 3: Government and Efficiency of Government efficiency, that this might be
Speaker 3: one of those things that he has to target. As
Speaker 3: a matter of fact, if you remember, a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago, the soft Bank CEO Masa Yoshi so was
Speaker 3: standing with Donald Trump and they made the original, one
Speaker 3: of these original announcements, and he said that he was
Speaker 3: going to offer one hundred billion, and Donald Trump goes, okay,
Speaker 3: you want to make a two hundred, We'll make a
Speaker 3: two hundred. And the guy was like, well, listen, hold on,
Speaker 3: let's see how uh, let's see how things go. This
Speaker 3: this newer AI technology requires a massive amount of electricity.
Speaker 4: Keep massive.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, this is Trump's mo o. Okay, you
Speaker 1: go back to the Apprentice and yes, haha, reality show.
Speaker 1: But you learn a lot about President Trump from watching
Speaker 1: that show and about his personality and about how he
Speaker 1: works with people and how he drives people. And one
Speaker 1: of the things he uses and he always has is competition. Yes,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk looks like his golden tech boy right now.
Speaker 1: Head of Doge got rid of Vivic Ramaswami so that
Speaker 1: Elon could kind of have the run of the house
Speaker 1: sort of so to speak. But now Trump is throwing
Speaker 1: in these other AI company. Now, Elon Musk just raised
Speaker 1: six billion in new funding for his AI company. But
Speaker 1: here's Trump going to open AI Oracle and SoftBank and saying,
Speaker 1: let's see what they can do. You know, he's he
Speaker 1: he uses them as racehorses against each other to get production.
Speaker 1: It's not an awful scheme. It's not a great idea, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and so and so Elon Musk. It's in Elon Musk's
Speaker 1: interest for this not to become a thing because of
Speaker 1: his own AI company.
Speaker 3: One of the things that comes under this umbrella of
Speaker 3: this expansion of AI and this investment of into artificial
Speaker 3: intelligence was a pledge that he's going to cure cancer.
Speaker 3: Sam Altman was talking about the medical hopes for the plan,
Speaker 3: I said it was the most important project of this era.
Speaker 3: Says that diseases from cancers and heart ailments from cancer's
Speaker 3: two heart ailments could be cured at an unprecedented rate,
Speaker 3: and that cures will be coming at a rapid rapid rate.
Speaker 3: One of the most exciting things they said they're working
Speaker 3: on this would have been Larry Allison, who said, this
Speaker 3: is using the tools that Sam and Masayoshi are providing
Speaker 3: a cancer vaccine. He said, you could do early cancer
Speaker 3: detection with the blood tests, and using AI to look
Speaker 3: at the blood test, you can find cancers that are
Speaker 3: actually seriously threatening the person. So again, cancer diagnosis using
Speaker 3: AI has the promise of just being a simple blood test. Well,
Speaker 3: we've all lived through that before and seeing that get
Speaker 3: we all got taken.
Speaker 4: By Elizabeth Holmes.
Speaker 3: Now there is some pushback to all of this because,
Speaker 3: for example, Justine Bateman has become a voice for again.
Speaker 3: She and her brother diametrically opposed when it comes to politics,
Speaker 3: follow La Law, but she has become a voice of
Speaker 3: reason in a world of craziness in some places. She said,
Speaker 3: generative is one of the worst ideas society has ever invented.
Speaker 3: It's going to hollow people out by taking their jobs.
Speaker 3: It's going to make them feel they can't do the
Speaker 3: simplest of things for themselves. Ingrain learned helplessness all to
Speaker 3: fill the pockets of these tech bros. And this will
Speaker 3: not make us better. It is a regurgitation of the past.
Speaker 3: It is not the future. That is the most interesting
Speaker 3: way I've seen AI described, because remember what AI does
Speaker 3: is look at all the things we've done before chat GPT,
Speaker 3: for example, looks at documents that all existed on the
Speaker 3: Internet and the intellectual properties that are at least nine
Speaker 3: months old. It doesn't talk about refocusing for whatever the
Speaker 3: future is.
Speaker 4: It's at this point.
Speaker 3: It can take that information and kind of suss out
Speaker 3: what is the most important.
Speaker 4: But it doesn't do anything for the future.
Speaker 3: So there is some pushback to as great as AI
Speaker 3: may be, it's not the thing that's going to save
Speaker 3: humanity and may actually have a negative effect on it.
Speaker 1: Have you heard about the play of mittens, or shall
Speaker 1: I say the flight of mittens? The flight of mittens,
Speaker 1: the flight and the flight of Untain's mittens is a
Speaker 1: coon cat from Maine.
Speaker 4: That's a big cat is it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll show me hands.
Speaker 3: I'll show you a picture. Somebody just sent me a
Speaker 3: picture yesterday of Why.
Speaker 2: Would someone send you a picture of a coon cat?
Speaker 3: We were sharing pictures of pets. It's not really you
Speaker 3: need to know.
Speaker 2: So that's what you do on your downtime.
Speaker 4: Look at that. Look how big that is?
Speaker 2: That is a big cat. Who's the dude one of the.
Speaker 4: Guys from camp.
Speaker 3: You guys are showing pet pictures. Now, he's an oncologist. Okay,
Speaker 3: I don't know why that makes a difference, but he's
Speaker 3: got a big cat.
Speaker 2: That's very cool.
Speaker 1: So Mittens is this coon cat from Maine that accidentally
Speaker 1: flew three times between New Zealand and Australia this month.
Speaker 1: Her cage, Mitton's cage, was mistakenly left in the plane's
Speaker 1: cargo hold.
Speaker 4: Cold.
Speaker 1: Mittens was booked on a one way trip from New
Speaker 1: Zealand with her owner to their new home in Melbourne Melbourne,
Speaker 1: but apparently Margo waited hours for her cat before learning
Speaker 1: the plane had returned to New Zealand with Mittens still
Speaker 1: on board. They're finally reunited. The airline has apologized. Margo
Speaker 1: says Mittens has been extra cuddly since her travels.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're probably a front hypothermia.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: So we're talking about artificial intelligence in the in the
Speaker 3: health industry, and this new stargate initiative that President Trump
Speaker 3: is going to be pouring money into AI in art
Speaker 3: is very different, and there are a lot of people
Speaker 3: who have argued it should have no place in art.
Speaker 3: It should be notified you, you should be told if
Speaker 3: AI is used to create art in any way. And
Speaker 3: the movie The Brutalist Adrian Brody is getting a lot
Speaker 3: of Oscar buzz. The movie itself is getting a lot
Speaker 3: of Oscar buzz as well, but it comes out now
Speaker 3: that in an interview with the tech magazine Red Shark,
Speaker 3: and the editor said AI tools have been deployed in
Speaker 3: order to improve parts of the movie, specifically the Hungarian
Speaker 3: dialogue of Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones, the two actress
Speaker 3: actors involved in the lead roles.
Speaker 1: The editor is a native Hungarian speaker and says, I
Speaker 1: know that that is one of the most difficult languages
Speaker 1: to learn to pronounce.
Speaker 2: It's extremely unique.
Speaker 1: They wanted it perfect so that not even locals would
Speaker 1: spawn any difference.
Speaker 3: So what they did was Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones
Speaker 3: would record their voices into AI software, and this guy,
Speaker 3: this native Hungarian speaker, would feed his voice to try
Speaker 3: to finesse some of the trickier parts of the dialogue.
Speaker 3: And they said, most of their Hungarian dialogue has a
Speaker 3: part of me talking in there. So they would take
Speaker 3: the Hungarian guy's voice and sort of map the audio
Speaker 3: of either Adrian's voice or Felicity's voice so that they
Speaker 3: would hit the exact pronunciations. And he said, to be honest,
Speaker 3: it's really just a little bit. It's mainly replacing just
Speaker 3: a few letters here and there to nail the pronunciations.
Speaker 1: He also revealed that AI was used in the final
Speaker 1: sequence of The Brutalist to create a series of architectural
Speaker 1: drawings and finished buildings in the style of the main
Speaker 1: character Laslow Toth. All of this with people up in
Speaker 1: arms about it is silly to me, because isn't that
Speaker 1: what Hollywood has always been smoking mirrors?
Speaker 2: CGI pretend it is.
Speaker 3: Funny that this is where some people have drawn the
Speaker 3: line I would die on this hill. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: CGI is one of those I don't remember there being
Speaker 3: a lot of people suggesting, well, you fooled me because
Speaker 3: I thought that that was not CGI. I mean, the
Speaker 3: most recent example, it's not a great one, is the
Speaker 3: bus scene in Deadpool versus Wolverine or Deadpool and Wolverine.
Speaker 3: There was a lot lot of CGI that went into
Speaker 3: that and it made people angry. But there's no way
Speaker 3: you'd be able to choreograph a fight scene with hundreds
Speaker 3: of people at that.
Speaker 1: Come on, you know, the monster and the substance also
Speaker 1: not real if we're gonna be calling.
Speaker 3: But that was practical. I mean, that was actually somebody
Speaker 3: built that model. And yeah, fascinating. I love how people's
Speaker 3: minds were. Paul Schrader, by the way, most recognizable as
Speaker 3: the screenwriter between Behind Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last
Speaker 3: Temptation of Christ, The Canyons, this new movie that came out.
Speaker 4: It turns out.
Speaker 3: He says that the AI generated movies and screenplays are
Speaker 3: better than a lot of the things that that humans
Speaker 3: are able to.
Speaker 2: Come right, and that's what scares people. That's what scares people.
Speaker 2: Jen has weighed in.
Speaker 1: She says Trader Joe's hop an arrow hot Sauce is
Speaker 1: the best. She says, also a trick of the trade
Speaker 1: is to check out the sodium content. Legit hot sauce
Speaker 1: needs to be under one hundred milligrams sodium. Any sauce
Speaker 1: that is above a hundred milligrams is white people hot sauce.
Speaker 2: Oh good to know.
Speaker 3: Hi guys, this is Lann.
Speaker 1: My son likes Dill pickle hot sauce, and there's actually
Speaker 1: one called I think Dill pickle crack.
Speaker 4: I don't know, pretty weird, but that's what he likes.
Speaker 2: I like anything labeled top brass.
Speaker 3: And bitchen sauce on his pizza.
Speaker 5: Just crazy to me.
Speaker 3: You might want to get your son some counseling, though.
Speaker 3: Why dill pickle that sounds good. I love a Dill
Speaker 3: pickle hot sauce. Sure, I mean I understand the vinegar content, right,
Speaker 3: That's part of what makes sense.
Speaker 2: Like pickles on everything. M all right, coming in.
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