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 --> 00:00:09.439 on the iHeartRadio app. President Trump is in the Middle 4 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:11.839 East and we've got a Joe Biden health update. It's 5 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:13.480 where we kick off swamp Watch. 6 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:16.440 I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar. 7 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:19.719 And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops. 8 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:22.879 Yeah, we got The real problem is that our leaders 9 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:23.440 are done. 10 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:28.600 The other side never quits what what, I'm not going anywhere. 11 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:31.359 So that is now you train the squad. I can 12 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:33.960 imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been. 13 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:37.640 You know, Americans have always been gone at President, They're 14 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:38.280 not stupid. 15 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:41.200 A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth. 16 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:43.920 Have the people voted for you? With no swamp Watch, 17 00:00:44.119 --> 00:00:45.840 they're all countera well. 18 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:48.920 The President sat down with Crown Prince Muhammed Ben Solman. 19 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:53.280 They talked about multiple economic and defense agreements between the 20 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:56.719 United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at this 21 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:59.640 investment forum. A little bit after the first meeting, the 22 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:02.359 President said, there's a tremendous honor to be invited back 23 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:05.159 to Saudi Arabia, where he took his first foreign trip. 24 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:07.879 In the first turn back in twenty seventeen, he called 25 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:13.239 MBS a friend. We didn't talk about the whole you know, 26 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:17.000 ordered murder of a Washington Post journalist in twenty eighteen, 27 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:19.879 but you know, we can't do anything about it because 28 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:23.920 he's has immunity from prosecution. One of the big announcements 29 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:28.120 was not just the six hundred billion dollars Saudi investment deal, 30 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:32.439 but that the United States was going to make an 31 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:38.439 effort to normalize relations with the country of Syria by 32 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:41.040 dropping a bunch of sanctions against that country. 33 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:44.599 The sanctions were brutal and crippling and served as an 34 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:49.280 important really an important function nevertheless at the time. But 35 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:52.200 now it's their time to shine. It's their time to shine. 36 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:54.719 We're taking them all off, and they're going to have 37 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:58.159 I think they're going to have based on the people 38 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:00.439 and the spirit and everything else that I'm hearing about. 39 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:03.799 So I say, good luck, Seria, show us something very 40 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:08.039 special like they've done frankly in Saudi Arabia. Okay, they're 41 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:10.599 going to show us something special, very good people. 42 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:14.360 He's referred to Saudi Arabia there. One of the things, 43 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:17.439 one of the terms that he used was that Saudi 44 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:20.879 Arabia is an example for the Middle East and that 45 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:23.840 it has achieved a modern miracle, the Arabian Way. 46 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:27.560 So we'll see you. 47 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:31.560 Did anybody else hear Arabian nights start in their head. 48 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:33.280 When I said Arabian Way. 49 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:37.039 Yeah, so that's where the president is. He's got this 50 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:40.319 is a few days worth of travel there in the 51 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:41.680 Middle East before he comes back. 52 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:44.400 Joe Biden health update. 53 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:49.039 A small nodule has been found in Biden's prostate after 54 00:02:49.080 --> 00:03:01.560 a routine physical exam. This does nesitate nesitate, nessitate necessity, necessary, necessitates, necessity, 55 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:12.639 necessitate a refresher of the English language, necessitate further evaluation. 56 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:15.560 They say it's too early. 57 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:19.560 Yeah, if it could be benign an inflammation, something more serious, 58 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:21.400 you just don't know, microplastics. 59 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:21.879 It could be. 60 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:24.319 He had a lesion removed from his chest skin cancer 61 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:28.759 a couple of years ago, several non Melanowa non melanoma 62 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:32.039 skin cancers removed by the mose surgery. 63 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:35.120 Picked all the right stories to use, all the pronunciations 64 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:36.759 you got today, I sure did. 65 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:40.199 But anyway, there you go. 66 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:43.879 There was another story, of course that There are some 67 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:46.680 new excerpts that have been published from this upcoming book 68 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:50.280 called Original Sin President Biden's Decline. It's cover up in 69 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:52.680 his disastrous choice to run again. I mean it is 70 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:55.840 a at least the title is pull No Punches Again. 71 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:58.080 This is by Jake Tapper from CNN, teamed up with 72 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:00.719 Alex Thompson from AXE, and. 73 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:03.680 It seems common sense. We all saw it before our 74 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:06.439 eyes what condition he was in. This is just spilling 75 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:08.520 in some of the details, like they were talking about 76 00:04:08.599 --> 00:04:11.280 how he needed a wheelchair, but that they would only 77 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:13.360 bring out the wheelchair if he was re elected. 78 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:15.759 I'm interested to see. 79 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:17.680 And I don't know if the book gets into this, 80 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.199 but the more of the covering up and who was 81 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:24.639 the inner circle there, how much did Jill Biden have 82 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:27.759 a say in this? It's very Nancy Reagan s Ford 83 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:30.360 the end of Ronald Reagan's second term in terms of 84 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:36.199 the wife covering up a lot of the aging. Frankly, 85 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:39.759 that's what it is. It's not anything nefarious. It's just 86 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:44.600 the covering up of aging, dementia, dilapidation, all of it, 87 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:45.800 cognitive decline. 88 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:49.759 Well, I'd be curious the concentric circles. That's the innermost 89 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:51.680 circle those people immediately. 90 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:53.000 That's what I'm saying. Yeah, like who else is in 91 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:54.480 that circle of the covering up? 92 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.720 Well, the second level of that is the leadership and 93 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:01.360 the Democratic Party, I think, and and there I was 94 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:04.399 listening to you. Remember Mark Halprin used to be with 95 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:07.120 ABC News. He's out on his own now and he 96 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:10.680 has a podcast where he was asking these questions about 97 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:14.040 and reference this book like coming out. He knows that 98 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:16.319 it's coming out, and he's talked with both Jake Tapper 99 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:21.040 and Alex Thompson about it. But what kind of with 100 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:23.639 all of the things the Democratic Party is dealing with, 101 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.079 all of the questions about who's going to be the leadership, 102 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:30.240 why didn't they acknowledge Biden's decline? What what do those 103 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:33.879 people now hear when they talk about it? And he 104 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:38.560 used Elizabeth Warren Senator Elizabeth Warren as an example and 105 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:40.920 played a SoundBite from her. She was being interviewed and 106 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:45.399 was asked, why did you say you didn't see any 107 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:52.040 decline in President Biden when everyone else did? And she said, well, 108 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:57.279 I didn't see any decline, which is a very clinton 109 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:04.199 Esque answer or response to the question what is is it? 110 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:05.480 What is is? 111 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:05.800 Or? 112 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:10.000 I mean just even that's not really getting away from anything. 113 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:14.279 Everyone saw it, and she saw it from across the country. 114 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:19.199 And she's not acknowledging that it existed. She's just then claiming, 115 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:22.759 you know, she's playing with the wording. There's she's getting 116 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:23.759 out the syntax. 117 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.800 Well, I didn't say it. I didn't see. 118 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:29.920 They did not want to admit to it because that 119 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.319 would have given the election to Trump. And that's essentially 120 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.439 what it did. They didn't want to admit it. They 121 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:36.120 just put their heads in their sand in the sand. 122 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:42.360 But you know, to our question all those months ago 123 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.399 of so who's running the country, because it ain't that guy, 124 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:49.879 you know, it's the bolts were coming off, the wheels 125 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:52.839 were falling off of that thing, and it's remarkable they 126 00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:54.839 were able to keep it together to cross. 127 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:55.759 The finish line of the term. 128 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:59.600 Well, yeah, because remember in August and September there were 129 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:02.480 questions of is he just gonna is he just gonna 130 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:08.040 resign and allow Kamala Harris to be the president. That book, 131 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:11.519 by the way, comes out next Tuesday. Like I said earlier, 132 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:13.839 there will be plenty of excerpts published between now and 133 00:07:13.879 --> 00:07:15.560 then to help boost those sales. 134 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:19.480 Technology a help or a hindrance in the classroom. Has 135 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:22.839 it gone too far? Some teachers are saying, Ea, yes 136 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:23.240 it has. 137 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:28.160 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 138 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:29.279 AM six forty. 139 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:31.160 There is a. 140 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.759 TikTok rant going viral more than a million viewers. Is 141 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:36.879 a twenty six year old high school English teacher that 142 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:40.079 put this together, and she says that her desks are 143 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:42.879 no longer filled with minds eager to learn, but students 144 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:48.600 scrolling TikTok, playing games, copying assignments through chat GPT. Basically, 145 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:51.279 it's about how technology is ruining education. 146 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:55.839 It's really a damning look at from the teacher's perspective. 147 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:01.399 The technology that exists in these classrooms is not helping. 148 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:04.160 What I really want to talk about is how technology 149 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:06.079 is ruining education. 150 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:10.399 So in my county, every student. 151 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:13.160 In the county, I believe, from sixth grade through twelfth 152 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:20.319 grade gets their own district or county distributed iPad. Every 153 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:22.279 kid gets an iPad for the school year, and they 154 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:23.800 are to turn it back into the end of the 155 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:26.160 school year, and then they get it back in August 156 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:30.000 or whenever we come back I have seen. 157 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:33.639 A where to even begin. 158 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:35.840 A lot of what I'm going to talk about is 159 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:38.519 a little bit drawn from other videos I have seen, 160 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:41.480 but it opened my eyes to so many things. And 161 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:45.960 I had been wondering why the technology sucked so much 162 00:08:46.120 --> 00:08:48.240 and why I hated it and for a while because 163 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:50.879 I'm an English teacher as of this moment right now, 164 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:53.360 But before I taught English, I was in a computer 165 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:57.600 lab and I taught digital arts. I taught a class 166 00:08:57.679 --> 00:09:01.159 called multimedia, which was to each students how to use 167 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:06.279 like word processing programs, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word and other just 168 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:11.159 online tools that six graders need to know about. And 169 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:15.080 I have taught a little bit of computer science. I'm 170 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:17.399 not really computer science savvy, but it was an introductory 171 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:19.240 course and I could teach them a little bit of coding. 172 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:20.159 That's not the point. 173 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:21.440 Point is I thought I. 174 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:26.240 Hated technology because kids were iPad kids growing up, and 175 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:29.639 they just have too much access to games and entertainment, 176 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:31.879 and they don't want to use technology for education. They 177 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:34.480 want to use it for entertainment. And to a degree 178 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:37.240 that is true. But what I am learning is more 179 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:43.440 than that, and that technology is directly contributing to the 180 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:48.279 literacy decrease FIRA seeing in this country right now. A 181 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:50.960 lot of these kids don't know how to read because 182 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:53.440 they have had things read to them, or they can 183 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:55.559 click a button and have something read out loud to them. 184 00:09:57.840 --> 00:09:58.440 In seconds. 185 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:02.799 Their attention spans are weaning because everything is high stimulation. 186 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:05.879 They can just scroll watch less than a minute. They 187 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:08.039 can't sit still for very long. 188 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:09.519 Okay, I have some problems with her. 189 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:12.639 She's an English teacher, and she's she's twenty six weaning, 190 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:17.679 but she she says that at the end of this 191 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:18.919 she has quit her job. 192 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:20.440 By the way, she's quit her job. 193 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:22.879 She describes at the beginning of the video that this 194 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:26.039 is her last day or two in her classroom before 195 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:27.200 she moves on and does something. 196 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:29.360 You know, I would like to play Devil's advocate for 197 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:31.639 just a moment. Go for it now, I don't. I've 198 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.240 my dad was a teacher. Teachers in the family. My 199 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:42.440 aunt's a teacher. You have teachers in your family. There's 200 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:46.039 always been a problem with keeping kids attention in school, 201 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:50.759 always right, you have to get creative with it. 202 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:51.879 Part of it. 203 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:55.360 Part of your job as a teacher is not just 204 00:10:55.519 --> 00:11:00.600 teaching reading, writing, arithmetic. What have you it's learning how 205 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:03.120 to break through and connect with kids. And that's what 206 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:05.879 makes teachers so freaking masterful at what they do. It's 207 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.399 what makes them. They all have that X factor or 208 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:12.000 you know, ninety percent of them have that X factor 209 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:15.360 where they get kids to pay attention, they get kids 210 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:17.559 to listen, they get them excited, they get them wanting 211 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:22.200 to learn, or they just get it done. Got You've 212 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:25.120 got to know that that's a huge part of the job. 213 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:27.799 It's not just I get that you want to teach. 214 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:30.279 You want people that are If you've got a class 215 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:34.960 full of as she says, she says, these are her words, 216 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:37.559 the desks are no longer filled with minds eager to learn. 217 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:38.879 Or that's how it's written up. 218 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:42.120 If you're a teacher and you get a classroom full 219 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:44.720 of desks with minds that are eager to learn, you've 220 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:46.759 won the freaking teacher lottery. 221 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:48.360 That is not real life. 222 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:52.279 But I would say on her behalf that. 223 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:57.639 You've got to be able to the county or the 224 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:01.240 district or whoever this individual school has to empower the 225 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:04.360 teachers to use the tools available to them, or to 226 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:07.399 be creative and figure out the ways to get as 227 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:10.159 much out of those kids as you possibly can, and 228 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:14.519 that could include chromebooks don't go into the classroom, or 229 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:18.639 iPads or whatever, no technology in the classroom itself, and 230 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:21.679 then reevaluate why do we even have it in the 231 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:26.519 first place, because we don't want kids turning in actual 232 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:30.919 paperwork anymore like that. That was always a problem I 233 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:34.000 had with my kids when if they did a report 234 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:38.480 of some kind, just the generic book report that later 235 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:41.120 on in their school, whether it was you, it was 236 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:44.840 high school, or whatever, they didn't have a physical copy 237 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:47.399 of the report that they would turn in. That bothered 238 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:50.480 me because if I'm going to help them, if they 239 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:53.720 want me to look at it beforehand, I preferred the paper. 240 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:57.279 Copy to go through. I know, but I'm saying at 241 00:12:57.320 --> 00:12:58.159 the same time that that. 242 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:01.720 Ship has sailed dealing with what she's referring to, which 243 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:05.600 is the decline in literacy, the decline in attention span, 244 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:09.519 the decline in their ability to literally write their own names. 245 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:13.080 And some of these kids she refers to, they can't read, 246 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:16.360 or they certainly can't read to the grade level that 247 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:18.600 they are, that they're at least been promoted to the. 248 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:19.320 Way it's been. 249 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:22.600 I mean, my dad had kids in fourth and fifth grade, 250 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:25.440 sixth grade that couldn't read, you know, and that was 251 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:27.840 in the eighties, that was in the seventies. So, I mean, 252 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:31.320 part of being a teacher is is and it's I 253 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:34.200 could never do it. I couldn't do it for ten minutes. 254 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:39.559 But that's part of it. Technology, yes, And I mean 255 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:42.799 you could probably have people argue that technology has been helpful. 256 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:47.360 I would be frustrated with the fact that, I mean, 257 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:49.639 based on what she says, and it's a whole it's 258 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:52.480 a whole nine minute video. Yeah, these there are the distractions, 259 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:54.639 but there's also like you got to have the you 260 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:57.799 got to have the backup of your individual school right 261 00:13:57.879 --> 00:13:59.639 that the principle gives you the freedom to do that. 262 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:01.279 You're di gives you the freedom to do that. 263 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:02.960 Yeah, but you've also got to have the buy in 264 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:05.799 from the parents, which again, like to your point, you 265 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:08.080 know that going into the profession, that's going to be 266 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:08.840 an uphill climb. 267 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:10.159 Sometimes parents aren't around. 268 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:13.080 They're not around, they don't they're certainly not going to care. 269 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:15.639 They don't think that it's a big issue. My Johnny 270 00:14:15.720 --> 00:14:18.279 needs to learn how to, you know, interact with computers. 271 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:23.039 He'll take the kids side every day and twice on Sunday. Okay, 272 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:26.480 coming up next, We've got wellness, We've got psychopath news, 273 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:29.159 weight loss news, and spitting. 274 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:33.360 All of it in one story. No no, not true, 275 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:33.639 no no. 276 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:39.000 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 277 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:40.120 AM six forty. 278 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:44.360 It's time for our wellness update on fl terrible fil 279 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:47.000 He spends most of his day at the office city 280 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:51.320 in the nation, include a variety of activities, preferably some 281 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:55.240 exercise late in the afternoon. I never exercised a day 282 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:56.039 of my life. 283 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:58.000 We've just got to sit here and wait to die. 284 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:02.440 Every morning, I smoke cigarette and for lunch, I eat 285 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:07.120 a bacon sandwich and I usually drink my dinner. 286 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:10.879 It's time for Gary and Shannon's periodic guide for wellness 287 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.240 and personal improvement for your. 288 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:17.879 Health well Obesity is connected to cancer. It causes every problem, 289 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:21.200 It causes many many of the problems. 290 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:25.399 Yeah, weight loss injections will cut the risk of cancer 291 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:27.679 by half, according to new research. 292 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:33.039 Not a gigantic surprise, but definitely one that adds to 293 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:39.320 the credence, adds to the ongoing chorus of the obesity 294 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:42.559 epidemic in this country. Is going to continue to cost 295 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:44.879 us billions until we can figure out what's going on. 296 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:49.159 This is specifically a study that was done in Israel 297 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:52.600 with patients from the UK, and it said one in 298 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:55.480 two people in the UK are forced to get cancer 299 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:59.000 in their lifetimes, about forty percent of those cases are 300 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:03.840 linked to and that excess weight could cause more than 301 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.559 thirty different types of cancer. 302 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:11.639 From the water is Wet file, a new study says 303 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:16.759 that we base a stranger's trust worthiness on facial appearance alone. 304 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:20.559 How often has that led us astray? All those girls 305 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:24.480 that got in the car with Ted Bundy. Psychopaths are 306 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:27.720 more attractive, That is just the case. 307 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:31.279 So weird psychopathy characterized, they say, by a lack of 308 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:35.440 empathy and impulsivity, might seem like it would repel the trust, 309 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:40.559 but in practice, anybody who's a psychopath with this trait 310 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:45.519 can be very charming. Very socially strategic is the term 311 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:46.159 that they use. 312 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:50.200 So Ted Bundy was a handsome guy. 313 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:56.159 Yeah, I can't picture a picture. I can't come up 314 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:58.879 with a mental image of you can't Ted Bundy. 315 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:01.399 Not this one where he's looking over his shoulder at trial. 316 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:10.359 Good bones, easy tiger saliva structure. Saliva is a great 317 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:16.079 way to detect disease. Where is Elizabeth Holmes. Yeah, give 318 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:18.680 for your saliva. She'll tell you about cancer. Er uh, 319 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:21.160 I heard about this baby. Daddy is the one who's 320 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:24.160 putting together a new blood test, which is essentially the 321 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:26.400 same thing. Yeah, and looking for investors. 322 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:29.720 They said that easily, unlike a blood test or a biopsy, 323 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:32.559 saliva is super easy to collect, spit into the jar. 324 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:37.640 It's painless, it's inexpensive. Saliva based testing really gain speed 325 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:39.799 during COVID because a lot of people use that. A 326 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:43.319 lot of different countries use that for rapid screening. In 327 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:47.440 the nineteen eighties, researchers were using saliva to detect hormones 328 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:50.279 and drug use. By the nineties, it was used as 329 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:53.119 a way to detect HIV and they said that it 330 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:58.440 can have fragments of DNA, RNA proteins, and fats, and 331 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:04.400 in that you be able to detect changes linked to diabetes, Parkinson's, 332 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:09.559 heart disease, and even some cancers, even even distinguishing between 333 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:12.720 healthy people and those that might have mild cognitive impairment 334 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:16.359 like which can be a possible early sign of Alzheimer's. 335 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:20.960 Well, the NFL schedule will be released tomorrow. Some of 336 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:25.160 it has leaked out and everybody is highly anticipating the 337 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:26.559 NFL schedule. 338 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:27.240 Release because you play. 339 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:30.680 If you're an NFL fan, most of you like me, 340 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:32.920 you like to travel, go see a couple games. You 341 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:34.960 want to plan which home games you're going to go to, 342 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:38.680 who's coming to town, what rivalries will be highlighted this 343 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:40.680 time around. Have you ever heard of a guy by 344 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:43.200 the name of Howard Kats. Well, Howard Katz makes all 345 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:47.119 the decisions about who plays who, where and when. He 346 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:50.279 is the man behind the NFL schedule. Will introduce you 347 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:52.519 to who the hell is Howard Katz when we come back. 348 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:57.079 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 349 00:18:57.319 --> 00:18:58.160 AM six forty. 350 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:02.759 Howard Kats is a guy who always considered sports a 351 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:04.680 part of his life. He was sports editor of the 352 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:09.079 school newspaper, sports director at a local radio station. He 353 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:13.119 graduated from Colgate University and he got a job as 354 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:17.480 a PA, a production assistant at ABC Sports. And he 355 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:23.680 is the man behind the NFL schedule. He is the 356 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:27.599 one who makes the league's schedule and he was involved 357 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:31.000 when it was just small potatoes. For two decades, he 358 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:34.119 has been at the center of each year's NFL schedule. 359 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:37.240 Coaches and networks lobby him. 360 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:41.440 Howard Katz gets a lot of slaps on the back 361 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:42.160 and other things. 362 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:44.839 They lobby him for perks. 363 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:50.920 They complain about grievances, road schedules, time of year, primetime games, 364 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:55.279 all of that. He's the unknown planner behind every NFL 365 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:59.920 fans fall Sundays. The schedule making process spans from January 366 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:04.880 to May, refining endless possibilities in an infinite pattern of 367 00:20:05.039 --> 00:20:08.599 give and take. This is what we do for months, 368 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:11.359 he says. Howard, by the way, is seventy five. He's 369 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:13.839 going to retire after this season. This will be his 370 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:16.000 last schedule that is unveiled tomorrow. 371 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:18.839 Kind of surprised that there is still a human being 372 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:19.400 who does this. 373 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:21.960 Well to some extent. 374 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:26.119 Now, when he started, he and his team, Howard, they 375 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:29.759 used one or two computers to help the scheduling process. 376 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:35.920 Now they use anywhere between two hundred and three hundred computers. 377 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:39.480 Because there's a lot of probabilities, and there's a lot 378 00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:42.880 of teams and directions and which coast is. Everybody on 379 00:20:43.480 --> 00:20:46.880 the team trains the computers to think the way that 380 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:50.720 they do, kind of like AI in putting rules to 381 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:54.759 reflect the team's wants. For example, the team of people 382 00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:58.759 Howard has working under him, not the football team. For example, 383 00:20:58.839 --> 00:21:01.480 they put a rule in the computer system to avoid 384 00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:04.200 three game road trips. That's too much if a team 385 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:06.519 is on the road for three weeks back to back 386 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:13.160 to back, and the computers and formulate the schedules. Each morning, 387 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:18.640 Howard evaluates the computer suggestions, highlights the positives, inputs new 388 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:21.920 rules to correct the negatives, and begins the process again, 389 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:25.880 constantly retraining the computers to get it to the right 390 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:29.559 place where the schedule's copasthetic with everybody. 391 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:32.880 But ultimately the buck stops with him. He's the last 392 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:35.680 one to put eyes on that thing for the human touch. 393 00:21:35.799 --> 00:21:36.759 Basically right. 394 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:41.599 Schedule making begins in earnest after the Super Bowl, but trades, 395 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:44.720 big trades, selections in the draft can result in last 396 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:49.039 minute adjustments. If there's a big quarterback in the draft, 397 00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:52.039 for example, that's supposed to go to Cincinnati ends up 398 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:54.400 going to Miami, you're going to probably want to see 399 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:58.039 the guy everyone's been talking about in prime time rather 400 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:01.640 than whoever they picked up in the first city I mentioned, 401 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:06.680