Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 1: save them for strange science. Okay, we've got a largest
Speaker 1: single breed dog walk to tell you about a woodpecker
Speaker 1: that is causing chaos in a neighborhood in Massachusetts. And
Speaker 1: we've got a zoo in New York hand feeding a
Speaker 1: baby vulture with a puppet. I figured we well, here's
Speaker 1: the thing. We started talking about real things on this show,
Speaker 1: like people that want to be in power, and people
Speaker 1: lost their minds. So I am I'm now pivoting to
Speaker 1: vultures being fed with hand puppets in a zoo because
Speaker 1: I figure how many people could I possibly piss off
Speaker 1: with that story.
Speaker 2: We'll find someone either anti puppet or pro vulture or
Speaker 2: anti vulture pro puppet, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I want to hear from the anti puppet person, and
Speaker 1: I think I will bet you a little.
Speaker 3: It is in the meantime time for swamp watch, which
Speaker 3: means I'm a cheat and a liar. And when I'm
Speaker 3: not kissing babies, I'm stealing that lollipops here we got
Speaker 3: The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 1: The other side never quits.
Speaker 4: So what I'm not going anywhere so that you train the.
Speaker 3: Squat I can imagine what can be and be unburdened
Speaker 3: by what has been. You know, Americans have always been
Speaker 3: gone at president, but they're not stupid.
Speaker 2: A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3: Have the people voted for you? With not swamp watch.
Speaker 2: I do want to point out that downtown La, downtown
Speaker 2: San Francisco, downtown San Diego, everywhere in California, lot of
Speaker 2: big cities across the country are seeing May Day International
Speaker 2: Workers Day marches. Downtown LA is a huge problem right
Speaker 2: now because there are thousands of people that have blocked
Speaker 2: it up. The theme for the rally today at least one
Speaker 2: in La one Struggle one Fight, Workers Unite.
Speaker 1: It's too many syllables.
Speaker 2: In Struggle one, Struggle one fight Workers Unite.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like in love actually when they squeeze
Speaker 1: in an extra syllable, Christmas is all around us instead
Speaker 1: of Love is all around us. Christmas is all around us.
Speaker 1: It's too many syllables. You got to think about the
Speaker 1: chance when you're coming up with the slogan about the chance.
Speaker 2: National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and his deputy along are
Speaker 2: expected to be leaving their posts in the Trump White House,
Speaker 2: expected to leave today. A bunch of different sources started
Speaker 2: reporting this early this morning. The White House yet has
Speaker 2: not responded to request for comments from CBS and ABC
Speaker 2: and NBC. Mark Halprin used to be with ABC News,
Speaker 2: now out on his own.
Speaker 3: He was the first to report these departures today.
Speaker 2: The President's chief of Staff is said to be having
Speaker 2: conversations with some of the other National Security Council members.
Speaker 2: Of course, all of this stems from Mike Walls and
Speaker 2: that original signal app chat where he included Jeffrey Goldberg,
Speaker 2: an editor from The Atlantic magazine. They talked about top
Speaker 2: national security officials for talking about plans for this military
Speaker 2: strike unhealthy targets in Yemen in mid March, and then
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Goldberg published his account of all of this and
Speaker 2: initially didn't give any of the operational details, fearing that
Speaker 2: they would put service mens lives at risk. But then
Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth and everybody else denied that anybody had had
Speaker 2: any sort of classified information shared in the chat, so
Speaker 2: he said, Okay, if it's not classified, here you go.
Speaker 3: Posted the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Waltz did admit behind closed doors that all of this
Speaker 2: was his fault. He fell on the sword kind of.
Speaker 2: He did suggest that his the number for Jeffrey Goldberg
Speaker 2: may have come from his assistant's phone. I guess that
Speaker 2: was Alex Wong, the other guy with a funny name.
Speaker 2: Former vice presidential nominee, Governor Tim Walls of Minnesota made
Speaker 2: a joke by saying, Mike Waltz has left the chat.
Speaker 1: He made a grave air in including a journalist in
Speaker 1: that signal chat with this president. He did last longer
Speaker 1: than Michael Flynn, who lasted about a month.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he went.
Speaker 2: He Trump when one hundred days without firing anybody and
Speaker 2: one hundred and one.
Speaker 1: So it looks like Steve Whitkoff is a name that
Speaker 1: keeps being talked about as a replacement. He's the one
Speaker 1: in charge of negotiations with a Russia Iran Hamas, according
Speaker 1: to people in the no Other possible contenders include Trump's
Speaker 1: top policy chief, Stephen Miller and National Security Council Senior
Speaker 1: Director for counter Terrorism Sebastian Gorka and Trump's Special Envoy
Speaker 1: for Special Missions, Richard Grennell.
Speaker 2: So we've pointed out a couple times now that these
Speaker 2: news conferences that President Trump gives during meetings official meetings
Speaker 2: with heads of state from different countries in the Oval Office,
Speaker 2: you know, out in front of the fireplace there, and
Speaker 2: how tacky those things look now in the White House
Speaker 2: where there's some gold piece of some thing in every
Speaker 2: corner of that room, all gold everything.
Speaker 1: A cabinet maker from South Florida has worked on projects
Speaker 1: at mar A Lago and we've seen the gold that
Speaker 1: goes on there. John Iikart is his name. He helped
Speaker 1: add custom made gold finishes to the Oval Office, including
Speaker 1: gilded carvings for the fireplace mantle, the molding. He went
Speaker 1: to Washington with Trump on Air Force one. Trump personally
Speaker 1: oversaw the installation of the gold carvings on the mantle
Speaker 1: in the Oval Office. He also brought gold cherubs from
Speaker 1: mar A Lago to be installed in the White House
Speaker 1: as well. Prominently displayed next to the resolute desk is
Speaker 1: a large gold FIFA World Cup trophy. Trump has a
Speaker 1: fixed a gold Trump crest over the door leading into
Speaker 1: the White House from the colonnade. There are gold toaster
Speaker 1: coasters excuse me, gold coasters with Trump's name on side
Speaker 1: tables as well.
Speaker 5: There is.
Speaker 1: The Trump Near Assassination painting that is going to be
Speaker 1: replacing Obama's portrait. I left a space there for people
Speaker 1: to lose their minds one way or the other.
Speaker 2: Smart There is a Declaration of Independence replica that exists
Speaker 2: now in the Oval Office.
Speaker 1: Oh and then he also squeezed a picture of himself
Speaker 1: in between Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton, like randomly, like
Speaker 1: on the wall of first Ladies, he threw a picture
Speaker 1: of himself in there.
Speaker 2: I did notice yesterday, I've kind of made fun of
Speaker 2: the whole Gulf of America map that keeps showing up
Speaker 2: in these meeting in executive order signings that have nothing
Speaker 2: to do with the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America.
Speaker 2: He still has the Gulf of America map.
Speaker 1: He's very proud of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he did yesterday at that cabinet meeting, each
Speaker 2: position at the table in the cabinet room with all
Speaker 2: of these cabinet members there, each position had its own
Speaker 2: Golf of America baseball cap and with the number four.
Speaker 1: The branding. The branding is always going to be top,
Speaker 1: top notch. He wants to pave over the rose garden
Speaker 1: less of a rose garden, more of a rose patio.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't want to attack their outdoor space when they
Speaker 1: move into somewhere new.
Speaker 2: But he had the opportunity to do that before. He's
Speaker 2: saying that it gets it can get muddy the rose garden.
Speaker 2: I mean it's literally it's also us swamp Washington, d C.
Speaker 2: It is, it is going to is gonna have moist ground.
Speaker 1: Some somewhere. Chris and Carlo just perked up and was like,
Speaker 1: what somebody talking about swamp? No, not moist Remember how
Speaker 1: he was like a very big Washington historian.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, somewhere moist at. We haven't done the baby
Speaker 2: animal bracket. We didn't do it this year, but Axe
Speaker 2: Lottel came to familiarity through the baby Animal Bracket and
Speaker 2: Axe Lottles.
Speaker 1: We used to do some really dumb stuff on this show.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad we're more high brow now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait for the Vulture and the puppet story.
Speaker 2: Very high brow, but the axe Lottles are fighting back.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you how. Also a chance for you to
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Speaker 1: It would be popes, the cardinals that are meeting to
Speaker 1: talk about who's going to be the next pope and
Speaker 1: all the rules about what they can and cannot eat.
Speaker 1: What do you think they're eating in there once they
Speaker 1: kick this thing off May seventh.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping it's a fine white sauce can alfredo.
Speaker 3: Yes, with a wide noodle, a.
Speaker 1: Wide noodle like a pupper Delli whatever that is, Yes,
Speaker 1: linguini wider than.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, that's what I would eat if I was it.
Speaker 3: That's what you.
Speaker 1: Would you were a cardinal. What would you wear underneath
Speaker 1: your robes? Nothing?
Speaker 3: Who's going to see?
Speaker 1: Would you be a boxer or brief sky if you
Speaker 1: had robes?
Speaker 3: I just said I wouldn't wear anything.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, how many of them do you think wearing
Speaker 1: nothing underneath that?
Speaker 2: Probably plenty? Really, Yeah, what's the I don't know there's
Speaker 2: enough robes. It's not like they're wearing mini skirts and
Speaker 2: they got to be careful about right right.
Speaker 1: It goes all the way down sitting there. My god,
Speaker 1: what a freeing existence. Just to sit under your robes
Speaker 1: free of undergarments sounds kind of nice.
Speaker 3: A couple of stories that were following and as I.
Speaker 1: Have to worry about your waistline.
Speaker 2: And astronauto missed out on the first all female space walkers.
Speaker 1: Are your thighs sixty years later?
Speaker 3: I don't think there. I don't think many of them
Speaker 3: are worried about their thighs.
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Speaker 1: Underwear is actually covered in the Bible underwear for priests
Speaker 1: in particular. I just did a quick little deep dive
Speaker 1: while you were giving away the money about priests and
Speaker 1: what kind of underwear they wear.
Speaker 3: There's a requirement or it's addressed. That sounds very old
Speaker 3: testing and in.
Speaker 1: Fact, Exodus twenty implies that priests don't wear underpants, which
Speaker 1: is why they would access an altar via a ramp.
Speaker 1: Apparently King David would expose himself when doing cartwheels before
Speaker 1: the arc, leading him to get into trouble with his wife.
Speaker 1: McCall fascinating, is it? Yeah? Somebody doing cartwheels without underwear
Speaker 1: in front of the arc. That's the Bible I can
Speaker 1: get behind and get into. That's some plot development right there.
Speaker 1: And then the wife gets pissed off at you.
Speaker 3: One of my wife would be very angry if I
Speaker 3: did that.
Speaker 1: She would be for what reason, because you make a
Speaker 1: fool yourself, or your genitals are.
Speaker 3: Exposed, or I don't know if she cares, if I care,
Speaker 3: or I don't know if she.
Speaker 1: Cares about your genitals being exposed, she'd probably it'd be
Speaker 1: kind of weird.
Speaker 3: It'd be weird. Yeah, it'd be embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It wouldn't be like a territorial thing, like those
Speaker 1: are my genitals.
Speaker 3: No, it would just be like, what are you doing? Yes,
Speaker 3: that's probably a good aptitude.
Speaker 2: One of the world's most endangered endangered amphibians has thrived
Speaker 2: after being released into some artificial wetlands. Scientists in Mexico
Speaker 2: released eighteen captive bread axe lottls.
Speaker 1: The stupidest show I've ever been.
Speaker 2: In a restored and artificial wetland close to Mexico City.
Speaker 2: They fitted the animals with tidy little baby radio trackers
Speaker 2: and found that they survived and they were able to
Speaker 2: forage successfully both of their sites and in a good way.
Speaker 3: In a good way, they gained weight.
Speaker 2: The lead researcher for not in their thighs, then do
Speaker 2: they have thighs? The lead researcher for the from the
Speaker 2: Autonomous University of Baja said that this is an amazing result,
Speaker 2: and the researcher suggests that axe lottle could be brought
Speaker 2: back to its native habitat the waters of Zochi Milko,
Speaker 2: shaped by traditional farming practices and flushed with spring water
Speaker 2: for the mountains, used to team with axe lottles, But
Speaker 2: as Mexico City grew, the pollution the organization a bunch
Speaker 2: of other pressures pushed axe lottles to the brink of extinction.
Speaker 2: Some estimates at one point said there were as few
Speaker 2: as fifty of them left in the wild.
Speaker 1: My favorite thing about an axe lottel is that if
Speaker 1: you cut off its spinal cord, you amputate an arm
Speaker 1: or a leg or even if you really what else
Speaker 1: is there that they grow back? I don't remember anyway,
Speaker 1: but they they grow back all of it like they
Speaker 1: wink at you any like any any part of it
Speaker 1: is cut off, and they just kind of look at
Speaker 1: you like so, and then they grow it back right away.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is a fascinating beast.
Speaker 2: I do have a political update. Oh boy, this is
Speaker 2: the Mike Waltz story. Yeah, apparently Donald Trump is suggesting
Speaker 2: that Mike Waltz will now be nominated as the Ambassador
Speaker 2: to the United Nations.
Speaker 1: More importantly, Marco Rubio is going to be interim National
Speaker 1: Security Advisor.
Speaker 2: I I don't know what's happening. Is that the weirdest
Speaker 2: is that the weirdest falling up that you've ever heard of.
Speaker 2: Mike Walls is not going to be National Security Advisor anymore,
Speaker 2: but will be nominated as Ambassador to the United Nations.
Speaker 2: The Marco Rubio thing may just be he's going to
Speaker 2: sit in and take over the role until they can
Speaker 2: find somebody fill it.
Speaker 1: Trump also doesn't give a crap about the United Nations.
Speaker 3: That's a weird again.
Speaker 2: Mike Waltz is the guy that invited the journalist into
Speaker 2: the supposedly secret signal app chat about our war plans
Speaker 2: for the hoothy rebels in Yemen, and the reporting this
Speaker 2: morning was that he was going to be bounced out
Speaker 2: of the job or he was going to leave as
Speaker 2: National Security Advisor.
Speaker 5: At least.
Speaker 1: Aphanic was nominated to be Ambassador to the UN, but
Speaker 1: that was withdrawn at the end of last month, at
Speaker 1: the end of March, which would have been about the
Speaker 1: time that Trump was thinking about reshuffling the deck with walls,
Speaker 1: getting rid of walls. I mean, people have said that
Speaker 1: he's been time of getting rid of him, repurposing him
Speaker 1: for quite a while.
Speaker 3: Repurposing that's a good word.
Speaker 2: So I guess again, it looks like Mike Waltz will
Speaker 2: not be National Security Advisor anymore, but will be nominated
Speaker 2: as Ambassador to the United Nations.
Speaker 1: All right, there are AI developments to tell you about. Also,
Speaker 1: Visa is getting into the AI game. We'll tell you
Speaker 1: how that'll impact you and how much money you spend
Speaker 1: and how they're going to manipulate how much money you
Speaker 1: spend on what.
Speaker 4: When we return, you're listening to Gary and Shannon on
Speaker 4: demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: The big story is that Mike Waltz national Security Advisor,
Speaker 2: is apparently going to be out. But we just learned
Speaker 2: a short time ago that it appears that Mike Waltz
Speaker 2: would be nominated to be the next Ambassador to the
Speaker 2: United Nations.
Speaker 1: More importantly, Trump says he is naming Secretary of State
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio as acting National Security Advisor.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, there's a lot for that, a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff still going on in that. We'll do strange science
Speaker 2: coming up at twelve thirty, by the way. But in
Speaker 2: the meantime, it's time for it's time for tech talk.
Speaker 2: The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 3: This is tech talk.
Speaker 1: I will just say this.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 1: We look, Secretary of State is a full job. Your
Speaker 1: plate is full. Oh yeah, you don't have time to
Speaker 1: be interim director of the National Security Agency.
Speaker 3: You'll see, okay. Mark Saltzman joins us.
Speaker 2: We talk things technology, and we've talked many, many times,
Speaker 2: lots and lots of segments about artificial intelligence. And Meta
Speaker 2: has launched its standalone AI app that's out there that's
Speaker 2: supposed to be sort of a rival to chat GPT.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's available now for iPhone and Android. There's a
Speaker 6: web version as well, but the smartphone version allows you
Speaker 6: to converse with it very naturally. You sign in with
Speaker 6: your Instagram or Facebook info.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: It's a similar experience actually to being able to access
Speaker 6: the Meta AI within Instagram. And you may have already
Speaker 6: seen this or WhatsApp or Facebook and if you dig
Speaker 6: a little deep.
Speaker 5: But this is a.
Speaker 6: Standalone app and the idea is that, yeah, you can
Speaker 6: converse with it. It sounds very human and like other
Speaker 6: large language models, as it's called. You can ask it
Speaker 6: to generate ideas. You could say, Hey, I'm having ten
Speaker 6: people over for a dinner party this Friday. Three are vegetarian,
Speaker 6: three are going to be kids, and you know six
Speaker 6: are is my math off for our carnivores? What can
Speaker 6: I make or cocktail ideas? Create images, create videos, create
Speaker 6: itineraries for trips. But what's unique, I would argue is
Speaker 6: it's twofold. One is that there's a new Discover section
Speaker 6: that shows what your friends on Instagram and Facebook have
Speaker 6: asked Meta ai to do, and then you can remix that.
Speaker 6: Like if you have a friend that said show me,
Speaker 6: you know a picture of Gary and Shannon on the moon,
Speaker 6: I don't know holding an American flag, then you can
Speaker 6: take that and then tweak it some more, or take
Speaker 6: a recipe that one of your friends asked it to
Speaker 6: create and then remix that. So that's kind of neat
Speaker 6: if with consent, you can opt to share what you're
Speaker 6: leveraging AI for with your friends on Facebook and Instagram
Speaker 6: through the Meta AI app. And then the other thing
Speaker 6: that makes it unique is that you're allowing the AI
Speaker 6: to comb through your social feed to get to better
Speaker 6: know you. So when I downloaded Meta AI and I
Speaker 6: installed it, it said, so, Mark, I see you like music
Speaker 6: and you like festivals, music festivals. I see you were recently,
Speaker 6: you know, on a trip in Italy, Like what did
Speaker 6: you like most about your trip?
Speaker 5: So it tries to get.
Speaker 6: To know you in order to curate more personalized results.
Speaker 6: It's not for everyone. Some people may think it's creepy,
Speaker 6: but you know, AI is definitely here, Tostay. I know
Speaker 6: a lot of your listeners are probably rolling their eyes
Speaker 6: because they're sick of hearing about it. But over a
Speaker 6: billion people have already tried the Meta AI features baked
Speaker 6: into Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And so the company Meta
Speaker 6: thinks that a standalone AI Meta AI by itself could
Speaker 6: be a really big player is and it's free.
Speaker 3: Did they get some pushback? Did metiget pushback? I realize.
Speaker 2: I recognize that if you search for something on Instagram,
Speaker 2: for example, the search bar is it says either ask
Speaker 2: me AI or search And I've always been I've always
Speaker 2: thought that that's kind of a dangerous thing to combine
Speaker 2: the two of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not unlike Google.
Speaker 6: I don't know when's the last time you Googled something,
Speaker 6: but if you ask a question, chances are Google Gemini
Speaker 6: is going to kick in. There is a way to
Speaker 6: go into the settings and separate this.
Speaker 1: I first when Google did this, I said I hate this.
Speaker 1: I'm never clicking on this, and then the next day
Speaker 1: I loved it. And now I soak up all the
Speaker 1: AI responses. I find them to be.
Speaker 3: Well, well curated.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well curated.
Speaker 5: Yeah for the user. But if you run a website.
Speaker 6: Let's say I don't know Garon Channon, you guys have
Speaker 6: a digital magazine, then you publish content. If Google and
Speaker 6: Meta and other players are extracting your content and then
Speaker 6: delivering the answers to someone who's asking a question, they're
Speaker 6: not going to land on your website, and so that's
Speaker 6: going to hurt your traffic, which could hurt your ad sales.
Speaker 5: So there is a domino effect here.
Speaker 6: You got to look at it kind of holistically as
Speaker 6: a consumer, as a user, I think it's pretty wild.
Speaker 6: But there's one thing AI hasn't been able to do,
Speaker 6: and this is I think a good segue into the
Speaker 6: second part of our chat today. Something I was that
Speaker 6: I was in San Francisco yesterday at a Visa event
Speaker 6: and it's called Product Drop, and they unveiled something called
Speaker 6: Visa Intelligent Commerce. As the name suggests, your AI in
Speaker 6: the near future could actually transact for you with consent
Speaker 6: of course, So the idea is this, right now, let's
Speaker 6: just stick with that itinerary example from earlier.
Speaker 5: You want to go to Miami for three days.
Speaker 6: You can ask like chat ept to create a three
Speaker 6: day itinerary for you, even recommend hotels and restaurants and
Speaker 6: flights and excursions, but it'll stop short from paying for
Speaker 6: them for you, right Like it'll say if you ask
Speaker 6: it to, okay, buy that hotel room that's perfect, it'll say, sorry,
Speaker 6: I can't do that, and it'll send you to some
Speaker 6: websites where you can do it. But what Visa and
Speaker 6: other players are working on is the ability with consent
Speaker 6: and partners like open ai who owns chatchypt and others,
Speaker 6: to actually pull the trigger for you on those purchases.
Speaker 6: But it'll first send it to you to say is
Speaker 6: does this look good? And then you just give it
Speaker 6: a one time yeah, like you give it a once over.
Speaker 6: So that's going to save a lot of time. I
Speaker 6: think that's going to save people a lot of time.
Speaker 6: And if you're willing to trust Visa, I mean, look,
Speaker 6: they've had what they've been around sixty years. They've processed
Speaker 6: over almost three and a half trillion transactions over the
Speaker 6: past quarter century alone. You know, if you're going to
Speaker 6: trust a company to do it, that's the company to
Speaker 6: do it. So yeah, there's I think it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could save time, but I mean there's got
Speaker 2: to be a someone's going to do the psychological study
Speaker 2: of it. Could cost more money because you believe the
Speaker 2: computer's doing it in your best interest or the computer's
Speaker 2: got your best choices, you know, based on whatever algorithm
Speaker 2: it's going to be using, and therefore you would be
Speaker 2: more free with the money. You say, Okay, they must
Speaker 2: know what they're talking about, and I must like this
Speaker 2: product or whatever that is that they're going to get me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hear what you're saying. Gary.
Speaker 6: There's obviously an element of trust here, and that's a
Speaker 6: hurdle that many any company that's going to do what's
Speaker 6: called agentic or agent based commerce is going to have
Speaker 6: to wrestle with.
Speaker 5: But it's going to send you a push to say
Speaker 5: does this look good to you? And so you.
Speaker 6: It's if you didn't have that safeguard in there, then
Speaker 6: I would agree, Yeah, this can be a little bit
Speaker 6: of a slippery slope. But is it like tapping? Do
Speaker 6: you find you're spending more money because you can now
Speaker 6: tap your credit card rather than insert it and put
Speaker 6: in a pin? Are you do you do you find
Speaker 6: I'm I'm just curious. Do you find you're spending more
Speaker 6: because it's just so easy now to use your visa
Speaker 6: at retail by tapping or your watch or your phone.
Speaker 1: You think it's translating to me spending more? It is
Speaker 1: definitely easier and quicker.
Speaker 6: Right, And that's the idea, is that you want something
Speaker 6: convenient and with AI being like your assistant, like now
Speaker 6: being able to or soon within a couple of months,
Speaker 6: they're telling me be able to transact for you, and
Speaker 6: again you're still gonna have to aokay it. I think
Speaker 6: that's a great time saver for me. I love that idea.
Speaker 6: I'm busy if you set those thresholds ahead of time,
Speaker 6: Like I want to stay in the hotel, but I
Speaker 6: don't want to spend more than four hundred to night.
Speaker 6: And I like that flight, but I don't want to
Speaker 6: stop over or a red eye. If you set those
Speaker 6: parameters in advance and an AI can get to know
Speaker 6: you and remember things, then I think it's just going
Speaker 6: to help us be a lot more efficient personally and professionally.
Speaker 6: So I'm all in on that. But yeah, there'll be
Speaker 6: other players as well. But you know, Visa was first
Speaker 6: out of the gate yesterday at this event, this product
Speaker 6: drop showcase, which was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then everybody's gotta you know now that the
Speaker 2: ones that come second have to try to find some
Speaker 2: way to improve upon what they what Visa has done.
Speaker 1: All right, Mark, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Appreciate it me too.
Speaker 3: Cheers, guysers.
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Speaker 1: You Are Not Alone A Wait, you are Staying home
Speaker 1: is the new going out. It is a trend that's happening.
Speaker 1: It's not just you.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: President Trump has announced his major shakeup in the national
Speaker 2: security team today. He says he has tapped Mike Waltz
Speaker 2: to be his United Nations Ambassador, while Secretary of State
Speaker 2: Marco Rubio is going to be adding National Security Advisor,
Speaker 2: at least on an acting basis, the President wrote on
Speaker 2: truth Social from his time in uniform, on the battlefield,
Speaker 2: in Congress, and as my National Security advice, Mike Wallace
Speaker 2: has worked hard to put our nation's interests first. I
Speaker 2: know he will do the same in his new role.
Speaker 2: When it comes to Rubio, he said, Rubio will serve
Speaker 2: as National Security Advisor while continuing his strong leadership at
Speaker 2: the State Department. Together, we will continue to fight tirelessly
Speaker 2: to make America and the world safe again. Thank you
Speaker 2: for your attention to this matter. Would you like your
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Speaker 3: I could if my computer would work.
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Speaker 3: You just decided to.
Speaker 1: Fail at things.
Speaker 3: It's Thursday. It's what we do.
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Speaker 3: What does this stamp?
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Speaker 5: Harry looks like the poor man's James Vanderbeek.
Speaker 1: No, James Vanderbeek, I don't find attractive. He's not well,
Speaker 1: he's well, he's not well.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's talking about him not being.
Speaker 3: No, No, I know that, but I'm just saying there's.
Speaker 1: Too much well, I don't want to put anyone down.
Speaker 1: There's too much area on his.
Speaker 3: Or mind. I shouldn't speak answer.
Speaker 1: What is the devastating Oh, it's co rectal cancer. Oh
Speaker 1: and it's not good.
Speaker 3: No, did you say co erectal cancer? Hey, that's good.
Speaker 1: No, I know it's never good, but pretty dire, it's Oh,
Speaker 1: that's awful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I guess a lot of people from Dawson's Creek,
Speaker 2: a lot of the cast members with him. They've all
Speaker 2: kind of done sort of informal reunions recently.
Speaker 1: Oh that's awful, hang out with him. That is awful. Well,
Speaker 1: thanks for lifting all right, show.
Speaker 3: I'm not he's the one who said I was a foreman.
Speaker 1: Well, you didn't have to bring up the cancer.
Speaker 2: New survey finds those who have a preference seventy two
Speaker 2: percent say they will stay in with friends whenever possible.
Speaker 3: Just twenty eight percent prefer a night out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it may I've I think I've always
Speaker 1: preferred hanging out with friends, just like a sleepover whatever,
Speaker 1: going back to when I was a kid. It's always
Speaker 1: more fun than I mean, going out's fun too, but
Speaker 1: especially now, I just it's more fun to get together
Speaker 1: just at someone's house.
Speaker 2: They said that respondents report uh spending anywhere from ten
Speaker 2: minutes to two hours preparing their house ahead of guests.
Speaker 1: I think also when you're single, it's fun to go
Speaker 1: out right because you can meet people together.
Speaker 3: Like a group of singles going out sure, like a
Speaker 3: bunch of girlfriends going out now, they said.
Speaker 2: Fifty three percent say hosting at home is a great
Speaker 2: way to save money. Forty seven percent says it's easier
Speaker 2: to hear each other.
Speaker 3: That has because it makes.
Speaker 1: Me happy, because I feel deaf all the time. I
Speaker 1: have a hard time hearing people in public or elsewhere.
Speaker 2: We have a couple of great restaurants that we go
Speaker 2: to and some that we avoid simply because for that reason.
Speaker 2: I know, and that's not I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: an old person thing or it's just I'm not there
Speaker 2: to yell at people.
Speaker 5: I will.
Speaker 1: I remember the last time, I think it was with
Speaker 1: Joquan and I'm out dinner and I literally had to
Speaker 1: do this and cut my ear to hear her because
Speaker 1: I could not hear. And I kept going, what what
Speaker 1: And it's like it's so loud, I forget where we were,
Speaker 1: like sushi Roku or something like that. But like it
Speaker 1: was just and and I don't care anymore, Like I
Speaker 1: will cup my ear in public and look like a
Speaker 1: fool just so I can hear the conversation.
Speaker 2: It's also with you know, we had an instant We
Speaker 2: had friends over last night and one of our friends
Speaker 2: was talking about a series of health issues that her
Speaker 2: mother's been going through, and it was it's hard, and
Speaker 2: you were like, what, yeah, yelling. I kept turning the
Speaker 2: music up to make it feel like we were out.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't want to have those conversations out
Speaker 2: at a restaurant or hanging out at a bar those, right,
Speaker 2: And I mean it's not every time, those those conversations
Speaker 2: don't come up every time, but in the event that
Speaker 2: they do, you're not going to want to spill all
Speaker 2: that stuff.
Speaker 1: Out, right, That's why you invited James Vanderbeek over to
Speaker 1: your home.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, just to give him a safe space. It's
Speaker 3: funny also that.
Speaker 1: This everything is so much more expensive now too, to
Speaker 1: go out, just to go out to dinner with your
Speaker 1: husband or your wife in your case, it's like ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's everything, drinks, food, every spending one hundred bucks on
Speaker 1: an It's a chicken for what thirty dollars a piece
Speaker 1: of I mean I could do that for eight dollars
Speaker 1: at home. What are we doing here, folks.
Speaker 2: This is also kind of funny because this survey was
Speaker 2: conducted on behalf of airwik and it found that eighty
Speaker 2: two percent of people actively consider how their home smells
Speaker 2: before they invite people.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm always worried about that because that you get
Speaker 1: used to the smell of your home and then you wonder,
Speaker 1: is it not a good smell?
Speaker 3: My nose blind exactly. I think that all the time.
Speaker 3: I'm terrified I do too.
Speaker 2: But we had made dinner, so my wife and our
Speaker 2: place smelled like a fresh steak and cauliflower.
Speaker 3: Which I guess cauliflower can sometimes bill yeah, a little farty,
Speaker 3: But it wasn't. Everything was great. Everything was good. I
Speaker 3: know you were concerned.
Speaker 2: Gosh, it's already the huge twelve o'clock hour barreling down.
Speaker 2: Oh we get that far with somebody not coming down
Speaker 2: the hallway and telling us to knock it off.
Speaker 3: Huh.
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