WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:09.080 on the iHeartRadio app. That's a story in the Business 4 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:14.080 Insider this morning about money dysmorphia that millennials and Gen 5 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:19.800 zers are more prone to experiencing this, that they they. 6 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:22.480 Are caused significant. 7 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:27.559 Stress by worries about money, to which I say, they're 8 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:28.480 young people. 9 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:30.559 That's not body dysmorphia. 10 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:33.719 That's being twenty two and broke, just like every other 11 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:35.240 twenty two year old in the world. 12 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:38.280 Yeah, that's not a condition. 13 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:42.000 It goes back to us labeling every life experience as 14 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:42.960 some sort of condition. 15 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:46.920 It's not. It is not being completely normal. 16 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:49.840 Just being A park fire up in northern California is 17 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:54.159 up now three hundred and ninety two thousand acres eighteen 18 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:57.759 percent contained of Nixon Fire burning out in near Temeculus 19 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:02.640 just over five thousand acres is only about fourteen percent contained. 20 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:08.560 A historic prisoner swamp today among six countries, twenty four 21 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:09.319 different prisoners. 22 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:10.760 It's where we kick off swamp watch. 23 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:12.799 Swamp is horrible. 24 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:17.000 The government doesn't work. Man make it like a reality 25 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:20.480 TV show. Corn was a bad deus, always a pleasure 26 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:22.280 to be anywhere from Washington. 27 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:22.159 D C. 28 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:26.359 Hey Joe, a town all too clearly built on a 29 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:29.040 swamp and in so many ways still a swamp. 30 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:30.200 I have to watch a Milwaukee. 31 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:31.400 Nobody said drained the swamp. 32 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:34.359 I said, oh, that's so keep yepp mansh. 33 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:37.760 You know the thing families and I were able to 34 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:42.599 speak to them on telephone from the Oval Office. They're 35 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:46.519 out of Russia earlier today, they're flown to Turkey, and 36 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.079 soon there'll be wheels up on their way home to 37 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:49.920 see their families. 38 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:51.359 That was the right At the beginning of the show. 39 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:54.879 President Biden made made it official from the White House, 40 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:57.079 standing with the families of some of the people who 41 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:58.200 have been freed by Russia. 42 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.439 So we got a journalist back, we got a couple 43 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:05.239 journalists back print and radio, and we got a veteran back, 44 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:06.799 and Russia got its way. 45 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:08.479 Frankly, that's kind of the takeaway. 46 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:11.719 Yes, it feels good, it's great, it's wonderful for these families, 47 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:15.840 but Russia and Putin got their way. They get back 48 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:21.120 their usual basket of criminals, including Adam Krasokov, a colonel 49 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:24.039 in the Russian intelligence services. He was sentenced to life 50 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:27.159 in Germany after carrying out a Kremlin ordered hit on 51 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:32.599 a Russian dissident in Berlin. Moscow's shopping list also included 52 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:36.439 Russian money launderer and two Russian spies. 53 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:41.120 The president, this is an interesting thing, a fact that 54 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:43.400 came out of the Wall Street Journal reporting on this. 55 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:46.840 He obviously notified the world a week and a half 56 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:48.560 ago that he was going to step out of the 57 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:52.520 presidential race. About an hour before he made that announcement, 58 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.360 he called the Prime Minister of Slovenia. They were contributing 59 00:02:57.400 --> 00:02:59.800 a couple of convicted Russian spies to part of this, 60 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:03.080 to make sure that they could secure the pardon necessary 61 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:06.439 for the deal to proceed. The CIA director went to 62 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:09.479 Turkey last week to meet his counterpart and to finalize 63 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:11.439 all of the logistics for all of this. 64 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:13.919 And I love the victory lap and I love that 65 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:16.400 we all feel good about this, and this was a successful, 66 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:21.680 complicated situation. But the reality is that the Russians are 67 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:26.400 just good at taking hostages. They arrest people on trumped 68 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:29.800 up charges and then agree to free them for very 69 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:31.120 very very bad. 70 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:33.439 People, very asymmetrical. 71 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:39.360 We tend to have, you know, a legal system in 72 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:41.360 this country, and that even if you are not an 73 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:44.599 American citizen, but that you are caught in this country, 74 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:48.520 we put you through the legal system for the most part, 75 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:52.680 right and Russia does not do that. Russia can pick 76 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:55.639 up whoever they want, whenever they want, and you know, 77 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:59.879 either completely blow things out of proportion, like Britney Grinder's 78 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:04.439 drug conviction, or completely make them up, like saying that 79 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:07.719 Evan Gershkevich was an was a CIA agent. 80 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:12.479 Well, one of the ways that they tried to get 81 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:18.439 that killer back is when they grabbed Britney Griner. That 82 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:21.720 wasn't going to work because America couldn't go to Germany 83 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:24.439 and say, hey, they've got one of ours or another 84 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:26.720 one of ours, get rid of this guy or release 85 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:29.879 this guy. The reason that they were able to do that, 86 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:34.000 or that Germany was able to save face, I guess 87 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:36.879 you could say and agree to this is because one 88 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:40.040 of the hostages released was a German citizen who was 89 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:46.680 arrested in Russia for gummies, gummies, cannabis gummies. 90 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:50.319 So one of the issues that has come up foreign 91 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:52.639 policy experts. We'll talk about this for a long time. 92 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:55.560 Like you suggested earlier, there will be books written about 93 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:57.560 the machinations that go into this. 94 00:04:58.639 --> 00:04:59.920 Movies will be made about this. 95 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:03.439 Michael Allen is a foreign policy expert who worked for 96 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:06.800 the Bush administration and talked that I said, I should 97 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:10.720 say that the timing of this may have something to 98 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:14.040 do with the fact that Joe Biden is the lamest 99 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:15.600 of lame duck presidents that we've seen. 100 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:17.360 You know, I think a lot of this has to 101 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:21.480 do with the withdrawal of President Biden not running again 102 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:22.079 next time. 103 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:22.959 I think he's. 104 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:26.959 Able to go to some NATO allies maybe with heavy heart, 105 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:31.639 and say, listen, I understand that this Russian committed murder 106 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:34.920 in a park in front of children inside of Munich, 107 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:38.439 but we're trying to do a historic deal here. Let's 108 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:41.120 win one for the Gipper, if you will, let us 109 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:43.680 have a little bit of room in order to trade 110 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:48.519 this particular Russian. So I think Biden is leaning hard 111 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:52.959 on friends and especially NATO allies, so that he can 112 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.040 try and get a grand deal. 113 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:57.800 And again, Michael Allen said that a couple hours before 114 00:05:57.879 --> 00:05:59.759 the President talked about the negotiations. 115 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:04.480 Made this possible was the feet of diplomacy and friendship. 116 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:09.399 Friendship vulnerable countries help get this done. They joined a 117 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:14.600 difficult complex negotiations at my request, and I personally thank 118 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:16.720 them all again. I thank them personally. 119 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:19.120 I'll thank them again. You'd have to be friends to 120 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:21.120 make some of that deal. Hey, Gary and Shannon and 121 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:23.439 this Mandy. I just thought it was so funny because 122 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:26.639 as soon as you say, Shannon, as soon as you said. 123 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:29.199 Show me your genitals, I started singing that song. 124 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:32.120 And then he started sing that song. I was like, man, 125 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:35.480 this show has really warped me in a good way. 126 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:36.000 Thank you. 127 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:40.120 I was hoping I was alone genital and that your 128 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:43.199 genitals show me your genitals. 129 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:47.560 In the middle of swamp watch. 130 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:48.439 Jerry Shannon. 131 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:55.319 Yes, dumb question. Yeah, if Kamala Harris becomes president, what's 132 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:58.079 going to be the first man? It's going to be 133 00:06:58.079 --> 00:07:00.199 the first like the first gentleman, isn't that Doug? 134 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:01.079 Yeah, Doug? 135 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:03.879 M huff un huff huffy. 136 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:07.000 Did he think she was not married? 137 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:08.040 I don't know. 138 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:09.120 Maybe that's what it was. 139 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:12.839 I did see a great tweet the other day that said, 140 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:17.920 if she's elected president, he should forego the title of 141 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:20.680 first gentlemen and just go by Doug so that when 142 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:24.319 they do a big formal introduction, they say ladies and gentlemen, 143 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:28.720 the President of the United States, Madam Kamala Harris and 144 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.120 Doug that would be great. 145 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:35.759 Why do people defend Britney Griner. She wasn't set up. 146 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:38.560 She brought drugs into a place where you're not allowed 147 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:41.240 to have drugs. She knew what she was doing. She 148 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:45.759 took the chance. That's ridiculous. Stop defending her. She should 149 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:49.160 have served her sentence there and she should have been 150 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:52.079 punished because she brought dope into a place where they 151 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:54.600 don't like dope. Just amazing. 152 00:07:54.680 --> 00:08:00.560 Stop it, okay, please, we were saying that she held 153 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:04.360 as a political prisoner for the amount of hash oil 154 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:09.160 that she was caught with. The normal sentence is about 155 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:13.240 two weeks in jail. If that and she got nine 156 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:16.839 years as a sentence. That was the problem with it, 157 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:19.439 not defending or she that was a stupid move on 158 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:22.839 her part, but also they took advantage of her stupid 159 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:24.600 move and tried to make it into a giant thing. 160 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:28.439 Kids, don't take drugs on your travels, okay, don't take drugs, 161 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:29.399 Just general and buy. 162 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:30.079 Him when you get there. 163 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:34.440 A man in Orange County, the one accused of running 164 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:39.279 that betting operation whose customers included shohe Atani's former interpreter. 165 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:42.399 He has agreed to plead guilty to a trio of 166 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:46.519 federal charges. Matthew Boyer is his name. He's expected to 167 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:49.879 flee guilty next week to charges of operating an unlawful 168 00:08:49.919 --> 00:08:53.519 gambling business, money laundering, and filing a false tax return. 169 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:54.519 Yeah. 170 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:58.000 You can't really run an illegal gambling without filing a 171 00:08:58.000 --> 00:08:59.240 false tax return, can you? 172 00:08:59.519 --> 00:08:59.639 Right? 173 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:00.559 Okay? 174 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:03.200 So President, don't we all kind of file false tax returns? 175 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:04.000 What do you mean? 176 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:04.600 How dare you? 177 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:04.919 Well? 178 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:05.960 We all take liberties. 179 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:08.480 I don't know what you speak of. 180 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:10.480 Well, you don't do your own taxes. 181 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:15.159 That's not true. That's true. Do you prepare your taxes? 182 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:16.200 I do not? You do not? 183 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:18.879 Case closed? You can you? 184 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:19.840 Yeah? 185 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:20.159 Yeah? 186 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:20.440 I do. 187 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:22.720 Please. 188 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:26.399 National Association Black Journalists, we played for you yesterday. 189 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:27.519 This was President Trump. 190 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:32.000 She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only 191 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:35.639 promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black until 192 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:38.200 a number of years ago when she happened to turn black, 193 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:40.440 and now she wants to be known as black. So 194 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:42.600 I don't know is she Indian or is she black? 195 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:45.960 She is always college. 196 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:47.120 I respect either one. 197 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:48.440 But she obviously doesn't. 198 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:51.399 Could he have said something like she used to always 199 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:53.440 when I knew her years ago, she was always leaning 200 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:56.879 into Indian heritage. Could he have said something like that 201 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:59.879 and gotten away with it. He's very nuanced in his speech. 202 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:02.799 I'm just wondering or if it's just all off the table. 203 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.720 People on both sides of the aisle condemned him for that. 204 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:07.080 Texas Senator John Corny. 205 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:09.639 I mean, I think we're all a combination of something right. 206 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:14.320 And so, but I'm not going to get involved in 207 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:15.080 the back and forth. 208 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:18.919 South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham. I'm known the Vice president 209 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:19.480 for a while. 210 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:23.519 She's always embraced her heritage proudly as she should. My 211 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:28.399 problem with Vice President Harris's the policy choices she's made. 212 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.799 And then Dick Durbin, Senator out Illinois, after what he put. 213 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:36.440 Barack Obama through. It's no surprise, but it is a disappointment. 214 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:39.840 We need to raise the rhetoric in this race to 215 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:41.919 a level where the American people can be proud of 216 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:43.399 both Canada. 217 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:50.519 Please, what a Pollyanna? I love your optim Okay. Yeah. 218 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:53.320 Trump first got involved in politics when he called for 219 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:57.960 remember the long form birth certificate for Barack Obama, and 220 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:00.039 there was a bunch of time where Barack O I 221 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:02.519 almost like, screw this. I'm like, there's no reason for this, 222 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:07.720 and then eventually had to release it and uh, speaking 223 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:13.039 to a sorority. Uh, Kamala Harris said that his speech 224 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:16.679 was the same old show, same old show, same old show. 225 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:18.639 I almost thought she wanted to say a different word. 226 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:19.639 There a different Oh. 227 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:23.399 Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National 228 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:28.919 Association of Black Journalists, and it was the same old show, 229 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:34.360 the divisiveness and the disrespect. 230 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:36.879 See, I thought she was going to say something else. 231 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:41.799 See, there were some people who who sent us propaganda 232 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:44.639 about her, just uh, you know, pictures of her dressed 233 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:48.159 in Indian garb and things, family photos and things, and saying, 234 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:50.000 you know, this is not a black family or what 235 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:53.879 have you. And people true believers that believe that they're 236 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:56.759 that maybe she isn't black or that she turned black, 237 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:00.919 which is troubling, as opposed to at least one of 238 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:03.879 our coworkers who's a super Trump guy and was just like, 239 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:06.440 I love it. It's hilarious. I love that guy. I 240 00:12:06.440 --> 00:12:09.679 love everything he says. He doesn't take him seriously, but 241 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:12.320 just loves him. The entertainment, the entertainment of it all. 242 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:13.879 I did. 243 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:16.320 Where to the point where you either have to care 244 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:20.279 a lot about her heritage and how she identifies, or 245 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:21.600 you have to care. 246 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:23.720 None at all. 247 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:26.919 And I can't figure out which one we're supposed to be. 248 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:30.919 Do I care? Do I care whether she identifies as 249 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.159 Indian or Black or some combination thereof? 250 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:36.279 Are you just German? Are you more things? 251 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:42.159 I'm very mutty, very North European. Maybe a little Welsh, 252 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.759 a lot of Welsh. Really, I just nailed that. Look 253 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:49.519 at me, and there's there's some there's some you know, 254 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:51.559 there's some other stuff that gets in there that would 255 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:52.639 add to my flavor. 256 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:56.639 Perhaps, Yeah, Pacific islander. I don't know there's any Pacific islander. 257 00:12:57.320 --> 00:13:00.799 But there are some other far fle, far fetched portions 258 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:03.159 of the globe from whence my DNA came. 259 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:06.480 Really, yeah, it's weird, Trust me, it's weird. Where far 260 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:09.960 flung where there were some from Africa and some from 261 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:13.559 South America? Interesting at least in whatever I spit into 262 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:14.639 a cup and sent it. 263 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.360 In the mail. What did they know? Ethnic? I know? 264 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:20.679 That's exactly what people say to me all the time. 265 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:23.440 Mark Saltzman is our tech guru and we like to 266 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:25.559 talk to him at this time on Thursdays. 267 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:30.279 The machines are getting smarter. This is tech Talk, brought 268 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:31.320 to you by Skynet. 269 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:36.679 Well, we are hitting the road this summer, and Google 270 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:40.200 Maps is the lane we drive in most of the time. 271 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:43.480 Mark Saltzman has some tips and tricks to try during 272 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:44.600 your summer travel. 273 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:45.440 Yeah. 274 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:48.159 Hey, first of all, happy Thursday, or as they say, 275 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:51.480 happy Little Friday. And yeah, it's that time of the 276 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:53.679 year where you know, I don't know if this is 277 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:57.200 the same in Socow where people hit the road in 278 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:00.039 the summer because you have like steady, beautiful weather. 279 00:13:59.879 --> 00:14:00.519 All year round. 280 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:03.000 Right, Well, I don't know about all year round, but 281 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:05.519 oh yeah, please, Well we only have three hundred and 282 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:07.639 sixty five days, about three hundred and sixty of them 283 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:08.320 are really good. 284 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:12.200 Yeah, okay, fair, fair, So in many other parts of 285 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:14.000 the country, this is the time where you load up 286 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:15.879 the kids they may not be back in school yet, 287 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:17.240 and you head out on the road. 288 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:21.240 So I wrote a piece on how to leverage. 289 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:23.440 Google Maps, which many of us use, or Ways which 290 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:27.480 is owned by Google. Now, by the way and Ways 291 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:30.759 to get pun intended to get more out of the 292 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:32.919 mapping app that you know and love. 293 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:34.840 So a couple little things that you may not know 294 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:36.519 your Google Maps can do. 295 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:40.159 One of them is, if you don't have a healthy 296 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:44.080 data plan with your mobile phone, or you're traveling out 297 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:46.320 of the country and you have to pay for data 298 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:50.080 through a carrier, a mobile phone carrier provider, you can 299 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:51.879 download maps to use offline. 300 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:54.639 You just go into the options. 301 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.960 You select the destination before you go, or when you're 302 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:59.480 on free Wi Fi, like at the hotel, and then 303 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:02.759 you go into the options and you can choose offline 304 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:06.399 maps and you will be able to see the map 305 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:08.240 an overhead view of the map, and make sure you 306 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:10.200 just draw with your finger how big you want, like 307 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:12.519 do you want all of New York for example, it 308 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:15.480 will be it'll use up more data than just one 309 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:19.519 little neighborhood within New York, but it'll be all offline, 310 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.480 so will not tap into your data, which is especially 311 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:26.399 good when you're overseas. Another one is if you're going 312 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:32.559 to say Disneyland or a national park, where you find 313 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:34.159 where you've parked, it's going to be very tough to 314 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:37.000 find it later because it's like a massive parking lot. 315 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:40.519 We've all been there, especially parents who are just exhausted 316 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:42.559 and you're kind of on autopilot. 317 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:44.879 You park and you don't remember where you put the minivan. 318 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:50.840 Afterwards, you can many apps will now automatically pin where 319 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:54.000 you've parked, not just Google Maps but others as. 320 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:57.200 Well, or will it give you actual walking directions back 321 00:15:57.320 --> 00:15:59.159 to it. I mean that's the whole thing, right, Well, 322 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:01.399 that's pretty great because the lower version of that is 323 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:04.600 you take a snap a picture of Donald Ducks Section 324 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:07.840 E or something. Yeah, exactly, you're in the you know, 325 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:11.759 lot e seventeen, or you look for a landmark, you know. 326 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:16.679 So that is something that's indy, is that Google Maps 327 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:21.039 will remember where you parked, or if you if it's 328 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:23.879 not set up to do so automatically, you just tap 329 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:26.159 this little button at the bottom of the screen before 330 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:28.960 you if you can remember that as you're multitasking with 331 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.080 holding kids and strollers and car seats and all that, 332 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:35.639 it will give you step by step directions back to 333 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:39.080 your car with some degree of accuracy. It's using GPS, 334 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:40.759 it down to a couple of feet, so it. 335 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:42.320 Should be, you know, cool at that point. 336 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.200 At that point you just use your fob to make it, 337 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.240 you know, make your vehicle make a noise helpful. 338 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:50.720 Going to a football game or after a football game. 339 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:52.200 That's another good application. 340 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:54.840 I see that or lost after a game. It's so 341 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:57.960 file because people don't remember that. They just they're excited 342 00:16:57.960 --> 00:16:59.559 to go to the game. They just park somewhere and 343 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:01.759 then they I'm out of the stadium in a different spot, 344 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:03.360 and they're completely turned around. 345 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:04.680 Yeah, it's a good one. 346 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:08.400 If your listeners have tweens or teens and they are 347 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:10.680 starting to venture out on their own, but you want 348 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:13.240 a little bit of peace of mind, you can use 349 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:17.279 location sharing. So it's you know, the deal is, okay, 350 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:20.720 I'm going to let you go to your whatever friend's house, 351 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:23.039 but I want to be able to see where you are. 352 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:26.400 So that's an opt in feature to share with family 353 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:29.240 members where you're meeting up and they can keep an 354 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:32.119 eye on you digitally, you know, just as a safety 355 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:36.319 production precaution. There's a bunch of other tips. If you're 356 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:39.839 in this article. There's something new called immersive view that 357 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:42.920 leverages AI. It's kind of like that, you know, the 358 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:46.920 real photos that you can see, you know, or augmented 359 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:50.079 reality view through your phone's lens. When you're traveling somewhere new, 360 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:52.920 it'll give you information about like the Eiffel Tower, for example. 361 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:55.200 But immersive view takes to the next level. 362 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:55.759 Very cool. 363 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:57.839 That's that's one I've seen where you could stand on 364 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:00.519 a street corner, right, I assume the augmented reality version 365 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:02.920 of that, where you you could look around and it 366 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:05.839 will tell you which restaurants, for example, are nearby. 367 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:07.000 Or Yeah, that's right. 368 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:08.759 But just be careful if you are on a street 369 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:10.960 corner that you aren't looking at your phone, even if 370 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:15.039 you are looking through your phone's camera lens and you 371 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.720 can still see the world around you, you know, just 372 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:21.359 just exercise some extra caution around traffic. 373 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:22.799 Yeah, there's lots more. 374 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:27.000 There's the ability to locate ev charging stations through Google Maps, 375 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:31.480 finding bike or scooter scooter rentals u doing so there's 376 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:35.440 a lot. So if you just google Google Maps or 377 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:38.039 tips and Tricks and my name Mark Saltsman, Mark with 378 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:40.880 a C, Saltsman with a Z, you'll be able to 379 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:44.599 find all these little hacks. The newest one I'll leave 380 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:48.319 you with is called It's it's basically the ability to 381 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:52.960 see when the most popular times are at a destination. 382 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:56.559 So you know what to expect. Right, So there's a 383 00:18:56.559 --> 00:18:59.440 trendy cafe in Beverly Hills. You can scroll down to 384 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:02.279 find at that says popular times, and you'll know how 385 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:06.440 busy it should be, whether you're traveling or you're just 386 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:09.559 in your own hometown. It could. It will vary in 387 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:12.279 real time throughout the day and give you a sense. Similarly, 388 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:14.279 if you haven't done this before, when you're looking to 389 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:18.279 Google directions somewhere but you're not leaving just yet. Let's 390 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:20.680 say you're leaving the next morning, it will take into 391 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:24.359 account using data what the average time should be when 392 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:26.319 you say you're going to leave, Like tomorrow morning at 393 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:28.440 eight am is going to be different in la as 394 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:31.960 we would know than you know on three o'clock, or 395 00:19:31.960 --> 00:19:34.039 maybe not, because you know, rush hour is kind of 396 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:34.960 a thing of the past these days. 397 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:37.279 Right, Yeah, Mark, the other article you wrote is about 398 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:42.440 something I'm afraid that we need, which is a parcel guard, 399 00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:47.079 a personal parcel box to prevent people from stealing the 400 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:48.480 stuff that you order online. 401 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:48.880