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 --> 00:00:07.200 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:08.679 Let's jump right into swamp Watch. 5 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:11.160 I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar, 6 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:14.320 and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing that lollipop. 7 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:17.559 Here we got the real problem is that our leaders 8 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:21.640 are done. The other side never quits what what. 9 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:25.920 I'm not going anywhere, So that now you train the squad, I. 10 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:28.199 Can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what 11 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:31.800 has been. You know, Americans have always been going at president. 12 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:32.960 They're not stupid. 13 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:35.799 A political flunder is when a politician actually tells. 14 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:38.600 The truth, whether people voted for you were not. Swamp Watch, 15 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:39.840 they're all counting on it. 16 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:43.320 So we have been listening in on this floor of 17 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:46.359 the Senate. There is a confirmation vote that's going on 18 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:51.079 right now for Cash Bettel to lead the FBI. This 19 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:54.560 would solidify his nomination and confirm him as the director 20 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:57.439 of the FBI. The nomination was advanced on a fifty 21 00:00:57.479 --> 00:00:59.640 one to forty seven party line votes to get to 22 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:02.159 this point point where they're doing the full job. To 23 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:05.519 deny him the job, more than three Republicans would have 24 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:09.920 to vote no, which would be seen unlikely, even though 25 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:13.280 we know there is one. Susan Collins of Maine announced 26 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:16.640 her opposition to cash Betel. So far, he's already secured 27 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:19.439 the approval of most of the nominees. Trump has already 28 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:23.799 secured the approval of his nominees, despite skepticism to several 29 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:26.000 of his choices. And remember a few weeks ago, there 30 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:28.480 are a lot of questions about people like Tulci Gabbard 31 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:31.799 and RFK Junior and Cash Battel and even Pete Hegseth 32 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:34.400 as to whether or not they would be confirmed by 33 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:38.680 the Senate because Republicans in the Senate had opposed some 34 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:42.120 of those people. So at this point, I mean there's still, 35 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:43.760 like I said, in the middle of voting, if there's 36 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:45.640 only about half of the votes in the Senate that 37 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:48.599 have already been cast for Cash Pateel. Trump has said 38 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:52.079 that he expects some of the agents who participated in 39 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:56.159 the January sixth investigation to be fired. Cash Battel told 40 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:58.799 senators during his confirmation hearing that he's not aware of 41 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:03.640 any discussions about firing any agents, but then Dick Durbin 42 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:06.159 released a letter last week that cited information he said 43 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:10.199 came from inside sources that suggested that cash Betel had 44 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:15.120 been covertly involved in the process. Altogether, Democrats were worried 45 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:18.159 about cash Battel as lack of management experience compared to 46 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:20.879 others who've held the job as director of the FBI. 47 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:23.879 They highlighted some of his past statements that they said 48 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:28.120 were incendiary. They said that he doesn't have good judgment. 49 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:31.840 A half a dozen Democrats on the Judiciary Committee gathered 50 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:34.680 outside the FBI headquarters before the vote to speak out 51 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:39.080 against him. Adam Schiff, the new Senator from California, said, 52 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:41.520 this is someone we cannot trust. They lacked the character 53 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.039 to do this job, someone who lacks the integrity. We 54 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:47.280 know that, and our Republican colleagues know that. But again 55 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:51.439 it appears that as this Senate confirmation vote is happening, 56 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:56.000 it is likely that it will be confirmed Cash Battel to. 57 00:02:56.039 --> 00:02:57.199 Head the FBI. 58 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:03.120 While that's going on, in the background, Mitch McConnell has 59 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:08.879 decided to retire. Mitch McConnell is one hundred and sixty 60 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:12.000 seven years old. He wants to live out his last 61 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:13.919 fifty years in peace. 62 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:16.840 I've never lost sight of the fact that without my 63 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:24.080 mother's devoted care, a childhood encounter with polio could have 64 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:26.000 turned out a lot worse. 65 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:30.639 He in his goodbye speech, or is an announcement that 66 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:34.080 he was going to resign, He said, seven times, my 67 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:37.639 fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate. Think about that, 68 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:44.599 seven consecutive six year terms. This guy's been in the 69 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:49.360 Senate longer than some of us have been alive. The 70 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:52.240 former leader thanked his wife. She was the Secretary of 71 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.639 Transportation for a while. Elaine Chow called her his ultimate 72 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:58.719 teammate and confidant of the last thirty two years. He 73 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:01.759 got a standing ovation from a colleagues from both sides 74 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:05.520 of the aisle, and a nice show of composure. He 75 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:09.560 mentioned that fight against polio. When he was a kid, 76 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:11.680 he had polio, and for the rest of his life 77 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:13.680 he had a weak leg. He had a bunch of 78 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:17.040 notable health incidents in the last several years. He fractured 79 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.600 his shoulder during a fall five years ago. Six years 80 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:22.759 ago in twenty three, he was hospitalized with a concussion 81 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:25.439 after another fall that led to a stint at a 82 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:29.279 rehab facility for physical therapy therapy. But July twenty three, 83 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:32.519 remember that he's at the Capitol, he's speaking, and then 84 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:40.279 the Bareris died and he just stopped speaking. He froze, 85 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:42.879 steps away from the podium for a few minutes, shows 86 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:46.319 up a few minutes later and says he's fine, and 87 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:49.600 at the time one of the aides said he felt lightheaded. 88 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:52.560 And then he's speaking to the press in Kentucky about 89 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:54.199 a month later, and then once. 90 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:55.720 Again the Briters died. 91 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:00.959 He's fallen several times over the capital since the once 92 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:04.040 in December of last year that sprained his wrist. He 93 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:06.000 had a cut on his face, and then he felled 94 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:10.360 twice in one day earlier this month, he has been 95 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:13.120 maneuvering through the Capitol in a wheelchair with a boot. 96 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:13.360 On his leg. 97 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:17.240 He's had to be helped to physically. This guy is 98 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:19.920 ready to go, and apparently at the age of I 99 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:24.000 believe he's eighty two, he's decided that sorry. He turned 100 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:28.120 eighty three today and he has said he's not going 101 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:31.399 to be running for reelection. And then finally a federal 102 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:37.879 appellate court has appointed Trump. Pointed by Trump has a 103 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:39.120 message for the administration. 104 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:40.040 How about this? 105 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:44.639 Judge Daniel Danielle Forrest, explaining why she and her appeals 106 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.240 court colleagues were right to reject the government's emergency bid 107 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:51.360 to enforce Trump's executive order against birthright citizenship, told them 108 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:54.879 to relax, she wrote, just because of district court grants, 109 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:57.519 preliminary relief, halting a policy advanced by one of the 110 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:01.360 political branches does not in and of itself, and emergency 111 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:06.519 make a controversy, yes, even an important controversy, yes, but 112 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:11.199 an emergency not necessarily. This all stems from the executive 113 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:14.639 order against birthright citizenship, which appears to be guaranteed by 114 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:17.920 the fourteenth Amendment, and apparently we're going to take this 115 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:19.839 all the way to the Supreme Court. 116 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:21.079 Again. 117 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:24.000 The judge emphasized she's not weighing in on the ultimate 118 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:29.800 constitutional question, but she merely concluded that emergency relief is 119 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:33.279 not appropriate at this stage of the litigation. That's one 120 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:35.680 of the hard things for people to understand. I think 121 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:40.000 about how these court challenges have been going when it 122 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.000 comes to all the executive orders and the court challenges 123 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:46.480 that either state's attorney's general or unions or whoever it is, 124 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:49.560 are fighting back against these Trump policies have been put 125 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:54.240 in place. When the court decides, for example, to not 126 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:57.600 put a temporary injunction in place, like we saw Judge 127 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:01.639 Tanya Chutcan in the DC District Court, it wasn't necessarily 128 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:05.240 that she sided with the Trump administration, although it is 129 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.439 technically arguably a win for them. It's not that she 130 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:11.439 sided with the administration. It's that she said that the 131 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:15.040 plaintiffs in the case didn't show that they were going 132 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:19.360 to be hurt by it, and that she couldn't issue 133 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:22.240 the restraining order based on that information, not that she 134 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:23.279 couldn't in the future. 135 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:25.639 And this is the same kind of situation. 136 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:30.399 These judges, this appellate panel from the Ninth Circuit isn't 137 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:36.600 deciding whether or not the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship. 138 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:39.639 What they're saying is this is not the way to 139 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:43.199 go about doing this, at least not yet. This is 140 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:44.480 one of those that is going to go to the 141 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:46.720 Supreme Court. I can't see it not going to the 142 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:50.319 Supreme Court. Jay Ratliffe, the aviation analyst for iHeartRadio, is 143 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:51.040 going to be joining us. 144 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:51.879 We're going to be. 145 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:57.519 Talking about this string of aircraft incidents including that flight 146 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:00.879 in Toronto that flipped over. Once again, We'll talk to 147 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:04.720 him about a whole series of these things and what impact, 148 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:07.399 if any, of these cuts that the FAA have on 149 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.519 flight safety. So the study out of the American Psychological 150 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:14.879 Association says you probably do have a favorite child. And 151 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:20.279 their findings when asking both parents and children is that 152 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:24.040 daughters tend to be the ones favored by parents, and 153 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:30.519 children said it's the sons who were favored by the parents. Also, 154 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:33.039 older children tend to be the ones that are favored in. 155 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:36.000 Haggary, this is ray for Mesida, Right, do you have 156 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:41.000 a favorite child? Maybe I have an older boy, he's 157 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:43.799 basically thirty six. I got a younger boy, he's basically 158 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:48.399 thirty four. I treat him differently, but I guess I 159 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:51.559 favor the younger one because he was born eleven weeks premature. 160 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:54.679 Any weigh two pounds fourteen ounces, so he is the 161 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:59.120 miracle baby. How can I say I love them both? 162 00:08:59.360 --> 00:08:59.960 I love the show. 163 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:01.799 Thank you. I don't know if you love the show 164 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:02.240 as much as you. 165 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:07.519 Hey, Gary, it's not so much that I have a 166 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:12.519 favorite child, it's I have an easier child. I have 167 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:16.200 a boy and a girl. And the boy was just 168 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:24.240 always logical, easygoing, very compliant child. But the girl that 169 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:26.879 was a lot of pushback. There was a lot of emotion. 170 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:30.279 So I don't have a favorite. I just have an 171 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:31.000 easier one. 172 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:32.600 That's an interesting way to put it. 173 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:36.559 Hey, Gary, and well, Shannon's not there. I have four sisters. 174 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:38.879 And when my dad passed away, he was preparing for 175 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:40.960 the service and one of a mentioned Hey put in 176 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:43.840 a program that I was his favorite. And we all 177 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:45.960 looked around a team and say, well, he told me 178 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:47.960 I was his favorite. He told me I was his favorite. 179 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:49.960 So that was just like my dad. He told each 180 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:53.320 and every one of us that we was his favorite. 181 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:56.960 So he didn't he had a favorite child all of us. 182 00:09:57.080 --> 00:09:57.960 Yeah, that's a good one. 183 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:00.919 By This is Chap one thousand Oaks and I five kids, 184 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:03.240 and yes I do have a favorite. 185 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:05.480 I always tell them it's the one that's not annoying 186 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:08.960 me that day. That's the way dads do it. 187 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:14.480 Gary, I got six grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Wow, 188 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:17.399 and I tell each and every one of them that 189 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:21.600 they are Grandpa's favorite. But don't tell the other one. 190 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:25.360 See, that's what dads do is we played mind games 191 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:26.559 with our kids, Gary. 192 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:29.600 My favorite still can't feat itself. 193 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:32.440 We'll clean up after itself, but it'll always. 194 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:33.919 Be the dog, the dog. 195 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:37.639 Okay, Hey, Gary, I have three kids. I've always told 196 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.799 my oldest that she was my favorite because I had 197 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:44.279 her first. I tell my middle child, my son, because 198 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:46.240 he's my only son, that he's my favorite. And I 199 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:49.799 tell my youngest that she's my favorite because she's the baby. 200 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:52.159 So they all think they're my favorites. And I also 201 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:55.240 tell each one don't tell the other one. I said 202 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:57.200 you were my favorite. Have a great day. 203 00:10:57.279 --> 00:10:59.480 And I thought dads were the ones that played mind games. 204 00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:02.679 H Gary. There were four kids in my family, two boys, 205 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:06.440 two girls, and I knew that I was my dad's favorite. 206 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:11.279 I knew it with everything I am. But when he died, 207 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:13.840 I listened to my sister talking to friends, and I 208 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:17.200 could tell she felt like she was the favorite. I 209 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:20.159 was gonna correct her, but then I thought, what a 210 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.399 neat dad I had, that he could make us both 211 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:25.679 feel like we're favorites. I think my brothers did too, 212 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:27.159 I miss Shannon. 213 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:27.879 We all do. 214 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:30.919 That's a great perspective to have. By the way, not 215 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:33.080 that your tad lied to you or played mind games. 216 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:35.080 That was my That was my perspective. 217 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:38.000 Gary, this is Dawn here, And like Forrest, I have 218 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:44.000 two boys, and when my oldest one would complain about 219 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:51.120 me favoring or loving the younger one more, my response was, well, Son, 220 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:54.759 actually I have loved you the longest. 221 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:57.519 Which is true. Yeah, I guess Matt. 222 00:11:57.399 --> 00:11:58.320 I love them both the same. 223 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:02.360 Yeah, thanks, thank you. I hope he's good at math. 224 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:06.200 Just got word out of Washington, DC that the Senate 225 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:10.440 has confirmed Cash Betel as the Director of the FBI 226 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:14.039 by a fifty one to forty nine vote, almost along 227 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:14.919 party lines. 228 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:17.399 The machines are getting smarter. 229 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:22.519 This is tech Talk, brought to you by Skynette. 230 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:24.919 Mark Saltzman is our tech guy. 231 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:29.360 We talk all things well smart with Mark Saltzman. You 232 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:33.200 can follow him on x Marc Underscore Saltzman for all 233 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:34.879 the great tech tips of the day, and you can 234 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:36.600 listen to him on the tech It Out podcast and 235 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:39.039 all of that good stuff. And we've talked before about 236 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:43.000 technology that exists in cars these days, far and above 237 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:47.440 what it was even even five years ago, the models 238 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:49.759 that have come out, and now we're talking about some 239 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:54.639 pretty incredible tech that is also attached to in some 240 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:58.039 cases an internal combustion engine and sometimes a giant electric motor. 241 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:00.960 Yeah, I think a lot of the innovation is happening 242 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:04.960 in the EV space for sure. And so this week, 243 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:07.679 I know, the LA Auto Show is at the end 244 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:10.440 of the year, but we have the Canadian International Auto 245 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:12.919 Show and so there's you know, a couple of dozen 246 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:16.240 car makers here and yeah, there's been So I've been 247 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:19.360 kicking the tires on some really cool vehicles, some of 248 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:22.240 which are out now and some are coming down the road, 249 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:26.639 and you know, they many of them, of course, have 250 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:29.840 a lot of tech, which is was what piques my interest. 251 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:33.559 For EV's range is really getting up there. I know, 252 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:37.679 the Lucid Error Grand Touring has over five hundred miles, 253 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:41.440 but the yeah, the twenty twenty five Chevy Silverado EV 254 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:44.360 does as well. So that's the equivalent of driving from 255 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:48.519 LA to Vegas and back again without needing to charge up. Yeah, 256 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:52.759 as the proclaimers once famously saying about going to be 257 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:55.480 five hundred miles. So that's you can say goodbye to 258 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:59.480 range anxiety with that. With that kind of range, that's great, right, 259 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:02.399 So every vehicle has that. That's kind of where we're 260 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:04.559 capped out. I'll give it another couple of years and 261 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:08.440 we'll see a thousand miles between charges as we see 262 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:11.759 innovations in both the battery department as well as in 263 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:15.440 the in the software to manage it all. But yeah, 264 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:19.120 that was pretty cool. Then the pickup truck, the Chevy 265 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:21.440 was pretty well. That's on one of their options, the 266 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:26.559 Rally Sport model it's called. It also has this sidewinder steering, 267 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:28.639 so it's kind of like a crab walk where all 268 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:31.279 four wheels can turn in the same direction, So that 269 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:33.960 helps you over a rugged terrain or to sneak into. 270 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:36.159 A little tight part, little party lot. 271 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:38.840 Yeah, you know, I'm kind of surprised that that never 272 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:41.080 really caught on. I remember back in the I want 273 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:44.360 to say late eighties early nineties, Honda did that with 274 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:47.480 four wheels steering where they would if you turn the 275 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:49.279 wheel a little bit, it would kind of do that 276 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:51.240 crab walk, and if you turn it all the way, 277 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:53.720 the wheels would actually go stept the front wheels and 278 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:56.039 the back wheels would go opposite directions for an even 279 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:56.919 tighter turn. 280 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:57.519 You know. 281 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:00.559 And I think also when it comes to autonomous vehicles, 282 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:04.360 which there's no shortage of those debuting this week here at. 283 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:05.159 The Auto Show as well. 284 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:09.440 You know, the first sort of sign of autonomous driving 285 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:14.399 was the parallel parking feature I remember ten fifteen years ago. 286 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:18.200 Easily you press a button and the vehicle assesses the 287 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:21.960 distance between two cars and can squeeze between it. Not 288 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:24.679 with the crab walk feature, but it just seems like 289 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:28.639 that was like one of the first examples of autonomous technology. 290 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:31.600 And so yeah, don't you're right. I don't think the 291 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:32.480 sidewinder or. 292 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:35.120 The crab walk feature has really taken off, but for 293 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:37.919 those who want it, I guess, especially those in a 294 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:40.600 pickup truck, I think it's kind of neat. And this 295 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:44.759 isn't exactly new either, but BMW was showing off its 296 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:48.799 new grill. It's at the front of the vehicle. It's 297 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:50.840 like a self healing grill. It's been out for a 298 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:53.639 couple of years, but it's getting better, so it's on the. 299 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:56.919 On some of their latest models. 300 00:15:56.919 --> 00:16:00.200 So it's basically the way it works is that there's 301 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.679 this I guess they call it a digital kidney grill, 302 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:08.519 but it has this additional polyurethane coating that can repair itself, 303 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:11.600 so you get scratches on it and within twenty four 304 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:16.679 hours at room temperature, it could get rid of its scratches. 305 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:20.080 So that's kind of neat BMW. By the way, at 306 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:22.120 the Consumer Electronics Show, over the last couple of years, 307 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:26.559 they've shown color changing vehicles, first with grayscale, like going 308 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:29.360 from black to white and kind of in between to 309 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:33.080 full color. So I mean, they're really invested in technology, 310 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:36.759 but that was kind of neat. We've seen some really 311 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:41.559 cool gary some infotainment systems as big as forty eight 312 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:47.039 inches for a panoramic display inside the distracting more than maybe, 313 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:50.360 so it's arguable. Yeah, this is the twenty twenty five 314 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:53.159 Lincoln Navigator that I'm referring to. Yeah, I mean it's 315 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:56.320 it's like a full on dashboard in there. Some people 316 00:16:56.360 --> 00:17:01.720 thought the Tesla's big tablet like display distracting, But the 317 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:04.000 more the vehicles are driving for you, the more I 318 00:17:04.039 --> 00:17:05.680 guess you need to keep your eyes on the road. 319 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:08.119 I am kidding, but yeah, I mean, look, I as 320 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:10.920 a geek, I like the innovations when it comes to 321 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:16.319 technology and safety and range and some of the amenities, 322 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:19.119 like you know, all the different kinds of cameras and 323 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:22.079 sensors and autonomous driving that. That's excites me. I'm not 324 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:24.599 a you know, I'm not a big car guy other 325 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:24.960 than that. 326 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:28.359 But yeah, it does have to be safe to use. 327 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:29.680 I'll give you that one hundred percent. 328 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:31.400 So that was pretty cool. So it's going on till 329 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:34.160 the twenty third in Toronto. But we've had lots of 330 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:35.960 visitors from the States. After all, we may be the 331 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:40.200 fifty first state soon. Anyways, right, let's not go there. 332 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:43.759 Listen, we try to keep politics out of this set. 333 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:44.400 That is true. 334 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:46.640 That is true. Are you gonna watch that hockey game tonight? 335 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:48.319 By the way, I know that's a big one. Yeah, 336 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:50.640 I've got a ideot it's gonna be a big one. 337 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:50.799 I know. 338 00:17:50.839 --> 00:17:53.920 I even Trump posted about it. Yeah, we'll see. 339 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:57.039 But I hope that Canada does not reciprocate and boo 340 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:03.000 the US national anthem. Disappointed that that happened at two 341 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:07.000 previous games in Canada. But hopefully, you know, we'll see 342 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:08.839 what happens in Boston. But yeah, it should be good, 343 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:09.680 should be a great game. 344 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:15.319 Aim from X from Twitter, Elon Musk is Grock three 345 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:19.200 And now they're saying it's available to everybody so temporarily. 346 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:23.240 Yeah, so on Monday, I believe. Elon Musk announced that 347 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:26.640 Grock three, which is his large language model, his generative 348 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:31.680 AI platform to compete against chat, GPT, his nemesis, and 349 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:36.000 other players like Google Gemini. It is temporarily free to use, 350 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:38.920 So if you go to x dot com and click 351 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:41.920 on grock on the left hand side, that is the 352 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.880 AI platform you can play around with. And it's pretty intelligent. 353 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:48.119 I've been using it this week, and you can have 354 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:51.079 it do everything from create images for you royalty free 355 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:54.279 that you can use I typed in show me an 356 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:57.920 image of a peacock using a tablet sitting on the moon, 357 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:01.319 you know, and it's like it's so fast too. But 358 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:04.759 there are more practical applications. They have what's called the 359 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:10.119 think option for deeper math and science encoding questions you 360 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:13.440 may have. But this is just upping the AI arms race. 361 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:16.319 Another feature called deep search is kind of like a 362 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:20.279 search engine on steroids. It'll immediately give you the summary 363 00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:23.079 of the results, not telling you where you'll find the results. 364 00:19:23.359 --> 00:19:25.559 And you can even attach a document like if you've 365 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:29.640 got I don't know, a gym membership contract a PDF, right, 366 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:32.200 you can upload it to grock and for free it 367 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:35.319 will summarize it for you in plain English. 368 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:36.559 There's a lot of cool stuff. 369 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:38.880 You can add an audio file and say, translate this 370 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:41.279 to another language, or give me a summary of this. 371 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:44.559 I typed in as Gary and Shannon are they funny, 372 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:47.880 and the answer was yes. 373 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:49.240 But there's styleleings. 374 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:52.880 So they say that your style liens on witty banter, 375 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:56.680 playful chemistry, and an act for finding human excuse excuse me, 376 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:59.720 finding humor in both the absurd and the every day, 377 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.599 which helped them build a loyal audience in southern California's 378 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:06.359 competitive talk radio scene. Yeah, and then it said that 379 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:10.559 said their comedy is more morning coffee chuckle, then laugh 380 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:15.440 out loud hysterics, which is tempered by their newsroom roots. 381 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:17.480 So giving you kudos, but you know. 382 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:19.960 Yeah, very accurate too. That's scary. 383 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:23.000 Yeah, and it gave it me that answer and like 384 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:24.799 a split second, So yeah, you have. 385 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:25.319 Some fun with it. 386 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:28.519 If your listeners are on X there is going to 387 00:20:28.559 --> 00:20:31.440 be a Windows and Mac download like a separate application 388 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:35.400 as well, but Grock three is free to try at 389 00:20:35.559 --> 00:20:36.319 x dot com. 390 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:37.720 Wow, that's very very cool. 391 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:42.079 We were doing a quick audience participation in asking if 392 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:44.039 you had a favorite kid and I know you've got kids, 393 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:45.359 so do you have a favorite. 394 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:46.319 I don't have a favorite. 395 00:20:46.319 --> 00:20:48.279 We have twins, a boy girl twin who are turning 396 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:49.519 twenty three and a younger boy. 397 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:49.799 Yeah. 398 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:53.160 I was listening to that and all the call in comments, 399 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:55.799 which were great, We don't. My wife tells me she's 400 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:58.519 got a favorite, but I don't play that game. 401 00:20:58.720 --> 00:20:58.839