Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: Let's jump right into swamp Watch.
Speaker 3: I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar,
Speaker 3: and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing that lollipop.
Speaker 4: Here we got the real problem is that our leaders
Speaker 4: are done. The other side never quits what what.
Speaker 5: I'm not going anywhere, So that now you train the squad, I.
Speaker 2: Can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what
Speaker 2: has been. You know, Americans have always been going at president.
Speaker 6: They're not stupid.
Speaker 1: A political flunder is when a politician actually tells.
Speaker 2: The truth, whether people voted for you were not. Swamp Watch,
Speaker 2: they're all counting on it.
Speaker 1: So we have been listening in on this floor of
Speaker 1: the Senate. There is a confirmation vote that's going on
Speaker 1: right now for Cash Bettel to lead the FBI. This
Speaker 1: would solidify his nomination and confirm him as the director
Speaker 1: of the FBI. The nomination was advanced on a fifty
Speaker 1: one to forty seven party line votes to get to
Speaker 1: this point point where they're doing the full job. To
Speaker 1: deny him the job, more than three Republicans would have
Speaker 1: to vote no, which would be seen unlikely, even though
Speaker 1: we know there is one. Susan Collins of Maine announced
Speaker 1: her opposition to cash Betel. So far, he's already secured
Speaker 1: the approval of most of the nominees. Trump has already
Speaker 1: secured the approval of his nominees, despite skepticism to several
Speaker 1: of his choices. And remember a few weeks ago, there
Speaker 1: are a lot of questions about people like Tulci Gabbard
Speaker 1: and RFK Junior and Cash Battel and even Pete Hegseth
Speaker 1: as to whether or not they would be confirmed by
Speaker 1: the Senate because Republicans in the Senate had opposed some
Speaker 1: of those people. So at this point, I mean there's still,
Speaker 1: like I said, in the middle of voting, if there's
Speaker 1: only about half of the votes in the Senate that
Speaker 1: have already been cast for Cash Pateel. Trump has said
Speaker 1: that he expects some of the agents who participated in
Speaker 1: the January sixth investigation to be fired. Cash Battel told
Speaker 1: senators during his confirmation hearing that he's not aware of
Speaker 1: any discussions about firing any agents, but then Dick Durbin
Speaker 1: released a letter last week that cited information he said
Speaker 1: came from inside sources that suggested that cash Betel had
Speaker 1: been covertly involved in the process. Altogether, Democrats were worried
Speaker 1: about cash Battel as lack of management experience compared to
Speaker 1: others who've held the job as director of the FBI.
Speaker 1: They highlighted some of his past statements that they said
Speaker 1: were incendiary. They said that he doesn't have good judgment.
Speaker 1: A half a dozen Democrats on the Judiciary Committee gathered
Speaker 1: outside the FBI headquarters before the vote to speak out
Speaker 1: against him. Adam Schiff, the new Senator from California, said,
Speaker 1: this is someone we cannot trust. They lacked the character
Speaker 1: to do this job, someone who lacks the integrity. We
Speaker 1: know that, and our Republican colleagues know that. But again
Speaker 1: it appears that as this Senate confirmation vote is happening,
Speaker 1: it is likely that it will be confirmed Cash Battel to.
Speaker 2: Head the FBI.
Speaker 1: While that's going on, in the background, Mitch McConnell has
Speaker 1: decided to retire. Mitch McConnell is one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: seven years old. He wants to live out his last
Speaker 1: fifty years in peace.
Speaker 6: I've never lost sight of the fact that without my
Speaker 6: mother's devoted care, a childhood encounter with polio could have
Speaker 6: turned out a lot worse.
Speaker 1: He in his goodbye speech, or is an announcement that
Speaker 1: he was going to resign, He said, seven times, my
Speaker 1: fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate. Think about that,
Speaker 1: seven consecutive six year terms. This guy's been in the
Speaker 1: Senate longer than some of us have been alive. The
Speaker 1: former leader thanked his wife. She was the Secretary of
Speaker 1: Transportation for a while. Elaine Chow called her his ultimate
Speaker 1: teammate and confidant of the last thirty two years. He
Speaker 1: got a standing ovation from a colleagues from both sides
Speaker 1: of the aisle, and a nice show of composure. He
Speaker 1: mentioned that fight against polio. When he was a kid,
Speaker 1: he had polio, and for the rest of his life
Speaker 1: he had a weak leg. He had a bunch of
Speaker 1: notable health incidents in the last several years. He fractured
Speaker 1: his shoulder during a fall five years ago. Six years
Speaker 1: ago in twenty three, he was hospitalized with a concussion
Speaker 1: after another fall that led to a stint at a
Speaker 1: rehab facility for physical therapy therapy. But July twenty three,
Speaker 1: remember that he's at the Capitol, he's speaking, and then
Speaker 1: the Bareris died and he just stopped speaking. He froze,
Speaker 1: steps away from the podium for a few minutes, shows
Speaker 1: up a few minutes later and says he's fine, and
Speaker 1: at the time one of the aides said he felt lightheaded.
Speaker 1: And then he's speaking to the press in Kentucky about
Speaker 1: a month later, and then once.
Speaker 2: Again the Briters died.
Speaker 1: He's fallen several times over the capital since the once
Speaker 1: in December of last year that sprained his wrist. He
Speaker 1: had a cut on his face, and then he felled
Speaker 1: twice in one day earlier this month, he has been
Speaker 1: maneuvering through the Capitol in a wheelchair with a boot.
Speaker 2: On his leg.
Speaker 1: He's had to be helped to physically. This guy is
Speaker 1: ready to go, and apparently at the age of I
Speaker 1: believe he's eighty two, he's decided that sorry. He turned
Speaker 1: eighty three today and he has said he's not going
Speaker 1: to be running for reelection. And then finally a federal
Speaker 1: appellate court has appointed Trump. Pointed by Trump has a
Speaker 1: message for the administration.
Speaker 2: How about this?
Speaker 1: Judge Daniel Danielle Forrest, explaining why she and her appeals
Speaker 1: court colleagues were right to reject the government's emergency bid
Speaker 1: to enforce Trump's executive order against birthright citizenship, told them
Speaker 1: to relax, she wrote, just because of district court grants,
Speaker 1: preliminary relief, halting a policy advanced by one of the
Speaker 1: political branches does not in and of itself, and emergency
Speaker 1: make a controversy, yes, even an important controversy, yes, but
Speaker 1: an emergency not necessarily. This all stems from the executive
Speaker 1: order against birthright citizenship, which appears to be guaranteed by
Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment, and apparently we're going to take this
Speaker 1: all the way to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: The judge emphasized she's not weighing in on the ultimate
Speaker 1: constitutional question, but she merely concluded that emergency relief is
Speaker 1: not appropriate at this stage of the litigation. That's one
Speaker 1: of the hard things for people to understand. I think
Speaker 1: about how these court challenges have been going when it
Speaker 1: comes to all the executive orders and the court challenges
Speaker 1: that either state's attorney's general or unions or whoever it is,
Speaker 1: are fighting back against these Trump policies have been put
Speaker 1: in place. When the court decides, for example, to not
Speaker 1: put a temporary injunction in place, like we saw Judge
Speaker 1: Tanya Chutcan in the DC District Court, it wasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: that she sided with the Trump administration, although it is
Speaker 1: technically arguably a win for them. It's not that she
Speaker 1: sided with the administration. It's that she said that the
Speaker 1: plaintiffs in the case didn't show that they were going
Speaker 1: to be hurt by it, and that she couldn't issue
Speaker 1: the restraining order based on that information, not that she
Speaker 1: couldn't in the future.
Speaker 2: And this is the same kind of situation.
Speaker 1: These judges, this appellate panel from the Ninth Circuit isn't
Speaker 1: deciding whether or not the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship.
Speaker 1: What they're saying is this is not the way to
Speaker 1: go about doing this, at least not yet. This is
Speaker 1: one of those that is going to go to the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. I can't see it not going to the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. Jay Ratliffe, the aviation analyst for iHeartRadio, is
Speaker 1: going to be joining us.
Speaker 2: We're going to be.
Speaker 1: Talking about this string of aircraft incidents including that flight
Speaker 1: in Toronto that flipped over. Once again, We'll talk to
Speaker 1: him about a whole series of these things and what impact,
Speaker 1: if any, of these cuts that the FAA have on
Speaker 1: flight safety. So the study out of the American Psychological
Speaker 1: Association says you probably do have a favorite child. And
Speaker 1: their findings when asking both parents and children is that
Speaker 1: daughters tend to be the ones favored by parents, and
Speaker 1: children said it's the sons who were favored by the parents. Also,
Speaker 1: older children tend to be the ones that are favored in.
Speaker 4: Haggary, this is ray for Mesida, Right, do you have
Speaker 4: a favorite child? Maybe I have an older boy, he's
Speaker 4: basically thirty six. I got a younger boy, he's basically
Speaker 4: thirty four. I treat him differently, but I guess I
Speaker 4: favor the younger one because he was born eleven weeks premature.
Speaker 4: Any weigh two pounds fourteen ounces, so he is the
Speaker 4: miracle baby. How can I say I love them both?
Speaker 4: I love the show.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I don't know if you love the show
Speaker 2: as much as you.
Speaker 7: Hey, Gary, it's not so much that I have a
Speaker 7: favorite child, it's I have an easier child. I have
Speaker 7: a boy and a girl. And the boy was just
Speaker 7: always logical, easygoing, very compliant child. But the girl that
Speaker 7: was a lot of pushback. There was a lot of emotion.
Speaker 7: So I don't have a favorite. I just have an
Speaker 7: easier one.
Speaker 2: That's an interesting way to put it.
Speaker 8: Hey, Gary, and well, Shannon's not there. I have four sisters.
Speaker 8: And when my dad passed away, he was preparing for
Speaker 8: the service and one of a mentioned Hey put in
Speaker 8: a program that I was his favorite. And we all
Speaker 8: looked around a team and say, well, he told me
Speaker 8: I was his favorite. He told me I was his favorite.
Speaker 8: So that was just like my dad. He told each
Speaker 8: and every one of us that we was his favorite.
Speaker 8: So he didn't he had a favorite child all of us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3: By This is Chap one thousand Oaks and I five kids,
Speaker 3: and yes I do have a favorite.
Speaker 2: I always tell them it's the one that's not annoying
Speaker 2: me that day. That's the way dads do it.
Speaker 9: Gary, I got six grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Wow,
Speaker 9: and I tell each and every one of them that
Speaker 9: they are Grandpa's favorite. But don't tell the other one.
Speaker 1: See, that's what dads do is we played mind games
Speaker 1: with our kids, Gary.
Speaker 4: My favorite still can't feat itself.
Speaker 10: We'll clean up after itself, but it'll always.
Speaker 2: Be the dog, the dog.
Speaker 3: Okay, Hey, Gary, I have three kids. I've always told
Speaker 3: my oldest that she was my favorite because I had
Speaker 3: her first. I tell my middle child, my son, because
Speaker 3: he's my only son, that he's my favorite. And I
Speaker 3: tell my youngest that she's my favorite because she's the baby.
Speaker 3: So they all think they're my favorites. And I also
Speaker 3: tell each one don't tell the other one. I said
Speaker 3: you were my favorite. Have a great day.
Speaker 2: And I thought dads were the ones that played mind games.
Speaker 10: H Gary. There were four kids in my family, two boys,
Speaker 10: two girls, and I knew that I was my dad's favorite.
Speaker 10: I knew it with everything I am. But when he died,
Speaker 10: I listened to my sister talking to friends, and I
Speaker 10: could tell she felt like she was the favorite. I
Speaker 10: was gonna correct her, but then I thought, what a
Speaker 10: neat dad I had, that he could make us both
Speaker 10: feel like we're favorites. I think my brothers did too,
Speaker 10: I miss Shannon.
Speaker 2: We all do.
Speaker 1: That's a great perspective to have. By the way, not
Speaker 1: that your tad lied to you or played mind games.
Speaker 1: That was my That was my perspective.
Speaker 11: Gary, this is Dawn here, And like Forrest, I have
Speaker 11: two boys, and when my oldest one would complain about
Speaker 11: me favoring or loving the younger one more, my response was, well, Son,
Speaker 11: actually I have loved you the longest.
Speaker 2: Which is true. Yeah, I guess Matt.
Speaker 10: I love them both the same.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, thank you. I hope he's good at math.
Speaker 1: Just got word out of Washington, DC that the Senate
Speaker 1: has confirmed Cash Betel as the Director of the FBI
Speaker 1: by a fifty one to forty nine vote, almost along
Speaker 1: party lines.
Speaker 3: The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 6: This is tech Talk, brought to you by Skynette.
Speaker 2: Mark Saltzman is our tech guy.
Speaker 1: We talk all things well smart with Mark Saltzman. You
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Speaker 1: the great tech tips of the day, and you can
Speaker 1: listen to him on the tech It Out podcast and
Speaker 1: all of that good stuff. And we've talked before about
Speaker 1: technology that exists in cars these days, far and above
Speaker 1: what it was even even five years ago, the models
Speaker 1: that have come out, and now we're talking about some
Speaker 1: pretty incredible tech that is also attached to in some
Speaker 1: cases an internal combustion engine and sometimes a giant electric motor.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think a lot of the innovation is happening
Speaker 12: in the EV space for sure. And so this week,
Speaker 12: I know, the LA Auto Show is at the end
Speaker 12: of the year, but we have the Canadian International Auto
Speaker 12: Show and so there's you know, a couple of dozen
Speaker 12: car makers here and yeah, there's been So I've been
Speaker 12: kicking the tires on some really cool vehicles, some of
Speaker 12: which are out now and some are coming down the road,
Speaker 12: and you know, they many of them, of course, have
Speaker 12: a lot of tech, which is was what piques my interest.
Speaker 12: For EV's range is really getting up there. I know,
Speaker 12: the Lucid Error Grand Touring has over five hundred miles,
Speaker 12: but the yeah, the twenty twenty five Chevy Silverado EV
Speaker 12: does as well. So that's the equivalent of driving from
Speaker 12: LA to Vegas and back again without needing to charge up. Yeah,
Speaker 12: as the proclaimers once famously saying about going to be
Speaker 12: five hundred miles. So that's you can say goodbye to
Speaker 12: range anxiety with that. With that kind of range, that's great, right,
Speaker 12: So every vehicle has that. That's kind of where we're
Speaker 12: capped out. I'll give it another couple of years and
Speaker 12: we'll see a thousand miles between charges as we see
Speaker 12: innovations in both the battery department as well as in
Speaker 12: the in the software to manage it all. But yeah,
Speaker 12: that was pretty cool. Then the pickup truck, the Chevy
Speaker 12: was pretty well. That's on one of their options, the
Speaker 12: Rally Sport model it's called. It also has this sidewinder steering,
Speaker 12: so it's kind of like a crab walk where all
Speaker 12: four wheels can turn in the same direction, So that
Speaker 12: helps you over a rugged terrain or to sneak into.
Speaker 2: A little tight part, little party lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I'm kind of surprised that that never
Speaker 1: really caught on. I remember back in the I want
Speaker 1: to say late eighties early nineties, Honda did that with
Speaker 1: four wheels steering where they would if you turn the
Speaker 1: wheel a little bit, it would kind of do that
Speaker 1: crab walk, and if you turn it all the way,
Speaker 1: the wheels would actually go stept the front wheels and
Speaker 1: the back wheels would go opposite directions for an even
Speaker 1: tighter turn.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 12: And I think also when it comes to autonomous vehicles,
Speaker 12: which there's no shortage of those debuting this week here at.
Speaker 2: The Auto Show as well.
Speaker 12: You know, the first sort of sign of autonomous driving
Speaker 12: was the parallel parking feature I remember ten fifteen years ago.
Speaker 12: Easily you press a button and the vehicle assesses the
Speaker 12: distance between two cars and can squeeze between it. Not
Speaker 12: with the crab walk feature, but it just seems like
Speaker 12: that was like one of the first examples of autonomous technology.
Speaker 5: And so yeah, don't you're right. I don't think the
Speaker 5: sidewinder or.
Speaker 12: The crab walk feature has really taken off, but for
Speaker 12: those who want it, I guess, especially those in a
Speaker 12: pickup truck, I think it's kind of neat. And this
Speaker 12: isn't exactly new either, but BMW was showing off its
Speaker 12: new grill. It's at the front of the vehicle. It's
Speaker 12: like a self healing grill. It's been out for a
Speaker 12: couple of years, but it's getting better, so it's on the.
Speaker 5: On some of their latest models.
Speaker 12: So it's basically the way it works is that there's
Speaker 12: this I guess they call it a digital kidney grill,
Speaker 12: but it has this additional polyurethane coating that can repair itself,
Speaker 12: so you get scratches on it and within twenty four
Speaker 12: hours at room temperature, it could get rid of its scratches.
Speaker 12: So that's kind of neat BMW. By the way, at
Speaker 12: the Consumer Electronics Show, over the last couple of years,
Speaker 12: they've shown color changing vehicles, first with grayscale, like going
Speaker 12: from black to white and kind of in between to
Speaker 12: full color. So I mean, they're really invested in technology,
Speaker 12: but that was kind of neat. We've seen some really
Speaker 12: cool gary some infotainment systems as big as forty eight
Speaker 12: inches for a panoramic display inside the distracting more than maybe,
Speaker 12: so it's arguable. Yeah, this is the twenty twenty five
Speaker 12: Lincoln Navigator that I'm referring to. Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 12: it's like a full on dashboard in there. Some people
Speaker 12: thought the Tesla's big tablet like display distracting, But the
Speaker 12: more the vehicles are driving for you, the more I
Speaker 12: guess you need to keep your eyes on the road.
Speaker 12: I am kidding, but yeah, I mean, look, I as
Speaker 12: a geek, I like the innovations when it comes to
Speaker 12: technology and safety and range and some of the amenities,
Speaker 12: like you know, all the different kinds of cameras and
Speaker 12: sensors and autonomous driving that. That's excites me. I'm not
Speaker 12: a you know, I'm not a big car guy other
Speaker 12: than that.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it does have to be safe to use.
Speaker 5: I'll give you that one hundred percent.
Speaker 12: So that was pretty cool. So it's going on till
Speaker 12: the twenty third in Toronto. But we've had lots of
Speaker 12: visitors from the States. After all, we may be the
Speaker 12: fifty first state soon. Anyways, right, let's not go there.
Speaker 2: Listen, we try to keep politics out of this set.
Speaker 5: That is true.
Speaker 2: That is true. Are you gonna watch that hockey game tonight?
Speaker 12: By the way, I know that's a big one. Yeah,
Speaker 12: I've got a ideot it's gonna be a big one.
Speaker 11: I know.
Speaker 5: I even Trump posted about it. Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 12: But I hope that Canada does not reciprocate and boo
Speaker 12: the US national anthem. Disappointed that that happened at two
Speaker 12: previous games in Canada. But hopefully, you know, we'll see
Speaker 12: what happens in Boston. But yeah, it should be good,
Speaker 12: should be a great game.
Speaker 1: Aim from X from Twitter, Elon Musk is Grock three
Speaker 1: And now they're saying it's available to everybody so temporarily.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so on Monday, I believe. Elon Musk announced that
Speaker 12: Grock three, which is his large language model, his generative
Speaker 12: AI platform to compete against chat, GPT, his nemesis, and
Speaker 12: other players like Google Gemini. It is temporarily free to use,
Speaker 12: So if you go to x dot com and click
Speaker 12: on grock on the left hand side, that is the
Speaker 12: AI platform you can play around with. And it's pretty intelligent.
Speaker 12: I've been using it this week, and you can have
Speaker 12: it do everything from create images for you royalty free
Speaker 12: that you can use I typed in show me an
Speaker 12: image of a peacock using a tablet sitting on the moon,
Speaker 12: you know, and it's like it's so fast too. But
Speaker 12: there are more practical applications. They have what's called the
Speaker 12: think option for deeper math and science encoding questions you
Speaker 12: may have. But this is just upping the AI arms race.
Speaker 12: Another feature called deep search is kind of like a
Speaker 12: search engine on steroids. It'll immediately give you the summary
Speaker 12: of the results, not telling you where you'll find the results.
Speaker 12: And you can even attach a document like if you've
Speaker 12: got I don't know, a gym membership contract a PDF, right,
Speaker 12: you can upload it to grock and for free it
Speaker 12: will summarize it for you in plain English.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of cool stuff.
Speaker 12: You can add an audio file and say, translate this
Speaker 12: to another language, or give me a summary of this.
Speaker 12: I typed in as Gary and Shannon are they funny,
Speaker 12: and the answer was yes.
Speaker 5: But there's styleleings.
Speaker 12: So they say that your style liens on witty banter,
Speaker 12: playful chemistry, and an act for finding human excuse excuse me,
Speaker 12: finding humor in both the absurd and the every day,
Speaker 12: which helped them build a loyal audience in southern California's
Speaker 12: competitive talk radio scene. Yeah, and then it said that
Speaker 12: said their comedy is more morning coffee chuckle, then laugh
Speaker 12: out loud hysterics, which is tempered by their newsroom roots.
Speaker 5: So giving you kudos, but you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very accurate too. That's scary.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and it gave it me that answer and like
Speaker 12: a split second, So yeah, you have.
Speaker 5: Some fun with it.
Speaker 12: If your listeners are on X there is going to
Speaker 12: be a Windows and Mac download like a separate application
Speaker 12: as well, but Grock three is free to try at
Speaker 12: x dot com.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's very very cool.
Speaker 1: We were doing a quick audience participation in asking if
Speaker 1: you had a favorite kid and I know you've got kids,
Speaker 1: so do you have a favorite.
Speaker 5: I don't have a favorite.
Speaker 12: We have twins, a boy girl twin who are turning
Speaker 12: twenty three and a younger boy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I was listening to that and all the call in comments,
Speaker 12: which were great, We don't. My wife tells me she's
Speaker 12: got a favorite, but I don't play that game.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: It's thirty three three percent love between them all night. Yeah. No,
Speaker 5: but genuinely, genuinely, I really don't have a favorite.
Speaker 1: Oh that's too bad. I mean, hey, the day is young.
Speaker 1: Maybe one of them screws up. Yeah, yeah, exactly, give
Speaker 1: them time.
Speaker 2: All right, Mark, thanks, great talk.
Speaker 1: Trump's Justice Department has forced out a group of senior
Speaker 1: FBI officials made the unusual demand for the names of
Speaker 1: thousands of agents who participated in January sixth investigations to
Speaker 1: be released.
Speaker 2: That one that case is actually in court right now.
Speaker 1: A news conference that was supposed to follow talks between
Speaker 1: President Vladimir's Lensky and Ukraine and Trump's Ukraine envoy has
Speaker 1: been canceled. There was a meeting between President Zelenski and
Speaker 1: retired US Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, but at the end
Speaker 1: they didn't answer questions or make a statement or anything.
Speaker 1: They just posed for pictures. A Ukrainian presidential spokesman said
Speaker 1: that change was requested by the American side. The Pope's
Speaker 1: funeral is being practiced now.
Speaker 2: The Pope's not.
Speaker 1: Dead, but the Swiss Guard that is tasked with protecting
Speaker 1: popes has been rehearsing his funeral. Members of the Swiss
Speaker 1: Guard are under a curfew as they are quote preparing
Speaker 1: for the pontiff's death.
Speaker 2: He's in the hospital.
Speaker 1: The Vatican actually says Pope Francis is doing a bit better,
Speaker 1: but he has been diagnosed with a complex respiratory illness
Speaker 1: pneumonia as mattic bronchitis. All of that requires the use
Speaker 1: of Cortizon and antibiotic treatment. He's gonna be in the
Speaker 1: hospital for some time. As a kid, he had part
Speaker 1: of his lung removed. So players on both sides of
Speaker 1: this four nations face off final between USA and Canada
Speaker 1: today say this is the biggest hockey game of their lives.
Speaker 1: Nine The last time they met was in the round
Speaker 1: robin portion of this international hockey tournament, and the first
Speaker 1: nine seconds saw three fights.
Speaker 2: The puck drops.
Speaker 1: Between those two teams again today at five on ESPN
Speaker 1: and in a few minutes actually spring training begins when
Speaker 1: the Cubs take on the Dodgers. Just after noon, we
Speaker 1: talked with Mark Saltzman there, our tech guy, about artificial intelligence,
Speaker 1: specifically the Grock product that's Elon Musk's company that's putting
Speaker 1: out its latest generative AI and making it available to everybody.
Speaker 2: Here's a question that.
Speaker 1: I don't think people are asking enough of, which is
Speaker 1: is artificial intelligence intelligence making us less intelligent? There are
Speaker 1: a lot of places that AI is being used. We
Speaker 1: talked about that a couple of weeks ago. I hadn't
Speaker 1: even thought of things like simple replying to emails. And
Speaker 1: there's some efficiencies that AI helps us with that can
Speaker 1: take some of the stuff off of our plate in
Speaker 1: the day, but there are other things that are problematic.
Speaker 1: A quarter of thirteen to seventeen year olds, a quarter
Speaker 1: of them say they use chat GPT to write their homework.
Speaker 1: That's double the proportion from a year before. And about
Speaker 1: three percent are handing in Chat GPT answers without actually
Speaker 1: looking at them. They just stick it into Chat GPT.
Speaker 1: Whatever the output is, they turn that in without looking
Speaker 1: at it.
Speaker 2: People have always cheated.
Speaker 1: I remember I got caught cheating with a calculator in
Speaker 1: math when I was I don't know, fourth grade, something
Speaker 1: like that. But this is different, and they're saying that
Speaker 1: AI is actually different than some of those other tools.
Speaker 1: If you look at people in fields like computer science
Speaker 1: or education, or business or administration, the use of AI
Speaker 1: tools is often associated with lower levels of critical thinking,
Speaker 1: which would be your ability to understand and question ideas
Speaker 1: and statements rather than just take them in without without
Speaker 1: critical thinking. And it's always been an issue. I think
Speaker 1: back to Socrates. Everybody remembers Socrates. He said, if you
Speaker 1: rely on writing, which at the time was sort of
Speaker 1: a technological marvel. If you rely on writing, your memory
Speaker 1: is not going to be as good, and you're only
Speaker 1: going to have a mere surface level understanding of important
Speaker 1: logical arguments. The calculator, like I said, the pocket calculator.
Speaker 1: In the seventies, teachers were afraid kids were not going
Speaker 1: to understand math. Search engines. Search engines in the nineties
Speaker 1: became a thing where you forgot how to use a library,
Speaker 1: whether it was the index card system that you had
Speaker 1: or even the computers that you that were sort of
Speaker 1: new at the time trying to find the book that
Speaker 1: you were looking for. You would forget things as soon
Speaker 1: as you were told them because you didn't actually do
Speaker 1: the research to find them. But they're saying that AI
Speaker 1: is different than all of that because obviously Google or
Speaker 1: you know, a Safari or whatever you have on your smartphone,
Speaker 1: you can use your phone to store some of that
Speaker 1: stuff somewhere else. That frees your brain up for these
Speaker 1: other tasks. But AI is actually doing the thinking for you.
Speaker 1: There is one profession, they said, that has been affected
Speaker 1: by AI chatbots the most, and that's computer programming, and
Speaker 1: some workers say they now feel just basically helpless if
Speaker 1: they can't use a chatbot to help them out. One
Speaker 1: programmer said he recently gave up a coding task on
Speaker 1: a flight because he didn't have Wi Fi connection to
Speaker 1: allow him to ask his virtual assistant how to do
Speaker 1: these things. Another one said, I just can't make myself
Speaker 1: code anymore because AI has taken over so much of
Speaker 1: that at least at least as an assistant. People feel
Speaker 1: helpless without it, which means we're not thinking we're not
Speaker 1: creative enough to do some of that stuff ourselves.
Speaker 2: That is weird.
Speaker 1: All right trending stories. Jay Ratliffe, iHeartRadio's aviation analysts, is
Speaker 1: going to join us. We're going to talk a lot
Speaker 1: about the recent aircraft incidents and whether or not any
Speaker 1: of it has to do with the cuts at the FAA.
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