Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. A couple stories that we are
Speaker 1: following today. We'll get into Swamp watching all the DC
Speaker 1: stuff coming up in a bit. But Amazon long ago
Speaker 1: past Walmart in terms of market capitalization. But the but
Speaker 1: it looks like Amazon is finally going to leap frog
Speaker 1: Walmart by another key metric, just straight out revenue. Walmart
Speaker 1: for the last twelve years or so has held the
Speaker 1: distinction of being the top revenue generator in each quarter.
Speaker 1: In fact, in twenty twelve, it overtook Exxon Mobile in
Speaker 1: terms of generation of revenue. Its earnings release after the
Speaker 1: close of trading today, Amazon has expected to report revenue
Speaker 1: of one hundred and eighty seven billion, with a b
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty seven billion in revenue. Walmart reports
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks they are expecting about one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty billions. It would be the first time
Speaker 1: that Amazon surpasses Walmart in terms of just straight revenue.
Speaker 1: For those of you you've been counting cows, The USDA's
Speaker 1: January cattle inventory report showed a slight decline in the
Speaker 1: cattle herd nationwide. As of January, the total number of
Speaker 1: cattle and calves was about eighty six point seven million.
Speaker 1: That's down about a percent from last year. Beef in
Speaker 1: the United States, the beef herd has gone down forty
Speaker 1: percent since nineteen seventy five. It's now at the smallest
Speaker 1: size since nineteen sixty one. Beef cows that have calved
Speaker 1: hit a record low at twenty seven point nine million.
Speaker 1: They said that replacement heifer's has also decreased, indicating continued
Speaker 1: contraction in what they referred to as the cattle cycle,
Speaker 1: and as Paul Harvey used to say, we killed a killer.
Speaker 1: A Texas man convicted of murdering a pastor was put
Speaker 1: to death yesterday. Stephen Lwaine Nelson was convicted in the
Speaker 1: killing of twenty eleven of the Reverend Clint Dobson, beaten, choked,
Speaker 1: suffocated with the plastic bag inside a church in Arlington, Texas.
Speaker 1: So the murderer spent his final moment speaking to his wife, Helena,
Speaker 1: wife of about two weeks, by the way, telling her
Speaker 1: to live a full life. She held up her white
Speaker 1: service dog to the window that was separating them, and
Speaker 1: then the last thing he said to the warden, I'm
Speaker 1: not scared. I'm at peace. Let's ride warden. That's what
Speaker 1: he said. It's time for swamp watch.
Speaker 2: I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar.
Speaker 2: And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing that lollipop.
Speaker 2: Here we got.
Speaker 3: The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 1: The other side never quits, so.
Speaker 3: What I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 2: So that is how you train the squat.
Speaker 4: I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
Speaker 4: what has been, you know, have always.
Speaker 2: Been gone at present, they're not stupid.
Speaker 1: A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 2: Have people voted for you with not swamp watch? They're
Speaker 2: all counteroed.
Speaker 1: All right, let's start with the Department of Government Efficiency.
Speaker 1: It's the one that's creating the most consistent headlines over
Speaker 1: these last couple of days. What would you say you
Speaker 1: do here? There was a late night demonstration. I suppose
Speaker 1: members of Congress upset about Elon Musk in the Department
Speaker 1: of Government Efficiency and what they are doing in terms
Speaker 1: of going after and trimming parts of the federal budget.
Speaker 1: That are unnecessary, or workers that are outdated or don't
Speaker 1: do enough. These are four different members of Congress with
Speaker 1: very different ideas about what Elon Musk is doing. Real
Speaker 1: innovation is not clean and tidy. It's necessarily disruptive and messy.
Speaker 1: But that's exactly what Washington needs.
Speaker 5: Right now.
Speaker 6: Our federal government is being fleeced by handful of billionaires
Speaker 6: at the expense of every day people.
Speaker 7: They're what we call unelected billionaire Oligarden.
Speaker 1: At this very moment, an unelected, unaccountable billionaire is rating
Speaker 1: our government.
Speaker 4: I am sickened by the way that the left is
Speaker 4: categorizing and lying about what Elon Musk is doing in
Speaker 4: the federal government.
Speaker 1: Brandon Gill is a Republican on the House Oversight and
Speaker 1: Government Reform Committee and was on CNN this morning and
Speaker 1: said this, you know, this anger from Democrats about Elon
Speaker 1: Musk and this Department of Government efficiency is pretty manufactured,
Speaker 1: considering this is something that Trump campaigned on for months now.
Speaker 6: I think my colleagues on the other side of the
Speaker 6: aisle like to act as if this is something novel,
Speaker 6: is that this is something that's unexpected. This is part
Speaker 6: of the Trump mandate. Getting rid of wasteful spending. I
Speaker 6: think that my colleagues on the other side of the
Speaker 6: aisle seem not to be upset about our tax dollars
Speaker 6: going to idiotic projects, particularly within USAID, but the fact
Speaker 6: that all of this waste is finally being exposed and
Speaker 6: Elon Musk is playing a key role in that.
Speaker 1: Now, along those lines, the Trump administration did agree in
Speaker 1: a court filing not to expand access to sensitive Treasury
Speaker 1: Department payment system for special government employees, the DOGE people.
Speaker 1: This filing follow a series of hearings for the lawsuit
Speaker 1: yesterday in the District Court for the DC area brought
Speaker 1: by current and retired federal employees unions that were trying
Speaker 1: to block what they said were unlawful was sorry, unlawful
Speaker 1: access to government employee data and to try to protect
Speaker 1: any data that DOGE workers had accessed up to that point.
Speaker 1: Several lawsuits have criticized that there's been too much access
Speaker 1: given to Elon Musk and to those that are working
Speaker 1: for DOGE. A Justice Department Department attorney said the call
Speaker 1: set on this these calls that two special two special
Speaker 1: government employees at Treasury had been given the read only
Speaker 1: access to that system in order to work with Doge
Speaker 1: said that these employees are helped meant to carry out
Speaker 1: policy set by DOGE. But in the filing, the government
Speaker 1: agreed they would not be expanding any access for those
Speaker 1: two guys to the system or to share any information
Speaker 1: that they have access to outside of the Treasury Department.
Speaker 1: Another big in that same line, another big court decision. Today,
Speaker 1: a federal federal judge not his name is George, a
Speaker 1: federal judge named George has temporarily blocked the administration and
Speaker 1: DOGE from implementing the Fork in the Road federal employee
Speaker 1: buyout offer until at least Monday, when they could do
Speaker 1: a hearing. The fork in the road, by the way,
Speaker 1: was this eight month buyout. You get eight months of
Speaker 1: pay and benefits now if you want to retire early.
Speaker 1: According to a couple of different to a few different
Speaker 1: federal unions. They argued that this deferred resignation was unlawful,
Speaker 1: it was arbitrary, and would result in a dangerous one
Speaker 1: to two punch to the federal government. Yesterday, President Trump
Speaker 1: also signed an executive order banning trans women from women
Speaker 1: in girls sports.
Speaker 3: Marco is going to make clear too.
Speaker 1: Oh and well, this was what he said. I got
Speaker 1: those mixed up. This is what he said at the
Speaker 1: signing of the executive order.
Speaker 3: Well, sign a historic executive order to bend men from
Speaker 3: competing in women's sports. About under the Trump administration, we
Speaker 3: will defend the proud tradition of female athletes.
Speaker 1: He was surrounded by women and girls, invited a bunch
Speaker 1: of little girls around him at the desk when he
Speaker 1: was signing, and was making fun of the fact that
Speaker 1: he was trying to sign his signature perfectly.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think we have a ten.
Speaker 1: We have a ten. He also suggested that he's somehow
Speaker 1: going to exert control over the International Olympic Committee and
Speaker 1: prevent trans women from taking part in women's sports in
Speaker 1: the Olympics.
Speaker 3: Marco is going to make clear to the International Olympic
Speaker 3: committees there, and he's going to make it as clear
Speaker 3: as anybody can make it that America categorically rejects transgender lunacy.
Speaker 3: We want them to change everything having to do with
Speaker 3: the Olympics and having to do with this absolutely ridiculous
Speaker 3: subject that we even have to talk about this subject.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that's going to go, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: Now he put it on Mi Marco Rubio's shoulders to
Speaker 1: go before the International Olympic Committee. Okay, you ready for
Speaker 1: your jeopardy question. I am alliteration on the map for
Speaker 1: four hundred on the map.
Speaker 8: Yes.
Speaker 4: When this span over New York City's East River opened
Speaker 4: in eighteen eighty three, it cost one penny to cross
Speaker 4: on foot and five cents for a horse and rider.
Speaker 2: Which river? The East River is the only.
Speaker 1: The only bridge that has alliteration? What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
Speaker 7: You are correct?
Speaker 1: Congratulation, Thank you. How much money did I win on
Speaker 1: that one?
Speaker 2: That's four hundred? It's not bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm problem.
Speaker 8: With that, Hey, Gary, of course I won.
Speaker 2: I deleted the wrong one.
Speaker 1: Somebody else had a question about about Statn's Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Chrissy had a question about whatever happened with the story
Speaker 1: of Statins.
Speaker 8: Hey. I was just now able to tune in, and
Speaker 8: so did I already miss Shannon number one weighing in
Speaker 8: on Shannon number two's cholesterol levels. Yes, I do think Shannon.
Speaker 8: I'd start with giving up bacon. No, I have pie triglycerides,
Speaker 8: and I am supposed to stop eating pork and beef
Speaker 8: and cheese. But I don't mind eating poultry and fish
Speaker 8: and ve cheese, so try it.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 1: No, she did give advice. It's medical stuff. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to get into it. But I'm bringing food this weekend.
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't have to bring all the food. When
Speaker 1: you break food. You always bring like seven flatters of food,
Speaker 1: like I know, and it's always good. Never had bad
Speaker 1: food from Michelle. If I did, I certainly wouldn't say
Speaker 1: it out loud. You've never had bad food. The White
Speaker 1: House has confirmed that Gavin Newsom met with President Trump yesterday,
Speaker 1: and then while in DC, he sat down for an
Speaker 1: interview with CNN and described what is referred to as
Speaker 1: a weird relationship between the two of us.
Speaker 4: We had this relationship, I will say, one of the
Speaker 4: more I'll lead it to more objective minds, was one
Speaker 4: of the more interesting relationships in politics because we had
Speaker 4: this relationship going back during COVID. I mean, we were
Speaker 4: involved in one hundred lawsuits going back and forth. I
Speaker 4: mean you can look at the tweets back then calling
Speaker 4: me a clown, you know, I mean, the worst coverany
Speaker 4: and yet we were still working together and all that
Speaker 4: was a little bit of noise. So it just feels
Speaker 4: so familiar, and in that respect, I want to continue
Speaker 4: to respect the office of the Presidency, to respect his authority,
Speaker 4: and to also engage in a constructive dialogue when it
Speaker 4: comes to issues of emergencies.
Speaker 1: And listen, I'll give Gavin news some credit. He's smart
Speaker 1: enough to know that he's got to be quiet. These
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, with the executive orders that have
Speaker 1: come out of the White House have infuriated Democrats, and
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom is usually at the forefront of some of
Speaker 1: that and sometimes the loudest voice pushing back against Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: It's been pretty quiet last couple of weeks because he
Speaker 1: knows that the federal government, the federal money that comes in,
Speaker 1: is going to have to be used to help rebuild
Speaker 1: after our fires. In terms of that meeting that they had.
Speaker 1: If you remember when President Trump flew out here to
Speaker 1: California to get a view of the wildfires and Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom met him on the tarmac, he was asked what
Speaker 1: was what was said between the two of you when
Speaker 1: he came down the stairs of Air Force one. He
Speaker 1: came there to California to tour the wildfire damage.
Speaker 5: Bring us into that, I know a lot of us
Speaker 5: were wondering what was happening in that moment.
Speaker 4: I just again back to open hand on a close
Speaker 4: fist welcoming back to the state of California, and I
Speaker 4: don't want, you know, people start relipping lips here.
Speaker 1: I want to go straight to the source talking about water.
Speaker 4: I mean, we were in middle again, in the middle
Speaker 4: of a conversation that we ended.
Speaker 2: At the end of right into the water.
Speaker 4: In that conversation, he's very focused on water, and I
Speaker 4: appreciate that. I'm focused on water. It's one of the
Speaker 4: most I mean, I mean California, you know, it's so
Speaker 4: this is this is a top issue for us.
Speaker 1: By the way, adding to the uncomfortability, the state of
Speaker 1: California finalized the approval of twenty five million dollars in
Speaker 1: legal funding to challenge the Trump administration to two bills
Speaker 1: at twenty five million dollars apiece to challenge whatever's going
Speaker 1: on with the Trump administration. I don't know if that
Speaker 1: came up in conversation. It's time for tech talk.
Speaker 2: The machines are getting smarter. This is tech Talk, brought
Speaker 2: to you by Skynette.
Speaker 1: Mark Saltzman is our tech guru who translates a lot
Speaker 1: of this stuff into understandable, understandable words for us.
Speaker 2: Okay, or as I like to say, breakdown geek speak
Speaker 2: into street speaking.
Speaker 1: Oh that's do you have that on a T shirt somewhere?
Speaker 2: That is my cheesy cat catchphrase, my tagline on my podcast.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we talked.
Speaker 1: We talked last week about deep seek and what it
Speaker 1: means and how it works. And I had said, you know,
Speaker 1: I was unaware of how many people use AI on
Speaker 1: a regular basis for job stuff, responding to emails, helping
Speaker 1: schedule their days, all that sort of stuff. I asked
Speaker 1: AI in this case chat GPT to come up with
Speaker 1: a radio play that we were going to do for
Speaker 1: our Christmas presentation last the end of last year.
Speaker 8: It was.
Speaker 1: It was awful. It was really really cheesy and bad,
Speaker 1: which you know, just goes to show it's not perfect
Speaker 1: and obviously can't replicate humanity. But you have an article
Speaker 1: about using some specific prompts to help figure out exactly
Speaker 1: what you're looking for and how to get what you're
Speaker 1: looking for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just a point of clarification, it's my colleague Kim
Speaker 2: Commando at USA Today who wrote this piece. But it's
Speaker 2: funny after we chatted last week on tech Talk Thursdays,
Speaker 2: I did get email and messages rather on social media
Speaker 2: from KFI listeners asking for examples of using deep seek
Speaker 2: and chat gept, so it actually fed nicely. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I thought i'd share a couple of things that you
Speaker 2: can try, whether you like chat, GPT, deep seek, or Google,
Speaker 2: Gemini or copilot, those are sort of the more popular ones.
Speaker 2: The first thing is to ask the it's called a
Speaker 2: prompt what you type in. You would type in, how
Speaker 2: do I make this better? And then you add in
Speaker 2: anything you've already written, like a speech, a radio play,
Speaker 2: a school essay, an email, and then it will actually
Speaker 2: it'll look at what you did and give you a
Speaker 2: better version of it. And you can say, by the way, Gary,
Speaker 2: I want this radio play. It was too cheesy. I
Speaker 2: don't want it as cheesy. You can actually tweak what
Speaker 2: it delivers for you and it'll it'll customize it even further.
Speaker 2: So that's a good one. Another one is to say
Speaker 2: to type this in, explain this like I'm ten, and
Speaker 2: then and then write what you want explain to you.
Speaker 2: I don't know climate change, nuclear fusion, how the stock
Speaker 2: market works. I don't know, and then it will like
Speaker 2: you could say, or tell me like I'm fifteen, or
Speaker 2: it'll actually write it in a language based on the
Speaker 2: age that you ask it to give it to you.
Speaker 2: And so if you really need a primer in plain English,
Speaker 2: that's a great way to do it, and it really works.
Speaker 2: You could also, by the way, say explain this to
Speaker 2: me in one hundred words. In five hundred words, you
Speaker 2: can specify all of that. On a related note, you
Speaker 2: can say, explain both sides of the argument, and then
Speaker 2: you type in what the argument is about, you know, whatever, politics, whatever,
Speaker 2: any personal dilemmas. Tell me the pros and cons or
Speaker 2: tell me both sides of this argument, and you'd be
Speaker 2: surprised how good it is. And then the last one
Speaker 2: would be to tell the AI, the gener of AI
Speaker 2: platform to remember blank, remember that I'm a tea drinker,
Speaker 2: not a coffee drinker, or remember that you know I
Speaker 2: work in sales, or something like that, and you'd be
Speaker 2: surprised going forward. It's really good. It's very accurate. It'll
Speaker 2: remember things that you've once told it, so long as
Speaker 2: you're still signed in, of course. And then speaking of which,
Speaker 2: a friend of mine, he's got a good sense of humor.
Speaker 2: He didn't have the best year last year. He's in
Speaker 2: the promotional products industry, and he wrote to in Chachipt
Speaker 2: roast me, and so it said, so let me get
Speaker 2: this straight, Mike. You're in the promotional products business, but
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four promoted nothing but losses and it says
Speaker 2: your business took such a nose dive. Even Gravity was impressed.
Speaker 2: NASA called they want to study your trajectory. Like it
Speaker 2: gave him. It was like, really funny. You know, your
Speaker 2: stress levels have been so high. Your fitbit filed for
Speaker 2: workers comp and then it turned it into something more
Speaker 2: positive and you know, motivating for twenty twenty five. But like,
Speaker 2: it's really funny. So you can even ask chachipt to
Speaker 2: roast you. It may ask for a bit more if
Speaker 2: you didn't ask it to remember anything about it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I could say I'm a tech reviewer roast me, you know.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so that's a couple of things to keep
Speaker 2: in mind. Soft. I do get that question I've been
Speaker 2: hearing about AI, but what do I really do with it?
Speaker 2: Or or type in your packing list for an upcoming
Speaker 2: vacation and ask your AI what am I missing, and
Speaker 2: it'll look at what you wrote and give you some suggestions. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So Kim Commando wrote a good piece in USA today
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 1: I'll give her. You know, I gave you the credit,
Speaker 1: but I'll get credit for that. But I have a
Speaker 1: question about chat GPT. I know has a paid tier
Speaker 1: as opposed to the free tier which most people are
Speaker 1: familiar with. Do other ones also have that paid tier?
Speaker 1: And if so, what do I get for the money?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question. So they most of them do.
Speaker 2: Google Gemini. It's called Google Gemini for Advanced, and that
Speaker 2: is a subscription model. So it gives you more results,
Speaker 2: more up to date results. Same with chatchipt like it'll
Speaker 2: give you more current information. It like it'll give you
Speaker 2: more coding abilities for those in business who want something
Speaker 2: coded for their website, so it unlocks more features, more
Speaker 2: up to date features. It may give you the opportunity,
Speaker 2: depending on the platform, to verbally ask your prompt instead
Speaker 2: of typing it in like more conversational. So yeah, there's
Speaker 2: a few different things you would get depending on which
Speaker 2: one you use, and some include image creation that may
Speaker 2: not be free, like you know, when you want it
Speaker 2: to generate a photo for your website. Let's say, okay,
Speaker 2: I want a black couple between thirty and forty sipping
Speaker 2: a Pina colod on a beach, you know, for it
Speaker 2: to create that image for you that you can use
Speaker 2: royalty free. You may have to use one of those
Speaker 2: paid versions. Yeah, but instead of having to hire, you know,
Speaker 2: actors on a beach and a photographer and get the
Speaker 2: sunset just right, it's all AI, you know, for better
Speaker 2: or for worse. I don't want to take anybody's job away,
Speaker 2: but if budgets are tight and you need a royalty
Speaker 2: free image, it's a pretty wild tool.
Speaker 1: There is something that Kim Commando says at the end
Speaker 1: of the article, which is that you should think of
Speaker 1: AI as your first step and not your last. And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people have done that where
Speaker 1: they say I don't even know where to begin writing.
Speaker 1: A earlier this week, we talked about using AI to
Speaker 1: start writing things like a best man speech or maybe
Speaker 1: a eulogy that you're giving it a funeral or something
Speaker 1: like that, and not that you would just take whatever
Speaker 1: the computer spits out and read that, but that you
Speaker 1: would use that as something that you could then embellish
Speaker 1: you could you know, add specific more specifics to and
Speaker 1: things like that.
Speaker 2: It's a great tip. Yeah, I mean we all get
Speaker 2: lazy where you know, the path the least resistance. But yeah,
Speaker 2: you don't want to read a eulogy for Kevin's sakes
Speaker 2: about you know, something that AI wrote and you didn't
Speaker 2: even vet it, Like that's not good? Uh So no,
Speaker 2: of course, yeah, you've got to even if it's not
Speaker 2: something like that you're going to do in public, you
Speaker 2: have to vet the data because it could be wrong.
Speaker 2: You know. As a journalist, I'm tempted, but I'm still
Speaker 2: holding off from using AI in my research when I'm
Speaker 2: writing an article because one time I dabbled and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 2: how many users does WhatsApp have worldwide? And the answer
Speaker 2: was three billion, and it was very sure, and it
Speaker 2: gave me all these you know, citations, and then it
Speaker 2: found out then I found out it was actually two
Speaker 2: billion users worldwide, and I'm glad I didn't go with
Speaker 2: the three because that's a very big difference in number.
Speaker 2: So you have to do you have to cross reference
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 1: There was an article I read this morning, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to talk about Super Bowl commercials coming up in
Speaker 1: the next segment, and there was an article about a
Speaker 1: Google specific commercial that they used AI to develop. One
Speaker 1: guy was using AI to develop an advertisement for his
Speaker 1: cheese company, and AI got the statistics wrong about what
Speaker 1: kind of cheese is most popular, and that caused a
Speaker 1: lot of Uh. Google now has to go back and
Speaker 1: change their ad because they just assumed that their own
Speaker 1: AI was going to get it right and it got
Speaker 1: it wrong.
Speaker 2: Yep, Well you know what happens when you assume cheese. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: there's holes in your logic. A sorry, cheesy joke.
Speaker 1: That's awful. You did also write an article, I mean,
Speaker 1: the best way to sell your unwonted stuff online. And
Speaker 1: what we'll do is we'll throw a link up so
Speaker 1: people can check that out as see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, turn year old your stash into cash and take
Speaker 2: off those post holiday credit card.
Speaker 1: Builds full of T shirt slogans.
Speaker 2: I know, right, and I didn't ask chat gipt to
Speaker 2: write those for me.
Speaker 1: Dear chat Ept, how can Mark turn his great slogans
Speaker 1: into money back?
Speaker 2: Thanks?
Speaker 1: Garrett, all right, have a great weekend. The economic losses
Speaker 1: from the Eton fire Palisades fire could range anywhere from
Speaker 1: ninety five billion to one hundred and sixty four billion dollars.
Speaker 1: This is a new report that came out this week
Speaker 1: from a couple of economists at UCLA. That would mean
Speaker 1: that the fires are the second costliest natural disaster in
Speaker 1: the history of the country. Twenty nine people died, thirty
Speaker 1: seven thousand acres burned, sixteen thousand structures destroyed, and that
Speaker 1: includes more than eleven thousand single family homes. The Gaza
Speaker 1: Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel.
Speaker 1: That is according to a truth Social post from President
Speaker 1: Trump this morning. This is his explanation as to how
Speaker 1: this was going to take place. Of course, he made
Speaker 1: headlines when he was meeting with Benjamin Nett and Yahoo
Speaker 1: the other night about how the United States was going
Speaker 1: to take over Gaza, empty it out, bulldoze it, and
Speaker 1: start over. Basically, he said, the US, working with great
Speaker 1: developmental development teams from around the world, would slowly and
Speaker 1: carefully begin the construction of what would become one of
Speaker 1: the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth.
Speaker 1: Of all the court action today the speed bumps in
Speaker 1: President Trump's agenda. A federal judge in Seattle has issued
Speaker 1: a nationwide preliminary injunction against the executive Order on birthright
Speaker 1: citizenship follows a judge in Maryland who yesterday issued a
Speaker 1: temporary block on the order. This judge in Seattle, by
Speaker 1: the way, Judge John Kunauer, is a Reagan appointee. A
Speaker 1: newer strain of H five and one bird flu has
Speaker 1: spread to dairy herds in Nevada.
Speaker 2: Of them.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, the Nevada State Department of
Speaker 1: Agriculture says this new strain has been connected to serious
Speaker 1: infections in humans, but it's different from the strain that
Speaker 1: was detected in other dairy herds around the country. So
Speaker 1: this newer strain D one dot one was first detected
Speaker 1: in birds and people who came in contact with infected birds.
Speaker 1: That's all going on. Actually, next hour, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about how we dodged a
Speaker 1: bird flu pandemic in the past here in the United States.
Speaker 1: It's been in sixties. I think it was hyary.
Speaker 2: Now where is she? I thought one football season ended
Speaker 2: for the Chargers. She would be there on a rig.
Speaker 6: If you already mentioned it and I missed it, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Not sorry.
Speaker 1: Right, No one can plan a root canal. And sometimes
Speaker 1: when your dentist only does some root canals at certain
Speaker 1: times of day on certain days, you're stuck with what
Speaker 1: the dentist offers you. You're gonna come over, right, I
Speaker 1: mean you've said you are.
Speaker 7: Yes, because I guilted you.
Speaker 1: No, that's not why. No, because I still invited you.
Speaker 1: You could have guilted me and I could have ignored you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's true.
Speaker 5: Hey, Gary, Hey, the other day I heard Conway. Let's
Speaker 5: just say, he sounded less than interested to going to
Speaker 5: your super Bowl party. In fact, I think you might
Speaker 5: have been clowning on you a little bit. Uh oh,
Speaker 5: But hey, buddy, if you need someone else to take
Speaker 5: his spot, I'm more than happy.
Speaker 1: So we have options.
Speaker 7: Wow, how many people are going to be at your
Speaker 7: super Bowl party?
Speaker 1: I do not know the final count. We had one
Speaker 1: dropout yesterday, we had one potential, we had one possible
Speaker 1: confirm today, So I don't know. How many do you
Speaker 1: want there? How many is too many?
Speaker 7: I don't know. I don't know. I mean that's a
Speaker 7: question for you. It's your house.
Speaker 1: How many, Well, I'm trying to because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: gauge between the number of people who are adamant, like
Speaker 1: there to watch football period. That's not me, or people
Speaker 1: who are there to socialize and just for the experience
Speaker 1: and maybe the halftime show. Yeah, that's you, that's me.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So on the one end, I have I have Shannon right, yes,
Speaker 1: and she's gonna if she'll throw a flag if you
Speaker 1: talk during the game. My husband's the same, okay, good,
Speaker 1: I have huge I have a penalty flag for him
Speaker 1: then as well.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 1: And then you've got people on the lower end who
Speaker 1: are like, we're just gonna have fun. We're just gonna
Speaker 1: have fun, and there's a game in the background, and
Speaker 1: we'll have fun. Is that what you So you'd be
Speaker 1: down at that end.
Speaker 7: That's the end I'm going to be out, okay.
Speaker 1: So I'd say we're about half and half, and I
Speaker 1: would say I'm going to put the number at about
Speaker 1: in terms of who will who will show up officially,
Speaker 1: I'm going to guess eighteen, oh, that's a good number.
Speaker 1: Maybe twenty okay, because you never know, you never know,
Speaker 1: and twenty one if that guy comes. I emailed him
Speaker 1: my address.
Speaker 7: You did. Oh wow, you're brave.
Speaker 2: The commercial?
Speaker 1: Are you a big deal?
Speaker 7: Do you like the commercials love the commercial.
Speaker 1: So the commercials. My wife loves the commercials as well,
Speaker 1: more so than the game. Obviously, the rates this year
Speaker 1: somewhere about what is it, eight million, I think for
Speaker 1: a thirty second spot for Fox. And what's interesting about
Speaker 1: these is that previously we would get a lineup of
Speaker 1: here's here's the advertisers we know who are going to be. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you've got your Budweisers and your Cores, and you've got
Speaker 1: your computer companies, and you've got your blockbuster movies that
Speaker 1: are going to advertise stuff like that. And that was it.
Speaker 1: We just knew which advertisers were that we didn't know
Speaker 1: anything about what the commercial was going to be. Now
Speaker 1: now we're getting some of these previews for ads as
Speaker 1: early as November, and according to the University of Southern
Speaker 1: California Marshall School of Business professor Gerald Tellis, companies tease
Speaker 1: their ads to try to get a greater awareness with
Speaker 1: the eventual ad once it comes out on during game day. Said,
Speaker 1: the more you tease, the greater the audience on the
Speaker 1: day itself, and the greater chance of virality. One of
Speaker 1: the earliest examples of pregame exposure was the twenty eleven
Speaker 1: I can't believe it was that long ago. But the
Speaker 1: twenty eleven Volkswagen ad. Do you remember that where the
Speaker 1: little kid was dressed up as Darth Vader and he
Speaker 1: walks out and he uses the force to start the car.
Speaker 7: I don't remember that one.
Speaker 1: It's a great commercial, and I have to look at it.
Speaker 1: It was one of the greats. It was released a
Speaker 1: few days before the Super Bowl. It'll earned eleven million
Speaker 1: views before anyone even saw it on the game on
Speaker 1: that Sunday, and they said that that was kind of
Speaker 1: a paradigm shift from being super secret about your ad
Speaker 1: campaign to the early trailer to just kind of chum
Speaker 1: the waters for the excitement when it comes to people
Speaker 1: who wanted to watch that. I didn't realize that twenty
Speaker 1: eleven Volkswagen spot was really the first one that was
Speaker 1: released before it showed up in the Super Bowl commercials.
Speaker 1: In the lineup for Super Bowl commercials, you got everybody,
Speaker 1: by the way this year, Adrian Brody, You've got Adam Brody,
Speaker 1: you got Karen Colkin. How about Eugene Levy, Shanaiah Twain,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Strong, Billy Crystal, all of the muppets are coming back,
Speaker 1: David Beckham with clothes on, which is weird?
Speaker 7: Do we have puppies?
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've got puppies. There cannot be there cannot
Speaker 1: be something without puppies. But there is a Budweiser commercial
Speaker 1: with horses.
Speaker 4: We know.
Speaker 1: It follows a young Clydesdale who wants to deliver beer with.
Speaker 2: His with his family.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure there's a puppy in that one, but
Speaker 1: I guarantee there will be a puppy at some point.
Speaker 1: Bring money too, because we're gonna gamble. Oh yes, okay,
Speaker 1: but since I'm not taking a cut, it's completely legal. Okay,
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