Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 1: All those stories about Amazon delivery drivers behaving badly, poopin
Speaker 1: and the bushes, things like that, well that may be
Speaker 1: all in the past because Amazon has employed new delivery workers.
Speaker 2: And they don't have those functions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nothing to see here, No humans, no, no.
Speaker 4: The future is looking very very bleak, and we will
Speaker 4: be at the mercy of the robot overlords.
Speaker 2: I can't wait.
Speaker 4: Baseball Mariners are in town to take on the Angels
Speaker 4: later tonight. The Dodgers beat them at six to five,
Speaker 4: they'll move on to Saint Louis. Five point fifteen, I
Speaker 4: believe is the first pitch. Are you a fisher person, fisherman, fisher,
Speaker 4: fisher woman?
Speaker 3: You fish?
Speaker 2: I like to fly fish.
Speaker 1: I haven't done so in a number of years, but
Speaker 1: it's very peaceful.
Speaker 4: Fishing boats This week wend fanning out up and down
Speaker 4: the coast for the first time in a couple of
Speaker 4: years for Chinook Salmon. Coastal Salmon Fishing Band In twenty
Speaker 4: three and twenty four tried to help the chinook salmon
Speaker 4: numbers rebound.
Speaker 1: I got my hands on some Copper River salmon, some
Speaker 1: fresh Copper River salmon yesterday at sprouts.
Speaker 2: Made that last night so good.
Speaker 3: I had salmon last night as well.
Speaker 2: The Copper River. You got to get it.
Speaker 1: It's seasonal, obviously, and the season just began last week,
Speaker 1: I think, so you got to get out there and
Speaker 1: get it because it flies off the shelves.
Speaker 4: The First Department of Fishing Wildlife limiting ocean fishing for
Speaker 4: chinook under quotas and a couple of windows in the
Speaker 4: summer in the fall. First one opens tomorrow and they're
Speaker 4: allowing for up to seven thousand salmon to be caught statewide.
Speaker 3: So if you're a fisher person, that's an exciting time.
Speaker 1: Tons and tons and more tons to get to out
Speaker 1: of Washington.
Speaker 3: I'm a politician. I'm a politician, which means I'm a
Speaker 3: cheat and a liar. And when I'm not kissing baby,
Speaker 3: I'm stealing that lollipox.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we got.
Speaker 3: The real problem is that our leaders are done.
Speaker 2: The other side never quit.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 3: I'm not going anywhere. So that how you train the squat,
Speaker 3: I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by
Speaker 3: what has been. You know, Murvans have always been going,
Speaker 3: They're not stupid.
Speaker 4: A political plunder is when a politician actually tells the truth.
Speaker 3: I have the people voting for you were not swamp watch.
Speaker 3: They're all counter knowing.
Speaker 1: So yesterday I was on Twitter more than I've been
Speaker 1: on Twitter four years, at least non football news related Twitter,
Speaker 1: I guess you could say, because I kept waiting for
Speaker 1: this war to escalate throughout the day, and Elon Musk
Speaker 1: and Donald Trump took this break up quite public, quite quickly,
Speaker 1: and I feel like we've kind of plateaued today.
Speaker 2: Not a lot coming out.
Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of hope, whether it's within
Speaker 4: the White House or Republicans in general, there's a lot
Speaker 4: of hope that this thing flashed and is over right.
Speaker 4: I don't think it is, but but that may be
Speaker 4: the hope. President Trump did say that he's disappointed in
Speaker 4: this discussion, this ongoing social media salvos that have been
Speaker 4: going back and forth.
Speaker 3: And I had a great relationship past tense.
Speaker 6: I don't know what will anymore, but I'm very disappointed
Speaker 6: in Elon.
Speaker 4: I've helped elon a lot, and I'll be honest, I
Speaker 4: think he misses the place. Dana Bash from CNN spoke
Speaker 4: with President Trump on the phone today.
Speaker 5: Well, he said that he's quote well, here's exactly what
Speaker 5: he said. Quote, I'm not even thinking about Elon. He's
Speaker 5: got a problem. The poor guy's got a problem. He
Speaker 5: said he won't be speaking to him for a while,
Speaker 5: but he said he wishes Elon Musk well.
Speaker 4: Again, I don't think it's over, but I do not
Speaker 4: know how this thing resolves itself.
Speaker 2: One if the winners may be the Moon.
Speaker 1: This is one of the more recent narratives to come
Speaker 1: out of this fight. The Moon mission may have new life.
Speaker 1: Of course, Elon Musk, SpaceX founder, well known Mars enthusiast,
Speaker 1: has argued against returning astronauts to the Moon. But with
Speaker 1: his forced exit of his ham picked nominee for NASA
Speaker 1: and his fight between himself and the President, a lot
Speaker 1: of moonbackers in Congress and in the industry see an
Speaker 1: opening and they're seizing it. Clayton Swoop is a former
Speaker 1: Congressional advisor on space and he says Elon was the
Speaker 1: main reason for the fork in the road for NASA's
Speaker 1: human exploration plans, and with his exodus, there's a good
Speaker 1: chance NASA will refocus back to the Moon with the.
Speaker 2: Plan of Moon than Mars.
Speaker 1: Major A number of major space companies are launching ad
Speaker 1: campaigns to going big on the Moon. This is the
Speaker 1: first real big pushback to Elon Musk. As we've talked about,
Speaker 1: or we talked about earlier. SpaceX has had a series
Speaker 1: of failures recently. So his stepback when it came to
Speaker 1: naming the new chief of NASA when Trump' said not
Speaker 1: so fast, I don't want your guy, was a huge blow,
Speaker 1: maybe a death blow to Elon when it comes to
Speaker 1: him being the charter of the territory of where we're headed.
Speaker 1: If you've got another a number of other companies with
Speaker 1: political capital saying no, we're going to the Moon and
Speaker 1: maybe the Moon and then Mars.
Speaker 3: When we come back.
Speaker 4: The plastic surgery procedure that's booming in DC right now,
Speaker 4: and what the pizza economy tells us about the actual economy.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 6: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: I drank it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's going to cause some issues, is it? Whatever
Speaker 3: that was? It said? It literally said the word kale
Speaker 3: on the side of it.
Speaker 2: It said, don't kale my vibe, which is what you're doing.
Speaker 4: It looked like a choco frappuccino of some kind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what was in it.
Speaker 3: It had a lot of help know what was in it.
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Speaker 6: Aren't cats kind of so sufficient? You know?
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Speaker 3: thank you, Uh, don't don't forget.
Speaker 4: Today is Friday, which means what you learned this week
Speaker 4: on the Gary and Shannon Show is coming up a
Speaker 4: little bit later.
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Speaker 4: Doctor Tina Alster is a dermatologist treats high powered patients
Speaker 4: at a practice in Washington, DC, right there on K Street,
Speaker 4: and said in the last couple of years, the portion
Speaker 4: of her male clients who come in seeking well defined
Speaker 4: jaw lines has more than doubled, from about twenty percent
Speaker 4: to fifty percent. Strong chins and jaws, she said, have
Speaker 4: driven It's funny in men.
Speaker 1: It's funny because in Washington right now you've got Trump
Speaker 1: leading Washington and a country who has a very weak jaw.
Speaker 1: The whole family does very weak chin. So it's interesting
Speaker 1: that that's going on in Washington. You know, you've got
Speaker 1: like the Chuck Connor's jaw. Now I can't I'm suck Connors.
Speaker 4: How about Rick Perry is actually one that was pointed
Speaker 4: out several years ago as somebody who had a good,
Speaker 4: strong box like jaw. The a doctor, I should say
Speaker 4: at the time wrote in twenty twelve, the governor that
Speaker 4: is Rick Perry is blessed to have it naturally, but
Speaker 4: numerous type of jaw implants are available for those men
Speaker 4: who are not so fortunate.
Speaker 3: And I guess a.
Speaker 4: Lot of people, a lot of people suggest that strong
Speaker 4: chins are the way you're gonna make it.
Speaker 3: In Washington, DC. Now, pizza has been the go to
Speaker 3: dinner pace.
Speaker 2: You think I should get a stronger jaw?
Speaker 3: No, what's wrong with your face?
Speaker 2: I didn't mean to open it up.
Speaker 3: Well, that was a compliment. I just do know how
Speaker 3: to say it right.
Speaker 1: Oh that's nice. See what you meant to say was
Speaker 1: nothing strong with your face?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just said it, but I just massaged it
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 4: I have a buttch. And see when you squeezed it together.
Speaker 4: Everyone has a button.
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson paid to have his chin turned into a butch.
Speaker 3: And yeah, yeah, he paid for a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: He did, He really did.
Speaker 3: It was unnecessary.
Speaker 4: Pizza has been the go to dinner a lot of
Speaker 4: times for anybody looking to a feed to family, fast, cheap.
Speaker 2: It's not cheap anymore. As a thing, good pizza.
Speaker 1: He used to be able to get a pizza for
Speaker 1: five bucks, good good, like Little Caesar's.
Speaker 2: You could get a whole pizza for five bucks.
Speaker 1: And now it's it's insanely expensive to get a pizza.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like Chinese takeout. Chinese takeout used to
Speaker 1: be so reasonable. You know, it was a cheap dinner.
Speaker 1: You can get a bunch of it. Now it's punitively expensive.
Speaker 4: Well, I think Domino's, Papa John's, those are two of
Speaker 4: the big ones. Pizza Hut was I guess you could
Speaker 4: say was thankful for COVID. Pizza Hut really sort of
Speaker 4: got off the schneid. It had been on for a
Speaker 4: long time in twenty twenty.
Speaker 6: Did it?
Speaker 2: Why was that.
Speaker 3: Just because everybody was ordering pizza di oh?
Speaker 2: I see, yeah, we certainly did. We put down a
Speaker 2: lot of pizza.
Speaker 4: The chief executive of Young Brands, which owns Pizza Hut,
Speaker 4: says there were several things, including the value of the
Speaker 4: taste maker offer. I mean your point, pizza used to
Speaker 4: be pretty cheap. They were doing a ten dollars large
Speaker 4: pizza with any three.
Speaker 3: Topics it enbox.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Interesting though, because it looks like those lower income pizza
Speaker 4: eaters are being priced out of the pizza. Same store
Speaker 4: sales down at all three pizza chains Dominoes, Papa John's,
Speaker 4: and Pizza Hut in the first quarter of twenty five
Speaker 4: five percent. For Pizza Hut two point seven percent of
Speaker 4: Papa John's down a half a percent at Domino's that
Speaker 4: Dominoes did have one thing that they celebrated their takeout.
Speaker 4: Have you ever taken out pizza? It's either delivered or
Speaker 4: you eat it there.
Speaker 2: Oh I picked it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because Little Caesar specifically used to be Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: We used to also have one where was a not
Speaker 4: a make your own, but a bake your own pizza,
Speaker 4: where you'd order it they would make no, is it no,
Speaker 4: they cook it for you.
Speaker 7: They do.
Speaker 1: One like that when we were growing up Murphy's. Murphy's
Speaker 1: Pizza so funny.
Speaker 4: My sister worked there and she would always she would
Speaker 4: bring home pizzas.
Speaker 1: Were great pizzas, but it never felt the same as
Speaker 1: like a delivery. It did not cook the same never ever.
Speaker 1: Part of the Murphy's taken bake and part of the.
Speaker 4: Fountlems with pizza yeah, is that there's so many other
Speaker 4: options specifically as well for takeout options.
Speaker 3: Plus you've got grub Hub.
Speaker 2: Can that turn into Papa Murphy's.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think those were two sepsk.
Speaker 4: The average price of a large pizza at the top
Speaker 4: five chains is eighteen dollars. That overall check jump nearly
Speaker 4: thirty percent since twenty nineteen. I mean, it all goes
Speaker 4: to your point that pizza is getting more expensive. Part
Speaker 4: of it is the problem of the raw materials obviously
Speaker 4: are getting more expensive. Pizza re is the average meal
Speaker 4: cost between thirty one and fifty dollars per person. They
Speaker 4: saw a forty three percent increase in the number of
Speaker 4: diners in the first three months of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: But the top ten percent of US households now account
Speaker 4: for half of all consumer spending. That's the highest in
Speaker 4: the information that goes all the way back to nineteen
Speaker 4: eighty nine. So how the current pizza trend is, which
Speaker 4: is again that takeout delivery pizza is down a couple
Speaker 4: of percentage points. That could potentially have some bad indications
Speaker 4: for the bigger economy.
Speaker 3: As we go farther into this year.
Speaker 1: I thought that and divorces were most popular in the
Speaker 1: new year, like people.
Speaker 3: Make it through Monday of Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember doing a story years ago as a reporter
Speaker 1: and talking interviewing a defense lawyer who is in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: He does like high profile divorces, and he'd been around
Speaker 1: decades and he said, oh, yeah, January's definitely our most
Speaker 1: popular month because people get through Christmas and they're like,
Speaker 1: all right, I can't do it anymore. But that's not
Speaker 1: the case anymore. We'll tell you when divorces tend to
Speaker 1: spike in the year.
Speaker 3: When we come back, Gary and Shannon will continue.
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Speaker 6: Six forty.
Speaker 4: Republicans have been trying to urge them to settle their
Speaker 4: very public dispute. The feud between Trump and must probably
Speaker 4: best described as a as a moving target. The Trump
Speaker 4: administration is asking the Supreme Court to pause a court
Speaker 4: order that would reinstate Education Department employees were fired in
Speaker 4: mass layoffs as part of the plan to dismantle the
Speaker 4: education Department. The Justice Department's emergency appeal to the Supreme
Speaker 4: Court said that the district judge in Boston exceeded his
Speaker 4: authority last month when he usued a preliminary injunction to
Speaker 4: reverse the layoffs of nearly fourteen hundred people and put
Speaker 4: the whole the big broad plan on hold for the
Speaker 4: most part.
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, I used to live up in Sacramento area,
Speaker 7: and from what I gathered from all the ogs up there,
Speaker 7: I'm talking about like people my mom's age, Papa Murphy's
Speaker 7: and Murphy's are the same thing.
Speaker 3: They just went through some sort of name change and
Speaker 3: had some.
Speaker 7: Lawsuits to do with the Papa whatever down here pizza chain,
Speaker 7: so they just changed the names or whatever.
Speaker 3: I've not first hand knowledge. It's just I heard this
Speaker 3: from my aunts and all that stuff up there.
Speaker 6: Get on out.
Speaker 3: Here, I think now you gots go on gone get
Speaker 3: is the way we're going to say.
Speaker 8: So.
Speaker 4: Papa Murphy's is the combination of two taken bake pizza companies.
Speaker 3: It was Papa Aldo's Pizza.
Speaker 4: I've never heard of Papa and Murphy's pizza, so they
Speaker 4: combined it and made it Papa Murphy's Pizza because we
Speaker 4: had a couple of people who said it's not just
Speaker 4: Murphy's pizza. So there was originally just a Murphy's Pizza
Speaker 4: taken Bake, but also a Papa Aldo's Pizza taken Bake.
Speaker 1: I think I remember where the Murphy's Taken Bake was
Speaker 1: in my hometown.
Speaker 4: They traced back to eighty one. Papa Aldo's Pizza chain
Speaker 4: was founded in Hillsboro, Oregon. In eighty one, Murphy's Pizza
Speaker 4: began operating in Petaluma, California, in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's funny.
Speaker 4: And then they combined into what now is known as
Speaker 4: Papa Murphy's in two thousand and three, voted best pizza
Speaker 4: chain in America by Restaurants and Institutions magazine.
Speaker 1: Well, I think we got to get a Papa Murphy's
Speaker 1: pizza at some point.
Speaker 2: We don't have to, I mean, just for research. Probably
Speaker 2: today summer summer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go on, get down, pizza.
Speaker 1: We've got to get you into swimsuit readiness.
Speaker 3: How would we know what that looks like?
Speaker 1: Oh, we know, I think we know, all right, divorces,
Speaker 1: if you don't look good in that swimsuit, that's that's
Speaker 1: the next day your wife might cut the cord.
Speaker 2: They say that there is a.
Speaker 1: Pattern emerging that divorce filings hit two peaks per year.
Speaker 1: One is in late summer and the other is in
Speaker 1: early spring.
Speaker 2: They interviewed.
Speaker 1: The MPR reporter interviewed a divorced father of two. He
Speaker 1: is a family law attorney. He has twenty five years
Speaker 1: in the business, and he says it's a very seasonal business,
Speaker 1: similar to the rush CPA's face. Coming tax Day in April,
Speaker 1: his firm has twenty seven offices across nine states, and
Speaker 1: he's been keeping meticulous records on the influx of new
Speaker 1: clients for the last decade, and he says every year
Speaker 1: we see the same thing no matter what state we're
Speaker 1: looking at. That while January is often referred to as
Speaker 1: divorce month, like we were talking about.
Speaker 2: It's one of the slowest months of the year for
Speaker 2: lawyers at his firm.
Speaker 1: That's funny, he said, in December and January, parties just
Speaker 1: don't tend to initiate divorce and family law proceedings. It's
Speaker 1: a drop off of fifty percent. Whether they're celebrating Christmas
Speaker 1: or Honeka or Kwansa, the New year's folks usually put
Speaker 1: these cases on hold.
Speaker 4: They refer to the domestic ritual calendar that drives when
Speaker 4: people would file for divorce. Once the holidays pass, there's
Speaker 4: usually spring break, you got to think about family summer vacations.
Speaker 4: Once those have tapered off, married couples can act and
Speaker 4: they'll usually do so. And again I refer to that
Speaker 4: domestic ritual calendar. One of those domestic rituals is the
Speaker 4: beginning of the school year every fall. At that guy's firm,
Speaker 4: he sees a drop of about thirty to fifty percent
Speaker 4: in divorce filings during the important family bonding times of
Speaker 4: the year, but that they do spike. University Washington analyze
Speaker 4: divorce filing information from across that state from twenty one
Speaker 4: to twenty fifteen and said they consistently peak in the
Speaker 4: month of March and in the month of August.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 4: The study examined information from all but two of Washington's
Speaker 4: thirty nine counties.
Speaker 3: I didn't know this.
Speaker 4: You can end a marriage by mail in Washington State
Speaker 4: for the most part.
Speaker 2: He said that.
Speaker 1: Actually, I'm Julie Brian's is the one who said this.
Speaker 1: She's a sociology professor, and she said that people tend
Speaker 1: to face the holidays with rising expectations, despite what disappointments
Speaker 1: they may have had in years past.
Speaker 3: People are chronically optimistic. Wow.
Speaker 4: They represent periods in the year when there's this anticipation
Speaker 4: or even the opportunity for a new beginning, a new start,
Speaker 4: something different, transition into a new period of life. It's
Speaker 4: like an optimism cycle in a sense, and then they're
Speaker 4: completely let down and whatever faith they had in their
Speaker 4: fellow spouse or whatever.
Speaker 1: Are you looking at your spouseroid that I don't even
Speaker 1: think you're looking necessarily at the spouse.
Speaker 4: You're looking at the bigger picture of life. Oh could
Speaker 4: be a whole happy family. Oh wow, something like that.
Speaker 2: That sounds exhausting.
Speaker 4: The president of the Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts dismisses
Speaker 4: the idea that discontented couples hold out on splitting up
Speaker 4: over sentimental reasons. He says the idea that the divorce
Speaker 4: is peak in March because it's right after the joint
Speaker 4: tax returns her filed, or every August because it's the
Speaker 4: end of summer you just came home from family vacation,
Speaker 4: is inaccurate. Cara Lee says that the numbers of filings
Speaker 4: in any given month doesn't indicate much. It's just that
Speaker 4: many states have specific waiting periods before you can even
Speaker 4: serve the other party.
Speaker 1: There is a more important pattern, they say that has
Speaker 1: emerged in recent decades, and it's the average age of
Speaker 1: people getting divorced.
Speaker 2: Listen to this.
Speaker 1: The only demographic in the US that has seen an
Speaker 1: increase in divorce rates are those people over the age
Speaker 1: of fifty. It's doubled since nineteen ninety and it's tripled
Speaker 1: for people over the age of sixty and the same
Speaker 1: period gray divorces. Why, well, we're living longer. Sixty is
Speaker 1: the new forty.
Speaker 5: But I.
Speaker 3: Got a big problem with that.
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if I'm talking to my wife
Speaker 4: or not, but is there a pa I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just don't know what changes in a life between
Speaker 4: the ages of fifty and sixty or sixty and seventy
Speaker 4: or whatever. Where you've put in thirty forty good years
Speaker 4: with somebody and then you get divorce.
Speaker 2: Don't rest on the years you have in the bank.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I no, no, And I'm not saying that
Speaker 4: that once you hit twenty years stop doing anything. That's
Speaker 4: not what I'm saying. You have so much invested at
Speaker 4: that point.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's I think people strikes me as such a selfish move.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because the thing is you're not just yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people affected by your decision to do
Speaker 1: whatever it is you're going to do. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people, though, are realizing that, you know, they
Speaker 1: get to fifty or they get to sixty, and it's
Speaker 1: not their parents fifty or sixty or their grandparents fifty
Speaker 1: or sixty, that we are living longer and you do
Speaker 1: have time for another.
Speaker 4: Act or acts. I'm going to get I'm going to
Speaker 4: get in trouble for it. For what for saying that that?
Speaker 4: That's that there's a selfishness to it.
Speaker 2: Why would you get in trouble for that? By whom?
Speaker 4: People are going to say that they got divorced when
Speaker 4: they were six and they're living a better life, sorting good.
Speaker 2: That's good for them. For you, that's not what you
Speaker 2: want to do.
Speaker 3: We you know, it's it is funny.
Speaker 4: I don't have a lot of divorce in my family.
Speaker 4: Like I know they're a couple, but I don't. It
Speaker 4: wasn't rampant throughout my family or even friends that we had,
Speaker 4: families that we were friends with. There were never a
Speaker 4: lot of divorces around. And if there were, they were
Speaker 4: clearly you know, early on it wasn't, you know, they
Speaker 4: were very I can't think of anybody I can think
Speaker 4: of a couple.
Speaker 1: Divorce is also a luxury. A lot of people can't
Speaker 1: afford to divorce.
Speaker 4: It's funny that you say that because in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 4: Louisiana saw the fewest divorces zero point nine divorces per
Speaker 4: one thousand people in Louisiana as where maybe one hundred
Speaker 4: years ago the rest of the country. You're right, you
Speaker 4: had to stay together for financial reasons. You had to stay.
Speaker 2: I was reading an article this morning.
Speaker 1: It was an interview with Jamie Lee Curtis, and they
Speaker 1: asked her what the secret is to her I believe
Speaker 1: forty one year marriage and she said this, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was perfect. We just don't leave. We didn't leave. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be times where it's not all sunshine and rainbows.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna say, I'm get the hell out of here?
Speaker 1: Or is it too many years of no sunshine and rainbows?
Speaker 3: Or is it worse?
Speaker 1: Is it not no sunshine and rainbows but just thunder
Speaker 1: and lightning and awful and you've got to get out
Speaker 1: of there, you know. But for some people, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, well, we just didn't leave, We just stuck
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 4: That sounds romantic, Well you know what I mean, Like, well,
Speaker 4: there are ups and downs.
Speaker 3: It's just a matter of where I mean outside of.
Speaker 4: Obviously the abusive relationships are a different story.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but there are ups and downs, and you've got
Speaker 4: to figure out where your roller coaster ends.
Speaker 3: You know, how much are you willing to put up with?
Speaker 1: Some people see another roller coaster, you know, they see
Speaker 1: raging waters when they're at Magic Mountain, and they're like,
Speaker 1: that looks different.
Speaker 3: That water looks fresh.
Speaker 2: It's not that water is not fresh, it is used.
Speaker 3: That water has scattered dag.
Speaker 1: You don't know what's going on. You know what's going
Speaker 1: on on your roller coaster.
Speaker 4: Great story when we come back about that kid who
Speaker 4: works at Burger King. He had to rush over to
Speaker 4: work a shift at Burger King right after his high
Speaker 4: school graduation.
Speaker 3: We'll tell you how that guy's doing.
Speaker 2: Water looks fresh.
Speaker 6: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI
Speaker 6: AM six forty.
Speaker 4: Good news in terms of jobs, Hiring slowed less than
Speaker 4: expected last month. Hiring sucked less than they expected. Latest
Speaker 4: jobs report from Bureau of Labor Statistics is the economy
Speaker 4: added one hundred thirty nine thousand jobs in May, above
Speaker 4: what the estimate was would was going to be one
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty five thousand.
Speaker 1: I have a question that has been just bubbling under
Speaker 1: the surface of my little mind for.
Speaker 3: A while about one hundred and seventy pounds.
Speaker 2: How much do you weigh?
Speaker 3: Is that what you've been thinking?
Speaker 1: No, Oh, I am not obsessed with your weight the
Speaker 1: way you are.
Speaker 3: Go on.
Speaker 1: So, I don't know if anyone else has noticed this,
Speaker 1: but I've noticed a kind of a drop off in
Speaker 1: writing when it comes to TV shows and movies.
Speaker 2: And is it just me?
Speaker 1: And am I looking for something else? Am I looking
Speaker 1: for something more? Is it just the things that I'm
Speaker 1: choosing to watch where the writing just seems a little
Speaker 1: subpar from what I remember being great writing. It's noticeable
Speaker 1: to me anyway. Then I see this story today. Artificial
Speaker 1: intelligence's use in filmmaking is growing, and an annual festival
Speaker 1: is showcasing what its technology can do on the screen.
Speaker 1: Today third annual AI Film Festival, organized by Runway, a
Speaker 1: company that specializes in AI generated video, kicked off in
Speaker 1: New York this week, ten short films from around the
Speaker 1: world making their debut. And I'm wondering, is AI already
Speaker 1: being used to generate scripts and things?
Speaker 2: I mean, only sure?
Speaker 3: How could it not?
Speaker 2: Okay? Well, is that what I'm noticing?
Speaker 1: Because it's almost like the writing that I'm talking about
Speaker 1: in shows and movies, is it's almost there. It's almost there.
Speaker 1: I see what they're it's trying to do, but it's
Speaker 1: not quite there.
Speaker 4: That's the if you're looking at something visual, that's what
Speaker 4: they refer to as that uncanny valley.
Speaker 3: Like you, you.
Speaker 4: Know it's computer generated, but you don't know why it's
Speaker 4: computer jed. There's certain things that your brain does that
Speaker 4: can tell the difference between an artificially generated image and
Speaker 4: something that a human made. Yeah, and I think there
Speaker 4: is probably that when it comes to that kind of
Speaker 4: when it comes to writing like.
Speaker 3: That as well.
Speaker 1: It's most noticeable for me with dialogue back and forth
Speaker 1: dialogue recently, there probably is something to that.
Speaker 4: Whether it's art AI comes up with the even the
Speaker 4: I don't know, the skeleton of a script and then
Speaker 4: humans go through and punch it up.
Speaker 3: Or vice versa.
Speaker 4: You know, you plug in your script for a twenty
Speaker 4: two minute episode of some sitcom and ask Ai to
Speaker 4: punch it up for you.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know enough about the industry to know if
Speaker 1: writers have left, if writers are not as good, if well,
Speaker 1: and that's if they're not being used as much.
Speaker 4: I have no idea that was One of the big
Speaker 4: issues for the writer's strike was making sure that they
Speaker 4: continued to have jobs. Studios would prefer Yeah, let's plug
Speaker 4: it into an Ai language model and have them spit
Speaker 4: out a twenty two episode season Yeah, as opposed to
Speaker 4: pay a room of writers to actually do the work.
Speaker 4: So Mikhail Baker celebrating high school graduation with his Burger
Speaker 4: King colleagues went viral because he jumped behind the counter
Speaker 4: while wearing his graduation cap and gown to lend a hand.
Speaker 4: Micah the sister said, I don't think he's ever noticed
Speaker 4: how selfless he is until now. This kid in Georgia
Speaker 4: won the most selfless person in his high school band
Speaker 4: just a week before. This video showed him bagging orders
Speaker 4: while in his graduation gear.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 4: The Burger King that he works at was overwhelmed that
Speaker 4: day and he showed up just to hang out and
Speaker 4: celebrate with some of his friends slash coworkers, and realized
Speaker 4: they could use his help. So he jumps behind the
Speaker 4: counter wearing his cap and gown.
Speaker 2: I've done this.
Speaker 3: You've worked at Burger King, no, but I.
Speaker 2: There were times when I would stop.
Speaker 1: But the deli that I worked at in high school
Speaker 1: and college and if they were slammed, I'd jump behind
Speaker 1: the counter.
Speaker 3: A local mom, would it you? I think so? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean to me, that's that's common sense.
Speaker 4: A local mom sees him wearing his cap and gown
Speaker 4: behind the counter at Burger King uh and shares his
Speaker 4: TikTok of him bagging bagging orders while wearing his graduation apparel,
Speaker 4: and she starts a go fundme page for this kid.
Speaker 4: The video itself of him working has four million views.
Speaker 4: A go fundme has raised more than two hundred and
Speaker 4: four sorry, two hundred and three thousand dollars. He also
Speaker 4: got a ten thousand dollars check from the Burger King Foundation.
Speaker 1: Are we that broken of a people that this is
Speaker 1: some like over the top gesture, like we're that bad?
Speaker 1: That like somebody doing the normal, common sense, decent thing
Speaker 1: to do is love to the two of three hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: Yes, wow, I still want to celebrate that kid. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean he did what your kid?
Speaker 2: Wait, you would do the same Your kids would do
Speaker 2: the same thing.
Speaker 4: Come on, we were talking about divorces, especially those later
Speaker 4: in life.
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, for a divorce of older people, I think
Speaker 8: there are two times when you're going to really see
Speaker 8: more of a spike once it's probably going to be
Speaker 8: right around fifty. Once your kids are out of school,
Speaker 8: out of college, people feel they don't need to stick
Speaker 8: together anymore because they got their kids through the important part.
Speaker 8: They're ready to move on with their life, so there's
Speaker 8: no reason to stick around. And also in the sixties,
Speaker 8: once you retire, they realized they don't like each other
Speaker 8: spending that much time together. It was better when one
Speaker 8: of them are both of them went off to work.
Speaker 3: That's why my wife doesn't want me to retire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I think it's going to change things because
Speaker 1: even just your existence in the house, even if you're
Speaker 1: like not there.
Speaker 3: You're still there constantly breathing all that stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, and.
Speaker 4: You have to be you have to rework whatever when
Speaker 4: someone RETI retired. My sister is actually retiring here in
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks from her job, and I'm curious
Speaker 4: to see, like, what are you going to do? Like,
Speaker 4: she's a teacher, so she's five days a week, I mean,
Speaker 4: nine months out of the year. She knows what she's
Speaker 4: doing and meetings and confidence she says she's going to do.
Speaker 3: She hasn't said anything. I know she's going to Hawaii
Speaker 3: for vacation. But other than that, I mean, some.
Speaker 1: People get real cagy around retirement. Not cagy, but not
Speaker 1: sensitive anxious. They don't want to answer questions about what
Speaker 1: they're going to do, or when they're going to retire,
Speaker 1: or what they're going to do. It's one of those
Speaker 1: things where I just leave it alone.
Speaker 3: It's what it's a question that does not have to
Speaker 3: be answered. Sure.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're the person who's retiring and somebody
Speaker 4: asked me a question and you say, I don't know,
Speaker 4: it's perfectly acceptable.
Speaker 1: Right, But people don't want to say they don't know,
Speaker 1: because you know what, there's something in your head. I
Speaker 1: can imagine when you're retiring where you're like, what the
Speaker 1: hell am I going to do? Oh, like you have
Speaker 1: an idea, like I'm gonna do this or I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do that. But then it's like, but it's a very
Speaker 1: big milestone in life when, especially if your career I
Speaker 1: don't want to say defines you, but how does your
Speaker 1: career if you've done it for forty years.
Speaker 2: Not defining you in a large way? Of course it.
Speaker 3: Does, And I don't know I mean, whatever skills you hate.
Speaker 2: It's it's up there with kids leaving the nest.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in terms of life change. Yeah, whatever skills you have,
Speaker 4: then how do you find a hobby or whatever to
Speaker 4: put those to use?
Speaker 2: I see you doing a lot of good working.
Speaker 3: I'd be fine with that.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: I watched an entire episode of Furniture Restoration.
Speaker 2: Y see, I freaking nailed it.
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