WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.360 A M six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on 3 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:09.519 demand on the iHeartRadio app. President Donald Trump says Mexico 4 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:13.519 will not be required to pay tariffs on goods until 5 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:16.320 April second. That is where we kick off swamp Watch. 6 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:19.559 I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheap and a liar. 7 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:23.039 And when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops. Yeah, 8 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:26.440 we got the real problem is that our leaders are dumb. 9 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:27.839 The other side never quits. 10 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:32.079 So what I'm not going anywhere, so that. 11 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:35.320 Now you train the swat, I can imagine what can 12 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:37.399 be and be unburdened by what has been. You know, 13 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:40.119 Americans have always been going a president. 14 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:41.320 They're not stupid. 15 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:44.280 A political flunder is when a politician actually tells the truth. 16 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:47.439 Whether people voting for you will not swamp watch, they're 17 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:52.719 all countona. Well, the tariffs against Mexico will be suspended, 18 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:55.920 as I mentioned, till April second. This was a post 19 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:58.920 on truth Social where the President made the announcement. He 20 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:02.679 said he spoke today with my Xico's president and said 21 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:06.359 that Claudia Sinbaum, the president will work with the US 22 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:09.439 on securing the border. That's kind of been the lynchpin 23 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:12.599 for this whole tariff talk is that they're not doing 24 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:15.640 enough to stop the flow of fentanyl. I've got to 25 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:18.719 believe there's more to the equation than just that it 26 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:24.000 is a major problem. But to start a trade war, 27 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:27.519 what you could call the beginning of a trade war, 28 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:30.400 I think has more skin in the game than just 29 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:34.840 the flow of the fentanyl. The Commerce Secretary today, Howard Lutnik, 30 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:37.239 said that Trump will most likely announce a one month 31 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:41.680 delay on all Canadian tariffs as well. So kind of 32 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:45.200 just waiting and seeing here. Yesterday he did the same 33 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:47.480 thing with the Big Three, or after the phone conversation 34 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:49.239 with the Big Three, when it came to the auto 35 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:52.200 industry where they had a phone conversation with him, they 36 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:56.359 said that the supply lines are very convoluted between the 37 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:59.480 United States, Canada, and Mexico in terms of where cars 38 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:01.840 are made, where parts are made, a lot of things 39 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:06.120 going back and forth several times throughout North America. When 40 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:08.840 you're making the cars that hit the assembly lines and 41 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:12.560 then the floors of the dealerships, and the car industry 42 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.639 was saying, hey, you're looking at a hit per vehicle 43 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:19.360 from four thousand to twelve thousand dollars of an uptick 44 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:23.080 in price per vehicle like soon like next week. So 45 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:25.280 the President realized the harm that that would cause to 46 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:28.159 the auto industry, so backed off that for a month 47 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:31.319 until maybe we see what goes on with conversations between 48 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:34.919 Canada and Mexico. Justin Trudeau and the waiting days in office, 49 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:39.439 has been pretty blunt with his take on the tariffs, 50 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:43.360 calling them stupid. As I mentioned earlier. Earlier, Canada has 51 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:47.360 pulled off American liquor from their shelves as a defiant 52 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:52.000 measure as well. Al Green, also of note today in 53 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:56.000 Washington House voted to censure Democratic Representative Al Green of 54 00:02:56.039 --> 00:02:59.360 Texas for disrupting the President during his address to a 55 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:04.520 joint session of Congress on Tuesday. It's very symbolic the censure, 56 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:08.000 as you know, Handle and I were talking about it earlier. 57 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:11.439 I'm surprised there wasn't more dissension going on in the 58 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:14.960 chamber there. I'm surprised that there weren't more Democrats, and 59 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:19.400 some of them have gotten heat from their constituency. Why 60 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:22.360 don't you do something? I was all in handle. If 61 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:25.479 Trump promised must CTV. What a spectacle it would have 62 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:27.360 been if they all just stood up and walked out. 63 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:28.840 I mean, I don't know. If there's some sort of 64 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:31.800 duty to where they can't do that, I don't know, 65 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:34.680 But what a spectacle that would have been. I mean, 66 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:37.280 that's essentially what they did. Anyway. They weren't responding, they 67 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:39.840 held up their signs, they weren't clapping or standing or anything. 68 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:42.360 Why wouldn't they just walk out and leave that whole 69 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:47.960 half of the room empty? I don't know. Anyway, Trump 70 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:50.199 turns out he will not be signing that executive order. 71 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:52.520 It's been a big headline all morning that he would 72 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:55.159 be signing this executive order to get rid of the 73 00:03:55.159 --> 00:04:01.319 Department of Education altogether. They say that will not happening today. 74 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:05.360 To dismantle the Department of Education. We don't know where 75 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:07.719 that stands, but that that it's not going to be 76 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:13.680 happening today. And then Greenland, Greenland, the world's largest island, 77 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:16.199 eighty percent of it covered in ice. What would we 78 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:18.920 even do with Greenland? Well, I'm sure a lot of 79 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:22.079 people in Minneapolis and the like would know what to 80 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:24.399 do with an island covered in eighty percent of ice. 81 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:27.920 But they are doubling down and saying that this cannot 82 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:30.759 be taken Greenland hour, Greenland will not be taken. It's 83 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:36.879 ours now. President Trump appears to be determined to acquire Greenland. 84 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:40.959 You know, once he sets his sights on something, he 85 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:43.800 he does not deter does he He does not one 86 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:48.120 eighty around from that goal that he sets. It is 87 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:53.079 mineral rich, it is strategically located in Arctic territory, and 88 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:56.240 he plans to get it. Quoting here one way or 89 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:58.959 the other, as he said last night in a joint 90 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:04.079 address before cong Now, Greenland is part of Denmark. It 91 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:07.199 does have its own local government, It's got a parliament 92 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:12.399 that oversees some domestic and civil affairs. There are different 93 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:18.040 ways that the Greenland saga could play out. USA today 94 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:22.319 broke it down, and apparently Greenlanders have been debating for 95 00:05:22.399 --> 00:05:25.240 several years whether they would be better off as an 96 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:28.639 independent country. That could be something that could happen if 97 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:32.279 a national referendum is held, which Denmark has said it 98 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:35.199 would allow if enough of the population voted to hold 99 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:40.480 such a vote. But the majority of Greenlanders do not 100 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:43.240 want their island to become a part of us. They 101 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:45.920 don't want to become Americans. If they want independence at 102 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:51.079 exactly what they want. Trump may simply try to buy Greenland. 103 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:56.759 Don't know how that would work. Denmark has said repeatedly 104 00:05:56.879 --> 00:06:01.399 it is not for sale. The last foreign territory purchased 105 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:06.600 by the US by the BYE, interestingly enough, was from Denmark. 106 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:10.920 It bought the Virgin Islands in nineteen seventeen for twenty 107 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:16.600 five million. That was the last. That was the last purchase. 108 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:20.480 Some people that are paying attention say that Trump could 109 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:25.399 squeeze Greenland and Denmark economically use those tariffs that he's 110 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:31.040 used this week, So they said that he could go 111 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:33.639 after them with this. Denmark apparently is a major exporter 112 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:38.639 of pharmaceuticals, including insulin. For example, the Danish company Novo 113 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:45.720 Nordsik makes ozempic. Could you imagine another option Trump could 114 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:49.720 invade Greenland? That would be that would be very far fetched, 115 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:52.959 onen't it? And then the other option is that Trump 116 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.519 just gets over it, right, he just moves on. But 117 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:58.199 he doesn't seem to be moving on. I'm surprised at 118 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:02.600 this whole Greenland thing reared its head again during the 119 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:06.560 Address before Congress this week. All right, coming up and 120 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:12.199 next let's see, we are talking about coaching. Coaching is 121 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:17.959 the new asking your friends for help. People are spending 122 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:23.639 hundreds of dollars for advice from complete strangers. Sometimes you 123 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:27.639 take strangers advice more quickly than you take the advice 124 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:29.720 of people you know and love. Isn't that the case? 125 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:34.199 We'll talk about this new industry when we return. 126 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:38.000 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 127 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:39.120 AM six forty. 128 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:42.720 Now, when you look at the Wall Street and what's 129 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:47.480 going on with the markets, the huge swings may feel 130 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:51.040 like it's not normal, but for investors, all of this 131 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:54.240 is pretty typical. It's nothing to run around clutching your 132 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:57.680 pearls with your hair on fire over sharp moves for 133 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:01.120 the US stock market, like the since six percent drop 134 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:04.240 in just a couple of weeks. Those happen regularly, so 135 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:09.279 it's kind of up to It's kind of the price 136 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:12.199 that investors have to pay for bigger returns that stocks 137 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:15.160 offer over other investments. In the long term. May feel 138 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:17.079 like things are crazy right now, but they have a 139 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:19.240 way of evening out. It's kind of like turbulence on 140 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:22.720 an airplane. You think the plane's bouncing all over, it's 141 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:25.879 moving very little. It's not in the grand scheme of things. 142 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:29.399 It's not moving at all, at least at this point. 143 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:36.519 People are spending hundreds of dollars for advice from strangers. 144 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:43.159 There are specialized coaches popping up everywhere these days. If 145 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:47.399 a problem exists, there seems to be a coach for it. 146 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:52.200 If you have trouble focusing, there is something called an 147 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:58.559 executive function coach. If you're undecided about having kids, there's 148 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:02.519 a coach for that as well. You want to plan 149 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:08.600 a transformative vacation, sounds like white lotus, doesn't it? A 150 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:12.960 travel coach can help you. How much does a travel 151 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:20.279 coach plan or charge to help you plan your transformative vacation? Well, 152 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:24.320 in this article here, it says that that will cost 153 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:27.080 you about six hundred bucks on top of what you're 154 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:31.600 paying for that transformative vacation. Could you imagine you're talking 155 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:33.480 to a friend on the phone and you're like, Hey, 156 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:35.720 what's going on. How are the kids? Oh, they're good. 157 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:39.240 We're planning a vacation. Oh where are you going? Oh? Well, 158 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:41.799 I hired this guy, Bob. He's going to help us 159 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:43.559 because I'm just so burned out from work. I don't 160 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:47.679 have time to plan this vacation. Oh really, Bob. Huh. Yeah, 161 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:49.919 Bob's going to really find all the great things that 162 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:52.000 we can do with the kids and all the different 163 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:57.200 experiences we can have. Oh yeah, we're paying Bob six 164 00:09:57.240 --> 00:09:59.960 hundred bucks. Hey, how do you react to that? 165 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:00.200 Yeah? 166 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:04.919 I don't know. I'm not a good non reactor. Like 167 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:06.639 if one of my friends told me that, I'd be like, 168 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:08.759 what the hell are you doing? I'll plan your vacation. 169 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:11.519 Slide me two hundred bucks, then I will plan it. 170 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:17.639 But apparently it's a thing. Apparently whatever happened to asking people, 171 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:23.080 you know for advice? Why are people hiring coaches? This 172 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:27.759 reporter here she and I will get her name. It 173 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:30.919 was cut off here by the end. But anyway, she's 174 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:35.240 spent a bunch of time talking to coaching clients, and 175 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.960 she says, most of the coaching clients I spoke with 176 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:41.480 asked to use only their first name because of the 177 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:45.120 personal nature of the issues they sought help for. Bs. 178 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.559 That is not why. It's because it's embarrassing to admit 179 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:52.039 you've spent six hundred dollars on someone who planned your 180 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:54.799 vacation for you. Like, that's an embarrassing thing. You should 181 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:57.519 never admit if that happened. I mean, you do, you 182 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:00.919 live your life, but I wouldn't admit that. There's one 183 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:04.159 woman she talked to goes by Sarah. Sarah sees a 184 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:08.080 meditation coach for three hundred and fifty dollars a session. 185 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.240 Sarah justifies it because she does not own expensive purses 186 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:17.960 or clothes. Another woman, Liz has various points, had a 187 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.399 career coach, an executive coach, a doula, a co parenting coach, 188 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:26.919 and two different accountability coaches who focus on diet and exercise. 189 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:29.679 I'm going to work to get Liz's number for all 190 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:32.039 of us so we can pitch ourselves to Liz. And 191 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:35.399 she's just throwing money all the coaches. I'm sure we 192 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:38.879 could find a niche, a niche to help Liz with. 193 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:45.320 She recently, by the way, added a Disney concierge coach 194 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:49.279 for navigating the Magic Kingdom? Are we all an agreement 195 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:56.519 that we hate Liz? Who would admit this? Deborah? Now 196 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:02.399 I can't really I cannot relate either. I mean, isn't 197 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:06.320 this why you have friends? Yeah? I used to say 198 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:09.639 that about therapy. I've never had a therapist. I understand 199 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:12.399 the stigma has been removed and everybody goes to therapy. 200 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:15.399 But my refrain used to be, well, that's what I 201 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:19.159 have friends for. And then it hit me, maybe my 202 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:21.440 friends are tired of hearing from me. Maybe that's why 203 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:24.159 people pay their way out of that to preserve their friendships. 204 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:26.600 But I mean, that's kind of what you do. You 205 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:28.480 kind of that's you pick up the phone and you 206 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.440 can Maybe that's part of it. Maybe people aren't picking 207 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:34.639 up the phone anymore to talk to friends about, Hey, 208 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:38.080 what kind of im planning this vacation for the family? 209 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:40.399 What have you heard of anything cool? Like any places 210 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:43.799 to go? Maybe we're not interfacing enough with our friends 211 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:46.480 anymore to where you think you need some sort of 212 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:49.000 bot on the other end of your computer screen that 213 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:51.240 you're paying for this kind of advice. I mean, I 214 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:53.679 get using a travel agent. Yeah, if you need to 215 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:56.919 use a travel agent for whatever reason, you know, maybe 216 00:12:57.200 --> 00:12:59.559 getting a better deal on a hotel or well, you 217 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:02.000 were going to Israel at one point, that's where you 218 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:06.120 use a travel exactly exactly, Yeah, that makes sense. But 219 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:11.600 my goodness, Liz really went for it. I mean, she 220 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:16.600 hit all the coaches. She told this interviewer She told 221 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:18.879 me that she hasn't done something important before and she 222 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:21.039 wants to do it right. She tends to hire a 223 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:24.039 coach to help her, She said, winging it is so 224 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:27.279 not my style. Why not go into it informed if 225 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:32.799 you can, Oh, Liz, if you want to make God laugh? Well, anyway, 226 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:37.120 Apparently it's not just Liz. There is a whole slew 227 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:43.120 of people that I gotta believe that if there's a 228 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:46.159 number of people that are into hiring you just give 229 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:49.600 them advice. You could just come up with easy Why 230 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:52.320 not take advantage of them? Right? I think we should 231 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:56.759 all start our coaching company. Some great, some hilarious examples 232 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:57.759 of this. When we come back. 233 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:03.000 You're listening to Arian Shannon on demand from KFI AM 234 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:03.559 six forty. 235 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:07.399 Karen Mass, the mayor of La says, it's okay people 236 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:10.600 in the Palisades, so water is now safe to drink 237 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:14.000 two months after the fires. You can turn your faucet on, 238 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:17.039 but not till tomorrow, and then make sure you run 239 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:19.200 it for ten minutes before you drink out of it, 240 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:21.960 like you're going to be doing that. There you go, 241 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:27.360 all caught up. We're talking about coaching and people hiring 242 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:31.600 coaches for all aspects of their life these days. We 243 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:34.360 talked about this woman that was profiled in this article. 244 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:40.200 It was in the Atlantic, and the reporter here is 245 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:43.000 Olga Kazan. She's a staff writer there at The Atlantic, 246 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:45.360 but she's also written for the New York Times, La Times, 247 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:49.080 the Washington Post. And she talked to people that are 248 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:54.240 hiring these coaches. Liz was one of them. Liz has 249 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:57.639 had a career coach, an executive coach, a doula, a 250 00:14:57.679 --> 00:15:01.519 co parenting coach. Two co parenting coach You mean her 251 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:06.000 husband that marriage didn't work out. That was unfair and unkind. 252 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:10.360 Two different accountability coaches who focus on diet and exercise 253 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:13.759 as well. And Liz recently added a Disney concierge's coach 254 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:19.360 for navigating the Magic Kingdom travel coach Olga Rights can 255 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:23.039 cost you up to six hundred bucks, not including the 256 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:26.360 actual booking of the trip as well, and that's just 257 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:28.679 for advice, and then they charge you extra to book 258 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:30.279 the trip that they plan, and then you have to 259 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:34.120 pay for the actual trip. Okay. Eric Baker is a 260 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:38.320 Harvard historian. He is the author of Make Your Own Job, 261 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:41.960 and he says that coaching is the latest example of 262 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.879 the therapeutic culture that emerged in the US in the 263 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:48.840 twentieth century, a sense of needing to have some kind 264 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:53.679 of expert to help optimize your performance. That being normal 265 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:57.600 is no longer enough, So people are hiring coaches to 266 00:15:57.639 --> 00:16:02.080 help them transcend normal like the tiger mom, right, the 267 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:07.039 old tiger mom hiring the piano coach and the mandarin 268 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:10.159 coach and making sure your kid has all of these 269 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:14.559 experts to help them become exceptional. People are now applying 270 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:19.639 that to their lives we were talking about. Is the 271 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:23.399 erosion of good old fashioned friendships playing into this, because 272 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:25.960 that's who you would call for advice on things like this. 273 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.919 You call your friends, they say, yes, that there are 274 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:34.519 fewer close friends for people these days, so they may 275 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:38.679 be reluctant to rely on those friends for help. Also, 276 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:43.919 civic support. Sources of support have eroded over the past decade. 277 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:47.879 People are not likely to be members of community groups, 278 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:52.240 religious congregation, things like that. In some circles you used 279 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:55.879 to kind of bounce things off those different groups or 280 00:16:55.960 --> 00:17:01.759 churches or things like that. One of theologists profiled in 281 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:06.160 this in this article, our Lee Hofschild writes that a 282 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:08.960 coach is like a super friend, someone very smart and 283 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:12.119 attentive who can help you make the best decision possible. 284 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:16.319 A travel coach by the name Makayah Thompson refers to 285 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:19.720 her service like a best friend pre trip, during the trip, 286 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:23.319 and after the trip. Some of these coaches say they 287 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:27.279 see themselves like a big sister. Friends and family are 288 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:29.920 really good. Often they give you advice, though that is 289 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:34.039 not helpful. Also, you can be messy in front of 290 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:36.640 these coaches. You can be depressed around them, so you 291 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:40.559 can be interesting and bubbly around your friends. Another woman 292 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:43.160 who has a weight loss coach said, your friends don't 293 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.680 want to listen to you talk about that all the time. 294 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:49.559 To my point earlier, maybe your friends want to break 295 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:53.519 from being your unpaid therapist. Well, too bad for mine, 296 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:56.079 They're not going to get that. A twenty twenty three 297 00:17:56.119 --> 00:18:00.359 report by the International Coaching Federation, which is a credentialing 298 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:03.920 entd for some of these so that the average one 299 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:06.720 of these coaches that's raking in the cash spends just 300 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:11.960 twelve hours a week coaching. One woman that the reporter 301 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:15.920 spoke with for The Atlantic Olga Cazan. She spoke with 302 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:19.079 this woman named Maria Maria says she was scrolling through 303 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:22.880 TikTok when she comes across a bariatric surgery coach who 304 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:25.839 promised to help her adjust to the dramatically different eating 305 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:29.880 habits that this kind of surgery requires. So Maria says, 306 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:32.079 I booked a call with this coach and she sold 307 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:35.079 me within like twenty minutes. So for about five hundred 308 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:38.759 dollars a month, this coach would check Maria's My Fitness 309 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:41.960 Pal food log and the coach would text her in 310 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:47.519 emoji assessing her performance. So if she's doing well, Maria 311 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:52.400 would get a fire emoji. For five hundred dollars a month, 312 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:55.680 you get a fire emoji. My friends do much better 313 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:59.599 than that. During their one on one sessions, Maria says 314 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:03.000 she felt she was talking with the coach's TikTok character 315 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:07.279 rather than with a devoted advisor. Maria said she had 316 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:10.000 like five things that she would repeat over and over again. 317 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:14.240 So she repeated after two months, two months, gone, thousand 318 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:20.119 dollars gone for how many fire emojis? The reporter for 319 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:24.839 The Atlantic spoke with Neil Wolfhart, a decision coach who 320 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:28.480 charges two hundred and forty seven dollars per hour long session. 321 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:33.240 Nell helps her clients make one big life decision for 322 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:37.000 that two hundred and forty seven dollars per hour. The 323 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:41.440 decisions are as varied as whether to have kids or 324 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:46.759 what color to paint their kitchen. Oh my gosh, If 325 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:49.079 I'm hiring someone for two hundred and fifty bucks an 326 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:51.240 hour to tell me what color to paint my kitchen, 327 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:55.920 I have one life. I also should check myself into 328 00:19:55.960 --> 00:20:01.319 some sort of center. This woman, Nell told the reporter 329 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:04.200 she's always had this fixer brain, and that often she's 330 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:07.680 simply listening for what the person really wants to do. Anyway, 331 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:11.920 that's a real friend right there. It just happened. It 332 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:14.160 just helps, she says, to have a totally neutral third 333 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:17.160 party to check your work and make sure, yes, this 334 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:21.599 is not a ludicrous risk you're taking. What qualifications does 335 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:26.480 Nell have, the reporter asked, and Nell, to her credit, 336 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.359 said nothing. She says, people have said to me, you're 337 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:34.480 so wise. Nell takes that like they must think I'm 338 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:40.920 in my mid forties. So the author of this story, 339 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:44.160 the reporter, decided to hire Nell for an hour session. 340 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:47.559 The question on the table should she move to Florida 341 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:51.799 or to Texas. A reporter says, Nell began asking questions 342 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:54.240 about what was important to me, what else i'd considered, 343 00:20:54.279 --> 00:20:57.759 what place each place had to offer me, And the 344 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:00.759 reporter says, unlike my therapist, she didn't ask about my childhood. 345 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:03.319 She didn't care about any of the backstory, none of that. 346 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:05.759 Why I behave the way I do, none of that. 347 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:09.440 And Nell said, why you feel this way is not relevant. 348 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:11.720 The only thing that matters is that you do feel 349 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:14.200 this way. The reporter says, it was like talking with 350 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:17.400 a super friend, someone who is smart, likable, but disinterested 351 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:21.519 and ruthlessly rational. And after about thirty minutes, she told 352 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:24.079 me what I should do, and the author says, it's 353 00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:28.920 what I wanted to do anyway. All right. Coming up next, 354 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:32.880 we've got tech Talk with Mark Saltzman, our tech guru. 355 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:35.079 He's going to have the highlights of what's called the 356 00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:40.279 Mobile World Congress. Sounds very nerdy and exciting. There is 357 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:42.880 a laptop that is powered by the sun. We've got 358 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:48.759 information on the world's thinnest phone, and new ear buds 359 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:53.480 that do even better real time language translation. I'm super 360 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:57.440 into this because I'm super bad at learning languages, and 361 00:21:57.519 --> 00:22:00.200 if you could get earbuds that enable you to talk 362 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:02.799 to somebody who doesn't speak the same language as you 363 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:05.920 do in real time? How cool would that be when 364 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:08.079 it comes to traveling. So we'll talk to Mark about 365 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:09.119 all that when we return. 366 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:13.759 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 367 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:14.920 AM six forty. 368 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:17.720 We would like to get all of the latest tech 369 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:20.359 news right now. And who do we turn to for 370 00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:21.759 that all? It's Mark Saltzman. 371 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:27.079 The machines are getting smarter. This is tech Talk, brought 372 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:32.759 to you by sky Net. 373 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:36.000 Mark Saltzman. How are you good? To talk to you today? 374 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:36.599 Like? 375 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:37.440 Why is all good? 376 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:38.559 I'm a little jet lagged. 377 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:44.279 I was in Bartholona, as they say it there Barcelona, Barthalona, 378 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:46.039 my first time in Spain. 379 00:22:46.519 --> 00:22:49.720 Really I love it. I try to make a stop 380 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:52.680 there no matter where I'm going, especially the Gothic quarter 381 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:56.559 there in Bartholona. The tapash the. 382 00:22:56.519 --> 00:22:59.880 Same, some delicious piea oh man and tapas. 383 00:23:00.119 --> 00:23:00.839 Yeah it was good. 384 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:04.720 Oh and there was a tech conference. Oh also, I know, like, 385 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:08.200 come on, there's nothing better than food than tech. 386 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:08.920 No rights, So you. 387 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:11.279 Got paid to go to Spain and Barcelona and eat 388 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:12.000 tap us? 389 00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:14.000 Well, I wouldn't say got paid to go. 390 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:17.000 I will be paid by the articles that I write 391 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:19.480 to go to this. Yeah, so I've already written up 392 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:22.519 a couple and I thought I would chat about some highlights. 393 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:27.640 So this is a tech event called MWC Mobile World Congress. 394 00:23:28.200 --> 00:23:31.720 It as the name suggests, it focuses mostly on mobility 395 00:23:31.960 --> 00:23:35.079 and connectivity. So all the even American carriers were there, 396 00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:38.240 like T Mobile and AT and T and Verizon. And 397 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:41.359 even though it's a European show, there's it's a worldwide audience. Yeah, 398 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:44.640 one hundred thousand folks from the industry like yours. Truly, 399 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:49.880 about twenty seven hundred exhibitors, so it's not as consumery 400 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:53.400 as Consumer Electronics Show in January in Vegas every year, 401 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:56.559